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Semi-Weekly Plainsman Wednesday Issue ®lj£ Auburn plainsman "A" Club Dance Saturday TO F O S T E R THE A U B U R N S P I R IT VOLUME LIX AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 16, 1935 NUMBER 10 VOLS WIN OVER TIGER TEAM IN HARD STRUGGLE Tigers Fail To Cash In On Scoring Chances; Lacked Offensive Drives Of Past WAS SPIRITED GAME Backs Unable To Break Away For Any Large Gains; Line Proved Weak At Times By Eugene Lee Auburn suffered a bitter 13-6 defeat by the hands of the University of Tennessee in Legion Field at Birmingham Saturday. Failing to cash in on scoring chances, the Tigers wound up their third game of the year lacking in the offensive drives that have characterized their wins over Tulan'e and Birmingham-Southern. The Tigers started the game off with a spirited drive in the early stages of the game after Kilgore's 60 yard punt to Tennessee's 2-yard line which was grounded by Bummie Roton. This thrust into Volunteer territory stimulated the Tigers for after Palmer's punt to Hitchcock on Tennessee's 35 yard line, the Plainsmen started a determined drive. Two passes from Hitchcock to Strange netted 18 yards and these two advances coupled with runs by Kilgore and Tipper placed the ball on the 10 yard line. At this point the Tigers failed to make good their scoring chance and lost the ball to the Vols. The Volunteers turned around and reversed the proceedure by pushing the ball to Auburn's 8 yard line by the end of the first quarter through the efforts of Captain Palmer, Dickens, and Sharpe. The failure of this first quarter threat to score and the powerful 82 yard drive of the Vols coming right after their threat to score seemed to take away, the spirit that had been built up by the Tigers. Both teams played heads-up football, the tackling was hard, and few backs of either team were able to break away for appreciable gains, but Tennessee received the breaks and played inspired ball to take advantage of them. If Auburn could have scored on this first bid for a touchdown, the score would probably have been to their advantage. Auburn's line failed to come up to the standard set in the two previous games of the season. The Vol's line deserves a lot of credit for their victory. Rose and Humphreys, ends, and Crawford and Silberman, tackles, kept the Auburn ends and tackles bottled up the entire afternoon. Most of the time two would work on one man in taking care of the Auburn forewall on plays. The work of these four stalwarts was particularly impressive on offensive plays by the Tigers. Few (Continued on page 4) "A" Club To Sponsor Dance In Montgomery Following the game Saturday night in Montgomery the Auburn "A" Club and the Phi Delta Kappa fraternity will cooperate in staging a dance at the Lanier High School Gym, according to Haygood Paterson, president of the "A" Club. A similar dance held after the first game of the year proved a great success, and it is expected that the affair Saturday night will equal it in every respect. Music will be by the popular Auburn Knights under the direction of Yank Friedman. It will be the only dance staged in Montgomery that night. Dancing will get underway at nine o'clock and continue until 12. This will allow ample time for students wishing to catch the last train out of Montgomery for Auburn that night. A large number of cars will be on hand at the Exchange Hotel to furnish rides for those wishing to attend the dance. As before, each car will carry an identification mark. Sponsors of the dance from Auburn will be Lily Barnes Cherry, Jane Slack, Pearl Rudolph, Molly Brasfield, Netty Murphy, Ella Frances South, Iris Joiner, and Louise Liles. Admission to the afflair has been set at $1.10, the extra ten cents being added to cover the tax. KUDERNA ELECTED FACULTY HEAD OF EDUCATION GROUP Kuderna Will Act As Councilor Of Group For Two Years; Has Had Wide Experience New Pledges To Keys Will Be Tapped Soon At a call meeting of Keys on Monday night the date for the fall initiation was set for Friday night, Nov. 1. As the roll now includes members from only 14 frats, a large number of extra, men were elected to fill in the ranks of the fraternities having no members. Men were chosen from every fraternity on the eampus. Keys will hold many social functions during the year, the first of which will be a dance in early December. Meetings will be held the first Monday of each month. These meetings will be held at the various frat houses in order that the members may become better acquainted with each other. Call meetings and weiner roasts will be held from time to time to keep the members in close contact. Keys goal for the year is to gain a boost in power and reputation, and to come into better fulfillment of its purpose as the creator of better fellowship between fraternities. No formal tapping ceremony will be displayed as a dance for this purpose could not be scheduled. Tapping will be performed by a committee for that purpose and a complete list of the initiates will appear in the next issue of this paper. Dr. J. G. Kuderna was unanimously elected as councilor of Kappa Delta Pi for the next two years at a meeting of the group last Monday night. Dr. Kuderna has had much experience with honorary organizations at Auburn. He succeeds Dr. Paul Irvine who has served the local chapter for the past four years. Also at the meeting Monday it was decided that the local chapter "would cooperate with the English Department here in sponsoring locally the Montgomery Lecture Series which begins in early December. Tickets for the entire series of lectures are now on sale at a cost of one dollar. They may be purchased either from the English Department or from Emma Bennett Sellers at Smith Hall. Following his election, Dr. Kuderna gave an account of the founding of the local chapter of Kappa Delta Pi which was followed with another account by Dr. Irvine on the high points of the organization since it was founded. GRADES HIGH IN FRESHMAN TEST FOR PLACEMENT Highest Individual Score Made By Edwin Godbold; Three Others Make Above 300 IMPROVEMENT SEEN Grades Of First Ten This Year Considerably Above Grades For Similar Group Last Year • Complete compilation of the English Placement Tests taken by freshmen at the opening of school show a slight improvement over the grades made by fhis group in the last several years. The highest individual score was made by Edwin Godbold, Selma High School, who attained a total of 317 points out of a posible 350. This was eight points better than the best effort last year, when William Stelzenmuller, of Phillips High, Birmingham, scored 309 points. Last year Stelzenmuller was the only student to rate 300 or above; whereas this year there were three grades over this mark. The ten highest students in this placement test are as follows: Edwin Godbold, Selma High School, 317; Ruth Holcombe, Packe Collegiate Inst., Brooklyn, N. Y., 309; Cornelia Stevens, Bay Minette High School, 303; J. H. Wheeler, Jr., Jackson Co. High, Scottsboro, 299; F. P. Lathrop, Clayton High, 288; Lucile Bethune, Clayton High 265; Mary Carmack, Auburn High, 258; S. H. Richardson, Hunts-ville High, 256; Ben Branch, Lanier High, Montgomery, 253; John Eagin, Bessemer High, 253. The above ten are considerably higher than the first ranking ten of last year and the scores of the groups listed below are higher than the corresponding sections of last year. This time there were three students to score between 301 and 350 points, 14 between 251 and 300, 50 between 201 and 250, 992 between 151 and 200, 213 between 101 and 150, 222 between 51 and 100, and 59 between 0 and 50. Local Airport To Be Open For Inspection The Aubijrn-Opelika airport will be open for inspection the week beginning October 14. President Roosevelt has declared this air navigation week, in order to call public attention to the program made in aerial transportation. All airfields under the supervision of the Department of Commerce will be open to the public for inspection, according to a bulletin from the Department of Commerce. Mr. P. B. Adams, who has charge of four fields between Atlanta and Evergreen, says the public will be accorded every courtesy if they care to inspect the Auburn-Opelika airport. Many Changes Have Been Made By Plant Service Department Many improvements can be seen in the arrangement of departments under the direction of the Plant Service division of the college. This work has progressed considerably under the directorship of Dr. J. V. Brown. Dr. Brown has moved his office from the Alumni Office building to the Power House, and when it is completed it will make the handling of work under his direction much easier. The Glomerata has a new office which is also located in the Power House. This is quite an improvement over the office that was formerly located in the basement 'of Alumni Hall. Two large store rooms have been Better Conduct Asked Of Few By Dr. Duncan TO ALL STUDENTS: It has been reported to us that a few students conducted themselves very unbecomingly on train No. 36 from Montgomery to Auburn Sunday evening. Only a few students were involved but they brought discredit upon all other students and upon Auburn, as Well as upon themselves. We regret this exceedingly and sincerely hope that there will be no recurrence before or after the Auburn-Kentucky game in Montgomery next Saturday. We have, as explained before, very few rules at Auburn. All we ask is that students conduct themselves properly at all times and under all conditions. Since one student can bring discredit upon all other students, we suggest that any student who happens to observe an unbecoming act by another student will stop it. A reminder should be sufficient. We are depending upon each of you at the game in Montgomery next Saturday; and at all future games. Earnestly yours, L. N. Duncan, President. LIST BE MADE OF THOSE DEFICIENT IN ENGLISH HERE Registrar Asks Report From All Instructors; Reasonable Grade Expected Of Students constructed in the Power House in which the supplies of the college can be systematically handled and stored. The heating plant, woodwork shop, and plumbing and electrical shop have all been cleaned up and rearranged. Through the location of all these different departments in the same building with his office, Dr. Brown states that the handling of the work is greatly facilitated. Another project that was completed during the summer is the arranging of rooms in the basement of Alumni Hall for students. These rooms are constructed and arranged in such a manner as to make them well ventilated. The location of the heating pipes through the rooms will give them ample heat for the winter. The condition of the grounds about the college has been given more attention this year. In this division there has been marked improvement.in the last few years. There is still a great need for paved walks, and Dr. Brown hopes that this work will be done soon. The planting of grass will commence as soon as there is sufficient amount » of rain. Keller Appoints Two Alumni To State Jobs Two Auburn alumni have been appointed by Dr. J. A. Keller in the State department of education. M. H. Killingsworth, 1914, is now high school supervisor, succeeding John Crump as chief clerk in the division of business administration. Mr. Killingsworth is well known as a high school principal at Cullman and elsewhere. Letters to all instructors asking for lists of students deficient in the use of English were sent out last week by C. W. Edwards, associate registrar. This is in keeping with the rule for handling English deficiencies adopted year before last at Auburn. All students at Auburn are expected to maintain a reasonable standard of good usage in English in all class work, both oral and written, in all departments of the college. Any student reported as showing marked deficiency must take special work under the direction of the English department until he reaches a satisfactory standard. No student reported may graduate until he removes this English deficiency. This regulation is similar to those of other colleges of high standing. Colleges everywhere are being criticised for the poor English used by their students and graduates, and attempts are being made to overcome these criticisms. The English deficiency rule is printed in the college catalogue and followed by all instructors. At present, out of 2136 students, only about 50 are on the English deficiency list. Instructors are reminded in October and March to turn in the lists, so new names will no doubt be added immediately. Removal from the list is necessary for graduation. At some colleges, the University of California being one, an English test is given at the beginning of the year, and all students not reaching certain standards are required to take non-credit courses until the standards are reached. About one-third of the entering students are required to take these non-credit courses. Death Of Ben Walker Is Shock To Friends Word has been received here of the death of Ben Walker who passed away at his home in Uchee, Ala., Monday morning at nine o'clock. The deceased had been ill for some time and his passing was not unexpected. Mr. Walker lived his entire life of 75 years in this historic town in Rus-sel county where he took an active part in community affairs. He was well known over the southern part of the state and his death was a blow to his many friends. N O T I C E ! There will be a meeting of Tau Beta Pi Thursday night at 7 o'clock in Room 109 Ramsay. DEBATERS FROM ENGLAND TO BE IN MATCH HERE Will Debate Auburn Team In Langdon Hall About' Middle November Says Prof. Hess EXPERIENCED ORATORS Johnson And DeVaughn Will Argue Negative Case Of Debate Question For Auburn Announcement from Prof. E. H. Hess, debate coach, is to the effect that the Cambridge Debate team will be in Auburn either on November 11 or 12 to engage the Auburn team consisting of B. H. Johnson and J. E. DeVaughn. Both members of the Cambridge Debate team are considered to be outstanding so far as debating is concerned. Cuthbert James McCall Alport, one of the members, is a graduate student of Pembroko College, Cambridge, and expects to be called to the bar shortly after completing the present tour in America. While in college he participated in numerous activities, being connected with the dramatic society, captain of the boxing team, and president of the debating society. At Pembroko he took an Honors degree in history and law, being mainly in terested in matters of a political nature, especially those of an international aspect. The other member of the team, John Royle, was educated at Arnold House and went on to Clifton College, where he took an active part in dramatics and forensic work. Later he went to Peterhouse, Cambridge. He graduated with honors in June of this year and is also waiting to be called to the bar. He is interested in politics, art, and 4iterature. The affirmative side of the ques tion: "Resolved That in the Opinion of the House the Judiciary should have no power to over-ride the decisions of the executive and the legislature," will be taken by the Cambridge Debaters. As is customary in foreign debating, there will probably be no decision made after the debate. Ducats For Kentucky Game Be Sold At Gym Because of the possibility of a sellout for the Auburn-Kentucky game and to avoid general confusion in handling ticket sales at the stadium in Montgomery, student tickets will be sold in Auburn Thursday and Friday from 8 o'clock to 6 o'clock in the gymnasium. Price per ticket will be 5 cents plus coupon number five. Students desiring to take guests in the student section may purchase regular tickets at the price of $2.50. A general admission ticket will be on sale at the stadium at the rate of $1.50 each. All prices include the government tax. f Student sections will be located in the same position as for the Southern game, in the wooden stands, sections L, M, N, O, and P. Best tickets will go on sale Thursday morning. The band will be located in section N at the stadium. Round Trip Rates To Game Saturday Given The regular round trip rate of $1.65 will be charged by the Western of Alabama for students attending the game Saturday in Montgomery. Extra coaches will be added to the trains leaving Friday and Saturday to accommodate the large number expected to go to Montgomery. Those making the trip may leave here either Friday afternoon or in the i evening or on Saturday morning at 9:50. The return ticket will be honored on all trains leaving Montgomery Saturday night, Sunday, and early Monday morning, except on trains 37 and 38. The entire football squad and members of the band will leave Auburn on the 9:50 train Saturday morning, returning, on the Saturday evening train. Frivolous Females To Foster Fracas Friday Friday night is the night, the biggest night of the year for the buxom Auburn co-eds. These brawny lassies of athletic fame, the pride of Auburn, will sponsor another one of their famous "get even" dances Friday night in the Girls' Gym. Men are warned to be on the lookout. The femmes are out for vengeance in a big way and are more determined than ever to get it. The W. A. A. has been plotting the affair for many months in the arrangement of a "struggle" which promises to be a disastrous event for numerous unsuspecting males. "We get our man" is the motto for the night. Several of the more buxom lassies will be stationed at the exits to prevent the expected hurried departure of frightened males. The flat feet of many an Auburn man will be the stomping ground for many an Auburn lassie. Oh sweet revenge! A boy with a carrot or leaf of lettuce dangling from his coat lapel will be a common sight. The whole blame affair will be handled with a touch of finesse, even to the sending of various vegetable corsages. Incidentally, the music will be provided by the Cavaliers, with the dance beginning at nine and ending at twelve, sharply. RALLY WILL BE HELD THURSDAY FOR NEXT GAME Parade Will Be Held Through Town As Usual With Mass Meeting In Langdon Hall BILL HAM TO SPEAK Parade Scheduled To Be Held Saturday Morning In Montgomery After Train Arrives MEETING IN MAGIC CITY DRAWS MANY AUBURN STUDENTS Twenty-Five Students From Auburn Attending Convention; Will Be Gone All Week Birmingham is host for the first time of the American Society of Civil Engineers. The Auburn chapter is being represented by twenty-five delegates at this national fall meeting. Prof. C. A. Baughman, adviser to the local chapter, accompanied the Auburn delegation to the convention. During the discussion of the surveying and mapping division of engineering Thursday, Prof. J. A. C. Callan, head of the civil engineering department, is to read a paper entitled "Coast and Geodetic Work in Alabama". He is in charge of this work in Alabama. Approximately 700 visitors are expected to attend this convention. These visitors will include those men who have made noteworthy progress in the field of engineering—men who have designed Panama Canal dams, great water reservoirs, built the world's greatest bridges, New York's subways, and directed great federal projects. The first feature of the convention was a dinner at the Thomas Jefferson Hotel Tuesday evening given in honor of the directors and section officials of A. S. C. E. Arthur S. Tuttle, president of the national chapter, addressed the visitors. The election of national officers and other business will be taken up Wednesday. Thursday morning will be devoted to the reading of sectional reports and papers. A conference of students from all Southern schools will follow Thursday afternoon. Friday will be given over to an all-day (Continued on page 4) A final pre-game rally before the Auburn-Kentucky contest in Montgomery Saturday will be held Thursday night at 7:00 starting with a parade of students through the business section of the town and concluding with a mass meeting at Langdon Hall. Bill Ham, head cheerleader in 1932, will be the principal speaker of the occasion which will also feature possibly one or two other talks. Bill Mc- Tyeire and his assistants will be on hand to lead the crowd in several cheers designed to bring out the Auburn spirit in no uncertain terms. In Montgomery Saturday morning a parade will be held immediately after the arrival of the train at 11:35. The band will form at the depot and all students are requested to march behind it uptown to the Exchange Hotel. Everyone going to Montgomery by automobile is urged to be at the station when the train arives and help make this an even larger parade than the one held before the Southern game. Several additional features will be added to this parade, according to Mc- Tyeire. McTyeire received several letters from alumni and citizens of Birmingham complimenting the parade held last Saturday and he calls upon the entire student body for their cooperation in making this an even better display of the confidence in Coach Meagher and his team. - At the Tennessee game McTyeire states that there was an apparent lack of knowledge of the words to the school Alma Mater, and he wishes to make a special request that all students learn them and be prepared to show Chet Wynne that when he left Auburn he couldn't take the famous spirit away with him. Ethel Barrymore Will Appear In Montgomery Auburn drama-lovers will be interested in Ethel JBarrymore's personal appearance in < Montgomery November 4. Miss Barrymore will be featured in the hit comedy of her career, "The Constant Wife." The play has been a tremendous success and Miss Barrymore is anxious to gain the younger generation since the play will attract the attention of the younger folk as well as the more experienced art-lovers. Mail orders are being received by French's, Inc., and checks should be made payable to Montgomery Concert Course. Box office sales will begin at French's Nov. 2. Blue Key Has Banquet And Initiation Monday Blue Key, national honorary fraternity, held its annual fall banquet and initiation Monday evening in the Eastern Star dining room. The principal speech of the evening was made by Harry L. Hooper, president of the local chapter. The speech was on "The Objects of This Society", in which Hooper acquainted the new members with the aims and purposes of the group. In doing this he outlined the program for the coming year. The high spots in the program as it stands today are: the signs at the two entrances to the city of Auburn, the home-coming activities, a "Boost Auburn" campaign, and the annual recognition of outstanding students. The "Boost Auburn" campaign will consist of delegations to various high schools in the state, sponsoring worthwhile movements on the campus, and wide publicity for the school as a whole. "This move is a new undertaking by the chapter and will be watched closely for results. There are untold benefits to the school and the organization to be derived and it shall be the one big aim of the Blue Key for the year to put this program over," is the statement by Hooper in regards to the undertaking of this new project by the society. The eleven men initiated into the society Monday evening were: Gilmore Pugh, Eufaula; Henry Renfroe, Ope-lika; Carl Warren, Opelika; Harold McFadden, Montgomery; Albert Blom-quist, Savannah; B. N. Ivey, Beatrice; Ed McKenzie, Bainbridge; Merwin York, Monroeville; Merril Whorton, Gadsden; Charles Adams, Alexander City; and B. H. Johnson, Bessemer. N O T I C E ! Articles found on the campus should be left at the plant service office in the power house. P A G E TWO T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN A L A B A M A P O L Y T E C H N I C I N S T I T U TE WEDNESDAY, OCT. 16, 1935 gtyg Auburn PaUtfimati Published semi-weekly by the students of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates, $2.50 per year (58 issues), $1.50 per semester (29 issues). Entered as second class matter at the Post Office, Auburn, Alabama. Business and editorial offices at Auburn Printing Company, on West M a g n o l ia Avenue. Doug Wallace Editor-in-Chief Herman L. Harris Business Manager 1935 Member 1936 Pksocided Golle6iate Press Distributor of Colle6iQte Dfeest EDITORIAL STAFF Associate Editors: Floyd Hurt, Kyser Cox, News Editors: Alvin Moreland, Bobby Chesnutt. Feature Editor: Lewis Thomas. City Editor: James Buntin. Society Editor: Luella Botsford. Assistant Society Editors: Kay Sibert, Frances Ashurst. Sports Editor: Eugene Lee. Sports Contributors: Jack Todd, Bill Troup. Reporters: Edwin Godbold, Jack Steppe, Edward Briggs, Norman Wood, Bob Johnston, R. H. Workman, Billy Grace. BUSINESS STAFF Assistant Business Manager: Jim Pike: Advertising Manager: Billy Radney. Advertising Assistants: Buck Darden, Max Weldon. Circulation Manager: George Perry. Assistant Circulation Managers: Clarence Pruet, Morriss Ellis. Circulation Assistants: Jack Carr, Edwin Haygood, Owen Scott, Alvin Vogtle, Jimmy Caden. Business Manager's Office Hours: 3-4 Monday through Friday. The Four Groups After considerable thought and cogitation upon the subject, we have come to the conclusion that if fifty per cent of the people did half of what they said they were going to do, this indeed would be a fine world in which to live. Politicians have been known since time immemorial for their distinguished trait of blowing off. But why single out the politician, when just about everybody else in the world has this same characteristic. The only difference, as far as we can see, is that the politician is more adept at this practice He is an actor of the highest type, while the rest of us are nothing but hams. All people, according to our way of thinking may be divided into four rather distinct classes. At the top may be found one who belongs to the very slim minority. He is one whom people hear little of. He is usually quiet and more or less reserved. He goes about his business and says little; least of all does he try to regulate the business of others. He doesn'f go about the countryside ballyhooing about what he does or about what he is going to do, for his actions speak louder than words. He cares little whether people know what he is doing or not. He is the one who does big things, who keeps the world going around, who keeps the world in a progressive state. Take- any great man in the world today and notice how quiet he is. He speaks only when public opinion demands it, and even then being very careful lest he say too much. He is quiet, but he gets things done in a big way. In some cases he has long since died before the public fully realizes just exactly the vast amount of work he has really accomplished. Second from the top comes the politician. An agreeable fellow is he, having a most excellent repertoire of the latest stories as well as a line a mile long about his capabilities for the public office for which he has set his heart on winning. He can speak for hours on a subject which he knows as little about as does a high school student. His ability lies in the fact that he can make the people believe what he is saying. He is a past master in the art of debating and can argue for hours and say nothing. He can and does make some excellent promises to bring about reform and the such which have been needed for the past hundred years and which would have long been made had the first politician only carried out his promises. Most of us are politicians in one way or another. One need not be running for a public office to be a politician. But the politician gets things done too. When he is not busy keeping an ear to the ground, he manages to find a few spare moments to juggle the political pork and squeeze out a slice for the folks back home. Although what he does in most instances is not so very important, it is better to do something than nothing at all. Third from the top comes the one who may be compared to the politician in respect to his ability to talk. Just to listen to him rabble along on the subject of his accomplishments or on what he plans to do when he finds the time, one would think that he was truly a great man. Everything is fine until the time comes for him to do a few of the things he has talked so much about, then where is he? He either can't be found or else has one of a number of good excuses to offer. How he continues to fool his associates year after year is still a mystery. He is as simple as a child and as transparent as a piece of cellophane. What little he does is just next to a minus quantity, and when he finally passes on, there are two more to take his place. The fourth from the top or the first from the bottom comes he who is content to say nothing, much the' less do anything. He calmly sits by the roadside and watches the world go by. He enjoys with considerable relish the fruits from the toil of others with no more thanks than the gangster gives the "G man" for putting him in the cooler. He is like a grain of sand on the ocean bottom: just another person in the world. He does nothing on his own initiative and is constantly being led by others, many times to the detriment of society. He takes all he can get and gives nothing in return. This lengthy discussion may be boiled down to this: that ninety per cent of what is done every day is done by about two per cent of the people. It would be excellent if the other ninety-eight per cent would do a thing or two just to get the feel of what it is like. Music—Good And Bad By Oleo Sigmun EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions expressed in this column are not necessarily the editorial opinions of this paper. It is a column of personal comment, and is not to be read as an expression of our editorial policy. * * * * The radio is fine these nights. Bands of all kinds are to be heard from all over. Some are bad and some are good. Life is rosier since my old friend KAY KYSER arrived at the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh. He may be heard every night at one time or another. Listen in for some of his best stuff . . . Bill "Smilin"' Stoker, Sully Mason, Ish Ka Bibble, Art Wright, and that beautiful Virginia Sims. Swell! GUY LOMBARDO is trying to sell the dear public all kinds of stuff. He's jumped from aspirin to floor wax. Program comes from the Cafe De L'Opera, New York. Same old monotony. WGN, Chicago, offers a number of bands every night. "JAN GARBER, from the Trianon, HORACE HEIDT, from the Drake Hotel, JOE SANDERS, from the Black-hawk, and SHEP FIELDS, from the Palmer House. HEIDT has a style all his own. FIELDS, who directs the Veloz and Yolanda orchestra, doesn't have any style at all. He has improved some since last year, however. The "OLD LEFTHANDER", JOE SANDERS, is still slaying 'em. He has a swell outfit. Modern, style, originality. Same old stuff from GARBER. WAYNE KING isn't playing any dance engagement right now, but he will leave shortly on a tour that will last until the first of the year. Birmingham on November 14. Hear him over C.B.S. every Sunday and Monday, and over N.B.C. every Tuesday and Wednesday. Don't know the time. GLENN GRAY and the Casa Loma boys are back on the Camel Caravan, as you probably know already,. Too much hot stuff. Plenty good, nevertheless. OZZIE NELSON is on the Baker's Broadcast, 6:30 Sundays. No Joe Penner . . . A good idea. Plenty of Harriet Hilliard. TOMMY TUCKER is at the Hotel Gibson, Cincinnati. Haven't heard him in a long time. Was O.K. last time. EARL BURTNETT is in the hospital after the Auburn dances. Driving is very dangerous after a week-end in the Village. Best opening dances band in years. Congratulations, C. Witty. TED WEEMS is on a short vacation. Let's hope he stays. JOHNNY GREEN, with Jack Benny on Sundays, has something to brag about. Listen for him. , Sammy Kaye is at the Cabin Club in Cleveland. If you must listen, read your newspaper for the day and hour. His theme is as near to Kyser's as he could get without using the same piece. He sings the titles, announces the vocalists, and uses Kyser licks on most of his numbers. On others he goes after Hal Kemp with vim, vigor, and vitality. Sometimes he even copies Gar-ber. Any supposedly big-ti-me band that will copy another's style is a worse louse than Boulanger! Looking over the good bands in the world we come to those AUBURN KNIGHTS. Those boys have what it takes this year. Every one of th»m is an artist, and their arrangements can't be beat. The first sax and clarinet player, Jerry Yelverton, is tops. Just sit back and listen to him go. "Pee- Wee Hunt" Jarrad can put a sing over, too. Friedman is still good. The American Council of Learned Societies will hold a six weeks' course in Arabic and Islamic studies at Princeton University next summer. Ten thousand students at a* Los Angeles relief school are paid to go to school—and docked if they cut classes! An article especially written for the Reader's Digest and reprinted with permission of the Editors. The realistic details of this article will nauseate some readers. Those who find themselves thus affected are cautioned against reading the article in full. Its stark, realistic treatment of auto fatalities and misha,ps—something never before attempted by a writer— brought an immediate response from the reading public. , It is reprinted here with some hope that it may have some effect on those drivers of cars who insist upon the right to jeopardize the lives of others. PUBLICIZING the total of motoring injuries—almost a million last year, with 36,000 deaths—never gets to first base in jarring the motorist into a realization of the appalling risks of motoring. He does not translate dry statistics into a reality of blood and agony. Figures exclude the pain and horror of savage mutilation—which means they leave out the point. They need to be brought closer home. A passing look at a bad smash or the news that a fellow you had lunch with last week is in a hospital with a broken back will make any driver but a born fool slow down at least temporarily. But what is needed is a vivid and sustained realization that every time you step on the throttle, death gets in beside you, hopefully waiting for his chance. That single horrible accident you may have witnessed is no isolated horror. That sort of thing happens every hour of the day, everywhere in the United States. If you really felt that, perhaps the cold lines of type in Monday's paper recording that a total of 29 local citizens were killed in week-end chashes would rate something more than a perfunctory tut-tut as you turn back to the sports page. An, enterprising judge now and again sentences reckless drivers to tour the accident end of a city morgue. But even a mangled body on a slab, waxily portraying the consequences of bad motoring judgment, isn't a patch on the scene of the accident itself. No artist working on a safety poster would dare depict that in full detail. That picture would have to include mo-ti6n- picture and sound effects, too—the flopping, pointless efforts of the injured to stand up; the queer, grunting noises; the steady, panting groaning of a human being with pain creeping up on him as the shock wears off. It should portray the slack expression on the face of a man, drugged with shock, staring at the Z-twist in his broken leg, the insane crumpled effect of a child's body after its bones are crushed inward, a realistic portrait of an hysterical woman with her screaming mouth opening a hole in the bloody drip that fills her eyes and runs off her chin. Minor details would include the raw ends of bones protruding through flesh in compound fractures, and the dark red, oozing surfaces where clothes and skin were flayed off at once. Those are all standard, everyday sequels to the modern passion for going places in a hurry and taking a chance or two by the way. If ghosts could be put to a useful purpose, every bad stretch of road in the United States would greet the oncoming motorist with groans and screams and the educational spectacle of ten or a dozen corpses, all sizes, sexes and ages, lying horribly still on the bloody grass. Last year a state trooper of my acquaintance stopped a big red Hispano for speeding. Papa was obviously a responsible person, obviously set for a pleasant week-end with his family—so the officer cut into papa's well-bred expostulations: "I'll let you off this time, but if you keep on this way, you won't last long. Get going—but take it easier." Later a passing motorist hailed the trooper and asked if the red Hispano had got a ticket. "No," said the trooper, "I hated to spoil their party." "Too bad you didn't," said the motorist, "I saw you stop them—and then I passed that car again 50 miles up the line. It still makes me feel, sick at my stomach. The car was all folded up' like an accordion— the color was about all there was left. They were all dead but one of the kids— and he wasn't going to live to the hospital." Maybe it will make you sick at your stomach, too. But unless you are a heavy-footed incurable, a good look at the picture the artist wouldn't dare paint, a first-hand acquaintance with the results of mixing gasoline with speed and bad judgment, ought to be well worth your while. I can't help it if the facts are revolting. If you have the nerve to drive fast and take chances, you ought to have the nerve to take the appropriate cure. You can't ride an ambulance or watch the doctor working on the victim in the hospital, but you can read. The automobile is treacherous, just as a cat is. It is tragically difficult to realize that it can become the deadliest missle. As enthusiasts tell you, it makes 65 feel like nothing at all. But 65 an hour is 100 feet a second, a speed which puts a viciously unjustified responsibility on brakes and human reflexes, and can instantly turn this docile luxury into a mad bull elephant. Collision, turnover or sideswipe, each type of accident produces either a shattering dead stop or a crashing change of direction —and, since the occupant—meaning you— continues in the old direction at the original speed, every surface and angle of the car's interior immediately becomes a battering, tearing projectile, aimed squarely at you—inescapable. There is no bracing yourself against those imperative laws of momentum. It's like going over Niagara Falls in a steel barrel full of railroad spikes. The best thing that can happen to you-—and one of the rarer things—is to be thrown out as the doors swing open, so you have only the ground to reckon with. True, you strike with as much force as if you had been thrown from the Twentieth Century at top speed. But at least you are spared the lethal array of gleaming metal knobs and edges and glass inside the car. Anything can happen in that split second of crash, even those lucky escapes you hear about. People have dived through windshields and come out with only superficial scratches. They have run cars together head on, reducing both to twisted junk, and been found unhurt and arguing bitterly two minutes afterward. But death was there just the same—he was exercising his privilege of being erratic. This spring a wrecking crew pried the door off a car which had been overturned down an embankment and out stepped the driver with only a scratch on his cheek. But his mother was still inside, a splinter of wood from the top driven four inches into her brain as a re-rult of son's taking a greasy curve a little too fast. No blood—no horribly twisted bones—just a gray-haired corpse still clutching her pocketbook in her lap as she had clutched it when she felt the car leave the road. On the same curve a month later, a light touring car crashed to tree. In the middle of the front seat they found a nine-months- old baby surrounded by broken glass and yet absolutely unhurt. A fine practical joke on death—but spoiled by the baby's parents, still sitting on each side of him, instantly killed by shattering their skulls on the dashboard. If you customarily pass without clear vision a long way ahead, make sure that every member of the party carries identification papers—it's difficult to identify a body with its whole face bashed in or torn off. The driver is death's favorite target. If the steering wheel holds together it ruptures his liver or spleen so he bleeds to death internally. Or, if the steering wheel breaks off, the matter is settled instantly by the steering column's plunging through his abdomen. By no means do all head-on collision occur on curves. The modern death-trap is likely to be a straight stretch with three lanes of traffic—like the notorious Astor Flats on the Albany Post Road where there have been as many as 27 fatalities in one summer month. This sudden vision of broad, straight road tempts many an ordinarily sensible driver into passing the man ahead. Simultaneously a driver coming the other way swings out at high speed. At the last moment each tries to get into line again, but the gaps are closed. As the cars in line are forced into the ditch to capsize or crash fences, the passers meet, almost head on, in a swirling, grinding smash that sends them caroming .obliquely into the others. A trooper described such an accident-five cars in one mess, seven killed on the spot, two dead on the way to the hospital, two more dead in the long run. He remembered it far more vividly than he wanted to—the quick way the doctor turned away from a dead man to check up on a woman with a broken back; the three bodies out of one car so soaked with oil from the crankcase that they looked like wet brown cigars and not human at all; a man, walking around and babbling to himself, oblivious of the dagger-like sliver of steel that stuck out of his streaming wrist; a pretty girl with her forehead laid open, trying hopelessly to crawl out of a ditch in spite of her smashed hip. A first-class massacre of that sort is only a question of scale and numbers—seven corpses are no deader than one. Each shattered man, woman or child who went to make up the 36,000 corpses chalked up last year had to die a personal death. A car careening and rolling down a bank, battering and smashing its occupants every inch of the way, can wrap itself so thoroughly around a tree that front and rear bumpers interlock, requiring an acetylene torch to cut them apart. In a recent case of that sort they found the old lady, who had been sitting in back, lying across the lap of her daughter, who was in front, each soaked in her own and the other's blood indistinguishable, each so shattered and broken that there was no point whatever in an autopsy to determine whether it was broken neck or ruptured heart that caused death. Overturning cars specialize in certain injuries. Cracked pelvis, for instance, guaranteeing agonizing months in bed, motionless, perhaps crippled for life—broken spine resulting from sheer side-wise twist —the minor details of smashed knees and splintered shoulder blades caused by crashing into the side of the car as she goes over with the swirl of an insane roller coaster—and the lethal consequences of broken ribs, which puncture hearts and lungs with their raw ends. The consequent internal hemorrhage is no less dangerous because it is pleural instead of the abdominal cavity that is filling with blood. Flying glass—safety glass is by no means universal yet—contributes much more than its share to the spectacular side of accidents. It doesn't merely cut—the fragments are driven in as if a cannon loaded with broken bottles had been fired in your face, and a sliver in the eye, traveling with such force, means certain blindness. A leg or arm stuck through the windshield will cut clean to the bone through vein, artery and muscle like a piece of beef under the butcher's knife, and it takes little time to lose a fatal amount of blood under such circumstances. Even safety glass may not be wholly safe when the car crashes something at high speed. You hear picturesque tales of how a flying human body will make a neat hole in the stuff with its head—the shoulders stick—the glass holds-—and the raw, keen edge of the hole decapitates the body as neatly as a guillotine. Or, to continue with the decapitation motif, going off the road into a post-and-rail fence can put you beyond worrying about other injuries immediately when a rail comes through the windshield and tears off your head with its splintery end—not as neat a job but thoroughly efficient. Bodies are often found with their shoes off and their feet all broken out of shape. The shoes are back on the floor of the car, empty and with their laces neatly tied. That is the kind of impact produced by modern speeds. But all that is routine in every American community. To be remembered individually by doctors and policemen, you have to do something as grotesque as the lady who burst the windshield with her head, splashing splinters all over the occupants of the car, and then, as the car rolled over, rolled with it down the edge of the windshield frame and cut her throat from ear to ear. Or park on the pavement too near a curve at night and stand in front of the tail light as you take off the spare tire—which will immortalize you in somebody's memory as the fellow who was smashed three feet broad and two inches thick by the impact of a heavy duty truck against the rear of his own car. Or be as original as the pair of youths who were thrown out of an open roadster this spring—1thrown clear—but each broke a windshield post with his head in passing and the whole top of each skull, down to the eyebrows, was missing. Or *snap off a nine-inch tree and get yourself impaled by a ragged branch. None of all that is scare-fiction; it is ' just the horrible raw material of the year's statistics as seen in the ordinary course of duty by policemen and doctors, picked at random. The surprising thing is that there is so little dissimilarity in the stories they tell. It's hard to find a surviving accident victim who can bear to talk. After you come to, the gnawing, searing pain throughout your body is accounted for by learning that you have both collarbones smashed, both shoulder blades splintered, your right arm broken in three places and three ribs cracked, with every chance of bad internal ruptures. But the pain can't distract you, as the shock begins to wear off, from realizing that you are probably on your way out. You can't forget that, not even when they shift you from the ground to the stretcher and your broken ribs bite into your lungs and the sharp ends of your collarbones slide over to stab deep into each side of your screaming throat. When you've stopped screaming, it all comes back— you're dying and you hate yourself for it. That isn't fiction either. It's what it actually feels like to be one of that 36,000. And every time you pass on a blind curve, every time you hit it up on a slippery road, every time you step on it harder than your reflexes will safely take, every time you drive with your reactions slowed down by a drink or two, every time you follow the man ahead too closely, you're gambling a few seconds against this kind of blood and agony and sudden death. Take a look at yourself as the man in the white jacket shakes his head over you, tells the boys with the stretcher not to bother and turns away to somebody else who isn't quite dead yet. And then take it easy. CHEWS YORE PODNER 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. * * * * I Princeton University administrators recently announced an expansion plan that calls for the raising of $7,750,000. N OUR LAST ISSUE there was an editorial entitled, "Where does it go TO". I don't know where it went to, but such an expression is much the same as saying, "Whur are my britches AT", isn't it? I wish my married friend, the ex-McPherson • were here. * * * * Will the wee sma' member of the feminine element, who had red ribbons in her hair, and who was in Benson's asetting this past Sunday morning please leave her name so's we can tack it on to our list of who's prettier than apple pie with whip cream? * * * * Auto tags being as high as they are . . . despite a new Governor's going into office on a "Reduce the price of the auto tag" platform . . . I don't know but what it isn't best to get out the old hoss and the buggy again. Only the old hoss never seemed to understand what it meant to run out of gas, and it would also be quite some difficult to mount a radio on the dashboard of a buggy. However, the buggy didn't have to have tags, and the hoss didn't burn gasoline, with a tax on it higher than the cost of the stuff;' and by mowing the lawn twice a year you could feed the critter. If he complained about not getting enough to eat on that you could always threaten to turn him over to the ladies' riding class and you would have no more trouble with him. * * * * Watch your hosses and spotted coach dawgs, people; I'm fixing to reduce the salaries of two State politicians. * * * * By now I imagine Mussolini wishes he had let the nigger in the woodpile alone. And if he doesn't stop sasshaying around in the Mediterranean, some morning he will wake to find a late edition of Revere shouting, "Wake up, the British are coming!" For me an alarm clock is bad enough without having some Red Coat with a bayonet to help it. * * * * * Oh, you can put the worm on fish hooks, and throw dirt on him and all that, but some day he will turn and catch you with your best pair of pants sent to the cleaners, and the suspender buttons off the ones you have left. * * * * This time Rome is liable to burn without musical accompaniment. * * * * You local swains who are overjoyed because a bediked and becurled little lassie consents to go to the Sunday movies with you: Hear this . . . . I would hold your hand too for a thirty-five cent show and a double chocolate shake. Hands can be washed, you know. For a trip to a football game I'll send you a picture and write you love letters with a dash of ten cent talcum on each and every one. * * * * You are very pretty, my dear. The moon with all its lovely beams isn't as pretty. But I imagine you are just the type to throw dish water out the window on the nasturtiums. * * * * It's a lie of course, but it came out in an AP dispatch. A man was shot because, it was said, he cast slurring remarks about a gentleman's feminine companion. He was not only shot, but kilt. Enquiries brought the following solution. The man was sitting with another man in front of the local hardware store. He said to the other man, "My back itches". The man said to him, "Scratch it." "I can't", he said, "I got on a new shirt." And the man said again to him, "Take off your shirt." And was told again, "I dasn't, the's ladies present." And while he was setting, and itching, and sort of mumbling to hisself, as we all do when we got a bite and can't scratch it . . . along came this man with this gal, and thought the mumbling meant something else. An argument ensued wherein the man got his bite scratched for him with a forty-five bullet so energetic- like it kilt him. * * * * Searching for the moral in that story we can arrive at but one, and one only. Moral : . . always take off your shirt when they's ladies present. Physicists at Columbia University have measured the neutron. The answer: 0,000- 0000000001 inch! Even Dog Sam howled at that one, but he was setting on a paw that cat had under him at the time, and perhaps that accounts for it. * * * * Bring out the old flannel nightie; I crave some sleeps. Shake out the moths . . . the little angels . . . they flutter so nicely. If there are holes, ignore them . . . the little angels did it, and so you can't criticize. If both sleeves are gone, the little angels did it, and it's all right. BUT . . . if the little angels have been into my top coat, I'm going to stuff a moth ball down every angelic throat I can catch. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 16, 1935 T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN A L A B A M A P O L Y T E C H N I C INSTITUTE P A G E T H R EE OPELIKA DEFEATS LOCAL HIGH TEAM BY SMALL MARGIN Met In Annual Grid Classic Friday; Auburn High Will Play Union Springs Friday Auburn and the Opelika high football aggregations met in the annual battle between the two old rivals and a hard fought game resulted in a slim 7-0 victory for the strong and highly touted Opelika team. Auburn High turned loose a terrific running attack that had the powerful Bulldogs worried a great deal before it was finally stopped. Auburn drove to the one foot line when John Ham broke through the line, twisted his way on down the field for a fifteen yard gain before he was knocked out of bounds on the goal line. Auburn lost its chance to score here as on the next play they fumbled and Opelika recovered. Auburn journeys to Union Springs this week, and they are determined to break into the win column. So far in the season they have lost three and tied one. Playing in hard luck and bad breaks, the locals have lost games that should have been on the right side of the column, and this week they are determined to take .the game from the strong Union Springs outfit. Coach Fowler has had his charges working hard all week, and handling the ball and blocking have been the main points worked on. Patronize Plainsman advertisers. SOCIETY AND NEWS FEATURES LUELLA BOTSFORD, Society Editor Local Thespians To Present Drama Soon The Auburn-Opelika Community Players are giving their first play of (he season when they present "My Son" in Opelika on October 28 and "in Auburn on October 29. The story is woven about the love of a mother for her weak and wayward son with the setting of the play in a New England resort. The cast which is composed of Miss Maud Bruce, who has given several successful performances, Maurice Fleisher, Miss Minnie Hampton, who is recognized as a versatile character actor, Marvin Wilson, and Cecil Stowe, are being coached by Director Charles Floyd. The handling of character parts which are quite difficult gives promise of splendid entertainment to those interested in drama. Members of the Community Players who have 1934-1935 tickets are privileged to see the play "My Son" as the last show due in these tickets. NELSON EDDY WILL APPEAR IN MONTGOMERY CONCERT SERIES Nelson Eddy will be the second artist in a series of concerts sponsored by the Montgomery concert course. He will appear at the Lanier Auditorium February 1. Mr. Eddy's rise in his present profession is phenominal. He started his career in the newspaper world and became reporter, copyreader, then advertising writer. During this period he studied opera arias from a phonograph. In a contest in Philadelphia, Mr. Eddy' won as the prize the role of Amonasro in Aida. This special performance was sponsored by the Philadelphia Operatic Society. His professional debut was as Tonio in "Pag-liacci." Mr. Eddy later studied in Europe and America under the best teachers and coaches. He has had wide experience in concert, opera, radio, and oratorio. This year he has added the role of singer-actor. Season tickets for these attractions are being sold and can be reserved by telephoning Cedar 1590 or Cedar 3968. Address Montgomery Concert Course, 117 Sayre Street. Local Women's Club To Hear Dr. Petrie of A.T.O. Members Guests At Steak Fry Saturday Birmingham-Southern Chapter A.T.O. Fraternity was host at a steak fry on Saturday night in Birmingham honoring members and pledges of the Auburn Chapter of that fraternity. ECONOMIZE • .. \ f \ MODERNIZE • Use NATURAL GAS mm Auburn Civic Clubs Hold Joint Meeting The Rotary Club sponsored a joint meeting of the civic clubs of Auburn last Thursday evening, the meeting being in the form of a dinner at the College Inn. There were 75 members of the Rotary, Kiwanis, and Lions Clubs present. Dr. Zebulon Judd presided. After a brief address on the aims of Auburn civic organizations, he introduced the speaker of the evening, Col. R. S. Thomas. Colonel T/homas is the army district engineer from Mobile, and gave an explanation of the nation's system of inland waterways. Other speakers at the meeting were Dr. L. N. Duncan, President of the college; Dr. J. L. Seal, Lions Club President; Dr. Paul Irvine, Kiwanis president; Professor Albert Thomas, President of the Rotary Club; and Professor W. D. Salmon. Music was by the Opelika Quartet. \ \ % and that's a H I I I if / H I P.-T. A. Meeting Be Held October 18 The P.-T. A. meeting has been postponed because of the Auburn-Opelika football game from October 11 to 18. This meeting is-quite important as a report of the Summer Round-up will be given. The Summer Round-up is a physical examination of all pre-school children. After a thorough examination the parents of each child are notified of defects, if any, so that they may be corrected before school opens. In the Fall a check up is made and the children who are without defects or who have had immunization of smallpox and diptheria treatments, as well as corrections of defects made, are awarded a blue ribbon. This work has proved of great benefit to the community for several years and it is the aim towards physical perfection the P.-T. A. of Auburn are striving for. Children who have won the blue ribbons are to be present at this meeting. Rural Resettlement . Offices Moved Here Cooperation between the State Extension Service and the Rural Resettlement Division of the Resettlement Administration will be secured through removal to the Auburn campus last week of the office of Julian Brown, acting Director of rural rehabilitation for Alabama. Formerly situated in Montgomery, regional headquarters of the Resettlement Administration, the rehabilitation office brings about thirty-five staff members to Auburn. As a result of Jhis move, Mr. Brown pointed out, the office will be in close contact with all Alabama counties through the county agents who are on the Extension Service staff. Similar transfers of the rehabilitation directors in Florida and Georgia have been effected. there is to the Junior Three Class Given Dance Friday A dance was given last Friday night, October 4 with the High school as host to the Junior 3. About sixty guests were present to enjoy the splen- Bell System setup T90UGH large, the Bell System is simple in structure. Think of it as a tree. Branches: 24 associated operating companies, each attuned to the area it serves. Trunk: The American Telephone and Telegraph Company, which coordinates all system activities. Roots: Bell Telephone Laboratories and Western Electric, whose functions are scientific research and manufacture; Long Lines Department of A. T. and T., which through its country-wide network of wires links together the 24 operating companies, handles overseas service; Advisory Staff of A. T. and T., which advises the operating companies on all phases of telephone operation and searches constantly for better methods. Working as one, these many Bell System units enable you to talk to almost anyone, anywhere, any time. Why not call your folks tonight? For lowest rates, call by number after 7 P. M. BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM Annie Davis To Teach Dancing Here Miss Annie Laurie Davis, dancing teacher from Montgomery, was in town last weekend to arrange student classes in different types of dancing. Although tapping will be the specialty, ballroom and tango steps will be given those wishing them. Miss Davis has been an instructor in the Dorothy Claire School of Dancing in Montgomery for the last year, and for three years has had her own classes in Mobile. She has engaged Eugene Simmons, freshman here, to aid with the routine work. A meeting for all those interested in dancing is to be held in Langdon Hall tonight at 8 o'clock. At this time class periods and fees will be arranged. Anyone interested in securing the position as piano player for the classes should also be present tonight. Miss Stokes-Feagin Wedding Solemnied October 8 The marriage ceremony of Margaret Stokes of Abbeville and Arthur Henry Feagin of Montgomery, an Auburn graduate, was solemnized Oct. 8 at the home of the bride's parents. Mr. Feagin graduated from Auburn in engineering and was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and now has a position with the State Highway did music and gaiety of the evening, Department. Mrs. Feagin was edu- Refreshments were served by the cated at Judson and Hollings Colleges Discussion Group of the High School• and received her degree from the lat- P.-T. A. with Mrs. Scott and Mrs.! ter. She was a member of the Kappa Toomer officiating. Refreshments were j Delta sorority, contributed by the following: Mes- j After a wedding trip Mr. and Mrs. dames: A. L. Thomas, B. F. Thomas, Blake, Toomer, Hudson, and Arnquist, and punch was donated by Mr. Taylor and Mr. Toomer. The dances are given through the' cooperation of the student body and faculty with the Discussion Group who are making a study of the social conditions of the high school. Grammar School Sets Attendance Record Auburn Grammar School came second in the Lee County attendance record for September, averaging 97.1. According to Miss Mary Wilson, Lee County attendance worker, both city and country schools showed an unusually high attendance for September, the average for all of them being above 90 per cent. Girls' P.T. Classes To Sponsor Contests The girls' physical education classes have been very enthusiastic in preparation for the intramural contests that are to begin next week. The first sport to be engaged in will be volley ball. There will be competition between the different classes in physical education, and later between all other girls' organizations on the campus. Feagin will be at home in Centerville. Girl Scout Troops Meet Wednesday The two troops of the Girl Scouts met Wednesday afternoon at the First Methodist Church. The first part of the program were instructions in signals given by the Boy Scouts. Mrs. Watts, Girl Scout leader, gave a lesson on basketry as part of the handicraft program for the year. T.U.O. Fraternity To Give Dance Friday On Friday night T.U.O. Fraternity will entertain at a dance at the Student Hall. Decorations will be appropriately arranged in the fraternity colors of blue and gold. The best of popular dance music will be given by Yank Friedman and his( Auburn Knights. Vet Society Gives Dance Friday The Student Chapter of A.V.M.A. entertained at a dance on Friday night at the Girl's Gym. Music was provided by the Cavaliers. The Gymnasium was decorated for the occasion in emblems and colors representative of the organization. Attractive programs for the next few weeks were announced at the October general meeting of the Womens Club held in the Student Recreation Hall last Thursday afternoon. At the November general meeting Prof. George Petrie will discuss the Italio- Ethiopian situation, according to Miss Rosalee Walston of the program committee. The garden department will meet tomorrow, according to Mrs. Sahag, when Prof. McElwee will discuss "Annuals, Perennials, and Bulbs." On Oct. 24 Mrs. George Scarseth announces a meeting of the literature department which will be featured by a talk on Indian life in Alabama by Peter Brannon of Montgomery. New officers and members of standing committees were introduced at the general meeting last week. Mrs. Emil Wright also read an invitation from the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, to attend exhibitions of the Metropolitan and Alabama Art Leagues to be held in November. Musical numbers were given by Mr. Lawrence Barnett and his ensemble, and by Mr. A. E. Coggin, teacher of piano. Delta Sigma Pi Has First Social Meeting The first social meeting of Delta Sigma Pi, national honorary business fraternity, was held last evening in the recreation hall of the Student Center. The affair was in the form of a reception, the guests including new students in the department of Business Administration. During the latter part of the evening the Freshman Scholarship Cup for 1934-35 was presented to Dan T. Smith, and pledges for this semester were tapped. Flowers for all Occasions KING'S NURSERY Phone 695-J OPELIKA, ALABAMA Ideal Laundry Bill Ham and Jim Thigpen CLEAN-UP AND BEAT KENTUCKY One-day Service Phone 193 FREE See the CLYDE BARROW BONNIE PARKER DEATH CAR On Display Thursday, Oct. 17, 1935 1 p. m. 'til 10 p. m. Hear the Educational and Instructive Talk Proving that Crime Does Not Pay! BRING THE CHILDREN Courtesy of Tiger Motor Co. LEE COUNTY TAX COLLECTORS TO BE IN AUBURN NEXT WEEK Will Be At City Hall Monday, Tuesday, And Wednesday To Collect Taxes For 1935 And For Giving Assessments For 1936; All Taxes Are Due And Payable On October First Representatives from the Lee County Court House will be at the City Hall at Auburn Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, October 21, 22, 23, from 8:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M., to collect taxes for 1935 and for the giving in of assessments for 1936. All taxes are due and payable October 1 of each year and become delinquent January, succeeding. All property owners are requested by law to list on their tax return the amount of fire insurance carried on all real and personal property, also the name of the person or company carrying the insurance. It is important that all real estate be described properly as all that is not properly described will be assessed to owners unknown as the law directs. New Shipment BOTANY ALL WOOL, NON SHRINKABLE TIES . Always Look Neat. Manhattan Shirts - - - $1.95 Vanheusen Shirts - - - $2.00 G IBSON' MEN'S WEAR s An' de Goblins Ml Git Ye, If You Don't Watch Out! THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31 You may plan your party and social functions with absolute assurance that it will be a perfect success using our Special Hallowe'en Novelties. SERPENTINE, 20 streamers, assorted colors - 10c roll CONFETTI, Glassine tube, assorted colors - - 5c pkg. PENNY FAVORS Eight inch metal Flute, variegated colors, Novelty Crickets, assorted designs, Cane Balloons, balloon mounted on 9 in. cane, with bright-colored feathers attached, Horn Blowout, 6 in. horn, with 15 in. blowout attached, Paper Horns, wood mouthpiece, patriotic designs, Clown Paper Mask, size 7 x 9 with rubber fasteners, Balloon assortment, 6 styles, plain and with squawkers. MICKEY AND MINNIE HORNS Heavy Cardboard Horn, 4 color lithographed wrapped, wood mouthpiece, Mickey Mouse design 5c TISSUE DANCING FIGURES 20 in. when open, printed in Hallowe'en colors and varnished on cardboard with folding tissue body, arms and legs 1 5c MICKEY PIN-ON GAME Mickey Mouse on heavy linen cloth with 16 pin-on tails. Lots of fun for kiddies. Each in attractive lithographed box 25c MASKS Heavy gauze with mustache 5c Black and assorted colors, Sateen Masks 10c DENNISON PARTY COSTUMES Child and adult sizes. Witch, Ghost, Pumpkin and Devil designs 25c SPECIALS Party Sets, 40 x 40 table covers, 4 napkins, and 4 tallies. Hallowe'en design 15c Paper Napkins, 1 3 % x l 3 % , fine quality embossed quarter fold. 24 in cellophane pack 10c Hallowe'en Crepe Paper, 20 in. wide, 10 ft. long, owl in tree top, bat and witch design, orange, black and yellow cowhinalin 10c each FROM THE WITCHES POT Noise Makers, Caps, Lanterns, Pumpkins, Witches, Invitations, Cats, Fortune-Telling Owls, and Cold Facts Tomb Stones. BURTON'S BOOKSTORE SOMETHING NEW EVERY DAY •C.QVA * OPELIKA BOTTLING COMPANY P A G E FOUR 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, OCT. 16, 1935 Corn Contest Planned By High School F.F.A. At a recent meeting of the Auburn High F. F. A. Chapter plans were discussed for holding field meetings and guessing contests on the corn demonstration plots sponsored by the Chilean Nitrate Educational Bureau, Incorporated. The Auburn chapter has two of FREE for EVERY DOLLAR spent at LOLLAR'S for KODAK FINISHING and KODAK FILMS you get ONE 8 x 10 enlargement FREE. These enlargements are identically the same as our regular fifty cent portrait enlargements. Roll developed 10c, VELOX PRINTS 3c, 4c, 5c and 6c each. L O L L A R ' S 1808 3rd Ave. North, (Lyric Theatre BIdg.) P.O. Box 2622, Birmingham, Ala. these plots, each containing two and one-half acres, two acres of which were sidedressed with 200 pounds of nitrate of soda, the other half acre being left as a check plot. The contrast in growth shows up between these plots. At each of these demonstrations the fertilizer practices used will be explained and every one present will be permitted to guess at the yield of the fertilized and unfertilized plots. The winner at each demonstration will receive a $2.00 cash prize. One of the demonstrations is being conducted by Eddy Jones, who lives on the Old Ware Road two miles south-west of Auburn and the other demonstration by Woodrow Rowell one mile north of Lochapoka. The VOLUNTEERS WIN OVER AUBURN TIGERS IN HARD-FOUGHT SCRAP I'M WILD ABOUT FIGURES No! I don't mean arithmetic. I mean figures that walk and talk—like yourself. "A Man's a Man for All o' That." But to m e he's something more. When I s e e a man I see a pair of shoulders, a neck, a chest, a waist—a seat, a pair of legs and arms. Yes, sir! I see a figure to fit—with a suit that "adds" to the glorious whole." Let me add to that figure of yours. Calls made anywhere, anytime. Fee OLIJN L. H I LL SIEBLER CLOTHES, 'Caihred at Lyllt Park JUL.L.Y S Auburn, Alabama LONGER WEAR! The greatest return in buying Custom-Tailored Clothes is in t h e longer service. Garments more firmly sewed, hand-shaped for permanency of fit and finer fabrics. SMARTEST STYLES GUARANTEED FIT Suits and Topcoats. $21.50 up JIMMY B. FORT COLLEGE BARBER SHOP ECONOMIZE . . . . , . MODERNIZE Use NATURAL GAS (Continued from page 1) sweeping end runs proved to produce results by the fast Tiger backs. The Vol ends either tackled them out wide or drove them in. It was Rose who scored both touchdowns for Tennessee. Captain Palmer punted 5 yards to Joe Bob Mitchell in the third quarter where Mitchell received on his 2 yard line. Mitchell picked up the ball and the Vols brought him down on the 4 yard line. Kilgore punted 35 yards but the ball rolled back to Auburn's 20 yard line. Dickens swept left end for 9 yards. On the fourth down Dickens passed to Rose over to the left of the field for a touchdown. Tipper jumped high to break up the pass back near the end zone. Rodgers broke through to knock down the placement kick for extra point. Play had only been resumed for 2 minutes when Rose broke through the line and caught Bunky O'Rourke's fumble out of the air to rush on to the goal for a 35 yard touchdown run. Ditmore sent the ball through the uprights for the extra point. , Auburn showed a reversal of form in the fourth period. Coach Meagher sent in several substitutions and the Tigers took on some of the spirit exhibited in the opening of the game. Harp got off a 45 yard punt to Hitchcock. Auburn's sophomore back was downed on Tennessee's 44 yard line. Hitchcock. made 5 yards around end. Rose was ejected from the game for hitting Sam McCroskey and the Tennessee team was penalized half of the distance to the goal line. Tipper made 3 yards at left tackle. Auburn was penalized 5 yards for taking too much time for signals. Hitchcock's pass to Tipper was incomplete, but on the second try to Kilgore, Auburn's fullback received the 15 yard toss over to the left of the field, eluded three Tennessee would-be tacklers and crossed the goal line 8 yards away for Auburn's only score. YOUNG CRIPPLED CHILD IS HELPED BY LIONS GROUP Six-Year-Old Girl Is Given Hospitalization By Auburn Lions; Recovery Is Expected Mrs. High Appointed To Registrars Board An Auburn woman, Mrs. J. T. High, has been appointed by Governor Graves to serve as Chairman of the Lee County's Board of Registrars. Her duty will be to help check eligible voters of Lee County. Llewellyn Ingram and T. A. What-ley have been appointed to work with Mrs. High. The 66 other Alabama counties have their Boards of Registrars selected. date of the field meetings will be announced this week. All farmers and others interested are urged to be present at these meetings. Patronize Plainsman advertisers. A REVOLUTION IN WRITING AND FILLING * QHEAFFERS Start the school year with Sheaffer's which are supreme in quality and performance and cost no more but last longer. All Sheaffer's fil^empty, clean with one stroke and take in over 400% more Skrip perstrokethan multiple-stroke pens. Visibility is kept permanent by a patented vacuum disc. The two-tone Feather-touch" poi nt that on ly Sheaffer's have makes two-way writing perfect. All these' wonderful features combined with the Lifetime" Guarantee make Sheaffer's the world's most economical pens. See al gradesofSheaffer'sfrom$2.25 up at your dealer's. SHEAFFER DEALERS: WRITE IMMEDIATELY FOR INFORMATION ON THE WONDERFUL DRY-PROOF DESK SET. W. A SHEAFFER PEN CO. FORT MADISON, IOWA Psn-SKRIP, Successor to Ink, 2 oz., 15c. Permanent SKRIP mokes better business records PARA-IASTIK, the n.w gum adhesive; doesn't curl thin' nest sheets, with handy spreader brush. 25c Th» whit* dot idontiflos the lifetime)" pan SHEAFFER PENS, $2M t o $ 1 0 SHEAFFER PENCILS, *1 to *5 •Heg. U.S.Pat.Off. FREE PENCIL-SKRIP, Successor-Meads. SEE YOUR DEALER Belief that the Lee County six-year-old girl given hospitalization by the Auburn Lions Club will become completely normal was expressed in a letter to the local club this week. Miss Thelma McGinty, assistant supervisor of the Crippled Children's Service in the State Department of Education wrote thanking the club for its assistance. The girl, a resident of the Opelika mill village, was successfully operated upon by Dr. John D. Sherrill, orthopedic surgeon of Birmingham. She is now a t home, her leg in a cast, and will return to Birmingham for another cast in four weeks. Miss McGinty expressed confidence that, if recovery is not complete, the patient will be so rehabilitated that she will be able to take a normal place in the civic, social, and industrial life of her community. Complete hospitalization of a crippled child was adopted as the major project of the Auburn Lions Club last year. Sufficient money was raised for the operation, and the child was selected by the Lee County Welfare Board early in the summer. ENGINEERS MEETING IN MAGIC CITY ATTRACTS 25 AUBURN STUDENTS PROF. ADAMS REVIEWS BOOK Professor Henry Adams was speaker at the Twentieth Century Club in Opelika last week. He gave a review of the "Biography of R. E. Lee" by Douglas S. Freeman. The meeting was held at the home of Mrs. John Harwell, with Mrs. J. D. Burkhead as joint hostess. There were fifty guests who enjoyed the meeting. Riding Boot SPECIALS! for Men, Brown l « us fie you with a pair of these n « tv tionally low pticorl Colt Riding Boots. Yoa will like their •mart English style leg ami Comfortable last "•— * — —-=r:3 Koplon's Shoe Store We Carry a Complete Line of DRESS SHOES OPELIKA OPELIKA • THEATRE . Wednesday "CHINATOWN SQUAD" with Lyle Talbot, Valerie Hob-son, Hugh O'Connell Comedy, "Old A ge Pensions" Thursday — "BABY FACE HARRINGTON" with Charles Butterworth Una Merkel "Lucky Beginners" An amateur show in 20 minutes on the screen Color Cartoon Friday — "AGE OF INDISCRETION" with Paul Lucas, Madge Evans, Helen Vinson, May Rob-son, David Jack Holt Comedy "The Mysterious King" News (Continued from page 1) excursion by special trains to the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company's mines and works, with luncheon at the Fairfield plant. Inspection trips will continue Saturday to various en-< gineering projects in and near Birmingham. The student delegation will hold a dance and banquet at the Tutwiler Hotel Wednesday evening. LOST OR STRAYED—Male Persian Cat, 6 months old, orange back with white under body. Reward if returned to W. W. Hill, 271 S. Gay Street. LOST—Spade pin lost Monday in front of Ross Chemical Building. Finder return to Harry Hooper, K. A. House. Reward. Tiger Theatre "Showplace of East Alabama" Auburn, Alabama WEDNESDAY, OCT. 16 "HOORAY FOR LOVE" with Gene Raymond, Ann Sothern, Pert Kelton Added "LEATHER NECKER" Paramount Pictorial THURSDAY, OCT. 17 "HERE'S TO ROMANCE" with Nino Martini, Genevieve Tobin Comedy, "TIME OUT" AT 8:45 A PHILCO WILL BE GIVEN AWAY. D O N ' T FORGET FRIDAY, OCT. 18 Chester Morris, Sally Eilers in "PURSUIT" Musical Comedy, "SURPRISE" Latest News Events Dr. Walston Selected To Deliver Lectures Dr. Rosalee Walston, associate professor of education at Auburn, has been chosen to deliver a series of lectures to the Century Club of Columbus. Dr. Walston lectured to the club last year, her subject was Modern Trends. The club is studying contemporary drama and Dr. Walston was chosen to give eight monthly lectures which will include the Russian Drama, German Drama, Czecho-Slovakian, and Austrian Drama, Italian and French Drama, Spanish Drama,' English and Irish Drama, American Drama and Back stage glimpses. Patronize Plainsman advertisers. Special!! BARBECUE SANDWICH 10c Tiger Sandwich Shop SHRUBBERY SALE — 2 FOR 1 STARTING ABOUT OCTOBER 15th Buy One and Get One Free! ITALIAN RYE GRASS SEED F L O W E R S F O R A L L O C C A S I O N S OPELIKA FLORAL CO. Opelika, Ala. Phone 211 wy\ Round Trip to Auburn-Kentucky Saturday, October 19 Leave on Friday evening trains or 9:50 a.m. Saturday morning. Return limit, Monday, October 21. Western Railway of Alabama YOUR CFIR for these important WINTER NEEDS! 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Title | 1935-10-16 The Auburn Plainsman |
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OCR Transcript | Semi-Weekly Plainsman Wednesday Issue ®lj£ Auburn plainsman "A" Club Dance Saturday TO F O S T E R THE A U B U R N S P I R IT VOLUME LIX AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 16, 1935 NUMBER 10 VOLS WIN OVER TIGER TEAM IN HARD STRUGGLE Tigers Fail To Cash In On Scoring Chances; Lacked Offensive Drives Of Past WAS SPIRITED GAME Backs Unable To Break Away For Any Large Gains; Line Proved Weak At Times By Eugene Lee Auburn suffered a bitter 13-6 defeat by the hands of the University of Tennessee in Legion Field at Birmingham Saturday. Failing to cash in on scoring chances, the Tigers wound up their third game of the year lacking in the offensive drives that have characterized their wins over Tulan'e and Birmingham-Southern. The Tigers started the game off with a spirited drive in the early stages of the game after Kilgore's 60 yard punt to Tennessee's 2-yard line which was grounded by Bummie Roton. This thrust into Volunteer territory stimulated the Tigers for after Palmer's punt to Hitchcock on Tennessee's 35 yard line, the Plainsmen started a determined drive. Two passes from Hitchcock to Strange netted 18 yards and these two advances coupled with runs by Kilgore and Tipper placed the ball on the 10 yard line. At this point the Tigers failed to make good their scoring chance and lost the ball to the Vols. The Volunteers turned around and reversed the proceedure by pushing the ball to Auburn's 8 yard line by the end of the first quarter through the efforts of Captain Palmer, Dickens, and Sharpe. The failure of this first quarter threat to score and the powerful 82 yard drive of the Vols coming right after their threat to score seemed to take away, the spirit that had been built up by the Tigers. Both teams played heads-up football, the tackling was hard, and few backs of either team were able to break away for appreciable gains, but Tennessee received the breaks and played inspired ball to take advantage of them. If Auburn could have scored on this first bid for a touchdown, the score would probably have been to their advantage. Auburn's line failed to come up to the standard set in the two previous games of the season. The Vol's line deserves a lot of credit for their victory. Rose and Humphreys, ends, and Crawford and Silberman, tackles, kept the Auburn ends and tackles bottled up the entire afternoon. Most of the time two would work on one man in taking care of the Auburn forewall on plays. The work of these four stalwarts was particularly impressive on offensive plays by the Tigers. Few (Continued on page 4) "A" Club To Sponsor Dance In Montgomery Following the game Saturday night in Montgomery the Auburn "A" Club and the Phi Delta Kappa fraternity will cooperate in staging a dance at the Lanier High School Gym, according to Haygood Paterson, president of the "A" Club. A similar dance held after the first game of the year proved a great success, and it is expected that the affair Saturday night will equal it in every respect. Music will be by the popular Auburn Knights under the direction of Yank Friedman. It will be the only dance staged in Montgomery that night. Dancing will get underway at nine o'clock and continue until 12. This will allow ample time for students wishing to catch the last train out of Montgomery for Auburn that night. A large number of cars will be on hand at the Exchange Hotel to furnish rides for those wishing to attend the dance. As before, each car will carry an identification mark. Sponsors of the dance from Auburn will be Lily Barnes Cherry, Jane Slack, Pearl Rudolph, Molly Brasfield, Netty Murphy, Ella Frances South, Iris Joiner, and Louise Liles. Admission to the afflair has been set at $1.10, the extra ten cents being added to cover the tax. KUDERNA ELECTED FACULTY HEAD OF EDUCATION GROUP Kuderna Will Act As Councilor Of Group For Two Years; Has Had Wide Experience New Pledges To Keys Will Be Tapped Soon At a call meeting of Keys on Monday night the date for the fall initiation was set for Friday night, Nov. 1. As the roll now includes members from only 14 frats, a large number of extra, men were elected to fill in the ranks of the fraternities having no members. Men were chosen from every fraternity on the eampus. Keys will hold many social functions during the year, the first of which will be a dance in early December. Meetings will be held the first Monday of each month. These meetings will be held at the various frat houses in order that the members may become better acquainted with each other. Call meetings and weiner roasts will be held from time to time to keep the members in close contact. Keys goal for the year is to gain a boost in power and reputation, and to come into better fulfillment of its purpose as the creator of better fellowship between fraternities. No formal tapping ceremony will be displayed as a dance for this purpose could not be scheduled. Tapping will be performed by a committee for that purpose and a complete list of the initiates will appear in the next issue of this paper. Dr. J. G. Kuderna was unanimously elected as councilor of Kappa Delta Pi for the next two years at a meeting of the group last Monday night. Dr. Kuderna has had much experience with honorary organizations at Auburn. He succeeds Dr. Paul Irvine who has served the local chapter for the past four years. Also at the meeting Monday it was decided that the local chapter "would cooperate with the English Department here in sponsoring locally the Montgomery Lecture Series which begins in early December. Tickets for the entire series of lectures are now on sale at a cost of one dollar. They may be purchased either from the English Department or from Emma Bennett Sellers at Smith Hall. Following his election, Dr. Kuderna gave an account of the founding of the local chapter of Kappa Delta Pi which was followed with another account by Dr. Irvine on the high points of the organization since it was founded. GRADES HIGH IN FRESHMAN TEST FOR PLACEMENT Highest Individual Score Made By Edwin Godbold; Three Others Make Above 300 IMPROVEMENT SEEN Grades Of First Ten This Year Considerably Above Grades For Similar Group Last Year • Complete compilation of the English Placement Tests taken by freshmen at the opening of school show a slight improvement over the grades made by fhis group in the last several years. The highest individual score was made by Edwin Godbold, Selma High School, who attained a total of 317 points out of a posible 350. This was eight points better than the best effort last year, when William Stelzenmuller, of Phillips High, Birmingham, scored 309 points. Last year Stelzenmuller was the only student to rate 300 or above; whereas this year there were three grades over this mark. The ten highest students in this placement test are as follows: Edwin Godbold, Selma High School, 317; Ruth Holcombe, Packe Collegiate Inst., Brooklyn, N. Y., 309; Cornelia Stevens, Bay Minette High School, 303; J. H. Wheeler, Jr., Jackson Co. High, Scottsboro, 299; F. P. Lathrop, Clayton High, 288; Lucile Bethune, Clayton High 265; Mary Carmack, Auburn High, 258; S. H. Richardson, Hunts-ville High, 256; Ben Branch, Lanier High, Montgomery, 253; John Eagin, Bessemer High, 253. The above ten are considerably higher than the first ranking ten of last year and the scores of the groups listed below are higher than the corresponding sections of last year. This time there were three students to score between 301 and 350 points, 14 between 251 and 300, 50 between 201 and 250, 992 between 151 and 200, 213 between 101 and 150, 222 between 51 and 100, and 59 between 0 and 50. Local Airport To Be Open For Inspection The Aubijrn-Opelika airport will be open for inspection the week beginning October 14. President Roosevelt has declared this air navigation week, in order to call public attention to the program made in aerial transportation. All airfields under the supervision of the Department of Commerce will be open to the public for inspection, according to a bulletin from the Department of Commerce. Mr. P. B. Adams, who has charge of four fields between Atlanta and Evergreen, says the public will be accorded every courtesy if they care to inspect the Auburn-Opelika airport. Many Changes Have Been Made By Plant Service Department Many improvements can be seen in the arrangement of departments under the direction of the Plant Service division of the college. This work has progressed considerably under the directorship of Dr. J. V. Brown. Dr. Brown has moved his office from the Alumni Office building to the Power House, and when it is completed it will make the handling of work under his direction much easier. The Glomerata has a new office which is also located in the Power House. This is quite an improvement over the office that was formerly located in the basement 'of Alumni Hall. Two large store rooms have been Better Conduct Asked Of Few By Dr. Duncan TO ALL STUDENTS: It has been reported to us that a few students conducted themselves very unbecomingly on train No. 36 from Montgomery to Auburn Sunday evening. Only a few students were involved but they brought discredit upon all other students and upon Auburn, as Well as upon themselves. We regret this exceedingly and sincerely hope that there will be no recurrence before or after the Auburn-Kentucky game in Montgomery next Saturday. We have, as explained before, very few rules at Auburn. All we ask is that students conduct themselves properly at all times and under all conditions. Since one student can bring discredit upon all other students, we suggest that any student who happens to observe an unbecoming act by another student will stop it. A reminder should be sufficient. We are depending upon each of you at the game in Montgomery next Saturday; and at all future games. Earnestly yours, L. N. Duncan, President. LIST BE MADE OF THOSE DEFICIENT IN ENGLISH HERE Registrar Asks Report From All Instructors; Reasonable Grade Expected Of Students constructed in the Power House in which the supplies of the college can be systematically handled and stored. The heating plant, woodwork shop, and plumbing and electrical shop have all been cleaned up and rearranged. Through the location of all these different departments in the same building with his office, Dr. Brown states that the handling of the work is greatly facilitated. Another project that was completed during the summer is the arranging of rooms in the basement of Alumni Hall for students. These rooms are constructed and arranged in such a manner as to make them well ventilated. The location of the heating pipes through the rooms will give them ample heat for the winter. The condition of the grounds about the college has been given more attention this year. In this division there has been marked improvement.in the last few years. There is still a great need for paved walks, and Dr. Brown hopes that this work will be done soon. The planting of grass will commence as soon as there is sufficient amount » of rain. Keller Appoints Two Alumni To State Jobs Two Auburn alumni have been appointed by Dr. J. A. Keller in the State department of education. M. H. Killingsworth, 1914, is now high school supervisor, succeeding John Crump as chief clerk in the division of business administration. Mr. Killingsworth is well known as a high school principal at Cullman and elsewhere. Letters to all instructors asking for lists of students deficient in the use of English were sent out last week by C. W. Edwards, associate registrar. This is in keeping with the rule for handling English deficiencies adopted year before last at Auburn. All students at Auburn are expected to maintain a reasonable standard of good usage in English in all class work, both oral and written, in all departments of the college. Any student reported as showing marked deficiency must take special work under the direction of the English department until he reaches a satisfactory standard. No student reported may graduate until he removes this English deficiency. This regulation is similar to those of other colleges of high standing. Colleges everywhere are being criticised for the poor English used by their students and graduates, and attempts are being made to overcome these criticisms. The English deficiency rule is printed in the college catalogue and followed by all instructors. At present, out of 2136 students, only about 50 are on the English deficiency list. Instructors are reminded in October and March to turn in the lists, so new names will no doubt be added immediately. Removal from the list is necessary for graduation. At some colleges, the University of California being one, an English test is given at the beginning of the year, and all students not reaching certain standards are required to take non-credit courses until the standards are reached. About one-third of the entering students are required to take these non-credit courses. Death Of Ben Walker Is Shock To Friends Word has been received here of the death of Ben Walker who passed away at his home in Uchee, Ala., Monday morning at nine o'clock. The deceased had been ill for some time and his passing was not unexpected. Mr. Walker lived his entire life of 75 years in this historic town in Rus-sel county where he took an active part in community affairs. He was well known over the southern part of the state and his death was a blow to his many friends. N O T I C E ! There will be a meeting of Tau Beta Pi Thursday night at 7 o'clock in Room 109 Ramsay. DEBATERS FROM ENGLAND TO BE IN MATCH HERE Will Debate Auburn Team In Langdon Hall About' Middle November Says Prof. Hess EXPERIENCED ORATORS Johnson And DeVaughn Will Argue Negative Case Of Debate Question For Auburn Announcement from Prof. E. H. Hess, debate coach, is to the effect that the Cambridge Debate team will be in Auburn either on November 11 or 12 to engage the Auburn team consisting of B. H. Johnson and J. E. DeVaughn. Both members of the Cambridge Debate team are considered to be outstanding so far as debating is concerned. Cuthbert James McCall Alport, one of the members, is a graduate student of Pembroko College, Cambridge, and expects to be called to the bar shortly after completing the present tour in America. While in college he participated in numerous activities, being connected with the dramatic society, captain of the boxing team, and president of the debating society. At Pembroko he took an Honors degree in history and law, being mainly in terested in matters of a political nature, especially those of an international aspect. The other member of the team, John Royle, was educated at Arnold House and went on to Clifton College, where he took an active part in dramatics and forensic work. Later he went to Peterhouse, Cambridge. He graduated with honors in June of this year and is also waiting to be called to the bar. He is interested in politics, art, and 4iterature. The affirmative side of the ques tion: "Resolved That in the Opinion of the House the Judiciary should have no power to over-ride the decisions of the executive and the legislature," will be taken by the Cambridge Debaters. As is customary in foreign debating, there will probably be no decision made after the debate. Ducats For Kentucky Game Be Sold At Gym Because of the possibility of a sellout for the Auburn-Kentucky game and to avoid general confusion in handling ticket sales at the stadium in Montgomery, student tickets will be sold in Auburn Thursday and Friday from 8 o'clock to 6 o'clock in the gymnasium. Price per ticket will be 5 cents plus coupon number five. Students desiring to take guests in the student section may purchase regular tickets at the price of $2.50. A general admission ticket will be on sale at the stadium at the rate of $1.50 each. All prices include the government tax. f Student sections will be located in the same position as for the Southern game, in the wooden stands, sections L, M, N, O, and P. Best tickets will go on sale Thursday morning. The band will be located in section N at the stadium. Round Trip Rates To Game Saturday Given The regular round trip rate of $1.65 will be charged by the Western of Alabama for students attending the game Saturday in Montgomery. Extra coaches will be added to the trains leaving Friday and Saturday to accommodate the large number expected to go to Montgomery. Those making the trip may leave here either Friday afternoon or in the i evening or on Saturday morning at 9:50. The return ticket will be honored on all trains leaving Montgomery Saturday night, Sunday, and early Monday morning, except on trains 37 and 38. The entire football squad and members of the band will leave Auburn on the 9:50 train Saturday morning, returning, on the Saturday evening train. Frivolous Females To Foster Fracas Friday Friday night is the night, the biggest night of the year for the buxom Auburn co-eds. These brawny lassies of athletic fame, the pride of Auburn, will sponsor another one of their famous "get even" dances Friday night in the Girls' Gym. Men are warned to be on the lookout. The femmes are out for vengeance in a big way and are more determined than ever to get it. The W. A. A. has been plotting the affair for many months in the arrangement of a "struggle" which promises to be a disastrous event for numerous unsuspecting males. "We get our man" is the motto for the night. Several of the more buxom lassies will be stationed at the exits to prevent the expected hurried departure of frightened males. The flat feet of many an Auburn man will be the stomping ground for many an Auburn lassie. Oh sweet revenge! A boy with a carrot or leaf of lettuce dangling from his coat lapel will be a common sight. The whole blame affair will be handled with a touch of finesse, even to the sending of various vegetable corsages. Incidentally, the music will be provided by the Cavaliers, with the dance beginning at nine and ending at twelve, sharply. RALLY WILL BE HELD THURSDAY FOR NEXT GAME Parade Will Be Held Through Town As Usual With Mass Meeting In Langdon Hall BILL HAM TO SPEAK Parade Scheduled To Be Held Saturday Morning In Montgomery After Train Arrives MEETING IN MAGIC CITY DRAWS MANY AUBURN STUDENTS Twenty-Five Students From Auburn Attending Convention; Will Be Gone All Week Birmingham is host for the first time of the American Society of Civil Engineers. The Auburn chapter is being represented by twenty-five delegates at this national fall meeting. Prof. C. A. Baughman, adviser to the local chapter, accompanied the Auburn delegation to the convention. During the discussion of the surveying and mapping division of engineering Thursday, Prof. J. A. C. Callan, head of the civil engineering department, is to read a paper entitled "Coast and Geodetic Work in Alabama". He is in charge of this work in Alabama. Approximately 700 visitors are expected to attend this convention. These visitors will include those men who have made noteworthy progress in the field of engineering—men who have designed Panama Canal dams, great water reservoirs, built the world's greatest bridges, New York's subways, and directed great federal projects. The first feature of the convention was a dinner at the Thomas Jefferson Hotel Tuesday evening given in honor of the directors and section officials of A. S. C. E. Arthur S. Tuttle, president of the national chapter, addressed the visitors. The election of national officers and other business will be taken up Wednesday. Thursday morning will be devoted to the reading of sectional reports and papers. A conference of students from all Southern schools will follow Thursday afternoon. Friday will be given over to an all-day (Continued on page 4) A final pre-game rally before the Auburn-Kentucky contest in Montgomery Saturday will be held Thursday night at 7:00 starting with a parade of students through the business section of the town and concluding with a mass meeting at Langdon Hall. Bill Ham, head cheerleader in 1932, will be the principal speaker of the occasion which will also feature possibly one or two other talks. Bill Mc- Tyeire and his assistants will be on hand to lead the crowd in several cheers designed to bring out the Auburn spirit in no uncertain terms. In Montgomery Saturday morning a parade will be held immediately after the arrival of the train at 11:35. The band will form at the depot and all students are requested to march behind it uptown to the Exchange Hotel. Everyone going to Montgomery by automobile is urged to be at the station when the train arives and help make this an even larger parade than the one held before the Southern game. Several additional features will be added to this parade, according to Mc- Tyeire. McTyeire received several letters from alumni and citizens of Birmingham complimenting the parade held last Saturday and he calls upon the entire student body for their cooperation in making this an even better display of the confidence in Coach Meagher and his team. - At the Tennessee game McTyeire states that there was an apparent lack of knowledge of the words to the school Alma Mater, and he wishes to make a special request that all students learn them and be prepared to show Chet Wynne that when he left Auburn he couldn't take the famous spirit away with him. Ethel Barrymore Will Appear In Montgomery Auburn drama-lovers will be interested in Ethel JBarrymore's personal appearance in < Montgomery November 4. Miss Barrymore will be featured in the hit comedy of her career, "The Constant Wife." The play has been a tremendous success and Miss Barrymore is anxious to gain the younger generation since the play will attract the attention of the younger folk as well as the more experienced art-lovers. Mail orders are being received by French's, Inc., and checks should be made payable to Montgomery Concert Course. Box office sales will begin at French's Nov. 2. Blue Key Has Banquet And Initiation Monday Blue Key, national honorary fraternity, held its annual fall banquet and initiation Monday evening in the Eastern Star dining room. The principal speech of the evening was made by Harry L. Hooper, president of the local chapter. The speech was on "The Objects of This Society", in which Hooper acquainted the new members with the aims and purposes of the group. In doing this he outlined the program for the coming year. The high spots in the program as it stands today are: the signs at the two entrances to the city of Auburn, the home-coming activities, a "Boost Auburn" campaign, and the annual recognition of outstanding students. The "Boost Auburn" campaign will consist of delegations to various high schools in the state, sponsoring worthwhile movements on the campus, and wide publicity for the school as a whole. "This move is a new undertaking by the chapter and will be watched closely for results. There are untold benefits to the school and the organization to be derived and it shall be the one big aim of the Blue Key for the year to put this program over," is the statement by Hooper in regards to the undertaking of this new project by the society. The eleven men initiated into the society Monday evening were: Gilmore Pugh, Eufaula; Henry Renfroe, Ope-lika; Carl Warren, Opelika; Harold McFadden, Montgomery; Albert Blom-quist, Savannah; B. N. Ivey, Beatrice; Ed McKenzie, Bainbridge; Merwin York, Monroeville; Merril Whorton, Gadsden; Charles Adams, Alexander City; and B. H. Johnson, Bessemer. N O T I C E ! Articles found on the campus should be left at the plant service office in the power house. P A G E TWO T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN A L A B A M A P O L Y T E C H N I C I N S T I T U TE WEDNESDAY, OCT. 16, 1935 gtyg Auburn PaUtfimati Published semi-weekly by the students of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates, $2.50 per year (58 issues), $1.50 per semester (29 issues). Entered as second class matter at the Post Office, Auburn, Alabama. Business and editorial offices at Auburn Printing Company, on West M a g n o l ia Avenue. Doug Wallace Editor-in-Chief Herman L. Harris Business Manager 1935 Member 1936 Pksocided Golle6iate Press Distributor of Colle6iQte Dfeest EDITORIAL STAFF Associate Editors: Floyd Hurt, Kyser Cox, News Editors: Alvin Moreland, Bobby Chesnutt. Feature Editor: Lewis Thomas. City Editor: James Buntin. Society Editor: Luella Botsford. Assistant Society Editors: Kay Sibert, Frances Ashurst. Sports Editor: Eugene Lee. Sports Contributors: Jack Todd, Bill Troup. Reporters: Edwin Godbold, Jack Steppe, Edward Briggs, Norman Wood, Bob Johnston, R. H. Workman, Billy Grace. BUSINESS STAFF Assistant Business Manager: Jim Pike: Advertising Manager: Billy Radney. Advertising Assistants: Buck Darden, Max Weldon. Circulation Manager: George Perry. Assistant Circulation Managers: Clarence Pruet, Morriss Ellis. Circulation Assistants: Jack Carr, Edwin Haygood, Owen Scott, Alvin Vogtle, Jimmy Caden. Business Manager's Office Hours: 3-4 Monday through Friday. The Four Groups After considerable thought and cogitation upon the subject, we have come to the conclusion that if fifty per cent of the people did half of what they said they were going to do, this indeed would be a fine world in which to live. Politicians have been known since time immemorial for their distinguished trait of blowing off. But why single out the politician, when just about everybody else in the world has this same characteristic. The only difference, as far as we can see, is that the politician is more adept at this practice He is an actor of the highest type, while the rest of us are nothing but hams. All people, according to our way of thinking may be divided into four rather distinct classes. At the top may be found one who belongs to the very slim minority. He is one whom people hear little of. He is usually quiet and more or less reserved. He goes about his business and says little; least of all does he try to regulate the business of others. He doesn'f go about the countryside ballyhooing about what he does or about what he is going to do, for his actions speak louder than words. He cares little whether people know what he is doing or not. He is the one who does big things, who keeps the world going around, who keeps the world in a progressive state. Take- any great man in the world today and notice how quiet he is. He speaks only when public opinion demands it, and even then being very careful lest he say too much. He is quiet, but he gets things done in a big way. In some cases he has long since died before the public fully realizes just exactly the vast amount of work he has really accomplished. Second from the top comes the politician. An agreeable fellow is he, having a most excellent repertoire of the latest stories as well as a line a mile long about his capabilities for the public office for which he has set his heart on winning. He can speak for hours on a subject which he knows as little about as does a high school student. His ability lies in the fact that he can make the people believe what he is saying. He is a past master in the art of debating and can argue for hours and say nothing. He can and does make some excellent promises to bring about reform and the such which have been needed for the past hundred years and which would have long been made had the first politician only carried out his promises. Most of us are politicians in one way or another. One need not be running for a public office to be a politician. But the politician gets things done too. When he is not busy keeping an ear to the ground, he manages to find a few spare moments to juggle the political pork and squeeze out a slice for the folks back home. Although what he does in most instances is not so very important, it is better to do something than nothing at all. Third from the top comes the one who may be compared to the politician in respect to his ability to talk. Just to listen to him rabble along on the subject of his accomplishments or on what he plans to do when he finds the time, one would think that he was truly a great man. Everything is fine until the time comes for him to do a few of the things he has talked so much about, then where is he? He either can't be found or else has one of a number of good excuses to offer. How he continues to fool his associates year after year is still a mystery. He is as simple as a child and as transparent as a piece of cellophane. What little he does is just next to a minus quantity, and when he finally passes on, there are two more to take his place. The fourth from the top or the first from the bottom comes he who is content to say nothing, much the' less do anything. He calmly sits by the roadside and watches the world go by. He enjoys with considerable relish the fruits from the toil of others with no more thanks than the gangster gives the "G man" for putting him in the cooler. He is like a grain of sand on the ocean bottom: just another person in the world. He does nothing on his own initiative and is constantly being led by others, many times to the detriment of society. He takes all he can get and gives nothing in return. This lengthy discussion may be boiled down to this: that ninety per cent of what is done every day is done by about two per cent of the people. It would be excellent if the other ninety-eight per cent would do a thing or two just to get the feel of what it is like. Music—Good And Bad By Oleo Sigmun EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions expressed in this column are not necessarily the editorial opinions of this paper. It is a column of personal comment, and is not to be read as an expression of our editorial policy. * * * * The radio is fine these nights. Bands of all kinds are to be heard from all over. Some are bad and some are good. Life is rosier since my old friend KAY KYSER arrived at the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh. He may be heard every night at one time or another. Listen in for some of his best stuff . . . Bill "Smilin"' Stoker, Sully Mason, Ish Ka Bibble, Art Wright, and that beautiful Virginia Sims. Swell! GUY LOMBARDO is trying to sell the dear public all kinds of stuff. He's jumped from aspirin to floor wax. Program comes from the Cafe De L'Opera, New York. Same old monotony. WGN, Chicago, offers a number of bands every night. "JAN GARBER, from the Trianon, HORACE HEIDT, from the Drake Hotel, JOE SANDERS, from the Black-hawk, and SHEP FIELDS, from the Palmer House. HEIDT has a style all his own. FIELDS, who directs the Veloz and Yolanda orchestra, doesn't have any style at all. He has improved some since last year, however. The "OLD LEFTHANDER", JOE SANDERS, is still slaying 'em. He has a swell outfit. Modern, style, originality. Same old stuff from GARBER. WAYNE KING isn't playing any dance engagement right now, but he will leave shortly on a tour that will last until the first of the year. Birmingham on November 14. Hear him over C.B.S. every Sunday and Monday, and over N.B.C. every Tuesday and Wednesday. Don't know the time. GLENN GRAY and the Casa Loma boys are back on the Camel Caravan, as you probably know already,. Too much hot stuff. Plenty good, nevertheless. OZZIE NELSON is on the Baker's Broadcast, 6:30 Sundays. No Joe Penner . . . A good idea. Plenty of Harriet Hilliard. TOMMY TUCKER is at the Hotel Gibson, Cincinnati. Haven't heard him in a long time. Was O.K. last time. EARL BURTNETT is in the hospital after the Auburn dances. Driving is very dangerous after a week-end in the Village. Best opening dances band in years. Congratulations, C. Witty. TED WEEMS is on a short vacation. Let's hope he stays. JOHNNY GREEN, with Jack Benny on Sundays, has something to brag about. Listen for him. , Sammy Kaye is at the Cabin Club in Cleveland. If you must listen, read your newspaper for the day and hour. His theme is as near to Kyser's as he could get without using the same piece. He sings the titles, announces the vocalists, and uses Kyser licks on most of his numbers. On others he goes after Hal Kemp with vim, vigor, and vitality. Sometimes he even copies Gar-ber. Any supposedly big-ti-me band that will copy another's style is a worse louse than Boulanger! Looking over the good bands in the world we come to those AUBURN KNIGHTS. Those boys have what it takes this year. Every one of th»m is an artist, and their arrangements can't be beat. The first sax and clarinet player, Jerry Yelverton, is tops. Just sit back and listen to him go. "Pee- Wee Hunt" Jarrad can put a sing over, too. Friedman is still good. The American Council of Learned Societies will hold a six weeks' course in Arabic and Islamic studies at Princeton University next summer. Ten thousand students at a* Los Angeles relief school are paid to go to school—and docked if they cut classes! An article especially written for the Reader's Digest and reprinted with permission of the Editors. The realistic details of this article will nauseate some readers. Those who find themselves thus affected are cautioned against reading the article in full. Its stark, realistic treatment of auto fatalities and misha,ps—something never before attempted by a writer— brought an immediate response from the reading public. , It is reprinted here with some hope that it may have some effect on those drivers of cars who insist upon the right to jeopardize the lives of others. PUBLICIZING the total of motoring injuries—almost a million last year, with 36,000 deaths—never gets to first base in jarring the motorist into a realization of the appalling risks of motoring. He does not translate dry statistics into a reality of blood and agony. Figures exclude the pain and horror of savage mutilation—which means they leave out the point. They need to be brought closer home. A passing look at a bad smash or the news that a fellow you had lunch with last week is in a hospital with a broken back will make any driver but a born fool slow down at least temporarily. But what is needed is a vivid and sustained realization that every time you step on the throttle, death gets in beside you, hopefully waiting for his chance. That single horrible accident you may have witnessed is no isolated horror. That sort of thing happens every hour of the day, everywhere in the United States. If you really felt that, perhaps the cold lines of type in Monday's paper recording that a total of 29 local citizens were killed in week-end chashes would rate something more than a perfunctory tut-tut as you turn back to the sports page. An, enterprising judge now and again sentences reckless drivers to tour the accident end of a city morgue. But even a mangled body on a slab, waxily portraying the consequences of bad motoring judgment, isn't a patch on the scene of the accident itself. No artist working on a safety poster would dare depict that in full detail. That picture would have to include mo-ti6n- picture and sound effects, too—the flopping, pointless efforts of the injured to stand up; the queer, grunting noises; the steady, panting groaning of a human being with pain creeping up on him as the shock wears off. It should portray the slack expression on the face of a man, drugged with shock, staring at the Z-twist in his broken leg, the insane crumpled effect of a child's body after its bones are crushed inward, a realistic portrait of an hysterical woman with her screaming mouth opening a hole in the bloody drip that fills her eyes and runs off her chin. Minor details would include the raw ends of bones protruding through flesh in compound fractures, and the dark red, oozing surfaces where clothes and skin were flayed off at once. Those are all standard, everyday sequels to the modern passion for going places in a hurry and taking a chance or two by the way. If ghosts could be put to a useful purpose, every bad stretch of road in the United States would greet the oncoming motorist with groans and screams and the educational spectacle of ten or a dozen corpses, all sizes, sexes and ages, lying horribly still on the bloody grass. Last year a state trooper of my acquaintance stopped a big red Hispano for speeding. Papa was obviously a responsible person, obviously set for a pleasant week-end with his family—so the officer cut into papa's well-bred expostulations: "I'll let you off this time, but if you keep on this way, you won't last long. Get going—but take it easier." Later a passing motorist hailed the trooper and asked if the red Hispano had got a ticket. "No," said the trooper, "I hated to spoil their party." "Too bad you didn't," said the motorist, "I saw you stop them—and then I passed that car again 50 miles up the line. It still makes me feel, sick at my stomach. The car was all folded up' like an accordion— the color was about all there was left. They were all dead but one of the kids— and he wasn't going to live to the hospital." Maybe it will make you sick at your stomach, too. But unless you are a heavy-footed incurable, a good look at the picture the artist wouldn't dare paint, a first-hand acquaintance with the results of mixing gasoline with speed and bad judgment, ought to be well worth your while. I can't help it if the facts are revolting. If you have the nerve to drive fast and take chances, you ought to have the nerve to take the appropriate cure. You can't ride an ambulance or watch the doctor working on the victim in the hospital, but you can read. The automobile is treacherous, just as a cat is. It is tragically difficult to realize that it can become the deadliest missle. As enthusiasts tell you, it makes 65 feel like nothing at all. But 65 an hour is 100 feet a second, a speed which puts a viciously unjustified responsibility on brakes and human reflexes, and can instantly turn this docile luxury into a mad bull elephant. Collision, turnover or sideswipe, each type of accident produces either a shattering dead stop or a crashing change of direction —and, since the occupant—meaning you— continues in the old direction at the original speed, every surface and angle of the car's interior immediately becomes a battering, tearing projectile, aimed squarely at you—inescapable. There is no bracing yourself against those imperative laws of momentum. It's like going over Niagara Falls in a steel barrel full of railroad spikes. The best thing that can happen to you-—and one of the rarer things—is to be thrown out as the doors swing open, so you have only the ground to reckon with. True, you strike with as much force as if you had been thrown from the Twentieth Century at top speed. But at least you are spared the lethal array of gleaming metal knobs and edges and glass inside the car. Anything can happen in that split second of crash, even those lucky escapes you hear about. People have dived through windshields and come out with only superficial scratches. They have run cars together head on, reducing both to twisted junk, and been found unhurt and arguing bitterly two minutes afterward. But death was there just the same—he was exercising his privilege of being erratic. This spring a wrecking crew pried the door off a car which had been overturned down an embankment and out stepped the driver with only a scratch on his cheek. But his mother was still inside, a splinter of wood from the top driven four inches into her brain as a re-rult of son's taking a greasy curve a little too fast. No blood—no horribly twisted bones—just a gray-haired corpse still clutching her pocketbook in her lap as she had clutched it when she felt the car leave the road. On the same curve a month later, a light touring car crashed to tree. In the middle of the front seat they found a nine-months- old baby surrounded by broken glass and yet absolutely unhurt. A fine practical joke on death—but spoiled by the baby's parents, still sitting on each side of him, instantly killed by shattering their skulls on the dashboard. If you customarily pass without clear vision a long way ahead, make sure that every member of the party carries identification papers—it's difficult to identify a body with its whole face bashed in or torn off. The driver is death's favorite target. If the steering wheel holds together it ruptures his liver or spleen so he bleeds to death internally. Or, if the steering wheel breaks off, the matter is settled instantly by the steering column's plunging through his abdomen. By no means do all head-on collision occur on curves. The modern death-trap is likely to be a straight stretch with three lanes of traffic—like the notorious Astor Flats on the Albany Post Road where there have been as many as 27 fatalities in one summer month. This sudden vision of broad, straight road tempts many an ordinarily sensible driver into passing the man ahead. Simultaneously a driver coming the other way swings out at high speed. At the last moment each tries to get into line again, but the gaps are closed. As the cars in line are forced into the ditch to capsize or crash fences, the passers meet, almost head on, in a swirling, grinding smash that sends them caroming .obliquely into the others. A trooper described such an accident-five cars in one mess, seven killed on the spot, two dead on the way to the hospital, two more dead in the long run. He remembered it far more vividly than he wanted to—the quick way the doctor turned away from a dead man to check up on a woman with a broken back; the three bodies out of one car so soaked with oil from the crankcase that they looked like wet brown cigars and not human at all; a man, walking around and babbling to himself, oblivious of the dagger-like sliver of steel that stuck out of his streaming wrist; a pretty girl with her forehead laid open, trying hopelessly to crawl out of a ditch in spite of her smashed hip. A first-class massacre of that sort is only a question of scale and numbers—seven corpses are no deader than one. Each shattered man, woman or child who went to make up the 36,000 corpses chalked up last year had to die a personal death. A car careening and rolling down a bank, battering and smashing its occupants every inch of the way, can wrap itself so thoroughly around a tree that front and rear bumpers interlock, requiring an acetylene torch to cut them apart. In a recent case of that sort they found the old lady, who had been sitting in back, lying across the lap of her daughter, who was in front, each soaked in her own and the other's blood indistinguishable, each so shattered and broken that there was no point whatever in an autopsy to determine whether it was broken neck or ruptured heart that caused death. Overturning cars specialize in certain injuries. Cracked pelvis, for instance, guaranteeing agonizing months in bed, motionless, perhaps crippled for life—broken spine resulting from sheer side-wise twist —the minor details of smashed knees and splintered shoulder blades caused by crashing into the side of the car as she goes over with the swirl of an insane roller coaster—and the lethal consequences of broken ribs, which puncture hearts and lungs with their raw ends. The consequent internal hemorrhage is no less dangerous because it is pleural instead of the abdominal cavity that is filling with blood. Flying glass—safety glass is by no means universal yet—contributes much more than its share to the spectacular side of accidents. It doesn't merely cut—the fragments are driven in as if a cannon loaded with broken bottles had been fired in your face, and a sliver in the eye, traveling with such force, means certain blindness. A leg or arm stuck through the windshield will cut clean to the bone through vein, artery and muscle like a piece of beef under the butcher's knife, and it takes little time to lose a fatal amount of blood under such circumstances. Even safety glass may not be wholly safe when the car crashes something at high speed. You hear picturesque tales of how a flying human body will make a neat hole in the stuff with its head—the shoulders stick—the glass holds-—and the raw, keen edge of the hole decapitates the body as neatly as a guillotine. Or, to continue with the decapitation motif, going off the road into a post-and-rail fence can put you beyond worrying about other injuries immediately when a rail comes through the windshield and tears off your head with its splintery end—not as neat a job but thoroughly efficient. Bodies are often found with their shoes off and their feet all broken out of shape. The shoes are back on the floor of the car, empty and with their laces neatly tied. That is the kind of impact produced by modern speeds. But all that is routine in every American community. To be remembered individually by doctors and policemen, you have to do something as grotesque as the lady who burst the windshield with her head, splashing splinters all over the occupants of the car, and then, as the car rolled over, rolled with it down the edge of the windshield frame and cut her throat from ear to ear. Or park on the pavement too near a curve at night and stand in front of the tail light as you take off the spare tire—which will immortalize you in somebody's memory as the fellow who was smashed three feet broad and two inches thick by the impact of a heavy duty truck against the rear of his own car. Or be as original as the pair of youths who were thrown out of an open roadster this spring—1thrown clear—but each broke a windshield post with his head in passing and the whole top of each skull, down to the eyebrows, was missing. Or *snap off a nine-inch tree and get yourself impaled by a ragged branch. None of all that is scare-fiction; it is ' just the horrible raw material of the year's statistics as seen in the ordinary course of duty by policemen and doctors, picked at random. The surprising thing is that there is so little dissimilarity in the stories they tell. It's hard to find a surviving accident victim who can bear to talk. After you come to, the gnawing, searing pain throughout your body is accounted for by learning that you have both collarbones smashed, both shoulder blades splintered, your right arm broken in three places and three ribs cracked, with every chance of bad internal ruptures. But the pain can't distract you, as the shock begins to wear off, from realizing that you are probably on your way out. You can't forget that, not even when they shift you from the ground to the stretcher and your broken ribs bite into your lungs and the sharp ends of your collarbones slide over to stab deep into each side of your screaming throat. When you've stopped screaming, it all comes back— you're dying and you hate yourself for it. That isn't fiction either. It's what it actually feels like to be one of that 36,000. And every time you pass on a blind curve, every time you hit it up on a slippery road, every time you step on it harder than your reflexes will safely take, every time you drive with your reactions slowed down by a drink or two, every time you follow the man ahead too closely, you're gambling a few seconds against this kind of blood and agony and sudden death. Take a look at yourself as the man in the white jacket shakes his head over you, tells the boys with the stretcher not to bother and turns away to somebody else who isn't quite dead yet. And then take it easy. CHEWS YORE PODNER 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. * * * * I Princeton University administrators recently announced an expansion plan that calls for the raising of $7,750,000. N OUR LAST ISSUE there was an editorial entitled, "Where does it go TO". I don't know where it went to, but such an expression is much the same as saying, "Whur are my britches AT", isn't it? I wish my married friend, the ex-McPherson • were here. * * * * Will the wee sma' member of the feminine element, who had red ribbons in her hair, and who was in Benson's asetting this past Sunday morning please leave her name so's we can tack it on to our list of who's prettier than apple pie with whip cream? * * * * Auto tags being as high as they are . . . despite a new Governor's going into office on a "Reduce the price of the auto tag" platform . . . I don't know but what it isn't best to get out the old hoss and the buggy again. Only the old hoss never seemed to understand what it meant to run out of gas, and it would also be quite some difficult to mount a radio on the dashboard of a buggy. However, the buggy didn't have to have tags, and the hoss didn't burn gasoline, with a tax on it higher than the cost of the stuff;' and by mowing the lawn twice a year you could feed the critter. If he complained about not getting enough to eat on that you could always threaten to turn him over to the ladies' riding class and you would have no more trouble with him. * * * * Watch your hosses and spotted coach dawgs, people; I'm fixing to reduce the salaries of two State politicians. * * * * By now I imagine Mussolini wishes he had let the nigger in the woodpile alone. And if he doesn't stop sasshaying around in the Mediterranean, some morning he will wake to find a late edition of Revere shouting, "Wake up, the British are coming!" For me an alarm clock is bad enough without having some Red Coat with a bayonet to help it. * * * * * Oh, you can put the worm on fish hooks, and throw dirt on him and all that, but some day he will turn and catch you with your best pair of pants sent to the cleaners, and the suspender buttons off the ones you have left. * * * * This time Rome is liable to burn without musical accompaniment. * * * * You local swains who are overjoyed because a bediked and becurled little lassie consents to go to the Sunday movies with you: Hear this . . . . I would hold your hand too for a thirty-five cent show and a double chocolate shake. Hands can be washed, you know. For a trip to a football game I'll send you a picture and write you love letters with a dash of ten cent talcum on each and every one. * * * * You are very pretty, my dear. The moon with all its lovely beams isn't as pretty. But I imagine you are just the type to throw dish water out the window on the nasturtiums. * * * * It's a lie of course, but it came out in an AP dispatch. A man was shot because, it was said, he cast slurring remarks about a gentleman's feminine companion. He was not only shot, but kilt. Enquiries brought the following solution. The man was sitting with another man in front of the local hardware store. He said to the other man, "My back itches". The man said to him, "Scratch it." "I can't", he said, "I got on a new shirt." And the man said again to him, "Take off your shirt." And was told again, "I dasn't, the's ladies present." And while he was setting, and itching, and sort of mumbling to hisself, as we all do when we got a bite and can't scratch it . . . along came this man with this gal, and thought the mumbling meant something else. An argument ensued wherein the man got his bite scratched for him with a forty-five bullet so energetic- like it kilt him. * * * * Searching for the moral in that story we can arrive at but one, and one only. Moral : . . always take off your shirt when they's ladies present. Physicists at Columbia University have measured the neutron. The answer: 0,000- 0000000001 inch! Even Dog Sam howled at that one, but he was setting on a paw that cat had under him at the time, and perhaps that accounts for it. * * * * Bring out the old flannel nightie; I crave some sleeps. Shake out the moths . . . the little angels . . . they flutter so nicely. If there are holes, ignore them . . . the little angels did it, and so you can't criticize. If both sleeves are gone, the little angels did it, and it's all right. BUT . . . if the little angels have been into my top coat, I'm going to stuff a moth ball down every angelic throat I can catch. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 16, 1935 T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN A L A B A M A P O L Y T E C H N I C INSTITUTE P A G E T H R EE OPELIKA DEFEATS LOCAL HIGH TEAM BY SMALL MARGIN Met In Annual Grid Classic Friday; Auburn High Will Play Union Springs Friday Auburn and the Opelika high football aggregations met in the annual battle between the two old rivals and a hard fought game resulted in a slim 7-0 victory for the strong and highly touted Opelika team. Auburn High turned loose a terrific running attack that had the powerful Bulldogs worried a great deal before it was finally stopped. Auburn drove to the one foot line when John Ham broke through the line, twisted his way on down the field for a fifteen yard gain before he was knocked out of bounds on the goal line. Auburn lost its chance to score here as on the next play they fumbled and Opelika recovered. Auburn journeys to Union Springs this week, and they are determined to break into the win column. So far in the season they have lost three and tied one. Playing in hard luck and bad breaks, the locals have lost games that should have been on the right side of the column, and this week they are determined to take .the game from the strong Union Springs outfit. Coach Fowler has had his charges working hard all week, and handling the ball and blocking have been the main points worked on. Patronize Plainsman advertisers. SOCIETY AND NEWS FEATURES LUELLA BOTSFORD, Society Editor Local Thespians To Present Drama Soon The Auburn-Opelika Community Players are giving their first play of (he season when they present "My Son" in Opelika on October 28 and "in Auburn on October 29. The story is woven about the love of a mother for her weak and wayward son with the setting of the play in a New England resort. The cast which is composed of Miss Maud Bruce, who has given several successful performances, Maurice Fleisher, Miss Minnie Hampton, who is recognized as a versatile character actor, Marvin Wilson, and Cecil Stowe, are being coached by Director Charles Floyd. The handling of character parts which are quite difficult gives promise of splendid entertainment to those interested in drama. Members of the Community Players who have 1934-1935 tickets are privileged to see the play "My Son" as the last show due in these tickets. NELSON EDDY WILL APPEAR IN MONTGOMERY CONCERT SERIES Nelson Eddy will be the second artist in a series of concerts sponsored by the Montgomery concert course. He will appear at the Lanier Auditorium February 1. Mr. Eddy's rise in his present profession is phenominal. He started his career in the newspaper world and became reporter, copyreader, then advertising writer. During this period he studied opera arias from a phonograph. In a contest in Philadelphia, Mr. Eddy' won as the prize the role of Amonasro in Aida. This special performance was sponsored by the Philadelphia Operatic Society. His professional debut was as Tonio in "Pag-liacci." Mr. Eddy later studied in Europe and America under the best teachers and coaches. He has had wide experience in concert, opera, radio, and oratorio. This year he has added the role of singer-actor. Season tickets for these attractions are being sold and can be reserved by telephoning Cedar 1590 or Cedar 3968. Address Montgomery Concert Course, 117 Sayre Street. Local Women's Club To Hear Dr. Petrie of A.T.O. Members Guests At Steak Fry Saturday Birmingham-Southern Chapter A.T.O. Fraternity was host at a steak fry on Saturday night in Birmingham honoring members and pledges of the Auburn Chapter of that fraternity. ECONOMIZE • .. \ f \ MODERNIZE • Use NATURAL GAS mm Auburn Civic Clubs Hold Joint Meeting The Rotary Club sponsored a joint meeting of the civic clubs of Auburn last Thursday evening, the meeting being in the form of a dinner at the College Inn. There were 75 members of the Rotary, Kiwanis, and Lions Clubs present. Dr. Zebulon Judd presided. After a brief address on the aims of Auburn civic organizations, he introduced the speaker of the evening, Col. R. S. Thomas. Colonel T/homas is the army district engineer from Mobile, and gave an explanation of the nation's system of inland waterways. Other speakers at the meeting were Dr. L. N. Duncan, President of the college; Dr. J. L. Seal, Lions Club President; Dr. Paul Irvine, Kiwanis president; Professor Albert Thomas, President of the Rotary Club; and Professor W. D. Salmon. Music was by the Opelika Quartet. \ \ % and that's a H I I I if / H I P.-T. A. Meeting Be Held October 18 The P.-T. A. meeting has been postponed because of the Auburn-Opelika football game from October 11 to 18. This meeting is-quite important as a report of the Summer Round-up will be given. The Summer Round-up is a physical examination of all pre-school children. After a thorough examination the parents of each child are notified of defects, if any, so that they may be corrected before school opens. In the Fall a check up is made and the children who are without defects or who have had immunization of smallpox and diptheria treatments, as well as corrections of defects made, are awarded a blue ribbon. This work has proved of great benefit to the community for several years and it is the aim towards physical perfection the P.-T. A. of Auburn are striving for. Children who have won the blue ribbons are to be present at this meeting. Rural Resettlement . Offices Moved Here Cooperation between the State Extension Service and the Rural Resettlement Division of the Resettlement Administration will be secured through removal to the Auburn campus last week of the office of Julian Brown, acting Director of rural rehabilitation for Alabama. Formerly situated in Montgomery, regional headquarters of the Resettlement Administration, the rehabilitation office brings about thirty-five staff members to Auburn. As a result of Jhis move, Mr. Brown pointed out, the office will be in close contact with all Alabama counties through the county agents who are on the Extension Service staff. Similar transfers of the rehabilitation directors in Florida and Georgia have been effected. there is to the Junior Three Class Given Dance Friday A dance was given last Friday night, October 4 with the High school as host to the Junior 3. About sixty guests were present to enjoy the splen- Bell System setup T90UGH large, the Bell System is simple in structure. Think of it as a tree. Branches: 24 associated operating companies, each attuned to the area it serves. Trunk: The American Telephone and Telegraph Company, which coordinates all system activities. Roots: Bell Telephone Laboratories and Western Electric, whose functions are scientific research and manufacture; Long Lines Department of A. T. and T., which through its country-wide network of wires links together the 24 operating companies, handles overseas service; Advisory Staff of A. T. and T., which advises the operating companies on all phases of telephone operation and searches constantly for better methods. Working as one, these many Bell System units enable you to talk to almost anyone, anywhere, any time. Why not call your folks tonight? For lowest rates, call by number after 7 P. M. BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM Annie Davis To Teach Dancing Here Miss Annie Laurie Davis, dancing teacher from Montgomery, was in town last weekend to arrange student classes in different types of dancing. Although tapping will be the specialty, ballroom and tango steps will be given those wishing them. Miss Davis has been an instructor in the Dorothy Claire School of Dancing in Montgomery for the last year, and for three years has had her own classes in Mobile. She has engaged Eugene Simmons, freshman here, to aid with the routine work. A meeting for all those interested in dancing is to be held in Langdon Hall tonight at 8 o'clock. At this time class periods and fees will be arranged. Anyone interested in securing the position as piano player for the classes should also be present tonight. Miss Stokes-Feagin Wedding Solemnied October 8 The marriage ceremony of Margaret Stokes of Abbeville and Arthur Henry Feagin of Montgomery, an Auburn graduate, was solemnized Oct. 8 at the home of the bride's parents. Mr. Feagin graduated from Auburn in engineering and was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and now has a position with the State Highway did music and gaiety of the evening, Department. Mrs. Feagin was edu- Refreshments were served by the cated at Judson and Hollings Colleges Discussion Group of the High School• and received her degree from the lat- P.-T. A. with Mrs. Scott and Mrs.! ter. She was a member of the Kappa Toomer officiating. Refreshments were j Delta sorority, contributed by the following: Mes- j After a wedding trip Mr. and Mrs. dames: A. L. Thomas, B. F. Thomas, Blake, Toomer, Hudson, and Arnquist, and punch was donated by Mr. Taylor and Mr. Toomer. The dances are given through the' cooperation of the student body and faculty with the Discussion Group who are making a study of the social conditions of the high school. Grammar School Sets Attendance Record Auburn Grammar School came second in the Lee County attendance record for September, averaging 97.1. According to Miss Mary Wilson, Lee County attendance worker, both city and country schools showed an unusually high attendance for September, the average for all of them being above 90 per cent. Girls' P.T. Classes To Sponsor Contests The girls' physical education classes have been very enthusiastic in preparation for the intramural contests that are to begin next week. The first sport to be engaged in will be volley ball. There will be competition between the different classes in physical education, and later between all other girls' organizations on the campus. Feagin will be at home in Centerville. Girl Scout Troops Meet Wednesday The two troops of the Girl Scouts met Wednesday afternoon at the First Methodist Church. The first part of the program were instructions in signals given by the Boy Scouts. Mrs. Watts, Girl Scout leader, gave a lesson on basketry as part of the handicraft program for the year. T.U.O. Fraternity To Give Dance Friday On Friday night T.U.O. Fraternity will entertain at a dance at the Student Hall. Decorations will be appropriately arranged in the fraternity colors of blue and gold. The best of popular dance music will be given by Yank Friedman and his( Auburn Knights. Vet Society Gives Dance Friday The Student Chapter of A.V.M.A. entertained at a dance on Friday night at the Girl's Gym. Music was provided by the Cavaliers. The Gymnasium was decorated for the occasion in emblems and colors representative of the organization. Attractive programs for the next few weeks were announced at the October general meeting of the Womens Club held in the Student Recreation Hall last Thursday afternoon. At the November general meeting Prof. George Petrie will discuss the Italio- Ethiopian situation, according to Miss Rosalee Walston of the program committee. The garden department will meet tomorrow, according to Mrs. Sahag, when Prof. McElwee will discuss "Annuals, Perennials, and Bulbs." On Oct. 24 Mrs. George Scarseth announces a meeting of the literature department which will be featured by a talk on Indian life in Alabama by Peter Brannon of Montgomery. New officers and members of standing committees were introduced at the general meeting last week. Mrs. Emil Wright also read an invitation from the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, to attend exhibitions of the Metropolitan and Alabama Art Leagues to be held in November. Musical numbers were given by Mr. Lawrence Barnett and his ensemble, and by Mr. A. E. Coggin, teacher of piano. Delta Sigma Pi Has First Social Meeting The first social meeting of Delta Sigma Pi, national honorary business fraternity, was held last evening in the recreation hall of the Student Center. The affair was in the form of a reception, the guests including new students in the department of Business Administration. During the latter part of the evening the Freshman Scholarship Cup for 1934-35 was presented to Dan T. Smith, and pledges for this semester were tapped. Flowers for all Occasions KING'S NURSERY Phone 695-J OPELIKA, ALABAMA Ideal Laundry Bill Ham and Jim Thigpen CLEAN-UP AND BEAT KENTUCKY One-day Service Phone 193 FREE See the CLYDE BARROW BONNIE PARKER DEATH CAR On Display Thursday, Oct. 17, 1935 1 p. m. 'til 10 p. m. Hear the Educational and Instructive Talk Proving that Crime Does Not Pay! BRING THE CHILDREN Courtesy of Tiger Motor Co. LEE COUNTY TAX COLLECTORS TO BE IN AUBURN NEXT WEEK Will Be At City Hall Monday, Tuesday, And Wednesday To Collect Taxes For 1935 And For Giving Assessments For 1936; All Taxes Are Due And Payable On October First Representatives from the Lee County Court House will be at the City Hall at Auburn Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, October 21, 22, 23, from 8:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M., to collect taxes for 1935 and for the giving in of assessments for 1936. All taxes are due and payable October 1 of each year and become delinquent January, succeeding. All property owners are requested by law to list on their tax return the amount of fire insurance carried on all real and personal property, also the name of the person or company carrying the insurance. It is important that all real estate be described properly as all that is not properly described will be assessed to owners unknown as the law directs. New Shipment BOTANY ALL WOOL, NON SHRINKABLE TIES . Always Look Neat. Manhattan Shirts - - - $1.95 Vanheusen Shirts - - - $2.00 G IBSON' MEN'S WEAR s An' de Goblins Ml Git Ye, If You Don't Watch Out! THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31 You may plan your party and social functions with absolute assurance that it will be a perfect success using our Special Hallowe'en Novelties. SERPENTINE, 20 streamers, assorted colors - 10c roll CONFETTI, Glassine tube, assorted colors - - 5c pkg. PENNY FAVORS Eight inch metal Flute, variegated colors, Novelty Crickets, assorted designs, Cane Balloons, balloon mounted on 9 in. cane, with bright-colored feathers attached, Horn Blowout, 6 in. horn, with 15 in. blowout attached, Paper Horns, wood mouthpiece, patriotic designs, Clown Paper Mask, size 7 x 9 with rubber fasteners, Balloon assortment, 6 styles, plain and with squawkers. MICKEY AND MINNIE HORNS Heavy Cardboard Horn, 4 color lithographed wrapped, wood mouthpiece, Mickey Mouse design 5c TISSUE DANCING FIGURES 20 in. when open, printed in Hallowe'en colors and varnished on cardboard with folding tissue body, arms and legs 1 5c MICKEY PIN-ON GAME Mickey Mouse on heavy linen cloth with 16 pin-on tails. Lots of fun for kiddies. Each in attractive lithographed box 25c MASKS Heavy gauze with mustache 5c Black and assorted colors, Sateen Masks 10c DENNISON PARTY COSTUMES Child and adult sizes. Witch, Ghost, Pumpkin and Devil designs 25c SPECIALS Party Sets, 40 x 40 table covers, 4 napkins, and 4 tallies. Hallowe'en design 15c Paper Napkins, 1 3 % x l 3 % , fine quality embossed quarter fold. 24 in cellophane pack 10c Hallowe'en Crepe Paper, 20 in. wide, 10 ft. long, owl in tree top, bat and witch design, orange, black and yellow cowhinalin 10c each FROM THE WITCHES POT Noise Makers, Caps, Lanterns, Pumpkins, Witches, Invitations, Cats, Fortune-Telling Owls, and Cold Facts Tomb Stones. BURTON'S BOOKSTORE SOMETHING NEW EVERY DAY •C.QVA * OPELIKA BOTTLING COMPANY P A G E FOUR 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, OCT. 16, 1935 Corn Contest Planned By High School F.F.A. At a recent meeting of the Auburn High F. F. A. Chapter plans were discussed for holding field meetings and guessing contests on the corn demonstration plots sponsored by the Chilean Nitrate Educational Bureau, Incorporated. The Auburn chapter has two of FREE for EVERY DOLLAR spent at LOLLAR'S for KODAK FINISHING and KODAK FILMS you get ONE 8 x 10 enlargement FREE. These enlargements are identically the same as our regular fifty cent portrait enlargements. Roll developed 10c, VELOX PRINTS 3c, 4c, 5c and 6c each. L O L L A R ' S 1808 3rd Ave. North, (Lyric Theatre BIdg.) P.O. Box 2622, Birmingham, Ala. these plots, each containing two and one-half acres, two acres of which were sidedressed with 200 pounds of nitrate of soda, the other half acre being left as a check plot. The contrast in growth shows up between these plots. At each of these demonstrations the fertilizer practices used will be explained and every one present will be permitted to guess at the yield of the fertilized and unfertilized plots. The winner at each demonstration will receive a $2.00 cash prize. One of the demonstrations is being conducted by Eddy Jones, who lives on the Old Ware Road two miles south-west of Auburn and the other demonstration by Woodrow Rowell one mile north of Lochapoka. The VOLUNTEERS WIN OVER AUBURN TIGERS IN HARD-FOUGHT SCRAP I'M WILD ABOUT FIGURES No! I don't mean arithmetic. I mean figures that walk and talk—like yourself. "A Man's a Man for All o' That." But to m e he's something more. When I s e e a man I see a pair of shoulders, a neck, a chest, a waist—a seat, a pair of legs and arms. Yes, sir! I see a figure to fit—with a suit that "adds" to the glorious whole." Let me add to that figure of yours. Calls made anywhere, anytime. Fee OLIJN L. H I LL SIEBLER CLOTHES, 'Caihred at Lyllt Park JUL.L.Y S Auburn, Alabama LONGER WEAR! The greatest return in buying Custom-Tailored Clothes is in t h e longer service. Garments more firmly sewed, hand-shaped for permanency of fit and finer fabrics. SMARTEST STYLES GUARANTEED FIT Suits and Topcoats. $21.50 up JIMMY B. FORT COLLEGE BARBER SHOP ECONOMIZE . . . . , . MODERNIZE Use NATURAL GAS (Continued from page 1) sweeping end runs proved to produce results by the fast Tiger backs. The Vol ends either tackled them out wide or drove them in. It was Rose who scored both touchdowns for Tennessee. Captain Palmer punted 5 yards to Joe Bob Mitchell in the third quarter where Mitchell received on his 2 yard line. Mitchell picked up the ball and the Vols brought him down on the 4 yard line. Kilgore punted 35 yards but the ball rolled back to Auburn's 20 yard line. Dickens swept left end for 9 yards. On the fourth down Dickens passed to Rose over to the left of the field for a touchdown. Tipper jumped high to break up the pass back near the end zone. Rodgers broke through to knock down the placement kick for extra point. Play had only been resumed for 2 minutes when Rose broke through the line and caught Bunky O'Rourke's fumble out of the air to rush on to the goal for a 35 yard touchdown run. Ditmore sent the ball through the uprights for the extra point. , Auburn showed a reversal of form in the fourth period. Coach Meagher sent in several substitutions and the Tigers took on some of the spirit exhibited in the opening of the game. Harp got off a 45 yard punt to Hitchcock. Auburn's sophomore back was downed on Tennessee's 44 yard line. Hitchcock. made 5 yards around end. Rose was ejected from the game for hitting Sam McCroskey and the Tennessee team was penalized half of the distance to the goal line. Tipper made 3 yards at left tackle. Auburn was penalized 5 yards for taking too much time for signals. Hitchcock's pass to Tipper was incomplete, but on the second try to Kilgore, Auburn's fullback received the 15 yard toss over to the left of the field, eluded three Tennessee would-be tacklers and crossed the goal line 8 yards away for Auburn's only score. YOUNG CRIPPLED CHILD IS HELPED BY LIONS GROUP Six-Year-Old Girl Is Given Hospitalization By Auburn Lions; Recovery Is Expected Mrs. High Appointed To Registrars Board An Auburn woman, Mrs. J. T. High, has been appointed by Governor Graves to serve as Chairman of the Lee County's Board of Registrars. Her duty will be to help check eligible voters of Lee County. Llewellyn Ingram and T. A. What-ley have been appointed to work with Mrs. High. The 66 other Alabama counties have their Boards of Registrars selected. date of the field meetings will be announced this week. All farmers and others interested are urged to be present at these meetings. Patronize Plainsman advertisers. A REVOLUTION IN WRITING AND FILLING * QHEAFFERS Start the school year with Sheaffer's which are supreme in quality and performance and cost no more but last longer. All Sheaffer's fil^empty, clean with one stroke and take in over 400% more Skrip perstrokethan multiple-stroke pens. Visibility is kept permanent by a patented vacuum disc. The two-tone Feather-touch" poi nt that on ly Sheaffer's have makes two-way writing perfect. All these' wonderful features combined with the Lifetime" Guarantee make Sheaffer's the world's most economical pens. See al gradesofSheaffer'sfrom$2.25 up at your dealer's. SHEAFFER DEALERS: WRITE IMMEDIATELY FOR INFORMATION ON THE WONDERFUL DRY-PROOF DESK SET. W. A SHEAFFER PEN CO. FORT MADISON, IOWA Psn-SKRIP, Successor to Ink, 2 oz., 15c. Permanent SKRIP mokes better business records PARA-IASTIK, the n.w gum adhesive; doesn't curl thin' nest sheets, with handy spreader brush. 25c Th» whit* dot idontiflos the lifetime)" pan SHEAFFER PENS, $2M t o $ 1 0 SHEAFFER PENCILS, *1 to *5 •Heg. U.S.Pat.Off. FREE PENCIL-SKRIP, Successor-Meads. SEE YOUR DEALER Belief that the Lee County six-year-old girl given hospitalization by the Auburn Lions Club will become completely normal was expressed in a letter to the local club this week. Miss Thelma McGinty, assistant supervisor of the Crippled Children's Service in the State Department of Education wrote thanking the club for its assistance. The girl, a resident of the Opelika mill village, was successfully operated upon by Dr. John D. Sherrill, orthopedic surgeon of Birmingham. She is now a t home, her leg in a cast, and will return to Birmingham for another cast in four weeks. Miss McGinty expressed confidence that, if recovery is not complete, the patient will be so rehabilitated that she will be able to take a normal place in the civic, social, and industrial life of her community. Complete hospitalization of a crippled child was adopted as the major project of the Auburn Lions Club last year. Sufficient money was raised for the operation, and the child was selected by the Lee County Welfare Board early in the summer. ENGINEERS MEETING IN MAGIC CITY ATTRACTS 25 AUBURN STUDENTS PROF. ADAMS REVIEWS BOOK Professor Henry Adams was speaker at the Twentieth Century Club in Opelika last week. He gave a review of the "Biography of R. E. Lee" by Douglas S. Freeman. The meeting was held at the home of Mrs. John Harwell, with Mrs. J. D. Burkhead as joint hostess. There were fifty guests who enjoyed the meeting. Riding Boot SPECIALS! for Men, Brown l « us fie you with a pair of these n « tv tionally low pticorl Colt Riding Boots. Yoa will like their •mart English style leg ami Comfortable last "•— * — —-=r:3 Koplon's Shoe Store We Carry a Complete Line of DRESS SHOES OPELIKA OPELIKA • THEATRE . Wednesday "CHINATOWN SQUAD" with Lyle Talbot, Valerie Hob-son, Hugh O'Connell Comedy, "Old A ge Pensions" Thursday — "BABY FACE HARRINGTON" with Charles Butterworth Una Merkel "Lucky Beginners" An amateur show in 20 minutes on the screen Color Cartoon Friday — "AGE OF INDISCRETION" with Paul Lucas, Madge Evans, Helen Vinson, May Rob-son, David Jack Holt Comedy "The Mysterious King" News (Continued from page 1) excursion by special trains to the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company's mines and works, with luncheon at the Fairfield plant. Inspection trips will continue Saturday to various en-< gineering projects in and near Birmingham. The student delegation will hold a dance and banquet at the Tutwiler Hotel Wednesday evening. LOST OR STRAYED—Male Persian Cat, 6 months old, orange back with white under body. Reward if returned to W. W. Hill, 271 S. Gay Street. LOST—Spade pin lost Monday in front of Ross Chemical Building. Finder return to Harry Hooper, K. A. House. Reward. Tiger Theatre "Showplace of East Alabama" Auburn, Alabama WEDNESDAY, OCT. 16 "HOORAY FOR LOVE" with Gene Raymond, Ann Sothern, Pert Kelton Added "LEATHER NECKER" Paramount Pictorial THURSDAY, OCT. 17 "HERE'S TO ROMANCE" with Nino Martini, Genevieve Tobin Comedy, "TIME OUT" AT 8:45 A PHILCO WILL BE GIVEN AWAY. D O N ' T FORGET FRIDAY, OCT. 18 Chester Morris, Sally Eilers in "PURSUIT" Musical Comedy, "SURPRISE" Latest News Events Dr. Walston Selected To Deliver Lectures Dr. Rosalee Walston, associate professor of education at Auburn, has been chosen to deliver a series of lectures to the Century Club of Columbus. Dr. Walston lectured to the club last year, her subject was Modern Trends. The club is studying contemporary drama and Dr. Walston was chosen to give eight monthly lectures which will include the Russian Drama, German Drama, Czecho-Slovakian, and Austrian Drama, Italian and French Drama, Spanish Drama,' English and Irish Drama, American Drama and Back stage glimpses. Patronize Plainsman advertisers. Special!! BARBECUE SANDWICH 10c Tiger Sandwich Shop SHRUBBERY SALE — 2 FOR 1 STARTING ABOUT OCTOBER 15th Buy One and Get One Free! ITALIAN RYE GRASS SEED F L O W E R S F O R A L L O C C A S I O N S OPELIKA FLORAL CO. Opelika, Ala. Phone 211 wy\ Round Trip to Auburn-Kentucky Saturday, October 19 Leave on Friday evening trains or 9:50 a.m. Saturday morning. Return limit, Monday, October 21. Western Railway of Alabama YOUR CFIR for these important WINTER NEEDS! 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