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Semi-Weekly Friday Edition VOL. LXII Z-I W$t Auburn plainsman Merry Christmas, Everybody! AUBURN, ALABAMA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1938 NUMBER 29 MR. WAREAGLE SAYS Once again the Plainsman groans wearily to press, and once again we sit and gaze blankly at the typewriter, wondering what the subject of this sprightly ramble will be. * * * Off we go on a tangent: Congratulations to captain-elect Hatch Howell and to alternate-captain- elect Bill Nichols . . . also to the letter-winners . . . picture shows around here are cheaper and better than ever . . . we miss the green grass on the campus . . . politics are being whispered a-round very, very quietly . . . the ties Santa is going to bring will be hideous, and the socks won't fit . . . never ask a girl if she necks; get it from her own lips . . . there is no place like a fraternity house —thank the gods! . . . our idea of a good town is one that has more houses than filling stations . . . which is most uncertain—a woman's mind or a grapefruit squirt? * * * Too, too true is the picture drawn by Columnist John Godbold of the honor situation at Auburn. Cheating on quizzes abounds and is not frowned on by students themselves— big shot seniors and football heroes included. The man who places his hand over his answers on a quiz so that the man next to him can't see his work quickly gains a reputation of being a prig and is called all kinds of uncomplimentary things. Every student on the campus probably knows of at least one case where some student bluffed his way through a course because he always sat next to a smart friend at exam time. A large part of the basic trouble rests in the student attitude toward courses. To most students a course is a kind of checker game with the professor playing on the other side of the board. He moves, you move, and most of the time you are it. When you see an opportunity to jump two of his men without being caught, you do it. That's the philosophy, but of course it's false. A man who sneaks a double-jump over on the prof is unknowingly jumping his own men and sending them home. But just try to tell students that. * * * "Charged with vagrancy," said the police officer fo the coed wearing a strapless evening gown at the dance. "No visible means of support." * * * "Life Goes to The Cake Race" is still the theme of this paragraph. It seems that there was a Yankee-talking wench here Satur. day who called up Morris Hall and Jack Morton, who have been in school over in the architecture building for over a decade and should know better, and volunteered the information that she represented the well -known magazine, that she had some fine shots of the event, and wanted some information on the college and suggestions about shote of the campus. Yes, of course, they would meet her at the Pitts Hotel at 7 p. m. . . delighted . . . certainly. At the ap. pointed hour they were there, having dragged the entire college publicity bureau over with them. Patient waiting in the lobby . . . seven-twenty and no Life photographer . . . "give her twenty more minutes." Finally, the clerk remembers a note left for Mr. Hall and Mr. Morton. The chit, written at 5:30 that afternoon, expressed regrets that the lady in question had been hurriedly called to Miami and could not keep her appointment. Chagrined waiters decide they have been rooked and go home cussing. We don't know what name she signed to the note, Chuzzlewit or Finklestein or Fusslebussem, but it should have been Barnum. Her old man knew how to play a sucker, too. For the other 12 filling stations that sprung up in Auburn last week: Hush, little corner lot Don't you cry. You'll be a filling station By and by. Hudson Strode to Speak Here in Lecture Course Noted Author, Lecturer Will Speak January 16 on South- American Relations Hudson Strode, widely known lecturer, writer, and professor of English at University of Alabama, will be presented here Monday evening, Jan. 16, in an address on "The Importance of Our Friendship With South America," Prof James R. Rutland, chairman of the Auburn Concert Course, announced today. Prof. Strode is author of three successful books, "South by Thunderbird," "The Pageant of Cuba," and "The Story of Bermuda." As professor of creative writing at the University, he has discovered and helped develop a number of successful writers, including Harriet Hassell, who last spring published "Rachel's Children," a best-seller. Brought up in Alabama, a graduate of the University, where he has held a chair of professor of English literature for several years, Mr. Strode has traveled extensively. His travels have taken him a number of times to South America. He lived in Italy and North Africa for a year, in Bermuda for three years, in New York for three years, and he has spent many summers in Cuba, South America, England, Germany, France, Nova Scotia and California. Attaining at an early age distinction for his writing of articles, stories and verse in quality magazines, Mr. Strode achieved Who's Who at the age of 30. He was an associate professor of English at 24 and full professor at 31. All of Mr. Strode's books have been published and books, stories, articles of his have been translated into Spanish, German, Swedish, Danish, Hungarian and French. In the last six years he has devoted himself almost exclusively to the interpretation of foreign countries. His specialties are South America, Bermuda and Cuba. Mr. Strode has gained outstanding recognition for his lecture on "The Importance of Our Friendship With South America." After hearing the noted author, lecturer speak on the subject, Sumner Welles, Under Secretary of State, said: "Hudson Strode has presented to the public . . . a very understanding and sympathetic picture of our American neighbors. His rare ability to give color and atmosphere makes fascinating what he has to say." Frank Hale Is Winner in Intramural Tennis By defeating Bill Shoffner in a closely contested three out of five sets match, Frank Hale became the winner of the intramural tennis tournament. The match was a hard fought contest which required five sets before the winner was definitely recognized. JJfnrm (Pitr prasttettf - tfto (§ur JStuhmts attb f^etr parents;; to tnxx <2dumm, ^sUnefaciorB, mth Jfronitg, ib* ptmetmt mtfr Jlfacultg of <&- | L £L sxtenh moat coxbxal goob fmsijea for a ^Happg (ttipxabxtaa anh a ^iero ^|ear fiUea ioxti\ bkssmojs. ^utcewljj, Auburn Loses Southern Regional Farm Lab; Gets Two Buildings FRATS BEGIN BASKETBALL Active Competition Seen Between Fraternity Groups The basket-ball fever has again swept the campus. Fraternity and independent teams have already begun to practice for the tournaments, which will start immediately after the mid-term examinations are completed. Before the tournament begins, it is hoped that practice games between the various teams can be arranged in order to get the players in the proper condition for the test. The two tournaments last year were top-flight contests. In the fraternity battle the Sigma Nu's had the edge over the Alpha Psi's, and after a hard fought game the Ag Bottom boys emerged the winners. The five teams that played in the play-off were: Sigma Nu, Alpha Psi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Delta Sigma Pi, and Alpha Gamma Rho. There were 22 teams to enter the contest. In the independent tourney, 18 teams competed. The winner of the tournament was Alumni Hall. The Alumni team proved to be too tough for their opposition, and it was only in the final game of the tournament against the FFA team team that they were given a true test. Among the favorite teams for this year are the Sigma Alpha Ep-silon's, Sigma Chi's, Sigma Nu's, and Theta Chi's. All independent teams must have their entrance blanks into the Athletic Director either this week or the first week after the Christmas Holidays. Eat, drink, and be merry, for after Christmas come examinations. Holidays Word came this morning from the Office of the President that classes after the Christmas holidays will not begin until 8 a. m. Tuesday, Jan. 3. This decision was made in view of the fact that New Year's Day falls on Sunday, and Monday is being officially observed as the holiday. Administrative officials urged all students to be present Tuesday morning, ready to resume class attendance, as this is necessary for the effective functioning of the holiday regulation. Classes missed on Tuesday by students will mean a two-point cut. Life Of Auburn Football Rating Expert Given By Charles Burns Rating football teams was just a hobby to Paul Bernard^ Williamson of New Orleans, graduate with a BS degree in Electrical Engineering in the class of 1912, but today his football ratings appear in leading newspapers in the United States. Mr. Williamson is an Alabamian and an Auburnite, truly speaking, supporting the ole Alma Mater by attending regular meetings of the Alumni Association in New Orleans, his home, and by returning to the state to visit relatives in Birmingham and Montgomery. He was born in Birmingham, later moving to the Alabama cap-itol city, where he was educated at Boy's High and Starke's University School, later entering Auburn in 1908. Graduating here, he entered the University of Wisconsin receiving master's degree after studying nine months. His first employer in the Electrical field was the General Electrical Co., in West Lynn, Mass. He left there and entered the services of the Emerson Electrical Manufacturing Co., St. Louis, and later served with the Wagner Corp., also in that city doing special research work. Mr. Williamson later moved to Oklahoma City as a consultant en. gineer doing special research work in the application of electricity in oil refining. Interested in the oil business, this distinguished Auburn alumnus moved to San Antonio, Texas, where he was engaged in petroleum geology, petroleum engineering, and geophysical research work. In 1930 he moved to New Orleans where he became a consultant engineer and geologist and for the past seven years has been the only independent geologist permanently located in that city. Among the honors that he has received is a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Fellow in the Royal Society of Art (British); discoverer of ten oil fields in Texas; and inventor of advanced geophysical equipment. (Continued on Page Six) Writer Describes New Vet Buildings By H. B. Title Early Thursday morning, Dr. Duncan received a telegram from Senator Hill in Washington to the effect that the general class-room and veterinary building appropriations had been approved. This completes the full program requested by Auburn. No doubt, the additional classroom building will greatly alleviate the crowded class conditions at present. However, the appropriations for the new veterinary building is, in our estimation, the most noteworthy of all. Students comprising other branches of learning of our institution, can hardly realize the utter lack of facilities the School of Veterinary Medicine have had to contend with in the past. Despite this handicap, many outstanding graduates have passed through our portals and into the professional world to bring credit and honor to our school. According to specifications, the veterinary building will be a two story brick structure. The proposed site will face Thach Street, opposite our present veterinary building. It will be 208 feet long and 56 feet wide. There will be two wings 40 feet by 60 feet. Occupying the first floor, there will be a large animal clinic on one end and the small animal clinic on the other end, including the wings. There will also be the library, reading room, general offices, pharmacy, x-ray room and technicians' room, student laboratory, refrigeration room, autopsy room, incinerator, ladies' rest room, and two class-rooms. The small animal clinic will have a waiting room, examination room, operating room, and wards for boarding, surgical, infectious diseases, and medical cases. The large animal clinic will have a large clinic hall with twelve stalls in the wing. The upper floor will have two lecture rooms, several small research laboratories and offices, also bacteriology and pathology laboratories. There will also be students' rooms for clinic internes on the second floor. The Colgate University senior class presidential election was won by a single-vote margin. ODK CHRISTMAS DRIVE OVER Much Clothing, Many Toys, Money Obtained in Drive "Thanks to the generousity of the students, we of ODK regard the Christmas Donation Drive a success," said Bunchy Fowler this morning. Most of the donations were in the form of clothing and toys, but some cash was given. According to Fowler, the donations were sufficient to provide 25 or 30 needy families with happy Christmases. The contributions are assembled in the Student Center, and are to be turned over to the Christmas Welfare Committee for distribution. This drive among the students was supplementary to the drives being conducted by the Community Chest and the Red Cross, all collections being given to these bodies for apportionment. The drive began two weeks ago, and contributions have been coming in steadily since the first announcement. Donation collectors have made the rounds to the various fraternity and boarding houses this week, and have brough in two large boxes of old clothes and several boxes of toys. Most of the fraternities saved the toys given at their Christmas parties and gave them to the needy. ODK wishes to express its appreciation to Mrs. Rena Jolly, Gus Coats, Dr. Paul Irvine, and all who have cooperated so enthusiastically in putting on the drive. There are nine college alumni associations that are more than 100 years old. Glomerata Staff Well Along on Job, Say Heads Two-Thirds of Copy and Photographs Complete; Much Advertising Sold Many long hours of hard work have been given by 39 Auburn students in collecting pictures, writing copy, and attending to the business affairs of the 1939 Glomerata, yearbook of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, which will appear in April. Editor Perry Schwartz, landscape architecture senior from Birmingham, said that two-thirds of the copy and photographs for the 350 pages of the book is now complete. More than double the amount of advertising space sold last year has been contracted the 1939 book by Business Manager W. C. (Curty) Farley and his staff who started the campaign with the opening of college in September. The 2,742 individual pictures ~which will appear in the book this year is the largest percentage of the student body to appear in a single Auburn annual. A total of 3,031 students have enrolled this fall. For the first time in 20 years the pictures of all members of the faculty will be included in a special section of the book. Members of the editorial staff are Ed Davis, Prattville; Parker Narrows, Ensley; Charles Kelly, Eutaw; Paul Rudolph, Pulaski, Tenn.; Allen Northington, Montgomery; Jack Greeson, Montgomery; Shelby Taylor, Huntsville; C. W. Thompson, Piedmont; J. B. Thomas, Sipsey; Bill Mayse, Birmingham; Harry Huff, Birmingham; Joe Lacy, Columbus, Miss.; Ed Welden, Wetumpka; Clifton Dreyfus, Birmingham; Mary Ella Cook, Montgomery; Harold Michelson, Decatur; Jack Birdsong, Birmingham; Jack Berlin, Montgomery. The business staff consists of Nolen Helm, Opelika; Hank Parker, Brewton; John Huff, La- Grange, Ga.; Roy Taylor, Birmingham; Nancye Thompson, St. Petersburg, Fla.; Marshall Hooper, Selma; Howard Seilder, Birmingham; Eloise Williams, Opelika; John Rencher, Opelika; Billy Clanton, Athens; Bill Dodd, Selma; Bob GDI, Pensacola, Fla.; Gene Scott, Atlanta, Ga.; Billy Gaines, Birmingham; Ted Raht, Columbus, Ga.; Carl Pace, Oxford; Harry Sherrod. Birmingham; Bob Huff, Columbus, Ga.; and Frank Hutchings, Selma. F a i l u r e to Secure Million- Dollar Project Softened By Getting PWA Okehs Disappointment in Auburn over failing to get the Southern Regional Farm Laboratory was softened this week by final approval in Washington of the last two projects on the A. P. I. $1,446,900 PWA building program. With the entire Alabama Congressional delegation, the State Chamber of Commerce, Tuskegee Institute and numerous other organizations working to bring the huge laboratory to Auburn, hopes were high for the city's bid being given favorable response in Washington. Announcement Tuesday, however, disclosed that the million- dollar project will be established at New Orleans. The final two buildings approved in the PWA programs are a classroom building at an estimated cost of $200,000 and a veterinary building to cost $150,900. Because work on the new buildings must start before Jan 1, it was thought by many local citizens that the last two projects could not be approved. A letter from Washington last week confirmed this fear, but later a wire from Sen. Lister Hill indicated the buildings had been approved. Formal announcement came from Washington Monday. Bids have been called on for all nine projects and contract has been let for the president's mansion. Other bids will be opened on a schedule announced by Executive Secretary Ralph Draughon as follows: Dec. 20—Library, stadium and field house, women's dormitory group, nursery school and practice house, and agricultural "engineering building. Dec. 22—Student health center and infirmary. Dec. 27—Classroom building and veterinary building. The University of California's atom-smashing syclothon weighs 85 tons. Co-Eds Dance Christmas Carols At Recital A new slant on Yuletide programs occurred here Thursday evening in Langdon Hall when 41 Auburn: women students danced— instead of sung—Christmas carols as the closing feature of a recital by the Modern Dance Class, under direction of Miss Louise Lee Kre-her, instructor. Three carols, "We Three Kings of Orient Are," "Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly," and "O, Come All Ye Faithful," completed the dance program as a finale to a semester's work in the creative dance. It was the first dance recital ever presented by Auburn co-eds, 450 of whom are now enrolled. "The Auburn Dance Class and Club are two extracurricular ac-tivites provided this year for women students to provide recreation and training in artistic dancing," explained Miss Kreher. "The dances tonight were developed from movement techniques, floor patterns, and ideas that occurred in the two organizations and many ideas suggested by students were used in the formation of the recital," she said. Besides the carols, the students dance the following selections: "Dance Primitive," "Fragment," first and second movements of "Moonlight Sonata,' and "Hunsdon House." Names of women students in the recital follow: Dance Class—Helen Jordon, Birmingham; Eloise Williams, Opelika; Mary Hayes, Miami, Fla.; Jean Beasley, Auburn; Frances Meadows, Salem; Pansy Thornton, Murry Cross; Elizabeth Perry, Auburn; Gertrude Fields, Auburn; Hulda Rutland, Auburn; Mary Thompson, Georgetown, Ky.; Kernie Hawkins, Auburn; Lillian Smith, Birmingham; Agnes Chapin, Auburn; Anna Belle Cam-mack, Grove Hill; Sara Rowe, Enterprise; Frances Middleton, Auburn; Rubye Helen Stokes, Montgomery; Bettie Belle Brandt, Tuskegee; Evelyn Cowart, Opelika; Doris Green, LaGrange, Ga.; Wil-ma Bonds, Red Bay; Dorthy Hurst, Leeds; Frances Patrick, Scottsboro; Katie Gresham, Rison, Ark.; Dorothy Jobson, Anniston; (Continued on Page Six) Business Frat to Secure Speakers Experts in Several Fields To Be Brought to Auburn Delta Sigma Pi is formulating plans to bring to Auburn next semester four of the South's most outstanding speakers, it was announced today by John Hill West, Chairman of the chapter efficiency contest committee. "It is our desire to bring speakers whom the students will enjoy and profit from hearing," said West, "and we plan to go the limit in getting prominent men from various fields." Tentative plans are to have a speaker taken from the banking field, one from the TVA, a transportation expert, and a leader in the iron and steel industry. Contacts with speakers are being made, and the first speaker, who will address the business department in early February, will be announced shortly after Christmas. The schedule of the speeches is to be posted, and classes excused at the hours set aside for convocations. Likely the speeches will be held on Tuesdays at 10 o'clock. The committee in charge of securing speakers to address the de_ partment is composed of: Chairman E. L. Rauber, Prof. C. P. Austin, and L. E. Foster. Auburn Fencing Club Is Organized Wednesday The Auburn Fencing team was organized at a meeting in the Textile Building last Wednesday. The officers elected were: Bob Armstrong, Captain. Tony Cortina, Alternate Captain; Marvin Avery, Secretary and Treasurer. The club, which has the aim of fostering interest in fencing among the students, has had the support of several members of last year's fencing team, and has many new members. Although fencing is still a minor sport, there are 25 men on the squad. Anyone interested in joining may report to the top floor of the Textile Building on Monday, Wed. nesday, or Thursday at 4:30 p. m. PAGE TWO THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1938 The Auburn Plainsman Published Semi-Weekly By The Students Of The Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama Editorial and business offices at Lee County Bulletin Office on Tichenor Avenue. Phone 448. Editor may be reached after office hours by calling 169-W. Edwin C. Godbold Editor Charles F. Grisham . . . Business Manager Editorial Staff Managing Editor Associate Editor . Society Editor _ Sports Editor News Editor Roy Taylor . J. H. Wheeler ...Eleanor Scott Bill Troup John Godbold Business Staff Assistant Business Manager Bob Armstrong Assistant Business Manager Julian Myrick Office Manager -Bill Carroll Billy Smith Advertising Manager Dan Martin , Layout Manager Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates by mail: $2.50 per year, $1.50 per semester. Represented for national advertising by National Advertising Service, Inc. Member of Associated Collegiate Press. Distributor of Collegiate Digest. Blest Be The Tie In this age of dictatorships and revolutions and social upheavals we are likely to forget that Germans read other books besides "Mein Kampf," that Italians read fairy tales, and learned essays. All Russians do not confine their reading time to the collected works of Lenin. There are more books and pamphlets published each year in Russia than in the United States. In Japan people are reading poetry, and in many a Spanish home men and women are smiling over the exploits of Don Quixite. Books make us one. Books link the peoples of the world as no treaty can link them. One of the fairly late books is Attilio Gatti's "Great Mother Forest." Italians are reading it, Englishmen are reading it, Germans are reading it—it has been translated into a dozen languages. "The Destiny of Man," another late book, was written by a great Russian philisopher exiled in Paris. Though exiled, he is still a Russian at heart. His book, however, is for. the whole world. Throughout the civilized world men and women are going to book stores to select Christmas gifts. The books are bound in all colors, and the titles are in a dozen languages. But each purchaser is moved by the same kindly impulse. Children have no national prejudices. They like Mickey Mouse in any language. You will find Grimm's "Fairy Tales" in Honolulu or Bombay. People are pretty much the same the world over. When it comes to books, they are exactly the same. We think the translation of books from one language to another, provided they are good books, is a great factor in the preservation of peace. To all readers of good books everywhere, we send Christmas greetings. Touch Football Have you noticed all these people limping and hobbling around the campus these days? There is one answer—touch football. Every game has not failed to produce its charlie-horses and pulled muscles, and broken bones have been frequent. This bodily punishment by the local Greeks is not only needless, it is downright foolish. The usual touch game here is just as rough as one of Coach Meagher's scrimmages. The blocking is fierce, and all to frequently a "touch" is just as disastrous as a tackle would be. The players have no padding, unless one considers the tape with which some of them have to swathe themsel-yes as some protection. Perhaps it is a pretty glorious feeling to get one's head bashed in for dear old Alpha Guga Theta, but continuous blows to an already bruised section of the anatomy are definitely most unpleasant, and some of these men play the game with twisted knees and cracked ribs that migh easily be turned into a permanent injury. The season is over now, and a whole year stands between the present and next fall. Couldn't the Intramural Sports Department figure out something a little less devastating for next year? Even wrestling and boxing would be welcome. J.B.T. "Merry Christmas" Looking back on the history of the world since the first Christmas Day, one marvels at the faith and courage of mankind. Yet in spite of massacre, pestilence, human misery, and suffering through the ages, men and women, with an undying fire of the spirit, with dauntless courage, with endless hope, have greeted each other on one day of the year with "a Merry Christmas." Christmas is one of the oldest and most precious ideas men have ever enjoyed. It is the very expression of the perennial faith of men in the goodness of the universe. Long before Christmas came men had learned that after a winter of hardships, darkness, and hunger, there came the sun, and the earth became rich again. Men dared feast upon their scanty stores because they had learned to believe that the future would provide for itself and its emergencies. Few will be as poor this year as were Mary and Joseph. In all the land no child will be cradled in a manger nor born in a stable. Yet out of such as this came Christmas. The day has nothing to do with money or riches except insofar as material things become tools of hope and goodwill. Christmas is not a celebration of prosperity. It never was. It comes in bad times as well as in good years. The day was not designed especially for prosperous peoples or for fat years. On the contrary, the very day is in remembrance of a Child, born in mean surroundings, whose entire life was passed in poverty. Christmas does not consist of the exchange of unnecessary gifts by those who already have more than they can comfortably use. A Christmas which consists of the mere trading of trinkets is an empty day. Editoral "We" There is an old expression among newspaper men that the fondness for the expression "we" in editorial use arises from a need of intimidating irate readers who might be afraid of tackling more than one editor. Even though it may be impudent to discredit that explanation, there is another that editors often must admit to themselves. And that is, that as a class editors are about the worst plagiarists in captivity, and very little of what they write merits the first person pronoun. The editor reads and talks and listens to countless expressions of ideas. He may scan a dozen exchanges commenting upon some news of the day, and talk to a dozen more persons about it. He gets letters and hears radio commentators. And then when he gets around to writing a piece of his own his mind is a jumble of many contributions. Very little of what he produces is his own, except the arrangement. Consequently when the editor writes "we," he may not only be seeking anonymity but also he may be paying unconscious homage to the ideas that have come to him in one way or another from others. Perhaps it might be well for all persons expressing opinions to say "we think so." For the chances are that it is not the individual who is thinking, but the individual plus a dozen or a hundred of a thousand other minds with which he has struck fire. And perhaps if we are not quite so personal in our opinions, we will manage thereby to keep our minds more receptive to new ideas. Because if we become too impressed with our own brilliance, we may cease to place proper importance upon the idea gems that come to us and our own progress is thereby slowed down. Which thought, it may be added, came to us from somewhere else, some time, somewhere.— Birmingham News. Turn About Up until the present day the Italian government has not received much benefit from the Berlin-Rome axis, but is seems that Mussolini and Ribbentrop have at last decided that it is time for Italy to make some demands on the democracies . . . results: Italy claims an interest in the French African colonies. While Italy is taking the lead in Africa, Hitler is preparing the stage for further demands in the land East of his boundary. Already the word has been given that certain sections of Lithuania want to have a plebiscite for return to Germany. Poland is also the object of such propaganda from the Nazi machine fashioned to play on the weaker side of the masses, "the liberation of oppressed minorities." By John Ivey Jr. AN INTERVIEW: In the past the Ex-Kaiser has had very little to say about the actions of the present German dictator. We have often wondered exactly what were the reactions of the now aged Emperor, but he has refrained from expressing any opinion regarding the man who is at present taking the people of Germany along a path that is bordered by danger and strife, and after passing over that path leaves behind a picture of sorrow and relics of human oppression. In an article written recently by W. Burckhardt in regard to an interview with Wilhelm II, he pictured the old man as being deeply concerned over the state in which the German nation exists at the present moment. In describing the changed nation the Ex-Kaiser said: "But of our Germany which was a nation of poets and musicians, of artists and soldiers, he (Hitler) has made a nation of hysterics and hermits, engulfed in a mob and led by a thousand liars or fanatics . . ." * * * DOUBT: In Memphis the other day the police department was confronted with a very strange case. Two of the largest men on the force brought a very rough and unkept individual into police headquarters charged with being drunk and begging. The prisoner admitted the latter charge, but insisted that he wasn't drunk. Due to the unsteadiness of the accused the officer in charge ordered an investigation. The claim of the prisoner had been that his leg was broken, but doubt arose when he was able to stand on that limb. On examination the beggar was found to have a leg broken, or splintered, but the leg had belonged to a tree before the beggar started using it. * * * LIFE isn't so bad when we stop and think of the common practices which are accepted as being "the thing" in some countries. In fact we begin to think very highly of this territory which belongs to our good Uncle Sam. In Japan it has always been the popular belief that to die in the service of the Emperor was one of the best ways to be sure of having an everlasting life but now they have carried the thing just a little too far. The little yellow men who are now at war against China are schooled with an addition to the old idea of meeting death "for the glory of the Emperor." Due to the fact that it cost the nation much time and money in order to mend the broken bodies of those who are not completely riddled of life in combat with the enemy, the Jap is told that there will be a still greater reward for him in the "here-after", if he will allow the doctor to finish him with chloroform in case he is unlucky enough to be wounded instead of killed. This is actually being practiced by the army of Japan in China. If a soldier resists the mercy death by chloroform when he has been wounded then he must die an inglorious death—he is shot in the head by the same doctor who would have been glad to use the chloroform- * * * SANTA CLAUS will be putting the harness on old Prancer pretty soon if he can find the animal. Looks likes from the size of my wallet Santa will be able to get Prancer some social security funds and stay at home this year, but I guess there will be some of you fellows who have enough to make the old fellow hitch Prancer up anyway . . . no respect for old age! If Santa happens to pass by Auburn he might dig up some new source of news for the Plainsman . . . although the students may get kinda tired of reading the reports of affairs that take place year after year in about the same manner, don't forget that news events have a hard time coming into the world in Auburn, (commercial plug for yee Ed.) Seriously, I think we all have a lot to be thankful for—to be a-live and in good health with happiness and good friends around us is no small gift in itself when we look at the plight of the rest of the world. I would like to take this time to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and best wishes for the happiest New Year yet! AUBURN FOOTPRINTS The Syracuse infirmary is asking students to give crutches for use of crippled or injured students. Twelve medical men are held in readiness at all Harvard home football games to aid injured players. Letters to Santa Sue Quattlebaum: "Stop by South f Carolina and bring down everything good you see." Joe Crooks: "There ain't no such thing as you." Editor Godbold: "Please bring me a new Business Manager. The one I have is too little." Columnists: "Please send us a list of the naughty folks and what they did during Christmas. Also take that blue pencil away from that horrible Godbold boy." Executive Cabinet: "Please bring us a new Constitution." David D. Roberts: "If you please, sir, I would like to have a can of rat poison." Senior cadet officers: "Please bring us some nice tar and feathers for you know who." Editor Schwartz of Glomerata: "Please bring me some free snapshots and a check for John Cobb." "Stinkie" Fletcher: "Please, Santa, give the gossip writers a boot in the pants." Mr. Edington: "I want a new joke to tell." Francene Breedlove: "A boid in Mrs. Eaton's living room is better than anywhere else." Doris Greene: "A date with somebody else besides Tony." Mary Hayes: "Wrap up Lawrence and drop him down the chimney." "Graft" Farley: "Please burn up the Plainsman office." William Batchelor McGehee: "Please send down more women from Atlanta and put my picture in the Plainsman again." Roy Taylor: "Somebody to mooch from." June Tooker: "Let me tell you about this Kenmore boy." Bunchy Fowler: "A general's uniform. By order of Cadet Col. Fowler." Sadie Edwards: "A new tube of lipstick." John Cobb: "One thousand rolls of film, plenty of flash bulbs, and two Glomeratas a year." Laurie Houston: "Send that Davis guy some dancing lessons." "B. Dud": "A windmill in back of the S. A. E. House, please." Theater passes to the persons submitting the best jokes of the week go to G. D. Knight, W. D. Wittel, J. Ivey, and Sam Tharp. Winners may call by the theater box office, NOT the Plainsman ornce tor passes. Punchboard Gibbons and Strong 425. QUITE ENJOYABLE WAS the last session of the Writers' Club, which inaugurated last Monday its new custom of meeting at the homes of the members. The next meeting will be held at 7 p. m. on Monday night, January 2, 1939, at the home of Mrs. George Scithers, 425 East Magnolia Street. » • * 1717. AS WE ARE BY NO MEANS competent to do so, we are not attempting a critical analysis of the Players' production, "King Lear." We wish merely to express this column's appreciation of the task as engineered by Director Peet. We enjoyed the play as a whole; and we like especially the individual performances of Arthur Elsberry as Tom o' Bedlam and of Professor Wade as the blind Gloucester, and also, the Kent-Oswald scenes as carried out by Dawson Mullen and Clyde Morris. We have something good to say even about the audience. Awed, perhaps, by the Shakespearean atmosphere, the rabble (including the authors) conducted itself well. Only an ill-mannered and ill-timed laugh or two occurred. So we say again: "Well done, Players—and audience." * * * 25. IN THESE DAYS WHEN WATER runs cold from the spigot •or should at least—there is much talking and thinking of home and Christmas, and, among freshmen, of Santa Claus. We tak* this opportunity of wishing the many, many readers of this column a Merry Christmas holiday full of relaxation from school work and, if not a joyous, at any rate, a passing New Year beginning on January 2. * * * 27. WHAT WITH TIME FOR MID-TERM dances coming up before long, the talk of orchestras is growing louder. Choices range from Tommy Dorsey to The Hoo-sier Hot-Shots and back around to Glen Gray. If the attendance is going to be no better (in comparison of course) than at the opening set, the committee should be commended if its gets as much as a nickelodian for the Final dances. And while talking about the dances, it seems strange that peo- Gift Of Grab By Bob Anderson And then there was the Alabama College girl who was so dumb that she thought a head-linesman was a newspaper editor. • * * The New York City civil service commission, in a move to attract college grid players to the police force, will allow one point for every varsity letter won by any applicant for a police post in the next civil service examinations. Extra credits will also be added for those who have taken courses in physics, chemistry, accounting, law and engineering. • » * Student court at Midland College, has handed down the following ruling: Whenever pointed at by an upperclassman, on days before football games, the freshmen must yell "Foo to the goo that plays Midland." How's that for stealing a comic strip artist's crack? • * * The "Plainsman" recently received an exchange paper addressed to "Plainsman College, Auburn, Alabama." • * * The Math department of Northwestern University spent several weeks trying to discover what color combinations on blackboards showed up best to students. They tried using charcoal on white boards, white chalk on blue boards, yellow chalk on black boards, but finally reverted to the good old white on black, deciding that it couldn't be beaten. • * * It has recently been discovered by historians that the University of Mexico, and not Harvard, was the first institution of higher learning in America. pie who never make them will make so much noise (adverse or otherwise) when the selection of the band is announced. It seems that there could be some arrangement whereby the usual crowd that usually is seen at all the hops could choose their orchestra, and not have the social committee hearing so many suggestions from those who are never present for even one of the morning dances. Before Tomorrow By John Godbold "I AM AN AUBURN MAN." That is a statement which we students take pride in being able to make. It carries with it the good name, the popularity, and the respect which Auburn enjoys. In the making of Auburn men here, studies, books, social contacts, extra-curricular activities— all are stressed. Yet, always lacking is emphasis on one thing— HONOR. Few persons in Auburn seem to care about honor. The days of honor and trust among all students have long been dead. Honor is simply a matter of no concern to the most of the student body. Every once and a while someone drags forth the old joke about the professor who announces that his quiz will be on the honor system and then places students four seats apart. But object as one may, placing students four seats apart and in alternate rows is about the only way that cheating among Auburn students can be eliminated. And even when placed like that, many of them still employ the familiar "crib" notes, or take an occasional glance into a handy textbook. Things have reached an all-time low in rottenness when a student can count fourteen out of a class of twenty-two cheating on a final exam. Yet, that's exactly what happened in one class last spring. The root of the entire evil logically rests in the fact that in Auburn there is no real opposition to cheating or dishonesty. Very few students even consider it dishonest to cheat. It's just a game that's being played and almost everyone plays, so why not join in. We have "Honor System" written on some of our blackboards but that's the nearest API comes to having one. Every Auburn student has heard more than one of his fellows boast of "getting by" and has seen cheating going on a-round him. As for stealing—overcoats, purses, and the like are all-too-fre-quently missing after dances. Few students escape having at least one of their books stolen at some time during their four years. Contrast our situation with that in some other schools. Look at University of Virginia from where a former Auburn student writes that one can leave his fountain pen on a library desk and come back weeks later and find it still there. Feature that in Auburn if you can. Look at other Virginia schools where honor has become inherent in each student. The type of honor system portrayed in "Brother Rat" was laughable to some Auburn students who couldn't absorb the idea. It was too big for themt There's another Southern school where a campus store, complete with student supplies, drinks, books, and the like, is maintained without a single clerk. The student goes in, makes his purchase, and puts the money in the cash register. You have a fine imagination if you can picture that in Auburn where merchants have had to stop handling certain types of candy and confections because of repeated losses to heavy-fingered students. Take the example of a Mississippi college where the students will not associate with anyone who has been seen cheating on a quiz. They won't talk to him, won't sit by him, won't walk with him, sometimes won't even enter a classroom if he is present. No administrative action is necessary for a cheater. He can stand about a week of being scorned—then he leaves. Few and far between are the students who cheat in that school. The principle is followed that every man who is a student there is a gentleman, that a man who will cheat is not a gentleman, and as such is not fit to associate with gentlemen. Once a man cheats the students themselves see to it that no one associates with him any longer. Contrast this with Auburn where students boast after a quiz of how they cheated. If ever there is any factor at Auburn which needed overhauling it is the student attitude toward dishonesty. In the attitude of the students themselves will ultimately lie the success or failure of any system. To create among the student body a definite attitude against dishonesty is the only remedy. The stigma which he rightly deserves should be placed on the man who cheats. How to do it? That rests in the hands of the administration, and most of all, the student government. It isn't a lovely picture. But it's true. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1938 THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE S8S88S88S8S888SSS88SSSSS8888S888SS88888S8888S8Sg88S88SS88888^^ dtititefe^ . GREETINGS ;0»O»O»O«O»O»O» •0«0»G»0«0»0»0 iSgSgS5SggSg58Sggg5S5ggSgS5S5SgSS8gS5SgggSgggg82gSS8SggS8gggSgggSggS588SgS8gS8gS8gggS| s? Yuletide Greetings MAY THIS BE THE GAYEST, MER RIEST, AND MOST PROSPEROUS OF THEM ALL! B. LOWE'S Bette Shoppe C h r i s t m as G r e e t i n g s PITTS HOTEL Wright Hardware Company THE MERCHANTS OF AUBURN. WHO GREET YOU FROM THIS PAGE SINCERELY APPRECIATE THE ASSISTANCE YOU HAVE GIVEN IN MAKING THEIR CHRISTMAS A HAPPY ONE. INDEED, THEY WISH THE JOYS ATTENDING THESE MORE PROSPEROUS TIMES ARE SHARED BY EACH OF YOU. THEY WISH YOU THE ABUNDANT BLESSINGS OF THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT SHARED BY NATIONS THE WORLD OVER. MERCHANTS OF AUBURN , * : .w *'••-•-- M e r r y C h r i s t m a s BENSON'S H| FtfcX°7 \ ^^MJLM WJrtf^u rM MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR W. D. Copeland Groceries Auburn Cash Grocery AND TO YOURS ON THE HOLIEST DAY OF ALL— C H R I S T M A S Tiger Coffee Shop Miu-HinM IfcV and Sincere Good Wishes for Your Happiness throughout the Coming Year B. C. Pope Agency G R E E T I N G S to the Boys on the "Right Side of the Railroad Tracks" Y o u n g 's 1 ** ' fc ^ |<^|J | |7 fe»| % l Auburn Electric Co. To Our Friends: In looking back over another year about closed, we would be unappreciative indeed were we not to thank you for your friendship and your generous patronage. As you place your lighted candles in .your windows, and your fires crackle on your hearths, and you give and exchange gifts with your family and friends, may you have joy, happiness and good health, not only at this Christmas time but throughout all this coming year. MERRY CHRISTMAS R. T. Moreman & Son Grocery M E R R Y C H R I S T M A S G i b s o n ' s MEN'S WEAR Best Wishes of the Season; A Merry Christmas, Friends! Another year rolls around and old Friendships are Riper, Mellower. To all our old Friends—and to the New —We wish the Happiest Christmas of All, Bright and Snowy as a Freshly Ideal Laundered Shirt. IDEAL LAUNDRY fks^^s^sisi^^ MEADOW'S GARAGE STANDARD SERVICE STATION PAGE FOUR THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN , FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1938 •CWOfOt o»o#o»< io»o»o»o«C'«.••.-• ••;'••:>• o»~mom'm-»•"•' • " • :'»"»o«o«o«;>« :>•"•• :• »r>«r«p»c».- •o»o»o»o«; §ei^(^ (Jteete^ %^k fw> MAY EVERY GOOD WISH COME TRUE! In Gratefully Appreciation of Your Patronage We Offer Our Sincere Best Wishes AUBURN GRILLE All Kind Thoughts At Christmas and Best Wishes for The New Year LIPSCOMB'S Tiger Drug Store THE REXALL STORE TO ONE AND ALL and BEST WISHES for THE NEW YEAR Bill Ham OUR SINCERE WISHES FOR A MERRY XMAS T. I. Jockisch JEWELER MERRY CHRISTMAS Our Sincere Wishes for a Joysome Holiday John McMillan SERVICE STATION fiifi «j^RJj^\ •flpgf M E R R Y C H R I S T M A S from Tiger Motor Co. One of the real joys of Yuletide is the opportunity to put aside the routine of every day business and in real sincerity wish our friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year AUBURN ICE & COAL CO. MERRY CHRISTMAS DURING THE PAST YEAR THE AUBURN MERCHANTS, LISTED ON THIS PAGE, HAVE STRIVEN TO BETTER SERVE YOU AND THE COMMUNITY. YOUR LOYAL PATRONAGE HAS BEEN A TRIBUTE TO THEIR EFFORTS. NOW, THEY JOIN TOGETHER IN WISHING ALL OF AUBURN THE MERRIEST CHRISTMAS IN ITS HISTORY. SEASONS GREETINGS from Edward's Grocery Co. CHRISTMAS and our BEST WISHES . for the HOLIDAYS 'SMITH'S' Next Door to tiger Theater Student Operated J. T. Hudson STAPLE & FANCY GROCERIES | «E 9 Merry Christmas from Smith's Grocery \* MERBM O U R TO ALL F R I E N D S To our many friends in Auburn and surround. ing territory we extend our hearty wishes for a Christmas filled with happiness and prosperity. Kurtecy Sandwich Shop mmmm CORDIAL H O L I D A Y G R E E T I N G S •on this happy occasion! Varsity Barber Shop H E A R T F E L T W I S H E S for your happiness on C H R I S T M A S Auburn Woco Pep Station iiSSSSA WITH SINCERE GOOD WISHES FOR YOUR HAPPINESS AT CHRISTMAS Collier Shoe Shop MAY WE take this op. portunity to wish all our friends and patrons the merriest Christmas they have ever had. And may we also say that your friendship and patronage during; the past year has been ap. predated and may we continue our relationship throughout the years. Hitchcock's Coffee Shop May the New Year Bring You Health, Wealth and Happiness! May all the joy that is possible for Christmas to bestow be yours at this gladsome and joyous time! BANK OF AUBURN Member of F. D. I. C. , (fa$m>•7 & ON THIS The Most Joysome Holiday of the Whole Year! Jacqueline's Beauty Salon GREETINGS MAY WE WISH YOU A REAL GOOD OLD CHRISTMAS L. R. Harrison NEW GULF SERVICE STATION G R E E T I N G S to You and Yours on this joyous holiday occasion. Campus Barber Shop TO v OUR FRIENDS AND PATRONS Good cheer, health and happiness — may they be yours — now and ever! Tiger Cafe for the coming Christmas and New Year May Christmas bring you joy and each day of the year add to your joy! TOOMERS s; 888£8888S888S^3*S8&J8S8Saiia!^?8a*^^ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1938" THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN PAGE FIVE Plainsman Sports - Basketball Team Meets Lanett, Nehi This Week These Two Games Are First Of Season for Jordan's Boys; Both Hard Games Coach Ralph Jordan of the Auburn Tigers is ready to make his season debut this week-end by meeting the two most formidable independent clubs in this section, Lanett Athletic Club and the Nehi Reds of Columbus. The Tigers engage Lanett Friday night at 7:30 and the Reds the following evening at the same time. Both games are to be played in the local gymnasium. The clubbers and the Reds prove to be the strongest rivals ever to appear on a December schedule of the Plainsmen. Lanett is one of the top five in the Alabama- Georgia Textile loop and Nehi is considered the ace team of the electric city. Having conquered the highly rated Warren quintet in Atlanta recently, indicates that they might make cage history before this season is over. After the Yuletide season the Bengals will again tie up with Lanett at Lanett on Jan. 4, before swinging into their. collegiate bouts with Birmingham-Southern, Sewanee, Vanderbilt, Missississip-pi College, Georgia, Georgia Tech, and Florida. Lanett boasts of several experienced collegiate players such as Captain Les Carruthers, Bill Baker, Fred Knight, Speedy Oliver, Jack Brewer, Emmett Templeton, Jewel Woody, Buck Stiff, James Joiner, Troy Holley and Hugh Birdsong. Leaders in the ranks of the Reds are R. G. Jones, Carl Hubbard, Elmer Riddle, Ernest Castleberry, Norman Upton, Earl Bowden, Jack Homer, Dick Parks, Roy Jackson, Freshman Cake Race Scenes Collins Baking Co. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA Bakers of Colonial Bread and Collins Cakes Colonial g°^Bread \ fresh AT YOUR GROCER'S WHEN THERE'S CAKE at the end of the >race, Harry Russell, Sylacauga freshman, can knock off 2.7 miles in 15 minutes, 16.7 seconds and thereby come Into complete possession of a 20- pound first prize cake presented to him by lovely Sadie Edwards. In the upper left picture Miss Edwards is seen presenting Russell with the cake, while the upper right shows Russell as he looked a few seconds before he crossed the finish line. There were more than 700 contestants for the many prizes, some of which are shown in the lower left. Left to right, the principals are L. E. Foster, president of ODK, Sadie Edwards, and Bo Russell, Captain of the football team. and Woodfin Combs. Several of these men have played together for the past few years as professionals and should offer some stiff competition. These games constitute the only non-college events of the season and therefore Mentor Jordan will give as many of his players as possible service in this trio of games before meeting Sewanee here Jan. 6 and 7. Although Coach Jordan has not announced his starting line-up, it seems probable that he will start an experienced five with Co-Captain Tommie Edwards at center, Crawford Holmes and Co-Captain- Malvern Morgan at forwards, Andrew Curlee and Ray Gibson at guards. All of these men have been showing fine form in the early workouts and much is expected of them before the season is ended. Bob Dickinson, Ernest Pappas, Charlie Ham, Red Child-ers, Cecil Wallace, Abb Chrietz-berg, and John Huff will no doubt see plenty of action in the reserve role. 8ss8sssss8sss£sssss8sss8ssssgss8sssgsssss8S8ssss;s;s;i;s;s;s*<:£ri;s;s:i;;s:s-g:ss2:8ss;£:£;s:s;g;s FATHER u i SOI) ©INITIAL PERSONALIZED SCARF Mail »*i Phone Ofdtrt Promptly Filled , THE STORE THAT TAKES B MiSIIL KM 1^ THE IF OUT OF GIFT-fAIR AND SQUARE]|jfTroilHAlFAC£NTURy Birmingham, Ala. GIVING Coach Meagher Names 28 Footballers As Letter-Winners for the Season Twenty-eight footballers have been named by Coach Jack Meagher as letter winners. In addition, Charlie O'Reilly, senior cheerleader, will receive a monogram. In the group are: Mai Morgan, Getty Fairchild, and Abb Chrietz-berg, centers. Capt-elect Hatch Howell, Junie Burns, Garth Thorpe, Ernest Mills, Walter Chandler, . and Everette Smith, guards. V Bo Russell, retiring captain, Alternate Captain-elect Bill Nichols, George Wolff, Gordon Mac- Eachern, and Chester Bulge^, tackles. Gus Pearson, Bubba Bur-ford, and Jim LeNoir, ends. Pig Walker, Johnny Davis, and Osmo Smith, quarterbacks. Spec Kelly, Ralph O'Gwynne, Bill Mims, Carl Happer, and Dick Mc_ Gowen, halfbacks. Pelham Sitz, Charlie Haynsworth, and Ross Dean, fullbacks. The list of "A" wearers includes nine seniors, 11 juniors, and eight sophomores. SPORTS CHATTER By Bill Troup Congratulations to Auburn's newly elected football captain for 1939, Milton Howell . . . That is an honor which you rightfully deserve, Hatch, and we know you'll be a fine leader . . . And also, congrats to Alternate-Captain Bill Nichols . . . You've both played outstanding ball this past season and next year should be the best yet . . . Carry on! Bill Gibson, Dartmouth center, is a son of Billy Gibson, who used to manage Gene Tunney . . . Lou Young, guard, is the son of a former coach at the University of Pennsylvania . i . For the first time in her career, Sonja Henie will be seen in a doubles number when the 1939 Edition of the Hollywood Ice Revue opens a seven day engagement at the Chicago Stadium on Christmas night. Her partner will be Stewart Reburn of Toronto, Ont., one of Canada's greatest figure skaters . . . They will do a tango on ice . . . The first American football championship was won by Pennsylvania and Yale in 1894 . . . This same combination repeated in 1895 and 1897 . . . Yale won the championship three years in a row in 1905, '06, and '07, and again in 1909. Some of the greats of this past season and the clubs to which they were drafted are: Goldberg, Stebbins, Daddio, Aldrich, Wyatt, Wolff, to the Chicago Cardinals; Osmanski, Wysocki, Luckman to the Chicago Bears; Beinor, Bottari to Brooklyn; Brock to Green Bay; and Tipton to Washington. There were some great sophomore stars produced in the South, eastern Conference this fall but Bob Suffridge, Tennessee guard, heads them all . . . He won a post on the U. P. All-America and made all the All-S. E. C. elevens . . . Auburn produced three to this list with Dick McGowan, back, Ernest Mills, guard, and Abb Chrietzberg, center. The civic and other leading organizations of Kankakee, 111., are staging a tremendous drive to bring the Army-Navy game to Chicago next year . . . The reason: when Army elected Harry Stella, tackle, captain for '39 that was something, but when Navy followed up by electing another Kankakee youth, Allen Bergner, tackle, for its captain, the people of that city fell all over themselves. SEC Writers of Sports Name Honor Team F i v e Player Unanimous Choices: Russell, Cafego, Hall, Suffridge, Brunner The All-Southeastern Conference Board of Southern Sports Writers' Association went into a huddle last week to name its 1938 honor roll team, which place three players of Tennessee's championship topm in the line-up. 'Five players were unanimous choices. Bo Russell of Auburn, Bob Suffridge and George Cafego of Tennessee, Parker Hall of Mississippi, and Warren Brunner of Tulane. Three sophomores crashed the line-up for the first time since the group started the All-Star team. They were Guards Suffridge and J. W. Goree of L. S. U. and Tackle Maurice Holdgraf of Vanderbilt. Goree got the No. 2 guard berth after a neck-and-neck finish with Frank Kocsis, Florida's fine guard. Milton Howell, of Auburn, apparently would have won this place had he not been on the injury list about three-fourths of the year. The line is lighter than usual, with only four 200-pounders— Wenzel, Russell, Holdgraf and Chivington. Only Holdgraf and Wenzel are what one might call real big men, but speed is abundant in both the line and the back-field. Working with Brunner and Cafego in the backfield were Ole Miss' illustrious left halfback, Parker Hall, and Alabama's sterling fullback, Charlie Holm. The team is as follows: End—Bowden Wyatt, Tennessee Tackle—Bo Russell, Auburn Guard—Bob Suffridge, Tennessee Center—Jack Chivington, Geor. gia Tech Guard-^J. W. Goree, L. S. U. Tackle—Maurice Holdgraf, Vanderbilt End—Ralph Wenzel, Tulane Quarterback — George Cafego, Tennessee Halfback—Parker Hall, Mississippi Halfback—Warren Brunner, Tulane. Fullback—Charlie Holm, Alabama. Play-off Stage Is Reached In Volleyball Tourney The volleyball tournament has now reached the play-off stage with the four winning lodges being Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Nu, Delta Sig, and Pi Kappa Alpha. The tournament was scheduled to be finished by the end of this week, but due to unforseen complications it will be held over until the first week after Christmas. The cause of the delay was the loss of several of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon's players who were injured in an automobile accident. By delaying the tournament it is hoped that they will be able to play. All of the four winning teams appear to have well rounded outfits and the play-off should be closely contested. There are 22 sets of brothers on the Washington and Lee University campus. New Football Leaders BILL NICHOLS Alabama Polytech—Auburn MILTON HOWELL Alabama Polytech—Auburn 1938 Letter-Winners Name Hatch Howell And Bill Nichols to Head 1939 Team The football letter winners of 1938 gathered after lunch Wednesday and cast their votes for the 1939 leaders, Hatch Howell being named captain, with Bill Nichols as alternate-captain. Howell is one of the outstanding guards of the south. He was placed on the second all-conference team, despite the fact that he was out of uniform for over a month. Hatch has been tagged as one of the most vicious defensive guards in the country. Big and fast, he pulls out of the line and leads interference like a demon. Howell should be a sure bet to follow in the Auu-Southeastern steps of ex-captain Bo Russell. In choosing Nichols as alternate-captain, the boys went back to the days of Gilbert and Gantt, as both captain and alternate have not been linemen since that season. Nichols was one of the heaviest and most rugged men on last year's squad, and should really come into his own next fall. Whenever a man becomes wise he is the first to discover his wisdom. Enie Menie Minie Moe Down to Howards I Must Go Silver or Chinaware Make a Gift Great Also Ovenware in which to Bake. Enie Menie Minie Moe Down to Howards We Most Go Ribbon — Cord — Tags and Xmas Box I'll Give Brother a Clock or Watch. o«o»o»o»o«0-_,- 0*O«O*O«C*O«O*G*5< SEND YOUR VACATION BAGGAGL HOME BY RAILWAY EXPRESS That's the way to vacation in style —with nothing to do but go. Just lock up your trunk and bags and U\ phone Railway Express. No extra I charge — no dickering or doubts. One easy move. You see your baggage go, and can take your train witli a sigh of relief. • Convenient? 100%—and economical, too. Our rateJ are low, and you can send "collect," if you wish, same as with our "home and-back laundry service." When you phone, tell us the time to come. Mitcham Avenue Auburn, Ala. RAILWA AGENCY XPRESS INC. NATION-WIDE RAIL-AIR SERVICE All-American choice for "time out The pause that refreshes 5* Opelika Coca Cola Bottling Co. Phone 70 M-64-5 PAGE SIX THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1938 Colonial Dames Give API Shrine A Constitutional Shrine containing an engraved copy of the Constitution of the United States, was presented Wednesday to the Alabama Polytechnic Institute by the Colonial Dames of Alabama, of which Mrs. John Lewis Cobbs, Montgomery, is president. The presentation was a feature of the Alabama Day exercises Wednesday at the Lee County High School, where Ralph B. Draughon, executive secretary, ac. cepted the gift for the college. The presentation was made by Mrs. Zebulon Judd. The Colonial Dames is one of the supporting organizations of the Nation Sesqui-centennial Commission which is sponsoring the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. The Shrine, which will be placed permanently in the college library, is a replica of that in the Library of Congress. In addition to its beauty, the Shrine will provide convenient reference to the full text of the Constitution. The Ideal Laundry has numerous keys, bill folders, ticket books, fraternity pins, and other trinkets belonging to students. Please call at the office for them. Williamson (Continued from page one) He holds membership and attends meetings of the A. I. E. E., A. S. M. E., A. E. C. S., the Engineer's Club of St. Louis, and the Oklahoma Oil and Mining Association. On the journalism side he has written for oil and electrical jour, nals, technical subjects for newspapers, and is the author of several geological monographs. His best known newspaper work today is the Williamson National Football Ratings that appear in leading newspapers throughout the country of which he is originator and! conductor. For these rating Mr. Williamson is a nationally known football authority and for his interest in Auburn has sent the Plainsman these ratings free of charge. Mr. Williamson also takes an interest in the civic and sports affairs of New Orleans being a charter member of the Mid-Winter Sports Association, the organization that conducts the famous Sugar Bowl contest on New Year's Day, and is chairman of the Board of Directors of the New Orleans Civic Theatre. His last visit to Auburn was in 1925 but for his interest in the college he is one of the distinguished alumni and one Auburn is proud to claim as a nationally known figure, a former Alabam- All-Opponent Team Named by Auburn By Boots Stratford No unanimous selections appear on Auburn's 1938 all-opponents football team that gives representation to five schools—Tulane, L. S. U., Georgia, Tennessee and Vil-lanova. The team named and the number of votes each player received out of a possible 20 follows: Ends —Wenzel (16), Tulane, and Wyatt (16), Tennessee; tackles- White (15), Tulane, and Miller (9), Tulane; guards—Suf fridge (17), Tennessee, and Goree (7), L. S. U.; center—Lumpkin (17), Georgia; quarterback — Cafego (16), Tennessee; halfbacks—Brun-ner (18), Tulane, and Basca (13), Villanova; fullback —"•Fordham (19), Georgia. A few of the season's statistics migh prove interesting to the Auburn fans. The Tigers, who met some of the greatest outfits in the country in tackling a 10-game schedule, racked up 104 first downs to 87 for their rivals and allowed only two of their opponents to move the chain more than they did. The Plainsmen gained 1,742 yards in accumulating from 120 to 263 yards each of the 10 Dance Recital (Continued from Page One) Mary McWhorter, Huntsville; Sue Quattlebaum, Conway, S. C. Dance Club—Mizelle Hare, Auburn; Mary Lydia Williamson, Auburn; Margaret Pearson, Montgomery; Pansy Thornton, Murry Cross; Jule Tisdale, Auburn; Sadie Edwards, Union Springs; Gertrude Fields, Auburn; Elizabeth Perry, Auburn; Ila Graves Lock-hart, Camp Hill; Lillian Smith, Birmingham; Emily Hixon, Auburn; Sara Rowe, Enterprise; Doris Green, LaGrange, Ga.; and Juanita Stewart, Auburn. Ralph Moody, freshman in interior decoration from Trussville, was the accompanist; Prof. Telfair B. Peet, director of Auburn Players served as light technician; and Wilford Bailey, pre-veterinary student from Auburn, and John Grady, senior in education from Lanett, were stage hands. Joe Turner, Birmingham, president of the Dance Club, also appeared in the recital. LOST—Brown leather key-case containing about a dozen keys. Finder please return to Plainsman office. times they played. Auburn's low mark of 120 yards as made against the new champion of the conference, Tennessee, and they picked up their largest single* game total against Birmingham-Southern. Robinson Stars in Criminal Role Edward G. Robinson comes to the screen of the Tiger Theater Sunday and Monday in what he has described as the most fascinating role of his career—the truly extraordinary title character of "The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse," a bizarre crime film with hilarious undertones of comedy based by Warner Brothers on the London and New York stage hit of the same name. It is the tale of a distinguished neurological surgeon who embarks upon a career of crime in order, so he says, to study the mental and physical reactions of criminals during those moments when they are perpetrating their crimes. He becomes as successful a criminal in the course of his allegedly, scientific dual existence as he is a surgeon. In fact, his facile brain soon enables him to become the leader of a big-time band of robbers previously dominated by Humphrey Bogart and for whom Claire Trevor is the stylishly garbed "fence." Leading his band in one big robbery after another, the doctor seems to manifest a strange zest for his illegal enterprises until he is suddenly brough up short by arrest for the murder of Bogart, who had threatened blackmail. Summer Camp at Fort Benning STAVAS Hollingsworth- Norman Ladies' & Men's Ready to Wear N O E L Central Pharmacy THE REXALL STORE Phone 40 GREETINGS FROM OPELIKA COME MORE GLAD TIDINGS! THE OPELIKA MERCHANTS LISTED ON THIS PAGE HAVE AGAIN COOPERATED AS ALWAYS. THEY COMBINE TO EXTEND TO ALL AUBURN THE SEASONS BEST WISHES. C H R I S T M A S Ladies Shop Phone 464 Mrs. Geo. Kirby, Mgr. Yuletide greetings from the Budget Shop Opelika j^4-- . 'M In ••', G R E E T I N G S Rothenburg Drug Co. Walgreen Agency m* BEST WISHES Wigginton Furniture Co. E. O. PEARSON, owner MAY YOUR CANDLE GLOW EVER BRIGHTER Opelika Hardware Co. IF S ^ L Seasons Greetings to all the students W. W. Mac Co. 5c to $1.00 Store Opelika OUR CHRISTMAS PARTY SALE 10 to 20 per cent reduction on our entire stock Brantley's Dept. Store Opelika Ol' St. Nick Will soon be here so Merry Xmas Haynie's Drug Store H O L I D A Y INGRAM'S BAKERY GREETINGS J. R. Moore Jeweler CHRISTMAS GREETINGS FROZ-RITE Ice Cream Opelika — Auburn CHRISTMAS SALE on complete stock of Christmas Goods BATH ROBES SHIRTS, SHOES COATS, HATS A B. Fleisher Opelika Come in and see us BEST W I S H E S TO ALL OUR FRIENDS always ask for BALL'S BREAD THE TOAST OF THE TOWN May we wish that yours be happiness and good cheer Fredrick- Williams Co. Furniture-Funeral Directors Opelika BEST WISHES Arcade Pharmacy THEATER BUILDING By The Editor Six weeks of Fort Benning sun . . . afternoons off . . . horses . . . more horses . . . saddle soap . . . imitation orange juice . . . range firing . . . eggs with 1918 labels on them . . . baseball . . . best swimming pool in Georgia . . . tennis courts . . . a golf course a mile away . . . dances every Friday night . . . crawling several hundred yards down the draining ditch at 2 p. m. to sneak back into camp without the guards seeing you . . . AND getting caught anyway . . . Columbus and Benning lassies . . the 29th and 24th Infantry bands playing . . . the colored band swinging out on "Tiger Rag" while LSU and Auburn boys fussed over whose song it was . . . three days mounted march . . . saddle sore . . . "Little Dead" Fowler bawling out "Turn out!" at 3:30 in the morning . . . eleven miles to Ochi-lee . . . crystal clear creek that feels good after clouds and clouds of red dust . . . and white shiny sand . . . cannoneers having to dismount and walk up hills . . . riding horses bareback to the creek at watering time . . . for further information see "Bull" Knight, who pulled a Paul Revere one afternoon . . . Also see David Wittel, who landed in the middle of the creek after horse he was riding looks invitingly at the creek and chooses to roll . . . Getting up at five o'clock . . . and breakfast at five-thirty . . . and then drill and calisthenics . . . mounting on the crack Fort Ben-ing special for a speedy ride to the stables . . . horses and more horses . . . piercing whistles . . . confusing arm signals . . . the clank of trace chains . . . "This when we separate the men from the boys" . . . officers shouting "Christ Amighty! hurry up there!" . . . a shaky "lost battalion" found safe and sound—but jumpy—after two hours under artillery fire . . . funny feeling in the pit of your stomach at sound of shrapnel bursting too, too close . . . wishing you were home safe and sound or at the guns firing, rather than out in front . . . "Little Lost Cap'n" taking the whole thing with a smile . . . Piercing scream of shells in mid-flight . . . rattled commands from nervous cadets at BC scope . . . being 200 miles off the target and getting jerked off the gunner's position . . . joy at hearing "close on number two" when you are gunner on that gun . . . "ready on the right! ready on the left! ready on the firing line! raise pistol! insert loaded magazine! commence firing!" . . . "End of problem, end of practice, close station, march order! . . . battery executive bellowing out commands that could be heard a mile . . . horse and motor boys arguing hotly about merits of respective manner of transportation The Engineers firing hour after hour in their pits . . . and building pontoon bridges . . . sore shoulders and bitten lips . . . working in water up to your waist . . . mid-morning breakfasts after firing since daybreak . . . chagrin at missing targets entirely . . . joy at the infrequent bulls eye . . . shouting cracks at the artillery . . . hard-fought games of volleyball . . . crap games in the tents after supper . . . the post theater and khaki uniforms . . . and khaki uniforms . . . track meet on July 4 . . . Spec Kelly beating Light-boun by a mile . . . cajuns from LSU talking in patois that no one could understand . . . calling Battery B by its real name . . . "We don't give a damn for the whole Motor Battery" sung loudly for Captain Ham's benefit . . . the buglar who always got that "Li, Di, Di, Di dum" in to such perfection . . . mail call in the afternoon and an officious CQ calling out lucky names . . . fine to get letters . . . boxing matches and Placed on trial for his life, the doctor escapes the penalty for the murder he has undoubtedly committed by a shrewd manipulation of the psychology of the jurors. It is one of the strangest denouements ever related in any film, but convincing nevertheless and highly amusing. Other members of the impressive cast, besides those already mentioned, include Gale Page, Allen Jenkins, Donald Crisp, Henry O'Neill, John Litel, Thurston Hall, Maxie Rosenbloom, Ward Blond, Curt Bois, Bert Hanlon and Vladimir Sokoloff. The stage play, written by Barre Lyndon, was turned into a screen play by John Wexley and John Huston, and the production was directed by Anatole Litvak who did "Tovarich." bloody noses . . . Nickerson saying "Perdon?" . . . and yelling "Corporal of the Guard!" with gusto . . . Hatley on July 4 being herded around by a watchful tent mate . . . hopping into a bed full of frongs and sticks and sand . . . bed check and flashlights playing into faces . . . "Bull" Knight shouting "Engineers and Signal Corps, go to bed!" . . . "Kingfish" Mc- Gehee prancing down the battery street singing "Put out your can! Here comes the garbage man!!' . . Captain "Red Beak" Eagan and his fiery probiscus . . . the pet turtle, "Little Willie" . . . Brasfield sketching cartoons for the "ROTC Bugle" . . . Bull session and conjecture as to who will be the cadet colonel . . . drinking beer at the canteen . . . Signal Corps bravely falling in for Sunday night mess with two men there . . . Captain "Ding Dong" and his bull-chested commands . . . cussing and discussing officers . . . demerit duty and Sarge Fitzpatrick bellowing orders . . . Wilder and Preer shouting Sgt. McGhoney's machine gun commands after bed check and next morning blaming it on Wittel and Godbold . . . "RAPID! rapid! SUPER-QUICK! super-quick! AT MY COMMAND! at your command!" etc. . . . Cobb accusing everyone of stealing his lightbulbs . . . Saturday morning inspection and getting demerits for having dirty soap . . . blitzing brass and saddle soaping boots . . . the tough supply sergeant . . . KP duty . . . God, ain't it awful! . . . radio announcers saying "we will now be favored with the early morning swing session" . . . taps sounding out and turning over to sound sleep, only to be rudely awakened in a moment by reveille . . . "after all, you are getting 70 cents a day for this" . . . hot, sweaty, itchy feeling of gas masks . . . Sam Tharp getting stuck every time the demerit sheet went up . . . Camp what you make it . . . routine worst feature . . . but a good time had by all . . . better to look back on than to go through, as Colonel says . . . Auburn every week-end you can get off . . . and nothing looking better than civilization and girls when that first week is over . . . all this for information of juniors . . . it's a lot of work . . . and a lot of fun . . . and nothing cements the senior class together better . . . camp brings out the best and the worst in anybody . . . will come away liking a lot of boys you didn't and disliking some you did . . . and it's not nearly so bad as the seniors make out . . . Alpha Epsilon of ATO Holds Christmas Party Wednesday Members and pledges of Alpha Epsilon of Alpha Tau Omega entertained last Wednesday night with a Christmas party given at the chapter house. Mrs. Rebecca Henry acted as chaperone. William Edington played Santa Claus for the night, and distributed the presents to the guests from the brightly lighted tree in the living room. Guests of the fraternity for this social event were Frances Middle-ton, Louise Ward, Nelle Hudgens of Montgomery, Mamie Neil Primm, Laurie Houston, Etta Breeden, Elizabeth Rimes, Eileen Nearing, Elaine Freeman, Catherine Blake, Jean Cogburn, Jean Beasley, Jane Bowen, Mary Ella Funchess, Elizabeth Steele, Margaret Linden, Elizabeth Hunt, Francina Bass, Christine Hunt, burn, Eloise Williams, Lillian Jones of Montgomery, Mary Martin Carden, and Jonnielyn Campbell. Pennsylvania State College authorities are considering an astronomical study project which calls for the construction of nine observatories on its campus. The first faculty of the University of Alabama was composed of only five men. Duke University SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Durham, N. C. Four terms of eleven weeks are given each year. These may be taken consecutively (graduation in three and one-quarter years) or three terms may be taken each year (graduation in four years). The entrance requirements are intelligence, character and three years of college work, including the subjects specified for Class A medical schools. Catalogues and application forms may be obtained from the Admission committee. \
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Title | 1938-12-16 The Auburn Plainsman |
Creator | Alabama Polytechnic Institute |
Date Issued | 1938-12-16 |
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OCR Transcript | Semi-Weekly Friday Edition VOL. LXII Z-I W$t Auburn plainsman Merry Christmas, Everybody! AUBURN, ALABAMA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1938 NUMBER 29 MR. WAREAGLE SAYS Once again the Plainsman groans wearily to press, and once again we sit and gaze blankly at the typewriter, wondering what the subject of this sprightly ramble will be. * * * Off we go on a tangent: Congratulations to captain-elect Hatch Howell and to alternate-captain- elect Bill Nichols . . . also to the letter-winners . . . picture shows around here are cheaper and better than ever . . . we miss the green grass on the campus . . . politics are being whispered a-round very, very quietly . . . the ties Santa is going to bring will be hideous, and the socks won't fit . . . never ask a girl if she necks; get it from her own lips . . . there is no place like a fraternity house —thank the gods! . . . our idea of a good town is one that has more houses than filling stations . . . which is most uncertain—a woman's mind or a grapefruit squirt? * * * Too, too true is the picture drawn by Columnist John Godbold of the honor situation at Auburn. Cheating on quizzes abounds and is not frowned on by students themselves— big shot seniors and football heroes included. The man who places his hand over his answers on a quiz so that the man next to him can't see his work quickly gains a reputation of being a prig and is called all kinds of uncomplimentary things. Every student on the campus probably knows of at least one case where some student bluffed his way through a course because he always sat next to a smart friend at exam time. A large part of the basic trouble rests in the student attitude toward courses. To most students a course is a kind of checker game with the professor playing on the other side of the board. He moves, you move, and most of the time you are it. When you see an opportunity to jump two of his men without being caught, you do it. That's the philosophy, but of course it's false. A man who sneaks a double-jump over on the prof is unknowingly jumping his own men and sending them home. But just try to tell students that. * * * "Charged with vagrancy," said the police officer fo the coed wearing a strapless evening gown at the dance. "No visible means of support." * * * "Life Goes to The Cake Race" is still the theme of this paragraph. It seems that there was a Yankee-talking wench here Satur. day who called up Morris Hall and Jack Morton, who have been in school over in the architecture building for over a decade and should know better, and volunteered the information that she represented the well -known magazine, that she had some fine shots of the event, and wanted some information on the college and suggestions about shote of the campus. Yes, of course, they would meet her at the Pitts Hotel at 7 p. m. . . delighted . . . certainly. At the ap. pointed hour they were there, having dragged the entire college publicity bureau over with them. Patient waiting in the lobby . . . seven-twenty and no Life photographer . . . "give her twenty more minutes." Finally, the clerk remembers a note left for Mr. Hall and Mr. Morton. The chit, written at 5:30 that afternoon, expressed regrets that the lady in question had been hurriedly called to Miami and could not keep her appointment. Chagrined waiters decide they have been rooked and go home cussing. We don't know what name she signed to the note, Chuzzlewit or Finklestein or Fusslebussem, but it should have been Barnum. Her old man knew how to play a sucker, too. For the other 12 filling stations that sprung up in Auburn last week: Hush, little corner lot Don't you cry. You'll be a filling station By and by. Hudson Strode to Speak Here in Lecture Course Noted Author, Lecturer Will Speak January 16 on South- American Relations Hudson Strode, widely known lecturer, writer, and professor of English at University of Alabama, will be presented here Monday evening, Jan. 16, in an address on "The Importance of Our Friendship With South America," Prof James R. Rutland, chairman of the Auburn Concert Course, announced today. Prof. Strode is author of three successful books, "South by Thunderbird," "The Pageant of Cuba," and "The Story of Bermuda." As professor of creative writing at the University, he has discovered and helped develop a number of successful writers, including Harriet Hassell, who last spring published "Rachel's Children," a best-seller. Brought up in Alabama, a graduate of the University, where he has held a chair of professor of English literature for several years, Mr. Strode has traveled extensively. His travels have taken him a number of times to South America. He lived in Italy and North Africa for a year, in Bermuda for three years, in New York for three years, and he has spent many summers in Cuba, South America, England, Germany, France, Nova Scotia and California. Attaining at an early age distinction for his writing of articles, stories and verse in quality magazines, Mr. Strode achieved Who's Who at the age of 30. He was an associate professor of English at 24 and full professor at 31. All of Mr. Strode's books have been published and books, stories, articles of his have been translated into Spanish, German, Swedish, Danish, Hungarian and French. In the last six years he has devoted himself almost exclusively to the interpretation of foreign countries. His specialties are South America, Bermuda and Cuba. Mr. Strode has gained outstanding recognition for his lecture on "The Importance of Our Friendship With South America." After hearing the noted author, lecturer speak on the subject, Sumner Welles, Under Secretary of State, said: "Hudson Strode has presented to the public . . . a very understanding and sympathetic picture of our American neighbors. His rare ability to give color and atmosphere makes fascinating what he has to say." Frank Hale Is Winner in Intramural Tennis By defeating Bill Shoffner in a closely contested three out of five sets match, Frank Hale became the winner of the intramural tennis tournament. The match was a hard fought contest which required five sets before the winner was definitely recognized. JJfnrm (Pitr prasttettf - tfto (§ur JStuhmts attb f^etr parents;; to tnxx <2dumm, ^sUnefaciorB, mth Jfronitg, ib* ptmetmt mtfr Jlfacultg of <&- | L £L sxtenh moat coxbxal goob fmsijea for a ^Happg (ttipxabxtaa anh a ^iero ^|ear fiUea ioxti\ bkssmojs. ^utcewljj, Auburn Loses Southern Regional Farm Lab; Gets Two Buildings FRATS BEGIN BASKETBALL Active Competition Seen Between Fraternity Groups The basket-ball fever has again swept the campus. Fraternity and independent teams have already begun to practice for the tournaments, which will start immediately after the mid-term examinations are completed. Before the tournament begins, it is hoped that practice games between the various teams can be arranged in order to get the players in the proper condition for the test. The two tournaments last year were top-flight contests. In the fraternity battle the Sigma Nu's had the edge over the Alpha Psi's, and after a hard fought game the Ag Bottom boys emerged the winners. The five teams that played in the play-off were: Sigma Nu, Alpha Psi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Delta Sigma Pi, and Alpha Gamma Rho. There were 22 teams to enter the contest. In the independent tourney, 18 teams competed. The winner of the tournament was Alumni Hall. The Alumni team proved to be too tough for their opposition, and it was only in the final game of the tournament against the FFA team team that they were given a true test. Among the favorite teams for this year are the Sigma Alpha Ep-silon's, Sigma Chi's, Sigma Nu's, and Theta Chi's. All independent teams must have their entrance blanks into the Athletic Director either this week or the first week after the Christmas Holidays. Eat, drink, and be merry, for after Christmas come examinations. Holidays Word came this morning from the Office of the President that classes after the Christmas holidays will not begin until 8 a. m. Tuesday, Jan. 3. This decision was made in view of the fact that New Year's Day falls on Sunday, and Monday is being officially observed as the holiday. Administrative officials urged all students to be present Tuesday morning, ready to resume class attendance, as this is necessary for the effective functioning of the holiday regulation. Classes missed on Tuesday by students will mean a two-point cut. Life Of Auburn Football Rating Expert Given By Charles Burns Rating football teams was just a hobby to Paul Bernard^ Williamson of New Orleans, graduate with a BS degree in Electrical Engineering in the class of 1912, but today his football ratings appear in leading newspapers in the United States. Mr. Williamson is an Alabamian and an Auburnite, truly speaking, supporting the ole Alma Mater by attending regular meetings of the Alumni Association in New Orleans, his home, and by returning to the state to visit relatives in Birmingham and Montgomery. He was born in Birmingham, later moving to the Alabama cap-itol city, where he was educated at Boy's High and Starke's University School, later entering Auburn in 1908. Graduating here, he entered the University of Wisconsin receiving master's degree after studying nine months. His first employer in the Electrical field was the General Electrical Co., in West Lynn, Mass. He left there and entered the services of the Emerson Electrical Manufacturing Co., St. Louis, and later served with the Wagner Corp., also in that city doing special research work. Mr. Williamson later moved to Oklahoma City as a consultant en. gineer doing special research work in the application of electricity in oil refining. Interested in the oil business, this distinguished Auburn alumnus moved to San Antonio, Texas, where he was engaged in petroleum geology, petroleum engineering, and geophysical research work. In 1930 he moved to New Orleans where he became a consultant engineer and geologist and for the past seven years has been the only independent geologist permanently located in that city. Among the honors that he has received is a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Fellow in the Royal Society of Art (British); discoverer of ten oil fields in Texas; and inventor of advanced geophysical equipment. (Continued on Page Six) Writer Describes New Vet Buildings By H. B. Title Early Thursday morning, Dr. Duncan received a telegram from Senator Hill in Washington to the effect that the general class-room and veterinary building appropriations had been approved. This completes the full program requested by Auburn. No doubt, the additional classroom building will greatly alleviate the crowded class conditions at present. However, the appropriations for the new veterinary building is, in our estimation, the most noteworthy of all. Students comprising other branches of learning of our institution, can hardly realize the utter lack of facilities the School of Veterinary Medicine have had to contend with in the past. Despite this handicap, many outstanding graduates have passed through our portals and into the professional world to bring credit and honor to our school. According to specifications, the veterinary building will be a two story brick structure. The proposed site will face Thach Street, opposite our present veterinary building. It will be 208 feet long and 56 feet wide. There will be two wings 40 feet by 60 feet. Occupying the first floor, there will be a large animal clinic on one end and the small animal clinic on the other end, including the wings. There will also be the library, reading room, general offices, pharmacy, x-ray room and technicians' room, student laboratory, refrigeration room, autopsy room, incinerator, ladies' rest room, and two class-rooms. The small animal clinic will have a waiting room, examination room, operating room, and wards for boarding, surgical, infectious diseases, and medical cases. The large animal clinic will have a large clinic hall with twelve stalls in the wing. The upper floor will have two lecture rooms, several small research laboratories and offices, also bacteriology and pathology laboratories. There will also be students' rooms for clinic internes on the second floor. The Colgate University senior class presidential election was won by a single-vote margin. ODK CHRISTMAS DRIVE OVER Much Clothing, Many Toys, Money Obtained in Drive "Thanks to the generousity of the students, we of ODK regard the Christmas Donation Drive a success," said Bunchy Fowler this morning. Most of the donations were in the form of clothing and toys, but some cash was given. According to Fowler, the donations were sufficient to provide 25 or 30 needy families with happy Christmases. The contributions are assembled in the Student Center, and are to be turned over to the Christmas Welfare Committee for distribution. This drive among the students was supplementary to the drives being conducted by the Community Chest and the Red Cross, all collections being given to these bodies for apportionment. The drive began two weeks ago, and contributions have been coming in steadily since the first announcement. Donation collectors have made the rounds to the various fraternity and boarding houses this week, and have brough in two large boxes of old clothes and several boxes of toys. Most of the fraternities saved the toys given at their Christmas parties and gave them to the needy. ODK wishes to express its appreciation to Mrs. Rena Jolly, Gus Coats, Dr. Paul Irvine, and all who have cooperated so enthusiastically in putting on the drive. There are nine college alumni associations that are more than 100 years old. Glomerata Staff Well Along on Job, Say Heads Two-Thirds of Copy and Photographs Complete; Much Advertising Sold Many long hours of hard work have been given by 39 Auburn students in collecting pictures, writing copy, and attending to the business affairs of the 1939 Glomerata, yearbook of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, which will appear in April. Editor Perry Schwartz, landscape architecture senior from Birmingham, said that two-thirds of the copy and photographs for the 350 pages of the book is now complete. More than double the amount of advertising space sold last year has been contracted the 1939 book by Business Manager W. C. (Curty) Farley and his staff who started the campaign with the opening of college in September. The 2,742 individual pictures ~which will appear in the book this year is the largest percentage of the student body to appear in a single Auburn annual. A total of 3,031 students have enrolled this fall. For the first time in 20 years the pictures of all members of the faculty will be included in a special section of the book. Members of the editorial staff are Ed Davis, Prattville; Parker Narrows, Ensley; Charles Kelly, Eutaw; Paul Rudolph, Pulaski, Tenn.; Allen Northington, Montgomery; Jack Greeson, Montgomery; Shelby Taylor, Huntsville; C. W. Thompson, Piedmont; J. B. Thomas, Sipsey; Bill Mayse, Birmingham; Harry Huff, Birmingham; Joe Lacy, Columbus, Miss.; Ed Welden, Wetumpka; Clifton Dreyfus, Birmingham; Mary Ella Cook, Montgomery; Harold Michelson, Decatur; Jack Birdsong, Birmingham; Jack Berlin, Montgomery. The business staff consists of Nolen Helm, Opelika; Hank Parker, Brewton; John Huff, La- Grange, Ga.; Roy Taylor, Birmingham; Nancye Thompson, St. Petersburg, Fla.; Marshall Hooper, Selma; Howard Seilder, Birmingham; Eloise Williams, Opelika; John Rencher, Opelika; Billy Clanton, Athens; Bill Dodd, Selma; Bob GDI, Pensacola, Fla.; Gene Scott, Atlanta, Ga.; Billy Gaines, Birmingham; Ted Raht, Columbus, Ga.; Carl Pace, Oxford; Harry Sherrod. Birmingham; Bob Huff, Columbus, Ga.; and Frank Hutchings, Selma. F a i l u r e to Secure Million- Dollar Project Softened By Getting PWA Okehs Disappointment in Auburn over failing to get the Southern Regional Farm Laboratory was softened this week by final approval in Washington of the last two projects on the A. P. I. $1,446,900 PWA building program. With the entire Alabama Congressional delegation, the State Chamber of Commerce, Tuskegee Institute and numerous other organizations working to bring the huge laboratory to Auburn, hopes were high for the city's bid being given favorable response in Washington. Announcement Tuesday, however, disclosed that the million- dollar project will be established at New Orleans. The final two buildings approved in the PWA programs are a classroom building at an estimated cost of $200,000 and a veterinary building to cost $150,900. Because work on the new buildings must start before Jan 1, it was thought by many local citizens that the last two projects could not be approved. A letter from Washington last week confirmed this fear, but later a wire from Sen. Lister Hill indicated the buildings had been approved. Formal announcement came from Washington Monday. Bids have been called on for all nine projects and contract has been let for the president's mansion. Other bids will be opened on a schedule announced by Executive Secretary Ralph Draughon as follows: Dec. 20—Library, stadium and field house, women's dormitory group, nursery school and practice house, and agricultural "engineering building. Dec. 22—Student health center and infirmary. Dec. 27—Classroom building and veterinary building. The University of California's atom-smashing syclothon weighs 85 tons. Co-Eds Dance Christmas Carols At Recital A new slant on Yuletide programs occurred here Thursday evening in Langdon Hall when 41 Auburn: women students danced— instead of sung—Christmas carols as the closing feature of a recital by the Modern Dance Class, under direction of Miss Louise Lee Kre-her, instructor. Three carols, "We Three Kings of Orient Are," "Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly," and "O, Come All Ye Faithful," completed the dance program as a finale to a semester's work in the creative dance. It was the first dance recital ever presented by Auburn co-eds, 450 of whom are now enrolled. "The Auburn Dance Class and Club are two extracurricular ac-tivites provided this year for women students to provide recreation and training in artistic dancing," explained Miss Kreher. "The dances tonight were developed from movement techniques, floor patterns, and ideas that occurred in the two organizations and many ideas suggested by students were used in the formation of the recital," she said. Besides the carols, the students dance the following selections: "Dance Primitive," "Fragment," first and second movements of "Moonlight Sonata,' and "Hunsdon House." Names of women students in the recital follow: Dance Class—Helen Jordon, Birmingham; Eloise Williams, Opelika; Mary Hayes, Miami, Fla.; Jean Beasley, Auburn; Frances Meadows, Salem; Pansy Thornton, Murry Cross; Elizabeth Perry, Auburn; Gertrude Fields, Auburn; Hulda Rutland, Auburn; Mary Thompson, Georgetown, Ky.; Kernie Hawkins, Auburn; Lillian Smith, Birmingham; Agnes Chapin, Auburn; Anna Belle Cam-mack, Grove Hill; Sara Rowe, Enterprise; Frances Middleton, Auburn; Rubye Helen Stokes, Montgomery; Bettie Belle Brandt, Tuskegee; Evelyn Cowart, Opelika; Doris Green, LaGrange, Ga.; Wil-ma Bonds, Red Bay; Dorthy Hurst, Leeds; Frances Patrick, Scottsboro; Katie Gresham, Rison, Ark.; Dorothy Jobson, Anniston; (Continued on Page Six) Business Frat to Secure Speakers Experts in Several Fields To Be Brought to Auburn Delta Sigma Pi is formulating plans to bring to Auburn next semester four of the South's most outstanding speakers, it was announced today by John Hill West, Chairman of the chapter efficiency contest committee. "It is our desire to bring speakers whom the students will enjoy and profit from hearing," said West, "and we plan to go the limit in getting prominent men from various fields." Tentative plans are to have a speaker taken from the banking field, one from the TVA, a transportation expert, and a leader in the iron and steel industry. Contacts with speakers are being made, and the first speaker, who will address the business department in early February, will be announced shortly after Christmas. The schedule of the speeches is to be posted, and classes excused at the hours set aside for convocations. Likely the speeches will be held on Tuesdays at 10 o'clock. The committee in charge of securing speakers to address the de_ partment is composed of: Chairman E. L. Rauber, Prof. C. P. Austin, and L. E. Foster. Auburn Fencing Club Is Organized Wednesday The Auburn Fencing team was organized at a meeting in the Textile Building last Wednesday. The officers elected were: Bob Armstrong, Captain. Tony Cortina, Alternate Captain; Marvin Avery, Secretary and Treasurer. The club, which has the aim of fostering interest in fencing among the students, has had the support of several members of last year's fencing team, and has many new members. Although fencing is still a minor sport, there are 25 men on the squad. Anyone interested in joining may report to the top floor of the Textile Building on Monday, Wed. nesday, or Thursday at 4:30 p. m. PAGE TWO THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1938 The Auburn Plainsman Published Semi-Weekly By The Students Of The Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama Editorial and business offices at Lee County Bulletin Office on Tichenor Avenue. Phone 448. Editor may be reached after office hours by calling 169-W. Edwin C. Godbold Editor Charles F. Grisham . . . Business Manager Editorial Staff Managing Editor Associate Editor . Society Editor _ Sports Editor News Editor Roy Taylor . J. H. Wheeler ...Eleanor Scott Bill Troup John Godbold Business Staff Assistant Business Manager Bob Armstrong Assistant Business Manager Julian Myrick Office Manager -Bill Carroll Billy Smith Advertising Manager Dan Martin , Layout Manager Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates by mail: $2.50 per year, $1.50 per semester. Represented for national advertising by National Advertising Service, Inc. Member of Associated Collegiate Press. Distributor of Collegiate Digest. Blest Be The Tie In this age of dictatorships and revolutions and social upheavals we are likely to forget that Germans read other books besides "Mein Kampf," that Italians read fairy tales, and learned essays. All Russians do not confine their reading time to the collected works of Lenin. There are more books and pamphlets published each year in Russia than in the United States. In Japan people are reading poetry, and in many a Spanish home men and women are smiling over the exploits of Don Quixite. Books make us one. Books link the peoples of the world as no treaty can link them. One of the fairly late books is Attilio Gatti's "Great Mother Forest." Italians are reading it, Englishmen are reading it, Germans are reading it—it has been translated into a dozen languages. "The Destiny of Man," another late book, was written by a great Russian philisopher exiled in Paris. Though exiled, he is still a Russian at heart. His book, however, is for. the whole world. Throughout the civilized world men and women are going to book stores to select Christmas gifts. The books are bound in all colors, and the titles are in a dozen languages. But each purchaser is moved by the same kindly impulse. Children have no national prejudices. They like Mickey Mouse in any language. You will find Grimm's "Fairy Tales" in Honolulu or Bombay. People are pretty much the same the world over. When it comes to books, they are exactly the same. We think the translation of books from one language to another, provided they are good books, is a great factor in the preservation of peace. To all readers of good books everywhere, we send Christmas greetings. Touch Football Have you noticed all these people limping and hobbling around the campus these days? There is one answer—touch football. Every game has not failed to produce its charlie-horses and pulled muscles, and broken bones have been frequent. This bodily punishment by the local Greeks is not only needless, it is downright foolish. The usual touch game here is just as rough as one of Coach Meagher's scrimmages. The blocking is fierce, and all to frequently a "touch" is just as disastrous as a tackle would be. The players have no padding, unless one considers the tape with which some of them have to swathe themsel-yes as some protection. Perhaps it is a pretty glorious feeling to get one's head bashed in for dear old Alpha Guga Theta, but continuous blows to an already bruised section of the anatomy are definitely most unpleasant, and some of these men play the game with twisted knees and cracked ribs that migh easily be turned into a permanent injury. The season is over now, and a whole year stands between the present and next fall. Couldn't the Intramural Sports Department figure out something a little less devastating for next year? Even wrestling and boxing would be welcome. J.B.T. "Merry Christmas" Looking back on the history of the world since the first Christmas Day, one marvels at the faith and courage of mankind. Yet in spite of massacre, pestilence, human misery, and suffering through the ages, men and women, with an undying fire of the spirit, with dauntless courage, with endless hope, have greeted each other on one day of the year with "a Merry Christmas." Christmas is one of the oldest and most precious ideas men have ever enjoyed. It is the very expression of the perennial faith of men in the goodness of the universe. Long before Christmas came men had learned that after a winter of hardships, darkness, and hunger, there came the sun, and the earth became rich again. Men dared feast upon their scanty stores because they had learned to believe that the future would provide for itself and its emergencies. Few will be as poor this year as were Mary and Joseph. In all the land no child will be cradled in a manger nor born in a stable. Yet out of such as this came Christmas. The day has nothing to do with money or riches except insofar as material things become tools of hope and goodwill. Christmas is not a celebration of prosperity. It never was. It comes in bad times as well as in good years. The day was not designed especially for prosperous peoples or for fat years. On the contrary, the very day is in remembrance of a Child, born in mean surroundings, whose entire life was passed in poverty. Christmas does not consist of the exchange of unnecessary gifts by those who already have more than they can comfortably use. A Christmas which consists of the mere trading of trinkets is an empty day. Editoral "We" There is an old expression among newspaper men that the fondness for the expression "we" in editorial use arises from a need of intimidating irate readers who might be afraid of tackling more than one editor. Even though it may be impudent to discredit that explanation, there is another that editors often must admit to themselves. And that is, that as a class editors are about the worst plagiarists in captivity, and very little of what they write merits the first person pronoun. The editor reads and talks and listens to countless expressions of ideas. He may scan a dozen exchanges commenting upon some news of the day, and talk to a dozen more persons about it. He gets letters and hears radio commentators. And then when he gets around to writing a piece of his own his mind is a jumble of many contributions. Very little of what he produces is his own, except the arrangement. Consequently when the editor writes "we," he may not only be seeking anonymity but also he may be paying unconscious homage to the ideas that have come to him in one way or another from others. Perhaps it might be well for all persons expressing opinions to say "we think so." For the chances are that it is not the individual who is thinking, but the individual plus a dozen or a hundred of a thousand other minds with which he has struck fire. And perhaps if we are not quite so personal in our opinions, we will manage thereby to keep our minds more receptive to new ideas. Because if we become too impressed with our own brilliance, we may cease to place proper importance upon the idea gems that come to us and our own progress is thereby slowed down. Which thought, it may be added, came to us from somewhere else, some time, somewhere.— Birmingham News. Turn About Up until the present day the Italian government has not received much benefit from the Berlin-Rome axis, but is seems that Mussolini and Ribbentrop have at last decided that it is time for Italy to make some demands on the democracies . . . results: Italy claims an interest in the French African colonies. While Italy is taking the lead in Africa, Hitler is preparing the stage for further demands in the land East of his boundary. Already the word has been given that certain sections of Lithuania want to have a plebiscite for return to Germany. Poland is also the object of such propaganda from the Nazi machine fashioned to play on the weaker side of the masses, "the liberation of oppressed minorities." By John Ivey Jr. AN INTERVIEW: In the past the Ex-Kaiser has had very little to say about the actions of the present German dictator. We have often wondered exactly what were the reactions of the now aged Emperor, but he has refrained from expressing any opinion regarding the man who is at present taking the people of Germany along a path that is bordered by danger and strife, and after passing over that path leaves behind a picture of sorrow and relics of human oppression. In an article written recently by W. Burckhardt in regard to an interview with Wilhelm II, he pictured the old man as being deeply concerned over the state in which the German nation exists at the present moment. In describing the changed nation the Ex-Kaiser said: "But of our Germany which was a nation of poets and musicians, of artists and soldiers, he (Hitler) has made a nation of hysterics and hermits, engulfed in a mob and led by a thousand liars or fanatics . . ." * * * DOUBT: In Memphis the other day the police department was confronted with a very strange case. Two of the largest men on the force brought a very rough and unkept individual into police headquarters charged with being drunk and begging. The prisoner admitted the latter charge, but insisted that he wasn't drunk. Due to the unsteadiness of the accused the officer in charge ordered an investigation. The claim of the prisoner had been that his leg was broken, but doubt arose when he was able to stand on that limb. On examination the beggar was found to have a leg broken, or splintered, but the leg had belonged to a tree before the beggar started using it. * * * LIFE isn't so bad when we stop and think of the common practices which are accepted as being "the thing" in some countries. In fact we begin to think very highly of this territory which belongs to our good Uncle Sam. In Japan it has always been the popular belief that to die in the service of the Emperor was one of the best ways to be sure of having an everlasting life but now they have carried the thing just a little too far. The little yellow men who are now at war against China are schooled with an addition to the old idea of meeting death "for the glory of the Emperor." Due to the fact that it cost the nation much time and money in order to mend the broken bodies of those who are not completely riddled of life in combat with the enemy, the Jap is told that there will be a still greater reward for him in the "here-after", if he will allow the doctor to finish him with chloroform in case he is unlucky enough to be wounded instead of killed. This is actually being practiced by the army of Japan in China. If a soldier resists the mercy death by chloroform when he has been wounded then he must die an inglorious death—he is shot in the head by the same doctor who would have been glad to use the chloroform- * * * SANTA CLAUS will be putting the harness on old Prancer pretty soon if he can find the animal. Looks likes from the size of my wallet Santa will be able to get Prancer some social security funds and stay at home this year, but I guess there will be some of you fellows who have enough to make the old fellow hitch Prancer up anyway . . . no respect for old age! If Santa happens to pass by Auburn he might dig up some new source of news for the Plainsman . . . although the students may get kinda tired of reading the reports of affairs that take place year after year in about the same manner, don't forget that news events have a hard time coming into the world in Auburn, (commercial plug for yee Ed.) Seriously, I think we all have a lot to be thankful for—to be a-live and in good health with happiness and good friends around us is no small gift in itself when we look at the plight of the rest of the world. I would like to take this time to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and best wishes for the happiest New Year yet! AUBURN FOOTPRINTS The Syracuse infirmary is asking students to give crutches for use of crippled or injured students. Twelve medical men are held in readiness at all Harvard home football games to aid injured players. Letters to Santa Sue Quattlebaum: "Stop by South f Carolina and bring down everything good you see." Joe Crooks: "There ain't no such thing as you." Editor Godbold: "Please bring me a new Business Manager. The one I have is too little." Columnists: "Please send us a list of the naughty folks and what they did during Christmas. Also take that blue pencil away from that horrible Godbold boy." Executive Cabinet: "Please bring us a new Constitution." David D. Roberts: "If you please, sir, I would like to have a can of rat poison." Senior cadet officers: "Please bring us some nice tar and feathers for you know who." Editor Schwartz of Glomerata: "Please bring me some free snapshots and a check for John Cobb." "Stinkie" Fletcher: "Please, Santa, give the gossip writers a boot in the pants." Mr. Edington: "I want a new joke to tell." Francene Breedlove: "A boid in Mrs. Eaton's living room is better than anywhere else." Doris Greene: "A date with somebody else besides Tony." Mary Hayes: "Wrap up Lawrence and drop him down the chimney." "Graft" Farley: "Please burn up the Plainsman office." William Batchelor McGehee: "Please send down more women from Atlanta and put my picture in the Plainsman again." Roy Taylor: "Somebody to mooch from." June Tooker: "Let me tell you about this Kenmore boy." Bunchy Fowler: "A general's uniform. By order of Cadet Col. Fowler." Sadie Edwards: "A new tube of lipstick." John Cobb: "One thousand rolls of film, plenty of flash bulbs, and two Glomeratas a year." Laurie Houston: "Send that Davis guy some dancing lessons." "B. Dud": "A windmill in back of the S. A. E. House, please." Theater passes to the persons submitting the best jokes of the week go to G. D. Knight, W. D. Wittel, J. Ivey, and Sam Tharp. Winners may call by the theater box office, NOT the Plainsman ornce tor passes. Punchboard Gibbons and Strong 425. QUITE ENJOYABLE WAS the last session of the Writers' Club, which inaugurated last Monday its new custom of meeting at the homes of the members. The next meeting will be held at 7 p. m. on Monday night, January 2, 1939, at the home of Mrs. George Scithers, 425 East Magnolia Street. » • * 1717. AS WE ARE BY NO MEANS competent to do so, we are not attempting a critical analysis of the Players' production, "King Lear." We wish merely to express this column's appreciation of the task as engineered by Director Peet. We enjoyed the play as a whole; and we like especially the individual performances of Arthur Elsberry as Tom o' Bedlam and of Professor Wade as the blind Gloucester, and also, the Kent-Oswald scenes as carried out by Dawson Mullen and Clyde Morris. We have something good to say even about the audience. Awed, perhaps, by the Shakespearean atmosphere, the rabble (including the authors) conducted itself well. Only an ill-mannered and ill-timed laugh or two occurred. So we say again: "Well done, Players—and audience." * * * 25. IN THESE DAYS WHEN WATER runs cold from the spigot •or should at least—there is much talking and thinking of home and Christmas, and, among freshmen, of Santa Claus. We tak* this opportunity of wishing the many, many readers of this column a Merry Christmas holiday full of relaxation from school work and, if not a joyous, at any rate, a passing New Year beginning on January 2. * * * 27. WHAT WITH TIME FOR MID-TERM dances coming up before long, the talk of orchestras is growing louder. Choices range from Tommy Dorsey to The Hoo-sier Hot-Shots and back around to Glen Gray. If the attendance is going to be no better (in comparison of course) than at the opening set, the committee should be commended if its gets as much as a nickelodian for the Final dances. And while talking about the dances, it seems strange that peo- Gift Of Grab By Bob Anderson And then there was the Alabama College girl who was so dumb that she thought a head-linesman was a newspaper editor. • * * The New York City civil service commission, in a move to attract college grid players to the police force, will allow one point for every varsity letter won by any applicant for a police post in the next civil service examinations. Extra credits will also be added for those who have taken courses in physics, chemistry, accounting, law and engineering. • » * Student court at Midland College, has handed down the following ruling: Whenever pointed at by an upperclassman, on days before football games, the freshmen must yell "Foo to the goo that plays Midland." How's that for stealing a comic strip artist's crack? • * * The "Plainsman" recently received an exchange paper addressed to "Plainsman College, Auburn, Alabama." • * * The Math department of Northwestern University spent several weeks trying to discover what color combinations on blackboards showed up best to students. They tried using charcoal on white boards, white chalk on blue boards, yellow chalk on black boards, but finally reverted to the good old white on black, deciding that it couldn't be beaten. • * * It has recently been discovered by historians that the University of Mexico, and not Harvard, was the first institution of higher learning in America. pie who never make them will make so much noise (adverse or otherwise) when the selection of the band is announced. It seems that there could be some arrangement whereby the usual crowd that usually is seen at all the hops could choose their orchestra, and not have the social committee hearing so many suggestions from those who are never present for even one of the morning dances. Before Tomorrow By John Godbold "I AM AN AUBURN MAN." That is a statement which we students take pride in being able to make. It carries with it the good name, the popularity, and the respect which Auburn enjoys. In the making of Auburn men here, studies, books, social contacts, extra-curricular activities— all are stressed. Yet, always lacking is emphasis on one thing— HONOR. Few persons in Auburn seem to care about honor. The days of honor and trust among all students have long been dead. Honor is simply a matter of no concern to the most of the student body. Every once and a while someone drags forth the old joke about the professor who announces that his quiz will be on the honor system and then places students four seats apart. But object as one may, placing students four seats apart and in alternate rows is about the only way that cheating among Auburn students can be eliminated. And even when placed like that, many of them still employ the familiar "crib" notes, or take an occasional glance into a handy textbook. Things have reached an all-time low in rottenness when a student can count fourteen out of a class of twenty-two cheating on a final exam. Yet, that's exactly what happened in one class last spring. The root of the entire evil logically rests in the fact that in Auburn there is no real opposition to cheating or dishonesty. Very few students even consider it dishonest to cheat. It's just a game that's being played and almost everyone plays, so why not join in. We have "Honor System" written on some of our blackboards but that's the nearest API comes to having one. Every Auburn student has heard more than one of his fellows boast of "getting by" and has seen cheating going on a-round him. As for stealing—overcoats, purses, and the like are all-too-fre-quently missing after dances. Few students escape having at least one of their books stolen at some time during their four years. Contrast our situation with that in some other schools. Look at University of Virginia from where a former Auburn student writes that one can leave his fountain pen on a library desk and come back weeks later and find it still there. Feature that in Auburn if you can. Look at other Virginia schools where honor has become inherent in each student. The type of honor system portrayed in "Brother Rat" was laughable to some Auburn students who couldn't absorb the idea. It was too big for themt There's another Southern school where a campus store, complete with student supplies, drinks, books, and the like, is maintained without a single clerk. The student goes in, makes his purchase, and puts the money in the cash register. You have a fine imagination if you can picture that in Auburn where merchants have had to stop handling certain types of candy and confections because of repeated losses to heavy-fingered students. Take the example of a Mississippi college where the students will not associate with anyone who has been seen cheating on a quiz. They won't talk to him, won't sit by him, won't walk with him, sometimes won't even enter a classroom if he is present. No administrative action is necessary for a cheater. He can stand about a week of being scorned—then he leaves. Few and far between are the students who cheat in that school. The principle is followed that every man who is a student there is a gentleman, that a man who will cheat is not a gentleman, and as such is not fit to associate with gentlemen. Once a man cheats the students themselves see to it that no one associates with him any longer. Contrast this with Auburn where students boast after a quiz of how they cheated. If ever there is any factor at Auburn which needed overhauling it is the student attitude toward dishonesty. In the attitude of the students themselves will ultimately lie the success or failure of any system. To create among the student body a definite attitude against dishonesty is the only remedy. The stigma which he rightly deserves should be placed on the man who cheats. How to do it? That rests in the hands of the administration, and most of all, the student government. It isn't a lovely picture. But it's true. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1938 THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE S8S88S88S8S888SSS88SSSSS8888S888SS88888S8888S8Sg88S88SS88888^^ dtititefe^ . GREETINGS ;0»O»O»O«O»O»O» •0«0»G»0«0»0»0 iSgSgS5SggSg58Sggg5S5ggSgS5S5SgSS8gS5SgggSgggg82gSS8SggS8gggSgggSggS588SgS8gS8gS8gggS| s? Yuletide Greetings MAY THIS BE THE GAYEST, MER RIEST, AND MOST PROSPEROUS OF THEM ALL! B. LOWE'S Bette Shoppe C h r i s t m as G r e e t i n g s PITTS HOTEL Wright Hardware Company THE MERCHANTS OF AUBURN. WHO GREET YOU FROM THIS PAGE SINCERELY APPRECIATE THE ASSISTANCE YOU HAVE GIVEN IN MAKING THEIR CHRISTMAS A HAPPY ONE. INDEED, THEY WISH THE JOYS ATTENDING THESE MORE PROSPEROUS TIMES ARE SHARED BY EACH OF YOU. THEY WISH YOU THE ABUNDANT BLESSINGS OF THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT SHARED BY NATIONS THE WORLD OVER. MERCHANTS OF AUBURN , * : .w *'••-•-- M e r r y C h r i s t m a s BENSON'S H| FtfcX°7 \ ^^MJLM WJrtf^u rM MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR W. D. Copeland Groceries Auburn Cash Grocery AND TO YOURS ON THE HOLIEST DAY OF ALL— C H R I S T M A S Tiger Coffee Shop Miu-HinM IfcV and Sincere Good Wishes for Your Happiness throughout the Coming Year B. C. Pope Agency G R E E T I N G S to the Boys on the "Right Side of the Railroad Tracks" Y o u n g 's 1 ** ' fc ^ |<^|J | |7 fe»| % l Auburn Electric Co. To Our Friends: In looking back over another year about closed, we would be unappreciative indeed were we not to thank you for your friendship and your generous patronage. As you place your lighted candles in .your windows, and your fires crackle on your hearths, and you give and exchange gifts with your family and friends, may you have joy, happiness and good health, not only at this Christmas time but throughout all this coming year. MERRY CHRISTMAS R. T. Moreman & Son Grocery M E R R Y C H R I S T M A S G i b s o n ' s MEN'S WEAR Best Wishes of the Season; A Merry Christmas, Friends! Another year rolls around and old Friendships are Riper, Mellower. To all our old Friends—and to the New —We wish the Happiest Christmas of All, Bright and Snowy as a Freshly Ideal Laundered Shirt. IDEAL LAUNDRY fks^^s^sisi^^ MEADOW'S GARAGE STANDARD SERVICE STATION PAGE FOUR THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN , FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1938 •CWOfOt o»o#o»< io»o»o»o«C'«.••.-• ••;'••:>• o»~mom'm-»•"•' • " • :'»"»o«o«o«;>« :>•"•• :• »r>«r«p»c».- •o»o»o»o«; §ei^(^ (Jteete^ %^k fw> MAY EVERY GOOD WISH COME TRUE! In Gratefully Appreciation of Your Patronage We Offer Our Sincere Best Wishes AUBURN GRILLE All Kind Thoughts At Christmas and Best Wishes for The New Year LIPSCOMB'S Tiger Drug Store THE REXALL STORE TO ONE AND ALL and BEST WISHES for THE NEW YEAR Bill Ham OUR SINCERE WISHES FOR A MERRY XMAS T. I. Jockisch JEWELER MERRY CHRISTMAS Our Sincere Wishes for a Joysome Holiday John McMillan SERVICE STATION fiifi «j^RJj^\ •flpgf M E R R Y C H R I S T M A S from Tiger Motor Co. One of the real joys of Yuletide is the opportunity to put aside the routine of every day business and in real sincerity wish our friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year AUBURN ICE & COAL CO. MERRY CHRISTMAS DURING THE PAST YEAR THE AUBURN MERCHANTS, LISTED ON THIS PAGE, HAVE STRIVEN TO BETTER SERVE YOU AND THE COMMUNITY. YOUR LOYAL PATRONAGE HAS BEEN A TRIBUTE TO THEIR EFFORTS. NOW, THEY JOIN TOGETHER IN WISHING ALL OF AUBURN THE MERRIEST CHRISTMAS IN ITS HISTORY. SEASONS GREETINGS from Edward's Grocery Co. CHRISTMAS and our BEST WISHES . for the HOLIDAYS 'SMITH'S' Next Door to tiger Theater Student Operated J. T. Hudson STAPLE & FANCY GROCERIES | «E 9 Merry Christmas from Smith's Grocery \* MERBM O U R TO ALL F R I E N D S To our many friends in Auburn and surround. ing territory we extend our hearty wishes for a Christmas filled with happiness and prosperity. Kurtecy Sandwich Shop mmmm CORDIAL H O L I D A Y G R E E T I N G S •on this happy occasion! Varsity Barber Shop H E A R T F E L T W I S H E S for your happiness on C H R I S T M A S Auburn Woco Pep Station iiSSSSA WITH SINCERE GOOD WISHES FOR YOUR HAPPINESS AT CHRISTMAS Collier Shoe Shop MAY WE take this op. portunity to wish all our friends and patrons the merriest Christmas they have ever had. And may we also say that your friendship and patronage during; the past year has been ap. predated and may we continue our relationship throughout the years. Hitchcock's Coffee Shop May the New Year Bring You Health, Wealth and Happiness! May all the joy that is possible for Christmas to bestow be yours at this gladsome and joyous time! BANK OF AUBURN Member of F. D. I. C. , (fa$m>•7 & ON THIS The Most Joysome Holiday of the Whole Year! Jacqueline's Beauty Salon GREETINGS MAY WE WISH YOU A REAL GOOD OLD CHRISTMAS L. R. Harrison NEW GULF SERVICE STATION G R E E T I N G S to You and Yours on this joyous holiday occasion. Campus Barber Shop TO v OUR FRIENDS AND PATRONS Good cheer, health and happiness — may they be yours — now and ever! Tiger Cafe for the coming Christmas and New Year May Christmas bring you joy and each day of the year add to your joy! TOOMERS s; 888£8888S888S^3*S8&J8S8Saiia!^?8a*^^ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1938" THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN PAGE FIVE Plainsman Sports - Basketball Team Meets Lanett, Nehi This Week These Two Games Are First Of Season for Jordan's Boys; Both Hard Games Coach Ralph Jordan of the Auburn Tigers is ready to make his season debut this week-end by meeting the two most formidable independent clubs in this section, Lanett Athletic Club and the Nehi Reds of Columbus. The Tigers engage Lanett Friday night at 7:30 and the Reds the following evening at the same time. Both games are to be played in the local gymnasium. The clubbers and the Reds prove to be the strongest rivals ever to appear on a December schedule of the Plainsmen. Lanett is one of the top five in the Alabama- Georgia Textile loop and Nehi is considered the ace team of the electric city. Having conquered the highly rated Warren quintet in Atlanta recently, indicates that they might make cage history before this season is over. After the Yuletide season the Bengals will again tie up with Lanett at Lanett on Jan. 4, before swinging into their. collegiate bouts with Birmingham-Southern, Sewanee, Vanderbilt, Missississip-pi College, Georgia, Georgia Tech, and Florida. Lanett boasts of several experienced collegiate players such as Captain Les Carruthers, Bill Baker, Fred Knight, Speedy Oliver, Jack Brewer, Emmett Templeton, Jewel Woody, Buck Stiff, James Joiner, Troy Holley and Hugh Birdsong. Leaders in the ranks of the Reds are R. G. Jones, Carl Hubbard, Elmer Riddle, Ernest Castleberry, Norman Upton, Earl Bowden, Jack Homer, Dick Parks, Roy Jackson, Freshman Cake Race Scenes Collins Baking Co. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA Bakers of Colonial Bread and Collins Cakes Colonial g°^Bread \ fresh AT YOUR GROCER'S WHEN THERE'S CAKE at the end of the >race, Harry Russell, Sylacauga freshman, can knock off 2.7 miles in 15 minutes, 16.7 seconds and thereby come Into complete possession of a 20- pound first prize cake presented to him by lovely Sadie Edwards. In the upper left picture Miss Edwards is seen presenting Russell with the cake, while the upper right shows Russell as he looked a few seconds before he crossed the finish line. There were more than 700 contestants for the many prizes, some of which are shown in the lower left. Left to right, the principals are L. E. Foster, president of ODK, Sadie Edwards, and Bo Russell, Captain of the football team. and Woodfin Combs. Several of these men have played together for the past few years as professionals and should offer some stiff competition. These games constitute the only non-college events of the season and therefore Mentor Jordan will give as many of his players as possible service in this trio of games before meeting Sewanee here Jan. 6 and 7. Although Coach Jordan has not announced his starting line-up, it seems probable that he will start an experienced five with Co-Captain Tommie Edwards at center, Crawford Holmes and Co-Captain- Malvern Morgan at forwards, Andrew Curlee and Ray Gibson at guards. All of these men have been showing fine form in the early workouts and much is expected of them before the season is ended. Bob Dickinson, Ernest Pappas, Charlie Ham, Red Child-ers, Cecil Wallace, Abb Chrietz-berg, and John Huff will no doubt see plenty of action in the reserve role. 8ss8sssss8sss£sssss8sss8ssssgss8sssgsssss8S8ssss;s;s;i;s;s;s*<:£ri;s;s:i;;s:s-g:ss2:8ss;£:£;s:s;g;s FATHER u i SOI) ©INITIAL PERSONALIZED SCARF Mail »*i Phone Ofdtrt Promptly Filled , THE STORE THAT TAKES B MiSIIL KM 1^ THE IF OUT OF GIFT-fAIR AND SQUARE]|jfTroilHAlFAC£NTURy Birmingham, Ala. GIVING Coach Meagher Names 28 Footballers As Letter-Winners for the Season Twenty-eight footballers have been named by Coach Jack Meagher as letter winners. In addition, Charlie O'Reilly, senior cheerleader, will receive a monogram. In the group are: Mai Morgan, Getty Fairchild, and Abb Chrietz-berg, centers. Capt-elect Hatch Howell, Junie Burns, Garth Thorpe, Ernest Mills, Walter Chandler, . and Everette Smith, guards. V Bo Russell, retiring captain, Alternate Captain-elect Bill Nichols, George Wolff, Gordon Mac- Eachern, and Chester Bulge^, tackles. Gus Pearson, Bubba Bur-ford, and Jim LeNoir, ends. Pig Walker, Johnny Davis, and Osmo Smith, quarterbacks. Spec Kelly, Ralph O'Gwynne, Bill Mims, Carl Happer, and Dick Mc_ Gowen, halfbacks. Pelham Sitz, Charlie Haynsworth, and Ross Dean, fullbacks. The list of "A" wearers includes nine seniors, 11 juniors, and eight sophomores. SPORTS CHATTER By Bill Troup Congratulations to Auburn's newly elected football captain for 1939, Milton Howell . . . That is an honor which you rightfully deserve, Hatch, and we know you'll be a fine leader . . . And also, congrats to Alternate-Captain Bill Nichols . . . You've both played outstanding ball this past season and next year should be the best yet . . . Carry on! Bill Gibson, Dartmouth center, is a son of Billy Gibson, who used to manage Gene Tunney . . . Lou Young, guard, is the son of a former coach at the University of Pennsylvania . i . For the first time in her career, Sonja Henie will be seen in a doubles number when the 1939 Edition of the Hollywood Ice Revue opens a seven day engagement at the Chicago Stadium on Christmas night. Her partner will be Stewart Reburn of Toronto, Ont., one of Canada's greatest figure skaters . . . They will do a tango on ice . . . The first American football championship was won by Pennsylvania and Yale in 1894 . . . This same combination repeated in 1895 and 1897 . . . Yale won the championship three years in a row in 1905, '06, and '07, and again in 1909. Some of the greats of this past season and the clubs to which they were drafted are: Goldberg, Stebbins, Daddio, Aldrich, Wyatt, Wolff, to the Chicago Cardinals; Osmanski, Wysocki, Luckman to the Chicago Bears; Beinor, Bottari to Brooklyn; Brock to Green Bay; and Tipton to Washington. There were some great sophomore stars produced in the South, eastern Conference this fall but Bob Suffridge, Tennessee guard, heads them all . . . He won a post on the U. P. All-America and made all the All-S. E. C. elevens . . . Auburn produced three to this list with Dick McGowan, back, Ernest Mills, guard, and Abb Chrietzberg, center. The civic and other leading organizations of Kankakee, 111., are staging a tremendous drive to bring the Army-Navy game to Chicago next year . . . The reason: when Army elected Harry Stella, tackle, captain for '39 that was something, but when Navy followed up by electing another Kankakee youth, Allen Bergner, tackle, for its captain, the people of that city fell all over themselves. SEC Writers of Sports Name Honor Team F i v e Player Unanimous Choices: Russell, Cafego, Hall, Suffridge, Brunner The All-Southeastern Conference Board of Southern Sports Writers' Association went into a huddle last week to name its 1938 honor roll team, which place three players of Tennessee's championship topm in the line-up. 'Five players were unanimous choices. Bo Russell of Auburn, Bob Suffridge and George Cafego of Tennessee, Parker Hall of Mississippi, and Warren Brunner of Tulane. Three sophomores crashed the line-up for the first time since the group started the All-Star team. They were Guards Suffridge and J. W. Goree of L. S. U. and Tackle Maurice Holdgraf of Vanderbilt. Goree got the No. 2 guard berth after a neck-and-neck finish with Frank Kocsis, Florida's fine guard. Milton Howell, of Auburn, apparently would have won this place had he not been on the injury list about three-fourths of the year. The line is lighter than usual, with only four 200-pounders— Wenzel, Russell, Holdgraf and Chivington. Only Holdgraf and Wenzel are what one might call real big men, but speed is abundant in both the line and the back-field. Working with Brunner and Cafego in the backfield were Ole Miss' illustrious left halfback, Parker Hall, and Alabama's sterling fullback, Charlie Holm. The team is as follows: End—Bowden Wyatt, Tennessee Tackle—Bo Russell, Auburn Guard—Bob Suffridge, Tennessee Center—Jack Chivington, Geor. gia Tech Guard-^J. W. Goree, L. S. U. Tackle—Maurice Holdgraf, Vanderbilt End—Ralph Wenzel, Tulane Quarterback — George Cafego, Tennessee Halfback—Parker Hall, Mississippi Halfback—Warren Brunner, Tulane. Fullback—Charlie Holm, Alabama. Play-off Stage Is Reached In Volleyball Tourney The volleyball tournament has now reached the play-off stage with the four winning lodges being Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Nu, Delta Sig, and Pi Kappa Alpha. The tournament was scheduled to be finished by the end of this week, but due to unforseen complications it will be held over until the first week after Christmas. The cause of the delay was the loss of several of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon's players who were injured in an automobile accident. By delaying the tournament it is hoped that they will be able to play. All of the four winning teams appear to have well rounded outfits and the play-off should be closely contested. There are 22 sets of brothers on the Washington and Lee University campus. New Football Leaders BILL NICHOLS Alabama Polytech—Auburn MILTON HOWELL Alabama Polytech—Auburn 1938 Letter-Winners Name Hatch Howell And Bill Nichols to Head 1939 Team The football letter winners of 1938 gathered after lunch Wednesday and cast their votes for the 1939 leaders, Hatch Howell being named captain, with Bill Nichols as alternate-captain. Howell is one of the outstanding guards of the south. He was placed on the second all-conference team, despite the fact that he was out of uniform for over a month. Hatch has been tagged as one of the most vicious defensive guards in the country. Big and fast, he pulls out of the line and leads interference like a demon. Howell should be a sure bet to follow in the Auu-Southeastern steps of ex-captain Bo Russell. In choosing Nichols as alternate-captain, the boys went back to the days of Gilbert and Gantt, as both captain and alternate have not been linemen since that season. Nichols was one of the heaviest and most rugged men on last year's squad, and should really come into his own next fall. Whenever a man becomes wise he is the first to discover his wisdom. Enie Menie Minie Moe Down to Howards I Must Go Silver or Chinaware Make a Gift Great Also Ovenware in which to Bake. Enie Menie Minie Moe Down to Howards We Most Go Ribbon — Cord — Tags and Xmas Box I'll Give Brother a Clock or Watch. o«o»o»o»o«0-_,- 0*O«O*O«C*O«O*G*5< SEND YOUR VACATION BAGGAGL HOME BY RAILWAY EXPRESS That's the way to vacation in style —with nothing to do but go. Just lock up your trunk and bags and U\ phone Railway Express. No extra I charge — no dickering or doubts. One easy move. You see your baggage go, and can take your train witli a sigh of relief. • Convenient? 100%—and economical, too. Our rateJ are low, and you can send "collect," if you wish, same as with our "home and-back laundry service." When you phone, tell us the time to come. Mitcham Avenue Auburn, Ala. RAILWA AGENCY XPRESS INC. NATION-WIDE RAIL-AIR SERVICE All-American choice for "time out The pause that refreshes 5* Opelika Coca Cola Bottling Co. Phone 70 M-64-5 PAGE SIX THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1938 Colonial Dames Give API Shrine A Constitutional Shrine containing an engraved copy of the Constitution of the United States, was presented Wednesday to the Alabama Polytechnic Institute by the Colonial Dames of Alabama, of which Mrs. John Lewis Cobbs, Montgomery, is president. The presentation was a feature of the Alabama Day exercises Wednesday at the Lee County High School, where Ralph B. Draughon, executive secretary, ac. cepted the gift for the college. The presentation was made by Mrs. Zebulon Judd. The Colonial Dames is one of the supporting organizations of the Nation Sesqui-centennial Commission which is sponsoring the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. The Shrine, which will be placed permanently in the college library, is a replica of that in the Library of Congress. In addition to its beauty, the Shrine will provide convenient reference to the full text of the Constitution. The Ideal Laundry has numerous keys, bill folders, ticket books, fraternity pins, and other trinkets belonging to students. Please call at the office for them. Williamson (Continued from page one) He holds membership and attends meetings of the A. I. E. E., A. S. M. E., A. E. C. S., the Engineer's Club of St. Louis, and the Oklahoma Oil and Mining Association. On the journalism side he has written for oil and electrical jour, nals, technical subjects for newspapers, and is the author of several geological monographs. His best known newspaper work today is the Williamson National Football Ratings that appear in leading newspapers throughout the country of which he is originator and! conductor. For these rating Mr. Williamson is a nationally known football authority and for his interest in Auburn has sent the Plainsman these ratings free of charge. Mr. Williamson also takes an interest in the civic and sports affairs of New Orleans being a charter member of the Mid-Winter Sports Association, the organization that conducts the famous Sugar Bowl contest on New Year's Day, and is chairman of the Board of Directors of the New Orleans Civic Theatre. His last visit to Auburn was in 1925 but for his interest in the college he is one of the distinguished alumni and one Auburn is proud to claim as a nationally known figure, a former Alabam- All-Opponent Team Named by Auburn By Boots Stratford No unanimous selections appear on Auburn's 1938 all-opponents football team that gives representation to five schools—Tulane, L. S. U., Georgia, Tennessee and Vil-lanova. The team named and the number of votes each player received out of a possible 20 follows: Ends —Wenzel (16), Tulane, and Wyatt (16), Tennessee; tackles- White (15), Tulane, and Miller (9), Tulane; guards—Suf fridge (17), Tennessee, and Goree (7), L. S. U.; center—Lumpkin (17), Georgia; quarterback — Cafego (16), Tennessee; halfbacks—Brun-ner (18), Tulane, and Basca (13), Villanova; fullback —"•Fordham (19), Georgia. A few of the season's statistics migh prove interesting to the Auburn fans. The Tigers, who met some of the greatest outfits in the country in tackling a 10-game schedule, racked up 104 first downs to 87 for their rivals and allowed only two of their opponents to move the chain more than they did. The Plainsmen gained 1,742 yards in accumulating from 120 to 263 yards each of the 10 Dance Recital (Continued from Page One) Mary McWhorter, Huntsville; Sue Quattlebaum, Conway, S. C. Dance Club—Mizelle Hare, Auburn; Mary Lydia Williamson, Auburn; Margaret Pearson, Montgomery; Pansy Thornton, Murry Cross; Jule Tisdale, Auburn; Sadie Edwards, Union Springs; Gertrude Fields, Auburn; Elizabeth Perry, Auburn; Ila Graves Lock-hart, Camp Hill; Lillian Smith, Birmingham; Emily Hixon, Auburn; Sara Rowe, Enterprise; Doris Green, LaGrange, Ga.; and Juanita Stewart, Auburn. Ralph Moody, freshman in interior decoration from Trussville, was the accompanist; Prof. Telfair B. Peet, director of Auburn Players served as light technician; and Wilford Bailey, pre-veterinary student from Auburn, and John Grady, senior in education from Lanett, were stage hands. Joe Turner, Birmingham, president of the Dance Club, also appeared in the recital. LOST—Brown leather key-case containing about a dozen keys. Finder please return to Plainsman office. times they played. Auburn's low mark of 120 yards as made against the new champion of the conference, Tennessee, and they picked up their largest single* game total against Birmingham-Southern. Robinson Stars in Criminal Role Edward G. Robinson comes to the screen of the Tiger Theater Sunday and Monday in what he has described as the most fascinating role of his career—the truly extraordinary title character of "The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse," a bizarre crime film with hilarious undertones of comedy based by Warner Brothers on the London and New York stage hit of the same name. It is the tale of a distinguished neurological surgeon who embarks upon a career of crime in order, so he says, to study the mental and physical reactions of criminals during those moments when they are perpetrating their crimes. He becomes as successful a criminal in the course of his allegedly, scientific dual existence as he is a surgeon. In fact, his facile brain soon enables him to become the leader of a big-time band of robbers previously dominated by Humphrey Bogart and for whom Claire Trevor is the stylishly garbed "fence." Leading his band in one big robbery after another, the doctor seems to manifest a strange zest for his illegal enterprises until he is suddenly brough up short by arrest for the murder of Bogart, who had threatened blackmail. Summer Camp at Fort Benning STAVAS Hollingsworth- Norman Ladies' & Men's Ready to Wear N O E L Central Pharmacy THE REXALL STORE Phone 40 GREETINGS FROM OPELIKA COME MORE GLAD TIDINGS! THE OPELIKA MERCHANTS LISTED ON THIS PAGE HAVE AGAIN COOPERATED AS ALWAYS. THEY COMBINE TO EXTEND TO ALL AUBURN THE SEASONS BEST WISHES. C H R I S T M A S Ladies Shop Phone 464 Mrs. Geo. Kirby, Mgr. Yuletide greetings from the Budget Shop Opelika j^4-- . 'M In ••', G R E E T I N G S Rothenburg Drug Co. Walgreen Agency m* BEST WISHES Wigginton Furniture Co. E. O. PEARSON, owner MAY YOUR CANDLE GLOW EVER BRIGHTER Opelika Hardware Co. IF S ^ L Seasons Greetings to all the students W. W. Mac Co. 5c to $1.00 Store Opelika OUR CHRISTMAS PARTY SALE 10 to 20 per cent reduction on our entire stock Brantley's Dept. Store Opelika Ol' St. Nick Will soon be here so Merry Xmas Haynie's Drug Store H O L I D A Y INGRAM'S BAKERY GREETINGS J. R. Moore Jeweler CHRISTMAS GREETINGS FROZ-RITE Ice Cream Opelika — Auburn CHRISTMAS SALE on complete stock of Christmas Goods BATH ROBES SHIRTS, SHOES COATS, HATS A B. Fleisher Opelika Come in and see us BEST W I S H E S TO ALL OUR FRIENDS always ask for BALL'S BREAD THE TOAST OF THE TOWN May we wish that yours be happiness and good cheer Fredrick- Williams Co. Furniture-Funeral Directors Opelika BEST WISHES Arcade Pharmacy THEATER BUILDING By The Editor Six weeks of Fort Benning sun . . . afternoons off . . . horses . . . more horses . . . saddle soap . . . imitation orange juice . . . range firing . . . eggs with 1918 labels on them . . . baseball . . . best swimming pool in Georgia . . . tennis courts . . . a golf course a mile away . . . dances every Friday night . . . crawling several hundred yards down the draining ditch at 2 p. m. to sneak back into camp without the guards seeing you . . . AND getting caught anyway . . . Columbus and Benning lassies . . the 29th and 24th Infantry bands playing . . . the colored band swinging out on "Tiger Rag" while LSU and Auburn boys fussed over whose song it was . . . three days mounted march . . . saddle sore . . . "Little Dead" Fowler bawling out "Turn out!" at 3:30 in the morning . . . eleven miles to Ochi-lee . . . crystal clear creek that feels good after clouds and clouds of red dust . . . and white shiny sand . . . cannoneers having to dismount and walk up hills . . . riding horses bareback to the creek at watering time . . . for further information see "Bull" Knight, who pulled a Paul Revere one afternoon . . . Also see David Wittel, who landed in the middle of the creek after horse he was riding looks invitingly at the creek and chooses to roll . . . Getting up at five o'clock . . . and breakfast at five-thirty . . . and then drill and calisthenics . . . mounting on the crack Fort Ben-ing special for a speedy ride to the stables . . . horses and more horses . . . piercing whistles . . . confusing arm signals . . . the clank of trace chains . . . "This when we separate the men from the boys" . . . officers shouting "Christ Amighty! hurry up there!" . . . a shaky "lost battalion" found safe and sound—but jumpy—after two hours under artillery fire . . . funny feeling in the pit of your stomach at sound of shrapnel bursting too, too close . . . wishing you were home safe and sound or at the guns firing, rather than out in front . . . "Little Lost Cap'n" taking the whole thing with a smile . . . Piercing scream of shells in mid-flight . . . rattled commands from nervous cadets at BC scope . . . being 200 miles off the target and getting jerked off the gunner's position . . . joy at hearing "close on number two" when you are gunner on that gun . . . "ready on the right! ready on the left! ready on the firing line! raise pistol! insert loaded magazine! commence firing!" . . . "End of problem, end of practice, close station, march order! . . . battery executive bellowing out commands that could be heard a mile . . . horse and motor boys arguing hotly about merits of respective manner of transportation The Engineers firing hour after hour in their pits . . . and building pontoon bridges . . . sore shoulders and bitten lips . . . working in water up to your waist . . . mid-morning breakfasts after firing since daybreak . . . chagrin at missing targets entirely . . . joy at the infrequent bulls eye . . . shouting cracks at the artillery . . . hard-fought games of volleyball . . . crap games in the tents after supper . . . the post theater and khaki uniforms . . . and khaki uniforms . . . track meet on July 4 . . . Spec Kelly beating Light-boun by a mile . . . cajuns from LSU talking in patois that no one could understand . . . calling Battery B by its real name . . . "We don't give a damn for the whole Motor Battery" sung loudly for Captain Ham's benefit . . . the buglar who always got that "Li, Di, Di, Di dum" in to such perfection . . . mail call in the afternoon and an officious CQ calling out lucky names . . . fine to get letters . . . boxing matches and Placed on trial for his life, the doctor escapes the penalty for the murder he has undoubtedly committed by a shrewd manipulation of the psychology of the jurors. It is one of the strangest denouements ever related in any film, but convincing nevertheless and highly amusing. Other members of the impressive cast, besides those already mentioned, include Gale Page, Allen Jenkins, Donald Crisp, Henry O'Neill, John Litel, Thurston Hall, Maxie Rosenbloom, Ward Blond, Curt Bois, Bert Hanlon and Vladimir Sokoloff. The stage play, written by Barre Lyndon, was turned into a screen play by John Wexley and John Huston, and the production was directed by Anatole Litvak who did "Tovarich." bloody noses . . . Nickerson saying "Perdon?" . . . and yelling "Corporal of the Guard!" with gusto . . . Hatley on July 4 being herded around by a watchful tent mate . . . hopping into a bed full of frongs and sticks and sand . . . bed check and flashlights playing into faces . . . "Bull" Knight shouting "Engineers and Signal Corps, go to bed!" . . . "Kingfish" Mc- Gehee prancing down the battery street singing "Put out your can! Here comes the garbage man!!' . . Captain "Red Beak" Eagan and his fiery probiscus . . . the pet turtle, "Little Willie" . . . Brasfield sketching cartoons for the "ROTC Bugle" . . . Bull session and conjecture as to who will be the cadet colonel . . . drinking beer at the canteen . . . Signal Corps bravely falling in for Sunday night mess with two men there . . . Captain "Ding Dong" and his bull-chested commands . . . cussing and discussing officers . . . demerit duty and Sarge Fitzpatrick bellowing orders . . . Wilder and Preer shouting Sgt. McGhoney's machine gun commands after bed check and next morning blaming it on Wittel and Godbold . . . "RAPID! rapid! SUPER-QUICK! super-quick! AT MY COMMAND! at your command!" etc. . . . Cobb accusing everyone of stealing his lightbulbs . . . Saturday morning inspection and getting demerits for having dirty soap . . . blitzing brass and saddle soaping boots . . . the tough supply sergeant . . . KP duty . . . God, ain't it awful! . . . radio announcers saying "we will now be favored with the early morning swing session" . . . taps sounding out and turning over to sound sleep, only to be rudely awakened in a moment by reveille . . . "after all, you are getting 70 cents a day for this" . . . hot, sweaty, itchy feeling of gas masks . . . Sam Tharp getting stuck every time the demerit sheet went up . . . Camp what you make it . . . routine worst feature . . . but a good time had by all . . . better to look back on than to go through, as Colonel says . . . Auburn every week-end you can get off . . . and nothing looking better than civilization and girls when that first week is over . . . all this for information of juniors . . . it's a lot of work . . . and a lot of fun . . . and nothing cements the senior class together better . . . camp brings out the best and the worst in anybody . . . will come away liking a lot of boys you didn't and disliking some you did . . . and it's not nearly so bad as the seniors make out . . . Alpha Epsilon of ATO Holds Christmas Party Wednesday Members and pledges of Alpha Epsilon of Alpha Tau Omega entertained last Wednesday night with a Christmas party given at the chapter house. Mrs. Rebecca Henry acted as chaperone. William Edington played Santa Claus for the night, and distributed the presents to the guests from the brightly lighted tree in the living room. Guests of the fraternity for this social event were Frances Middle-ton, Louise Ward, Nelle Hudgens of Montgomery, Mamie Neil Primm, Laurie Houston, Etta Breeden, Elizabeth Rimes, Eileen Nearing, Elaine Freeman, Catherine Blake, Jean Cogburn, Jean Beasley, Jane Bowen, Mary Ella Funchess, Elizabeth Steele, Margaret Linden, Elizabeth Hunt, Francina Bass, Christine Hunt, burn, Eloise Williams, Lillian Jones of Montgomery, Mary Martin Carden, and Jonnielyn Campbell. Pennsylvania State College authorities are considering an astronomical study project which calls for the construction of nine observatories on its campus. The first faculty of the University of Alabama was composed of only five men. Duke University SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Durham, N. C. Four terms of eleven weeks are given each year. These may be taken consecutively (graduation in three and one-quarter years) or three terms may be taken each year (graduation in four years). The entrance requirements are intelligence, character and three years of college work, including the subjects specified for Class A medical schools. Catalogues and application forms may be obtained from the Admission committee. \ |
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