1938-04-06 The Auburn Plainsman

              Blue Key Taps Fifteen Outstanding Juniors
THE N PLAINSMAN
VOL. LXI Z-I AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1938. NUMBER 53
Tau Beta Pi Honors Fourteen Students
Initiation Will Be
Held Within The
Near Future
Fourteen outstanding engineer­ing
students were elected to mem­bership
in Tau Beta Pi, national
honorary society last night. Ini­tiation
for the newly elected mem­bers
will be held in the near fu­ture.
Those honored by election to
the honorary engineering society
are: W. J. Frennan, John Cobb,
John Eagan, J. A. Hargett, T. F.
Karge, E. M. Knight, R. E. Led-better,
P. K. McKenney, Robert
H. Neeley, Ladell M. Smith, Jim
Swanner, Roy Taylor, Sam Teague
George Young.
Brennan is enrolled in the elec­trical
engineering course and is
a non-fraternity man. His home
is Phenix City.
John Cobb, West Point, Ga., is
enrolled in the chemical engineer­ing
course. He is a member of
Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.
A chemical engineering student,
John Eagan lives in Bessemer. He
is a member of Lambda Chi Al­pha
fraternity.
Hargett is taking the civil en­gineering
course. A non-fraternity
man, his home is Russellville.
Enrolled in the civil engineer­ing
course, Karge lives in East
Rochester, N. Y. He is a member
of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.
E. M. Knight is an electrical en­gineering
student and a member
of no fraternity. His home is
Lacon.
Another electrical engineering
student, R. E. Ledbetter is also
a non-fraternity man. Montgom­ery
is his home town.
P. K. McKenney, Columbus, Ga.,
is registered for the textile en­gineering
course. He is a memb­er
of Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
Robert Neeley is taking the
aeronautical engineering course.
A native of Jacksonville, Fla., he
is a non-fraternity man.
Another non-fraternity student,
Ladell Smith lives in Gadsden.
His course is mechanical engineer­ing.
Jim Swanner, an SAE, is tak­ing
the mechanical engineering
course. He lives in Birmingham.
Another Birmingham student,
Roy Taylor, is taking the chemi­cal
engineering course. He is a
member of Alpha Tau Omega fra­ternity.
Sam Teague, Birmingham, is
registered in chemical engineering.
He is also a member of Alpha Tau
Omega fraternity.
A mechanical engineering stu­dent,
George Young is from Mont­gomery.
He is a member of Sigma
Nu fraternity.
Election to Tau Beta Pi is con­sidered
the highest professional
honor that can be won by an
engineering student. Only those
students in the School of Engineer­ing
who rank in the highest scho­lastic
group and who possess cer­tain
other qualifications includ­ing
character, leadership are eligi­ble
for election.
This year the chemical engi­neering
department led all others
in number of men elected to Tau
Beta Pi. Four students from this
division were elected.
Another election will be held by
the new group early next fall,
there being two tappings each
year. Seniors will be elected next
semester.
Many Alumni To R e t u r n For
Reunions On Graduation
Six hundred Auburn Alumni of
the classes of 1898, 1922, and 1928
have been invited to take part in
the reunions of those classes on
May 30, which has been set aside
as Alumni Day on the Auburn
campus, Porter Grant, Alumni se­cretary
said.
A. V. "Mutt" Gregory and Prof.
E. B- Smith of the Auburn facul­ty
are in charge of arrangements
for the meeting.
Engineer Head
WM. 6- <ST£LZEs]MljLLE7Z.
W. B. Stelzenmuller, of Birm­ingham,
is president of Tau Beta
Pi a national honorary engineer­ing
society, which elected four­teen
juniors to membership last
night. Stelzenmuller, a senior
in civil engineering, has dis­tinguished
himself by his high
scholastic average in college.
Glee Club Leaves
On State Tour
The men's Glee Club of the Al­abama
Polytechnic Institute left
Auburn at 1:00 p. m. Monday for
the annual concert tour which in­cludes
appearances of the Club in
five Alabama cities.
Traveling by chartered bus, the
Club's first appearance was in Ro­anoke,
Monday evening. On Tues­day
evening the concert will be
at Talladega; Wednesday evening
at Phillips High School in Birm­ingham;
Thursday evening in Jas-par;
and Friday evening at Hunt­ington
College, Montgomery.
Two 30-minute radio broadcasts
will be given by the Club while
on tour. The first will be over
Station WAPI, Birmingham, 11:30
to 12:00 noon, on Wednesday, and
the other over Station WSFA,
Montgomery, 3:30 to 4:00 p. m.
Friday.
Directed by Lawrence Barnett,
officers of the Club are Dunlap
McCauley, Birmingham, president;
Dennis Newton, Auburn, vice-pre­sident;
Sam Teague, Birmingham,
business manager; George Perry
Cuthbert, Ga., secretary; and Paul
Rudolph, accompanist.
Members of the club making
the trip are First Tenors: M. Ed­wards,
Marion; L. Lee, Selma; D.
McCauley, Birmingham; E. O.
Pearson, Opelika;
Second Tenors: R. S. Farnham,
Auburn; J. Hawkins, Birmingham;
E. Rouse, Auburn; V. Sellers, Do-than;
D. Smith, Huntsville; H. L.
Welsted, Auburn;
Baritones: K. Baker, Marion
Junction; C. Cranford, Birming­ham;
W. Going, Birmingham; J.
Hubbard, Dadeville; D. W. Moody,
Cook Springs; L. B. Smith, Birm­ingham;
S. Teague, Birmingham;
G. Weaver, KutztoWn, Pa.;
Basses: C. Chilton, Birmingham;
D. Carlton, Birmingham; D. New­ton,
Auburn; T. Payne, Jackson,
Miss.; G. Perry, Cuthbert, Ga.; W.
Boyd Guntersville Dam.
Locklin-Corr Engagement Is
Announced By Parents
The announcement of the en­gagement
of Miss Renee Locklin,
of Monroeville, to Mr. Mark Stroud
Corr, Jr., of Selma, is of much
social interest in Auburn.
Miss Locklin attended Fair-mount
College in Washington and
received her preparatory in the
Monroeville school.
Mr. Corr is now located in
Flint, Michigan, where he and his
bride will reside. The wedding
will take place late in June.
Re-election Is Set April 20
Holiday Query
A mob of students seeking
spring holidays entered the Fire
Station Monday night, overpow­ered
the three firemen on duty,
and turned in a general alarm,
intending to draw other stu­dents
from their homes and into
the ranks of the mob.
After the alarm was sounded,
the mob moved to Toomer's
corner where they made public
their desire for spring holidays.
Executive Secretary Ralph B.
Draughon dispersed the mob
with a short talk about the cor­rect
method of obtaining the hol­idays.
Officials at the Fire Station
stated that should the occasion
arise for another mob to invade
the station in an attempt to turn
in a false alarm, they were pre­pared
to meet them with tear
gas. Much dusturbance was
caused citizens of the town
when the alarm was sounded
Monday night.
Hixon Phofoaraph
Exhibit Shown
By LAURENS PIERCE
Prof. C. R. Hixon is well known
as Auburn's head professor of me­chanical
engineering, but few
know that he has excelled in his
hobby of photography to the ex­tent
that he has become one of the
best amateur photographers in Al­abama.
Just about 42 years ago, Prof.
Hixon began taking pictures with
one of Eastman's first Kodaks.
This camera took small pictures,
1 1-2 by 2 inches, on a negative
so thick and heavily coated with
gelatine that after development
it curled into an almost unprint­able
peice of twisted celluloid.
This was the beginning of Prof-
Hixon's hobby, since then he has
used nearly every type of camera
that has been developed.
Burton's Book Store will feature
a double-window display of Prof.
Hixon's prize photographs for one
week, beginning Thursday April
7. One window will consist whol­ly
of characteristic Southern neg­ro
picturizations that were made
near Auburn and on week-end
tours to Montgomery, Union
Springs, Tuskegee. The other win­dow
will contain a varied group
of photographs selected from the
favorites in Prof. Hixon's collec­tion.
The negro character pictures
have afforded an amusing diver­sion
for Prof. Hixon on week-ends.
He has replaced his former habit
of going fishing with these expe­ditions
to capture unusual negro
personalities in their natural life
poses.
The latest addition to Prof. Hix­on's
assotment of cameras is the
Contax II, which he used for mak­ing
the negro pictures. The fin­ished
prints are sometimes as
much as 30 diameters larger than
the original which is made on
35MM. film.
Pictures of the second group
were taken with a variety of ca­meras
ranging from the miniature
Contax to an 8 x 10 inch portrait
camera.
All of Prof. Hixon's photographs
are highly artistic and reflect his
excellent craftsmanship in devel­oping
and printing.
Baptist Student Union Will
Hold T r e a s u r e Hunt Friday
The Auburn Baptist Student
Union will sponsor a Treasure
Hunt Social, Friday night, at 7:30.
Those attending will meet at the
First Baptist Church.
According to Miss Sara Car­lisle,
social director, the social is
to be a general one * with all
young people cordially invited to
attend.
Plainsman, Social
Committee Posts
Be Run Over
Last night the Executive Cabi­net
set Wednesday, April 20, as
the date for a re-election in the
races for Editor of the Plainsman
and Chairman of the Social Com­mittee.
By a vote of 7 to 3 the Cabinet
approved the request of the con­testing
candidates, Edwin God-bold
and Jack Owen, for a new
election. By their vote the Cabinet
agreed with the contesting cand­idates,
who lost in the first elec­tion,
that there was fraud in the
election and that the races should
therefore be run again.
Since neither of the third can­didates
in the two races, J. H.
Wheeler and Jack Todd, protested
the election or asked for a re­count,
they were ruled ineligible
to run in the new election.
"Evidence of fraud," said George
Lehnert, chairman of the elect­ions
committee, "was found in
support of both sides and further
evidence points to the fact that
ithe candidates did not perpe­trate
the fraud. Voters should dis­regard
the first election as far as
the candidates are concerned and
cast their ballots just as judicious­ly
as though this were the first
election. Above all, we want that
all four of the candidates shall
get a fair and equal chance."
Officers of the student Execu
tive Cabinet will be chosen on the
same date by popular vote of the
Junior Class. Shelton Pinion and
Billy McGehee are candidates for
presidency of the group. At pre
sent other candidates are not
known.
Deadline for the submission of
petitions for the Executive Cabi­net
races was set for noon, April
13. Blanks, worded like those usu­ally
required in an election and
signed by 25 members of the jun­ior
class must be in the hands of
George Lehnert by that time. Leh­nert
lives at 117 East Glenn Ave­nue.
Polo Game Be Held
Here Saturday
Opening the schedule for Au­burn's
polo team in April will
be the Governor's Horse Guards, a
crack team of cavalry unit horse­men
located in Atlanta, Captain
L. E. Jacoby, head polo coach,
announced today. The first chuck-er
will begin at 2 p. m. on Bill­iard
Field Saturday. Captain W.
J. Klepinger, and Captain K. L.
Johnson, of the R. O. T. C. unit,
will referee the game.
The Auburn squad will be com­posed
of Gus Franke, No. 1, Bob
McNulty, No. 2; Freddie Schell,
No. 3; and R. C. Warren No. 4.
Bob Armstrong and Pat Patter­son
will see at least three periods
of action Coach Jacoby said.
The opponents to take the field
first will be Captain Moran, at
No. 4, one of the finest polo
players in the Southeast and Lt.
South, Lindsey, and Christian.
Two civilians, Graham and Thorn­ton,
are also members of the
squad. Captain Moran and Lt.
Christian have been playing polo
for fifteen years.
The remainder of the polo games
to be played before the Auburn
team entrains for an extensive
Northern trip will be the 83rd
Field Artillery of Fort Benning,
April 13 at 3:15; Naval Base of
Pensacola, April 16 at 2; and the
Auburn Ramblers at 3:15 April
20.
Holiday Reply
To The Plainsman:
May I make the following
statement with reference to the
rumors concerning spring holi­days.
1. No official request for holi­days
has been brought to the
President or the Executive Cab­inet
of the college and, there­fore,
the question has not been
up for consideration.
2. The calendar for the cur­rent
year was made up over a
year ago, printed in the catalog,
and approved by the board of
trustees. Any changes would af­fect
the dates set aside for com­mencement
exercises and other
activities of the college for
which arrangements have al­ready
been completed.
3. In the light of these facts
we sincerely hope that the stu­dent
body will cooperate with
us in dispelling any rumors as
to any action concerning spring
holidays.
We believe that there are less
restrictions and that more free­dom
does exist in the Auburn
student body than is the case
in most schools. It is our earn­est
desire that this condition
may always exist.
Sincerely yours,
L. N. Duncan, Pres.
Blue Key Head
doHu fcorr 7>dua/?o
John Scott Pollard, of Selma,
is president of Blue Key, na­tional
leadership fraternity,
which honored fifteen juniors
with election into membership
last night. Pollard is a student
in civil engineering and an out­standing
member of the Senior
Class at Auburn.
R. 0. T. C. Inspector
Pays Annual Visit
Col. H. R. Richmond, of Fourth
Corps Area Headquarters in At­lanta,
Ga., arrived in Auburn Mon­day
afternoon to begin a general
inspection of the R. O. T. C. unit
at the Alabama Polytechnic Insti­tute.
A conference with President L.
N. Duncan Monday afternoon op­ened
inspection activities for Col­onel
Richmond. Tuesday morning,
he inspected the military equip­ment,
observed classes, and wit­nessed
the parade of the unit at
11:00 a. m. on Bullard Field.
Following the parade, the in­spector
was the guest of Pres­ident
Duncan at a luncheon. The
officers of the military depart­ment,
the deans, Mayor C. S. Yar-brough
of Auburn, and others were
there.
Art Exhibit Is Now
On Display
Of unusual interest is an exhibit
of 100 mounted photographs now
on exhibition in the Library of
the School of Architecture and
Allied Arts.
This collection is loaned by the
Royal Institute of British Archi­tects
and is being sponsored in
this country by the Association
of Collegiate Schools of Architec­ture
of which the local school is
a member. .
The exhibition shows a decided
trend toward modern expression
especially in the public and semi-public
architecture. As a whole,
however, conservative modern is
used. The most marked change
from precedent is to be noted in
the extensive use of brick.
Outstanding examples are the
Surbiton Hospital; New Victoria
Cinema, London; the Children's
Hospital, London; Martin's Bank,
Limited; Leicester Royal Masonic
BospitaL. Royal Corinthian Yacht
Club, Guildford Cathedral, Shake­speare
Memorial Theatre; and
Liverpool Cathedral.
Eighty seven per cent of the
present population of Alabama
are natives of the State.
Our Second Editorial Wherein More Is
Said About The Cloistered Skeleton
By Howard Workman
(The opinions expressed in this article are not necessarily the
editorial opinions of the paper. It is a column of personal comment,
and is not to be read as an expression of our editorial policy.)
As a preface to this, the second article on what we have termed
the skeleton in the closet, we should like to clearly state the purpose
of these writings. It is the charge of some that we are taking a short
cut to notoriety. While wide acclaim met the first article, that was not
what we sought. We were only gratified that the public opinion we
sought to represent has been so vociferous in its support. It is the
rebuttal of some among the accused that this is but a subterfuge for
wounded vanity. That, itself, is but a subterfuge offered in evasion
of the charges.
The charges made public in the first article were brought before
us and proved beyond reasonable doubt before we began the
article. They still stand. We have been accused of taking an unfair
advantage in using the press to bring forth the charges. Yet, we are
a journalist and that is the way we understand newspapers. We
have waited a week for some denial of the charges that we could
make public, for we do not like to know that these things are true.
Yet, a week has passed and there has been only accusative silence.
In talks with a few of the Spades (there are some who will not
even speak to us) we have learned that there are among the ten
some who knew nothing of the undue influences until our article
appeared in the paper. They stated that nothing of such a nature
had been brought up in their secret meetings and that, furthermore,
Spades was, by purpose, an inactive social organization. If that is
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Initiation Will
Be Held In
Near Future,
Says Prexy
Fifteen outstanding memb­e
r s of t h e Junior Class were
elected to Blue Key national
Honorary Society at a meet­ing
last night. The men se­lected
are: Dallas Benton, A.
C. Martin, Oliver Fletcher,
Johnnie Davis, "David Roberts,
Charlie Grisham, Horace we-issinger
Shelton Pinion, J. G.
Swanner, Andy Cox, Roy Tay-lof,
F a y Laseter, Marion Walk­er,
C. C. Owens, and Joe
Crooks.
Dallas Benton, Bessemer, is a
student in the School of Archi­tecture,
a member of Scarab, hon­orary
art society, and vice-pres­ident
of Delta Sigma Phi social
fraternity.
A. C. Martin is enrolled in the
Business Administration School, is
a member of Scabbard and Blade,
of Delta Sigma Pi, and is a mem­ber
of Kappa Alpha social fra­ternity.
He is a member of the
Executive Cabinet and is from
Selma.
Oliver Fletcher, Montgomery, is
a member of Pi Kappa Alpha s o ­cial
fraternity, is a member of
Scabbard and Blade. He is en­rolled
in the School of Mechanical
Engineering.
Johnnie Davis is a student in the
School of Architecture. He is a
member of the "A" Club and is
vice-president of Sigma Nu social
fraternity and is from Birming­ham.
David Roberts is a member of
Sigma Chi social fraternity and
is from Mobile. He is a member
of Scabbard and Blade, is pres­ident
of Tau Kappa Alpha. He is
a student in Aero Administration.
IGhlarlie Grisham;, Athens, ife
business manager elect of the
Plainsman, a member of the base­ball
team, and a member of Scab­bard
and Blade. He is a non-fra­ternity
man taking Agriculture.
Horace Weissinger, Selma, is
taking business administration. He
is a member of Delta Sigma Pi
and a member of Kappa Alpha
social fraternity.
Shelton Pinion, Berry, is a stu­dent
in Agriculture Education. He
is a non-fraternity man and is
a member of the Executive Cabi­net.
J. C. Swanner, Birmingham, is a
student in Mechanical Engineer­ing.
He is a member of Tau Beta
Pi and of S. A. E. social fraternity.
Andy Cox, Gadsden, is a stu­dent
in Mechanical Engineering
and is a member of Scabbard and
Blade. He is a non-fraternity man.
Roy Taylor, Birmingham, is a
member of A. T. O. social fraterni­ty.
He is a student in Chemical
Engineering, is a member of Phi
Lambda Upsilon and Tau Beta Pi
and is a representative on tb
Interfraternity Council.
Fay Laseter, Clayton, is tak' '
Business Administration. He ;
member of Delta Sigma Pi ar
Scabbard and Blade. He is
retary of Sigma Chi socie
ternity. '
Marion Walker, Dothan, is ~
student in Business Administrat­ion.
He is a member of the "A"
Club and is alternate-captain of
the football team of next year. He
is a non-fraternity man.
C. C. Owens, Centerville, is
an Agriculture student. He is vice
president of the Executive Cabi­net
and is a non-fraternity man.
Joe Crooks, Ensley, is a pres­ident
of Delta Sigma Phi social
fraternity. He is enrolled in the
School of Business Administra­tion,
is a member of Delta Sigma
Pi, of the Band, and is a Repre­sentative
to the Interfraternity
Council.
. The annual banquet and initia­tion
of the newly tapped men will
be held soon, after which time
election of officers for the organi­zation
for next year will be held.
In the selection of the fifteen
neophytes it was kept in mind the
standards set forth in the points
system which was set up last year.
The standards include scholarship,
leadership in curricular and ex­tra-
curricular activities, and char­acter.
PAGE TWO THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6,1938-
Plainsman Editorials
THE MATTER OF SPADES IS
FURTHER LOOKED INTO
The front page editorial concerning the
Spades in the Wednesday last issue of the
Plainsman has struck a bone of contention.
The writer of the editorial and the editor
have received an overwhelming amount
of commendation from the student body,
thereby theoretically substantiating the
advisability of following up such an issue.
But it is not the policy of this paper to ride
down any organization or individual on
the campus. The attitude might easily be
taken that enough has been said, but
should the situation exist of which they
have been accused, the matter should cer­tainly
be pressed.
Little comment has been heard from the
organization (if it be understood rightly,
they don't talk much in public, hence their
conjuring up a camflage of mystery in
order to secure the undefiled admiration
of the ordinary student on the lower stra­ta)
with the slight exception of two mem­bers
who voiced the sentiment that should
such reports as were included in the edi­torial
be true they were ready to with­draw
from the organization.
Statements like the just preceeding, com­ing
from such members of such an organ­ization
may bear their weight in either of
two directions- Spades, like all harmless
and honorable organizations, happens to
have included in its membership ones who
work in the under and the over-flow of
politics, sometimes resorting to disrepu­table
means which has resulted in that
group's receiving all blame while the
greater part of its members are the quiet,
unappearing-on-the-scene victims of mean
circumstances. If this be the case, Spades
should purge itself of such men if possible
' and carry out the principles of their con­stitution.
Then they should go about the
process of securing the respects of the stu­dent
body.
Then on the other hand (the hand on
the mean side), it is fairly plausible that
Spades is made up, its members being
picked by the retiring political bosses with
the use of utmost caution in a selection of
men who will carry on the principle of
Campus Rule from year to year, and run
by the "big dogs" who attempt to have
their hand in everything that goes on on
the campus. If that be the case, it also ser­ves
an admirable purpose (as far as pur­pose
in the raw goes). In the first place,
an organization of its necessarily small
and secret nature would serve well to pro-
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vide a controllable machine to work with
and from it, the organization serving, in
the definable sense according to its con­stitution,
merely as a sham for those poli­ticians
who were not big enough to work,
except from under its cover.
It may easily be asked how could such
an organization be such an evil and com­manding
force. It should be seen that it
would act as a cohesive force, especially
if the members were carefully picked.
And naturally, all the members are not as
involved, not as interested, in campus pol­itics
as some of the others. This surplus
number serve in the needed position of
pawns, they help keep up the face of the
organization with high places on the cam­pus
with positions, scholarship and admit­ted
character to stand them in their stead.
Perhaps, the best way of summing up
such an organization would be to call it
a Cooperative for None-To-Sure politici­ans-
By the making use of a organization
a group of the "big dogs" and campus of­fice
holders get together, pool their resour­ces
(powers of threat and enforcement)
and their positions for the purpose of milk­ing
dry that which is possibly possible on
this campus.
Such a carry-on is not wanted. The stu­dent
organizations, curricular and extra­curricular,
are deprived of too much aid'
and just administration already without
having a group of avrice stricken boys
trying to fill their mouths at the expense
of the common student.
Should the last alternative be true, we
say the existence of Spades is too expen­sive
in comparison to the general returns
from "great big honor boys going around
in the grandeur of secrecy." However, if
Spades is the honor organization it is sup­posed
to be let the group be purged of any
bad influences and the public mind be
given an antidote for its ill feeling to­wards
the group.
WE SUGGEST A METHOD BY WHICH
ELECTIONS SHOULD BE HELD
During their four year stay at Auburn,
students are required to delve deeply into
the technical lore of many text books.
That is to fit them with tools with which
to work. Aside from the book learning
that students get, there is a great deal of
practical experience that they must pick
up on their own hook in order to know how
to use the tools that they must acquire be­fore
graduation. Among the lessons in pra­ctical
experience is the training to be a
good citizen.
Many lessons in citizenship may be
learned from the student elections but it
cannot be said, from the way things have
run in the past, that all of them are good
lessons. If students are allowed to run their
own politics like our state bosses run theirs
now, there will be no change in the quality
of politics when the students enter public
life. The college should lean more toward
the practical in education and see that
the right sort of lessons are taught the
students. If the youth of today is to be
tomorrow's leaders, they should be taught
to be good leaders.
Let us take the Junior Class elections
and suggest a method by which they be
run. Rirst, let there be a registration day
a month before the first election day when
all juniors who intend to vote in the elec­tion
must go by and see that their names
are on the voting list. They are then is­sued
a receipt which must be presented at
the polls when the first primary is held..
Let there be a primary in which the
names of all the candidates appear on the
ballots. Let only the students whose names
are on the voting list and who present
their registration receipt cast votes in the
primary. Let the second election ballots
carry only the names of the two highest
in each race except the Executive Cabinet
race, where the names of the four highest
are listed. Let the candidates receiving the
largest number of votes be elected to the
offices to which they aspire except in the
case of the Executive Cabinet, where the
one receiving the largest number is the
president of the cabinet and the remain­ing
three are junior members of the cab­inet.
Let only the members of the Junior
Class who voted in the primary vote in
the second election. Let the candidates in
the second election align themselves intr
two parties, each providing a watcher on
the polls and in the counting. Let the can­didates
electioneer as they see fit, giving
out cards, circulars, or advertising in the
paper. There would be little chance that
graft could be carried on in the voting and
counting.
PLAINSMAN FORUM - Voice of the Stdents
Editor of the Plainsman
Auburn, Alabama.
Sir:
What with all the vital discussion of the
somewhat odious election of student officers
recently, I hardly dare change the subject;
for a long time, however, I have been intend­ing
to protest against an annoyance which is
trivial yet important. Politics or no, there­fore,
I shall now register my complaint, which
I feel, certain is held in common with me by
the majority of the students of A. P. I.
I protest the condition in which hallowed
and historic Langdon Hall has been allowed
to stand for "lo these many years." Since
I have concluded that this institution stands
very little chance of a new and adequate aud­itorium,
I satisfy myself with an earnest plea
for the rehablititation of the one which we
now use.
The seats in Langdon Hall are undoubtedly
the oldest, rottenest, most decrepit seats in
these United States. When in use they creak
and groan in endless protest; some even fall
in altogether. Even the rare seats which are
in tolerable condition are extremely uncom­fortable.
So, if Langdon Hall cannot be rele­gated
to honored retirement in its old age, it
should at least have new seats.
The gorgeous red curtains in Langdon are
a disgrace. It is indeed embarassing when they
perforce are drawn, for they creep painfully
back to the accompanyment of harrowing
screeches and wails. They do a little better
when closing, merely reminding one of a
train pulling on an up-grade. Cannot some­body
drop a little oil on the curtain runners?
The nonexistant drapes on Langdon's state­ly
windows with their breath-taking dis­play
of bright and shinning glass are needed.
When sunlight is to be excluded, the only
manner which is used is the nailing of ex­tremely
undecorative cardboard over them.
Won't somebody get us some drapes?
Langdon's floors are not anything to brag
about. They are usually filthy. But since no­body
looks at them anyway, we shall pass
lightly over them.
An institution of Auburn's size and impor­tance
should by rights have an adequate
auditorium, but since it seems impossible to
secure one, won't somebody do something
about the disgraceful condition of Langdon
Hall?
I shall not be a member of Auburn's student
body for another year yet, but I most earnest­ly
pray that when I do enroll I will not
have to blush when I tell out-of-town friends
that ancient, rickety, and inadequate Langdon
Hall is the one and only auditorium on the
Auburn campus, and not, as they think, a
relic unused since Civil War days.
Most sincerely,
A High School Student
Sixteen Ems
By SPACER OUTER
This time Spacer Outer gives you
Who's Who
Max Welden—"Little" big shot.
Perry Schwartz—Surprised, timid and shy.
Sam Teague—In suspense, melancholy and
furthermore, falling in love!
Billy McGehee—A ladies' man (so he thinks
short in more ways than one).
"Speedy" Shannon—"Best athlete on the
campus," slim and strong!
Jack Adams—Energetic, pepper upper, and
a woman hater. Teh, Teh!
Malcolm McDonald—Blade, Blade and
Blade. Ditto—Dave Hamilton.
Alex Burgin—Hear your verdict: short, hell
raiser, and rhythm man—Ditto Broughty, Oh
Boy! and Jojo.
Lopez Mantoux—Ask me!
Bill Stelzenmuller—Skeleton in the Sig­ma
Chi Closet.
Curty Farley—Over enthusiastic, lanky and
a jooker.
Monsey Gresham—He's a love, he's a
dream, he's the ex-alternate captain of our
track team.
Curtis Pinion—People's white hope.
Sue Quattlebaum—a coooo singer, pretty
eyes and besides she possesses all around
Donald Duck walk.
Verna Jack — Diminutive, playful and wor­ried.
Jane Ussery—Bowlegged, likes to drive and
is cynical—Ditto Ann Dexter!
Edith Cecil—Torn between two "Coo-Coos",
slightly dizzy blond and popped eyes. P. S.
But lovely hair!
Kate Crossley—Abnormally built.
Sadie Edwards—Ummmm!
Dot Lewis—An all around bragger, weight
looser and talker.
Mary Eleanor W. — Cute, lovely but with
a short stride.
Virginia Charlton—A brunette replica of
"Giggles" Jones.
Helen Jones—The gal who thinks that
forsenic means forestry!
June Tooker—Booker, jooker and god look­er.
Jane Handley—Big past, little present, no
future.
Libba Gotcher—Wheeeee! (Siren)
Spacer Outer presents this time a
Column of Want Ads
A new derby for our editor since he lost
that new one . . . Ditto Rex McKissick.
A room filled with "Sterling" around the
S. A. E. House for Bob McCollough . . . Dit­to
Phi Delta Theta Boswell.
A bouquet of "forget-me-nots" for Jo Jo
Crooks.
A new love for Helen Irby.
A permanent wave like ace Green's by
George Perry.
Cream of Wheat for breakfast by Speedy
Shannon.
Sets of finger nails for C. W. Thompson
and Harold Chapman.
Position for a swell cook who can giggle,
shake, and jook by Helen Jones.
Some low power stimulent to keep Eu­genia's
hiccoughs away.
Talk About The Town
BY JACK STEPPE — R. L. MUNDHENK
Typical Auburnania . . . was the insipid
sort of a riot which was staged Monday night
by a large number of the student body. The
idea is quite all right but the execution was
a bit crude. We agree that the second semester
is quite a long stretch to go without a break,
and it would be nice to have a few extra
mornings to sleep a little late. Perhaps it's
mostly spring fever . . . anyway it seems to
be contagious.
Another riot . . . is brewing over the in­dictment
of one of the honor societies by a
member of the staff of this paper. The Plains­man
is, of course, quite unlike Ceaser's wife,
a wench, who was above reproach so 'tis
said, but the argument will get nowhere un­less
the duelists get down to facts and avoid
generalities.
Swiped . . . are these definitions. But they
will fill up space and be lots easier to read.
Do you mind?
Brightest . . . quip in relation to the above
mentioned feud was given by a wit who an­swered
a Spades statement that he resented
being called a crook with, "What crook
doesn't?"
Old Maid . . . a yes girl who never had a
chance to talk.
"ST. PETPIE
AND
THE Pt^PLY GATE'
.4 &
Politician . . . (See "Grafter").
Gentleman . . . One who doesn't get fresh
until the second date.
Hot Dog . . . a baloney's papoose.
Careless pedestrian . . . The deceased.
Diplomacy . . . the art of letting someone
else have your way.
Highbrow . . . One educted beyond his in­telligence.
Sophisticated child . . . One who won't even
believe that the stork brings baby storks.
Grafter . . . (See "Politician").
Godbold, one of the contesting candidates
in the election stew received an anonymous
threatening letter last night, signed with a
skull and cross-bones, according to rep'orts
making their way on the campus. Don't back
down, Godbold.
Ed Note: This business of Spade vs. The
Campus and The Election Committee vs. The
Contesting candidates is gettin interesting.
The copy for this column was hanging on the
hook by the Linotype machine at the type­setter's
disposal. During the time that the
editor left the office and returned at the noon
hour on Tuesday, a section of the column
dealing with the Spades and the Election af-
News And Views
BY L. E. FOSTER >
"A page digested is better than a book
hurriedly read."—Maculay
Our greatest criticism of educational me­thods
today is that courses are to expensive
and not intensive enough. Many of the courses
taught are courses that should be given a full
year of study or more, but they are usually
crammed into one semester, the result being
a general idea of the subject and little more
in the mind of the student. Obviously, the
reason for such a system is to give students
a wide variety of basic fundamentals-'in the
line of endeavor in which they are specializ­ing.
Recently a classmate remarked that he was
taking seven subjects, five of which required
books of 500 pages or more. Of necessity un­der
such arrangements, professors make as­signments
that are long, in fact, so long that
they cannot be covered thoroughly by the
students. Evidently professors do not consider
the assignments that are being made by oth­ers,
for they frequently assign thirty and
forty page lessons, and when one is taking
seven subjects it makes it impossible for
him to prepare his assignments. His time
simply doesn't permit him to do a good job
of all of his studies. It is our belief that
college should be less general in instruction.
What the high school graduate needs is, not
more general information, but a more in­tensified
knowledge of specialized subjects,
so that he may enter a profession with a real
working knowledge of the subject.
The same amount of work applied to less
material in the long run would provide the
student with more practicable knowledge.
As it is now, he hits the high points, so to
speak, and misses the details which are im­portant
and necessary in most fields.
DID YOU KNOW THAT — The United
States has seventy-one per cent of the world's
automobiles? •
NEWS NATIONAL — Stocks have been
unable to buck the rough waves of the reces­sion,
and the stock market is at present very
much upset.
At the Fenner and Beane quotation room
in Birmingham several days ago we saw
stockholders wiping their brows as certain
stocks continued downward, and they had
plenty of reason to be feeling uncomfort­able,
for some stocks are hopelessly "on the
toboggan."
The authorities of the New York Stock
Exchange attribute the current trend in stocks
to the Senate's having passed the Reorgani­zation
Bill, which if passed by the house,
will have a direct effect on the future of
many corporate institutions.
SATIRE — Hitler is an octopus in a sea
of helpless victims.
RAMBLING — W. L. Felter writes of a
visit to Mr. Vernon that W. M. Evarts of New
York made with an English friend. Standing
on the high bank overlooking the Potomac,
the Englishman recalled the statement that
Washington was able to throw a silver dollar
across the Potomac at that point, and he
questioned the accuracy of the story. Evarts
replied: "Why I don't know about that; you
must remember that in Washington's day a
dollar would go farther than it does now; and
what is more, that would not be such a feat
to perform by a man who threw a crown a-cross
the Atlantic Ocean."
INSPECTION TRIP NEWS — Some forty
of us went to Birmingham, making daily
visits to business houses to observe methods
and means of organization in various busi­ness
units of the city. Dr. Glenn Scott and
Prof. Charles Dilley were faculty representa­tives
who acted as skippers of the trip.
The visits have been enjoyable and instruc­tive,
and we shall never regret our having
gone on this trip.
NEWS RAMBLES — "The Alabama Club­woman"
devotes several pages to Auburn in
its February-March issue, and the cover
features a picture of Samford Hall—Sammy
Baugh, football star who received such pub­licity
last year, is making good as a third
baseman with the St. Louis Cardinals —
The air is rife with rumors that Auburn will
have a couple of new dormitories next fall —
Credit is headed where we least want it to;
it is getting tighter, and the reason is not at
all hard to see. The business slump an din-creased
business failures are enough to in­spire
anyone to tighten up on credit.
fair was torn off and destroyed.
The make the puzzle infinitely more pleas­urable,
the section addressed to Godbold was
added. Pretty soon, we expect to run the
scoop "the Mystery of Who Clipped the
Copy or the slicing sissors of politics and
bad influences steal into our office."
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6,1938,
THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
Taili Upsilon Omega, Sigma Phi Epsilon Will Merge Here
Initiation For TUO Members Will Take
Place Here On Friday, Saturday Nights
By LOIUS J. VOGEL
The National Chapters of Sigma
Phi Epsilon and Theta Upsilon
Omega after many months of ne­gotiations
have merged. Plans for
this merger arose during the last
Interfraternity Conference and
lead to the absorbtion of the Na­tional
Chapter of Theta Upsilon
Omega by the National Chapter of
Sigma Phi Epsilon. Consequently
the four sub-chapters of Theta
Upsilon Omega, either by choice,
or following in the steps of the Na­tional
Chapters, which are ^Located
on the campuses on which sub­chapters
of Sigma Phi Epsilon are
active are to be initiated into
the Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity.
Those sub-chapters of Theta Up­silon
Omega which are on cam­puses
that do not have a sub­chapter
of Sigma Phi Epsilon will
duly be initiated and become ac­tive
sub-chapters of Sigma Phi
Epsilon.
This merger is one of the out­standing
events in all Greek his­tory
being compared only by the
absorbtion of Sigma Nu by TKE
in 1933, the merger of Beta Theta
Pi in 1880, the recognition of the
Sigma Phi Epsilon plan of Finance
by the Interfraternity Conference
in 1921. and the incident leading
out of the World War in 1917,
whereby the death of all fraterni­ties
was almost sealed.
The future merger will estab­lish
seven new Sigma Phi Epsilon
sub-chapters on the following
campuses: Worchester Polytechnic
Institute, Stevens Institute of
Technology, Bucknell University,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Westminister College, Muhlenburg
College, Monmouth College, and
Temple U. The sub-chapters of
Theta Upsilon Omega which will
merge with sub-chapters of Sig-
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ma Phi Epsilon on the same cam­puses
are located at: University
of Illinois, Geprge Washington
University, University of Cali­fornia
and the Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute. The merger will
increase the membership of Sigma
Phi Epsilon to well over 20,000,
and raise the present number of
active chapters to seventy two.
Members and alumni of Eta
Beta of Theta Upsilon Omega lo­cated
on Auburn's campus will
be initiated Friday and Saturday
into Alabama Alpha of Sigma Phi
Epsilon. There also will be an
initiation on May 7 for alumni not
able to attend this week's initi­ation.
Members to be initiated Friday
and Saturday are: Harry Camp­bell,
Section; Harry Jackson, Co­lumbus,
Ga.; Gordan Black, Arab;
Trewhitt Green, Section; J. M.
McDonald, Reform; Henry Whit-ting,
West Palm Beach, Fla.; Per­cy
Owens, Birmingham; Jack Mar­tin,
Gordo; Thomas W. Lennon,
Thomasville, Ga.; Campbell Evans
Boaz. Local alumni to be initiated
these two days are: Gordon Roy
Meadows, John- Carmack, B. C.
Pope. Prof. John Cottier and fac­ulty
adviser Prof. F. C. Hulse will
also be initiated.
Twenty to thirty alumni scatter­ed
throughout the south will also
be initiated at future dates.
The local Theta Upsilon Omega
sprung from the local Tau Omega
Chi which was begun on the cam­pus
in 1924. The local TOX was
one of the strongest locals ever to
function on the campus, and dur­ing
the years from 1924 to 1930
was at all times well represented
in campus activities and personal­ities.
In 1930 Tau Omega Chi
went Eta Beta of the National
Chapter of Theta Upsilon Omega.
Since going national Eta Beta
has retained their excellent stand­ing
in both scholarship and extra
carricular activities. They won Go-
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SOCIETY AND NEWS FEATURES
ELEANOR SCOTT, EDITOR
Ag Paper Selects
New Officers
The senior staff of the Alabama
Farmer announces the election of
new officers, who according to
Mr. Dan Meadows; the new editor-in-
chief, have presented a plan to
put the subscription price of this
farm paper on the registration fee
for all Ag and H. Ec. students.
Votes taken at the Ag. Club
and F. F. A. showed that the
members were unanimously in fa­vor
of this plan. Other Ag. and Ag.
Ed. students have expressed them­selves
in favor of this question.
This plan has been placed before
officials here and a definite an­swer
is expected soon.
The Alabama Farmer has been
the official Ag. student publica­tion
for 19 years, and its sub­scription
price was on the regis­tration
fee several years ago. The
popularity of this paper has in­creased
since the end of the de­pression.
The members of the new staff
are considering also the possibili­ties
of printing the paper in Au­burn.
At present it is being print­ed
at Dadeville, Ala.
Members of the new staff are:
Dan Meadows, Editor-in-chief; M.
L. Thomas, managing editor;
Charles Breedlove, associate edi­tor;
Willie Alverson, business
manager; Dan Kyle, alumni edi­tor;
H. P. Thomas, campus editor;
Melvin C. Patty, circulation man­ager,
Steve Martin, advertising
manager; John Hice, business
manager; Kenneth Funchess, local
circulation manager, and Fred
Wellborn, member of the Board
of Control. The May issue of The
Alabama Farmer will be publish­ed
by the new officers.
Engagement Of Evelyn Jones
To Carol Porter Announced
An engagement of interest to
Auburn is Miss Evelyn Jones of
Birmingham to Mr. Carol Porter,
a former Auburn student.
Miss Jones is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John Wesley Jones
of Birmingham. For the last four
years she has been connected with
the business office of the Birm­ingham
News-Age Herald.
Mr. Porter is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Porter of Woodward.
He received his degree from Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute where
he was a member of Lambda Chi
Alpha social fraternity; He is an
advertising solicitor in the Na­tional
Advertising Department of
the Birmingham-AgeHerald.
Interfrat Ball Is Held At
W. P. A. Hall Friday "
The Interfraternity Council held
its annual Ball in the W. P. A.
Hall Friday evening, April 1 from
9 until 1 o'clock with music by
the Auburn Knights.
There were two Interfraternity
lead-outs lead by Miss Jean Bai­ley
escorted by Mr. George Hair-ston,
president of the Interfra­ternity
Council. There were also
three no-breaks and one surprise
no-break. #
Featured in the decorations were
grape-like clusters of balloons of
blue and green.
Gets Honor
Prof. Frank W. Applebee, of
Auburn, bas been chosen to
serve as president of the Art
Department of the Alabama Ed­ucation
Association for the pre­sent
year. New secretary of the
A. E. A. art department is Sid­ney
W. Little, associate profes­sor
of architecture here. Prof.
Applebee is head of the applied
art department here.
To-Church contests 1930, 1934 and
1935; basket ball cups in 1929,
1930; tennis in 1931; scholarship
awards from the National Chapter
in 1931 and 1933, and the first
fraternity sing presented by Blue
Key and ODK in 1937.
The present officers are: Harry
Campbell, president; Harry Jack­son,
vice-president; Gordon Black,
treasurer; Trewhitt Green, secre­tary;
Percy Owens, Herold, Camb-bell
Evans, Chaplin.
The local Sigma Phi Chapter
was founded in 1908 and chartered
the same year. Since then it has
been an active fraternity on Au­burn's
campus.
The officers giving the initia­tion
rites on this history making
occasion are: Robert McNulty,
president; Carl Adamson, vice-president;
Joe Mack Gafford, sec­retary;
Dan Martin, Historian;
Dick Watkins, House Manager;
Louis J. Vogel, Guard, Harold
Cockerell and Norman McMullen,
Marshalls.
Vocational Home Economics
Girls Give Tea At House
Girls in the educational and
vocational divisions of Home Eco­nomics
at the Practice House, and
Miss G. Wade, who is in charge
of the Practice House, entertained
with a tea on Tuesday afternoon
from 4:30 until 5:30 o'clock, in
honor of those girls who are to be
in the Practice House for the next
six weeks.
Rooms were decorated with
spring flowers. Tea was poured
by Vela Elizabeth Dennis and
coffee by Irma Spears.
Special guests were Dr. and
Mrs. L. N. Duncan, Dean and Mrs.
Zebulon Judd, Dr. and Mrs. J.
V. Brown, Dr. Rosa Lee Walston,
the Misses Edna Orr, Zoe Dobbs,
Dana Gatchell, Lily Spencer, Thel-ma
Graves, Mrs. Marion Richard­son,
Mrs. Inez Schrader, Mrs.
Merle Colquitt, Mary Rosser, Jean
Shaw, Winnie Dyer, Martha Jo
Hendon, and Gladys Ward.
Elaborate Plans For Dance
Being Laid By Ag Group
Definite plans lor the annual
Ag. Club banquet and dance will
be made at the regular meeting
at Comer Hall Auditorium, Wed­nesday
night, April 6.
The Ag. banquet and dance has
been an annual affair for a num­ber
of years. For the first time
the Ag Club will mail invitations
to men connected with agricul­ture
over the state.
Gregory Oakley, president pf the
Ag Club, states that all Ag. club
members should be present at the
meeting, Wednesday night, as im­portant
business concerning the
banquet and dance will be dis­cussed
at that time.
The program following the bus­iness
session has been arranged
by Aaron Baxter, vice president
of the Ag Club.
A. I. E. E. Holds Bi-Monthly
Meeting; Elects Officers
On Monday night, April 4, the
A. I. E. E. held its bi-monthly
meeting, discussed the annual
Southern Student Conference and
elected new officers for next year.
The conference, which was at­tended
by delegates from eight­een
southern colleges, was held
in Lexington Virginia, at the Vir­ginia
Polytechnic Institute.
The delegates from Auburn
were Prof. W. W. Hill, Prof. Wood-row
Darling, John E. Lowery,
Earle Sigler, Harry Brown, Earle
Lindsay, and Jim Boykin. The con­ference
last year was held in Au­burn
and will be held in Miami,
Florida next year.
The new officers for next year
will be Earle Lindsay, chairman;
Eugene Knight vice-chairman; and
Robert E. Ledbetter, secretary-treasurer.
The retiring officers
are John E. Lowery, chairman;
Brandt Cameron, vice-chairman;
and Earle Sigler, secretary-trea­surer.
Large Crowd Attends Joint
Meeting Of F. F. A., F. H. A.
One hundred and fifty persons
attended the Collegiate F. F. A.
—F. H. A. joint social Tuesday
evening of last week at the W. P.
A. Hall.
As each person entered the hall
a large paper sack, having two
holes to facilitate vision, was plac­ed
over the head of each person
by the doorkeeper. The person
who recognized the largest numb­er
of masked persons received a
prize.
Mr. Efl.B. Smith, director of
Physical Education, and Miss Fan­nie
Stollenwerck, instructor of
Physical Education for girls, plan­ned
and supervised the games for
the evening. The games consisted
of relays, games accompanied by
music, quizzes, and several novel
games.
Jerrald McDaniel, Therman Na-bors,
James Neighbors, and Harry
Shaddix from the F. F. A. made
plans for the joint social.
Dorothy Summers, Lucile Pace,
Almeda Aldredge and Margaret
Wold of the F. H. A. chapter were
in charge of arrangements for re­freshments.
Music for the entertainment was
furnished by the C. C. C. boys
from Camp 47. The band consisted
of piano, guitar, trumpet, Hawai­ian
guitar, clarinet, saxophone,
and a "jug".
This was the third joint social
for the respective groups this
year.
Kappa Alpha Will Entertain
With Dance Saturday Night
The Kappa Alpha fraternity
will entertain guests and memb­ers
of the fraternity with an in­vitational
tea dance Saturday* af­ternoon,
April 9 at four o'clock
at thl Student Recreational Hall
with music furnished by the Cav­aliers.
Following the tea dance a
buffet supper will be served at
the Kappa Alpha house for the
members of the fraternity. Satur­day
night the Kappa Alpha fra­ternity
will give an informal dance
at the W. P. A. Hall with the
Cavaliers playing from nine to
twelve.
Chaperones for the dances are:
Dr. and Mrs. Doner, Prof, and
Mrs. Hargraves, Captain and Mrs.
Ham, Dr. and Mrs. Partin, Prof.
P. P. Powers, Dr. and Mrs. E. S.
Winters, Major and Mrs. Alm-quist,
Captain and Mrs. Clepinger,
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Pitts, Major
and Mrs. Laird and Dr. Goff.
Delta Sigma Phi To Hold
Annual Sailor's Ball C""-
Friday night,, April 8, at nine-thirty
the Delta Sigma Phi fra­ternity
will give a Sailor Ball in
the W. P. A. Hall. Music will be
furnished by the Auburn Knights.
Chaperones for the dance are:
Prof, and Mrs. Good, Prof. Darling
Mrs. J. F. Mulligin, house mother,
of the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity.
All other house mothers of the fra­ternities
in Auburn have been in­vited
to chaperone the dance.
Discussion Given
On Ink Market
How it is possible for a com­paratively
new brand of writing
ink to capture a large slice of the
student market in a short time
was revealed today by figures
based on independent surveys
and compiled by National Adver-
Service, Inc., college paper re­presentatives.
The brand of ink in question—
Parker Quink, made by The Park­er
Pen Co., Janesville, Wis.—was
first introduced in 1931. According
to the above mentioned report:
" . . .we find that in 1933, 6 per
cent of the students used Parker
Quink. In 1934, results of cor­related
surveys made by separ­ate
organizations show that 16
per cent of the students used
Quink. Last year's survey (1937)
reveals that 26 per cent of the
students used Quink."
According to Kenneth Parker,
president The Parker Pen Co.,
factors responsible for Quink's ra­pid
climb in sales are, first, the
unique qualities of the product it­self,
and second, intensive national
and local advertising.
Says Mr. Parker: "Our research
laboratory spent 3 years and $68,-
000 to perfect a formula for Quink.
We knew that there were very
definite qualities which the pub­lic
wanted in ink. First, they
wanted one that would dry quick­ly
on paper, yet would not dry in
a pen. So we made an ink that
would dry on paper 31 per cent
quicker than average. Yet be­cause
Quink drys by penetration—
not by evaporation—it does not
dry in a pen.
"The public also wanted an
ink that would not gum,and clog
the feeds of their pens. So we
discovered a special solvent—an
ingredient that" dissolves deposits
left in a pen by ordinary inks.
Hence, Quink actually cleans a
pen as it writes. Having perfected
an ink that would do these things
the logical step was to tell the
public about it. This we did by
forceful and ever-increasing ad­vertising
in national magazines,
college papers, and city newspap-
Lacy Is Guest Of
Alpha Phi Omega
T. W. Lacy, Kansas City, Mo.,
national field representative Of
Alpha Phi Omega, national ser­vice
fraternity for former Boy
Scouts, was the principal speaker
at the annual banquet of the fra­ternity's
Auburn chapter here
Tuesday evening, April 5, at the
Thomas Hotel, beginning at 6:00
o'clock.
Everett Brooks, Birmingham,
president of the Auburn Alpha Phi
Omega chapter, reported that new
members were initiated at the
banquet and that six cups were
awarded to outstanding members
of the freshman class in fencing,
rifle marksmanship, golf, swim­ming,
tennis, and track.
Mr. Brooks and six other mem­bers
of the Auburn chapter, to­gether
with three representatives
from the University of Florida,
this week conducted the installa­tion
ceremonies of the Beta Zeta
chapter of Alpha Phi Omega at
the University of Georgia. Other
members from Auburn who went
to Athens for the installation are
Cecil Chilton, J. W. Cabaniss,
Archie McGillivay, and Sabel
Baumn, of Birmingham; Morgan
Bunch, Anniston; and A. G. Hol-lings,
Charleston, S. C.
Advisors of the Auburn chapter
are Prof. A. L. Thomas, Prof. H.
M. Martin, Dr. Paul Irvine, Prof.
J. M. Robinson, Prof. A. W. Wond-erly,
and the Rev. Sam B. Hay.
LOST one Phi Omega Pi crest
Was lost on March 4. It was on a
blue felt background. If found,
please call 9117.
ers—and the public responded in
ever-increasing numbers."
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PAGE FOUR THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6,1938-
NOTICE
The results of the Plainsman
creative writing contest will ap­pear
in the Friday issue of the
paper.
Eight Faculty Men
To Attend Meeting
Headed by Auburn's Dr. Roger
W. Allen, who is president of the
Alabama Academy of Science, a
group of eight faculty members
of the Alabama Polytechnic Insti­tute
will present papers at the
Academy's annual meeting at hte
State Teachers College in Troy on
Friday and Saturday of this week.
The annual president's address,
titled "Anomalous Alabama," will
be delivered by Dr. Allen at the
banquet during the meeting on
Friday evening.
Scientific papers to be deliv­ered
by members of the Auburn
uliy during the program of
the Biology and Medical Science
section of the meeting are as fol­lows:
"Stimulation of Germina­tion
of Crotalaria Seed by Scald­ing;
Optimum Temperature and
Duration ,of Scalding" and "Annual
Blooming Dates of Certain Com­mon
Plants Possibly Associated
with the Occurance of Hay Fever"
(two papers) by Prof. J. F. Dug-gar;
"White Fringed Beetle in
Alabama," Prof. J. M. Robinson;
"Mortality Studies on Rats after
Lethel Doses of Trichinella Sui-rals,"
Dr. Reed O. Christenson;
"Preliminary Report of Conser­vations
on Morphology of Micro­filaria
Immitis," Dr. R. L. Mund-henk;
"Leucocytosis in Experi­mental
Animals in Response to
Injections of Colloidal Carbon,"
Dr. L. E. Starr; and "Preparation
and care of Raw Pelts in Alaba­ma,"
Prof. Fred S. Barkalow, Jr.
Prof. G. W. Hargreaves, who is
chairman of the Chemistry, Phy­sics
and Mathematics section, will
present a paper titled, "An Im­proved
Method for Preparing 6.
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W. C. Fields Stars
In New Film.
Add Hollywood success stories:
the life of W. C. Fields, the bul-bousnosed
comedian, now hale and
hardy after a protracted siege of
illness, who returns to the screen
in the starring spot of Paramounts
"The Big Broadcast of 1938"
which opens today at the Tiger
Theatre, with Martha Raye, Doro­thy
Lamour, and Shirley Ross
heading the big supporting cast.
Tears were shed when Fields
left the vaudeville stage for mo­tion
pictures. Tears were shed
again when sound came to the
screen and the critics felt that
Field's peculiar type of dialogue
would never get by. And more
tears were shed when Field's ill­ness
forced him to retire for more
than a year.
"He'll never perform again,"
they wailed.
But Fields recovered so com­pletely
that his health is better
than it has been in many, years
and his keen mind is as razor-edg­ed
as it was in the days when he
started.
When Paramount announced
that he would be starred in "The
Big Broadcast of 1938" the gloom
boys shook their heads mourn­fully.
"He's been away too long,"
they insisted.
But then Fields accepted an of­fer
of a guest spot on a national
radio show—and the American
public was so tickled at having
his verbose and florid personality
back again that the sponsors .of
the radio program were forced to
let Fields virtually write his own
ticket for a permanent starring
spot.
And now ,as the star of "The
Big Broadcast of 1938", headed for
even greater success than ever be­fore,
Bill Fields again confounds
the wise-acres who, in the past,
have shed much copious alligator
tears over his supposed profes­sional
grave!
NOTICE
There will be a Scabbard and
Blade meeting Thursday night at
7:0g in Samford 215. It is impor­tant
that all members be there.
S62
Alien immigrants coming into
the United States in 1937 num­bered
50,244. The largest num­ber
came from Germany (10,895),
while 7,192 came from Italy.
Convert it to the 6-Hydroxy Com­pound."
Dr. C. A. Basore will
present a paper during the pro­gress
of this program on "Fuel
Briquettes from' Alabama Lignite
by Destructive Distillation at Low
Temperatures and Briquetting the
Residue without a Binder."
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The Skeleton In The Closet
(Continued From Page One)
true, we were wrong in condemning the organization as a whole.
It is only natural to judge an organization by the action of its rep­resentatives.
We believe that these few (the others have said nothing)
are sincere in their declaration of innocence. Yet, the charges
against some of their members still stand. They should purge their
organization of these men or disprove the charges, if such is possi­ble.
The perpetuation of Spade as a campus organization is a matter
which they must decide for themselves. Recent developments have
arisen that will force them to more clearly define their purpose. Blue
Key, from which Spades draws part of its number, has elected to
enforce a constitutional ruling that their membership is limited to
students who belong to a single leadership fraternity. If Spades is,
as claimed, an inactive social organization, they may be perptuated.
If they are not, as the charges indicate, they may, perforce, merge
with Omricrcn Delta Kappa from which they draw the other part
of their membership. Their fate rests in their own hands.
We ave not been personally concerned with anything that has
gone before and shall not be personally concerned with anything
that follows. The rise of public opinion against the organization
called on us to write the first article. The same public opinion caus­ed
us to write the second. The opposing faction has launched a
counter-attack on the Spades offensive. We are but your war cor.
respondent giving you the news.
Contest Winners Are Given
Cups At Three-way Meeting
Monday evening the members
of the Theta Upsilon Sorority
and the members of the Alpha
Psi Fraternity met jointly with
the Y. W. C. A. and the Y. M. C.
A. Clyde Jones, president of the
Y. M. C. A. presented the Alpha
Psi's with a silver loving cup as
an award for having the highest
percentage of any fraternity at
the end of the Fraternity Go-To-
Church Contest, their rating being
82.29.
Ann Moon, president of the Y.
W. C. A. also presented a silver
Senior Invitations
Be Sold Thursday
Orders will be taken for senior
invitations Thursday at the Main
Gate from 9:00 until 5:00. Dave
Hamilton and Jane Handley will
serve in the capacity of taking the
orders.
Hamilton said that three differ­ent
designs were •being featured
and that they will be quoted at
slightly lower prices this year
than those of last year. It is im­portant
that all those who wish
to secure graduation invitations
that they attend to the matter of
ordering at once so as to allow for
their being gotten back early
enough to be sent out in ample
time before the graduation date.
Theta Chi To Hold Spring
Formal Saturday Night
The Theta Chi fraternity will
hold its Spring semi-formal dance
Saturday night, April 9 at the
Boy's Gym from 9 to 12. Music
will be furnished by the Auburn
Knights.
loving cup to the Theta Upsilon
Sorority for having the highest
rating of any Sorority at the end
of the Contest, which was 88.88.
Both organizations were congrat­ulated
on their cooperation during
the contest.
W- A. A. Girl-Break Dance
Scheduled For Friday
The W. A. A. will stage one of
their girl break dances this Fri­day,
April 8, at the girl's gym
from 9-la. Music will be furnished
by the Cavaliers.
The most interesting feature of
this dance will be the lead-out
featuring all the new members
recently initiated. Those girls re­cently
initiated are: Juanita John­son,
Helen Porch, Beth Murphey,
Vernelle Gamble, Lily Beulah
Whatley, Dorothy Summers, Irene
Sanders, Elizabeth Scrivener, Ka­tie
Lee Robinson, Hazel Meadows,
Kathryn McClellan, Edith Patton,
Sue Quattlebaum, Bettie Bell
Brant, Ila Graves Lockhart, and
Charlie Mae Jackson.
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