1938-03-09 The Auburn Plainsman

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AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1938. NUMBER 45
GENERAL ELECTION DATE IS SET
Inspection Trips
Are Postponed
For A. E. A.
Aero Trip Will Be Held
At Scheduled Time,
Says Wilmore
The annual inspection trip for
juniors in business administration
and seniors in civil, industrial, and
electrical engineering has been
postponed from the week of March
21 to the week of April 9.
The American Education As­sociation
meeting in Birmingham
March 23 was the cause of post­ponement,
Dean John J, Wilmore
of the School of Engineering said.
Seniors in aeronautical engineer­ing
and aeronautical administra­tion
will not postpone their trip.
Approximately 15 seniors in these
courses will leave at the end of
next week to begin a week's in­spection
of the U. S. Naval Air
Station at Pensacola, Fla. Lieu­tenant
B. M. Cornell, professor of
aero engineering, will make the
trip.
The seniors will live for one
week the life of the Naval Air
Corps students. They will be
quartered in barracks inside the
station's grounds and will eat at
the Officer's Mess or Officer's
Club if desired.
Each day will be divided into
four periods devoted to classes
in such subjects as power plants,
carburetion, accessories, ignition,
engine trouble-shooting, engine
overhaul, instrument calibration
and repair, and test stand opera­tion
and technique.
The students will also be given
tours of Corry Field the land
plane base; to take various trips
to nearby points of interest, and
to observe the catapaulting of
planes and packing of parachutes.
Godbold Receives
I. R. C. Honor
Edwin Godbold, junior in fore­ign
service, was elected vice-president
of the Southeastern Con­ference
of International Rela­tions
Clubs at the organization's
recent meeting in Nashville, Ten­nessee.
Making the trip to Nashville as
delegates for the Auburn Club
were David Wittel, Jean Batigne,
Jack Carr, Nancye Thompson and
Godbold.
The 1938 meeting of the South­eastern
I. R. C. was set for Wil­liam
and Mary College, Williams­burg,
Virginia.
Thursday night, March 17, re­presentatives
of the Auburn Club
will present a program at Hunt­ingdon
College in Montgomery.
A new shipment of books on
international events has just been
received by the local I. R. C.
group from the Carnegie Foun­dation,
sponsor of International
Relations Clubs throughout the
world. Any member may obtain
one of these books from the his­tory
library.
Snow—Gilmore Marriage
I s Announced
Miss Kathleen Snow, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Snow
of Montgomery, and Paul Gilmore,
son of Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Gil­more
of Washington, D. C, were
married Saturday afternoon at the
home of the bride's parents in
Montgomery.
The bride and groom were un­attended.
She was attired in a
navy suit with roseberry accesso­ries,
and carried talisman roses.
Mrs. Gilmore attended Hunting­don
College for two years, and
is now a member of the junior
class in Auburn.
The groom is a senior in the
School of Architecture, and. a
member of the Delta Sigma Phi
social fraternity. Following a
short wedding trip Mr. and Mrs.
Gilmore will be at home in Au­burn
where they will continue
in college.
THEY HAVE HIGHEST MARKS
Pictured above are the semester's highest-averaging student, Elmer
Almquist, and the four cousins amassing the highest family average.
Left to right, W. B. Stelzenmuller, Elmer Almquist, Kathleen Bren-nan,
George V. Stelzenmuller, Secretary Ralph Draughon, and W.
J. Brennan.
ALMQUIST LEADS ENTIRE SCHOOL IN
FIRST TERM SCHOLASTIC RANKING
W. B. Stelzenmuller Again
Ranks With Leading
Scholars
Elmer H. Almquist, sophomore
in mechanical engineering, led the
entire school for the first semes­ter
session of 1937-38 with a
scholastic average of 97.72. Close
behind was Willtim B. Stelzen-mulleij,
Birmingham, senior in
civil engineering, with 97.60.
Grades during the first semes­ter
were characterized by an a-mazing
burst of scoring activity.
151 students, made grades of 90
or over, as compared with 119
for last year. 18 students made
averages of 95 or better, as com­pared
with 12 for the first semes­ter
of the 1936-37 session.
Kathleen Brennan, of Girard,
led all women students with an
average of 96.03. Her brother,
William James Brennan, from Gi­rard,
averaged 93.50.
Leading averages by schools
are as follows: School of Engi­neering,
Elmer Almquist, Auburn,
97.72; School of Architecture and
Applied Art, W. T. Warren, Birm­ingham
senior, 93.09; Agriculture,
W. J. Alverson, junior from Tal-ledega,
92.34; Science and Litera­ture,
Kathleen Brennan; Home
Economics, Mary Lucile Rosser,
senior from Newton, 92.10; Vet­erinary
Medicine, George L. Le-wallen,
93.96, sophomore from St.
Petersburg, Fla.; Chemistry and
Pharmacy, Francis Henry Ger-hardt,
Mobile, sophomore, 95.61.
Huntingdon Glee Club
Comes Tomorrow
The Huntingdon College Glee
Club will be heard in concert
at Langdon Hall tomorrow night
at eight o'clock.
The program follows: By the
Glee Club, "Salutaition" by Gaines
"Whither" by Schubert, "Whirl
and Twirl" from the "Flying
Dutchman" by Wagner; By Eliza­beth
Feagin, violinist, "Melody"
by Dawes and "Gypsy Dance" by
Natchez; by the Glee Club, "Ope
Thine Eyes of Blue" by Massenet,
"God of all Nature" (Andante
from 5th symphony) by Tschai-kowsky,
and "The Old Mill's
Grist" by Mana-Zucca; by Arline
Hanke, soprano, "Vissi D'Arte,
Vissi D'Admore" (from Tosca) by
Puccini and "Thy Sweet Singing"
by Olmstead; by Elizabeth Feagin
and the Glee Club, "Lake of
Dreams" by Saint Saens.
Following intermission will
come: by Doris Miller, pianist,
"Malaguena" by Lecuano; By
Sue Grant, Jeanne Walker, and
Sarah McDonald, a selected trio;
by Ida Sue Wren, soprano, "L'a-mour
Toujours L'amour" by Friml
and the Indian Love Call by Friml;
By Misses Hanke, Soprano and
Feagin, violinist, "The Green Win­dow,"
by Jensen; by the Glee
Club, "Beautiful Sky," a Mexican
folk song, "You're in Love" by
Friml, and "Alma Mater."
Tech Beats Ole Miss
For Loop Title
Georgia Tech's towering torna­does
assumed an early lead and
then staved off a late Rebel rally
to defeat Mississippi, 58 to 47, in
the finals of the Southeastern Con­ference
basketball tournament in
Baton Rouge last Saturday night.
It was the Jackets first basket­ball
title since the inauguration
of tournament play back in 1919.
Paced by lanky Bo Johnston,
who scored 26 points, Tech soon
solved the Rebel's quick breaking
attack that had bewildered Ten­nessee
and L. S. U. in the earlier
rounds of the tournament. Bonnie
(Country) Graham's 23 points
were high for Mississippi, and
brought his tourney total to 71.
Midway in the second half, Tech
had a lead of a dozen points when
Graham and Frank Kinard broke
loose on a scoring streak that car­ried
Mississippi to within two
points of tying the score, 44-42.
However, Jones and Johnston sank
several long shots to give the
Engineers back their fairly com­fortable
lead.
The following is the all-South­eastern
Conference basketball
picked by coaches, officials and
sports writers: Forwards, Country
Graham, Mississippi; Bill Jordan,
Georgia Tech. Center, Dietrich
Neyland, Tulane. Guards, Conley
Hathorn, L. S. U.; Bill Opper, Ken­tucky.
The second team was com­posed
of Joe Hagan, Kentucky, and
Welton Putnam, Tennessee at for­wards;
Bo Johnston, Georgia Tech,
center; Junior Anderson, Georgia
Tech, and Fletcher Sims, Georgia
Tech, at Guards.
In the second round of play,
after drawing a bye in the first,
the Auburn Tigers were badly
beaten by Louisiana State, 60-34.
The Bengals were somewhat dis­organized
and their attack never
clicked from start to finish, the
L. S. U. aggregation winning eas­ily.
Burton's To Furnish Caps
And Gowns This Year
The contract for graduation caps
and gowns this year has been
given Burton's Bookstore, accord­ing
to announcement made yes­terday
by Woodrow Hall, presi­dent
of the senior class.
Every student with a chance of
graduating is asked to drop by
Burton's and be measured. This
will entail no obligation on the
student's part, but the gown will
be available whether he graduates
or not.
This marks the third time in re­cent
years that caps and gowns
will be worn at graduation.
Wide Intramural
Sports Proqram
Is Outlined
Softball And Tennis Are
Among Tourneys To
Be Played
Fraternity, independent, and all-campus
competition in seven sports
will feature Auburn's biggest
spring of intramurals according to
Prof. E. B. Smith, director of intra­mural
athletic activities.
Five distinct competitions will
be held in the men's division of
the intramurals, one for fraterni­ties,
one for independents, one
for freshmen one for all campus
students, and one for the faculty.
The schedule for fraternity, in­dependent,
and all-campus sports
follows:
Foul throwing, 7:00 to 10:00 p.
m. at Alumni Gymnasium, March
14-15. This is an all-campus event
both fraternity men and independ­ents
being eligible to enter.
Fraternity tennis entries are
due March 25. Play starts March
30. Independent tennis entries
come in March 30 and competition
will begin April 5.
The fraternity horseshoe tourna­ment
is scheduled for entries
March 25. Play will start March
30. Independent horseshoe entries
are due March 30, and play will
start April 5.
Fraternity softball entries come
in March 16 and play begins March
21. Independent softball entries
are due March 30; competition
begins April 5.
Fraternity track competition
will be held March 25.
All-campus singles and doubles
in tennis are scheduled to begin
March 23, with entries due March
18. Horseshoe all-campus entries
come March 23, and competition
gets under way March 30.
The all-campus shuffleboard
tournament entry and start of
competition dates are April 8 and
April 13. Entries for all-campus
golf are due April 2, competition
beginning April 5.
The all-campus tennis doubles
championship of the tournament
which began last fall was won
this week by John Paul Champ-bell,
Scottsboro, junior in aero­nautical
engineering, and James
B. (Ja^ck) Cagle, Crossville, fresh­man
in agriculture. Cagle is
scheduled to play Dan Hixon, jun­ior
in civil engineering, in the
finals of the singles tournament.
Prof. Smith announces that the
money raised by the Tennis Courts
Fund Carnival last year has been
turned over to him to carry on
the work of constructing the
courts below the gymnasium. He
plans to begin active work im­mediately.
Plans are being made to have
the entire intramural sports pro­gram
next year on a systematized
basis, with an intramural hand­book
published at the beginning of
school giving the opening dates
of all sports events. Records are
being kept of the various intra­mural
tournaments this year.
Details of competition in faculty
and freshman competition will be
given in Friday's Plainsman.
General Spring Elections Will Be Held March
24; Chairman Lehnert Calls For Petitions
9 CANDIDATES QUALIFY FOR ELECTIVE
POSTS ON PLAINSMAN, GLOMERATA
By KIRTLEY BROWN
Nine candidates were qualified
to run for elective positions on
the 1938-39 Plainsman and Glom-erata
by the Board of Student
Publications Tuesday afternoon
which met in the President's of­fice.
All of the candidates which re­ceived
the sanction of the Board
have a scholastic average at the
end of the last semester of 80 or
(above and havje completed 92
hours of credit or more.
Names of the qualified candi­dates
together with their scho­lastic
average and number of cre­dit
hours completed follow:
For editor of the Glomerata—
Dallas Benton, 83.88, 93.67 and
Perry Schwartz, 86.11, 98.67.
For business manager Glom­erata—
William Cuthbert Farley,
80.14, 97.33.
For editor of the Plainsman—
L. E. Foster, 80.43, 92; Edwin C.
Godbold 86.87, 101.33; and J. H.
Wheeler, 90.64, 105.83.
For business manager of the
Plainsman—Charles Grisham, 87.-
90, 127.67; Sam Teague, 91.18,
106; and Alvin Vogtle, 89.36, 100.-
33.
CHAIRMAN
George Lehnert, elections com­mittee
chairman, announces that
all petitions must be in his hands
by March 17.
Local Pi K. A.'s Go To
District Meet
Malcolm McDonald, president,
Billy McGehee, and Randolph
Panell were representatives from
Auburn at the National Celebra­tion
of the 70th anniversary of the
founding of Pi Kappa Alpha in
Birmingham Friday.
The five Alabama Chapters sent
delegates to this district conven­tion,
and each chapter was award­ed
a scholarship cup by the Bir­mingham
Alumni Chapter. At the
end of the year the name of the
member with the highest grades
for the year will be engraved on
the cup-
A banquet and dance were given
for the delegates Friday night at
the Club Rex. Besides the regu­lar
delegates, R. f. Young, Harry
Bailey, Billy McCulloch, and Bill
Pate attended this part of the
celebration. Music was furnished
by Coleman Sachs.
Married Students
Are Numerous
Twenty-five women and eighty-two
men answered "yes" in the
"are you married?" blank when
they registered at Auburn this
fall.
Approximately half the married
women are enrolled in the School
of Education and one-third are in
the School of Home Economics, Ed
ucation is also popular with mar­ried
men—19 being in agricul­tural
education alone. In the Vet­erinary
School there are 16, and
in agriculture 13. The largest per
cent of the married men are in
the senior class and the smallest
among the freshmen.
On the average, the married wo­men
are ten years older than the
unmarried co-eds, but the men are
only five to seven years older
than their contemporaries. The
majority of these students have
returned to college after an ab­sence
of several years, and often
find adjustment to the old rou­tine
difficult. But the professors
say as a general rule they make
very serious students and make
excellent grades.
Their reasons for returning to
school are varied. With the men
it is usually the desire for the
better position that will be ob­tainable
with a college degree.
The women offer a variety of rea­sons.
"I don't play bridge or care
for women's clubs," said one, "an A
I find that college gives me the
outside interests I need." Another
commented "I've always had a de­sire
to draw, and now that my
children are in school I'm taking
an art course."
Of the 107 married students, on­ly
three couples are going to
school. Number of hours carried
varies. The average for women
is nine, because they find it dif­ficult
to keep house while attend­ing
classes. The youngest marri­ed
co-ed is carrying 18 hours.
A number of the students have
children. One senior in home eco­nomics
is the mother of a seven­teen
months old baby.
Florida Newspaperwoman
Makes Home Here
Mrs. Lois Cantrell, former Flo­rida
representative of the As­sociated
press, is making her home
in Auburn.
Murphy High Wins
State Tourney
For the fifth time in the history
of the annual High School Tourn­ament
sponsored by the English
department, the dramatic contest
was won Saturday by Murphy
High School players directed by
Mrs. Louise K. Hamil.
Murphy High won the decision
in the' finals over Wetumpka and
Anniston High. The play, present­ed
by Murphy was "Auf Wieder-sehen,"
by Sada Gowan, with the
following cast: Jeanne Barton, Do­ris
Smothers, George Wadlow, Ed­win
Zelnicker, Charles Clay,
Charles Dyas. Assistant director of
the play was Miss Ruth Knudsen,
With F. Lee Bridgewater, stage
manager.
All who saw her portray the
the part of the Jewess in the Nazi
tragedy which Murphy gave were
agreed that Jeanne Barton present­ed
the most polished performance
of the tournament. Jeannette
Knapp, Auburn, also received
commendations for her splendid
acting in "On Vengeance Height",
given by Lee,County High School.
Tournament awards were pre­sented
to the following first and
second place winners: Editorial
writing, Samford Ellis, Union
Springs; Doris Parnell, Anniston
and Beara Jones, Dallas County
High third. High school newspa­per
contest, Campus News, Lanett,
Gaines Brewster, editor, Fred J.
Ballenger, adviser; Murphy Hi-
Times, Mobile, Clotene Bodiford,
editor, Miss Anita Wagner, adviser
Piedmont Hi-Life, Piedmont, War­ren
Woolf, editor, Miss Rhodes, ad­viser,
(third).
Mathematics puzzle contest Mary
Frances Watson, Cleburne County
High, and Frances Corbin, West
End High, Birmingham, Mathe­matics
essay contest, Ouida Qull-ian,
Russellville High, and Warren
Buckner, Holtville High.
Spelling contest, Katherine Sam­ple
and Montez Guy, Hopeville
High. Winner in the Alabama his­tory
contest, Frank Casey, Pied-,
mont.
Chemistry contest, Garland
Wood, Jr., Tuscaloosa High, and
Harley P. Brown, Uniontown. Fo­restry,
Leon Stevens, Piedmont
and Maurice Boles Piedmont. Pub­lic
speaking, prepared speech, Ha-riet
Lowry, West End High, Bir­mingham,
Mary Watson, Cleburne.
(Continued on page (our)
Cabinet And Class Officers
Will Be Chosen
At Polls
Thursday, March 24, was set
by the Executive Cabinet ltast
night as the date for the General
Spring Election on the campus. At
this time the editors and business
managers of the Plainsman and
Glomerata, all cabinet members,
and all class officers will be cho­sen.
Election is under supervision of
George Lehnert, Elections Chair­man
for the Student Cabinet. Le­hnert
said this morning the date
had been moved to March 24 this
year to prevent a conflict with
the various inspection trips.
All petitions for positions must
be turned over to Lehnert at 117
East Glenn not later than noon
Thursday, March 17. Any petition
later than this is void and all pe­titions
must be made out accord­ing
to the "Rat Bible", signed
by at least 25 students of the same
class as the candidate.
Lehnert announced the election
of the May Queen this year had
been added to the General Elec­tion
March 24.
Cabinet officers are to be elected
by popular vote after Cabinet
posts are filled. Exact date for
this will be released later.
Junior ballots will be the full­est,
due to the fact that this class
is to vote on publication heads,
Cabinet members, and class Of­ficials.
Freshmen and Sophomore
ballots will contain names of Cab­inet
and class aspirants, and the
co-eds will vote on their Woman
Student Representative to the Ex­ecutive
group. All three classes
will vote on the May Queen.
As in the past, the election will
be held in student center. Anyone
politicking at the polls will auto­matically
lose his voting privi­leges;
in severe cases the offender
must appear before the Cabinet.
Regulations for the election may
be found in the Rat Bible.
Lehnert announced that in ord­er
to avoid misunderstanding at a
later date, all names on ballots
would appear in alphabetical
order.
Faculty Dance Announced
For March 17
With music by the Auburn Ca­valiers,
a dance for the Auburn
faculty will be held Thursday
evening, March 17, in Student
Center, according to announce­ment
of Prof. John W. Roe, chair­man
of the faculty dance commit­tee.
The dance will begin at 9 p. m.
and continue until midnight. In
addition to members of the fac­ulty,
a large number of towns­people
are expected to attend.
Among those serving on the
ticket committee are K. G. Bar­rens,
W. E. Sewell, W. D. Sal­mon,
C. R. Saunders, Dr. R. L.
Mundhenk, Charles W. Edwards,
Roy Staples, C. A. Dilley, Alex O.
Taylor, B. M. Cornell, Major R.
A. Laird, Mrs. A. F. Nickel, Mrs.
R. B. Draughon, Mrs. W. M. Full­er,
Mrs. John T. Oliver.
Robert Richman Wins Annual
Ping Pong Tournament
Robert Richman of Albany, N.
Y., won the free for all Winter
Ping Pong Tournament, sponsor­ed
by the Wesley Foundation,
which ended Saturday when Rich-man
took three straight games
over Carter Wall of Forest Home.
Wall came to the finals after
a three to one victory over W. G.
Cornett of Athens, Ga. Richman
placed in the finals by a three
to nothing victory over Lawrence
Barnett of Auburn.
Richman won the Fall Tourna-
Loxley who was defeated the
year before by Milton Roth of
Jacksonville, Fla., the winner or
the 1936-37 Tournament.
PAGE TWO THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1938
The Auburn Plainsman
Published Semi-Weekly By The Students
Of The Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
Auburn, Alabama
Business and editorial offices at Lee County
-Bulletin building on Tichenor Avenue. Phone
448. Editors may be reached after office hours
by calling 159 or 363, business manager 363.
J. R. Buntin Editor -
R. H. Workman - Managing Editor
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, John Ivey, S. G.
• Slappey, Laurens Pierce, Eugenia Sanderson.
Kate Gresham
BUSINESS STAFF
Assistant Business Managers: Sam Teague.
. Alvin Vogtle.
Advertising Manager: Charlie Grisham.
Assistant Advertising Managers: William Car­rol,
Julian Myrick.
Advertising Assistants: Bob Berney, Bob Arm-strong.
Circulation Manager: Arthur Steele.
Circulation Assistants: Claude Hayden, Tom
Cheatham, William Rotenberry.
Represented for national advertising by Na­tional
Advertising Service, Inc. Member of As­sociated
Collegiate Press. Distributor of Col­legiate
Digest.
EDITOR'S NOTE
As is the practice at this time of the
year, several issues of the Plainsman
a r e turned over to Junior members of
t h e staff so that they may become bet­t
e r acquainted with the inside job of
editing the paper. Issues are edited by
different members who aspire to hold
the job of editor and are used by the
students and Publications Board for
comparing the ability of the aspirants.
This issue is the second to be edited
by J. H. Wheeler this year. He has been
i n complete charge of all assignments,
copy reading, proof reading, head writ­ing,
and lay-out. , ,
SALUTE TO THE CO-EDS
We tender a verbal bouquet to the Wo­men's
Student Government for the work they
are accomplishing this year.
One of the best series of forums ever of­fered
the co-eds was conducted this winter.
More uniform regulations for Smith Hall
and the boarding houses have been effected.
Wednesday afternoon teas have been enjoyed
by all the girls. Helpful cooperation has been
given by Dean Dobbs and Dr. Walston.
The co-eds have caught their stride. They
are taking part in mixed extra-curricular ac­tivities,
in honor societies, and in four soro­rities.
The Women's Athletic Association is
one of the largest co-ed organizations and
plays a prominent part in the annual May
Spring Festival.
Enrollment is increasing every year and
before long we hope to see improved and en­larged
housing facilities. A building devoted
entirely to Home Economics is also hoped for.
Behind this advancement is the Women's
Student Government. Seven girls are elect­ed
each year as representatives, on the basis
of ability and leadership. Their success de­pends
on the attitude of the co-eds, but their
task to unify and organize the girls is made
difficult by the scattered living quarters
rather than by lack of cooperation from the
girls themselves. ^
They believe that when the conduct and
academic success of the girls is based on
self-respect, there is less deceit and failure
than when activity is overbalanced by anti­quated
rules.
For their efforts under trying conditions
and their growing success, we congratulate
the W. S. S.
Co-ed Editorial
DID YOU SAY THRILLS?
•
If you want a thrill in Auburn, you're not
dependent on a Western movie, a moonlight
hike with a cute date, or flying with the
Aero Club. We find just standing at Toom-er's
Corner and observing the traffic a thrill.
Whoops, we thought she hit it, but the
V-8 swerved into the curb just in time to
avoid an over-bearing truck and barely miss
an elderly pedestrian furtively darting a-cross
the street! There's the merry-go-round
act again—three cars tangled around the
intersection center of College and Magnolia
impatiently trying to break into the stream
of South College bicycles, motorcycles, skat­ers,
dogs, and little children!
Occasionally we read touching articles
written by parents pleading with motorists
to "spare their children." Even the local
Kiwanis Club has taken up the cry with a
sign "Drive Slowly—we love our children"
placed near the Lee County High School.
But college students must make their own
plea- Can it carry a significant note of pathos,
sentiment, or whatever it takes to warrant
traffic lights?
During a recent convention here a car fill­ed
with high school children was struck.
Signal deficiency was the attributed cause.
Fortunately (if we may call it fortunately),
only the teacher with them was seriously in­jured.
Suppose a series of similar accidents
occurred during one of the college's frequent
conventions and many people were injured
or killed. To say the least, it wouldn't pop­ularize
conventions here.
Why don't we have traffic lights? Are we
waiting for a major disaster? There have
been far too many accidents already this
year. The responsibility of traffic regula­tions
this deficiency places on our local po­lice
officers is unfair and it's unjust to tax-paying
citizens and the college population
to be constantly exposed to this hazard. We
want traffic lights! !
J. M. B-FUTURE
AUBURNITES
Last week Auburn was host to several
hundred high school students.
Evidence that they are the very talent
needed to build that "greater Auburn" lies
in the fact that they came here as the "pick"
of State schools to compete in the dramatic
tournament and to participate in individual
contests of art, music, and science. Yet we
let this rare opportunity to interest them
in our institution slip by.
Picture pamphlets of any school are inter­esting;
clever publicity stories of football
teams, professors, and outstanding personal­ities
stimulate interest; but wouldn't a per­sonal
visit into some of our departments by
these visiting students give concrete evidence
of our worth?
Several of these youngsters remarked that
they liked Auburn much better since they'd
seen the buildings and the campus. They
liked our friendliness. However, between
plays and contests, they wondered and
wandered about the school. There was our
opportunity. Why didn't we have student
guides representing different schools take
these alert prospects through the textile
building, the engineering and physics labor­atories,
so they might see things in operation?
For those interested in art the architectur­al
building held charms—behind closed doors.
Why didn't we show those interested in
science (and a large group were entering
scientific contests) through the chemistry
building and the veterinary department? A
visit to the Ag Hill buildings and the experi­ment
station would certainly have proved
worth while.
We should have extended our hospitality
even further. Why did we not give the group
a dance at the W. P. A. Hall? We want them
to go back talking Auburn, thinking Au­burn,
and we hope eventually returning tc
Auburn as their Alma Mater.
Certainly it was an opportunity for A. P. I.
to "sell", as a large per cent of the contest­ants
were juniors and seniors in high school.
And it isn't too early for us to organize our
plans for future high school tournaments.
BENEFITS MUTUAL
Joint meetings of Ag Club and A. V. M. A.
this year are bringing together in close co­operation
the School of Agriculture and the
School of Veterinary Medicine.
These meetings are valuable not only for
the friendly feeling they arouse, but also
professionally. After graduation the ag man
and the veterinarian must work together-one
advising the farmer regarding crops, the
other doctoring his work animals-
Mutual interchange of ideas in these joint
sessions can give each group many things of
use. We think it a fine idea and hope to see
it more next year.
Reading Tips
Believing that each week a
column should be devoted to
staff interpretation and critL
cism of some feature or features
campus life, we are offering:
these comments on the library
—a focal point of classroom and
recreational activity. Ed.
That we need a new library
building is not questioned by any
who have seen the 60,000 volumes
of our present set-up flowing from
backroom shelves bursting with
excess of books to the stacks of
the main floor and crowding a
reading section far deficient in
seating capacity judged by mini­mum
standards of any accepted
library plan.
The steady stream of new books
and periodicals coming into the
Library this year and last has
brought endless shifting from room
to room, floor to floor, and final­ly
to the reading room stacks
where such clutter was never in­tended.
Quoting Miss Mary Martin,
"We are at the place where if we
get 50 new books we have to
shift 5000."
Such conditions obviously lend
themselves to nothing but sub-par
library ranking. Nationally-accepted
library standards call for
absolute minimum seating capa­city
of 25 per cent of students
registered. Dartmouth College re­commends
40 per cent with 20
square feet of space per student;
The University of North Caro­lina
38 per cent. In a tight pinch,
our library can accommodate 75
of the 2800 students here, or
two and six-tenths per cent.
Nor is administration provided
for. In most libraries, the head
librarian has her private office.
Here her office is the unpacking
room, the storehouse for unbound
magazines, the order department,
the bookkeeping department, the
clearing house where three people
are constantly at work. The li­brarian
is left with one corner
which she may call her own.
We would like to see a library
on this campus with a reading
room for reading only and a chang­ing
central desk entirely separate,
to eliminate the present whisper­ing
gallery which obliges every­one
to listen to the calls for books
and papers. We need cubicles, too,
for special projects; typewriters
for tedious reference jobs; a peri­odical
room; a reserve book room.
Another pressing want is lecture
rooms for instruction in the use
of the library.
* * *
Comes a look at the bright side.
Last year the library met Sou­thern
Association standards of
three library dollars spent per
pupil. Three thousand books were
acquired in 1936-37; more have
come this year, and the requisit­ion
is not exhausted. Choices have
been excellent—scarcely a book
of recognized worth has come
from the presses 'that has not
quickly found its way to our shel­ves.
We congratulate Miss Martin,
Miss Lee, Miss Davis, and the ot­hers
of the very efficient library
staff.
* * •
The eye-strain evil "of study in
the library is soon to be removed
with installation of new lights
in the main reading room. The
original library building in 1908
was not expected to house the ex­tensive
stacks on the main floor,
and an excess of shadows makes
present lighting far below par.
* * •
Literary laurels of the thirties
will go to the American foreign
correspondents—the newspaper
boys who hobnob with the dicta­tors,
hear the booming of the guns
on the firing lines, delve into dip­lomatic
intrigues, and then write
for the information of a nation in­tensely
interested in world con­ditions.
Now in the library is practi­cally
every book of note written
by a foreign correspondent since
1935. Newest is Eugene Lyons,
Assignment in Utopia (1937), a
picture of disillusionment seen
through the eyes of an American
newspaper man who saw Rus­sia
under Communism from 1928
to 1934. William Henry Chamber-lain.
Japan Over Asia (1937) is
the latest in print on the Chinese
situation.
Others are John Gunther, In.
side Europe (1936); Negley Far-son,
The Way of A Transgressor
(1936); Walter Duranty, I Write as
I Please (1935), and more lately
One Life, One Kopeck (1937).
These books are current histor­ies—
to read them is to gain the
inside view of world conditions, j
(Continued on page four)
CAMPUS OPINION
A cross-section Plainsman poll this week showed 40 per
cent of the students preferring a maximum of ten per cent
class cuts.
The following ballot was handed to 100 students at ran­dom
over the campus: "Were you to choose, would you: (1)
Leave the cut ruling as it is? (2) Allow a maximum of 10
per cent class cuts? (3) Give 20 per cent cuts? (4) Or abolish
all cut rules?" Comments were asked.
Football players, co-eds, and students from every School
replied with the following results:
1. For no change
2. For 10 per cent cuts
3. For 20 per cent cuts
4. For abolition
-40
.33
-19
Three students wanted a Dean's list, permitting cuts ac­cording
to scholastic averages. "The 90 student deserves more
cuts than the borderline man," they said.
Abolitionists mentioned the Chicago no-cut system as
having proven its psychological value. "College students
are not babies. They are old enough to know they should
attend classes," one commented. Another thought "If tne
student finds he can do the required work and spend part
of his time profitably outside the classroom, he should be
permitted to do it."
Comments at random from the plurality wanting half-way
ground between the old system of 20 per cent cuts and
the no-cut order:
1. "10 per cent cuts hold you to the classroom and still
allow some leniency."
2. "We need some restrictions, but the present system is
too extreme. A 10 per cent ruling would strike a happy
medium between new and old."
3. "Some classes are unavoidably missed through no un­willingness
of the student to attend."
4. "Students may want to leave Auburn occasionally with­out
being on the 'sick list.' Many boys living within a radius
of 150 to 200 miles never get home on week-ends under the
new system."
5. "Compulsory attendance is forcing our education down
our throats and eliminating the necessity for the professor
to be interesting or even informative"
Reasons given by die-hards in the 20 per cent ranks were
substantially the same as those on the 10 per cent ballots.
Those favoring no change cited records showing 151
students made SKL averages this year as compared with 119
for last.
Air Briefs
BT J. B. THOMAS
Walt Disney's new Mickey
Mouse radio program is now in
the groove. The characters are
taking on more reality and lis­teners
are reaching the point
where they can even understand
Donald Duck. The duck has less
to say, which means that listeners
only want to hear more.
• • •
Mae West smiled prettily for all
reporters and photographers upon
her recent arrival in Chicago for
a personal appearance at a local
theaetr. However, she tactfully de­clined
all offers of a radio mic­rophone.
No doubt the buxom lady
remembers the rebound of her
"Adam and Eve" skit with Don
Ameche on the Chase and San
born Hour. Millions of listeners
wrote in their protests of the mod­ernization
of the Garden of Eden.
» • •
For the most dramatic of the
current radio programs we pick
"Lights Out." They a r e written by
one of Hollywood's best penmen,
Arch Oobler, and are aired from
Chicago via NBC at 11:30 on Wed­nesday
nights. Oobler was draft­ed
from the ranks of NBC's writ­ers
because of these programs. A-mong
others, he revised Adam and
Eve for Mae West and caused
quite a furor in network circles.
• • •
The time approaches when any
band leader who sings the titles
of songs will have to carry a gun.
Sammy Kaye drew first blood by
accusing Blue Barron of stealing
his trick. Kaye averred that he
adopted the practice from an old
Gus Arnheim recording. Barron
admitted that he was guilty of
theft, but he said that he swiped
the idea from Kay Kyser. Kyser
has reserved comment thus far.
He merely continues to introduce
his as "the band that gave you
singing song titles."
• • •
Ramblin'—Tommy Dorsey has
replaced Bud Freeman, tenor sax
ace, with Herbie Haymer, ex-member
of Red Norvo's outfit—
Art Kassel is breaking all records
at the Bismark Hotel in Chicago
—Jesse Crawford is back at the or­gan
console, having dropped his
band for a theater tour—Benny
Goodman has returned to the Ho­tel
Pennsylvania. Box office re­ports
show that receipts dropped
off 50 per cent when Bob Crosby
replaced him several weeks back
—Dorothy Lamour may return to
Personalities Worth
Knowing
1. Recently selected outstanding
senior in Veterinary Medicine was
(1) Howard Cobb Arrendale (2)
George Eason (3) J. C. McNeil
(4) Francis O. Garrett.
2. First place in the January
Freshman Achievement Test to
measure English progress went to
(1) Jack Loeb (2) Frank Samford
(3) Beth Murphy (4) Martha
Childress.
3. President of the Collegiate
Future Farmers this year is (1)
McKinney Thomas (2) Charles
Hollingsworth (3) N. R. Crawford
(4) Claude Hardee.
4. House mother for the Phi
Delta Thetas is (1) Mrs. Lessie
Gewin (2) Mrs. J. F. Mullikin
(3) Mrs. Ruby Hart (4) Miss A-merica
Ball.
5. William B. Stelzenmuller is
president of the new engineer­ing
organization at Auburn known
as (1) Psi Upsilon (2) Tau Kappa
Alpha (3) Tau Beta Pi (4) Chi
Epsilon (5) Eta Kappa Nu.
6. Highest scorer for the basket­ball
team this season was (1) Mal­vern
Morgan (2) J. P. Streetman
(3) Cecil Wallace (4) Rex Mc-
Kissick (5) Crawford Holmes.
7. Sergeant George Moxham is
known for his (1) service in the
French Foreign Legion (2) popu­lar
instruction of Engineers (3) ex­cellent
bass voice (4) skill in
throwing knives.
8. Margaret Mullins is (1) fac­ulty
adviser for Kappa Delta Pi
(2) dietitian for the college (3)
outstanding student in business
administration from Dothan (4)
President of the Auburn Players.
(If you recognize these people,
politics is your calling. If not,
we advise the back page ans­wer
key.)
the bandstand when Herbie Kay
opens with his band at the Coco­nut
Grove. She is Mrs. Kay, you
know—There will be plenty of
swinging when Yale students start
junior proming on March 12. Chick
Webb, Hudson-DeLange, and Dick
Messner have been signed for
house parties—Russ Morgan has
signed to make 24 recordings for
Brunswick this year. Not bad,
due to the fact that "Music in the
Morgan Manner" leads in Bruns­wick
sales.
News And Views
L. E. FOSTER
"The only way to get rid of a
temptation is to yield to it."
—Oscar Wilde.
One of the great temptations
of college life is leaving blank
true-false questions when you are
in doubt. It takes a powerful con­stitution
to resist marking plus or
minus when you know you have
a 50-50 chance.
Judging from the few questions
that are left "unguessed at", we
must all^be gamblers at heart.
* * *
REMARKS AT RANDOM —
Many a modern ^salesman could
write a book on how to wine
friends and influence people.
NEWS INTERNATIONAL —
If Europe keeps up the slaughter
pace she has for the last few
years, she will have to fight her
wars with iron firemen or robots,
for purges, revolutions, and wars
are killing thousands of her peo­ple
each year.
Generalissimo Francisco Franco,
Spanish Nationalist, says that
400,000 persons have been killed
in She Spanish Red Territory
since the outbreak of the civil
war in Spain. Russia boasts of
having salted away over 2,000
administration enemies in the last
three years, and she is going
strong in her current campaign.
Germany has not engaged in
purging on such a large scale as
Rusia, but her guillotines have
been plenty active.
Living is a real achievement in
Europe.
* * *
DID YOU KNOW THAT— A-bout
$3,000,000 of mutilated cur­rency
is returned to the United
States Mint each year for re­demption?
* * *
DEMPSEY NEWS—Jack Demp-sey
has gone in the whiskey busi­ness
and is putting these words
on bottle labels, "Drink no whis­key
if you're under 21."
You certainly couldn't call a
whiskey vendor a temperance man
but Jack's bottle advice has an
element of temperance promotion
in it.
Despite the advice of Dempsey,
we shouldn't think that there will
be a great number of people sit­ting
around waiting for their 21st
birthday. It's clever advertising
though, Jack.
' • * * *
SATIRE — The president has
not been fishing for nearly a
month. He must have caught a
stingaree on his last expedition.
For certain he's in a school of
Congress stingarees, and of neces­sity
he is being a bit more careful
where he casts his hooks.
* * *
SOUTHERN NEWS— It looks
like the beginning of the end for
private utility companies in the
Tennessee Valley. T. V. A. Di­rector
David Lilenthal last Sat­urday
announced the intention of
the Tennessee Valley Authority to
buy out private utility companies
in the T. V. A. area.
Willike, head of Commonwealth
and Southern, expressed satisfac­tion
with Lilenthal's proposal, but
said that the only terms under
which such a purchase might be
agreeable to his corporation would
be for the government to buy the
entire unit—not just parts of the
system.
The government's taking over
utilities might be as sound a
move as its assuming control of
the mail system, but nevertheless
we cannot be in sympathy with
any government plan to crowd
out private enterprise.
* * *
NEWS RAMBLES—Henry Ford
still predicts that we are approach­ing
the greatest era the world
has ever known . . . Buddy Baer
was out as cold as a polar bear
last week when the Finnish batt­ler,
Gunnar Barland, beat him for
seven rounds . . . British authori­ties
estimate that rearmament
expenditures for their five-year
program will exceed $1,500,000,-
000 . . . Glenn Cunningham and
Barney Oldfield have much in
common after that record break­ing
mile Glenn ran last week . . .
The impossible happened, when
handsome Slim Summerville with­ered
under Cupid's blow. He re­cently
made public the secret
that he married Eleanor Brown
last December in Mexico . . . We
hope that Auburn's 1938 contri­bution
to professional football,
Happy Sivell, will have the luck
at professional ball swiping that
he enjoyed last season in ama­teur
play. . . Students, which is
worse, the swarm of June bugs
every year or the swarm of poli­ticians?
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1938 THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
CADETS, HONOR GROUPS IN SPOTLIGHT
W. P. A. Hall Is
Scene 01 Honor
Groups Dance
Members of 18 campus honor
societies will mingle at the W. P.
A. Hall Saturday night in the
annual Honor Societies Ball. Danc­ing
will begin at 9 o'clock, to con­tinue
until 12. The Knights will
play.
Miss Caroline Atkins of Sel-ma,
a senior at Gulf Park College,
will lead the dance with John
Scott Pollard, Blug Key president
from Selma.
There will be a Grand March,
two no-breaks, and a series of
leadouts complimenting groups of
societies.
Blue Key, leadership fraterni­ty,
sponsors the Honor Societies
Ball. John Pollard, president, is in
charge of arrangements.
The program for leadouts fol­lows:
(1) Scabbard and Blade,
Cardinal Key, Theta Epsilon. (2)
O. D. K., Rho Chi, Delta Sigma
Pi. (3) Kappa Delta Pi, Phi Psi,
Chi Epsilon. (4) Tau Beta Pi,
Spades, Gamma Sigma Delta. (5)
Eta Kappa Nu, Phi Lambda Up-silon,
Scarab. (6) Phi Kappa Phi,
Spades, Tau Kappa Alpha.
The dance will be formal. All
senior and junior members of
the eighteen listed groups are in­vited;
but juniors will attend as
stags.
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Pledges Entertain
K. D. Members
The pledges of Kappa Delta So­rority
entertained the members
and their dates with a formal
Green and White Ball on Friday
evening, March 4, at the W. P.
A. Hall between the hours of nine-thirty
and one-thirty.
All members, pledges, and rus-hees
were dressed in either green
or white or white and green to
feature the society colors.
Lucile Lewis of Tuskegee, a
graduate of last year, and Betty
Beckert of Gadsden, a student
here last semester, were the a-lumni
returning for the evening.
Each pledge had the privilege of
inviting a visitor for the ball
Among those attending were Jos­ephine
Calhoun of Columbus, Ga.
visiting Ann Dexter; Teny Wil­liams,
of Opelika; and Connie
Oseth, Fort Benning, Ga., a visi­tor
of Gene Scott. Little sisters
present were Betty Pearson
Montgomery; Nancy Powers
Greensboro; and Annie Lyde Le-wis,
Tuskegee. Several of the Au­burn
High School seniors were in­vited.
Those attending were Em
ma Nell Parrish, Jule Tisdale, and
Mary Ella Funchess.
The dancers swung to the rhy
thm of the Auburn Cavaliers and
as previously arranged, the pled­ges,
members, and their dates
were photographed at intermis­sion.
The second degree pledge ser­vice
for Gene Scott, Margaret
Pearson, Martha Childress,. Ann
Dexter, Clara Merrill, Ruth Mil-son,
Virginia Charlton, Betty Belle
ler, Verna Jack, Edith Cecile Car-
Brandt, and Hortense Bradford
was held Monday evening, March
7, at six-thirty in the Chapter
room. The ceremony was con­ducted
by Floyd Pugh, president.
Formal initiation will be held
within the next two weeks for
these eleven girls.
Nell King Chosen Model Chi
Omega Initiate
The Alpha Beta Chapter of Chi
Omega held their formal initia
tion at the Pitts Hotel Monday
night at 8 o'clock.
Those initiated were Hilda
Pope, , Abbeville; Juanita Math
ison, Abbeville; Annie V. Martin,
West Bleeton; Helen Jordan, Bir­mingham;
Prudence Ozier, Nash­ville,
Tenn.; Ruby Pitts, Marion;
Sue Quattlebaum, Conway, S. C;
Nell King, Charleston, S. C.
The model initiate selected on a
basis of character, scholarship,
and attitude was Nell King. She
will be presented with the Chi
Omega bracelet at the Spring El-eusian
Banquet. Every new mem­ber
was given the fraternity flow­er,
the white carnation.
Retiring officers taking part in
the ceremony were Frances Wil­son,
President; Martha Lennep,
Vice-president; Ruby Helen
Stokes, Secretary; Caroline Jones,
Treasurer; Pledge Instructor, Ruth
Lowe; Herald, June Tooker.
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Personals
Miss Mary Leonard Boyd of
Huntingdon College attended the
Kappa Delta dance Friday night.
Miss Lucile Lewis, Auburn a-lumnus,
was the weekend guest
of Lt. and Mrs. Bud Cornell.
Miss Virginia Walls has return­ed
from Mardi Gras in Mobile.
Miss Doris Land of Camp Hill
is visiting Miss Louise Van Aus-dale
this week.
Miss Doris White spent last
weekend with Louise Van Aus-dale
at her home in Camp Hill.
Miss Iris Joiner of the class of
1937 spent the weekend in Au
burn.
Mrs. W. R. Mills of Port Ar­thur,
Texas, is visiting her daugh­ter,
Johnnie Stansberry.
Carl Sidorfsky, a former stu­dent
from Birmingham, visited his
sister, Hester Sidorfsky this week­end.
Miss Henrietta Worsley, class of
'35, visited Miss Mary Haygood
over the past weekend.
Delta Sigs Hold Steak Fry
Saturday Night
Delta-Sigma Phi fraternity en­tertained
its members and pledges
with a steak fry and dance last
Saturday evening.
Members, pledges, (and their
dates wlere Jeff Cjarlton,. Ann
Noble, Birmingham; Winfrey Boyd
Eloise Williams, Tom Mitchell,
Betty McKay, Robert Welch, Reba
Vice, Jack Dunlap, Helen Jones,
Albion Knight, Frances Passmore,
John Lanier, Virginia Charlton,
Tensley Ginn, Betty Jones, Mont­gomery,
Jake Cooper, Alice Turn­er;
Holland Cox, Betty Peagler,
Johnny Laumer, Mary Frickief-fer,
Birmingham; Ralph Melton,
Christine Statham, Tom McCabe,
Mary Banks Franklin, David Cox,
Marjorie Walton, Earl Fancher,
Mary L. Williamson, Fred Bass,
Cindy Nelson, Birmingham; Bill
Carroll, Helen Jordan, Bob Camp­bell,
Sara Cottingham, Getty Fair-child,
Marjorie Miller, Morris Hall,
Sarah Smith.
Others attending were Malcolm
Hannah, Bill Fowler, Marion Wil­liams,
Roger Hamel, Jo Crooks,
Bill Cahoon, Dantes York, Ernest
Guy, Bob Mosiman, Clyde McCary
and Doc Nichols.
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A. A. U. W. Head
To Speak Here
Dr. Hallie Farmer of Monteval-lo,
State president of the Ameri­can
Association of University Wo­men,
will address members of
the Auburn branch of the A. A.
U. W. at a luncheon tomorrow
in Smith Hall.
Dr. Farmer is head of the De­partment
of History at Monteval-lo.
Her main object in coming to
Auburn is to discuss with the ex­ecutive
committee of the Auburn
branch some plan toward getting
A. P. I. on the list approved for
membership in A. A. U. W.
Officers of the Auburn branch
are Miss Jewell Davis, president;
Mrs. J. W. Scott, treasurer; Mrs.
N. J. Volk, secretary.
The luncheon will begin at 12
o'clock.
Charlotte Bowdon Chosen
Phi Omega Pi Head
Charlotte Bowdon, Columbia,
was elected president of Psi Chap­ter,
Phi Omega Pi, for the coming
year at a meeting of the Sorority
Wednesday, March 2.
Other officers elected were
Woodrow Kilgore, Weogufka, vice-president;
Dorothy Summers, Op­elika,
secretary; and Cornelia Ste­vens,
Bay Minette, treasurer.
All the newly elected officers
are members of the junior class.
Charlotte Bowdon is a student in
business administration, is a mem­ber
of the International Relations
Club and the Y. W. C. A. Cornelia
Stevens is enrolled in the School
of Science and Literature. She
is student assistant in the animal
nutrition laboratory. Woodrow
Kilgore and Dorothy Summers are
students in home economics.
The new officers will be in­stalled
at the regular meeting to­night.
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Military Ball Invitations Given To All
Juniors For First Time In History
All junior R. O. T. C. cadets
have been invited to the Military
Ball Friday night. This is the first
time in history that such a mass
opportunity has been given, as
heretofore only the highest-rank­ing
juniors were privileged to at­tend.
Preceding the dance will be the
Scabbard and Blade banquet at
Bagley's, beginning at 7:15. The
Ball is scheduled to start at 9:30
and last until 1:30.
Miss Eleanor "Pete" Wright,
junior in secondary education
from Dothan, will lead the Grand
March with her escort Brigade
Colonel Billy Hitchcock. The
Grand March will be the most
colorful feature of the evening,
with officers and their dates ar­ranged
in order of rank making
an archway of sabers, under which
the feature will evolve.
The Auburn Cavaliers have
been engaged to play for the Ball.
Decorations will follow a mili­taristic
pattern. In the course of
the evening there will be three
leadouts, one for Scabbard and
Blade, one for the Engineers, and
one for Field Artillerymen; and
two no-breaks.
The military ball is sponsored
by Scabbard and Blade, honorary
military society, headed by Cadet
Major Malcolm B. McDonald.
Two hundred, and fifty out-of-town
girls have been sent bids.
Regular army officers and then-wives
will be official chaperons.
O. R. C. officers and their wives
are invited.
Senior cadet officers only are
privileged to bring dates. Juniors
will attend as stags.
The soul of Fascism lies mould­ing
in the grave, but the body
goes marching on.
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BEATING SWORDS INTO PLOW- >
SHARES
W/"ELL, not exactly swords into plowshares,
but rather discarded rails, superheaters,
and boiler tubes into steel for the overhead
system of an electrified railroad line. In this
manner the old steam railroad of the Witwaters-rand
Gold Mining Area was replaced by a
completely electrified line.
Because of the rise in gold prices during the
last few years, an increased suburban passenger
traffic in that section of South Africa neces­sitated
an enlargement of the railroad. Modern
all-steel motor coaches built in England sup­plant
the steam locomotives and wooden
coaches, and a double track has been laid
where only a single line previously ran.
Mercury-arc rectifiers made by the British
Thomson Houston Company, an affiliate of
General Electric, supply the power for the
"Reef Scheme," as it is called, while 115 four-motor,
multiple-unit car equipments were
furnished by G.E. through the International
General Electric Company.
The engineering and sales work on this project
was done by several former G-E Test men.
Many such opportunities are open to graduates
of college engineering schools'who have success­fully
completed the G-E Test Course.
AMERICA'S OUTSTANDING YOUNG
ELECTRICAL ENGINEER
T)R. CHAUNCEY GUY SUITS, research
physicist of the General Electric (Research
Laboratory, in Schenectady, has been named
by Eta Kappa Nu, honorary electrical engi­neering
fraternity, as the outstanding young
electrical engineer for 1937.
Born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in 1905, Dr. Suits
attended the University of Wisconsin and grad­uated
from the Technische Hochschule in
Zurich, Switzerland (Sc.D. '29). An ardent
skier, he spends most of his spare time on the
snowy slopes around upper New York State,
but also finds time to indulge in woodworking,
amateur photography, and playing a clarinet.
As a member of the Research Laboratory staff,
his work has been on the fundamentals of elec­tric
arcs, showing how arc temperature can be
measured by sound, and it was for this work
that the Eta Kappa Nu award was given him.
Other activities for which Dr. Suits is noted
include the investigation of nonlinear circuits,
high-pressure arcs, and the development of
automatic tuning for radio receivers.
Last year the award was given to Frank M.
Starr, U. of Colorado '28, G-E Test '29, who is
employed in the Central Station Engineering
Department of General Electric The Test
Course, of which Starr is an alumnus, provides
a practical education supplementary to the
theoretical knowledge obtained in college.
GENERAL « ELECTRIC 90-56FBI
PAGE FOUR THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9,1938
Dr. Showalter Speaks At
Atlantic City Meeting
Dr. B. R. Showalter, director of
the extension teaching division at
Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
represented the College at the
recent meeting of the American
Association of School Adminis­trators
which met in Atlantic
City.
He addressed the section of the
National Education Association on
Teacher Retirement Associations,
his subject being. "Plans for a
Teacher Retirement Association in
Alabama."
While ht Atlantic City, Dr.
Sowalter also extended greetings
from Alabam before the Parent-
Teachers Section of the N. E. A.,
and took part in a panel discus­sion,
"The Challenge of Youth
to Parents and Teachers."
' Dr. Showalter is a member of
the committee on tacher retire­ment
of the Alabama Education
Association. He also did extensive
pioneer work as a member of the
committee in Ohio which formu­lated
the plan adopted in that
state.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 10
"FIRST TIME I'VE EVER HAD A PONY
TO DIE UNDER ME", SAYS HORSEMAN
Opelika
By Joan Metzger Barkalow
"I've had ponies fall with me
before with broken legs," Fred
Schell, who is working his way
through the Veterinary School
training horses, said, "but I never
had one die under me before."
Discussion of the death of Pea­nuts,
a favorite polo pony who
died on the field last week during
a polo scrimmage, he remarked
"She didn't tremble before she
fell or move again afterwards.
Apparently she ran the length of
the field with a broken artery be­fore
she collapsed. She was old,
but a game little horse."
Fred Schell knows horses from
experience in professional horse
"schooling" for a period of four
years. He started his training
when he was twelve, in Pitts­burg,
where his uncle owned a
riding horse stable. 'You have to
have a feeling for them, and it's
a matter of knowing when to be
gentle and when to be firm."
"Mr. Schell, about all I know
about horses is that they bite at
one end and kick at the other.
Would you explain just what is
meant by "schooling" horses?"
He began his explanation by
naming the types of horses: hunt­ing
and" sporting horses, racers,
and a saddle or domestic animals.
They must all be trained or
schooled to accomplish their spe­cific
job. For example, the race
horse isn't really schooled but is
merely conditioned for speed; the
hunting horse or sport horse must
learn to get over long stretches
of territory in wooded and heavy
timbered lands, hills, hedges, and
ditches. The saddle horse must be
trained in either three or five
gaits, the last the trot, canter, slow
gait, and walk. "A horse's school­ing
should never stop. They can
be schooled until they die. It keeps
them in good handling shape."
"How did you happen to pick
Auburn to take your vet train­ing?"
I questioned.
"I'd been schooling horses pro­fessionally
and teaching riding for
about four years and had ac­cepted
a contract to sail for Bo­gota,
Columbia, in 1936 to school
horses for the esquestrian team
which was then preparing for the
Pan-American Games. There was
a political upheaval and Ave never
sailed. In the meantime, I accept­ed
a job training horses for Dr. W.
C. Hutchins at Union Springs,
where I worked a year. I often
brought horses to the clinic at
Auburn, was very impressed with
the men in charge and the clinic,
so I decided to come here and
specialize in horse surgery and
treatment."
His ambition is to breed polo
ponies, for polo he thinks is the
greatest game in the world. He
played indoor polo in Detroit,
which he says is a much faster
game than the outdoor variety, re­quiring
good handling of horses
in a small space. He goes out for
varsity polo here.
His favorite breed of horse is
the Thoroughbred. When this
breed first came into existence in
England in 1767, he said, they
were used exclusively for race
horses, but today they are used
in the army because of their even
dispositions. They have since been
adapted for polo, cross country,
and jumping.
Arabian horses are more com­mon
in EuropethanintheUnitedg
mon in Europe than in the United
States, and some countries still
breed them for cavalry. England
uses the Anglo-Arab breed and
they are popular in this country
as race horses. "Cow punchers'
ponies that have been sent East.
He has never worked for a race
track and is not particularly in­terested
in racing horses.
Dodging the question of his most
exciting experience, tye related
one interesting episode in Detroit
with three Cossacks from the 101
Ranch Wild West Show. "They
taught me some of their simpler
tricks like jumping a horse over
small obstructions in a ring while
riding him blindfolded." The on­ly
injuries he has received in
his exciting occupation have been
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(Continued from Page Two)
To us there ' i s no particular
virtue in setting out doggedly to
read a magazine through, but we
believe that a great deal of plea­sure
mixed with educational pro­fit
may be gained from careful
selection of those periodical arti­cles
bearing most closely on our
personal experiences and views.
Particularly timely this month,
in view of the State Dramatic
Tournament here is Do You Know
Aaron Slick? by experienced play­wright
Merrill Denison, in the
March Harpers'. The article is a
commentary on the "real Ameri­can
theater" of crossroad and
lodge hall, and specifically on
"Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick,"
America's greatest rural drama,
which has been produced an aver­age
of three times a day since its
first production in 1919. It tells of
the 300,000 bona-fide-non-royalty-play
groups in the country, and
nominates as America's number
one play the simple heart-tugger
"Among the Breaker," presented
125,000 times since 1872. "Abie's
Irish Rose," with 2,532 perform­ances,
doesn't compare.
Who Will Save Spain? in the
March Atlantic offers an excellent
opportunity for forming opinions
regarding the Spanish crisis. Ian
D. Colvin writes "The Case for
Franco," speaks of wholesale
slaughter of suspected Fascist
sympathizers, confiscation and de­struction
of property. "The whole
commerce and industry of 'loya­list'
Spain were reduced to ruin
ation, the foreign staff 'evacuated,'
the Spanish owners 'liquidated','
he says. "Thus stands that part of
Spain under its givernment today;
it government that is represented
as a free progressive democracy."
"The Government" is defended
by John Langdon Davies. "If Mus­solini
withdrew his 20,000 troops,
and if Germany stopped sending
technicians for two month's courses
in modern warfare with bleeding
Spain as a convenient target, the
Spaniards could finish their war
in a very short time," is the gist
of his argument.
A new slant on saving one's
skin is furnished by Where's the
Fire? in the American for March.
The article results from question,
aires sent 2,000 highway patrol­men;
features lame excuses, of
which the lamest follows: "A
speeder who went through a stop
sign said to the officer, 'How do
you expect me to see a little sign
like that when I am doing sixty?"
And the surest way to get a ticket
say these patrolmen, is "This will
cost you your job, Copper. I'll see
to that."
Magazine article of the month
is Our Navy in March Fortune. In
the usual lavish manner, Fortune
invades all the branches of the
service, personnel, ships, and na­val
bases—includes the month's
prize feature in a big double-page,
colored world map showing the
location of every unit of the A-merican
navy. The article is op­portune,
in view of present red-hot
agitation in Congress and a-mong
peace-pressure groups ovet"
the President's proposal to in­crease
our naval forces.
Other recommended articles:
Sex, Esq. the story of Esquire
Magazine in March Scribners; Co­lumnists
on Parade in Nation for
February 26; Lo, the Poor Rail­roads
in Current History for
March; England Shows Her Col­ors,
in the New Republic for
March 2.
Lambda Chi Alphas Go On
Monday Night Hay Ride
Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity
entertained members, pledges, and
their dates with a hay ride Mon­day
night at 6:30. The party mo­tored
to Wright's Mill in a truck
filled with hay.
Mrs. Lessie Gewin, house moth­er,
chaperoned the affair. After
the picnic, a house dance was
held at the Chapter house.
WHERE'S THE APPLE?
Careful aim at the target is being taken by four members of the
archery class. They are, right to left, Miss Sarah Tant, freshman
in home economics; Miss Gene Scott, Ft. Benning, Ga., junior in
home economics; Miss Junita Johnson, Auburn, and Miss Mary
Hayes, Miami, Fla. sophomore in home economics.
Prof. Finds Class
Has Perfect
Timing
A certain engineering professor
recently found that there are more
ways than one for time to fly.
A couple of weeks ago, he was
called out of his three to four
o'clock class shortly after the
period began and left his watch
on the desk.
Immediately an industrious stu­dent
adjusted the trusted time­piece
about twenty minutes fast
while others guarded the door
against a premature return.
The operation was successfully
performed before the return of the
prof, who, after looking at his
watch, announced the period was
almost up. Students who had set
their own watches to the corres­ponding
time agreed with him.
A couple of minutes later he ad­mitted
it was four o'clock, and 27
suppressed chuckles exploded into
roars outside the door at exactly
3:41.
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in a modern brick home for rent.
Private entrance and ample closet
space. 214 Payne St., Phone 240-J.
several broken ribs. "When you
fool around horses, you soon for­get
to count the spills. And you
can't school horses if you get ex­cited
about it."
Although he worked during his
freshman year training horses, he
is not working now because "I
got into some of these sophomore
vet courses, and try to play polo
too—which doesn't leave any
time." He is a member of Alpha
Psi fraternity and belongs to the
Junior A. V. M. A.
Tournament
(Continued from page one)
Impromptu speech, John Scott,
Lee County High, and Kenneth
Lyles, Ramsay Tech High, Birm­ingham.
Poetry reading, Ruth Mc-
Kinley, West End High, Birming­ham,
and Mary Frances Waller,
Tallassee High.
Physids contest, experimental
demonstrations, J. H. Braswell,
Tuskegee High, and Charles Lock-ridge,
Piedmont High; achieve­ment
test, John Bruce Martni,
Lee County High and Richard L.
Sihelton, Holtville; home-school
display contest, J. H. Braswell,
Tuskegee and C. A. Dubberly,
Tallassee High.
First Year Latin, Jane Merrill,
Bessemer High and Ann Wood,
West End High, Birmingham; sec­ond
year Latin, Elizabeth Anne
Smith, Bessemer, and Emma Nell
Parrish, Lee County High.
Art, frefehand drawing, Tom
Moseley, Tuscaloosa High, and
E. Walker Murphy High, Mobile;
freehand design, E. Walker, Mur­phy
High and Tom Moseley, Tus­caloosa
High.
Writing contest, Janet McMa-hon,
Tuscaloosa High, and Agnes
Heathcock, Anniston High. Music,
piano, Diana Robinson, Anniston
High,'and Bill Wertz, Tuscaloosa
High; boys' vocal solo, Cecil
Thrash, Tallassee High; girls' vo­cal
solo, Florine Holt, Ramsay
Tech; violin solo, Ann Godfrey,
Tuscaloosa.
First year typing, Margaret Mc-
Carley, Woodland High, first, and
Edna Jane Bennett, Clebourne
County High, and Helen Turner,
Piedmont High, tied for second
place; Second year typing, Shirley
York, Monroe County High, and
Evelyn Gregory, Tuskegee High.
Biology Contest, Herndon Dowl-ing
and Garland Wood. Tusca­loosa
High. Foreign Languages,
Spanish, Ernest Edwards, Besse­mer;
French, Nora Davis and C.
M. Denby, West End High.
Einstein's own simple explana­tion
of his theory of relativity:
When you sit with a nice girl for
an hour, you think it is only a
minute; but when you sit on a hot
stove for a minute, you think it
is an hour.
Du Pont Representative To
See Chemistry Seniors
George Beach, asisstant manag­er
of the personnel division of
E. I. du Pont de Nemours Comp­any
of Wilmington, N. J., will
address the chemistry seniors in
Ross Auditorium March 17.
In addition to his lecture, Mr.
Beach will grant personal inter­views
to members of the class
regarding employment with his
company after graduation. Subject
for his talk will be announced
later.
ANSWERS
1. J. C. McNeil.
2. Beth Murphy.
3. Claude Hardee.
4. Miss America Ball.
5. Chi Epsilon.
6. Crawford Holmes.
7. Excellent bass voice.
8. President of the Players.
Just received new shipment of
Evening Sandals. Low, Med­ium,
and High Heels.
All Colors $2.45 up
Men's Dress Shoes
$2.45 up
Agency for Fortune Shoes
and Friendly Boots
Koplons
Shoe Store
Opelika Phone 479
High School Band To Give
First Concert Friday
The Auburn High School Band
will be heard in concert for the
first time this year Friday even­ing
at 8:00 p. m. in the auditorium
of the high school. Admission will
be 15c and 25c.
Included on the program by the
31 piece band will be "Carnival
Overture" by Gibb, "Camilla" by
Bone, "Prayer to the Virgin," by
Soverio, "Berceuse" by Schtytte,
"Egyptian Dance" by Stoughton,
"Good Fellowship" and Texas
March" by Griffen, "Watch Your
Step" by Otto Brown, "Trumpet
March" by Verdi, and other se­lections.
A novelty presentation will be
the narration of the familiar
childhood story of the Three Bears
to the accompaniment of music by
the band. As . the composition
"Three Bears"*by Long is played,
Miss Marjorie McKinnon will tell
the story.
Included also on the program
by the band under direction of
Mr. Lawrence Barnett will be a
quartet selection from the Auburn
Glee Club. Members of the quartet
are E. D. McCauley, Sam Teague,
E. O. Pearson, and George Perry.
Ty Cobb, Jr., is coaching tennis
at the University of Georgia.
TODAY
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chemist who makes white
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