1939-02-17 The Auburn Plainsman

              Semi-Weekly
Friday
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VOL. LXII Z-I AUBURN, ALABAMA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1939 NUMBER 41
Plans Made, Stage
Set for Auburn's
Celebration
Governor to Attend;
Mayor Asks General
Clean Up of City
With only four days remaining
before one of the biggest celebra­tions
in the history of the city and
college, final arrangements for
"Greater Auburn Day" next Wed­nesday,
Feb. 22, are nearly com­plete.
President L. N. Duncan and
Mayor C. S. Yarbrough stated this
morning that information receiv
ed from over the state is to the
effect that "at least 1,500 visitors
will be on hand for the festivi­ties."
Maurice I. Bloch, Selma
president, Auburn Alumni Asso­ciation,
predicted earlier in the
week that a record crowd of
alumni will be here next Wednes
day.
For the first time since his in­auguration
in January, Governor
Frank M. Dixon with his entire
riafif in uniform will officially re­view
the R. O. T. C. cadet corps
of Alabama Polytechnic Institute
at the "Greater Auburn Day" cel­ebration
on the college campus
Feb. 22.
In preparation for "Greater
Auburn Day" Mayor C. S. Yar­brough
has urged that owners
of property join this weekend in
a general clean up campaign.
"Naturally every citizen of
Auburn wants the town to make.
a good appearance during the
celebration in«xt Wednesday,"
Dr. Yarbrough said this morning.
"Therefore, I am urging every­one
to set aside Friday and Sat­urday
as clean' up days. We hope
that all property owners will
gather all trash and garbage
over the weekend, and the city
garbage truck will collect it
during the first two days of next
week."
Cooperating in the clean up
drive are groups represented on
the Community Council. Dr. H.
B. Peacock, chairman of the
beautification committee, is di­recting
the campaign.
A 19-gun salute will be given
Alabama's new governor as he ap­proaches
Bullard Field, scene of
the cadet review, just at 11 o'­clock.
Cadet Lieutenant Colonel
Charles Grisham, Athens, will be
in charge of the motor battery
which will fire the salute on the
drill field in front of the motor
shed.
Members of Governor Dixon's
staff will wear for the first time
their new blue uniforms. With
trousers of light blue, coats of
navy, and caps trimmed in gold
braid, the 22 staff members will
present a colorful appearance.
They will occupy the reviewing
stand with the governor, President
L. N. Duncan, members of the
college board of trustees, and
other state dignitaries expected to
attend the all-day celebration.
Brigade Parades for Visitors
Cadet Colonel Julian M. Fow­ler,
Pell City, in command of Au­burn's
R. O. T. C. brigade of 1,-
500 students, with his staff of
student officers, will direct the
mammoth review and parade.
Announcement has been made
by Col. Fred C. Wallace, com­mandant
in charge of R. O. T. C.
at the college, that Cadet Captain
George Woolf, St. Louis, Mo., will
act as special military aide to
Governor Dixon, and will escort
him about the campus throughout
the day of festivities.
Auburn's 80-piece military band
will participate in the review un­der
the direction of Drum Major
F. L. Lee, Selma.
Serving with other members of
the local citizens' reception com­mittee
will be Fred Moreman, J.
A. Blackburn, and A. D. Burke,
of the Auburn chapter of the
American Legion.
Governor's Staff Listed.
Members of the governor's mil­itary
staff who are expected to
accompany Governor Dixon in­clude
Rev. William Byrd Lee, Au­burn;
Claiborne Blanton, Selma;
Walter Bragg Smith, Montgom­ery;
Luther H. Waller, Montgom­ery;
Tilghman Turner, Montgom­ery;
R. F. Hudson, Montgomery;
Alex Brantley, Troy; Robert H.
Malone, Dothan; Richard Andrew
Allison, Bellamy; L. Bernard Hay-good,
Greenville; Mortimer H.
(Continued on page four)
The Glomerata Is All Wet!
Editor Perry Schwartz called on the swimming team down at
the gym to make some pictures of the group for the Glomerata.
What transpired after the Editor finished his photography is shown
above, caught by an alert cameraman. (1) Up he goes in tne arms
of brawny swimmers. (2)' Oh! So sorry we dropped you! Just a
mistake. (3) Is that Schwartz coming up out of the water or just
a fish with a chagrined look on! its face? (4) Need any help, buddy?
(5) But as {always, the Glomerata has a come-back. Back in the
locker room the Editor stealthily departs with the dry clothing of
one of the swimmers.
Peals of Old College Bell to Mark
Opening of Celebration Wednesday
Silent for Many Years,
Historic Bell in Samford
To Open Festivities
The old college bell will ring
again!
Townsfolks and old grads,
gathered here on Feb. 22 for
"Greater Auburn Day," will hear
once more the tolling of the an­cient
bell, silent for the past 30
years.
Hanging high in the tower of
Samford Hall, Auburn's bell will
sound off at 10:30 a. m. as a sig­nal
that "The show is on." Dr. L.
N. Duncan, president of Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, will be
chief bell ringer.
When word went out over the
college campus this week that
even the long-unused bell would
be called into service for celebra­tion
of Auburn's growth and de­velopment,
some said there was
no clapper in it.
"Boozer Pitts and some of the
old grads ran off with the clapper
years ago" exclaimed one fellow.
But Boozer, now assistant pro­fessor
in the A. P. I. math de­partment,
merely grinned and dis­claimed
credit for the clapper
prank. A state-wide hunt for the
bell clapper was on the verge of
being launched and all alumni
called in as sleuths, when Dr. J.
V. Brown,. director of plant ser­vice,
announced he had found the
clapper and it was completely in­tact.
Not many people around Au­burn
remember the very last time
they heard the college bell used.
But Miss Allie Glenn, college
treasurer, and Dr. George Petrie,
dean of graduate studies, both of
whom have seen long service at
the college, recall quite readily
that the bell was rung regularly
every morning at 7:15 in the old
days. It was about 1905, during
the administration of President C.
C. Th'ach, that the bell was aban­doned
as the signal for reveille.
"Yas, suh, I sho does remember
that old bell ringin'," said George
Mitchell, Negro furnace fireman
at A. P. I. for more than a quar­ter
of a century.
"I also remembers the way they
used to beat the drums to git 'em
to classes."
Twenty minutes after the bell
was rung each morning, accord­ing
to George, an old Negro nam­ed
Joe Bell would stand in front
of the architectural building, for­merly
the chemistry building, and
wake up the whole town with the
rattle of his drum. All the college
boys lined up in front of Lang-don
Hall and marched to chapel
and classes.
As a signal that each class per­iod
was up, another Negro, Jesse
J)ackson, stood in the hall of Sam­ford
Hall and beat a kettle drum
for all he was worth. George says
Jesse got such a kick out of the
kettle drum that sometimes he
would beat it regardless of the
time of day or night—especially
if he had been "frolicking."
Explanation
For the second time this year
we are asking that readers ex­cuse
it if several' lines of type
are upside down or if the wrong
heads are over stories.
Because the printer, Carl
Piercey, usually calm and un­ruffled,
last night and this
morning underwent the most
trying ordeal known to man­kind—
an ordeal that makes
even the steadiest of nerve get
shaky in the knees. After count­less
miles of pacing back and
forth, interminable minutes of
hand-wringing, innumerable
queries of "Is it here?" the
pleasant and genial Piercey
heard the wail that told him he's
now a proud papa. It's a boy—
7 pounds, 3 ounces, and red­headed
like his father.
Sociologist Speaks
Here on March 7
Dr. Paul Popenoe, director of the
Institute of Family Relations, Los
Angeles, will deliver three lec­tures
dealing with youth problems
of marriage and family at Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute on
March 7.
A lecturer in biology at the Uni­versity
of Southern California, Dr.
Popenoe was before the World
War editor of the Journal of Her­edity
(organ of 'the American Gen­etic
Association), and afterward
Executive Secretary of the Amer­ican
Social Hygiene Association of
New York For many years he was
secretary of the Human Better-
Alpha Gamma, colonizing chap­ter
of Alpha Delta sorority will
entertain with a formal dance at
ment Foundation of Pasadena. He j G r a v e s Center tonight beginning
Pappas Wins Post
Of Cabinet Head
In Election
Defeats Fowler for
Post; Burnside Is Frosh
Representative on Body
Ernest Pappas, senior in agri­culture,
was chosen President of
the Executive Cabinet Wednesday
at a special election in which
seniors only voted. He defeated
his opponent, Julian Fowler, by a
count of 157 to 92.
Otlis Burnside, freshman, was
named freshman representative to
the Cabinet by his class mates.
The race was very close, Burn­side
winning by only four votes
over Craig Jackson, who receiv­ed
77 votes. Others running for
the office were Howard Worthing-ton,
76 votes, and Bobby Haas, 63
votes.
The senior election definitely
ended the question of who was
qualified to serve as head of the
student government when the
president was absent. The ques­tion
received considerable prom­inence
earlier in the year, when
some students held that a junior
could ascend to the office and oth­ers
as stoutly maintained that
only a senior could serve. The
Cabinet ruled in favor of only
seniors holding the office.
Governor Frank Dixon Is Tapped
By API Omicron Delta Kappa's
Chosen By ODK
Alpha Gamma to Stage Dance
Tonight in Graves Center
has been director of the Institute
of Family Relations since its
founding in 1930.
Brought under the auspices of
the college, Dr. Popenoe, whose
work in the Institute of Family
Relations is known nationally ahd
has been widely publicized, will
lecture to classes in sociology and
home economics, and also to the
general public. The committee in
charge of the lecture series is
composed of Mrs. Marion Spidle,
head of the home economics de­partment;
Herman Johnson, pro­fessor
of sociology; and Dr. Rosa
Lee Walston, academic adviser of
women students.
At 11 a. m. on March 7, home
economics girls will hear Dr. Pop­enoe
speak on "Fouth Faces a
World of Change." At 4 p. m. soc­iology
students will hear his lec­ture
on "Looking Forward to
Marriage," and at 8 p. m. Dr.
Popenoe will address the general
public on "Changing Family a
Changing World."
All the lectures will be free,
open to the public, and given in
Langdon Hall.
at 9 o'clock.,
Girls from Brenau, Florida
State Teacher's College, Univer­sity
of Alabama, University of
Georgia and other places are ex­pected.
The dance will feature four
lead-outs—two for members, one
for rushees, and one for pledges
and members. The lead-out will
feature Marjorie Miller, president
and her escort, J. K. Taylor.
Doris Greene is in charge of
decorations; Pete Wright, in charge
in change of chaperons.
Music will be in charge of the
Auburn Knights.
GOV. FRANK DIXON, who
was recently chosen for mem­bership
in Omicron Delta Kap­pa
honorary fraternity by the
members of Omega Circle, is
shown here. Gov. Dixon will be
formally tapped and Initiated
on next Wednesday, "Greater
Auburn Day."
"Biological Aspects of War"
Is Lecture Subject Tonight
"The Biological Aspects of War"
is the subject to be discussed here
this evening at 7:30 in Langdon
Hall by Dr. George G. Needham,
professor emeritus of biology at
Cornell University. According to
Dr. Henry G. Good, who has ar­ranged
the lecture, admission is
free to the public and everyone is
cordially invited to attend.
Sigma Chi Officers Visit
Local Chapter This Week
This week-end Dr. Henry Mc­Lean,
Grand Tribune of the Sig­ma
Chi fraternity, and Thompson
McClellan, Grand Praetor of the
Southern Province, are visiting in
Auburn with Gamma Sigma chap­ter.
These two eminent Sig's have
been spending some weeks with
the southern chapters of the great
fraternity and will be in Auburn
two days.
On March 3 and 4 Gamma Sig­ma
Chi will be host to the chap­ter
from the University of Ala­bama
and other Sigma Chi's
throughout the state. One of the
main attractions of that week-end
will be a basketball game between
the Alabama Chapter and the Au­burn
Chpter. The game will be
held on the morning of Saturday,
March 4, in the Alumni Gymnas­ium.
The public is invited to at­tend
this event.
'A Spirit Never Seen in Any Other Group/ Says Writer
En Story of History and Development of Auburn Knights
With the highly successful mid­term
dances just recently having
changed from a reality to a mem­ory,
we are reminded of the
growth of social life here in Au­burn
that has taken place during
the past decade. Closely connect­ed
with that growth is an organi­zation
that has conributed more
to the development of dancing a-mong
Auburn students than
any other one factor, The Auburn
Knights.
For ten years the name "Auburn
Knights" has been featured in
dancing locally and in all of the
larger towns in the South. The
thing that makes the group really
outstanding is the fact that through
the medium of their musical abil­ity,
around forty boys have payed
their way through Auburn. Few
people realize that an excellent
group of college musicians, such
as this band has always had, is
really the most alive extra-curri­cular
organization on the Auburn
campus . . . a group that works
together playing two times daily
for their meals and on the week­ends
furnishing for fraternity
functions music that is of a stan­dard
which has brought favorable
comment from some of the big
names in the musical world, Kay
Kyser, Joe Sanders, and others.
Up until five years ago, the
Knights were considered just a
college band . . . good, but not
having had a chance to prove how
good. As is true with any organi­zation
that relies on students for
its membership, this group has
had many changes in personnel,
fou has always managed to devel­op
an outfit that finally reaches a
high standard in musical produc­tion.
The spring before our pres­ent
group of seniors came to Au­burn
practically the Whole band
made the trip down the path
beaten by the graduating class to
get those sheepskins. Those who
remained in the band at that time
felt as though they might as well
sell their horns and plan to work
the following year. Six new men
were enlisted to help the cause of
college musicians.
Since that day the Knights have
traveled over the whole of the
eastern side of this country car­rying
the name of Auburn wher­ever
they went. The group of six
men who joined the band quickly
caught the spirit of the organiza­tion
. . -. their first decision was
that the band should not play any
arrangements except those made
by members of the band . . . a
style developed in the form of a
type of swing that has been en­joyed
by Auburn dancers for the
past four years . . . finally the
goal was reached, the complete
absence of any "stock" arranged
from the band's library . . . Joe
(Continued on Page Four)
Local FSA Men
Receive Promotions
Two local men were involved
in personnel changes of the Farm
Security Administration announ­ced
last night
Julian Brown, State director of
FSA for the past three years, has
been named assistant regional di­rector
in charge of rural rehabili­tation
in the states of Alabama,
Florida, Georgia and South Caro­lina.
M. Hosnier Pearson, State ten­ant
purchase specialist for the
past year, was chosen by E. S.
Morgan, regional director, to suc­ceed
Brown. Morgan himself only
recently received a promotion
which made him regional director;
succeeding R. W. Hudgens, who
was last week elevated to the po­sition
of assistant national admin­istrator.
Both promotions for Mr. Brown
and Mr. Pearson are effective to­day.
Mr. Brown, 36, was bom and
reared on' a farm near Yantley, in
Choctaw County He graduated
from the college here with the B.
S. degree in agriculture in 1924.
After doing graduate work at
Cornell University he accepted a
position with the Federal agricul­tural
economics bureau. Later he
held a position with the Alabama
Department of Agriculture. In 19-
27, Mr. Brown became connected
with the Extension service as hor­ticulturist
specialist. He left that
office in 1935 to become state di­rector
of rural rehabilitation with
the resettlement administration
which later was merged with he
FSA.
Mr. Pearson, 47, is a native of
Wadley, in Randolph County. Like
his predecessor he graduated from
Auburn, receiving a degree in ag­riculture
in 1915. He attended
Missouri University one year and
then became agricultural agent
for Central of Georgia Railway.
He left that position in Sept., 1917
and accepted a job with the Ex­tension
service, with which or­ganization
he served in various ca­pacities
for 10 years. He was con­nected
with the Alabama Depart­ment
of Agriculture a short while,
and then became state manager of
the educational bureau of a large
fertilizer company. Mr. Pearson
resigned this position in Nov., 19-
37 and assumed the duties of ten­ant
purchase specialist for Farm
Security Administration.
Mr. Brown has already moved
to Montgomery, where regional
headquarters of the farm organ­ization
are located. His family
will remain in Auburn several
weeks longer.
To Be Formally Tapped
And Initiated on
"Greater Auburn Day"
Frank M. Dixon, Governor
of Alabama, has accepted a
bid to membership in Omega
Circle of Omicron Delta Kap­pa,
according to an announce­ment
made yesterday by L.
E. Foster, President of the
circle.
The Governor will be present at
Greater Auburn Day next Wed­nesday
and will probably be ex­tended
a formal bid some time
during the day and be initiated.
ODK each year selects some
outstanding man in the state and
taps him for honorary member­ship
in the- circle. Selection of
regular members is based on char­acter,
scholarship, leadership,
athletic ability, and participation
in forensic publications and oth­er
extra-curricular activities.
The regular members of Omega
Circle are L. E. Foster, President,
Billy McGehee, Bill Troup, John
Eagan, Curty Farley, Edwin God-bold,
George Knight, Johnny Da­vis,
Bo Russell, Julian Fowler,
Paul McKenney, Perry Schwartz,
Charles Grisham, James Hilleke,
and Sam Teague.
Other members are President L.
N. Duncan, Executive Secretary
Draughon, Editor Grover Hall of
the Advertiser, Lt. Col. Fred C.
Wallace, Coach Wilbur Hutsell,
Superintendent of Education Al­bert
Collins, Dr. Charles Davis,
Jesse Herren of New Orleans, and
Extension Director P. O. Davis.
NOTICE
If uniforms are in the laundry
Monday, students may attend drill
in civilian clothes.
Graduate Vets Will
Meet Here Tuesday
Over 100 Doctors Are
Expected to Attend
The Fifteenth Alabama Confer­ence
for Graduate Veterinarians
will meet here for three days, be­ginning!
Tuesday, to study the lat­est
methods on animal diseases
and to hear distinguished, veteri- '
narians from every section of the
United States.
The highlight of the convention
will be the annual banquet spon­sored
by the Junior A. V. M. A. at
Graves Center in which the visit­ing
delegates will be honored. *
Dr. I. S. McAdory, dean of the
School of Veterinary Medicine
here, estimates that 100 doctors
will participate in the clinic and
lectures that will be given.
Featured on the program will be
eleven doctors from Auburn and
included in this group will be Dr.
B. T. Simms, Dr. F. P. Woolf, Dr.
L. E. Starr, Dr. M. O. Robinson,
Dr. Dale A. Porter, Dr. E. S. Win­ters,
Dr. R. L. Mundhenk, Dr. J.
E. Greene, Dr. H. W. Johnson, Dr.
W. E. Cotton, and Dr. J. L. West.
Noted veterinarians attending
will be Dr. L. A. Merillat, Chica­go,
executive secretary of the A.
V. M. A., who will lecture on the
digestive disturbances in horses
and mules; Dr. Adolph Eichorn,
director of the Bureau of Animal
Industry of Maryland, who will
discuss canine distemper; and Dr.
L. Enos Day, secretary of the U.
S. Livestock Sanitary Association
has also been extended an invita­tion
to speak.
Hog cholera, Bang's disease, di­gestion
disturbances, and swine
diseases will be among the sub­jects
that will be discussed by the
leading veterinarians.
The convention will be in ses­sion
during the "Greater Auburn
Day" celebration here and will
bring many alumni here to attend
the gathering as well as the prog­ram
during the alumni day on
Wednesday.
Phi Psi to Bring Textile
Expert Here for Lecture
A talk sponsored by Phi Psi is
to be given by Ben Verity, techni­cal
adviser of the Carbie Color and
Chemical Company, New York
City, on Monday night, Feb. 20,
at 7 p. m. in room 211 of the tex­tile
building.
Mr. Verity has had between 30
and 40 years of experience in the
dyeing industry. He is making a
tour of the textile colleges of the
South, picking Auburn as his first
stop.
PAGE TWO THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17 ,1939
The Auburn Plainsman
Published Semi-Weekly By The Students
Of The Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
Auburn, Alabama
Editorial and business offices at Lee County Bulle­tin
Office on Tichenor Avenue. Phone 448. Editor
may be reached after office hours by calling 189-W.
Edwin C. Godbold Editor
Charles F. Grisham... Business Manager
Editorial Staff
Managing Editor
Associate Editor .
Society Editor _
Sports Editor —
News Editor —
Roy Taylor
J. H. Wheeler
-Eleanor Scott
student body.
We urge all students to realize that whether
or not they supported the officals representing
their class on election day, that these men are
answerable to them for their action while in
office.
This year's Cabinet realizes the truth of
much of the above article and has done all
in its power to remedy the student govern­ment
set-up. It has endorsed certain basic
changes—all that they can do. Now, re­form
is up to the students. To be put into
effect, the provisions must secure the ap­proval
of two-thirds of the student body.
Now, if ever, let students take their gov­ernment
seriously and vote for the amend­ments.
BUI Troup Anonymous Letters
John Godbold
Business Staff
Assistant Business Manager — Bob Armstrong
Assistant Business Manager Julian Myrick
Advertising Manager Billy Smith
Circulation Manager Arthur Steele
Assistant Circulation Manager Walter Going
Entered as second-class matter at the post office
at Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates by mail:
$2.50 per year, $1.50 per semester.
Represented for national advertising by National
Advertising Service, Inc. Member of Associated
Collegiate Press. Distributor of Collegiate Digest.
Publication Candidates
The Board of Student Publications has
fully qualified seven juniors as candidates for
elective publications offices. All seven have
better than average grades, and the Board
was favorable impressed with their quali­fications
and their suggestions for improve­ment
in the Plainsman and the Glomerata.
Auburn has never looked with much fa­vor
upon the appointment of publication
heads. Instead, it has set up a joint student-faculty
board that does not appoint editors
and business managers, but sees that all pros­pective
candidates are fully capable.
The Plainsman looks with confidence to
the future of Auburn student publications.
The time is past when election winners can
look on their publication posts as lucrative
political jobs, to be run for their own profit.
Today, students are sure that these offices
are filled by men qualified by experience
and by scholastic standing.
Those Amendments
Back in April, 1937, as a sophomore colum­nist
on this publication for Editor Bobby
Chesnutt, we wrote an article on the Exe­cutive
Cabinet and certain of its shortcom­ings.
Even as a sophomore we saw some of
the grave inadequacies of Auburn's student
government. The article is- reproduced be­low:
We think it would be most appropriate at
. this time to plead for a more general demand-
' ing of responsibilities from elected student
officers. Of course, the recent action of the
Cabinet in regard to dance tickets has brought
, this subject (to mind. However, for fear that
some may think this outright condemnation
•* of their action, let us warn against judging
those fellows too hastily. It is easy, too easy, to
stand off and say that their action was out-and-out
wrong, and to harshly condemn them for it.
But try putting yourself in their place and
see if your attitude changes. We did, and we
confess that we can't decide how we would
have voted.
Regardless of that, we feel that it is high
time that Auburn students began to demand
responsibility from elected officials. The usual
viewpoint is that once a man is in offire he
becomes a free agent to be guided only by his
own wishes and will.
Auburn students are too prone to elect offi­cers
and forget that these officers are directly
responsible to them and are in office to look
out for their welfare. One reason, we suppose,
for this is the fact that some of the officers,
especially the Cabinet, do their work in the
silence and secrecy which characterizes some
mystic order, and students have come to ac­cept
this. We wonder why the Cabinet was
created to deliberate in secrecy and silence,
anyway. It seems that a much better plan
would be to have Cabinet meetings open to
the student body, with ample opportunity for
the students to voice their opinions before that
body, just as is done in most city councils.
As it is now, the Cabinet exists practically
unchecked in any matter. We think it is high
time that a little of the philosophy of respon­sibility
of elected officials be injected into the
Every newspaper in the country is at one
time or another bothered by the problem of
anonymous letters. Gradually, newspapers
get to accept them as just part of the job,
glance at them, and drop them into the waste-basket.
The Plainsman is no exception. Al­most
every mail brings one or two of them.
We treat them all with equal contempt.
The Selma Times-Journal recently com­mented
on an anonymous letter it received as
follows:
The letter is an old-fashioned tongue lashing
for editorial policies of this paper, and if any
uncomplimentary adjectives or adverbs were
omitted, apparently it was through an over­sight
on the part of the writer. This communi­cation
ends with a demand that it be publish­ed
word for word.
As the letter-writer ignores the first rule of
all newspapers concerning publication of com­munications—
that names must be furnished—
he has no grounds for such a demand despite
the undenied right of American citizens to think
as they please.
If the writer of this letter is not willing to
openly stand back of opinions expressed, there
is no reason why we should assume this res­ponsibility.
We stand back of our convictions
and it is nothing less than fair that we expect
our readers to do the same.
If the writer of the letter honesty believes in
what they set forth, we would be more than
glad to discuss them in detail, if for no other
reason than to satisfy a burning curiosity
about the identity of such master of invicti-tude.
Perhaps we might even arrange to take a few
lessons.
The Plainsman has received epistles just
like those—full of hot words and acid sar­casm.
But we have ceased to regard them as
personal communications, and rather look
on them from the literary angle. We give
them a brief glance and consign them to the
floor or the wastebasket, along with the
other scrap paper.
Student Loan Fund
Last night at a smoker sponsored by Delta
Sigma Pi, professional business fraternity,
Dean J. W. Scott suggested that a student
loan fund be installed at Auburn. After
much discussion and many questions, the
group of seniors attending the meeting
heartily endorsed the suggestion and agreed
that they were willing to leave their con­tingent
deposits to the credit of such a fund
at the end of the year.
The Plainsman knows of no more worth­while
way a student graduating from col­lege
can spend his contingent deposit than by
leaving it for other less fortunate indivi­duals
who might otherwise never complete
their college course.
In other colleges where there are student
loan funds of enormous figures, these funds
started in just such a way—small donations
from student themselves. Gifts from alumni
and friends swelled the total greatly.
Students at Auburn, especially seniors,
could in our estimation make no more worth­while
philanthropic gesture than voting
their deposit for this purpose. Personally,
we would be proud to see our contingent de­posit
go for such a fund. And we think
there are dozens more who feel as we do.
A Clean Auburn
When "Greater Auburn Day" rolls around
on next Wednesday, the city hopes to put on
its best appearance for visiting friends.
Thousands of visitors from all over the state
will be inspecting the Fair Village, some for
the first time in years.
The Plainsman urges that no vacant lot
be left cluttered, no scrap paper be left un-burned.
A clean, well-kept city will go far
toward leaving a good impression on visi­tors.
By John Ivey Jr.
The Height of forgetfulness ap­peared
as •the moral of a news ar­ticle
yesterday. Bela Imredi, Hun­garian
Premier, has been pro­moting
a campaign in his coun­try
designed to bring grief to the
Jewish element.
After making plans for the anti-semetic
drive, Imredi awoke a
couple of days ago to the realiza-jj
tion that he was the possessor of
a portion of that blood which has
been frowned on by Central Euro­pean
strong men. In short, his an­cestors
have foiled the Jew-hater
by making his blood content con­tain
a contemptable conglutinat-ed
conglomeration of corpuscles
not congruously congenial with
his convictions. Still shorter, his
face was red! He resigned from
his position at once.
* * *
He Is Another Judas, but his
name is Billy and he is not a man
or a goal;. There is a story about a
lamb who hangs out round the
Chicago Stock Yard boasting of
the bloody occupation of leading
little lambs to the slaughter, lit­erally,
not proverbially.
For a number of years this
modern four-footed Judas has been
kept for the purpose of providing
an easy way to get the sheep to
the slaughter pens. He merely
Walks into the inclosure where the
unlucky animals are kept until
time for their untimely depart­ure
from this earth. Due to the
fact Billy knows the ropes, he is
able to talk traitorously to the
occupants of said pen and persuade
them to follow him down the way
to meet the grim reaper, or is it
throat cutter!
* * *
This story is not unfair to un­sightly
pans, or faces if you please.
According to Andre Maurois, ug­liness
is a virtue in itself in spite
of itself. His theory follows:
"Ugliness has positive moral
values; first, the man afflicted
with it is thereby deprived of a
too-easy success in love; this de­privation
spurs him all the more
eagerly to conquer . . . he has on­ly
the brilliancy of his accomplish­ments
by which to please.
"Moreover, ugliness in a man, if
it accompanies strength, almost al­ways
prejudices one in its favor.
His superiors never have a feel­ing
of jealousy toward a really
ugly man; nor are they indifferent
•to him, either. One remembers un­usual
features rather than a hand­some
but commonplace head."
Now the only thing we have got
to do is to make the women rea­lize
the truth of the above; they
can easily see that our faces are
built oh a slightly lower plain
from that of Gable and Flynn,
but then too, they can act. We
have got to grab the world by the
throat and make it shout that we
are the doers of deeds. Seems like
a good face-lifting job would be
the easier plan.
* » *
Lowell Thomas has added a new
one to the over-crowed volume of
fish stories. It seems that down in
South Carolina there lives a man
who has trained a goldfish to act
as bait.
The fisherman ties a thin string
around his pet's person so as to
form a harness. This water-lover
glances at his master to get the
size of the order and dives down
to depths where his larger buddies
reside. The big fish, which in this
case turns out to be the poor
fish, swallows aforementioned gold
fish.
The trained traitor nimbly
works his way through the larg­er
fish's gills, repeating the act
until the desired number of vic­tims
have the string through their
gills. Then the decoy circles the
entire catch, making a knot in the
string so that the safe delivery
of its fishy work can be brought
about without any malice to his
being.
By stopping for a second and
blowing a few air-bubbles, the
educated fish signals his master
that the dirty work is finished.
The fisherman has fished without
any aid other than that of his
trained pet and a small string . . .
guess the goldfish really knows
how to string his friends along!
Please pardon.
Tulane University's Middle A-merican
Research Institute has
initiated a campaign to raise $2,-
000,000 for a new museum.
W. A. A. Girl-Break Dance
I went to the Girl-Break Affair,
All the campus big shots were there.
The boys were all mooning,
Self-consciously crooning,
Or leaving to sit on the stair.
The girls had to dodge and to duck
To break on each popular cluck;
The music was snappy,
And everyone was happy—
And all of the time I was stuck.
AUBURN FOOTPRINTS
There was a Young Girl of New York
Whose body was lighter than cork;
She had to be fed
For six weeks on lead,
Before she went out for a walk.
* * *
The Duke of York removed the cork
And titled up the flagon.
The label read
Trevedentscherreinerweusmuncherganchte,
So now he's on the wagon.
* * *
EPITAPHS
Clive Brook, movie actor, writes his own:
Pardon me for not rising.
* • *
Dorothy Parker writes her own:
Excuse my dust.
THE EDITOR'S MAILBOX
To the Students:
We would like to take this means
and opportunity to thank all of
you who bought tickets and patro­nized
our bingo game last Tues­day
evening. We appreciate the
wholehearted support that you
gave this venture, and it is our
intention to have mor« of these
games in the future.
Since all of the ticket money
hasn't been turned in at the time
of this writing, we aren't able to
give the exact amount of the pro­ceeds.
However, it is certain that
the band will be enriched by
over fifty dollars. This money
will be turned over to Mr. Bidez
to use as he sees fit.
Again, let us thank each of you
for the part you played in helping
to make this game a success.
Sincerely,
Members of Blue Key
The Oregon State College mu­seum
has been given a huge stuf­fed
moose from—of all people—
the Loyal Order of Moose.
Franklin and Marshall College
has placed the four major student
dances of the year in its tuition
charges.
Editor
The Auburn Plainsman
Dear Sir:
Once this year you ran a fea­ture
by a co-ed griping on the
appalling lack of thought men
used about wearing—or not wear­ing—
appropriate hats. Here is my
answer.
We realize that the girls just
love to have dates. It is for this
sole reason that we break down
occasionally and honor them with
our presence. Poor little girls who
must spend hours to make them­selves
beautiful, then to be disap­pointed
by some brutish villain
who stalks in, twirling his mus­tache,
without a hat.
Of course it's understandable
that some hats are better look­ing
than our faces, but (personally
I wouldn't marry a hat, least of
all some of these pipe dreams
that the girls wear for fashion's
sake. Pray tell me, what is a
girl's definition of a hat, is it
merely a dab of felt, couple of
feathers, and a piece of string tied
on to it or is it made to serve
some useful purpose, to keep the
hair in place or to keep the win­try
winds from freezing the ether
that it covers.
Now take a man's hat—they are
really made for a useful purpose,
they keep his head warm, his
hair out of his eyes, to give him
something to fiddle with during
the ages that he waits for the
young lady to come down look­ing
like a million'—when she is
only nineteen.
I have seen young ladies wear
some of the d . . . . nest clothes
and go around with a hurt look
on their face if someone wants to
know whose old picture album
their patterns and ideas came
from. You dear little girls who
bear all manner of torture for the
sake Of fashion and make of your­selves
clothes-horses to hide those
bow-legs and knock-knees, and
who wear unmentionables to keep
that slim waist and what have
you (or haven't) that would do
justice to the rack and Iron Maid­en
that were used in he fifteenth
century by the Inquisition.
Of course we do not mean this
an insult to Lucille, Marion and
Grace, but
Aubumus
Before Tomorrow
By John Godbold
A Justice Retires: One of Amer­ica's
great statesmen retired from
service when Justice Brandeis
stepped down from his place on
the Supreme Court. During his
long period of activity on the Su­preme
bench he has served con­scientiously
and well.
He has been a liberal, yet his
has been a liberalism tinged with
the prudence and moderation of
common sense.
Termed a "radical" when he
went into office he has lived to see
the day when many of those Who
fought him then have openly ex­pressed
admiration for him and
his accomplishments.
At eighty-two, an age when
most persons are whiling away
the time in a rocking chair, Jus­tice
Brandeis is retiring from one
jab, but our guess is that it will
not be long before he is actively
engaged in some other. An old war
horse such as he is cannot be kept
away from the battles.
* » *
Airplane Salesmen have been
having a rough time of it lately
in demonstrating their wares.
Several days ago an American-made
military plane crashed in
California, and it was found that
a French military attche was a-board
as an observer. The lid was
promptly blown off in Washing­ton,
and administration officials
were put on the pan for alleged
disclosures of military secrets to
foreign nations.
Tuesday a Peruvian air repre­sentative
of a New York airplane
company were dropped into the
sea when their amphibian plane
turned over in landing. The plane
was one of a group which the Pe­ruvian
government had recently
bought from an American manu­facturer.
All of this oalls to mind a most
forceful cartoon carried recently
in one of the daily papers. It
showed an American selling huge
quantities of scrap iron to repre­sentatives
of several warring na­tions
and asking, "Wrap it up?"
His wrapping paper was a stack
of peace speeches.
The cartoon is as applicable
to the sales of other war materials
as to the sale of scrap iron. We do
lip service for peace while selling
agencies of destruction on every
side. We Americans are living ex­amples
of the art of not letting
one's left hand know what his
right hand is doing.
* * *
The Election of a new Pope
which will be held in the near fu­ture
brings to mind a most in­teresting
incident about Eugenio
Cardinal Pacelli, one of the pos­sible
successors to Pope Pius.
Cardinal Pacelli is one of the high
oficials of the Papal State, and a
Catholic friend tells us that if he
is selected he will probably carry
out many of Pope Pius' plans.
Not so long ago at a Latin A-merican
conference Cardinal Pac­elli
made an address which was
one of the outstanding linguistic
feats of our modern day. He spoke
first in Kalian for the benefit of
the Italian delegates; in French
for the French, Swiss and Belgian
delegates; in Spanish for the Span­ish
and South American delegates:
in Portuguese for those from Bra-izl
and Portugal; in English for
those from the United States,
England and the British Empire;
in German for the delegates from
Germany and Austria; and in La­tin
for the delegates from Poland,
Hungary, and other countries.
* » •
Blue Key did well with their
Bingo Party the other night.
Whether they made any money or
not, we have not learned. But a
big crowd was there to participate,
and if the band did not benefit
from the party it was certainly
not the fault of the Blue Keys, who
handled a difficult task in an ef­ficient
manner. Congratulations,
fellows.
Editor
The Auburn Plainsman
Dear Sir:
Here are a group of compli­ments
that I have for Schwartz
and Farley of the Glomerata:
Love and Kisses,
The College Ghost.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1939 THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN
Tigers to Return
Engagements With
Sewanee, Vandy
The Auburn Tigers will be one
of the more active quintets in the
Southeastern Conference this week
when they play Vanderbilt and Se­wanee
in return engagements, in
an attempt to better thir fifth
place standing in the league. Van­dy
was met Thursday night in
Nashville, and the Plainsman will
come up against Sewanee at Se­wanee
Friday and Saturday.
Coach Ralph Jordan's five, who
have turned in 10 wins against
only three setbacks, will have to
play superior ball to emerge vic­tor
in all three combats. The odds
are stacked heavily against them
in the affair with the Commo­dores,
who defeated the Tigers
41-3-9 in Alumni Gymnasium, but
they are given an even chance of
defeating the Purple Tiger of Se­wanee.
Fine team work accounted for
the double wins over Georgia and
Birmingham-Southern last week
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Auburn Fencing Club Issues
Invitation to Fencers
Long one of the favorite sports
in Europe, fencing is rapidly be­coming
a most popular sport in
the United States. It first started in
the East and has since spread a-cross
the country rapidly.
In line with the enthusiasm with
which sport-lovers everywhere
have taken to fencing, Auburn has
begun to form a team. At present,
the lack of good fencers is natural­ly
quite evident. It is hoped that
continued and growing interest
in the sport will bring forth some
good foilmen.
Anyone interested in going out
for the fencing team should see
Prof. E. B. Smith in the intramural
sports office or Bobby Armstrong,
who is instructor in the group.
and Coach Jordan will probably
use the same starting five against
Vandy and Sewanee. This will
consist of Co-Oapt. Malvern Mor­gan
and Crawford Holmes at for­wards,
Co-Cap. Tommie Edwards
at center, and Andy Curlee and
Ray Gibson at guards. The other
men who made the trip include J.
P. Streetman, Bob Dickinson, Red
Childers, John Huff, and Bruce
Renfroe. Manager John Duhtoerley
also accompanied the squad.
After their three encounters
this weekend, the Bengals will be
in action only four more times be­fore
entering the annual loop
(tournament in Knoxville on
March 1. Their final four games
of.the season will be against
Georgia Tech at Auburn on Feb.
22, and in Atlanta on Feb. 27, and
against Florida at Auburn on Feb.
24 and 25.
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Prescription — Sodas — Toilet Articles — Maga­zines
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Georgia on Top
In Conference
With each game played, a new
leader is found on top of the
Southeastern Conference stand­ing.
At this writing Georgia is
leading the conference with six
wins and two defeats for a per­centage
of .750. Following the
Bulldogs with 11 wins and four
defeats is Alabama.
All 13 members of the confer­ence
are eligible for the tourna­ment
scheduled at Knoxville,
March 2, 3, and 4, and on the
basis of competitive marks at this
point, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ala­bama
and L. S. U. figure to bat­tle
it out for the crown.
The conference games to be
played Thursday, Friday and Sat­urday,
which will affect the
standing is as follows: Thursday—
Auburn vs. Vanderbilt. Friday—
Auburn vs. Sewanee, L. S. U. ys.
Tulane. Saturday—Auburn vs. Se­wanee,
L. S. U. vs. Tulane, Geor­gia
vs. Georgia Tech, Tennessee
vs. Kentucky.
Following is the Southeastern
Conference standing, with games
played through Wednesday of
this week included:
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SPORTS CHATTER
By Bill Troup
Three Building
Contracts Let
Contracts to complete three col­lege
buildings now under con­struction
under the $1,500,000
program were let here yesterday
at a meeting of the executive com­mittee
of the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute's board of trustees to
the low bidder, Murphey Pound,
contraotor of Columbus, Ga.
Subject to P. W. A. approval
the contracts were let to the Co­lumbus
concern at a total com­bined
bid of $192,980, for com­pletion
of the farm engineering
building, nursery school, and phy­sical
education unit
Bids by Murphey Pound on the
individual 'buildings were $85,-
740 on the physical education unit,
$20,390 on the nursery school,
$86,850 for the farm engineering
building. Previously bids were for
footings and foundations on the
farm engineering building and the
physical education unit
Contracts for completion of the
veterinary, general classroom
buildings and stadium will be let
at a later date.
Members of the board of trus­tees
executive committee present
at today's meeting were Francis
H. Hare, Monroeville; T. D. Sam-ford,
Opelika; H. D. Merrill, An-niston;
and C. S. Culver, Gadsden.
When Jim Londos wrestled Ali Baba in Detroit a year
ago the gate was $23,000 . . .In a recent match with Man
Mountain Dean there Londos drew only $1,000 worth of cus­tomers
. . . Lou Gehrig scored more than 100 runs in 1938 for
the thirteenth straight year . . . Most skis are made of Florida
grown hickory, which is shipped to Norway for manufac­ture.
The University of Alabama averaged 39 points In their first
nine games this season . . . Six of the 180 horses nominated for the
$100,000 Santa Anita handicap on March 1 are quoted at 1,000 to
1 in the winter book.
The first game of the first world series in 1903 was given two
paragraphs in New York newspapers . k . It's no wonder they use
glass backboards for basketball games at Madison Square Garden
. . . Only 3,000 of the 18,000 seats are between the baskets v • - Don
Timmerman, sophomore on Wisconsin's basketball team, is said to be
the tallest player ever to appear in the Big Ten Conference t. . . He
is 6 feet 9 1-2 inches.
The recent Louis-Lewis bout at Madison Square Gar­den
was the first heavyweight championship match between
two colored men. since Jack Johnson fought an eight round
draw with Jim Johnson in Paris 26 years ago . . . Bill Kir-chem,
whose 216 pounds made him invaluable at tackle on
the Tulane football team, now is preparing for the track
season. He's a sprinter.
The first night baseball game was played at Fort Wayne,
Ind., June 2, 1883 . . . Auburn has accumulated 512 points
against 415 for the opposition in its thirteen games this sea­son
. . . Co-Capt. Malvern Morgan leads the Tigers in scoring
with 137 markers, with Crawford Holmes following him with
99 tallies.
Luis Firpo is a police official In his home town in Argentina . . .
Santa Clara will lose fifteen varsity football players by gradua­tion
in June . . Cap Anson of the old Chicago White Stockings
batted .394 in 1894 when he was 42 years old '. . . There is a good
possibility that Auburn's football stadium, that is under construc­tion,
will be dedicated next Thanksgiving in the Auburn-Florida
game . :. . The contest previously was announced for Montgomery,
Dec. 2, but if the $180,000 stadium is completed, Coach Jack Mea­gher
said the game might be changed to Auburn, Nov. 30.
Fred Swan, Temple's new football mentor, ran away to
sea at 14 . . . His dad caught up with him after a year and re­turned
him to school . . . Bradley Tech's basketball team
scored 706 points in its first fourteen games this season, an
average of 50.4 a game.
Tigers Reach Scrimmage Stage in
Preparation for Game Wednesday
Driving his charges at a fairly
brisk pace, Coach Jack Meagher
has reached the scrimmage stage
in Auburn's 1939 Spring football
training and the Tigers are grad­ually
rounding into good shape for
•their outstanding practice game
that will highlight the "Greater
Auburn Day" program this Wed­nesday.
Intact from last season, the
Plainsmen coaching staff has a
mentor for each of the groups
now toeing groomed (for major foot­ball
duty next fall. Coach Mea­gher
supervises the entire group
of about 80 aspirants and spends
most of his time with the backs,
who also are being tutored by
Jimmy Hitchcock and Bobbie
Blake; Dell Morgan is In charge
of the line, specializing on. the
tackles, and he is assisted by for­mer
captain Bo Russell; Bat Mc-
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Collum is handling the centers
Boots Chambless the guards, and
Porter Grant the ends.
It is still fairly early for Coach
Meagher to name his two outfits
for the practice round on Feb. 22.
One team could take the field with
Getty Fairchild at center, Cap­tain
Milton Howell and Ernest
Mills at guard, Alternate-Captain
Bill Nichols at ends, Bunch Fow­ler
at quarterback, Dick McGowen
and Bill Mims at halfbacks, and
Ross Dean at fullback.
Another could be chosen that
would have Abb Chrietzberg at
center, Walter Chandler and Eve-rette
Smith at guards, Gordan
MacEachern and Chester Bulger
at tackles, Babe McGehee and
James Samford at ends, Buddy
McMahan at quarterback, Baker
Riddle and Carl Happer at half­backs,
and Charlie Haynsworth at
fullback.
Enie Menie Minie Moe
Down to Howards we must go
All Alumni take vacation
Greater Auburn Celebration.
NOTICE
All band members and ROTC
students are excused from classes
Monday at 11 a. m. for a practice
review. This review has been au­thorized
in view of the fact that
inclement weather since Christ­mas
has greatly hampered drill­ing.
Drill will be held as usual
Tuesday morning, and there will
be a review for the visitors on
Greater Auburn Day, Feb. 22.
NOTICE
There will be a faculty meet­ing
Monday morning at 11 In
Langdon Hall. President Duncan
is asking that all faculty memb­ers
be present.
NOTICE
Classes will be excused Wed­nesday
from 11 to 12 for the spec­ial
review and also after 3 p. m.
for the football game.
A move has been started in the
Iowa legislature to move the
state's college of engineering from
the University of Iowa to Iowa
State College.
Alabama Educators
Attend Celebration
Eight distinguished Alabama ed­ucators
have signified their inten­tions
of attending "Greater Au­burn
Day" at Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute on Feb. 22.
Invitations were sent to the
heads of all Alabama colleges by
Dr. L. N. Duncan, president of A.
P. I., and replies from eight ef
the college heads indicate they
will be on hand when Auburn
celebrates its $1,500,000 building
program involving 14 new build­ings.
Those Who have expressed their
intention of coming include Dr.
Richard C. Foster, president of the
University of Alabama; Dr. Ray­mond
R. Paty, president of Birm­ingham-
Southern; Dr. T. V. Neal,
president of Howard College, Dr.
A. F. Harman, president of Ala­bama
College at Montevallo; Dr.
Hubert Searcy, president of Hunt­ingdon
College; Dr. C. W. Daug-ette,
president of State Teachers
College at Jacksonville; Dr. J. W.
Keller, president of State Teach­ers
College at Florence; Dr. C. B.
Glenn, superintendent of educa­tion,
Birmingham.
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PAGE THREE
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Toxicoloqy Lab
Be Open to Public
H. W. Nixon, State toxicologist,
has announced that the State toxi­cology
laboratory here will be
open for public inspection on
"Greater Auburn Day," Feb. 22.
Records in all criminal cases in­vestigated
by the department may
be viewed by the public at this
time.
The laboratory has been instru­mental
in the past few years in
helping to solve many criminal
cases for the State.
During the last fiscal year 227
cases ware handled by the labor­atory.
Of the latter, 129 involved
injury of death to humans, of
which 64 were suspected homi­cides,
2 criminal attacks, 8 sui­cides,
6 injurious accidents, and
44 assaulits-iwith-intent-ito-kill.
Seventy-nine cases of suspected
animal poisoning were investi­gated
by the laboratory. Results of
these examinations have been uti­lized
to prevent recurrence of
losses of livestock through pois­oning.
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THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN FRIDAY, BEBRUARY 17, 1939
Season's Hit Tunes
Be Heard in Show
Four of the season's biggest hit
tunes—written by the inimitable
Robin and Rainger—will be heard
in the Bing Crosby manner in the
new comedy romance, "Paris
Honeymoon," to be shown at the
Tiger Theater Sunday and Mon­day.
Featured in the picture are:
"You're a Sweet Little Headache,"
"I Have Eyes," "The Funny Old
Hills," and the novelty number,
"Joozlai." Bing is assisted in sing­ing
by Shirley Ross.
Co-starred with Bing Crosby is
Franciska Gaal, the georgeous
little blonde bombshell you will
remember as the little Dutch girl
in "The Buccaneer."
"Paris Honeymoon" is the story
of a gay young American millio­naire,
played by Bing, who is just
about to be married ' to Shirley
Ross, when he discovers there is
a little matter of a divorce which
Miss Ross forgot to take care of.
Bing goes to Paris and then to a
Balkan state called "Pushtalnick,"
where Akim Tamiroff is every­thing
from the Mayor to a slot
machine operator—and even more!
Pushtalnick is also the home of a
lovely little peasant girl, Manya,
played by Miss Gaal. To compli­cate
matters Bing falls in love -with
her.
The comedy in "Paris Honey­moon"
is mainly concerned with
Bing's efforts to free himself from
Miss Ross—from whom he doesn't
want to be free—and his attempts
to win Miss Gaal—whom he does
not want to win at all.
Edward Everett Norton fans will
be glad to know he is in his fav­orite
role again, Bing's valet. The
'big cast also boasts Ben Blue,
Keith Kenneth, Greta Meyer, and
a variety of comedians.
The ladies will be interested to
see the fashions presented in
Shirley Ross' trousseau.
Pi Alpha's to Entertain
Pledges, Guests Saturday
At 8 o'clock Saturday evening,
Feb. 18, Alabama Alpha chapter
of Pi Alpha fraternity (Episco­pal)
will entertain new pledges
and a number of invited guests in
the Episcopal Parish House.
On Tuesday, Feb. 21, the Cate-
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'A'Club Dance Be
Given Wednesday
A "Greater Auburn Day" dance,
sponsored by the "A" Club, will
begin at 10 p. m., Wednesday, Feb.
22, with the Auburn Knights
swinging out on the opening num­ber.
The dance will take place in
Bibb Graves Center.
With thousands of visiting alum­ni
and friends in Auburn on that
day, the dance promises to be a
fine affair. All mothers and fath­ers
of Auburn students are cord­ially
invited to come out to the
hall and watch the dance, said
"A" Club President Johnnie Da­vis.
Seats will be provided for
them.
Davis prophesied an excellent
crowd at the dance because of the
many young alumni who will be
in Auburn that day and will
bring girls with them. Also, many
students are having their girls
down on that day because of the
semi-holiday air of the occasion
and because of the football game
to be played that afternoon.
Tickets to the dance are 75
cents. f
Knights
chumen Degree will be adminis­tered
to the first class of pledges
to toe tapped by this chapter.
Since Auburn has the distinc­tion
of having the first collegiate
chapter of Pi Alpha, the only na­tional
Greek letter society for
Episcopal young men, it is arous­ing
much interest not only local­ly
but nationally. Congratulatory
messages have already been re­ceived
from various parts of the
country.
Patronize Plainsman advertisers.
(Continued from Page One)
Sanders played for the mid-terms
and liked the arrangements writ­ten
for the Knights so well that
he copied several for his own
use.
Two summers ago the orchestra,
fourteen strong, played under the
management of the Music Corpo­ration
of America, working in
the middle west and finally end­ing
up in New York State. Al­though
they had the chance to
continue playing under the man­agement
of this famous booking
agency, the majority of the band
decided to come back to school in
j the fall.
The outfit lost several men, but
with some replacements and very
hard work the Knights again
reached the same high standard
before the year was over. This
past summer the band, fifteen
strong, played several engagements
along the South Carolina Coast,
tout, as always, returned to Au­burn
to get some of that book
learning.
There were only four men out
of fifteen in the group that re­turned
to Auburn this past fall
. . . none of the arrangements in
the library could be used . . .
prospects for ^replacements were
almost nil.'
If one passes by the College Inn
around noon or supper time, he
will see a full band playing and
hear a group that is rapidly
building back up to that stand­ard
of music always expected
from the Auburn Knights, but lit­tle
will he realize the hard work
and worry that has taken place
in order to bring the organization
up to the point it has reached.
Although the usual idea is that
musically minded individuals are
JOHN ROBERT POWERS, the head of the world's
best known model agency, when booking his
famous models for fashions, advertisers and
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Chesterfields get the call from more and more
smokers every day because of their refresh­ing
mildness, better taste and pleasing aroma.
The perfect combination of Chesterfield's
mild ripe American and aromatic Turk­ish
tobaccos ... the can't-be-copied blend
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Wax Works
This production of Wax Works
will be devoted to those discs that
have been cut in the Decca fac­tory.
We have included some very
fine numtors in our review' for
today of whiclxwe think any num­ber
of them would make fine ad­ditions
to that stack of canned
music just above your music box.
Well, hold yore hats.
* * *
To start this discussion off with
a little swing music, Chick Webb
and Count Basie have beat out
a couple of kicking tunes that
really put us to the proper mood;
in short, we were sent. "Gotta
Pebble in My Shoe" is vocally ex­plained
by Ella Fitzgerald with
Chick Wetoib assisting from his
rhythm throne, with the reverse
side called "Who Ya Hunchin."
* * *
"Jumpin" at the Woodside" and
"Dark Rapture" receive the musi­cal
attention of the Count with
the latter tune dreamed up in a
fine manner by Helen Humes.
These two tunes are typical of the
Count's swing-out style, but
would be pleasing to even Lom-toardo
lovers.
* * *
Connie Boswell is featured with
Woody Herman's band on a couple
of fine sweet tunes in our Decca
parade called "They Say" and
"Umbrella Man." Although Con­nie
has always been fine with her
vocal renditions, she reaches a
new high with the first of the a-bove
numbers. We have never
cared for the "Umbrella Man" as
a popular tune, but in the Boswell
manner it sounds pretty good.
* * *
Something different — Louis
Armstrong puts his trumpet down
to do a twelve-inch job for us on
"Elder Eatmore's Sermon on
Throwing Stones," and "Elder
Eatmore's Sermon on Generosi­ty."
These two selections are re­productions
of what might well be
a negro church service with
Armstrong acting as the preacher.
The idea is pretty clever to say
the least, and the over-grown disc
contains a typical example of the
black man's thoughts and actions.
* * *
"Down Home Rag" and "Where
Has My Little Dog Gone" are a
couple of Will Osburne tunes.
Featuring his famous trombone
section, Osborne plays some very
commercial swing on the first of
these two tunes, followed by a
good novelty idea on the latter
with work by the vocal ensemble.
Haven't heard much of this band
lately, but he seems to be doing
pretty good work, judging by
these latest wax works.
* * *
Andy Kirk and his Clouds of
Joy bask in the favors of nature
while they make a couple of tunes
on "The Breeze" and "Sittin" A-round
and Dreaming." Pha Ter­rell
carries the vocals job in fine
manner. This group of dark
swingsters Wave added another
good disc to their credit.
* * •
A couple of popular tunes,
"Sing For Your Supper" and "My
Heart Belongs to Daddy" featur­ing
Helen Hume in the song-sing­ing
department, have been pro­duced
by the Count Basie band.
Although these jobs have usually
toeen presented in a semi-sweet
atmosphere, Basie has them dress­ed
up in a fine groove. We think
this is a good bet
Movie of Events Will Be
Taken Next Wednesday
Newsreels will be taken of the
activities at Alabama Polytechnic
Institute's "Greater Auburn Day"
on Feb. 22, it was learned today
from Maurice I. Bloch, president
of the Auburn Alumni Associa­tion.
Five hundred feet of film will
be taken of the ROTC review,
'alumni barbecue and get-together,
and exhibition football game by
the Wilby-Kinsey Corporation,
operators of a theater chain in
southern states.
Copyright 1939, LIGGETT & MYERS TOBACCO CO.
very narrow, this does not hold
true in the case of this potent
group of music makers. The names
of Merwin York, "Doc" Mosely,
Louis Busenlehner, Yank Freid-man,
Jimmy Vance, Babe Lacey,
Lamar White, Hilding Holmburg,
Jerry Yelverton, and many others
that could be mentioned, will re­mind
those who remember or care
to look over their records of the
wide range of activities of these
men in addition to their horn
blowing.
Well, we guess all of what has
been said is pretty much of a
build-up, but it is every word
true of a fine bunch of fellows
that have a spirit among them
that his writer has never seen ex­hibited
among any other group.
Glomerata
Advertisers
Once again the Glomerata re­turns
to the columns of the Plains­man
to present another one of its
prominent advertisers to the read­ers
of the Plainsman. In this is­sue,
the Glomerata presents War­ren,
Knight & Davis, Architects
of Birmingham.
This firm of architects has de­signed
and supervised the con­struction
of practically all of the
new college buildings at Auburn
for the past fifteen years, includ­ing
the work on the great build­ing
program at present under way.
They have also been architects
for many buildings at the six
State Teachers Colleges, Alabama
College at Montevallo, the Univer­sity
of Alabama, and other col­leges
in the South. Many of the
finest structures in the state have
been designed by this firm, in­cluding
schools, churches, hospi­tals,
court houses, hotels, and res­idences.
The stately and harmon­ious
new State Highway Depart­ment
Building and the new His­tory
and Archives Building in
Montgomery came from the of­fices
of these architects.
The new Elmore County Court
House at Wetumpka, for which
Warren, Knight & Davis were ar­chitects,
has been called one of
the most beautiful small court
houses in the country.
John Davis and Will Warren,
the office manager, Tom Wingo,
who is a highly important part of
this organization, are all native
Alatoamians and graduates of Au­burn.
Eugene Knight came from
Florida to Alabama when he was
boy. He has had a fine training
in the Beaux-Arts Society of New
York and with some of the great­est
architectural firms of the
country. Each member of the firm
now has a son studying architec­ture
at Auburn: Billy Warren,
Albion Knight and John Davis
are in their last year's work, pre­paring
themselves for the profes­sion
of architecture.
The firm of Warren, Knight &
Davis was organized in 1915. John
Davis entered the firm in 1922,
and Warren, Knight & Davis have
been together since that time.
Textile School to Have
Seven Delegates at Meet
Dr. A. R. Macormac of the
School of Textile Engineering at
Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
and seven students in textile en­gineering
at the college will at­tend
the annual meeting of the
Southeastern Section of the Amer­ican
Association of Textile Chem-iss
and Colorists to be held Sat­urday
night, Feb. 18, in Colum­bus,
Ga.
Main speaker at the meeting,
according to Dr. Macormac who
is secretary of the Southeastern
division of the association, will be
William McLaurine, secretary and
treasurer of the American Cotton
Manufacturers Association. Subr
ject to his address will be "Pres­ent
Conditions and Prospects in
the Southern Textile Industry."
About 150 persons are expect­ed
to attend the meeting at which
time election of officers will take
place.
Auburn students who are mem-,
bers of the association and will
attend with Dr. Macormac are N.
D. Helms, Snowdoun; V. C. Hill,
Canoe; J. J. Jigger, Fargo, N. D.;
C. W. McGowin, Jackson; W. A.
Mungall, Lindale; P. O. Ander­son,
Uniontown; H. L. King,
Hunts ville.
Homecoming
(Continued from Pase One)
Jordan, Birmingham; Dr. James
R. Garber, Birmingham; John H.
Dukes, Birmingham; Harry M.
Ayers, Anniston; Walter C. Lusk,
Guntersville; Clyde Anderson,
Florence; J. Craig Smith, Syla-cauga;
Herbert Meighan, Gads­den;
Lawrence Goldsmith, Hunts-ville;
George M. Mahoney, Hunts-ville;
William P. Bloom, Tusca­loosa.
Wives of staff members and of
other state officials will be en­tertained
during the afternoon at
the president's home by Mrs. L.
N. Duncan.
New Officers Are Chosen
By Home Economics Cluh
Juanita Johnson, junior in home
demonstration from Auburn was
elected president of the Home
Economics Club at the regular
semi-monthly meeting of the club
Monday night.
Miriam Chesnutt, sophomore in
home economics, was elected vice-president.
The freshman class was
given representation by Claudia
Weinman, Decatur. These offi­cers
will serve the club until the
second semester of the following
school year. The retiring officers
are Fannie Kelly, president, and
Virginia Cottle, vice-president.
The main feature on the even­ing's
program was an educational
lecture by Mrs. S. L. Toomer. Her
subject was "Interesting Canada."
Dean Marion W. Spidle, spon­sor
of the club, made several im­portant
announcements that will
toe of interest to all home econo­mics
students. Dean Spidle an­nounced
that the District Home
Economist meeting will be held in
the Auburn Student Center Sat­urday,
Feb. 18, at 10 a. m., and
that students will be required to
attend the sociological lectures by
Dr. Paul Popenoe, March 7, at 11
a. m. and 8 p. m.
The new club president announ­ced
that the semi-monthly meet­ings
will be held on the first and
third Thursday of each month at
7 p. m. in Samford 215.
NOTICE
The Open Forum Club will
meet Tuesday evening at 7 o'­clock
in room 422 Broun Hall.
Mr. J. Herman Johnson will
lead the discussion on the sub­ject
of courtship.
All students are cordially in­vited
to attend this meeting.
ASCE Is Host at Hayride
At Wright's Mill
The Student Chapter of the A-merican
Society of Civil Engineers
entertained with a weiner roast
and a hayride at Wright's Mill
Tuesday night.
Members of ASCE and their
dates were Thomas Burnum, Eu­genia
Sanderson, John Redmond,
Sarah Rowe, James G. Brown, Vi-via
Gipson, Lola Smith, George
McWhorter, Frances Hamilton, A.
E. Pearson, Jane Bowen, W. E.
Banks, Edith Patton, Clyde Pat-ton,
Clyde Mabry, Margaret Vest,
J. J. Prewett, Ruth Williams, Ben
D. Scarborough , Louise Few,
Amos Hargett, and G. Murphy.
Chaperones were Mr. and Mrs;
W. B. Bucher, Prof. V. B. Wat-wood,
and Prof. J. A. C. Callan.
Prof. Callan entertained the group
with several solos.
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