1939-04-28 The Auburn Plainsman

              Semi-Weekly
Friday
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This Week-end!
VOL. LXII Z-I AUBURN, ALABAMA, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1939 NUMBER 60
Queries Contest
To Draw Crowds
Tomorrow
Tickets May Be Bought at
Box Office for Event;
Prizes Offered by ODK
The (battle of the age—a criss­cross
battle of the intellects of
boys and girls, men and women,
engineers and artillerymen, radio
fiends and sports addicts. That is
what is in store for those who
will attend the ODK variety pro­gram,
"Queries Handpicked," to
be given at the Tiger Theater to­morrow
at 10:30 a. m.
About 30 students in all will
compete for the eight prizes that
are to be awarded. The choice of
contestants is to be made by
drawing ticket stubs from a hat.
These contestants come to the
stage, choose their questions from
a pile of face-down queries, and
endeavor to answer the query.
There will be four groups of con­testants,
and the judges will de­cide
on the winner and runner-up
in each group.
Between quizzes musical novel­ties
are to be offered by Robin
Russell's Auburn Knights, and
Jack Derwin, who has made a
name for himself as a singer of
popular music.
For the movie-minded, Gus
Coats, manager of the Tiger Theat­er,
has secured a unique comic
short which is to be shown as a
part of the program.
The old and new members of
Blue Key are to be the guests of
Omicron Delta Kappa.
The program will last approxi­mately
one hour and a half.
Leads Senior Dance
GSCW Bringing
Debate Team Here
Georgia State College for Wom­en
will bring its crack debating
team to the campus Saturday to
face a team of Auburn boys.
From Milledgeville, Ga., home of
the school, which is one of the
largest state universities for worn-en
in the country, will come Car­oline
Springer and Aline Foun­tain.
The debate will be held in the
Student Center at 8 p. m. Repre­senting
Auburn will be John Ivey
Jr. and John Godbold.
The question for debate will be
one which is especially pertinent
in view of the present troubled
world situation, "Resolved: That
the democracies should form an
alliance to preserve democratic
ideals and traditions."
Miss Springer and Miss Foun­tain
have not faced an Auburn
team before so their debating
strength is not known. On their
recent debate tour through Geor­gia
and South Carolina, the Au­burn
squad visited G. S. C. W.,
where they faced some of their
strongest opposition of the year.
Ivey and Godbold have appeared
together several times this year.
This debate will probably be
one of the last intercollegiate con­tests
held on the campus this year,
inasmuch as the debate season is
practically closed.
On Saturday morning the Geor­gia
team will toe the guests of
Omicron Delta Kappa at its
"Queries Handpicked" program to
be held at the Tiger Theater at
10:30.
Seniors in Science and Lit
To Meet Tuesday Afternoon
Seniors in the School of Science
and Literature will meet Tuesday
afternoon at 5 p. m. in the money
and banking room on the second
floor of Samford to draw up final
plans for the establishment of a
loan fund for students in that
school.
This meeting, originally sche­duled
for yesterday afternoon,
was called off because of the
special drill held for the visiting
legislators. It will be a forerunner
of a general convocation of the
entire school to be held later in
the week.
The seniors will hear the char­ter
of the proposed corporation,
make changes, and plan for the
convocation.
Seniors have .taken the initiative
in setting up the fund, and plans
are to have funds available soon
for needy students.
Evelyn Johnson of Jackson, Tenn., has been chosen by the
student Social Committee to lead the Senior Prom at Auburn today
and tomorrow. She will be escorted by Bob Burns, vice-presideut
of the senior class from Cullman. Miss Johnson, a sophomore at
Judson College where she is majoring in music, is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Johnson of Jackson, Tenn. Music for the
dances, which will be held in Graves Center, will be that of Shep
Fields and his "Rippling Rhythm" orchestra.
Auburn's Finals to Open Tonight with
Fields' Orchestra Furnishing Music
Spectators to Be Admitted
For 75 Cents to Any Dance,
Afternoon or Night
Shep Fields and his rippling
rhythm orchestra will, open the
final dances here tonight in Bibb
Graves Center.
Tickets may still be obtained
from any member of the Social
Committee for $6.50 per set, $3. per
night, or $1. per day. Spectators
may attend any afternoon or
night for 75 cents.
Fields not only brings his band
along, tout has a special floor show
to furnish extra 'entertainment.
Fields' distinctive style has made
him popular with hundreds of
music-lovers and air listeners.
Featured in his band with Hal
Derwin and Jerry Stewart, vo­calists,
is Anatoelle Graham, beau­tiful
singer. The voices of these
talented singers combine excel­lently
with the rippling effect of
the famous band.
Seniors are reminded of the
senior lead out and are urged not
to miss it.
The dances will toe lead by
Evelyn Johnson of Jackson, Tenn.,
escorted by Bob Burns, a senior
class officer.
Scabbard and Blade, honorary
military fraternity, has bought
the Saturday afternoon dance,
and members are to attend the af­fair
in uniform.
Women's Alumnae Group
To Meet Here Monday
The recently organized local
women's alumnae association for
former Auburn students will hold
its second meeting here Monday
afternoon at Student Center at
4:30 p. m.
Mrs. Emil Wright, president, is
urging attendance of all former
women students of Auburn. Re­ports
will be made by the exe­cutive
committee and the% nomi­nating
committee, and several an­nouncements
concerned with the
future program of the organiza­tion
will be made by Dr. L. N.
Duncan.
NOTICE
There will be a meeting of the
newly formed flying club at 7 p.
m. Monday, May 1, in Ramsay
113. All those interested in fly­ing
are urged to attend.
Home Relations Be
Taught This Summer
Betterment of home relations
will be studied at Auburn's first
summer school session when the
Conference on Home Education
for Parents and Educators is held
June 13-15.
A special feature of the first
summer session, the conference
will, through lectures and discus­sions,
attempt to build up the
ideals of the American home in
its cultural and spiritual aspects.
Dean Zebulon Judd, director of
the summer school, has announc­ed
that an effort will be made to
work out a practical program
for use during the coming year of
parents in their homes and for
teachers in their schools.
The Institute of Professional Re­lations,
June 20-22, will be an­other
feature of the session. Pro-fessionalization
of teaching will
be the theme of these discussions
which will attempt to show that
teaching is to share with medicine
and lay their claims to scholar­ship,
service, and respectability.
Dr. Ambrose L. Suhrie of New
York University, noted editor and
lecturer, will contribute to the dis­cussions
of the Institute.
Auburn's first summer school
session runs from June 5 to July
14, and the second session from
July 17 to August 19.
Miss Gay Ellis to Be Married
To Mr. Paul Prickett
Miss Gay Ellis, daughter of Mrs.
Mattie Ellis, is engaged to be
married to Paul Prickett, the
wedding date to be made public
later. This announcement was
made recently by Miss Ellis' moth­er.
Miss Ellis is a freshman and is
registered in the School of Veteri­nary
Medicine as a student in
laboratory technique. Her father
was the late Rev. H. M. Ellis,
member of the Alabama Confer­ence,
Methodist Episcopal Church,
South.
Mr. Prickett is a senior in agri­cultural
education, a member of
Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity, and
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M.
Prickett, Jacksonville, Ala.
A Record!
Mrs. I. S. McAdory and her
granddaughter, Cora McAdory
Lipscomib, established a record
here last weekend for the Alpha
Gamma Delta sorority.
During the installation cere­monials
of the local Alpha Gam­ma,
colonizing chapter for natio­nal
Alpha Gamma Delta, both
Mrs. McAdory and Miss Lip­scomb
were pledged and initiated.
National officers of the sorority
here for the installation stated
that it was the first time in the
history of the sorority that a
grandmother and granddaughter
were pledged and initiated at the
same time. >
Alabama Reserve
Officers Meet
Three-Day Session Opens
In Huntsville Today
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., April 28—
The annual convention of the Ala
bama Reserves Officers Associa
tion, which opens here today for
a three-day session, has taken on
added importance with the series
of war scarces in European na­tions.
Rep. John Sparkman, member
of the House military affairs
committee, whb is in North Ala­bama
now to attend three con­ventions,
will be one of the prin­cipal
speakers at the Reserve Of­ficers
gathering.
Sparkman is expected to out­line
to the officers some "behind
the scenes" action in Washington
the past few weeks, where diplo­mats
from all corners of the world
have been giving the war prob­lem
serious consideration.
In addition to .Rep. Sparkman,
Congressman Andrew J. May,
chairman of the House military
affairs committee, is expected to
fly here from Washington. It has
not been definitely announced
that he will accept the invitation,
however.
Members of the Tennessee Val­ley
chapter, host to the conven­tion,
have 'been busy the past few
weeks ironing out minute details.
Lt. Gaston Pirkle, president of the
chapter, announced today that all
plans have been completed.
Outstanding reserve and regu­lar
army officers on the program
include Cap. Jesse K. Kirk, state
president; Col. C. C. Early, offi­cer
in charge of Fourth Corps
Area reserve affairs; Col. E. P.
Pierson, chief of staff, 87th Divi­sion;
Lt. Col. D. M. Barber; Maj.
Walter L. Tatum, president of the
Fourth Corps Area council; and
Maj. R. M. O'Day, acting inspec­tor-
instructor of reserve work in
Alabama.
A military ball, preceded by a
banquet; tours of Monte Sano
state park and Guntersville Dam
will be the highlights of the en­tertainment
program. Numerous
private parties are being planned
for the visiting delegation.
Recess Legislative Diplomas To Be Given To 457
Aubum Yesterday $e n i o r s At Graduation
AH Officers of Cardinal
Key for Next Year Listed
Cardinal Key, national honorary
society for senior women, recent­ly
elected officers for next year.
Amy Drake, president, is also
president of the Auburn Players,
and is a member of Kappa Delta
Pi-
Ruth Lowe, vice president, is
president of Chi Omega sorority.
Helen Porch, secretary, is Pres­ident
of Theta Upsilon sorority and
has recently been tapped by Theta
Epsilon, honorary home econo­mics
organization. She has served
as President of Panhellenic this
year.
Jonnielyn Campbell, treasurer,
is a junior in home economics ed­ucation
and is a member of Kap­pa
Delta Pi.
Helen Barnes, historian, is a
Chi Omega and is also a mem­ber
of the Auburn Players.
Social Dance Class to Have
Reunion for Old Members
All students who have been in­structed
in Social Dancing classes
since September, 1938, are eligi­ble
to attend the Reunion Class in­formal
dance on May 6 at the
girls gym from 9 to 12 p. m.
Permits to attend the dance
may be obtained toy calling by
210 Samford between the hours of
9 and 10 a. m. from May 1 to
May 5.
Group Tours Campus, Eats
Barbecue, Sees Cadets
Parade in Rainstorm
Fourteen members of the joint
legislative committee on educa­tion
and highways inspected the
Auburn campus yesterday after­noon
and reviewed the ROTC
unit. The parade of cadets went
on uninterrupted in spite of a
cloudburst.
Shortly after their arrival the
nine representatives and five sen­ators
were taken on a tour of
the campus by President L. N.
Duncan. Following fee tour the
committee received a review
of the student R. O. T. C. unit be­ginning
at 5:10 on Bullard Field.
Last evening the college hoiv-ored
the group with a barbecue
at Bibb Graves Center.
Immediately after breakfast
this morning the committee,
continued their tour of the
state when they leave for Ope-lika.
The legislators will visit the
high school there, where they will
be entertained at a luncheon
about noon. At 2:30 o'clock the
committee will meet at the court­house
to discuss with represen­tative
Lee Countians need for ex­pansion
and improvement of the
highway system in this section.
The committee will be joined
here by Col. T. D. Samford and
John Denson, members of the Au­burn
board of trustees from Op-elika.
Members of the committee in­clude:
Senators W. A. Dozier, Lee
and Russell Counties; Daniel T.
McCall, Mobile; R. M. Guy, Lown­des;
W. L. Howard, Talladega; J.
Bruce Henderson, Wilcox.
Representatives William H.
Jenkins, Chambers; Max H. Bran-yon,
Fayette;. L. D._ Brown, Cov­ington;
Frank L. Haynes, Frank­lin;
A. J. McDanall, Jr., Walker;
C. S. Naition, Blount; Miss Sibyl
Poole, Marengo; W. W. Waldrop,
Lamar; and L. J. Wright, Talla-
Special Teacher
The joint House-Senate Com­mittee
on education and highways
is one of several legislative re­cess
committees touring the state
in an effort to familiarize them­selves
with need for legislation of
various kinds. Tlhe ccxmmittees
are holding public hearings in
many towns throughout the
state.
Lillian Smith to Head Co-ed
Glee Club Next Year
The Auburn Girls' Glee Club
elected officers for the coming
year and adopted a constitution
at their last meeting.
Officers named were: Lilian
Jane Smith, president; Emma Nell
Parrish, vice president; Jewell
Whatley, secretary and treasurer;
Claudia Weinmann, business man­ager;
Nancye Thompson, publi­city
manager; Billie Owen, libra­rian.
Appearing as special lectur­er
in the School of Education at
Auburn's summer school will be
Prof. P. J. Dodson, superinten­dent
of schools, Bastrop, Texas.
Prof. Dodson has specialized in
problems of reading and will as­sist
in the new reading clinic
and conference.
Sears Roebuck
Letter Published
The first annual Sears Roebuck
Club news letter made its appear­ance
on the campus last week
with Dan W. Hollis serving as
editor.
The publication was an eight-page
mimographed booklet con­taining
the history of the organi­zation,
its purpose, news since the
club was formed on this campus.
The booklet will be published
by the club that makes its mem­bership
of boys who are in school
on scholarships given by Sears
Roebuck and Company.
There are 21 active members,
four inactive and three honorary
members of the organization. The
honorary members of the group
are Dean M. J. Funchess of the
School of Agriculture; W. H. Wei-dentoach,
faculty adviser; and J.
C. Haynes, public relations di­rector
of Sears Roebuck Co., At­lanta.
The officers for 1938-39 are
Merlin Bryant, president; J. C.
Haupt, vice president; S. L. Da­vis,
secretary-treasurer; Dan W.
Hollis, reporter; and W. G. Eden,
program chairman.
The club was organized in 1937
and was founded by W. G. Eden
who became the first president.
The purpose of the organization is
to promote scholarship, to foster
fellowship and brotherhood, and
to be active in extra-curricular
activities and in agriculture on
this campus or elsewhere.
Largest Class in History
Of School to Receive
Diplomas from Duncan
A total of 457 members of Au­burn's
senior class—largest in the
history of the institution—expects
to receive diplomas from Pres. L.
N. Duncan May 29, as the final
feature of the 67th Commence­ment
Exercises.
Registrar Charles W. Edwards
said that the number of graduates
in May this year will be approx­imately
18 per cent over that in
May, 1938, when 367 were award­ed.
Including the 188 degrees
granted at the close of the 1938
Summer Session, the total gradu­ation
list for 1938 amounted to
555. More than 200 degrees will
be in August, he said, to bring the
total to approximately 657.
Auburn's final message to the
seniors this year will be given by
Dr. Herbert V. Carson, pastor of
the Trinity Presbyterian Church,
Montgomery, who will deliver the
baccalaureate address on Mon­day
morning at 10 o'clock, May
29, prior to the award of degrees
by Dr. Duncan.
On Sunday, May 28, at 11 o'­clock
in Graves Center, Dr. Ed­ward
G. Mackey, pastor of the
First Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, Atlanta, Ga., will deliver
the baccalaureate sermon. On Sun­day
evening, May 28, the seniors,
their parents, and faculty mem­bers
will attend a reception at the
President's home. Annual meeting
of the Alumni Association is to
be held after commencement ex­ercises
on Monday, May 29.
National Textile Foundation Leaders
Will Give Lectures Here Monday
Visiting Executives to Come
Here for Event; Luncheon
At Church Is Planned
Representatives from the Na­tional
Textile Foundation, Wash­ington,
D. C, who will deliver lec­tures
to visiting textile executives
here Monday, May. 1, will be
honored at a luncheon prior to the
meeting to be given by members
of the School of Engineering.
Following the luncheon, which
will be given at the Methodist
Church, the speakers will go at
2:15 p. m. to Broun Hall auditor­ium
where they will talk before
a group of several hundred visit­ing
textile executives. Notices
have been sent out by the School
olf Engineering inviting textile
executives in Alabama, Georgia
and Mississippi to the lecture ser­ies
Monday afternoon.
Those members of the Textile
Foundation who will be honored
at lunch include Hiram S. Davis,
research department, Wharton
School of Finance and Commerce,
University of Pennsylvania;
George W. Taylor of the Textile
Industry Committee of the Wage
and Hour Administration, and al­so
of the University of Pennsyl­vania;
Warren E. Emley, Natio­nal
Bureau of Standards, and
member of the Textile Founda­tion's
Advisory Committee for
Scientific Research; Frederick M.
Feiker, General Secretary of the
American Engineering Council,
and author of "Training of Men
for the Textile Industry;" Stan­ley
B. Hunt of the Textile Eco­nomics
Bureau, and member of
the Economic Research Commit­tee
of the U. S. Institute for Tex­tile
Research.
Other men who will attend the
luncheon are Dr. L. N. Duncan,
Ralph B. Draughon, Dr. J. W.
Scott, Dr. Earl Rauber, F. X.
Carberry, C. A. Dilley, Kirtley
Brown, Dr. John J. Wilmore, J.
E. Hannum, W. T. Schreiber,
Dr. Alfred R. Macormac, B. H.
Crawford, E. W: Camp, C. P. Aus­tin,
Alex O. Taylor, Dwight M.
Wilhelm,.secretary of ' t h e Ala­bama
Manufacturers' Association;
Edward T. Pickard of Washing­ton,
secretary of the Textile Foun­dation;
Robert Philip, Atlanta,
editor of the magazine, "Cotton."
Business Seniors
Receiving Jobs
List of Students with
Jobs Is Released
Dean J. W. Scott of the School
of Science and Literature today
released incomplete information
on the companies who have em­ployed
business administration
seniors this year. '
"Although the results are in­complete
because there are other
companies yet to come, because
not all the offers have been made
by the visiting companies, and be­cause
not all the companies mak­ing
offers have hired all the men
they expect to hire, this is only a
cross section of the picture to
date," said Dean Scott.
The following companies sent
representative and employed bus­iness
administration students:
Burroughs Adding Machine
Company, Carl L. Moseley; Fire­stone
Tire and Rubber Company,
J. S. Cook and E. E. Ragan; Sears,
Roebuck and Company, S. E.
Trotter; Tennessee Coal and Iron
and Railroad Company, Burton
W. Brooks; Armstrong Cork Com­pany,
L. E. Foster.
Students are expecting offers
from the following companies that
sent representatives to Auburn:
Proctor and Gamble Distribu­ting
Company, Mutual Life In­surance
Company of New York,
The Equitable Life Assurance So­ciety.
The man who received an of­fer
from the Goodyear Tire and
Ruhber Company has already ac­cepted
an offer from Burroughs
Adding Machine Company.
The department is expecting the
Illinois Central Railroad Company
and the Goodrich Rubber Com­pany,
and one or two others not
yet confirmed to send represen­tatives
in the near future.
The following companies did not
send representatives to Auburn
but had the students come to
them:
General Motors Acceptance Cor­poration,
hired C. F. Bentley (fp*-
mer graduate); Retail Credt
Company, Inc., Birmingham and
Atlanta, hired George G. Perry
(former graduate); Underwood-
Elliott Fisher Company, S. H.
Kress and Company, W. A. Sheaf -
fer Pen Company, Union Central
Life Insurance Company, Trave­lers'
Insurance Company.
Offers from the last five com­panies
still pending. Mobile bank
calling for graduate; Cosby-Hod-ges
Milling Co., Birmingham, con­sidering
a man.
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Loan Fund
Seniors in the School of Science and Lit­erature
are moving toward completion of
their plan of a student loan fund for their
school, to be begun by the gift of student
contingent deposits.
With the charter of the corporation drawn
up, advocates of the plan hope for speedy
approval of the organization and its aims by
all science and lit students.
Once begun, The Plainsman feels that the
fund will grow and prosper, just as similar
funds in other schools have. And we are
eager to have a hand in beginning the fund,
for we think that in years after graduation,
we will be proud to look back and say that
we had a hand in starting it.
Number One Book
A fairly recent copy of the Bible, pub­lished
in a form aimed at restoring that best
of all best-sellers to high esteem as pure lit­erature,
has this to say in its preface:
"Few things could be culturally more de­plorable
than that today the average college
graduate, who fancies himself educated,
should never have read the Book of Job,
should be unfamiliar with Isiah, and should
hardly be able to identify those mighty men
of valor, Joshua the son of Nun, Gideon, and
Jephthah, or those most famous of scarlet
women, Rahab, Delilah, Bath-sheba, and
should not only be thus abysmally ignorant
but should feel no incentive to be otherwise.
"For this is nothing less than a loss of rac­ial
memory, a forgetfulness of our cultural
heritage that is as serious in the life of na­tions
as is for the individual the loss of per­sonality
attendant upon certain forms of
neurotic disease.
"Not only deplorable but unnecessary—
because the outstanding qualities of Bibli­cal
literature are precisely those that have
more and more come into favor in recent
years . . ."
Robert Louis Stevenson, who certainly
knew the world of literature and who pos­sessed
the ability to produce great lasting
examples of literature, once wrote this about
the Bible: "I believe it would startle and
move anyone if they could make a certain
effort of imagination and read it freshly
like a book, not droningly and chillily like
a portion of the Bible."
Pancakes
The New Yorker, not so long ago, claimed
that the following happened at a certain
college in the East:
Several times a year psychologists des­cend
on the inmates of these various insti­tutions
of learning for the purpose of test­ing
the minds, mentality, and emotions of
the girls. One girl sat obediently through
her test, the second of the year, answer­ing
questions which were prying into her
personal life very much in detail. At the
conclusion of the examination, she asked the
doctor if she might ask a question. The doc­tor,
of course, told her to go ahead.
"Well," the girl said, "I've been wondering
if it means anything special that I like pan­cakes."
"Why, no," said the doctor, cheerily, "not
at all! I wish I had a nickel for every pan­cake
I've eaten!"
The girl shook her head darkly. "I don't
like to EAT them," she said. "I just like to
play with them. I have a whole bureau
drawer full."
The New Yorker states, further, that the
plan worked beautifully, and that the girl
was immediately dismissed and was never
subjected to the tests again. Her housemoth­er
occasionally looks through her bureau
drawers, though.
But consider the girl's viewpoint. Maybe
she did like pancakes for playing purposes.
After all, what would be nicer to play with
on rainy days than beautiful, flat, round,
symmetrical pancakes? Just think of the
things that you could do with them. You
could build . play-houses, pretty curving
roads, or high walls. If this became tiring,
you could make patterns on the floor with
the pancakes and jump from one pancake
to another all day.
The situation might have been rather em­barrassing
for the doctor, on the other hand.
What would you do if someone claimed to
have a bureau drawer full of pancakes?
Would you plot to get those pancakes for
your very own, or would you forget the
whole thing?
It would certainly be better to play with
indigestible old pancakes than to eat them.
If the pancakes were of standard quality and
were not well balanced for playing, it would
be better to eat them.
The question seems to be this. What would
you do with a dozen pretty brown pan­cakes?
H.M.
Beautification
Out of the fabulous West comes the voice
of Loretta Young, with a plan for putting
the government in the beauty shop business.
We might as well spend some money on the
girls as on all those bridges and dams, she
says. So she suggests a federal agency along
the lines of the WPA, possibly called the
WBA (women's beautification administra­tion,
of course), whose purpose would be to
beautify all the women in the country.
With all due respect for Miss Young, this
strikes us as some pretty unsound thinking.
We can't warn her too strongly of the weak­nesses
inherent in her plan.
While it might be a nice idea to make
10,000,000 women beautiful, Miss Young for­gets
the awful cost in frayed nerves and sul­len
dispositions. A tired husband might not
like coming home at night to find his wife's
face neatly stacked out and bearing the sign
"Project No. 41783."
And ever more serious is the opportunity
it offers for dragging politics into relief. Ob­viously,
Miss Young never thought of this,
but we did. Suppose some partisan WBA
worker decided to work a certain well-known
smile into the face of a lady from the Wom­en's
National Republican club. THEN watch
hell break loose, Loretta.
Hollywood Incomes
A recent Associated Press dispatch reveals
that Bing Crosby, one of Hollywood's sup­posedly
richest men, had to borrow money
to pay his income tax returns. Bing ave­rages
about $540,000 a year from the four
pictures that he has a habit of turning out. He
receives $3,500 for each radio broadcast. The
total of these 52 broadcast fees reaches the
neighborhood of $182,000.
Why is it that this is not sufficient for pay­ing
a minor thing such as income tax? This
tax, as Bing is in the higher income brackets,
amounts to about eighty per cent of his sal­ary.
Add Bing's stables, his required method
of living up to what the public expects of
him, and the fifty-odd people dependent on
him, his brother's statement that Bing has
not cleared a dime in two years seems plaus­ible
enough.
We, when working for the small amounts
that we are usually paid, often verbally ex­press
our opinion that it is not just for some
actors and actresses to receive the huge
salaries that they do. We find support for
this statement in the voices of countless
others who think in the same manner as
we do.
We forget the vastly increased scale of
living that these people live by. Their living
expenses are unbelievably higher than ours.
They are required to be pretentious; the
theater-going public doesn't want to look
upon its favorite stars as human beings who
can be approached in human manner and
by commonplace things. Stars are supposed
to be above financial worries; stars can't
quibble over prices. The end result is the
same. Large salaries do not mean large sav­ings
and the taking of money from circu­lation.
The movie actor is paid, and paid
well, but not necessarly excessively. H.M.
Well!
By John Ivey Jr.
Would an honor system work at
Auburn? This question has been
outstanding in the minds of many
people. However, all past exper­ience
along this line has been un­favorable
to even the possibility
of such a plan.
* * *
At one time the honor system
did exist as such here in Auburn,
but due to many acts on the part
of the student body that were un-excusable
in light of the set-up,
the college officials deemed it ad­visable
to declare an end to the
trust which had been the stu­dents.
This happened some 15
years ago.
Since that date the student body
has increased in numbers and
quality . . . among the students
there can be found a movement
of unrest which is trying to find
an answer to the present resent­ment
to certain cases of unfair
practices during exams and other
school work.
* * «
Many will say that we are point­ing
in the wrong direction when
we let our mind dwell on the pos­sible
far-reaohing effects of the
honor system. They say that
it simply won't work . . . they
think of conditions as being such
that could never be elevated to
the high ideals required by such
a system . . . they think of such
evils in our present education
system as that which should not
be discussed in the open, but
should be looked on as something
unmentionable and beyond ap­proach.
• « »
It would take a college genera­tion
at least before Auburn would
be ready for the trial of such a
far reaching program. During this
period the movement would have
to steadily gain power through
open forum discussions, extensive
and entensive programs of stu­dent
education to the moral re­quirements,
and finally a general
consent on the part of the Auburn
students themselves.
A four-year period would be re­quired
for education and many
more years for the effecient work­ing
of the scheme to become part
of the Auburn tradition . . . some­thing
intangible, but a part of
every man that leaves this insti­tution.
This would necessitate a col­lege
generation of hard work on
the part of the student leaders
with very little immediate results,
but which would result in an ac­complishment
worthy of the time
any individual might spend in aid­ing
to develop the student mind
•toward the ultimafe establish­ment
of the honor system.
• * •
Men who say it can't be done
refuse to look at the matter as a
project that will take time, or
maybe they are looking for an
easy solution to existing evils
which are of a nature that in­volve
the very moral character
of individuals . . . an impossibil­ity.
To correct moral faults of any
nature, requires time and work,
not a let-alone attitude.
Auburn men are not so far dif­ferent
from students in other col­leges
that they could not be made
to realize the value of such a sys­tem
of student relations.
* * •
Auburn has embarked on one
of the greatest building campaigns
in the history of the institution
. . . we have published bulletins
in regards to the possible develop­ment
resulting from these "vast
improvement . . . w e are paving
the way for mass production of
diploma bearers.
Could it be possible that we are
over emphasizing expansion? With
this question in mind, we should
realize that there are certain de­fects
in our institution which lend
themselves very readily to the
"sore thumb" class.
We are blessed with new edu­cational
facilities, now why can't
we realize some needed changes
of the internal nature and start
cleaning house along those lines?
• * •
Auburn is ready for progressive
moves on the part of the students
toward bettering existing condi­tions
and there is very good indi­cation
that certain groups of stu­dents
are ready to add their bit
to such moves.
SHEP FIELDS AND HIS RIPPLING RHYTHM
AUBURN FOOTPRINTS
Allegheny College in 1940 will
celebrate the 125th anniversary of
its founding.
The University of Pittsburgh
chapter of Phi Eta Sigma gives
free tutorial service to all Pitt
students.
In June Stevens Institute of
Technology will sponsor a confer­ence
on the inter-relations of bus­iness
and government.
She: "What do you think I'd do if you tried to neck me?"
He: "I haven't any idea."
She: "Aren't you curious?"
* * *
Auburn gal, after pin-hanging: "I'm sorry I ripped your vest."
* * »
Notice to All Auburn Students
(Glomerata Staff, Especially)
We are deeply sorry to announce that The Plainsman will not be
distributed to students next week as one of our advertisers, Jake
Maulgovitch's Fish Factory, owes us a bill for 2 1-2 inches of
advertising and won't pay it.
* * *
He: "Don't you love driving?"
She: "Yes, but remember, we're still in town.!
The Gift of Grab
By Bob Anderson
Science has at last intervened
to take the haphazard uncertain­ty
out of love. Or so it seems from
the "Kissometer" on exhibit at
the University of Minnesota. This
ingenious contraption is a large
machine upon which is a "score­board"
listing such degrees as
"cool," "warm," "hot," and "stran­gers,"
"just friends," "puppy
love," "getting serious," the real
thing," and "get a preacher." As
each couple testing their emot­ions
kiss, they hold in their hands
electrodes which are wired to the
machine. The pointer on the
scoreboard indicates their reac­tion.
Lovers no longer get thrills
out of kisses, evidently. All they
do now is pile up a mess of con­tact
potentials and generate in­ternal
electromotive force and
thermo-electric power. Or some­thing.
* * *
Whenever a hen lays eggs, with
each
She is impelled to make a speech.
The selfsame urge stirs human
bones
Whenevr men lay cornerstones.
* * *
Those gold-fish keep coming
up . . . or going down . . . again
and again. Yell Leader Morper of
New Mexico S^ate claims the
record, with 191 goldfish swall­owed
at one sitting.
* * •
Attention, Zoology Dept.—
The famous Indian fighter's ex­periences
were many. One of
them was 'the escape from death
in a blizzard on the plains by
crawling inside of the carcass of a
freshly-killed foojfzlohomqgrvbk-wkss.
—Associated Press copy.
* * *
Bad men want their women
To be like cigarettes.
Just so many,
All slender and trim
In a case,
Waiting in a row
To be selected,
Set aflame—and—
When their flame has died—
Discarded.
More fastidious men
Prefer women like cigars.
Those are more exclusive,
Look better
And last longer;
If the brand is good
They are not given away.
Good men treat women
Like pipes
And become more attached to
them
The older they become!
When the flame is burned out
They still look after them,
Knock them gently,
(But lovingly)
And care for them always—
No man shares his pipe.
—Anonymous
* • * • *
The Concordian of Concord
State Teachers says, "Hasn't der
Fuehrer made the Dutch who
bought Long Island look like a
bunch of suckers?"
« * *
AFTER WASHING
PLEASE CLEAN TUB,
LANDLADY
* * * . .
I mixed up a letter from home
With a Vassar-bound passionate
' poem:
I addressed Pop as "Honey"
And asked her for money—
No more from the dog-house will
I roam. —The Triangle
* * *
Economy is a way of spending
your money without getting any
fun out of it.
* * *
That I submit to you:
The ancients had a rule,
To argue with a fool,
Is proof that there are two.
* * *
A certain Holy Cross student was
recently struck with the loveliness
of a co-ed pictured in Collegiate
Digest. It was love at first pic­ture,
as it were. As the co-ed was
not identified in the caption des­cribing
the photo, this inventive
lover just clipped the picture,
pasted it on an envelope and wrote
the name and location of the col­lege
beneath the clipping. Inside,
of course, was a request for an
answer.
Lucille Trudeau, a student in
Mundelein College's skyscraper on
the shores of Lake Michigan in
Chicago, received the epistle
promptly. And now there's a
steady flow of letters between the
Windy City and Worcester, Mass.
» * *
Crown Prince Olav of Norway
will deliver the commencement
address at Concordia College
The University of Detroit will
again this year sponsor the Na-
Before Tomorrow
By John Godbold
"The most encouraging factor
in the life of the modern South,
the thing that makes it possible
to believe in her capacity to regain
her old estate, to produce new
Washingtons, Marshalls, Jeffer-sons,
Madisons, new Declarations
of Independence, new Constitu­tions,
new theories of jurispru­dence,
new ornaments and monu­ments
of civilization is precisely
her new disposition to probe ruth­lessly
for the truth about her­self."
The South of today looks itself
squarely in the face. Gone are the
days when the typical southerner
thought that his homeland, was a
heavenly region without peer or
strain and anyone from outside
it was simply an infidel and a
damyankee. We have come to rea­lize
that we have much here that
is not pretty nor is some of it very
easy on a weak stomach.
We have people of sturdy An­glo-
Saxon descent living like
swine in hovels that are not fit
for beasts. The TVA has proved
that with training and guidance
they make skilled workers who
are a credit to any community.
We have tenant farmers, white
as well as black, living on cash in­comes
on less than $25 a year.
Not so long ago 51 tenant farm­ers
in one North Carolina coun­ty
were married and it was found
that their average cash income
was less than $6 a month. Com­pare
them with the average col­lege
graduate who considers that
he must be making a generous
salary before he marries.
Margaret Bourke-White's "You
Have Seen Their Faces" may, as
some say,, show the exception
rather than the rule, but it is a
condemnation of any civilized
race that it allows to exist even
exceptions such as she pictured.
We have a long way to go. But
we have made the first and maybe
the most important step. We have
seen ourselves exactly as we are.
But at least we have some to
see the truth about ourselves—
that the promised land in which
we are living is more promise
than anything else. Dr. Howard
W. Odum in his "Southern Reg­ions
.of the United States" set
forth the exact condition of the
South, and he did it with cold,
hard statistics which cannot be
denied. The National Emergency
Council published its epoch-mak­ing
report on the economic con­dition
of the South. The Southern
Policy Committee and the various
state policy committees have been
unafraid to face facts. The South­ern
Conference for Human Wel­fare,
the Council of Young South­erners,
and countless other groups
have their shoulders to the Wheel,
intent on rooting out and exposing
what we have here.
* * *
Chamberlain is really becoming
rather adept at the fist-shaking
method of diplomacy. Of course,
it took a little practice, inasmuch
as he had never tried it until rec­ently.
Just like- an unprepared
youngster who finds that the new
boys in the neighborhood are
pushing him around, he has to
learn to fight their way before he
can accomplish very much.
His policy of a stiffer backbone
combined with the English facility
for waiting until the other fellow
moves, gives Britain a sound
enough diplomacy. Right at the
moment, though the situation may
have an entirely different aspect
tomorrow, it seems that the to­talitarian
states have been stopped
for a while at least.
* * *
For a long time Auburn students,
particularly those taking ROTC,
have wanted half-length military
coats. We have all seen the type
worn by Clemson boys, by Anna­polis
midshipmen on leave, and
by some of the military prep
schools. The half-length coat is
about the finest garment one could
want for knocking around in or
to accompany the ROTC uniform
in cold weather. It's especially
convenient for wear here where
the winters do not get very bit­ter.
It would be fine if the coats
could be made part of the official
uniform and each student requir­ed
to buy one through an addi­tion
to the uniform fee. Still, it
would be an additional burden
which the school doesn't wish to
impose now.
So, the coats are being sold op­tionally
through the military sup­ply
room, and any student who
wants one can get it there.
tional Intercollegiate Turtle Race.
(Moorhead, Minn.).
The Nicholas Murray Butler
Permanent Intercollegiate Philate­lic
trophy has been won by a
Brown University student.
FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1939 THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
Results of Several Tournaments Are
Released by Intramural Department
By Herbert Martin
Business done toy the intramural
sports department has taken a
decided upward trend during the
past week. Results have been
turned in for many of the tourna­ments
now in progress, and most
of them are shaping up into the
final form.
Beta Kappa has annexed the
crown in League 1 of interfrater-nity
softball with a fine record of
four victories in as many games.
League 2 is tied up at present
with S. A. E. and Pi Kappa Phi
each having won two and lost
one. S. P. E. leads League 3 with
three wins and one defeat. PiKA
is ahead by virtue of triumphing
in the three games that they have
played to date.
In the independent division, F.
F. A. is leading League 1 with
three games won and none lost.
Terrills leads League 2 with the
same record.
S. P. E. has reached the semi­final
round in fraternity tennis
and the other semi-final blanks
are expected to be filled in the
near future.
Second round matches in inter-frat
horseshoes find Lambda Chi
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tackling PiKA, S. A. E. tieing up
with Sigma Nu, and K. A. meet­ing
A. T. O. The S. P. E. mule-slipper
team will meet, the winner
of the Alpha Gamma Rho-Alpha
Psi fracas in the other match..
Barnett will meet either Judd
or Irwin in the finals of the fac­ulty
shuffletooard singles. Judd
and Barnett will play Wood and
Irwin in the doubles final.
Deming Jones, Leonard Leach,
and Joe Eddins have gained the
second round of the freshman
golf tournament.
Faculty badminton semi-fina­lists
are Barnett and Gray. The
other two men to reach the semi­finals
have not yet been- deter­mined.
Bob McClure is to play Jerry
Kuderna in the finals of the all-campus
badminton tourney. Kud­erna
has also won his way to the
semi-finals of the open badminton
tournament. Other quarter-final
matches have not been completed.
J. N. Mueller and F. Morris are
the only two to have reached the
semi-final round in freshman ten­nis
singles.. Alpha Phi Omega is
to give a trophy to the winner of
this tournament.
In all-campus singles, Hixon and
Clements are to meet in the lone
quarter-final match which has
been decided as yet. Other play­ers
in this tournament are urged
to complete their matches as soon
as possible.
Taylor and Sullivan, Henry and
Sharp, and Clements and Strat­ford
have won their way to the
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Beginning Monday, a senior
Red Cross Life Saving course will
be conducted at the Boys Gym­nasium.
The class will be held
for both boys and girls between
the hours of 4 to 6 each after­noon
until the course is finished.
Registration will be closed after
Tuesday's class.
quarter-finals of the campus
doubles tournament.
Total Fraternity Participation
Points
Alpha Gamma Rho 194
Alpha Lambda Tau .— 85
Alpha Psi 298
A. T. O. 345
Beta Kappa 165
Delta Sigma Phi .295
K. A 449
Kappa Sigma 340
Lambda Chi Alpha 280
Phi Delta Theta _ 342
Phi Kappa Tau 144
PiKA 440
Pi Kappa Phi __ 165
S. A. E. __ 528
Sigma Chi 352
Sigma Nu ... 487
S. P. E. = 413
Sigma Pi 208
Tau Epsilon Phi 178
Theta Chi _ 416
Theta Kappa Nu 160
These points do not include
the spring sports, softball,
horseshoes, and tennis.
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SPORTS CHATTER
By Boots Stratford
Gleanings from Grant Field
Last Saturday afternoon on Grant Field in Atlanta, a
well balanced Tiger track team bared its fangs and slaugh­tered
a hapless Georgia Bulldog to the tune of 88 to 34, taking
12 first places out of the 14 track and field
events . . . and with Chuck Morgan in top
form, the Plainsmen would have swept all
firsts. The Chucker took second in the high
jump, jumping with an injured hip, and didn't
even enter the low hurdles. He soundly whip­ped
his old enemy Vassa Cate in topping the
high hurdles.
Bob Dickinson and Chet Bulger led the A. P. I.
thinly clads in points racked up with 15 markers
apiece. Dick took the hundred in ten flat, the
AUBURN-MISSISSIPPI BASEBALL
TILT ON WEEK-END CALENDAR
broad jump with a leap of 22 feet 11 3-4 inches,
and the 220 in 21.8 seconds, exceptional time considering the con­dition
of the track which had been subjected to a top dressing of
clay that was soon dug into the very real replica of a plowed field
by the impact of spiked feet. "Blimp" Bulger swept the javelin,
discus, and shot put events.
Captain "Whiskey Jim" Swanner furnished the thrill of
the afternoon when he took the half mile event right off of
Fredericksen's flying feet. He had licked Fredericksen de­cisively
in the mile and came back with a Frank Merriwell
finish in the half to nip his rival right at the tape with a
driving finish that pulled the roaring crowd to its feet. About
two-thirds through the meet, with Auburn blasting Georgia
in every event, running up an enormous total, Coach Jeff
Beard, who was in charge of the squad on account of Coach
Hutsell's* illness, announced that he thought he'd call in the
out fielders and pitch the rest of the game himself!!
Coming under the heading of the "O, Woe Is Me" Dep't Is the
unfortunate incident that came upon Dave Sprinkle, ace pole vaul-ter.
Dave had won his event and was vaulting once more for the
photographers . . . he vaulted 13 feet, got his picture taken and
fell half out of the landing pit and severely sprained his ankle!
That might be called a photograph finish in the worst sense of the
word. •
Eugene Sholze
It seems apropo at this time to make mention of some of
the virtues (?) to you readers of that red-headed ruler of
the rubbing table, that purveyor of pungent pain easing
preparations, and the pride of the Sigma Chi lodge, none
other than Eugene "Sinky" Sholze! Having roomed with
Sinky in Atlanta, it was brought to this writer's conscious­ness
in no uncertain terms as to the work and worry that
was Sinky's in his capacity as trainer, and what he means
to the athletic teams of Auburn. It's no easy job to play
nurse maid to a bunch of husky athletes that are forever
wanting a rubdown, or an apple, or a bandage for their
bruises, or to know what time they're to eat and on and on
ad infinitum and far into the night! Sinky receives little
publicity and not much more credit for his arduous tasks be-hnd
the scenes of the athletic spectacles that Auburn turns
out, so this writer seizes this opportunity to congratulate
Sinky on his fine work and to comment that the Auburn
Spirit was founded with, and will be carried on by such
men as Sinky Sholze.
M-64-2
Wellborn Receives
Ag Fellowship
Award Is Made Each Year
To Outstanding Ag Junior
Fred Wellborn, junior in agri­culture
from Section, has been
awarded the 1939 Danforth Foun­dation
Fellowship for boys in the
state of Alabama.
This award is made each year
to the outstanding junior in agri­culture,
and is based on scholar­ship,
leadership, and religious ac­tivities.
All expenses are paid for
the summer period which lasts
from July 31 to August 27.
The first two weeks will be
spent in touring St. Louis and
observing the work being done in
the experimental and research
laboratories of the Purina Mills.
The representatives, consisting of
one person from each state of the
United States and one from each
province in Canada, will then go
to the American Youth Founda­tion
Camp, Miniwanca, on Lake
Michigan, near Shelby, for train­ing
in leadership.
At Camp Miniwanca a plan of
well balanced fourfold living-physical,
mental, social, and re­ligious—
is presented and demon­strated.
The eight underlying
principles of this youth guidance
program are self discovery, life
planning, balance, life enrichment,
training, leadership, service and
shared personality.
In addition to his curricular ac­tivities,
Wellborn has found time
for active work in both the Ag
Club and FFA. He is also a mem­ber
of the Alabama Farmer staff,
having served last year on the
Board of Control and succeeding
himself for 1939-40. His athletic
career began with his freshman
Cranford Annexes Frosh
Alpha Phi Omega Award
J. W. Cranford annexed the Al­pha
Phi Omega award for fresh­man
rifle markmanship recently
with a score of 273 points for fir­ing
prone, sitting, and kneeling.
O .P. Beard was second with
a score of 270, E. C. Allen third
with 270, and J. B. McCorstin
fourth with 268. The loving cup
will be presented at drill when
all military awards are made.
All freshmen interested in com­peting
for the. award in fencing
are reminded that entries close to­morrow
and that play starts May
4.
Dean Judd Attends Church
Meeting in Kansas City
Dr. Zebulon Judd, lay reader
for the Alabama Methodist Con­ference,
is in Kansas City, Mo.,
this week to attend the Uniting
Conference of the Methodist
Church.
At .the conference the unifica­tion
of the three great branches
of Methodism in America will
be completed. The branches to be
combined are the Methodist Epis­copal
Church, South, The Meth­odist
Episcopal Church, and the
Methodist Protestant Church.
This is Dr. Judd's third succes­sive
attendance as a delegate to
a quadrennial conference.
year when he made the basball
squad; since then he has taken
part in intramural sports. He
works for the U. S. D. A. on reg­ional
varieties and studies of cot­ton
in the agronomy department.
Students who received the Dan­forth
Award for the two preced­ing
years were Norman R. Craw­ford,
1937, and Willie Alverson,
1938.
Conference-Leading Rebels
To Settle Match with
Tigers Friday, Saturday
By ELMER SALTER
Two of the leading baseball
clubs in the Southeastern Confer­ence,
Auburn and University of
Mississippi, will clash on Drake
Field at Auburn Friday afternoon
at 3 o'clock and Saturday after­noon
at 2:30 in the Tigers' final
loop series on the local diamond
this year. The Tigers are now
holding down second place in the
Big Thirteen standings and the
Rebels are tied for third honors.
After their final family home
series with Ole Miss, the Tigers
of Coach Dell Morgan will be
seen in action only twice more at
Auburn this year. They will tie
up with Oglethorpe in a return
series here on Friday and Satur­day,
May 12 and 13, in their con­cluding
engagements before local
fans this season.
Their six games on the road
next week with Georgia Tech,
Georgia and Florida and a night
affair with Lanett Mill at Lanett,
Monday, May 15, are the other
scraps remaining on their 1939
card. Their final setto of the sea­son
with Lanett Mill will be their
first moonlight bout this year.
A sprained ankle will keep
Cooper Sellers, senior ace , from
taking his regular turn on the
mound for Auburn against Ole
Miss Friday afternoon at 3 o'­clock
and the assignment will go
to southpaw Louis Diamond, ef­fective
junior. Opening on the
firing line for Auburn Saturday
will be an A-l senior, Frenchy
Gunter, the submarine artist. Bill
Andrews, Dick Swindle and Char­lie
Kilpatrick will be ready for
reserve service in the tilts with
the Mississippians.
Catching their slants will be
Sophomore Red Caudill, who is
hitting .208. Ralph Frazier will
start at first against the Rebels,
Charlie Rollo or Carl Happer at
second, Doug Bennett or Ray Mc-
Clusky at short, and Captain Mal­vern
Morgan at third. Frazier is
batting .380, Captain Morgan .356,
Bennett .250, Rollo .214, MeClus-ky
.206, and Happer .102.
Auburn's outfield in the tests
with Ole Miss will have Howard
Bazemore in left, Tommie Thomp­son
in center, and Chicken Hawke
in right. The chunky Bazemore is
swatting the pill for a .276 ave­rage,
Thompson for .214, and
Hawke for .341. Bazemore has not
seen service in over a week be­cause
of a sprained ankle and his
return to the lineup will increase
the Bengals' defensive power con­siderably.
Weight-Lifting Team to
Enter Several Meets
The Auburn weight-lifting team
will enter the Mid-South cham­pionship
on May 13 in Atlanta,
the Southern Novice meet on May
27 in Birmingham, and the South­western
meet June 2.
The team is composed of Ful­ton
McKenzie, Paul McCormick,
Billy Wyatt, Jack Hutchinson,
Jack Dandridge, and Albert Tur­ner.
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Economical to operate.
Know the convenience of hav­ing
an instant, endless supply
of hot water. All you need for
just a few cents a day—for bath­ing,
shaving, dish-washing
and laundering.
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For a time, beginning May 1st, we are allowing $10
for any old hot water heater and have payments as low
as $1.95 with your gas bill.
HOT WATER IS A NECESSITY
Gas Automatic hot water service is most economical.
Why do without it?
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PAGE FOUR
Local Alumnae to
Hear Duncan Soeak
Officers to Be Named by
First Alumnae Group
A meeting of the newly formed
Auburn Women's Alumnae Asso­ciation
will be held here at Stu­dent
Center Monday afternoon at
4:30 p. m. to effect final organi­zation.
Mrs. Emil Wright', president of
the group, in announcing the
meeting stated that all former
women students of A. P. I. are
urged to attend. There will be no
individual notices of the meeting
mailed out, according to Mrs.
Wright.
Three offices of the local chap­ter
will be filled Monday when a
vice-president, recording secre­tary,
and treasurer are named.
Nominees for the posts will be
presented by the nominating com­mittee
composed of Mrs. H. F.
Gibson, Miss Frances Blackmon
and Miss Eleanor Boyd.
A recent tabulation of local
women who formerly attended Au­burn
brought the number to 104.
Mrs. Wright has stated that when
the organization meeting of the
association was held a month ago
the list was "quite incomplete."
Therefore many persons did not
receive notices who should have
received them. Attempts have been
made since that time to correct
the list.
President L. N. Duncan will at­tend
Monday's meeting and make
several announcements that will
be of special interest to the group,
Mrs. Wright stated.
A program of the organization
will toe discussed further at the
THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1939
English Text Written Here
Being Widely Adopted
Eighteen colleges and schools
have adopted the textbook in Eng­lish
• Composition, "Elements of
Sentence Structure," written by
two members of the Auburn Eng­lish
faculy, Henry W. Adams and
Wilmer F. Jacobs.
The text is based on typical
errors found in 5,000 themes writ­ten
by students. Unique feature
of the book is an "error chart"
on which students tabulate their
mistakes in writing and which
shows at a glance he frequency
of their errors and the place in
the text where the correct usage
is explained.
Institutions, besides Auburn,
which have adopted the text are
Arkansas A. & M., Arkansas Col-ege,
Brown University, Univer­sity
of Boston, Chandler School,
John Carroll University, Univer­sity
of Dayton, University of Bal­timore,
University of Florida,
Kemper Military School, Mount
St. Joseph College, New Mexico
Normal University, Florida State
College for Women, and North
Carolina State.
Another English composition
text by Professors Adams and
Jacob, "Organization, Logic, and
Syle," will be published in the
near future.
Where is the Glomerata?
meeting, and recommendations
will be made by the executive
committee appointed at the first
meeting. The executive commit­tee
is composed of Mrs. W. O.
Richardson, Mrs. C. A. Basore,
Mrs. H. M. Martin, Mrs. Neil O.
Davis, Mrs. A. M. Pearson
Auburn Women Are
Given Honors
Three local women were elected
to positions last Saturday at the
two-day convention of the Ala­bama
Library Association in
Montgomery.
Miss Mary E. Martin, retiring
president of the association, was
appointed to the executive board,
Miss Farley Lee was elected sec­ond
vice-president, and Miss Abi
Russell, third vice-president.
General sessions of the conven­tion
were held at the Whitley Ho­tel,
Friday and Saturday. Featur­ed
on the program were papers
by Mrs. Hoyt Galvin, newly elect­ed
president, on "Federal Aid to
Adult Education" and Miss Mar­garet
H. Scott, assistant librarian,
Talladega College, on the dedica­tion
of Slavery Hall, new Negro
library that will serve 3,000 cit­izens
of Talladega and 52 rural
Negro schools.
Included on the schedule of the
convention was a high school sec­tion
with an open forum discus­sion
of problems pertaining to
high school libraries. There was
also a division devated to public
libraries.
NOTICE
In order to give all cadets time
to have their uniforms pressed, no
uniform will be required for drill
Tuesday.
The laundry requests that all
uniforms toe thoroughly dried be­fore
they are sent in, for there is
danger that the wet woolen uni­forms
will shrink or will damage
other clothing.
Wax Works
Jan Savitt and his Tophatters
bring us a couple of nicely paired
tunes called "There's A Hole in
the Old Oaken Bucket" and "It's
All So New to Me." Bon Bon and
Carlotta Dale lend their vocal tal­ents
to the two tunes respectively.
Jan has a swing style that is of
the very best taste coupled with
unique rhythm. This Decca pro­duction
is very good.
* * *
"Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life"
and "Sweethearts" are the ' two
numbers favored by Bing Crosby
with the orchestra background un­der
the direction of Victor Young.
This number is decidedly on the
classic side and should be of in­terest
to all music lovers. Decca.
* * *
In the groove with some of
the dark sisters and brothers of
swing to the tune of "What A
Little Moonlight Can Do" and "I
Wished on the Moon." Billie Wil­son
leads his small combination of
swingsters in a some classic beat­ing
of the ivories. A Brunswick
that is bound to take.
* * *
"Fats" Waller and his Rhythm
have just finished a Bluebird on
'"Taint What You Do" and "Some
Rainy Day." Fats beats it out in
his usual swinging piano while
he knocks himself out with his
own "scat" style of vocal. He
turns his fellow cats out to romp
around in the groove with him to
make a very interesting piece of
work complete.
* * *
Down" gets the added kick of
Count Basie and a vocal explana­tion
of James Rushing to make a
fine record for Vocalion. Helen
"Am I in love
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Campion5«'W»at you
need is to fall in love
again." said her majd.
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Hardy Family in
Tiqer Picture
Sixth of the series in two years,
"The Hardy Bide High," latest
exploit of the popular screen
family, will be shown at the Tig­er
Theater Saturday and Sunday.
The familiar Hardy Family cast
continues with Lewis Stone as the
judge, Mickey Rooney as his son,
Andy, and Fay Holden as the
wife and mother; Cecelia Parker
portrays the young daughter,
Sara Haden is Aunt Milly and
Ann Rutherford again is Polly
Benedict, the Carvel sweetheart
of Mickey.
New characters are introduced
into the cast as the family comes
into temporary fortune and moves
from the mythical town of Carvel
to Detroit, there to live for a
brief interval in the luxury of
millionaires. Virginia Gray por­trays
a cafe glamour girl who at­tracts
Mickey on his first venture
into the night life of the city.
John King is a young man
about town, the legal heir to a
fortune the Hardy's soon renounce.
The story brings an inheritance
of $2,000,000 to Judge Hardy from
an ancestor of the period of the
War of 1812. The family promptly
flies to Detroit to take over the
estate.
Mickey responds to his new sta­tus
with boyish enthusiasm, and
in evening clothes and silk hat
visits his first night club. Mean­while
Aunt Milly, played by Sara
Haden, meets a middle-aged bus­iness
man, portrayed by Minor
Watson, who appears to have mat­rimonial
intentions. However, he
merely wishes to sell her some
real estate.
Mickey goes to call on the glam­our
girl and is so overwhelmed he
turns and runs away; only Judge
Hardy and his wife keep their
balance in the new-found wealth.
He discovers evidence, which he
is at liberty to destroy, proving
that he is not the legal heir. True
to his ideals, the Judge reveals the
evidence and renounces the for­tune.
The family returns to Carvel,
none the worse for their adven­ture,
excepting for. an accumula­tion
of bills run up Cecelia and
Mickey.
FFA, FHA Hold Joint Meet
Tuesday in Wesley Center
On Tuesday evening, April 25,
the collegiate chapter of the FFA
and FHA held their joint meeting
in Wesley Foundation Center.
Final plans were made for the
joint picnic next Thursday even­ing.
The FFA string band played
several numbers and Mildred
Nunn gave a reading. "The Vari-ties
of Society Groups in College"
was the subject of a talk made by
Harvey Jackson. Billie Owens
played a piano solo "Fifth Noc­turne."
Francis Scroggans, a student in
home economics, made a talk on
"Extracurricular Activities." The
closing feature included three
numbers by the FFA quartet.
Rice Institute has been given a
whale for its biology department.
Humes, fast coming -to the top as
a top-notch vocalist lends her tal­ents
to "Don't Worry 'Bout Me."
These two tunes are getting the
plugs here of late and this Basie
version should be worth investi­gating.
* * *
Mildred Baily says "Love's A
Necessary Thing" and "I Can
Read Between the Lines." Mild­red
has the backing of an excel­lent
small group and her style of
singing hits the ball with this Vo­calion.
We think it is good.
* * *
More Basie. jazz billed as "If
I Could Be With You" and "Taxi
War Dance." Helen Humes again
treads the scales via well trained
vocal machinery. The last of this
group gets rather involved be­fore
it is over and hits a new in­teresting
note. Vocalion.
* * *
"Tears From My Inkwell" is
Sammy Kaye's latest Victor re­lease
with Tommy Ryan doing the
crooning. "At A Little Hot Dog
Stand" is Charlie Wilson's con­tribution
to the Swing and Sway
band. On the sweet side, but O. K.
* * »
Something new from Red Nich­ols
on his first Bluebird produc­tion
is called "You're So Desir­able."
This tune is medium tempo
and is given a dixie-land touch
by Red's fine cornet. Bill Darnell
brings a new type voice to our
ranks of vocalist. "Our Love" is
explained by Bill Darnell vocal­ly
with something new in clarinet
voicing as vocal background.
Good.
API Has Delegates to
Church Meet
Seven Auburn delegates at­tended
the meeting in Tuscaloosa
last week-end for the purpose of
organizing a Presbyterian Stu­dent
Association for students in
Alabama.
Under the leadership of Rev.
Sam B. Hay, local Presbyterian
pastor, Nelle Gilchrist, Archibald
Hawkins, Jameas Franklin, Lane
Thigpen, Frank Morrow, Sam
Smith, and Richard Bjurberg took
active parts at this first confer­ence.
Besides the Auburn repre­sentatives,
students attended from
Montevallo, Marion Institute,
Judson, Howard, Jacksonville
State Teachers College, Athens
College, and the University of
Alabama.
The conference opened Friday
night with a banquet and an ad­dress
by Rev. Alex Batchelor, di­rector
of religious education in
Alabama and Tennessee. After a
devotional hour Saturday morn­ing,
the conference delegates were
divided into four discussion
groups.
At the business meeting Satur­day
afternoon, officers were elect­ed
and a tentative constitution
and seal were adopted. Archie
Hawkins, Auburn, was elected
vice-president for the coming
year. Other Auburn students hav­ing
important duties were Sam
Simith, chairman of the nominat­ing
committee, and Richard
Bjurberg, member of the consti­tutional
committee.
Mrs. Earl Rauber Addresses
Home Economics Club
Mrs. Earl L. Rauber, native of
Czechoslovakia and graduate of
Prague University, spoke last
night to the students attending
the Home Economics club meet­ing
in Smith Hall.
Miriam Chestnutt, vice presi­dent
of the club, introduced the
speaker. After the address the
members sang songs and trans­acted
business.
Mrs. Rauber spoke about edu­cational
advantages in her young
ladyhood abroad. She displayed
samples of handiwork including
fancy aprons, dust caps, dresses of
all kinds, embroidered tray cloths,
and other articles that she made.
Bohemian newspapers, maga­zines,
and pictures were shown to
the group and the speaker ex­plained
each.
After Mrs. Rauber finished
spflfaking, the members donned
Chinese costumes and tea and
cookies were served by the soc­ial
committee of the club.
Faculty members of the School
of Home Economics present de­clared
this to be the most interest­ing
program of the year.
Record Enrollment
Seen for Summer
A record enrollment of approx­imately
3,000 students is antici­pated
for Auburn's summer school,
it was announced today by Dean
Zebulon Judd, director of the
summer sessions.
With 20 visiting professors slat­ed
to join the summer school
faculty of 166, the first session
will open June 5 and close July
14. The second session commen­ces
July 17 and ends August 19.
Fifteen thousand summer school
bulletins were placed in the mail
this week to teachers throughout
Alabama and adjoining states.
Special feature of the first ses­sion
will be a reading clinic and
conference, June 12 to 16, for
superintendents, principals and
teachers. Diagnosis will be made
of faculty reading habits, and in­struction
will be given for devel­opment
of reading efficiency.
Leaders of the reading clinic
will be Dr. J. Hooper Wise, Uni­versity
of Florida; Mrs. Mary
Hutchinson, Mississippi State Col­lege
for Women; P. J. Dodson,
superintendent of schools, Bas­trop,
Texas; Miss Daisy Parton,
Alabama State Department of
Education; J. B. Epting, Memp­his,
Tenn.; A. P. Goddard, Atlan­ta,
Ga.; Dr. B. R. Showalter, Au­burn.
Mrs. B. R. Showalter Is
Again State PTA President
Mrs. B. R. Showalter of Au­burn
was this week reelected
President of the Alabama Con­gress
of Parents and Teachers,
along with the remaining 1938 of­ficers.
A new process which is believ­ed
to make possible the produc­tion
of a new type of synthetic
rubber has been discovered by
University of Alabama scientists.
Gordon Speaks on
Sugar Cane
The production of sugar cane in
Louisiana by modern methods was
the feature of a moving picture
presented to the Ag Club by E.
D. Gordon, associate agricultural
engineer of the Farm Tillage Lab­oratory
here.
"Figures show that 490,000 tons
of raw sugar were produced on
292,000 acres in 1938-39; while
only 406,000 tons were produced
in 1937-38 oh 309,000 acres," said
Mr. Gordon. "This increase in
yield is due to the fact that in­tensive
plant breeding and care­ful
selection have provided im­proved
varieties of cane which are
vastly most productive and more
resistant to disease.
"There are 25,000 cane growers
in Louisiana and the major num­ber
of farms on which cane is
grown are 200 acres or less in
size. The cultivatable acreage in
the 'Sugar Bowl' is not particu­larly
adapted for growing other
crops of economical value.
"The demand for labor through­out
the season is a highly fluc­tuating
factor, reaching a peak at
harvest. Requirements for tillage
operations are a major item be­cause
of the physical character­istics
of the alluvial soils, the
drainage problem on account of
the high water table, and the
large amount of trash and debris
which must be plowed under or
disposed of.
"Indications are that the soils
of the sugar cane area reflect in
ultimate yield the manner of til­lage
operations performed on
them. Deep tillage has resulted
in increased yields."
Porch to Head Theta Upsilon
Sorority During Next Year
Iota Alpha chapter of Theta
Upsilon sorority held election of
officers at the last chapter meet­ing.
The officers for next year are:
Helen Porch, Alexander City,
president; Zada Motley, Birming­ham,
vice-president; Jeanne May-berry,
Waverly, secretary; Carle-ton
Farish, Grove Hill, treasur­er;
Mary Guy Inzer, Eden, edi­tor;
Ann Mason, Manila, chap­lain;
and Mamie Kate Mitchell,
Headland, guard.
Ann Mason, who had previously
been voted the Model Pledge, was
presented with a copper plaque
bearing the sorority coat-of-arms
in colors.
America's first extensive history
of the South—10 volumes—has
been started by University of
Texas and Louisiana State Uni­versity
historians.
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