1939-03-10 The Auburn Plainsman

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AUBURN, ALAMAMA, FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1939 NUMBER 47
Hayrgood Paterson
Will Speak at
Ag Club Banquet
"Best All-Round Junior
In Agriculture" to Receive
Gamma Sigma Delta Award
Haygood Paterson, Commission­er
of Agriculture and Industries
in Alabama, will be the main
speaker at the Ag Banquet to­morrow
night at the Baptist
Church. The speaker will be in­troduced
by Dr. L. N. Duncan.
This year's banquet and dance
promises to be the biggest and
best in the history of the annual
event. Melvin Patty, president of
the Ag Club, and Guy Lynn, pro­gram
chairman, have arranged an
interesting and entertaining pro­gram.
Dr. J. R. Edwards, pastor of the
First Baptist Church, will open
the banquet with the invocation.
This is to be followed by the
president's address. A musical
number will be presented by Gor­don
Hubbard and Harry Camp­bell.
Next, the Ag Club diplomas will
be awarded to seniors who have
been active in club work, and
have fulfilled certain require­ments.
Following the awarding of
the diplomas will be the presenta­tion
of the Alabama Farmer
award. This is to be given to the
staff member, below senior clas­sification,
who has been most ac­tive
on the Farmer staff during
the year.
The final award will be a sil­ver
loving cup, presented to the
"best all-round junior in agricul­ture."
This is an annual award
made by Gamma Sigma Delta,
honorary agriculture fraternity,
to the most outstanding junior ac­cording
to scholarship, initiative,
personality, and leadership.
The main speaker of the even­ing
will then be introduced by Dr.
Duncan. Acting as toastmaster
for the banquet will be Prof. W.
D. Salmon.
Immediately following the ban­quet,
the annual dance will be
held at Graves Center to the mu
sic of the Auburn Knights. Dur­ing
the course of the evening,
there will toe an Ag Club lead-out,
and three no-toreaks.
Dr. Paul Brown is Appointed
To Education Faculty
A newcomer to the faculty at
A. P. I. is Dr. Paul A. Brown,
formerly with the psychology
department of Cumberland Uni­versity,
Lebanon, Tenn.
Dr. Brown will join the faculty
of the School of Education, serv­ing
as associate professor of psy­chology.
Dr. Brown is a native of New
Kensington, Pa. He received his
B. A. degree from Carnegie Insti­tute
of Technology, Pittsburgh, in
1929; his Ph. D. from the Univer­sity
of Pittsburgh.
Before accepting his appoint­ment
to the Cumberland Univer­sity
faculty, Dr. Brown was an
assistant in the department of
psychology at the University of
Pittsburgh. •
Leads Ball
Miss Eloise Ainsworth of At­lanta,
Ga., returns to Auburn
next week-end to lead the
Honor Societies Ball, escorted
by Allen Martin, President of
Blue Key.
Local Students Win
Tournament Prizes
Ten students at Lee County
High School matching wits with
boys and girls from all over the
state at the annual High School
Tournament here last week, plac­ed
first or second in various con­tests.
All the local winners were boys,
and three of the wins were in the
model airplane contest conducted
at the Auburn airport.
Harold Blackburn came out
first in the glider, stick model
contest. In the junior class hand-launched,
fuselage type model
airplane contest, Jimmy Dick was
the winner with Martin Beck the
runner-up. Edward Jones won
second place in the senior class
model airplane contest requiring
the plane to rise from the ground.
The identification of animals
contest was won by Richard
Floyd, while Dan Moore won the
identification of plants contest.
John Bruce Martin placed first
in the chemistry contest, and John
Scott placed second in the contest
on impromptu speech.
Second places were also won by
Albert Rauber in the physics
achievement test, and John C.
Ball in the forestry tree identifi­cation
contest.
Winner of the medal for placing
in five contests was Fred Duggar,
III, of Sidney Lanier High School,
Montgomery, who is the grandson
of J. F. Duggar of Auburn, re­search
professor of special inves­tigations
with the Alabama Ex­periment
Station.
KA's Enter Semi-Finals of
Interfrat Play Last Night
K. A. entered the semi-finals of
the interfrat playoffs with a 27-
24 win over Sigma Nu Wednesday
night. Theta Chi and K. A. must
meet to determine an opponent
for S. A. E. in the final. It is hop­ed
that 'this final game may be
played next Wednesday night. In­dependent
finals are scheduled for
the same night.
Four City Newspapers and Seven College
Publications Have Preceded Plainsman
First Publication in 1852;
College Newspaper Did Not
Appear Until 1879
The semi - weekly Auburn
Plainsman, one of the outstanding
college newspapers of the South,
is published wholly by the
students of Auburn and is distri­buted
to every home in the city.
Before the Plainsman started
publication, no less than four city
newspapers and seven college pub­lications
were printed at differ­ent
times. In addition, Auburn
<was the home in the '90's of the
Auburn Sermonizer, a denomina­tional
journal published by a Bap­tist
clergyman, Dr. G. S. Ander­son.
The Auburn Gazette, a city
weekly, was the first publication.
It was founded in 1852 by J. W.
Drake and W. W. Rice, Mr. Drake
•acting as editor. A copy of The
Gazette has been preserved, show­ing
it to be a four-page, six-
(Contlnued on Page Six)
Leisure Time Conference to
Meet Here March 21
The North Alabama and Ala­bama
Conference of the Metho­dist
Episcopal Church, South, will
cooperate in a Leisure Time Con­ference
beginning Tuesday even­ing,
March 21, and closing 10:30
a.- m, March 24. The affair will
be held in Bibb Graves Center.
Rev. E. O. Harbin, nationally
known recreation leader, will
conduct discussion groups and put
on a demonstration recreation pro­gram.
Other well known recerational
leaders taking part in the con­ference
are Rev. Hugh Wilson Jr.
of Alabama Conference and Rev.
Frank Ledford of the North Ala­bama
Conference.
Instruction groups will be con­ducted
in spatter painting, pho­tography,
puppet-making, drama­tics,
and others.
Proposed Amendments Explained
The operative force of the Undergraduate Student Association,
the Executive Cabinet, has this year painstakingly studied the opera­tion
of student government here and recommended to the student
ibody several changes in the constitution. To ever fulfill its original
purposes, the Cabinet must be changed from a paper organization of
purported powers to an actual governing foody, from an object of de­rision
and ridicule to one of affluence and strength.
The proposed amendments, quoted and explained briefly below, are
to be voted on by the entire student body Tuesday week, March 21:
Article IV, Section 2—Acts and Decisions of the Cabinet
"All acts and decisions of the Executive Cabinet shall be
considered decisions of the Association except that on petition
presented .in writing: to the President of the Cabinet, carrying the
signatures of 8 per cent of the registered undergraduate students
within ten days of the enactment of such acts and decisions of
the Executive Cabinet, they shall be presented to the Association
for ratification or rejection, as provided' in Section 3.
"All acts and decisions of the Cabinet shall be published in
the official student newspaper of the Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute
in the issue next following the meeting:. A copy of the
minutes of each meeting of the Cabinet, certified by the President
and Secretary of the Cabinet, shall be published in the official
student student newspaper of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute
in the issue next following the meeting at which they are ap­proved."
This change provides for an effective student referendum on
Cabinet actions. By petition the students at large can force the Cab­inet
to submit any of its acts or decisions to the students for approval
or disapproval.
The second change, regarding publicity of Calbinet actions, is one
of the strongest possible checks on unfair politics, graft, and gross
inefficiency. A close study of the minutes of the Cabinet will show
that the Calbinet has dared to do much that was not for the good of
the students because they were secure in the knowledge that the
students would never learn of it. With the passage of this provision,
students can learn what the Calbinet is actually doing and what mem­bers
are responsible for undesirable legislation.
Article IV, Section 4—Membership of the Cabinet
"Membership In the Executive Cabinet shall consist of five
special members and eleven regular members. The special mem­bers,
who shall have all the rights and duties of regular mem­bers
except the right to hold office In the Cabinet, shall be the
regularly elected presidents of the four classes and the regularly
elected President of the Women's Student Government Associa­tion.
The eleven regular members shall be elected from the four
classes of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute as follows: Four
members of the senior class, three members of the Junior class,
two members of the sophomore class, one member of the fresh­man
class, and one co-ed elected by the women students.
"Each class shall elect by popular vote its representatives de­signated
as above, the election to be under the supervision of the
Cabinet. The freshman representative shall serve immediately
after his inauguration."
The change in Article IV increases the membership of the Cab­inet
from 11 to 16 and makes it more powerful by giving the qjass
presidents and the co-ed president seats on that body. This centrali­zation
of power will bring all the general governing agencies of the
students together. With class officers on the Cabinet, a closer rela­tionship
and harmony will develop between student government and
the students. The power of the Cabinet will be extended to the classes
as classes, whereas in the past they have worked only with the stu­dent
group as a whole.
Article V, Section 1—Organization of Cabinet
"Officers of the Executive Cabinet shall consist totf the follow­ing:
(a) a president, elected by the senior* class; (b) a vice-presi­dent
elected by the junior class; (c) a treasurer chosen by the
Executive Cabinet; and (d) a permanent secretary, chosen and
employed by the Executive Cabinet.
The new Article V makes provision for the hiring of a permanent
secretary who is not a member of the Cabinet. It took members of
the Committee for Constitutional Revision over a week to work up
a fairly complete copy of the existing student constitution, merely
because past secretaries of the Cabinet had neglected to keep con­cise,
correct minutes. The old volumes of the Plainsman carried more
information on student government than did the minutes of the Cab­inet.
Article VI, Section 1—Amendments
"Members of the student body may propose amendments to
the Constitution by a petition presented in writing to the Presi­dent
of the Executive Cabinet carrying the signatures of 8 per
cent of the registered undergraduate students. On receipt of such
a petition the President of the Executive Cabinet shall set a date
for the student body to vote on the proposed amendment, which
date shall be within one month after his receipt of the petition."
Section 2
"The Secretary of the Executive Cabinet shall publish In the
official student newspaper of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute
all proposed amendments to the Constitution in the three Issues
next preceding the date ori which a vote is to be taken."
A new and more effective means of amending the constitution is
also provided.
For too long membership in the Cabinet has been a hollow honor
—hoUow because the Cabinet did nothing. Auburn's self-government
has been a laugh; too little power, haphazard organization, and
downright negligence have almost caused its complete downfall. This
year's Cabinet is doing all in its power to leave its successor with
added powers and a smooth-working organization.
All in all, the provisions of the proposed amendments will go far
toward giving Auburn a strong, efficient student government with
power to actually be an agency for student betterment.
Sixty-Six Candidates Qualify For Race
In Coining General Spring Election
Two Positions Open
On Tennis Team
Only Upperclassmen Are
Eligible for the Vacancies
With less than a month to go
until the opening of the tennis
season, the Auburn tennis team
still has two positions to fill on
the squad to make the required
six man team that will play in
the matches scheduled.
Four veteran clay court per­formers
have returned from last
year's squad, and with the selec­tion
of two more from the ranks
of aspirants this Saturday, the
tennis team will begin practice.
All men who are interested in
trying out for the team are re
quested to get in touch with Mar
tin Lide at 215 and make arrange­ments
for a tryout. The tryouts
will be held at the Auburn Coun­try
Club Saturday afternoon at
2 o'clock.
The limited amount of time that
the team will have to round into
shape for the coming season makes
it necessary to fill out the two
vacancies as soon as possible.
Only upperclassmen are eligible
for varsity competition, but fresh­men
will be allowed to compete in
a tournament that will give the
winners special consideration in
the selection of the team for next
year.
The home games scheduled by
the team will be played at the
Country Club Courts. A schedule
of home meets is given below:
March 31—Mississippi State Col­lege
April 12—Presbyterian College.
April 17—Spring Hill College.
April 27—University of Miami.
May 5—University of Florida.
Coach Porter Grant is faculty
adviser and acting head of the
tennis team which at present is
composed of Capt. Martin Lide,
Bob McClure, Joe Gay, and J. W.
McKee.
Blade Captain
Dr. Helen Bond to Be Guest
Of Home Ec School March 23
Dr. Helen Judy Bond, Head of
Household Arts in the Teachers
College at Columbia University
and National President of the
Home Economics Association, will
be the guest of the School of Home
Economics.
Dr. Bond will be in Auburn
Thursday, March 23, and there
will be convocation for women in
Langdon Hall after which there
will be a staff luncheon in Smith
Hall.
Before visiting Auburn, Dr. Bond
is to spend Monday at University
of Alabama, Tuesday at Judson,
and Wednesday at Montevallo, af­ter
which Dr. Lois Ackerly will
drive her to Auburn.
There will be a meeting of the
A" Club Monday night at 7 in
the "A" Club room.
Prophesying one of the most
successful Military Balls in his­tory,
John Eagan, Captain of
Campany L, Fifth Regiment,
Scabbard and Blade, said today
that all committees were at
work and that work toward the
affair was well underway.
IRC Hears Students
Speak Thursday
Mildred Faneuf and Haroll Sut­ton
addressed the Auburn. Inter­national
Relations Club last night
at its weekly meeting.
Miss Faneuf gave a most in­teresting
discussion of Britain's in­ternational
policy during recent
world crises, and Sutton traced
the development of the congres­sional
discussion of whether or
not Guam should be fortified.
It was announced at the meet­ing
that the book of theater tick­ets,
raffled off by the club, was
won by Annie Moon.
Proceeds from the raffle will
be used to defray club expenses
and to pay expenses for delegates
to' the IRC convention which is
to be held at William and Mary
College in Virginia during the
Easter holidays.
Edwin Godbold, treasurer of the
club and vice-president of the
Southeastern International Rela­tions
Clubs, has been named as
delegate to the meet, with David
Wittel, president of the local club,
being named alternate delegate.
Alpha Gamma Sponsoring
Benefit Show Tomorrow
The Alpha Gamma colonizing
chapter of the Alpha Gamma Del­ta
sorority will sponsor a benefit
movie, "As You Like It," starring
Elizabeth Bergner, at the Tiger
Theater tomorrow at 10 a. m.
Tickets have been on sale for
over a week and may be secured
from any Alpha Gam member or
pledge.
PLAINSMAN AND
CABINET HEADS
ARE UNOPPOSED
Sixty-six candidates, includ­ing
five co-eds, have qualified
as candidates in the annual
spring election to be held
March 21, according to an an­nouncement
made last night
by Billy McGehee, Chairman
of the Election Committee.
Nine candidates will go into of­fice
unopposed, including John
Godbold and Bob Armstrong as
Editor and Business Manager of
the Plainsman and John* Ivey as
President of the Executive Cabi­net.
This is the first year in the
memory of Auburn political dop-sters
that both candidates for
Plainsman posts have gone in
without opposition.
All Classes Go to Polls
The election, to be held March
21, will see all four classes going to
the polls to pass on constitutional
amendments and elect all Cabinet
members and officers, all class of­ficers,
all publication heads, and
the chairman of the social com­mittee.
The 66 candidates who qualified
for the coming race are listed be­low:
Publications Candidates
Editor of the Plainsman, John
Godbold.
Business Manager of the Plains­man:
Bob Armstrong.
Editor of the Glomerata: Char­les
Kelly, Allen Northington.
Business Manager of the Glom­erata:
Hank Parker' Marshall
Hooper.
Chairman of the Social Com­mittee:
Tom Henley, Ted Chiles.
Cabinet Officers and Members
President of the Executive Cab­inet:
John Ivey.
Vice president of the Executive
Calbinet: Jim King.
Secretary of the Executive Cab­inet:
Otis Burnside.
Senior Representatives to the
Caibinet: Jim Flowers, Charles
Kilpatrick, Gordon MacEachem,
Howard Seidler, Richmond Flow­ers,
Dennis Newton, Winfred
Boyd, John Watters.
Junior Representatives to the
Cabinet: Dan W. Hollis, Paul
Pruett, Clifi Beckham, R. B. Bear-den,
Chick Hatcher, Sam Pettus.
Sophomore Representatives to
the Cabinet: Herbert Martin, Bill
Moore, Craig Jackson, C. B. He­witt.
Women's Representative to the
Cabinet: Margaret Pearson, Ruth
Lowe.
Senior Class Officers
President: Kenneth Funchess,
Charles Morgan.
Vice president: Arthur Harvey,
Turner Murphy, Getty Fairchild.
Secretary: Edith Cecil Carson.
Treasurer: Gus Pearson.
(Continued on Page Six)
API Student From Venezuela Describes Manufacturing There
By Jack Dunlap
Maracaibo, Venezuela
The chief manufacturing indus­try
in Venezuela is that of the
cotton factories, of which there
are three in Caracas, two in Valen­cia,
one in Maracaibo, and one in
Cumana. These factories use an­nually
43,000 hundredweight of
raw ginned cotton and produce
about 50 per cent of the rough
common cloth used in the country.
The total investment is over $2,-
000,000.
Carriages and carts are made in
the country in the various princi­pal
cities, the metal fittings and
upholstery material being import­ed,
however.
Next to the cotton mills, the
most important manufacturing
industry is that of cigarette mak­ing,
Carcacas having three large
tobacco factories which supply
practically the whole country. Na­tive
tobacco is used exclusively.
There are three large breweries
in Venezuela—that of Caracas
with a capacity of 792,600 gallons
a year; that of Maiquetia (La
Guaira); and that of Maracaibo,
which supplies the western part
of the country tributary to the
Maracaibo Basin.
Two factories making other
goods compete directly with the
imported articles. These are the
paper factory at Maracay, which
uses domestic raw material, and
the paper factory at Caracas, call­ed
the Fabrica Nacional de Papel.
The factory at Maracay is the
largest. Both plants turn out
coarse and fine wrapping paper
for domestic market.
The modern dairy plant at Mar­acay
is turning out an average of
300,000 pounds of butter a year,
the product being sold fresh in
the Caracas and Valencia markets
and also tinned for shipment' to
more distant parts of the coun­try.
The plant is also equipped to
cheese making and condensed-milk
manufacture, and it has its
own can-making shop.
Practically all of the shoes worn
in Venezuela are made in the
great number of small local shops
in the various towns and cities,
the fine leathers and findings be­ing
imported from the United
States, though native sole leather
is invariably used. One modern
tannery connected with the Tela-res
de Carabobo cotton factory in
Valencia is turning out a fine
grade of upper leathers from calf
and goat skin. There are a num­ber
of tanneries scattered through­out
the country, supplying the
needs of the population for sole
leather for the shoes made local­ly
and for the much-used native
"alpargata," or sandal, which has
a leather sole.
Many Soap Factories
All the cheap grades of toilet
soap, laundry soap, etc., are made
in Venezuela by the many soap
factories which use the domestic
cottonseed oil, coconut oil, etc.,
produced in the country—the
chemicals and dyes used being
imported since the war from the
United States, though Germany
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PAGE TWO THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1939
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 T Roy Taylor
Associate Editor _ J. H. Wheeler
Society Editor .—. Eleanor Scott
Sports Editor Bill Troup
News Editor John Godbold
Business Staff
Assistant Business Manager Bob Armstrong
Assistant Business Manager , Julian Myrick
Advertising Manager Billy Smith
Circulation Manager Arthur Steele
Assistant Circulation Manager .-—- Walter Going
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.
Spring Fever
All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their
lair—
The bees are stirring — birds are on the
wing—
And winter slumbering in the open air,
Wears on his smiling face a dream of spring!
And I the while, the sole unbusy thing,
Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor
sing. —Coleridge.
We might add, "Nor write editorials" and
bring the- quotation a little nearer home. We
might even blame the first warm days as
the reason for the listless appearance of this
issue. But we will be charitable and assume
full responsibility and ask you:
Do you feel funny? Do your eyelids feel
unusually heavy? Is "your fancy straying?
'Do you want to curl up and sleep until the
semester is over? Do you want to swim and
climb trees? Do your legs give way every
time you spy a soft sofa or a sweet-smelling
spot of sunny grass? Do you want to drop
courses? Are you listless and dreamy?
We know. Spring is coming. This is the
time when you begin to hear the crack of the
baseball against the bat and the ping of the
tennis ball on the court. This is the time for
writing poetry and for love. Which is worse?
There will probably be a lot of class cutting,
too, these first few days. We imagine profes­sors
will understand how their students feel.
That is, if they ever get to class themselves.
Yes, spring with all its drowsiness and laz­iness
is here. Ho hum, there is no reason why
we just can't put our head down on the type­writer
and doze a few minutes. The keys are
getting blurred, anyway, and a smothering
listlessness is coming over us. We can't write
any more . , . ho . . . hum . . . ho ! ! !
Buying Together
Definite steps in one of the most signifi­cant
of recent student movements were tak­en
at University of Georgia this week as a
majority of sororities and fraternities offi­cially
agreed to participate in a cooperative
buying movement.
Sponsored by a non-political group of fra­ternity
and sorority presidents and treasur­ers,
the plan promises tremendous savings to
Greek groups on the campus in the purchase
of essential supplies.
Participating groups will be organized as
an "Inter-Fraternity Trust" and each will
have representatives on the board of admin­istration.
Five trustees, elected from among
the representatives, will serve as a govern­ing
body, and a secretary-treasurer will
eventually*be hired for the work of actual
management. Each body participating will
contribute $1 per member to provide capi­tal
for the trust, and all will share .m any
profits made. Any fraternity or sorority can
withdraw from the trust without loss when­ever
it desires to do so.
That cooperative buying has proven suc­cessful
on other campuses is undeniable. Dur­ing
the last eight quarters cooperative buy-
Well!
By John Ivey Jr.
It so happened that a bunch of
Auburn debaters found themsel­ves
in Athens, Ga., last Monday
ing has saved 71 fraternities and sororities
at Ohio State University over $56,000. Simi­lar
results have been noted at other colleges
and universities.
The money contributed by the groups will
not be used to build a warehouse, buy a truck,
or serve any other grandiose, unnecessary j afternoon without knowledge as to
purpose. Rather it will serve as a basis of where they were supposed to go.
credit for purchases. There will be, under
present plans, no tremendous leap into a
corporation that sells everything from triple-decker
beds to after-dinner mints. Rather, a
careful series of experiments will be used
to determine the value of the plan and the
best methods of administration. Expansion
will come with experience.
"Athens merchants," says the Editor of
Georgia's Red and Black, "should receive
every possible consideration from the trust.
Whenever they offer goods of the same qual­ity
at the same price, they should receive
preference. The trust should lean over back­wards
to favor them. But the interests of the
students come first, and the value of any plan
that can save the students any considarable
amount of money is obvious."
We believe that cooperative buying will
work here as well as at Georgia and Ohio.
We're delighted to see that after years and
years of devoting themselves to nothing but
politics, college fraternities and sororities as
a group are actually going to do something.
Selma And The Tigers
During his recent trip through Alabama
Film Actor Mickey Rooney started a wordy
exchange between the Tuscaloosa News and
the Alabama Journal by devoting part of his
stay in Montgomery to inquiries about the
University football team
The Tuscaloosa paper seemed inclined to
the belief that Montgomerians had failed to
give the Druid City all the recognition due
it as the home of the Crimson Tide, and the
Journal countered with the assertion that
"Tusacloosa must not be too all-inclusive in
its proprietorship of the team, as even Mont­gomery
claims part ownership in that insti­tution."
To which the News replied that it is not
averse to Montgomery's claim on the Crim­son
Tide, "or the claim of Birmingham, Do-than,
Gadsden, Talladega, Bessemer, and all
other waystops. We just want to make sure
that, in speaking about the Alabama football
team, Montgomery does let it get itself in
the position of the tail which wags the dog.
After all, we helped cradle the Confederacy
over at Montgomery, but we can't do much
about it when Montgomery walks off with
practically all the fame."
It would seem that the Tuscaloosa paper
completely overlooks Selma or else refuses
to concede local Crimson fans part owner­ship
in the Red Elephants, as this city is not
named and appreciates not being named—
as a waystop.
Furthermore, we are not going to worry
about the omission one minute. The Cap­stone
undoubtedly is a great football team,
but if Tuscaloosa wants to be greedy in ow­nership
of it, Selma has the consolation of
knowing that as long as Maurice Bloch con-tines
to do business at the same old stand
this city will retain a substantial interest in
the Auburn Tigers. And they are a darn
good football team also, whether or not the
News will concede as much.—The Selma
Times-Journal.
Captain's Chronicle
We have before us a copy of the Captain's
Chronicle, published weekly by Captain
Carlyle Burkhardt and First Mate David
Vann. These publishers are, we think, ten
years of age, and are members of the fifth
grade of the Auburn Grammar School.
This paper allows free advertising space
for subscribers, and charges five cents per
month to about eighty regular customers.
These nautical publishers will accept no pay­ments
in advance; they do not want to be
bound by contracts, and they want to be
free to stop publication at any time. At pres­ent,
much persuasion on the part of the sub­scribers
has prolonged the life of this weekly
for another month.
Articles principally concern interesting
happenings of the neighborhood, and they
are written in a very informal style. The
highlight of the humor section of this week
was Ellwood Burkhardt's: "I want a horse so
bad that I could do with a mule!"
It wouldn't be a bad idea for all of us to
follow the example set by these boys and to
develop some extra-curricular activity. Col­lege
certainly gives opportunities equal to
those furnished by the local grammar school.
H.M.
Knowing that all good Pi Kappa
Phi brothers are always in good
physical shape, George Hiller
drew the Hess buggy to a groan­ing
halt in front of the afore,
mentioned Greek's chapter house.
George, expecting to go in and
enjoy the bonds of brotherhood,
entered the frat house . . . in five
minutes he came back with a long
face that had unnatural lines of
worry creasing it. He sat down,
groaned a couple of pained noises
from his throat, and upon being
asked where the heck we were
supposed to go, he spluttered forth.
"I couldn't find but one brother
and he had the mumps so bad
that he couldn't tell me anything."
The pride of Pi Kappa Phi went
back into a deep period of medi­tation.
* * *
A good one on the cheerleaders.
After engaging in a very long
drawn out bull session in regard to
some of the merits of Auburn, a
student from Georgia wanted to
know if the boys at Auburn didn't
have some "pass-word" that
sounded like "Bald Eagle." That
individual knows now that it isn't
a pass-word and that it isn't
"Bald Eagle."
* * *
For quite some time we have
been slapping Broun Hall's face
very soundly every time the de­sire
to do so arose, but after see­ing
some of the designer's night­mares
being used for classrooms
at a couple of the institutions in
Georgia and South Carolina, we
wish to bow our head in shame.
Some of said structures look as
though they might fall any min­ute.
However, regardless of exist­ing
conditions elsewhere, Broun
Hall should still be allowed to
spend the rest of its days in the
form of a brick pile.
* * *
Yesterday John Godbold was
exercising his speaking machin­ery
on some long-winded expos­tulation
in regard to the defense
of democratic ideals and tradit­ions.
Among those listening was
a very nice bird dog who was
really minding his own business.
When the volley of abuse from
John became so great that the
dog's meek soul could stand it no
longer, he stood up right in front
of Mr. Godbold, released a bored
yawn followed by a disgusted bark
and walked out of the room.
* * *
A, Southern Gentleman, Sub!
Breath of Spring
In the air.
College prof
In the hair.
Across the campus
Vagrant breeze
Drifts through boughs
Of budding trees.
In the midst
Of peaceful morn
Lonely editor
Sits forlorn.
Drooping lids,
Listless stare.
Looks like Satan
Sitting there.
Book he gives
Final shove.
Fills his mind
Dreams of love.
We often wonder
Will he ever
Get over this
Damn Spring Fever.
There's a play in New York called
"Kiss the Boys Good^Bye." The
heroine is a drawling Southern
girl hailing from, according to the
script, Athens, Ga. The whole
show is a satire on the South, but
it's easy to take because it cracks
at the North and everything else
with equal vigor.
We liked one line in particular:
"If you can shoot like a South
Carolinian, ride like a Virginian,
drink like a Kentuckian, make love
like a Georgian, and be as proud
of it as an Episcopalian, then, suh,
you're a Southern Gentleman!"
* * *
"The most important step of the
student body for the whole year is
the tack of choosing the officers
and managers of student publica­tions
for the next year," wrote a
former president of Auburn in the
Plainsman several years ago.
"These positions require abili­ty
of an unusual character. Some
of them require business ability,
management, and a high degree
of loyalty and faith to the insti­tution.
All of them require men
who are well balanced, who have
good common sense, who are so
constituted that they will coope­rate
and work well with others. .
"The compensation received by
any student for any one of these
tasks is inadequate and, therefore,
there must be some unselfish pur­pose
to serve the great and fine
interests of the whole institution
and to promote its welfare."
* * *
Speaking of fancy and the
spring—we have a bad case of
Spring Fever—Z Z Z—Yawn!
and . . .
Sigh! . . .
are afraid . . .
Nod!
that . . .
yawn:
we're
going
to
sleep
on
our
column
Z Z Z Z
Gift Of Grab
By Bob Anderson
While glancing back through
the files of the "Plainsman" we
bumped into quite a number of
odd and humorous titles affixed
to various columns. Here are a
few of the best:
"Dissertations" by Pig
"Jigs Up" by Jason
"Deadly Deductions" by Derf
"Tiger Growls" by B. C. Pope
"Trivia" by Trifler
"Chews Yore Podner" by Gum
"Nightmares" by Ned
"Thunderations" by Gum.
"De Vorm"
De Vorm she is-a de funnist t'ing
She has-a arm, no leg, no t'ing.
He no canna talk, she no canno
sing
Ven she's turn around he's just
the same
His head is vere his tail should-a
came.
* » *
Boys at the University of Flor­ida
recently pitched an official
bull-session and formally did away
with the traditional practice of
paying for the room and board of
girls invited down for dances. They
decided that the girls ought to
take care of that much of the pe­cuniary
end of the situation, af­ter
they had been invited down as
dates.
* * *
The very first alcohol ever dis­tilled,
they say, was Arabian. That
explains those nights.
* * V
One Mrs. Laura T. Martin tends
to rival certain well-known opera
singers with a cute little trick
she pulled off a couple of weeks
ago. While singing in the "Y"
Auditorium at the University of
Mississippi she reached for a high
"C," and got instead a large glass
light shade. The shade was sup­posedly
shattered by the vibra­tions
of the note, and luckily fell
in one of the few empty seats in
the building.
* * *
They were sitting on the front
porch swing for half an hour with
nothing to break the silence when
finally she asked: "Harold, if you
had money, what would you do?"
"I'd travel," he replied with all
his manly pride. He felt her warm
hand move close to his. When he
looked up, she was gone. In his
hand was a nickel.—The White
and Blue.
* * *
The University of Chicago's stu­dent
Debate Union has gone as­tray
from the conventional de-tray
from the conventional debate,
and taken up informal round
tables, forum discussions, and
half-a-dozen other techniques
which it believes to be better than
Editor's Mailbox
Editor
The Auburn Plainsman
Dear Sir:
After reading the "Welcome
Alumni" issue of The Plainsman,
Mr. Barkalow and I wish to con­gratulate
you and your staff on
this fine eight-page publication.
Compliments are in order for al­so
for the variety of news cove­rage,
features, and alert editor­ials
throughout the year.
The Plainsman is a bi-weekly
tonic for our Auburn Spirit, so
we join in best wishes for the
continued success to everything
•that promotes a "Greater Au­burn."
Sincerely,
Joan Metzger Barkalow
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan.
solved" proposition. They have
they "veddy, veddy" formal "re-even
developed a system of "bull
sessions" on the radio.
In spite of the underhanded
cracks of the sophisticated farm­er's
daughters at Montevallo, con­cerning
the countryishness of our
school and students, they seem to
like the atmosphere down here.
At least as many of them as can
rate bids, and forge "permissions"
from home to make the trip, are
seen around the dances here in
Auburn each week-end. One rural
Miss, visiting our school for the
first time, was heard praising the
music of the Knights, and lament­ing
the fact that they couldn't
have a dance orchestra at Ala­bama
College once in a while—
she was tired of dancing to that
old record of "Turkey in the
Straw" they had up there.
* * *
The Sigma Chi's at the Univer­sity
of Florida have deviated
slightly from the conventional
method of greeting on the tele­phone.
They answer their rings
with, "This is the sacred sanctu­ary,
great and glorious abode of
the eminent and exalted order of
heroic women, the haven and hab­itation
of happiness and enlight-ment,
known to the masses as
magnificent Sigma Chi. With
whom do you wish to converse?"
How that for a fancy "Hello?"
* * *
Speaking of Howard, we have
learned that the Howard Library
is subscribing to "Esquire" now!
We won't say what we are think­ing.
* * # /
Fifteen ATO pledges at the Uni­versity
of Missouri recently
marched en masse to the city jail
and asked to be quartered for the
night. They were rebelling against
Before Tomorrow
By John Godbold
This is written from the cam­pus
of one of the finest colleges
we have ever visited, Furman.
It's very much like Auburn here;
in fact, more nearly so than at
any other college we can recall.
As one walks along the campus
he meets boys in slacks and
sweaters, some with neckties and
some without. And most of them
speak, just as they do at Auburn.
There is about the college an
air of good fellowship and of de­mocracy
that is distinctly like Au­burn.
Furman must be much like Au­burn
was back in the days when
we had around a thousand stu­dents.
* * *
The petititions for candidates
for campus offices are all in by
now, or at least we assume that
they are. All the politicians are
desperately working for votes.
But when everyone marches up to
•the voting machine in a few
weeks, we hope that we all see
to it that competent men go in.
This year has seen some compe­tent
men in office. But in several
of the preceeding years men have
been removed from or have "re­signed"
from their offices—men
who simply weren't competent.
Sometimes the man with the
best personality and ability to
make friends is the most compe­tent.
Or it may be the quiet little
fellow that no one seems to know.
But if we're going to vote in the
election, we all owe it to the fel­lows
running and to ourselves to
find out who is capable and who
isn't.
* * *
The more one argues and dis­cusses
the problems of whether or
not the democracies of the world
should cooperate to preserve dem­ocratic
ideals and traditions the
more convinced he becomes that
they should do so.
We are faced with the fact that
the totalitarian states, chiefly
Germany and Italy, are cooperat­ing
while the democracies are di­vided.
Their system of working
hand-in-glove with each other can
be counteracted only by a similar
system among the democracies.
There are a thousand and one
fields in which cooperation may
take place—in trade, in education,
science, labor problems, medicine,
mutual government problems, and
countless others.
The democratic countries, the
United States as well as others,
hold some resentment and rivalry
among themselves which coopera­tion
could remove. They fight over
trade territories, which, by shar­ing,
could be developed much"
more effectively. They rival one
another in scientific research and
observation, when, by cooperating,
they might learn much more.
Germany has already taken
Austria and Czechoslovakia and
has her eyes on Rumania and
Ukraine. Italy has taken Ethiopia
and is knocking at the doors of
France's African empire. Japan
has taken Manchuria and is help­ing
herself to parts of China.
Meanwhile, the democracies are
occupying themselves by arming
for military combat. If in additions
they could joined together in eco­nomic
and cultural cooperation
we believe their position would be
materially strengthened.
* * *
According to statistics from the
Alabama State Department of
Education only about 30 per cent
of the most able students who
graduate from Alabama high
schools ever go to college.
Naturally one assumes that lack
of money is the main reason for
only three out of ten getting to
college.
It's a queer society which al­ways
needs leaders of keen intel­lect
and proper training, but be­cause
of the physical surround­ings
into which its citizens are
born, refuses to give potential
leaders the needed training.
Some have suggested govern­ment
scholarships as a means of
help; some, free higher education
for all. But nothing feasible has
come out of the many conjectures
as yet.
the assignment of "pledge duty"
outside their fraternity house.
The jailer graciously lodged them
in the little-used women's sec­tion
of the "hoosegow."
* * *
Prof: "So, you called me a
learned jackass!"
Stude: "No, sir, I merely said
you were a burro of information!"
(P. S. Joke, slightly corny.)
Study now and don't worry
later.
FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1939 THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
SOCIETY AND NEWS FEATURES
ELEANOR SCOTT, Editor
Local Phi Delta Theta Group Is Host At Three
Dances, House Party During Past Week-end
Phi Delta Theta entertained
with a house-party and three dan­ces
the week-end of March 3, 4,
and 5, with guests from Ala­bama,
Georgia, Florida, Tennes­see,
and Virginia.
A house dance was held Friday
night which was closed to all ex­cept
Phi Delta Theta's and their
dates. Then Saturday night, with
music by Bill Clarke and his or­chestra
from Atlanta, the annual
formal took place in Alumni Gym­nasium.
This was preceded by a
tea dance and a buffet supper
and was followed by a buffet
breakfast.
At the formal dance, the dec­orations
consisted of a backdrop
behind the orchestra with the coat
of arms of Phi Delta Theta on it,
a similar shield across the hall
from the orchestra which figured
in the grand march, designs
around the balcony which alter
nated the coat of arms, a white
carnation (the fraternity flower)
and the Greek letters Phi Delta
Theta, and azure and argent
streamers from the ceiling. Each
Phi Delia Theta date was pre­sented
with a corsage of white
carnations.
After the grand march in which
the members arranged themsel­ves
in parallel lines with the offi­cers
between, Miss America Ball,
house mother, presented Miss Sal­ly
Glenn, President Grover Bar-field's
date, with a large bouquet
of white carnations with blue and
white streamers attached. The or­chestra
then played "Phi Delta
Theta Dream Girl" for the lead-
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A list of the young ladies and
their escorts follows:
Sally Glenn, Columbus, Grover
Barfield; Margaret Bracey, Do-than,
Bill Driver; Wilbur Fite,
Birmingham, Jim Flowers; Pris-cilla
Scott, Montgomery, Boots
Stratford; Peggy Mclssaac, Un-iontown,
Carl Morgan; Sadie Ed­wards,
Union Springs, Kirfoy Cle­ments;
Laurette Cravey, Mont­gomery,
Allen Northington; Vir­ginia
Gale, Manhasset, N. Y.,
Chalmers Watkins; Helen Smith,
Huntingdon College, Preston
Reeder; Betty Lurnmus, Colum­bus,
Ted Raht; Mary Ella Cook,
Auburn, Don Goodall; Martha
Good, Columbus, Gray Carter;
Ruth Cunningham, Andalusia,
Ben Branch; Kathryn Nelson,
Athens, Nick Nichols; Miss Caro­lyn
Barfield, Gadsden, Wilson
Taylor; Marion Ross, University
of Alabama, Bobby Haas; Martha
Smith, John Taylor; Tony Wil­liams,
Opelika; Billy Fleming;
Margaret Reddock, Seawell Jones;
Molly Inge, Mobile, Eric Dumont;
Martha Flowers, Montgomery, Al­bert
Head; Frances Butt, Agnes
Scott College, Jim King; Lillian
Russell, Montgomery, Lee Hollo-way;
Dusty Hance, Bill Butt;
Elizabeth Courtney, Jex Luce;
Ethel Irwin, Maurice Dykes; El­len
Powers, Augusta, Paul Mc-
Kenney; Helen Morgan, Auburn,
Bill Varner; Helena Miller, Mo­bile,
Turner Williams; Mary Beth
Scott, Columbus, Bill Troup; Elea­nor
Wright, Dothan, Bruce Gib­son;
Mary Matthews, Huntingdon
College, Tommy Bailey; Jeanette
Lifsey, Mary Baldwin College,
Bill Alford; Miss Eloise Baker,
Harry Norman.
Guests from Phi Delta Theta at
the University of Alabama were
Billy Johnson with Sybil Vogtle,
Hop Chichester with Lulee Bar-tee,
Dick Murray, Joe Burleson,
Bernard Sykes, Burgott Mooney,
Clyde Hunter and Ralston Long.
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Auburn Kiwanians heard Dr.
Rosa Lee Walston, academic ad­viser
of women, discuss the new
women's quadrange which will be
a part of the $1,500,000 building
program at the regular luncheon
•meeting Monday at the Thomas
Hotel.
Dr. Walston was introduced by
A. D. Burke, president of the club.
Her discussion centered around
the theme of the benefit that the
new quadrange will be to women
students who attend college here
next September.
Pictures of the dining room,
dormitories, and recreation hall of
the new center were shown to the
club. She said that in her travels
over the state many fine compli­ments
were paid Auburn and that
citizens seemed well pleased with
the interest of the college in
women students.
Dr. Walston explained that she
had been traveling over the state
interviewing the type of women
iwanted at Auburn. Keen interest,
she said, was shown by the girls
that she interviewed.
Forty-five regular members of
the club were present. Dr. J. J.
Watson of New Orleans and T. S.
Morrow, Blount County farm
agent, Oneonta, were visitors.
Collection of Photos by
Sahag Is on Exhibit
Camera lovers are urged to see
a collection of photographic en­largements
in Burton's Bookstore
this week. These enlargements are
the work of Prof. L. M. Sahag
representing mostly colored and
black and white photographs of
sceneries in the Western States.
The entire display registers skill
and talent not only in taking, en­larging,
but in color work.
In the latter Prof. Sahag again
has been able to bring out the ar­tistic
side of photography and
with complete color harmony to
show how the actual scenes with­out
any distortion or exaggera­tion
can be considered real art
works.
Officers of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and
their dates who attended the house party and
dances over the past week-end are pictured above.
Reading left to right, first row: Turner Williams,
Buena Vista, Ga.; Miss Helena Miller, Athens; Miss
Sally Glenn, Columbus, Ga.; Grover Barfield, pres­ident,
Columbus, Ga.; Miss America Ball, house
mother; Miss Wilbur Fite, Birmingham; Jim Flow­ers,
Montgomery; Second row, left to right: Miss
Frances Butt, Blue Ridge, Ga.; Gordon Hood, Gad­sden;
Miss Margaret Reddoch, Luverne; Miss Peggy
Mslsaac, Uniontown; Seawell Jones, Selma; Carl
Morgan, Uniontown; Miss Margaret Bracy, Thom-asville,
Ga.; Bill Driver, Thomasville, Ga,
Collegiate Chapter of FHA
Holds Meeting Monday
The Collegiate Chapter of F. H.
A. met on March 6. 1939, with the
president, Lucille Pace, presid­ing.
Alice Little, vice-president,
introduced Emma Lou Farrior,
who gave an interesting report on
lOther guests included Bailey
Brawley and Nick Flood from
Athens, Tommie Vereen from
Darlington, Sherrod McCall from
Moultrie, Allen Blackledge from
Mobile, Frank McCall from Bir­mingham,
Joe Fleming, Winston
Garthand, Herbert Johnson from
Athens, and Josh Couch from Do­than.
Chaperones were Mr. and Mrs.
Joe Sarver, Mr. and Mrs. Homer
Wright, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Spar­row,
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Han-non
and Miss America Ball, house
mother:
Applebee Speaks to
Art Group
As president of the art depart­ment
of the Alabama Education
Association, Prof. Frank W. Ap­plebee
was the principal speak­er
at the opening luncheon of the
annual meeting of the Southeas­tern
Arts Association in Birming­ham
on Thursday, Prof. Applebee
bee is head of the department of
applied art at Auburn.
Between 300 and 500 teachers
of art from all Southeastern states
were expected at the meeting
which continues through Saturday.
"New forces in American Mural
Painting" is the subetjc of an ad
dress listed on the program by
Forbes Watson of the Bureau of
Fine Arts, Washington. The list
of other speakers includes Prof.
Lamar Dodd, University of Geor­gia;
Miss Sybil Brown, New Jer­sey
State Teachers College; Dr.
Fred Strickler, Columbia Univer­sity.
Principal speaker at the an­nual
banquet Friday evening will
be Dr. A. F. Harman, Alabama
College president, whose subject
will be "A Non-Artist Talks to
Artists."
the meeting of the Alabama Home
Economics Club at the University
of Alabama on Feb. 11, 1939. Mrs.
Hugh Francis was guest speaker
to the club. She reviewed several
of the newest and most interest­ing
biographical books, giving per­sonal
comment as to the value of
each book.
Announcements were made con­cerning
the F. F. A.-F. H. A. Ban­quet
on Saturday, March 18, 1939.
The next meeting of the F. H.
A. will be a joint meeting with
the F. F. A. on Tuesday, March
14.
SPE's Elect New Officers
At Wednesday Meeting
The Alabama Alpha chapter of
Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity held
a meeting Wednesday night for the
election of officers-for the coming
year.
The following men were elected:
president, Turner Murphy, Frisco
City; vice-president, Carl Adam-son,
Birmingham; secretary, Fran­cis
Gefheardt, Mobile; historian,
Joe Ware, Birmingham; guard,
Ted Wright, Birmingham; first
marshall, Thomas Linnon, Thom­asville,
Ga.; second marshall, Jack
Martin, Gordo; assistant house
manager, James Hardwick, Bir­mingham;
interfratemity repre­sentative,
Ted Wright, Birming­ham;
alternate representative,
Harold Cockrell, Birmingham,
conclave representative, Carl Ad-amson.
The house manager was not se­lected.
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In a series of three lectures
Dr. Popenoe discussed family and
marriage problems with students
at Alabama Polytechnic Institute.
members and pledges enjoyed a
brief social hour at the expense
of the newly elected officers.
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Standings in T
Contest Given
With an attendance of 100 per
cent on the opening Sunday of the
Go-To-Church Campaign spon­sored
by Y. M. C. A., Beta Kappa
fraternity led all the rest in per­centage
standings. Closely follow­ing
Beta Kappa were Sigma Phi
Epsilon, 98.9 per cent; Theta Chi,
96.1 per cent; Alpha Psi, 89.4 per
cent; and Pi Kappa Alpha, 88.6
per cent.
Other standings in the contest
are Sigma Pi, 86.9 per cent; A. L.
T., 80.0 per cent; Kappa Sigma,
79.3 per cent; Lambda Chi Alpha,
67.9 per cent; Pi Kappa Phi, 59.5
per cent; Delta Sigma Phi, 58.3
per cent; Alpha Tau Omega, 34.1
per cent; Sigma Chi, 32.7 per
cent; and Theta Kappa Nu, 23.7
per cent.
In the sorority Go-To-Church
League, sponoserd by Y. W. C. A.,
Theta Upsilon led with a percen­tage
standing of 93.12 per cent.
Following were Phi Omega Pi,
93.1 per cent; Chi Omega, 69.2
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instrumental work from the small
combination.
* * *
Chick Webb and his band pre­sent
"F. D. R. Jones" and "I Love
What You Make" with more of
that Ella Fitzgerald vocal work.
Good arrangements played in a
swing-out style. Decca did the
waxing.
* * *
Artie Shaw lets Tony Pastor
knock out a good vocal on "De­lightful
Delirium." This number is
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Helen Forrest states vocally, "I
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* * *
Bob Crosby beats out a bit of
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of "Skater's Waltz" coupled with
the ivory-strumming of Bob
Zurke to the tune of "Eye Open-per
cent; Alpha Gamma, 63.6 per
cent; and Kappa Delta, 46.22 per
cent.
The cups which will be award­ed
to the winners in the Go-To-
Church Campaign have been or­dered
and will be on display
sometime next week. Percentage
standings will be published in the
Plainsman on each Tuesday fol­lowing
the Sunday contests.
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SAE in Finals of Interfrat
Basketball Competition
SAE has advanced to the finals
in the inter-frat basketball play­off.
Theta Chi will meet the win­ner
of the K. A.-Sigma Nu game
to determine who is to play S. A.
E. in the final.
The playoff is conducted on the
double-elimination plan, and
therefore no team may be dropped
before losing two games. S. A. E.
is the only undefeated team in the
tourney, but the championship is
by no means sewed up. K. A., Sig­ma
Nu, and Theta Chi are all
strong contenders, and any of these
teams stands a chance of winning
the tournament.
Clay County is undefeated in
the independent playoffs, and will
meet the winner of the Sears,
Roebuck-Hornsby Hall game for
the championship. Ramblers was
the other team in the independent
playoffs.
'The Sporting Hikhcocks'—Brothers
Jimmie, Jake, Billy, and Bully
er." This Decca is something a
little on the different side, but
very interesting.
* * *
Another one for our list of ex­cellent
small combinations comes
from Teddy Wilson featuring the
modern touch of Billie Holliday on
the vocal. "What Shall I Say" and
"It's Easy to Blame the Weather"
are the two arrangements which
as added attraction have fine rides
by Teddy, Roy Eldridge, and oth­ers.
A Brunswich.
* * *
"Ive Got a List" is the latest
Larry Clinton work for Victor
with • that super-fine vocal work
by Bea Wain. Ford Leary is feat­ured
in a Clinton production of
"Siweet Little Buttercup." Both
tunes are arranged by the master
of sweet-swing, the old Dipsey
Doodler Larry Clinton. Good!
* * *
Glen Grey's Caso Loma crew
takes "Hoboken Bucket" for a
trip down swing lane. Kenny Sar­gent
via a vocal tells that "Last
Night A Miracle Happened" with
a fine Casa Loma sweet arrange­ment
on a Decca. We think this is
pretty good.
* * *
"What Shall I Say?" is asked by
Mildred Bailey backed by anoth-
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By Charles J. Burn
All in the game, so the story
goes about the sporting Hitch-cocks,
some of the best football
and baseball players that ever hit
the Plains. And they are still here
too.
Four brothers inhabited the
Plains from the little town of
Union Springs, Ala., to become
outstanding students and memb­ers
of the sporting family.
These boys were Jimmie, Jake,
Bully, arid Billy Hitchcock—all
for one and one for all in the
great cause of Auburn, baseball
and football.
If you happen out on the field
this week here the Auburn squad
is now engaged in spring baseball
practice, can be found the two
brothers, Billy and Jake Hitch­cock,
just hitting a few and throw­ing
the baseball around for the
fun of it.
It may be just fun for Jake and
a little exercise too, but for Billy
and brother Jimmie it's going to
be work during the summer, for
Sunday Billy leaves Auburn for
Kansas City, Missouri, where he
joins that club for spring pactice,
playing shortstop.
Brother Jimmie of 'the sporting
Hitchcock's, All-American back-field
ace in 1932, assistant foot­ball
mentor for the Tigers, and
hard worker for the baseball
nine, joins the Chattanooga Look­outs
soon. He's under contract to
them now instead of the Boston
Bees .where he played at the short­stop
position for several years.
As for Bully Hitchcock, he
sticks to chief football tutoring at
Langdale High School and is also
head coach. Just the same he is
a member of the sporting football
family and has a love of the great
old American game of baseball.
Jake, who back in 1932 played
baseball for Union Springs with
his brothers, sticks to Auburn both
summer and winter. He's'engag­ed
in the restaurant business here
with Billy and Jimmie as part­ners.
The story is told of the broth­ers
back in 1932 when they were
on the baseball nine of Union
Springs and all four played for
the season together. It was almost
a Hitchcock ball club then.
Billy, youngest of the brothers,
played shortstop; Jimmie, the Au­burn
assistant football coach, was
on first base; Bully, the Langdale
mentor on second, and Jake, the
business man, was the third base­man.
That was half of the Union
Springs team of that year at any
rate. Believe it or not!
As the story goes, summer will
find Jake right here in Auburn;
Billy with Kansas City, under con­tract
to the New York Yankees;
Bully, spending his time between
Auburn, Langdale, and Union
Springs; and Jimmie with the
Chattanooga Lookouts.
er small combination including
Red Norvo. This production is
really a surprise. Mildred does a
bit of fine piping to the tune of
"Blame It On My Last Affair" on
the reverse of this Vocalion wax
work.
* * *
On a couple of popular tunes,
"I Want My Share of Love" and
"Don't Look Now," Larry Clin­ton
and band do some good groov­ing
in a subtle sweet manner. The
latter tune is a Clinton composi­tion
with vocal treatment from
Bea Wain and Ford Leary while
the first of the group puts Bea on
her own. Both are good and fresh
from Victor.
* * *
In the groove and "Knocking
At the Famous Door" Charlie
Barnet and his cats give us a
treat. In keeping with the first
good number a semi-dixie-land
arrangement keeps us in the prop­er
kick under the title of "Tin
Roof Blues." Charlie plays some
fine tenor sax and his band is
good. Bluebird.
* * *
Billie Holiday calls her own
group together to do a couple of
tunes for Vocalion "That's All I
Ask of You" and "Dream of Life."
Small combination featuring some
fine artist in typical Holliday
mode.
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'A' Day to Take
Place March 29
Auburn will celebrate "A" Day
this year as usual on March 29,
not exactly as usual. As usual, the
A. P. I. baseball nine will make
an appearance, facing the sterling
nine from Montgomery. No blood
will be shed, as the Huntingdon
lassies have persuaded the Mont­gomery
team to play fair, and
even to drop the fearsome nom-de-
plume of "Bombers." This is
strictly unusual.
There will be a polo game that
morning, as usual, and an added
feature will be the showing of pic­tures
of some of Auburn's most
exciting football games. Thev finer
points of these pictures will foe
explained by Coach Del Morgan.
The "A" Club will be at home
with a kid party that night at the
W. P. A. nursery. At that time
Gus Coats will donate, present,
and give, free, a solid silver lov­ing
cup to the best all-round ath­lete
of the past year. Admission
to this dance will be 75 cents.
A feature of the morning's en­tertainment
will be the interfrat
track meet. Some of the lodges
are already training men for this
meet.
In addition to all of the forego­ing,
all present will probably wit­ness
a rainstorm of savage inten­sity.
It has rained each "A" Day
for fifteen years, so by the law of
average it should rain on the
coming one too.
Forestry Meeting
Is Held Here
Federal Agencies, Private
Concerns Convene Here
All government agencies and
individual concerns interested in
any phase of forestry convened
in session here Monday and
Tuesday for the purpose of co­ordinating
and promoting more
and better forestry practices in
Alabama.
Speeches were made by at least
one member of each agency rep­resented.
The meeting was called
by R. H. Page, Jr., Extension
forester.
"The Farm Forestry Problems
in Alabama as I See Them" was
the subject discussed by L. M.
Ware, A. P. I. Mr. Page discussed
"Farm Forestry Extension, the
Job and its Coordination with
other Agencies in Alabama."
Mr. H. M. Sebring, Regional
Forester for the Soil Conserva­tion
Service, spoke on the "Farm
Forestry Program of the S. C. S.
AIEE Presents Guest Speaker
At Monday Night Meeting
At the regular meeting Mon­day
night, March 13, at 7 p. m.,
the Auburn branch of AIEE will
present as guest speaker Mr. T. H.
Mawson of Commonwealth and
Southern Corporation, Birminlg-ham,
to talk about modern tools
and methods used in studying
electric power systems.
Mr. Mawson is secretary of the
Alabama Section of AIEE.
and How it May be Developed in
Alabama." Other speakers on the
program was Frank Rasor, United
States Forest Service, Page S.
Bunker, state forester, Neil Sav­age,
district forester for the Ten­nessee
Valley Authority.
Tuesday was spent in touring
the experiment plots of the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute. The
tour was conducted by Mr. Ware
and James Bryan, forester, A. P.
I.
In the afternoon a trip was
made to Dadeville where an in­spection
of S. C. S. project was
conducted by R. Erkel.
NOTICE
The Plainsman is short of the
desired number of copies of
Plainsman of the following Issues:
Sept. 9, Sept. 16, Oct. 18, and Feb.
21. If you have one of these copies
or know where we can get one,
we will appreciate you letting us
know about it.
In 22 years, Oklahoma A &
M's wrestling teams have won 125
of 130 wrestling meets.
Approximately one-fourth of
the University of Vermont fresh­men
are scholarship holders.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1939 THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN PAGE FIVE
Buck Benny Rides Again as Skies Clear
And Auburn Polo Team Begins Practice
By M. R. Hazzard
After having been held back for some time by the bad
weather, the familiar clang of the bell and the crack of the
mallets signify that the polo season is here again.
This year Auburn is looking for
ward with great expectations to
having an outstanding polo team.
There are experienced men to fill
all the posts...
Practice was held Wednesday on
Bullard Field. A -scrimmage be­tween
what appears to be the top
two outfits at. present afforded
most of the day's action. The num­ber
one squad was made up of
Hoss Herren, playing one; Gus
Franke, playing two; Bob MeNul-ty,
playing three; and Shell, play­ing
four. Competition was given
this group by Hammill, Brown,
Armstrong, and Warren.
So far matches have been ar­ranged
with Ohio State and the
University of Illinois. Both the
these teams are to appear here in
Auburn, Ohio on the 20 and 22
of this month and Illinois on April
8. Other matches are being plann­ed
with Fort Benning, the Atlan­ta
Horsemen, and a New Orleans
team.
If present plans come through,
there will be a practice game with
Fort Benning this Saturday, March
11.
API Cagers Sink More Than a
Fourth of Field Goals Tries
More than a fourth of the 1,248
field goals tries made by Auburn's
1939 basketball team fell through
the hoops for tallies. The Tigers
of Coach Ralph Jordan, in winning
16 and losing only six for the sea­son,
rang the bell with 328 of their
field goal attempts.
Statistical chart of the Bengals
reveals the following information
about the players in seeking two-pointers:
Co-Captain and Forward
Malvern Morgan, 90 field goals in
349 efforts; Forward Crawford
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Above are pictured the members of Auburn's 1939 basketball squad who carried the Orange and Blue colors through
for a successful season, winning 16 and losing only six. Reading from left to right, front row, they are: Co-Captain Mal­vern
Morgan, Crawford Holmes, Bob Dickinson, Co-Captain Tommie Edwards, J. P. Streetman, Ernest Pappas, and
Cecil Wallace. Back row: Charles Ham, Abb Chrietzberg, John Huff, Bruce Renfroe, Red Childers, Ray Gibson, and
Andrew Curlee.
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and Center Tommie Edwards,
39 in 136; Guard and Center John
Huff, 17 in 54; Center Bed Child­ers,
14 in 53; Forward J. P. Street-man,
15 in 59; Forward Bob Dick­inson,
two in 14; Guard Abb
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Guard Bruce Renfroe, none in
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Horses breaking from the No. 4, 6, and 7 starting positions
have won the majority of races at Hialeah . . . Charles Cheng
of China is a member of the Marquette tennis team, and Ema­nuel
Zorilla of Mexico City is a varsity fencer . . . Duke
Kahanamoku, famous Hawaiian swimmer, now is official
greeter of visitors to Honolulu.
Captain Jean St. Maurice, fencing coach at Marquette Univer­sity,
formerly doubled in motion picture dueling scenes for Ronald
Colman, Ramon Navorro, and Warner Baxter . '. ., Tom Robinson,
Northwestern swimming coach, has not missed a (meet in which his
charges have competed for thirty years.
Manuel Salvo, Giant rookie pitcher, is the first player of
Portuguese extraction to come up to the major leagues since
Lew Fonseca . . . Billy Conn, twice conqueror of Fred Apos-toli,
is one of the few boxing headliners who has had no ama­teur
experience . . . Twelve of the fifteen pitchers on the
Cincinnati roster are 6 feet or more tall.
Martin (Human Blimp) Levy, 640 pound Boston wrestler, oc­cupies
two chairs in a restaurant with only occasional breakage i. . .
Fred Johnson of the Browns at 42 is the American League's oldest
pitcher |. . . Billiard table cushions are made of rubber imported
from India.
Urban Mac Donald, who plunged off the track and into
a box in old Madison Square Garden in 1908 and died in the
hospital the next day, is the only professional six-day bicycle
rider ever to meet with a fatal accident in a race . . . Mrs.
George Zaharias, nee Babe Didrickson, is one of .the ten long­est
drivers in golf. . . Every member of the Purdue basketball
squad is a native Hoosier.
Orlando Plipoli and Anerico Woyciesjes (yes, that right) of
the University of Syracuse boxing team are honor students . . .
Jack Roper, who will fight Joe Louis for the title in Los Angeles
April 18, was knocked out in one round by Jimmy Braddock in
1931.
For the first time in ten years no change was made in
the American League's staff of umpires . . . The University
of Pennsylvania has not gone through a football season with­out
a defeat in thirty years . . . John Drebinger Jr., first soph­omore
ever to be elected captain of Pennsylvania's track team,
is the son of a New York sports writer.
That good old spring weather is fast approaching, and with it
comes baseball. . . There's nothing quite like sitting in the bleachers
munching peanuts and drinking dopes and hearing the familiar
cry, "He's out!"
Kitty Parker; Max Morrison,
Charlotte Edwards; Steve John­son,
Bess Burdett; Ty Irby, Mar­tha
Wright.
A. C. Canzornery, Norma Black;
Doyce Hamibrick, Mary Hackney;
Dude Simnis, Kitty Riley; Quintin
Biddle, Eleanor Lee Jones; Nick
Ordillo, Ann Marshell; Dan Car-michael,
Jackie Hendricks; Bob
Vann, Jane Greene; Frank Bart-lett,
Jane Bussey; Ed Brown,
Frances Carson; Bruce Jones,
Mary Williamson. ,
Miami Swimmers to
Meet API Saturday
A crack University of Miami
swimming team, under the tute­lage
of a father-and-son coaching
combination will face the Auburn
mermen here on March 11.
The Miamians are captained by.
Grant Slater, diving and breast
stroke star, who is undefeated in
inter-collegiate competition. Out­standing
man on the Hurricane
team is Al Collins, husky distance
and free-style ace, who hurls his
chunky body into every pool wiih
the intention of cracking a rec­ord.
He recently cracked the 440
and 220 yard conference marks
during a practice meet at the Mi­ami
pool.
Larry Kaplan and Lornetz Dim.
ming, capable back-strokers; Dave
Andre and Billy Reynolds, sprin­ters,
and Bob Ida, distance swim­mer,
round out the Hurricane ros­ter.
The team is coached by the
veteran "Pop" Burr, the "old fox"
of swimming coaches, and by his
son, Jack. Both are well pleased
with the work of the squad and
are optimistic as to the outcome
of the meets.
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Frosh Footballers
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The freshman football boys have
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they've decided to abandon
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is unknown. Won't somebody have
a kind heart?
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PAGE SIX THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1939
Picture of Famous Mahogany Staircase
In Auburn Home Featured by Magazine
Historic Staircase in Cary
Home Pictured in Magazine
By NANCYE THOMPSON
A picture of the famous maho­gany
spiral staircase in the cen­tury-
old Halliday-Cary house on
College St. here appeared in the
February issue of "Architectural
Record," a magazine featuring
building trends and designs.
This stair leads down from the
center of the second floor hall to
the floor below. Built of solid ma­hogany,
it was wrought, assembled
arid erected entirely by manual
labor. Wooden pegs are used to
hold the parts intact. No metal of
any description is. employed in
the process' of its extremely in­tricate
construction.
This remarkable achievement of
curvilinear engineering is void of
any.central supporting post, which
was necessary with similar stair­cases
of this type and period. Each
step supports the other steps in
an arch. Support of the stair is
impossible until the last step is in
place, just as an arch is incomplete
without its keystone.
The double balustrade with the
delicate winding of its railing
gains strength through the unin­terrupted
continuation. The rail­ing
ascends the spiral from one
newel up the well to the second
floor where it completely circles
the opening, descends again on the
opposite side and terminates upon
the adjacent post. .
The serpentine curves may be
seen to an advantage from the
third floor landing. The stair well
is kidney" shaped and just large
enough for one person to pass
with ease.
Unfortunately no record re­mains
of the master-craftsman
who designed, engineered and
erected such a stairway. Its de­sign
was lost and its duplication
today is considered impossible.
Elections
(Continued from Page One)
Historian: Ed Keith, Charles
Haynesworth.
Junior Class Officers
President. Jack Loeb, Jack Bird-song,
John Deming, Jim Martin.
Vice president: John D. Davis,
John Arnold.
Secretary: Kirk Newell.
Treasurer: Ed Welden, Dick
Hall.
Histrian: Wylie Johnson.
Sophomore Class Officers
President: Bob Anderson, Nick
Nichols, Bruce Jones, Bill Farm­er,
Paul Fishburne.
Vice president: Leon Marr Sa-hag
Jr., Charles Flowers, C. A.
Elliott.
Secretary: Ted Benning, Bert
Powell.
Treasurer: Scott Vance, W. D.
Kelly.
Historian: Nelle Gilchrist, He­lena
Miller.
Students in chemical engineer­ing
who will be out of town on
the inspection trip on election
day will be allowed to vote be­fore
leaving, said Chairman Mc-
Gehee. Plans for securing a vot­ing
machine for student use dur-
Plainsman
(Continued from page one)
column sheet coming out every
Friday morning and carrying lo­cal
news and advertising. Among
the advertisements appearing in
this issue was one from the Au­burn
Masonic Female College, an­nouncing
the beginning of the
second scholastic year on Oct. 1.
Two years later, in 1854, J. L.
Collins and James S. Slaughter
purchased The Gazette, and ap­parently
edited it for several
years before it ceased publication.
Auburn's second newspaper,
The Sketch Book, came in 1860
according to an announcement of
The Montgomery Post. It was
owned by Messrs. Pryce and Ma­son,
and was published by W. B.
Hughes, formerly of Montgomery,
nothing more is known of the life
of the journal.
Late in the eighties another pa­per
called The Sketch Book exist­ed
for a short time, and in 1890
The Auburn Graphic was founded.
It was a poor paper, according to
older residents, and lasted only a
short tirhe. Since then, for nearly
half a century, the newspaper
field has been turned over to the
college students, until the Lee
County Bulletin began publica­tion
two years ago.
First College Paper in 1879
The first college newspaper came
in 1879, more than a quarter of a
century later than the founding
of The Gazette. It was The Au­burn
Cadet, an eight-page, three
column paper with the pages eight
Chemical Films
Three films were presented to
members of the Student Chap­ter
of the American Institute of
Chemical Engineers and other
students at a meeting held last
Monday night in the auditorium
of Ross Chemistry Building.
Those films shown were "The
Moulding of Cast Iron" and
"Carbaloy," presented through
the courtesy of General Electric
Company, and "The Extraction
of Sulphur on the Gulf Coast
by the Frasch Process," from
the library of the Freeport Sul­phur
Company.
This program is one of a
series to be presented by AlCh
E in cooperation with Phi Lam-ba
Upsilon throughout the re­mainder
of the semester. "A
film on the manufacture of Py-rex
Glass will be shown in the
near future," said John Eagan,
President of AIChE.
and a half by 11 inches in size.
Since the student body could not
agree on the man for editor, three
.were chosen. They were J. Cal­laway,
A. J. Mitchell and C. N.
Ousley. Among the interesting ed­itorials
in the copy of The Cadet
preserved at Auburn is one advo­cating
female education.
The Cadet was published month­ly
for nine months, after which
Auburn was again without a pub­lication
for two years. Then fol­lowed
in quick succession from
1881 to 1887, The Society Scroll,
The Auburn Analyzer and The
Auburn Collegian.
~ "~ ~~ ~~ I Staff of College Topics Given
ing the election are progressing, College Topics was published
according to administrative offi- six times in 1891-92. C. L. Hare,
cials, ] present dean of the Auburn School
HE'S AMERICA'S
FRONTIER IN FRA
FD R.s Most-Telephoned Ambassador
WHO KNEW all the answers when that new Army
bomber crashed, with a French Air Ministry
officer in it? Who knows all the answers when the
President uses the transatlantic telephone for feed-box
tips on the latest European crisis? The answer is:
William C. Bullitt, who went from Social Register to
Congressional Record. Read his story in your Post
tonight. First of two articles.
HE ROSE FROM THE RICH
by Jack Alexander
yfournext% jn($ttv is a success
1 WfRE RUINED'
• Hollywood? A genial madhouse. And
Patterson McNutt knows all its cockeyed
angles. In the Post this week he writes an
amusing story of that fabulous land, where
turning out a flop picture can even be en­joyable—
if you can make somebody else
take the rap for it. Watch closely and ob­serve
a new Hollywood feature: the double
double-cross!
One Big Happy Family
A Hollywood Story
by PATTERSON McNUTT
if DETROIT B U Y S A $ 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 ROOKIE. And what hurts, the
Tigers had him earlier on a $5,000 option—and let him go! In One Rookie
They Won't Forget, Paul O'Neil tells you about the 19-year-old wonder boy
who is still a mystery to major-league dopesters.
if MARY ROBERTS RINEHART describes a day in the life of a writer,
and sums it up for you in three words: Writing Is Work.
if W. S O M E R S E T MAUGHAM talks this week about You and Some
More Books. He gives you his favorites—this time among writers of France,
Spain and Russia, whose stories are worth reading.
if AND . . • three lively short stories, The Cicadas Sang, by Stuart Cloete;
Crank Ship, by Richard Howells Watkins, and Mrs. Cupid, by Brooke Hanlon...
•jr P L U S articles, editorials, fun, and cartoons in the Post this week.
WHAT! Civil War
soldiers raiding a
tourist camp!
In 1939? Yes, it can happen here. And all be­cause
of a honey-colored blonde named Angel,
and her vanishing $500 trousseau. Up to then,
Prof. Lysander Markham had been sure the
Civil War was over. Here's a story one part
historical, three parts hysterical.
Custer's Cavalry Rescues Uncle Birch
by R0YCE HOWES
"SUBMARINE MAIL"
Spain's odd war for
stamp-collectors' money
Because freak stamps bring fancy prices,
Spain's Loyalists engineered a neat money-raising
exploit—submarine mail. A writer who
accompanied the first cargo describes that
hazardous trip through Franco's plane and
torpedo-boat blockade.
Stamp War by WERNER KELL
Venezuela
(Continued from Page One)
formerly supplied the largest por­tion
of these articles used in soap
making. The soap factories also
turn out candles for domestic con­sumption.
A good many of the
soap factories which heretofore
have paid attention only to the
cheaper and coarser grades of
laundry soap are now making fair
grades of perfumed toilet soaps,
which are beginning to compete
with the imported brands long
known and used in the country.
Nearly all the furniture used is
made in the country in the small
shops which can toe found in every
city and large town. Domestic
hardwoods and cedar are used by
the native artisans, but upholstery
materials are imported.
Flat glass is imported, but a lo­cal
factory in Caracas is making
taible glassware, crockery, and
porcelain ware for domestic con­sumption
and is competing with
the imported articles.
The manufacture of matches is
a government monopoly, the ex­clusive
concession being held toy
the National Match Factory lo­cated
in Caracas, a British corpo­ration,
which suppies the whole
country. All materials are import­ed
from the United States since
the war.
The Venezuelan tariff is highly
protective, and under it the do­mestic
factories can operate at a
profit in competition with foreign-made,
imported articles, despite
the fact that all machinery and
equipment and most of the raw
materials have to be imported at
great expense. There are certain
articles, such as salt, matches,
shoes, ready-made clothing, laun­dry
soap, imitation butter, coco­nut
oil, etc., the importation of
which is either forbidden or so
heavily taxed as to be commer-oially
impossible.
Prices for domestic consump­tion
are always based on the cost
of the imported article, including
first cost in the United States or
Europe, commissions, freight, im­port
duty, and profit to the im­porter.
During the war years, when
goods were scarce and prices very
high, all domestic manufacturing
plants reaped rich profits, and
there was considerable expansion
and new investment of capital in
manufacturing plants. Two new
cotton mills were started, one new
paper factory, and the glass fac-of
Chemistry and Pharmacy, was
business manager of this sheet,
and one of the editors was Tom
Heflin. Others on the staff were
W. A. Marshall, C. C. Johnson, C.
B. Glenn, R. D. McAllister and L.
P. Hetonan.
College Index came in 1892.
Among the later prominent Ala-baimians
on its staff was William
F. Feagin, chairman of the Board
of Administration during the Mil­ler
adminisrtation. Other staff
members were L. P. Heyinan, W.
•M. Riggs, Charles H. Ross, and N.
B. Marks.
One year after The Index came
the Orange and Blue, the first
lasting college newspaper, which
became the present Plainsman in
1922. '
The Plainsman comes out each
Tuesday and Friday during the
school year. In the summer Au­burn
is still without a college
newspaper. During the year The
Plainsman, normally a four-page,
seven-column publication, makes
no great attempt to cover commu­nity
news but specializes on col­lege
happenings. The paper is dis­tributed
to Auburn residents as
well as college students, and thus
serves the purpose of a community
newspaper.
'Huck Finn' Will
Play at Tiger
For the weekend showing, Sat­urday
and Sunday, the Tiger
Theater offers "The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn," Mark
Twain's greatest character. Mickey
Rooney, local box office favorite,
plays the title role.
Twain's story comes to the
screen with all the drama, humor,
fidelity and humaneness it is pos­sible
for the film medium to
achieve.
Hugo Butler, a keen student of
Twain, adapted the story, which
was filmed, mostly along the banks
of the Sacremento River in spots
once visited by Mark Twain him­self
when he wrote "The Jumping
Frog," and' remarked about the
close scenic similarity to his be­loved
Mississippi.
"The Adventures of Huckleber­ry
Finn" was adapted as a screen
play directly from the author's
pages. No effort was made to
modernize or inject additional
elements because Twain's story
is such an established classic.
"The Adventures of Huckleber­ry
Finn" tells the story of the
wayward youth who, taken in by
the Widow Curtiss, runs away
rather than have her blackmail­ed
by his dissolute father. His
troubles in aiding the escape of
Jim, the Negro slave, and his hu­morous
experiences with "The
King" and "The Duke," when the
two gamblers are thrown off a
river boat, are all there just as
you read them in the book.
The picture is directed by
Richard Thorpe of Metro Gold-wyn
Mayer.
LOST—-Jeweled Phi Delta Theta
pin on main campus between Ti­ger
Theater and Phi House. Re­ward.
Fred Agricola. Phi House,
Phone 138.
SAT AND SUN
tory. The stock of these and the
old companies increased greatly in
value, and there was considerable
market speculation in these se­curities.
However, the drop in
prices toward the latter part of
1920 brought about a decrease in
the value of these securities, and
domestic plants had to cut prices
in accordance with the new price
levels of imported goods.
Real Lack of Capital
There is a real lack of capital in
the country for manufacturing;
labor is inefficient and untrained,
there is a lack of technical and
practical skill, raw materials are
taxed; and fuel is expensive, as
well as electric power, although
this latter is capable of great de­velopment.
And last, but not
least, the market is a limited one,
the purchasing power of the peo­ple
being very low. In view of
the economic situation that follow­ed
the period of readjustment in
1920, it is very doubtful whether
there will toe any great expansion
in manufacturing for several
years to come.
With respect to the develop­ment
of new raw materials which
involve agricultural labor, such as
the production of jute for bagging,
there is not a sufficient surplus
of cheap labor in the country dis­tricts;
labor is being attracted
more and more to the larger
towns and cities, preferring the
living conditions there. There un­doubtedly
exists an opportunity
for foreign capital commanding
the required technical and prac­tical
knowledge for the manufac­ture
of fine leathers for shoe mak­ing,
shirts and collars for men's
wear, and a good line of toilet
soaps, face powder, arid other toi­let
articles. Considerable diffi­culty
has always been encounter­ed
in the introduction on the
market of any new domestic ar­ticle
on account of the long ac­quaintance
of the people with
imported goods, which they have
come to know and recognize by
the brands and names. Frequent
poor imitations of many well-known
brands have also contri­buted
to the distrust of home­made
goods.
This Boy Has
WontheHeait
of America!
Now Mickey's here
in his greatest hit!
Wjckty
Rooney
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of our Time—one of the Gay­est
Romances of All Time.
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In
Shakespeare's Immortal
Comedy
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