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VOL. LXII Z-I AUBURN, ALABAMA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1939 NUMBER 40
Noted Vets Will
Attend Meet
Here
15th Conference For
Graduate Vets to Bring
Many State Experts
Noted veterinarians from many
sections of the United States will
participate in clinics and lectures
when the 15th Alabama Confer­ence
for Graduate Veterinarians
convenes here Feb. 21-23.
Dr. I. S. McAdory, Dean of the
School of Veterinary Medicine at
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, and
Dr. L. E. Starr, assistant dean, are
in charge of arrangements for the
visitors, and are expecting ap­proximately
100 doctors during the
conference.
Prominent among those on the
program will be Dr. L. A. Meril-lat,
Chicago, executive secretary
of the American Veterinarian
Medicine Association, who will
lecture on digestive disturbances
in horses and mules. Dr. Adolph
Eichorn, director of the Bureau
of Animal Industry, animal dis­ease
station, Beltsville, Md., will
review studies on canine distem­per.
Hog cholera and other swine
diseases will be discussed by Dr.
C. N. McBryde, in charge of the
swine disease research station for
the B. A. I., at Ames, Iowa. Dr.
D. M. Campbell, Chicago, editor
of "Veterinary Medicine," will ad­dress
the conference, as will Dr.
R. E. Jackson, Alabama inspector
in charge of the B. A. I. in Mont­gomery,
who will speak on the
State's progress in combating
Bang's disease. He will outline fu­ture
plans. Dr X. Enos Day, sec­retary
of the U. S. Livestock
Sanitary Associaiton, has been in­vited
to speak.
Others on the program will be
Dr. B. T. Simms, Auburn; Dr.
Harold N. Johnson, Montgomery;
Dr. Dale A. Porter, Auburn; Dr.
J. W. Venable, Gadsden; Dr. F. P.
Wbolf, Auburn; Dr. L. E. Starr,
Auburn; Dr M. O. Robinson, Au­burn;
Dr. E. S. Winters, Auburn;
Dr. R. L. Mundhenk, Auburn; Dr.
J. E Greene, Auburn; Dr. H. W.
Johnson, Auburn; Dr. J. H. Ry-land,
Selma; Dr. J. E. Severin, At­lanta;
Dr. E. A. Davis, Columbus,
Ga.; Dr. Frank Kitchen, Green­ville,
S. C; Dr. M. K. Health,
Birmingham; Dr W. E. Cotton,
Auburn; Dr. J. L. West, Auburn;
Dr. L. E. Beckman, Tuscaloosa.
A banquet will be given for the
veterinarians during their con­ference
by the Junior AVMA and
a business meeting of the Ala­bama
Veterinary Medical Asso­ciation
will be held.
Duggar Receives
Service Award
At the fortieth annual meeting
of Association of Southern Agri­cultural
Workers in New Orleans
three days last week, Dr. J. F.
Duggar, veteran Auburn agricul­tural
worker, was signally honor­ed
in the group of five specialists
awarded distinguished service
medals in agriculture.
The New Orleans Daily State of
Feb. 2 carried a picture of the
group cited for this honor at the
annual convention dinner. In the
newspaper account appears this
item:
For "distinguished service in
Southern agriculture," seven
awards were made at the annual
dinner last night. Two of them
were for men who died in 1938.
Those who received awards
were W. R. Dodson, Baton Rouge,
for organizing the Louisiana State
Fair; John Frederick Duggar, Au­burn,
Ala., for many articles and
textbooks; Jones Allen Evans,
Athens, Ga., for activity in cotton
surveys; John Richard Fain, Ath­ens,
Ga., former professor of farm
management at the University of
Georgia; and Benjamin Wesley
Wilgore, Raliegh, N. C, president
of the North Carolina Dairyman's
Association.
There were also awards to the
late Tait Butler, Memphis, Tenn.,
moving spirit in many farm or­ganizations;
and the late David
R. Coker, Hartsville, S. C, a plant
breeder; they were received, re­spectively,
by W. C. Lassetter of
Memphis, and George Wilds of
Hartsville.
BLUE KEY BENEFIT FOR AUBURN
BAND WILL BE GIVEN TONIGHT
Blue Key Head
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Auburn Grads Are
In Aviation Work
By Charles Burns
It can foe said that Auburn men
represent almost every kind of
business that is in the country to­day.
Truly, men who uphold that
great Auburn spirit are doctors,
lawyers, teachers, inventors, col­lege
presidents, coaches, railroad
officials, and in fields of aviation.
Aviation fields call men for duty
in Alabama with major airlines
as commercial field representa­tives,
radio operators, airport man­agers,
and traffic managers and to
these positions Auburn alumni
have risen to the top ranks in
Montgomery and Birmingham.
A recent communication from
W. F. Foote, official in charge of
the Eastern offices of the Muni­cipal
Airport, Montgomery, reveals
that G. E. McGough Jr., is the
only actual Auburn alumni in that
office but that the remainder of
the employees are always in the
rooting section for the college.
From Birmingham comes the re­port
of H. G. Kitchens, traffic rep­resentative
of Delta Air Lines, in
the branch office of the company
in the Tutwiler Hotel, who said
that three Auburn alumni are
numbered among their employees.
Besides Mr. Kitchens, a mem­ber
of the Sigma Chi fraternity
while on this campus, other Au­burn
men are Leary Redus, city
traffic manager, and Leroy Park­er,
radio operator, stationed at the
Municipal Airport in the Magic
City.
According to Mr. Foote and also
Mr. Kitchens, the major air lines
that they represent will be glad
to serve Auburn students and these
Auburn men invite students to
visit them at their offices when
they are in the respective cities
of the representatives.
Concert to Precede
Benefit; Game to Be
In Student Center
Final plans for Blue Key's Bin­go
game for the benefit of the
Band have been made, and play
will start promptly at 7:30 to­night
in Student Center after a
short concert by the members of
the band under the direction of P.
R. "Bedie" Bidez.
It was decided to hold the game
in the Student Center instead of
outside on account of threatening
weather. There will 'be plenty of
room provided at the tables for
one hundred people to play at one
time.
Cash prizes will be awarded for
each round of play during the
night, and several merchandize
prizes donated by local merchants
will be given at intervals in the
play. Prizes have been given by
Sammy's, Burton's Book Store,
Olin Hill, Gibson's, Benson's Drug
Store, Tiger Drug Store, and
Smith's Drug Store. What the
prizes are well be kept secret un­til
time for them to be given away.
The game will be called by
Dave Roberts over a loud speaker
system that will enable him to
call the numbers loud enough for
there to be no difficulty in the
players hearing the numbers as
they are called. Members of Blue
Key will assist in managing the
tables on which the game will be
played. Each round of play will
require an ante of one nickel per
card, with a percentage of the pro­ceeds
going to the winner. The
more people that participate in
each round of play, the larger the
prize which will be awarded for
that game. Several times during
the course of the play, both the
ante and the prize will foe raised,
and a larger cash award will be
made for that round of play.
Complete instructions on the
playing of the game will be ex­plained
tonight by "Cunnel" Rob­erts
' before the game starts.
Careful checks of the numbers
of the winner will foe made before
the prize is given. In case of the
possibility of a tie, the two win­ners,
after a check of their num­bers,
will divide the cash prize
equally between them.
Proceeds from the playing of
the game will go to the Band to
help defray expenses for repairing
and reconditioning equipment that
they have on hand.
Needham to Lecture Friday
Night in Langdon Hall
A lecture, "War in Its Biological
Aspects," will be given toy Dr.
George G. Needham, professor
emeritus of the department of
biology and entomology of Cornell
University on Friday night at 7:30
p. m. in Langdon Hall.
Dr. Needham, an authority on
water insects, is en route to Flor­ida
and the West Indies collecting
them. He was retired as professor
at Cornell three years ago to take
up his present work.
The Pan-American Union
By Winfrey Boyd
The history of the union of American Republics now
known as the Pan-American Union had its origin over one
hundred years ago in a Central American country. That
conference, called by Simon Bolivar, the great liberator,
met in 1826 in Panama, delegates to it being those of
Great Columbia, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru
The United States accepted the
invitation to the conference but
due to the slow conveyance of
mail and passengers at that time,
the delegates did not arrive until
who on several occasions had at­tempted
to set himself up as head
of the government in various Cen­tral
American states. He succeed­ed
in Nicaragua and his govern-the
conference had adjourned and | ment was recognized by the
after the treaty of "union, league,
and perpetual confederation" had
been signed by the four states on
June 22, 1826. Only Great Colom­bia
ratified that treaty, and so for
thirty years, Simon Bolivar's
dream of an American league was
dormant.
"Continental Treaty" Signed
At the end of that time, a "Con­tinental
Treaty" was signed toy
the representatives of Peru, Chile,
and Ecuador, in Santiago, Chile.
That treaty, though it never be­came
effective, was signed with
the purpose of promoting the un­ion
of Latin American states, and
as an expression of hostility to­ward
the United States due to the
activities of one William Walker.
Walker was an American lawyer
United States, thus bringing down
on its head the wrath of the La­tin
Americans.
Other attempts to organize the
union were made in 1864,, 1877,
and 1878, but progress was slow
and treaties seldom ratified. Those
conferences did make some head­way
toward agreement on pri­vate
international law, copy­rights,
patents, civil, penal, and
commercial codes, and trade­marks.
Blaine Issues Call
In 1882, James G. Blaine, Sec­retary
of State of the United
States, issued invitations to the
other American republics to a con­ference
to be held in Washington,
but the assassination of President
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Election
Seniors and freshmen will go
to the polls tomorrow and select
the President of the Executive
Cabinet and a freshman repre­sentative
to the Cabinet. Vot­ing
will take place at the Stu­dent
Center, and the polls will
be in charge of BUly McGehee,
Chairman of the Election Com­mittee.
Candidates for the presidency
of the student body are Julian
Fowler and Ernest Pappas. Can­didates
for the freshman position
on the Cabinet are Bobbie Haas,
Craig Lee Jackson, Otis Burn-side,
and Howard Worthington.
Chi Epsiion Taps junior Politics Gets Underway
inTivii n'°rs As Board Interviews Candidates
College Requests
Addresses
Registrar's Office Wants •
Addresses of Students
The following persons did not
give their Auburn addresses when
they registered for second semes­ter.
They are urged to call by the
Office of the Registrar as soon as
possible and leave their correct
local address:
Barnett, Algie Myrl; Bradford,
Chas. R.; Bradford, Hortense;
Britt, Eugene Reagan; Brock, Cad-wallader;
Brown, Jack; Butler,
Albert Henry; Butler, Jack S.;
Byrd, Jeff Williard.
Cabaniss, Geo. A.; Catchings,
Edward; Chastain, J. B.; Childress,
Verna R.; Cleland, Joe O; Cloyd,
Lawson H; Cox, Chas. Fred;
Crowder, W. W.
Deal, T. C; Diamond, Louis,
Dobbs, William Rowe; Dodson,
Dorothy; Draper, Craig; Dunwody,
W. K.
Eden, William G.; Ennis, Luther
M.; Esslinger, H. W.; Etchison, G.
O; Evans, Calvin W.; Farris, Clyde
M.; Ferrell, Edwin H; Grimes, J.
Thomas; Guin, James S.
Harrell, Frank E.; Harrison, W.
F. X., Harwell William H.; Haa-ser,
R. A.; Hayes, J. J.; Hicks,
Martha Evelyn; Holley, Jas. Wil­liam;
Holley, Paul B..; Huggins,
Haynes Gordon.
Jones, Carl Herbert; Jones,
Gordon R.; Jones, Mary Sue; Jor-don,
Warren Alton; Kain, E. C;
Karr, Eugene; Kellet, S. J.; Kelly,
Donald; Kilpatrick, William H.
Lipscomb, W. O; Locke, Albert
Henry; Lowery, Jas. R.; McCall,
E. D.; McClendon, Miriam; Mc-
Clendon, S. P.; McCleskey, Joe R.
McKay, H. S.; Mann, Frances;
Marshall, Geneva; Meigs, Jamie
Long; Mitchell, Jas. Thorn.; Mit­chell,
Mary; Morgan, Forest Ho­mer.
Nelson, Belton Glynn; Nelson,
Hoyt; Nelson, Wayne B.; Nordan,
D. M.; Ofoerg, Jno. Albert; Orr,
Dannie; Pace, Carl Thornton;
Parker, Wendell Hagan; Perry,
Norman G.; Perry, Pat H.; Pick-elsimer,
Jas. B.; Piggott, John
Burr; Pittman, M. Cleveland.
Rasberry, John Cecil; Rasberry,
Wallace Foster; Rice, Hugh L.;
Robinson, Louis C; Rodgers,
Catherine; Roukema, Edward C;
Rye, Robert Edwin.
Saad, John E.; Sonderson, Tom-mie
Leigh; Sandford, James G.;
Sellers, Jas. Horace; Slaughter,
T. S.; Smith A. F.; Smith, Russell
TJios.; Enow, Tfoy Leslie; St.
Clair, Leslie; Stone, Roger Luke;
Summerville, Jas. L.; Sutton,
Thos. B.
Tanner, Jack Russell; Taylor,
Jack; Taylor, John A.; Thompson,
Artha Mae; Thompson, Leslie
Gene; Thornton, M. M.; Title, H.
B.; Tobia, Norman Geo.; Trulock,
M. R.; Trundy, E. L.; Tuttle, Rofot.
E.
Vance, Scott; Vines, Herbert M.;
Watson, Mary Louise; Webb, Alva
T.; Wells, Chas. Wesley; Wesson,
Henry; Whatley, Thos. J.; Wheel­er,
Jno. Thos.; Wilson, Harold Le­wis;
Wolf, Marsel; Woods, Ber­nard;
Wright, Eleanor; Wright,
Edna Earle ; Young, Wm. J.;
Youngfolood, J. O.
Movie on Coast Guard to Be
Shown Tomorrow Night
Life at the United States Coast
Guard Academy will be depicted
here in motion pictures Wednes­day
evening beginning at 7:30 o'­clock
in Langdon Hall.
The showing will be staged by
Lieut. Sidney F. Porter of the U.
S. Coast Guard for Auburn stu­dents,
especially those who are
considering the Coast Guard as a
career. The public is also invited.
Civil Engineering Society
Names Four Outstanding
Juniors to Membership
Four outstanding members of
the junior civil engineering class
were elected to Chi Epsiion, na­tional
honorary society for civil
engineers, at a meeting last Thurs­day
night. The four juniors se­lected
are L. R. Allridge Jr., Rob­ert
W. Dees, Ben A. Scarborough,
and O. Martin Holland.
Aldridge, who is from Colum­bus,
Ga., has the highest record in
his class. He is vice president of
ASCE and a member of Sigma
Chi social* fraternity.
Dees, who is from Greenville, is
a member of PiKA social frater­nity
and is treasurer of ASCE.
Scarborough, who is from Bir­mingham,
has an outstanding
scholastic record and is a Delta
Sigma Phi pledge.
Holland, who is from Whitins-ville,
Mass., is a member of the
Auburn band and a Phi Kappa
Tau pledge.
The selection of members to
Chi Epsiion is based on scholas­tic
standing, character, and soc­iability.
Only those students who
have maintained an average grade
in the highest third of their class
are eligible for membership. The
officers are Theron Karge, presi­dent;
J. A. Hargett, vice presi­dent;
Thomas Burnum, secretary-treasurer;
Prof. J. A. C. Callen,
faculty adviser.
The initiation and banquet will
be held soon.
Re-Exam Schedule
Is Released
All students who have received
conditioned grades (60-69) or
have been absent from examina­tions
with permission during the
last year may take re-exams or
special exams during the week of
Feb. 13-18, according to an an­nouncement
from the Registrar's
Office.
The re-exam schedule is given
below.
Wednesday—3 p. m., agronomy,
agricultural economics, civil and
highway engineering, first period
economics, textile engineering.
Thursday—10 a. m., animal hus­bandry,
dairy husbandry, poul­try
husbandry, religious educa­tion,
veterinary medicine; 3 p. m.,
applied art, bacteriology, chemis­try,
second period economics,
pharmacy.
Friday—10 a. m., aero engineer­ing,
education, foreign language,
history, mechanical engineering.
Saturday—9 a. m., ROTC and
conflicts in above schedule.
Re-exams which have already
been given include the following:
Monday—3 p. m., botany, sec­retarial
science, machine design
and drawing, mathematics.
Today—10 a. m., home econo­mics,
horticulture, industrial en­gineering
^physical education; 3
p. m., agricultural engineering,
architecture, electrical engineer­ing,
physics, sociology, zoology,
entomology.
Students who are taking re-exams
will secure cards from the
Registrar's Office and notify the
instructor concerned in sufficient
time to allow for preparation of
the examination. Absences from
classes conflicting with re-exams
will be excused.
A fee of two dollars is charged
for each re-exam. The maximum
charge for three or more re-exams
is five dollars. Students ab­sent
from examinations on ac­count
of illness are not required
to pay a fee.
Prizes Are Awarded for
Drawings of Banners
Three prizes for the best origi­nal
pennants and banners drawn
in the applied art department
were awarded Friday by the de­partment
and the Tiger Theater.
First prize, five dollars in cash,
was awarded to Robert Welch;
second, a two-week's pass to the
theater, went to D. J. Brasfield;
and third prize, a week's pass,
was won by Allen Lamar.
The winning design was a ban­ner
with a tiger's head, the words,
"Alabama Polytechnic Institute"
Interfrat Ball Be
Friday Night
The annual Ball of the Auburn
Interfraternity Council will be
held on Friday evening, February
24, at 9 p. m. in Graves Center.
Robin Russell and his ever popu­lar
Auburn Knights Orchresta will
furnish the music for the occasion.
Twenty-one fraternities repre­sented
on the Council will have
their membership represented at
the Ball, which is one of the out­standing
events of the college
year for the fraternities. Ten men
from each fraternity will be se­lected
as official representatives
and will be extended' invitations
to the Ball.
Miss Eloise Ainsworth of Atlan­ta,
Ga., will lead the grand march
of the Interfraternity Council
with George Knight of Selma,
president of the Council and pres­ident
of Kappa Alpha Order.
In addition to invitations which
are issued to the members of the
fraternity, a number of invita­tions
will be extended non-frater-nity
men on the campus.
Complete plans of the Ball will
be announced at a future date in
the Plainsman.
Adams Wins Place
In Paris Contest
Robert Adams Jr., fifth year
student in architecture at Auburn,
has been selected as the only can­didate
from a southern school to
place in the first preliminary com­petition
for the Paris Prize Com-ptition.
News of Adams' success in the
first-lap of the series of prelimi­nary
competitions was announced
here today by Prof. Walter Burk-hardt
of the School of Architec­ture.'
it is the second time in the
history of the School of Architec­ture
and Allied Arts that a stu­dent
here has placed in the Paris
Prize Competition, which is an an­nual
event consisting of three
stages. Two years ago Alan Jac­obs,
A. P. I. student of Charles­ton,
S. C, placed.
Morris Aaron Hall of Jasper, also
a fifth year student in architec­ture,
was a recipient of a men­tion
in the recent first prelimi­nary.
Twenty students, including
Adams, a native of Cleveland,
Ohio, were selected from the coun­try
at large following the first
preliminary. The architectural
problem required of the students
was a 12-hour problem of an en­trance
to a large park commem­orating
the recent Lima Confer­ence.
The twenty students will parti­cipate
in a second preliminary
competition on March 25. Adams
will be given his second problem
on that date here at Auburn un­der
the supervision of Prof. Burk-hardt.
Five students from the 20
will be chosen to place after the
second preliminary.
Winner of the final competition,
which is scheduled to take place
in New York in May, will be a-warded
the prize, which com­prises
thirty months of study at
the Ecoles des Beaux-Arts at Pa­ris
and travel in Europe, all ex­penses
paid.
Students from colleges and uni­versities
throughout the United
States selected after the first pre­liminary
included three from the
University of Illinois, three from
the University of Oklahoma, two
from Rensselaer Polytechnic In­stitute,
two from Syracuse Uni­versity,
two from Princeton Uni­versity,
two from Catholic Uni­versity,
one from Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, one from
Ohio State University, one from
the University of Pennsylvania,
one from New York University,
one from Park Ridge, Illinois, and
one from Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute.
Seven Are Approved for
Publication Jobs If
They Have Needed Hours
The campus political pot be­gan
to boil in earnest last
night after the Publications
Board qualified seven candi­dates
for elective positions on
the 1939-40 Plainsman and
Glomerata yesterday, subject
to their having passed at least
92 credit hours of work. Jun­ior
politics are in full sway,
with all candidates planning
—and some already making—
their campaigns.
After calling each prospective
candidate in, examining his ap­plication,
and questioning him in
detail, the Board decided that all
seven were fully qualified to be
candidates, if they have the nec­essary
hours.
All have a scholastic average of
over 80 for five semesters of
work, and have completed certain
required courses.
Names of the qualified candi­dates
and the offices for which
they are qualified are:
Editor of the Plainsman: John
Godbold;
Business Manager of the Plains­man:
Bob Armstrong, Julian My-riek;
Editor of the Glomerata: Char­les
Kelley, Allen Northington;
Business Manager of the Glom­erata:
Marshall Hooper, Hank
Parker.
These candidates will stand for
election in the general spring
elections to be held on March 21.
Nomination blanks for all candi­dates
must be in the hands of
Billy McGehee, Chairman of the
Election Committee, by March 7
at 6 p. m."
Publication heads, Cabinet of­ficers
and members, class offi­cers,
and the social committee
head be chosen at the same elec­tion.
The recent proposed amend­ments
(to the Constitution, approv­ed
by the Executive Cabinet, will
be voted on by the entire student
body.
NOTICE
Tonight at 7 p. m. in Comer
Hall the FFA and FHA are having
a joint meeting.
Delta Siqma Pi to
Give Smoker
To Discuss "Business of
Getting A Job" at Meet
Delta Sigma Pi will be host to
the seniors in the department of
business administration Thursday
night at a smoker in the Recreation
Hall, it was announced yesterday
by L. E. Foster, president of Del­ta
Sigma Pi.
The smoker is to get the entire
senior business class together to
discuss "This Business of Getting
A Jab." There is to be no planned
program for the evening. The as­sembly
will be in the form of a
roundtable discussion, in which
various students and faculty mem­bers
will express their views and
suggestions relating to the em­ployment
of students of business
administration.
Ait the smoker personnel infor­mation
blanks are to be given out
to seniors, and every senior is
urged to attend. These blanks are
to be kept by Prof. C. P. Austin,
employment director for the de­partment.
According to Foster, subjects to
be discussed are "What Does the
Employer Expect of the Young
CoUege Man?", "Tactful Inter­views,"
"The Letter of Applica­tion,"
"What's Open in the Busi­ness
Field,' and "Approaching
Employers." The floor is to be op­en
for the discussion of any rel­evant
subject that arises, and it is
hoped that the assembly will be
just a clearinghouse of ideas.
Dean J. W. Scott, Prof. Cecil
Padgett, and Prof. C. P. Austin
are to represent the faculty, con­tributing
their views 'based on ex­periences
of the past. The smoker
is to be informal, and will begin
shortly after the dismissal of Cur­rent
Events Class.
NOTICE
There will be a call meeting of
Scabbard and Blade at 5 this af­ternoon
in Samford Hall.
PAGE TWO THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14,
The Auburn Plainsman
Published Semi-Weekly By The Students
Of The Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
Auburn, Alabama
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Junior Politics
Juniors are suddenly becoming friendly
with everyone as elections loom up on a
not-distant horizon. 'Feverish campaigning
will be the order of the day until the last
vote is counted. Wild political rumors are
flying thick and fast while aspirants to of­fice
are seeking to swing blocs of votes in
their favor.
The Plainsman urges every student to dis­count
most of the stories that campaigners
spread. A large number of students believe
everything a candidate tells them concern­ing
the fallacies of his opponent's program.
Students who have observed political elec­tions
at Auburn in the past will remember
that it is usually the candidate who tells
more of his qualifications and less of his op­ponent's
inabilities who make the best of­fice
holder. The candidate who resorts to
mud slinging and underhand skullduggery
is the one who is skeptical about his chances.
Too much emphasis cannot be placed on
the necessity of considering the qualifica­tions
of candidates long before election day.
Too few students look to the future when
voting for candidates. Most students are
swayed by personal feelings and political
poppy-cock. Every Auburn man should con­scientiously
support only those candidates
who can efficiently discharge the duties of
the office they seek.
Newspaper Men
Have you ever visioned yourself as the
reckless, carefree newspaper man that is so
often played up in the movies? Have you
ever wished that you were in his place, that
you could take things as they come—the ex­citement
with the calm—and then settle
down to a beer and a cigarette and forget
the whole thing?
If all that is what you would like in a
newspaper man, then you would be, in part,
disappointed, for most of the time newspa­per
men are just like the others that work
for a living. Just the same, there is that
time not included in "most of the time,"
when you wouldn't be disappointed, and
that's the part that makes being a newspa­per
man worth while.
. For the main part the work is just as reg­ular
and just as monotonous as any other
job might be. Day in and day out, there are
those same little stories to get for the final
edition—Mrs. Jones will probably have a
baby today, and Mrs. Smith tomorrow. The
names may change, but that is about all.
Maybe next week there will be a fire in the
East Side, but whether it's next week or
next month, there will be a fire, and then
the same old story goes into print.
For a month or two, the newspaper man's
job will be just routine. The editor's office
will be just like the office of .some other
business man, and the copy room, just an­other
place where the daily news is pounded
out. A score of reporters will come to work
at eight, take an hour off for lunch, and go
home at five. Those same reporters will
write obituraries and births and weather
stories every day of that month or two.
But then, without the slightest warning,
without even the mearest of hints, the big­gest
news story of the year will break. Obi­turaries
will be forgoten for the moment.
Mrs. Jones will have her baby, but not in
columns of the daily. A score of reporters
will be hurrying madly in and out of the
copy room, sitting still just long enough to
pound out a few hurried lines on a sheet of
paper and then yell out for the copy boy.
The editor's office will look like a mad house,
and the big boy himself will flounder around
under a turmoil of papers. Ties will be jerk­ed
loose and coats thrown over the backs
of chairs. In short, it will be just as you
pictured it—a veritable madhouse.
After that, well, there will be those same
days of routine and the same old job—just
"another day, and another Mrs. Jones. But
there was a big news story and there will
be another just like it . . . in a month or
two. That's what makes being a newspaper
man worthwhile. L.P.
What Is America?
Last week at the local theater there was a
rather silly film shown which told how a
man who was supposed to be "Mr. Average
American" was given a severe dose of poi­son
ivy, locked in his room for a couple of
weeks by an opinion poll agency, and flood­ed
with a batch of privately printed news­papers
full of threats of war on the United
States by some foreign power.
The opinion poll bureau wanted to find
the reactions of the average American citi­zen
to war threats. They wanted to know
how much the average citizen would stand
from overbearing foreign powers before he
would fight.
Each succeeding issue of the newspapers
that they brought to the carefully guarded
guinea pig was full of more serious threats
of conflict—American tourists traveling
abroad were insulted and injured, American-owned
foreign property was damaged, A-merican
trading vessels in foreign waters
were blown up. Mr. Average American never
budged. The tourists should have come home,
the property owners had to take the risk
of destruction, and the vessels should be in
home ports in-such perilous times.
Finally, the newspapers declared war, but
the hero refused to fight until he heard the
bombers roaring over his very head in a
fake air rade and knew that "the dirty but­chers"
were blowing up the sacred soil of
America and damaging Americans in their
homes.
It is the Plainsman's guess that the movie
moguls probably thought they were depict­ing
the reactions of the average American
citizen to war. And we "don't think they are
far wrong. "America" to the hero of this
rather weak movie was a stretch of territory
between two oceans and certain parallels
of latitude. Probably he included Hawaii. Of
this concrete America he was acutely con­scious.
He had traveled enough of its length
and breadth to get a feeling for it—of its
farms and cities and mountain tops. So long
as helmeted invaders did not march into his
concrete America, or alien air squadrons fly
above it, America was safe.
He spoke for many millions who think
in concrete terms.
What is America, anyway? There are bet­ter-
kept farms, cleaner cities elsewhere. Al­so
scenery just as grand to behold. Clearly,
the important America is not a stretch of
terrain with geographical borders. It is, in­stead,
a spiritual thing. It is not a political
state but a state of human dignity and mu­tual
decency between men. It is a oneness, a
unity, composed of free speech, political and
religious liberty, the fundamentals of the
bill of rights, and manly respect for the
pledged word.
When this America is gone, the America
of mere geographical boundaries will have
no meaning. All that makes living on our
plains and valleys and mountain tops will
be gone. All that makes being an American
a mark of distinction will have ceased to
have exist.
Oh, we know that the plains and valjeys
and fields are safe. They will remain even
should armies pass over them. But the true
America is terribly endangered. There is
no safety for our kind of America in a world
that threatens to throw a democratic na­tion,
built on the ideal that all men are creat­ed
equal and can live together peacably, as
a sacrifice to the hideous revival of barbaric
tribalism.
. Mr. Average American in the movie was
alert to the march of men. But Americans
who can see the march of ides are needed
to save the real America.
Well!
By John Ivey Jr.
THE YOUNGER GENERATION:
A statement that the younger in­habitants
of this earth hear so
much till they feel like giving old
age a slap on the proverbial
kisser . . . "What is this younger
generation coming to?"
When some old sage happens to
let this stock sentence dribble
from his lips, we always like to
think of the thing from a new
angle. It seems that it is self evi­dent
as to what the older genera­tion
has amounted to . , . with all
respect to those who gave us the
life, it seems as though we have
inherited a world from the hands
of individuals who have had their
very beings moulded into exis­tences
that are merely slaves to
tradition.
We are told to eat certain foods
due to the fact that we don't want
to end up with bodies that are bent
and broken; we are told that we
mustn't stay up late at night, be­cause
we will age faster and have
a shadow of purple under our op­tical
apparatus. We are told these
things by individuals who pass
wisdom from behind cigars stuck
into a mouth that has been eat­ing
pretty must what is desires
for half a century . . . from peo­ple
who stay up half the night
playing cards or listening to the
radio.
To make matters worse, the
idea strikes us as to just when the
older generation would designate
as the proper time to enjoy life.
. . . after you reach the age when
you will have to hobble to the
dance hall . . . after the age when
your digestive tract is already
over-worked by the fifty years of
faithfully performing its duties
three times a day on bits of food.
According to the best rules on
health, we have our life outlined
for us. The old people seems (to
take their old age as the time to
reverse the teachings of medicine
and to preach to the younger gen­eration
that (they are certainly go­ing
to the devil, or something.
WE WONDER. Since Mussolini
came into power, he has failed to
carry his anti-semetic campaign
to the same end and as has his
friend and partner in crime, Hit­ler.
But now the question comes
to mind as to whether the death
of Pope Pius XI will unlease Ita­ly's
Hitler to restrained persecu­tion
of the Jews.
Although Mussolini has at
times started a campaign that had
prospects of developing into a full-fledged
anti-Jewish movement, he
has been suffering from the pow­er
which the Pope has held over
his Catholic followers. Earlier this
year there was a failure on the
part of thousands of Italians to
renew their Fascist party cards.
The reason for this nation-wide
departure was rumored to have
been caused by the work of the
leading teachers and thinkers in
the Catholic Church, who through
their influence, turned the people
against Mussolini's attempts to
persecute the Jewish element in
Italy. Now the Pope is dead.
We were very much impressed
by the actions of the Pope during
the last Central European crisis.
Even though he was constantly
under medical care His Holiness
continued to make pleas for world
peace. . . his voice was weakened
by age and pain, but the force of
his words must have had their ef­fect.
He has played an important
part in restraining any inhuman
outbreaks on the part of the Ita­lian
government, but now he no
longer is there to put up the re­straining
hand. Who will have the
power to check the will of the dic­tator?
PROPAGANDA: College news­papers
and student organizations
have been bombarded during the
last month with letters from "a
Chinese student" asking for sup­port
ot the Chinese cause in the
current "incident" with Japan.
These letters ask that U. S. stu­dents
"send letters to men in key
government positions urging them
to make unlawful the sale or ship­ment
or arms or munitions; and
other war materials to aggressor
nations." Surveys of collegiate
opinion on the Sino-Japanese war
indicate that collegians believe
Japan to be the aggressor, that the
U. S. should take the side of war-torn
China.
But most collegians believe to­day
that the U. S. should not go
beyond its borders to fight as a
writer in the University of Missis­sippi
Mississippian, but most seem
to be in accord with its senti­ments.
THE CABINET LOSES EITHER WAY!
News note: "Julian Fowler and Ernest Pappas are candidates
for President of the Cabinet in tomorrow's election."
AUBURN FOOTPRINTS
To Be Or Not To Be
To study, or not to study:
That is the question
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to make A's and B's and the honor roll
Or to take C's and D's by having a good time and
By so doing forget it. To review, to cram
Some more, and by to cram to say we stuff
Our heads with unimportant facts
That college is known for, 'tis a situation
Devoutly to be avoided. To review, to cram;
To cram; perchance to flunk; ay, there's the rub;
For in cramming what good can come
When we have played one whole semester
Must give us pause; there's the respect
That makes calamity of examination days.
For who can learn in one night what
Should have been learned in eighteen weeks.
Who can think clearly the next day after
Having been up all night, drinking coffee
And smoking cigarettes
When he himself might study occasionally
And retire early on the eve of the
Eventful day and come prepared with
Sense rested and acute.
Who can bluff professors in thinking he
Knows something by his eloquent pen and words.
Who can fill in what an empty head doth not know;
Except for that fatal blankness which
Falls over us and from which no one
Can come out of at the decisive moment.
Thus cramming makes dunces of us all,
And thus the moral of this story is,
Prepare faithfully from day to day your assignments
And when the roll is called up yonder you'll be there.
* * *
Shades of R. E. M. Des Islets! That Norma Shearer can spin
a yarn, can't she!
* * *
There was an Old Woman of Wooster
Who had a Thanksgiving rooster.
She chopped off his head
Until he was dead
And now he doesn't crow like he yooster.
* * *
There was a Young Lady from Nark
Who thought she could sing like a lark
. She hit a high note,
'Twas too much for her throat,
And all that came out was a bark.
THE EDITOR'S MAILBOX
Editor
The Auburn Plainsman
Dear Sir:
While all the talk about Great­er
Auburn is going on, I think it
would be opportune to say some­thing
about the town as it is. I'm
for this Greater Auburn, but
would it not be well to improve
and make more beautiful what is
already here so that it will be
more in keeping with the new
modern expansion? The town
should become civic-conscious,
stand off and take an impartial
look at itself.
I imagine that numbers of vis­itors
coming here on Feb. 22 will
look with amazement at the piles
of cans, old lumber, trash, etc.,
right in the middle of town; the
vacant lots with last year's crop of
old weeds and wind-blown paper;
back yards that one glimpses with
heaps of old bottles—there's a
truck load in one yard that I
know—catching rain-water, breed­ing
mosquitoes; overflowing trash
cans, inefficiently cleaned and re­ceiving
little attention from
householders; cattle, mules, pigs
and geese rubbing elbows, so to
speak, with main street. Where's
the civic pride of Auburn citi­zens?
On my first visit here I was
amazed at the swarms of flies a-round
the business places on the
Before Tomorrow
By John Godbold
SOCIALIZED MEDICINE has
come to Alabama. According to
an employee of one of the gov­ernment
a g e n c i e s operating
throughout the state, cooperative
medical groups have been formed
in a majority of the 67 counties
and are operating successfully so
far.
The plan calls for the payment
of $6 each per year for the two
heads of the family and a smaller
amount for each child. During the
year this small payment entitles
all members of the family to med­ical
service. It even includes the
payment of hospital bills and the
furnishing of prescriptions.
According to our source, one
client underwent a major opera­tion
soon after the plan went into
effect in her county, her hospital
bill alone being more than $400.
Her small payment to the "pool"
had enabled her to receive the
medical service which otherwise
she might not have been able to
secure; or had she been able to
secure it, she would have been
burdened for years with the pay­ments.
The plan is working especially
well in rural counties. In the
larger towns and cities where the
doctors' incomes are larger, there
seems to be some opposition, but
in the less thickly populated areas
the doctors are trying their best
to help.
There have been many objec­tions
to socialized medicine. But
when one looks at it clearly and
objectively as it is being practiced
in Alabama the objections seem
to be entirely over-shadowed by
the benefits. For a small sum
low-income families are getting
much-needed medical service
without being burdened with debt.
And doctors who are working un­der
the plan are enjoying a sub­stantial
increase in income.
* * *
ONE WONDERS what effect
the death of Pope Pius will have
on the peace of Europe. He al­ways
worked conscientiously for
better relations among the belli­gerent
European countries, and
his death migh foretell even more
sparks around the powder keg.
There can be little doubt that
both Hitler and Mussolino are ex­erting
all their influence to have
either a German or Italian sympa­thizer
named as Pope Pius' suc­cessor.
If such an election were to
come about, both totalitarian
states would be materially benefit­ed,
for the Catholic Church has
been one of the greatest opponents
of Fascism, particularly in Ger­many.
The eyes of the world are going
to be on Rome when the selection
takes place. History will be made
there.
* * *
ALABAMA can point with pride
to its present legislature. Anyone
who has ever seen former legis­latures
in session knows that of­ten
there has been little dignity
about them. Of course, much of
the important work is done behind
the scenes; nevertheless, it is rath­er
disappointing to see legislators
reading newspapers, munching
candy bars or peanuts, singing
hillnbilly songs, and cavorting in
general.
But the present legislature has
had a different attitude. The ser-iouness
and dignity with which it
has gone about its duties have won
for it a sincere respect from citi­zens
of the state.
main street. I still am. It's uselss
to try to get a moment's rest be­cause
of them, and add to them
the mosquitoes—hordes of them—
that make life miserable and sleep
impossible.
There's a lot to be done to make
this truly the Loveliest Village of
the Plains.
Why not start before the Big
Day?
Auburn Citizen
Editor
The Auburn Plainsman
Dear Ed,
Original poetry, by golly!
John's Girl
John's girl is fair as a morn in
May,
Her mouth is made for laughter,
and she laughs all the day.
She's just the right size, about five
feet two;
Her nose is up-turned and her eyes
are blue.
She has tiny ears and curly brown
hair,
She's a nifty dancer, this maiden
fair.
BUT—John's girl is bad; my girl
is good.
Do you think I'd trade with John?
Gosh, you know I would!
Student Poet
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1939 THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
API# University
Sigma Chi's
To Meet Here
In an attempt to bring the Iota
chapter of Sigma Chi at the Uni­versity
of Alabama and the Gam­ma
Sigma chapter of Sigma Chi
here at Auburn closer together,
these two chapters this year are
inaugurating an annual visit to
each other, during the time of in­itiation.
This year the joint initiation
•will take place on March third
and fourth in Auburn, with Gam­ma
Sigma as host. Next year the
Iota Iota Chapter will act as host
to the Auburn chapter in Tusca­loosa.
Guests of Gamma Sigma
next month will include members
of the Iota Iota chapter, alumni
of the Gamma Sigma chapter, and
other visiting Sigma Chis.
This is the first time that a
gathering of this nature has been
attempted, and enthusiasm for its
success is growing as the final
plans are being worked out. In
addition to promoting a closer
bond between the Sigma Chi chap­ters
of Iota Iota and Gamma Sig­ma,
the occasion next month, and
the years following, should also be
a step forward establishing a
closer, more friendly relationship
between the University and Au­burn.
SOCIETY AND NEWS FEATURES
ELEANOR SCOTT, Editor
Kappa Sigma Fraternity
Chooses New Officers
Beta Eta chapter of Kappa Sig­ma
fraternity elected William H.
Andrews Jr. of Thomasville, pres­ident
of the chapter for the en­suing
term at the chapter meet­ing
Wednesday night. Andrews
was also selected official delegate
to represent the chapter at the
Grand Conclave of the fraternity
to be held in Glacier National
Park, Montana, Aug. 30-31, Sept.
1.
Other officers elected at this
time were Charlie Kilpatrick,
Carrollton, vice-president, suc­ceeding
Bill Hall; Bill Campbell,
Decatur, Ga., Grand Master of
Ceremonies, succeeding Emory
Solomon; Henry Mohns, Atlanta,
secretary, succeeding B. H. Raw-linson;
Charles Harris, Montgom­ery,
're-elected treasurer; Boiling
Rawlinson, Millforook, kitchen
manager, succeeding Emory Solo­mon;
Charles Magnuson, Birm­ingham,
assistant treasurer. In­stallation
of these officers will be
held Feb. 15.
Thirty U. S. colleges use crim­son
as their school colors.
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Local Theta Chi's Are Hosts At
Regional "Rebel Reunion"
More than 200 members of
Theta Chi fraternity will be guests
of Auburn Saturday, Feb. 18,
drawn there for the first annual
convention of Region Five, which
includes chapters at University of
Alaibama, University of Florida,
Georgia School of Technology,
Alaibama Polytechnic Institute,
and various alumni chapters
throughout these states. This first
annual reunion will become known
from coast-to-coast within the
fraternity's 12,000 members as the
Rebel Reunion.
The reunion iwill be opened with
registration of incoming delegates
Saturday morning at the house of
Chi chapter on the Auburn cam­pus.
Saturday afternoon the dele­gates
will gather' at the chapter
house for a series of round table
discussions on mutual chapter
problems such as the management
of chapter houses, improvement in
scholarship, pledge training, soc­ial
training of members, etc. Fol­lowing
these business sessions, a
tea dance will be held at Graves
Center from four to seven, music
being furnished by the Auburn
Knights, featuring favorite Theta
Chi songs. At eight o'clock a ban­quet
will be held for all delegates
and their dates. Following the
banquet there will be informal
dancing at the chapter house.
National President Earle D.
Rhodes of Troy, New York, will
arrive in Auburn Friday and re­main
until Sunday. At the ban­quet
President Rhodes will ad­dress
the assembled delegates and
introduce the guest speaker, Dean
Floyd Fields, prominent Theta
Chi alumni of Georgia Tech.
Each year conventions similar
to the Rebel Reunion are held and
known as: the Boston Tea Party,
Philadelphia Frolic, Columbus
Congress, Seattle Stampede, and
San Francisco Fiesta.
Marjorie Hanners Marries
Robert C. Lominack
Miss Marjorie Hanners, daugh­ter
of Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Han­ners,
became the bride of Robert
G. Lominack, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert M. Lominack, of New­berry,
S. C, Jan. 30.
The bride received her college
education at Alabama College at
Montevallo and at A. P. I.
Mr. Lominack attended Clem-son
College and graduated at A.
P. I. He is at present connected
with the Goodyear Tire and Rub­ber
Co.
After Feb. 2, the couple will
make their home in Monroe, S. C.
Barnett Issues Statement
About Glee Club for Girls
Director Lawrence Barnett of
the Girls' Glee Club issued a final
statement today in regards to the
organization for the second se-
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Phi Psi Elects Officers
To Fill Vacancies
On Monday night, Feb. 6, Phi
Psi, honorary textile fraternity,
elected Nolan Helms secretary to
fill the vacancy caused by the res­ignation
of Hugh Wright. K. B.
Smith was elected to vice presi­dent
and publicity agent to fill the
vacancy of J. C. Farrow, who
graduated at mid term.
Other officers are P. K. Mc-
Kinney, president; E. J. Lawrence,
treasurer; V. C. Hill, senior war­den;
and Charlie Knight, junior
warden.
Plans for the Open House,
sponsored each year by Phi Psi,
were also discussed. Phi Psi
wishes to extend each student an
invitation to attend the Open
House which will be held on Fri­day
afternoon and night, March
3.
Auburn Graduate Is Wed
In Montgomery Ceremony
Miss Nell Taylor was wedded to
Earl C. Adams, a graduate of Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute, Sat­urday
at the Forest Avenue Meth­odist
Church, Montgomery last
week. The Rev. Griffin E. Lloyd
officiated.
Mrs. J. E. Harrison directed the
music program. The following se­lections
were played "Venetian
Love Song," "Berceuse," "Salut
D' Amour," "At Dawning," "O
Promise Me," "Bridal March,"
"Mid-Summer Night's Dream,"
and "Drink to Me Only With
Thine Eyes."'
The bridegroom is a grad­uate
of the Jones Law School. He
is a member of the Montgomery
Bas Association; is a member of
Sigma Delta Kappa, legal frater­nity;
a member of Beauvoir Coun­try
Club, and of various civic and
patriotic organizations. He holds
the position as clerk at the Juve­nile
Court.
The bride received her prepara­tory
education in Montgomery and
later Alabama College and Tu-lane
University in New Orleans.
Mr. and Mrs. Adams will make
their home at 1000 South Court
Street, Montgomery.
mester. All girls are extended an
invitation to attend.
The meetings will be held on
Tuesday and Thursday afternoons
at 5 p. m. in the Glee Club room,
above Elec Lab. Juanita Johnson
is president of the organization.
Dean J. W. Scott has announc­ed
that one hour's credit in col­lege
will be given for the work to
those registering at once. All new
students entering school this se­mester
are cordially invited to
sign with Margaret Pearson, sec­retary
of the Glee Club, to join
the group.
Coe College's new campus soc­ial
center has been named "coke-
•tail lounge."
NEW-TYPE STREAMLINER
ANEW-TYPE 125-mile-an-hour stream­liner—
the 5000 horsepower steam-electric
train now being put through its final
tests by G-E engineers—soon will be speed­ing
on its first westward run over the Union
Pacific's historic "Overland Route."
Nearly two years have been spent by
General Electric and Union Pacific engineers
in designing and building the streamliner.
The result is that the power plant of the
new train is capable of doing twice the work
of a conventional steam locomotive for each
pound of fuel used, and of making three
times the mileage without stopping for fuel
or water. Six large motors in each of the
two cabs drive the locomotive, the electricity
being supplied by a geared turbine-electric
generating unit similar to those used on
many ships.
As the new 15-car streamliner speeds between
Chicago and the Pacific Coast, at times
winding through passes more than 7000
feet above sea level, it will be another symbol
of the constant search by General Electric's
transportation engineers for more efficient
means of travel. This search is one in which
the engineer with years of experience gives
invaluable training to the Test men-young
student engineers recently graduated
from college—who assist him.
TELEVISION AT THE
NEW YORK FAIR
IF you have a favorite line or two from
Kipling or a famous Shakespearean
speech you like to give now and then,
consider the ne plus ultra of settings for the
presentation—a complete television studio,
with an audience as standard equipment,
recently announced by Dr. W. R. G. Baker,
Union '16, managing engineer of the General
Electric radio division and an ex-Test man.
For you are invited to turn actor in the
G-E building at "The World of Tomorrow,"
the New York World's Fair. At your service
will be a program director, who will initiate
you into the experience of acting before the
camera, and complete television equipment
of the latest design—receivers, camera,
transmitter.
Demonstrating television to the public is
not new to General Electric engineers. Nine
years ago, Dr. E. F. W. Alexanderson—one
of the G-E consulting engineers and an ex-
Test man—arid his assistants demonstrated
television to a theater audience in Sche­nectady.
But great advances have been
made since then, and when you act for your
friends at New York you will be using the
latest equipment that science has to offer.
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Steak Fry at Cabin
Delta Sigma Pi, the professional
business fraternity, entertained
last Tuesday evening with a hay
ride and steak fry given at the
chapter's rustic lodge just outside
Among the members attending
with their dates were Tom Hen­ley
and Marjorie Miller, Syd Cook
and Pete Wright, Rufus Porter
and Nell Gilchrist, Marshall Hoop­er
and Mary Nell Pope, John Dub-berly
and Mary Lydia William­son,
Frank Wilson and Amy Drake,
Julian Myrick and Pat Irwin,
Charles Harris and Mary Banks
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Ole Miss Mourns
Death Of Forner
Auburn Man
The flag at the University of
Mississippi flew at half mask last
week as the campus mourned one
of its best loved citizens, Sergeant
Marius de S. Marquis, instructor
of Military Science and Tactics,
who died from a self inflicted bul­let
wound on Feb. 1.
Sergt. Marquis, who came to
Ole Miss at the beginning of the
1938-39 session, was 33 years old.
He was born in Selma, Ala., in
1905.
He was educated at Auburn
and received his degree in 1925.
Joining the army shortly after
his graduation, he was stationed at
Fort Benning, Ga., where he re­mained
until coming to the Uni­versity.
In addition to his work as a mil­itary
instructor, Sergt. Marquis
also was assistant coach of the
rifle markmanship team and was
equipment manager for the Ath­letic
Assocition.
There was no apparent motive
for Sergt. Marquis' action. He left
a note addressed to his wife, but
its contents were never disclosed.
The night prior to his death,
which came as the result of a .22
caliber bullet found through the
right temple, he is said to have
been in excellent spirits.
Funeral services for Sergt. Mar­quis
were held at the First Bap­tist
Church, with the Rev. F. M.
Purser, pastor, officiating, assist­ed
by the Rev. J. E. Wallace of
the First Presbyterian' Church.
Burial with full military honors
was in Columbus, Ga., the follow­ing
day.
Cardinal Key
Has Banquet
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Cardinal Key held its formal in­itiation
banquet Thursday night in
the Pitts Hotel. Those initiated
were Suzelle Hare, Ruth Lowe,
Helen Porch, Virginia Adams, and
Margaret Pearson. Edith Cecil
Carson was ill at her home in
Montgomery.
Alumnae members present were
Mrs. Neil Davis, Mrs. Anita
Wright, Mrs. Jimmy Green, Miss
Mary George Lamar, Mrs. Mar­ion
Richardson, and Mrs. Milton
Hill.
The table was decorated with
red carnations, and Eleanor Scott,
president, served as master of cer­emonies.
To be eligible for membership
in Cardinal Key, a girl must have
a junior standing on the campus,
an average of 85 or above, and
be outstanding in leadership and
personality.
Active members present at the
initiation were Dr. Rosa Lee
Walston, honorary member, Ruby
Helen Stokes, Clara Thaggard,
Rachel Hereford, Rubye Pitts, Ca­milla
Newberry, Anne Winn, and
Eleanor Scott.
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PAGE FOUR THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1939
Famous Magician
To Play at Tiger
Calvert, world's premier magi­cian
and illusionist will present
his stupendous production of mys­tery
from the stage of the Tiger
Theater Thursday. The show in­cludes
massive collection of il­lusions
delving deeply into the
mysteries of the orient. •
The show carries the glamor of
Broadway, the thrills of Holly­wood
and the beauty of oriental
paradises.
Calvert will present many as­tounding
illusions never before
seen in this country, mechanical
robots will come to life and change
to living creatures.
Calvert's $50,000.00 mystery,
"The Chimes of Pharaoh," will be
presented, the chimes will ring
and beautiful girls materialize be­fore
the eyes of the audience as
if they were fairies and vanish
at the wave of Calvert's wand,
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bnly to reappear on pedestals or
even in the theater dome.
Calvert says a show in naught
without sex appeal, so naturally
only the most charming girls ap­pear
on the stage with the master
of magic.
You will be held spellbound at
the sight of the "Floating Lady"
and you will be astounded at the
sight of the ""Disembodied Prin­cess"
where in a beautiful girl has
her head severed from her body.
"Penetro" is another of Calvert's
most mystifying presentations. A
steel spear seemingly penetrates
through a girl's body.
It is hard to believe that is pos­sible
for a person to be in more
than one place at a time but the
magician will lead you to believe
that he is some supernatural be­ing
when he presents his quick
change act in the "Vampire Illu­sion,"
wherein he changes places
with weirdly dressed performers
before the very eyes of the au­dience.
You will probably be startled
when a beautiful young lady van­ishes
instantaneously, at the flash
of a (gun, in mid-air.
One of the most daring and be­wildering
feats ever to be present­ed
from the theater stage is "The
Buzz Saw" illusion, a girl is vis­ibly
sawed1 in half with a huge
whining buzz saw powered by
electricity.
This generation will probably
never have another opportunity to
gaze upon a stage performance
equivalent to this.
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Pan-American
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Garfield forced a postponement;
a second invitation was issued in
1889 again under .Blaine's gui­dance
and to which all the repub­lics
except Santo Domingo res­ponded.
On Oct. 2, 1889, the First
Pan-American Conference met in
session in Washington under the
presidency of Blaine. It concluded
agreements on compulsory arbitra­tion,
trade reciprocity, port du­ties,
customs regulations, free
navigation of rivers, sanitary reg­ulations,
a monetary union, com­mon
weights and measures, pat­ents,
trade-marks, extradition of
criminals, and other international
matters. Most of this work, which
took up more than seven months'
time, was nullified by the failure
of the states to ratify the treaty;
but the way was made clear for
succeeding conferences, and, most
important of all, the establish­ment
of the International Bureau
of American Republics became a
reality.
Other Conferences Follow
Succeeding conferences known
as the Second, Third, Fourth, etc.
Pan-American Conferences met in
1901, 1906, 1910, 1923, 1933, and
1938, respectively. All these con­ferences
^dealt with the topics
compulsory arbitration, enforce­ment
of the "Drago Doctrine" and
"Calvo Clause," labor, internatio­nal
law, sanitation, ports, cus­toms,
and other topics of vital
concern to the mutual interests of
the American Republics. Other
conferences and commissions were
created by the main conference
and carried on extensive surveys
and reforms in the fields that ef­fected
the participating states
most. Education, communication,
transportation, labor, child wel­fare,
commerce, and sanitation
commissions were organized to
supplement the work of the con­ference
which met only at five-year
intervals.
Dr. Drago's Doctrine
The Drago Doctrine settled to
a large extent the controversy be­tween
the Latin American states
and the European powers which
were lending the Latin Americas
money and investing in their
bonds. In several cases the bor­rowing
states had delayed pay­ment"
of these debts and the Eu­ropean
powers had made attempts
in some cases to occupy portions
of their territory. However, the
United States in carrying out its
policy contained in the Monroe
Doctrine, had forbidden such ac­tion.
The Latin American repub­lics
felt it their right and duty to
protect themselves and thus this
policy of the Drago Doctrine was
instituted. It was the brainchild
of Dr. Drago, a well-known and
brilliant jurist and diplomat from
the Argentine Republic. The doc­trine
stateed in fact that " a pub­lic
debt cannot give rise to the
right of intervention, and much
less to the occupation of the soil
of any American nation by any
European power."
This policy was the subject of
much discussion at the conference,
but it has been declared by suc­ceeding
conferences to be the pol­icy
of every American republic.
The agreement on this policy,
known as the Porter Convention
and adopted by the conference in
1907, was made subject to the
condition that the debtor state
should not refuse to reply to an
offer of arbitration, and, once
having accepted it, fail to abide
by the award. The doctrine has in
effect added a corollary to the
Monroe Doctrine followed by the
United States and the other A-merican
states.
8th Pan-American Conference
Of far greater significance and
importance to the world and to
the Americas was the recent
Eighth Pan-American Conference
held in Lima, Peru. This confer­ence,
composed of the American
delegation, headed by Secretary of
State Cordell Hull and of the of­ficial
delegates of all the Latin
American republics, struck a new
note of accord never before at­tained
by any other international
conference. Its concerted action
has thrown up what is hoped to be
an impenetrable front to foreign
aggressors and hostile activities in
the Western Hemisphere.
NOTICE
Coach Dell Morgan has request­ed
that all pitching and catching
candidates for both Auburn's
freshman and varsity baseball
teams this spring report in the
"A" Club room at Alumni Gym­nasium
Wednesday night at 7 o'­clock.
It is very important that
both the varsity and plebe cat­chers
and pitchers be present at
the initial meeting Wednesday
night.
Wax Works
A Brunswick production of "All
God's Chillun Got Rhythm" with
vocal work handled by Ginny
Simms, Sully Mason, and Harry
Babbitt, backed by Kay Kyser's
outfit is good material along the
novelty line. "Mighty Lak' A
Rose" with words by Ginny Simms
graces the other side-of said disc.
Fine!
* * *
Johnny Messner and his Music
Box Band have made a record on
the Mickey Rooney tune, "Have
A Heart," which features a vocal
by Boblby King. On the reverse
side "Dawn of a New D a y comes
forth in a very commercial man­ner,
but is pretty good! A Blue­bird.
* * *
Something fine in the way of
swing is the recording of "Dinah"
by Red Nichols and his Five Pen­nies,
who this time turn out to
be Teagarden, Rusin, Goodman,
Krupa, and Kress. They get in a
pretty good groove. "Indiana,"
the production on the opposite
side of the Vocalion is equally as
good. Makes a fine addition to the
collection of swing classics by a
small combination.
* * *
Brunswfick presents Horace
Heidt and his crew in "Where Has
My Little Dog Gone," vocal by
Jean Farney, and "Clarinet Pol­ka."
Both tunes axe done in the
appealing but commercial style of
Heidt's band, which by the way,
is just short of being a small ar­my.
However, we might recom­mend
this disc to those who are
nuts on the subject of flashy sec­tion
work with a tinge of corn.
* * *
Back to the strictly good groov­ers
we have a Victor master swing
classic cut by the Benny Good­man
"small combination" the
quintet on "I Cried For You," with
the trio holding forth on the other
side of the tune of "I Know That
You Know." Please pardon us,
but there are no flies on either
side of this production . . . a fine
addition to any stack!
* * *
"An Old Curiosity Shop" ap­pears
on a Victor recording just
finished by that master trombone
slide slipper Thomas Dorsey and
his bunch of sweet-swing cats.
Jack Leonard explains vocally the
set-up on this side, while Edith
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T. Dorsey has hit a happy medium
in the' method of featuring his slip
horn which is certainly a relief af­ter
listening to some band leaders
stand up and shine for an entire
tune.
* * *
Tommy Dorsey's band has two
new ones ready for consumption
under the old names of "Cock­tails
For Two" and "Old Black
Joe." Although the tunes are from
two widely seperated periods in
American history, they are both
given the latest dress of modern
dance style. Stephen Foster would
turn an undignified flip in his
resting place below the sod if he
heard his beloved tune played by
T. Dorsey, but he would end up
by tapping his foot . . . no doubt!
* * •
Jimmie Lunceford has just fin­ished
two of the finest in the re­cording
history of his band for
Vocalion. The tunes are plugged
under the titles of "Cheatin' On
Me" and "Ain't What You Do, It's
The Way You Do It." The first of
these two feature the Lunceford
trio in one of the solidest grooves
from which swing come forth. The
latter tune features the voice of
James Young, assisted by the trio
in a sender decidely on the right
side of the track. Dont miss this
record!
* * *
Featuring his fast broken-chord
style on a couple of fine tunes,
Richard Himber gave "Jimmie
Swings Out" and "Sweet and
High" a new dress in ia Victor pro­duction
vocalized by Stuart Allen.
Himber has a style that- is con-spicious
for the broken-chord ef­fects.
The remarkable thing about
the band is that, regardless of
the tempo of the tune being play­ed,
the broken chords are always
played in a fine smooth style that
presents a very pleasing result.
* * *
"Study in Red" and "Deep Pur­ple"
are the two latest works of
the Larry Clinton organization.
Bea Wain, in her usual fine style,
furnishes the vocal for the last of
these two tunes while Clinton ex­hibits
his fine arrangement on his
own composition in the first of
the group. Although Larry's out­fit
sticks to the sweet side of
swing as a rule, they really do
"Study in Red" up in a manner
of a full-grown bunch of swing
cats! Really fine!
NOTICE
The local branch of the A. I. E.
E. is sponsoring an inspection
trip to the nearby hydro-electric
dams Saturday, Feb. 18th, for all
junior and senior electrical stu­dents.
Those planning to go please
notify Eugene Knight or R. E.
Ledlbetter if you have not already
done so, and be on Toomer's cor­ner
at 7:30 Saturday morning.
NOTICE
The Perry Garden Club will
meet Wednesday, Feb. 15, at 3 p.
m. with Mrs. J. G. Beasley on the
Opelika Road, with Mrs. Mary
Tamplin as co-hostess. Prof. L.
M. Ware will have the program.
Mrs. H. B. Peacock will speak on
"Roses and Their Care."
NOTICE
The physical education depart­ment
will sponsor socials every
Saturday night in the student cen­ter
at 6:30 to 8. The program will
consist of dancing and games. All
students are urged to attend.
NOTICE
There iwill (be an "A" Club dance
on ithe night of February 22,
"Greater Auburn Day," in Graves
Center. Out-of-town alumni of
the "A" Club are cordially invited
to attend.
More than 20,000 balloons were
released at the opening kick-off
of the Minnesota-Michigan foot­ball
fracas.
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World's Greatest Magician
First American Tour With His
Oriental Harem
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A B E V Y O F S T U N N I N G
U N V E I L E D B E A U T I E S .
T H E S U P R E ME
S A C R I F I C E
A youth's head cut off and carried on a silver
platter to the favorite of the harem.
V E N E S P A
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woman to a man before your very eyes.
S U Z E T T E
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CCEI THE K I N G ' S DREAM OF
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His new bride flees from him, a hypnotic spell
causes her to float off into space.
On The Screen: "Change of Heart"
Thursday T I G E R
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