1937-04-21 The Auburn Plainsman

              Semi-Weekly Plainsman
Wednesday Issue Ste Auburn plainsman Textile Show
Tomorrow Night
VOLUME LX
TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT
AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1937 NUMBER 55
Final Plans
Completed
For Dances
Textiles Arrange Open House
Tomorrow Night 7:30 o'Clock
Committee Planning Biggest
Final Dances Beginning To­morrow
Ever To Be Here
5 HOUSE PARTIES
All Seniors Are To Be Admitted
For One Dollar Friday Af­ternoon,
M e r r i 11 States
Final plans and arrangements for
the Final Dances, a;t which George
Olsen and his "Music of Tomorrow"
will be featured, are complete and the
committee awaits only the arrival of
the orchestra to begin the biggest set
of dances ever to be held in Auburn.
The many major changes in the
handling of the dances and the cali­bre
of the orchestra point toward the
success of the affair. A complete list
of the many acceptances that have
been pouring in will be published in
Friday's issue. All seniors will be
admitted for one dollar Friday after­noon.
Blue Key, outstanding leader­ship
fraternity on the campus,
will tap its new pledges for next
year during the Friday after­noon
dance which it has bought.
This is the first time a public
tapping has been used by the
group and a unique program has
been arranged for the occasion.
Fifteen men from the junior
class are to be tapped at this
time, Dick Charlton, Blue Key
head, stated.
The Grand March in which Molly
Brasfield and Charlie Lawrence will
play the leading role has been changed
again by the committee back to Fri­day
night as was originally planned.
Other dances in the set of five have
been bought by various organizations,
Blue Key, Friday afternoon; Inter-
Fraternity Council, Saturday morn­ing;
and Buccaneers, a freshman so­ciety,
Saturday afternoon. There will
be two no-breaks and two lead-outs at
each of the day dances and three no-breaks
at the night dances.
Having the dances in the newly
opened W. P. A. Hall, the decorations
theme will vary from the usual with a
general motif of "Spring". Phil
Hamil and Chris Risher are in charge
of the decorations, which will be
made up mainly of vines and flowers
entwined on latticework.
"No visiting girls will be allowed to
stay in private homes," states Vernon
Merritt, chairman of the Social Com­mittee.
"There will be no exception
made to this rule as ample room will
be provided in the various house par­ties".
The Delta Sigma Phi, S. A. E.,
T. U. 0., and Phi Kappa Tau houses
have been set aside for housing the
visiting girls.
Due to the somewhat removed lo­cation
of the hall in which the dances
will be held, the Social Committee has
arranged to furnish free transporta­tion
to those attending the dances. The
route of the free ride will be from
Benson's corner to the hall and back.
The bus will probably make the route
every fifteen minutes.
. Season tickets for the entire set of
five dances are on sale at $8 with
tickets to single dances set at $3.50
for night dances and $1.50 for day
dances. All members of the social
committee have the tickets for sale at
any time before the dances.
Buccaneers Planning
Meeting On Saturday
A Freshman social organiza­tion,
The Buccaneers, has bought
the Saturday afternoon dance of
the final set. Arrangements for
the dance were made by John
Ivey, president of the Freshman
class.
In order to complete financial
details it is requested that Fresh­men
who are going to attend
this affair to get in touch with
Ivey or Dennis Newton before
Saturday noon.
By SON THOMAS
Students and townspeople will have
the opportunity of first hand observa­tion
of the construction of textile fab­rics
tomorrow night at the second an­nual
Open House of the School of Tex­tile
Engineering. The program is
scheduled to start at 7:30 P. M. .The
ohow is an annual project of Phi Psi,
national honorary textile society, and
is made possible through the coopera­tion
of that body, the textile faculty,
and students in the textile school.
All processes and machines, will be
thoroughly explained by student
guides who will conduct visitors
through the building and point out
the features and purposes of each unit
in actual operation. Every machine,
instrumental in the manufacture and
conditioning of the finished product
will be in full operation under the care
of student operators.
Complete Process Given
The processing originates in the
second floor of the Textile Building
where the cotton will be broken from
the bale and introduced into the first
machine on the long journey it will
take before it is. made into cloth. A
series of operations, involving the en­tire
second floor, follow, and the fin­ished
product of this division, yarn, or
thread, is carried to the first floor for
further conditioning and weaving.
Students in weaving courses at the
Auburn Textile School have been
working for the past several months
on unique designs and cloth patterns
to be exhibited at the Open House.
Among these are towels, ginghams,
sheeting, gabardines, and Jacquard
designs. A novelty Jacquard design
which will be observed as it is woven,
is a large likeness of Dr. L. N. Dun­can.
In addition to the actual weav­ing
of cloth, the various necessary
preliminary operations such as wind.-
ing and warping, will be demonstrat­ed.
At the same time the foregoing ac­tivities
are in progress, the intermedi­ate
processes of dyeing and finishing
will be carried out in the dyeing lab­oratories
of the textile school. The
application of several of the more ex­tensively
practiced types of after
treatment of both yarn and cloth will
be demonstrated exactly like the pro­cedure
in commercial dyehouses. In
the testing laboratory, various ma­chines
will be in operation which have
as^. their purpose the testing of yarn
and fabrics as to breaking strength,
twist, construction, and general char­acteristics.
Each unit in the various processes
will bear placards showing what it is
and its contributing purpose, and these
will be supplemented by short explan­atory
talks by the guides. Officials
of the show urge that any visitor de­siring
to understand a certain point
more fully should not be reluctant to
ask textile students for an explana­tion.
At this time the members of Phi Psi
will extend their thanks to Professor
E. W. Camp, Professor B. H. Craw­ford,
Doctor A. R. Macormac and all
textile" students who have worked in
an attempt to make the Open House a
success.
Ed Duncan
Picks 5 For
Committee
Holmes, Crabtree, Cox, McGe-hee
Are Named Members
And Cook Selected Alternate
Cabinet, 7-2, Votes Self
Free Tickets To Dances
Claims Unfairness—Stages Walkout
4 SENIORS, 2 JUNIORS
Congratulates Merritt On Work
Done During Year; Has No
Definite Plans At Present
Ethyl Company
To Show Movies
Tomorrow At 3
Lt. B. M. Cornell, instructor of
aeronautics, announced yesterday
that a demonstration by the Ethyl
Corporation and a sound film would
be shown in Broun Hall Auditorium at
3:00 Thursday afternoon.
W. C. Petty of the Ethyl Corpora­tion
will demonstrate the harmful ef­fects
of detonation, better known as
"knocking" in an engine due to the use
of low octane fuel. This demonstra­tion,
according to Lt. Cornell, is one
of the most graphic and of most in­terest
to engineers of any he has wit­nessed.
Besides the sound reel on the
development of transportation through
the ages from the era of the wooden
wheel to the present high speed in­ternal
combustion engine, it is expect­ed
that a film showing the actual
combustion process in a cylinder will
also be shown.
Of special interest to aeronauticals,
mechanicals, and chemicals, the dem­onstration
and films should be instruc­tive
to anyone. Everyone interested is
invited to attend. There will be no
charge for the demonstration which
will last approximately one hour.
Glomerata Is
Nearly Ready
For Delivery
Several Campus Organizations
Have Not Paid For Panels So
Delivery Is Being Held Up
Glomeratas are virtually ready for
delivery to the student body, pending
the settlement of financial obliga­tions
by a few of the campus organi­zation
and individuals, it was an­nounced
today by Editor Sam Gibbons.
This is the earliest date ever for the
yearbooks to be ready for distribution.
The fact was emphasized that no
books would be given to groups or in­dividuals
who are in arrears in the
payment for their panels and pictures.
The book is the largest ever put out
by the school. It contains in its en­tirety
332 pages of novel work in
photography and printer's art . . The
general theme is free and informal,
depicting the true spirit of Auburn
and its constituents. It has a novel
arrangement of snapshots, with an
addition of humor in explanation and
exemplification.
The cover is Doplex, with a hand­set
panel of laminated cellophane,
carrying a new style in color, that of
a gray overtone. The opening pages
are given over to the dedication of the
book and are done in quiet dignity.
Pencil Drawings Featured
The campus views are done in pen­cil
drawings, printed on plain buff
paper in acorn ink by Chris Risher,
senior in the School of Architecture.
The book is characterized throughout
by a red color scheme which provides
an excellent setting for the various
photographs and art work. The divis­ion
pages appearing at frequent in­tervals
in the annual are done irf five
colors, making them extremely at­tractive
to the eye. The class section
has a free running border of figures
which is over printed.
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Edward Duncan, chairman-elect of
the Social Committee, announced last
night that the following men have
been selected to serve with this body
beginning next September: , A. D.
Holmes of Jasper, Forest Crabtree of
Greensboro,-David Cox of Mobile and
Billy McGehee of Greenville. Sid
Cook, of Union Springs, was named
alternate.
Holmes, Crabtree, and Cox are
seniors next year while McGehee and
Cook will be juniors. None of these
men have served on the Social Com­mittee
before.
Duncan said that he would go be­fore
the Faculty Social Committee
sometime this week for final approval
of His selections.
Only one change was made in the
organization on this group that being
that an alternate was named to
serve in absence of any member. It
is believed that this step would facili­tate
the carrying out of all duties.
When asked to make a statement,
Duncan said, "I believe that I have
chosen men who will help best in mak­ing
this body a more effective organi­zation
and we are going to do all in
our power to give the student body
good orchestras next year. Vernon
Merritt, I believe has done a splendid
job as chairman, having brought two
outstanding bands here thus far and
George Olsen promises to be even
better."
The new chairman said at present
he had no definite plans for his pro­gram
next year but that a committee
meeting would be called soon in order
to begin work for next year.
This year's Social Committee was
composed of Vernon Merritt, chair­man,
and Ellis Dunning, Bill Lee, Ben
Vail, William Fulford, and Edwin
Haygood members.
Baseballers Win Over Georgia Twice;
Scores For Two Games Are 2-1, 7-2
The Auburn Tigers took advantage
of two of their scoring opportunities
at Drake Field Friday to eke out a
2-1 win over the University of
Georgia nine.
The Plainsmen hung up their
second victory over the Bulldogs
Saturday afternoon to make it four
in a row over the Georgians and ran
their conference wins upi to five.
Dick Swindle's effective relief hurl­ing
enabled the Bengals to trim
Georgia, 7-2.
Joel Eaves and Wallace Miller both
turned in stellar hurling perform­ances
during the opener. Eaves al­lowed
Georgia five hits, struck out
three and walked one. Miller held
the Auburn batsmen to three hits,
struck out seven and walked two.
The Bengals hung up their first
marker in the sixth session when Mil­ler
walked Captain Sidney Scar­borough,
who stole second and then
scored on Monroe Hayes' bingle.
Frank Hamm's double, a single by
Bruce Taylor, coupled with a wild
pitch by Miller enabled Auburn to
score their second tally in the seventh
stanza.
Georgia scored their lone run in
the final frame when Joe Gerson
singled and a pair of errors allowed
him to score.
Antley Starts Second Game
In the second game Lester Antley,
Auburn's starting pitcher, was re­lieved
at the start of the sixth after
he had given up five hits, struck out
(Continued on Page 4)
Group Acting Within Jurisdic­tion
When It Gives Self 100
Dollars Worth Of Passes
VERNON MERRITT ( l e f t ) , Social Committee Chairman, stated that
the Executive Cabinet bad taken unfair advantage of its position by
voting itself free dance tickets. JOE SARVER (right), cabinet head,
was against cabinet voting for passes but was unable to stop the action.
Sarver left the meeting and Max Welden, president-elect for 1938,
conducted the session.
New Officials
Of'Tiger Rag*
Take Charge
Bill Dudley, Editor, And Lopez
Mantoux, Business Manager,
For Rest Of Year, Next Year
Swor's Last Service
Is Tonight At 7:30
Chester Swor, professor of English
at Mississippi College, has been hold­ing
a series of Open Forum meetings
this week in the Student Hall and in
the Baptist Church. Tonight at 7:30,
he will conduct his last service at the
church while on this visit. Sponsors
of the meeting especially urge stu­dents
and townspeople to attend this
final meeting.
Mr. Swor's enlightening talks about
Sunday amusements, courtship, mar­riage,
dancing, and other social prob­lems
have been featured at the even­ing
meeting. At the night service,
Mr. Swor has. presented in a most ef­fective
way reasons why students
should not lose sight of that eventual
goal which means more than a suc­cessful
college career. As he said in
his talk last night, "one must take the
long look".
Players Are Ready
For Last Rehearsals
Putting the last touches to the fast
moving comedy, "The Great Cather­ine",
the Auburn Players will strike
s e t a t the Y-'Hut Friday afternoon
and move to Langdon Hall, where the
final dress rehearsals are to be held
before the presentation to the public.
The comedy will be presented in
Langdon Hall at eight o'clock Monday
evening. Popular prices for the ad­mission
of those not of the student
body will reign as before. All students
will be admitted free upon presenta­tion
of their student activity books.
Costumes for the dozen actors and
actresses have been ordered and the
dress rehearsals will be held over the
weekend. Professor T. B. Peet an­nounces
that all is in readiness for
the play in spite of the short time
which the cast has had to practice.
It was disclosed today that "Tiger
Rag", student humor magazine has
been taken over by Bill Dudley and
Lopez Mantoux. Dudley is to replace
George Quinney as editor; Mantoux
will carry out the managerial duties
formerly done by Frank Hendon.
At this time, the new business man­ager
stated that the "Final Dance
Edition" of the magazine would be on
sale either Friday and Saturday and
that all subscribers could get copies
on subscription fee paid at the begin­ning
of school, and also that non-subscribers
could buy copies for
twenty-five cents.
Feature Olsen
The dance number will feature
George Olsen and his famous band
which comes here for the Finals on
Friday and Saturday. A large pic­ture
of Molly Brasfield, who will lead
the dance with Charlie Lawrence, sen­ior
class president, is to, appear in the
magazine. All campus gossip, news
features, and jokes are to be included.
The new heads of this publication
are well known on the campus both
being outstanding students. Mantoux
is a junior in Business Administra­tion,
from Birmingham, pledge of
O. D. K., member of the Interfrater-nity
Council,-president of Sigma Nu
social fraternity, and a Scabbard and
Blade member. Dudley, of Seale, is a
sophomore in Business Administration
and member of S. A. E. social frater­nity.
Both men have been active on the
"Tiger Rag" staff during their years
in school and expect to make several
changes next year in order to present
even a better, more popular publica­tion
to the student body.
Lambda Chi's
Take Lead In
Frat Baseball
Leaders Have Won Nine Con­secutive
Games Taking Pi K.
A. In One-Sided Game 19-1
By JOHN IVEY
The Lambda Chi team has defeated
all opposition in their nine starts to
take the lead in the Inter-fraternity
baseball race. The feature in their
nine wins has been the excellent
hurling of Green, and Chandler. Since
last Friday the Lambda Chi's have
defeated Sigma Pi and A. T. O. by
scores of 7 to 5 and 8 to 1 respect­ively.
The rapidly rising Beta Kappa
Sluggers handed Pi Kappa Alpha a
terrific beating to the tune of 19 to 1.
The Thete Chi tea was defeated by
Beta Kappa 26 to 0. With this vic­tory
the Beta Kappa boys boast a
record of seven wins and one loss, a
4 to 7 decision to S. P. E. in their
second game of the season.
Week-End Games Given
Other games played over the week­end
and to date include a 6 to 5 win
by the Delta Sig's over the A. T. O.
team. The A. T. O.'s gave T. U. 0.
a licking 6 to 0W
The K. A.'s added the Phi Delta
Theta diamond drunners to their
string of wins with a score of 6 to 2.
This gives K. A. a record of three
wins and one tie.
The Kappa Sig ball team gave
Sigma Nu a 12 to 9 defeat. Making
it two in a row for the week-end the
Kappa Sig's took the A. T. O. nine
6 to 3.
Due to the fact that it has been im­possible
to get a complete check on
individual fraternity wins and loses
it has been impossible to publish a
box showing league standings, how­ever,
the box will be published in
Friday's Plainsman.
MAX WELDEN PRESIDES
Sarver, Against Action, Leaves
Meeting In Disgust; Vann,
Dunning Vote Against Move
Thirty-One Huntingdon Girls Present
Concert In Langdon Hall Last Night
By FRANKLYN WARD
Last evening thirty-one comely
young women, comprising the Hun­tingdon
College Glee Club, came to
Auburn to present a varied and beau­tiful
program of music and lyric both
classical and modern in Langdon.
The audience though fairly small was
most appreciative, and time after
time showed its pleasure by prolonged
applause.
The Glee Club, accompanied by
Dorothy Baxter and directed by Erie
Danley, rendered a number of the
more semi-classical compositions at
different points throughout the pro­gram.
Special features of the concert in­cluded
solos by Ida Sue Wrenn, piano
solos by Pauline Cain, Japanese songs
by nine of the Glee Club dressed in
Oriental costumes, and renditions of
two popular selections by a quartet of
the young women.
Following the intermission, Reid
Doster, young baritone from Lanier
High School in Montgomery, obliged
the audience with two well-known
popular solos.
Outstanding for the praise given
by the audience were the solo "L'Am-our
Toujours L'Amour" by Miss
Wrenn and the popular selections by
the quartet.
The concert was brought to a close
by the group with the Alma Mater of
Huntingdom College. Immediately
following the concert a dance was
given the visiting young women by the
members of the Auburn Glee Glob.
By THE EDITOR
The Student Executive Cabinet last
night voted that every member of that
body would be given a free pass to the
Final Dances by the Social Committee.
This information came from an au­thoritative
source close to both the
Executive Cabinet and Social Com­mittee.
Seven of the nine Cabinet members
present last night favored this move.
Jack Vann, junior, and Ellis Dunning,
senior, opposed voting free passes.
The Cabinet was acting within its
jurisdiction as the Social Committee
is under the former body and any
action the Cabinet sees fit to take
must be accepted by the Committee.
When questioned concerning this
action, Vernon Merritt, Social Com­mittee
head, said that there was very
little he was able to do about it as the
Cabinet was over him. "But I do be­lieve
that they (Cabinet members)
were taking advantage of their posit­ion.
It was unfair action. The Social
Committee has enough expenses to
bear without giving away approxi­mately
100 dollars in passes to stu­dents
who have no right to expect
them. It is not a good precedent to
set."
Sarver Unable To Stop Action
Joe Sarver, president of the Cabi­net,
attended the meeting but left
upon discovering what was to be done.
"With politics over and their term
nearly ended, the members wanted to
get whatever they could," Sarver said.
He made it plain that he disapproved
of the action, but that he could not
keep such a measure from going
through.
Acting in place of Joe Sarver was
Max Welden, president-elect of the
Cabinet for next year. There was
very little discussion on the matter as
there was such a majority for free
passes.
Merritt, explaining why he did not
favor the Cabinet having free tickets,
said that it was no loss to him per­sonally,
but that with such expenses
as renting the W. P. A. Hall, rain in­surance,
the chances taken by hold­ing
the dances at this new place, and
of course the high cost of the band,
the Committee would need every dol­lar
to make the dances pay.
No money connected with the dance
group goes through the Cabinet and
only a financial report, as a matter of
form, is presented it by the Social
Committee. ,
Floyd Pugh Elected
President Of Sphinx
Sphinx elected new officers for next
year at a recent meeting, it was an­nounced
by Netty Murphy, present
head of the organization. Those to
serve in the administrative capacities
next year are: Floyd Pugh, president;
Mary Murphy, vice-president; Eileen
Pilgrim, secretary; Katherine Quat-tlebaum,
treasurer; Mary Haygood,
Editor of "All in a Day", the organi­zation's
paper which was initiated this
year.
A loving cup will be given to the
sophomore co-ed having the highest
average at the next convocation for
women students, which will be held
in the near future. This is one of
Sphinx's many constructive activities
in their program to invigorate the
Auburn co-ed's school career. Their
program also includes the sponsoring
of Oracles and the giving of teas for
Juniors. The organization has taken
an active part in the promotion of the
May Day program.
NOTICE !
There will be a meeting of the Social
Committee tomorrow night at 7 o'clock
in the front of Samford Hall.
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Deserving Reward
We notice that the Go-To-Church
contest has from year to year brought
severe editorial criticism. Hardly an
editor lets the chance pass to make a
dig at the idea of giving something to
entice students to attend church. But
if the offering of a reward is neces­sary
in getting someone to perform
an act, why not do it?
Diplomas are given for one's
finishing college, loving cups are of­fered
for a better fraternity baseball
team's winning a tournament; both
are offered in an attempt to bring out
the best in the person and is for that
person's personal gain. Church at­tendance
is a similar thing. Those
who are against the practice of giving
a trophy for something that one
should do on his own accord and for
his own good have overlooked the
comparable circumstances. The re­ward
given shows an effort to stimu­late
the interest of contestants, to
make it something more tangible.
And this applies the same in educa­tion,
athletics, or church attendance.
"Inactive" Honor Frats
There are certain groups on this
campus which go by the name of hon­or
societies in whose constitutions will
be found phrases having to do with
the welfare of the institution; these
societies are overlooking many golden
opportunities to carry out this part of
their alleged purposes. From all visi­ble
evidences of their activities, a
large number of these are only an­other
means of adding keys to the
already overload watch chain.
It is quite true that there are a
few of these organizations doing quite
a bit of good work on the campus to­ward
the promotion of the best in­terests
of the Alma Mater. But these
few are in a pitiable minority.
Any attempt to analyze this plight
of self-evident stagnation presents a
problem that is most baffling—it
seems to have only one solution. All
seem to agree that the most brilliant
minds of the campus may be found
by merely pursuing the rolls of the
honor societies, and it is most logical
to believe that the very membership,
of such an organization would be a
deciding factor in the production and
creation of movements pertaining to
the welfare of the institution. Yet,
such is not the case. Instead of a
feeling of good natured rivalry exist­ing
among these groups as to which
can be of the most service, there is
an evident lackadaisical sentiment of
letting the other fellow do it. Having
arrived at the zenith of success in col­lege
by being initiated into an honor
fraternity is no reason for a student
or a group of students to absolutely
lay down on the job.
Most of these organizations have
for their basic foundations the highest
ideals. It was never meant by ;the
founders, of these organizations that
they should be only a mere means of
marking the outstanding student. We
will grant that this may be one of the
ideals, but it is a very poor organiza­tion
indeed that offers only mere re­cognition
without a chance for fur­ther
service.
Members of one such fraternity,
realizing that nothing of benefit to
Auburn was being done, did the best
thing possible—they disbanded and
returned the charter. It might not be
a bad idea for members of several
other fraternities to do the same
thing.
In this era of progress, when every­thing
is steadily advancing forward,
one of the worst possible things a
person or organization can do is to
rest upon its laurels. Such a thing as
remaining at a standstill is complete­ly
out of date; not only is it out of
date, but it is an utter impossibility.
Either we advance or we fall behind.
There is no such thing as standing
still. Any one attempting to do this
must inevitably wake up to find out
that the world has gone on.
What Will He Do?
Here of late, President Roosevelt
has been working overtime in the
White House study, trying to com­plete
budget plans for the ensuing
year. His humanitarian nature has
made it a hard task indeed for him.
He is tossed between two tides, the
one reminding him that there are
still thousands of unfortunates who
must be taken care of, and the other
telling him that he must reduce relief
appropriations if the nation is to come
anywhere near a financial balance.
Last week the president was quoted
as having stated that he was seeking
to confine relief expenditures to 1,-
500,000,000 for the twelve months
following June 1. This indicates that
he will again put through an exten­sive
relief program despite much ad­verse
criticism.
It is believed that he will make a
slight reduction in the relief appro­priations,
but not nearly so large a
decrease as the general public antici­pates.
If the reduction is too small,
he will be the object of much criti­cism
from some groups, but he will
rise higher in the estimations of those
who realize the cause to which these
expenditures go.
News and Views
By JAMES BUNTIN
- i _
Cultural Courses
No doubt, at various times during
our years in Auburn, all of us have
wondered why different subjects
which seem to have no direct bearing
on the types of work we are studying
are included in the courses. Cultural
subjects such as English, French,
Spanish, German, philosophy, psy­chology,
and others, seem to bob up in
most unexpected places where there
is no evident relation between them
and the general courses being
pursued.
"Why are these subjects included in
the engineering curriculum?" is a
question frequently asked. It seems
that a «more logical question would
be, "Why are not more of these sub­jects
required?"
It is our belief that on many'oc­casions
successful men who have been
denied the benefits of a cultural back­ground
have realized the values of
such training, and in support of this
contention, we quote an excerpt from
Chauncey M. Depew, in the autobio­graphy,
My Memories of Eighty
Years:
"In connection with this I may say
that it has been my lot, in the peculiar
position which I have occupied for
more than a half-century as counsel
and adviser for a great corporation
and its creators and the many success­ful
men who have surrounded them,
to learn to know how men who have
been denied in their youth the oppor­tunities
for a cultural education feel
when they are in possession of for­tunes
and the world seems at their
feet. Then they painfully recognize
their limitations, then they know,
their weaknesses, then they under­stand
that there are things which
money cannot buy, and that there are
gratifications and triumphs which no
fortune can secure. The one lament
of all those men has been, "Oh!, if I
had been educated; I would sacrifice
all that I have to obtain the oppor­tunities
of the college, to be able to
sustain not only conversation and dis­cussion
with the educated men with
whom I come in contact, but compe­tent
also to enjoy what I see is a de­light
to them beyond anything which
I know'".
You'll Hear Something
Auburn is fortunate to have such a
man as John Temple Graves to speak
before its graduating class. A better
choice could not have been made.
Mr. Graves is one of our younger
Southern men with a talented in­sight
into human nature, social and
economical conditions, and a broad
outlook on all matters with which
he is familiar. His journalistic work
is in good part responsible for such
valuable knowledge, but Mr. Graves
is also a polished speaker and an
intellectual person.
IS IT JEW ENGINEERING that the
British administrators receive in securing
their education? Neville Chamberlain,
Chancellor of the Exchequer, has- announced
that Great Britian had ended the 1936-1937
budget year with a surplus of 34 million
dollars. This surplus is an accumulation
after 900 million was expended for defense.
This country (our grandmother, aunt,
mother country, or something) borrowed
4,000 million dollars during the World War
to carry on her operations. It was her
sacred promise to repay this paltry sum
once she was able. The U. S. was sympa­thetic,
wanted the world to be safe for de­mocracy,
liked fair and square transactions,
hated oppression and under-handed actions,
so she gladly gave her most munificent aid.
The first payment has yet to be made.
American taxpayers have complained
through one medium or another through the
years about the extent of taxation. Just to
add zest to their complaints, they might
consider themselves also as the virtual tax­payers
of Great Britian. It sounds some­what
akin to irony to bring up that "taxa­tion
without representation" again.
* * * *
"AND ON THAT DAY SEVEN
WOMEN SHALL LAY HANDS ON ONE
MAN", spake Isaiah. Public opinion asks
why the modern young man ducks marriage
and why there are so many petting parties
and so few wedding vows. Civilization ad­vances,
but ahead of it, complication. The
economic set-up has it now that the average
young woman makes more money than the
equally young man. He can't afford to
marry on such conditions. It would usually
prove embarrassing, and marriage'like that
isn't worth the price. Too, this is the day
of professions, and an important profession
becomes an obsession to its possessor. It
can't be laid aside for trivial things.
It is reported that the women are just as
eager to marry as ever. That is one con­soling
factor and has its worth. , They are
with us in college, receiving an equal edu­cation,
and becoming just as prepared for
a career as the men. It might be probable
that the answer to the problem is the in­cluding
in the curriculum something that
must be slightly akin to "bohemianism".
* * * *
IN THESE DAYS OF PEACE the Presi­dent
of the United States has more worries
than ever before. Normally, one would ex­pect
to take off for a good vacation in days
that promised a returned prosperity and
good will. But again, there is that matter
of this modern civilization and what it al­lows.
It is the day of the strenuous exist­ence.
The problems and controversies of
the day verify such.
Plainsman Forum—Voice of the Students
Cats and Canaries
By THE DIRTY DUO
To whom it may concern: But for one in
particular—I am a crawfish W.
R. Bell (paid adv't.)
* * * *
Popular request: Will Ed Plaisance
please pull down his shades before starting
to disrobe as he doesn't resemble Tarzan in
the slightest. This also applies to the Theta
Chi lads. /
* * * *
"We 46" hid himself behind dark eye
crutches last Friday nite as he begged
practically every female in sight for late
dates—he had only one when he exited.
* * * *
Gordy and Van Shepard really should
take care where they spend their evenings.
Even tho iron bars do not a prison make,
it's a swell imitation.
* * * *
Outstanding example of persistence—
Melson waiting five consecutive times to
take a young lass named Sneed to the show.
Note: he went alone.
* * * *
A new host has been added to Mrs. Lowe's
residence—Harvey Wilkes.
* * * *
F. A. McKinze took a stiff workout at
the Cotton Ball with Tooker as the com­panion
in arms. Swell going, Shiners.
* * * *
Even Hulda can't make Osmo quit his to­bacco
chewing!
* * * *
An ardent admirer was seen rushing from
Benson's to Sammy's with buttered toast for
Jean Bailey Monday nite. Devotion plus!
* * * *
Mary Murphy has been specializing in
watering flower beds and tending to small
black dogs in her spare time. HUH!
* * * *
SPECIAL!!—Chicken Davis was seen
trying to climb in a second story window at
Mrs. Wittel's last Saturday. Gentle hint:
get a longer ladder for future excursions.
* * * *
It was rumored that "Toots" Pattridge
stood up her date Saturday nite for the
whole Delta Sig set of dances!—psst, psst!!
* * * *
A SUGGESTIVE PICTURE: The dark
beauty of Mary Carmack and the blonde
grace of Louie "Adonis" Rice—framed by j
their little blue runabout.
Students Should Get Better "Break"
In Rooming Facilities
Editor, The Auburn Plainsman
Dear Sir:
I wonder as I drive over the "loveliest
Village" and notice the great number of
houses under construction, most of them
being built I presume for rent, if the stu­dents
will not get a better break than ever
before in respect to a place to live.
You perhaps know that there are some
places offered for rent for students that are
not fit for habitation. The ventilation is
poor and the heating facilities are poorer.
It seems to the writer that it is time for
some of the landlords to think of the stu­dents'
side of the matter and consider that
we are human beings and like nice quiet
rooms reasonably attractive.
What we would like to see would be the
building of a few student cooperative halls
on the campus owned by the college and op­erated
at the^owest possible cost by a group
of students. The exploiting of the students
in housing and other things has gotten to a
sore point. It is time for the students to
speak out and refuse to be done out of their
few dimes. Lets hear from others on this
subject. Truly, Homeless.
Campus Takes On New Life And Beauty
With Spring In The Air
Editor, The Auburn Plainsman
Dear Sir:
Auburn's campus certainly has undergone
a remarkable change in the past week or
two. Until the first of March there was not
even a semblance of new and fresh vege­table
growth; now, practically all of Au­burn's
flowers and trees have taken on new
life and are bursting into bloom.
Particularly is that part of the campus
around Samford Hall, Langdon Hall, and
the Architectural Building beautiful. The
grass seems to have grown by leaps and
bounds along the entire block of College
Street in front of the main buildings, and
it possesses a shade of green which can
hardly be beaten by the other vegetation. The
few cedars scattered along this block are
tinted with light green which means new
growth, and the leaves of the oaks have ex­changed
their drab leaves for new and rich­ly
colored green leaves. The dogwood leaves.
The dogwood trees, which command the al­most
undivided attention of passers-by, make
a beautiful scene with their brilliant white
blooms against a background of several
shades of green.
There is only one thing lacking in this
description to make an attempt of portray­ing
that part of the college grounds . . .
birds and many of them. During the past
few days we have had a few birds to come
and sing for us, but there are not quite
enough of them to go around. As hard as
they may try, a few birds cannot possibly
do justice to this large block of spring beau­ty.
We sincerely hope that all of the birds
that have frequented Auburn's campus in
the past will soon have a large reunion in
the way of an all day singing with dinner
on the grounds; then, since they cannot help
liking the place, they may decide to make
the singing an everyday occurrence.
Other schools may have more beautiful
buildings and paved sidewalks and the like,
but I sincerely believe that Mother Nature
has not planned very many more beautiful
campuses than ours. Yours,
A Lover of Beauty.
Pipe Smoker Compares Ladies To Cig­arettes,
Cigars, and Pipes
Editor, The Auburn Plainsman
Dear Sir:
I hope you will see fit to publish this bit
of original poetry. Here goes:
Bad men
Like women
Like cigarettes.
All slender and waiting
In a row.
To be selected, set aflame
And when the flame has died
Discarded
More fastidious men
Like their women
Like cigars
They are more exclusive.
If the brand is good
They are not given away.
Nice men
Prefer their women »
To be like pipes.
To be cherished and cared for.
And when charred,
Knocked gently, but lovingly.
No man shares his pipes.
You know, that isn't far from the truth,
is it? - A Pipe Smoker.
On Other Campuses
By JOHN GODBOLD
Most any kind of louse can be found in the
"lousiest place in the world," the museum
of natural history at Stanford University.
It houses 220 different species in the col­lection
of a biologist. However, one really
doesn't have to go that far to find assorted
types of lice.
* * * *
An aspiring collegiate reporter recently
interviewed a "ten-cents-a-dance" girl of
Oakland, California. According to the taxi
girl's observations Stanford men are more
nearly gentlemen than the fellows from Uni­versity
of California. And the best dancers
are economics majors the worst, the
engineers.
* * * *
At St. Thomas College the students who
do "rotten" work have to smell it. Silly as
that seems it's really true. Piqued by an
exceptionally poor set of examination papers
a professor there decided to grade not by
figures but by smell. The best papers were
liberally besprinkled with attar of roses per­fume;
as the quality of the papers de­creased
the sweetness of the smell de­creased.
Medium papers had reached the
hydrogen sulfide (rotten egg) stage. Those
which were complete failures were saturated
with.butyric acid which is pretty awful; it
smells like triply-strong rancid butter and
has a clinging effect upon clothing and
hands. The astonishing result of the whole
plan is that it has improved grades 30
percent.
* * * *
Criticism that college students are not al­lowed
to break their shackles long enough
to exercise-initiative is being met at Prince­ton
by the introduction of a "free week"
during which upperclassmen can carry on
study independently. The juniors and
seniors are being released from classes for
the week preceding the annual spring vaca­tion.
* * * *
Cheers from passers-by and honks from
cars didn't discourage the coed from Kil-gore
College who stopped in front of an up­town
filling station and calmly brushed her
teeth. She continued until she finished, the
very last molar.
* * * *
When they saw two skunks strolling
through their living room, members of Sig­ma
Chi fraternity at Colgate University
sprinted for the wide open spaces. A few
daring men who inched their way back into
the room got a distinct surprise when they
saw one of the lodge brothers petting the
striped critters. The fellow laughed at
their wariness and announced that the two
animals couldn't be offensive because of
surgical operations that had fitted them for
polite society. Everybody sighed with relief.
On Our Campus
By EDWIN C. GODBOLD
Yesterday the ringing contraption in the
Main Building, the Main Building tower
clock, and our watch all coincided! Ye gods!
* * *
Oliver Wendell Holmes says that in every
one of us there are two persons. First,
there is yourself, and then there is the
Other Fellow. Now, one of these is all the
time doing things, and the other sits inside
and tells what he thinks about the per­formance.
We do so and so, and the Other
Fellow sits judgment upon us all the time.
* * * *
We may tell a lie, and do it so cleverly
that the people think we have done or said
a great and good thing. And they may
shout our praises far and wide. But the
Other Fellow sits inside and says,. "You're a
liar and a sneak, and you know it!" We
tell him to shut up, to hear what the people
are saying about us; but he continues to re­peat
over and over again, "You're a liar and
a sneak, and you know it!"
* * * *
Or, again, we may do a really noble deed,
but perhaps be misunderstood by the public,
who may persecute us and say all manner
of evil against us, falsely; but the Other
Fellow will sit inside and say, "Never mind,
old fellow! It's all right!" And we would
rather hear a "well done" from the Other
Fellow than the shouts of praise from the
entire world; while we would a thousand
times rather the people should shout them­selves
hoarse with rage and envy, than that
the Other Fellow should sit inside and
whisper, "You're a liar and a sneak, and
you know it!"
» * * *
In his letters Robert Louis Stevenson said
that when he invented a language there
would be a direct and indirect pronoun dif­ferently
declined, as, direct: he, him, his;
and indirect: tu, turn, tus. "Then writing
would be some fun," he says, and as an
example gives: "He siezed turn by tus
throat; but tu at the same moment caught
him by his throat." He comments, "A fel­low
could write hurricanes with an inflec­tion
like that."
* * * *
It sounds fun, but we are afraid that we
are rather like the little girl who read "Jab-berwocky"
for the first time, and puzzled
at this beast who "Came .whiffling through
the tulgey wood, and burbled as it came",
commmented at the bottom of the poem as
follows:
"It seems very pretty," she said when she
had finished it, "but it's rather hard to un­derstand!"
(You see, she didn't like to con­fess,
even to herself, that she couldn't make
it out at all.) "Somehow it seems to fill
my head with ideas—only I don't exactly
know what they are! However, somebody
killed something; that's clear-at any rate."
We Forty-Six
By HUGH CAMERON
P. Bag, local merchant, is planning a sur­prise
soon does the new hotel pulls itself
together.
* * * *
Sign out on the top
of the mountain at
Wright's Mill says not
to pick the flowers,
but nowhere does it
say anything about
not throwing beer
cans in the crick.
There is a great need for such a sign now
that the Winter is getting warmer. We
always did claim beer cans and bottles
should be used exclusively to throw at Um­pires.
. .
play.
and co-eds who call the wrong
Notice to the writer of the centerfield
slush: One late date is wrong. You didn't
see the other two waiting in the car. Or
was one of them, J. Widder Roberts?
* * * *
Aunt Hattie, local match maker, is hav­ing
quite a time of it. Next time do you
want to know what snake has a date with
your best girl just run by and get the low
down from the match maker. The local
hardware stores have sold more ammunition
for pistols than ever before since Aunt Hat-tie
has started into letting the facts be
known.
* * * *
If our Track team was beaten Saturday
let us be glad it was beaten by an Auburn
coached man. Weems Oliver Baskin, the
old timber topper, who used to look out of
the second story window of the Pi K. A.
House (present T. U. O. house) and swear
to high heaven because his Chevrolet had
two flat tires. When Weems Oliver had a
flat tire the whole of Gay Street knew about
it in five minutes.
Begins the Final Dances this week-end
out in the woods. And for Aunt Hattie's
benefit. . . I have a date with OUR girl for
the week-end. So let's not have any holler­ing
about: "Who was that man I seen, etc."
* * * *
Any of you who don't have a way out to
the woods this week-end for the dances can
see V. Merritt, who is planning an excursion
out there. You have to bring your own box
lunches to eat on the way, but it will be a
fine ride. For, you know, when V. Merritt
takes anybody for a ride they stay rided for
quite a while.
* * * *
And while we are thinking of the Chicago
man let us congratulate him on having the
best bands down here that could be obtain­able.
We have all had fun and more fun is
expected this week-end.
I can remember the time when the Junior
Prom was the only big dance to be held all
year. The other two had some New Orleans
jug band pulling the melodies out of a bass
horn and a tin piano. And they didn't sound
so good.
Pete's Epistle
Dere Paw:
I nerley fell on the floor from laffing
when i seen ole John motor into town in
that there battered hulk of a Tee brand
with quilt uphostiry and frog skin tires. At
least they looked like frog skins with all
those warts on them. But when i hurd how
he got the goldarned thang i did fall clean
on the floor. He was sort of teed up and
couldent ketch a ride so he decided to pur­chase
a arto and since he was teed he got a
Tee model to go with it like a gal gets a
hat to go with a dress.
My gracious sakes alive they shore start
out early in the Kapital Sity. In fact
they start out nearly as soon as they do up
there in the hills. When i was at the Cry
Skrigmer Cry joock i jest sat back and
watched Wild Bill Lee joock and all the
little highschoolers stagger in and out. One
of them took a nose dive into the meal on
the floor and came up looking like a kris-kros
fence on a frosty morn. Inserdentally
he got a free ride in the Black Maryier
through the courtesy of the Kapital Sity
perlise.
Thangs are all getting in a uproar on the
approach of the Joock Fest skeduled for
Phriday and Sattiddy with Olie Olsen and
rantin tantin tootin orchestra afernishing
the melodies. All the boys have already
ordered gals and likker and have -started
ketching rides so by Phriday they will be
done arrived at the Roosevelt hall. Some of
them won't get back to town ontel some­time
next week when they sober up. Here's
my dance pome: ,
A boy goes tew a final dance
And dranks likker thru a spout.
First he has ants in his pants,
And then he goes and passes out.
A gal goes tew a final dance
And says she's sent by fate.
First she sets out to prance,
And then hurries out to late date.
Them's my sentiments toward the way
folks acts at the joocks they hold around
here. .-. disgustedly>youis, , Pete.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 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 INSTITUTE P A G E T H R EE
PEACOCK BUILDING
NOW RENOVATED IN
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L o c a t i o n O n A v e n u e " A " T a k es
N e w A s p e c t A s A l l W o r k On
B u i l d i n g H a s B e e n F i n i s h ed
Of unusual interest to this section
of the state is the completion of the al­terations
to the Peacock Building on
Avenue "A" in Opelika.
The sales room of the first floor
is the last word in store decoration
and illumination. The ceiling is of
modernistic lines held to simple dig­nity
and is of three colors as also is
the cornice and door and window
treatment. The windows are metal
throughout, glazed with wire glass.
Illumination is both of indirect and
semi-indirect type. The show windows
are illuminated with indirect flood
lighting. Ceiling fan outlets are pro­vided
as also is a 3-foot diameter fan
insert provided in the rear wall.
All windows are treated strictly
modern as to wall, ceiling and floor
finish. The floor is a parquet floor in
black and brown with black border
and base.
Front part of the second story is
given over to the 14-room dental suite
of Drs. Peacock and McLure, and rep­resents
the latest in efficiency, equip­ment
and design. The whole of this
suite has been finished throughout in
a modernistic vein, including the fur­niture,
lighting fixtures and equip­ment.
The flooring of this suite is heavy
battleship linoleum of varied colors
throughout. The walls have been
finished in appropriate colors. Of
particular interest are the reception
room, dental rooms and the X-ray
room. These rooms represent the lat­est
development in room treatment.
Dental rooms and X-ray laboratory
are held to green, ivory and aluminum.
The wainscot is of varied green linol­eum
trimmed with aluminum. The
base and border are of dark green li­noleum.
Of particular interest in the
dental rooms is the air-cell rubber
floor.
An attraction of interest is the pow-
SOCIETY AND NEWS FEATURES
S o c i e t y E d i t o r , M A R I O N S T A N L E Y , P h o n e 3 05
Memorial Exercises
Planned On April 26
• • *
At the Memorial Day Exercises,
which will be held in Auburn on April
26, with Mrs. B. B. Ross presiding,
three Memorial Bronze Tablets will
be unveiled. The audience will as­semble
on the lawn of General James
H. Lane's residence, with the College
Band playing.
The program will be as follows:
Invocation, Reverend Carl Preer;
Music, Confederate Airs, College
Band; delivering the Cross of Service
to Andrew Dowdell Lipscomb, Miss
Susan Lipscomb, Mrs. Herman Jones,
and Mrs. Ralph Draughon; unveiling
Tablet honoring General James H.
Lane, Mrs. George Petrie and Miss
Kate Lane; tribute to General James
H. Lane, Dr. George Petrie; March,
College Band; audience will go to
former home of Dr. W. L. Brown;
Music, Confederate Airs, College
Band; unveiling Tablet honoring Dr.
William Leroy Brown, Margaret and
Sheldon Toomer; tribute to Dr. Wil­liam
Leroy Brown, President L. N.
Duncan; audience will then go to resi­dence
of Dr. C. S. Yarbrough; Music,
Confederate Airs, College Band; un­veiling
Tablet honoring William L.
Yancey, Mrs. Herman Jones and Mrs.
Ralph Draughon; tribute to William
L. Yancey, Hon. T. D. Samford; Bene­diction,
Reverend Sam B. Hay.
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der room outside each of the dental
rooms. These are finished in chron-ium
steel and a plate glass mirror.
The whole of the second floor is
provided with a most up-to-date win­ter-
air-conditioning and summer cool­ing
system. The whole of the up­stairs
is thermostatically zone con­trolled
with electric remote control to
the furnace room of the first story.
An automatic humidifier provides the
proper humidity at all times.
Alterations were carried out under
the direction of Professor E. Walter
Burkhardt of the School of Architec­ture
& Allied Arts of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, who made a
special study of the latest develop­ments
in the use of materials, equip­ment
and lighting.
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OPELIKA, ALABAMA
Mrs. T. F. Brown, of Montgomery,
was in Auburn Sunday as the guest of
her son, *Jarvis.
* * *
Max Welden spent the week-end in
Athens, Ga., where he attended the
Southern Regional Meet of the Lamb­da
Chi Alpha Fraternity which was
held at the University of Georgia.
* * *
Joe Ledbetter, graduate of 1934,
who is now connected with the Benson
Printing Co. in Nashville, is spending
several days'in Auburn.
* * *
Melba Holley, of Columbus, spent
the past week-end in Auburn with her
sister, Julia Holley.
* * *
Mildred Nunn spent the week-end in
Columbus as the guest of Margaret
Watkins.
* * *
Bill Milam spent the past week-end
at his home in Jackson, Tenn.
* * *
Frances Wilson was the g^est of
Gretchen Talley at her home in Green­ville,
S. C , over the week-end.
* * *|
Visiting their homes in Birmingham
last week-end were Bob Armstrong,
Burt Knox, John C. Rice, Jeff Carle-ton,
and George Garden.
* * *
Walter Robinson, graduate of last
year, spent Sunday in Auburn.
* * *
Edward Briggs, and Martin Mar-dirosian
spent the first part of the
week in Chattanooga, where they at­tended
the A. S. M. E. Convention.
Jim Pike, president of the local
chapter of Phi Psi, National Honorary
Textile Society, spent last week in
Philadelphia and New York, where he
attended the National Convention of
the Society.
D e l t a S i g m a Phi G i v es
S p r i n g D a n c e O n F r i d ay
Kappa Chapter of Delta Sigma Phi
Fraternity entertained at their Spring
dance with a tea dance Saturday af­ternoon
and a Sailor's Ball that night.
This was the first Sailors' Ball ever
given on this campus and was very
successful.
During intermission of the night
dance, the members, pledges, and their
dates enjoyed a buffet supper at the
chapter house. The Auburn Knights
played for both dances.
The following out-of-town girls were
in Auburn for the dances as the guests
of the Delta Sigs: Kitty Smith, Dotte
Martin, Janice Bodine, Elizabeth
Floyd, Mary Evelyn Chambers, Lona
Mae Ginn, Janie Lou Thompson, Lilly
Glass, Sarah Peay, Margaret Bow­man,
and Julia Cooper, of Birming­ham;
Harriette Burke and Bettye
Jones, Montgomery; Jean Buxbam, Al­bany,
Ga.; Anita Hopper, Scooba,
Miss.; and Emily McLendon, Monte-vallo.
Chaperons for the dances were Cap­tain
and Mrs. R. E. M. Des Islets,
Prof, and Mrs. Scott, Mr. and Mrs. J.
T. Fain, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Bar-nett,
Miss America Ball, and Mrs. J.
F. Mullikin, who also chaperoned the
houseparty.
S i g m a Chi I n i t i a t es
N e w Men Last F r i d ay
The Gamma Sigma Chapter of the
Sigma Chi Fraternity held an initia­tion
on Friday night, April 17, this
being the third initiation held by this
chapter on the Auburn campus during
the current school year. The initiates
were Francis Newburn, Eugene
Scholtz, Don Wendling, Walton
Thompson, and Earl Guy. After the
initiation the new members were hon­ored
by a midnight supper.
At the meeting held a few days
prior to the initiation, the new officers
for the year 1937-38 were | elected.
They are as follows: Robert M. Strain,
President; David Roberts, Vice-Presi­dent;
J. F. Laseter, Secretary; Wil­liam
0. Butler, Treasurer; and Art
Ousley, Pledge Mentor. The retiring
officers are: Joe Stewart, President;
Robert M. Strain, Vice-President;
Robert G. Johnson, Secretary; John
Savage, Treasurer; and Harry Grimes,
Pledge Mentor.
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Hershal Bailey at A. T. O. House
to get your tennis racquets re-strung.
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Pi Kappa Phi's Go To
Meet In Montgomery
Twenty-one members and pledges of
the Alpha Iota Chapter of Pi Kappa
Phi attended a state conclave of dis­trict
7 at the Whitley Hotel in Mont­gomery
last Friday and Saturday,
The conclave was the second of its
type to be held in Alabama and env
braced five chapters of Pi Kappa Phi
—Auburn, Howard, Alabama, Mont
gomery Alumni, and Birmingham
Alumni. ,
Registration began Friday after­noon
and continued uninterrupted un­til
a smoker for the delegates began
in the Civic Room of the hotel that
night. The purpose of the smoker
was to give all men a chance to meet
the members and alumni of the chap­ters
other than their own.
Approximately sixty delegates at­tended
the business sessions that be­gan
on Saturday morning with a fra­ternity
singing under the direction of
Jack Adams. The delegates were of­ficially
welcomed to the conclave by
Howard Upchurch, Auburn alumnus
and Archon of the Montgomery Alum­ni
chapter of the fraternity which was
the host for the meeting. Response
to the welcome from the alumni was
given by James A. Watts, Alabama
alumnus from Luverne, and response
from the actives was given by Buster
Stroud, Archon of the Alabama chap­ter.
An address on "College Fraterni­ties"
was given by George M. Grant,
former National Secretary of the
fraternity from Troy. There follow­ed
a speech, "Glimpses of the Past",
by Earle Stapletonof Dothan. Speech­es
and talks on various phases of
fraternity life and problems were
given by Cecil A. Carlisle, Birming­ham;
Jack Adams, Auburn; Howard
Workman, Auburn; Dick Carleton,
Auburn; Yougene Lamar, Alabama;
James Adams, Alabama; Charles
Sharp, Howard; and Ed Beason, Bir­mingham.
The morning session was
concluded by a talk, "Highlights of
the Seattle Convention and Forecasts
for the Jacksonville Convention", by
Billy Roberts, Auburn.
At a luncheon in the ball room of
the hotel a interesting address, "Inti­mate
Glimpses of the Central Office",
was given by John H. McCann, as­sistant
National Secretary of the fra­ternity
who was sent from Richmond,
to attend the state conclave. McCann
recently visited Auburn on a tour to
all chapters of Pi Kappa Phi. The
luncheon was followed by a round
table discussion of fraternity problems
in the Civic Room of the hotel and the
meeting of several committees.
The conclave was concluded with a
dance Saturday night in the Whitley
Hotel Ball Room with the music of
Jimmie Hamm and his orchestra. The
dance was attended by the alumni and
their wives, the actives and their
dates, and several other invited guests.
The conclave under the direction of
Theodore Jackson of Troy, district
Archon of the fraternity, was insti­tuted
as an annual event to alternate
between Montgomery and Birming­ham,
f
Cotton Ball Friday
Proves Big Success
The Cotton Ball, given Friday night
at the P. W. A. Hall, proved to be a
very successful affair. Everyone at­tending
was required to be dressed in
cotton. The dance was sponsored by
Phi Psi, National Honorary Textile
Fraternity. Music was furnished by
the Auburn Knights.
Among the visiting girls attending
were: Mary Louise Wadsworth, Tus-kegee;
Virginia Ingram, Cliff Baxley,
and Betsy Cox, Montevallo; Ida Mae
Trum, Montgomery; Eugene Houston,
Leta Cooper, Mary Thomas, and
Martha Prince,' Opelika; Thelma
Jones, Geneva; Eleanor Brown, Eliza­beth
Floyd, Emmett Brown, and Mary
Virginia Respess, Birmingham; Har­riet
Burk, Huntingdon; Edith Brad­ford
and Jennie Mary Bates, Selma;
Mary Stanley Bridges, Chattanooga;
Annelle King, Judson; Peggy Pleas­ants,
Atlanta; and Melba Holley,
Columbus.
Pi K a p p a A l p h a G i v es
D u t c h S u p p e r S a t u r d ay
The Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity en­tertained
with a Dutch Supper at
Wright's Mill last Saturday night.
Brothers, pledges, and dates pres­ent
were: Elizabeth Allison and Bo
Russell; Mary Murphy and Chicken
Davis; Ann Van Hoose and Walter
McCulla; Aljo Wiles and Randolph
Panell; Eva Jones and Ben Smith;
Doris White and Darcey Tatum; Jean
Campbell and Julian Myrick; Mary
Lucas Hall and Harry Bailey; Libba
Hunt and Larry Aycock; Joe Oscar
Ellisor; Bob Kincey; Albert Price; F.
A. McKenzie; Goode Hudson; Alva
Ware; .Malcolm McDonald; John
Bishop; Ted Chiles; Billy Nicholson;
Lock Alison, Milton Bagby; Walter
Lowe; Bill Pate; Tommy Chalmers;
and Dr. Dick Saunders.
Mrs. Bissett and Mrs. White were
hostesses and chaperones.
G. W. HALL SPEAKS ON CARVER
BEFORE MEETING OF AG CLUB
P r e s i d e n t Of S e n i o r C l a s s N e x t Y e a r G i v e s I n t e r e s t i n g F a c t s On
T u s k e g e e N e g r o ' s A c c o m p l i s h m e n t s , D i s c o v e r i e s ; T e l l Of
O f f e r E d i s o n M a d e C a r v e r T o C o m e A n d W o r k W i t h H im
T h e t a U p s i l o n S o r o r i ty
I n i t i a t e s P l e d g es
Iota Alpha Chapter of Theta Up­silon
initiated the following girls Sat­urday
night, April 17: Maude Clark,
Dothan; Mattie Jo Barber, Butler;
and Anne Griffin, Auburn.
O u t i n g G i v e n S a t u r d ay
B y S i g m a Pi Frat
The Sigma Pi Fraternity entertain­ed
last Saturday night with an outing
at Wright's Mill. Those present in­cluded
the members, pledges, and their
dates, who enjoyed a delicious supper
in the open.
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COLLEGE BARBER SHOP
G. W. Hall, newly elected president
of the Class of 1938, gave an interest
ing talk last night before the mem­bers
of the Ag Club on the work and
accomplishments of Dr. Carver at
Tuskegee Institute.
Although Dr. Carver has been faced
with handicaps since birth, he has
reached a height in the world of
Chemistry that has not been reached
by anyone. He was born a slave in
Missouri, and at the age of four was
traded for a broken-down race horse.
After being freed from slavery, he be­gan
seeking an education. Working
and studying hard for about twenty
years, he graduated from Simpson's
College with highest honors.
Dr. Carver came to Tuskegee Insti­tute
in 1898. His work there has been
mainly with the peanut and sweet po­tatoes.
From the peanut he has made
nearly 300 useful products including
cheese, candies, instant coffee, pickles,
shaving lotions, dyes, lard, linoleum,
flour breakfast foods, soap shampoo,
and even axle grease. From the lowly
sweet potato he has made over 100
products, among them starch, shoe
polish, inks, library paste, vinegar,
and molasses. Experts say he has
done more to rehabititate agriculture
in the South than anyone.
Inevitably his work has brought
him many offers to leave Tuskegee,
including one offer from Thomas A.
Edison for $100,000 a year. Here
was his reply, "My work is in Tuske­gee
and the South. God wants me to
stay here. I can do more for my race
here than anywhere else, and I think
it would be against the will of God for
me to leave." Dr. Carver is also a
skilled painter. Hanging in the Lux­embourg
Gallery in Paris is a picture
he made using Alabama mud as paint
. . The frame is made of corn husks,
and the paper the picture was painted
on is made of peanut shells.
T h e t a U p s i l o n E n t e r t a i ns
O t h e r S o r o r i t i es
On Sunday afternoon, April 18, Iota
Alpha Chapter of Theta Upsilon en­tertained
the other sororities on the
campus with the fourth of a series of
Pan Hellenic teas given this semester.
During the course of the afternoon
around twenty guests called.
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BASEBALLERS WIN OVER
GEORGIA TWICE; SCORES
FOR GAMES ARE 2-1, 7-2
• (Continued from Page_l)
two and walked two. Swindle white­washed
the losers the four sessions
he toiled on the mound. He yielded
a trio of singles, whiffed five and
walked only one.
Only three of the Plainsmen's mark­ers
were earned, the other four com­ing
as a result of loose fielding by
the Georgia nine. Georgia earned
their two tallies when Jim Gavan's
liner to center took a bad hop and
went for four bases, and on singles
by Albert Collins and Jimmie Davis
and a walk to Lee Richards.
Miscues by the Georgians enabled
the Tigers to score once in the third
and sixth stanzas and twice in the
fourth. Captain Sidney Scarborough's
bingle, Monroe Hayes' sacrifice, a
passed ball and John Mason's double
over first pushed across another run
in the fourth. A long circuit clout
over the center fielder's head by
Billy Hitchcock, after Hayes had
doubled, gave Auburn two more tal­lies
in the eighth.
Box Score, First Game
AUBURN AB R H O A
Kelly, If 4 0 0 0 0
Scarborough, cf 3 1 0 3 0
Hayes, rf 4 0 1 1 0
Hitchcock, s s _ - - 3 0 0 4 1
Mason, 2b 3 0 0 2 1
Hamm, 3b 3 1 1 2 1
Taylor, lb 2 0 1 10 0
Whitten, c 3 0 0 5 1
Eaves, p 3 0 0 0 7
GEORGIA AB R H O A
Collins, 2b 4 0 2 0 1
Mims, 3b 4 0 0 0 3
Anderson, ss 4 0 1 0 4
Gerson, rf 3 1 2 2 0
Thomas, If 3 0 0 1 0
Gaivan, cf 4 0 0 4 0
Stallings, l b _ _ . 3 0 0 10 0
Richards, c 4 0 0 7 0
Miller, p 3 0 0 0 2
Totals 31 1 5 25 10
Box Score, Second Game
AUBURN AB R
Kelly, If 4 0
Scarborough, cf 4 1
Hayes, rf 4 1
Hitchcock, ss __4 3
Mason, 2b 3 1
Hamm, 3b 2 1
Taylor, lb 4 0
Whitten, c 4 0
Antley, p 2 0
Swindle, p 2 0
H
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
0
0
O
3
4
2
1
1
1
5
8
1
1
Totals 28 3 27 11
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GEORGIA AB R H O
Collins, 2b 4 0 2 1
Mims, 3b 4 0 0 1
Anderson, ss 3 0 2 2
Gerson, rf 3 0 1 0
Thomas, If 4 0 0 2
Cavan, cf 4 1 1 1
Stallings, lb — 4 0 0 11
Richards, c 3 1 1 6
Davis, p 3 0 1 -0
TRACKMEN UNABLE TO COPE WITH
STRONG GEORGIA TEAM APRIL 17
Bulldogs Amass Total Of 71 Points While Plainsmen Score 49;
However, Tigers Do Better Than Was Expected Of Them;
Townes Sets New Georgia Record For 120 Low Hurdles
ROTC Ratings Sent
For Final Action
Totals 33 8 24 14
Having a girl during spring quar­ter,
calculates a math wizard at the
University of Minnesota, i.s equivalent
to carrying 10 extra hours, for which
you get some credit but no honor
points. . ^
Three hundred million dollars is al­most
enough dough to build six bat­tleships
!
By JACK TODD
The best efforts of Coach Hut-sell's
track and field aggregation
proved futile last Saturday after­noon
as they fell before the Georgia
cindermen by the score of 71 to 49
in Auburn's first dual meet of the
season.
The Bulldogs held a respectable
lead throughout as they annexed ten
first places to Auburn's four. For­rest
Towns was easily the most out­standing
man on the field as he ac­counted
personally for 13 points and
set a new school record in the 120-
yard low hurdles with the time of
14.3. His teammate, Harry Harmen,
also stood out for the Bulldogs as he,
too, set a new school record. Har­mon
cleared the bar in the high jump
as it was set at 6 feet 3 % inches.
' Arnold Jumps 24 Feet 4 Inches
The biggest surprise of the meet
came when Arnold succeeded in beat­ing
Burch Wilcox, conference cham­pion,
in the broad jump as he leaped
23 feet 4 inches while the best WiV
cox could manage was 22 feet 11
inches. Another lesser surprise came
when Forrest Towns won the 220-
yard low hurdles followed closely by
two Auburn men, Sellers and South.
It was expected that Monk Arnold
would place in this event, but he lost
out when he hit the last hurdle and
fell while three yards in the lead.
Last year's 440 champion, Wilton
Kilgore, came through as expected
and took first honors in that event
besides annexing a second place in
the 220-yard dash. Dave Sprinkle,
sophomore pole-vault sensation, took
an easy first place in the event as he
cleared the bar at 12 feet 2 inches.
A summary of the events follows:
Mile run—Gresham (A), Perkins
(G), Duncan (A), time: 4:34.9.
High jump—Harmon (G), Towns
(G), Arnold (G), height: 6 ft. 3%
in. 440—Kilgore (A), Williams (A),
Ellis (A), time: 51.6. Shot put^-
Lumpkin (G), Rogers (A), Burns
(A), distance: 47 ft. 8 Ms in. 100-yd.
dash—Packard (G), Stevens (G),
Coleman (A), time: 9.8 seconds.
120-yd. high hurdles—Towns (G),
McGehee (A), Sellers (A), time:
14.3 seconds. 880—Gillepsie (G),
Williams (A), Nichols (A), time:
2:05.
220-yd. dash—Packard (G), Kil­gore
(A), Stevens (G), time: 22
seconds. Discus—Green (G), Lump­kin
(G), Harmon (G), distance: 147
ft. 8 inches. Pole vault—Sprinkle
(A), Roundtree (G), McDaniel (G),
height: 12 ft. 2 in. 2 mile run—
Swanner (A), Gresham (A), Pen­nington
(G), time: 10:55. Broad
jump—Arnold (G), Wilcox (G),
Packard (G), distance: 23 ft. 4 in.
Javelin—Green (G), Salisbury (G),
Rogers (A), distance: 179 ft. % in.
220-yd. low hurdles—Towns (G),
Sellers (A), South (A), time: 26
seconds.
The atomic theory is not new. It
was advanced 2,000 years ago by Epi­curus,
the Greek philosopher, and Lu­cretius,
the Latin poet, say two pro­fessors
at the University of Michigan.
Following the annual inspection of
Auburn's R. O. T. C. units Monday
and Tuesday, the inspecting officers
stated that the rating for the units
would be sent immediately to Wash
ington to await final action by the War
Department. Consequently the rating
is not as yet available, but since for
the past 17 years Auburn has received
the rating of "Excellent", the highest
rating attainable, hopes are "being held
by the officers on the campus for a-nother
such rating this year.
The inspecting officers this year
were Col. W. S. Browning, F. A.,
P. M. S. & T., of the University of
Florida and Major R. L. Smith, C. E.,
Assistant P. M. S. & T. of Louisiana
State University.
The inspection this year was of a
practical nature, differing from that
of previous years. A new precedent
was established this year in having
the R. O. T. C. units inspected by of­ficers
on R. O. T. C. duty at other in­stitutions
within the Fourth Corps
Area.
GLOMERATA IS NEARLY
READY FOR DELIVERY
The 63-year-old freshman, Jules Le-begue,
who enrolled at the University
of Illinois in February, has left school
to help his son on the farm. "Getting
rid of the rust and putting on a little
polish" is still his policy, for he is
studying by correspondence.
For the third successive year, the
Illinois College swimming team sub­merged
all opposition in a flood of
firsts and seconds and won the cham­pionship
of the Little Nineteen Con­ference.
Four out of five, say the ads, have
pyorrhea; and the same proportion of
Cabinet m e m b e r s have college
educations.
(Continued from Page 1)
Following the dedication, the Var­ious
faculty members' photographs
appear with explanatory captions be­neath.
The 80-piece military band is
next in line along with the rifle team.
Then appears some excellent photo­graphs
of the student life of the
Executive Cabinet members which is
followed closely by the sections de­voted
to the Womens' Student Govern­ment
and the Alumni Association. The
class pictures are next in order with
a picture of every student except 95
who failed to appear at the time the
photographer was here.
The athletic section has been en­larged
to 30 pages and contains in­formal
dressing room snapshots in ad­dition
to the regular team photos.
The beauty section is unusual this
year in that the pulchritudinous fe­males
are shown full length in con­trast
to the head views of other years.
Two full pages of campus favorites
are contained.
The reader is next met with the
fraternity, sorority, and other organi­zations
section, all done in fine fash­ion.
Pictures for fraternity panels will
be assembled and delivered to the var­ious
fraternities during the week fol­lowing
the issuance of the book, ac­cording
to Editor Sam Gibbons.
Medals, cups, plaques and miscel­laneous
awards won by Don Lash, In­diana
University's great distance-run­ner,
during his track career total up
to 117.
Plans For Horse Show
On Sunday Completed
It was announced this morning by
Capt. W. J. Klepinger that the an­nual
Horse Show would be staged Sun­day
afternoon at the riding ring. Tro­phies
now on display at Burton's Book
Store will be awarded the winners of
the fourteen contests; ribbons will be
given for second and third places.
Plenty of bleacher space will be
available for those preferring to sit in
the open, but a space for cars has been
provided around the ring for those
coming in cars and wishing to watch
the show from them.
Besides the jumping horses of the
R. O. T. C. stables here, two of the
best jumpers from Ft. Benning will be
brought over to compete in a number
of the jumping events.
The Horse Show this year promises
to be larger and even better than those
staged in previous years. Great in­terest
has been shown by those enter­ing
the contests and great rivalry is
expected.
By cutting the shells of hens' eggs
and gluing a small glass pane over
the hole with petroleum jelly, experi­menters,
under the direction of Dr.
Howard Kernkamp, of the University
of Minnesota's farm, can watch the
actual growth of baby chicks while in
the shell.
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