1937-02-24 The Auburn Plainsman

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AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1937 NUMBER 39
Tech Noses
Out Tigers;
Score, 35*33
Y e l l ow Jackets Pull Game
From Fire In Last Minutes;
Auburn Plays Best Game
JOHNSTON IS STAR
Free Shots Real Margin Of
Victory A s Tech Five Tallies
13 Points Via Foul Route
German Youth Wishes To
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Asks For "Exchange Of Hospitalities"
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Pursue Studies At Auburn
By JACK TODD
One of the largest crowds ever seen
in Alumni Gymnasium Monday saw
a fighting, gallant Auburn team fall
before Georgia Tech in the last minute
of the contest as Jordan, Yellowjacket
forward, batted one through the hoop
to win the game for his team 35-33.
The contest was a different story
from the one played in Atlanta a
week ago when the Tech five ran
roughshod over the Plainsmen to win
easily by the score of 42-28. Tuesday
night saw the Auburn hoopsters swing
into action with all guns firing to hold
a 17-16 lead at the close of the first
half. Neither team held an impos­ing
lead at any time of the entire con­test
and the advantage swung from
one team to another 16 times.
Several Standouts
The most outstanding player on the
floor was "Slim" Johnston, tall center,
who threaded the net for a grand
total of 17 points while playing a stel­lar
game on the defensive for the Yel-lowjackets.
He was closely paced by
Andrew Curlee, slim Auburn guard,
who played a bang-up game while
ringing up 12 points! "Red" Childers,
Plainsman center, was removed in the
first half on personal fouls and was
replaced by Tommie Edwards who
turned in a fine game both defensively
and offensively as he repeatedly block­ed
Tech plays and also succeeded in
finding the hoop for 8 tallies.
The Golden Tornado really gained
the victory by means of their excel­lent
foul shooting as they registered
13 points by this means to Auburn's
5. Johnston personally accounted for
9 of the 13 as he was fouled repeated­ly
when the Plainsmen tried to block
his shots.
The victory marked the tenth for
the Tech cagesters and the last game
of the season for the Jordanmen. A
total record of 11 wins and 4 losses
was rung up by the Tigers this sea­son
and they ended well up in the top
brackets of the Southeastern Confer­ence.
Because of not being invited to
compete in the tournament, the Plains­men
will be out of the running for the
championship. However, they made a
splendid showing and are due plenty
of credit. Among the conquerors of
Coach Jordan's hardwood five were
Georgia Tech, who are -undefeated in
Conference competition to date, Geor­gia,
and Louisiana State, while they
registered wins over Sewanee, Florida,
Birmingham-Southern, Clemson, and
Louisiana.
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A letter has recently been re­ceived
from a German student in­terested
in pursuing his studies in
an American technical school. The
student, Paul Weisz, would like to
exchange hospitality with an Au­burn
student interested in studying
in Germany. The Nazi government
forbids carrying any great amount
of money out of Germany and for
that reason arrangements must be
worked out whereby an American
student will stay with Mr. Weisz'
parents in Germany while he is
studying in America.
Dean Scott of the School of
Science and Literature will be glad
to discuss the matter further with
anyone interested in such an a r ­rangement.
Mr. Weisz' letter follows:
Berlin, Germany
Feb. 6, 1937
Dear Sirs:
I am about to receive the German
certificate "Abiturientenzeugnis"
and should like then to take up the
study of Engineering or Natural
Sciences at your institute.
Therefore, I should be much
obliged for your lending me some
information regarding tuition, other
fees, courses available, scholarships.
As perhaps you are informed,
practically no money can be taken
out of Germany. In this way I
would be handicaped in realizing
my plan unless I could find a way to
overcome this difficulty.
As my parents are willing to give
free hospitality or/and money, for
all necessary expenses to an Au­burn
boy who wants to study in
Berlin if his parents would do the
same for me in America, this
would be a solution of the financial
problem.
So I should be more than glad if
you could help me to find out an
American student who is interested
in such an exchange or if you had
any other suggestions in this mat­ter
that would enable me to study
at your institute.
With many thanks in advance, I
remain, Very truly yours,
Paul Weisz.
Students, 24,
Favor Change
In U, S. Court
Birmingham Post Poll Includes
800 Students; Faculty Con­curs
With Students In Vote
Graduate Represents
School At Ceremony
Ellison S. McKissick, 1915 graduate
in electrical engineering, will repre­sent
his alma mater at the inaugura­tion
of his uncle, Dr. James Rion Mc­Kissick,
as president of the Universi­ty
of South Carolina on April 6.
Ellison McKissick's father, A. F.
McKissick, was the first professor of
electrical engineering at Auburn. Af­ter
leaving this institution he went to
South Carolina and engaged in tex­tile
manufacturing. Ellison came to
Auburn for his college work and, af­ter
graduation, joined his father in
the business. He is now president and
treasurer of the Alice Manufacturing
Company which is a McKissick con­cern.
He succeeded his father as
president, and his father is now vice-president.
Dr. McKissick was for many years
engaged in newspaper work. He is an
alumnus of the University of South
Carolina where he taught journalism
after a newspaper career. Later he
was made dean of the school journal­ism
from which he was promoted to
the presidency.
By a vote of 2% to 1 Auburn stu­dents,
in a poll conducted Monday, de­clared
themselves in favor of Presi­dent
Roosevelt's proposal for modern­izing
the U. S. Supreme Court. The
poll was conducted at the request of
the Birmingham Post in classes the
last two hours in the forenoon. The
total vote exceeded 800, or about one-third
of the students now on the Au­burn
campus. The faculty vote was
2 to 1, or approximately the same as
the student ratio.
Although only one-third of the stu­dents
had an opportunity to vote, the
ratio was practically the same
throughout the count. James Hutto,
Post political writer who came to Au­burn
to conduct the poll, expressed
himself as being very favorably im­pressed
with the manner in which Au­burn
students voted. "The poll reveal­ed
an intelligent consideration among
Auburn students of this important
question," said Mr. Hutto.
Student Comments
Comments from students were ex­pressive.
As one stated it, "the need
is to make the Supreme Court a de­mocratic
body in a democratic nation,
the same as we have a democratic
Congress and a democratic President!
Another expression was, "the Supreme
Court should serve the nation, rather
than the nation serve the Supreme
Court."
Outsiders interpreted the vote as
indicating a liberal and a progressive
student body and faculty at Auburn.
"Realizing that no progress can be
made without change we are ready to
change," one student expressed it.
Druggists To
Have Meet On
March_23, 24
Pharmacy Group To Convene
Here For Second Meeting;
High Attendance Expected
N O T I C E !
Juniors on editorial staff will meet
in office Monday at 10 a. m.
The Second Annual Retail Drug­gists'
Business Conference will be held
here in Auburn on the days of March
23 and 24, Dr. L. S. Blake, head pro­fessor
of the Pharmacy department,
stated.
The conference this year is again
sponsored by the Pharmacy depart­ment,
Pharmaceutical Society, and the
local chapter of Rho Chi. Druggists'
conferences were originated last year
when these organizations saw the need
of promulgating a better feeling of
kin and understanding between the
undergraduates in Pharmacy and the
practicing pharmacists in the South.
About one hundred and fifty pharma­cists
from Florida, Georgia, and Ala­bama
are expected to attend the meet­ing
this year.
Two-Day Program
The program for this year has been
enlarged to accommodate two days in­stead
of one as of the previous year.
The success of last year's conference
has been the predominant cause for
this enlargement.
The program will include outstand­ing
men from the Southeastern phar­macy
world as speakers on various
topics of interest to all modern drug­gists.
The principal speaker will be
Dr. R. C. Wilson, Dean of the School
of Pharmacy of the University of
Georgia.
An elaborate banquet for all mem­bers
of the conference is being plan­ned
for the first night by the Pharma­ceutical
Society, and a luncheon the
following day by Rho Chi.
The visiting pharmacists will have
the opportunity to inspect the labora­tories
and equipment of the school's
pharmacy department and to make a
general inspection of the campus.
Debating Team Wins Decision From
Jones Law School; Record Unmarred
Auburn debaters returned Friday
from a short trip through Alabama
with their record still unmarred. A
varsity team composed of Jack Vann
and Owen Scott, a freshman team com­posed
of A. C. Allen and John God-bold,
and Prof, and Mrs. E. D. Hess,
left Auburn Wednesday afternoon,
February 17.
The varsity subject for debate was
"Resolved that Congress should pass
laws fixing minimum wages and maxi­mum
hours for industry". The fresh­men
debated on "Resolved that the
government should own and operate
all electric utilities."
Wednesday night the varsity team
won the only decision debate of the
tour from the Jones Law School of
Montgomery. The contest was held in
the ballroom of the Jefferson Davis
Hotel before a sizeable crowd. The
same night, Godbold and Allen debated
Holtville High School at Holtville.
Thursday afternoon Vann and Scott
opposed an Alabama College team at
Montevallo.
Colored Students Present
Friday morning the freshmen en­gaged
the Birmingham - Southern
freshmen before an audience contain­ing
a large number of students from
Clay County High School of Ashland.
Friday afternoon Vann and Scott de­bated
the Birmingham-Southern var-
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Classes Will
Be Excused
March 24th
Executive Council Votes Sus­pension
For "A" D a y ; Track,
Polo, Baseball, Swimming
NO SPRING HOLIDAYS
Holidays During First Semester
Consume All Vacation Time
In Allotment Of Authorities
Suspension of classes on Wednesday,
March 24, for "A" Day and the inter-fraternity
field meet was voted by the
Executive Council in a session yester­day
afternoon.
Supplementing the announcement of
suspension of classes for "A" Day was
a statement to the effect that there
will be no spring holidays this year,
contrary to reports that have been
circulating on the campus.
Holidays during the first semester
consumed all of the time that can be
taken off from regular college attend­ance,
the Christmas and Thanksgiving
vacations together with days off for
football games making it convenient
to have practically all of the holidays
in that period. No solution for a more
equitable distribution of holidays has
been worked out. *
Varied Program Planned
A varied program is planned for
"A" Day, according to Joe Stewart,
President of the athletic group. Be­ginning
at 8 o'clock with the interfra-ternity
track and field meet—expected
to fill the forenoon—the program calls
for a polo game, baseball game and
swimming meet in the afternoon.
Climaxing the day's activities will
be an "A" Club dance in Alumni Gym­nasium
Wednesday night.
"A" Day has been an annual event
at Auburn for several years and is
expected to occasion much interest this
year. In addition to keen interfra-ternity
rivalry, the track and field
meet serves to unearth hitherto un­discovered
material for the track
team. A number of dependable per­formers
on the varsity cinder aggre­gation
have shown their first promise
in these meets.
Auburn Grads Named
Architectural Officers
Moreland G. Smith of Montgomery
and Henderson L. Holman of Ozark,
Auburn graduates, were named presi­dent
and secretary-treasurer, respec­tively,
of the Alabama Chapter,
American Institute of Architects in
Birmingham, last week. Both hold
Bachelor . of Architecture degrees
from Auburn. Mr. Holman received
his degree in 1924 and Mr. Smith
in 1928.
During the meeting in Birming­ham
an emergency appropriation for
the architectural library here was
made by the Alabama Chapter.
Inspection Trip Is
Planned For March
The annual inspection tour for Jun­iors
in Business Administration will be
taken during the week of March 21 to
27 according to Dean J. W. Scott of
the School of Science and Literature.
Professor J. H. Johnson and Dean
Scott will accompany the students and
will be in charge of the trip.
No complete itinerary for the trip
has been worked out as yet but will be
announced early in March.
Prof. Hargreaves Is
Author Of Article
' Professor G. W. Hargreaves of the
Pharmacy school is the author of an
article on "Quinone Formation in the
Thalleioguin Reaction—A New Pre­paration
of Quinoline-o-Quinone." It
occurred in a recent issue of the Jour­nal
of the American Pharmaceutical
Association. ,,
Reprints of the article have been
distributed.
NOTICE !
There will be a tailor at the Glee
Club meeting Thursday night to
measure any changes necessary in the
dinner jackets of the club.
Suspension Of 3 7
Is Due To Poor
Scholastic Work
Having failed to comply with col­lege
regulations governing scholastic
attainments 37 students were suspend­ed
at the end of the first semester of
this session. All were boys except
three. A study of the list reveals that
20 were freshmen, 11 sophomores,- and
4 juniors. Two who had struggled up
to be classed as seniors fell by the
wayside and were suspended.
Catalog regulations provide that a
student who fails to pass at least 50
per cent of his or her work at the end
of a semester is placed on probation
and if a student who is on probation
fails to pass 50 per cent of his or her
work suspension follows. The period
of suspension is for one semester and
a student who is suspended twice is
permanently barred from reentering
Auburn.
Minimum To Be Raised
By recent action of the executive
council, the" minimum will be raised
next year from 50 per cent to 60 per
cent. If 60 per cent had applied this
year several more students would have
been dropped, for scholastic defi­ciency.
Raising the minimum from 50 to 60
per cent is part of the current pro­gram
and policy at Auburn for rais­ing
scholastic requirements and im­proving
scholastic attainment by stu­dents.
The feeling is that students
who are unable to make minimum
passing grades on 60 per cent of their
work should not be in college.
In the meantime Auburn officials
continue to remind students that there
is a low premium upon mediocrity in
college and >a big premium upon ex­cellent
work in college. This fact is
presented to stimulate students to ap­ply
themselves and improve their re­cords.
The final goal of the institution is
to graduate students who are trained
thoroughly and thereby well qualified
by their training to do successfully
whatever they undertake.
Successful Session Is
Held By I.R.C. Group
With Vanderbilt University, select­ed
as the scene of the conference next
year and with registration well past
the 300 mark, the 14th annual confer­ence
of the Southeastern International
Relations Clubs, closed here Saturday
afternoon, was stated to be an exceed­ingly
successful session.
R. F. Finney, of Vanderbilt, was
elected president of the organization
for the coming year to succeed R. C.
Boles, Auburn student, who presided
at the general sessions on Friday and
Saturday. Prominent at the confer­ence
were 37 international relations
clubs representatives from 10 Alabama
Colleges and Universities, including
teachers colleges at Troy, Jackson­ville,
Livingston, Florence, and
Athens; in addition to Howard, Jud-son,
Huntington, and the University
of Alabama.
Other Officers Named
Miss Ann Wright, also of Vander­bilt,
was chosen corresponding secre­tary,
together with the other new of­ficers:
Bill Hall, Vanderbilt, treasur­er;
Edgar Shearman, Washington and
Lee, 1st vice-president; Jack Tolbert,
Emory, 2nd vice-president; and Miss
Agnes Stiggins, Florida State College
for Women, recording secretary.
143 Students Make
Averages Of 90 Or
Above At Midterm
Col. Richmond Views
ROTC Unit Tuesday
Auburn's ROTC unit was com­mended
in the highest terms here
Tuesday by Colonel Henry R.
Richmond, of the Fourth Corps
Area Headquarters, Atlanta, af­ter
he had inspected every phase
of the unit Monday and Tuesday.
The inspection closed Tuesday
morning when he witnessed the
parade held in his honor on Bul-lard
Field. "The parade", he said,
"was the most impressive of those
observed on my entire tour to
units in the Area which will close
with my visit to Louisiana State.
The spirit of the cadets, their
military precision, and the general
esprit de corps is excellent. My
inspection of military instruction
in classrooms impressed me with
the fact that it is being conducted
in a most thorough and effective
manner," he added.
Seeded Teams
Still Ahead In
Frat Tourney
Sigma Nu, Theta Chi, Sigma
Chi, A. G.
And Pi K
R., Lambda Chi,
A. Win Games
The favorite first-seeded Sigma Nu
team climbed a rung higher on the
championship ladder as a result of the
second-round 48 to 3 drubbing given
the A. L. T.'s Monday night.
Although minus the services of their
star forward Homer Gossett, who was
operated on for appendicitis recently,
the strong fourth seeded Theta Chi's
outclassed the Phi Delta Theta's 34-
11. Buck Darden was high score man
for the game with 14 points while a
newcomer to the Theta Chi ranks, Bill
Suttles, ran him a close second with
11 points to his credit. Ralston Long
of the Phi Delta Theta's played a
superb game on the defence for his
team with Walter Schuster doing most
of the shooting for the losers.
Shoultz Paces Chi's
"Sinky" Shoultz, forward on the
Sigma Chi outfit paced his team with
a total of 13 points in defeating the
S. A. E. basketeers, 21 to 9. Other
standout performances for the win­ners
were turned in by Earl Guy at
guard and Bill Lee at center.
With their brilliant passwork and
accurate shooting, the Alpha Gamma
Rho's completely mastered the Pi Kap­pa
Tau cagers by a score of 46 to
12. John Scarborough for the Alpha
Gamma Rho's led his team in scoring
with 16 points with his teammate,
Harvey Bazemore, running a neat sec­ond
with 14 tallies. "Woody" Hall was
also outstanding for the winners, being
a great help to his team particularly
with his fine passwork and defensive
ability. The Phi Kappa Tau's, al­though
they were outclassed in every
department of play, showed up well in
the final moments of the game, with
fine floor games turned in by Jim
Waddell and Kelly Holmes.
(Continued on Page 4)
Lanett A. C. Administers Decisive
40-22 Licking To Frosh Court Five
The Auburn Frosh quint suffered
their most decisive defeat of the sea­son
to date when they were trounced
by Lanett A. C. Monday night to the
tune of 40 to 22.
The Lanett club was obviously su­perior
to the Frosh in all departments
of the game as was evidenced by the
eleven point lead they held at the end
of the half when the score stood 21 to
10. Tight defense work and accurate
shooting by the Lanett five put them
in the lead in the opening minutes of
the contest. The Rats fought hard to
overtake them., never giving up until
the final whistle, but they could not
match their opponent's brand of ball
playing.
Dickinson figured prominently in
the Tigers' offensive play, but was
held to scoring only four points by
Prichett's close guarding. High scor­ing
honors were taken by Jordan for
Auburn with six points and Barnes
for Lanett with thirteen points to his
credit.
Coach Morgan started Ginter and
Dickinson at forward, Renfroe at cen­ter,
and Atkinson and Jordan at
guard. Dailey and Barnes started for
Lanett at forward, Hughes at center,
and Prichard and McCormick at the
guard posts.
Next Friday night the Frosh will
meet the Mackin Electric Company
five of Selma in Alumni Gymnasium.
Edwards Releases Names Of
Students In Group Averaging
Above Ninety Last Semester
STELZENMULLER HIGH
Frank B. Gunter Is Second;
Mundhenk Third; Dr. Dun­can
Congratulates Scholars
The high hurdle of 90 or above
was topped by 143 of the 2450 stu­dents
registered at Auburn for the
first semester of the current session.
This number averaged 90 or more
for the semester, as reported by
Chas. W. Edwards, associate regis­trar.
William Brennan Stelzenmuller
whose scholastic record his first two
years at Auburn was outstanding
continued /his remarkable pace by
averaging 97.13 for the semester
which topped the list. Second to
Stelzenmuller was Frank B. Gunter
with an average of 97.00. Gunter is
a freshman in electrical engineering.
He is from Phenix City while Stel­zenmuller
is from Birmingham, tak­ing
civil engineering. Third place
was earned by Robert Lee Mundhenk
with a grade of 96.96, another fresh­man.
He is from Auburn where his
father, Dr. R. L. Mundhenk, is on
the faculty of the school of veteri­nary
medicine.
Stelzenmuller's cousin, George V.
Stelzenmuller of Fairhope, retained
the high standing of the Stelzenmul­ler
boys with an average of 92.65
which, however, was exceeded by a
good many students. These boys are
sons of high scholastic alumni of
Auburn. J. G. Stelzenmuller, father
of William Brennan Stelzenmuller, is
now on engineer with the T.C.I. Com­pany,
Birmingham. He had a col­lege
average of 97.51. William
James Brennan, a cousin of the Stel­zenmuller
boys from Girard, averag­ed
95.49 for the first semester.
Duncan Writes Note
President Duncan has written a
congratulatory note to the parents
of each student making 90 or more.
All districts of Alabama and several
other states are represented by this
honor group of students. The com­plete
list follows:
J. Calvin Allen, 4Vet., 91.50; Eliz­abeth
Allison, 4SL., 90.14; William
J. Alverson, 2AgEd., 92.38.
George N. Baird, 4Vet., 92.58; Lee
C. Balch, 4EE., 93.59; Sara Lee
Banks, 2Arch., 91.95; Fred Barrett,
4ChE., 91.78; William Edwin Benns,
2EE., 92.04; William Boggs, 1EE.,
91.42; Chas. H. Booth, 4ME., 90.85;
Winfred Boyd, 1SL., 90.66; Ben S.
Branch, 2ME., 92.56; Madeline
Breedlove, 4SL., 91.67; William
James Brennen, 2EE., 95.49; Z. H.
Bridges, 2Vet, 92.69; H. B. Brown,
3EE., 91.88.
Geo. A. Cabaniss, 2ChE., 93.17;
Robert M. Cargile, 3Ag., 91.07;
Mary Carmack, 2BA., 90.44; V. R.
Childress, 2ChE., 94.25; Cecil Chil-
(Continued on Page 4)
Textile Group Hears
Address On "Monel"
G. L. Cox, of the Development and
Research Division of the International
Nickel Company, gave an interesting
address to a large group of textile
students last Saturday night. The ad­dress
was supplemented by the show­ing
of a three reel movie demonstrat­ing
the manufacture and uses of
"Monel" metal.
Mr. Cox, whose home office is in
New York City, was brought here by
Phi Psi, national honorary textile so­ciety.
Officials of the society stated
a number of representatives of various
industries would be brought here un­der
Phi Psi sponsorship during the
remainder of the school year.
NOTICE !
There will be a meeting of all Junior
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
students at 6:45 in Langdon
Thursday night.
Hall
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For A Better Paper
While the question of appointive
publication heads is hanging fire, it
is in order to bring forth another
problem concerning The Plainsman—
that of paying staff members other
than the editor and business manager.
This practice has been instituted at
other schools and added very little ex­pense
to publishing the papers, but
added a great deal to the type of pub­lication
issued. We might take for
example The Minnesota Daily, one of
the larger and better college news­papers.
On this paper the editor is
paid a flat salary, as are the manag­ing,
news, and sports editors. Re­porters
are paid 'so much for each
inch of printed news. All members
of the business staffs are paid a per­centage
of each dollar's worth of ad­vertising
sold, the biggest per cent
going to the business manager.
Of course The Plainsman would
have to go into the problem on a much
smaller scale but the results should
be the same.
The editors could be paid the regu­lar
fee per issue, the managing editor
could be paid approximately one-third
as much, news editors and reporters
could be paid a very low price for
each inch of news, amounting to about
five dollars per month.. The business
staff members could be paid a per­centage
for all advertising. The cost
of publication would be nearly
doubled, but if put on an entirely busi­ness
basis the paper would bring in
enough to cover this extra cost.
As the situation now stands the edi­tors
and business managers either do
all the work, which is far too much
for two students to do, or they have
staffs that are able to carry out the
jobs they should do, but are not paid
in any way for this work. In either
case a small payment to every mem­ber
on the staffs should do much to
improve the type of publication, the
efficiency of publishing the paper,
and the morale of the workers.
It is not that the money paid the
staff members would mean so much
to each financially but when one
knows that the work he does is good
enough to demand returns, he immedi­ately
takes more interest and applies
himself better to the job.
Such a change made here would go
a long way towards making The
Plainsman a better college paper.
They Go Together
We note with a great deal of interest
and pleasure the proposed plan of en­larging
the glee club to make it more
representative of the various fraterni­ties
and also the non-fraternity group
on the campus.
Also here we might admit using the
glee club as a subject for a good per
cent of editorials, but it is believed
that such a group deserves and needs
backing to the hilt. There is no other
one campus organization which has
possibilities of adding so much to the
intellectual and educational side of
college life.
These possibilities are just begin­ning
to be realized. Auburn must not
allow this chance of developing a pro­ject
which should be an institution in
every college in the country to go by.
A glee club furnishes something far
above what the simple educational
routine will ever be able to supply; it
is more of a cultural value than the
greatest literary masterpieces; and as
far as direct benefits to the school it
represents is concerned, it much bet­ter
publicity than any catalogue or
folder ever compiled.
Word has been sent to all fraterni­ties
on the campus asking for at least
two members to try-out for the club
and invitation to any non-frat man
who wishes to become affiliated with
the organization has been extended.
It is hoped that this opportunity to
do a service to the school, to the glee
club, and to the individual will not be
allowed to pass. Auburn and such a
cultural activity will grow together.
It is a real need of any educational
institution. As such an organization
grows and broadens, so will Auburn
prosper.
Two Hundred More Copies
Beginning with this issue two hun­dred
additional copies of The Plains­man
will be printed at each issue. This
brings our total circulation figure up
to twenty-two hundred—the highest
ever had for this paper.
It will be recalled that the circula­tion
figure was jumped from eighteen
hundred of last school year to two
thousand at the beginning of the pres­ent
school year. This change was
made to insure that every student
would have access to the publication.
. This additional two hundred is be­ing
printed mainly for the benefit of
our city advertisers. Every adver­tiser
will be supplied with enough
papers to furnish everyone coming in­to
his establishment on publication
days with a Plainsman. This step will
enable students to get a copy soon as
the paper comes off the press because
these additional two hundred will be
delivered to our advertisers before
any papers are distributed to the resi­dents
and fraternities.
Life Begins At 70
An unusual amount of interest has
been aroused in the proposed law,
sponsored by President Roosevelt, to
affect the retirement of Federal
judges over the age of seventy. The
law will provide that if the judges do
not wish to retire, the President may
appoint an •additional judge to the
court. The law will affect all Federal
courts but the main point of conten­tion
seems to that the law, under pres­ent
conditions, will require the ap­pointment
of six additional jurists to
the Supreme Court.
Reducing the proposed law to its
barest facts the New Deal idea seems
to be that a jurist over the age of
seventy is too senile and too set in his
ways to give an enlightened interper-tation
of the many new pieces of leg­islation
passed at the President's be­hest.
Even the most ardent New Deal­er
must admit that the Supreme
Court's scrapping of the N. R. A., the
Triple A "and similiar new deal legis­lation
has been the moving spirit be­hind
the proposed law.
While the idea has many good
points the main objection by both the
lay public and the lawyers seems to
be that the law would create an un­wieldy
judicial system in our higher
courts. Another objection, which
would seem more important though it
has evoked but little comment, is that
our higher courts are primarily courts
of interpretation and not of jurispru­dence.
The Supreme Court is in
simple words merely the constitu­tional
policeman. Their job is to in­terpret
new laws and to guarantee
the constitutional rights of every
American citizen. Their very posi­tion
makes it almost compulsory for
these justices to be elderly men. Years
of constitutional law experience have
fitted them for their positions.
If these gentlemen be too senile to
perform their job there should be
some means of replacing them but we
do not believe that these courts should
be built into an unwieldly New Deal
subsidary.
A "good will court" at which students will
be able to air their grievances is being estab­lished
at Cornell. Another purpose of the
court will be to bring out ideas for the ex­tension
of student self-government. To
further clarify student opinion the Cornell
student council has adopted the plan of hold­ing
open forums at which all candidates for
class offices are invited to appear for ques­tioning
as to their platforms.
News and Views
By JAMES BUNTIN
THIS TIME: ABOUT THE CAMPUS,
FLORIDA BARMAIDS, THE IRON
MAN, NEWS IN THE NUDE
IN PASSING, suffice it to say that Au­burn
suffered from an over-dose of self-consciousness
during the past week-end
while it was the host of about three hundred
International Relations Club delegates and
many out-of-town Military Ball merry­makers.
So deeply imbedded is the "for the
sake of tradition" that we had to call for
an extra deluge of rain to cool our ardour,
with the true Auburnites responding still
with a most thorough-going enthusiastic
feteing of the guests.
But the guests have been fed and enter­tained,
and now they are gone. We may
now settle down to the more serious ques­tion
of whether the local picture emporium
is providing us with the more of what we
like and as we like it. According to poll
results, G-Men pictures rank first in popu­larity;
next come the other various types of
mystery dramas. With the national stand­ards
in mind you can conclusively judge the
services rendered by our own picture show,
and thence forever hold your peace.
* * * *
OUST BARMAIDS is the theme of a
drive in our neighboring Florida. "Drink
and learn", and a veteran group comes to
the conclusion that more of the hefty and
less of the delicate attractions are needed in
places where the strong drink is on sale for
those who are conscious of their obligation
to pay taxes to assist in social welfare. 'Tis
estimated by the authors of the above infor­mation
that the number of barmaids total
1,350,000 while only 450,000 co-eds are em­ployed
in the business of securing worth
while knowledge or playing the gigolette
part in our Epicurean diversions.
* * * * ^
IL DUCE shook the peace-loving-try-to-get-
along-with-everybody-factions when he
ordered the instant mobilization of one mil­lion
troops. Evidently, the "iron man" is
out to drive home the fact by these chronic
manoeuvers of his cracker-jack war ma­chine
that he is not to be played with. It
must have been done in retaliation to
Britain's announcement of her re-armament
program. But, of course, Duce was only
playing when he gave a very impressive
show on that night over a dark Rome.
* * • *
NOTICEABLE TID-BITS IN THE
NEWS: Most provoking to labor is the news
of the Boss-Sit-Down Strike of Walter Fry,
seat cover factory operator. His employees
struck, but Fry didn't know what for, so
he's sitting around looking after his prop­erty,
until'he learns their motive
Three deaths and 3,000 driven from their
homes comes as a report from a flooded
area in south Illinois. . . . . On March 6, the
non-intervention agreement will go into af­fect.
Neutral troops will patrol the Spanish
borders so that the Spanish can fight out
the remainder of their civil war in peace.
60,000 foreign troops are with the Rebel
forces;-35,000 foreign soldiers are included
on the Loyalist side.
Cats and Canaries
By THE DIRTY DUO
Society note: The hither-to take-it-easy
Sarver has developed into quite a trucker.
Gretchen Talley's opinion of the way she
looks in riding regalia must not be so ele­vated—
she preferred the alleys to the main
drag when so attired.
* * * *
Bob Kincaid has again demonstrated his
power! Being mightily attracted by a doll
here for the I. R. C. convention, the in­comparable
Kincaid proceeded to devote his
literary talents to the writing of a note to
said doll, asking for a date. Conclusion:
He got the date.
* * > *
Broun Hall seems a likely successor to
Ag Bottom as Auburn's romance spot No.
1, what with Prof. Stalnaker and one of the
Kappa Delta tribe of not so recent vintage
holding forth and Prof. Samuel J. Sim­mons,
Jr., Esq., one of the newer acquisi­tions
to the business faculty, firmly con­vinced
that he is what makes the gals'
hearts go pitty-pat; i. e. God's gift to wim-men.
* * * *
Comes news that Rivers Rush has got a
bad case of honey pants, for R. H. Old's ex-heart-
throb. How time does fly.
* * * »
If you see a disconsolate looking power­house
morosely strolling around Shepherd
Chateur this week it's probably Bill Milam.
The Lambda Chi powerhouse (if you don't
believe it, ask him) has once again realized
that spring is here.
* * * *
News Item: Robertha Steele is reported
among the latest additions to the string of
the History Department instructor with
that cute classroom way. Maybe it's his shy
retiring manner that brings 'em in. The
point is that they're in.
Who Said We Were Serious Minded?
GUEST EDITORIAL — ANONYMOUS
For the past five or six years a consider­That
is only an example. Most
able number of the nation's more profound
optimists have pointed with pride to an in­creasing
interest among college youth in the
so-called more important things of life. We
have been pictured as having been trans­formed
almost momentarily from a live-to­day,
die-tomorrow type of hell-raising brat
to a sober, bespectacled college youth won­dering
just how long this world of ours will
hold together.—Just as if more than 5 per
cent of us ever bothered about the world
outside of Auburn and a "Mirandey Lou" of
one kind or another back in Hickory Flats.
These optimists, We are afraid, are op­timists,
nothing more or less. For some
reason, they liked to imagine the depression
which temporarily kept some of us from en­tering
college as having had a tempering ef­fect
on those of us who did get here. They
donned rose-colored glasses and saw a col­lege
youth that apparently did give two
whoops about what the world came to.
Now, optimism is a fine thing. But we
unfortunately cannot agree with a brand of
optimism that misleads itself. A conference
such as the one here the week-end just past
—the International Relations Club conven­tion—
would seem to bear out contentions
that we are becoming increasingly serious-minded.
And yet, as far-reaching confer­ence
as this one was aroused little interest
beyond the few students in the local group
affected. Despite repeated publicity, the
average student cared little what the I. R.
C. will do or has done.
stu­dents,
we believe, could not tell what the
issues are for which war in Spain is rag­ing;
what acts of world-shaking importance
have been promulgated by Hitler; indeed
anything at all about world affairs in gen­eral.
Some probably don't know a sales tax
has been passed; most know that after
March 10 whisky will be legal in some coun­ties
in Alabama.
There is only one excusable factor to all
this. We are only following in the foot­steps
of our families back home. The aver­age
merchant or farmer or professional
man really has little interest in matters be­yond
his own personal scope; even the clos­ing
of the schools intermittently over a
period of several years awakened little in­terest
on the part of patrons until a sales
tax or gross receipts tax threatened. We
lapse into a "mind-your-own-business" ex­cuse-
making. The difficulty is that no one
has actually any "own business."
College may not be a place to become in­terested
in what are habitually called more
important things: politics, world affairs,
economics, et cetera. It should certainly be
to some extent a place to acquire social
abilities. It should not be that alone. For
many of us it is that and that only. We
think that the college youth of today is dif­ferent
in only one respect from his more
obviously hell-raising brother of the twen­ties—
he is less noisy. Actually he giveth
not a merry damn whither the world goeth.
On Our Campus
By EDWIN C. GODBOLD
We are tired of professors who upbraid
us for certain sins of omission or commis­sion
by shouting: "Why did you come to
college, anyway? How do you expect to get
an education if you don't do thus and so?"
We didn't come to college to get an edu­cation.
There it is in good print. Dozens of
times we have wanted to shout it at pro­fessors
who were belaboring us.* And we
are no different from the Auburn man who
sits next to us or two chairs from us in
class. We came to learn something, not,
mind you, to become educated—as you prob­ably
think of education. For to us educa­tion
means skill with which to conquer the
material world. It does not mean profound
enlightenment or an inner change. We are
not concerned with a well-stored mind or
with the answers to the eternal mysteries.
The things we want out of college are tools
for economic warfare. That is why educa­tion
is such an external affair to us, why
we drop our tools the minute classes are
over.
* * * *
"Auburn," says the pictorial folder, "is
now a church center as well as an educa­tional
center. Students attend the church of
their choice." Which is quite true. But
must you, young man, come still rubbing the
sleep from your eyes and so soon out of bed
that your face is all puffed up like a dough­nut?
And when the morning offering is
taken and the collection plate rapidly ap­proaches
you, must you lower your eyes and
remain thus, as if contemplating your many
sins, until the plate has passed you, then
gaze after it soulfully, as though you regret
having missed an opportunity to contribute
an appreciable part of your worldly goods?
On Other Campuses
By JOHN GODBOLD
A Colorado A & M coed has a most un­usual
talent—she barks, snarls, and howls.
She learned her animal talk through her
efforts to teach her four dogs to speak. Now
she's so good that she does her imitations
over the radio.
* * * *
Northwestern University coeds were ques­tioned
as to their pet antipathies. Included
in their list of suitable objects for justifi­able
homicide was the man who hums while
dancing.
* * * *
The Confederate monument on the North
Carolina campus was carved by a Yankee
from an early Massachusetts Minute Man
monument, the actual work being done be­low
the Mason-Dixon line.
* * * *
Men students at the University of "Ala­bama
complicated girls'-dormitory fire-drills
to such an extent that the student gov­ernment
officials are ready to give up in
disgust. The difficulty arises from the fact
that fire-drills, in order to be effective, must
be held at some time when the majority of
the girls are in their rooms. The only time
when most of the girls are in their rooms is
early in the morning or late at night. Then
the coeds are clad only in pajamas and so
forth, have their hair on curlers, and their
faces smeared with cream. And when the
fire-bell rings, all the boys insist on running
to see where the fire is. With men-students
congregated around the buildings, the girls
refuse to come tearing out in their undigni­fied
attire. Until the boys can be taught to
quit dashing out at every ring of the fire-bell,
it seems that there will be no fire-drills
for the girls.
Thunderations
By HUGH CAMERON
Plainsman Forum—Voice of the Students
"A Starving Student" Wants Eating
Places Cleaned
Editor, The Auburn Plainsman
Dear Editor:
Last Friday while looking through The
Montgomery Advertiser, I noted with great
intere/st the cartoon on the editorial page in
regard to a clean-up campaign in that city.
Now, that cartoon seemed to me to strike
home in the cafe and boarding house situa­tion
in Auburn. I wonder just how many of
the "eatin' joints" of Auburn would invite
the student to inspect their "shiny, bright,
sanitary culinary department"?
I have heard quite a few complaints from
students on this subject. Here are a few of
them:
A hair (or if you're lucky, two or three)
in the soup.
A cockroach in the chicken dressing
(honest Injun'.)
Greasy glasses,- often with sediment at
the bottom.
Last week's egg on the knife or fork.
Remainder of someone's dessert in the
curve of the spoon.
Presence of rats seen on the bread and
in the breakfast food (this applies chiefly
to boarding houses).
Not very appetizing, eh? But just think
how it is to find such things in your own
food. Now I'm not writing just what I have
heard, and though I have a pretty iron-bound
stomach, I have had to give up my
meal in disgust many times after picking
varied colored hairs from my food. Have
you ever tried swallowing a hair? If you
have, you know how truly difficult and dis­gusting
the act is.
I plead with the students, Council, Cabi­net,
Plainsman or what have you, to insist
upon a clean-up campaign. If I may be so
rude to ask, does such a thing as a health
department exist in this city? If so why
does it not function?
Disgustingly yours,
A Starving Student.
Suggests Considering Establishing A
Night Club On Campus
Editor, The Auburn Plainsman
Dear Sir:
A dry night club, believed to be the only
one in America, has proved to be remark­ably
successful at Iowa State, according to
an article in College Humor for March.
Student owned and operated and arid as the
sands of the Sahara—nothing stronger than
ginger ale is served—the club is proving
popular, more so than eyen its most opti­mistic
protagonists had believed it could.
A similar club is being pushed at Louisi­ana
State University at Baton Rouge.
We do not know where one could be lo­cated
here, we do not know who would be
interested in pushing the project. We do
know that there is a need for something of
this nature; we believe that it would be
supported. The College Inn, Benson's, The
Tiger Cafe and the other eating establish­ments
provide places to eat at reasonably
late hours. They are, however, essentially
restaurants and nothing else.
The night club at Iowa State has floor
shows, staged by a student with experience
and interest in such matters. Talent came
to the front as soon as the projected night
club was announced. A campus orchestra
provides the music. And students find it a
welcome place to go after the show as well
as for general entertainment. Prices are
reasonable, dress informal except on special
nights.
How about it here? M. W.
Unk is going to Chicago and a few other
places and isn't taking Aunt Hattie. A
final rift is suspected in a once happy ro­mance.
The sordid de­tails
will be spread for
Friday's issue.
* * * *
I love the Tiger
Theatre, and this life-
" time pass I got for
writing the letter I
wrote not so long ago
is very good, but why
did they have to paint the entrance to the
jernt to look like an Egyptian Bath-house?
We firmly expect to see Little Egypt, the
fan dancer, in a superb, collossal, stupend­ous
stage show in a few days now . . . soon
does the paint dry on the thing.
* * * *
Ed Danforth said the reason we weren't
invited to go up and play with the boys in
the basketball tourney was because we had
been seen keeping company with Florida and
Sewanee.
Yes, we are nice like that during basket­ball
season but we get kind of mean during
the football season and generally wham the
hell out of Tech and Georgia. They are
good boys too but they spend too much time
on basketball and not enough on the things
that count. And for a minute Monday night
Tech thought we were going to pull another
one point score on them.
* * •" *
Since Gibbons, the book-man, has been
teaching Ben, the cook, at Benson's, French;
Ben can't nowise seldom ever say "Yassum"
anymore on account of saying "Oui, Oui,
M'sieur."
* * * *
Sherman gets his picture on a new stamp
(Army and Navy series) and immediately
Atlanta sets up a howl. Sherman wasn't
such a bad fellow, it was the language he
used. He had his own troubles, as I imagine
Atlanta was a pretty terrible place to visit
about the time he spent his vacation there.
Margaret Mitchell says the mud Was knee
deep at Five Points at the time, and the
Henry Grady Hotel wasn't even thought-up.
Sherman just had to clear out a place to
live, that's all.
Just think . . . if we had got to Washing­ton
we would probably have done the same
thing that he did to Atlanta, and then there
wouldn't have been any place that we would
go grafting.
* * * *
Yanks are really all right . . . but don't
they talk funny?
* * * *
So Baldwin County is to get a special
beer consession. In no other county in the
State can beer be sold on draught . . .-un­less
it is Cullman County. I wonder Who is
the politician down there? Up here our
"polls" are so busy trying to elude the W.
C. T. U. they can't nowise think of even
orange crush.
The vote comes up before long and this
time the vote is to see whether we tax it or
not, not whether we are to have the stuff
or not. We have enough whiskey and beer
in this County now to float the British
Navy. Whoever says we ain't is a rotten
egg. Or is either deaf, blind, and as usual.
This writer doesn't defend Whiskey. If
this writer ever has a back-yard full of red­headed
chullen he Wouldn't want them to
drink. But, it is getting awful tiresome
seeing the money from the likker we already
have here in the County go to waste and
worse when it could be used by the State for
a useful purpose.
* * * #
I hear "The Last of the Mohicans" was a
howling success.
Pete's Epistle
Dere Mirandey Lou
i tole yew that yew should have come
down hear tew see me fer i was getting
lonesome. Well yew needent come down now
fer yew wood of a certainly find me in At­lanta
fer i am sertainly going tew camp up
there from now on. i have done met the
cream from Agony Scoot and they are of a
surety the cream.
There was sech an uproar down here last
weak end that i was forced tew journey
away from the fare sity. All in one weak
end they had the Spjers Bawl, a A club
joock, and a konvenshun of wile injuns from
the various skules and colliches which had
come down hear tew carry out a fine plan
tew get of from skule fer a shawt time.
They was sertainly wile effin yew dont be­lieve
hit jest ask Miss Alice or Pinkey.
They got tewgether on thangs i hear.
• Well getting back tew the reason i aint
enterested in yew anymore. . . . tew keep
from having tew attend the functions i let
a boy lead me off tew fill in some blind
dates which i was very much dubious (new
word) about. Effin all blind dates was like
that i wood jest go around the country fill­ing
them fer all fine lads in dire need of
help fer entertaining babes, i jest aint in­terested
in yew anymore. Sad, sad.
Blissfully yours, pete.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1937 T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M A N -:- A L A B A M A P O L Y T E C H N I C I N S T I T U TE P A G E T H R EE
CONCERT COURSE IS
TO BE PRESENTED
AT LANIER SCHOOL
Ballet Russe And Outstanding
Ballerinas—European Favo­rites—
Appear On Program
The Montgomery Concert Course
presents as its second seasonal at­traction
The Ballet Russe of Col. de
Basil tonight at Sidney Lanier Audi­torium.
Appearing with the Ballet
will be the outstanding ballerinas
who have, received the acclaim of
European capitals and major cities of
the United States.
The organization is headed by
Leonide Massine, most famous of all
Russian dancers. The history of the
development of the Russian ballet
from a formal series of dances to the
spectacular moving entertainment of
today may be traced to the creative
efforts of this man.
The Ballet has a personnel of one
hundred dancers and musicians and
travels in its own special train of
eleven cars. Its equipment includes
scenery for twenty-five different bal­lets
and six thousand costumes.
SOCIETY AND NEWS FEATURES
Society Editor, MARION STANLEY, Phone 305
Kathryn Ellison Wed
To David W. Bennett
The marriage of Miss Kathryn El­lison
to Mr. David W. Bennett, grad­uate
of Auburn was solemnized in
Montgomery at a simple morning
ceremony on February 14.
The musical program was rendered
by Malcolm Ellison, Jr., pianist. Dec­orations
were snapdragons and white
roses in Marie Antionette baskets,
interspersed among palms.
The bride is a graduate of Hunting­don
College and takes part in the
social and cultural life of Montgom­ery.
Following a short wedding trip,
Mr. Bennett and his bride will make
their home in Montgomery where he
is associated with the State Highway
Department.
Kappa Alphas To Have
Tea And Evening Dance
Nu Chapter of Kappa Alpha will
entertain with an afternoon tea dance
Saturday, February 27, and an even­ing
dance on the same night. The
set is being given in honor of the
fraternity's new members who will
receive their final degrees tonight.
A number of no-breaks and a Kappa
Alpha lead-out are planned for the
affairs.
Music will be furnished by the
Auburn Knights.
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Fuller-Dean Marriage
Solemnized February 20
Miss Frances Wingfield Fuller of
Montgomery was married to Robert
D. Dean of Montgomery in an im­pressive
ceremony, February 20.
Mr. Dean is a graduate of Alabama
Polytechnic Institute and is a mem­ber
of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity. He
now holds a position with Church
Dwight Company in New York. •
The bride, who is recognized
throughout the State for her musical
ability, has graduated from Sullins
College, Bristol, Virginia, and also
from Huntingdon. College.
Mr. Dean and his bride went to
Southern Florida on their wedding
trip and will make their home in
Montgomery.
Theta Upsilon Sorority
Pledges Five Girls
On Monday night, February 15,
Iota Alpha Chapter of Theta Upsilon
pledged five girls—Sara Griffin, Ann
Griffin, Mary Inzer, Mattie Jo Bar­ber,
and Rebecca Edwards. After
the pledge service a party was given
for the new pledges.
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Jean Kitchens, Ashland, Alabama;
Jane Justice, Judson College; Mary
Palmer and W. D. Kelley, Jasper,
Alabama, were guests of Marie Kelly
over ,the week-end.
* * *
Elizabeth Hobson, and Elizabeth
Shepherd, Judson College; and Susie
Conner, Eufaula, were gueste of Mil­dred
Glass and Carolyn Hendrick
over the week-end.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Hampton D. Williams
have returned from Andalusia where
Mr. Williams' father is seriously ill.
* * *
Miss Lucille Fleming, Enterprise,
was the guest of Miss Sara Carlisle
during the week-end.
* * *
Darby Callaway and Billy Black-well,
former Auburn students, now
residing in Selma, Alabama, were
visiting at the K. A- house Saturday.
* * *
Dr. E. L. Rauber and Professor
C. H. Donovan, formerly of the Eco­nomics
Department, were visitors
here last week-end. _^
* * *
Misses Eloise Lennard, Gretchen
Bubenzer, and Charlotte Golden of
Agnes Scott spent the day in Auburn
Monday on the return from a week­end
at Miss Lennard's home in Alex
City.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Boyd of Gun-tersville
Dam were in Auburn the
past week-end visiting their son,
Winfrey Boyd.
* * *
Miss Ruth Dunn was the guest of
her sister Thea Dunn during the past
week-end. '
* * *
Miss Mildred Moore of Alabama
College for Women, Montevallo, was
the guest of Millie Parsons and Flor­ence
McCorkle last week-end.
* * *
Virginia Hubbard and Martha Len-nep
spent the past week-end in Al-bertville,
Alabama, as the guests of
Miss Mary Nell Hearn.
* * *
. Pearl Rudolph, who is now teach­ing
in Notasulga, Alabama and Melba
Holley of Columbus spent the past
week-end in Auburn.
A.T.O. Has Tea For
New House Mother
James Parrish Is Visitor
To City This Week
James A. Parrish, of Auburn, who
was a graduate in Science and Lit­erature
at Auburn in 1935, is spend­ing
two weeks' vacation leave with
his parents, Professor and Mrs. J. A.
Parrish.
Mr. Parrish was very active in stu­dent
affairs while in college, being on
The Plainsman staff and a class officer
his senior year.
He was with T.V.A. in Knoxville
for fourteen months and for the past
six months at Guntersville Dam in
the Materials Division.
John T. Harris Appointed
To Important Place
John T. Harris, Jr., Auburn grad­uate,
has been appointed state man­ager
of Union Carbon and Carbide
Company, with headquarters in Jack­sonville,
Florida.
Mr. and Mrs. Harris spent Sunday
visiting his father, J. T. Harris of
Opelika.
Mrs. Harris, before her marriage
in Auburn a year ago, was Miss Suess
of Nebraska where she graduated
from the State University and later
received her masters' degree from
Columbia University, New York City.
Kappa Delta's Have Tea
Sunday Afternoon
* Kappa Delta Sorority entertained
the members of the other sororities
with a tea at their chapter room
Sunday afternoon from 4:30 to 5:30.
George Washington's birthday was
the inspiration for the colorful deco­rations
and refreshments. Many
guests called during the afternoon.
Sigma Pi Plans Formal
Dance On Friday
The Alpha Delta Chapter of Sigma
Pi will be host at a formal dance
Friday night at nine-thirty in the
Recreation Hall. There will be three
no-breaks and one fraternity lead-out.
The Auburn Cavaliers will
furnish the music.
On Sunday afternoon from 3:30
to 5:30 the members of Alpha Tau
Omega Fraternity entertained with a
tea at the chapter house in honor of
their new house mother, Mrs. Re­becca
Henry.
The receiving line was composed
of Mrs. Henry, Dr. and Mrs. L. N.
Duncan, Professor J. M. Robinson,
and Hamilton Callen, president of the
chapter.
The reception rooms were effect­ively
decorated with beautiful floral
arrangements. Misses Elizabeth Hunt,
Mary Lucas Hall, Elizabeth Rimes,
and Marie Johnson served refresh­ments
to the large number of guests
who were received during the after-
Kappa Delta To Entertain
With Dance Saturday '
On Friday night the pledges of
Sigma Lambdja Chapter of Kappa
Delta Sorority will entertain at a
formal dance at the Girl's Gym at
nine-thirty. Dot Lewis, Sadie Ed­wards,
and Anne Van Hoose are in
charge of the decorations. There
will be two. no-breaks, a pledge lead-out,
and a member leadout during the
evening. The Auburn Knights have
been engaged to provide the affair
with a medley of popular dance se­lections.
Adine Harris Marries
Mr. Calvin C. Markle
The marriage of Miss Adine Harris,
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. E. H.
Harris of Ensley, Alabama, to Calvin
C. Markle of Auburn was solemnized
Saturday, February 20 at 4:00 P.M.
at the Methodist parsonage in En­sley,
Alabama. Rev. Ted Hightower
performed the ceremony.
Mr. Markle is a graduate of Au­burn
in the school of Pharmacy. He
now holds the position as-pharmacist
at Wright's Drug Store here.
Roundtree-Hudson Marriage
Is Announced Last Week
The marriage of Miss Katherine
Roundtree to Mr. John Rees Hudson,
Jr., former Auburn student, was an­nounced
last week.
The bride received her college edu­cation
at Wesleyan College, Macon,
Ga. Mr. Hudson attended Auburn
and Emory University.
Mr. and Mrs. Hudson will reside
Photography Studied
By Local Art Club
Last Friday afternoon Mrs. Leslie
Wright and Mrs. J. W. Byars were
joint hostesses to the Art Club, at
the home of Mrs. Wright on Wright's
Mill Road.
Business reports were made by
Mrs. Charles Edwards and Mrs. Frank
Orr.
Professor Charles Hixon was the
afternoon speaker on the subject
"Photography" including interesting
high points of Kodaks, cameras, films,
and film developing, as well as worth­while
points of photography.
"The object being photographed
should never be in the center of the
picture. Include no more than
necessary in the photo. Be sure the
sky and land is not balanced in the
pictures," stressed Prof. Hixon in
his lecture and demonstration of his
work making clear points to be re­membered
in photography.
WESLEY FOUNDATION WORK
NOW PROGRESSING RAPIDLY
Franklin Mosely, Student Pastor, States Progress Made By Or­ganization
Since Its Founding Here; Recreational Activities
Are Listed; William A. Moss Is Elected President Of Group
The Wesley Foundation, an organi­zation
of Methodist students at Au­burn,
is now carrying out an active
program according to Franklin Shack­elford
Mosely, student pastor.
This organization, he states, is to
promote a christian brotherhood
among the students and to encourage
church attendance. This has met
with such success that additional
teachers have been appointed.
For its recreational activities, a
social center has been set up in the
in Montgomery where he holds a
position in the Alabama Chemical
Company.
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John Solomon Marries
Margie Mae Howard
Miss Margie Mae Howard of Syla-cauga
was married to Mr. John Wes­ley
Solomon, graduate of School of
Engineering, in £ simple ceremony
which took place February 11.
The groom is the son of Mr. ;and
Mrs. J. W. Solomon of Eufaula and
is a grandson of Dr. E. W. Shackel­ford
of Troy.
After a short wedding trip in Flor­ida,
the couple will be at home in
Sylacauga.
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games are part of the program.
The following officers have been
elected by the organization: presi­dent,
William A. Moss; vice-president,
Vergie Gunn, Cullman; secretary,
Martha Jo Herndon; treasurer, Harry
Lee Welsted, Auburn; reporter, Mal­colm
Wilson, Auburn; Chairman and
assistant chairman of the various
committees are: Worship, Milton Hill,
Memphis; and Albena Pierce, Mil-stood;
evangelism and church rela­tions,
Norman R. Crawford, Marion,
and Robert M. Prather, Autauga-ville;
citizenship and community ser­vice,
Arthur W. Cooper, Montevallo;
and John E._ Clifton, Autaugaville;
recreation and personal development,
Allums F. Smith, Union Springs, and
Miriam Denton, Oneonta; leadership
training, Allison S. Alford, Montgom­ery
and Edward S. Smith, Birming­ham.
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ton, 2ChE., 95.06; John Edwin Cobb,
2ChE., 92.16; Geo. J. Collins, 4ME.,
90.95; Chas. W. Cook, ICh., 92.79;
Oscar Cook, 4-EE., 94.55; Margaret
Raiford Cooper, 5Arch., 91.61; Law­rence
E. Cox, 4CE., 92.50; Marvin
R. Cox, lAgEd., 92.44; William Law­rence
Cox, 4-Vet., 92.00; T. H. Cren­shaw,
lAg., 90.88; T. C. Culver, 4-
EE., 93.34.
H. H. Davis, 4EE., 92.44; Alice
Dawson, 3Ed., 92.00; A. B. Dean,
4EE., 95.26; L. A. Deese, 3Vet.,
90.00; W. L. Denham, 4EE., 91.23;
R. T. Dodge, 3ME., 95.41; James P.
Dumas, 4Phar., 90.52; D. W. Dun­can,
4ChE., 94.15.
Jno. M. Eagan, 2ChE., 93.05; B.
J. Eich, lPharm., 92.38; Ed C.
Forbes, 3EE., 90.29; J. G. Fox, 3ME.,
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93.26; Gus H. Franke, 3EE., 90.27;
L. J. Fuller, 4BA., 90.57.
J. Mack Gafford, 1-ChE., 93.19;
H. J. Gauggel, 4-EE., 92.75; F. H.
Gerhardt, ICh., 96.76; P. B. Gibson,
3Ed., 91.69; Frank B. Gunter, 1EE-,
97.00.
Suzelle Hare, 1SL., 91.60; Fred
Harmon, 2ChE., 90.57; A. R. Harper,
3CE., 92.06; C. A. Harris, 1BA.,
90.84; N. T. Hiestand, 4EE., 92.11;
J. D. Hilleke, 2ME., 90.10; George
Hiller, lPhar., 90.63; E. S. Hocutt,
3BA., 92.81; Manard Holt, 3Ag.,
92.27; Jacque Houser, 3AE., 93.16.
Leonard Jacobs, 2Vet., 90.91;
Lamar Jeffers, 3Arch., 92.03; R. G.
Johnson, 4EE., 90.55; B. C. Jordan,
3CE., 92.86; E. M. Jordan, 2Chem.,
91.75.
Earl Kennamer, lAg., 90.60; Eu­gene
Knight, 2EE., 91.68; George
D. Knight, 2ChE., 93.13; Jerry Ku-derna,
2Chem., 93.93.
M. H. Laatsch, 4Chem., 93.74; J.
C. Langley, 2BA., 91.21; J. E. Lang-ley,
4ME., 93.97; W. L. Langley,
3TE., 90.37; R. E. Ledbetter, 2EE.,
92.73; G. L. Lewallen, lVet., 93.90;
J. A. Little, 4BA., 90.15; C. V. Lyle,
2AgEd., 90.41.
R. Bruce McGehee, 4BA., 91.58;
E. A. McLean, 2Chem., 91.57; J. C.
McLeod, 3PM., 91.67; George Ma­ples,
3IE., 92.37; Ellis Martin, 3Vet.,
91.53; Henry Maulshagen, 1EE.,
94.54; D. T. Meadows, 2AgEd.,
91.29; Robert B. Mercer, 4ME.,
93.32; C. H. Merrell, 1EE., 90.66;
Anna Morriss, 3SL., 91.67; T. S.
Mosley, 4Ed., 91.00; R. L. Mundhenk,
lAeE., 96.96; J. L. Murphy, 4Arch.,
93.29; Earl Murray, 5Arch., 93.14;
C. W. Myers, 2EE., 90.57.
R. H. Neely, 2AeE., 93.31; Mark
Richard Nichols, 4-AE., 94.52; J. D.
Orr, 3Ag., 90.024; M. W. Orr, 4ME.,
93.10.
Dave Phelps, 3EE., 94.05; F. M.
Phillippi, 3Vet., 95.43; H. L. Phillips,
2ChE., 91.00; H. B. Pollard, 3ME.,
95.47; R. W. Powell, 2ChE., 91.00;
Morton Prager, 3ChE., 95.63; C. D.
Prater, 1PM., 91.68; L. L. Pritchett,
4Arch., 90.34;* J. O. Quimby, 3ChE.,
91.96.
Fred Richeter, 4ME., 92.91; Cath­erine
Rodgers, 3Ed., 90.60; S. A.
Rodgers, 2ChE., 93.20; Milton Roth,
4BA., 91.32; E. T. Rouse, 1PM.,
Men Behind Your Emotions
34-Year-Old Darryl F. Zanuck, Producer, Has Few Big
Names On His Payroll; Is Outstanding In Field
Where Competition Is Keen
By TED CARMACK
The magnitude of cinematic Holly­wood
involves the "cream" of writ­ers,
artists, and actors. The best of
everything pertaining to "drammer"
is all enclosed in that crazy little
city of Hollywood. Yet behind all
this glamour stands the brains that
form a symposium that brings remun­eration
for the high-salaried talent.
On the M. G. M. lot is a stout,
bald man named Louis B. Mayer. He
is the brains at Metro-Goldwyn-May-er
Studios. Sam Goldwyn does the
same job for United Artists. H. B.
Warner and a few close "heads" are
tops at Warner Brothers First Na­tional
Studios. Adolph Zukor is the
thinker for Paramount. Henry Cohn
presides at Columbia and Carl Leam-mele
for Universal. These men not
95.53; H. L. Rubin, 2Vet., 90.38.
H. G. Schiff, 1EE., 95.03; W. G.
Schuster, 4ME., 90.01; Eleanor
Scott, 2SL., 91.45; H. G. Sellers,"
2ChE., 92.14; P., H. Smith, 3Ag.,
92.52; Robert Smith, 4EE., 91.84;
W. M. Smith, HE., 92.24; G. V.
Stelzenmuller, 2EE., 92.65; W. B.
Stelzenmuller, 3CE., 97.13; R. E.
Strickland, 4CE., 96.32; Bernard
Sykes, 1PL., 90.36.
E. R. Taylor, 2ChE., 94.45; S. F.
Teague, 2ChE., 93.94; B. F. Thomas,
Jr., 1PM., 91.91; J. B. Thomas, 2SL.,
90.20; J. Thorpe, lAgEd., 90.98.
C. B. Vaughan, 4EE., 91.59; A.
W. Vogtle, 2PL., 90.00; W. M. Wal­lace,
4ME., 91.42; George F. Ward,
3AA., 92.51; Nellie Ruth Ward, 1-
HEc, 90.98; W. T. Warren, 3Arch.,
91.07; C. F. Watts, 4EE., 94.50; T.
Wheeler, 1PD., 91.27; E. L. White,
3SL., 90.04; L. F. Williams, ICh.,
90.93; Joe Witten, lVet., 91.02; J.
L. Wood, 3ChE., 90.94; Richard H.
Wood, 4EE., 91.19; R. M. Wood,
3ChE., 94.77; D. A. York, 3ChE.,
94.08; and George Young, 2ME.,
91.50.
only dabble in statistics about their
respective studios but they often give
the theme and idea to many produc­tions.
However, the wonder man in the
film world is Darryl F. Zanuck on
the Twentieth Century-Fox lot. A
recent issue of "Life" magazine gave
this little man some well-deserved
publicity. His salary last year edged
into $650,000 while he earned for
his company an estimated 10 million
dollars.
Only 34 years of age is the king
of the Twentieth Century-Fox lot.
Joseph M. Schenck is boss by title
but only partner in fact. Zanuck
moves around amiably thinking and
reading script about fourteen hours
a day—with the aid of about thirty
cigars. He doesn't play the movie
market for immortal masterpieces,
but for fine entertainment with
everyday thoughts and surroundings.
His pictures are always fast, timely
and "box office".
Zanuck has no Gables or Harlows
on his payroll. Actors are somewhat
secondary in his rotation of film out­put.
He either borrows or produces
such pictures of high . entertainment
value that he needs no "name" per­formers.
Although recently he has
begun building up a few names that
hit top — Simone Simon, Dionne
Quintuplets (they're his by contract),
and Sonja Henie. But Zanuck has
one top'rank star that is No. 1 star
of the world: Shirley Temple. He
pays her $300,000 a year. From
outside royalties Shirley receives the
staggering sum of $520,000 a year.
No doubt, she's "tops". Also, Zan­uck
has an "eagle eye" for new acts
and actors. His latest find is the
Ritz Bros. —
A meditative mind and exuberant
actions make Zanuck the "brain man"
of "Flicker City". For further proof
you should read the announcements
of the box office receipts.. ^
Our movie-going public often
SEEDED TEAMS STILL
AHEAD IN FRAT'S
CAGE TOURNAMENT
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The Lambda Chi's and the Pi K. A.'s
have taken their positions beside these
other winners, the Lambda Chi's by
virtue of the 19 to 9 set-back handed
the favored S. P. E. quintet and the
Pi K. A.'s as a result of a 26 to 14
triumph over the A.T.O.'s. Jim Risher
and Oliver Fletcher led the Pi K. A.
team in scoring, the former having a
total of 10 points to the latter's 7.
Wallace Nail and George Lehnert
shared high-score honors for the A.
T. O.'s with four apiece.
laugh, hope and even cry at pictures
shown in the theatres. Our react­ing
emotions are the result of such
fertile minds of men like Darryl F.
Zanuck who provide the sorrowful
world with entertainment, sympathy,
and hope.
TECH NOSES OUT
TIGERS BY SCORE
35-33 ON MONDAY
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Saturday night at I.R.C. Dance.
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