1938-04-22 The Auburn Plainsman

              Semi-Weekly
Friday THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN
VOL. LXI Z-I AUBURN, ALABAMA, FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1938. NUMBER 58
ilection Results
Show Turn-Over
n Winners
The final results of the Election
Wednesday gave Edwin Godbold
win over L. E. Foster for editor
of the Plainsman with a count
of 263 to 256. Jack Owens took
the chairman of the Social Com­mittee
job with his 284 votes to
Bunchey" Fowler's 233. Shelton
Pinion took the Presidency of the
Executive Cabinet with an over­whelming
majority over Billy Mc-
Gehee, the count being 304 to 213.
As yet no one has contested this
election, George Lehnert, chair­man
of the elections committee,
itated. Profs. Charles Davis and
John Cottier assisted Lehnert in
conducting the polls. This is the
first time that members of the
faculty have sat upon the polls
during a general campus election.
However, due to the trouble after
the last election and because this
was a reelection, in part, it was
decided by the committee to call
in members of the faculty to as­sist
with the issuance of ballots
and the counting of them.
A fairly heavy vote was record­ed.
It was strictly a Junior class
election, though a great deal of
interest had been conjured up
over the campus concerning its
ultimate outcome, it may be add­ed.
In the race for each position,
there were but two contestants,
thereby making it a mere specu­lation
as to whom would come out
in either of the races.
:inal Dance Bid
lards Are Out
Plans are well under way for
the final dances, Ed< Duncan, chair­man
of the Social Committee, an­nounced
today. Bid cards have
been distributed to all fraternity
houses on the campus and at many
of the local stores. Chairman Dun­can
requests that bid cards be
filled out as soon as possible and
states that the date for taking
them up will be announced in
Wednesday's Plainsman. The bid
cards are to be filled out in dup­licate,
one copy necessary for the
chairman and the other for Miss
Dobfos.
Decorations for the final dances
are let on contract. Many plans
have been submitted and Duncan
teays that from all indications the
decorations will be better than
any of the preceeding final dances.
Posters have been placed in
Montgomery, Birmingham, Atlan­ta,
Columbus and other points in
Georgia and Alabama. It is ex­pected
that a large number of out
of town people and alumni will
attend.
There will be a short subject
at the Tiger Theatre Sunday fea­turing
Deacon Moore and his or­chestra.
This is the only short sub­ject
he has ever made and many
students will be on hand to ac­quaint
themselves with the Moore
type of rhythm.
Former Auburn Man Takes
Honors At Northwestern
EVANSTON, 111., Special—Wal­ter
Starr, Auburn, Alabama, was
one of 11 men to receive wrestling
numerals at Northwestern univer­sity
this year.
Starr, a junior, is a transfer stu­dent
and was ineligible to compete
on the varsity team this year.
Thus, he had to participate on the
freshman team. Coach Wes
Brown, however, has taken full
notice of the Auburn youth's a-bility
and is counting upon him
as a starter in the new 128 pound
class next year.
In the several freshmen-varsity
matches, Starr was a consistent
winner. In addition, he is probab­ly
the fastest man on the squad,
and for his weight, one of the
strongest.
He is enrolled in the School of
Commerce and will be graduated
in June, 1939, giving him one year
of competition.
Over One Hundred Take Part In Floor
Show At Convention Entertainment
Over a hundred students, towns­people
and children took part in
the presentation of a floor show
at the El Greco night club Wed­nesday
night as a special enter­tainment
feature for the Alabama
Federation of Women's Clubs,
which held a three-day conven­tion
here.
Dinner music was played by the
Auburn Cavaliers, student orches­tra,
which has the following per­sonnel:
Jimmie Hooper, manager,
Pat Hill, Larry Moore, Earl Pled­ger,
Douglas Broyles, Jack Hut­chinson,
Daniel Roth, Louis Watts,
Dal Ruch, Ivan Grable, Hal Pled­ger,
Graham Smith, and Bruce
Kelley. Music for dance numbers
was played by Max Rachman on
the accordion, and Elizabeth Tam-plin
and Mrs. Elizabeth Owens
Wild on the piano.
The first feature of the floor
show was a rbumfoa by Tony Cor­tina
and Doris Greene. An accord­ion
solo by Rachman was next.
The Glee Club next presented
three selections. The club consists
of D. MeCauley, M. Edwards, L.
Lee, E. O. Pearson* T. Cortina, R.
S. Farnham, J. Hawkins, W. Going,
E. Rouse, S. Sellers, D. Smith,
H. L. Welsted, J. Couch, K. Baker,
C. Crawford, J. Hubbard, D. "W.
Moody, L. B. Smith, S. Teague,
G. Weaver, T. Williams, C. Chil­ton,
D. Newton, T. Payne, G.
Perry, W. Boyd, E. Smith, and
Paul Rudolph, accompanits.
Emily Hixon presented Mrs.
J. U. Reaves, A. F. W. C. presi­dent
with a view of the Auburn
campus. All women in the con­vention
who had attended Auburn
or had children here were asked
to stand and receive a rose. The
roses were distributed by Maude
Mullins, Sadie Edwards, Eleanor
Wright, Scottie Reeves, Mamieneil
Priram, Dot Summers, Mildred
Glass, Ann Dexter, Miriam Den­ton,
Edith Cecil Carson, Marjorie
Neal, Leonora Patridge, Sarah
Feagin, Verna Jack, Eloise Wil­liams,
Vernelle Gamble, Bettjie
Belle Brandt, Mary Olive Thomas,
Bobbie Thomas and Winifred Hill.
Making his last public appear­ance,
Prof. A. D. Burke's talented
dog, entertained the guests with
some of his original tricks. Next
a tumbling act was presented by
Bettie Belle Brandt, Martha Chil­dress,
Doris Greene, Mary Hayes,
Elizabeth Hunt, Carolyn Mayber-ry,
Rosalyn Moore, Beth Murphy,
Irene Sanders, Johnnie Stansber-ry,
Margaret Tamplin, Edith Vann,
Mary Eleanor Weatherley, and
Kate Teague Gresham.
Following were a series- of folk
dances in which Vivian Moody,
Frances Middleton, Virginia Charl­ton,
Elizabeth Perry, Mary Lou
Jordan, Sybil Richardson, Verna
Jack, Suzzelle Hare, Sadie Ed­wards,
Gertrude Fields, Mary Wil­liamson,
Grace Newman, Clotiel
Ellis, Margaret Linen, Eudine
Houston, Margaret Pearson, Mary
Hayes, Kernie Hawkins, Ha Graves
Lockhart, Sarah Rowe, Mada Did-ley,
Eloise Melton, Carlie Mae
Jackson, Dorothy Dodson, Eliza­beth
Hunt, and Doris Greene took
part.
Children taking part in the
dances were Joyce Doner, Shirley
Ann Jerome, Betsy Brooks, Ann
Alvord, De Loss Hughes, Kath-erine
Ann Hughes, Mary High,
Nancy Peters, Harriet Sellers,
Marilyn Bailey, Foye Samford,
Annie Brooks, and Lilibel Carlo-vitz.
Boys in the tap dancing were
Bill Mantel, Howard Mead, O. L.
Osborne, and Parker Hawkins.
Prof. Roy Staples and J. R.
Jackson nexit presented a skit
representing Charlie McCoy and
Eddie Hamburgen. The quartet of
the Glee Club next sang several
selections and a skit, "One Hour
From Now," was presented by
Mary Ada Carmack, Eleanor
Scott, Carolyn Jones, and Edna
Wilson. Lem Edmonson and John
Farnham sang a duet, giving their
interpretation of "The Martins and
the Coys."
A Spanish bull fight was staged
by Tony Cortina as the matador
and Alex Burgin and Perry La­mar
as the bull. As the grand
finale for the program a "Big Ap­ple"
was presented by June Took-er,
Earnest Guy, Jean Bailey,
George Hairston, Rosalyn Shep-her,
Monsey Gresham, Tony Wil-ilams,
JoJo Crooks, Helen Jones,
Tal Stewart, Mary Hayes, and
Bobby Lawrence.
Those in charge of the produc­tion
were Dr. Rosa Lee Walston,
chairman; S. W. Little, decorations
and novelty effects; Prof. T. B.
Peet, technical director; Miss Kre-her,
dance director; Miss Fanny
Stollenwerck, special numbers;
Mrs. Telfair Peet, treasurer; Kirt-ley
Brown, publicity; and Dr. J.
V. Brown, Robert Duncan, and
Mrs. George Bayne, general ar­rangements.
BANQUET SPEAKER
History Of The Development Of Clinic
Is Given By A Veterinary Student
By H. B. TITLE
Veterinary Student
The clinic is without doubt one
of the most important compon­ents
of our veterinary school. The
rapid growth of our clinic has
been mainnly due to the tireless
efforts of our immortal Dr. Cary.
When Dr. Cary came to Auburn,
there was no School of Veteri­nary
Medicine. He was serving in
the capacity of Professor of Vet­erinary
Science in the Agricul­tural
Department. Dr. Cary soon
saw the need of a more compre­hensive
study of animal ailments,
so he organized a sort of forum
where he lectured on diseases of
livestock to all students who were
interested. Dr. Cary's fine lec­tures
rapidly spread throughout
the campus and soon a good num­ber
of students were attending his
talks.
Later, after the veterinary school
was instituted, and Dr. Cary was
appointed Dean, he continued
these talks and it progressed into
the fine clinic we have now. Dr.
Cary had a very able man assis­ting
him at all these lectures;
none other than our present dean,
Dr. McAdory. "Doctor Mac," as
he is better known on the hill,
took up the reins and he has done
remarkably well in continuing the
fine example set for him by his
predecessor. Since assuming of­fice,
Dr. McAdory has made sev­eral
needed additions to the vet­erinary
school. Most recent of
these has been the establishment
of a small animal clinic. This
new addition has been sorely
needly by our rapidly expanding
institution and we have Dr. Mc­Adory
to thank for its installa­tion.
Auburn's Veterinary School has
often been called one of the most
practical in the country. This has
solely been made possible because
of the opportunity the student has
to apply the theories which he
learns in the class-room. In the
various textbooks, the authors
frequently describe operations that
are generally performed under i-deal
conditions. The average pra­ctitioner
in the field does not have
the advantage of these conditions;
the members of the faculty, there­fore,
stress many methods where­by
the veterinarian could work
under adverse conditions.
To best carry out this policy,
"Doctor Mac'r has chosen a fac­ulty
of experienced practitioners.
Ever veterinarian on his staff
has had many years of practice
befoie entering the teaching pro­fession
and they frequently give
a student expert advice which he
could never learn from books.
Auburn's fine clinic and ex­cellent
teaching staff have blend­ed
into a school of which we can
well be proud, and its work has
been made known throughout the
country.
NOTICE
The Senior Stinkers will hold
an important meeting tonight at
7:30 o'clock in Room 109, Ramsay
HaU. All members, neophytes, and
honorary members are urged to
attend.
Mr, Win. Hall Preston, South­ern
Baptist Student Secretary,
will be the guest speaker at the
Annual Baptist Student Un­ion
Banquet, Friday night.
Baptist Banquet
Is Held Tonight
The Auburn Baptist Student Un­ion
will entertain with its An­nual
Banquet tonight at six
thirty. The banquet will be held
at the First Baptist Church.
According to Davis Woolley,
Student Secretary, an interesting
program has been planned for
the occasion. Mr. Wm. Hall Pres­ton,
Southern Baptist Student Se­cretary,
of Nashville, Term., will
be the guest speaker on the pro­gram.
Special musical numbers
will be heard during the even­ing.
Movies of the Baptist Student
Retreat at Ridgecrest N. C, last
summer, will be shown immediate­ly
after the program.
The theme for the decorations
in the banquet hall will be "A
Campfire Scene." Programs and
place-cards will be in keeping
with the theme.
The B. S. U. Banquet is an
annual affair at Auburn. All stu­dents,
College faculty members,
and others interested, besides the
regular members of the Union, are
extended a cordial invitation to
attend.
Delta Sigma Pi
Initiates Six
Walter Chandler, Charles Fin-cher,
Hilding Homberg, John Wat-ters,
Tom' Henley, and Marion
Walker were formally initiated
into the local chapter of Delta
Sigma Pi last Tuesday evening.
The initiation was held in the reg­ular
meeting room in Broun Hall,
and was followed by a banquet
at the Hitchcock Cafe.
Delta Sigma Pi elects new mem­bers
twice annually, the selections
being made upon consideration vt
scholarship and leadership of the
students in the school of business
administration, and upon their in­terest
in the profession. Thirteen
were initiated the first semester
and six in the spring initiation.
Presdent George Perry was mas­ter
of ceremonies at the initiation
banquet and introduced several
Delta Sigma Pi alumni who wel­comed
the initiates into the fra­ternity,
and'made short talks on
what the business fraternity had
meant to them.
Jimmy Calloway and George
Kenmore, tapped with this group,
did not go through, but will be
inducted at the fall initiation next
year.
Delta Sigma Pi will choose its
new officers next week. The re­tiring
officers are President
George Perry, Vice-president
Frank Connors, Secretary David
Wittel, and Treasurer John Dub-berley.
J. F. Segrest, J r . , Is 111
I n Panama Hospital
J. F. Segrest, Jr., of Milstead,
underwent an appendectomy on
February 13 in Puerto Armuelles,
Panama, and is still confined to
the hospital.
He was a member of the class
of 1937 in Agricultural Science and
in December accepted a position
as soil chemist with the United
Fruit Company.
Complete List Of Entries Of Coming
Horse Show Is Released By Head
Twelve events will be held dur­ing
the annual horseshow that will
take place Sunday afternoon, Cap­tain
K. L. Johnson of the local
R. O. T. C. unit announced today.
Entrants in the events and in
order of .appearance are as follows:
Sophomore horsemanship, open on
ly to R. O. T. C. sophomores and
judged on ability of the rider—to
be selected by the military offi­cers;
Junior jumping: Peters,
Smith, Hodges, Childress, Vogtle,
Sparks, McCue, Wittel, Knox,
Wilder, Brooks, and Beasley; "B"
squad polo stake race: John Blun-schi,
S. G. Galphin, R. D. Hall, B.
F. Miller, H. M. Trafford, J. H
Simpson, J. C. Ware, John Preer,
and J. E. Eddins.
Ladies jumping: Eleanor Home,
Eleanor Wilson, Sadie Edwards,
Suzelle Hare, Evelyn Johnson,
Mary Lydia Williamson, Martha
Smith, Jeanne Mitcham, Johnnie
Stansberry, Mary Almquist, Jane
Blake, Winifred Bill, M. O. Tho­mas,
and Melba Holley; Child's
pony class: Beatrice Hinson and
"Beauty", Fred Manley and "Bob",
Horace McCurdy and "Lady", Neal
Ingraham and "Pal", George
Pierce and "Nellie"; Hey wood
Reid and "Spot", and Paul Faust
and "King"; Senior Jumping: Tom
Martin, Jack Adams, W. E. Tan­ner,
Jack Land, R. M. Glover,
Whitten, Kharritonoff, Ellis and
Suddland.
Polo bending race "A" squad:
J. M. Dunlop, R. B. Knox, S. B.
Chunley, Bill Key, C. H. Brown,
T. F. Warren, Elmer Almquist,
and Vines; Pair jumping—a wo.
man student and a junior or sen­ior
in R. O. T. C —J. N. Adams-
Evelyn Johnson, J. C. Land—
Mary Almquist, R. M. Glover—
Winifred Hill, R. B. Knox—Elea­nor
Wilson, Tom Martin—Mary
Lydia Williamson, Lopez Mantoux
—Suzelle Hare, Bill Childress —
Johnnie Stansberry.
Ladies advanced horsemanship
class: Eleanor Home, Mary Olive
Thomas, Winifred Hill, Sadie Ed­wards,
Suzelle Hare, Mary Alm^
quist, Jane Blake, Martha Smith,
Mary Williamson, Mrs. Ellis, Eve­lyn
Johnson, and Johnnie Stans­berry;
Beginners Ladies Horse­manship:
Martha Childress, Vir­ginia
Adams, Charlotte Oliver,
Frances Mullin, Shirley Needham,
Elizabeth Steele, Ruth Mitcham,
Jane Handley. Eloise Williams,
and Mrs. Gordon Moon.
A trophy will be awarded the
first place winner and ribbons
for the first three places in each
event will also be awarded. Major
Thomas of the Calvary unit of
Fort Benning will pudge the show.
Admission will be twenty-five
cents and the show will be held
in rear of the stables.
Waters Of Tennessee Spill On Ground
Near Site Of Legendary Treasure
By J. H. WHEELER
Waters of the Tennessee River
surging behind the big Tennessee
Valley Authority dam at Gunters-ville,
Alabama, will soon be spill­ing
over the lowlands adjacent to
a limestone cavern where a golden
treasure of the Cherokee Indians
is believed to lie hidden.
The story of this legendary de­posit
dates back to the early days
of white settlement in North Ala­bama,
when a powerful tribe of the
Cherokee Nation occupied the nar­row
slit in the side of Sand Moun­tain
now known as Jones Cove.
They were for the most part
hunting and fishing people, but a
few rude stone pestles and mortars
still found occasionally in the cove
is evidence that they were agricul­turalists
and millers, also.
In 1837, friction had developed
between these Indians and the
whites pushing into their terri­tory,
and the United States gover-ernment
removed them to a special
reservation provided in Oklahoma.
For the lands which they left be­hind,
they were pail $5,000,000 in
gold. No records of the disposi­tion
of this money are known.
Hence the legend of Jones Cove,
a picturesque valley between two
wings of the long, low Appa­lachian
plateau known as Sand
Mountain. It is a wild place, hea­vily
forested in pine, abounds in
small game, and is mostly desert­ed,
except for a few farmers near
the river and now and then a
solitary hunter or fisherman.
Soon after the War Between
the States, this Cove came into
the possession of W. B. Wheeler,
my grandfather, who, utilizing
the power furnished by the rush­ing
waters of Jones Creek, constru­cted
a rude grist mill and ground
corn for the surrounding terri­tory.
The business was profitable.
But the isolated life was hard to
endure, and finally, tired of the
host of rattlesnakes and blackber­ry
briars, he took his family to the
top of Sand Mountain and left
the Cove to the brambles.
For many years Jones Cove lay
undisturbed, except for occasio­nal
parties searching for valuable
ginseng roots. Then, soon after
my grandfather's death in 1920,
a close relative chanced to learn
of a map of a buried cave posses­sed
by an Indian in Chattanooga,
Tennessee, who claimed to be the
descendant of a Cherokee prin­cess.
He investigated, and after
a bit of persuasion obtained the
whole story.
"At a certain point in this
cove," he was told, "you will find
a large oak tree with a limb graft­ed
back into the trunk so that it
forms an arm pointing directly
toward the mountainside. Go fifty
feet in the direction the arm
points, find the big rock with
the map of the cave scratched on
its side, roll it away, and dig
straight down for sixty feet." Ot­her
direction and a wrinkled,
faded map were forthcoming.
A digging party was soon organ­ized
and set off for Jones Cove,
armed with picks and shovels.
They dug. Sixty feet down they
found the opening to the cave,
completely filled to a considera­ble
distance with clay and rock
which they succeeded in partial­ly
removing after weeks of labor.
Then the chase became intense as
various pointers turned up.
One after another, signs which
the Indian had forecast would be
found were located. On the floor
a large arrow made of five stones
laid end to end and pointing di­rectly
into the cave was found.
Beneath the head of the arrow
was a large flat tablet of rock
with a cross and the numeral "71"
deeply scratched on it. Further
into the cave, a rattlesnake was
found imprinted on the wall. Ot­her
signs were located, but no
treasure.
The map showed the approxi­mate
location of the deposit, but
a hundred years of dripping water
had obscured any once-visible
sealed pocket in the wall. Inside
the cave, nothing was to be seen
(Continued on page four)
'A' Club To Hold
Dance Saturday
The "A" Club dance Friday
night will be one of the most elab­orate
dances ever staged by the
club. Parts of the program will
be broadcast over station WAPI,
Birmingham, and WSFA, Mont­gomery,
with Joe Patranca as mas-ta
of ceremonies.
Featured vocal artists on the
program will be Albion Knight
and Mary Bourg. Albion Knight
is from Birmingham and sings
with the Auburn Glee Club. Mary
Bourg sings with the Auburn
Knights orchestra and will make
her swan song Friday night, leav­ing
the Knights to fill another en­gagement.
Johnny Davis, president of the
"A" Club announces that sound
absorbent material will be placed
under the balcony of the gym­nasium
to give better acoustics
for the broadcast. Davis states
that the publicity of the college is
uppermost in his mind in provid­ing
for broadcast of this dance.
Debate Society
Taps Five Men
In Election
The Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute
chapter of Tau Kappa
Alpha, national honorary foren­sic
fraternity, tapped five men in
its annual spring election. All of
the men are upperclassmen and
have taken an active part in var­sity
debate for at least one year,
most of them for longer than
that.
William M. Boggs of Selma is
a sophomore in Electrical Engi­neering.
Larry Caruthers of Birming­ham
is a sophomore in Pre-Law.
He is a member of the Sigma Chi
Social fraternity.
Tom Memory, a Sigma Chi
from Blackshear, Ga., is a junior
in Mechanical Engineering.
Bernard Sykes, a sophomore in
Pre-Law, is from Montgomery
and is a member of Phi Delta
Theta. He was a member of the
team which represented Auburn
in the Southern Debate Tourna­ment
this year.
Guy Williams of New York, N.
Y., is a junior in Pre-Law and a
member of the SAE fraternity.
Tau Kappa Alpha, one of the
three national honorary forensic
fraternities, maintains 94 chap­ters
all over the United States.
The Alabama Polytechnic Insti­tute
Chapter was established in
1936, receiving its charter in 1937.
Since its organization if has stead­ily
expanded its small original
membership and established itself
as one of the most worthwhile
honor groups on the Auburn cam­pus.
Each year it sponsors two
campus debate tournaments, one
for freshmen and one for upper­classmen.
Deacon Moore Is
Real 'Hill Billy'
By J. B. THOMAS
Most of the radio stars who do
"hill billy" characterizations on the
air today are only fair imitations
of the real thing. Not so with
"Deacon" Moore, leader of the
band which has been engaged for
the final dances.
• Carl "Deacon" Moore was born
in Paragould, Arkansas, in 1902.
Even today he gives 524 West
Oak Street, Jonesboro, Arkansas,
as his home address.
The "Deacon" began drumming
on his desk with pencils in school;
soon he ordered his first set of
drums from Sears, Roebuck, and
Co. He organized his first band
at the age of 12.
Moore has, in addition to being
widely known for his band, quite
a reputation for his success as a
composer. He has written such
song hits as "St. James Infir­mary,"
a swing sensation several
seasons back. "Ding Dong Daddy"
—remember Will Osborne's hick
arrangement of that?—and "Bye
Bye Blues". The latter tune was
used as a theme for some years by
Bert Lown and his orchestra.
"Deacon" Moore and his orches­tra
have won admirers in the
smartest hotels and clubs of Chi­cago,
Denver, Cleveland, Cincin­nati,
Memphis, Boston, St. Paul,
and other cities. Radio listeners
everywhere are familiar with the
quaint, droll humor of the "Dea­con."
Marge Hudson, the singing ar­tist's
model, is one of the featured
vocalists. She is an exotic beauty
of Spanish type, and her original
style is presenting the newest hits
is a genuine treat.
Munson Compton, whose lyric
tenor voice has, according to press
reports, "quickened thousands of
feminine hearts," is the other vo­calist.
"Deacon" himself comes in
for an occasional vocal.
Moore has been honored with
commissions and badges from the
police in nine cities. He owns his
private plane' and is a licensed
pilot at intervals in his career as
a musician he has been a racing
driver, and, of all things, a patent
medicine salesman.
PAGE TWO THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1938
Plainsman Editorials
SOMETHING TO WRITE THE FOLKS
BACK HOME ABOUT
It is an opportune time to speak of Moth­er's
and Dad's Day. Sunday, May 1, has
been set aside on the Auburn campus for
the student's parents to visit and be enter­tained
on our campus.
At this immediate time, names and ad­dresses
are being gotten from fraternity
and non-fraternity students. With the lists
completed as much as possible, invitations
will be sent out to the non-fraternity and
fraternity group's parents by the Execu­tive
Cabinet and Interfraternity Council
respectively. Of course, full cooperation
will be a necessary constituent in this pro­cedure.
But, as is the usual case, each stu­dent
writes his parents at least every
week or two. In the next letter that the
student writes it would serve admirable as
a news item to mention the Parent's Day
which is to be had here at Auburn on the
first Sunday in May and urge the parents
to come up then. It would be of little trou­ble
and would certainly be one of the most
effective methods that could be used.
Now don't let this matter of each stu­dent's
writing home about the Parent's
Day confuse anyone. The Interfraternity
Council and the Executive Cabinet are
0
going to send out as full a list of formal
invitations as will be possible from the
lists that will be compiled of names and
addresses. But should some be overlooked
the matter could still be attended to by the
personal letter from the. individual stu­dent.
Too, it would serve as added incen­tive
to their coming up should the personal
letter from the children be received by
them and urging them that they come up.
A full and varied day of interesting en­tertainment
will be provided on that day,
a kind of entertainment that is deemed
to suit the different tastes of parents.
Should the project be looked at from a
mercenary angle (we won't say school
angle), the dividends forthcoming will be
well worth any trouble we might conjure
up in our minds about the having of such
a "day". We say there will be definite divi­dends
to come from it because it will be
wholesome publicity for the college and its
campus affairs. It will serve to point at­tention
to Auburn as being a wide-awake
and conscientious school. Get busy and
invite your parents to come up here on
May 1 to the Mother's and Dad's Day.
The Auburn Plainsman
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Of The Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
Auburn, Alabama
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G. L. Edwards — Business Manager
EDITORIAL STAFF
Associate Editor: L. E. Foster, Edwin Godbold.
News Editor: J. H. Wheeler.
Sports Editor: Bill Troup.
Society Editor: Eleanor Scott.
Feature Editor: Joan Metzger Barkalow.
Cartoonist: Wilbur Bagby.
Special Writers: Jack Steppe, Franklyn Ward.
Reporters: Charlie Burns, Nancye Thompson,
Mitchell Wadkins, John Godbold, Ed. Smith, R.
L. Mundhenk, Gus Pearson, Babe McGehee, J. B.
Thomas, Johnnie Stansberry, Joh* Ivey, S. G.
Slappey, Laurens Pierce, Eugenia Sanderson.
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THE PAPER HAS CULTIVATED A
TASTE FOR BILGE WATER
A question is running the rounds of the
campus. It is a simple question and when
we say simple, we mean "simple". The
question is "How much did the Spades
pay Workman to back down?" We, of the
Plainsman, have been insulted before, in
fact, we have received nothing but "hell"
the whole year, so we have learned to ex­pect
such bilge water from the students.
The Plainsman has attempted to sponsor
many worthwhile projects and measures in
its editorial policy this year. Every move
toward reform has met with opposition.
Whenever it was possible we have over-
Tun the opposition, but there have been in­stances
where our narrowminded opposi­tion
has been to powerful. Projects have
been dropped.
We have worked conscientiously for a
better Auburn. We have proposed nothing
that we did not feel was for the good of
the school and the students. Cooperation
with the paper on its projects has been
something desired but always lacking. We
have been alone in everything we have at­tempted.
At the end of the year we shall
be condemned for not having accomplish­ed
a great deal. We shall take that along
with all the other untoward comment, but
we shall know that it was not our fault
that nothing was accomplished.
The campus situation at Auburn is far
from ideal. While we know that we cannot
reach the ideal situation, we know that
steps toward such can be made. That is
the reason we attempted a clean-up of
campus politics. It was pointed out to us
that the Spades were in back of some
dirty politics. Intagible proof was given to
back up the accusations, but definite proof
was lacking.
We were not paid to publish the articles
nor the retraction. We were seeking the
right when we published them and doing
right when we retracted them. We are
independent of all ties and what we do you
may attribute to the machinations of our
own minds. Bring on your bilge water . . .
we have cultivated a taste for it!
PLAINSMAN FORUM - Voice of the Students
After the Wednesday election completely
reversed the returns of the former election,
it seems that another should be held where­in
the winner of the best-two-out-of-three
is proclaimed the winner.
The numbers presented at the El Greco
Club Wednesday night proved that Auburn
has some real talent. There is no reason
that we should not have an annual musi­cal
variety show here as is held on many
other campuses in the country.
After nine more issues you may tell us
how bad the paper was for the entire year.
It won't be long before Auburn will be
the "Convention City" instead of the
"Loveliest Village."
We advocate the installation of a bell
on the traffic light so we won't get a
crick in our necks watching it change
colors.
There are days and days and queens and
queens. The Senior Stinkers won't have a
day or a queen, but we'll wager that they
certainly put in an appearance.
After graduation, a bunch of young men
and women will go out to see what life is
really like. A surprise is in store for those
among them who have been "college hot."
Finally a court was relinquished and the
duo hastened to occupy it. But no sooner
had they begun to play than another pair
approached and informed them they had
come to take over the court for varsity
practice.
Said one of the disgruntled pair: "We're
out for the varsity too. Would you mind
waiting .until we finish?"
There is a new ice cream eating champ
at Harvard.
He clinched the title for the champion­ship
by putting away 24 plates—four va­nilla,
18 chocolate and a sundae of partic­ularly
venomous appearance.
The previous titleholder, a freshman,
yielded to fatigue (or frigidity) at 19
plates.
Editor
The Plainsman
Dear sir:
Tiska, tiska, to one Delanor and one Jack
Steppe. Aside from the unimportant detail
that y.ou were both slightly incoherent and
illogical in your criticism of my( recent letter
allow me to inform you that you are now
dubbed full-fledged Protectors in the over­crowded
order of Homogeneity.
Be most careful brother Steppe or your
knees'll be getting calloused. If you will tell
me when your birthday is I will amuse my­self
till then making a couple of sheep-lined
knee-pads for your particular, special, quite
appropriate pleasure and protection.
Delanor is a rat so I won't bear down as
hard as his communication warrants. He does
not know me or anything about me yet he
intimates that I am no credit to A. P. I., a
brainless loafer, and airs his revolutionizing
views on the subject of the "no-cut system"
with the terrific let-down, "That this insti­tution
should do all it can to guide the stu­dents
in the right path—" Saying of course,
as all mental indigents must, that the only
right is that as he sees it, and to top the matter
off ends with the magnificenUy hypothecat­ed,
stupendously stupid syllogism that because
I dislike a single characteristic of Auburn the
entire school and I are out of tune, and there­fore
I should return whence I came. Allow
me to curse them both, Steppe and Delanor,
with my super-curse, and I will have had my
say. "May you live to be as pld as Methuselah,
as wise as Nietzsche, and your wife bear legit­imate
quintuplets every year!"
Yours,
One Person
Sixteen Ems
BY SPACER OUTER
Spacer Outer Gives You
"This week-end's Me-An'-U"
It's rumored the Lambda Chi's Spring
Festival this weekend will be enhanced with
the "pink ladies" floating around.
It's also rumored Maxie Welden will have
his hands full of imported cream while the
local job sours. Luck to U Maxie.
It's two to one that Jace Green will be
rushing to the Beauty Shop for a new perma-'
nent before the coming affair.
And here's hoping that Tommy Hagan's ex.
flames from Montgomery and Atlanta won't
make Cris leave for the hometown.
And Now We Present A Little Inside Dope
"Here and There"
"Doc" Hyde is a wise cracker from way
back yonder. The jokes make the man.
Miss Ellene Nearing was graciously escort­ed
by the Pi K A's this past week-end while
Panell was out of town.
"Olive Oyl" Wright and Mr. Hitchcock are
taking in Auburn's "Broadway" once again.
Threats were made by Sterling Graydon to
yours truly, Spacer Outer, about his private
affairs appearing in print. We wonder if he
has any private affairs to air. Volunteered in­formation
will be graciously accepted.
Mr. Dickie Allen is on his ear about what
was said concerning his two-timing last week
in this column, so please disregard that which
we said. Still . . . we would like to remark
that Auburn's Grille is a fine place to sneak
in and get a tooth pick from the cute little
cashering Vivian Prior.
Collegiate Review
(By Associated Collegiate Press)
Robert Frost, beloved Harvard University
poet-teacher, has a reputation for great teach­ing
and great writing. To this leader of stu­dents,
Kenneth Leslie recently wrote a poem,
had it printed on the New York Times' edi­torial
page. A portion of "Cobweb College",
-written for Robert Frost, follows:
A batch of freshmen came to Cobweb College;
the Spider looked them over, frowned and said
"These boys are ghosts of boys, cracked wide
with knowledge
their dreams dried out and left the dreamers
dead.
There's not a meal among them, no illusion
to sharpen up my tooth on, no romance for
me to ridicule to red confusion,
no creed on which to slake my poison lance.
I've drawn their blood too many generations
and spoiled the breed. Their fathers, when I
wrapped them
in causal web and silken strong equations,
would lunge and writhe, grimacing when I
snapped them
with categoried claws. These modern schools
condition them until they yearn to yield;
their wills are like the blown pigskin that
drools
November muck around a soggy field.
They murmur, 'Say, Professor, skip the prod­ding,
just dish it out, the ifs, the ands; the buts.'
who'd question fifty million miles of wadding
engendered through the ages in your guts?
Welcome the warm cocoon of cozy thought
through which we gain the world but lose
surprise!
we'll answer by your book, old man, but not
pretend amazement,
thus the pampered flies
and those who hope for pampering . . the rest
nursing a schoolboy grudge within the core
of mangy-bearded justice are at best
a thin and scanty ration for my store."
Talk About The Town
BY JACK STEPPE — R. L. MUNDHENK
In the morning mail we find another com­munication
from that super being, that super-curser,
"One Person." Needless to say, his
logic has us quite breathless, bowed down,
and exhausted. We're down . . . we're almost
out.
But may we point out that lack of logic
is not confined to Delanor? In "One Person's"
first letter he objected to the cut rule "as
an insult to the intelligence of the students."
Yet he closed by proving the stupidity of
the masses. Consistency, where art thou?
However, we're glad to see "One Person"
in print. For in America we're safe from
fools like him. In dictatorial countries he'd
be thrown into prison and made a martyr—
for daring to think. In America he is allowed
to publish his radical prattle, his immature
mouthing of words. His vague statements are
exposed to the hearty laughter of the masses
he so despises. Vague, did we say? Evidence
of the latter lies in reading and trying to
understand parts of his first letter.
CHANGE OF HEART—Workman's abject
retraction and apology to Spades. It takes a
good man to admit he was wrong.
BARGAIN FOR GODBOLD . . . Fore Sale:
Slightly used speech of acceptance—good as
new. L. E. Foster.
EXTRAVAGANZA . . . Being the El Greco
Club held Wednesday night at the W. P. A.
Hall. Opinions already expressed are that it
was good entertainment—in very much the
voluminous manner of a three-ring circus.
AND THE CAVALIERS . . . come in for
their share of praise and criticism. Why, for
instance, did they play so loudly during the
banquet Wednesday night? Dinner music—so
we thought—was supposed to be low.
WHAT AUBURN NEEDS . . . is a course
for the Ag students teaching them how to un­ravel
a crop-control law.
A LOVING CUP . . . to that wit who mum­bled,
as the doctor prepared the anaesthetic
prior to amputating his leg, "And i just bought
a new pair of shoes."
After a few more males in Auburn get
their hair cut in the modern style, stripped
uniforms for R. O. T. C. will also be appro­priate.
RESURRECTION
And lo! the trumpets blow; *
The ground rises and walks again
In human form.
The sun, the moon, and the stars all shine at
once —
Glory, glory everywhere!
What's this . . . .
A squabble on Resurrection Day?
And the lord on his golden throne
Is aghast at his oversight.
Being a product of the infinite
How could he be expected to know
That single matter cannot fill two places at
once?
— The Matter?
Why it's two bodies fighting for the same
head.
One Person
News And Views
BY JOHN GODBOLD
LITTLE HINDSIGHT and les9 foresight
are inherent characteristics of those who bit­terly
oppose President Roosevelt's scheme
to relieve the "recession." In 1932 business
was at about the lowest ebb possible. FDR
pulled it out by putting the full force of the
government behind recovery. After the de­pression
was over—if it ever was—business
began to object to paying the debts incurred
in saving its own life. A brief period of over­production
came and then the recession, which
was no surprise, already having been predicted
by economists. And now business wants the
government to rush to its rescue again but
without expending any money in doing so.
Roosevelt is a humanitarian statesman,
gifted with great intelligence and ability, and
years in advance in his thinking, but he can­not
aid business conditions without paying
out money. Unless business, whether big or
little, appreciates that fact, our "recession"
may become in truth a "depression."
THE MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER is a
fine newspaper. When its editorialists choose
to be serious, they can turn out good work.
When they choose to be frivolous, the result
is always uproariously amusing. The make­up
of the paper is all right, and Grover C.
Hall is one' of the South's outstanding edi­tors.
However, the cartoons which appear
daily on the editorial page require an Ein­stein
brain and about thirty minutes of val­uable
time, to ever even be figured out. They
usually look like one of those puzzles where
one is supposed to find the faces of six ladies
and receive a Buick automobile. We have
no grudge against "Spang" who draws them
but we think that he could profitably follow
the advice which the floral expert gave to
the entrant in a flower show, "Arrange your
flowers until you think they are as pretty as
possible. Then take out half of them and
throw them away."
THE CRY OF "PLAY BALL" has already
resounded to the four corners of the nation
and America's greatest pastime—baseball—
is under way. Completely stealing the first-of-
the-season-spotlight was the trade of
Dizzy Dean to the Chicago Cubs. Dean has
already shown that though he is playing for
a different ball club he has not lost his abili­ty
to talk long and loud about Jerome Dean
and still say nothing. Unlikeable as he may
be, "Diz" has added a lot of color to baseball.
HUNTSVELLE, ALABAMA, is having its
full share of labor and industrial troubles.
There big textile mills at the Tennessee Val­ley
city have threatened to move—lock, stock,
and barrel—unless there is a settlement of la­bor
disputes which have been harassing the
mills for quite a while. Huntsville citizens
are supposedly waging a terrific fight to
retain the mills. Seven hundred fifty came
to Montgomery in a motorcade to ask for
State help in settling the capital-labor diffi­culties.
However, when Gov. Graves address­ed
the group and asked for revelation of all
facts and elimination of hatred and bitterness,
he was greeted by a torrent of boos.
Not being acquainted with all the facts,
we are putting ourselves on the spot by tak­ing
a stand, but it does seem that a group
which journeys halfway across the State to
ask for help and then acts like school child­ren
when it is proferred, are not very earnest
in their fight.
ELECTION DAY is just around the corner
for Alabama and the four-cornered race is
growing hotter. With the great day only a
couple of weeks off, some of the candidates
are beginning to indulge in the age-old Bport
of mud-slinging. Serious political observers
are now cogitating over whether there will
be a second primary or not, with the majority
seeming to think that there will not.
One of the candidates, D. Hardy Riddle, ad­dressed
a group in Langdon Hall last Satur­day.
Mr. Riddle attacked both Frank Dixon
and Chauncey Sparks for their stands on the
sales tax. Not more than once or twice did
he even mention the name of Bob Goode, the
fourth candidate in the race. Riddle present­ing
his record in the State Senate, asserted
that the only way he could be defeated was
in the first primary.
San Diego State College has extension
courses in navigation and nautical astronomy.
Sailors, Ahoy!
The nation's largest college wind tunnel is
now being completed in University of Minne­sota
laboratories. It'll make a 150-mile
"breeze."
College handball players in Oregon have
organized an Oregon State Inter-collegiate
Handball League, one of the first of its kind
in the U. S.
FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1938 THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
Auburn Track Team
Opens Season With
Georgia Saturday
The Auburn Tigers are slated to
inaugurate their 1938 track sea­son
of seven meets against their
strongest opposition of the year,
the Georgia Bulldogs, on Drake
Field at Auburn Saturday after­noon
at 2 o'clock.
Georgia won the Southeastern
Conference track affair last year,
and from their performances to
date they have another outstand­ing
squad this year. Hunnicutt is
a Georgia star in the sprints, Gil­lespie
in the 440 and 880, Fred-rickson
in the 880 and mile, Cate-in
the hurdles, Lumpkin in the
weights and Arnold in the high
and broad jump. Lumpkin is cap­tain-
elect of the Bulldog's 1938
grid eleven.
Although the Bengals have lost
13 of the 1937 performers who
carried off third honors at the
S. E. C. carnival, Coach Wilbur
Hutsell predicts the Tigers will
have more all around balance this
season than they have had in two
years. Most of the scoring this
season will probably be recorded
by the trio of Capt. Monsey Gres-ham,
David Sprinkle and Speck
Kelly.
Coach Hutsell, whose track
teams have lost only a half dozen
dual affairs in 16 seasons, is ex­pected
to have the following men
compete against Georgia tomor­row:
Capt. Gresham in the 880
and mile; Sprinkle in the pole
vault and broad jump; Percy
South, Brooks Sellers and Chuck
Morgan in the hurdles and high
PLAINSMAN SPORTS
Bill Troup, Editor
Fenton Receives
Position Here
Jimmie Fenton, outstanding
halfback on the 1937 Auburn foot­ball
team, began work this week
in the city as representative of
the Royal Crown Bottling Co.,
Opelika.
The bottling company is now
under management of L. H.
"Chick" Morrison, formerly of
Fenner and Beane, Columbus, Ga.
Popularly known throughout
this section, Fenton will have
charge of sales promotion work
for the Royal Crown company in
the Auburn area. He will make
his home in the city.
jump; Kelly in the sprints; Jim
Swanner and Tom Turner in the
two mile; Bob Dickerson and Har­old
Cockrell in the sprints and
broad jump; Bob Dees and Mark
Nichols in the 440; John Roberts
in the 880; Ray Gibson in the
mile; Fletcher Whatley in the pole
vault; Junie Burns, Chester Bulg­er
and Garth Thorpe in the discus
and shot; and David Rogers and
Dutch Heath in the javelin.
LOST—Black Shaeffer Life,
time foutain pen with name Ellie
Ragan inscribed. Return to El­more
Ragan at College Inn and
receive reward.
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"Your terms accepted. Leaving here 3:40 p. m. will arrive
at New York 7:30 a. m. Saturday" . . . Yes, folks, the great
Joe Di Maggio has finally come to terms with his New York
Yankee boss after a three month holdout seige . . . And he ac­cepted
the Yankees' original offer of $25,000, but the club
will dock him about $162 a day until he is in shape to play . . .
Joe Engel marshalled a herd of elephants into the Chattanoo­ga
ball park for the 38th season opening against Nashville
this week in an attempt to defend his laurels as the league's
No. 1 showman . . . West Coast whispers that Slip Madigan's
new three-year contract at St. Mary's calls for $10,000 a year
and doesn't have the "percentage" cut the old one had . . .
Some of the best news we heard all week was Rogers Horns-by
landing that Baltimore job . . . Everybody is glad he's
b a c k . . . Wisconsin has four freshman boxers who have been
knocking the ears off the undefeated varsity ringmen this
year, which should be good news for Wisconsin's rivals next
year . . . Connie Mack is one of the few managers ever to
have to break up a club because it was winning . . . Lucky
Teter drew 17,000 while the Crackers and Yankees were
drawing 6,200 in Atlanta two weeks ago . . . The suspension
of Jocky Charley Kurtsinger threatens to throw a man-sized
monkey wrench into two of racing's biggest events this spring
—War Admiral versus Seabiscuit and the Kentucky Derby .
. . The University of Virginia was honored in being awarded
the sponsorship of the National Collegiate boxing tourna­ment
the first part of April for the second time in four tourn­ament
years . . . The first National Collegiate tournament
was held at Penn State in 1932 to qualify college boxers for
final Olympic team trials . . . The second tournament was
held at Virginia in the Olympic year of 1936, when it was
established on an annual basis and sponsored last year by the
California Aggies . . . Scoop: Charley Grimm has been re­leased
. . . This Charley, however, is a left hand pitcher from
Nebraska and his release was from the Los Angeles club of
the Pacific Coast league . . . Gene Maka, the Davis Cup
doubles star, is undecided whether to seek a career in the
diplomatic or foreign services after his graduation from the
University of Southern California or organize a dance band
. . . He is an expert drummer . . . Tuck Stainback, who was
included in the deal that sent the Great Diz to Chicago, was
becoming weary of adorning the Cub bench year after year
and will be anxious to use action with the St. Louis Cardinals
. . . Jesse Owens calls Frank Wykoff the gamest athlete, in
any branch of sport, he ever saw . . .
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Swanner, who won the cake race
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He performs in the dis­tance
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'Hell Week' Has
Turn Of Tables
Elkins, W. Va.-(ACP)—Mem­bers
of Chi Omicron Delta, a Da­vis
and Elkins College local fra­ternity,
can sympathize with the
Alpha Delta Phi's of the Univer­sity
of Washington, who recently
were forced to hold open house
because the front door to their
fraternity house was stolen, for the
same thing happened to them over
the week end.
It all happened during the fra­ternity's
second semester "Hell
Week" when the activities were
busy initiating a group of nine­teen
pledges. The recently con­structed
house, not yet ready for
occupation, was the mecca for
neophytes returning from mid­night
assignments.
After leaving the house at 2:00
Saturday morning, the members
returned early the same day to
start the final initiation for the
pledges. When they reached the
house the front door, hung the
day before, was missing.
An investigation disclosed that
admittance had been obtained by
forcing a window after which the
door was removed from the hinges
and carried away.
Members of the fraternity turn­ed
detectives and started a city
wide search. When city and state
police were called in and finger
prints taken, members of a rival
fraternity sheepishly returned the
missing door. Said they, "Just a
Hell Week joke" and the Chi
Delts, glad to again have their
missing door, were satisfied to
take it as just that, a joke.
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Beta Kappa Has
Dance Toniqht
The Beta Kappa fraternity will
hold it ssecond semester informal
dance tonight from 9:30 until
1:30 in the Student Recreational
Hall. Music will be presented by
the Auburn Knights.
There will be one Beta Kappa
lead out and three no-breaks.
Many out of town guests and *a
number of alumni are expected.
Polo Team Leaves
On Trip; To Play
Missouri First
The Auburn Polo team leaves
Saturday to begin an invasion of
the middle western states, play­ing
the first game with the Uni­versity
of Missouri at Columbia
Sunday. The second game with
the Missourians will be played
Monday afternoon.
Leaving Columbia, the team
moves to Iowa State at Ames to
play one game on Wednesday,
thence to Culver Military Acad­emy
in Indiana to play Thursday.
The University of Illinois, locat­ed
in Champaign, will be the next
opponent to be played, the game
scheduled for Friday. Next the
(Continued on page four)
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PAGE FOUR THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1938
Students Lay Plot
Against Hitler
Washington, Pa.—(ACP)— The
odd antics of a pair of Washing­ton
and Jefferson College students
recently brought the eyes of the
nation to rest on this 145 year-old
school.
The students phoned the Czech-oslovakian
embassy in Washing­ton
late one night and offered the
services of the "Thomas Jeffer­son
Brigade," to the Czechs for the
purpose of "repelling the invasion
of the Huns."
They claimed to have raked 200
men and 60 horses. Needless to
say, they had not.
Next day they were confronted
by a telegram signed by the Czech-oslovakian
embassy, which read:
"Offer greatly appreciated. Can
you come here to discuss plans?"
At first rather bewildered, the
pair immediately went to work to
raise their regiment, and had lit­tle
difficulty in obtainng the sig­natures
of nearly 150 other stu­dents,
most of whom signed up as
officers.
The group has adopted as their
uniform, a blazing red shirt, cal­culated
to "enrage and dazzle Hit­ler."
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Lambda Chi Fest
Is Saturday
The Lambda Chi Alpha fraterni­ty
will entertain this "weekend
with a series of dances and festivi­ties
in celebration of their an­nual
Spring Festival. Members,
pledges, alumni and guests will
assemble at the chapter house to­night
at 7:00 p. m. for the annual
alumni banquet. At 9:30 the mem­bers
and pledges will be the
guests of the Phi Psi Honorary
Textile Fraternity at their annual
Cotton Ball. At 11:00 a. m. Sat­urday
the fraternity will be host
at a two hour morning sport dance
at W. P. A. Hall, and at 4:00 p.
m. at a tea dance at the Hall. At
7:00 p. m. the fraternity will give
a hay ride and ibarbecue at Wrights
Mill, and at 10:00 p. m. the entire
group will attend the "A" Club
dance at the alumni gym.
Girls attending the house party
this weekend are Sara Peay, Sadie
Mapes, Jeannette Leslie, Rudene
Leach, Loulie Bartee, Gloria Ann
Terry, Helen Benedict, Jean Hoff­man,
Lucy Nelson, Leigh Mc-
Means, Elizabeth Turner, Kitty
Walton, Birmingham; Trixie Bart­on,
Isabel West, Lakeland, Fla.;
Brownie Davis, Claire Fannin,
Pike Road; Harriet Burke, Doro­thy
Wicker, Huntingdon; Margaret
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Hidden Treasure
(Continued from page one)
but solid limestone rock on ev­ery
side.
Finally the old Indian was
brought to the camp which had
been established near the cave. He
came rather unwillingly, but pro­mised
to do whatever he could.
They took him into the cave, the
old fellow becoming more and
more uneasy as they progressed.
At length they came to the car­ving
of the snake on the wall. The
old fellow could stand it no lon­ger.
"Let's get out of here," he
yelled, and bolted for the entran­ce..
Money, threats—nothing could
induce him to enter the cave a-gain.
For one whole winter and the
following summer, work went on.
A huge ditch twenty feet wide,
thirty-five feet deep, and a hun­dred
feet long was dug to fa­cilitate
the work of washing dirt
out of the cave. Mud by the ton
was tossed out; the walls were
sounded with crowbars for possi­ble
hollow spots, and a pair of
metal-detecting needles was put
to work. „
Around the campfire at night,
stories were told to further the
belief that something of value
was contained in the cave. Some­one
recalled a significant episode
of his younger days.
It was a tale of an Indian who
had asked for food at my grand­mother's
back door many years
before. He was fed, and then was
followed. He left the hpuse, went
through the woods to the summit
of the mountain, down across its
side, through the ravine at the
foot, and on to a point of vantage
en the other side of the valley,
where for a long time he stood
staring across the floor of the
Cove directly at the spot where
the cave was later unearthed.
Finally, evidently convinced
that all was well, he went his
way. A few years later, the same
episode was repeated by another
red man. Nothing outside of idle
curiosity was thought of these oc­currences,
however, < until the
story of the cave came to light.
Then, the natural assumption was
that unless something valuable
were really concealed in the cave,
the two men would not have trou­bled
to return and ascertain whe­ther
all was undisturbed.
During the time when excite­ment
over the find was highest,
other projects were tbegun by en­thusiastic
landowners who fancied
they found signs of buried treas­ure
in caves of their own. Their
labor proved fruitless, however,
and eventually, like the owners
of the cavern originally discovered,
they gave up the search.
The Birmingham News sent a
reporter, who returned to publish
fanciful leads about "searches in
the dim aisles of mountain cav­erns."
One feature carried the as-
McCain, Martha Bowman, Inez
Haigler, Anne Merritt, Mamie
Frances Cooper, Elsie Cooper, Dot
Thompson, Carolyn Ray, Mont­gomery;
Beth Barnes, Montevallo;
Dixie Ann Jones, University; Jean
Powell, Evergreen.
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New Course To Be
Introduced Here
A new course, "Science and
Technology in the South," will be
offered this summer by Prof. Je­rome
Kuderna here in the Sum­mer
Session School.
The new reconstruction that is
transforming the South today is
proving of much interest to tea­chers.
Their desire to .find out
what is back of this reconstruc­tion
is responsible for the course's
being offered, Prof. Kuderna ex­plained.
The changing curriculum de­mands
that teachers parallel their
steps with this course and view
it from a new angle. Special ref­erence
is given the South in a
non-technical study of science and
technology. The realization that
a planned development of ijs re­sources
is essential to its prosper­ity
is now essentially established.
Alabama is near the bottom
rank in its technoligical £(nd pov­erty
status, yet is one of the three
leading states In terms of wealth
and natural resources. Consequen­tly,
this course is particularly a-dapted
to enable the teacher to
use the knowledge in improving
the daily work in accordance with
needs of today.
The outward-reaching effects
of the T. V. A., rural electrifica­tion,
rural housing, the mechani­cal
cotton picker and cotton chop­per,
natural resources, erosion,
and other such interest points are
covered in the course.
School Board Is
Entertained
Prof. J. A. Parrish, principal of
Lee County High School, enter­tained
the local school board, coun
ty officials, the mayor of Auburn,
the city council, and city clerk at
a luncheon Friday at the High
School Home Economics Depart­ment.
Under the direction of Miss
Thelma Graves, vocational home
economics teacher, and asissted by
Carolyn Hendricks and Mary Alice
Tucker, student teachers in voca­tional
home economics, the fol­lowing
girls were in charge of the
luncheon: Annie Louise Smith,
Elaine Pittman, Jean Hawkins,
Kathleen Johnson, Lily Bradley,
Hilda Bishop, Sarah Bishop, Mel
Atkins, and Mary Alice Holliday.
These girls have been doing a
home project in foods.
The dining room was attrac­tively
decorated with spring flow­ers.
The guests included: Supt.
Martin C. \Vhitten, Dr. Byron
Bruce, Mr. R. L. Betts, Mr. W. B.
Cogdell, Mr. C. N. Parker, Dr. J.
V. Brown, Dr. C. S. Yarbrough,
Mr. L. Meadows, Prof. J. C.
Grimes, Prof. H. M. Martin, Mr.
E. F. Wright, Mr. W. L. Long,
Mr. S. L. Toomer, Mr. T. A. Sims,
Mr. J. T. Hudson, and Miss Ruth
Mitcham.
An important part of every
girl's education should be train­ing
in the art of hospitality.
Through projects of this kind an
interest in the social life of the
community is aroused within the
girl, and she is led to assume a
larger share of the recreation
within the home, Miss Graves
stated as explanation covering the
student help with the luncheon.
NOTICE
There will be an important
of the editorial staff Mbnday
night at seven o'clock in the
Plainsman office.
founding information that a cold
half-billion dollars in gold coin
lay buried under the mountain­side.
The cave inside is similar to
many of its type which honey­comb
this particular section of
the Applachian range. For the
first twenty yards or so, one must
stoop very low to enter it, but af­terwards
the roof is of ample
height. Those who have penetra­ted
far back tell tales of a huge
room with stalagmites and stal­actites,
a roof that is forty or fifty
feet high, and a beautiful water­fall
of the little stream that flows
through.
It may still be entered, though
the mountainside has fallen in and
partially obscured its mouth.
Whether the treasure is ever dis­covered
or not, the cave will in
time probably become a favorite
spot for tourists who come to
visit the park region which the
T. V. A. is now talking of con­structing
along the margin of Sand
Mountain.
Polo Trip
(Continued from page three)
team plays Ohio State in Colum­bus,
two games to be played Sat­urday
and Sunday.
Captain Jacoby announced that
five men and possibly a sixth
would make the trip. The five
who are definitely to make the
trip are: Hamil, Patterson, Schell,
McNulty and Franke. All these
men have seen service in all the
games and are confident of their
merits.
Games were played with the
University of Missouri in 1935,
'36 and '37. Auburn has won four
and lost three. Illinois was play­ed
in 1936 and '37, Auburn win­ning
three and losing none. Ohio
State has bee defeated three times
and has won two games from
Auburn since 1935. Two games
this year were in Auburn's favor.
One game has been lost to Iowa
State, it being an indoor game
played with three men. The game
with Culver is expected to be an
indoor affair.
Eight Students To
Attend Convention
Auburn will be well represent­ed
at the Alabama Baptist Student
Retreat, which will be held at
Howard College, April 23-24. A
delegation of eight students will
leave Auburn Saturday morning
and return Sunday night.
This retreat will be in the form
of a general business meeting. Re­presentatives
will attend from
all of the Colleges of the State.
Plans will be mapped and dis­cussed,
with special emphasis on
plans for the next school year.
The sessions of the meeting
will be held in the Ruhama Bap­tist
Church, of Birmingham, with
LaFayette Walker, State B. S. U.
president, in charge.
Mr. William Hall Preston, the
Southwide Baptist Student Secre­tary,
will speak and hold special
roundtable conferences. Prominent
state workers who will attend are:
Mr. Chester L. Quarles, Miss Mar­tha
Sconyers, Mrs. John Maguire,
Miss Eva Berry, and Mr. Davis
Cooper.
The Auburn delegation, headed
by Davis Woolley, Student Secre­tary,
will be composed of Jack
Finley, D. T. Rogers, Larkin Wy-ers,
John D. Brooks, Juanita John­ston,
Eugene Knight, Annie Moon
and Grace Newman.
LOST—One small grey Coin
Purse Thursday afternoon, prob­ably
in post office. Finder please
call 310.
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A HERO AT HOME
...A ZERO ABROAD!
Your Bob'* happiest, scrappi­est
hit...as a Yank at Oxford
who comes fighting thrul
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Interesting Novelty
'ROMANCE IN CELLULOID'
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TIGER
Story Of A Yank
At Oxford Shown
The first story of English un­dergraduate
life to be filmed in
England with a cast of American
stars sent abroad to act in authen­tic
locales comes to the Tiger
screen starting Sunday with the
showing of "A Yank at Oxford,"
with Robert Taylor playing the
title role and with such American
and English favorities as Lionel
Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan,
Vivien Leigh, Edmund Gwenn, and
Griffith Jones filling prominent
supporting roles.
Taylor, as the American col­lege
boy who wins a scholarship
to Oxford and becomes stroke of
the Oxford crew, is said to eclipse
anything he has done before in the
new role of the Yank who has to
face customs and traditions he has
never known at home and who e-merges
triumphant and with a
new understanding of sympathy
and comradeship existing be-teen
the to English speaking na­tions.
Aside from presenting a story
replete ith excitement, humor,
thrills, and romance, "A Yank at
Oxford" offers the American film-goer
an unusual insight into the
traditions and colorful life of En­glish
undergraduate life. Such un­familiar
episodes are shown as
the Oxford-Cambridge track meets
and boat races, the May Week cer­emonies,
the "bumping" races, the
rite of "Sconcing," and various ot­her
intimate glimpses of Oxford
life.
LOST—On college campus or
streets of Auburn, a small round
good luck charm on rolled neck
chain. Finder please call Louise
Sims, Phone 78-J, and receive re­ward.
Ousley Succeeds
Kiersted As Head
Art Ousley was chosen last
night to succeed Ray Kiersted as
captain of the Auburn Swimming
team. The team met in Broun
Hall to attend to its regular busi­ness
and elect new officers for the
group.
Ousley is a junior in engineer­ing.
His home is in Mobile. Last
year he was captain of the Spring
Hill team where he attended prep
school prior to his coming to Au­burn.
The new captain has estab­lished
himself during the last year
as one of the fastest and most de­pendable
swimmers on the team.
The new captain announced
that there would be an important
meeting of the Swimming team
Monday at the regular time in
Broun Hall. He stated that plans
are to be laid for the having of a
social and urged all varsity and
freshmen members to be present.
Governor Graves Reviews
R. O. T. C. Next Tuesday
A review will be held by the
local R. O. T. C. unit Tuesday at
10:30 a. m. in honor of Alabama's
Governor Bibb Graves. Colonel F.
C. Wallace, commandant of the
unit said today.
The uniform for the review
will be blouses and white shirts.
The first call will be at 10:25 with
an assembly at 10:30. The organi­zations
will form on Bullard Field
30 paces in rear of their regular
positions.
In the reviewing stand will be
Governor Graves and acting com­mandant
Major R. E. Laird and
military officers. Ralph O'Gwynn
will serve as Military Aide to the
Governor, Colonel Wallace said.
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