1939-02-07 The Auburn Plainsman

              Semi-Weekly
Tuesday
Edition Sfrg Auburn piamgman Vote For
Cabinet
Changes!
VOL. LXII Z-I AUBURN, ALABAMA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1939 NUMBER 38
Thirty-Five Are Elected To Phi Kappa Phi
THE EDITOR
SAYS
The most revealing book
that we have examined in a long
time is the loose-leaf volume en­titled
"Minutes of the Executive
Cabinet of the Associated Under­graduate
Students of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute," which we
read and re-read during the
Christmas holidays.
More than anything else, that
book opened our eyes to the in­adequacies
and inefficiencies of
student government at Auburn. A
close study of the minutes and
of the old Plainsman files showed
us that the story of student gov­ernment
at Auburn is one of pol­itics,
of graft, of humor, and even
of dignity. We came to the same
conclusion that this year's pro­gressive
Cabinet has come to—
that for it to become a powerful
agency for student welfare it must
change the rules and regulations
under which it operates.
* * *
The Cabinet has realized
that the time has come for it to
set its house in order. Consequent­ly,
it has given its stamp of ap­proval
to certain constitutional
changes. These proposed amend­ments
are to be voted on by all
four of the classes at the spring
elections, and must obtain a two-ithirds
vote to become effective.
For too long a time Auburn
students have criticized the Cab­inet.
Raking the Cabinet over the
coals has been the pastime of
more than one Plainsman editor
and of dozens of letter writers.
And often, their criticisms have
been more than justified.
Now, the Cabinet is giving the
students an opportunity to help
carry out the reforms for which
they have been crying for lo
these many years. Nothing but a
favorable vote for all of the pro­posed
amendments can change our
inefficient system. This Cabinet
has moved; the next move is up
to the students themselves.
* * *
Let us look briefly
at the proposed changes in the
governing document and see what
they aim to do.
The changes in Section 2 of
Article IV provide that eight per­cent
of the student body can, by
petition, force the Cabinet to sub­mit
any act or decision of that
body to the students for approval
or disapproval. The provision fol­lows
closely the procedure used
in almost all state governments.
The second change in Section 2
of this article sets up what is
probably the best check on gov­ernment
the students can have—
complete and full publicity for
all aots and decisions of the Cabi­net.
The complete minutes, kept by
an efficient, permanent secretary,
will be published in the Plains­man.
Any shady deals or unfair
sets will be immediately brought
to light.
The proposed amendments also
provide for the initiation of
changes in the constitution by the
student body at large. This pro­vision
also follows general state
practice. If a Cabinet is reluctant
to initiate needed changes, the
students can do it themselves.
* * *
The membership
of the Cabinet will be radically
changed by the new article on
membership. The class presidents
and the co-ed president will be
given seats on the Cabinet, there­by
coordinating the work of all
the governing agencies of the stu­dent
body. This provision, how­ever,
increases the membership of
the Cabinet from 11 to 16—almost
the membership in the Cabinet
before its membership was first
changed in 1935.
We are a bit dubious of this
provision because it does increase
the size of the governing body. It
may tend to make it unwieldy,
and even, as in the old days, so
large that it can never get enough
members there to make a quorum.
However, we believe that the ad­vantages
in coordination of the
classes and co-eds with the Cab­inet
overweigh any disadvantage
in size.
(Continued on page four)
Colorful Beaux Arts Ball to Be Given
By Architects Saturday Night
Council Head
WELSH PORCH -
i Important college honors have
come this year to Miss Helen
Porch, Auburn junior in home
economics from Alexander City.
Miss Porch is president of the
Panhellenic Council and of the
Auburn chapter of Theta Up-silon
sorority. Because of her
excellent scholarship record,
she was tapped to membership
in Cardinal Key, honor society
for women students.
Blue Key Benefit
For Band Tuesday
Honor Society Members,
Band Cooperate in Event
The Auburn chapter of Blue
Key will hold its Bingo game for
the benefit of the band in front
of Langdon Hall next Tuseday
night at 7:30 p. m. Tables will be
placed on the outside of the path
leading to Samford Hall, and
lighting of the tables will be ar­ranged
so that there will be no
playing "in the dark."
In case the weather does not
permit playing of the game out­doors,
the scene of the contest
•will be moved to the Student Cen­ter.
Cash prizes will be given for
each round of play to the winner.
Cards for each participant in the
game will cost but one Liberty
Head, Indian, or Jefferson nickle.
Arrangements
•for the contest
are being made!
by the members!
of Blue Key un
der the direction;
of Allen Martin,!
president. Assist­ing
them in
handling the
contest will bej
members of the
Auburn band, to
whom the net re- •4u.eNM4*rrm
ceipts for the night's play will be
given.
Prizes Will Be Awarded
For Most Attractive
Costumes During Ball
By Laurens Pierce
Saturday night will see one of
the year's most gayest and color­ful
events in the annual Beaux
Arts Ball to be held in the Stu­dent
Center by the Students of
he School of Architecture and Al­lied
Arts.
The theme of the decorations
for the ball will be done entirely
in modernistic design, featuring a
mechanically operated' back-drop
flooded with an array of color
from a bank of concealed lights.
The dance floor will similarly be
decked in appropriate decorations
in the ultra-modern theme, com­pleting
the setting for the array of
costumes that will be worn at the
ball.
Although no one without cos­tume
will be allowed on the floor,
there is no restriction as to the
kinds of costumes that may be
worn. Prizes will be awarded the
two best individual costumes and
the best costumes worn, by a
couple. The grand march will be
the time for the selection of the
prize winners, the judges making
their choice while the march is in
progress.
Including the grand march,
there will be three no-breaks dur­ing
the ball. Dancers will be given
masks at the door, and will keep
them on until after the selection
of the prizes. The music for the
occasion will be furnished by the
Auburn Knights.
Every year for the past several
years, the architectural students
have given the Beaux Arts Ball
and made it the most elaborate
dance of the year. Each student
has taken the chance to show his
originality in designing his cos­tume,
and there never has been
a lack of good costumes for the
occasion.
Dupree, Former API Coach,
Escapes Tornado Injury
A tornado struck the Univer­sity
of South' Carolina at Colum­bia
recently and several hundred
students and instructors narrow­ly
escaped death. Figuring in the
disaster was Sterling Du Pree,
former track coach at Auburn
now connected with the Univer­sity.
Coach Du Pree, with several
athletes including the captain and
co-captain of the 1939 football
team and two coaches were in' the
field house when the winds struck,
taking the roof off the building.
The former Auburn coach said
that he believed the winds reach­ed
a velocity of at least 65 miles
per hour as they swept across the
field house. The wind was "ter­rific."
Coach Du Pree, an Auburn a-lumnus,
resigned his position as
assistant football coach and track
coach here in 1938 to accept the
position of head track coach at
the University of South Carolina.
Watch Ads for Your Name, Is Advice;
Free Theater Passes to Be Awarded
Every Issue to Carry
Names of Winners of
Passes in Ads
In this issue of the Plainsman
we are inserting names of stu­dents
to whom passes will be giv­en
absolutely free, by the Tiger
Theater. There's no trick to it
folks. It's the real McCoy!
For sometime now, we have been
wondering how many of you real­ly
read the advertising. Of course,
we like to think that all of you do,
but some of our advertisers—and
would-be advertisers—don't think
so. Therefore, to be certain' that
all of you are reading it, we are
giving away these passes.
The names—there are more than
one—of the persons receiving
passes are scattered through the
advertising. Hence, it will be nec­essary
for you to read all the ads
to eliminate the possibility of ov­erlooking
your name. If you find
your name, simply carry a copy of
the ad to the dealer to whom the
ad belongs and receive the pass.
Incidently, ii you are one of
those persons trying to get through
school as cheaply as possible—you
can certainly save by closely fol­lowing
the advertising.
In most issues ot the Plainsman,
merchants offer some special—
certain articles at a reduction in
price—.Not knowing of this, you
may purchase the articles else­where
at the original price, there­by
depriving yourself of a sav­ing.
Then, too, don't forget that the
advertisers make your paper pos­sible.
Trade with those who tradei
with you.
Hooray!
Cheerful news came to the
Plainsman office today just be­fore
press time in Uie form of
the following Associated Press
*story:
"College boys who travel
from and to school on week-ends
by the thumbing method had
their inning when the House
judiciary committee postponed
indefinitely an anti-hitch-hik-ing
bill, in effect killing the
measure.
"The action was taken on mo­tion
of Representative Synder
of Jefferson and without de­bate,
although several members
of the committee, speaking at
once, pointed out that many col­lege
boys saved transportation
fares by hitch-hiking home on
week-ends.
"Speaker Hugh Merrill, An-niston,
is author of the meas­ure."
If the measure stays "post­poned
indefinitely," all will be
•well. Auburn students will not
find themselves in the predica­ment
of the puzzled hitch-hiker
in Brasfield's cartoon on page
two, who is faced with either
remaining in Auburn or break­ing
the law by thumbing a ride
home.
Plans Underway
For Homecoming
"Greater Auburn Day" to
Bring Thousands to Campus
With both fraternities and bus­iness
establishments planning dec­orations
contests on "Greater Au­burn
Day," Feb. 22, the city of
Auburn will present a festive ap­pearance
to the several thousand
alumni and friends expected here
to celebrate the growth of Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute.
The local Junior Chamber of
Commerce has agreed to present
an award to the business estab­lishment
which is judged to have
the most attractive decorations on
"Greater Auburn Day." ,
Members of Scabbard and
Blade, honorary military society,
have offered their services to act
as guides and aides to the num­erous
visitors who will view the
gigantic college building program
under construction.
Special exhibits are being plan­ned
by the textile students and
alumni and friends will be given
a cordial welcome at the exhibi­tion
in the textile building.
Notice has already been receiv­ed
by President L. N. Duncan,
Mayor C. S. Yarbrough, Homer
Wright, and S. L. Toomer from
Auburn men all over the State and
in other States that they expect
to come back for the celebration
Many of them will arrive Feb. 21.
Maurice Bloch, presiden of the
Alumni Association, has said,
"This is going to be a great day
for Auburn, the largest in its his­tory,
we hope. A military review
in the morning, an old-fashioneed
Southern barbecue and a real
football game in the afternoon
with lots of other activities in be­tween."
Working hand in glove with
Bloch in encouraging alumni to
return for "Greater Auburn Day"
are Porter Grant, alumni secre­tary;
George Mattison Jr., presi­dent
of the Auburn Club of Jef­ferson
County; and Tilghman Tur­ner,
president of the Auburn Club
of Montgomery. Mr. Mattison is
working on alumni in the northern
half of the State, while Mr. Tur­ner
is concentrating on the south­ern
half.
Mr. Mattison has predicted, "we
should have more than 500 from
Jefferson County alone. I look for
more than 5,000 from over the
State. The growth of Auburn will
be a revelation to alumni who
have not been back in the last
ten years."
Highlight of the day of festivi­ties
will be the exhibition football
game staged by two teams of Au­burn's
squad now engaged in
spring practice.
Ten thousand invitations are be­ing
prepared and will soon be
placed in the mall for alumni and
friends.
16 in Agriculture
Are Tapped by
Honorary Group
Professors, Students Are
Named by National
Agricultural Society
Two members of the faculty
and 16 students in agriculture
have been elected to membership
in Gamma Sigma Delta, national
honorary society in agriculture.
The faculty members honored
are Dr. N. J. Volk, and Dr. J. A.
Naftel, associate soil chemists. The
new student members are as fol­lows:
William Joseph Alverson, Talla­dega;
Samuel Rex Brannon, Mid­land
City; Charles L. Breedlove,
Gantts Quarry; Robert C. Burk-hardt,
Cullman; Marvin Royce
Cox, Deatsville; Charles Franklin
Grisham, Athens; Lyman Curb
Jones, Centerville; Donald Camp­bell
Kyle, Hartselle; Jordon W.
Langford, Opp; Cloy Veto Lyle,
Double Springs; Daniel Thomas
Meadows, Salem; Thomas Perkins
McCafoe, Dora; William^ Flynt
Nichols, Sylacauga; Hugh L. Rice,
Jr., Florence; Harold Philip Tho­mas,
Athens; and Abbott Brand
Walton, Greensboro.
President of the Alabama chap­ter
of Gamma Sigma Delta is W.
H. Weidenbach, evecutive secre­tary
of the Agricultural Experi­ment
Station; Dr. R. E. Yoder,
head professor of agricultural en­gineering,
vice-president; of agri­cultural
engineering, vice-presi­dent;
and Dr. F. S. Arant, asso­ciate
professor of zoology-ento­mology,
secretary-treasurer.
Honorary Fraternity Names New
Student And Faculty Members
Publishes Article
Mechanical Lab
Being Improved
Six Separate Divisions
Formed; Machines Added
Six separate divisions have been
established in the Mechanical lab­oratories
in the engineering de­partment
and at the present time
are being developed into the best
unit of any college in the country.
A complete hydraulics labora­tory
is nearing completion, Prof.
T. W. Sparrow of the Mechanics
Engineering department, said. In
this lab testing apparatus for of­fices,
tubes, pumps, and pipe
friction is maintained and study
of these can also be made.
A 25 kilowatt' steam turbo-gen­erator
set has been added to the
steam laboratory of the depart­ment.
The most elaborate addition that
has been made is in the engines
lab, where a complete Carrier-
Brunswick Air Conditioning plant
has been established. This plant
controls the temperature, humidi­ty,
and cleanliness of air entering
a room partitioned off from the
laboratory proper. This is used for
instructing students in Heating
and Ventilation, Aid Conditioning
and refrigeration.
A General Electric cradle Dyna­mometer
having a capacity of 100
horsepower at 4000 revolutions
per minute has been installed.
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Little Writes for
Design Magazine
Publishes Article on
Interior Decoration
Interior Design as it is taught
at the Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute
received commendaion in
a recent article by Sidney Wahl
Little, professor of architecture at
Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
•which appeared in the magazine,
"Interior Design in the College
Title of Mr. Little's article was
"Interior Design in the College
Curriculum." In it, he calls atten­tion
to the fact that "the profes­sional
'decorator' has rapidly be­come
during the past five years
vastly more than a mere decora­tor.
He is an interior designer—
an interior stylist—an interior ar­chitect."
Students at Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute, according to the ar­ticle,
can now obtain a course in
Interior Design and Decoration
instead of merely Interior Deco­ration,
and the course is definitely
connected with the School of
Architecture. Since the change,
the newly revived course in In­terior
Design has tripled in re­gistration,
and requests for grad­uates
exceed the output.
It's A Girl
Auburn's 1957 co-ed cheer­leader
was selected Saturday
when the stork paid-the Ralph
Jordan's a visit at Opelika In­firmary
and presented them
with a six-pound daughter.
The mother and daughter are
doing fine, according to hospi­tal
authorities, and Papa Jor­dan,
who is Auburn's head bas­ketball
coach, is passing out the
cigars and beaming over his
first-born.
Lem Edmonson Wins Leading Part in
Next Production of Auburn Players
Will Play Part of Radfern
In Priestly's Immoral
Comedy, 'Laburnum Grove'
By J. H. Wheeler
Lem Edmonson, senior in ag­ricultural
education and vice-president
of the Auburn Players,
won the leading part of George
Radfern in J. B. Priestley's "im­moral
comedy," "Laburnum
Grove," after a lengthy tryout
session at the Y-Hut last Thurs­day
night.
Director Telfair Peet announc­ed
at first rehearsal that there
would be a very important bus­iness
meeting of the Players at
the Hut Thursday night, Feb.
9, promptly at 8 o'clock. All
members of the dramatics group
are urged to be present.
Two major roles in "Laburnum
Grove" went to newcomers to the
Players. Rubye Morrison, Jack­sonville,
Fla., sophomore, will play
Mrs. Radfern, and Claudia Wein-mann,
Decatur freshman, receiv­ed
the part of Mrs. Bernard Bax-ley.
Both are registered in home
economics.
W. D. Hall, who played the
title role in Shakespeare's "King
Lear" last semester, will appear
in "Laburnum Grove" as Inspec­tor
Stack of Scotland Yard. Ar.-
thur Elsberry, another veteran
Player, was cast as the pompous
parasite, Bernard Baxley.
The part of Elsie Radfern went
to Mary Carmack, whom Auburn
theatergoers remember for her
role of "Melodie" in the Broad­way
comedy success "Behold this
Dreamer," which the Players pre­sented
late in October.
Thirty-three Seniors, t
Two Professors Are
Named by Organization
Thirty-three seniors and
two professors have been
elected to membership in Phi
Kappa Phi, national honorary
fraternity for students of high
scholastic standing and traits
of leadership, according to
Prof. Paul Irvine, secretary of
the Auburn chapter.
New members include W. J. Al­verson,
C L. Breedlove, J. P.
Campbell, M. R. Cox, W. C. Ed-ington,
E. C. Godbold, C. F.
Grisham, J. A. Hargett, J. H.
Hastie, G. D. Knight, J. F. Lase-ter,
R E. Ledibetter, Margaret E.
Lide, C. V. Lide, P. K. McKenney,
D. T. Meadows, Camilla Newber­ry,
E. T. Rouse, H. L. Rubin, Elea­nor
Scott, L. M. Smith, Joe Stein,
Ruby Helen Stokes, H. L. Suth­erland,
J. C. Swanner, E. R. Tay­lor,
Clara Thagard, H. P. Thomas,
Nellie Ruth Ward, W. T. Warren,
J. H. Wheeler, Ann Winn, W. D.
Wittel.
School of Agriculture
W. J. Alverson, Talladega, is a
member of Alpha Gamma Rho so­cial
fraternity and was honored
last year as the "best all-around
junior in agriculture." Charles L.
Breedlove, Gantt's Quarry, is as­sociate
editor of the Alabama
Farmer, vice-president of the Ag­riculture
Club, and a member of
Gamma Sigma Delta. Charles F.
Grisham, Athens, belongs to O.
D. K, Spades, Scabbard and
Blade, the "A" Club, and is bus­iness
manager of the "Plainsman.
Harold P. Thomas, Athens, is a
member of Gamma Sigma Delta,
honorary fraternity for agricul­ture
students.
Marvin R. Cox, Deatsville, be­longs
to the F. F. A., the Ag Club,
and Gamma Sigma Delta. C. V.
Lyle, Double Springs, is a mem­ber
of Kappa Delta Pi and Gam­ma
Sigma Delta. Dan T. Meadows,
Salem, is editor of the Alabama
Farmer and belongs to Kappa Del­ta
Pi and Gamma Sigma Delta.
Alverson, Breedlove, Grisham, and
Thomas are registered- in agri­cultural
science and Meadows,
Lyle, and Cox in agricultural ed­ucation.
School of Engineering
John Paul Campbell, Scottsboro,
was selected from the department
of aeronautical engineering.
Campbell is a member of Kappa
Alpha social fraternity, Tau Beta
Pi honorary engineering frater­nity,
and the Writers' Club.
W. C. Edington, Mobile, is en­rolled
in industrial engineering.
He holds membership in Scabbard
and Blade and Tau Beta Pi.
James H. Hastie, Montgomery,
and L. M. Smith, Gadsden, are
both registered in mechanical en­gineering.
Hastie belongs to the
American Institute of Mechanical
Engineers and the Auburn Band.
and Smith holds membership in
A. I. M. E., and Tau Beta Pi.
W. T. Warren, Birmingham, is
a fifth-year student in architec­ture.
He is a member of Scarab
honorary fraternity for architects.
George D. Knight, Selma, Roy
Taylor, Birmingham; and Ruby
Helen Stokes, Montgomery, were
selected from the School of Chem­istry
and Pharmacy. Knight be­longs
to Spades, Tau Beta Pi, O.
D. K, Phi Lambda Upsilon, and
Scabbard and Blade. Taylor is
managing editor of the Plains­man
and belongs to Tau Beta Pi,
Phi Lambda Upsilon, and Blue
Key. Miss Stokes is a member of
Cardinal Key honor society for
women and Rho Chi.
J. A. Hargett, Russellville. stu­dent
in civil engineering, is a
member of Tau Beta Pi and Chi
Epsilon.
Robert E. Ledbetter, Montgom­ery,
and James C. Swanner, Lu-verne,
were picked from the de­partment
of electrical engineering.
Ledbetter holds membership in
Tau Beta Pi and is president of
Eta Kappa Nu. Swanner belongs
to Blue Key, Tau Beta Pi, and the
"A" Club.
(Continued on page four)
PAGE TWO THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1939
The Auburn Plainsman
Published Semi-Weekly By The Students
Of The Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
Auburn, Alabama
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Write a Letter
Ten thousand invitations have been pre­pared
and will soon be placed in the mails
for alumni and friends of Auburn, asking
them to attend "Greater Auburn Day" on
February 22.
Extensive plans are already underway for
the gigantic celebration of Auburn's prog­ress.
College officials, city heads, fraternities,
honor societies, service organizations—all are
cooperating to make the day one long re­membered
in Auburn's history.
All the plans have been made with the
idea of giving the alumni and friends of the
institution a chance to inspect it while
classes are in session and students are on
the campus.
That brings two things to mind—first, that
on the day we should do our best to exhibit
all the traditional characteristics that true
Auburn men do exhibit, and second, that ev­ery
student write a special friend among the
alumni, telling him of the day and saying
that more than anyone else he would rather
have him as his guest on "Greater Auburn
Day."
To our mind, a personal invitation from a
student friend would go far toward making
an alumnus want to return to his alma
mater.
Hitch-hiking Bill
As yet we have received no word as to
the fate of the anti-hitch-hiking bill introduc­ed
in the legislature by the speaker of the
house.
When it comes before the judiciary com­mittee
for discussion, we hope that the law­makers
there remember their sons and the
sons of their neighbors' who almost every
week-end can be seen clad in ROTC uni­forms,
standing in cheerful groups on like­ly
locations of almost every important Ala­bama
city, crying, "Mobile!" "Montgom­ery!"
"Auburn!" "Birmingham!" or the name
of some other appropriate city.
We hope they try to remember the times
they have given these clean, cheerful, whole­some
fellows rides and the good companions
they made during the ride.
If the law does pass, it probably will not
be enforced strictly, and the hardships of it
will fall directly on the college group, who
can be easily identified by their uniforms.
But the real vagrants and undesirables, at
whom the bill is probably really aimed, will
escape.
Nazi Enemy No. 1
Our president has been called a multitude
of names. At once he is the "savior of our
land" and a "slinking communist spy." Men
have lauded him as the "big brother of the
workers" and have called him the "dirtiest
vote-buyer of all time." He has planned and
fought and won, and smiled with his famous
charm. For seven years amusingly conflict­ing
legends have been woven about his name.
But now the fume-sputtering German press
has unmeaningly written him the biggest
boost of all these years. For they have given
our president the greatest title of them all
—Nazi Enemy No. 1 . . .
The Republicans and other reactionaries
in this land have been barking again. They
say that the president has betrayed his peo­ple
and is pulling them into war. And they
declare that he no longer is speaking the
thoughts of the people. He has just sanctioned
the sale of airplanes to France. He has taken
his stand with democracies rushing strength
to their defense. And America, in defense of
herself, is building airplanes for the France
which still is free. But people in the Senate
and throughout the land are crying threats
against the president. They have branded
him as a traitor. Hearing such things now,
the president must smile. For he has been
given the proudest title of them all— Nazi
Enemy No. 1.
There is a world about us struggling for a
freedom almost hopelessly forbidden. Men
like automons are moving endless rehear­sals
for war against each other. Fascist lead­ers
beat their chests and rant of world power.
And they lead an empty chorus of laughs
against democracy—which only sits and
shakes its insecure head. They fight a con­stant
war against our progress while we
sit back and bicker among ourselves. And
they wail like wounted children when we
awake and take our stand. But although
they hate us and threaten us, they have
paid tribute to our ideals. For they have
given our president the proudest title of
them all—Nazi Enemy No. 1.
—Daily Tar Heel
Help The Band
Once more this editorial column calls on
the student body, individually and collective­ly,
to aid and abet a most worthy project and
support the Auburn Band.
Blue Key is sponsoring a benefit for the
organization this week, and the project
should have the complete support of the stu­dent
body.
The band has played at all football games,
has played for pep meetings, send-offs, re­ceptions,
parades, and for any and all various
and sundry affairs. A moment's notice, and
sometimes even less, has been enough to form
the band for the encouragement of student
whims and programs.
In a determined effort to secure new uni­forms
for the band, Blue Key is staging a
bingo party. Prices are reasonable; students
will undoubtedly have a good time; there
can be no excuse for anything less than one
hundred per cent student support. We owe
it to ourselves to see to it that the band is
decently and appropriately arrayed.
Light
Among others things, our forefathers, in
framing the constitution under which we
are now governed, insured us the right to
"life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
They should have included a provision for
adequate lighting facilities in the colleges
which now send out well-educated, half-blind
graduates. The other type of graduate
retains his eyesight by restraining his pow­erful
desire to study.
Auburn boasts at least three buildings
which are a boon to all oculists in this vi­cinity.
These three blindness-breeders are,
namely, Samford Hall, Broun Hall, and our
own, inimitable library. Samford bases its
claim on high ceilings, few lights, fewer win­dows,
and blinds which effectively shut out
all light without diminishing glare from di­rect
sunlight.
Broun proudly exhibits, to those who can
see in the dark, an array of tunnels and
passages which would do credit to the most
intricate of the Middle Ages dungeons. In
addition, the student who is able to see as
far as the blackboard through darkness pier­ced
by light from the windows miles to the
rear, is blinded by the peculiar ability of
the blackboard to show no print, but to re­flect
sun-lighted glare directly into the stu­dent's
eyes.
Our library possesses eight lights, each at
an estimated distance of eleven feet from
the table tops. In the daytime, unless the
day is particularly cloudy, natural lighting
is provided by windows, three doors (shut
off from the outside world by a portico and
three more doors), plus a sky-light efficient­ly
blackened by several years' accumula­tion
of dirt. Auburn students are blessed with
either too little or too much light.
It is possible that the new addition to the
library will include adequate lighting. The
future of Samford and Broun will, it seems,
like the past of Samford and Broun, be ex­ceedingly
dark. H.M.Jr.
By John Ivey Jr.
JITTERBUGS who have the
very characteristic habit, a motion
which is a result of their easy in­toxication
from the drinking down
in huge gulps soulfuls of
rhythm, of beating on anything
w.thin reach . . .. usually with a
ct dence faster or slower than that
felt by those who are "giving" . . .
never "on the beat." If someone
frowns on their actions, the rhy­thm
maniac responds with the
thought . . . "the so-and-so, why
can't he be modern . . . if he
doesn't like my keeping time with
the music, why doesn't he make
himself scarce? Some people are
really old fashioned."
That jitterbug used one expres­sion,
"so and so" which was spok­en
in 1513, and "make oneself
scarce" started making the rounds
in 1749. Other words used by the
so-called moderns have had very
long lives and are in no danger
of leaving our language. Some of
these .phrases follow, with the date
of their first appearance in lit­erature
having been recorded by
J. Louis Kuethe:
"Lousy, 1690; mad as a march
hare, 1535; tell that to the ma­rines,
1830; needle in a haystack,
1565; plain as the nose on one'^
face, 1660; it never rains, but it
pours, 1749; like a drowned rat,
1580; spliced, 1751; sponge (para­site),
1598 by Shakespeare; tan
one's hide, 1731 by Coffey; three's
a crowd, 1430; two birds with one
stone, 1665; wild goose chase,
1595 by Shakespeare."
After noting a few of these
slang expressions, it seems that
very few of us can claim to be
modern. The speaker of slang-free
English, and very few such indi­viduals
exist, are the real "mod­erns,"
or are they?
* * *
ACCORDING to reports from a
man who was busy traveling a-round
the world during the World
War . . . he was smart . . a con­versation
with an old cannibal
who, on hearing of the Great
War raging in Europe, was curious
to know how Europeans managed
to eat such enormous quantities
of human flesh. The globe-trotter
told him that the Europeans did
not eat their slain foes; he then
saw an expression of shocked hor­ror
appear on his flesh-eating
friend's face. The cannibal asked
what sort of barbarians the people
of Europe were, to kill without any
real object.
When we of the civilized world
come to the point where our ac­tions
shock a man eater from the
far-most primitive corner of the
earth, things are getting in a pret­ty
bad state. /
HOW'S YOUR FAMILY TREE: A
white youth in Hawaii, seeking the
advice of an older Japanese man
as to his courtship of a Japanese
woman, asked: "Will she object to
my color?"
"Not to your color," was the
reply, "but to your ancestry."
"Why, what's wrong with my
ancestry?"
"Well, according to your tradi­tions,
you are descended from a
monkey; while according to her
traditions, she is descended from
the sun goddess." Clifford Geesler
A STORY is told on Oliver Wen­dell
Holmes about something that
took place when he was still on
the Supreme Court bench. It
seems that Holmes and Justice
Brandeis took long walks every
afternoon, but on one of these oc­casions
Holmes, then 92, paused
to gaze in frank admiration at a
beautiful young girl who passed
them. He even turned to look at
her as she continued down the
street. Then, turning to Brandeis,
he sighed: "Ah, what wouldn't I
give to be seventy again."
* * *
A MATTER OF DIET: In the
far-flung parts of the world the
food-stuffs considered to be
healthful for the citizens in the
various sections take many forms.
Snails are accepted by some, and
snake steak is a dish relished by
others, but the newest thing to
come to our attention, even though
it happened only once to our
knowledge, is the eating at a
special dinner of a pair of shoes.
When a famous ballet dancer
left Russia, her belongings were
sold at auction. Her ballet slippers
were purchased for 200 rubles. The
shoes were then cooked, served
with a special sauce (must have
been extra-special) and eaten at
a dinner arranged by ballet en­thusiasts.
This must have been
hard on the digestive machinery.
PUZZLED AUBURN STUDENT: "YOU MEAN IT'S
AGAINST THE LAW TO GO HOME?"
AUBURN FOOTPRINTS
A certain Young Fellow from France
Went to sleep in some grass filled with ance.
What you're thinking is wrong,
For he slept right along,
'Cause the ance stayed out of his pance.
* • •
There was a Young Lady of Natchez
Whose garments were always in patchez.
When comment arose
As to the state of her clothes,
She drawled, "When Ah itchez, Ah scratchez."
* * *
Girls are like snowballs—the harder you squeeze them, the
faster they melt.
* * *
Tongue-Twister
A woman walking along a road came upon a tinker mending
pots.
"Are you copper -bottoming 'em, me man?"
"No, I'm aluminuming 'em, mum."
* * *
A Bright Young Maid of St. Thorn**,
Once found a suit of pajamas;
Said the maiden, "Well, well,
What these are I can't tell.
But I'm certain the garments ain't mamma's."
THE EDITOR'S MAILBOX
Colby College is constructing
the first functionally planned col­lege
campus in this country.
Editor
The Auburn Plainsman
Dear Ed:
If I might have a word with the
freshman co-eds, please?
Be it known to all of you young
ladies that a fraternity pin, honor
society key, and campus office do
not mean that the owner is dis­tinctly
above the student who pos­sesses
none of these decorations.
Of course, a man who wears no
pin or key and is neither a class
officer nor a shining light on the
athletic field is not, in the truest
sense of the word, a Big Man On
the Campus, but this should not
mean that he has no value as a
possible date for free evenings.
There seems to be a feeling among
you, no doubt, charming females
that you cannot afford to date a
man who is not, in" every sense of
the word, a B. M. O. C. That,
girls, is just what you think!
There comes a time in every
girl's life when she gets the idea
that she is doing any boy a favor
by permitting him to take her to
a show or dance. All that the poor
male gets out of this is the doubt­ful
prestige of toeing seen with
said luscious female. Brave Ben
finally gets enough courage to ask
Silly Sally for a date. He must be
very enthusiastic about the whole
thing to get said tasty morsel to
give her necessary consent to the
date. His boyish enthusiasm "is
some-what dampened when Sally
replies with a "Well, all right," as
if she can't think of any excuse at
the moment for refusing. Said
Brave Ben is a B. M. O. C. and
this is the answer that he gets.
Picture then the reply that Sally
would make to the un-warned
freshman who dares to ask for a
bit of her spare time!
True, there is a certain restric­tion
placed on you ladies in select­ing
your men. Auburn's campus
does contain some pretty poor
specimens and, probably, no im­mediate
rivals for Robert Taylor.
Still, you must realize that you
are no bargains either, as a whole.
Since we can't have the best of
either market, why don't you es­timable
young things do your
share of making the best of things
as they are? Is it necessary for
our campus "average man" to go
to Montevallo for that female
sympathy which seems to be so
very necessary?
Beware, girls, lest in being so
very careful in maintaining your
standards of "rating" you fall be­low
all local standards of rating!
Campus Critic
Editor
The Auburn Plainsman
Dear Sir:
A recent visitor to Auburn put
into words something which makes
our town and school outstanding,
something which we Aubumites
have come to accept as a natural
state of affairs. That is the
friendliness which exists between
students and townspeople, upper-classmen
and freshmen, campus
big-shots and nobodies.
This visitor said that he had
never before been in a town,
large or small, in which people
received one with such an air of
hospitality and welcome. He said
that though he had lived in a col­lege
town most of his life and had
rubbed elbows with students from
quite a number of other colleges,
he had never seen quite the air
of congeniality he found in Au-
Before Tomorrow
By John Godbold
THE "FACE UP DEAL," Gov­ernor
Dixon's open and above
board policy, is netting him good
results. There has been no subter­fuge,
no foehind-the-barn secrecy
about his program. As a result he
has won the almost unanimous
support of the press, the legisla­ture,
and Alabama citizenry.
This lesson might well be ap­plied
to situations which arise here
at Auburn. Once in a while Au­burn
has its share of the little dif­ficulties
and unfortunate situa­tions
which are faced by all
schools. But somehow we always
adhere to the policy of hushing
matters up rather than bringing
them out into the open. Few un­desirable
conditions are ever cur­ed
by being kept quiet. To use an
analogy, it seems far better to
bring a source of infection to light
where it can foe seen and studied
for treatment than to fumble in
the dark and possibly bungle the
operation.
One Southern university went
through a distasteful scandal a
few years ago when a wide-awake
student investigator found that its
highest honor students had a
money-making system of selling
copies of future examinations.
Rather than trying to keep it
quiet, college officials and student
brought the entire situation to
light and quickly remedied it. As
a result they won for themselves
respect and admiration for effi­cient
handling of a disgusting
matter. Today the incident is for­gotten
by all but a few, and that
university has gone forward to
make an even greater name for it­self.
But Auburn hasn't learned its
lesson yet. Someday it will find
that the merciless light of truth is
the only cure, while hidden in­fection
can spread its tentacles
further and further, eventually de­stroying
the organism which it in­habits.
No matter what situation—large
or small—arises in the student
body, give us the truth. It may
hurt for a brief moment. But an­tiseptic
always does.
* * *
IT IS HARD TO REALIZE that
citizens of the totalitarian nations
can be impervious to the attitudes
of citizens of other countries. Ger­mans
and Italians may have been
kept deluded by their own press,
but when they have ventured a-broad
they have found what free
people really think of them.
Not long ago a German naval
training ship docked at Havana
and the cadets went shore. There
were no cheering mobs to greet
them—nor jeering mobs either—
But lining the streets were thou­sands
of solemn, quiet, impassive
workers, each wearing a black
mourning band.
Even more recently a group of
German officials were met by
more lively Cubans who pelted
them with over-ripe fruit.
Last week an Italian naval di­vision
steamed into a port of Pa­nama
and the admiral went ashore
to pay his respects to the presi­dent.
But as he and the Italian
minister rode to the capitol they
were greeted with eggs—fresh and
rotten—thrown by irate citizens.
Receptions such as these must
surely tell even the arrogant Ger­mans
and Italians that the whole
world scorns them.
« * *
WELCOME NEWS is the fact
that the TVA has bought out the
entire holdings of Commonwealth
and Southern in Tennessee. Now
a well-planned social develop­ment
has a chance to extend its
program of betterment of the liv­ing
conditions of Southerners.
TVA has already sent electric
power into many regions of Ala­bama
where it would not have
reached for years had expansion
been held up to wait for the pri­vate
power companies, which of
necessity had to wait until such an
expansion would yield them a
profit. On paper TVA is a non­profit
organization which should
break about even every year af­ter
it gets on its feet. Probably it
will lose a little even then, but it
will be worth it.
burn. He seemed surprised and
definitely pleased at our taken-for-
granted custom of speaking to
everyone we meet on the streets.
This spirit of comradeship is
something which every Auburn
student notices when he enters
school as a freshman, and later
comes to take for granted. And it
is something of which everyone
of us should be proud and pre­serve.
Sincerely,
Student
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1939 THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
6 Delegates From
Auburn At KDP
Meet In Georgia
Six delegates represented Au­burn
at the regional conference of
Kappa Delta Pi, national educa­tion
society, on Saturday, Feb. 4,
at the University of Georgia.
The part that Auburn students
took on the program was in the
form of a panel discussion on
"Function of Honor Societies in
College Life."
Delegates from A. P. I. included
Camilla Newberry, Chancellor; J.
B. Brackin, Headland; C. V. Lyle,
Double Springs; I. C. Byrd, Ozark;
S. R. Brannon, Midland City;
Prof. Edna J. Orr of the Auburn
school of education.
Objectives of Kappa Delta Pi
were discussed by Dr. E. I. F.
Williams, Tiffin, Ohio, national
recorder treasurer. Greetings to
the delegates were Dr. Harmon
Engagement of Miss Charles
To Mr. Williams Announced
The engagement was announced
Sunday of Frances Taylor Charles,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis
Robert Charles, Mt. Meigs, to
London Williams of Montgomery.
Mr. Williams is the son of Mrs.
Tallulah McGehee Williams and
the late Clanton W. Williams of
Montgomery. He is a graduate of
Davidson College and of Alabama
Caldwell, president of the Uni­versity
of Georgia; Dr. Walter D.
Cocking, dean of the college of
education, University of Georgia;
Joe Williams, President of the
Beta Kappa chapter. H. B. Ritchie,
counselor of the Beta Kappa chap­ter,
presided over the conference,
ence.
Delegates were also in atten­dance
from Tuscaloosa, Monteval-lo,
Tallahassee, Fla., Durham, N.
C, Gainesville, Fla., Jacksonville,
Fla., Rick Hill, S. C, and Nash­ville,
Tenn.
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Iota Alpha Of Theta Upsilon
To Honor National President
Miss Lillian K. Pontius of Philadelphia, National Preisdent
of Theta Upsilon Sorority, will a r r i v e Friday, Feb. 10, for a
visit with Iota Alpha chapter at the Alabama Polytechnic
I n s t i t u t e . She will be t h e house guest of Miss Eleanor Home.
Many courtesies will be extend­ed
Miss Pontius. A buffet supper
will be given by the chapter at
the sorority room on Friday. On
Saturday, a luncheon will be giv­en
at The Cupboard in Opelika
honoring Miss Pontius, patrones­ses,
faculty adviser, and local
alumnae. A model pledge service
will be given Saturday evening.
Miss Pontius will be formally in­troduced
to the college and facul­ty
groups at a tea Sunday after­noon
at the home of Prof, and
Mrs. F. W. Applebee. On Mon­day,
she will be honored with an
informal luncheon by the active
chapter and on the same evening
a theater party will be given.
Mrs. William D. Sims Jr. (Dee
Foster) of Birmingham, former
president of Xi chapter at Birm­ingham-
Southern, will visit Iota
Alpha chapter with Miss Pontius.
Mrs. Sims was appointed Ex-Col-legio
Officer of Province II at the
Polytechnic Institute.
At A. P. I. he received a degree
in pharmacy and is now associated
with the firm of McGehee Broth­ers
in Montgomery. He is a mem­ber
of Alpha Tau Omega frater­nity.
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sorority convention in Chicago in
June.
Miss Pontius has recently visit­ed
Xi chapter at Birmingham-Sou­thern
and Alpha Alpha chapter at
the University. She will go from
Auburn to Atlanta for a City As­sociation
conference, and then to
Lambda chapter at Tallahassee,
Florida.
Oracles Is Host at Tea at
Smith Hall Wednesday
Oracles, honor society for fresh­man
girls, was host at the Women
Student tea Wednesday afternoon
at Smith Hall. Sandwiches and
cakes were served to several hun­dred
students who called between
the hours of 4 and 6. The color
scheme of emerald and gold was
carried out with mints and flow­ers.
Tea was poured by Francene
Breedlove, president of Oracles,
and members assisting in serving
were Christine Blackburn, Louise
Hays, Mary Irwin, Claudia Wein-nemer,
Doris Copeland, Emma
Lou Farrior, Jean Cogburn, Emma
Nell Parrish, Jean Beasley, Jule
Tisdale, Jewel Wilson, and Annie
Lyde Lewis.
AH Graduates in Vocational
Home Economics Have Jobs
All four girls graduating in
January from the department of
vocational home economics educa­tion
at Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute
have already been employ­ed.
Prof. Edna J. Orr of the School
of Education, announced that
Thea Dunn, Daviston, has accept­ed
a position as teacher of voca­tional
home economics at Five
Points; Almeda Alldredge, Liberty,
as teacher of vocational home ec­onomics
at Athens; Lucile Gaines,
Crossville, as teacher of vocatio­nal
home economics at New
Brockton; Mary Hulsey, Oden-ville,
with the Farm Security Ad­ministration
as assistant farm
home supervisor of Franklin
County.
Dorothy Summers, who will
complete the vocational program
this summer, has been employed
in the Columbus (Ga.) city schools
teaching junior high school home
economics classes.
Classes in Dancing Are Now
Offered to Professors
Professors at Alabama Poly­technic
Institute may soon aban­don
the waltz for rhumba, fandan­go,
or Lambeth Walk. That is, if
the learned pedants take advan­tage
of the opportunity proffered
by Auburn's physical education
department for brushing up On
dance steps.
Scene of the faculty dancing
class will be in the girls' gymnas­ium
every Monday night. Instruc­tion
will be given those who wish
to learn new steps and to begin­ners.
"If you can't dance, come, we'll
show you how," reads the invi­tation
of the physical education
department.
Pi Kappa Phi
Sponsors Dance
Friday Night
Amidst the colorful surround­ings
of Bibb Graves Center, the
Pi Kappa Phi fraternity of Au­burn
held its annual dance last
Friday evening.
It was a gala week-end for the
Pi Kappa Phi's, their dates and
their guests. Included in the en­tertainment
besides the formal
dance Friday night, was a buffet
supper after the dance, and a tea
dance Saturday fternoon. The
members, pledges and their dates
also attended the "A" Club dance
Saturday night.
Miss Sarah Catherine Walker of
Jasper led the dance, escorted by
George Hiller, president of the
chapter.
All the members and their
guests were unanimous in their
enthusiastic approval of the dance
as one of the most enjoyable of
the formal dances given on the
campus this school year. The com­mittee
was congratulated upon the
lovely entertainment during the
week-end. All of the dancers ex­pressed
their delight as the Au­burn
Knights Qrechestra strutted
their stuff in a program of swing
music.
Favors were diamond shaped
mother of pearl lockets bearing
the coat of arms of Pi Kappa Phi.
The members were identified with
gold medallions bearing the coat
of arms.
The dance was chaperoned by
Mrs. Stella Foy Williams, their
chaperon. Assisting her were: Dr.
and Mrs. L. N. Duncan, Mr. and
Mrs. RalrJn Draughon, Mr. and
J. M. Robinson, Dr. and Mrs. Paul
Irvine, Dean Zoe Dobbs, Mrs. L.
Y. Dean, Mrs. Janie Reed, Mrs.
Ruby Hart and Dr. and Mrs. Her­man
Jones.
The picture was completed with
the presence of a great many
young ladies from over the State,
among whom were: Martha Mc-
Rae, Florala; Betty Ferrell, Hurts-boro;
Elizabeth Duff, Americus,
Ga.; Jean Gaines, Dolthon; Ruby
Morrison, Auburn; Gene Clark,
Opelika; Alice Townsend, Mont­gomery;
Evelyn Hiller, Jasper;
Inez Huggins, Montgomery; Laurie
Campbell Taylor, Tuskegee; Celia
Killingsworth, Montevallo; Sara
Fort Hairston, Hayneville; Lucy
Frances Payne, Birmingham;
Margaret Smith, Birmingham; An­nie
Moon, Ashland; Doris Greene,
LaGrange, Ga.; Margaret Lindon,
Leeds; Sarah Cathrine Walker,
Jasper.
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To Be Lecture Subject
A lecture, "War in Its Biologi-cals
Aspects," will be given here
by Dr. James G. Needham, pro­fessor
emeritus of the department
of biology and entomology at Cor­nell
University, on Feb. 17 at 8
o'clock in Langdon Hall.
Dr. Needham, an authority on
water insects, is en route to Flor­ida
and the West Indies collecting
them. He was retired as profes­sor
at Cornell three years ago.
The Auburn Concert Series is
sponsoring Dr. Needham's lecture
which will be free to the public.
There will be a meeting of the
Business Staff in the Plainsman
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Kappa Delta National Inspector
Is Guest Of Local Sorority
Miss Adele Stephenson, national inspector for Kappa
Delta sorority, spent three days in Auburn last week as the
guest of Sigma Lambda chapter of Kappa Delta.
"National and local sororities'
Kappa Delta National Inspsctor
are doing more now toward phil­anthropies
than they have ever
done," she told members of the
local group.
Miss Stephenson is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Stephenson
of Ivor, Va. She received her A.
B. degree from the College of
William and Mary, where she
was a member of Kappa Delta.
She did post-graduate work at
the University of Michigan and
Ohio Wesleyan University. She
the Canyon Hotel, Yellowstone
Park. The sorority is expecting
this to be the largest and most in­teresting
convention they have
ever had, according to local Kap­pa
Delta's.
dsfor Says
(Continued from Page One)
The report of the Committee on
was Convention Marshall at the j Constitutional Revision provided
1937 convention at Richmond. both for the centralization and
Kappa Delta sorority will hold
its biennial convention in 1939 at
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to increase the membership.
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and needs to be put into
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and at the same time be checked
by the students. These provisions
will help to do that. Every one
deserves the careful study of every
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'Dawn Patrol' to
Show at Tiger
Right up on top of your "must-toe-
seen" list goes "Dawn Patrol,"
thrilling document of British war­time
aviation, which will be
shown Wednesday and Thursday
at the Tiger Theater. The great
cast headed by Errol Flynn and
including David Niven, Basil Rath-bone
and Doland Crisp, plus some
of the most breath-taking aerial
combat scenes ever taken, all serve
to make "Dawn Patrol" one of
the most important offerings of
the season.
Flynn, playing the dashing
Courtney, who together with Ni-ven,
form a pair of hell-for-leath-er
flying fools, of the British Royal
Flying Corps, continue day after
day, night after night, to wreck
havoc with the enemy while death
takes its toll regularly among
their less experienced comrades.
When finally Flynn is grounded
after being promoted to command
of the 59th Squadron, and is for­ced
soon after to send Niven's
green kid brother to his death in
the air, Nevin turns on his old
buddy and renounces him. How
Phi Kappa Phi
(Continued from Page One)
School of Home Economics
Students tapped from the School
of Home Economics were NelMe
Church of Christ
Bible Study 10 a. m.
Services & Communion
11 a. m.
CARL SPAIN, Minister
East Glenn Ave.
Ruth Ward, Auburn, and Ann
Winn, Florence. Miss Ward is
president of Theta Epsilon and
was honored as "best all-round
junior in home economics" last
year. Miss Winn belongs to Cardi­nal
Key and Theta Epsilon.
School of Education
Camilla Newberry, Chancellor,
home economics education, is
president of Kappa Delta Pi, vice-president
of F. H. A., and belongs
to Cardinal Key.
Clara Thagard, Andalusia; Er-line
Lide, Orrville; and J. H.
Wheeler Jr., Pisgah, are the new
members from the department of
secondary education. Miss Thagard
belongs to Cardinal Key and
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Wheeler is a member of Kappa
Delta Pi, the Plainsman staff, and
the Auburn Players.
School of Science and Literature
Five students were selected from
the School of Science and Litera­ture.
Edwin Godibold, Auburn, is
editor of the Plainsman and holds
membership in Spades, O. D. K.,
and Scabbard and Blade. J. F. Las-eter,
Clayton, belongs to Blue
Key, Scabbard and Blade, and
Delta Sigma Pi. Ernest Rouse, Au­burn,
is registered in pre-medi-cine.
Eleanor Scott, Auburn, is
president of Cardinal Key, presi­dent
of the Woman's Student
Government, Society Editor of the
Plainsman, and belongs to the Au­burn
Players. W. D. Wittel, Au­burn,
is president of the Interna­tional
Relations Club, and belongs
to Delta Sigma Pi and Scabbard
and Blade.
P. K. MeKenney, Columbus, Ga.,
led the department of textile en­gineering
in three-year average.
He belongs to O. D. K., Tau Beta
Pi, and is a member of Scabbard
and Blade and president of Phi
Psi.
School of Veterinary Medicine
H. L. Rubin, Los Angeles, Cal.;
Joe Stein, Colquitt, Ga.; and H.
L. Sutherland, Kinston, are stu­dents
in veterinary medicine. All
belong to the American Veteri­nary
Medicine Association.
Faculty Members
Faculty members selected for
membership were Prof. G. W.
Hargreaves of the department of
pharmacy and Prof. L. E. Starr,
Assistant Dean of Veterinary Med­icine.
Flynn, in a great sequence, takes
over Niven's death-sentence as­signment
in a great lone foray in
enemy territory, creates a clima­tic
moment which for sheer pulse-pounding
drama, has yet to be
equalled.
Scenes which attain greatness
are when Flynn flies alone through
the night to bomb the enemy mu­nitions
works while enemy pur­suit
planes and anti-aircraft
swarm about him, and another is
the closing scene when Flynn's
helmet and goggles are dropped
into the squadrons headquarters
as tribute by an enemy flyer.
Here is the sort of story that
strikes home. The right tone has
been captured by the producers,
and the cast has done its part per­fectly.
The insecure feeling of
here today—gone tomorrow— per­vades
throughout. The frolicking
fliers who night after night be­fore
they take off on their death-dealing
dawn paitrols, join in mad
fun, and real men whose spirit it
is easy to understand.
Flynn and Niven as the veter­an
airmen are outstanding, while
Rathtoone and Crisp as grounded
commandants whose duty it is to
send these men to their flying
deaths carry off honors in their
characterizations.
NOTICE
There will be a meeting of the
International Relations Club
Thursday night at 7 o'clock in
Samford Hall. Speakers will be
S. H. Richardson, Henry Whit­field,
and Virginia Adams.
All members are urged to be
present.
Personality led all other quali­ties
in the listing of male assets
by University of New Mexico co­eds.
The University of Cincinnati
Museum has acquired the thigh
bone of an ice-age elephant.
NOTICE
The A. A. U. W. will meet Wed­nesday
night at 6:45 at Mrs.
Spidle's.
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