1937-11-19 The Auburn Plainsman

              THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN
VOL. LXI Z-I
Eleanor Wright Is
Chosen Sponsor
For Events
Hare, Carson, Handley Are
Leaders Among Nineteen
Other Candidates
Eleanor Wright, of Dothan, was
elected Miss Homecoming in a re­cent
student election conducted by
ODK and the A club. She will be
the official sponsor of all events
of the weekend.
Of the nineteen other co-eds
nominated in the election, Suzelle
Hare, Edith Cecil Carson, and Jane
Handley followed closely behind
the winner. A total of 600 votes
were cast in the balloting which
took place Tuesday.
Miss Wright is a junior in the
School of Education. Before com­ing
to Auburn she attended the
Dothan High School -where she
was elected Miss Dothan. She was
a sponsor at the A Club Phi Delta
Kappa dance in Montgomery aft­er
the Birmingham Southern game
this year.
As there is no home game this
season, this weekend has been set
aside as Homecoming. The events
that Miss Wright will sponsor are
the ODK bonfire, the A Club dance
the Auburn-Georgia game, and
the dance in Columbus after the
game. She will be officially pre­sented
tonight at the dance in the
gym.
D. H. Clark Leads
In Placement Tests
D. H. Clark of Albertville led
the freshmen in scoring the high­est
percentage in the English
placement tests given to all fresh­men
at the opening of school. He
scored 72 per cent, leading Jack
Loeb of Montgomery and Robert
Dovison of. Opelika by one per
cent. This information was re­leased
from the office of Dr. J. R.
Rutland, head of the English De­partment.
Richard White, Atlanta, William
L. Hughes, Montgomery, and
Frank Samf ord, Birmingham, came
next with a score of 70.
Seventh in the list was Jack H.
Vickers of Birmingham with a
score of 69.
The remainder of the list is as
follows: Warren Darty, 68; Jake
Nichols, 67; Arnold Sprague and
Marguerite Murphy, 66; R. N.
Campbell,, Orrin Brown, and Wat­son
Camp, 64. Placing next with
63 per cent was George Morrison,
Corry Oakes, John Gordon, Eliza­beth
Perry, Frances Rowe, Wilder
Crump, and Wilbur Davenport. Ed
Paul, James W. Powers, and C.
Herndon McGehee completed the
list of twenty-five with an aver­age
of 62 per cent.
These scores were based on an
average of the per cent of correct
answers given on the placement
tests,-Dr. Rutland said.
James Has Exhibit
In Rhode Island
Prof. Alfred James, instructor
in applied art, who is now ex­hibiting
some of his paintings in
Cranston, R. I.,' with a group of
five other painters, has received
recognition in the art columns of
The Providence Journal.
Frederick Sisson, art editor of
the Journal and well known New
England painter, said last week:
"Among the group of paintings
exhibited by Alfred James, is the
portrait of his grandmother that
has been seen in other shows, and
several colorful still-life canvases.
In the work shown here by James,
it is interesting to note a consid­erable
difference in technical ap­proach,
indicating that different
periods of his development are
shown."
In the exhibit, a feature of Art
Week, Professor James was re­presented
by one portrait, one ma­rine,
two landscapes, and two still-lifes.
Every N. Y. A. student is re­quired
to fill out a registration
card for the National Unemploy­ment
Census. These cards can be
secured at the local postoffice.
They must be filled out and mail­ed
before midnight, November 20.
AUBURN, ALABAMA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1937. NUMBER 21
"Miss Homecoming"
Miss Eleanor Croft Wright, Dothan, was elected Miss Homecoming
in a campus-wide election held recently. She wUl be official sponsor
of the "A" Club dance tonight and of the Auburn-Georgia football
game that is to be held in the Columbus Memorial Stadium tomorrow
afternoon.
Crack Company Will
Not Drill At Game
George Hairston, commander of
Auburn's newly formed "crack
company," announced yesterday
that the organization would not
parade at the Gorgia game, as had
originally been scheduled.
Unfortunately, weather condi­tions
during the past two weeks
have greatly hampered drill,/and
Hairston stated that considering
this limited parctice he did not
feel a creditable showing could
be made.
The new company consists of
three platoons of four full squads
each, or a total of 102 men, count­ing
guides, platoon commanders,
and the battery commander. In
charge of platoons are David Cox,
Chandler Jordan, and Armstead
Harper.
Practices have been held five
days per week at five o'clock,
when the weather permitted, but it
is planned in the future to shorten
this routine to three sessions each
week.
- The company is modeled some­what
on demon's famous "Senior
Platoon." It will stage various ex­hibitions
during the year includ­ing
-drills for the benefit of all
R. O. T. C. cadets.
The organization is under the
personal supervision of Colonel
Wallace and the other members of
the faculty of the R. O. T. C. de­partment.
Plans are to make it a
permanent feature at A. P. I.
Hairston also announced that
the Company would have no more
exercises before the Thanksgiving
holidays. But the group will have
a meeting the first Tuesday night
following the holidays, the pur­pose
being to work out a more
efficient organization and to lay
plans for future exercises.
Tau Epsilon Phi Initiates
Maurice Bloch Next Week
Maurice Bloch of Selma, presi­dent
of the Alumni Association,
will be initiated into honorary
membership of Tau Epsilon Phi,
social fraternity, during Thanks­giving,
according to officers of the
chapter here.
National officers of Tau Epsilon
Phi are conferring this honor on
Mr* Bloch. The initiation ceremony
will take place in Atlanta. Memb­ers
of the local chapter, as well
as national officers and represen­tatives
of other chapters, will be
present. '
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Five Aero Students
Make Solo Flights
Among the first group of stu­dent
flyers soloed by the Auburn
Aero Club this year are included
the following: Sterling Graydon,
Edgefield, S. C ; Robert Mundhenk,
Auburn; Bill Callaway, Florence;
Lee. Holoway, Montgomery, and
George Jefferies, Jacksonville, Fla.
This group brings the total num­ber
of students soloed by the
aero club in the past year to over
thirty-five. Each of the above
named pilots are now piling up
their flying hours for their pri­vate
pilots license, the hour re­quirements
of which have been re­duced
under the new Department
of Commerce regulations, which
went into effect on November
first. Several of the club's old
members have become eligible for
licenses under the new rulings
and are planning to take their
tests at the first opportunity.
The club also wishes to announce
that Lt. B. M. Cornell of the Aero­nautical
Engineering department
has become affiliated with the or­ganization
as an adviser and in­structor.
Before retiring from the
Navy, Lt. Cornell was a flight
commander in the Naval Air
Force, and has a wide reputation
as an expert flyer.
Anyone desiring to take flight
instruction is invited to investi­gate
the clubs facilities and meth­ods
of instruction. There are no
initiation fees or dues and no
charge for instruction. The only
charges are for the rental of the
plane for actual flying time, these
rates thus being considerably low­er
than those charged by regular
commercial operators.
Regional Meeting Is- Held For
Curriculum Study
The regional meeting for cur­riculum
study was held Wednes­day
in Langdon Hall under the
supervision of Dr. W. Morrison
McCall, of the State Department
of Education, Montgomery. The
principal speaker at the meeting
was Dr. Harry Harap, professor
of Education, George Peabody Col­lege
for Teachers, Nashville. Ten­nessee.
Dean Zebulon Judd opened the
program with a short welcoming
address to the visiting teachers,
superintendents and principals
from the twenty-five counties in
the surrounding territory. He also
introduced the principal speaker.
The meeting was well attended.
Plainsman Conduct
Creative Writing
Contest Soon
Three Prizes To Be Given
To Best Contributions By
Campus Writers
The editors of the Plainsman
announced that the paper will
conduct a literary contest in the
near future. This action was
prompted by the amount of in­terest
that has been shown hTcre-ative
writing by many individuals
over the campus. The contest will
be "open to any student who is en­rolled
in school.
Three first prizes will be given,
though their exact nature has not
yet been definitely decided upon.
They will be announced at an ear­ly
date. One first prize will go for
the best short story, which is to
be of about 1,000 words, selected
by the judges. Honorable mention
will be given for the two next
best submitted.
One first prize will be given for
the best essay submitted byHhe
contestants. These essays may be
of any type, which include per­sonal,
factual, interpertive, humor­ous,
or any kind that may be de­vised
by the author. There will
also be given honorable mention
to the next two best essays.
The other first prize will be
offered for the best piece of poet­ry
submitted. As in the case of the
essays, any type may be used for
verse form. This group •will be al­lowed
four honorable mentions.
Prof. J. R. Rutland, head of the
English department, and Profs.
Henry J. Moss and C. P. Weaver,
instructors in composition and
creative writing, will be asked to
act in the capacity of judges of the
contest.
The contest .begins on the date
of this publication and will term­inate
December 17, this being on
Wednesday before school is ex­cused
for the Christmas holidays.
The material which will have been
adjudged worthy of prizes and
suitable for publication will be
published immediately following
the holidays in the regular issues
Qf the Plainsman.
This action was brought about
I rtly because of the initiated in­terest
which has been shown in
creative writing and partly due to
the wishes of the English depart­ment
that such a chance be given
to those students who are inter­ested
in such literary attempts.
They believe that it will act as a
stimulus for interest in English
composition.
Full details will be given in the
next issue of the Plainsman. As
many manuscripts may be sub­mitted
as it is desired, and they
will be brought to the Plainsman
office and given to the editor who
will in turn give them to the judges
for. their consideration. All who
are interested in writing and in
this contest are urged to begin
work at once upon the material
they plan to submit.
A. I. E. E. Group Set
Demonstration
Speaking before a large crowd
of students and interested specta­tors,
Dr. Philips Thomas, research
engineer with the Westinghouse
Electric and Manufacturing Co.,
gave a demonstration lecture Wed­nesday
night at 7:00 p. m. in Lang­don
Hall.
Among the interesting electri­cal
phenomena demonstrated by
Dr. Thomas were such experi­ments
as the removal of particles
of foreign material from the air
electrostatically, thereby render'
ing the air almost 100 per cent
pure; demonstration of a strobo­scope
which can stop motion and
apparently make water run back­wards
in a faucett, demonstration
of a breath relay which enables
the lecturer to literally "blowout"
an electric light and to relight
it by means of a lighted match;
an explanation of an infra-red
ray tube which is invisible to the
eye but is sensitive to a photo­graphic
plate.
Dr. Thmas' lecture was spon­sored
by the Auburn Chapter of
the American Institute of Electri­cal
Engineers.
Tigers Set For Win Over Georgia;
Bonfire Will Be Held Tonight
Annual Pep Rally Is
Held On Freshman
Football Field
Flames and smoke will leap
high tonight "as a colossal bonfire
on the Rat Football Field burns
in effigy the red and black Bull­dog
of the University of Georgia.
Beginning at 6:30 this evening,
O. D. K. will stage its annual cel­ebration
preceding the traditional-clash
between Auburn and Geor­gia.
Plans have been underway
for several weeks to make it the
biggest of its kind.
Provisions have been made for
the erection of bleachers and a
public address system on the Rai
Field. Freshmen are asked to scour
the town for all obtainable lumb­er
or wood of any kind to help re­duce
the Bulldog to ashes."
Guests at the bonfire and mass
meeting will include Governor
Bibb Graves, Dr. Duncan, Mau­rice
I. Bloch, president of the Au­burn
Alumni Association; Hay-good
Paterson, sheriff of Mont­gomery
County, Dr. Geofge Wheel­er,
prominent Montgomerian; Head
Coach Jack Meagher; Dean George
Petrie, coach of the Tiger team
which first met Georgia back in
1892; and former Auburn cheer­leaders
Bill Ham and Bill Lee.
Miss "Eleanor Wright, newly
elected Miss Homecoming of 1937,
will be presented to students and
the distinguished group of visitors.
Miss Wright will lead the "A"
Club—O. D. K. dance in Alumni
Gymnasium tonight and will spon­sor
the Auburn-Georgia grid con­test
tomorrow.
Present also at the bonfire will
be the Auburn Band and the
squad of A. P. I. cheerleaders un­der
the direction of head cheer­leader
Jack Adams.
Auburn students will "take"
Columbus Saturday in the an­nual
pre-game parade through
the downtown section. The pa­rade
will begin at the Railway
station when the train arrives
at 11:00 and end at a mass meet­ing
around the big cannon. Im­mediately
after the arrival of
the special train and the Auburn
Band all students are requested
to form and take part in the
march.
As it Is the last parade of the
year Adams urges that the stu­dents
cooperate in making it the
biggest of the season. The cheer-leading
staff of Charlie O'Reil-ley,
Flash Flowers, Chick Hatch­er,
June Tooker, and Doris
Green will be on hand to lead
the ever loyal band. "We will
show Georgia that we still have
the Auburn Spirit in a big way,"
states Adams.
Practice House Renovated By
Home Economics Girls
The Practice House for home
economic students, under the di­rection
of Miss Dana Gatchell and
Miss Mattie Joe Barber, has taken
on new life. The rooms are no
longer drab and unattractive. The
furniture has been rearranged, new
chairs have been added, new cur­tains
have replaced the old ones,
and as a result the building stands
out in smartness and style.
Girls perform every duty of
household management while they
are in training there. With an al­lowance
of fifty cents a day per
person, they plan and serve de­licious
meals that are in keeping
with dietary requirements and
monetary limitations.
The budgeting of time, money,
and energy, and the interest dis­played
by the students make the
Practice House an ideal home.
t
Arch rivals in high school, Dutch
Heath, a senior, and Charlie Hayn-sworth,
a sophomore, are now
scrapping for the No. 1 fullback
spot on Auburn's 1937 varsity
football club. Heath is a graduate
of Phillips High School in Bir­mingham
and Haynsworth of
Ramsay Tech in. the same city.
Tx Speaker
Third of a series of lectures by
prominent Y. M. C. A. officials
who will address Auburn students
this month is William McKee, At­lanta,
Ga., Field Secretary for the
Southern Region. Mr. McKee will
speak Monday evening at 7 p. m.
in Student Hall, according to Clyde
W. Jones, of Daleville, president
of the Auburn Y. M. C. A. chapt­er.
Charlie Gray, secretary of the
Birmingham Y. M. C. A. was the
speaker this week on Monday
evening.
'A'Club Features
Two Gala Events
The A club will hold its an­nual
Homecoming dance at the
gymnasium tonight after the mass
meeting is over. The Auburn
Knights have been engaged to play
for the affair, which has been con­sidered
one of the best dances of
the year in the past.
Miss Homecoming will be offi­cially
presented at the dance.
There will be two A Club lead-outs
and three no-breaks during
the course of the' evening. The
dance will begin at nine-thirty
o'clock and end at one o'clock.
Tomorrow night in Columbus,
the A club and Cotillion Club of
Columbus will feature a dance at
the Exhibitors Hall. The Auburn
Knights will also play for that
dance. It will begin at nine o'clock.
The post-game in Columbus is al­so
a successful annual affair.
Tedder Is Elected To
Head Jr. A. V. M. A.
At the regular meeting Wednes­day
night of the Junior A. V. M. A.
Woodrow Tedder, Hartsville, S. C.
was elected president lor the
coming semester.
This organization is a junior
order of the American Veterinary
Medical Association and is com­posed
of the Veterinary Students,
having some 112 members. T^here
are meetings held each Wednes­day
night, at which time contag­ious
diseases, building of the Vet­erinary
profession, etc., are dis­cussed.
TJedder will be thei student
speaker for the Junior A. V. M. A.
at the regular Short Course Ban­quet
being held sometime during
the latter part of February.
Francis Garrett, . Little Rock,
Ark., was elected Vice-president
and H. Sutherland, Kinston, Ala.,
Sargent-at-arms.
NOTICE
The Auburn chapter of Kappa
Delta Pi, national educational fra­ternity,
will meet in Samf ord Hall
Monday night for its regular meet­ing.
The principal speaker will
be Prof! E. B. Smith, head of the
Physical Education Department,
who will discuss "The Relation­ship
of Physical Education to the
College."
All Kadelphians are urged to
attend and bring a guest.
Tigers, Bulldogs To
Meet Forty-Second
Time Saturday
One of the oldest and closest
grid feuds in the South will be
renewed tomorrow afternoon at
Columbus when the Auburn Tig­ers
and the Georgia Bulldogs meet
in their 42 battle before a cap­acity
crowd.
The series began back in 1892,
Georgia playing her first game
against Auburn, and since that
year the Tigers and Bulldogs have
met on the gridiron every sea­son
with the exception of four
times. Of the 41 games played,
Georgia has won 19, Auburn 18,
and four have been scoreless ties.
Ttie Bulldogs have scored 371
points to the Tiger's 361.
PROBABLE LINEUP
AUBURN
Harrison
Russell
Sivell
Antley (C) ...
Howell
Holman
Whatley
Walker
Kelly
Fenton
Heath
T.E
L T
LG
. C
RG
- RT
RE
QB.
LH
RH
FB .
GEORGIA
.... Maffett
Davis
Tinsley
Milner
Johnson
Haygood
Gillespie
_ Hartman(C)
Mims
Cate
_ F. Fordham
Although playing a "suicide"
schedule, Auburn boasts of a great
season record to date, with wins
over Birmingham-Southern, Mis­sissippi
State, Georgia Tech, Ten­nessee,
and ties with Tulane and
Villanova, with only two defeats
marring their record, Rice and
L. S. U. Therefore, for probably
the first time this year, the Plains- .
men will enter the game as fav­orites.
The Bengals received numerous
hard knocks in the bruising con­flict
with L. S. U. last Saturday
and as a result did not launch
their work for Georgia in top
physical shape, but Trainer Wil­bur
Hutsell expects to have his
charges in good condition for to­morrow's
game.
Inclement weather hampered the
Tigers somewhat in their practice
this week, but Coach Jack Meagh-,
er has been driving his proteges
along at a fairly brisk pace, as
he realizes that the team must
play head-up ball to beat Georgia,
a team that has improved con­siderably.
Jimmie Fenton and
Garth Thorpe continued to spend
considerable time booting field
goals.
It is not probable that Coach
Meagher will make any changes
in the powerful front that has
Harrison and Whatley at ends,
Russell and Holman at tackles,
Sivell and Howell at guards and
Capt. Antley at center for the
hard struggle with Georgia. The
above mentioned will receive
plenty of help from such potent
players as McKissick, Burford,
Wolff, Nichols, Gillam, Burns,
Thorpe, and Morgan, who will re­main
right at the heels of their
rivals.
However, the left halfback and
fullback posts are still wide open,
even at this stage of the season
and not until the opening whistle
will' the starters in these two
positions be known for sure. The
left halfback assignment will be
given to one of the trio that in­cludes
Speck Kelly, Billy Hitch­cock
and George Kenmore, all
three of which have opened two
-or more games this year.
Priority at fullback has been
held all season by Dutch Heath,
but his first replacement, Pelham
Sitz, has been doing well and
stands a fine chance of opening
against Georgia. Hard and pro­ficient
running of Sitz was a fea­ture
of Auburn's attack against
L. S. U. and, he has scored 24
points this year to become his
team's second high scorer. He has
plenty of power and is rapidly
gaining experience that makes him
invaluable.
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THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19,1937.
The Auburn Plainsman
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Freedom Of Speech
Seattle, Washington has now joined the
ranks of cities which choose to make spec­tacles
of themselves by refusing the right
of freedom of speech. The narrow view of
these cities is doing the radical faction in
the United States much more good than
harm.
"Recently a Communist was scheduled to
speak at a meeting in Seattle; the Amer­ican
Legion planned to break up the meet­ing.
The p. v'ce, instead of telling the Leg­ion
to mind its own business, refused to
allow the Communist to speak—because
there might have been bloodshed when
the Legionnaires invaded the meeting, a
meeting which they had no authority in
the world to disperse.
Understand, The Plainsman does not
defend Communism, nor does it have any
quarrel with the American Legion, which
is a fine organization; but we do defend
the right of freedom of speech. By all con­stitutional
rights, the Communist should
have been allowed to make his speech,
and instead of running him out of town
the police should have given him protec­tion
from interference by the American
.Legion or anyone else.
Give a man enough rope and he will
hang himself. Give a Communist enough
rope and he will lasso, rope, hogtie, and
hang himself. Earl Browder, head of the
Communist Party in America, proved that
when he spoke over the radio last winter.
England has no more, if as much, Com­munism
as the United States. The British
have learned how to handle the Commu­nists.
They furnish them with a place to
speak and then go by and laugh at what
they say. It would be far better for Amer­ican
cities, officials, and organizations to
allow radicals to have their say and make
fools of themselves rather than to make
martyrs of them by the unlawful taking
away of their constitutional priviliges.
The public is far more reluctant to ac­cept
a jackass than a martyr.
Sporting Courtesy
Following Auburn's football team while
away, one hears a great deal of comment
about the courteous showings the boys
make off the field.
One frequently hears how gentlemanly
the Auburn men act in the hotels and on
the streets. They have established a re­putation
for being well mannered and de­serving
of the title "Southern gentleman."
The personal quality of Auburn's ath­letic
men is-largely attributable to the fact
that we have not resorted to the wholesale
importation of players, as so many Ameri­can
colleges and universities have.
Auburn is one of the few first rate foot­ball
teams that doesn't build its football
teams around bullies that have been pick­ed
up at the wharf or the steel mill.
The calibre of our athletic men. is far
above the average, in fact, few can com­pare.
Our men are of a homogeneous na­ture
and are generally good mixers on the
campus. We have a fine crop of athletes
and should keep up our standards.
What College Means
Looking beyond the horizon we wonder
what our college education will mean to
us. What does the future hold for any
young woman preparing for a profession
other than the obvious "job"? What pat­terns
of life are we styling for ourselves
during our four years in college?
In neat files our records credit us with
hours of history, government, and social
problems. But when our hour comes to
vote, will we be alert, informed citizens
at the polls, or will we sacrifice through
negligence and indifference the privilege
of woman sufferage for which our moth­ers
and grandmothers fought fifty-seven
years to make possible?
Will our college education substantiate
a united womanhood platform for peace,
or will we send our husbands and sons off
to bloody encounters? Does college instill
within us a reverence for the Armistice, or
will that too be lost?
Will happy, well-managed homes be the
result of our education in psychology, child
development and family problems?
From our freshman to junior years, pro­fessors
declare, our personality and abili­ties
undergo the most changes. Our atti­tudes
and concepts grow with new con­tacts,
theories, and environment. We are
thrown largely upon our own judgment
in enterprise and personal contact.
But education does not end with col­lege.
College is merely a tool to be used ob­jectively
and successfully or to rust and
mould in a stagnant mind. We must never
cease to be aware of our meager knowledge -
in order that we may continue to grow
after college.
- College trains us to enjoy vibrant and
profitable lives. Will your college educa­tion
mean this to you?—Sphinx
A False Doctrine
There is no such thing as college life.
This is life in college. There is no such
thing as college ethics or college morals.
There are ethics and morals in college.
Right is right; wrong is wrong; stupid and
futile thinking is just the .same in college
and out of college . . . Students are espec­ially
exposed to the«"snare of preparation,"
the fallacy of forever getting ready. It is
commonplace for speakers to tell students
they are getting ready for life, that soon
they Will leave school and enter upon real
life. This is false doctrine, the bane of much
of our educational activity.—Pres. Eugene
A. Gilmore, University of Iowa.
Creative Writing
Several times this year it has been stated
that this paper would give careful con­sideration
to all contributions of creative
matter. To date only a few poems have
been submitted. The majority of these have
been printed without censor in an effort to
encourage the writers. The amount of ma­terial
to select meritorious contributions
from has been disheartening to the editors.
In one last drive it is our request that stu­dents
submit any creative matter for pub­lication.
Our purpose in printing these contribu­tions
is the encouragement of ertswhile
writers and an effort to induce students
to put their minds to work. It is a sad
state of affairs if the material already sub­mitted
is the only such material in Auburn.
If such is the case, it may be assumed that
Auburn students merely plod along doing
the things required of them, leaving their
thoughts until later.
Let it be understood that all contribu­tions
have not and will not be printed un­less
they merit it. Reasons for rejection
of stories, poems, articles, and other matter
will be given to authors calling by the of­fice.
We will attempt in our small way to
assist such writers in improving their
work. We ask that creative writing be giv­en
consideration and manuscripts be sub­mitted.
It is possible that later in the year
a contest will be conducted by this paper
to further encourage writing.
PLAINSMAN FORUM - Voice of the Students N e w s a n d V i e ws
Editor, .
The Auburn Plainsman
Dear Sir:
Obviously, one H. M. V. in his city of "Live
and let live" in the Wednesday issue of the
Plainsman received a richly deserved smack
in the puss for acting like a high school kid
away from home for the first time. Now he
is pleading that he and a small minority like
him be allowed to travel their sub-adolescent
way in demonstration of what he and they
believe to be the Auburn Spirit.
Only an incredibly asinine individual could
remain in Auburn for 11 weeks and arrive at
the conclusion that the Auburn Spirit con­stitutes
all manner of hell-raising, rowdyism,
sometimes vandalism and drunkeness brought
about by one quart of guzzling, superimposed
upon a stomach and brain of minature ca­pacity.
The Auburn Spirit has as its foundation a
loyalty for Auburn and everything that goes
with Auburn. This loyalty shows itself in a
pride for Auburn and a careful regard for its
good name. Anything which will reflect to the
discredit of Auburn is certainly not in the
Auburn Spirit and when an Auburn student so
conducts himself that he becomes the center
of attention through some childish or unin­telligent
act he is doing Auburn no good nor
You and Who?
By THE DIRTY TWO
Divorce—the first rift between the former
pair that made up the Dirty Two.
Famous Last Words—by Sid Mathews,
"What do you think I brought you here for . .
to look at the pictures?"
Mystery—the relation between George Hair-ston,
the Torch Singer, and Jack Dunlap.
Blush—the flood of red that crept over
Pugh's face when she read a telegram in the
drafting room.
Handkerchief—the accouterment needed by
Fletcher and Young who hang around the en­gineering
war office. -Also, Bailey.
Muggin—the thing Porky Milam and Sea­shore
Lennep shrould quit doing on the main
drag.
Soothing—the music of "Once in a while"
to Giggle Jones' ears.
Flutter—the movement of O. D. Gissen-daner's
heart when he lampf a certain blonde.
Query—what became of the Handley af­fair?
Or did it?
Needed—more bridal suites at certain fra­ternities
in town.
Hush—the hurry of the co-eds when they
find out that Chile Allen is a play boy. Line
forms to the right.
String—the line that Lulu tows Dallas
Benton along with.
Pixilated—the condition that makes June
Gait continually twist her hair in class.
Diogon—the unsightly animal that fre­quents
the campus on mornings of the week­end.
Appreciation—the attitude of Bismark in
giving a fireplug to his imported halucination.
Dirt—the stuff that is censored from this
column every week because it is unbecom­ing
of Auburn students.
Warning—the notice that this column
henceforth be the uncensored record of do­ings
in and around the campus. Be good or
your name will appear in print.
Contribution—a note that if Jack Dunlop
will be at Unk's Friday at 10 p. m. he will get
important information from Madame X.
Surprising—The way some of our co-eds,
prominent and unprominent, still try to pull
things, that is, pull things over their best boy
friend's head and be able to not get away
with it.
Perplexing—Just what is to be done about
above alluded-to co-eds. Are they capable of
taking their just deserts and would it be
"gentlemanly," so-call^J, -to administer such.
Sympathetic—That being what, is, needed
by-some of our "has been" campus lights
who are now only dark splotches on a bright
fairway towards the present shining filles.
Congratulations—That being the next best
thing one could say to Oliver Oliver of the
Pi K A's in such an instance upon his now
getting along smoothly with his romance.
Hadn't noticed whether he had lost another
pen or not.
is he helping himself if he only had stnse
enough to realize it. The ability of the aver­age
Auburn student to get a job after he has
finished school depends largely upon the
opinion a prospective employer may have of
the school. In this respect, the good name of
the school and its students is a priceless
asset. Loyalty to the school and its football
team can be very thoroughly demonstrated
through organized cheering. Hell-raising on
the city streets has no psychological effect in
spurring the team on and is simply wasted
effort. Drunkeness is a visual sign of weakness
put out in the open where all can see that he
is a man who cannot control himself or his
impulses and furthermore that he lacks the
physical restraint to curb his less intelligent
instincts. A good Auburn man prides himself
in his'ability to take it and not show it and
he is ashamed of his fellows who only succeed
in making asses of themselves.
The Auburn Spirit, then, is a pride and
loyalty to Auburn that makes the man pos­sessing
It jealous of anything which may re­flect
to the discredit of his school and which
makes him want to see and help Auburn pro­gress
in every way but not to be bogged down
by the childish impulses of some of its "stu­dents"
who have so much of the Spirit that
excused games constitute a holiday to be spent
at home with the folks or the girl friend in­stead
of at the game or those to whom a foot­ball
.game is simply an excuse to blow off
steam. Said steam probably accumulated be­cause
the individual was too damned lazy to
let it off in pursuing his studies or because
someone stopped him from howling like wild
Indian in the picture show.
Sincerely yours,
Preacher Jones
Talk About The Town
by JACK STEPPE
Perhaps many of you don't read the sports
pages but the B'ham Post of a day or two
back goes into quite a discussion of the merits
Df the Pitt and Bama teams as Rose Bowl
prospects. We have already said enough
about that but what interested us was a line
or two about the schedule played each year
by Auburn. Adding up, the ratings of the
teams played as used in the Williamson sys­tem,
Auburn's total is well above all the other
teams in the Southern conference and is only
closely pressed by Notre Dame. Alabama, in-cidentially,
is far down on the list—And we
and Mr. X agree.this week except for the
fact that we think he is a bit conservative
this time. We shall see.
And in answer to the compliant that sport
talk doesn't belong in here or on the edi­torial
page we answer "Why not? Football is
the main topic of conversation at this time
of the year and a little more discussion on it
surely won't do any harm.^
A bouquet—to Ye Eds for the two edi­torials
in Wednesday's edition. The childish
actions of a great many students are mainly
responsible for the general idea that college
students are a bunch of playboys with too
little to do and too much time to do it in.
The case referred to is a particular example,
and while Lost Horizon may have been be­yond
the comprehension of a few of the more
addle brained they might have at least tried
to get something out of it, or at least kept
their mouths shut. There- is a time and place
for everything and the theatre is no place to
whoop and holler. We have plenty of wide
open spaces hereabouts for those who feel they
must exercise their vocal chords.
The Dirty Two come back—and their stuff
is still as rank as ever but that which appears
in print is mild compared to some of the
tripe turned in. Fortunately, Ye Eds have at
least a mild sense of dignity and refuse to
print some of it. We still don't know who the
authors are, but if the stuff they write is
really an indication of their mental level we
would suggest that they move over and give
the pigs a little more room.
Anyone who thinks that touch football is a
sissy game should take the trouble to add up
the injuries gotten so far this fall. The band­ages
and liniment Used would almost be
enough to keep a warring army in medical
supplies. The list of injuries run from a brok­en
leg and internal injuries down to broken
fingernails. But ain't it fun ! ! ! !
Having no game in Auburn this year, the
Georgia game has been designated as the
Homecoming fracas. The "A" Club and ODK
are sponsoring the bon-fire and dance to be
held tonight. They also avow that Miss Home­coming
will be unveiled at the jook this even­ing,
but we still maintain that all this "Miss"
business is silly as the devil.
BY JOHN GODBOLD
THIS TIME: CONGRESS CON­VENES;
ANTI-LYNCHING; CHINA
TOTTERS; THE GULLIBLE SOUTH;
THAT CRACK UNIT.
THE EYES of the nation rest on the special
session of Congress now in progress, or at
least meeting, in Washington. The most im­portant
measures which will face the session
will concern wages and hours, crop control,
child labor, and federal reorganization.
The wages and hours bill, which has already
passed the Senate awaits action of the House,
will certainly pass. Some method of crop con­trol,
possibly an A. A. A. under another name,
will pass. The child labor and federal reorgan­ization
measures are doubtful.
The hope for a successful special session
depends upon whether the useless hagglings
and bickering which characterized the last
regular session is present or not. And already
the name-calling and quarreling has started.
WE NOMINATE for oblivion the anti-lynching
bill which has already passed the
Senate and is now on the House slate for
the special session. The bill is a useless, trou­ble-
making legislative act which will not do
the slightest good and will arouse the ire and
disgust of the people of the South. There
should be no defense for a lynch mob nor for
a sheriff who does not attempt to stop a lynch­ing,
but federal legislation is not the way to
punish those at fault.
A group of Southern senators have already
been filibustering against the bill. Senator
Tom Connally of Texas has kept the Senate
roaring by his charges against Senator Wag­ner
of New York, author of the bill. Connally
charges Wagner to clean up the gang "lynch-ings"
in New York before he brings his
"Witch-burning" tactics to the South. And in
that, Connally has the truth of the matter. A
filibuser is a nasty and an expensive method
of killing a bill, but in this case, we say fili­buster
until the opposition capitulates.
CHINESE RESISTANCE to the Japanese
forces is tottering on its last legs. When
Nanking falls, Japan will have gained a foot­hold
upon China that may never be relin­quished.
For years, Chiang Kai-Shek, China's politi­cal
savior, subtly built up his nation's de­fenses,
accepting insults from Japan by simp­ly
turning the other cheek. It Was his hope
to someday build up his Chinese military
strength to a point where he could refuse to
accept Japanese demands and back up his re­fusal.
However, it appears that Chiang Kai-
Shek made an error which he may never
have a chance to remedy—he called the hand
of Japan too soon.
THE SOUTHERN States badly need indus­try
to balance the predominance of agricul­ture
here. But southern leaders are now see­ing
that perhaps they have been over anxious
for they have lured to the South, not many
of the reliable and well-known manufactur­ers,
but hundreds of shoddy, fly-by-night
companies. Driven out of other regions of the
country by higher wage standards, they have
come to the South where' they have been wel­comed
with open arms.
Cities have built factories for them, granted
them exemption from taxes, and given them
land, all because of the South's worship of
anything that has the name "industry" at­tached
to it.
Several Southern cities have even had
buildings erected by WPA and other gov­ernment
funds, to hand over to ^Foreign" in­dustrialists
if they will come South. So the
industrialists have come South, and their mi­gration
has become a second carpetbagger
movement. They have brought with them
nothing except the name "industrialist." When
the Southern cities awake to the fact that an
$8 to $10 a week wage scale is doing their
communities more harm than good, they will
send the manufacturers away— maybe. Left
on the hands of the cities, are expensive build­ings
often built at city expense or covered by
city mortgages. If the manufacturers are not
forced to leave, they merely continue their
careers Of money-making and. exploitation of
Southern labor.
Notable in fighting the invasion of cheap
industry and encouraging the establishment
of worthwhile industry has been the work of
the Southern Policy Committee. The practical
effects of its work may not be fully realized
for many years, but it is working hard for
excellent principles.
OLD MAN WEATHER and a few other
obstacles' spoiled chances of Auburn's "crack
unit" putting on a drill at the Auburn-Georgia
game. The new organization just didn't have
enough practice drill to put on an exhibition
which would be up to Auburn standards.
However, now is the time to begin whipping
the group into shape for next year's games and
for any other occasions when it is called for.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19; 1937. THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
SPORTS
BILL TROUP, Editor
CONTRIBUTORS
L.E. Foster
Roy Powell
Huey Ford
J. B. Thomas
Soph Guard
Davis Leads High
Scorers In S. E.C.
Bob Davis of Kentucky still
leads the touchdown parade of the
S. E. C. though he did not add so
much as an extra point to his
48 point record last week-end.
When the hard running Davis fails
to tally, there is usually a very
good reason. It was: Boston Col­lege
13; Kentucky 0.
Joe Kilgrow of Alabama re­mained
secure in second position
although he added only one point.
Kilgrow's mates insured Joe's po­sition
by.holding third place Kon-emann
in check all afternoon as
the Tide eked out a seven to
nothing decision over an improv­ed
Georgia Tech eleven.
High scorers follow:
Player School Td. Pat. Tp.
Bob Davis, Kentucky . 8 0 48
Kilgrow, Alabama . . 5 12s 42
Konemann, Ga. Tech . . 6 1 37
Rohm, L. S. U. . . . . 6 0 36
MILTON HOWELL
Alabama Polytech—Auburn
Cate, Georgia 6 0 36
Steadman, Miss. State 5 3 . 33
Banker, Tulane . . . . 5 0 30
Sims, Ga. Tech . . . 3 11 29
Mullins, Florida . . . . 4 4 28
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Bulldogs Set For
Win Over Auburn
Tomorrow Georgia University's
Bulldogs will be putting out to
capacity to prove true the old
adage that "a bad beginning means
a good ending." /
The Bulldogs' record was blem­ished
by several defeats early
in the season and the sports scribes
forsook Georgia as a sunken bat­tleship.
But last Saturday the
"Bostons" pulled an upset that
wrecked predictions the nation
over and awakened Southern foot­ball
fans and all concerned to the
fact that Georgia has a powerful
unit when she gets going.
Her defeating Tulane 7 to 6
changed the prospect of the Au­burn-
Georgia game no little. The
Tigers are prepared to meet a
team that is trying to make a sea­son
in one game, so to speak. Au­burn
is favored, but she is looking
forward to a tough scrap.
Georgia's formations, offensive
and defensive, are much the same
as Auburn's and there is little
difference in the weight of the
two teams. The Bulldogs line av­erages
slightly less than 200 and
the backfield, about 170.
In games thus far, right-half­back
Cate has been the outstand­ing
individual. He has made some
spectacular runs and has done re­markably
well in his passing and
blocking assignments. He is their
chief bid for All-Southeastern.
Tinsley is perhaps the most
highly rated lineman. He plays
a roving guard and has been re­sponsible
for a large percentage
of the tackles made and the passes
broken up.
Against Auburn Maifett and Gil­lespie
will likely start at ends;
Davis and Haygood, at tackles;
Tinsley and Troutman, at guards;
and Lumpkin, center.
The backfield will probably be
composed of Hartman at quarter­back,
Mims at left-halfback, Cate
at right-halfback, and Fordham
at fullback.
Husky Sophomore Tackle
Soorts Chaffer
By BILL TROUP
Opelika Bottling Co.
Phone 70
Although L. S. U. beat Auburn
most of the players feel that L.
S. U. was ho better a football
team than Auburn. . . They aren't
making any alibies; those Tigers
have engaged in too many hard
..game's this season and have re­ceived
too many hard knocks to
be accused of alibing. . . You can
see their side after the score and
other angles of the game are stud­ied
. . . Those fumbles, two of
which accounted for both of L. S
U.'s scores, were Auburn's fault
but the failure of the L. S. U. team
to generate any scoring drives
under their own power is another
thing . . . However, the real luck
was that which kept Speck Kelly
from turning that 56-yard punt
return into a 76-yard glory sprint
. . . With Vernon Burns leading
the way and with Bussey the last
obstacle to the goal-line it ap­peared
that Kelly had a sure
six points tucked under his arm,
but as Burns drove Bussey out
of the way Kelly tripped over
Burn's leg, which was quite a
disheartening blow . . . Billy
Hitchcock would have been a most
valuable asset to Auburn had he
not been reinjured in the second
half . . . He gave a sterling per­formance
while he was in the game"
and this correspondent still thinks
that for calmness and all-round
ability running, passing and punt­ing—
he still potentially is Auburns
best bet . . .
John L. Sullivan is an end on
the University of San Francisco
eleven . . . It cost Southern Cali­fornia
$4,000 to send a special
train, carrying the players, from
Los Angeles to Pullman, Wash.,
for the Washington State game . .
Bo McMillin's Indiana elevens
have not been beaten in Novemb­er
for the last three years . . .
Vike Francis, one of the most pro­mising
freshmen on the Nebraska
football squad, is a brother of All-
America Sam Francis . . . The var­sity
center on the North Dakota
State football team is a rugged
customer named Tin Yan Jim On
. . . Dad Butler, trainer for Gus
Dorais' Detroit teams, began his
career in 1896 . . .
This department had just a fair
outcome on its predictions last
week . . . Our predictions to date
are '18 wins, 36 losses and 14
ties . . . This week's choices are:
Baylor over Loyola; Boston Col­lege
over Boston U.; Centenary
over Texas Tech; Dartmouth over
Columbia; Georgia Tech over Flo-
GORDON MAC EACHERN
Alabama Polytech—Auburn
Wags Disproves Adage That You Can't
Teach An Old Dog New Tricks
By MARTHA LENNEP
"Wags," A. D. Burke's famous
eight-year-old Fox Terrier, has
disproved the adage, "You can't
teach an old dog new tricks."
Thumbing through the fat scrap
book kept by Prof. Burke, one
finds that of the 42 tricks which
Wags now performs, the best have
been learned in the past few years.
"Although I have not had time
to teach Wags lately, he is more
interested in doing tricks and is
quicker to learn than ever," Prof.
Burke reports. One of the doq's
recent tricks is distinguishing a
quarter from a penny and a nickel.
Another is the ability to deter­mine
the hand that holds an ob­ject
that has been shifted from
one hand to another.
It was only last summer-that
Wags was interviewed by some
camera men, and put on a movie
short. But although he is now
in the movies, Wags will always
be an amateur, and will never
perform for money, Prof. Burke
says. He is proud of the honors
heaped upon Wags, but insists
that training him is just a hobby.
In 1934 Wags was presented to
Gov. B. M. Miller. He shook
hands with the governor and then
clapped his paws. Two other ac­complishments
he offered to enr
tertain the governor were the
ringing of a bell and the dry­land
swimming trick.
Another person to compliment
Wags was the World Champion
heavy-weight boxer, . James J.
Braddock. His note, written from
Hot Springs, Ark., occupies a
whole page in Wags' memory
book, and reads "From one cham­pion
to another."
When he was able to perform
34 tricks, Wags received the high­est
honor that can be bestowed
on a dog. It was the diploma of
honor awarded by "Dog World,"
leading magazine for dog fan­ciers.
Wags has been pictured in
many publications with the fram­ed
certificate.
The terrier's most widely photo­graphed
trick is the one he does
on his tricycle. He is the only dog
rida; Fordham over St. Mary's;
Maryland over Georgetown; Au­burn
over Georgia; Yale over
Harvard; Holy Cross over Carnegie
Tech; Illinoise over Chicago; In­diana
over Purdue; L. S. U. over
Louisiana Normal; Manhattan over
Niagara; Duquesne over Marr
quette; Ohio State over Michigan;
Minnesota over Wisconsin; Ne­braska
over ^ Iowa; Duke over
North Carolina State; Notre Dame
over Northwestern; Oklahoma ov­er
Oklahoma A. & M.; Pitt over
Penn State; Navy over Princeton;
California over Statnford; Villa-nova
over Temple; Rice over T.
C. U.; Tulane over Sewanee;
Army over St. John; U. C. L. A.
over S. M. U; Washington over
Oregon; and Detroit over Creigh-ton.
known that can sit down on a
velocipede and at the same time
pedal it. Other unusual tricks are
saying his prayers, removing his
hat in the house, bringing the
nearest ash tray when a match
is lighted, removing a handker­chief
from a pocket, and bringing
bedroom slippers when the word
"tired" is spoken.
Old Columbus
Road Is Best--
The best route to Columbus is
the old road, states A. D. Lips­comb,
of State Highway De­partment.
For fans driving over to Co­lumbus
over the weekend for
the' Auburn-Georgia football
game, Lipscomb advised travel
by the old road altogether. He
said the best route followed the
road out by the local high school
building. The highway depart­ment
has the road well marked
along the entire route, Lips­comb
stated.
"The old road is in good con­dition,
jn fact, much better than
the regular route to Columbus,
and I would advise everybody
going to the game to follow the
detour signs," Lipscomb said.
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Bears Step Back To
Top Of Heap
The California Golden Bears
emerged again to their national
ranking as the No. 1 football ag­gregation
by riding true to form
over Oregon, 26 to 0, in the best
week of forecasting this season
for the Williamson system.
While California was swamping
Oregon, Pitt was having surpris­ing
difficulty beating Nebraska,
13 to 7. That close score dropped
Pitt to second place in the national
rating. These two outfits have
been waging a duel for first place
week in and week out. Fordham,
who was idle last week, dropped
a step to third place.
Auburn stepped up a notch,
even though being beaten by L. S.
U., 9 to 7, to ninth place with
an average of 95.3 per cent. Mr.
P. B. Williamson attended this
game himself and added that Au­burn
is probably the only team
.in the nation equaling «. Notre
Dame's suicidal schedule. He also
added that he had seen two of
the greatest teams in the country
in action.
Following are the first twenty-five
teams ranked: 1. California,
2. Pitt, 3. Fordham, 4. Alabama,
5. Yale, 6. L. S. U., 7. North Caro­lina,
8. Tulsa, 9i Auburn, 10. Ok­lahoma,
11. Dartmouth, 12. Villa-nova,
14. Duke, 14. Santa Clara,
15. Nebraska, 16. Notre Dame, 17.
Rice, 18. Minnesota, 19. Georgia
Tech, 20. Vanderbilt, 21. Baylor,
22. Stanford, 23. Tennessee, 24.
Oregon State, 25. Arkansas.
The Pittsburgh Panthers were a-gain
on top as the nation's No. 1
football team this week in the
fifth weekly ranking poll con­ducted
by the Associated Press.
California, Alabama and Fordham
held their places for the second
straight week, featured otherwise
by higher ratings for Yale, Min­nesota
and L. S. U.
NOTICE
I will take 5 passengers to Co­lumbus
in private car, Saturday
for the game. $1.00 each. Ask for
Mr. French. Call 9111.
Soph Tackle
BILL NICHOLS
Alabama Polytech—Auburn
FOR BENT — Cabin. Double-decker
bed. Gas heat. Furnished
for two. Reasonable. 107 Mitcham
Ave. Phone 341.
Enie Menie Minie Moe
Down to Howard's we must go
Get some Brock's new fresh candy
Company is coming. Sue and Andy
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It is with great pleasure that we announce that
our holiday line is at its highest peak.
Every itemr having been personally selected for
its usefulness, beauty, and quality.
We take pride in stating that we are sure that no
such line has ever before been offered to the people
of Auburn and this vicinity. To as much as compare
it you would of necessity have to go to places much
larger than Auburn and then we doubt whether you
would be successful in finding as representative a
stock.
- For this there must be a reason.
1. Our visits to market were very successful.
2. We "are offering you new stock with exception­ally
small carry overs.
3. Our lines are purchased from the leading Amer­ican
manufacturers.
4. Through past experiences we know and realize
that you will be satisfied with only the best.
5. It is now offered you through your own local
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PAGE FOUR THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19,1937.
Duncan, Graves To
Be Honored With
Banquet Here
Plans are complete for the ap­preciation
dinner to be given Fri­day
night in honor of Gov. Graves
and President L. N. Duncan, with
nearly 200 townspeople haying
reserved tickets for the affair.
A number of out-of-town guests
have accepted invitations to the
informal dinner. This group in­cludes
Maurice I Bloch, State
Auburn Alumni president; Tilgh
man Turner, president of Mont
gomery alumni; Attorney General
Albert Carmichael, and Hamp
Draper, of Montgomery.
Sponsored by the Junior Cham­ber
of Commerce, the Thanksgiv­ing
dinner is being given in ap­preciation
for the services render­ed
Auburn and the State by Gov.
Graves and Dr. Duncan. Both the
Governor and Dr. Duncan will be
honored at the affair.
Jaycee commutes have been
busily engaged for the past two
weeks in making arrangements
for the dinner. The program and
entertainment committee has draf­ted
a varied program to be pre­sented
after. the dinner.
Brief appreciation talks will be
given by Homer Wright, repre­senting
the city; Maurice I. Bloch,
speaking for the alumni; Ralph
Draughton, of the college; Max
Welden, representing the student
body; and possibly a member of
the board of Trustees, Mayor C.
S. Yarbrough will serve as tost-master.
Instead of giving a barbecue,
as was the original plan, the Jay­cee
committee has
plans to include a
Clyde Warren Edits
7th Grade Work
News of an outstanding piece
of work done this fall by Clyde
T. Warren, 1935 graduate in edu­cation
at Auburn, who is now
teaching at Murphy Junior High
School in Atlanta, was received
this week by Dr. Zebulon Judd.
The printed unit written by Mr.
Warren, titled "Integration of
Geography, English Literature, and
Mathematics in the Seventh
Grade," has been recommended as
a model for other instructors in
the school by Prof. Hugh O. Bur­gess,
principal of the school and
1926 graduate of Auburn.,
Two other Auburn education
graduates are teaching this year
in Murphy Junior High in Atlanta.
They are James E. DeVaughn,
class of 1'936, and John Randall
Parrish, class of 1935.
Mr. Warren made an excellent
scholarship record at Auburn, his
four-year average being 92.91. He
majored in the social sciences and
minored in English.
Auburn Faculty Will Have
Dance Wednesday, Nov. 24
Final plans have been complet­ed
for the Auburn Faculty Dance
to be held on Wednesday evening,
November 24, at Student Hall, an­nounced
Prof. W. E. Sewell, chair­man
of the committee.
Turkey Dinner. The dinner will
be served in W. P. A. Hall-and
will be informal.
Only a limited number of peO'
1 pie have been issued invitations
changed the to the appreciation dinner. Ad
Thanksgiving Tnission will be by card only.
Community Chest
Drive To Begin
Monday, Nov. 19
Tentative plans for the Commu­nity
Chest Drive have been made
and will be presented for approval
to the Auburn Community Council
in session Monday night at 7 o'­clock
at the City Hall.
The Budget Committee, consist­ing
of W. B. Lee, chairman, J. R.
Rutland and Dr. Paul Irvine, met
last Friday night and heard re­quests
from those seeking bene­fits
from the fund. The Commit­tee
has arranged its budget, which
will be presented to the Council
Monday night.
C. W. Edwards, associate regis­trar
at the college, will again direct
the drive. Mr. Edwards has chosen
die committees to assist in the
work, and they will also be pre­sented
to the Council for approval
Monday night.
Tentative plans call for the
.aunching of the drive Monday
.^ov. 29. Every citizen of Auburn
will be canvassed and asked to
contribute to the community fund
Mr. Edwards stresses the fact that
Auburn's Community Chest is not
a charity fund, but rather a com­munity
fund, part of the money
being used for strictly non-chari­table
community services.
An attempt is also being made
this year to insure ,that the one
big drive will include all Solicit­ing
of funds in Auburn. The Bud­get
Committee is asking that sev­eral
causes for which separate
drives were conducted last year be
included in the Community Chest
drive.
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A PAIR OF PENNSYLVANIANS in zebra stripes are "beheaded"
by Priscilla Lane, while Fred Waring wonders what it is all
about, in a scene from Warner Bros.' "Varsity Show." The musical
has ten hit number, some of which are sung by Dick Powell, at
the Tiger Sunday and Monday.
Famous Book Given
To Art Library
What is termed one of the most
valuable additions to the archi­tectural
library in recent years—
a book containing the drawings of
James Gibbs for thejamous Rad-cliffe
Library at Oxford; England,
printed in 1747—was received to­day
by Dean Frederic Child Big­gin
of the Auburn school of archi­tecture
and alied arts.
The volume of copper engrav­ings
by this famous British archi­tect
was a gift from William P.
Spratling of Taxco, Mexico, form­er
student and instructor in ap­plied
art at Auburn.
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with a smoker
when he finds out
about Chesterfields
Joan Crawford Is
On At Opelika
Once again the screen improves
on an outstanding stage hit. "The
Bride Wore Red," which comes
to the Opelika Theatre Sunday,
was Ferenc Molnar's "The Girl
from Trieste."
Remembered, of course, as a rich
human experience depicted on the
stage, the story has gained in cel­luloid.
Joan Crawford unques­tionably
was a happy choice for
the starring role and she has two
excellent leading men in Franchot
Tone and Robert Young. The pic­ture
was produced by Metro-
Goldwyn-Mayer and nothing has
been overlooked on the score of
perfection of detail in all depart­ments.
The Cinderella story of a poor
beautiful girl who acquired luxury
for a fleeting time and then be­came
rich in love, has been di­rected
with the delicate feminine
influence of Dorothy Arzner, Hol­lywood's
only woman director.
The company went up into the
High Sierras for scenes to dupli­cate
those of the Austrian Tyrol in
Molnar's Original.
You know at once that the
movies do better with the Sierras
than any stage technician could
possibly hope to do with canvas
scenery. It is exquisite photogra­phy
and the sound effects are as­tonishingly
lovely, with the music
of mountain birds at dawn, the
rollicking song of a tumbling
stream and the symphony of wind
in the trees.
But aside from the technical
charm of this picture, there is the
superb acting of the cast, which
includes lovely Lynne Carver,
Reginald Owen, Billie Burke, Geo.
Zucc© and Dickie Moore.
Deeply human in theme, yet re­plete
with amusing comedy situ­ations
and characters, "The Bride
Wore Red," is the intensely dra­matic
story of a waterfront cabaret
singer and dancer who suddenly
becomes a Cinderella. As Anni,
the vivacious waterfront waif
around whom the story is woven,
Miss Crawford culminates three
years of, voice study by singing on
the screen for the first time. She
also dances the tango.
Writer Explains How Football Has
Evolved Down Through The Years
C_JiesterfieL Copyright 1937,
Uccrrr & Minis TOBACCO CO.
Gibbs was second only to the
great Christopher Wren, designer
of the famous St. Paul's Cathedral,
said Dean Biggin'. Gibbs, however,
he designed some 50 of England's
beautiful parish churches, the best
'known of which is St. Martin's
in the fields. Both were knighted
because of their remarkable work.
"The volume of Gibbs is partic­ularly
valuable for our library
here in the South," said Dean Big­gin,
"because it presents one of the
best exponents of Rennaissance ar­chitecture
which was transferred
from England to the colonies in
the 18th and 19th centuries and
we see its effect today in the beau­tiful
plantation homes right here
in Alabama."
Author of numerous books on
art and architecture, Mr. Sprat-ling
was a student at Auburn in
1917 and 1918, and was the first
instructor in applied art at Au­burn
in 1920 to 1922. From Au­burn
he went to Tulane Universi­ty
where he was a member of the
faculty of the architectural school
for eight years. Seven years ago
he went to Mexico and established
his residence at Taxco where he
has restored a number of the na­tive
Mexican crafts and employs
78 Indians.
So important a figure in the
town of Taxco has Mr. Spratling
become that he was recently elect­ed
mayor, said Dean Biggin.
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By J. B. THOMAS
When college students yell
themselves hoarse, inspiring their
gridiron favorites on to victory,
they are carrying on a tradition
that dates back to 1865. Yet the.
football game today could hardly
be recognized as that first played
in American colleges.
In the years between 1865 and
1868 rules were evolved at Princ­eton
and Rutgers. In these early
games carrying the ball was for­bidden
and there were 25 players
on each side. The ball was to be
kicked, and if it were caught in
the air or on the first bound the
player_ making the catch was en­titled
to a free kick. Six goals were
necessary to win a game.
However, these early ' games
were strictly intramural. In 1869
Capt. William Gunmere of Prince­ton,
later Chief Justice of New
Jersey, challenged Capt. William
Leggett of Rutgers to a game be­tween
the two schools. This game,
the firpst intercollegiate college
football game in America, was
played at Brunswick, N. J., and
Rutgers won, 6 to 4.
Princeton's cheer, just as it is
today, was heard during this game.
It was originally invented by an
unknown soldier of the Seventh
Regiment of New York, the day
the Regiment mobilized for war,
April 30, 1861. The students of
Princeton heard the cheer as the
soldiers passed during the night,
and they promptly adopted it. It
is said to be the oldest of col­lege
cheers.
By 1877 the number of men on
a football team had been cut to
15. These men were arranged as
follows: nine crouched in the line;
one quarterback just back of the
line; two halfbacks just behind
him; one three-quarter-back; and
two fullbacks.
Soon the number was reduced
to 11, and names for the positions
originated. The players at the ex­treme
ends of the lines were call­ed
"end men," and the adjacent
players were "next-to-ends." The
man at the pivot position was call­ed
"center," and those on his right
and left were "next-to-centers."
As these "next-to-centers" guar­ded
the center with their legs,
much as they do today, they came
to be known as "guards." The
"next-to-ends" made most of the
tackles, so they became "tacklers,"
and later "tackles."
The year 1884 marked the Ori­gin
of interference, then called
"guarding." In the beginning, -it
consisted of a player running on
each side of the carrier in-order
to make tackling more difficult.
It was also during this year
that pants made of "moleskin"
replaced those made of canvas.
Today the players are clad in uni­forms
which consist of go much
padding that the coaches say the
wearer is almost as safe as if he
were at home in bed.
FRED
WARING
AND HIS
PENNSYLVANIANS
T E D H E A LY
WALTER CATLEn
PRISCILLA LANE
ROSEMARY LANE
JOHNNY DAVIS
BUCK * BUBBLES
Directed by
WILLIAM KEIGHLEY
A Warner Bros. Picture
Screen Play by J.rry W i l d , Richard Mecauley.
Sig Hcrzig and Warren Duff • Pram an Original
Story by Warren Duff and Sig Harrig • Final*
Created and Directed by Buiby Berkeley a Mueic
' and Lyric* by Dick Whiting and Johnny Marear
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