Semi-Weekly
Wednesday THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN Enter Writing
Contest
VOL. LXI Z-I AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1938. NUMBER 39
Louie Edwards Is Selected To
Be Business Manager
Teague Serves
In Absence
Of Chief
By action of the Publications
Board, German Louie Edwards, of
Sprott, was named business manager
of the Plainsman to succeed
[Clarence M. Pruet, of Ashland,
• who resigned recently.
! Edwards is a senior in agriculture
and has been serving as business
manager of the Alabama
Farmer, monthly magazine of the
Agriculture Department. During
I the past three and a half years he
' h a s been a student at Auburn and
has maintained a high scholastic
average.
While the appointment of Pruet's
successor was pending, Sam Tea-
• gue, of Birmingham, assistant bus-
,;iness manager , was placed in
charge of the business department
of the paper and supervised the
'issues during the lapse.
! Teague is a junior in chemical
engineering and a member of the
Alpha Tau Omega social fraternity.
His other activities include
.positions as business manager of
the Glee Club, soloist in the club,
vice-president of the A. I. Ch. E.,
member of Phi Lambda Upsilon,
president of the Presbyterian Student
Association, and assistant
treasurer of his fraternity.
; Edwards will serve as business
manager for the remainder of the
current school year and will be in
complete control of the advertising
and circulation departments.
All communications concerning
these departments may be addressed
to him.
Tigers Win From
Georgia Here
The Auburn Tigers maintained
fn early lead and defeated Georgia's
basketball team, 34 to 27,
in the Alumni gymnasium last
Saturday night. The victory mark
l$d the ninth win for the Plains-fcien
in collegiate competition and
i ihe fifth in succession in conference
play.
Malvern Morgan, Auburn's pace'
getting forward, was in top form,
bitting the hoops for 14 markers,
^vith Ray Gibson collecting nine
E' oints. Kelly made eight points
) lead the Georgia outfit.
I The entire game was marked
by the fine defensive play of
the Bengals, also, the offensive
^irork. However, the Georgia Bulldogs
missed numerous "set-up"
Shots that might have had an important
hearing on the outcome
had they connected.
AUBURN G F TP
Morgan, f 5 4 14
Holmes, f 2 1 5
jfcwards, c 2 0 4
•cKiissick, g 1 0 2
ffi^son, g 4 1 9
[ GEORGIA G F TP
fcelly, f 3 2 ,8
Martin, f 0 0 0
McCaskill, f 2 1 5
Richards, f 0 0 0
barren, c 2 2 6
Thompson, g 2 3 7
Kennedy, g 0 1 1
Eldridge, g 0 0 0
Executive Secretary Of Eta
Kappa Nu Visits Auburn
Mr. Alton B. Zerby national
executive secretary of Eta Kappa
Nu national electrical engineering
honorary society arrived this
morning as a guest of the Auburn
Chapter of this fraternity. He will
be honored tonight by an informal
supper at the Tiger Cafe. Mr.
Zerby will address the student
and faculty members.
He is on a tour of Southern and
Western Chapters of Eta Kappa
Nu. This engineering fraternity
which honors high scholarship
•and outstanding achievement of
both undergraduate and professional
work in the electrical engineering
field was founded at
he University of Illinois in 1904.
Ki Chapter was founded here in
1920.
Chinese Authority
Will Speak Here
James Henry White noted authority
on Chinese life will give
an illustrated lecture on "Highlights
of Chinese Civilization" at
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Tuesday night February 22,
in Langdon Hall at 8:15. Admission
will be free.
Mr. White is bringing to Auburn
60 of the beautiful "camera-
paintings" in color which he
and his brother, Herbert C. White,
prepared during eight years' residence
in China. They will be on
display in the School of Architecture
library all day Tuesday.
Since their return from China,
the White brothers have presented
nearly 1,000 exhibitions and
lectures in leading universities,
art institutes geographic societies,
explorers' and travel clubs. Both
are active members of the Explorers'
Club of New York, Life
Founder Members of the Pacific
Geographic Society of Los Angeles,
and hold membership in many
other intenfctionally-known organizations.
Mr. White will appear Tuesday
evening clad in the ceremonial
robes of a Chinese emperor, one
of the rarest costumes ever
brought to this country from the
Far East.
Delta Sigma Pi
Has Inspector
"The efficiency contest is but a
measuring rod for chapters, and
the 99.3 per cent perfect made by
the Auburn chapter of Delta Sigma
Pi placed your chapter high
in the estimation of other chapters."
said Howard B. Johnson,
province director for Delta Sigma
Pi, who informally spoke to the
local chapter Sunday afternoon
in the Recreation Hall. Mr. Johnson
said that professional activity
was the one short-coming last
year.
Mr. Johnson came from Atlanta
with seven other members of the
Kappa chapter, and talked to the
Auburn group on chapter efficiency.
He discussed the details of
the efficiency contest that is held
each year and spoke favorably of
Auburn's records in these competitions
of the past. The Auburn
chapter is the youngest link in
Delta Sigma Pi, and Mr. Johnson
said that this chapter had developed
more rapidly than any
Southern group.
George Perry, local chapter
president, presided over the meeting.
He first called on Dr. J. H.
Goff and Prof. C. P. Austin, faculty
advisers, for short speeches
after which the meeting was turned
over to Mr. Johnson.
Mr. Johnson announced the petition
for a new chapter at Mississippi
State and said that there
would probably be one installed
there soon. He said that the grand
chapter assembly would likely be
held next year in Philadelphia.
He gave a resume of conditions at
other Southern chapters, and said
that several alumni were working
to establish an alumni club in
Birmingham. In closing, Mr. Johnson
invited the Auburn members
to visit the Kappa chapter and
extended them the services of the
Atlanta Placement Board, which
is a division of Delta Sigma Pi,
which aids students in securing
jobs after graduation.
Included in the party from Atlanta
were Mr. and Mrs. Howard
B. Johnson; Mr. and Mrs. H. C.
Kitchens; Mr. and Mrs. Leonard
P. Kuyper; Thoben Elrod and Miss
Mary Nell Hears, Leo Stellman
and Miss Martha Paris; James
Davis and Miss Mary Hill; Albert
Clark and Miss Martha Whigham;
Harry Barnes and Miss Louise
Rainey.
The library of Congress contains
5,395,044 printed books and
pamphlets, the largest collection
in the world.
Noted Pianist Will
Arrive Sunday To
Play Concert
De G r a y Will Begin A Three
Day Series Of Concerts
Here Monday
Julian De Gray, noted pianist,
will arrive in Auburn Sunday to
begin a three-day series of formal
and informal concerts and group
discussions with interested students,
faculty members, and townspeople.
He is being brought here
by the lecture fund committee
under direction of Prof. J. R. Rutland.
Mr. De Gray's opening performance
will be a formal concert
in Langdon Hall Mondiay
night at 8:15, when he will play
selections from Chopin, Bach,
Brahms, Beethoven, and Liszt,
with excerpts from Handel, Mozart
and other noted composers
for the piano possibly being included.
Students will be admitted
by presenting ticket books at the
door.
Much of his work, however, will
be done in informal conferences
and discussions with various interested
students and student
groups. Mr. De Gray is widely
traveled, and is particularly interested
in European languages,
history, and international relations.
Meetings will generally be
held around a piano, and request
numbers from his extensive repertoire
will be available.
A graduate of Columbia University
and a Phi Beta Kappa man,
Mr. De Gray was granted the
Cutting Travelling Fellowship for
his outstanding scholarship in college.
These funds he used for musical
study in Paris and London,
followed by a concert tour of
England, Holland, Germany, and
Austria. He served three years
as head piano teacher at the University
of Miami, and has been
on the music faculty of Bennington
College since the music department
was instituted.
Phi Psi Gives Spring Social
On Saturday Evening
The first spring social of the
new semester will be given by Phi
Psi honorary Engineering fraternity,
on aSturday evening when
the fraternity will entertain members
and their dates at a combination
hay ride and barbecue at
Wright's Mill.
Thirty members of the fraternity
and the Textile Engineering
faculty will enjoy the social which
will be a very delightful affair
of the spring season, George Mc-
Cutchen, president said.
The party will leave the Textile
building at 5:30 on a hay truck
Christian Leader
Paul Derring Will
Present Lecture
Students and townspeople are
invited to hear Paul N. Derring,
blind Secretary of the Virginia
Poly. Institute Y. M. C. A., speak
at Langdon Hall on Thursday
evening. Mr. Derring is being
brought to the Auburn campus
through the efforts of the Auburn
Y. M. C. A.
Mr. Derring is heralded as one
of the South's greatest Christian
leaders. He has- held the post of
General Secretary at Virginia Poly
for two decades and has done
inestimatable work at that institution.
Though blind, Mr. Derring has
attained many high honors. In
high school as a boy he suffered
the loss of eyesight in both eyes
as a result of an accident. Determination
and the will to succeed
prompted him to make necessary
'adjustments to facilitate
the continuation of his education.
In a few years after losing his
eyesight, he finished high school;
whereupon he entered college. He
matriculated at William and Mary
from which he graduated with a
B. A. degree and Phi Beta Kappa
honors, being the first blind man
to finish from a four year Virginia
College. He later attended
Vanderbilt University from which
he received his M. A. degree.
For a number of years now, Mr.
Derring has served as a member
of the Governor's Commission for
the blind in the State of Virginia.
During the World War Mr. Derring
served in the Y. M. C. A.
Army. At the close of the War he
accepted the secretaryship of the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute Y.
M. C. A. and has held this position
since. Mr. Derring is an excellent
speaker, said to have a
very fine sense of humor.
Mr. Derring will be accompanied
to Auburn by Jim Hardwick,
State Y. M. C. A. Secretary from
Birmingham. While in Auburn,
both Mr. Derring and Mr. Hardwick
will be the guests of the Auburn
Y. M. C. A.
Mr. Derring's speech is scheduled
for 7:30 p. m. in Langdon
Hall on Thursday evening.
Hindus Lecture Is Scheduled Tonight;
Many Points Of Life Are Revealed
BY MARTHA H. EDWARDS
Maurice Gerschon Hindus, internationally
famous journalist,
author, and lecturer, who for almost
20 years has been interpreting
his native Russia to the American
people, will appear here in
Langdon Hall tonight, 8:15, under
the auspices of the Auburn
Entertainment Committee. His lecture
begins promptly at 8:15.
Probably no man is more eminently
qualified today than Mr.
Hindus to give such thorough and
penetrating analysis of this enigmatic
nation.
The first 14 years of his life
were spent in Russia. But in 1905,
the year that witnessed the close
of the Russia-Japanese War, he
came with his mother to the United
States. Shortly thereafter, his
American education began in
Stuyvesant High School, New
York City. It continued until in
1915 when he received the Bachelor
of Science degree and in 1916
his Master of Science degree at
Colgate University. The following
year he entered the graduate
school at Harvard University and
wrote his first book.
Meanwhile, in his native Russia,
mysterious changes were taking
place. The Czar had abdicated
Rasputin, the Monk, was murdered;
and "Holy Russia" was "Holy"
no more.
Two revolutions, in quick succession,
proclaimed to all the
world that Russia masses wanted
relief from a life-long tyranny of
unendurable miseries — and that
they intended to have it at any
cost. The Bolshevik regime was
established—The Soviet came into
existence.
And in 1920, Russia was excluded
from the first meeting of the
League of Nations. That same
year from the facile pen of Mr.
Hindus came "The Russian Peasant"
and his first interpretation
of the contemporary Russian Revolution.
From that day until this he has
been a profound student of every
phase of Russian life. He knows
the history, literature, and language
of his native land. He knows
the problems that arise from her
physical immensity. He knows the
mind of Russia—whether it is
formed by its European heritage
or its Asiatic orgins. And he understands
her reckless experimentation.
This he interprets to his
adopted America with the fascination
of brilliant narrative and
the passion of hereditary eloquence.
All of his knowledge, however,
was not gleaned, from the printed
word. In 1923, after a long absence,
Mr. Hindus returned to Russia to
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Glee Club To Take
Five Day Tour,
April 4 To 8
Home Appearance To Be
Made Latter Part Of
Next Month
A five day tour which will take
the Auburn Glee Club to a number
of Alabama cities has been
planned for April 4 to 8. Leaving
Auburn on Monday morning, April
4, by bus, the Glee Club travels
to Huntsville where their first
concert will be given Monday
evening. On Tuesday an afternoon
appearance is scheduled for Athens
and an evening concert in
Sheffield on Tuesday evening.
From Sheffield the group travels
to Birmingham making an evening
appearance on Wednesday.
Thursday evening a concert is
scheduled at Tuscaloosa at the
University of Alabama, and on
Friday evening the tour will be
climaxed with a concert presented
at Montevallo. The return to
Auburn is slated for Saturday
morning.
In years past the Glee Club has
made an extended tour of a full
week, but curtailment of the tour
for this year was made in order
that several concerts might be
given in towns near Auburn.
Towns nearby in which appearances
will probably be made include
Tallassee, Alex City, and
possibly others.
A home appearance which will'
include the entire program to be
presented on tour will be given
in Auburn the latter part of March
several days before the start of the
tour.
The tentatively planned program
of the Glee Club will include
several semi-classical selections
by the Club as a unit, two
quartets, trio numbers, and one
piano solo.
"Liebestraum," "Neopolitan
Nights," and "We Will Always
Be Sweethearts," an unusually
popular number that will always
live, and several others will be
presented by the entire group.
The quartet composed of Dun-lap
McCorley, 1st tenor; E. O.
Pearson, 2nd tenor; Sam Teague,
baritone; and George G. Perry,
bass, is scheduled to sing two
popular songs "Down In the
Depths" and "I Got Plenty of
Nothin' " by Gershwin. Gershin's
"I Got Plenty of Nothin' " is from
his last operetta, "Porgey and
Bess" and is being presented as a
tribute to the masterful composer
who died only a few months ago.
Vocal solos to be sung by Sam
Teague are "Desert Song" and
"Can't You Hear Me Calling, Caroline.
' A piano solo, "Rondo Ca-priciosso"
by Mendelssohn will be
presented by Paul Rudolph.
One of the highlights of the program
will be a violin trio composed
of Mr. Lawrence Barnett,
Bruce Cannon, and Cecil Chilton.
Their selections will be "Dark
Eyes" and "In A Persian Market."
Officers of the Club for the current
year are Dunlap McCorley,
president; Sam Teague, business
manager; Mr. Lawrence Barnett,
director; and Paul Rudolph, accompanist.
Practice for the concert has
been in progress for several
months. Much earnest work is expended
by the members of the
Glee Club who practice twice
weekly for an hour and a half's
duration each session. As final
practice for the concert begins
music lovers of Auburn and the
towns to be visited by the Club
may anxiously anticipate the 1938
appearance of the Auburn Glee
Club.
Besides the appearance of the
Auburn Glee Club during the
spring months, there will be two
other concerts given here. Business
Manager Teague announces
that under the sponsorship of
the Auburn Club, the Huntington
Glee Club will sing here March
10. The University of Alabama
Girl's Glee Club will also give
a concert here some time in the
spring.
NOTICE
There will be an important meet
ing of the Auburn Radio Club
Thursday night at 7 o'clock in
Ramsay Hall, Room 200. All members
as well as others interested
are invited.
Close Of Creative Writing
Contest Set As March 11
Pharmacy Students
Return To School
The junior and senior members
of Auburn's Pharmacy Department
have just returned from one
of the most extensive field trips
ever offered to any group of students
on this campus. After motoring
through Tennessee, Kentucky,
Ohio, and Indiana, and
stopping at points of interest, as
Mammouth Cave, along the way,
the group of seventeen students
accompanied by two professors, arrived
in Indiannapolis at noon the
following day after departure from
Auburn.
Mr. Tom Bunlh, of the Public
Relations Committee of the Eli
Lily Co., welcomed the visitors
at the Hotel Severin. Following
luncheon in the Rainbow Room
of the hotel, a trip by bus was
made to the Biological Laboratories
located about twenty miles
from Indianapolis at Greenfield,
Ind.
The first demonstration at the
Biological Laboratory was the
preparation of small-pox vaccine.
From the observing room, similar
to those in hospitals where operations
may be seen by an outside
group, the visitors saw a skilled
veterinarian making the superficial
scratches on the antiseptically
clean abdominal area of a calf
which was strapped to an operating
table. Into those scratches were
introduced the small-pox toxin,
from which the calf later developed
the antitoxin used for human
vaccination.
The process of making diphtheria
antitoxin by injections and
various clinical processes on horses
was explained and demonstrated
to the group.
The next day was spent inspecting
the general plant. Three
thousand skilled workers are employed
by Lilly to produce the
medicals which line the shelves of
many of the drug stores in both
this and foreign countries. The
straight-line method of manufacture
is employed, that is, a
continuous chain of processes is
involved from the handling of
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Crime Detector
Lamp Secured
H. W. Nixon, head of the State
Toxicology Department, has just
established an ultra violet ra:
lamp and filter to be used for
state criminal detection work.
This lamp is used for the detection
of washed blood stains,
forged documents, finger prints,
and erased ink. It may be used
to show the difference in colors
that lok the same under the naked
eye. One of these lamps was
used on the ladder in the famous
Lindbergh case. It also has the
power to detect dope, liquor, and
watermarks.
If one of these lamps had been
available a few years ago there
would not have been the case of
the mistaken babies that gained
so much publicity in Atlanta last
year.
The Bureau of Investigation in
Washington has employed similar
machines in thousands of cases
to trace criminals and their actions
since the crime.
This is a recently developed device
in this field and Mr. Nixon
says that it will be of invaluable
aid in his investigation of criminology
in this state.
ROTC Unit Will Stage Two
Reviews In Next Two Weeks
For the first time this year two
reviews will be given two week's
in succession, Col. Fred C. Wallace,
commandant of the local
unit of the R. O. T. C, said today.
The first Of these reviews
will be at the regular drill period
tomorrow.
Uniforms for the review will be
blouses and white shirts, the commandant
said.
Winners Will
Be Printed
In Paper
Postponed because of a conflict
with first semester examinations
the end of the Plainsman
Creative Writing Contest has been
set as Friday, March 11. No entries
will be accepted after midnight
of that day.
All poetry, essay, and short
story manuscripts will be turned
over'to Dr. J. R. Rutland, Dr. .C.
P. Weaver, and Prof. H. J. Y.
Moss the' following Saturday for
judging. Fifty-two dollars has been
provided by the Plainsman as
prizes in the contest, which is
the first of its kind ever to be
held in Auburn. Awards will be
made for the best manuscripts in
edch group.
Many poems, essays, and short
stories have been turned in at
the offices of the paper and many
more erstwhile authors have indicated
their intention of turning
in other manuscripts. Contest
rules place no limit on the number
of entries an author may
make and several students have
entered all phases of the contest.
All manuscripts must be typewritten,
double-spaced on one side
of sheets of white typewriting paper,
size 8 1-2 x 11, with the name
of the student on the initial page
of each entry. Winners in each
of the three groups will be published
in the Plainsman after the
awards are made.
Short stories may range in
length from 700 to 1500 words and
essays may range from 300 to
1500 words. There is no limit on
the length or form of poems. As
no manuscripts will be returned
it is suggested that writers keep
carbon copies of their creations.
The contest was instituted to
encourage student writers who
are already active and to begin
action on the part of potential
authors who have been dormant.
It is the hope of the editors that
the contest will become an annual
afair and will give rise to
greater activity on the part of students
interested in creative writing.
With only four weeks left before
the end of the contest the
editors urge that all interested
begin to prepare final drafts of
their entries and get them in
readiness for the inspection of the
judges. The manuscripts will be
judged impartially on the basis of
content form and other points important
in good writing.
Auburn Knights
Are Popular
Returning from an engagement
at the University of Georgia, the
Auburn Knights, popular student
orchestra, played for the "A" Club
Battle of Music Saturday night
and the Jaycee Valentine Ball
Monday night.
The 'orchestra is composed of
Hilding Holmberg, drums; Robbin
Russell, piano; Curtis Griffith,
bass fiddle; Chick Hatcher, John
Ivey, and Charlie Higgins, trumpets;
Joe Mitchell, Mike Ellis,
Gerald Yelverton, and Frank Bernard,
saxaphones; and Van Hodges
and Frank Speight playing the
trombones, make up the popular
thirteen piece orchestra.
The newest member of the orchestra
is Edward Wardsworth
who is featured on the violin.
The personnel of the KnighVs
are Frank Speight, Business Manager
and Gerald Yelverton, director.
The orchestra is playing
twice daily at the College Inn,
where their music is being enjoyed
by college students. Every member
of the orchestra is in college
this year. At present, the dance
band do.es not have a featured
vocal artist. Miss Mary Bourg
who sang with the orchestra left
at the first of the year to accept
a job in a night club in Florida.
The Auburn Knights is a na-
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THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1938
Plainsman Editorials
THE "EVER WIDE AWAKE AUBURN"
GETS SOME LAURELS TODAY
"The Loveliest Village of The P l a i n s " is
by all rights the most wide-awake and
wholesome college in all t h e country, according
to a hallucinatory survey of one
who deals only w i t h trifles and ambiguity.
The survey was concerned with t h e whole
of the Auburn make-up, especially the
q u a l i t y of interest underlying its entire
s t r u c t u r e .
I n t h e first place, t h e Executive Council
t h e faculty, and others of t h e administrat
i v e group have redoubled every effort
to provide for the stimulation of activity,
comprehension, and morale of a student
body made up of men and women. They
a r e "dealing with t h em in a manner which
i s to be expected when any f o rm of human
m a t u r i t y is receiving consideration. And it
is especially satisfying how this man and
woman student body are responding so
wholehearted, without deceit or ostentation.
«
The student body is a model one, having
none of those vulgar characteristics of
. "collegiana" but a r e t r u e men and women
who a r e , a t t e n d i n g college w i t h a definite
perspective that bodies everyone, including
themselves, t h e best of good. They are
a group marked apart for their achievements
in every field of endeavor. Suffice
i t to say t h a t those fields of endeavor are
many. Many detached individuals have
r e m a r k e d that they did not see how the
puny specimens of humanity could be
capable of such a quality and q u a n t i t y of
activity.
I t is especially evident that these students
have the good interest of every contemporary
purpose at heart. It was only
a little while ago that the idea of the
Senior class' leaving a n ew main gate to
add further beautification and distinction
to the campus was launched. The interest
shown by the students in this project is
astounding. It is on everyone's lips and
were these students released to do so t he
gate would be built without another moment's
waste of time. Of course, it is
thought that by holding the m a t t e r for a-
Whrle, t h e work will mean more to everyone.
That is one of t h e many excuses for
waiting.
Too, the matter of wearing caps and
.gowns at t h e graduation exercises was r e leased
to t h e student body a short time ago.
The faculty might well be expected to
sit down in religious zeal w i t h non-attendance
should the outfits not be worn. It is
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1 News Editor: J. H. Wheeler.
Sports Editor: Bill Troup. /
• Society Editor: Eleanor Scott.
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Assistant Business Managers: Sam Teague,
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Advertising Manager: Charlie Grisham.
Assistant Advertising Managers: William Carrol,
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Strong.
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even doubtful that the seniors would be
willing to receive their diplomas unless
they be allowed to wear caps and gowns.
Another item for which a vote of thanks
is due the city proper of Auburn, is their
regard for the safety of students and
townspeople. It was stumbled upon that a
stop light was needed at one of the main
intersections of the town* Although there
has not yet been a red light installed the
idea has not rested in the minds of the
people. The reason for it's not being installed
may be laid at the excuse that there
has not been a proper day for the work.
Everyone is waiting for that day with
great anticipation.
As for the curricula work of the students,
it is above approach. Some way must
be improvised to make the work more
thorough and vexing so as to eleminate so
many of the "crip courses". The reason for
this excellent work must be laid primarily
at the hands of the administration, then
at the unexcelled cooperation of the students.
The matter of failures and probation
is a thing of the dim past, and everyone
rejoices.
Extra-curricula work at Auburn is too
a peculiar thing. Everyone has time for it.
Of course, all these extra activities require
little, if any, extra effort on the part
of the students. They just do it as a matter
of course. And it is astounding at the kind
of interest evidenced in this detail. Nothing
comes up which does not command the
entire interest of the whole student body
and faculty. Everything is directed towards
a "Bigger and a Better Auburn."
ANY TRIBUTE TO ODD McINTYRE
WOULD BE TOO WEAK
The finest epitaph that could be had for
O. O. Mclntyre is that with his death the
journalism field has lost one of its strongest
mainstays. He introduced and practiced
a form of journalism that had an unbounded
popularity, the true requisite of the
value of a thought or commodity.
His writing provided an inspiration for
many young and inexperienced writers,
especially columnists-by-wish. It was a
fresh, clarified one that delighted its readers.
The optomist might say that he has
left a store of material which may be studied
by coming writers, thereby developing
a similar medium of expression. But suffice
it to say that his was an individual
style and the Mclntyre of New York Day
by Day did an individual job. It is the men
of his capacities and nature that affords
the fine American journalism of today.
INTERFRATERNITY SINGING RANKS
WITH GOOD ACCOMPLISHMENTS
We are glad to hear that Blue Key is
planning to sponsor an interfraternity
spring singing again this year. This was
one of the most pleasing and entertaining
interfraternity competitions of last year.
The singing last spring was the first
time a competive singing between fraternities
had been tried, and it was a big success.
The fraternities really took an interest
and worked up some clever numbers.
The singing was held in the W. P. A.
amphitheater, and nearly every fraternity
on the campus took part. Accompanied by
a piano, each fraternity sang "Drink To Me
Only With Thine Eyes," and then sang
two optional songs. All singers were students,
the directors of the groups likewise.
Everyone who attended or participated
in last year's spring singing will agree that
it was a fine'thing and should be held this
year. It is one of the fairest forms of fraternity
competition because the large fraternities
have no advantage whatsoever, in
fact a fraternity's size/tends to reduce its
chances, for it is more difficult to harmonize
a number of voices than a small group.
We hope that Blue Key makes as fine a
success of this year's singing as they did
With last year's.
THE COLLEGIATE REVIEW
Modern engineering offers a career to
women as well as men, according to Dean
E. A. Holbrook of the University of Pittsburgh
school of engineering.
To relieve the tension of exams, Elmira
College serves tea and presents a special
musical program each afternoon.
Captain Fred W. Griffiths, retired naval
reserve officer, is the oldest student at
Washington University.
Talk About The Town
BY
JACK STEPPE
ROBERT LEE MUNDHENK
As you can see from the head of this thing
the editorial "we" has become an actual one.
We (singular) have often heard it remarked
that there was a noticeable lack of gray matter
being used in dishing out this tripe and
being one who can take a hint when it is
loud enough we hasten to correct this fault.—
And now we can divide the blame for this . . .
And the junior member of this firm begins
by taking us to task for our comment on
grinds as follows: "As to the "grinding' referred
to last week—Thinking back we discovered
that in our limited time we had
known a good many of the so-called 'grinds'.
"Grinds" they are only in the sense that they
lead their respective classes in scholastic
achievement. One of these scholars is now
one of the highest ranking students at M. I. T.
In his spare time he plays basketball, runs
on the track team, and holds down an N. Y.
A. job. Another at a middle western university
is on the varsity football, basketball and
track teams. In our own school the highest
ranking student scholastically has entered
into minor sports and established a fine record
in extra curricula activities. Summing
it up it would seem that the leading scholars
are often far from being "semi-hibernating
grinds."
To which we might add the exceptions only
prove the rule. •
From Elbert Hubbard comes these apt definitions:
"A genius is any person whose
birthday is celebrated throughout the world
about one hundred years after he has been
crucified, burned, ostracized, or otherwise put
to death." And for you gossip fiends is this:
"Gossip is a vice enjoyed vicariously—a sweet
subtle satisfaction without the risk."
The passing of Odd Mclntyre leaves a void
in the world of journalism that will be as
hard to fill as that left by Will Rogers. Odd
was easily the best of the metropolitan columnist
and he was perhaps the most widely
read. He made the big city scene seem like
the home town Main Street. There are many
who considered their day incomplete if they
missed his daily vignette, among which we are
numbered. He leaves a lingering memory of
his work behind him.
A contributed fantasy for which we are
in no way responsible:
The Packard leaned over to the Cadillac:
"Dear," he whispered in hia finely modulated
voice. "I'll be leaving in a moment or two.
Will you give me your answer before I go?"
Silence—except for the quiet breathing of
the two fine engines and the barely audible
throbbing of the Packards deep heart. Then
the Cadillac sighed. "But I'm not sure yet,"
she hesitated. "Deusy here," indicating a
rakish job on her left, "asked me the same
thing. Oh, you men hurry a girl so!"
The Duesenberg glared. "Don't listen to that
primrose, Cadillac. You want a guy with
nerve, class and dash—like me." Hhis chro-mimum
glittered as he swaggered in her
glance.
The Packard kept his voice even. "What do
you say, dear?"
Again the Cadillac hesitated. "Well, I hate
to hurt you boys, for you have both been so
nice. But you see that Buick coupe across
the floor asked me to marry him yesterday.
So I'm sorry but I can't be your Valentine."
We are quite inclined to agree with the
psuedo-signed letter in the last edition on its
indictment of one of our columnists. The
writer of the said column can do much better
than that and we hope he can take the hint
and make some changes in his stuff. Bad
writing is bad enough but bum poetry is decidedly
worse. Perhaps we are not of a poetic
nature but such as has appeared in that
column leaves a bad taste in our mouth.
Next week the senior class votes on the
issue of the new main gate, which we definitely
favor, and also the question of caps and
gowns for graduation. For our part we believe
there should be no vote on it. Caps
and gowns should become as regular a part
of the graduation exercises as the "now you
are going out into the cold, cold world" speech
that marks every graduation exercise. Auburn
is no longer a "cow college" and the
cap and gown at the graduation will aid in
abolishing that psuedonym. The dignity of
the occasion demands them, including the
faculty, and we see no sane reason why the
class should not vote in favor of them. We
might at least have one opportunity to look
like scholars.
That, is as far as we go today—in other
words this is the end of the line.
Sixteen Ems
BY SPACER OUTER
Ho Hum! Spring fever has us in its clutches
and we struggle to keep awake. However,
our fever will drop off like all the peach
blossoms when this Indian Summer comes to
an abrupt end.
We address a little message to some two
or three hundred unfortunates who are the
victims of a medieval ogre.
That's all right, little probationary,
Don't you cry . . . .
The cut rule will be repealed by and by.
The next thing that will be installed at the
institution will be a parole system and other
measures adapted from the machinations of
the Prison Board.
Numerous rebels and reds who are on the
verge of striking against the cut rule find
themselves without a soap-box orator and
leader. Their plans seem destined to fall
through if a leader is not secured. We suggest
that they send out sandwich men bearing
the sign, "Wanted, One Rabble Rouser."
An Epistle From Pete
dere spacer outer
Jest inn and out that's me. Sorta like a
mean ole snake's forked tung adartin inn
and out. i kem tew Oibern bekase i hered
tell of a fite the orkestreys was agoin tew
have, i sort of figgered that their wood be
about as much blood as we have inn hawg
killin time and all the time hit were jest sum
new tangled joock the Aye klub were havin.
Ennyhow i kem down tew the farest villidge.
i decided owin as tew while i ere hear i
mite to well go tew the gymnasty and shake
a wikked laig along with the other desiples of
the turpseekorem art as twere. What gouged
me in the ribbs ontel i laffed were that the
Nitegowns all went off tew get a new sooit
and when they come back they was shore
surprised te fine out that evvybody had a
sooit jest alike as the Taylor twins. The
Nitegowns begun tew swingin and Perry the
Lamar come up with a fiddle and stole the
show clean away. Then the Cavvyleers come
tew blow hit out. Norman the Perry and
Hey Suey won the prizes in the musikal"
nollege contestation and evvybody got a lick
. of the Perry's candy but hymn. Then Laurens
the Pierce whistled like hit was a brite
summer day and the battle ended with no
blood, whooosh!
On tew the middyweigh where stewdents
fell back in horrificatin when they thought
the prexy of the alumgrads was aguzzlin of
bear and all the time hit were jest a ninterior
deckerater from Opihika. And Annie the Lou
tagged her date fer he had a new sooit. Hit's
sprang.
Whooosh! come valubletime and harts went
hear and the^r. The whether man made ar-ranginment
tew have a full moon fer pittypat
nite when me and Mirandey Lou was sighin
like tew kittens in front of the far of blazin
lawgs.
i ain't got no more time tew be a foolin with
yore paper space fer i have got tew far up the
still.
Closingly yores,
"pete
"The last straw," says Jack Birdsong, "is
when a hobby horse throws you." Freshman
Jack Birdsong was up in the gym to see a fraternity
basketball game last week when this
episode took place. While strolling around
the gym floor waiting for the teams to resume
play, Jack saw the big padded gym horse and
couldn't resist trying a handstand. He had
hardly placed his weight on the horse when
one of the big iron legs gave way and the
horse fell . . . with Jack underneath.
Several onlookers rescued him from the
horse and brushed the dust from his clothes.
Jack rubbed his chin as he walked away
mumbling "that's the very last straw, being
thrown by a hobby horse."
The booing of the referee in Monday night's
basketball game is something that every Auburn
student should be ashamed of. It takes
a good sport to lose well but it is even harder
to be a good winner. Even if the officials were
wrong why not give him the benefit of the
doubt?
The Auburn Players, as a result of the
forthcoming production of "The Forest" are
at last getting some of the publicity they
justly deserve. Operating on a very limited
budget the Players have given some very
creditable productions in spite of an apathy
on the part of most of the students toward
their work. Perhaps the rising current of
interest will serve to help the Players in
gaining the support, both moral and financial,
that they need.
News And Views
BY L. E. FOSTER
"Small cheer and great welcome make a
merry feast."
The alumni victory feast in Montgomery
last Thursday night had both cheer and welcome
in abundance . . . cheer evolving from
the fellowship of uniting sons of Auburn, and
welcome to the players, coaches and old timers
who came from all over the state to attend.
It was a fine meeting, perhaps the best
alumni gathering in school history. Dr. Duncan
said, "This is the best alumni meeting I
have attended in my 41 years of service to
Auburn." If we can judge from alumni comment,
it certainly was the most fruitful meeting
yet.
The banquet was a royal treat for the deserving
Orange Bowl champions and the
coaches, and the highest tributes were paid
them. Though the meeting was dominated by
informal joking and personal cracks, there
were plenty of significant points driven home,
and anyone who attended will agree that this
banquet will pay dividends for Auburn.
Auburn is indebted to Dr. George Wheeler
and the other ever-supporting alumni who
made this banquet such a success.
MORE GOVERNMENT — Our people would
be benefitted by the installation of a government
propoganda board. The New York Institute
of Propoganda Analysis conducts research
and makes appraisals of current propoganda,
and we think the service they rend-'
er could be made into a great national service.
The New York board is composed of 15
men, all specialists in some field, and the sole
purpose of their work is to break down current
propoganda df newspapers, political
parties, broadcasts, moving pictures and other
sources. They publish their decisions in a
journal to their subscribers and make public
any simulations they discover. Funds for operations
are secured, from the Edward Filene
trusts.
We should like to see this service expanded
a hundred times and made a part of the government,
for it could serve a needy cause in
this country. Our people are putty in the
' hands of the propogandists, and we badly
need education along this line. A non-partial
board could make news circulators "truth
conscious" and could help us separate propoganda
from news.
REMARKS AT RANDOM — Most of us
found the general run of Valentines just a bit
too expressive.
RAMBLING — You weren't by any chance
blushing when you bought your sweetie's
Valentine, were you? Come, come now, didn't
you flush just a little when you went through
the samples trying to choose one that would
just fit your situation? You know you did,
and y©u felt foolishly self-conscious when
you made the final selection with folks on
all sides casting glances at you. You bet
your boots you did, and so did everyone else
who hit the last minute rush and had to
choose with a bunch of other "scandalizin'"
students. It must be modesty in us, just plain
modesty.
DID YOU KNOW THAT—the work already
done on the drainage project for the
new stadium represents an investment of
about $40,000?
NEWS ALABAMA—The Montgomery Advertiser
lost a fine man and a fine sports
writer when Stuart X. Stevenson resigned
to accept a new position.
Stevenson has been a true friend of Auburn
while on the Advertiser staff, and
words cannot convey the appreciation that
we feel for his efforts. He stayed with us
in the calms and in the storms, and has been
Auburn's number one backer among the
sportswriters.
We wish him well in his new line of endeavor,
and hope that he will continue being the
genuine Auburn supporter he has been in the
past years.
OF LATE—U. S. Steel took a bluff from
the Napoleon of labor, John L. Lewis, and
renewed its CIO contract—In a roundabout
way Japan told America that its nose was too
long when she replied to an American requests
for details of the Japanese naval program—
Eddie Cantor's daughter, Edna, received
bruises and scratches when the car in
which she was riding collided with another
in Beverly Hills last Friday—King Carol of
Romania became Europe's newest dictator
when he took over the nation's reigns last
Thursday—The New York Yankee's 'pride
and joy, Columbia Lou Gehrig, still holds out
and cries "$41,000 or fight"—Chicago's gangland
smote its first big stroke in some months
when thugs "burnt down" Sam Costello and
wounded three associates ift the same filthy
manner in which the St. Valentine Day Massacre
was conducted a few years ago.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1938 THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
Ingram Hits New
High In His Golf
W. T. Ingram, accountant and
t urchasing agent with the Ala-ama
Polytechnic Institute, receiv-d
the thrill of his golfing life
Jaturday afternoon on the Auburn
Country Club course when a
nashie tee shot on the 145-yard
ixth hole dribbled across the
reen and into the cup for a hole-i-
one^ -
Witnessing the shot were his
artners on the round, W. M. Howell
of the School of Veterinary
ledicine, Lyle Brown of the Ex-insion
Service, and Dr. G. W.
"oik of the School of Agriculture
xperiment station.
Complete scores for the nine-ole
round gave Mr. Ingram a 36,
ivo over par. He shot par golf on
lie first two holes, one over par
n the third and fourth; one un-er
on the fifth; his ace on the
ixth, one over on the seventh;
>ar on the eighth; and ran into
flurry of putting trouble for a
on the par 4 ninth hole.
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SOCIETY AND NEWS FEATURES
ELEANOR SCOTT, EDITOR
Marriage Of Former Student
Is Announced Recently
Capt. and Mrs. R. B. Hart, of
Fort Bragg, N. C, announce the
marriage of their sister, Miss
Betty Whitney, to a former student
of Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
Lieut. Robert B. Waller.
They were married by the Rev.
W. W. Holmes at the Rayne Methodist
Church in New Orleans on
Jan. 13.
Mrs. Waller is a graduate of the
Lowell School in New Jersey.
Lieut. Waller was a member of
Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity
at A. P. I., where he completed
his'' education. H e is now at Abbeville,
La., on army assignment.
Vinson-Johns Wedding Proves
Interesting Student Event
A wedding of much interest to
Auburn students was that of Miss
Elvis Vinson, of Louisville and
Mr. Clinton H. Johns of Clayton,
an Auburn graduate of the past
year.
The ceremony was performed
by the Rev. T. Tubb at the home
of the bride's mother.
Miss Vinson is the youngest
daughter of Mrs. Ver;a Norton
Vinson and the late E. B. Vinson.
She attended Alabama College the
past semester. Mr. and Mrs. Johns
will make their home in Clayton,
where Mr. Johns is assistant
county farm agent for Barbour
County.
Auburn's Only Active Taxidermist Tells
Reporter A Few Points Of His Work
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BY J. H. WHEELER
Fred S. Barkalow, Jr., was
busily lacing on the head of a
Virginia White-tail deer with a
strong piece of shoemaker's flax.
Across the room, workers in the
Wildlife Research Laboratory were
inspecting and cataloging a pile
of dead birds.
, "Never cut the throat of a deer
if you want it mounted" Mr. Bark-alow
began, explaining why his
sewing was being done at the
back of the animal's head. "The
hair is thinner in front and the
seams will show. A deer can be
bled more effectively by removing
the heart."
Mr. Barkalow, the youngest instructor
of the department of zoology-
entomology at A. P. I., is
the only actively-engaged taxidermist
in Auburn. His experience
in mounting birds, mammals,
fish, and snakes extends over a
period of ten years, during which
he has collected specimens for the
Field Museum in Chicago and
paid a large portion of his expenses
at Georgia Tech through
taxidermy work.
"The first step in mounting a
specimen is to remove the skin*
and scrape off all adhering flesh,"
he continued. "Then it is soaked
in salt and alum for preserving,
rubbed with arsenic to prevent
damage by moths and other insect
pests, and finally is sewed
or laced over a form of papier-mache."
Most of Mr. Barkalow's specimens
are hawks, owls, other small
birds, and deer. "I mount a few
fish, but not many," he said. The
average small bird requires about
two hours to mount while around
thirty hours' work is necessary
for the head of a deer.
His kit of taxidermy tools and
material includes a voluminous assortment
of glass eyes, wires for
stiffening the legs of birds, ten
different pairs of scissors, rolls
of shoe-maker's flax for attaching
the skin to its form, chemicals
of various sorts for preserving,
leather tools, surgical knives,
brushes, rawhide and waxes.
The majority of his work is
done for private persons who wish
to have their trophies of the chase
or the fishing trip mounted for
"keepsakes," but he often mounts
specimens for the School of Agriculture
museum at Auburn.
Many of his taxidermy hours at
Tech were devoted to mounting
specimens for the biology department.
Besides his interest in taxidermy,
Mr. Barkalow is an ardent
nature photographer and has an
interesting collection of snapshots
he has taken of animals in their
native haunts.
DID YOU KNOW
THAT ALL THE LAUNDRY AND DRY
CLEANING SENT TO THE
IDEAL LAUNDRY
IS COVERED BY FIRE AND THEFT
INSURANCE. THAT ALL SUPPLIES
ARE STANDARDIZED
Auburn Golf Club
Elects Officers
At a recent meeting of the
stockholders of the Auburn Golf
Club the following officers were
elected: Dr. C. S. Yarbrough, president;
John Williamson, vice-president;
Travis Ingram, secretary
and treasurer. A new board of
directors was elected and will consist
of the officers of the club
and the following directors: Dr.
J. L. Seal, A. L. Thomas, and
Emil Wright.
The club has secured the services
of retired Sgt. Ed Martin to
manage the golf course and supervise
all labor on the forty acre
tract which comprises the course.
A tournament committee was
appointed in addition to the regular
service committees of the club.
The committee is planning a tournament
which will be held within
the next sixty days. Appropriate
prizes will be awarded, and a
big barbecue will be held afterwards.
A committee has been appointed
to visit Montgomery to discuss
with Col. Burker, Director of
State Parks, the possibility of
building a nine or eighteen hole
golf course at Chewacla State
Park.
Special student rates for golf,
and tennis have been made and
are as follows; $12.50 per school
year, $7.50 per semester, and $2.00
per month for golf, and $9.00 for
nine months, $4.50 per semester,
and $1.50 per month for tennis on
the club's hard surfaced courts.
Former Student Is
Campus Visitor
. Locke Gaston, graduate of the
class of 1907, was a recent visitor
at his Alma Mater. For the past
ten years he has been making his
home in Des Moines, Iowa, where
he is connected with the Westing-house
Electric Company.
Since graduation Mr. Gaston has
been employed by this company in
Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne,
and Cincinnatti.
While on the campus he made
a short talk to the class of Electrical
Engineers on a subject dealing
with his experiences in the
business.
He has been on a leave of absence
to his home in Gastonburg,
called there by the death of his
mother. While attending Auburn
he was a classmate of Prof. C. R.
Hixon, associate dean of Chemical
engineering.
The wrong; evening; wrap was
taken by mistake at the "A" Club
dance Saturday night. The person
taking; the wrong; wrap should see
Mrs. Nickel at the Gym, thereby
securing; the right one.
Battle Of Music
Is Interesting
"The Battle of Music" sponsored
by the Auburn "A" Club
last Saturday night still leaves
the students and observers arguing
and commenting on the ability
of their favorite college band.
If any decision was reached it
was only in the mind of the individual
person, and if he doesn't
wish to meet with serious disagreement
he had better be careful
to keep his opinion strictly to
himself.
The Auburn Knights played for
the first hour and a half of the
"Battle" and featured several novelty
numbers. Among them was
the famous selection of "Around
the World with Glory," "Glory to
Old Auburn," and a clasisical
number featuring Mike Ellis as
Toscanini in an imitation of his
famous Philadelphia Philharmonic
Symphony Orchestra. Did the
Knights win?
The Cavaliers came in for the
last half of the jamboree to claim
their distinction as a leading campus
dance band. They, also, had
some outstanding novelty numbers,
and presented Perry Lamar
and his "cigar box" violin. Did
the Cavaliers win?
There were several lead-outs
during the course of the evening,
and the entire affair was a different
and spectacular event.
MISERY LOVES COMPANY
She washed her stockings
And brushed her hair,
But never a breath
Of a bedttaie prayer
Did she mutter.
But went to sleep instead
The moment she tucked
Herself in bed.
At eight in the morning
She dashed for the shower,
Dressed, and was off
In half an hour.
And she smacked her lips,
For the thought did strike her
There were countless coeds
Exactly like her!
—Nancye Thompson
Madalyn Chambless Marries
Barnly Muse In Montgomery
The marriage of Miss Madalyn
Chambless to Mr. Barnly Monroe
Muse, an alumnus of Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, was quietly
solemnized in Montgomery, Sunday
morning at 8 o'clock.
The bride is the attractive
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alex
Chambless of Montgomery. Following
her graduation from Lanier
High School, she attended
Huntingdon College from where
she was graduated.
Immediately following the ceremony,
Mr. Muse and his bride left
for Atlanta, where they will make
their home temporarily.
Personals
Miss Ann Dexter visited her
family in Columbus last weekend.
Miss Mabel Powers spent the
past weekend with Marie Johnson
at her home in Langdale.
Patsy Boyd of Montgomery
spent the weekend with her cousins
Leonard, Jack, and Bobb Lett,
of Auburn.
Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Callen
visited here last week. Mr. Callen
is with Western Union and is being
transferred from New York to Dallas,
Texas.
Mrs. Hamp Williams visited in
Auburn this week.
Miss Mary Ellen Webb and Mr.
and Mrs. Ginter of Piedmont, Alabama
visited Orville Ginter, Sigma
Chi, this weekend.
The Beta Chapter of Alpha Lambda
Tau entertained members,
pledges, and dates with a picnic
Saturday night.
Miss Culver Attends
Alumni Council
Miss Claire Culver, office secretary
of the Auburn Alumni Association,
represented the College
at the annual meeting of the American
Alumni Council held reentry
at Tallahassee, Florida, taking
the place of Porter Grant, executive
secretary, who was unable
to attend.
Six Southern States were represented
with alumni presidents
and secretaries from Alabama,
Florida, Georgia, North and South
Carolina, and Virginia. These
states constituted the District III.
Among resolutions adopted were
that alumni work should begin
with the student in college; that
the real objective of an alumni
association is to further the serious
purpose of the college and
that the alumni program should
be made accordingly; that the
alumni fund from the graduates
should be developed as an aid in
the relation of the financial problems
of the college; that alumni
secretaries should serve in long
tenure because of the semi-professional
nature of their work.
Highlights of the entertainment
afforded the visitors, according to
Miss Culver, luncheons at t>ie
Floridan Hotel and Wakulla
Springs; a tea at the Florida State
College; formal banquet in the
F. S. C. W. dining hall; a police
escorted motor tour of Tallahassee's
points of interest and a boat
ride.
Miss Culver pointed out that
the members of the council showed
a keen interest in the various
phases of the work of the Auburn
Alumni and praised the work at
Auburn. "I was even more keenly
appreciative of the fact that Auburn
is making better progress
than some of the institutions who
have had a complete alumni staff
for many years."
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Many Students Hear
Lopez Orchestra
The junior League Charity Ball
held in Montgomery Monday night
was attended by many Auburn
students and several faculty members.
The dance was held in the
city auditorium and the music
was by Vincent Lopez and his
orchestra who came directly from
an engagement at the Drake Hotel
in Chicago.
During the evening Lopez presented
several novelties, the best
being a "Southern Camp meeting"
in which the audience joined
in. The most popular member of
the band appeared to be Betty
Jane who added trucking and
suzycuing to her singing.
Among the Auburn people attending
were Ben Branch, Floyd
Pugh, John Harris, Gene Sanderson,
Waldo Golson, Bill Whitehead,
J. Wiley Sharpe, Charlie
Miller, Banks Haley, Lois Watts,
Arthur Kyser, Cecil Conner, Paul
McKinny,. Rat Reynolds, Chalmers
Watkins and Barnard Sykes.
Beta Kappa Entertains With
Valentine Party Saturday
A Valentine party for pledges,
members and dates was given Saturday
night by the Beta Kappa
fraternity.
The house was decorated with
red and white crepe paper and
red hearts. The affair was chaperoned
by Mrs. Suzy Wright,
house mother. . .
Among the girls present were
Lucile Gibson, Eleanor Scott, Kate
Teague Gresham, Annie Moon,
Margaret Johnson, Elizabeth Poin-dexter,
Tommie Ruth Hand, Vel-ma
Long.
Pi Kappa Phi To Hold Dance
At W. P. A. Hall Friday
The Alpha Iota Chapter of the
Pi Kappa Phi social fraternity
will hold its second semester formal
on Friday evening, February
18, at the W. P. A. Hall.
Bids have already been issued
to fraternity friends. Dancing will
be enjoyed from nine-thirty to one
thirty with music furnished by
the Knights orchestra.
The fraternity colors, gold and
white, and the fraternity flower,
the red rose, will predominate in
decorations.
Theta Upsilon Entertains
With Tea On Saturday
Iota Alpha chapter of Theta Upsilon
sorority entertained the
pledges and some of their friends
at a tea Sunday afternoon at the
chapter room at the home of Mrs.
D. L. Bush.
The chapter room and living
room were decorated with a profusion
of early spring flowers, the
colors being pink, white and yellow.
Miss Lillian Cunningham poured
tea and was assisted in serving
by Misses Carleton Farish, Ann
Mason, Mattie Jo Barber, and
Eleanor Home. The Valentine
theme was carried out in the refreshments.
Besides the members and pledges,
the following guests were
present: Gertrude Watson, Katie
Lee Robinson, Jean Zimmerson,
Margaret Lynch, Mary Carden,
Lucille Gaines, and Mamieneal
Primm.
The patronesses and several of
the alumni called during the tea
hour.
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'Big Apple Revue'
On At Tiger
Dan Fitch, for a quarter of a
century the favorite son of the
show business had decided to make
his exit when the Big Apple
came to town and took a front-row
seat. His announcement, effective
one year ago, that he had
retired from the entertainment
field went up in thin air, and Dan
is back at his old tricks with a
new show called "The Big Apple
Revue."
When Dan hoard the world
suddenly buzz with "Big Apple,"
-he had a contented vision of a
big, juicy red apple. Well upholstered
in one of the handsome
apartment houses he now,
owns in Miami Beach, Florida, he
hadn't heard much about the contagious
dance that had come to
life in Columbia, South Carolina.
Like wildfire news of this
strange new dance escaped the
quarantine of the Carolinas and
infected the entire South, spreading
North. A dance of joy, like
the supreme moment when a
darky "gets religion," had seeped
out of a Negro dance hall (called
the Big Apple Hall) in South
Carolina and had spread to both
the child and adult world of the
whites.
Dan Fitch has been dancing
since he began to crawl. An incurable
curiosity stirred him to
I investigate the Big Apple dance
\at first hand and he came to the
Carolinas to look it over. "Why,
what they do in the Big Apple
I've been doing all my life," he
remarked, his own legs aching
to be in the Big Apple ring.
Thus it is that a name which
has been flashed on almost every
theatre facade in the country once
again will be in the electric lights
in front of the Tiger Theatre
Thursday. "The Big Apple Revue"
on stage and the screen attraction
w.il be "Girl With Ideas."
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the crude drug to the shipment
of the finished product.
Groups of five students each
with a department head who explained
each of the steps as viewed,
spent the entire day in the
plant. Among the interesting
things was a gelatin capsule machine,
the output of which is
three and a half million per
day. There were huge presses used
in the extraction of liver and
pancreas. Alcohol was stored in
gallons. Fluid extracts were made
in percolators so tall that they extended
from the ceiling of one
room to the floor of the room
underneath.
In another department pills were
n<ade and coated in revolving
pans. Other types of medicines
that the students saw in the process
of manufacture were ointments,
tablets and ampules.
Eli Lily Co., spared no expense
to make the trip of the most
enjoyable and instructive nature.
Dining at the Rainbow Room was
a treat. The last luncheon was
at the Woodstock Country Club,
one of the most exclusive and beautiful
in Indianapolis. Sightseeing
trips and other forms of entertainment
filled in the extra hours.
Those who made the trip were
as follows: Prof. G. W. Hargreaves,
Prof. A. F. Nickel, Mary Pearce,
Ruby Helen Stokes, Frank As-hurst,
Bill Cahoon, Tom Hagan,
John Harrell, A. D. Holmes, James
Hodges, Welton Jackson, W. M.
Lamar, J. L. Meigs, M. V. Mimme,
Tommy Robertson, A. E. San-sing,
Sam Tharp, Warren Stough,
Bill Ward, Mr. A. D. Lipscomb,
and Mr. A. E. Page of Montgomery.
ASCE Gives Two Prizes For
Best Papers In Contest
The Alabama section of the A-merican
Society of Civil Engineers
has deposited twenty-five
dollars with the Accountant's office
to be given in a contest to
the student writing the best paper
on some subject concerning
engineering, according to Dr. John
J. Wilmore, dean of the School of
Engineering.
Two prizes will be given for
the best paper. The first prize
will be fifteen dollars and the
second will be ten dollars. The
contest is open only to members
of the student chapter of the college.
The judges of the contest will
be the faculty of the Engineering
Department, Dean Wilmore said.
The prizes will be awarded at
Commencement exercises in May,
at which time other contest a-wards
will be made.
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The Mexican orchid grows with
its roots upward, its blooms downward.
Six per cent of the world's population
live in the United States.
Maurice Hindus
(Continued from Page Four)
make first-hand observations for
Century Magazine. Thereafter the
visits were of almost annual regularity,
often of several months'
duration. Results of his findings
have been recorded in numerous
dozen magazines and in his six
books, to say nothing of the vast
audiences reached by his lecture
tours.
Some of the magazines in which
his writings have appeared are
Asia, Harper's, Century, Current
History (New York Times), Nation,
New Republic, Literary Digest,
and Saturday Review of
Literature.
Phases of Russian thought that
he has discussed include "Russia's
Challenge to Christianity," "Revolt
of the New Immigrant," "The
Jew in Revolutionary Russia,"
"Marriage as It Is To Be," "What
It Means To You."
Most significant of the magazine
articles relating to the Soviet
experimentation are two that appeared
in Harper's Magazine in
March 1933 and May 1937, respectively.
In the first he answers
the question, Has the Five
Year Plan Worked?, calling attention
to the human sacrifices
made by the Russian Masses for
the "Plan" -and pointing out their
hope for future development on
the foundation laid in the first
Five Year Period.
In the second article, "Russia
Grows Up," he records the astounding
changes in human attitudes,
marvels at the growing
spirit of nationalism and shows
how the problems of production
and consumption affect the economic
and socialogical security
of the people.
Meanwhile his books "Broken
Earth" (1926), "Humanity Uprooted"
(1929), and "Red Bread,"
(1931) relate his intimate observations
of the Soviet System,
describing the aims of its policies
and their effect upon the Russian
population in all its various
phases.
So graphic was each successive
account that when The Great Offensive
appeared in 1933 describing
"the making of a new economic
order" and "the creating of
a new human personality" it was
raised to the rank of best-seller
in the non-fiction class and was
highly praised by the foremost
literary critics.
His latest book "Moscow Skies"
(1936), is still another story of
the new society in the making. The
story that Mr. Hindus tells in his
magazine articles and books is
the one that he tells to his audi-
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tionally known dance orchestra
as it was under the direction of
the Music Corporation of America
last summer but was on the
road as Billy Shaw and his or-ences
as a lecturer. They are
authentic—more than that, they
are human. And no one who is
interested in the great political
philosophies in conflict in our
social orders today can fail to be
interested.
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Special features for the band
include interpretations by the various
dance bands of the country.
The arrangements for the orchestra
are made by the director. The
Auburn Knights Glee Club composed
of the entire orchestra is
an added feature.
During the mid-term vacation
the orchestra played at Radium
Springs, near Albany, Ga. Their
next dance will be the one in
Georgia on Saturday in Athens.
The next dance on this campus
will be on Feb. 12.
THURSDAY
ON OUR STAGE
"Big Apple
Revue"
with
DAN FITCH
and 20 artists including the Champion Big Apple
Dancers of the South
on the screen
"A GIRL WITH IDEAS"
With Wendy Barrie — Kent Taylor
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