1936-02-15 The Auburn Plainsman

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VOLUME LIX AUBURN, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, FEB. 15, 1936 NUMBER 34
THIRD STRAIGHT
VICTORY IS WON
BY TIGERS HERE
Win Over Panthers Last Night
Assures Auburn Of Leading
Position In S. E. Conference
JOEL EAVES IS STAR
Auburn Will Meet Georgia
Here Saturday; Will Decide
Auburn Chances In Race
By JACK TODD
The Auburn Tigers rang up their
third straight victory last night in
Alumni Gymnasium to maintain their
present high standing in the Confer­ence,
as they set back Birmingham-
Southern 41 to 22 in a contest that
was interesting from start to finish.
Joel Eaves, star Plainsman guard,
was the outstanding player of the
game as he returned to his old form;
His twelve points and fine defensive
work, coupled with good judgment in
calling plays, made him responsible
in a large measure for. the victory.
Buddy Crew and Joe Bob Mitchell
continued their excellent work and ac­counted
for nine and eight points,
respectively.
However, every man on the team
played heads-up ball. A great im­provement
in the passing department
of the game was noticeable as the ball
floated about the court in such a fash­ion
to bewilder the Southern five.
Although Southern kept up a steady
fight throughout the game, it was a
hopeless cause, so outclassed were
they by the smoothly-working Plains­men.
If Auburn continues playing ball
the way they have been for the past
three games there is little doubt that
they will win their fourth straight
from Georgia Saturday night.
The charges of Coach Jordan re­ceive
their test tomorrow in Alumni
Gym against the University of Geor­gia
quintet. The Bulldogs rank close
to the top in the conference, and a
win over this strong quintet should
give the Tigers the needed recognition
for a bid to the conference tourna­ment
that starts on February 28th.
Alumni Gym is expected to be pack­ed
when these strong quints square
off. Both have plenty to offer as in­ducements
for a large crowd. In
Frank Johnson, Georgia has the high­est
scorer in the conference and an
all-Southern guard on last fall's foot­ball
team. Alf Anderson,r another
football player of distinction, is a star
guard. With Joel Eaves, Buddy
Crew and Joe Bob Mitchell tossing
them through the hoops with regular­ity
lately, an interesting race for high
scoring honors should develop.
Probably starters for Auburn will
be Buddy Crew and Rex McKissick
at the forward posts, Joe Bob Mitch­ell
at center, and Andrew Curlee and
Joel Eaves at the guard positions.
Others available for service will be
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Gov. Graves Tells Auburn Trustees '
Wednesday That Full Payment Of
Salaries Here Is State Obligation
Governor Bibb Graves is thorough­ly
displeased with the salary situation
at Auburn that pays only a fraction
of budgeted salaries. He wants to
pay salaries in full and insists that
full payment is absolutely an obliga­tion
of the State of Alabama.
The Governor took this position at
a meeting of the Auburn board of
trustees, in his office Wednesday,
February 12. He made his statement
following a suggestion by a board
member that the Auburn budget
should be adjusted to funds available.
Taking an , opposite view, Governor
Graves declared that Auburn salaries
are not high and that it is the duty
of the State of Alabama to furnish
the money to pay them. Unless this
is done Auburn can't hold her fac­ulty,
he declared.
The discussion came after Presi­dent
Duncan informed the board that
from October 1, 1932 to January 30,
1936, the Auburn faculty was penal­ized
by $476,649.54, or lacked this
amount receiving budgeted salaries
which had been reduced. While real­izing
that under Alabama laws state
obligations unpaid are wiped out at
the end of the fiscal year, Governor
Graves declared, vigorously, that this
should not continue and that, instead
of paying 60 per cent of salaries as
has been done so far during the
current fiscal year, the amount should
be 100 per cent.
The late Dr. C. A. Cary and the
late Dr. B. H. Crenshaw were eulog­ized
by Governor Graves, Mr. Sam-ford,
and President Duncan, who also
praised Mr. P. C. Brook and Profes­sor
George L. Fick, two younger
members of the Auburn staff, who
died recently.
• Governor Graves spoke of Dr. Cary
not as a dean at Auburn but as a
state official, Dr. Cary being the first
and only state veterinarian of Ala­bama
from the time the office was
created until his death.
Mr. Samford spoke feelingly about
Dr. Cary and Dr. Crenshaw, whom he
praised for their services and also
eulogized them as men.
Dr. Duncan told the board that in
the deaths of Dr. Cary, Dr. Crenshaw,
Professor Fick and Mr. Brook, Au­burn
suffered four big losses of able
and faithful men.
College budgets for the current ses­sion
were approved. The board also
confirmed the conferring of honorary
degrees upon Governor Graves, Dr. J.
A. Keller, state superintendent of edu­cation;
Senator Hugo L. Black, and
Senator John H. Bankhead. Governor
Graves received the degree, doctor of
humanities; and the others received
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LOCAL PLAYERS
TO BEGIN WORK
ON PRODUCTION
"Wind And The Rain" Is Play
Selected By Members Of
Players Last Monday Night
BE GIVEN TWO TIMES
Blackshear Announces Casting
Is Not Complete; Several
Parts Still Open To Students
Ends Brilliant Track Career
T GO-TO-CHURCH
MONTH SLATED TO
BE HELD IN MARCH
Y.M.C.A. Will Again Sponsor
Fraternity Go - To - Church
Month; Winner Gets Cup
Boy Scout Troop Will
Give Banquet Tonight
A Parents and Sons banquet to­night
by the local Boy Scout troup
number 7 will bring to a close a week
of activities in celebration of the na­tional
Boy Scout Anniversary Week.
The week in Auburn has been ob­served
by a number of special events
and programs. On February 8 a
Court of Honor was held at which
Pete Almquist and Donald Cottier
were advanced to the rank of First
Class, while Guyton Young was
awarded the Second Class badge.
Sunday morning the troop attended
Sunday morning services in a body at
the Episcopal church. An Investure
Ceremony was held Wednesday
night.
A feature of the banquet tonight
will be the presentation of the Eagle
Badge to B. F. Thomas, Jr., by C. M.
Bond, assistant regional executive.
Beside Mr. Bond there will be several
other outside speakers. Numerous
other awards will also be made at the
banquet.
Fraternity Go - to - Church - Month,
sponsored by the Y. M. C. A., will
again be held this year beginning the
first Sunday in March and continuing
for four Sundays. A silver loving
cup will be given to the fraternity
having the highest score at the end
of the month.
Any fraternity winning the cup
three years in succession will auto­matically
become the sole owners of
the cup. Alpha Gamma Rho has
held the cup for the past two years
and need only to win this year in
order to gain possession of the
trophy.
Rules state that any local frater­nity
on the campus is eligible to par­ticipate
in the contest. The number
of Sunday services attended by each
member of the fraternity will be
counted as so many points toward the
final rating. More definite rules will
be published in a later issue of the
Plainsman.
After each Sunday in the month a
report will be turned in at the Y. M.
C. A. office not later than noon of
each Monday. Reports received-'later
than this will not be counted. This
rule will be strictly enforced in order
that tabulation of results may be
made as quickly as possible.
Only Sunday services attended will
count. Attending services out of
town will count the same as attending
an Auburn church. ,A11 controver­sies
will be settled by the Y. M. C. A.
Should two fraternities tie, each
will hold the cup for a period of six
months, and this will count the same
as though the cup were held, for the
entire year.
Reserve Officers Will
Hear Lecture Monday
Lt. L. S. Kuter, of Maxwell Field,
Montgomery, will be" the principal
speaker at the Reserve Officers meet­ing
here Monday evening at 7:30 in
Langdon Hall. His subject will be
"Bombardment Aviation," a phase of
combat in which he is widely in­formed.
Lt. Kuter is a 1930 graduate of the
Air Corps Primary School and of
the Air Corps Advanced Flying
School Course in Bombardment.
All reserve officers are urged to be
present at the lecture.
DEBATE SCHEDULE
FOR SEMESTER IS
ABOUT COMPLETED
Schedule Of Auburn Debating
Society Includes Numerous
Debates With Other Colleges
An attractive schedule including 15
intercollegiate contests and the South­ern
Debate Tournament at Gaines­ville,
Fla., has been arranged for the
varsity debate squad by Prof. E. D.
Hess, faculty member in charge of
debating.
Nine of the encounters will be held
in Auburn with the remainder taking
place at other schools. The question
which will most frequently be de­bated
is "Resolved, that Congress by
a two-thirds vote should have power
to override decisions of the Supreme
Court declaring a law passed by Con­gress
unconstitutional." The Auburn
teams will argue both the affirmative
and negative sides of the question
during their series of engagements.
About half of the debates will be non-decision
affairs.
"More teams are actively engaged
in debating this year than ever be­fore,"
said Prof. Hess, in speaking of
the interest shown in debating by the
students. "A total of 21 debaters
will .participate in intercollegiate con­tests
during the spring."
"More teams are active
The varsity schedule arranged to
date is as follows:
Feb. 24, Spring Hill—here.
March 18, Union University—here.
March 19, Miss. State College for
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Meeting Monday night in the "Y"
Hut members of the Auburn Players
selected Merton Hodge's "The Wind
and the Rain" as the second major
production' of the year by the group.
Two or three other plays were con­sidered,
but because of the excessive
royalty, difficulty in casting and
stage settings, they were eliminated.
E. C. Blackshear, instructor in pub­lic
speaking and dramatics, states
that he is looking for talent with
which to .cast the play. Definite cast­ing
will probably be made next Mon­day
night with the results being an­nounced
in the Wednesday issue of
this .paper.
The following are now being con­sidered
for parts: Molly Brasfield,
Mary Carmack, Billy White, Arthur
Elsberry, Arthur Stewart, Bill Cour-sey,
David Roberts, Eloise Brown,
Eleanor Boyd, Franklin Woodruff,
Willard Manry, and John Wallace.
No parts have been given and will
not be until the first part of next
week. There are nine people in the
cast and there are yet nine people to
be found for the parts. Those in­terested
are asked to get in touch
with Director Blackshear before Sat­urday,
if possible.
"Wind and the Rain" is a light
comedy concerning university students
with the setting in Edinburgh. The
play is about the activities of one of
the students in particular whose home
is in London where his mother and
fiancee live. It is his plan to get his
doctor's degree in medicine, marry the
girl back home, and lead the average
life of the average citizen. But an
Edinburgh girl upsets all his fine
plans.
The Players plan to produce the
show early in April and again at the
conclusion of the annual high school
dramatic tournament, April 10.
Officers Chosen By
Relations Group; To
Select New Members
NUMBER OF BID
CARDS FOR HOP
ARE COLLECTED
Committee Collects Eighty-nine
Bid Cards Thursday For
Annual Military Ball Here
RECORD CROWD SEEN
Arrangements Are Being Made
To Make Dance Most Elabo­rate
Staged In Many Years
PECCV BEARJD "JWBUKfiJ
PERCY BEARD, holder of numerous world records in the high
hurdles, has announced his retirement from all athletic competition.
He gave as a reason that he was getting a bit old.
EIGHT CHOSEN BY
TAU KAPPA ALPHA
FORENSICS GROUP
Tau Kappa Alpha Selects Stu­dents
Who Are Outstanding
On Campus In Forensics
Officers Are Chosen
By Scouting Society
At a recent meeting of the Alpha
Phi Omega honor scout fraternity,
officers were elected fgr the coming
semester. The new officers are:
president, Franklin Ward; vice-presi­dent,
Max Weldon; secretary, George
Hardy and treasurer, C. M. Pruet.
The Alpha Phi Omega fraternity
has only recently heen organized at
Auburn, and several notable steps
have already been taken by the
group. The lbcal boy scout troup is
a protege of Alpha Phi Omega, and
plans have been discussed to hold a
house party at Spring Villa camp
sometime this springs All members
of the society are former scouts who
have passed the requirements for first
class rank. Advisers for the club are
Professor A. L. Thomas, Professor H.
M. Martin, the Rev. S. B. Hay and
Dr. B. F. Thomas.
The International Relations Club
held an election • of new officers
Tuesday night. M. H. Howard was
reelected president; Fred Schomberg,
vicerpresident; Louise-Liles, secreta­ry
and treasurer.
The Club expects to issue bids for
new members within the next two
weeks. The requirements for mem­bership
are scholastic average of 80
or above for the past semester and
an interest in international affairs.
The International Relations Club
is a group of students organized un­der
the auspices of the Carnegie En­dowment
for International Peace, in
universities, colleges, and normal
schools for the study and discussion
of international problems. There
are 595 Clubs at the present in the
United States and 156 in foreign
countries.
The 212 International Relations
Clubs in the southeast district will
hold a Conference at Winthrop Col­lege,
Rock Hill, South Carolina, from
Feb. 27 through 29 under the aus­pices
of the Carnegia Endowment for
International Peace.
Colleges and universities in Vir­ginia,
North and South Carolina,
Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and
Mississippi will send delegates to the
Conference.
At its annual spring election held
last night eight students were chosen
to membership in Tau Kappa Alpha,
national honor society for the recog­nition
of those students who are lead­ers
in campus forensic activities.
Those chosen were: Milton Roth,
Jacksonville, Fla.; George Hairston,
Birmingham; Dave Cox, Mobile; Mor-ros
Hall, Jasper; Dan Smith, Clanton;
A. A. Rish, Foley; Roy Nolen, Jack­son;
and Fred Grant, Montgomery.
These men have been active in debat­ing
circles at Auburn since their
freshman year.
Tau Kappa Alpha is national in
scope which honors to membership
only those students who have excelled
in debate work and public speaking
while in college. Those chosen in
the election last night are either
members of the sophomore or junior
class, this standing' being required by
the Tau Kappa Alpha Constitution.
One of the major activities of the
society this year was the sponsoring
of both the upperclassman and fresh­man
debate tournaments. George
Hairston and Dave. Cox won the up­perclassman
tourney, while Billy Mc-
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FULL PROGRAM IS
PLANNED HERE BY
CIVIL ENGINEERS
Talks By Leading State Engin­eers
Planned By Students Of
Civil Engineering Chapter
Under a new regime of officers the
American Society of Civil Engineers
will begin its second semester of ac­tive
work at the holding of its weekly
meeting next Tuesday night, Febru­ary
18, in Ramsay Engineering build­ing.
The outstanding features of the
meeting will be a talk by Mr. Trot­ter,
State Highway Bridge Engineer,
and" Mr. Friedman, a member of the
Bureau of Public Roads. These talks
will center around methods and prac­tices
in bridge and road construction.
Both Mr. Trotter and Mr. Friedman
are well known through engineering
circles of the state for their successes
as engineers.
Plans have been made whereby the
society -will be able to bring quite a
few outstanding engineers to Auburn
as speakers for meetings throughout
the semester. Among these speakers,
no doubt, will be Mr. H. H. Houk,
head of the State Highway depart­ment,
who is also contact adviser for
the chapter.
Among other points of interest to
be brought up at the meeting will be
the discussion of the A. S. C. E. stu-
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NOTICE 1
The Woman's Student Government
will sponsor a George Washington
Tea to be given next Wednesday
afternoon at Smith Hall. All stu­dents
are invited to the affair.
Lecture Series To Be Given Here
; By Duke Professor Of Philosophy
The committee in charge of ar­rangements
for the Military Ball yes­terday
mailed 87 bid cards to girls
throughout the State indicating a
record attendance for the dance,
which is to be given next Friday
night, starting at 9:30 o'clock.
Senior cadets have been practicing
during lab periods for the Grand
March, which is to be one of the fea­ture
events of the ball. The several
committees are now hard at work for
what promises to be one of the best
dances of this type held here in many
years.
The following is a list of the cadets
and their probable dates for the dance
Friday, according to the bid cards
sent out yesterday:
Charlie Adams — Sallie Dean,
Jackson; Carleton Baker — Mary A.
Pierce; George Bohorfoush — Bess
Barker, LaFayette; Fred Black —
Juanita Stokes, Macon, Ga.; Bobby
Blake — June Tooker; Ferrell Brown
— Melba Holley; Nat Bradford —
Constance Brown, Birmingham; C.'E.
Bruner — Charlotte Bowden; Wade
Brunson — Alice Rhodes, Montgom­ery;
J. L. Callaway — Mary Lucas
Hall, Opelika; Hugh Cameron —
Louise Hughley, West Point, Ga.;
Blake Campbell — Josephine Pointer;
Emmett Casson — Margaret Bow­man;
G. J. Cottier — Lillie Hall,
Toomsboro, Ga.; Walton Crossley —
Frances Bailey, Waterloo ;• Lee Ross
Ellenburg — Mary Frances Haynie,
Anniston; Flake Farley — Caroline
Pace; John Finch — Marie Adams,
Atlanta, Ga.; Hugh Glasgow — Mary
Pierce.
B. D. Godbold — Mary Murphey;
M. L. Hardeman — Pearle Rudulph;
H. L. Harris — Frances Ashurst;
J. J. Hayes — Helen Nix, Monte-vallo;
C. L. Hendrick — Ruth Hud­son,
Haynesville; Grady Hicks — Jane
Wadsworth, Montgomery; Harry
Hooper — Texcie Murray, Montgom­ery;
B. N. Ivey — Barbara Nettles,
Montevallo; A. H. Jackson — Ella
Frances South; R. A. Jones — Beth
Herring, Bessemer; J. S. Johnson —
Scottie Reeves; John Keith — Eliza­beth
Pierce, Birmingham; Leo Lan­ders
— Pauline Griffin; W. P. Mc-
Call — Katie Lou Chapman, Dade-ville.
G. W. McKinney — Louise Liles;
M. S. McLeod — Sara Carlisle; Gil­bert
McMillan — Jean Harwin, Bir­mingham;
Bill McTyeire — Netty
Murphey; Martin Mardirosian —
Doris Jones; Wm. Martin — Dorothy
Wright; Bill Meadows — Margaret
Turner; L. C. Merrell — Elizabeth
Allison-; James Moreman — Floy Hill,
Gold Hill; J. E. Moyer — Elizabeth
Rogers; W. C. Pease — Mary Penn
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A series of six lectures dealing
with philosophical appreciation of
beauty will be delivered here during
the week of March 1 by Dr. Katha­rine
Gilbert, professor of philosophy
in the graduate school of Duke Uni­versity.
Sponsored by the Institute and ar­ranged
by Dr. Rosa Lee Walston, of
the Auburn school of education, Dr.
Gilbert's lectures will be delivered
in Student Hall from 4 to 5 p.m.
beginning Monday, March 2 and ex­tending
through Friday, March 6.
Dr. Gilbert is regarded as one of the
most brilliant philosophers of the
day. Her work in aesthetic has won
for her a national reputation.
The lectures will be attended by a
large number of students, both men
and women, who find special interest
in philosophy and the abstract con­cepts
of beauty. Members of the
faculty and townspeople will also be
invited to attend the series.
Dr. Gilbert is the author of many
published articles on philosophy, and
her book, "Studies in Recent Aesthe­tic",
has attracted wide attention.
Before becoming a member of the
graduate school faculty at Duke Uni­versity,
Dr. Gilbert taught for some
time at Bryn Mawr. She has served
as an editor of the "Journal of Phil­osophy".
At Duke she has taken a
prominent part in the. organization of
the co-ordinate college for women.
Dr. Gilbert has traveled extensively
in Europe, having pursued her phil­osophical
studies in recent years es­pecially
in Italy and Germany.
Dr. Gilbert will open the series
with a discussion of "The Rela­tion
of Philosophy to Contemporary
Thought" on Monday afternoon,
March 2. This is to be followed on
consecutive days throughout the week
with lectures on Plato, the famous
Greek philosopher; "The Meaning of
Beauty"; and an open forum of dis­cission
by the group will close the
series on Friday, March 6.
Wagnon Dies At Home
In Georgia Thursday
News has been received by the
Alumni Office of the death of E. A.
Wagnon, 1933 graduate of Auburn,
which occurred early Thursday morn­ing
at Rossville, Ga., where he has
been engaged for two years as high
school teacher of English.
Mr. Wagnon was the brother of Es-telle
C. Wagnon, 1934 Auburn grad­uate.
His wife was the former Miss
Frances Harris, whose home was
near Opelika in Lee County.
He will be buried at Augusta, Ga.,
his former home.
At Auburn, Mr: Wagnon made a
brilliant record, receiving his degree
in 1933 with highest distinction in
secondary education. His record as a
teacher was of the same high quality
which marked his undergraduate
work at Auburn.
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T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M A N -:- A L A B A M A P O L Y T E C H N I C I N S T I T U T E SATURDAY, FEB. IS, 1936
> AUBURN FOOTPRINTS
They laughed when I sat down to play; but the laugh was on them when I
held a full-house.
* * * * * * * * * *
Mary had a little dog,
Its tail was like a hoop.
They say she had it made that way
So the fleas could loop-the-loop. k
* * * * * * * * * *
Frosh (home on vacation): "Gee, dad, I often lie awake half the night think­ing
of what she had said to me."
His Dad: "Take a tip from me, son, or you'll be lying awake all night listen­ing
to it." —Purple Parrot.
* * * * * * * * * *
Auburn students find one thing that is very easy to fall into and very hard to
get out of—the bed.
* * * * * * * * * *
The musical saw is assuming a prominent place among jazz instruments. It
is especially effective if drawn from left to right across a ukelele.
* * * * * * * * * *
%
Judge: "Anything you say will be held against you."
Prisoner: "Greta Garbo."
* * * * * * * * * *
Will someone please tell Libba Allison how far a. dog can go into the woods?
* * * * * * * * * *
Lady in grocery store: "I've really forgotten what I came for."
Tactful clerk: "Lifebuoy, madam?"
* * * * * * * * * *
I've kept that schoolgirl complexion,
I've walked a mile for a smoke;
I've asked the man who owns one,
And he tells me it keeps him broke.
I know a child that can play it,
To guard the danger line I try;
I know when it's time to retire,
But baffled by one thing am I.
I have not found the answer,
Though my lifetime long I strive.
I wish you'd tell me whether or not
I'm one of the four out of five.
—Thanks to Lee Merrell.
And another thing—the man in the moon is not half so interesting as the lady
in the sun.
* * * * * * * * * *
Mrs. O'Flannigan (as the very battled-scarred Pat comes in): "So, yez has
bin fightin' that dirty Michael O'Rourke again, hey? And he give yez a broke
nose, a black eye, a cut face arid knocked all yez teeth out. I wish I cud git me
hands on the dirty low-down."
Pat: "Careful, woman! Yez shouldn't speak evil of the dead."
* * * * * * * * * *
"Come quick, mama, little Audrey is eating all the raisins off the flypaper."
* * * * * * * * * *
She was only a watchmaker's daughter, but she gave me a wonderful time.
* * * * • * * * * *
When better girls are made, they won't be half so interesting.
* * * * * * * * * *
"Keep your hands where they belong," came the girl's voice from the darkness.
I crept closer on tiptoe. Sure enough—he was crowding her fingers off the ouija
board.
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Executes Fade-Out
As was expected, the junior movement to
end politics has made a beautiful fade-out.
In fact, it is probably so dead that it will
never again be revived. And it is just as
well, for although the movement was abso­lutely
right in spirit, it was all.wrong, ac­cording
to common sense. As has been
stated before, the proposed plan was idealis­tic
to the extreme without even one steady
leg to stand upon. 1
When politics is mentioned, some students
immediately think of something crooked.
For some reason or other, politics to them
seems to imply something shady which, is
discussed behind closed doors in dark rooms.
True enough, politics of any sort has in­cluded
and always will include deals that
could hardly be called above board. -On the
other hand, though, politics in by far the
greater number of cases, represents honest
effort on the part of those who have some­thing
tangible to gain by it. Those who
enter politics, on a college campus such as
Auburn's, do not expect to gain what they
are after through some clever bit of manip­ulation
that will as if by magic pour the
votes right into his lap without even having
to bat an eye-lid. On the contrary, they
map out their campaign and look forward
to a long siege of hard work.
In most cases it has been found that he
who strives the hardest usually wins the
race. Naturally, along with the hard work
required, one must make use of tact and
strategy. It takes brains as well as foot­work.
Already Too Many
Within the next month or so members
of Blue Key honor society will tour the state
speaking to students in the high schools who
will graduate this spring. As has been
clearly stated in news stories, the purpose
of the plan is to convince high school grad­uates
of the desirability of choosing Auburn
for their college career.
The Plainsman wonders why all this hoo­doo
is being made to get students to attend
Auburn when the college already has more
than it knows what to do with. To increase
the enrollment much beyond the present
figure would be but to have more students
than the college could efficiently provide
for. Also in this connection, there is a de­cided
lack of rooming space. Even this
year there was some little concern over
whether or not the town would be able to
absorb all the new students.
Auburn will continue to grow in the nat­ural
manner with a higher enrollment fig­ure
each year. In the same manner the
town will grow proportionally and be able to
accommodate the increased number of .stu­dents.
It would be pure folly at present
to campaign for more students when good­ness
knows there are enough attending Au­burn
already. In all likelihood the fresh­man
class next year will be every bit as
large if not larger than the class this year.
It is only natural that it should.
Of course there is another side to the pic­ture.
It is the desire of everyone to see
Auburn grow into a larger school, offering
a much wider range of studies. With en-rollment
increased each year, it will be nec­essary
for the State to take care of the ad­ditional
students through the appropriation
of more money for expanding purposes. In
that way Auburn would not only increase
greatly in size but in importance as an edu­cational
institution as well.
The above line of reasoning is somewhat
weak at present in view of the fact that the
State is having a difficult time of even pro­viding
for the normal existence of the col­lege
without having to shell out additional
funds for more buildings and additional
equipment.
There is no doubt that'Auburn will con­tinue
to grow and expand into a much
larger school. It will not be necessary or
even desirable to sales-talk prospective stu­dents
into coming to Auburn. Let Auburn
speak for itself as a place where one can
secure a first-class college education, and
then the students will come here in num­bers
far greater than they would through
any efforts which Blue Key or any other or­ganization
might make.
Old As The Hills
It was of particular note during a meet­ing
of a current events- class one night this
-week that not once during the entire lec­ture
of something short of an hour's dura­tion
was there any mention of news or hap­penings
that anywhere near approached
being what is commonly know^i as cur­rent.
In fact, the speaker spent the hour in a
lecture on a topic well nigh as old as the
hills and upon which most any normal per­son
has already heard too much. No doubt
George Washington is an interesting char­acter
in American history, and it would in­deed
be amusing as well as instructive to
know what that noted gentleman would
think and feel should he suddenly be brought
back to life in this age. Yet, when com­pared
with what is now happening around
us at present in the State, as well as the
nation, the subject of Washington has little
excuse for being brought up, even though
we celebrate his birthday next week.
The average individual, college students
being no exception, show a profound lack
of knowledge on current topics. With this
situation existing it is no wonder that cor­rupt
politicians and hair-brained schemes-ters
manage to make the impression that
they do. If it wasn't for the fact that there
will always be a few who keep tab on what
is going on about them, there is no telling
into what sort of a mess this country or any
other country would soon degenerate.
As a general rule students are not espe­cially
interested in day by day happenings
in the world of political science of inter­national
relations, happenings which have
a bearing in some form or another in the
making of world history. Although one
hour a "week is but a short period of time,
it is sufficient to allow for a fairly general
summarization of current events. Topics,
such as the one discussed this week right­fully
belong in the history course and not
in a course dealing with current happen­ings.
New March On Washington
• Since its founding, the merit system of
civil service appointments was steadily in­creased
in scope until, when President
Roosevelt took office, 80.8 per cent of the
positions in the executive branch of the
government were to be gained by competi­tive
examinations. Today, says Lawrence
Sullivan in the Atlantic Monthly, the figure
has sunk to 57 per cent, the level of 1906.
The management and clerical work of the
emergency agencies established during the
present administration has increased the
number of government jobs by about 240,-
000. Only 1 in 107 of the new workers is
under the merit system. The disposal of
such a large number of political jobs will
boost the Democrats tremendously at elec­tion
time.
New Dealers hit back at the spoils charges
by pleading the necessity of swift action in
an emergency. But, in the government re­organization,
there has been a decrease of
12,000 in the number of classified positions
under merit rules—this in the 3 years to
June 1935.
The fact that it is illegal to transfer
positions from the merit system to the poli­tical
method of appointment apparently
means little. In one instance the shipping
board, employing 750 people under the
merit regulations, was abolished and its
functions transferred to the department of
commerce, thus opening up 750 more ap­pointive
positions.
Following these lines of policy, partisan
activity can only degenerate even further
than at present into a battle of ins versus
outs over the personal use of the public
treasury. It will be hard to force politicians
to sacrifice their boughten votes in the in­terest
of efficient government service.—
Minn. Daily.
This Collegiate World
(By Associated Collegiate Press)
One thing about being editor of a paper
in a very old college—you can always fill
up space with stories out of the past if
you have to.
The editors of the Princetonian have been
poring over a few old ledgers these days
and coming up with some very interesting
sidelights about their college in olden days.
They tell how hockey first put in an ap-pearapce
at the college in 1787. The Fac­ulty
was immediately alarmed over the
sport. A statement was issued, saying "It
appearing that a play . . . much practiced
by smaller boys . . . with balls and sticks
. . . is irr itself low and unbecoming gentle­men
students." Furthermore, said the Fac­ulty,
"the sudden and alternate heats and
colds" attending this sport were very dan­gerous.
Sports were not professionalized, not at
all. They played "Prison Base" in those
days and in 1786 Richard Mosby became the
college jump champion, "going 11 feet at a
hop for 36 hops altogether."
* * * *
In another issue of the paper, the editors
relate how a Princeton professor, Joseph
Hanry, "scooped" Samuel Morse on the first
telegraph line by eight years. This man
set up a line on the campus. It was sup­ported
by the bare branches of the trees and
terminated in a well at each end. It was
this man who explained the magnetic relay
to Morse.
* * * *
Says the Daily Illini:
"Courtship consists of a man chasing a
woman until she catches him."
* * * *
Petite Mary Sanford, just graduated
from the University of Minnesota, has the
University administration overwrought with
excitement.
Scanning her nice, crinkly new diploma
Miss Sanford noticed something ghastly in
such a document:
Imriiediately she wrote a letter to the
president of the college, saying, "The docu­ment
reads, 'Know all men by these presents
that the Board of Regents by virtue of the
authority vested in them by the state of
Minnesota have conferred upon . . . ' The
pronoun 'them' and the auxiliary verb
'have,' both plural, refer to the subject,
'Board,' which is a collective noun and is
considered singular. The correct form are
'it' and 'has.'"
At the next Regents meeting, Miss San-ford's
plaint will be the first item of new
business, the President has assured her.
V . * * * *
Columnist at Ohio State University re-quotes
the Cornell paper which relates how
a professor of English received an essay
which had been copied directly from a book.
The professor announced that if the student
guilty of plagiarism would see him after
class, his name would not be divulged.
When the class was over, he found five
fidgety students waiting for him!
* * * *
Dr. Leroy Hartman of the school of oral
surgery, Columbia University, recently was
credited all over the country with develop­ing
a new chemical formula for killing pain
in teeth that are being drilled.
But now a reaction is setting in, and the
public is finding that maybe it isn't all the
newspapers said it was. Said Dr. Paul
Kitchin, of Ohio State University:
"The publicity given the new desensitizer
is unfortunate in that anything which gives
hope or promises as much relief as this does
should have been put in the hands of the
profession for a tryout before it was put
into the minds of the public."
* * * *
Instead of being a lazy individual who
sticks- to the campus because "it's a nice,
easy life," the average university professor
is one of the nation's busiest professional
men, says Northwestern University, where
a little study has been made. They found
that the average teacher spent 9 hours a
day in work connected with his classes and
research, delivered 4.8 lectures during the
year, traveled 1,213 miles, wrote two articles
for publication, published a fifth of a book,
Quotable Quotes
(By Associated Collegiate Press)
-"Instructors talk too much, regulate too
much and are too suspicious of students."—
Dr. L. P. Stieg, president, University of
Washington, talks about talking.
"Almost any English-speaking person can
get a job in China teaching English."—
William E. Daugherty, Ohio State graduate,
returns from Tung Chow.
"Hell Week? The only solution is elimi­nation."—
Northwestern's Pres. Walter Dill
Scott speaks his mind.
"Brooklyn is the graveyard of the min­istry."—
The Rev. Cornelius Greenway, pas­tor
of All Souls Universalist Church, Brook­lyn,
sends a tip to theological students.
"Student radicals are manufactured by
the hysterical regulations of the institutions
in which they are enrolled."—President
Robert Maynard Hutchins, of Chicago, re­leases
the cold dope.
Students who fall asleep during classes
are not to blame, says the Rocky Mountain
Collegian, and to explain quotes Dr. Myron
C. Barlow, head of the psychology depart­ment
of the University of Utah: "It's hyp­notism,
pure and simple, albeit most of the
hypnotists practice the art quite unihindful
of their latent powers.
"When professors talk in- a monotonous
voice and there is little disturbance in the
room, the more susceptible are sure to fall
asleep. I have done it myself.
"Hypnptism merely involves the placing
of the attention of the subject on some ob­ject
and holding it there."
* * * *
According to the Cameran Collegian the
student's 23 Psalm is as follows:
The college professor is my shepherd,
And I am in dire want.
He preventeth me from lying down in the
bed that I renteth.
He leadeth me to make
A fool of myself before my classmates-.
Yea, though I burneth my light
Until mye roommate howleth,
I fear much evil,
For the prof is against me,
His theories and his rantings
Frighteneth my wits from me.
He assigneth me extra work
As a punishment
In the presence of mine enemies.
He anointeth my quiz paper with red ink,
And my zeros filleth a whole column.
Surely, theories, exams, and themes will
follow me
.All the days of my college career,
And I shall dwell in the bug house for­ever.
* * * *
The Daily Maroon quotes one of the Chi­cago
dailies as saying that the only thing
they can see for the case against Roosevelt
is the fact that we didn't have such winters
under Coolidge and Hoover.
* * * *
A lot of earnest young American campus
debaters are having sad experiences meet­ing
the present Oxford and Cambridge
teams which are touring the country.
English debate tactics never seem to
change, but fortunately their American op-taught
evening classes, gave radio speeches
and served as official for some learned
society.
ponents never get wise. It is a common as­sertion
that the Oxford Union provides the
best debate material in the world, although
it seems to consist of an ability to charm
the audience, to maintain complete non­chalance,
to spin merry tales.
American students, on the other hand,
bone up for weeks, outline their case con­cretely,
and spew forth facts and figures at
a terrific rate—all of which the English
wave airily aside as so much amusing rub­bish.
We know of one case, however, where the
British did not ignore statistics. In fact,
they made tremendously effective use of
them and won their debate hands down.
One of their team arose to his feet and
with a rather weary air said, "We know our
opponents would simply devastate all of us
with their statistics. We have decided that
we can best answer them with statistics of
our own, which we now give to you."
Whereupon he unwound a long, long roll
of paper until it touched the floor, then
gathered it all up and tossed it over the
footlights. —The Reflector.
* * * *
Two bits of very free verse from the Daily
Maroon:
My. postman
Is a mailman.
A femailman
Would look funny.
Unlike my girl
I squeeze my toothpaste
From the bottom.
* * • * *
A tradition at Syracuse University re­quires
that girls who want dates wear rib­bons
in their hair. Recently a ribbon-wear­ing
freshman appeared with this note pin­ned
on her dress: "I am not wearing this
ribbon for a date. I always wear a rib­bon."
Heavy protective "armor" is responsible
for many football injuries, according to
D. O. McLaughry, of Brown, president of
the American Football Coaches' Associa­tion.
Women make better lawyers than men,
according to every comparative measure­ment
of those characteristics of lawyers
studied by the Human Engineering Lab­oratory
of Stevens Institute.
Thunderations
By Gum
EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions expressed in
this column are not necessarily the editorial opin­ions
of this paper. It is a column of personal
comment, and is not to be read as an expression
of our editorial policy.
* * * * IWOULD like for all of my U. D. C,
D. A. R., W. C. T. U., and Eastern Star
friends to take notice of the following
little endeavor that I have clipped from
The Pathfinder, a bit of a magazine that is
published in Washington, and whose editor,
when he writes such as he does here, is a
man whose ideas are closely akin to mine.
Here is:
ANCESTRAL TREES
Frequently you hear someone bragging
about being "descended from" some great
ancestor. Such a "reference" cuts a very
little swath with most of us ordinary, folks
or "plain people" because we all know how
ill-founded is most of this pride of ancestry.
When we stop to think that each of us had
two parents, four grandparents, eight
great-grandparents and so on almost ati in­finitum;
that each generation doubles the
number of strains of blood represented in
us; and that there are three generations
to a century on the average, there is really
little point in claiming we are descended
from some great personage of two and three
hundred years ago.
It is easy to figure out the number of
ancestors you probably had at any given
date. Figuring at the above rate most of
us likely had 16 ancestors one century ago.
Two centuries ago they numbered 256;
4096 three centuries ago, and so on, if you
want to go back any farther. Perhaps if
you could count your ancestors over the
years as far back as 900 A. D. you could
claim direct descent from over a billion an­cestors,
which at that time represented the
entire population of the world. And
strangely enough you are exactly as much
descended from one of these as from any
other, and no more. For that reason you
are a descendant of kings; you can claim
that you have royal blood in your veins and
you can prove it by such mathematics. On
the other hand you cannot escape the fact
that thousands and millions of your ances­tors
were probably bad people. No doubt
many of them were hung or had their heads
chopped off. If you wished to figure your
ancestry back that far you could rightly
claim that Solomon, Rameses, the Queen of
Sheba, Caesar, Columbus, Napoleon, Wash­ington
and everyone else were "in our fam­ily,"
at least as collateral relations if not
direct ancestors.
An authority on ethnology has stated it is
improbable that there is a pure-blooded race
anywhere on the earth today, despite all
the rules and regulations laid down by the
German Nazis to preserve the purity of the
"Aryan" race,. So when you hear someone
bragging of his or her lineage or ancestry
call his or her attention to the above figures,
and add that in all probability he or she
is a cousin to Ananias, and only about 150
times removed. That ought to put a stop
to their ancestral boasting once and for all.
After all, it is not what our grandfather
did, but what we do for ourselves. Of
course, if grandpappy up and dies and left
us a million dollars that sheds a different
light on the matter, and we may well sport
a coat-of-arms in the front parlor. But so
few of us had those kind of grandpaps.
Sez You!
Politics is politics, women is women, and
the sun always sets in the West, but, my
dear lads and lassies opinion is what makes
the world go round.
This week we have annoyed our victims
with the poser: "What do you think of
politics in college life?" Needless to say
the answers were varied and interesting.
The first comes from Mr. Pat Plumlee, a
junior from Birmingham, and a politician
of no mean ability. Pat was quite wary at
first but finally enlightened us with this:
"I think it's educational, to say the least'."
Albert F. Arruzza, sophomore from
Stamford, Conn.: "College politics is so
crooked that, in comparison, the tactics of
the late Huey Long's forces appear to be
the utmost in honest endeavor."
"Rat" McCool, of Fayette, has this to
say: "I think that politics on the campus
is too severly criticized by people not any
too well versed in the matter."
Miss Zoe Dobbs, who is the boss of all the
women, gave us a very enlightening state­ment.
Says Miss Dobbs: "I think that it
adds a zest to college life, and I think that
the women should be more deeply involved
in clean, righteous politics."
Miss Kay Sibert, junior from Fort Ben-ning,
Ga., who has political aspirations her­self,
believes: "It's a game of cops and rob­bers,
and remember, it takes a thief to catch
a thief."
Miss Molly Brasfield, freshman from
Demopolis, has some encouragement for you
big shots and would-be big men: "Like any
large body it needs a machine to make it
function properly," says Molly, and who
can argue?
SATURDAY, FEB. 15, 1936 T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M A N -:- A L A B A M A P O L Y T E C H N I C INSTITUTE PAGE THREE
EUGENE LEE, Editor
Contributors
JACK TODD
BILL TROUP
GERALD BILBRO
SHAKE-UP NOTED
AMONG TEAMS OF
S. E. CONFERENCE
Several Top-Notch Quintets
Slip Down Few Places In
S. E. Conference Standings
Last week saw a shake-up in the
standings of the Southeastern Basket­ball
Conference teams. Several of the
top-notchers slipped down a few
rungs in the ladder while underdogs
leaped quickly into the vacated posi­tions.
Perhaps the most surprising of all
the changes was Auburn's rise to
fourth place from their former sixth
position. The change was due to their
winning a pair of games from Se-wanee
on Monday and Tuesday nights
with scores of 42-18 and 41-31.
Mississippi State's descent to • sev­enth
place from third was due to their
two defeats at the hands of L. S. U.
"with scores of 43-37 and 45-40.
Alabama, too, sank lower on the
scale after their defeat by Tennessee
28-20. The Crimson Tide now occupies
ninth place as compared with their
former standing of seventh.
L. S. U. now ranks among the first
three after being in eighth place for
a short time. For the first time this
year the Bayou Tigers are being
seriously considered a real threat.
Only two weeks until the tourna­ment
opens and the real fun begins
as the quintets play for the champion­ship.
Standings in the Conference to date
are: • .
Team Won Lost TP OP
Vanderbilt - - 8 1 360 251
Kentucky 5 1 224 173
L. S. U. - 7 4 464 334
Auburn -1 _ 5 2 232 159
Mississippi _ 5 3 330 299
Georgia 6 4 336 329
Miss. State L- 5 4 369 229
Tennessee _1_ 4 3 249 199
Alabama 6 6 382 352
Ga. Tech 2 4 178 202
Florida — 1 6 203 261
Tulane 1 10 280 435
Sewanee _~ 0 6 125 185
Beginning in June, Yale engineer­ing
graduates will receive bachelor of
engineering instead of bachelor of
science degrees.
A new course in marriage at Syra­cuse
university will enroll 130 stu­dents
this semester, with 415 on the
waiting list.
"Schimmel," star of the Berlin po­lice
department's dog section, is cred­ited
with the individual solution of
eight murders.
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FRESHMAN BASKETBALLERS DEFEAT DADEVILLE
Practice Sessions Begin For Cindermen
WILBUR HUTSELL
TO AGAIN COACH
LOCAL TRACKMEN
Poor Weather Conditions Ham­per
Progress As Hutsell On
Lookout For Replacements
SPORTS CHATTER
=By EUGENE LEI
Practice for the track and field
team started this week on Drake field.
Poor weather conditions has delayed
the progress of the practice sessions,
but Coach Hutsell hopes to get his
work in full swing next week.
Coach Hutsell starts his 15th cam­paign
as director of the team with
the tough task of replacing nine of his
outstanding performers of last year.
These cinder artists were greatly re­sponsible
for the brilliant season com­piled
by the 1935 team, which swept
to four dual meet victories.
Heading the losses were Punchess,
Pihl, and Gait, three of the greatest
distance runners to ever perform for
Auburn. Funchess held the local rec­ord
in the 880 at 1:59.7 and Pihl held
the local mile record at 4:26.4. Gait
was an outstanding two-miler.
Wright, high point holder and dash
artist, Langdon and Martin, broad
jumpers, and Tolve and Crane, shot
and discus entries, were also lost by
graduation. Mercer, outstanding low
and high hurdler, was seriously in­jured
during the summer and was
unable to return to school.
The dashes should be well cared
for this year, for James Karam, who
received nearly as many points in
these events as Wright, will be back.
Either Charlie Lawrence, Bob Cole­man,
or James Kelso will be available
for help.
Both of last year's quarter milers
are back. Wilton Kilgore and Hamp
Williams were consistent winners in
this event last year. Hal_ Tanner is
also a quarter miler and will be
available for this event.
The prospects for the 880, mile, 2
mile and hurdles lack experience. Bill
Emrey and Duncan are out for the
880. Emrey has had more experience
and will probably see the most ser­vice
of the two. Stinson has the edge
on the milers with Duncan and Von
Chandler running him a close race.
Ed Powers is slated for duty in the
two mile race. He should receive
most of his competition from Stinson
and Hubert Lee. Bruce McGehee
promises to be the best of the high
hurdlers. B. Sellers and Woodard
have shown promise for this event.
For the low hurdles are Charlie Law­rence,
who is troubled with a bad
back, Sellers and Woodard.
The pole vault event will be well
fortified. In Captain Ed McKenzie
Auburn has one of the best vaulters
in the South. Frank Gantt, Walter
Gilbert and Gresham are also good
vaulters.
Bruce McGehee. is the best of the
high jumpers. McGehee won his
specialty in all of last year's meets %
with the exception of the Georgia
meet. Garrison, Flake Farley and
Karam are the best of the broad
jumpers.
Vernon Burns, Lester Antley,
Frank Gantt and Hugh Rodgers are
candidates for the shot put event.
Tom McGehee should be a winner with
the discus. Antley, Burns and Rod­gers
are other discus prospects. Bent-ley
and Blake were consistent winners
with the javelin last year. Other
candidates for this event are Rod­gers
and Mantoux.
Tonight in Clemson, South Carolina, Coach Dell Morgan sends his
boxing squad into competition. for the first time. It will be interesting to
watch the reactions to Auburn's baptism to collegiate boxing. Each year
efforts have been made to organize a team here, but only this year has
witnessed the realization of these efforts. The sport now seems imbedded
as a permanent fixture here. The expectations of material results will not
be realized this year. It will take another year or more to make any
headway with the new sport. A good start has been made, and Coach
Morgan is due a great amount of commendation for the time and effort
devoted to the squad. •
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Only one more week remains of
basketball for the Tigers. Four
tilts that promise to be thrillers
will be crammed into this week.
Games with Georgia, Georgia Tech,
and two with Florida remain.
Only a misfortune could prevent
the team from .continuing their
great work of the present time. A
dark horse at the beginning of the
season, the Tigers have advanced
rapidly under the direction of
Coach Ralph Jordan and now
ranks closely with the best of the
conference. Only Vanderbilt has
been able to register wins over the
team, and the last loss to the Com­modores
was only by a small mar­gin.
At present Vanderbilt and
Kentucky are leading the confer­ence.
Saturday's game is due for
a large turn out of students. Give
all of your assistance to Cheer­leader
Bill McTyeire so you can
do your part toward sending them
to Knoxville.
* * *
No greater furor among college of­ficials
of the South has occurred this
fall than the question of subsidiza­tion.
No sooner had discussions of
the open plan that was adopted by
the Southeastern Conference subsided
than the Southern Conference adopted
their dissimilar Graham Plan. The
Southeastern Conference put this
question above board and placed it
on an honest plane. Whereas the offi­cials
of the conference that housed
the present members of the South­eastern
turned in the opposite direc­tion
with their plan by adopting
resolutions that call for a strict con­trol
over student help.'
Several of the schools frankly ad­mitted
that subsidizing of athletes
was practiced, and these schools were
the ones that possessed the strongest
teams of the conference. This plain­ly
shows that help is necessary for
successful teams. Indications point
to only one year of operation under
the plan, and during that year meth­ods
will be used to get by the re­quirements.
With the two neighbor­ing
conferences operating under far
different methods, an excellent experi­ment
will be carried on during the
year.
. Three meals a day can't produce
maximum physical and mental effi­ciency,
say Yale physiologists. They
recommend more frequent and more
moderate feedings.
Each first down would count for one
point under a new football scoring
system proposed to the national col­legiate
rules committee.
Spring Training Is
Important For
Gridmen
By GERALD BILBRO
Spring training, the basic founda­tion
of all training in football, was
well under way this week.
Spring training, according to Coach
Jack Meagher, is a period of about
six or eight weeks in which time is
crammed every phase of football into
the minds and bodies of those trying
for the team.
As spring practice in football forms
the basic foundation of later prac­tices,
it is, of course, of vast impor­tance.
For this reason no loss' in
time can be allowed. During fair
weather the gridsters are hard at
work running, kicking, passing, block­ing,
tackling, scrimmaging, and other
various forms of practice, but during
(Continued on page 4)
CONTEST IS ELEVENTH WIN IN
SIXTEEN STARTERS BY FR0SH
Dadeville Is Routed By 35-14 Score Thursday Night A s Num­ber
Of Men Cut Loose With Brilliant Plays For Auburn;
Freshmen Defeated By Lanett Athletic Club Wednesday
By BILL TROUP
Led by Holmes and Childress, Au­burn's
freshman basketball five routed
the Dadeville high school team, 35-14,
Thursday evening in a preliminary to
the varsity encounter. This game
marked the eleventh win in sixteen
starts for Coach Dell Morgan's lads.
Dudley opened the scoring for the
evening with a freethrow but Dade­ville,
with the help of Walker's two
charity throws, soon held a 2-1 ad­vantage
over the Tigers. This scanty
lead was soon religuished and Auburn
was never pressed from there on.
Under the sharpshooting of Childress,
Dudley, Karge, and Edwards the vic­tors
were out in front 16-6 at half-time.
The second half was a rout as
Holmes, Childress, and Dudley cut
loose with a brilliant exhibition of
rapid fire shooting on bristling drivas
under the basket after taking passes
from their mates. O'Reilly, Pappas,
and Edwards contributed to the cause
by sinking four long shots.
Holmes and Childress each gathered
six tallies for high scoring honors.
Dudley and Edwards each made five
points. Young and Evers were high
for Dadeville with four points.
Staging a second half rally that
brought them to within nine points
of the victors, Auburn's freshman
cagers were defeated by Lanett Ath­letic
Club in a return engagement
last Wednesday night, 46-37.
After trailing 24-8 at the half the
frosh settled down to a better game
of basketball. With Childress, Karge,
Edwards, and Jigger all hitting the
net accurately Auburn approached to
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NUMBER OF BID CARDS
FOR HOP COLLECTED
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Darden, Opelika.
Morris Pelham — Margaret Gunn;
Bill Piatt — Esther Weeks; A. M.
Pollard — Mary Louise Wilson,
Montgomery; E. E. Pollard — May-fry
Lunsford, Utah; T. N. Powell —
Helen Christie; Gilmore Pugh —
Molly Brasfield; George Quinney —
Jane Slack; Jack Ramsay — Sarah
Smith; Isaac Rayburn — Frances
Passmore; Walter Reeves — Mary
Elizabeth Watson; Whitfield Rew —
Helen Tigner; E. E. Rushing •—
Sarah Veazy, West Point, Ga.; Ralph
Sayers — Tillie McKnight, Columbus,
Ga.; Wallace Shelby — Mary Anne
Geisking, Birmingham; G. B. Smith
— Mary Carmack; W. H. Smith —
Sarah Hooper; R. W. Steele — Mil­dred
Parsons; Joe Swenson — Olive
Moses, Birmingham; Walter Thomas
— Katherine Kluttz, Birmingham;
W. F. Thomas — Helen Jones; W. W.
Thomas — Sarah Jones, Bessemer;
C. W. Trotter — Jane Wadsworth,
Montgomery; . C. Whitty Walter —
Mary Hall Van Pelt, Montgomery;
R. C. Welty — Jane Dickson, Opelika;
Rupert Wilson — Marie Stokes,
Montgomery; Joe Whiteside — Sara
Frances Whiteside, Montevallo; W. T.
Wingo — Virginia Wadsworth; E. A.
Wright — Craig Draper, Langdale.
FROSH BASKETSALLERS
DEFEAT DADEVILLE
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within a few points of the victors
but Newman, who led Lanett with 20
points, managed to keep Lanett in the
lead.
Childress, substitute center, was the
hot shot for the visitors and paced
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Rodgers, Morland, Black, Bottoms,
Wood, and Hamm.
The Georgia line-up will be select­ed
from Johnson, Moore, and Rich­ards,
forwards; Harrold, center, and
Anderson, Thompson, Harmon, and
Kennedy, guards.
After the game with Georgia, the
Plainsmen close out the season next
week. The Tigers play Georgia Tech
in a return game in Atlanta Wednes­day
night and wind up the season
with a brace of games with Florida
in Gainesville on Friday and Satur­day
nights.
Box score:
AUBURN—(41)
Player FG F TP
Eaves, G 6 0 12
Curlee, G. 0 2 2
Mitchell, C. - 3 2 8
Crew, F. _ 1 4 1 9
McKissick, F. 2 2 6
Barnes, F. 10 2
Morland, F. 10 2
Rodgers, G 0 0 0
Wood, C. 0 0 0
Hamm, G. 0 0 0
17 7 41
BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN — (22)
Player FG F TP
Morland, F. 10 2
Walton, F. 0 0 0
Johnston, C -.. 0 2 2
Mosley, G. :...... 2 1 5
Thomas, G. 3 0 6
Corbin, F. 2 0 4
Bray, G 1 13
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9 22
the Auburn club with 11 tallies. Close
upon his heels were Jigger and Karke,
who both collected six points.
The freshmen have another game
with Lanett this Saturday evening in
preliminary to the varsity contest.
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Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 14.—(Spec­ial.)—
Governor Bibb Graves will be
the principal speaker at the ceremon­ies
commemorating the 75th anniver­sary
of the inauguration of Jefferson
Davis as president of the Confederacy
to be held here Tuesday morning at
11:30 in the portico of the Capitol.
Sponsored by the Alabama Division
of the United Daughters of the Con­federacy,
Mrs. Herman D. Jones, of
Auburn, president, also announces
that Mayor W. A. Gunter, of Mont­gomery
will serve as master of cere­monies.
The Governor will be intro­duced
by Mrs. Marie Bankhead Owen,
director of the Department of Arch­ives
and History.
MUsic for the occasion will be fur­nished
by the Lanier High School
Band and by the Montgomery Boy
Scout Drum and Bugle Corps. Girl
Scouts of Montgomery will serve as
ushers.
The "wreath of immortelles" will
be placed by Mrs. B. B. Ross, of Au­burn,
long-time leader in Alabama
U. D. C. work, on the star which
marks the spot where Jefferson Davis
took the oath of office in 1861. Mrs.
Ross was serving as president of the
Alabama Division in 1911 when the
50th celebration was held and now
holds the office of chairman of me­morials,
historic places, and events for
the Alabama Division.
Clemson Students To
Be In Auburn Monday
A Y. M. C. A. delegation from
Clemson college, composed of the stu­dent
secretary at Clemson and 11
members of the student Y. M. C. A.
Cabinet, are to arrive in Auburn next
Monday afternoon.
From Auburn as a base point this
delegation will stage a number of pro­grams
at nearby high schools to in­clude
several talks by the members as
well as a number of quartet presen­tations.
The local cabinet will entertain the
delegates at a supper Monday night
and during their stay here, which will
be through Wednesday.
FULL PROGRAM IS
PLANNED HERE BY
CIVIL ENGINEERS
EIGHT CHOSEN BY
TAU KAPPA ALPHA
FORENSICS GROUP
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Gehee and Edwin Godbold bested
their opponents in the freshman con­test.
Officers of the society this year
are: Ralph Steele, president; Bill
Emrey, vice-president; and Emma B.
Sellers, secretary.
The newly elected members will be
initiated into the group in the near
future.
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dent chapter convention of Alabama
and Georgia that is to be held at the
University of Alabama during the
last of March. Many representatives
of the local chapter are expected to
attend.
At the meeting last week the fol­lowing
officers were elected: Presi­dent,
C. S. Athey; Vice-President,
Vernie Holloway; Secretary, M. E.
Weatherby; Treasurer, Sig Pruitt.
CORRECTION
It was stated Wednesday that a
Valentine dance was to be given by
Alpha Psi. The A. V. M. A. is giv­ing
the dance.
Dr. Jose Antonio Lopez, former
Ohio University student, may be the
next governor of Puerto Rico.
Frostbite sent 112 University of
Wisconsin students to the infirmary
during a recent cold wave.
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keep the nearest bar five miles from
student beer-drinkers.
Body Of H. 0 . Sargent
Taken To Washington
The body of Dr. H. O. Sargent,
graduate of Auburn with the class of
1901, was brought through Auburn
by train Thursday morning enroute
to Washington, D. C, from Baton
Rouge, La., where he died Wednesday
morning from injuries received last
week in an automobile accident. Fu­neral
will be held in Washington.
Dr.. Sargent was one of the out­standing
leaders in vocational agri­cultural
work, at the time of his death
being federal agent in the department
of education in charge of negro vo­cational
agricultural work. He was
well known in educational circles in
Alabama, having served for a num­ber
of years as principal of the sec­ondary
agricultural school at Hamil­ton.
In 1902 Dr. Sargent was awarded
the Master's Degree at Auburn, later
completing the requirements for the
doctorate at George Washington
University. For a time after gradua­tion
here he was connected with the
horticulture department. He has been
connected with the federal depart­ment
of education since 1918.
Accompanying the body to Wash­ington
was his son, H. O. Sargent,
Jr., member of the freshman class at
Auburn, who was called to his
father's bedside in Baton Rouge last
Friday.
GOVERNOR GRAVES
TELLS TRUSTEES THAT
STATE MUST PAY
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the degree of doctor of laws, honoris
causa.
President Duncan was authorized
by the board to invest $12,000 as an
endowment received as a bequest from
the late Miss Unity D. Dancy, of
Decatur, and use the income from this
endowment as a library fund for
chemistry and metallurgy as request­ed
in will.
DEBATE SCHEDULE
FOR SEMESTER IS
ABOUT COMPLETED
(Continued from page 1)
Women—here.
March 23, South Carolina—here.
March 27, Oglethorpe—here.
April 1, Georgia Tech—here.
April 14-15, Southern Debate Tour­nament—
Gainesville, Fla.
April 16, Rollins—there.
April 17, Stetson—there.
April 18, Jacksonville Junior Col­lege—
there.
April 20, Mercer—there.
April 21, Georgia—there.
April 22, Emory—there.
Debates with Montevallo, Berry,
and a return match with Emory, all
to be held in Auburn, are tentatively
scheduled, the dates to be announced
later.
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GRIDMEN RECEIVE
SPRING TRAINING
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the bad weather other means have to
be followed. In order to beneficently
utilize the time during bad weather
a form of classes is used. In these
classes are discussed the theories of
the game. In any event, every day is
used in spring training, whether it
be in actual practice, or in theory.
In spring training the greater por­tion
of the squad consists of men out
in varsity football for their first
time. With these -first-year men a
different procedure from the training
of the older men has to be followed.
The older men usually practice on the
finer points of the game, while the
"rookies" learn the foundation. More
often than not the experienced men
are allowed to quit .practice before
the inexperienced, at which time full
attention is given the "rookies" and
an excellent practice results.
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