1939-04-11 The Auburn Plainsman

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VOL. LXII Z-I AUBURN, ALABAMA, TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1939 NUMBER 55
Blade Initiation
Planned for
Friday Week
Neophytes Will Stage Mock
Battle Saturday Morning
At Toomer's Corner
L Company of Scabbard and
Blade will initiate 20 new men
beginnig Friday, April 21, John
Eagan, captain of the organiza­tion,
said last night.
The 20 neophytes will begin ac­tivity
on Friday afternoon when
they will appear in full uniform on
the main corner where they will
demonstrate drill and military
maneuvers. According to custom
they will carry full marching
equipment.
Saturday morning the boys will
be divided into groups and will
stage a battle on the main corner.
All automobiles will be searched
for liquor and plots against the
government. The type of weapons
to be used in the battle has not
been revealed as yet, but Scab­bard
and Blade officials have
promised something new and dif­ferent.
Saturday's morning's conflict
will be between ten kilted Scotch­men
representing the famous "La­dies
from Hell" of World War
fame and ten invaders from
Mars. The earthmen will be led
by John Watters and the Martians
by Rollins Aldridge.
The morning's activities will be
concluded by the usual "banquet"
which will be held somewhere in
the vicinity of the main corner.
The festivities on Saturday
morning will be the last public
part of the initiation, the remain­der
of the "entertainment" for the
neophytes being furnished in pri­vate.
New men of the organization
are Rollins Aldridge, Elmer Alm-quist,
Bob Armstrong, Leo Bidez,
Winfrey Boyd, Jimmy Callaway,
Walter Chandler, John Dabbs,
Getty Fairchild, John Godbold,
Carl Happer, Marshall Hooper,
George Kenmore, Ed McCowan,
Penn Montgomery, Dawson Mul­len,
Paul Nichols, John Rice, Billy
Smith, and John Watters.
Picture Book of
Auburn Released
The story of Auburn in pictures
is attractively set forth in a 20-
page booklet which has been mail­ed
within the last few days to
seniors in Alabama high schools.
Its main divisions include "Au­burn
and Her Schools," "The
New Building Program," "Co-ed,
Modern Facilities for Women,"
"Auburn Students at Work," "Mil­itary,"
"Dramatics, Hobbies, etc,"
"Sports for All," "College Life,"
and "The 27th Auburn Summer
Session."
The cover in orange and black
displays a remarkable photograph
by E. M. Stokes, junior in phar­macy
from Montgomery, which
shows a student at work in the
pharmacy laboratory. Also on the
front cover is a pin and ink sketch
of Samford Hall towers by F. W.
Lincoln of the applied art depart­ment.
A new definition of the "Spirit
of Auburn" is featured both in
word and pictures on the back
cover. Centered on the page with
a miscellaneous group of seven
photographs showing President
Duncan in conference with stud­ents,
a professor explaining a me­chanical
problem to a. student,
crowds at football games, and
students in a laboratory, the defi­nition
reads: "A cordial interest
in students by the faculty . . . a
genuine respect for hard work and
perseverance . . . a premium on
intelligence, scholarship, honesty,
and good sportsmanship—whether
it be in the classroom, laboratory,
or in the quietude of one's room
at the study desk. That is the
'Spirit of Auburn'."
Three pages are devoted to the
Summer Session, the first term
of which opens on June 5.
Photographs in the booklet in­clude
some by A. C. Kelly, Birm­ingham;
Prof. C. R. Hixon, C. D.
Brooks, Lewis Arnold, and J. B.
Wilson Jr., Auburn; Don Johnson,
Columbus, Ga.; Gaspar-Ware, At­lanta,
Ga.; and Quarles Studio,
Tuskegee.
President
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Named president of the As­sociation
of Alabama Colleges,
Charles W. Edwards, registrar
of Alabama Polytechnic Insti­tute,
succeeds Dr. John R. Mc-
Clure of the University of Ala­bama
as head of the group of
educators. Election of Mr. Ed­wards
took place at the annual
meeting of the association at
Auburn, April 8.
Edwards to Head
State Educators
Association of Alabama
Colleges Here for Annual
Session Over Week-end
Charles W. Edwards, Auburn
registrar, was elected president of
the Association of Alabama Col­leges
here Saturday afternoon at
the close of the Association's an­nual
one-day meeting in Student
Center.
Dean Andrew C Smith of
Spring -Hill College, Mobile, was
elected vice-president, and Dean
T. H. Napier, Alabama College,
Montevallo, was re-elected secre­tary-
treasurer.
Next year's meeting of the As­sociation
will be at the University
of Alabama.
Dr. Raymond R. Paty, president
of Birmingham-Southern, advocat­ed
the elimination of competition
between institutions of higher
learning, throughout the country
and urged continued revision of
instruction to meet the current
needs of society. Dr. Paty was the
principal speaker at the luncheon
meeting of the Association in
Graves Center where the visitors
were guests of the college at the
monthly Auburn Faculty Forum
meeting.
Tennis Team to
Play This Week
A much improved Auburn ten­nis
team will meet two of the
South's strongest racquet squads
here during the coming week.
Presbyterian and Spring Hill Col­leges
will be the opponents play­ed
at the local Country. Club.
The Auburn boys will meet
Presbyterian College Wednesday
afternoon at 2 o'clock. The visi­tors
will bring the South Carolina
intercollegiate champions to Au­burn.
Lyke Boyken, Presbyterian
star, is singles champion of South
Carolina and one of the best
younger tennis players in the
South.
Undefeated Spring Hill comes to
Auburn Thursday, April 13, to
engage the Auburn tennis team
which is led by Captain Martin
"Ace" Lide. The number one man
on the Spring Hill squad holds the
Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia
singles championships and was al­so
undefeated in the South last
summer.
The Auburn team is composed
of Meredith Hazzard, Martin Lide,
J. W. McKee, Joe Gay, and Bob
MoClure. This group of men have
shown real promise in their prac­tice
games so far this year and
should develop into a strong out­fit
before the present tennis sea­son
is over.
Captain Lide urges all students
interested in tennis to be sure and
attend these outstanding matches
to be held here this week. There
will be no admission charge.
API Textile Group
Returns from
Inspection.
Show in Greenville, S. C,
Attended by 23 Auburn
Students in Textile
Twenty-three Auburn students'
in textile engineering and one fac­ulty
member attended the textile
show held this year in Greenville,
S. C, last week. The show, which
is held on alternate years in
Greenville and Philadelphia, in­troduces
to the public new tex­tile
machinery and discoveries
which have been developed during
the past year.
The City of Greenville sponsors
the show and most of the im­portant
manufacturers of textile
machinery take part in it.
In addition to attending the
show, a number of Auburn stu­dents
visited several textile mills
throughout South Carolina.
The group left Auburn on Mon­day,
April 3, and returned on Fri­day,
April 7. A number of the
students were quartered on the
campus of Clemson, a few stayed
at Furman University, and the re­mainder
stayed in Greenville.
Students who attended the show
were J. R. Abney, Holdman W.
Baker, Grover C. Barfield, Ted
W. Chiles, W. T. Curry, George
M. Echols, J. F. Edmunds, C. M.
Elliott, Curty Farley, William D.
Hall Jr., John Hatfield, Nolan
Helms, V. C. Hill, Charlie
Knight, C. W. McGowin, Paul K.
McKenney, Andrew Mungall, John
Kenneth Qrr, Forrester M. Smith,
K. B. Smith, J. C. Ware, R. Les­lie
Wilkerson Jr., and Hugh F.
Wright.
Prof. E. W. Camp, head profes­sor
of textile engineering, accom­panied
the group.
API Group Attends
IRC Convention
Five Auburn students attended
the annual convention of the In­ternational
Relations Clubs of the
South, held this year at William
and Mary College in historic Wil­liamsburg,
Va.
All of the Auburn representa­tives
took an active part in the
convention. Godbold, who was
elected vice-president of the Sou­thern
group at the convention held
last year at Vanderbilt University,
presided over the extensive round-table
discussion on Pan-American
relations.
The group left Auburn last
Wednesday morning and arrived
in Williamsburg on Friday morn­ing.
In addition to their part in the
convention, the delegates were
shown the many interesting and
historic points around Williams­burg,
which has been in large part
restored to its former colonial
glory by the Rockefeller Founda­tion.
The International Relations
Clubs are sponsored by the Car­negie
Endowment for Interna­tional
Peace and are organized on
hundred of important campuses.
Federal Inspection
For ROTC Unit
Next Monday
Parade by Both Artillery,
Engineer Brigades Will Be
Held Monday Afternoon
The annual inspection of the
Auburn ROTC unit will be made
next Monday and Tuesday, Col.
Fred C. Wallace, commandant,
said this morning.
Major C. M. Lucas of the Uni­versity
of Florida will inspect the
Field Artillery' unit while Cap­tain
M. M. Bauer of the Univer­sity
of Tennessee will inspect the
Engineers.
•The visiting officers will attend
recitations and laboratory meet­ings
of students in all four years
of the ROTC course.
A parade by both the Engineer
and Artillery brigades will be
held on Buliard Field Monday af­ternoon
at 3:10 with the visiting
officers, local personnel of the
School of Military Science and
Tactics, and the Cadet Colonel
and bis staff in the reviewing
stand. Uniforms for the parade
will be blouses and white shirts.
The local post of the American
Legion has invited the visitors
and Army officers of the local
unit to a barbecue supper to be
held Monday night.
Undefeated Riders
Golf Club Gives
New Set-up
At a meeting held last week tne
Auburn Golf and Country Club
formulated a new membership
setup which is of interest to
golf-playing students.
Membership in the club is now
divided into three classes. Stock­holding
members must pay a fee
of $19.00 a year. Affiliate mem­berships
for non-stockholders will- -of-the-Erasmus- Hall High- School^
cost $25.00 a year. Student mem­bership
will cost $12.50 for a
nine-month session or $7.00 for a
semester.
All three types of membership
carry full privileges at the club,
including golf and tennis at all
times.
The club has now set forth the
ruling that only members and out-of-
town visitors can play on the
course. The green fee for out-of-town
visitors will be 50 cents.
Howeyer, Mr. W. T. Ingram said
this morning that students who
are taking part in the intramural
golf tournament will be allowed
to play from now until the end of
the present session. They will have
to pay the usual green fee of 25
cents.
The club will continue its pres­ent
policy as to use of its tennis
courts. Non-members of the club
will be allowed to use the courts
at the rate of 25 cents a day.
Mr. Ingram also stated that
committees had been appointed
to see about working on and im­proving
the present golf course.
The following officers were
elected by the club: President, W.
T. Ingram; Vice-president, Emil
F. Wright; Secretary-treasurer, H.
W. Njxon.
Being a Dissertation on Manners, or
The Prodigal Son Returns Home
By Bob Anderson
Our hero has been raised in the
modest but comfortable home of
an average American family.
From infancy he has been taught
the table manners of an age of
politeness. He has at last received
that coveted symbol of learning—
a high school diploma.
His loving parents send their
young hopeful off to college to
get a cultural and practical edu­cation.
Let us suppose that he
lives several hundred miles from
his chosen alma mater and conse­quently
doesn't get to return to his
home until the spring holidays. He
makes the trip home by train,
takes a street car to his house,
and, with an unsuccessful attempt
at dignity, runs in to meet his
family. He greets his mother with
a swift kiss, his father with a
handshake, and his younger sister
with a perfunctory, "Hi, Sis!" And
at once he yells, "When do we eat,
Ma? I'm starved. Ain't et in four
hours." His mother and father
look blankly at each other, startl­ed
by his grammar and apparent
lack of manners, and then each as­sumes
that "Well-forgive-you-
Hhls-time-tout-don't-do-it -again"
look, and his father begins plying
him with questions about his work
in school, finances, etc., while
mother hastens to prepare the noon
meal.
When lunch is served and
mother ushers everyone into the
dining room, our hero jerks back
his chair, grabs his fork, and be­gins
reaching for everything on
the table within five feet of him.
He methodically impales a piece
of roast on his fork with one hand
and with the other scoops up a
biscuit. Potatoes and peas go onto
his plate with the same fast hook,
as do large helpings of slaw and
pickles. When there is nothing
left that he can reach by leaning
up out of his chair and far over
the table, he yells, "Shoot the
grease, Sis. How do you expect me
(Continued on pace four)
Captain Bob McNulty end the Auburn polo team who are un­defeated
so far this season, having recently downed Ohio State and
Illinois In inter-collegiate competition.
Shep Fields Band Has Had Colorful
Career As Top-Notch Musical Unit
Rippling Rhythm Outfit
Comes From Roosevelt
Hotel in New Orleans
Not so long ago, but before he
discovered "rippling rhythm"—the
technique of rhythmic bubbling to
the soft accompaniment of string
and woodwind combinations—
Shep Fields, who brings his or­chestra
to Auburn for the Final
Dances on April 28 and 29 through
arrangements with the Music Cor­poration
of America, was just an­other
orchestra leader.
A native of Brooklyn, Shep
Fields began his musical career
when his father gave him a bright
new saxophone to commemorate
his fourteenth birthday. He tried,
but failed to convince the director
orchestra that there was a place
for Shep Fields and his saxophone.
He met with equal success when
he tried to make the military
band.
His heart, however, was with
the saxophone. He made up his
mind to play it even if he-had
to form his own orchestra for a
frame-work. And that's how the
Shep Field's Jazz Orchestra came
into being.
He entered the law school of St.
John's University, but when his
father's death made it necessary
for Shep to become the family
breadwinner, he took his orchestra
into tht professional world.
Gradually his band of eight
pieces acquired some of the finish
that experiences gives, and Shep
Fields began to make a name for
himself in the grill rooms and
night clubs of New York City. But
it wasn't until he began an engage­ment
at the exclusive Iras Supper
Club in Miami that opportunity
came for the inventiveness that
eventually brough forth rippling
rhythm. Shep had a vague feel­ing
that something new could be
done in dance music, and that with
eleven pieces he could do some­thing
about it.
Then Shep went West—first to
Chicago, where the Palmer House
renewed his contract six times,
then to California where he play­ed
in the swanky Cocoanut Grove
at Los Angeles.
When finally he returned to
New York his rippling rhythm
trademark had preceded him. He
played at the Waldorf-Astoria and
then broke all attendance records
at the Paramount Theater. He fol­lowed
with an engagement at the
smart Pierre and another week at
the Paramount. Meanwhile a na­tional
radio fan magazine in a
search for something new in mod­ern
music, snapped him up. Shep
Fields made his coast-to-coast ra­dio
debut in the "Radio Court of
Honor" program on October 2,
1036. At the termination of this
program he followed Paul White-man
on the Woodbury series.
This program, "Rippling Rhythm
Revue" under the direction of
Shep Fields, was heard over the
NBC-WJZ network every Sunday
evening.
He comes to Auburn for the
Finals direct from a successful re­turn
engagement at the Roosevelt
Hotel in New Orleans, and is one
of the biggest "name" bands ever
to play for a set of final dances in
Auburn.
Phi Kappa Phi
Initiates 35
Executive Secretary
Speaks to Group; Election
Is Great Honor
Phi Kappa Phi, honorary scho­lastic
fraternity, initiated 33 Au­burn
students last Tuesday night.
To be chosen for membership in
this organization is the highest
scholastic honor conferred at Au­burn
.
Ralph B. Draughon, executive
secretary, was the speaker of the
evening., as. he addressed the 33
initiates and some 25 resident
members of the fraternity in the
banquet hall of the Baptist
Church.
The "paradox of man," his bad
points and his good, were discuss­ed
by the speaker. In spite of the
progress man has made in scien­tific
fields, he still has not learn­ed
the ability of living harmon­iously
with other men, said Mr.
Draughon. Members of Phi Kappa
Phi were urged to concentrate
first upon improvements of hu­man
relationships beginning in
the home.
Dr. Ralph Doner, president of
Phi Kappa Phi, was toastmaster
and introduced the speaker.
Students initiated into the or­ganization
were William Joseph
Alverson, John Paul Campbell,
William Caffey Edington, Edwin
Condie Godbold, Charles Franklin
Grisham, James Amos Hargett
James Henry Hastie, George De-
Witt Knight, James Foy Laseter,
Robert Edwin Ledbetter, Marga­ret
Erline Lide, Paul Kerns Mc­Kenney
Jr., Daniel Thomas Mea­dows,
Camilla Newberry, Ernest
Tuttle Rouse, Harvey Louis Rubin,
Eleanor Lucile Scott, Ladell Mur-phree
Smith, Ruby Helen Stokes,
H. Lloyd Sutherland, James Cleve­land
Swanner, Edward Roy Tay­lor
Jr., Mrs. Clara Merrill Tha-gard,
Nellie Ruth Ward, William
Tilman Warren Jr., Jesse Harri­son
Wheeler, Ann Kidd Winn,
William David Wittel.
Faculty members who were in-itated
were Prof. G.. W. Hargrea-ves,
associate professor of phar­macy,
and Dr. L. E. Starr, assis­tant
dean of the School of Veteri­nary
Medicine.
Half-Length Military Jackets
On Sale in Supply Office
Orders for half-length military
jackets are now being taken at
the stock room in Samford Hall
basement where students may pur­chase
them if they desire.
The coat is of heavy wool and
is similar in style and length to
the half-length coats worn by
army officers. It is navy blue in
color and of the double-breasted
type. The collar is of the shawl
type. It has one slash sleeve it
bears a Tigerhead like the one
on the sleeve of the ROTC blouse.
It has an attached half belt in the
back.
The coat is made by the Petti-bone
Brothers Manufacturing
Company, who have been making
the Auburn ROTC uniforms for
is $12.00, payable in advance.
Polo Team Defeats
Illinois in Two
Game Series
Tiger Quartet Turns in
Impressive 10-3, 12-7
Victories Over Visitors
In a hotly contested series, the
undefeated Auburn polo team
turned in impressive wins over the
highly touted Illinois Indians by
scores of 10-3 and 12-7 in the
first and second games respective­ly.
Both games were played on
Buliard Field.
During the first half of the
first game honors were about
even although Auburn did accu­mulate
a two-goal advantage.
However, during the fourth period
Herren held the Illinois number
4 out of the play while the re­mainder
of the Auburn squad ran
wild, each slashing through two
goals to run up a total of six
goals in one period. This sets a
new record for offensive play in
any one period in Auburn's polo
history.
Illinois rallied in the last per­iod
after being held scoreless for
five periods to ram through three
goals to end the game 10 to 3.
Both teams started new number
ones, Warren for Herren for Au­burn,
while the Indians started
Martin for Yaeger, Again a fast
firs* half resulted with score
exactly even at the half-way
marker. With the score 3 to 3,
McNulty made an almost impos­sible
shot to give Auburn the lead;
however, by virtue of a brilliant
back-shot by Captain Schaefer
the score was again tied up just
as the period ended.
The second half was the scene
of the same fierce activity marking
the first-half play as two teams
ran their scores up to 12 to 7.
which remained as the final count
with Auburn on the long end.
McNulty and Schell were out­standing
in their defensive work
throughout the entire series. Ac­cording
to Captain L. E. Jacoby,
Auburn coach, hard riding and
better conditions in the final
analysis enabled Auburn to regis­ter
decisive wins in both games.
He stated further that the entire
squad is to be congratulated on
their fine performance.
First Game
Auburn
Herren (1)
Franke (2)
McNulty (3)
Schell (2)
Warren (2)
Auburn
Illinois
Poa.
1
2
3
4
Illinois
Yaeger
(2) Garrett
(1) Schaefer
Cronlnger
101 620—10
000 003— 3
Second Game
Auburn
Herren (4)
Franke (4)
McNulty (3)
Schell (1)
Auburn
Illinois
Pos.
1
2
3
4
Illinois
(1) Martin
(2) Garrett
(3) Schaefer
(1) Cronlnger
121 224—12
031 102— 7
Debate Team Witl
Meet Spring Hill
Spring Hill and Auburn debate
teams will clash tonight in the
Student Center at 8 o'clock in a
return engagement of Auburn's
recent visit to the Mobile Institu­tion.
John Godbold and John Ivey Jr.,
both of Auburn, will debate the
Spring Hill boys on the question,
"Resolved: That the democracies
should form an alliance to pre­serve
democratic ideals and tra­ditions."
The Auburn team will
uphold the affirmative while
Spring Hill will defend the nega­tive.
Chairman for the debate will be
David D. Roberts.
The strength of the Spring Hill
team is not known as yet, since
definite word has not been receiv­ed
as yet as to the personnel of
the squad. However, Ivey and
Godbold have debated the same
question against Furman Univer­sity,
Georgia Tech, and University
of Georgia.
The debate will be non-decis­ion.
Prof. E. D. Hess, Auburn de­bate
advisor, is in charge of ar­rangements.
A. S. Foley will ac­company
the Spring Hill team to
Auburn.
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The Auburn Plainsman
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Of The Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
Auburn, Alabama
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Editor John Ivey Jr.
Wilbur Hutsell
He has coached Auburn track teams for
eighteen years with results so heavy on the
victory side we need not mention defeats.
We like to call him "Coach" regardless of
the occasion and he always responds in his
own friendly way, the Auburn way.
During football season "Coach" sees to it
that the pigskin carriers stay in the pink of
condition while at the same time he keeps
a watchful eye on some of his track hope­fuls
for the coming season. No sooner does
he discharge his warriors of the gridiron
than he issues a call for his cinder perform­ers
to appear on Drake Field. One of the
busiest men on the campus, Coach Hutsell
always has time to stop and engage in a
bit of chatter with the fellows.
Wilbur Hutsell has turned out some of the
leading track stars of America, he holds po­sitions
high among the leading track au­thorities
of the country, but regardless of
his many honors he is still the possessor of
that modest boyish dignity that makes him
one of the most beloved figures on the Au­burn
campus. J.I
Campus Improvements
No more slipping and sliding to and from
classes on rainy days via the route back of
Samford Hall. They have at lest been order­ed.
There is to be a change in the heretofore
unkept plot that lies between Samford and
Langdon Hall. To make a long story short,
we are to have new paved walks and drive­ways.
For years it has been the same muddy
story in the event of rainy weather. If one
were to brave the trip through the closely
packed group of mud puddles, he faced the
impossible. While hopping from one spot to
the next, the student would be confronted
with the task of dodging the streams of
water shot into the air by passing automo­biles.
The 'plot between Samford and Langdon
has long been the sore thumb of the cam­pus
landscape. There have been many half­hearted
attempts to make improvements of
a permanent nature. Time and time again
grass has been planted only to be killed by
the thoughtlessness of students.
Now that we are to have the entire area
between these two buildings and back of
Samford .Hall landscaped and properly laid
off, one more progressive^ step has been tak­en
for which we are grateful; however, the
students should feel it their duty to aid in
the preservation of newly planted sod and
shrubs. J.I.
We had never given much thought to the
matter ourselves. But evidently there is a
pressing need for the dissemination of this
information, so if any of our readers have
been eating candy bars without removing
the wrappers, we can tell you that you will
come to a bad end.
The idea is rather significant, though,
mankind being warned not to eat cellophane
by a group of chemists who have thought
the thing out. Makes the human race look a
bit silly, we think. For years squirrels have
been cracking open nuts and eating only
the kernel. Squirrels know about not eating
the shell, but man has to be told that cello­phane
is "indigestible."
Freshman Week
Pity the poor freshman. Every year the
same story is repeated. Seven or eight hund­red
bewildered freshmen along with two
thousand or so upperclassmen throng the
campus on registration day. Dazedly and
sometimes miraculously the new students
muddle through registration. Some of them
have no place to stay or no place to board.
Some have worried parents with them, im­patiently
waiting until their offspring are
settled before leaving town.
When registration is finished the freshman
must take English and intelligence tests and
begin attending classes.
As soon as all this is over, or even while
it is going on, the freshman is being rushed.
He eats at fraternities, visits fraternities,
sleeps at fraternities. In a very few days he
is faced with the difficult task of picking
the fellows who are to be his intimate a£
s.ociates for the next four years.
The boy who isn't being rushed often
makes few friends and is left to shift for him­self.
Maybe he learns the ropes and maybe
he doesn't.
In «the midst of all this each freshman is
expected to absorb part of the Auburn
Spirit, to find out what is expected of him,
what he must give and what he must take.
He is expected to learn the traditions and
customs of Auburn.
This is hardly the atmosphere in which a
strange and half-afraid freshman can orient
himself to his new surroundings. The fresh­man's
first few days on the campus are too
important to leave to chance.
The key to the situation seems to lie in
lack of time and leadership. Both of these
could be furnished if the freshmen reached
the campus a few days early. Give them a
day or so in which to get settled and learn
what it is all about. Faculty members and
upperclassmen could talk with them about
the Auburn Spirit and their part in it as
freshmen. The new men could get their class
schedules clarified, buy their books, take
their placement tests, and be ready to go.
When the upperclassmen arrive and rush­ing
is opened the freshmen could have al­ready
become part of Auburn. They will
have gained a more objective opinion of the
various fraternities. They will be less be­wildered,
more settled.
In fact, they would be more Auburn men
than freshmen. J.G.
Cellophane
A pamphlet from the chemistry depart­ment
of an eastern university advises us
against eating the cellophane' wrappers on
candy bars. "Cellophane," i t says, "is practi­cally
indigestible."
Not Buildings Alone
The buildings in which students eat and
sleep and go to classes are an inherent part
of any university. Buildings and equipment
may constitute the foundation upon which a
great university is built, but in themselves
they are only the shell within which the real
institution is enclosed.
The University of Heidelberg was once
one of the world's greatest institutions' and
many of its buildings date from the Middle
Ages. Oxford sends forth its statesmen and
scholars from ancient buildings which do
not even have central heating. America is
dotted with diploma mills which have gain­ed
their fame on-the number of their grad­uates,
the beauty of their buildings, and the
power of their football teams. But not one
of these has achieved the true greatness
which comes from the cultural and scienti­fic
achievements of an outstanding faculty
and student body.
We at Auburn have finished the job of
"dressing ourselves in the clothes of great­ness."
Now it falls upon the students, the
faculty, and the administration to wear those
clothes in a manner which will reflect credit
on our college.
In Auburn we have reached a crossroads.
We can turn API into another printing press
for carbon copy graduates and achieve no­toriety.
Or we can turn our emphasis and
self-analysis to our faculty and student body
and achieve greatness through them. J.G.
Well!
By John Ivey Jr.
Following in the footsteps of the
Easter rabbit comes a publication
from the publicity office here on
the campus that hits a new high
in attractive and interesting Au­burn
literature. Under the direc­tion
of Kirtley Brown, a full size
picture publication of the real Au­burn
has been completed and dis­tributed
to the high school seniors
in the state of Alabama. This lat­est
Brown masterpiece contains a
complete story in pictures of the
student life at Auburn and is pre­sented
in such a way that it
makes the campus take on a new
air of interest. Congratulations,
Mr. Brown! .
* * *
The map changing project spon­sored
by Hitler and Mussolini in
jittery, war-scared Europe has
been seeing brisk activity of late.
With Albania resting under the
Fascist flag, Mussolini has puffed
out his dictatorial chest and grin­ned
at Hitler from his newly ac­quired
land. Germany's "tough-guy"
sits in his recently complet­ed
mountain estate in a state of
isolation while he contemplates
his next territorial conquest. The
Polish officials sit by and grimly'
chew their finger nails wonder­ing
if they are governing the land
likely to be the choice of Hitler
for the expansion of Nazism.
Britain's diplomats are chasing
madly around trying to get some
of the likely central European
"catches" to sign on the dotted
line in regards to a bit of antU
dictator cure. With Russia and
France mopping their respective
brows, England tries to stroke the
fevered temples of the Goddess of
Peace in a last-minute effort to
get Poland and Rumania to cast
their lots with the so-called de­mocracies.
Now the big question
mark again hovers over Adelph
Hitler.
* * *
Freshman Week would be an
improvement to our present set­up
governing registration and stu­dent
activities during the first
weeks of school. If the first year
men were required- to come to
Auburn a week in advance of the
rest of the student body, a num­ber
of worthwhile aims could be
accomplished.
This week could be set aside as
an education week for "rats." In
addition to going through the try­ing
ordeal of "getting registered,"
the new-comers could be given
valuable training and information
in regards to what is expected of
an Auburn man coupled with a
more complete knowledge of the
locations of various buildings and
offices. The "English Placement
Tests" could be carried on under
less strain giving the students a
chance to make better marks. By
the time the upper-classmen ar­rive
the "rats" should be better
ready to start to school, and
would certainly be better fitted to
Auburn.
Now that the Interfraternity
Council is working on plans rela­tive
to rules for fraternity rushing
during the first weeks of school
it seems that if some thought
were given to the practical work­ing
of the suggested "Freshman
Week" that it would be possible
to work the project out in con­junction
with the Council's plans
for rushing.
* * *
Auburn's polo team is boasting
the best group of mallet swingers
this year in the history of the or­ganization.
Under the expert hand
of Captain Jacoby, Auburn's hard-riding
polo team has been turning
in impressive victories so far this
season.
Although polo is not a major
sport at Auburn, it has had quite
a following during the past few
years. Due to the fact there are
no polo clubs at any of the south­ern
colleges, the team has had to
depend almost entirely on the
northern colleges for inter-colle­giate
competition.
All praise should go to the
coach and the men on the polo
squad for the fine work they have
been doing this year.
j» • *
The Plainsman office has been
a bit too quiet for the past seve­ral
days, but during the last few
hours of activity has picked up.
There has been a long series of
hair pulling stunts, fingers have
been drumming thoughtfully on
almost any table top in sight,
the wailings have been long and
loud . . . there is a little some­thing
wrong.
Editor Godbold has been gone
from the Village of the Plains
since last Wednesday, the rest of
the student body has been scatter­ed
with the wind since • last
Thursday.
OH FOR A FRESHMAN WEEK!
AUBURN FOOTPRINTS
The Last of August
Once there was a little dog named August. August was very
fond of jumping at conclusions, and one day he jumped at a mule's
conclusion. The next day was the first of September.
• * *
The other day an Auburn profescsor was illustrating the law
of gravity. "When I drop this eraser," he said, "it will fall on the
floor."
He dropped it and sure enough it did fall. But we wonder what
would have happened if it hadn't. What could he have said, the
eraser floating on air in front of his class?
He might have cleared his throat and explained that there were
exceptions to all rules, but that wouldn't have been very effective.
He might have put his foot on the eraser and forced it to the floor,
but that would have been awkward. Altogether it would have pre­sented
quite a problem.-
Would have upset the class no end, too.
• • • •
The reason love is so intoxicating is because it is made in the
still of the night.
* * *
Proud oceanic traveler: "I'm an author! I contribute to the 'At­lantic
Monthly'."
Seasick friend: "Phooey! I contribute to the Atlantic daily."
The Gift of Grab
By Bob Anderson
Auburn students planning to
"take in" the World's Fair in
New York will be interested to
know that special pains have been
"taken to provide sufficient chan­ces
for you to get food. There will
be eighty restaurants, which will
take care of 43,000 people at one
time. Listed among the 337 stands
are:
70 frankfurter, hamburger
stands
44 citrus fruit juice bars
35 popcorn stands
15 ice cream dispensaries
5 candy shops
38 root beer bars
50 carbonated beverage
stands
12 sandwich shops
8 Kosher frankfurter stands
15 frozen dessert stands
5 milk bars
40 miscellaneous food stands.
The Orange and White of U. T.
wants" to know what provisions
have been made for "sea-food" en­thusiasts.
Maybe they're counting
on the song, "Hold Tight," not
lasting that long.
* * *
Recently we published several
unique ways of saying "hello"
when answering a telephone.
Charles "By-line" Burns, the Sel-ma
Scoop, offers this gem from
the Kappa Alpha house on our
own campus: "Kappa Alpha
House, Home of Southern Gen­tlemen
and True Southern Hospi­tality,
Rat Such-and-Such speak­ing.
Is there something we can do
for you, please?"
• • *
Speaking of being "country,"
(or were we) we have the follow­ing
anecdote concerning an Ala­bama
College girl, if it can be
printed without causing a revo­lution:
A certain gentleman at the bus
station in Calera, Ala., was help­ing
an Alabama College girl to get
her bags off of a bus and into a
waiting taxi. (Calera is the "trans­portation
center" for the Monte-vallians.)
The gentleman became rather
careless and plopped one of the
bags down onto the ground with
a jolt. The maiden, alarmed, ex­claimed,
"Oh, be careful with that
bag! It's full of canned fruits and
vegetables!"
Need more be said? And they
call us "country." Teh, Teh.
The women students of Rad-cliffe
College have devised a date-reporting
system which promises
to do away with long hours of af­ter-
date bull-sessions. Before the
plan was initiated, the girls used
to waste valuable time discussing
among themselves the merits and
demerits of their dates of the
night before. But "them days are
gone forever."
Here's how the system works:
When the girls return to the dor­mitories
in the evening, they must
"sign in" in a big book provided
for that purpose. Some ingenious
maiden has provided the signer-inners
with a bunch of vari-col-ored
pencils and a chart which
tells them which color to use to
rate their escort of the evening.
. If they sign in with a bright red
pencil, for example, the girls of
the dorm know they had a "per­fectly
swell time." "Take green,"
one girl said. "An entry in green
means that a girl had just a plain
nice time—a date with a Harvard
man for instance. They usually
average green." Purple is tops. A
report written in purple means
that the evening's experience was
"too, too divine." Brown means
"just a job," doing anything that
takes up a night, but isn't "exact­ly
fun." Yellow means "an utter
flop.' Blue indicates an "ambu­lance,"
which is dormitory term­inology
for a plain walk.
Before Tomorrow
By John Godbold
Any news from Europe is out-of-
date if it's more than a few
hours old. Nevertheless, as this is
written the situation is that Mus­solini
has taken Albania while
France and England have done
nothing about it.
Sunday afternoon's CBS broad­cast
from Europe brought out
some pertinent information of the
type which one often misses in
the newspaper accounts. Impor­tant
among these was the existence
of persistent rumors that Musso­lini
might march his troops into
Greece or Yugoslavia at any mo­ment.
Again the French and Bri­tish
diplomats are running around
in circles doing nothing except
run up toll charges on telephone
calls and telegrams.
The whole situation rather re­minds
one of two youngsters on
the verge of a scrap and one of
them drawing a line in the sand
averring that he'll wallop his ene­my
if he steps across. And then
when the enemy steps across he
draws another line and avers that
he'll wallop him. if he steps across.
France and Britain draw a line
and hint that they'll swing into
action if Hitler and Mussolino
cross it. The bad boys of Europe
cross and Chamberlain and Dela-dier
draw another line. It's like
a desperate, terrible game.
* * *
Easter morning we sat in church
and listened to the organ music.
There is something soul-stirring
about organ music. Coupled with
the serenity ofr a church it reaches
to the depths of one's being. One
moment the organ thunders forth
in awesome crescendo, each note
booming like some great drum, yet
all bound together by the smooth
flow of the undertones. The next
moment it trills gently like a
frightened child telling of his
fears. Or again behind its quiet
ebb and flow, it whispers like
some bird heard from a far dis­tance.
We should like to go to church
sometime and hear a service of
nothing but organ music. There
would be no spoken word or rustle
of movement to halt the- train of
our thoughts and being. There is
no other occasion upon which man
feels his humbleness so much, no
other place in which man can
meditate _ so much on his short­comings
and his aspirations.
* * *
The life of William O. Douglas,
latest appointee to the Supreme
Court, reads like one of the old
Horatio Alger stories. To get
through college he fired furnaces,
caught tables, picked cherries, and
did almost everything else. Then
he ended up as valedictorian of
his class. After graduating he
taught school for a while, then
went East to attend Columbia
Law School, riding frieght trains
part of the way and finishing his
journey with less than a dollar.
He attended school for a while on
credit and was just about to be
expelled for non-payment when
a job finally came through. After
that it was marriage, corporation
law in New York, and then Yale
Law School where he became
known as one of the outstanding
teachers of law in the country.
From Yale the next step was to
Washington where he began to
work for the government. Then
when the Securities and Exchange
Commission began operating
President Roosevelt needed some­one
to run it who was not afraid
to twist the tail of Wall Street.
William O. Douglas was his man,
and Douglas did not hesitate on
the tail-twisting.
Douglas' record of unqualified
fairness and administration made
him the logical man for Justice of
the Supreme Court when Justice
Brandeis died. The youngest man
to be appointed to the Court in
over a century, Douglas should
make an outstanding record.
<* * * *
With every third movie that one
goes to lately being a wild and
woolie western, the movies seem
to be entering a new era. It all
began with the wild James boys
and their cohorts in "Jesse James."
Then came "Stagecoach," "Dodge
City," and "The Oklahoma Kid."
All of them remind one of the
good old kid days when the whole
"gang" would go to the Saturday
afternoon ten-cent show and,
equipped with cap pistols, bang
forth along with Tom Mix, Buck
Jones, Ken Maynard, and the oth­er
hale and hearty heroes of that
day. Many is the time when in our
mind we rode our trusty horse
alongside the hero in the inevita­ble
final dash to rescue the her­oine
from the clutches of the vil­lain
who had escaped with her on
his horse.
TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1939 THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
Ex-Auburn Prof
Active in Albania
A former Auburnite is taking an
important part in the Italian in­vasion
of the little kingdom of
Albania. He is Hugh Grant, for­mer
publicity director and profes
sor at API.
The Associated Press reports
that while the fighting has been
going on Mr. and Mrs. Grant,
along with most of the other
Americans in Albania, have re­mained
at the ministry in Tirana.
Though there are no statements
about it, there is little doubt that
Minister Grant has kept the wires
to the United States warm wi
•his reports on the situation there.
Mr. Grant is a native of Birm­ingham
where he grew up and at­tended
Howard College. After
graduating from Howard he took
graduate work at Harvard and
then returned to Birmingham to
work as a newspaperman. It was
during this time that he met Hugo
Black, then an up-and-coming
lawyer, and later United States
senator and Justice of the Su­preme
Court.
Hugh Grant came to Auburn
in the early 1920's. He was pu­blicity
director for API and in ad­dition
taught several history and
journalism classes. He remained in
Auburn until the election of Hugo
Black as United States senator in
1930 when he went to Washington
as secretary to the new senator.
SOCIETY AND NEWS FEATURES
ELEANOR SCOTT, Editor
Rubye Reeves and Dave
Phelps to Be Married
Mr. and Mrs. David Reeves of
Auburn announce the engagement
of their daughter, Rubye Lee, to
Mr. James Morrison Phelps of
Bluefield, West Virginia. The
wedding will take place on Satur­day,
April 22, at 8:30 a. m. at the
home of the bride's parents on
West Glenn Avenue.
Miss Reeves attended Alabama
Polytechnic Institute last year,
and was enrolled in the School of
Science and Literature.
Mr. Phelps graduated from Au­burn
last year with honors in
electrical engineering. He is a
member of Eta Kappa Nu honor
society, and Pi Kappa Phi social
fraternity. He is now connected
with the Appalachian Power Com­pany.
Following the ceremony the
couple will reside in Pulaski, Va.,
where Mr. Phelps is now located.
After working for a time with
Senator Black, the talented Grant
was shifted to the Department of
State where he was quite success­ful.
Whjen President Roosevelt
came into office in 1933 he ap­pointed
Grant to the post of min­ister
to Albania, where he has
served since that time.
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familiar red cooler
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Miss Cora McAdory Lipscomb of Auburn whose engagement
to Mr. James C. Swanner of Luverne has been announced by her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Lipscomb. The marriage will take place
here early in the summer.
Election of New FHA
Officers Announced -
Alice Little, sophomore in home
economics education at Auburn,
was named president of Collegiate
chapter of F. H. A. at a special
meeting held here April 3.
A report on the State Home Eco­nomics
Meeting at Huntingdon
College was given by Frances
Scroggins. Another feature of the
program was a violin solo by
Edith Champion. A letter of
thanks from Dr. Helen Judy-Bond
was read to the chapter.
FLOWERS FOR ALL
OCCASIONS
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Phone 134-R
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MODERN TORTURE
THEY ARE hung by their thumbs,
pulled by their toes, and put into
furnaces for ten years.
These are the well-organized tortures con­ducted
not by villains of a medieval novel
but by G-E engineers. They are the "creep"
tests conducted on sample rods of various
steels before these steels are used in the
manufacture of turbines.
As explained by E. L. .Robinson, St. Law­rence,
'i i, Harvard Engineering School, '14,
G-E engineer, the excessive heat under
which a turbine operates softens the metal
of which it is made, and the metal extends,
or creeps. If this creeping exceeds a dimen­sional
change of a hundred-millionth part
per hour, or is not symmetrical and uniform,
the turbine shell may leak or the speeding
rotor may get out of line.
To avoid these troubles, types of alloyed
steels that restrict creeping must be used.
Therefore, the creep tests. Sample rods are
held fast and stretched until they break.
They are put into electric furnaces and kept
there for as long as 10 years; temperatures
as high as 1200 F being maintained. Careful
inspection of the results shows whether the
steel is of the proper type.
This creep test is only one of the many
made on each G-E turbine. For many other
engineers—veterans and Test men alike—
conduct other exacting tests.
WORLD'S CHAMPION
SITTING complacently on his new throne
in the G-E Research Laboratory is the
new midget weight-lifting champion. Not
only does he completely outclass other
contenders, but it" seems probable that he
will continue to do so for some time.
/'"-..
This champion is the world's most powerful
permanent magnet for its size. Even though
he weighs only i/250th of a pound, he is
capable of lifting nearly 1500 times his own
weight.
The midget is made of a material known as
Alnico, introduced by the Research Labora­tory
as a heat-resisting alloy. Alnico magnets
have been used for some time in radios,
motors, generators, and other electric equip­ment,
replacing electromagnets, which re­quire
current for their operation.
GENERAL © ELECTRIC
Miss Anne Weeks Married
To Mr. George Browder
Miss Anne Weeks, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. George Thomas
Weeks of Cullman, was married to
Russell Browder of Kndxville,
Tenn.( in Knoxville Thursday af­ternoon.
The bride, a popular member of
the home economics faculty at
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, is
an assistant professor in home
management and foods. She is a
graduate of Florence State Teach­ers
College, received her degree in
home economics from Auburn,
and took her M. S. degree at Iowa
State Teachers College. Formerly
she taught at. the Pensacola, Fla.,
High School.
Mr. Browder received degrees
from Auburn in both electrical en­gineering
and agricultural engi­neering.
He is the son of J. W.
Browder of Center. The groom
recently accepted a position with
the extension division of the Un­iversity
of Tennessee at Knoxville,
and since graduation had been
connected with the Alabama Ex­tension
Service at Auburn.
The briae will continue teach­ing
at Auburn until July 15 and
will be at home in Knoxville af­ter
that date.
Miss Cora Lipscomb Will
Wed Mr. James Swanner
An announcement of particu­lar
interest on the Auburn cam­pus
is that made by Mr. and Mrs.
A. D. Lipscomb of Auburn of the
engagement of their daughter,
Cora McAdory to James C. Swan­ner
Jr., of Luverne.
Miss Lipscomb is a freshman at
ARE, where she is a member of
Alpha Gamma sorority. She is a
granddaughter of Dr. and Mrs. I.
S. McAdory and of Mrs. Kate
Lipscomb of Auburn.
Mr. Swanner is a senior at API,
where he has made an outstand­ing
record. He is president of
Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity
and a member of Blue Key and
Phi Kappa Phi honorary frater­nities.
He is a member of the In-terfraternity
Council and is cap­tain
of the track team.
About Features
By Herbert Martin Jr.
This is a feature storey. It's go­ing
to tell all about Auburn dur­ing
the holidays. In fact, it's go­ing
-to give a play by play descrip­tion
of every happening of inter­est.
Well, during the holidays Au­burn
was so quiet that you could
hear a mouse drop. Maybe I mean
a pin, but not of the fraternity
variety.
That finishes the local events
which will go down' in history;
therefore, my story should be
completed. Unfortunately for you
and me, a feature story is differ­ent.
In a straight news story, the
reporter tries to give all of the
facts as concisely as possible, be­cause
every good editor reminds
his hired (?) help (?) that every
additional word costs money to
print. News stories give news, and
stop.
Features are space fillers. They
are assigned by lazy editors who
temporarily forget that words cost
money, and who are looking for
something to fill that blank space
in said pages of said newspaper.
Therefore I'm wasting time and
space.
The good reporter leaves per­sonal
opinion out of his stories;
the feature writer Is at perfect lib­erty
to slam all of his enemies.
Me, though, I like everybody . .".
well, almost everybody. Too bad.
Oh yes, Auburn. Well, there
isn't much to say about Auburn.
Pretty little town, of course, and
spring is here. Yes, well . . . pret­ty
quiet, though. Not much doing.
Breeden-Wingard Marriage
To Take Place in May
The engagement of Miss Estelle
Love Breeden of Selma to Mr.
Robert Eugene Wingard of Auburn
and Elyria, Ohio, has been an­nounced
by the bride's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. George Breeden of
Selma.
The marriage will take place
May 30 in the Episcopal Church at
Auburn with the Rev. William
Byrd Lee officiating. Miss Breeden
will be given in marriage by her
father, and her sister, Miss Etta
Breeden, will be her only atten­dant.
Al Marshall will serve as
best man for Mr. Wingard.
Miss Breeden graduated the
past year from Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute with a degree of
bachelor of science in home eco­nomics.
She was a member of the
Kappa Delta social sorority and
of the Theta Epsilon and Sphinx
honor societies.
Mr. Wingard graduated from
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
with B. S. and M. S. degrees and
did graduate work at Washington
University. He is an instructor in
chemical engineering at A. P. I.
and is a member of Alpha Chi
Sigma, of Phi Lambda Upsilon,
and holds membership in the Ala­bama
Academy of Science and the
American Institute of Chemical
Engineers. He is also a member of
the Masonic Lodge No. 76, and of
the Lions Club.
Nice place for sleeping, night or
day. Paved streets, active civic
clubs, cool breezes, shady trees. I
guess that those things sorta' stay
here with or without students.
Can't be helped, really a shame.
Paper's got to be published. No
percentage in printing blank
space. Still, the few tennis courts
that Auburn boasts are not exactly
crowded today. It might be a
good idea to play a little.
Oh, Auburn. The sun is shining
here, too. Someone said that the
birds sang this morning. I really
wouldn't know. Spring holidays
are fine. Make you appreciate
school. I'm doing a lot of talking.
What happening in your home
town?
I would like to play a little ten­nis.
Mmmmmmm . . . Burns seems
to have pretty well exhausted the
subject of polekitties. Nothing
new in Dr. Allison's lab.
Auburn is pretty quiet. Not
much doing.
Guess I'll play a little tennis.
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Local Women Form
Alumnae Group
Launching a drive to set up
alumnae organizations in Alabama
for Auburn women students, a
group of 35 Auburn women, for­mer
students of A. P. I., met this
past week and organized the first
association in Alabama.
Mrs. Emil Wright was named
president of the group which en­thusiastically
endorsed the move
being made by the college to make
a strong bid for increased enroll­ment
of women students.
Approval was also given to a
resolution calling for donation of
one dollar by every alumnae to be
used as a scholarship fund for
freshman girls.
President L. N. Duncan explain­ed
the set-up for women students
that will exist upon completion of
the new women's dormitories.
"All women students will be re­quired
to stay in the dormitories
except day students from Auburn
and Opelika. There are accommo­dations
for 400 women in the four
dormitories."
The dormitories will be well
equipped with new furniture, Dr.
Duncan said, and provisions are
being made for attractive equip­ment
of the new social center, the
present President's home.
Miss Zoe Dobbs, dean of wom­en,
and Dr. Rosa Lee Walston,
academic adviser to women stu­dents,
both discussed the impor­tance
of organization of Auburn
alumnae.
Now that Auburn can offer
girls the best in dormitory facili­ties,
said Dr. Walston, the college
plans to make special efforts to­ward
bringing young women here.
Miss Crowder and Dr.
Reynolds Married
Miss Gertrude Crowder of La-nett
and Dr. Alfred Wade Rey­nolds,
professor of history at API,
were married Thursday night in
Montgomery. The ceremony wai
performed in the presence of rel­atives
and close friends.
Miss Crowder attended Troy
State Teachers College and API,
receiving her degree from Auburn.
Recently she has been teaching in
the Lanett schools.
Dr. Reynolds received his B. S.
and M. S. degrees from Auburn
and his M. A. and PhD. degree*
from the University of California.
He has been on the history facul­ty
for a number of years and hai
been closely identified with college
activities.
To a large part, Auburn will be
dependent on her former women
students to recommend A. P. I. to
high school graduates and to send
high type girls here, she explain­ed.
The organization of the local
alumnae chapter is the "starting
gun," according to Dr. Walston,
for the organization of associations
in other cities.
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PAGE FOUR
THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1939
API Professors in
'Men of Science'
More than 30 Auburn professors
and research men are listed in the
1036 edition of "American Men
of Science."
Selected for outstanding con­tributions
to the scientific field,
the Auburn men are members of
the faculty at Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute, research men with
the Alabama Experiment Station
at Auburn, connected with the
Alabama Extension Service and
the Regional Bureau of Animal
Industries located here.
Included in the national scien­tific
"Who's Who" are the follow­ing:
Marion Jacobs Funehess, Dean
of the School of Agriculture; John
Jenkins Wilmore, Dean of the
School of Engineering; C. A. Ba-sore,
professor of chemistry and
chemical engineering; Fred Alli­son,
head professor of physics; F.
S. Arant, assistant professor of
zoology and entomology; L. S.
Blake, head professor of phar­macy;
A. D. Burke, head profes­sor
of dairying; John A. C. Cal-lan,
professor of infestious dis­eases;
Ralph D. Doner, head pro­fessor
of mathematics; A. St. C.
Dunstan, head professor of electri­cal
engineering; Henry G. Good,
associate professor of zoology and
entomology.
James Cook Grimes, head of an­imal
industry group and head pro­fessor
of animal husbandry; Faye
Erasmus Guyiton, associate pro­fessor
of zoology and entomology;
George Walter Hargreaves, asso­ciate
professor of pharmacy; Dun­can
Claire Harkin, professor of
mathematics; W. W. Hill, professor
of electrical engineering; Charles
R. Hixon, head professor of me­chanical
engineering; Gordon
Hughes , instructor in physics;
Herman Douglas Jones, associate
professor of chemistry; Alfred
Ridner Macormac, associate pro­fessor
of textile chemistry; Parker
Preston Powell, professor of
chemistry; J. M. Robinson, head
professor of zoology and entomo­logy;
J. L. Seal, head professor of
botany and plant pathology; L.
E. Starr, assistant dean and pro­fessor
of pathology; Dana Gibson
Sturkie, associate professor of ag­ronomy;
J. W. Tidmore, head pro­fessor
of agronomy and soils; La­mar
Mims Ware, head professor
of horticulture and forestry; Rob­ert
Earl Yoder, acting head pro­fessor
of agricultural engineering.
Dr. Dale Albert Porter, associate
parasitologist at regional animal
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Restricted Section
New brick bungalow on extension of South
College Street
This home has 2 bed rooms, living room with bay
window, dining room, kitchen, bath. Plenty of
closet space, china cabinet in dining room, hard­wood
floors, central heating system with automatic
thermostat control. The lot has a frontage of 200
feet, with an average depth of 217 feet. Plenty of
shrubbery has been placed around this home.
This home may he purchased for a small down pay­ment,
and the balance financed with monthly pay­ments
like rent.
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Presbyterians Here
For 2-Day Session
More than 100 ministers and
laymen from 55 Presbyterian
Churches in 23 counties will gath­er
here this evening for the 82nd
semi-annual session of the East
Alabama Presbytery, it was an­nounced
by the Rev. Sam B. Hay,
Auburn Presbyterian minister.
The opening sermon will be de­livered
by the Rev. Clement Ritter
of Dothan after which will be held
tiie observance of the Lord's Sup­per
with the Rev. W. C. Clem-mons,
Pratville, presiding, assisted
by the Rev. James S. Gray, Mont­gomery.
The local congregation is
invited to attend the opening ser­vices
which begin at 7:30 in the
Auburn Presbyterian Church.
Second day of the Presbytery
opens Wednesday at 8:30 a. m.
with, the Rev. Robert S. Hough,
Andalusia, conducting the devot­ional
service. Report of the exe­cutive
committee on Christian Ed­ucation
and Ministerial Relief
will be made by the Rev. A. C.
Windham, Opelika, and the Rev.
Mr. Hay will make the report of
the executive committee on Re­ligious
Education. The Rev. Stan­ford
Parnell, Union Springs, will
conduct the devotional and deliver
the Presbyterial Sermon at 11 a.
m. Wednesday. At noon Wednes­day
the visiting ministers and lay­men
will be tendered a luncheon
at Chewacla State Park, four
miles south of Auburn.
Reportsof the following perma­nent
committees will be made at
the Wednesday afternoon session:
Foreign Missions, Rev. James M.
Graham, Prattville; Assembly's
Home Missions, Rev. Robert S.
Hough, Andalusia; Synod's Work
in State Institutions, Rev. Donald
C. McQuire, Montgomery; Educa-research
laboratory; Dr. B. T.
Simms, director of regional ani­mal
research laboratory; Dr. Nor­man
James Volk, associate soil
chemist; Anna Louise Sommer, as­sociate
soil chemist; James A.
Naftel, assistant soil chemist; Wil­liam
Davis Salmon, animal nu­tritionist;
Cavett Oliver Prickett,
associate animal nutritionist;
Glenn Allen Schrader, associate
animal nutritionist; John Frede­rick
Duggar, research professor of
special investigations; Homer Scott
Swingle, associate fish culturist;
Lester Lamar English, associate
entomologist.
Mohns Captain of Swimming
Team Next Year
At a meeting last Wednesday
night, Henry Mohns was elected
to captain the varsity tank team
for the '40 campaign. Mohns is
a third year man in electri­cal
Engineering from Atlanta. He
is a member of Kappa Sigma fra­ternity.
"Shurby" Smith, junior
from Brewton, was elected assis­tant
captain. Smith swims the
distance event. Peyton Thrasher,
a freshman from Huntsville, was
elected manager of the squad, and
Davis Gammage, freshman from
Birmingham, was elected to be in
charge of the freshman team next
year.
The athletic council has approv­ed
the following men to receive
swimming letters: B. B. Cobb, Sam
Kelly, James Lyons, Bill Miller,
Henry Mohns, Lester Norvell,
Shuitoy Smith, Ben Walker, Dick
White, and Bob Johnston.
The retiring officers of "the
team are: James Lyons, captain;
Bob Johnston, manager; and
"Shurry" Smith, freshman instruc­tor.
Francis Bagby, authorized Red
Cross Examiner, was at the meet­ing
and stated that a Senior Life-
Saving course will be taught at
the pool within the ( next few
weeks. If these plans materialize,
the course will be held for both
boys and girls. An examiner's
course will follow the senior
course.
NOTICE
Due to conflict with prepara­tions
for the annual inspection on
April 17 and 18 the polo game
with the Atlanta Horse Guards
scheduled for Saturday, April 15,
has been postponed.
tional Institutions, Rev. William
B. Clemmons, Prattville; Steward­ship,
Rev. Hough; Presbyterian
Home for Children, Rev. John T.
Reed, Geneva; American Bible
Society, Rev. Lynn W. Carleton,
Florala; Sabbath Observance and
Family Religion, Rev. Robert L.
Bell, Tuskegee; History, Rev. C.
H. Rogers, Marbury; and Woman's
Work, Rev. Ritter.
The Rev. Herbert V. Carson,
Montgomery, will report for the
Executive Committee on Presby­tery's
Home Missions. The meet­ing
will close Wednesday after­noon
with reports of standing
committees and a business ses­sion.
John Garfield to
Play at Tiger
Although John Garfield played
the lead in the Broadway produc­tion
of "Having Wonderful Time,"
and the role of the taxi-driver in
"Golden Boy" for the Group
Theater, his fame was pretty well
limited to a small portion of New
York's theater-going public, until
his portrayal of the fascinating
fatalist in the motion picture
"Four Daughters" burst upon a
startled—and appreciative—world.
John Garfield was an overnight
sensation.
So great was the acclaim
awarded him by the critics and
movie-goers the world over that
Warner Brothers immediately gave
him the starring role in "They
Made Me A Criminal," which will
be shown Wednesday and Thurs­day
at the Tiger Theater. In this
picture he plays a young prize­fighter
who is forced, at the mo­ment
of his greatest triumph, to
become a fugitive from the law.
A role tailored to the measure of
the brilliant young actor, it is
certain to bring him even greater
praise than did his work in "Four
Daughters."
But Garfield's success can hard­ly
be said to have dropped from
out of the blue. The upward path
was a long one, and the climbing
was plenty tough. Born in New
York's toughest East Side neigh­borhood,
he was the son of a
tailor who worked in a sweatshop.
He grew into a fist-slinging ur­chin,
via the sidewalks, gutters,
and the corner where he sold
newspapers. Considered an "incor­rigible,"
he was sent to Angelo
Patri's School for Boys. It was
here that the boy's fortunes took
a turn for the better. Under the
wise guidance of the famous edu­cator,
and away from the crimi­nal
mobs he had begun to asso­ciate
with, he began to acquire a
sense of responsibility to mankind
—what he calls a social con­science.
Garfield credits Mr. Patri for
turning him toward a dramatic
career. The teacher encouraged
him to take part in the school
plays, and later when he was
awarded a seven months dramat­ic
scholarship at the Hecksher
Foundation, Patri loaned him five
dollars a week, which, with the
five dollars the boy was able to
earn selling newspapers, was
enough to see him through.
Another chapter in his life
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Social Dance Class
Plans Reunion
The Intramural Sports depart­ment
is planning to hold a reunion
of all students who have receiv­ed
instruction in the social dance
classes since September, 1938.
All alumni of the dance classes
who wish to attend the reunion
must register in the Student Cen­ter
tonight between 7 and 8 o'­clock
or Thursday between the
same hours.
According to the Intramural
Sports Department, there are now
25 vacancies for men in the class
which will begin meeting Thurs­day
in the Student Center. Per­mits
to participate in the class
may be obtained at the Student
Center between 7 and 8 tonight
or at the Intramural Sports office
in 210 Samford Hall between 9
and 10 next Tuesday morning.
Women students who are inter­ested
in the class are urged to
enroll as soon as possible.
The social dance classes were
begun last year for the benefit of
students who are not able to
dance. Since that time they have
proven to be quite successful and
very popular among the students.
Wax Works
This week the disc reviews re­veal
a group of sweet bands play­ing
some of the latest hit tunes.
There are a couple of hot swing
outfits thrown in to keep the jit­terbugs
in a good humor.
* * *
"That Sly Old Gentleman" is
exposed vocally by Paula Kelly,
featured singer with Al Donahue.
This Vocalion production is a
sweet swing version of this new
song hit and is followed on the
reverse side of the record by "East
Side of Heaven" with another bit
of piping by Paula Kelly. New
and good.
* * »
As her extra-curricular activity
in Kay Kyser's Musical College,
Ginny Sims has called her own
small combination together to do
"What Goes Up Must Come
Down" and "Don't Worry About
Me." These two tunes grace the
surface of a Vocalion and are done
in the smooth sweet style of this
lovely singer of songs. For some
good dreamy strains, this record
is a good bet.
* * •
In his killer-diller style Gene
Krupa and cats beat out a couple
of fox trots for Brunswick that
really kick. "Some Like It Hot,"
a Krupa composition, .gets us in
the mood while Irene Daye proves
it on the vocal course. "The Lady's
in Love With You" is another
statement in song by Irene Daye
on the reverse side of this wax
work. Krupa's band is still young
as a working unit, but they are
really turning out some solid
senders.
* • •
^ Horace Heidt and his Musical
Knights have dreamed up a bit of
commercial blowing under the
titles of "I'm Building A Sailboat
of Dreams" and "Red Skies in the
Night." Heidt's band is not the
best in the business, but we will
have to give him credit for being
about the best showman swinging
the baton. Both sides of this pro­duction
are very interesting. A
Brunswick.
* * *
Kay Kyser swings and grins 'till
you tap your pins as he plays
"That Sly Old Gentleman" and
"East Side of Heaven." Ginny
Sims shares the vocal honors with
Harry Babbitt in the first and
second tune respectively. This
Brunswick is another result of a
popular band with a fine person­ality
. . . good to the ears.
* * »
More Kyser swaying with vocal
questions by Harry Babbitt billed
as "Are There Any More At
Home Like You?" Ginny Sims
sweetly pleads on the other side
of this Brunswick that "I Want
My Share of Love." Popular Kay
which has contributed untold
depths of character and under­standing
began when he yielded
to his urge to travel. This chapter
concerns hoboing his way across
America, toiling with migratory
agricultural workers in the blaz­ing-
hot fields of the San Joaquin
Valley in California; with harvest
hands in the middle-west; spend­ing
six days in jail for vagrancy
in Austin, Texas; watching a fel­low
'bo fall to his death from "the
rods" under a freight train, and
finally contracting typhoid fever
from the unclean water given har­vest
hands on a Nebraska farm.
That helped him to find out what
the human beings he was later to
portray on stage and screen are
like.
Manners
(Continued from Pare One)
to eat this here dry bread without
lubrication." His parents, shock­ed
into silence by his actions, sit
with mouths and eyes wide open.
When his sister, pulling herself
out of a state of hysteria caused by
the wit of her brother, has re­covered
enough to grant his re­quest
and pass him the butter, he
slices off an inch or so of the stick,
and begins spreading it thickly
on the three biscuits he has seen
fit to dump on his plate. For toe
first time he notices the immobil­ity
of his parents. "What's the
matter, folks?" he blurts, "ain't
you hungry? Gee! We ain't never
had grub this good at the boardin'
house."
The secret is out! Slowly the
light of comprehension dawns on
the faces of his father and moth­er.
For seven months their boy
has been eating at a boarding
house—in an atmosphere filled
with slang, bad-manners, and fly­ing
food. He is accustomed to yell­ing
for bread and reaching up to
snag the toss of a fellow boarder
from the other end of toe table.
The words food, butter, vegetab­les,
steak, pork, slaw, potatoes,
etc., have passed out of his vocab­ulary.
In their places have ap­peared
grub, grease, weeds, sow,
pig, hay, spuds, etc.
He lives to eat. If he can eat
more than anyone else at his
boarding house in a shorter length
of time, he is a hero to his
friends. But to his parents he is
a failure. They can only com­pare
his present self to what he
used to be. They will learn that
his loud voice, slang, and bad
manners are merely passing fads,
that when he gets older he will
drop them. As an upperclassman
he will put his soul into an effort
to "out dignify" the most digni­fied
of his associates, and he will
possibly come to consider his ac­tions
as a freshman crude and
"kiddish," or merely attribute
them to a period of pranks and
foolishness.
keeps things rolling with his sing­ing
song titles with Bobby Guy
playing fine muted trumpet as
sweet interludes.
* * *
Two popular tunes done in a bet­ter
than usual manner, "The Mas­querade
Is Over" and "How
Strange" come from the Horace
Heidt outfit. Larry Cotton is the
vocalist. Heidt gives us two
smooth numbers on this one, his
latest for Brunswick, and they
make good additions for the sweet
band group.
* * *
"I Don't Believe in Signs" and
"In A Moment of Weakness" are
presented by Ray Noble in" his so­ciety
band style that is very pleas­ing.
Noble has always been noted
for his smooth and nicely varied
arrangements. These two tunes
feature Ray Hendricks in the
song department. Brunswick.
WED — THUR
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