1938-12-16 The Auburn Plainsman

              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.
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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
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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.
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THEM ALL!
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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.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR
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AND TO YOURS
ON THE HOLIEST DAY
OF ALL—
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Miu-HinM IfcV
and Sincere Good Wishes
for Your Happiness
throughout the
Coming Year
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to the Boys on the
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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
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& Son Grocery
M E R R Y
C H R I S T M A S
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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.
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All Kind Thoughts
At Christmas
and
Best Wishes for
The New Year
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Tiger Drug Store
THE REXALL STORE
TO ONE AND ALL
and BEST WISHES
for THE NEW YEAR
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FOR A
MERRY
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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
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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
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for the
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To our many friends in
Auburn and surround.
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our hearty wishes for a
Christmas filled with
happiness and prosper­ity.
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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.
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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!
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Holiday of the
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Good cheer, health and
happiness — may they
be yours — now and
ever!
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for the coming
Christmas and New Year
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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