1939-02-10 The Auburn Plainsman

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VOL. LXII Z-I AUBURN, ALABAMA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1939 NUMBER 39
Extensive Plans Are Completed
For 'Greater Auburn Day'
Committees to Handle
Arrangements Are Busy;
Alumni, Friends Expected
Another step toward completion
of plans for celebration of "Great­er
Auburn Day" on Feb. 22 was
taken here this week with the
appointment of .members of local
civic clubs to a reception commit­tee
which will serve to transport
visitors to A. P. I. around the
campus on the day of festivities.
J. W. Watson, chairman of the
citizens' reception committee, an­nounced
the following members:
Homer Wright, city at large; S. L.
Toomer, Charles R. Hixon, A. L.
Thomas, Rotary Club; Dr. J. W.
Tidmore, W. H. Weidenbach, Emil
F. Wright, Kiwanis Club; W. T.
Ingram, J. E. Roop, Dr. E. S.
Winters, Lions Club; H. L. Big­gin,
Dr. W. M. Fuller, Roberts H.
Brown, Junior Chamber of Com­merce.
Members of the reception com­mittee,
according to Chairman
Watson, will stay in town the
early part of the day on Feb. 22,
but will go out to Graves Center
later in the day. The committee
will supply cars to transport vis­itors.
Seven thousand invitations, pro­grams,
automobile stickers, and
letters from Maurice Bloch, pres­ident
of the Auburn Alumni As­sociation,
have been mailed out
from the alumni office here dur­ing
the past few days.
Local alumni are requested to
return their cards saying whether
they will attend the celebration
just as out-of-town alumni will
do, Porter Grant, alumni secretary,
announced.
Elmer G. Salter, president of
the local Auburn chapter of the
alumni association, urges every­one
here to return his card and
by all means to attend "Greater
Auburn Day."
President L. N. Duncan and
Mayor C. S. Yarbrough state they
have both received word from
many alumni and friends to the
effect a large number of them
will attend the celebration. Mrs.
C. C. Thach of New Orleans, wife
of the late Dr. Thach, one-time
president of A. P. I., will arrive
on Feb. 21 for the celebration.
She wrote that she is "looking
forward to coming home" and to
seeing all the "old boys" again.
In addition to the program for
the day, which includes a cadet
review, barbecue, and football
game, there will be a number of
exhibits staged by the engineer­ing
students, and possibly one by
the architectural students.
Records in all criminal cases in­vestigated
by the state toxicolo­gy
laboratory here will be open
to public view. H. W. Nixon, state
toxocologist, announces that vis­itors
are cordially invited on that
day to look over records.
Tomorrow night in Birmingham
will be held a "smoker" at the
Tutwiler hotel for Birmingham
alumni who will plan at that time
to bring down several hundred
from Jefferson County on Feb. 22.
Maurice Bloch and Porter Grant
will attend the Birmingham
smoker.
President of local alumni chap­ters
throughout several states are
Plans for Benefit
For Band Given
By Blue Key
Function to Take Place
Tuesday Night in Front
Of Langdon Hall
The Bingo party given by Blue
Key for the benefit of the Auburn
Band will get under way next
Tuesday night at 7:30 on the out­side
of the pathway in between
Langdon Hall and the Architec­ture
Building. Seating arrange­ments
have been made so that up
to one hundred persons may par­ticipate
in each game.
The game will be called by
"Cunnel" Dave Roberts over a
loud speaker system that will en­able
all the players to hear the
numbers as they are called. Mem­bers
of Blue Key will assist to
the operation of the tables on
which the game is to be played.
The game is to be run on a basis
of a nickel per game, with the
winner receiving a percentage of
the pay-in for each game. The
more people that play in the
game, (the larger the prize. In case
of the rare possibility of a tie,
the two winners will divide the
prize equally between them. Sev­eral
prizes will be given by lo­cal
merchants to the winners of
some of the games held during
the course of play.
Tickets for playing Bingo next
Tuesday night will be sold in ad­vance
by members of Blue Key
and members of the Band. Each
ticket will entitle the holder to
one game, and will be sold at 6
ior 25 cents in advance only.. Adr
vance sale will be closed Tuesday
morning at 11 o'clock and tickets
(bought thereafter will be 5c a-piece.
Each player in a game is given
a card on which there are five
numbers on each of five rows hor­izontally.
The "caller" has on his
table a box in which there are
small wooden disks with the num­bers
from 1 to 88 written on them.
One at a time, the caller picks a
disk from the box and calls out a
number which is written on it. M
the player has .that number writ­ten
on his card at any point, he
covers it with a "token" or any
small object which can be placed
over the number. The caller con­tinues
to draw from the box and
call out the numbers until some
player has covered all of the num­bers
in any one row horizontally.
That player will then shout "Bin­go,"
and the prize money will be
turned over to that person if
his numbers check, with those
that have been called. As was
stated previously, in case of a tie,
the prize will be divided equally
between the winners.
Immediately preceding _ the
game, the Band will play a prog­ram
of music under the direction
of P. R. Bidez. All students and
townspeople who can possibly do
so are invited to play the game
and help benefit the Band.
Thanksgiving Dedication of New Stadium
Is Hoped for, Says Coach Jack Meagher
Want to Dedicate Bowl
During Battle with Team
F r om Florida
Coach Jack Meagher of Auburn
said this week plans were under
preliminary discussion looking to­ward
the dedication of the Plain-men's
new football stadium next
Thanksgiving in a battle between
Auburn and Florida in 1939. The
Florida-Auburn game previously
had been announced for Mont­gomery,
December 2.
If the $180,000 stadium now
under construction is completed,
Coach Meagher said, the clash
might be changed to Auburn
Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 30. All
discussions of change thus far are
entirely contingent upon comple­tion
of the stadium, the coach em­phasized.
The stadium will seat approxi-
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Prof. Adams Wins Handicap
Golf Tourney at Club
Prof. H. W. Adams of the Eng­lish
department at A. P. I. won
the first handicap tournament of
the year at the Auburn Country
Club last Friday, Saturday and
Sunday. He turned in a net score
of 65 on the 18 holes, winning a
new $22 leather golf bag.
Leonard Leach and Dr. J. L.
Seal teid for second high net with
scores of 68. Second prize was a
new golf club.
Third place in the tourney also
resulted in a tie, with Dr. B. F.
Thomas and G. H. Franke each
turning in a net of 71 to win three
75-cent golf balls.
Fourth prize, another set of golf
balls, went to Henry Brown.
Joint Hosts For Celebration General Spring Elections To Be
March 21, Announces McGehee
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P8BSIDGhft;A.P.I.
President L. N. Duncan, Alumni President Maurice Bloch, and Mayor C. S. Yarbrough are
joint hosts for the "Greater Auburn Day" celebration to be held Feb. 22i They represent the col­lege,
the alumni association, and the city.
Sports Writers
Aid Homecoming
Many Important Writers
To Be on Hand at Event
By Charles Burns
To top already made plans for
"Greater Auburn Day" prominent
sport scribes will be on hand to
participate. Before arriving on
the campus, these members of the
fourth estate have been playing
up the event through the columns
of the press.
Recent reports have disclosed
that Morgan Blake of the Jour­nal,
Kenneth Gregory of the As­sociated
Press, Ed Danforth of the
Georgian, and Jack Troy of the
Constitution will all be on hand
from Atlanta.
Of course, there's Pat Moulton,
the Auburn alumnus, now. sports
editor of l i e Mobile Press-Regis­ter,
who will arrive the night be­fore
the great event* and Bill Rol-low
coming from the Montgomery
Advertiser, with Howard Johnson
of the Alabama Journal also be­ing
in the party.
Zipp Newman and Bob Phillips
from Birmingham have given Au­burn
a big hand through their
papers and the sports departmert
is really back of this "back to
the Village" movement.
Farmer Seale in the Selma
Times-Journal has been right be­hind
the scenes of the celebration
and probably Maurice Bloch's
nearest neighbor with the first­hand
information supplied by one
alumni prexy in person.
Latest reports have come from
Jack Troy in his "All In The
Game" column of the Atlanta Con­stitution
Wednesday when he
plugged the "Greater Auburn
Day" by using the entire column
for Auburn.
And we can't forget the work
that our own sports writer has
been doing, for Elmer Salter has
been plugging the event for weeks
and all the papers have been car­rying
his articles.
Besides reporters, cameramen
will be here. Paramount News has
been asked to send a representa­tive
here to photograph the event
and Walter Rosser of Birmingham
will be on hand. • ,
A thirty minute broadcast has
been arranged over WSFA, Mont­gomery,
by remote control from
the campus. Ernest Rogers of
WSB is lending his aid through
his Journal column and over the
Atlanta station,
Kirtley Brown, our own publi­cations
editor, has been working
night and day to distribute and
circulate news of the biggest e-vent
in Auburn's history.
The Alumni Association, through
Miss Claire Culver, office secre­tary,
and Porter Grant, Executive
Secretary, has contacted every
alumni on the rolls and each has
been especially urged to attend
the event.
If it is left up to the publicity,
Auburn has it. It is going to be a
big event, so tell your parents in
the letters back home and do
your part.
NOTICE
The Auburn Fencing Club will
meet for practice every Tuesday,
Wednesday, and Thursday on the
top floor of the Textile Building.
Repitition
Just to ease anyone's mind
who is getting all aroused a-bout
the anti-hitch-hiking bill,
recently introduced in the legis­lature,
we wish to repeat that
the bill has been permanently
shelved and is considered to be
virtually dead by all the legis­lators.
There is no necessity of cir­culating
petitions or spreading
foolish rumors about marching
on Montgomery. The bill is
dead. Now forget about it.
This Story Stinks
You have probably heard of a
skunk in a trunk but never two
in a garbage can. This is what
happened yesterday morning when
G. H. Coats, manager of the Tiger
lab, lifted the lid of his trash- box
and, lo and behold, discovered
two civet cats eating the garbage.
He immediately notified the
School of Veterinary Medicine and
Lloyd H. Sutherland, president of
the Junior AVMA to determine
how to dispose of the cats.
These civet cats are animals of
a cinereous color, tinged with yel­low,
marked with dusky spots
disposed in rows (according to
Webster). This species originat­ed
in Northern Africa and Asia of
which continents they are typical.
At 1 p. m. yesterday afternoon
on Vet Hill, eight Vet students,
Manager Coats, and Dr. A. H.
Tucker of the Vet School watched
Sutherland perform an operation
to de-odorize the creatures.
Dr. E. H. Walker, assistant
State Veterinarian, told report­ers
that the musk was sprayed
when the animal stood on his
front feet with hind legs extend­ed
at a certain angle. The ducts,
he said, were located on either
side of the tail.
Sutherland and an assistant ad­ministered
an anaesthetic before
performing the delicate operation,
in which the muscous membrance
of the ducts is clipped to remove
the fluid.
These ana glands secrete a sub­stance
of clear, yellowish or
brownish color. The fluid can be
used in the manufacture of per­fumes.
The operation was successfully
performed by Sutherland and his
aids. Dr. Walker said that good
pets could be made of the cats.
Prof. James Serves on Art
Jury in Atlanta
Alfred E. James, instructor in
applied art at the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute, served on a
jury of three this week in At­lanta,
Ga., which selected paint­ings
for the Georgia showing at
the next annual Southern States
Art League Exhibition, which
will be on display in San Antonio,
Texas, during the month of April.
Guy Wiggins, nationally known
artist of New York City, served
as chairman of the jury. He is
represented by paintings in the
Metropolitan Museum and in
many other leading collections.
The third member of the jury,
Edward S. Shorter, Columbus,
Ga., is vice-president of the Sou­thern
States Art League and has
received numerous awards for his
paintings.
Agriculture Club
Sees Movie
Five Reels Are Shown by
Local Agronomist
A series of five reels of pictures
illustrating the industrial processes
used in the manufacture of potash,
borax, soda products, and pyro-ibor
were presented in the Agron­omy
Department of the Experi­ment
Station staff.
These pictures were made at
Trona, Calif., which is located on
Searles Lake in the midst of Mo-jave
Desert, 185 miles from Los
Angeles. In a short explanation,
Dr. Naftel said the lake which
formerly covered 600 square miles
and was 650 feet deep now only
covered 12 square miles and was
rarely over two inches deep. The
huge mineral deposites of sodium
and potassium salts and others
were formed by these elements
leaching out of the mountains on
the sides of the lake and reuniting
again on the lake bed, he explain­ed.
One reel entirely on living con­ditions
and recreation facilities
was shown first. It showed that
well-adapted homes have been
built near the lake and landscap­ed
properly, and beautiful lawns
and ponds afford natural beauty.
The people have proper meals
served at all hours of the day due
to the changing of shifts. They
have the type of recreation which
most outsiders envy very much.
Adequate schools with elaborate
playground equipment have been
provided for the younger gene­ration.
The major product from this
industry in potash, said Dr. Naf­tel.
The annual output of the plant
just about meets the requirements
of the South, which is 200,000
tons, he pointed out. The total
consumption of the entire United
States is 400,000 tons per year,
he said. His talk brought out the
fact that this extraction work was
begun in 1886 when crude borax
was hauled by mule teams to the
nearest railroad station which was
30 miles away.
Auburn Sigma Xi Club
To Hear Reid Lecture
The Auburn Sigma Xi Club
will be addressed by Dr. E. Em­met
Reid at 7:30 o'clock on
Thursday, Feb. 16, in Room 203
Ross Chemical Laboratory. Dr.
Reid's subject will be: "The scien­tific
Method Applied tp Other
Fields."
Dr. Reid has for many years
been an industrial consultant and
professor of organic chemistry and
has visited Auburn before.
The Sigma Xi Society is a na­tional
honorary scientific organi­zation
corresponding to Phi Beta
Kappa in the literature and arts
colleges. Although there is no
chapter of Sigma Xi at Auburn,
there are 40 members of the col­lege,
Experiment Station, and U.
S. Department of Agriculture
staffs who were members at oth­er
colleges and universities.
This group was organized last
fall into a Sigma Xi Club, a
number of which are to be found
in the larger cities and colleges
where members are located but
which do not have regular chap­ters
of the society.
Debate Plans for
Semester Are
Published
Schedule of Matches Is
Given; Team to Leave for
Debating Tour Soon
By Martin Wender
At the sound of President John
Godbold's gavel on the rostrum,
the moat important meeting of the
year for the Auburn debate so­ciety
was called to order this
week.
One of the results of the meeting
was a decision by those in atten­dance
that an interfraternity de­bate
tournament would be con­ducted
in the near future under
the auspices of Tau Kappa Al­pha,
honorary forensics fraternity.
Beautiful cups will be awarded to
the winning team.
A committee consisting of
George Young, Sigma Nu; Ed­mund
Taylor, ATO; and George
Hiller, Pi Kappa Phi, was appoint­ed
to make the necessary arrange­ments
for the event. The judges
for this tournament will be an­nounced
at a later date, it was
said.
Prof. E. D. Hess, debate coach,
issued the dates on which the
freshmen must participate in their
intramural tournament. The fol­lowing
teams are scheduled to de­bate
on the date given:
Dubberly and Downey vs. Col­lier
and Bjurberg, Feb. 16, 4 p.
m.
Flowers and Gilchrist vs. Moore
and Nichols, Feb. 17, 4 p. m.
The freshman question, Resol­ved:
that the United States should
establish an alliance with Great
Britain, has proved to be a most
timely one
The second round of the varsity
tournament in the intramurals
consists of the following debates:
Bacon and McBroom vs. Miller
and Guest, Feb. 14, 8 p. m.
' Boggs and Keith vs. Young and
Memory, Feb. 21, 4 p. m.
Newell and Gamewell vs. Boyd
and Hiller, Feb. 14, 8 p. m.
Godbold and Sutton vs. Millsaps
and Hazzard, Feb. 13, 8 p. m.
Those debaters in attendance at
the meeting were: Winifrey Boyd,
Tom Memory, Maxine Downey,
George Young, R. H. Bjurburg,
Nick Nichols, William Boggs,
Charles Flowers, Wilfred Strick­land,
Jimmy Younger, E. D. Tay­lor,
Sabel Baum, James McBroom,
Ed Keith, George Hiller, W. B.
Moore, Harold Sutton, John God-bold,
and Martin Wender.
A team of four debaters, along
with Prof. Hess, will depart to­morrow
for a trip which will in­clude
a debate with Mercer in At­lanta,
Emory, and Martha Berry,
Rome, Ga. Two radio debates will
be features of the trip. Students
interested in hearing the radio de­bates
are urged to dial WAGA in
Atlanta on the night of Fab. 17
and the morning of the 18.
Teams from Auburn will parti­cipate
in the southern debate tour­nament
in New Orleans.
Campus to Select Important
Officers; Nominations Ar»
Due on March 7
Tuesday, March 21, was set
yesterday by Billy McGehee,
Chairman of the Election
Committee, as the date for the
general spring election on the
campus. All publication heads,
all Cabinet members and offi­cers,
all class officers, and
the Chairman of the Social
Committee will be chosen on
this date.
The proposed amendments to
the constitution of the student
body will be up for approval at
the same election, so for the first
time in quite a while all four
classes will go to the polls at the
same election.
The election is under the super­vision
of the Election Committee
and the Executive Cabinet. Chair­man
McGehee stated last night
that the date of the election has
been set early to avoid a conflict
with inspection trips and mid-semester
exams.
All nomination blanks for can­didates
must be turned in to Mc­Gehee
at the PiKA house by 6
p. m., March 7. Any nomination
blank received later than this
will not qualify a student to run
for an office. All blanks are to
be made out in the form pre­scribed
in the rat bible.
All officers of the Cabinet are
to be named at this election so
that a second election for the pur­pose
of choosing them will not
be necessary. All potential Cab­inet
members wishing to run,-.for
president, vice-president, or sec­retary
of the Cabinet must make
the race at this election, and their
nomination blanks must state
which office they are seeking, or
else they are to be considered as
running merely for a Cabinet
post.
The election will be held at the
Student Center, and the usual
rules regarding campaigning at
the polls, will be enforced. A list
of the election rules will be pub­lished
soon in the Plainsman. The
Election Committee and adminis­trative
officials are doing their
best to secure voting machines.
A special election to fill two
vacancies in the Cabinet will take
place next Wednesday at the Stu­dent
Hall, according to McGehee.
The freshman and senior classes
will fill the offices of freshman
representative on the Cabinet and
president of the Cabinet. Candi­dates
for the presidency are Jul­ian
Fowler and Ernest Pappas,
while Craig Lee Jackson, Bobbie
Haas, Otis Burnside, and Howard
Worthington are running for the
freshman post.
On Wednesday night, Feb. 15,
Lieut. Sidney F. Porter, U. S.
Coast Guard, will show a motion
picture depicting life at the Unit­ed
States Coast Guard Academy.
All those who might be interested,
especially students who are con­sidering
the Coast Guard as a c a ­reer,
are cordially invited to at­tend.
The picture will be shown
in Langdon Hall at 7:30 p. m.
Local Pre-Med Students Attend Meeting
Of Alpha Epsilon Delta at Alabama
Dean Dobbs to Attend Meet
Of Deans of Women
Miss Zoe Dobbs, Dean of Women
at Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
will go to Cleveland, Ohio, Feb.
21-24 for the national convention
of the National Association of
Deans of Women.
Recently Miss Dobbs was named
state representative on the publi­city
committee of the N. A. D. W.
She has served for some time as
a member of the regional contact
committee.
NOTICE
If the student who rode with me
from Birmingham to Montgomery
Saturday, Feb. 4, will describe the
coat he left in my car, I will
be glad to send it to him. Karl C.
Winter, Geneva, Ala.
API Has Five Delegates at
Annual State Convention
Held by Pre-Med Group
Five pre-med students from Au­burn
attended the annual state
convention sponsored by Alpha
Epsilon Delta, honorary pre-med
fraternity, at the University of
Alabama on Feb. 3.
Among the highlights of the
convention was a tour through the
University of Alabama Medical
School where the representatives
in Pre-Medicine saw the well-?
equipped laboratories and inspect­ed
the modern equipment of the
school.
The outstanding feature of the
convention was the annual ban­quet
held at the McLester Hotel
with Dr. James McLester, former
president of the American Medi­cal
Association, as principal
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Of The Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
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Freight Rates
The pertinent comments of columnist John
Godbold on this page on the freight rate dif­ferentials
that work such a hardship on the
South bring to mind the words of the South­erner,
Calhoun, on his death bed: "The South,
the poor South, I don't know what will be­come
of her."
Generations of Southerners after him won­dered,
too. Now it looks as if the South has
a chance of getting the justice and equal op­portunity
that it has needed for so long.
Two things the South needs—and demands
—most of all: the adjustment of a tariff sys­tem
that penalizies agriculture and subsidi-zies
manufacture and the realignment of
freight rates to put the South on an equal
footing with other regions.
These and other iniquitous contrivances
have shackled the South for long years. They
have been known to be discriminatory. No
Congress until this one has ever seriously
moved to correct these maladjustments.
The Southern movement for fair treat­ment
gained great impetus from the com­ments
of the president on the South and its
problems. And for the first time Southerners
are beginning to talk back in a loud voice
regarding its rights of equal treatment.
Freshman Behavior
"No wonder there is a lot of knowledge in
the colleges . . . the freshmen always bring
a ilittle in and the seniors never take any
away." This statement was made by Abbot
Lawrence Lowell, President Emeritus of
Harvard University. He should have been
in. Auburn this past fall where we had a sit­uation
that showed the opposite distribution
of knowledge.
During the early part of the semester that
has just ended, there was decided show of
that quality of character which most of us
like to think does not exist in an Auburn
man. There were several cases which need
not be mentioned here of conduct very dis­tasteful
in the eyes of the student body.
From all reports a lot of the trouble came
frbm individuals who were attending Au­burn
for the first time and had the wrong
slant on what this matter of college spirit
really is. They tried to show a "college hot"
attitude and found an outlet in the destruc­tion
of property and acts of general rowdy­ism.
There was a general letdown in support
of those things which embody Auburn's tra­ditions.
.After the evil had become very unbear­able,
a group of seniors made a very success­ful
attempt to bring about a change in the
attitude of the freshmen. Through the mid-ium
of class meetings, different groups were
made to realize that their ideas of orderly
conduct were decidedly warped.
During the past few years the freshmen
have gradually been granted almost an even
footing with the upper-classmen. After be­ing
subjected to the rush week carried on
by the local greeks, they are allowed com­plete
freedom of actions from their first
entrance into Auburn. The rats soon begin
to regard themselves as persons of impor­tance.
We don't mean by this that any one
organization or custom is respo'nsible for
an existing condition, but we would like to
say that the freshman in the future should
be made to feel that he is a freshman from
his first sight of the Village of the Plains.
We should take steps to prevent the rec-curance
of an undesirable situation and make
specific plans to initiate school newcomers
to Auburn in Auburnism.
Although the saying of the Harvard man
might be humorous, we would like to add
the sentiment of an Auburn man to the ef­fect
that the little knowledge which the
freshman may bring to college with him
should be so guided that the ideals and tradi­tions
of proper conduct and thinking may be
built up in him. J.I
Law and Manners
Many long aeons ago, according to Dar­win
and others, man was nothing like the
social Hon that he assumes he is today. In
those times he was more of an ape-like an­imal,
uncouth and slothen, and doing what
little walking he did on all fours.
But somewhere in the long process of evo­lution,
he became possessed of just a little
more common sense and reasoning than his
fellow vertibrates, assumed an upright pos­ture,
and ceased to climb trees to escape
danger. He had found that he could use his
hands to make weapons.
The only unfortunate part about his very
important discovery was that he found that
the same weapons could be used against his
fellow man to gain the right of possession
by force. If he wasn't intelligent enough to
look out for himself in the matter of food,
clothing and shelter, he found that he could
wage a war with his neighbor and take them
away. Later he learned how to talk well
enough to do the job more subtlely.
As man became more conscious of his soc­ial
possibilities and learned to read and
write, the weaker individuals of greater in­telligence
who had amassed riches by their
own ingenuity established for themsel­ves
a code of law and attempted to separate
the good from the bad. They declared that
infraction of their rules would remove from
society those who violated their rules of good
behavior. But the idea had its drawback
in that the persons who had the strength
used it to make the laws and impose them
on the weak to their own ends.
The law, whether it is good or not, is a
product of the social group. Beneath the law
is a social code that is the ruling power of
the individual's good conduct. Man has made
his own social code by common practice, and
to be a social animal, man must live it up
to the minute if he is to remain in the good
graces of society. These laws are a matter
of a person's own choice, and they are a
product of the individual's home and envir­onment;
but failure to observe the maxims
it has set up may just as easily remove a
person from society as failure to observe the
government's code.
Pat yourself on the back because you live
in a country where both laws and manners
can exist of the free will of the people them­selves,
where you can have your voice in
developing your own social code without
any restraint from dictatorship—a country
where you can protect your personal lib­erty
from encroachment by right of vote
in elections that are not "plebescites," and in
which your "X" mark is not made in the
shadow of a rifle muzzle. R.T.
Landmark
Another landmark in German journalism
sank into oblivion last month with the an­nouncement
that the Berliner Tageblatt had
ceased publication as an individual news­paper.
It has been merged with another pub­lication
and also passes into the hands of
new owners.
Founded in 1872 as a liberal paper, it wrote
"finis" under the record of an illustrious
career. The progress and death of this news­paper
epitomizes the fate of journalism in
the new Reich.
The Tageblatt was the spokesman of Ger­many
abroad, and it incurred the wrath of
the new rulers of Germany because it was
largely Jewish owned. The unrelenting,
fighting editor of the paper, Theodore Wolff,
had his name removed from the mast head
in 1933 and "retired" to Switzerland because
the new regime did not like men who
thought for themselves. His paper did not die
until this year.
The shuffle and rearrangement of news­papers
continues in Germany. And with
every change, independent thinking dies.
By John Ivey Jr.
BROUN HALL: After reading
the very fine editorial in the last
issue of the Plainsman entitled
"Light" we are once more ready
to grind an ax over the sore thumb
in Auburn's present education
plamt, Broun Hall. In this docu­ment
concerning the God-given
blessing of light, Herbert Martin
made the very true statement that
we were turning out well-educat­ed,
but half-blind graduates.
In addition to being the most
dangerous structure on the cam­pus
as far as escape in case of
fire is concerned, Broun Hall bids
for top honors in the way of poor
lighting and ventilation facilities.
Students are herded into rooms
where they find seats that are
graced with a shroud of gloom
through which stare at text
books. The writing on the black­board
can be seen from one po­sition
only without a blinding
glare giving one a slap in the
face.
During the winter months' a
group of students find a very
plentiful supply of heat—if they
huddle around the radiators. Al­though
some of the rooms are
fairly comfortable in respect to the
matter of warmth, some of the
compartments used for class rooms
find it quite hard to preserve their
heart for the benefit of its occu­pants.
As for the facilities for escape
in case of fire, or some similar oc-curanee,
they are nil. On one
side of the building there are
three flights of narrow concrete
stairs that would be the only sure
means of flight. But to reach
these stairs the students would be
forced to fight their way through
narrow, dark, and unventilated
halls. On the other end of the
structure there are two flights of
stairs which have been waiting
several decades for a nice hot lire
—they missed their calling any­way.
These stairs are narrower
than their concrete companions on
the opposite side of the old Broun
Hall and would also have to be
reached through the same nar­row
halls.
While we build a new hospital,
a new president's home, a new
system of housing for the young
ladies, a new stadium, and several
other structures, we leave one of
the most important existing evils
on the entire campus standing as
a certain trap for students in case
fire should occur.
The building is out of date . . .
no longer capable of giving the
right surroundings for the pro­gressive
Auburn educators (to do
their best work. Students cannot
be at their best, mentally or phy­sically,
in such a structure.
We don't mean to sound radi­cal,
but this is an existing blot to
any improvement that might be
made on the Auburn campus, and
if one will take the trouble to
investigate the structure he will
find the above picture very much
in line with his own conclusions.
WHO WESTS THE WAR: The
recorders of history will call it
the Spanish Civil War, but what
we want to know is "who will be
the victors in the resulting eco­nomic
struggle in the reconstruc­tion
of the war-torn country?"
Italy and Germany have aided
in a victory that has almost wip­ed
the civilized country of Spain
off that portion of the map that
has for hundreds of years been re­served
for a country of indivi­duals
unique in culture and his­toric
background. After this vic­tory
of armed might, there comes
another war—the war against the
economic forces.
Altnough the democracies have
for the past two years openly
frowned upon the policies and pur­suits
of General Franco, they now
realize that there are other mat­ters
that must confront them as
a result of the insurgent victory.
Will Hitler and Mussolini, with
their own- economic structures
staggering under terrific expendi­tures
by the government, be able
to supply the necessary funds for
the rebuilding of the country?
France and England are mark­ing
offers of financial aid to
Spain in hope that they can out­bid
the dictators, but their main
worry at present is over'the pos­sible
invasion of the island of Mi­norca
by Italy from the insurgent-held
territory of Mallorca.
It seems that the Spanish peo­ple
have been a pawn in the hands
of the great powers of Europe
merely for the forwarding of the
cause of Fascism. The totalitarian
states have not yet won their bat­tle,
however, for now they must
supply the bankroll that will give
greater security than that amount
offered by the democracies.
AUBURN FOOTPRINTS
There was a Young Lady of Wheeling
Who once in the garden was kneeling
When toy some strange chance
She igot ants in her pants
And invented' Virginia Reeling.
* * *
Temporarily, no more passes will be awarded for jokes by the
Tiger Theater. In each issue, however, the names of several stu­dents
will appear in the advertisements. Each student whose name
thus appears is to call by the merchant in whose ad his name was
printed and receive his free pass.
* • * *
There was a Young Girl in the choir
Whose voice rose up hoir and hoir
Till it reached such a height
It went clean out of seight
And was finally lost in the spoir.
THE EDITOR'S MAILBOX
Editor
The Auburn Plainsman
Dear Sir:
Red fingernails, especially long
red fingernails, constitute a sub­ject
liked by no man. From a
prejudiced viewpoint, I would say
that there is nothing likeable in
such a major menace to our hap­piness.
I think that most men will
agree with me.
Ladies unfortunately take the
opposite side. I read an article the
other day which said that the time
has come for women to choose
whether they will dress to please
themselves or men. I can't see how
any mere male could be so vain
as to believe that women would
leave off length or polish to please
him, so I suppose that we must
accustom ourselves to this sight.
Long red fingernails, looking
like talons dripping blood are not
only repulsive; they are dangerous
as well. The ladies like to scratch
playfully. When their nails grow
long, as do the claws of kittens,
when the kittens become cats, the
nails become weapons. Men have
died from blood poison caused by
fingernails scratches.
Awful, isn't it?
Student
Editor
The Auburn Plainsman
Dear Sir:
The new dormintory which is
being built for the co-eds on the
Auburn campus has caused much
comment within the student body.
Some of the students believe the
solution of the housing problem
for the co-eds has been reached,
while other students believe it is
the beginning of trouble on the
campus.
It probably will seem to have
been the wrong thing to do for
the first year the dormitory is in
use, but after the girls find out
the rules placed on them are ac­tually
enforced there will be a
great change in the attitude of
the student body. It is like any­thing
else that is new, the girls
will have to become accustomed
to being in by 11:00 p. m., also
immediately returning home after
a dance and not forgetting to "sign
in" and "sign out" when they
leave the dormitory at night.
When they find out their weak
excuses for breaking a rule are
no good they will begin keeping
the rules in self-defense.
Before all the rules will be kept
there must be a few changes made,
the rules, some will break them
"T Model" Ford. There is no rea­son
why we cannot cooperate in
making rules that will be kept
and keeping the rules that have
been made for us. It is to be ex­pected
that some will never break
th rules, some will break them
part of the time, and some will
break them all of the time.
Junior Co-ed
Editor
The Auburn Plainsman
Dear Sir:
You may think that you have
seen the beauty spots of our little
city while driving around the
streets and driveways, but unless
you take an afternoon off and
stroll through the campus of API,
Graves Center and on down the
hill and up by the military barns,
Bullard Field, the ball park, and
the different paths and lanes that
cars cannot traverse you have
missed some of the most beauti­ful
spots in the "Loveliest City."
If you like to see a field of ac­tivity
and construction you should
travel these same paths . . . There
you will find many of the new
buildings that are under con­struction
at this time . . . Auburn
is indeed one of the most progres­sive
little cities in the state when
it comes to modern architecture in
new buildings and beautiful homes
. . . Many of the newest and most
modern of these homes can be
seen while driving through Cedar
Crest, Pinedale and Thach '. . .
More can be seen by visiting the
new subdivisions that are being
developed in several sections of
the city . . .
A walk down College Street on
Saturday afternoon by a close ob­server
would have found . . . The
regular bull cession of several of
the grown-ups of the city at Toom-er's
. . . We imagine that politics
is the most talked of topic there
. . . The lull before the storm in
the several eating establishments
Before Tomorrow
By John Godbold
ACCURATE SOURCES tell us
Southerners that shippers in the
South pay from 12 to 75 per cent
more per ton mile for shipping
their goods than do people in other
sections. This difference, the well-known
freight rate differential, is
one of the most unfair taxes ever
placed on a sovereign people.
The differential is keeping new
industry out of the South. What
industrialist, say a sugar refiner,
would toe foolish enough to set up
his plant in the deep South when
it would cost him 60 cents per ton
mile to ship his product to the
Midwest, whereas from a Northern
plant he could ship the same pro­duct
to the same area for 30 cents
per ton mile. In other words, he
would pay a 30 cent tax on each
ton because his plant was located
in the South.
Southerners are already on the
march. Everywhere there is evi­dence
that the South is awaken­ing.
But real solution of our eco­nomic
problems can come only
with industry, and industry will
stay out so long as it has to pay
a tax for locating in the South.
A number of students have ex­pressed
their appreciation of the
college officials' calling them in
and asking their opinions on the
question of spring holidays. To all
intents and purposes the frank
and open discussion was success­ful
and certainly beneficial to
both sides. The students appre­ciate
the spirit of interest and co­operation
in which the meetings
have been called.
* * *
THE EXECUTIVE CABINET
has set about to clean its house
and give itself power to perform
some real work. One of the a-mendments
which we like is the
one requiring the minutes of
meetings to be published in the
Plainsman. Up till now the Cab­inet
has often operated under a
veil of secrecy, the ordinary stu­dent
being completely in the dark
as to what the august body was
doing.
As for the form of the minutes
—the misspelled words, incompre­hensible
sentences, and contradic­tory
phraseology—all of which pop
up every other page—well, any­one
who has even seen them will
utter a hearty "Amen" to the sug­gestion
that they toe kept toy a com­petent
stenographer, not a mem-toer
of the Cabinet.
* * »
WITH THE RETURN OF
SPRING come the birds and the
politicians. While it is rather ear­ly
to make predictions yet, it now
seems that this year's elections
will be clean and clear-cut. The
field will be even smaller than
usual with everyone running
seems intent on keeping the fight
iair and avoiding hard feelings.
» * *
Life is often ironical tout sel­dom
so much as in the death of
"Wild Bill" Cummings. Cum-mings
was a racing driver who
earned his nickname through his
wild driving and fearless tactics
on the track. Time after time he
placed "in the money" at racing
centers. In 1934 he set a blister­ing
pace to win the Indianapolis
Races and set a new record for the
track. Every year racing follow­ers
predicted that he would never
live the year out, but he always
fooled them, until this week when
he died of injuries suffered in an
automobile accident. But he wasn't
killed burning up some race track
with his wild driving, he was in
his family car driving to his home
in the suburbs of Indianapolis.
of the city while their cooks pre­pare
for the rush of supper . . .
The boot-blacks in the barber
shops enjoying an above-the-ave-rage
rush . . . Creased trousers
and a few wobbly steps of the
male students preparing for a big
night . . . The. regular bunch of
snooker sharks and suckers in the
various billiard, rooms . . . War
caps galore on the corners with
busy thumbs pointing in the di­rection
of the capital city and Op-elika
. . .
Shrill greetings at both the bus
startion and railroad depot for
several late-arriving creams for tt»«
Saturday night dance . . . Post­master
Wright rescuing a perish­able
package from the post of­fice
for two students who forgot
that Saturday afternoon was a
holiday for the local postoffice . . .
There was one person who did
observe these things and wasted
a lot of time Sunday pounding out
this tripe that you have just
now wasted your time reading . . .
See you again soon.
Stroller
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1939 THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
Tigers to Seek
Revenge Tonight
On Bulldogs
Hope to Make Up for 43-21
Licking They Suffered in
Athens Last Saturday
Tiger and Bulldog tangle to­night
at 8 o'clock in Alumni Gyini,
and it will be a hungry Tiger
seeking revenge for a 43-21 lick­ing
suffered at the hands of those
self-same Bulldogs last Saturday
night in Athens. The Red and
Black hardwood contingent, which
is rated as probable favorite to
take the Southeastern Conference
cage crown in the annual tourney
at Knoxville in March, will rule
as a decided favorite over the
Orange and Blue, but the Plains­men
always play better ball on
their home court, so the ball game
should turn out to be a cracker-jack
affair.
Lefty Chatham, brilliant Geor­gia
sophomore guard, who plays
i well nigh faultless., floor gam*
and who also has a keen eye for
the basket, led his mates to their
first win over the Tigers, and he
will bear close guarding if he.is
not to repeat his performance of
last Saturday tonight. Kirkland,
ace center, is also another sharp­shooter.
_,.-..-
Auburn's strong frosh squad
will meet .the Lanett Mill five in
a preliminary encounter at 6:30.
Birmingham-Southern plays the
varsity a return engagement here
tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. .
The starting .lineups: tonight will
be as follows:
Georgia—Kelly and Killian, for­wards;
Kirkland, center; Chatham
and McCaskill, guards.
Auburn—Morgan (Co-Cap.) and
Holmes, forwards; Edwards (Co-
Cap), center; Huff and Curlee,
guards.
University of California scien­tists
have just completed a sche­dule
of babies' crying habits dur­ing
the early months of their
lives.
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Californians wagered $66,000,
000 on horse races in 1938 . .
Robert Garner, rookie pitcher
with the Washington Senators, is
6 feet 7 inches tall and weighs
210 pounds . . . Reggie McNama
fa, iron man of what the boys like
to call the board saucers, com­peted
in 126 six day bicycle races:
covered 130,000 miles under his
own po<wer, and had 1,000 stitches
taken in his anatomy . . . Paul
Derringer of the Reds has given
only 446 bases on balls in his 2,
043 innings in the majors.
Bill Klem, veteran National Lea­gue
umpire, can have a pension
of $6,000 any time he chooses to
retire, but league officials hope it
won't be soon . . . Bo McMiMn,
Indiana University coach, com­pleted
119 passes in 170 attempts
for Centre College in 1920.
Joe Louis' average pay for the
last two defenses of his heavy
weight title has been about $1,
415 a second, or $84,780 a minute
. . . And the historians still talk
about King Midas . . . Why, he
was a piker compared with this
sleepy-eyed son of an Alabama
cotton picker . . . Yale expended
$489,000 on athletics in 1938 . . .
If thait sounds like overemphasis
be assured toy the fact that Black
Mountain College in North Caro­lina
spent only $12.80.
Charlie Grimm, former mana­ger
of the Chicago Cubs, will
work out with several major lea­gue
ball clubs in Florida and Cali­fornia
in preparation for radio
work . . . Finland has invited 58
nations to compete in the 1940
Olympic games . . . Czechoslova­kia
has withheld acceptance,
probably on the chance that it
may not be a nation next year.
Whizzer White, who is now at
Oxford availing himself of a
Rhodes scholarship, was paid
$15,800 for his services with the
Pittsburgh Pirates football club
last season according to owner
Art Rooney . . . White plans to
become a lawyer.
The University of Texas has won
twenty-eight Southeastern Con­ference
baseball championships
during the thiry-three year tenure
of Coach Billy Desch . . . National
Hocky League linesmen are paid
$25 a game . . . Kentucky pro­duces
more race horses than the
other forty-seven states combin­ed
. . . Tony Manero, 1936 Natio­nal
Open golf champion, collect­ed
only $1,450 in purses last sea­son.
L. S. U.'s fieldhouse seats 12,000
for basketball . . . George Zaha-rias,
the wrestler, is being billed
as Babe Didrikson's husband . . .
Don't be surprised if Pop Waner
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team for three years, and at
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the basket and plays a sound
floor game.
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of Los Angeles . . . Max
Schmeling undoubtedly is too
smart to get in the same ring with
Joe Louis again, but you've got
to give him credit for having the
courage to come to the same coun­try.
Percy Beard, former Auburn
athlete and now track coach at
Florida, once turned down an of­fer
of $500 to endorse a popular
cigarette because he didn't think
it was right to say that cigarettes
didn't hurt your wind and then
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Tough Games
Team Has Won 17 Straight
Games; Is One of Best
Quintets in Recent Years
Auburn's freshman basketball
team will face a strenuous week­end
with a trio of games in a row
with the "Y" Triangles of Mont­gomery,
Lanett Mill and Tallas-see
High School. The Baby Tigers
went into their encounter with
the "Y" Triangles Thursday night
with the impressive record of 17
consecutive wins against no losses.
Coach Dell Morgan has one of
the best freshman quintets that
Auburn has displayed in recent
years, and has high hopes of fin­ishing
the season undefeated, al­though
several leading cage teams
nf the state remain on theif
schedule. Their closest game this
year was against the Nehi Reds of
Columbus, Ga., with the score be­ing
44 to 43 in favor of Auburn.
Members of the freshman squad
include: Frank Manci, Tommie
Mastin, and Woodie McNair, for­wards;
Earl Hawkins and Marvin
Motley, centers; Billy Fleming,
Jack Tanner, Bob Dunbar, Doyce
Hamrick, Ben Park, Harry Dono­van,
and Bruce Allen, guards.
The complete record of the team
is as follows:
Auburn 38, Notasulga 15.
Auburn 40, Pordan High, Co­lumbus,
Ga., 35.
Auburn 53, Jordan High, Colum­bus,
Ga., 27.
Auburn 44, G. M. A., 32.
Auburn 40, Tallassee High 24.
Auburn 26, Auburn High 17.
Auburn 21, Phenix High, Phe-nix
City 9.
Auburn 28, Fairfax High 15.
Auburn 28, Eufaula High 16.
Auburn 35, Donalsonville, Ga.,
Athletic Club 25.
Auburn 43, Newville High 12.
Auburn 52, Opp High 15.
Auburn 41, Kinston High 21.
Auburn 35, Florala High 17.
Auburn 34, Elm City Mill, La-
Grange, Ga., 27.
Auburn 44, Pepperell Mill 31.
Auburn 44, Nehi Reds 43.
F a r l e y Breaks Glomerata
Advertising Record
Curty Farley, business manager
of the Glomerata, said today that
over a thousand dollars had been
collected by his staff from adver­tising
and that the amount ex­ceeded
that of any year in the
history of the school.
It is hoped, Farley said, that
snapshots can be mixed with
the advertising pages but nothing
has been definitely decided as
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THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1939
Amy Drake Named
Players Head
Amy Drake, popular junior ac­tress,
was elected president of the
Auburn Players last night at a
short business meeting held prior
to regular rehearsal on the new
Players production, "Laburnum
Grove."
Miss Drake, a student in secon­dary
education, is especially re­membered
by Auburn theatergoers
for her performances as Amina in
the American premiere produc­tion
of "The Forest" last session,
and as Cordelia in the Shakes­pearean
tragedy , "King Lear,"
which the Players presented late
in the first semester of the 1938-
39 school year.
Arthur Elsberry, another sea­soned
actor, was voted vice-president
of the dramatics group.
He is a senior in science and lit­erature,
and has played leading
roles in many past productions.
Both the new officers will serve
until casting for the first play
next year is completed.
Heavy work is in prospect for
the Players during the remainder
of the term. The annual State
High School Dramatic Tourna-
Pre-Med Meet
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speaker.
Dr. McLester addressed the
gathering on "Personal Observa­tion
on the Practice of Medicine
in Russia and Europe." He highly
praised the work of American
medicine and the progress that
was being made in this country.
Dean Stuart Graves of the Uni­versity
Medical School, made the
address of welcome, and Jesse P.
Chapman, president'of Alpha Ep-silon
Delta at Alabama, was toast-master.
Students in pre-medicine at­tending
from Auburn were Sara
Steele, Mrs. Willie Lee Prather,
O. R. Snead, Dwight Prather, and
Allie M. Stanton, president of
the fraternity on this campus.
FOR RENT—One room for 2
boys. Private entrance. Connect­ing
bath. 146 Ross St. Phone 9119.
ment will be held here March 2, 3,
and 4. Midway throungh March,
the J. B. Priestley mystery-com­edy,
"Laburnum Grove," will be
presented, and intensive practice
for the Spring Festival will be­gin
immediately following.
'Idiot's Delight'
Shows at Tiger
This week's movie menu offers
Robert Sherwood's Pulitzer prize-winning
play, "Idiot's Delight,"
on the screen of the Tiger Theater
Sunday and Monday. Clark Gable
and Norma Shearer fill the never-to-
ibe-forgotten roles created by
Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt
on the stage.
In the stage production, the
three acts of "Idiot's Delight" were
played in a single scene. The mo­tion
picture version has no less
than 167 scenes, requiring 42 sets.
In transcribing .the play into a
movie, Director Brown took no
liberties with the central theme.
In order to secure fidelity to his
original idea, Sherwood himself,
wrote ithe scenario for the film.
Except for the opening, both are
fundamentally the same.
The greater scope and mobility
of the camera made it possible to
depict incidents and scenes merely
discussed in the dialogue on the
stage. This is the main difference
in the technique of the theater
and the motion picture. According
to the ancient Chinese, one pic­ture
is worth a thousand words.
With this in mind, the trend of
motion pictures is more action
and less words, for greater enter­tainment
value.
Theater-goers will be amazed
to see Clark Gable as a song-and-dance
man and Norma Shearer as
an obscure acrobatic performer
with a cheap vaudeville company.
They meet in Omaha and fall in
love. They part and go divergent
ways. In Europe they meet again.
In the meantime she has acquired
a munition maker (Edward Arn­old)
and poses as a Russian Coun­tess.
They realize they are still in
love, war closes down and they are
tropped in a -border town.
Supporting these stars is an out­standing
cast: Charles Coburn,
Joseph Schildkraut, Burgess Mere­dith,
Pat Patterson, Paula' Stone,
Laura Hope Crews, Skeets Gal­lagher,
Joan Marsh, and Virginia
Gray.
It is interesting to note that the
international language, Esperanto,
is used for the imaginary country
of the setting.
Week-end Visitors from Agnes Scott Are Wax Works
Entertained During Visit Here
SPECIAL FOR SATURDAY—
Fresh tree ripened oranges, bushel
$1.00, grapefruit at 75c per bush­el.
Student operated. Phone 571
and leave order. We deliver.
Miss Mary Olive Thomas of Ag­nes
Scott College was in Auburn
last week-end and had as her
guests Miss Patsy Fleming and
Miss Isabel Miller, also of Agnes
Scott.
Mrs. B. F. Thomas entertained
her daughter and guests with a
buffet supper Saturday night at
6:30. Bridge, Chinese checkers,
and other games were played af­ter
a delicious supper course was
served.
The 20 guests enjoying this de­lightful
affair were: Misses Mary
Olive Thomas, Patsy Fleming, Isa­bel
Miller, Jule Tisdale, Bobbie
Thomas, Mary Ella Funchess,
Emma Nell Parrish, Jean Beas-ley,
Kathryn Blake, Christine
Blackburn, and John Godbold,
Charles Kelly, Sam Tharp, Leon
Picard, Redding Sugg, Herbert
Martin, B. F. Thomas, John Hud­son,
Roy Self, and Stanley Ott.
Mrs. Fred Allison entertained
Miss Miller, Miss Thomas, and
Miss Fleming at a breakfast at 9
a. m. Sunday. Miss Miller is a
close friend of the Allison family;
her grandfather taught Dr. Alli­son,
and Dr. Allison taught Miss
Miller's father in two Virginia
colleges. Miss Miller is firom Char-lottsville,
Va., and Miss Fleming
is from Pensacola, Fla.
Miss Thomas and her week-end
guests were honored at a luncheon
Sunday given by Jule Tisdale and
Emma Nell Parrish at the Col­lege
Inn. The color scheme of
green and yellow was carried out
and request numbers were played
for members of the party by the
Auburn Knights.
The luncheon list included
Misses Mary Olive Thomas, Patsy
Fleming, Isabel Miller, Ann Ta-tum,
Annie Lyde Lewis, Doris
White, Emily Hixon, Mary Ella
Funchess, Emma Nell Parrish,
and Jule Tisdale.
Stadium
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mately 10,000 and will have a field
house. It is being built with Au­burn
and PWA funds.
"Nothing definite has been set­tled
yet," Elmer G. Salter, sports
publicity director, said. "Every­thing
depends upon whether the
stadium and field will be in shape
by next Thanksgiving."
Mr. Salter said ground had
been prepared for the stadium
Fashion Chatter
By O'Leta Dunn
Color, color everywhere, vibrant,
riotous, spring colors, blooming
not in fields and countryside but
right in shop windows. We'll be
definitely gay this spring.
Bathing-suits are Victorian, hav­ing
fluffy ruffles, rickrack, croche­ting
and tatting trimmings. The
classic shirt-waist dresses have
strayed and now have yards and
yards in their skirts. We top
white shorts, slacks and skirts
with dark bulky skirts. Red,
white and blue, our national tri­color
is now fuchsia, white and
(blue. Stripes streak everything
from Victorian fathing-sults to
dance frocks.
The feminine woman can wear
the soft dresses will all the trim­mings
and decorative details be­coming
to her.
The athletic woman can be as
tailored as she pleases (not man­nish!)
with much variety and in­genuity
of seaming, fitted lines,
pocket and button trim, etc. Even
for the dinner or formal wear, the
tailored jackets are smart with
straight heel-length skirts. The
jacket is removed and there is a
soft bodice top underneath.
The dramatic woman can be ex­treme
in her choice of these sleek
silhouettes fitted to a "T." The
princess style, form-fitting, with
or without trim, slash skirts with
bodice of jet or sequin trim, could
be included on her list.
Every woman can be in her ele­ment
this season and can follow
her own personal taste in dress,
because the choice of fashions of­fer
such a wide scope and variety.
May she appreciate and under­stand
fashions in relation to her
personality and figure.
proper, and preliminary work on
the football field was under way
tout no work had started on any
building for the stadium except
the physical training building
which will house dressing rooms
and the office of the physical di--
rector.
NOTICE
AIEE meeting, Monday night,
February 13 in Ramsay 109. All
members be present as plans for
inspection trip will be discussed.
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in their famous
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Jimmie Lunceford has just com­pleted
waxing one of his fine ar­rangements
on "Le Jazz Hot"
which by the way, is dedicated to
Hugh Penassie, President of the
Hots Club of the World, who has
been visiting in America in order
to get a line on what the Amer­ican
swing hounds are doing. On
the reverse side of the disc an­other
super-fine Lunceford rhy­thm
composition called "Rainer."
This record is one that everyone
should not fail to lay their mitts
on.
* * *
Kay Kyser's "singing song
titles" band gives us a couple of
fine tunes on a Brunswick pro­duction
of "Deep Purple" piped
by Ginny Sims in her charming
style and "Romance Runs in the
Family" which receives the vocal
attention of that master of novel­ty,
Sully Mason. For sweet and
smooth style Kay. Kyser wins by
a mile . . . We ought to get a
prize for that one, but then this
record is fine!
* * *
Beating it out in a solid man­ner
that is nothing short of the
best array of swing talent in
America, Victor has just finished
cutting a disc by the "All Star
Band" on a couple of fine num­bers
that lend. themselves to im-ppovision
without any argument,
"Blue Lou" and "The Blues." This
record is something different.
Benny Goodman leaves his clari­net
for the first part of the re­cording
and plays the leads in a
sax section with such fine men as
Hymie Shertzer, Eddie Miller, and
Arthur Rollini; the brass section
features the tops in swing with
Bunny Berigan, Harry James,
Sunny Dunham, and Charlie Spi-vak
working the valves for the
trumpets and Tommy Dorsey and
Jack Teagarden rounding up the
combination sliding the trombones
as only the two best slide slippers
in the business can do. Bob Cros­by's
Bob Zurke beats the ivories
while his rhythm-mate, Ray Bau-dac,
kicks the whole outfit with
his antics behind the drums. Car­man
Mastern, the best guitar-strummer,
and Bobby Haggart,
master plunker of the swollen
Violin, round out a fine band.
This band is made up of men
who were selected in Metronome
Magazine's nation-widte poll to
select an All-Star Band. All the
royalties from the record go to
charity. It is fine one to add to
the disc collection.
* * *
"Blue Light" and "Slap Happy"
are two tunes appearing on a
Brunswick production just re­leased,
being presented in the
manner of Duke Ellington. As are
all of the Duke's tunes, there is
a fineness of harmony and musi­cianship
in these two tunes that
only the Duke's outfit could blow
together. This band has had the
same group of dark-colored
swingsters grooving tunes since
long before the white bands gave
swing a serious thought. Very sel­dom
does the Duke have to look
for a new man and as a result his
band has a nack of feeling tunes
together that is unexcelled.
* * *
A college band leader that made
good with a bunch of his own mu-
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Shoes & Bepairing
sicians from the old Alma Mater
is Les Brown who presents his
"Duke Blue Devils" in two very
fine arrangements recorded on a
Bluebird* disc. "Lightly and Po­litely"
and "Darling Nellie Grey"
are done up in a fine new dress
of swing by this fine crew of col­lege
swingsters. Miriam Shaw,
that charming singee of songs,
takes the vocal honors of the week
by her chirping of "Darling Nel­lie
Grey."
With the famous Gene Krupa
leading from behind his drums,
"Apurksody" and "Ta-ra-ra
Boom Der E" come into a new ex­istence.
After leaving the Good­man
band, Krupa has built a very
•fine musical organization which
has just recently finished this re­cording
for Brunswick. The first
of the group is the theme of the
organization, featuring a varying
array of drum beats. Both sides of
the disc are fine!
Free Passes to Show Still
Being Offered by Theater
Don't forget to look through
the ads for your name. Follow the
same procedure as for last issue
—find your name in some adver­tisement,
take the ad to the store
for which it ran and receive a
free pass to the Tiger Theater.
This system will be followed un­til
further announced.
ROOM FOR RENT—207 North
Gay St., phone 304.
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