1936-12-11 The Auburn Plainsman

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New Dance Rules
TO F O S T E R THE A U B U R N S P I R IT
VOLUME LX AUBURN, ALABAMA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1936 NUMBER 26
Solons Will
Meet Again
On Tuesday
Legislature Recesses Thursday
After House Has Passed On
Gross Receipts Revenue Bill
Practice For Tour In January
SENATE VOTE NEXT WEEK
If Approved, Bill Will Be Final
For Governor's Signature
Before Next Week Is Over
After the house of representatives
had approved a gross receipts revenue
bill and a liquor legalization bill, the
legislature of Alabama recessed
Thursday until next Tuesday.
When the recess came the senate had
received both of the house bills and
acted upon the gross receipts bill by
referring it to the committee on edu­cation
instead of the committee on
finance and taxation. A fight was
made in the senate to get the bill in
the hands of the committee on finance
and taxation. The act of the Lieu­tenant-
Governor was sustained by a
substantial majority which was a test
vote in favor of the measure.
This having been done it is expected
that the committee on education will
report the bill favorably at a session
early next week and that a senate vote
will be had by the second legislative
day of the week, or Thursday or Fri­day.
May Require Another Vote
If the bill is approved exactly as it
was approved by the house the senate
vote will be final for the Governor's
signature but if a change is made it
will be referred to a joint conference
committee, the recommendations of
which will require another vote in
both the house and the senate for final
enactment into law.
The liquor bill which the house ap­proved
by a vote of 54 to 32 is a modi­fied
state stores bill. It provides for
sale of distilled liquors in package
form through state stores and by
drinks in hotels and other public eat­ing
places. Wines and beer will he
sold generally under the bill.
The senate temperance committee is
due to receive this bill early next week
and act upon it. It is reported that
a substantial majority of the members
of this committee are favor of legal­ized
liquor.
Three Bills in Hopper
Three other bills now in the legis­lative
hopper are of much concern to
Auburn. These are the bills trans
ferring the college proper, the extens
ion service, and the experiment sta­tion
from the general fund to the edu
cation trust fund. The college bill
has been approved in the senate. The
other two are being considered.
The purpose of these bills is to take
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Freshman Psychology
Test Higher Than In
Past 10 Years, Report
Average scores by this year's Fresh­man
Class on the National Psychology
examination were five points nearer
the national mean than they have been
in the last ten years according to Dr.
E. E. Cureton of the Educational De­partment.
This test is given annually
to freshmen classes throughout the
country by the American Council on
Education.
The Freshman Class average this
year at Auburn was 146 out of a pos­sible
407 as compared with the na­tional
average of 181. The national
average was based upon tests given to
5,184 freshmen representing 31 col­leges.
Auburn's average is thirty-five
points below the national average
although this is Auburn's nearest ap­proach
in ten years.
A total of 64 Freshmen have been
placed under probation in accordance
with college regulations. These regu­lations
state that the lowest ten per
cent shall be under probation during
their freshmen year. This was done
to insure a maximum effort on the
tests.
Scoring on the psychology test is
based upon mental alertness, general
intelligence, and high school back­ground.
Dr. Cureton states that the
college average is used in the rating
of the school.
New Dance Rules Are Installed
For Coming Set By Committee;
Prom Date, January 28, 29, 30
Three Have Not Yet Been Sold
To Honor Organization Or
Fraternities On Campus
* 1936 -37 GUBORM QkEE CkUB °
Personnel of the Auburn Glee Club pictured above follows: First row, left to right, Jimmy Gunn, Albion
Knight, John Burnette, Dennis Newton, E. D. McCauley, Jerome Newell, Ellis Broadway, Sam Teague,
George Weaver, Gordon Hubbard, George Perry, and Ernest Rouse. Second row: Lem Edmonson, Turner
Williams, Laurens Pierce, Sterlin Medlin, John Mantel, Dudley Smith, Monsey Gresham, Norman Ratcliffe,
Tom Jester, David Wittel, Jack Dunlop, J. R. Hubbard, and Paul Rudolph. Third row: Winfrey Boyd,
Harry Campbell, Arthur Steele, Josh Couch, Harry Lee Welsted, Charles Cranford, Charles Kelly, Leo Bidez,
W. C. Green, Burton Brooks, Lewis Garrett, Ed Smith. Fourth row: George Hairston, Director Lawrence
Barnett, and David Cox.
Theta Chi-K. A.
Winner To Play
Alabama Pi K.A,
The winner of the K.A.-Theta Chi
touch football game will go to the
University Wednesday to meet the
Pi Kappa Alpha team which is the
champion of the Interfraternity
Council tournament at the University.
The match was arranged by Lopez
Mantoux.
The Kappa Alpha team will meet
the Theta Chi team on Drake Field
at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon to de­cide
which team will get the Inter­fraternity
football cup and go to
meet the winning 'Bama greeks. In
terest in the game is growing since
it became known that the winner
would possibly go to an inter-colle­giate
game.
Manntox has wired the Alabama
Pi Kappa Alpha's to be preparing
for the game. It has excited much
interest on the University campus
and should do much to bring about
better athletic relations between the
two schools. Relations between the
two schools have taken a definite
turn for the better this year as the
Alabama Glee Club has already visit­ed
Auburn and the local Club will
return the visit in the near future. •
The only hold-back to such a game
was that Alabama uses eleven men
on a team while local regulations call
for only seven.
Independents Narrow
Down To Three Teams
Play in the Independent bracket has
narrowed down to three teams. The
Stephens House team has entered the
finals by a 12 to 6 victory over the
strong Allgood House seven. A strug­gle
for the other finalist position will
come to a climax Saturday morning on
Darke Field when Terrell House takes
issue with the Moreman House team.
Glee Club Practicing Hard
For Tour Early In January
First Of Two Tours Which Will Be Taken In January, Will
Include Huntingdon, Judson, University Of Alabama,
Bessemer, Birmingham, Montevallo; Popular Program
By GEORGE KNIGHT
The Auburn Glee Club is working
hard in preparation for the first of
its two annual tours. This trip will
be taken early in January and will
include Huntingdon College in Mont­gomery,
Judson College in Marion,
University of Alabama in Tuscalooso,
Bessemer, Birmingham, and Alabama
College in Montevallo.
After the first tour the Glee Club
will give its home presentation on Fri­day,
January 29, 1937. There will be
no admission charge for this concert.
Good Program Planned
Club members are meeting three
nights and four afternoons for practice
each week, and, under the fine direc­tion
of Lawrence Barnett, have ar­ranged
an extraordinarily good pro-
Mobile Club Plans
Dance For Holidays
The second meeting of the Mobile
Club was held last Monday night to
decide about the Mobile Active and
Alumni dance. This dance is an an­nual
affair in Mobile, and is to be held
this year on the morning of Decem­ber
24, from 1 to 5. The club has
engaged Ross Smitherman and his or­chestra
to play for the affair at the
Country Club of Mobile.
The committee for the dance is as
follows: Tyler Turner, chairman;
Frances Newburn, Dwain Luce, and
Edwin McCowan. The final meeting
before the dance will be held on Mon­day,
December 14, at 7 o'clock in
Langdon Hall. It is very important
for all Mobile boys interested in this
dance to be present at this final meet­ing.
gram. Solos will be sung by Gordon
Hubbard, baritone; and Lem Edmun-son,
tenor. A piano solo will be given
by Paul Rudolph. A quartet composed
of Gordon Hubbard, Sam Teague,
George Hairston, and Lem Edmunson
will sing "Drink to Me only With
Thine Eyes" and "I Got Plenty Of
Nuthin'". A trio including George
Hairston, Lem Edmunson, and David
Cox will give several novelty numbers.
A double quartet will sing "I'm get­ting
Sentimental Over You" and
"Make Believe". During the entire
program the Glee Club as a whole will
sing nine numbers.
Few Classical Pieces
It is easily seen that the program is
composed mostly of popular and semi-classical
numbers. This change has
been made to get away from the
"heavier" and less popular programs
given by glee clubs in past season.
Director Barnett believes that to pre­sent
an attractive concert the pieces
done by the club must be at least re­cognizable,
if not well known, by the
audience.
TICKET SALE UNTIL XMAS
Decorations Of Gymnasium To
Be Emphasized More Than
Any Previous Set Of Dances
The dates set for the Mid-term
Dances are January 28-29-30. The set,
for which Kay Kyser will play, will
consist of seven dances beginning with
a night dance on Thursday and con­tinuing
with three dances on both
Friday and Saturday.
He stated that no effort would be
spared in securing the best scheme of
decorations ever to be had for a set
of mid-term dances. He announced
that three of the dances have not yet
been sold and that the sale of these
dances would be held open until Christ­mas
vacation when the dance pro­grams
would be printed.
Kay Began at North Carolina
Kay Kyser returns to Auburn after
one successful engagement filled here
in 1935. Kyser started his musical
career in family recitals on week-ends
in North Carolina. He followed up by
establishing an orchestra at the Uni­versity
of North Carolina where he at­tended
school. Graduating from school,
he started out to make a business of
selling melody and swing.
He has been very successful in the
business as can be seen by his suc­cessful
engagements at the Miramar
Hotel in Santa Monica, Calif., the
New Yorker in New York City, the
Gibson in Cincinnati, the Bal Tabarin
in San Francisco, the William Penn
Hotel in Pittsburg, the Belle-rive in
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"Evenin, Folks" New Set Of Permanent Dance
Rules Are Framed By Social
Committee For Mid-Terms
COMPLETE LIST GIVEN
Must Be Approved By Student
Executive Cabinet; But O.K.
Is Considered A Certainty
Popular Kay Kyser, who played
for the Junior Prom in 1935, re­turns
with his orchestra to play
for the Mid-Term Dances to be
held January 28-29-30.
Robert K. Greene Is
New Trustee Member
Kyser Is Still Overwhelming Favorite
As Reporter Seeks Student Opinions
By JAMES BUNTIN
Ed. Note: This is the third in a
series of four articles on a survey of
student's opinion in regards to the
return engagement of Kay Kyser's or­chestra
for the Junior Prom.
Kay Kyser's band being a campus
favorite, certainly facilitates the se­curing
of a representative group of
opinions as to how his band will be
received for the Mid-term dances. It
is expected that a large number of
people will attend this set of dances
than has ever before been witnessed
by an Auburn Social Committee. A
continuation of this series of opinions
solicited of students from a thorough
survey of the campus.
"In retrospect, there has never been
a better band engaged to play for a
set of dances at Auburn"—Charlie
Miller.
"I can assure you that all of the
"Ags" are in favor of the selection
of such a fine band for the dances"—
Gordon Pruett.
"A more versatile dance orchestra
could not have been enagegd. Every­one
is certainly in favor of his return
engagement"—Eleanor Scott.
"Since we are having a return en­gagement,
we are highly in favor of
Kay Kyser. No better selection could
have been made"—George Hairston
and Earnest Guy.
"I like his swing style, and vocalists
don't come better than Sully Mason"
—"Old Boy" Smith.
"I am tickled pink over his playing
for the dances."—Margie Cole.
"It is my opinion that a record at­tendance
will evidence the fact that
Kay Kyser has one of the best-liked
orchestras in the country"—Sara
Smith.
• "His rapid rise to popularity in the
last two years warrants "his being rat­ed
a No. 1 band"—Todd Sutton.
"What Kay Kyser for the Mid­terms!
We will be there to hear you
swing it, Kay"—Hesus Silva.
"Who's this Kay Kyser everybody
is raving about? Maybe she's good"—
Watsie Abel.
"Wish I "had ten bucks and had a
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Robert K. Greene of Greensboro is
now a member of the board of trustees
of Auburn. He succeeds the late John
A. Rogers and will fill this vacancy
which extends until January 1947.
Mr. Greene is a 1911 graduate of
Auburn. Since graduation he has en­gaged
in farming, operating a big
plantation near Greensboro. For two
years he was active in federal re­settlement,
having served more than a
year as director of rural rehabilitation
for Alabama. Retiring from this he
took over a special project near
Greensboro.
Mr. Greene was a member of the S.
A. E. fraternity.
Feature Writing
Since the first short, short
story appeared in The Plainsman
last Friday, several students have
turned in such writings. We are
grateful for these.
In our humble opinion some of
these works are good, others less
merited. But whether good or not,
such interest taken on part of stu­dents
is gratifying. Original and
creative writing should be en­couraged.
As our part in this
step we intend to publish every
piece of creative writing, includ­ing
short stories, poetry, guest
editorials, and feature writings,
that we are able to.
If you can write anything not
included in news stories, we
should appreciate it if you will
come by the Plainsman office and
present your contribution.
—THE EDITOR.
Auburn-Opelika Will
. Play All-Star Game
Football fans of this section of Ala­bama
will be treated to an All-Star
contest Christmas day when former
stars from Opelika and Auburn High
schools tie up in a Yuletide battle for
charity. Under the sponsorship of the
Opelika Kiwanis club, the game is ex­pected
to draw a large number of
spectators, and one thousand extra
seats are being added to Moore Stad­ium,
bringing the total seating ca­pacity
to 3,500.
The Auburn squad is composed
mainly of the 1934 undefeated Auburn
high team, with a few 1935 players
and stars of other years rounding out
the array of local talent. Hugh
Wright, Loman Jones, Dennis Newton,
Phillip Smith, Cecil Yarbrough, J. C.
Whatley, Bill Baker, Bill Gilchrist,
and others will fight it out for start­ing
positions in the forewall. The
backfield will be chosen from Fletcher
Whatley, John Ham, Billy Martin,
Ross Dean, Roy Powell, and other
players yet to be named.
Thespians To
Present Play
Next Monday
"Squaring The Circle", A Play
Of Communism, Has Cast Of
Five; Ticket Books Honored
By FRANKLYN WARD
As their second production of the
year the Auburn Players will present
at eight o'clock Monday evening in
Langdon Hall the three act Russian
farce, "Squaring the Circle" by Val­entine
Kataef. This is the first play
coming from Russia that has turned
the spotlight of farce upon Commun­ism.,
The play was first produced in
1927 and has been running continually
in such cities as London, ( New York
and Chicago.
Prof. Peet, director of the produc­tion,
announces that the process of re­hearsal
is in its last stages; dress
rehearsals are now being held in Lang­don
Hall. Most of the difficulties and
imperfections have been ironed out
and the play has been rounded into
perfection for Monday evening.
Setting in Moscow
The action of the play takes place at
the present time within the walls of a
Moscow municipalized house in the
rooms of two Russian college boys,
Vassya and Abram. Each boy without
the other's knowledge marries and
brings his wife back to the house. Then
each boy finds that he and his wife
are unsuited for each other and that
he has become enamored by the wife
of his roommate. This difficult situa­tion
is finally straightened and each
boy finds happiness and friendship.
The cast for the production is as
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Deferred Rushing Plans Are Dropped;
Advice Given At Interfrat Conference
After having attended the National
Interfraternity Conference, where de­ferred
rushing was studied and found
to be unsatisfactory as a general
practice, Hamilton Callen, President of
the local Interfrat Council, decided to
postpone the present attempts to in-auguarate
the system here. Callen
attended the meeting in New York on
the 27 and 28 of November, but, due
to holidays, was unable to report his
trip immediately.
The Interfrat Conference plans to
study several schools in which systems
of rushing are used that are entirely
satisfactory. A report will then be
sent to each fraternity giving the
findings of the committee. Until this
time, the local Council and O D K are
to make no move towards changing the
present methods of pledging. Even
when the report is made, Callen said
Auburn should not try the system un­less
it was thought suitable for pres­ent
conditions.
Faults of Deferred Rushing
Six main reasons were given as to
why deferred rushing was not satis­factory
in general in schools over the
country:
1. Colleges having complicated sys­tems
of pledging have a smaller per­centage
of pledges despite increase in
enrollment.
2. Rules generally breed infrac­tions,
cut-throat practices, and other
ungentlemanly conduct.
3. Gives rushees upper hand al­lowing
them to flirt like subsidized
athletes for best offer.
4. Too drawn-out causing members
to lose interest in rushing.
5. It has never been proven that
better boys are pledged in this method;
it is only an assumption.
6. Gives room for anti-frat attack.
Speaking generally, Callen said that
Auburn was a great deal better off
th»n some schools in as far as fra­ternities
were concerned. "In many
colleges there seems to be continuous
friction between fraternities and col­lege
officials; we are fortunate in hav­ing
our fraternities on as well or­ganized
and smooth running bases as
they are," Callen concluded.
Last night Chairman Vernon Mer-ritt
released the new set of perma­nent
Dance Regulations which will be
in effect beginning with the Mid-term
Dances. This set of rules is present­ed
after constant work on the part
of the Committee since the Opening
Dances.
Joe Sarver, President of the Stu­dent
Executive Cabinet, stated that
the rules had not been officially pass­ed
on by his group, but at the Tues­day
meeting those members present
voiced their approval. It seems,
then, that when the voting on the
rules comes up at the next Cabinet
meeting, the balloting will be more
or less a matter of form.
Rules Are Simple, Concise
The rules in contrast to those they
replace, are as simple and concise as
it was possible to make them. Each
rule covers one phase of conduct dur­ing
the dances. The Committee urges
each student to obey these rules so
fhat they may be used permanently.
Following is the complete resolu­tion
on Dance Regulations as drawn
up by the Social Committee:
"In all fairness to the visitors and
to place them more on an equal basis
with the local girls and the co-eds
of Auburn, it has been deemed ad­visable
to be more lenient in the
conduction of the dances. There­fore,
the following rules and regula­tions
have been drawn up by the
present Chairman of the Social Com­mittee
by the authority of the Stu­dent
Executive Cabinet;
" 1 . The returning of acceptance
cards by the girls attending the
girls attending the dances shall not
be compulsory, but requested so that
adequate housing facilities may be
arranged.
"2. Girls shall be expected to stay
in the Fraternity House assigned to
them during their stay at Auburn.
"3. Girls will not be required to
check in and out at the dances.
"4. Girls will not be required to
remain on the dance floor at all
times.
"5. Visiting girls will be expected
to sign in at their respective assigned
houses not later than 2:30 A.M. un­less
a buffet supper is attended, in
which case they shall be allowed to
sign in 20 minutes after the close
of the function."
Student Night To Be
Presented At Baptist
Church Sunday Night
The annual Student Night program
will be given at the Baptist Church
on Sunday night, Dec. 13, at the even­ing
serivce. The special program will
be in charge of Robert C. Johnston,
president of the local Baptist Student
Union.
This Student Night program is a
plan of the Southern Baptist Student
Union work enabling students to pre­sent
in their home churches during
Christmas holiday season the work be­ing
done among Baptist students in
colleges. The Christmas seasonal feat­ure
will be combined with the program
on Sunday night.
Special features of the program will
include the all color screen shadow de­votional
with special music by the stu­dent
choir and the male quartette.
Additional special music will be ren­dered
by Hilding Holmberg, Jr., on
the vitaphone, Joe Turner on the vio­lin,
and Max Rachman on the ac-cordian.
Other students having parts on the
program include Roswell Hair, Edwin
Ledbetter, Bettye Smyer, Eugene
Knight, and Virgil Robinson.
P A G E T WO T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M A N A L A B A M A P O L Y T E C H N I C I N S T I T U TE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1936
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Probation Not As Bad As It
Looks At First Glance
Students with wild fears concern­ing
the future status of Auburn due
to her being placed on probation are
being unnecessarily worried. Auburn
was placed on this list solely because
of the lack of financial aid from the
state.
If the school had been placed on
such a list because of lack of teaching
facilities, poor professors, or general
low standards upheld here, then we
would be facing a grave situation.
The Southern Association of Col­leges,
however was high in the praise
of Auburn, aside from the financial
conditions. In view of this, the Asso­ciation
will probably welcome us back
into its good graces as soon as we get
the money rightly due us.
It is a'situation that we here are
not able to correct without the aid of
the state and it is unbelievable that
such a condition will be allowed to go
on for any length of time.
Students Must Carry Out
Their Part In Dance Rules
The Social Committee announces in
this issue of The Plainsman the new
list of Dance Regulations which will
be effective for the coming Mid­terms.
The rules are concise, simple,
and easy understandable.
This new set of rules comes after
much wrangling over a period of
several years. They are now given to
the students; the students should
show that the move was a wise one by
conducting themselves along the lines
started in the regulations.
Rules, after all, are not rules unless
they are respected and obeyed. The
old set was neither obeyed nor re­spected.
If we expect to keep these
lenient, sensible regulations, we must
carry out our part.
International Gesture Brings
Two Great Countries Together
Never a more glamorous interna­tional
gesture was ever made than the
peace conference between President
Roosevelt and the leaders of the South
American countries. Cordiality be­tween
nations could not be more
strongly expressed than by the meas­ures
of friendship effected by the
United States and the host countries
of South America.
With a sincere spirit of friendliness
to a neighboring country, the South
American officials greeted and enter­tained
our president in a most sump­tuous
fashion. Upon his landing at
the Latin port, he was hailed by
cheers, songs of school children and
music from many bands. From this
point he was escorted by a motorcade
Of the Independence D r a g o o ns
through the streets of the city. After
an enthusiastic verbal welcome by
members of the Brazilian Congress,
the president attended a banquet of
orchids at the Itamaraty Palace. No
visitor to any country has ever been
treated in a more royal fashion.
This visit to our neighbor continent
has more significance than the mere
strength of political ties we acquired.
It gives us social and economic assur­ance
from a continent that is rapidly
advancing into the world limelight.
The virtual union of these great lands
marked the advent of a powerful
force that will be respected with a
high sense of admiration by all na­tions.
The backing that such a large
and wealthy continent might afford
is an asset that will have great bear­ing
on our affairs of the future with
nations across the sea.
Though this friendly visit was ac­claimed
by Roosevelt's opponents as
"another radical move", he struck a
power blow that will be recorded in
the annals of history as a master­piece
in diplomatic relationship.
News Of Home Town Boys
Promotes Better Feelings
Each Monday a column giving in­teresting
news and comments con­cerning
Birmingham students attend­ing
Auburn appears in the Birming­ham
News. The writing, edited by L.
E. Foster, student from Birmingham,
serves the purpose of allowing the
"home folks" to keep tab on the ac­complishments
of the home boys.
The idea is splendid. It should be a
mutual pleasure for people back home
and students here. It keeps Auburn
and the interests of Auburn before
the people in Birmingham.
A similar news bulletin should go
to the paper of every city, large or
small, which sends an appreciable
number of students to this institution.
It is true that if a community has only
a small number of students here, there
would be yery little news. But once
every two weeks or once a month such
material as would interest these peo­ple
would tend to make for a closer,
more personal feeling toward this
school.
Live And Learn;
Things Turn Out Right
Every day the world is learning
and individuals are learning. Each
day brings with it some new experi­ence,
some new friendship, some new
contacts with the world. From each
we gather lessons, practical lessons,
which we would do well to follow.
Every experience we have broadens
our intellect and our knowledge;
every person presents us with new
ideas. Each day we learn more about
ourselves, our faults, and our short
comings. Every day we learn to un­derstand
ourselves and others better.
We are continually learning.
The world sometimes learns great
lessons by wars and blunders made
by nations. It often takes mistakes
and the punishment following such
mistakes to drive home great truths.
We, as individuals, are continually er­ring
and having to suffer for our
mistakes. Sometimes it is what we
say that is wrong. Sometimes it is
what we do that is wrong. Again, it
might be our attitude that causes us
to err. We may make mistakes in any
number of. ways.
But, we must not be discouraged by
our mistakes. If we do a misdeed, we
should come back more determined
than ever to do well. If we are disap­pointed
in some friend, we should not
lose faith in humanity. If we find
ourselves making mistakes in our
thoughts and taking the wrong atti­tudes
we should not lose confidence in
ourselves. Instead, we should be more
inspired to do better and to correct
our faults. So let us not lose confi­dence
in life, in people or in ourselves,
but let each mistake be a stepping
stone to something higher and may
each day teach us lessons which we
may benefit from.
Clipped
"Is he a reckless driver? Say, when the
road turns the same way he does, it's just a
coincidence."—The New Yorker.
* * * *
Broadway is a place where people spend
money they haven't earned to buy things
they don't need to impress people they don't
like.—Walter Winchell.
* * * *
Collegiate viewpoint: It isn't the girl that
counts, it's what she stands for.
* * » *
The Japanese are selling bottled beer in
Germany for less than German brewers pay
for empty bottles.—Review of Reviews.
* * * *
A canvass of the New Year's resolutions
of popular celebrities was recently conducted
by Vanity Fair. Among the contributors,
Beatrice Lillie reported that, "for 1936,1 am
resolved to:
Get over on the alkaline side, Keep kool,
Get a lift, Refuse substitutes. Start the day
right, "Look for the date on the can, Taste
the difference, Lose that fat, Be kind to my
throat, See my dentist twice a year, Get rid
of that tired feeling, Ask the man who owns
one, Guard the danger line, See my grocer
tomorrow, Tune in again next week, same
time, same station.''
News and Views
By HOWARD WORKMAN
THIS TIME: NEWS HEADLINES,
AUBURN ON PROBATION,
TAXES, NEWS WANTED.
HEADLINES: Tense ministers hear re­port
on Edward's stand—Liquor on House
program as tax goes to Senate—Italy mobi­lizes
"volunteers" for Spanish Fascists—
Five state schools put on "probation"—In­dustry
urged to aid in keeping U. S. pros­perous—
14 dead, three hurt as plane falls
in Britain—F. D. R. is back above equator
—Costa delays takeoff on goodwill flight—
Reports on Philippine flood toll vary.
* * * *
MONEY WANTED: Students view with
alarm the announcement that Auburn has
been placed on probation by the Southern
Association of Colleges. There need be no
worry on this score for our worthy governor
and his law-making legislators will no doubt
rush to provide the necessary monetary
backing and replace the school in good stand­ing
with the association. Surely they will
not fail to supply Auburn with the few dol­lars
it will take to pay the professors and
equip the library in a modern manner.
However, should they be deferred from
supplying the money there would be cause
for great concern as credit hours would be
worthless if Auburn were dropped from the
association. There remains ample time to
worry later. Anyway, we have the gover­nor's
word that the money will be supplied.
At least that is the rumor that reached the
writer, who was informed that, upon being
called by the association and told of the ac­tion
about to be taken, the governor replied
that he would give his word that the money
would be supplied if the action was not
taken. Still, the action was taken and we
look with interest on the activities within
the capitol.
* * * *
ACTION TAKEN: The House has passed
the gross receipts tax bill and submitted it
to the Senate for action. This move is one
step forward in bettering our school condi­tions
as part of the tax money is to be ear­marked
for educational purposes. As this
is written no action has been taken by the
Senate although the measure is expected to
pass with slight modification. No action has
yet been taken on the liquor bill which is
next on the House calender. There is doubt
about its passing after a split-up of some of
the supporters caused by the passage of the
tax bill. However, money for the schools
seems to be in the offing.
* * * *
LOOKING AHEAD: How nice it is to
look ahead and see that after Edward mar­ries
Wally, the legislative session ends, and
the Spanish war is over there will be some­thing
new to write about in this column!
The results of action on the part of any of
these three major news stories may be
serious enough to bring on much more talk,
but here's hoping everything will turn out
quietly and a new scene will present itself.
Cats and Canaries
Who is the girl that Jake Chambers is go­ing
to get the bottle of Coty's for?
What member of the Social Committee
was seen "on the outside looking in" at the
Sigma Chi dance?
* * * *
NOTICE—For the benefit of Jerome
Davis and his little friends—The Spring
Singing will be held in the Spring and not
on Benson's corner at 11:30 Wednesday
nights.
* * * •
If some people don't quit staying out till
5:30 in the morning, other people will see
them and tell; and then some people will get
their names in the old Tiger Rag.
* * » *
'Tis wondered who wrote Jitters Lewis,
Charlie Lawrence, and Tid-Bit Jones in
shorthand "somewhere" in Broun Hall.
* * * *
According to Miss Marjorie Cole, Mr.
Wilton Kilgore is just too, too divine.
* * » *
Congratulations to Betty Showalter on
that new Sigma Pi pin.
* * * *
Nomination for the "date" queen is Sadie
Edwards, who we understand is booked un­til
Christmas.
* * * *
QUERY—Are Pat Plumlee and Sarah
Smith true loving?
* * * *
We hear that all the Sigma Pi pledges
have on silk lace—trimmed unmentionables
this week. Teh! Teh!
» * » *
Perry Schwartz wishes that he had two
things^—ten dollars and a date with Molly
Brasfield. Especially—ten dollars.
* * » *
If the K. D.'s had entered freshmen in the
Cake Race, the S. A. E.'s wouldn't have had
a chance.
* * * *
OVERHEARD that the difference be­tween
swing music and jazz is the same as
that between the Auburn Knights and the
Cavaliers. (So far as we can see there ain't
none).
Appendix—By Laurens W. Pierce
A Short, Short Story
I was calm, or maybe just dazed; any
way, things didn't seem to matter much
then. I had seen the train hurtling down
on us, but it was already too late. Trap­ped:-
Yes, there was no chance of escape
now. It's funny how that last second drags
into an eternity; scenes that had been long
forgotten flashed thrpugh my mind with
vivid clearness. My boyhood days, the four
years at the university, trivial incidences
that were never even remembered; all these
things jammed my mind with extreme dis­tinctiveness.
The inevitable destruction seemed only
the means of an escape from that torture,
that awful suspense that came with my last
moment of life. Death was there; I could
feel the certainty with which he thrust his
cold, moulded arms in out-stretched antici­pation
of my coming. It wasn't hard, going
like this; meeting death, the death I had al­ways
feared. I was young, yes; life had
only begun for me. That didn't seem im­portant
then, nothing was important ex­cept
death; death with its peaceful slumber,
anything but that damnable anticipation.
Why couldn't I die? Did death have to be
so slow, so deliberate; must I wait for an
eternity? Would this torture of mind and
soul never end?'
It came then, that fatal moment when my
agonies were to be ended. The roar of the
crash was deafening; it didn't matter, I was
ready, waiting, even praying for that time
when I would be thrown into the peaceful
oblivion of unconsciousness. It was .time; I
could feel myself being engulfed in a shroud
of darkness. Things became vague; I was
falling, then darkness.
Somehow a faint impulse moved my brain
to action. Voices—yes, I couldn't be mis­taken,
there were voices. They came clearer
to my mind then. I could hear them quite
distinctly now. Someone was talking; I
listened:
"—all right now; he'll be up and about in
a week or two. Just a normal case of ap­pendix.
You know, he was unusually nerv­ous
under the anaesthetic; funny how ether
affects some people." ,
Plainsman Forum—Voice of the Students
Believes In Intramural Sports
For Non Frats
Editor, The Auburn Plainsman
Dear Sir:
This has been the first year that the in­dependent
students have had the opportuni­ty
to participate in athletic events in a com­petitive
form. There are as many non-fra­ternity
students as fraternity, and these
students should be given consideration in
this matter as fraternity men. I believe the
fraternities are in favor of such independent
athletic tournaments.
Why there* has been no such tournament
for non-fraternity students in the past is not
important. Most of the boys enjoy partici­pating
in such contests, and a competitive
spfrit is developed, as well as friendship,
fair play, association and etc. It is a bene­fit
to the school and interest should be
aroused to continue such activities.
There were sixteen teams in the Independ­ent
Touch Football Tournament this year,
and much interest was created, as well as
worthy use of leisure time, and other bene­ficial
characteristics. There were several
good games, as evidenced by the scores. The
final game will probably be as exciting as
any of the year. But unless some independ­ent
organization is formed to promote and
sponsor such activities, interest will gradu­ally
die, as planning and organization is es­sential
for a successful contest. This would
be beneficial to the students as well as for
the school. Sincerely, A Non-Frat.
ledge. He then reminiceses and wishes that
he had made the most of his college educa­tion.
They are the ones who weep con­tinuously
about the cruel world.
To avoid these foibles an emphatic pre­monition
should be given to students in some
phaze of their academic life. Otherwise,
contention with their inability to confront
the problems of life might tend to destroy
their faith in higher, formal education.
Sincerely, C. T.
The Average Undergrad Does Not
Know What Lies Ahead
Editor, The Auburn Plainsman
Dear Sir:
College is a great thing. It is in the sense
that you make it. The future of the col­lege
graduate rests on the completeness of
his knowledge and the practical use of it.
The average undergraduate nurses the
idea that when he graduates he can wave
his diploma in the face of the world and he
will be grabbed. That is somewhat over
estimated, but it expounds clearly the gen­eral
idea. There is an over-abundance of
degrees and a deficiency of thorough know­ledge.
The college man in the business
world encounters many competitors who al­so
have degrees and probably more know-
Explanation Of F. F. A. Book
Exchange Given
Editor, The Auburn Plainsman
Dear Sir:
The F. F. A. Cooperative Book Exchange
organized at Auburn by the students of the
Collegiate F. F. A. Chapter this year is
planning to continue the program. The book
exchange is managed by a member of the
F. F. A., D. G. Maroon, and supervised by
the Agricultural faculty.
The book exchange is not run on a profit
basis. Its purpose is to enable the students
to buy books almost at cost. The Auburn
students have never had this privilege of
obtaining books at this price before. Many
schools in the South have this system of
furnishing books for the students, and if
the college officials would give the book ex­change
their full support it should prove to
be of more advantage to the students than
it has at the present.
Up to the present time the book exchange
has purchased and sold two thousand books.
Of each of the.se books sold, the students
were saved from ten to forty per cent of
what they would have cost them at com­mercial
book stores.
One amendment of the constitution reads
as follows: "When more than ten per cent
of the list price can be saved the student,
the board of directors shall determine the
price of the books, and whereas, all above
ten per cent for the manager and expenses
shall go into a sinking fund for the purchas­ing
of more books and supplies."
At the present time the book exchange is
located in Comer Hall, but sometime in the
near future they hope to have it perma­nently
located in one of the main buildings
on the campus where it will be more con­venient
to all the students. Thank you,
"Dusty" Rhodes.
On Other Campuses—By The Wanderer
ONE ON MONTEVALLO: Up Monte-vallo
way a couple of weeks ago, somebody's
garage caught on fire. (Since Montevallo
has nothing else, it can at least have a fire).
Everyone anxiously awaited for the ever-ready
Montevallo Fire Department to come
to the rescue. Where, oh, where was the
Montevallo Fire Department? At last, at
long last, the Fire Department rolled up—
in tow. Maybe some Auburn students do
regard beautiful buildings as potential silos,
but at least the Tiger fire truck will run.
CAFE STYLE: Some years ago at Notre
Dame, quarterbacks used to whip their
Irish elevens into formation by yelling sig­nals
in Italian and Polish. Now football
teams almost universally use the old fash­ioned
English numerals. However, the coach
at John Carrol University has a system
whereby the name of foods, especially
pastries, are substituted.' Signals are no
longer complicated. The quarterback simply
yells "banana cream" or "coconut pie" and
the men hop into their various positions.
INEXPENSIVE JOOKIN': The "install­ment
plan" dance at Oregon State offers
men students plenty of variety if they have
enough nickles and if they can take it. They
are admitted to each sorority for five cents
and have the privilege of dancing for fifteen
minutes before they are shooed out. Since
the dance lasts three hours they can shuffle
at twelve different houses—all for sixty
cents.
A STEP FORWARD: Students of Mas­sachusetts
State College, a liberal arts col­lege,
may now enter on professional study
at the end of their junior year as the result
of a new cooperative agreement. Transfer
arrangements have been made With several
of the eastern schools so that any M. S. C.
student with a good scholastic record may,
if he desires, enter one of them after his
junior year. After a year's satisfactory
work at the professional school, the student
will receive his degree at Massachusetts
State just as though he had done his work
there.
TAPPING TO MUSIC: Commercial stu­dents
at Sullins College will in the future
have sweet music to accompany their typing.
The clicking of typewriters will no longer
ruin feminine dispositions. The music is
supposed to be further beneficial when the
girls are practicing speed drills.
AMBITIOUS LAD: A Davidson fresh­man
rode his bicycle from his home to the
college, a distance of 150 miles. One Sunday
he left home and got about half way, but
he had to stop and store the cycle and catch
a bus to Davidson in order to meet his Mon­day
classes. The next week-end he went
back and rode the bicycle the rest of the
way.
EMBARRASSING MOMENT NUMBER
1: The telephone at a University of North
Carolina fraternity house rang the other
day and a feminine voice asked to speak
with Paul. A boy named Paul was summon­ed.
"When are you comin' to see me,
honey?" queried a southern voice. The
startled Paul hardly knew what to say, but
he continued the conversation. After about
five minutes of banter and repartee the
voice said, "Go along with you, nigger, yo'
voice sounds almost white." It was then
that the student sheepishly summoned the
janitor, whose name was also Paul.
Thunderations
By HUGH CAMERON
There is a bird; he is known as the Jay
bird. There is another bird and he is known
as the Red Bird, and there are other birds
and they are known as
other birds.
There is still an­other
bird, who stands
and looks over rails,
and over these rails
the hosses run, and he
just stands and looks
and looks and he is
known as a rail bird.
And all the time he looks he just laughs and
laughs for all the time he knows none of
the hosses which is running has a chance
but his hoss. But every other potato in
the grand stand also thinks his hoss will
win, and there-in is where the money is, and
that is why the bird by the rail does all the
laughing for he is right and he knows it,
for to be sure, none of the other potatoes
have a chance with their hosses.
A rail bird is a funny blighter. And
every Thursday morning he goes down to
town and all the cards ask as to which
hoss won on the just gone Wednesday night,
and the rail bird just laughs and says no
hoss won. No Hoss being the name of the
comely nag he has sunk his roll on. And so
it goes and goes, and the rail bird rails
around. Sometime No Hoss doesn't win, but
most of the time he does, and it would take
a girls' dormitory full of bushel baskets to
hold all the bets the other cards place on the
hosses who don't win. Which is bad, but as
has been stated herein time and time again
one shouldn't bet on blondes and race hosses
account both of them are all time fixed.
We ain't saying that Rail Bird Roberts
has got this hoss race fixed, and we ain't
saying that he has got any blondes fixed . .
. . we only know we could use two-seventy-five
very handily as a means to gain in-trance
into Sloppy Joe's in Havana.
Eddie The Eight Ball, we see by the
papers, has done abdicated and is running
around the country side marrying people.
Now Eddie the Eight Ball has by no means
ever married before and he has this idea
that it will be fun, and he runs around and
is going to marry this tomato that has been
married practically every Tuesday since the
Armistice. Eddie has heard that everytime
these Tomatoes marry they get new ideas
about home cooking and minding the pan­try,
and Eddie, tho by no means a glutton,
is quite some bit crazy about home cooking
and minding the pantry. In fact he is so
gone on this home cooking that is why he is
fingering this idea of running around the
countryside marrying these tomatoes.
It seems this mean donkey who says to
him, "Shall it be this Tomato, or shall you
still sit with Abe Moeski's jewel work on
your head," is by no means in favor of home
cooking, and it seems that is one of the real
reasons why Eddie The Eight Ball is, as we
said, shirttailing it about the countryside.
He said to this mean donkey only yester­day
that Abe Moesky could have his crown
back for the two-ninety eight still due on it
since the Magna Charter, and that he is for
home cooking, and plenty of it so long as no
collard greens and side meat is involved.
This deed of Eddie's leaves the country­side
in more than somewhat of a muddle, but
he don't care any more than a flip, and
skeets around and no doubt is on his way
to say, "I don't care if I do" in front of a
minister.
Anybody who can muster up the two-ninety
eight still due to Moesky on the crown
word is cordially invited to do the sitting.
As in regards to this "Gone With the
Wind": Does Mis' Scarlett O'Hara get any­more
meaner and marries any more pota­toes
she will also be accused of leaning to
the liking of home cooking.
Mis' Scarlett O'Hara gave the "Damn
Yankees" hell all the way from Macon to
Atlanta, and us Southern gentlemen lost
the war due to her marrying so many men
there weren't enough left to hold back the
Yankees.
A very good book, but also is the Sears
Roebuck catalogue, and the last mentioned
catalogue has some very pretty pictures of
some very pretty tomatoes and the first one
hasn't.
* * * *
About the time all of us gentlemen are
figuring on going to Havana for a few
"small ones" this Alabama Legislature has
got to figuring that there is too much pro­hibition
in this State, and it looks from here
that there will be no need in going to Hav­ana
unless one is bent on doing something
else ugly. Something else ugly is a lot of
fun, too, but also is Havana a mighty long
ways to just go and fool around and get
thrown out of fourteen or eighteen places
and forget to see the football game. It al­ways
happens.
* * * *
There is said to be an oncoming a Pi K A
dance wherein these potatoes will be pres­ent:
Geo. K. Quinney, Hugh Glasgow, Char­lie
Lawrence, Walter Lowe, Darcey Tatum,
Wilton Kilgore, Malcom McDonald, Faddle-ton
Aloysius McKenzie, Larry Aycock, Mil­ton
Bagby, Walter Gilbert, Pat Plumbee, Bo
Russell, Chicken Davis, and some few more.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 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 P A G E T H R EE
JACK TODD, Editor
Contributors
ROY POWELL
BROOKS SELLARS
J. W. NALL •
ED BRIGGS
Fencing Team Is
Improving Daily
Under Jim Davis
The fencing team has been improv­ing
by leaps and bounds for the past
two months. Much credit is due in­structor
James Davis and his col-leages
for the fine work that they have
been doing toward establishing this
sport here in Auburn.
To substantiate these points, make
it your business to be present at Lang-don
Hall, Thursday night at 7:45, to
witness an exhibition of the art of
fencing. You'll enjoy it, for fencing is
one of the most fascinating of sports
to spectators as well as to partici­pants.
The program calls for half
a dozen or more single matches; a
match somewhat on the "battle royal"
type with two men opposing three;
and also a match between two of the
fairer sex. There will be no admission
charges.
Although the team has one victory
already to their credit, the season does
not officially open until January.
Davis has been corresponding with
several schools including Tulane, L.
S. U., Georgia, Georgia Tech, Florida,
and others that have recognized "fenc­ing"
as a minor sport. He expects to
schedule several out-of-town matches,
as well as several matches to be held
here.
BASKETBALL TEAM
GETS INTO SHAPE
WITH SCRIMMAGES
Tigers To Be Delayed By Late
Arrival Of Gridders Who
Are TakingTrip To Havana
LOST: One White Beaded Evening
> bag at the Theta Chi Dance. Please
return to the Plainsman Office.
The Tiger basketball squad has been
rapidly rounding into form during the
past two weeks of rigorous practice
sessions under the able guidance of
Coach Ralph Jordan. Most of the
time thus far has been spent on drill­ing
in the fundamentals of the game,
with short periods of some of the ses­sions
devoted to scrimmages. Until
the present candidates are joined by
the football players who were on last
year's hardwood squad, Coach Jordan
Will be unable to choose his probable
starters in this season's contests.
The late arrival on the court of the
gridders due to the coming football
contest in Havana will delay the Tig­ers'
debut in this season's competition
and no inter-collegiate matches will
be played until about January 15, but
the Plainsmen will probably meet two
semi-pro teams, as yet not decided
upon, either Thursday and Friday or
Friday and Saturday evenings of next
week.
Coach Jordan has not yet complet­ed
the schedule for this year, but ac­cording
to him it will be relea'sed next
week when he returns from the Ath­letic
Directors meeting to be held in
Tuscaloosa this week-end.
The new uniforms for the team this
year will consist of orange pants and
plain white jerseys having numbers on
both front and rear with "Auburn"
appearing across the front in two tone
letters.
Coaches Praise Meagher
COACH JACK MEAGHER - ALABAMA VOLV - AUBURN
Coach Jack Meagher, Tiger mentor wife has just signed a new three
year contract, received lavish praise from coaches of teams met by
Auburn during the past season on the gridiron.
Christmas Cards Are
Woven By Textiles
Senior textile engineers are making
woven Christmas cards. This annual
project is rapidly nearing completion,
some several hundred of them having
already been run off the looms. The
card for this year is a jaquard weave
of unique design. The words, Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute, are woven
across the top of the card in large
block letters, and across the bottom,
SPORTS CHATTER
By JACK TODD
Coach Jack Meagher Highly Praised
By Rival Mentors For Good Showing
Made By Team, Staff During Season
Coaches Moore, Alexander, Dorias, Mehre, Cody, Dawson,
Neyland Write To Sports Editor Praising Auburn Mentor;
Several List Players Whom They Think Outstanding
By JACK TODD, Sports Editor
AUBURN SHOOTING GALLERY
Main St. Next Ala. Power Co.
Henry Martin- -Bob Martin
A CHASE GIFT
is always
DISTINCTIVE
MUSTARD JAR
Hostesses will want this mustard
jar because it is so good looking
and so easy to use. The mustard
is kept covered and is served with
a glass spoon. Made of white
frosted glass with chromium cover
and base . . . .
$1.00
RING TRAY
This 12 inch tray is a happy
medium in size. It is neither too
large, nor too small for general
use. It has a high rim to keep
things from sliding off. The flang­ed,
round edge is a continuous
handle. Polished chromium finish
with an all-over design on the
bottom . . . .
PIPE SMOKER'S ASH TRAY
The man who smokes a pipe will
appreciate this ash tray. Both
figuratively and literally it is a
"knockout". In the center of the
5% inch tray is mounted a cork
ball that is firm enough to get the
ashes out and soft enough to pre­vent
marring the finish of the pipe.
In chromium . . . .
$3-00
$1.00
Regardless of the unfavorable com­ment
excited by the choice of Pitts­burgh
as the eastern opponent in the
Rose Bowl on New Year's Day, the
tickets are being bought just as fast
as in previous years. Which might
be merely another proof of the old
adage that one is born every minute.
* * *
The proposed touch football game
between the championship fraternity
teams of Auburn and Alabama sounds
good to these ears. Not only would
it be another step towards convincing
the public that the two schools no
longer have any animosity towards
each other, but it would be a top-notch
contest to watch.
* * *
As this is the last. "Sports Chatter"
until after we return to school after
the holidays, I hereby predict that
Auburn will take the Villanova lads
by at least two touchdowns. And I
wish it were possible to secure movies
of the Tiger gridiron heroes breaking
training after the game. Also wish I
could purchase some stock in "Sloppy
Joe's" before New Year's Day.
* * *
Congrats to Thomas Turner! May
he continue to use his talent for the
edification of future Tiger track
teams. Anybody who can take first
place over 650 other men in a 2.7 mile
race is no slouch at lifting 'em up and
putting 'em down.
Auburn High Wins In
Five Of Nine Games
The Auburn High School gridders
have ended a successful season. They
won five out of nine games played and
scored 156 points to their opponents
104.
Varsity men who will be lost by
graduation are Mitchell Watkins, end;
Thomas Edwards, tackle; Charles
Ham, end; Abb Chrietzberg, center;
Paul Duggar, guard; and John Preer,
quarterback.
Games played and scores are as
follows:
Auburn, 19 * Troy, 14
Auburn, 19 Five Points, 7
Auburn, 13 - Opp, 25
Auburn, 31 Lafayette, 7
Auburn, 7 Columbus, 39
Auburn, 35 Reeltown, 6
Auburn, 32 Union Springs, 0
Auburn, 0 _ Troy, 6
Michigan has just the man Coach
Ralph Jordan could really appreciate
this year—Jim Gee, six-foot-nine-ineh
basketball center. How about it,
Coach?
* * *
Are you aware of the fact that the
Williamson Football Rating Table
places Auburn as the eighth best foot­ball
team in the country? No small
honor when one remembers the many
larger and wealthier schools in these
great United States.
* * *
The new shooting gallery on College
Street offers much in amusement and
target practice for the local marks­men.
It is something which has been
needed in Auburn for quite some time
and judging from the patronage it is
receiving each nite it is due to stay
awhile. A fine sport, shooting, and
one which may come in handy some
day.
* * *
If nothing else, the frosh are now
in fine condition to enter crowded de­partment
stores to do their Xmas
shopping.
* * *
A merry Christmas to you and a
happy New Year! And thanks for
reading this.
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Ail-American Choices
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below an appropriate picture design
are the words, Christmas Greetings,
in long-hand imitation. Cards will be
furnished in several attractive colors.
A sample of the greeting will be
placed on display on the bulletin board
of the main building shortly. Anyone
desiring to obtain some of these cards
to send off, should get in touch with
textile engineers selling them or re­serve
orders for them at the Textile
Building. The greetings are being
sold at a price that will barely cover
the cost of manufacture.
FOR SALE—One E-Flat Alto Saxa-phone
in good shape. Will sell
for reasonable cash price. Call at
Plainsman office or 431-J.
The National Intercollegiate Sports
Writers' Association holds a poll each
year in order to determine an Ail-
American selection which will be re­presentative
of as many colleges as
possible. This poll is conducted by
the president of the N. I. S. W. A.,
Bob Kunkel, who is Editor-in-Chief of
The Dakota Student, campus news­paper
of the University of North Da­kota
and the final selection is made
from those contributed by sports writ­ers
on 53 campuses representing 34
states. It is interesting to note that
the Association's Ail-American teams
for the past two years have been quite
accurate when compared to the selec­tion
made by the official AU-Ameri-can
Board.
Only one Auburn man was honored
by a position on the mythical team
this year, Captain Gilbert, who won a
place on the third eleven. Wilton Kil-gore
received honorable mention and
Joel Eaves and Billy Hitchcock nomi­nations.
The first team is composed of the
following players:
Kelley, Yale, End; Widseth, Min­nesota,
Tackle; Reid, Northwestern,
Guard; Wojciechowicz, Fordham, Cen­ter;
White, Alabama, Guard; Franco,
Fordham, Tackle; Tinsley, L. S. U.
End; Baugh, Texas Christian, Back;
Parker, Duke, Back; Buivid, Mar­quette,
Back; Uram, Minnesota, Back.
EDITORS NOTE:
In an effort to commend the
players and coaching staff of the
1936 Auburn foetball team for
their excellent showing this past
season and to acquaint the stu­dent
body as a whole with what
others think of the team, the idea
of writing to the coaches of the
teams met by Auburn this year
and requesting their opinion was
carried out. These men get a far
more comprehensive view of a
team than anyone else insofar as
observing an opponent's tactics is
a vital phase of their work.
* » »
(Special to the Plainsman)
COACH BERNIE MOORE—L. S. U.
"It is with great pleasure that I ac­cept
your request for a statement re­garding
the Auburn football team.
We are very happy indeed at L. S.
U. to be on Auburn's schedule. We
like to play Auburn. The Auburn
team is always a clean, hard fighting
bunch of boys, and I think that the
team this year was one of the best
we have met in the last several years.
I hope that our relations with Auburn
continue for many years."
With best wishes to you and best
regards to all my friends over there,
I am, Sincerely yours,
B. H. Moore.
* * *
COACH BILL ALEXANDER
—GEORGIA TECH
"I thought Auburn had a real cham­pionship
team this year. I really be­lieve
that if they had not had to do
such a terrific amount of traveling
and play such a suicide schedule that
they would have come through unde­feated.
I have rated the Auburn team
all along as good as any in the South­eastern
States and one of the best in
the country.
I thought Gilbert and Kilgore were
exceptional players and that the rest
of the team was splendid."
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely, W. A. Alexander.
COACH GUS DORAIS—DETROIT
"Auburn was one of the finest and
most sportsmanlike football teams to
appear on our gridiron this year. They
pleased the fans with their splendid
exhibition of offense and sold them­selves
to Detroit in a big way.
We were beaten in our game by a
better team and all the boys were
pleased to see Auburn carry on their
victorious campaign right through to
the end. McCrosky, Eaves, and Kil­gore
made the All-Opponent Team se­lected
by our players. Inasmuch as
we met formidable opposition this
year, that gives an indication of what
our boys thought of Auburn."
Sincerely yours,
Charles E. Dorais.
* * •
COACH HARRY MEHRE
—GEORGIA
"Allow me to congratulate Jack
Meagher and his Auburn Tigers on
their splendid playing during the past
season.
Auburn had a great club and I feel
certain that only the strenuous sche­dule
attempted kept them from end­ing
the season undefeated." Very truly
yours, Harry Mehre.
» * *
COACH JOSH CODY—FLORIDA
"We feel that the Auburn football
team is a really great team, probably
one of the best in the country, and
that if their schedule had not been so
exacting they would probably not have
lost a game during the season. We
have never seen a better blocking and
tackling team nor a line that charged
any harder. We also feel that the
backs were exceptionally skillful and
presented possibly the finest combina­tion
we have faced this season. It
would be impossible to single out in­dividuals
even as brilliant as some of
your performers are. The team pre­sented
a fine combination and we feel
that it was fine experience for our
boys to play against such a fine club."
Very truly yours,
Josh Cody.
* * *
COACH LOWELL DAWSON
—TULANE
"In behalf of the letter written me
concerning the Auburn team, I want
to state that we greatly enjoyed play­ing
Auburn this year as they played
smart football and was one of the
finest teams in the Conference."
Sincerely yours,
Lowell Dawson.
* * *
MAJOR BOB NEYLAND
—TENNESSEE
"In response to your request re­garding
a statement in behalf of Jack
Meagher's team, I am glad to reply as
follows:
Auburn gave an outstanding exhibi­tion
of football and sportsmanship in
our game on October 10th. Their
whole team played well, but Gilbert,
Kilgore, Gantt, and Eaves are ex­ceptional.
Very sincerely,
R. R. Neyland.
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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 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1936
KYSER STILL FAVORITE
AS REPORTER SEEKS
OPINIONS OF STUDENTS
(Continued from page 1)
date with Molly to take her to all .of
the dances"—Swartz.
"Kyser is an extraordinary good in-tertainer.
I believe that he will go
over even better than before"—Ted
Carmack.
Wiley, good natured Rastus who
takes care of your comfort in the base­ment
at the Gym during the dances,
opines, "I'se sho glad that yo'all has
got him to play for the dance. Lots
of people is gonna come to them dances
and that means tips for me".
THESPIANS TO PRESENT
PLAY NEXT MONDAY
(Continued from page 1)
follows: Vassya, Chas. M. Kelly; Lud-milla,
Jane Billingsley; Tonya, Mir­iam
Denton; Abram, Arthur Elsberry;
Emelyan, Lem Edmundson, Jr.
As this is the first production un­der
the new plan of admitting students
free of charge upon presentation of
student activity books, it is hoped that
the student body will take advantage
of this opportunity and turn out in
full. Admission for those other than
students will be twenty-five and fif­teen
cents.
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Friday Only,
December 11
"The Flying Hostess"
with WILLIAM GARGAN,
JUDITH BARRETT,
WILLIAM HALL.
Also Comedy,
"AM I HAVING FUN."
Saturday Only,
December 12
KEN MAYNARD in
"HEROES OF THE
RANGE"
with JUNE GALE
Also Cartoon and Serial,
"ADVENTURES OF FRANK
MERRIWELL" NO. 10.
Radio Owl Show
—10:15 P. M.
"SWORN ENEMY"
with
ROBERT YOUNG,
FLORENCE RICE,
JOSEPH CALLEIA,
LEWIS STONE,
NAT PENDLETON.
Added—Screen Snapshots.
Sunday and Monday,
December 13-14
"STAGE STRUCK"
with
DICK POWELL,
JOAN BLONDELL,
WARREN WILLIAM,
FRANK McHUGH,
YACHT CLUB BOYS.
Added, News Events & Cartoon.
Tuesday Only,
December 15
"Kelly The Second"
with PATSY KELLY,
CHARLIE CHASE.
Added Extra, Court of Human
Relations.
On The Screen,
"RUNAWAY MARRIAGE".
Also, Novelty, and Sportreel.
Final Check-up On Results
Of ODK Race Held On
Wednesday
The final check-up of O D K Cake
Race, which was run in the compara­tively
slow time of 15.43.6, reveals the
following Freshmen included in the
first 50 to cross the marker:
1. Turner, T.; 2. Roberts, J. S.; 3.
Gibson, Ray; 4. Higginbotham, H.; 5.
Morgan, F. H.; 6. Holton/V. L.; 7.
Tate, Jack; 8. Wilson, M. E.; 9. Por­ter,
H. J.; 10. Reeves, Owen; 11.
Boggs, W. M.; 12. Ambrose, W. A.;
13. Harvey, A. A.; 14. Harrison, Max;
15i Mitchell, Tom; 16. Armstrong, R.
P.; 17. Kinmore, George; 18. Chap­man,
Cecil; 19. Whatley, Stancell; 20.
Hixon, Carl; 21. Davis, Eugene; 22.
Wise, L.; 23. Williams, R.; 24. Lank-ford,
Phillip; 25. Webster, T. T.
26. Rice, John; 27. Hendricta, Hill;
28. Renfro, Bruce; 29. Brown, C ; 30.
Rouse, E.; 31. Pitman; 32. Clayton, R.
P.; 34. Taylor, J. A.; 35. Welds, V.;
36. Motley, C; 37. Cockrel, H.; 38".
Carlton; 39. Funchess, M.; 40. Ro­chester,
D.; 41. Davis, E. M.; 42.
Montgomery, P.; 43. King, H. L.; 44.
Culver, T. C ; 45. Tullis, L. 46. Hiller,
C; 47. Burne, M.; 48. Thompson, J.
R.; 49. Wilson, J. C ; 50. Zeaman, S.
D.
This year the non-fraternity men
seem to dominate the list of cake win­ners
since only 8 fraternity pledges
were included in the first 25. Below
is a list of the frats in order of their
scores. The scores were determined by
the frat to have the first four men to
finish.
1. Sigma Alpha Epsilon; 2. Pi Kap­pa
Alpha; 3. Phi Delta Theta; 4. Pi
Kappa Phi; 5. Delta Sigma Pi; 6. Sig­ma
Chi; 7. Alpha Tau Omega; 8. Sig­ma
Nu; 9. Kappa Alpha; 10. Sigma
Pi; 11. Sigma Phi Epsilon; 12. Kappa
Sigma; 13. Phi Kappa Tau; 14. Alpha
Gamma Rho; 15. Lambda Chi Alpha.
PROM DATES SET
FOR JANUARY 28, 29,
30; TICKETS ON SALE
Patronize Plainsman advertisers.
(Continued from Page 1)
Kansas City, and more recently at the
Blackhawk Restaurant in Chicago
where he was also a nightly feature
over W G N. At present he is making
a tour of the Southern states east of
the Mississippi River and it is on this
tour that he will come to Auburn.
Brings Array of Talent
Kyser brings with him an array of
talent, both of musicians and vocalists.
Merwyn Bogue whose rendition of "Ish
Kabibble" captured the audience on his
first engagement, returns this year.
Sully Mason also returns with his old
favorites, "Any Bags, Any Bones, Any
Bottles Today?" and "Take Your Girls
To The Movies." Bill "Smilin".Stoker
and Arthur Wright also return to ren­der
songs in their own individual
style, the Kyser Glee Club will swing
into action on several specialties.
Due to the growing popularity of the
band and the success of the former en­gagement,
Merritt expects a, record
crowd to be on hand when the dances
begin with the playing of "Think Of
You", Kyser's theme song.
The scale of prices is as follows:
Season ticket to all dances, $10; ticket
to one day dance, $1.50; and ticket to
one night dance, $3.50. The price of
night dances was announced earlier as
$3 but was an error on the part of the
reporter.
AERO CLUB STAGES DRIVE FOR
INCREASE IN STUDENT MEMBERS
Offering Solo Flying Course At Reduced Rates, Suspends Dues
For All Members Joining At This Time As Inducement To
Join Organization; Club Is Now Operating Own Plane
With special inducements to aid
them the Auburn Aero Club has begun
a membership drive that is to last for
one month. Initiation fees and club
dues have been suspended for everyone
joining the club during this drive. As
an extra attraction the club is offer­ing
a solo flying course at greatly re­duced
rates and club officials believe
that the reduced rates will enable
practically everyone to fly who wishes
to learn. The high cost of instruc­tion
has prevented many aviation en­thusiasts
from flying but under the
clubs new plan it is believed this
handicap has been overcome.
funds will be provided for educational
needs and the schools and college will
be able to operate without handicap.
It looks like a few years of normal
operation after five years of financial
starvation.
SOLONS WILL MEET
AGAIN ON TUESDAY
(Continued from page 1)
education out of the general fund ex­cept
where constitutional funds are in­volved
and provide for it through trust
funds levied exclusively for education.
Another bill would appropriate from
the general fund to the education trust
fund $1,000,000 provided the educa­tion
trust fund falls short of educa-itonal
appropriations.
To date the special session has ap­proved
every administrative measure.
If this record is maintained adequate
N O T I C E !
There will be a meeting of the
Pharmaceutical Society Monday night,
December 14, at 7 p. m. in Ross Chemi­cal
Laboratory.
The club is now operating its own
plane; a Taylor Cub having been pur­chased
from the Columbus Airport by
Jack Flood, chief instructor of the
club. Already one of the most active
flying organizations of its kind in the
United States club officials have high
expectations of even surpassing the
record made by the club thus far.
28 Active Members
Begun last year by a few flying en­thusiasts
the club has grown even be­yond
the fondest hopes of the found­ers.
The club now boasts of 28 active
members. Jimmie Brown, E. E. Price,
Bill Carruthers, V. P. Moore, Jack
Steppe and Bob Ward are the members
carried over from last year. This year
the follwoing students have become
members: Philip Watkins, Tom Mar­tin,
Frank Wade, John Dyas, Hugo
Vollburg, Francis Garret, Orin Ran­dolph,
Doug Sutterlin, Dick Gardner,
Harvey Hogan, Jimmie Stewart, Bob
Beatty, Jacque Houser, and Graham
Savage. The remaining members of
the club are not students. Jimmie
Brown holds a Dept. of Commerce
Limited Commercial License and Bill
Carruthers has recently secured his
Private Pilots license.
The club offers an opportunity for
Aeronautical Engineering students to
obtain some practical flying experi­ence
that should prove valuable in
their study.
Flying Meet in Spring
Plans are being made for a flying
meet to be held in the spring in which
club members will participate. A series
of events will be held and cash prizes
will be awarded to the pilots scoring
the most points.
The competition will be held at
either the Columbus Municipal \Air-port
or at the local field. The meet
will be conducted under the supervis­ion
of Mr. Ralph Swaby, manager of
the Columbus field. All members of
the club will have an equal chance to
win as all contestants will be handi­capped
as to the number of flying
hours they have.
The club has already taken steps
toward joining the Intercollegiate As­sociation
of Flying Clubs. The Asso­ciation
sponsors a flying meet each
spring which draws entries from many
of the leading colleges and universi­ties.
Membership in the association
also makes the members eligible for
the Grover Loening Trophy, awarded
to the leading club during each year.
Anyone interested in joining the
club, and taking advantage of the
special membership drive, may obtain
complete details by inquiring at the
clubs headquarters, 214 West Mag­nolia
Street.
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