1940-04-09 The Auburn Plainsman

              Freshmen, Sophomores
Vote On Thursday THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN Six Weeks Till
Final Exams
VOL. LXIII z-i ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, APRIL 9, 1940 Number 54
ODK Selects Twelve Men From Junior Class
Sophomores And
Freshmen Ballot
Next Thursday
Three Polls to be
Maintained as in
Junior Election
The freshman and sophomore
classes will go to the polls Thurs­day
to elect their class officers
for next year. Balloting will be
held from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. at
boxes placed at Student Center,
Ag Hill, and Vet Hill, according
to John Watters, chairman of the
Elections Committee.
Attention is again called to the
fact that students must present
their student activity books to ob­tain
ballots. All agricultural stu­dents
must vote in Comer Hall on
Ag Hill, vets must vote in the vet
library on Vet Hill, and all other
students must vote in Student
Center. No politieing except per­sonal
approach will be allowed.
Corrections to the list of can­didates
as given in last Friday's
issue are: J. W. Morgan is a soph­omore
in agriculture from Albert-ville
and is a Pi Kappa Phi; Robert
Farrell is a candidate for secre­tary
of the Executive Cabinet and
not secretary of the sophomore
class; and J. Prude McGee has
withdrawn as candidate for secre­tary
of the Cabinet.
Candidates for treasurer of the
sophomore class were not an­nounced
in last Friday's issue.
They are Wiley Fancher and Jack
K. Moore.
Hobbie to Address
Engineering Seminar
On Class Selection
E. H. Hobbie of the Mississippi
Glass Company has been engag­ed
to speak at the Engineering
Seminar meeting Thursday night
on "The Importance of Glass Se­lection
for Daylight Illumination
of Industrial Buildings." The sem­inar
meeting will be held in WPA
Hall at 7:30 p.m.
The speaker has been connected
with the glass manufacturing in­dustry
for many years, and this
year has made a number of talks
on the subject at other colleges.
The last seminar meeting of the
year is to be held Tuesday night,
April 16, with Mr. Warren Mc-
Bride, president of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers,
as the speaker.
Notice
The Aero Club will meet tonight
in Ramsay 109 at 8 o'clock.
Theta Epsilon Inducts
Nine Junior Coeds
Banquet Follows Initiation of
Home Ec Honor Students
Nine outstanding home economics students were initiat­ed
last night into membership in Theta Epsilon, honorary
home economics society. Juniors in home economics are
selected on the basis of scholarship, personality and pro­fessional
character.
The new members are Ruby Braly, Athens; Annabelle
Cammack, Grove Hill; Frances Hodge, Wadley; Margaret
Lindon, Leeds; Ruby Morrison, Jacksonville, Fla.; Edith
Mosely, Montgomery; Ruth Sund-berg,
Fairhope; Bess Tompkins,
Auburn; and Margaret Whatley,
Auburn.
Following the initiation cere­monies
at Smith Hall the new
members were entertained with a
banquet at the Tiger Cafe. Facul­ty
members present were Mrs.
Marion Spidle, head of the School
of Home Economics, Mrs. Marion
Richardson, Miss Lilly Spencer,
Miss Florence Davis, Miss Dana
Gatchell, and Mrs. Dorothy
Arnold.
Members of Theta Epsilon are
Lallie Fee Cook, president; Mary
Frances Nail, vice-president; Mil­dred
Sconyers, secretary; Eliza­beth
Rimes, treasurer; Helen
Porch, Carleton Farish, and Mar­garet
Pearson.
Finals Ducats On THREE COLLEGES New Members'Names
Placed on Main Gate
DELTA SIGMA PI
INITIATES EIGHT
Judge Samford Speaks
At Dinner of Group
Delta Sigma Pi, honorary busi­ness
administration fraternity, in­itiated
eight members last night,
then followed with a banquet held
at the College Inn.
Inducted into membership were
Peyton Thrasher, Huntsville; P.
Bruner, Birmingham; A r t h ur
Burnette, Florence; Euguene Cor-bett,
Morristown, Tenn.; Edward
Gilmer, Montgomery; V e r n on
Morgan, Georgiana; W. J. Phipps,
Opelika; Mitchell Wadkins, Au­burn.
Presiding over the ceremonies
was Frank Wilson, new president
of Delta Sigma Pi, who succeeds
Rufus Porter.
Dean J. W. Scott of the School
of Science and Literature spoke
briefly to the group, then was fol­lowed
by Judge T. D. Samford,
Jr., who delivered the principal
address of the evening.
Parents Day For
1940 Is On May 5
Interfrat Council
And API Cooperating
Sunday, May 5, will be Parent's
Day at the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute. Sponsored jointly by
the Interfraternity Council and
the college, hundreds of parents
of Auburn students are expected
to visit their sons and daughters
here on that day.
Special Parent's Day services
have been arranged at the local
churches, and in the afternoon the
visitors will have opportunity to
inspect the 14 new buildings re­cently
completed in Auburn's ex­pansion
program. There will also
be a polo game on Bullard Field
that afternoon.
A cordial invitation to all par­ents
of Auburn students to come
to Auburn on May 5 is issued by
Pres. L. N. Duncan. "We hope that
parents will take advantage of
this opportunity to visit Auburn
on May 5 and be the joint guests
of your sons or daughters and
the college," he said.
Parents of fraternity men will
be entertained at luncheon on
Sunday at the various fraternity
houses. If weather permits, sev­eral
of the fraternities plan to
serve the luncheon on the lawns
of their chapter houses.
Thursday's Elections Slate
FRESHMEN
PRESIDENT, SOPHOMORE
CLASS
Joe C. Jones
Tom Bullington
Malcolm Hunter
VICE-PRESIDENT,
SOPHOMORE CLASS
C. G. "Irene" Gramma*
"Pat" Brinson
Martha Gerhardt
Pete King
SECRETARY,
SOPHOMORE CLASS
Watt Dudley
John Harbert
TREASURER,
SOPHOMORE CLASS
Wiley Fancher
Jack K. Moore
HISTORIAN,
SOPHOMORE CLASS
Margaret McCain
Madrid Davit
Arnold S. White
EXECUTIVE CABINET
REPRESENTATIVES
George Heard
Harry Merriwether
Jack "Ace" Hill
SECRETARY OF
EXECUTIVE CABINET
Jimmy Butt
Bob Farrell
SOPHOMORES
PRESIDENT, JUNIOR CLASS
Ted Benning
John Daniel
"Ace" Children
Craig Jackion
VICE-PRESIDENT,
JUNIOR CLASS
William Howard Gregg
W. D. Kelley
Leon Marr Sahag, Jr.
Raymond Allen
SECRETARY, JUNIOR CLASS
Harry C. Russell
Charlton Moore
Howard S. Worthington
TREASURER, JUNIOR
CLASS
Russell Ambrose
Harry Donovan
HISTORIAN, JUNIOR CLASS
Annie Lyde Lewis
Flo Pickens
Christine Blackburn
EXECUTIVE CABINET
REPRESENTATIVES
Charles I. Alton
Bob Anderson
Gray Carter
J. W. Morgan
VICE-PRESIDENT
EXECUTIVE CABINET
Herbert Martin, Jr.
Charles Flowers
Bill Moore
Traveling Exhibit
Of Art on Display
Here This Week
The annual traveling exhibit of
the Collegiate Schools of Architec­ture
is on display throughout this
week in the architecture library.
The API architecture school is rep­resented
in the art display, accord­ing
to Professor E. W. Burkhardt.
The exhibit is based on interme­diate
design this year and not on
traditional design and instruction
•as in past years. The Collegiate
Schools of Architecture is an affil­iated
body of the American Insti­tute
of Architects.
Other schools represented in the
exhibit besides Auburn include Co­lumbia,
Princeton, Illinois, Oregon,
Tulane, Syracuse, Minnesota, Cal­ifornia,
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Washington Universi­ty,
Cincinnati, Carnegie Institute,
Cornell, New York University,
Pennsylvania, Yale, Notre Dame,
Kansas State, Ohio State, Texas,
and Michigan.
Blachschleger to
Lecture Tonight
A large audience is expected to
hear Rabbi Blachschleger, of
Temple Beth-Or, Montgomery
when he lectures here tonight at
8:16 in Langdon Hall.
Sponsored by the Jewish Chau­tauqua
Society, the Rabbi's sub­ject
will be "The Social Teach­ings
of the Prophets". The lecture
is open to students, faculty, and
the public without charge.
A group of Auburn ministers
and student officials of religious
organizations will entertain Rab­bi
Blachschleger at a dinner in
the Aubum Grille at 6 p.m. to­night
prior to the lecture.
Sale This Week
Juniors, Seniors, May
Pay Through War Checks
Sale of final dance set tickets
to seniors under the new plan set
up by the Social Committee will
continue through Friday at the
Main Gate from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
each day, according to Tom Hen­ley,
chairman of the committee.
At least 300 seniors must pur­chase
tickets on the plan at a
price of $5 for the set, or $3 plus
a fraternity ticket, for the plan
to be carried out.
Arrangement has been made by
Henley for seniors in ROTC to
purchase tickets by signing away
part of their pay checks. Juniors
in ROTC may also purchase tick­ets
by using their checks at the
regular price of $7.50 per set.
ENGINEERS DAY
IS SUCCESSFUL,
Renewal of Day Is
Praised by Duncan
Engineers over the campus
were priding themselves this week
on the success of Auburn's first
Engineers' Day since 1933.
A letter of congratulation from
Dr. L. N. Duncan termed the e-vent
as "most successful" and said
that "the fine organization of the
student leaders and the splendid
cooperation of the faculty mem­bers"
had reflected "unusual
credit on students and faculty a-like."
Comments on the excellence of
the various exhibits indicated that
the demonstrations of the engi­neering
and chemistry depart­ments
met with general approval,
and the consensus of opinion was
that Engineers' Day would become
a regular event in the future.
Though it would be difficult to
point out the best exhibit, prob­ably
the most interest was shown
in the Textile Open House, in the
electrical exhibits, and in the
demonstration of polarized light.
Several hundred visitors attend­ed
the numerous exhibits, with
the Textile Open House, long one
of Auburn's feature attractions
at this time of year, drawing the
most spectators.
AG CLUB FEST
SET FOR MAY 10
The Ag Club wil hold its an­nual
banquet and dance on May
10 at the auditorium in Graves
Center, according to Fred L. Well­born,
president of the club. Plans
are now underway and ticket
sales will begin soon for the an­nual
affair.
Tentative speaker for the ban­quet
is Dr. D. W. Daniel, dean of
the School of Science at Clem-son
College and widely known
lecturer and after-dinner speaker.
The toastmaster will not be an­nounced
until the night of the
banquet.
Highlights of the banquet will
be the awarding of the cup to the
"best all-round junior in agricul­ture"
by Gamma Sigma Delta,
national honorary agricultural fra­ternity.
Selection of the Alabama
Farmer staff for next year will
also be announced and Ag Club
diplomas will be awarded to sen­iors.
The banquet will be held in
the hall at Graves Center and a
dance will follow the banquet with
the Auburn Plainsmen furnishing
the music for the occasion.
Coeds Will Hear
Miss Kirk Thursday
"Creative Use of Leisure Time"
will be the subject of an address
here Thursday morning before
women students by Miss Mary
Wallace Kirk, well-known Alabama
author and artist of Tuscumbia.
Miss Kirk's address will be de­livered
at the convocation for
women students at 11:00 a.m. in
Langdon Hall. The address is open
to the public.
HOLD FIVE-MATCH
DEBATE SERIES
Auburn, Montevallo,
And Spring Hill
Lock Forensic Horns
A series of five intercollegiate
debates was held on the API campus
yesterday afternoon as teams from
Auburn, Montevallo, and Spring
Hill argued the pros and cons of
the question of American isolation
from the warring nations of Eu­rope
and the Far East.
First debate was held in Duncan
Hall at 1 o'clock between an affir­mative
team composed of Auburn
students John Godbold and John
Ivey, and a team from Montevallo.
At 4 o'clock two teams from Mon­tevallo
met two Spring Hill teams,
each school having a negative and
an affirmative team in the compe­tition.
At 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium
at Broun Hall, Hoyt Hall and A.
C. Allen of Auburn upheld the ne­gative
against a Montevallo team,
and in another room of the same
building Charles Dubberley and
Martin Wender of API debated the
affirmative against a Spring Hill
team. '
At 7:30 Friday night, an Au­burn
team composed of Dubberley
and Wender will meet Sewanee in
Broun Hall auditorium. The local
team will have the affirmative side
of the isolation question.
Prof. E. D. Hess' debate squad
has been hampered for two -weeks
by the illness of four of the De­bate
Council's outstanding and
most experienced men. However,
two of them are now back in
harness and usual activity will,be
resumed.
Howard Prexy To
Speak To BSU
Harwell Davis Will
Address Banquet
President Harwell Davis of
Howard College will make the
principal address at the annual
banquet of the Baptist Student
Union, to be held this year on
April 19.
Mr. Davis succeeded Dr. T. H.
Neal as president of Howard a-bout
a year ago.
The Baptist Student Union
holds its spring banquet annual­ly,
climaxing its activities among
the student body for the school
year. It will take place, as cus­tomary,
at the Baptist Church.
Heading arrangements for the
affair will be Davis Woolley, ad­viser
to the BSU at Auburn.
Paul Weisz, Brilliant Exchange Student,
Receives Offer Of Two Fellowships
Offered Places with
Arthur Compton, Hess
By J. H. WHEELER
An opportunity to study under
one of the country's greatest
scientists came to Paul Weisz this
week when Auburn's brilliant
Hungarian student received word
of his appointment to a fellow­ship
at the University of Chicago
under Prof. Arthur H. Compton,
distinguished physicist.
Earlier in the year, Weisz won
a Carnegie Institution assistant-ship
under Dr. V. F. Hess, Ford-ham
University physicist who re­ceived
the Nobel Prize in physics
several years ago. The Fordham
appointment came through recom-medation
of three eminent A-merican
scientists, Dean George
B. Pegram of Columbia, Dr. Hess
himself, and Prof. Albert Einstein
of Princeton.
Interviewed, Weisz commented
on the two appointments as be­ing
splendid chances for scientific
advancement, but said he had not
yet decided which offer he would
take.
Carmichael Selected as Honorary Member;
Choices Based on Outstanding Character
Twelve prominent juniors were honored for their ac­complishments
this morning as Omega Circle of Omicron
Delta Kappa, national honorary leadership fraternity, tap­ped
its new men.
Those selected, in order of their tapping as posted on
the Main Gate, are John Deming, Warren Darty, Jim King,
Dan Hollis, Herndon "Babe" McGehee, Tom Roby, John
"Boots" Stratford, John McCabe, Kirk Newell, Frank Wil-
-———-——-*—"^———— son, Martin Wender, and Henry
Britt.
Albert Carmichael, lieut. gov­ernor
of Alabama, was selected as
an honorary member of the group.
Prior to his present office, Car­michael
was attorney-general for
Alabama and served as assistant
attorney-general before that. He
is a graduate of the University of
Alabama and at present is a can­didate
for delegate-at-large from
Alabama to the Democratic Na­tional
Convention.
Commencing at 8 o'clock the
names of the newly elected men
were placed on the ODK tapping
board at the Main Gate, one ev­ery
half hour in the traditional.
fashion of the local Circle. Names
of this year's active group appear­ed
in the order of their tapping
on the other side of the Gate.
John Deming, SAE, is chair­man-
elect of the Social Commit­tee
and a member of the Execu­tive
Cabinet. He has served as
president of both the freshman
and the sophomore classes.
Warren Darty, Lambda Chi, is
business manager-elect of the
Plainsman, a member of Alpha Phi
Omega, and of the YMCA. He was
initiated last week into Scabbard
and Blade.
Jim King is president-elect of
the Executive Cabinet, and there­by
head of the Undergraduate
Students Association. A member
of Phi Delta Theta and vice-pres­ident
of the Cabinet this year, he
is enrolled in industrial engineer­ing.
Dan Hollis, editor-elect of the
Plainsman is a Theta Chi pledge.
He has served on the "Alabama
Farmer" staff and this year has
been a member of the editorial
board of the Plainsman. He is also
a member of the Executive Cabi­net.
"Babe" McGehee, Sigma Nu, is
enrolled in architecture. He is a
letterman on the football squad,
playing end. He was initiated into
Scabbard and Blade last week.
Tom Roby, taking veterinary
medicine, is a member-elect to the
Executive Cabinet. He transfer­red
to Auburn from the Univers­ity
of Maryland, where he attend­ed
one year. He has served this
year as a member of the Tennis
Court Committee.
"Boots" Stratford, Phi Delta
Theta, is sports editor of the
Plainsman, a member of the track
team, and played football for two
years. He was initiated into Scab­bard
and Blade at its recent cere-
Jim Farley Makes
irlwind Visit
To Auburn Sunday
By ART JONES
It is no longer necessary for the
future of youth to appear so dis­mal
as in the past, Postmaster
General James Farley said in his
speech at Graves Center Sunday
afternoon. The genial presidential
candidate spoke those words of
hope to more than 1,000 students
and townspeople who crowded the
hall to hear him.
In discussing the problems facing
the country today the Democratic
wheel-horse went on to say that
"We have not yet learned to put
machines to work for the benefit
of us all," in agreeing with the
opinion of many that the machine-age
is largely responsible for un­employment.
Program In Auburn
Following his escort of siren-shrieking
Alabama Highway Patrol
cars, the Postmaster-General and
his caravan rolled into Auburn at
4:30 Sunday afternoon, after a
whirlwind trip all the way across
the state. Accompanied by Presi­dent
L. N. Duncan and Postmaster
Homer Wright, who had previously
joined him in Tuskegee, Mr. Far­ley
made a blitzkrieg tour of the
campus and was shown the im­provements
made possible by the
PWA's appropriation of a million
and a half dollars.
After completing his campus
tour, he made a brief inspection of
the post office and shook hands
with the members of the staff.
From the post office, red-faced and
smiling, he retired to the Presi­dent's
Mansion for a 30-minute rest
before making his speech at Graves
Center.
On finishing his speech, "Sunny
Jim" shook hands with all those
present who wanted to greet him,
and then departed for the Execu­tive
Mansion, where he was enter-
Continued on page 4
Weisz came to Auburn from
Hungary in March, 1939, as an
exchange student for Philip G.
Hartung, Jr., of Cullman. Weisz's
family is paying Hartung's ex­penses
for a year's study in Eu­rope,
and the Hartung family, in
turn, has been sending Weisz to
school at Auburn. He is enrolled
in science and literature with a
physics major, and expects to
graduate this summer.
Besides his two assistant ship of­fers,
Weisz has won other honors
during this school year. Last De­cember
he was elected to the A-merican
Physical Society at the
Society's Chicago meeting. Some
months earlier, he had been ap­pointed
a member of the Royal
Hungarian Society of Natural
Scientists.
A busy student with a full load
of school work, Weisz has never­theless
found time this semester
to complete two papers on cosmic
rays. These papers, finished last
week, are to appear in publica­tions
of the Royal Hungarian So­ciety.
monies.
John McCabe, architecture, is a
member of Delta Sigma Phi so­cial
fraternity and of Scabbard
and Blade. He has served this
year on the Glomerata staff.
Kirk Newell, business manager-elect
of the Glomerata, is a Pi
K A. A mechanical engineer, he
has served on the Glomerata busi­ness
staff and on the Plainsman
staff.
Frank Wilson, Pi K A, is presi­dent
of Delta Sigma Pi, honorary
business administration fraternity,
and has served for three years on
the Plainsman business staff. He
wilr be assistant business manager
of the publication next year. He
is also manager of the track team.
Martin Wender, business admin­istration,
is president of the De­bate
Council, a member of Tau
Kappa Alpha, honorary debate
fraternity, and has served on the
debate team for three years. He
is assistant manager of the Plains­man
and a member of IRC.
Henry Britt, mechanical engi-
Continued on page 4
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SIZEABLE crowds at both per-f
o r m a n c e s enthusiastically
greeted the presentation of "The
Chimes of Normandy" last week,
and unanimously the spectators
went away with praise on their
tongues for a difficult undertak­ing
accomplished with finesse.
"Chimes" was entertaining, it
was well-rounded, and for the
human material which the di­rectors
had to build around it
was far and above expectations.
Prof. Peet, Prof. Barnett, the
two glee clubs, and the casts
tackled a Herculean job when
they began work on this first stu­dent
operetta attempted at Au­burn.
They were handicapped by
a thousand difficulties, most of
all by the appalling lack of sup­port
given to both glee clubs by
the student body.
But, as they always do, the Au­burn
Players and the singers
came through in the pinch, and
they surprised even the most op­timistic
of us. May "Chimes" be
the first of a cycle.
Another War Horror
IT IS not often that "conscien­tious
objectors" to war come in
for comment other than con­temptuous,
but it is ironically
true that it is they who should be
both pitied and cited for cour­age.
After all, if this were the world
we wish it were, every man would
conscientiously object to war. It
is our tragedy that every man
does not and that the few men
who do are not balm to our
wounds.
Surely any man should have
the right to object to anything
so awful as war upon ~any
grounds he njight c h o o s e . It
should not be a matter for scorn
if a man objects to war because
he is afraid of injury—it is natu­ral
that men should fear injury
and unnatural that they should
show courage in braving man-made
injury.
The whole class of "conscien­tious
objectors" constitute the
cast of a tragedy, but the stars
of the production are those men
who intellectually object to war.
These are valorous in proclaim­ing
their objection, and, though
futile, they are magnificent.
That any man who sees only
horror and ruin on the fields of
war should be either forced to
fight or ostracized is unreason­able
and foolish. Civilization
would not scorn a man who re­fused
to aid a suicide, but illogic-ally
civilization scorns a man
who refuses to aid the suicide
of civilization. T h i s contempt
in which "conscientious object­ors"
are held possibly amuses
cosmic intellect which might be
glancing at this planet's going
on; or again it might distress that
intellect because it is a defect in
the edifice of humanity.
At any rate, the effect of war
on "conscientious objectors" must
be staggering. And while every­body
else laughs with scorn, the
blow dealt to the CO's by war
just possibly gives hint of the
blow war will one day deal to us
all. R.S.
SUNDAY was the birthday of a
great institution — Tuskegee
Institute, and on that day the
country honored Booker T. Wash­ington,
its founder.
When he died Washington left
the monument of Tuskegee to his
people, and, as the statute in his
hdnor on the Institute campus so
forcefully testifies, it is Tuske­gee
that has done most toward
breaking the chains that have
bound the Negro race.
Washington and those who
took over after his death have
always had their ideals, b ut
never have they let their ideal­istic
sense of what might be stand
in the way of the goals that could
be reached by viewing problems
in the light of practicality. They
might have fought those who
wanted to keep them down—in­stead
they fought to rise above
their bonds. They might have
educated for culture's sake—in­stead
they trained for the Negro's
sake.
The Institute is still continuing
the Tuskegee idea, giving to the
Negro race and to the South men
and women trained to work, see­ing
the concept of "doing" as the
best way out of the Slough of
Despond. Tuskegee is maintain­ing
its viewpoint of the construc­tive
as opposed to the destruc­tive,
and if it never accomplished
anything else that alone would
be to its everlasting credit.
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Extra-Solar Static
WE understand that the Mexican
radio stations which help the
sun spots make static are situ­ated
just on the other side of the
Rio Grande. From their Mexican
vantage point, they employ gen­erous
amounts of wattage to
blemish and put to ruin Ameri­can
and Canadian broadcasts.
Some of these stations spikka
da English, notably those through
which outlawed medical quacks,
astrologers, and the like vend
their wares. Nobody seems to
know just what goes on in the
Spanish speaking stations. A lot
of identically execrable rhumbas
and tangos garnished with al­most
interminable amounts in
Spanish is about all we can get
out of listening to them. The
trouble is that one has to listen
to them whether he wants to or
not, for they cannot be tuned out
of other programs. We always
have to put up with overtones
and undertones of Spanish when­ever
we listen to certain stations.
According to a recent issue of
The Radio and Movie Guide there
is a treaty in the making among
Canadian, American, and Mexi­can
diplomats which would re-allot
places on the dial to the dif­ferent
stations and free us of the
plaguey interference from be-low-
the-border broadcasters. We
fervently pray that the treaty
goes through — or at any rate
that the Mexican stations go out.
What bliss there will be in the
land when both solar and Mexi­can
static have been stopped!
R.S.
Honest Elections
HAD the elections last week
meant nothing else, every can­didate
had at least some satisfac­tion
in that they were clean.
With one slight exception there
was no dirty politics, none of the
cut-throat, knife-in-the-back tac­tics
which were once in vogue
but are now passe.
Much of the credit for the
smooth manner in which details
progressed goes to the Elections
Committee, which enforced all
rules to a "T", and to the Cabi­net,
which aided in cleaning up
elections by outlawing all meth­ods
of politicing other than the
personal approach.
If next week's balloting is as
fair as was Tuesday's, student
government can be proud of an.
exceptional year's election re­cord.
Lette/s to the Editor
CAMPUS CAMERA
^mwm,
Not Enough Publicity
Editor,
The Plainsman
Dear Sir:
There are approximately 1,000 stu­dents
at Auburn taking Engineering,
and Engineers' Day was one of the big­gest
things that has happened for the
Engineering Department; yet, on the
day preceding this event the headlines
of The Plainsman read "Junior Class
Votes Today", and down at the bot­tom
of the page is an article about
the event. The Engineering Council
gets a half holiday for engineering stu­dents
and it is mentioned in about the
fourth line down in an article last
week. The Textile Department puts on
one of the best shows of its kind in the
country, and an article on the back
page of the paper tells about it.
The Engineers pay almost one third
of the student activities fees which are
supposed to support, student organiza­tions,
and represent the largest single
group on the campus; so it seems only
fair that when something as big as En­gineers'
Day comes along that they
should receive adequate publicity from
student publications.
Yours truly,
Frank Gunter.
Well?
By John Ivey, Jr.
Editor's Note: The opinions expressed in this
column are those of the writer and are not to
be construed as the editorial policies of this
paper.
The editor pinch-hitting
THE pint-sized issue of the Plainsman
which gave the results of the elec­tion
last Tuesday and inspired so much
laughing c o m m e n t
among those who
read it, was a seri­ous
experiment as
well as a special is­sue.
The trend among
all newspapers, col­lege
and non-college,
is toward the tabloid,
or half-size, type and
away from the old
size, but particularly
CtofiU / t / s / is t h e change evident
in college papers.
The tabloid can come out more often
without burdening the staff too much,
which means that news can be put be­fore
the students when it's really news
instead of when it's history.
* * *
What news is presented is written
more concisely, the writer retaining the
essential facts but eliminating the pure
bull and space filler which is sometimes
necessary in the longer stories of a full-size
paper.
The tabloid is less of burden on stu­dents
where there is little training in
journalism, as in a school such as Au­burn.
Often the Plainsman has forgotten
its function as a newspaper and has
placed as much emphasis on the edi­torial
page as on news, when actually,
in this writer's opinion, news is as im­portant
if not more so. Far be it from
us to even think of belittling the edi­torial
page, but, many times this year
we have had to toss out important, es­sential
news for which there was abso­lutely
no room, while still running on
the editorial page two complete columns
of opinion as well as abundant feature
material and the editorials themselves.
The real tabloid gives to the editorial
page its proper emphasis and to news
its proper emphasis.
* * *
The average student tears his hair
and screams when the idea of a pee-wee
Plainsman is brought up, but most
of the time it's sheer habit and noth­ing
more. The tabloid newspaper has
to grow on one like learning to eat
olives or drink beer.
But for a college, and particularly
a college like Auburn, a tabloid has ad­vantages
not true of the ordinary sized
paper.
When making plans for next year
the Board of Publications and next
year's staff might give serious thought
to the idea of a tabloid Plainsman
three times weekly instead of the full-size
twice weekly.
* * *
Auburn has more famous visitors
than perhaps any other Alabama town
except Tuskegee, and within the last
several years has played hostess —
briefly its true—to a president, his wife,
opera and radio stars, and lastly the
Postmaster-General, Jim Farley.
Now all these visits have been excit­ing,
and most of them rated ROTC re­views
and motorcycle escorts. But the
most recent visit, that of Mr. Farley,
was potentially the most exciting of all,
even though there wasn't a review. Be­ing
a candidate for the Democratic
presidential nomination, Mr. Farley is
dynamite.
Why, we'd like to know, could not
he have exploded while here? Lady
Luck let us down—Mr. Farley didn't
create an /'incident." And Auburn is
still the loveliest village of the plains,
but think wha't her fame would have
been had her visitor loosed a bombshell
about the Third Term or his presi­dential
aspirations or something like
that.
If You Want to Succeed in Radio
Start With Your Local Station
JUNE and diploma time are only three
months away. And then what?
Hoping for answers to this question,
85 letters a day come to the desk of
Joseph H. Burgess, Jr., personnel di­rector
of the Columbia Broadcasting
System. The letters contain applications
for jobs ranging from engineer to script
writer, from idea man to program pro­ducer,
from news analyst to sound ef­fects
man.
Radio uses all these talents, and
many more besides. A large network
like Columbia has a place for almost
every kind of creative and organiza­tional
bent. And yet, what chances for
success does a college graduate have
in radio?
Unlimited Break*
"The breaks in radio are unlimited,"
says Mr. Burgess, "for the few who get
them. Once you get a start in radio,
there's almost no limit to how far you
can go. But radio's gold rush days are
over, and the trick is to get that start.
For a start in network radio there's
one important preliminary: experience.
"This isn't the paradox it may seem
at first. There is a place to get that
experience, even if the network is im­possible:
that place is in a local sta­tion.
A local station has all the needs
and ramifications of a large network,
only on a smaller scale, with fewer
people to*>take care of them. The boy
who gets a job in a station sweeping
the floor is likely to find himself writ­ing
a little continuity too; the an­nouncer
may double in brass as a pub­licity
writer; the engineer may fill in
some production ideas. This is the
world's best training for radio.
"A network like Columbia is always
looking for talent and ability, but it's
quite obvious you can't write a pro­gram
heard from coast to coast with­out
the experience of writing a pro­gram
for a limited audience. You can't
expect to sell a national advertiser a
95-station network, without having
tried to sell a five minute local spot
to the local grocery store.
Specifications Standardized
"The radio business is just about old
enough to see what kind of men it
needs for its jobs. For the first time
our specifications are becoming stand­ardized,
and most of them include the
demand that the applicant's talent be
proved. Thus, while we want our engi-gineers
to be college graduates, a de­gree
alone is generally not enough.
Actual radio experience is desired. Our
writers and directors have generally
attended college, even though they may
not have graduated, but they are re­cruited
by us directly from the thea­tre,
from advertising agencies, from
local stations. Our time salesmen, ad­vertising
and sales promotion men, and
publicity writers also have had adver­tising
or newspaper experience. Our
women executives and writers often
start with us as secretaries, and move
up when opportunities arise.
"Our qualifications for announcers
are absolutely rigid, and I get so many
applications for these positions that Pd
like to state them. We have four re­quirements:
a college education or its
equivalent; experience at two, at least,
local stations; a voice and air person­ality
distinguished without affectation;
and an accent that cannot be identified
with any particular section of the coun­try.
My advice, in brief, to young men
and women interested in radio is to try
their local station first. At the local
station the ambitious young person gets
a real understanding of the breadth of
radio, and it's to these stations that
the networks look when they need new
talent and new ideas."
PK0F.TA.yL0R TAUGHT
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SECOND TERM WHEN
HE TOOK UP HIS DUTIES.
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CLASS SEAL INCORPORATED IN THE DESIGN.
Plains Talk
By Herbert Martin
Editor's Note: The opinions expressed in this
column are those of the writer and are not to
be construed as the editorial policies of this
paper.
THE Boys' Glee Club has pleaded. It
has cajoled with tears in its eyes. On
bended knee it has beseeched male stu-dents
to come and
try out, whether their
voices be bass, bari­tone,
tenor, or boy
soprano.
Instead of filling the
local atmosphere with
plaintive laments be­cause
of lack of co­operation,
the half-size
glee club has
worked up a well-trained
and versatile
~~~ o r g a n i z a tion. Al­though
handicapped by lack of num­bers,
Prof. Lawrence Barnett has laid
the groundwork for what could be one
of the finest glee clubs in the South.
* * *
This group no longer begs for mem­bers.
It still issues a cordial invitation
to anyone who can carry a tune in a
'tater sack to come up and try out.
Practice sessions are held at 7 o'clock
on Monday and Thursday nights.
And the Girls' Glee Club . . . to cut
out repetition, we might state that the
condition is similar to that of the male
organization.
* * *
Our dormitory detective reports that
things were pretty much all wet in the
Kappa Delta room early last week.
* * *
Our nomination for the world's best
potential drummers . . . shine boys.
Some of their licks would make Krupa
sit up and take a listen.
* * *
Ernie Harwell, columnist for the
Emory Wheel, has divided all professors
into 10 classes, with one additional
optional classification. Although we do
not necessarily agree with his char­acterizations,
we would like to quote a
few of his divisions which may or may
not be applicable on this campus.
* * *
"2—The card type—He is a card, but
not an ace. He's a 3x5 card. Outstand­ing
is his index appeal. He puts the
card before the horse, and before ev­erything
else. His calling card is prob­ably
a 3x5."
"4—The skimmer type—The surfac­ing
in his courses is fine, but the foun­dation
is weak. He lives on generali­ties,
and his only exercise is jumping
at conclusions. He is so shallow that
he can't even take a deep breath."
"5—The fatherly type—He's the un-expectant
father, always giving pop
quizzes. And his quizzes aren't always
lollypops, although guys who get in his
classes are usually suckers."
"6—The hard rock type—You have
to be more than a good musician to hit
a high C under this joker. If he were
a movie critic, he wouldn't even give
the United States flag 48 stars. He's
sometimes also known as the 'CCC
type."
"7—The uh-man type — To 'uh' is
human and this is how he qualifies as
human. He doesn't know any punctua­tion
except 'uhs'. For variety he throws
in a 'but uh' now and then."
* » *
Columnist Harwell continues to add
that any similarity between these types
and professors he has classes under
this quarter is purely intentional.
* * *
We might add that this professorial
panning came at an apt time. Grades
had just been released for the preced­ing
quarter, and many students were
apt to agree with Mr. Harwell. Aptly
enough, also, many professors are apt
to forget and forgive with a whole quar­ter
to do this in.
* * *
To grammarians . . . we realize that
apt as used in some of the above in­stances
is apt to be incorrect.
* * *
Karrie, the Kampus Klassifier, would
add another to the list of types of pro­fessors.
Calling it the delayed full quota
type, Karrie explains that this is the
one who comes into class anywhere
from 15 to 20 minutes after the hour
and proceeds to lecture furiously un­til
some five or 10 minutes after the
bell for class dismissals has sounded.
More Students Now
Favor Roosevelt
For Third Term
WITH political winds already blowing
in this election year of 1940, Frank­lin
D. Roosevelt finds himself with an
ever increasing number of followers
who would like to see him run for a
third term. But this group, among the
rank and file of voters as well as
among college students, is still in the
minority.
The Student Opinion Surveys of A-merica
sent its staff of interviewers on
campuses of all descriptions everywhere
in the United States to ask a scientific
cross section of collegians, "Would you
like to see Roosevelt run for a third
term?"
The results, gathered and tabulated
at the University of Texas for all the
cooperating newspaper members of the
organization, show that the President
has picked up more than ten percentage
points on his third term popularity dur­ing
the last year. Comparisons of this
type are possible for the first time now
that the Surveys has been operating
without interruption since December of
1938. Following is the complete record
on this subject that has been kept by
the Surveys:
A Third Term
For FDR? Ye. No
Dec, 1938 27.2% 72.8%
Jan., 1939 28.2 71.8
Nov., 1939 31.8 68.2
Now 39.5 60.5
This series of studies reveals a re­markably
close resemblance to the in­dex
kept by the Gallup poll on the same
topic. Although general opinion has al­ways
outstripped student sentiment, 46
per cent of the voters now wanting a
third term, the increases have been in
almost the same proportions. In Jan.,
1939, 30 per cent of the US voters ap­proved,
as compared with 28.2 of the
students.
Although in this case it has been
shown that college students follow the
same trends of thought their elders do,
other comparisons with American Insti­tute
of Public Opinion polls illustrate
the fact that youth does not always a-gree
with older people. Also, events to
come, here and abroad, will have much
to do in changing attitudes should the
President decide to try his luck again.
Results of repeated interviewing of
thousands of students disclose that
many, although approving of Roosevelt
as president, are against another four-year
term. This opinion was typified in
the comment of a student in Chicago's
Central YMCA College who said, "I am
opposed to a third term because he
would set a precedent for men who
might be less scrupulous than he is, al­though
I am in favor of him and his
policies."
April 9, 1940 THE AUBURN P L A I N S M AN
UP IN SOCIETY
By BETTIE BELLE BRANDT
ENGINEERS' BALL
The Engineers' Ball at the WPA Hall concluded the celebration
of Engineers' Day on the campus Wednesday night. The Ball featured
an Engineering Council leadout, two no-breaks and a senior leadout
The decorations were most unusual and attractive.
• • *
SIGMA CHI DANCE
Gamma Sigma Chapter of Sigma Chi opened the Spring dancing
season Friday night with an informal dance at Bibb Graves Center.
Miss Frances Dowling of Birmingham led the dance with Frank Cayce,
president of the chapter. Following the dance there was a breakfast
at the chapter house honoring the out-of-town guests.
• » »
ALPHA TAU OMEGA FORMAL
Alabama Alpha Epsilon of ATO entertained Saturday night with
its annual Orchid Ball. The lead-out was most effective with the only
illumination being the small blue lights in the carnation buttonieres
of ATO members and pledges, glowing and bringing out the beauty
of their dates' orchids.
• * *
SIGMA CHI-ATO TEA DANCE
The ATO's and Sigma Chi's held a joint tea dance on Saturday
afternoon at Graves Center. The backdrop was dark blue with the
crest of Sigma Chi on one side and the ATO coat-of-arms on the
other side. Members of both fraternities enjoyed leadouts.
• : . ; • * • • -
BENBOW-BURNSIDE MARRIAGE
The marriage of Miss Dorothy Benbow of Luverne to Mr. Otis
Burnside of Birmingham on February 17, has been announced by the
bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Evan Benbow. Both bride and
groom are students here in Auburn, Mrs. Burnside is a pledge to Alpha
Gamma Delta sorority and Mr. Burnside a member of Pi K A.
• * •
THETA UPSILON GIVES AWARD DINNER
Iota Alpha chapter of Theta Upsilon held an Award Dinner on
Sunday evening in the banquet room of the Tiger Cafe. White and
purple irises, the sorority flower, and white tapers decorated the
table.
Mary Elizabeth Pritchett of Linden was voted the model pledge and
was presented a copper plaque bearing the sorority coat-of-arms.
The scholarship cup was presented to Earle Rives by Miss Jewel Davis,
faculty adviser. Recognition pins were given to the seniors.
• » *
KAPPA ALPHA MORNING DANCE
Nu chapter of Kappa Alpha entertained Saturday morning with
an informal dance at Graves Center. Blanket bids were extended to
Sigma Chi and ATO fraternities. A large crowd enjoyed the informal
dancing.
• * »
THETA UPSILON HAS FORMAL PLEDGING
Evelyn Thomas of Opelika, sophomore in the School of Home
Economics, was given the Rainbow and Iris degree of pledging yes­terday
afternoon at the Theta Upsilon club room. Alice Little, newly
elected president, had charge of the service, and was assisted by
Mary Elizabeth Pritchett, chaplain, and Eleanor Home, co-advisor.
• • •
YWCA MEETING
All girls enrolled in school have been urged to attend YWCA
meeting on Thursday afternoon, April 18, at 5 o'clock at the Social
Center, since all women students automatically become members of
the organization when they enroll in school. At the last YW meeting
discussion was held and rules made for the annual Go-To-Church
Month.
Dr. Walston Chosen
State President of
University Women
Dr. Rosa Lee Walston, Auburn
director of women students, has
been elected state president of
the American Association of Uni­versity
Women. Her election came
last week-end at the joint meet­ing
of the South-Central section
and the Alabama division in Bir­mingham.
Those attending the meeting
from Auburn, in addition to Dr.
Walston, included Mrs. Henry W.
Adams, president of the local
chapter, Mrs. Roger Allen, Miss
Elizabeth Forney, Mrs. Marion W.
Spidle, Mrs. Louis B. Ambler, Jr.,
and Miss Etna McGaugh.
Promotions for Two
Alumni Announced
W. B. Nickerson, of the class
of 1912 has been promoted to the
office of Vice-President in charge
of Sales Promotion for Brown
and Bigelow Company. He has
been employed by this company
for 21 years and was Secretary
and Sales Promotion Manager be­fore
his promotion.
John M. Garrett, Jr., of the class
of 1927 has been promoted to the
position as a Divisional Sales
Manager for the Vicks Chemical
Company. His home was formerly
at Elba. He will be in charge of
the company's Northeastern Sales
Division.
Military Gives
Inspection Dress
Uniform Announced
For Two-Day Period
Uniforms for the annual ROTC
inspection on April 15 and 16
will be grey shirt, black tie, uni­form
trousers, cap, and black
shoes. For the review and drill on
Monday, April 15 the uniform will
be white shirts, blouses and belts,
according to Col. J. J. Water­man.
All ROTC students will be un­der
observation for these two days
by the inspectors for their grade
on the corps in military bearing
and neatness.- AH students are re­quested
to take special precau­tion
to meet the full require­ments
of dress and military bear­ing
during this period.
Uniform for instructors for all
classes and drills will be the ser­vice
cap, wool blouse, Sam Browne
belt, breeches, and boots for the
Field Artillery and trousers and
shoes for the Engineers.
Meredyth Hazzard
Heads Sigma Nu's
For Next Year
Meredyth Hazzard of Birming­ham
was chosen as commander of
Sigma Nu at its election and in­stallation
of officers for the com­ing
year Wednesday night. Haz­zard
succeeds Billy Smith as head
of the Beta Theta chapter.
Other new officers are James
Hooper, lieutenant commander;
Joe McCIesky, recorder; Bill
Hodo, treasurer; Charles Short,
assistant treasurer; Duke Davis,
chaplain; A. B. Morrison, report­er;
Herndon McGehee, alumni
contact officer; Pat Perry, mar­shal;
Clarence E. Michaels, sen­tinel;
and Bobby Harris, histor­ian.
SEARS-ROEBUCK
NEWS LETTER TO
BE PUBLISHED
The Sears-Roebuck Scholarship
Club will issue its second annual
news letter in the near future,
Club members said yesterday. The
publication was started last year
by the members of the organiza­tion,
who are beneficiaries of part-expense
scholarships given to ag­riculture
students each year by
Sears-Roebuck and Company, its
object being to publicize its ac­tivities
among the students at Au­burn
and at other schools where
Sears-Roebuck scholarships are
given.
The news letter will be publish­ed
several weeks before final ex­aminations,
and copies will be dis­tributed
over the campus.
The local Club maintains a con­stant
enrollment of around 25
members.
A ruling of authorities requires
columnists on the Beloit College
newspaper to sign their names to
all stories.
Duke University has substitut­ed
lacrosse for boxing as an ap­proved
intercollegiate sport.
LOST—"Hydraulics' by Dougher­ty.
Reward if returned to F. G.
Brewer at 332 Wittel. Badly
needed.
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KENMORE LEADS
TIGERS TO 9-1
WIN OVER TECH
Driving in five runs with a
double and a triple, George Ken-more
led the Auburn Tigers to a
7-1 victory over Georgia Tech in
Atlanta Saturday to even a two-game
Southeastern Conference
baseball series, Kenmore's record
and booming three-base blow in
the ninth cleaned the sacks.
The fleet Kenmore sent Au­burn
into the lead in the opening
inning with his two-bagger that
scored Capt. Tommie Thompson,
who had singled, and Ralph
Frazier, who had walked. Thomp­son
also lined out a bingle in the
ninth that drove in a tally.
Each of the twirlers, Auburn's
Charlie Kilpatrick and Tech's Ca-vette,
gave up eight blows, but
the latter was wild and was in the
hole in every frame. Cavette hit
two and issued eight bases on
balls. Kilpatrick had perfect con­trol.
-
Auburn had eight stranded on
the hassocks and probably would
have chalked up additional mark­ers
if the Engineers infield had
not turned in a couple of twin
killings. Auburn's double play in
the second also nipped a Tech
rally.
Box score:
AUBURN
ab r h o a
Rollo, 2b _ 5 1 1 2 1
Thompson, cf B 2 2 2 0
McNair, ss S 1 1 16 1
Kenmore, rf . __4 1 2 10
Hurst, If
McClusky, 3b
Caudill, e
Kilpatrick, p
Totals
- 4 0 0 0 0
. 2 0 0 1 4
- 4 0 1 4 2
. 4 1 1 0 4
84 7 8 27 IB
GEORGIA TECH
ab r h o a
Voorhies, 2b 3 0 2 8 4
HcNenny, ss 8 0 0 0 1
Stevens, c 4 0 1 2 0
Wheby, rf 4 0 0 B 0
Lewis, 3b 4 1 1 2 B
Parkerson, If 4 0 0 1 0
Gilmer, rf 4 0 2 1 0
Burpo, lb 1 0 0 11 1
Cavette, p 8 0 2 1 0
Totals S3 1 7 27 11
Score by innings:
Auburn
Georgia Tech
200 000 00B—7
010 000 000—1
SUMMARY: Errors: Kenmore, Voorh­ies.
Runs batted in: Thompson, Ken­more
B, McClusky, Gilmer. Two-baBe
h i t s : Kenmore, Stevens. Three-base hits:
Kenmore. Sacrifices: Voorhies, McNen-ney.
Double plays: Burpo (unassisted);
Louis to Voorhies to Burpo; McClusky
to Frazier to Rollo. Left on bases: Au­burn
10, Tech 7. Base on balls: off
Cavette 8. Struck out: by Cavette, 8; by
Kilpatrick 2. Hit by pitcher: by Ca­vette
(Frazier. Hurst). Balk: Cavette.
Umpires: Garner and Van Houten.
Time of game: 1:46.
A University of Omaha student
lists Mein Kampf as Hitler's per­sonal
assistant in a social science
exam.
H. L. Mencken has given Dart­mouth
College the manuscript of
"Happy Days", autobiography of
youth.
SEN. BOB LaFOLLETTE
The Senator from Wisconsin
will deliver the commencement
address to Auburn's class of 1940.
BIRMINGHAM MAN
PRAISES AUBURN
MEN'S CONDUCT
Dr. L. N. Duncan received a
letter last week from the man­ager
of the Molton Hotel in Bir­mingham
complimenting Auburn
students on their conduct while
in that city on inspection trips
last week. Following receipt of
this letter, Dr. Duncan wrote the
following letter to the editor of
the Plainsman.
Mr. John Godbold,
Editor, The Plainsman,
Dear John:
On a recent tour of inspection
our engineering students were
guests of the Molton Hotel in Bir­mingham.
Below I am quoting a
sentence from a letter just re­ceived
from Mr. Frank C. Hurley,
manager of the hotel:
"We handle many groups
from time to time, but never
has it been my pleasure to
have a group of young men
as orderly as these young fel­lows
were, it was quite a
pleasure to have them as our
guests."
It is a great honor and a great
privilege tp be connected with an
institution where the manly con­duct
of the~ student body brings
such words of praise. This truly
reveals the genuine Auburn Spirit.
May I express to this splendid
group of engineering students
deep and genuine appreciation for
them and for the honor and cred­it
which they reflect upon our be­loved
Alma Mater.
Sincerely yours,
L. N. Duncan.
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Auburn Grad To Be
Ordained Tonight
Stayton Also Will
Preach at Church
Conrad Stayton, former Au­burn
graduate and now a senior
at the Columbia Theological Sem­inary,
Decatur, Ga., will be ex­amined
for license to the minis­t
ry when the East Alabama Pres­byterian
convenes for its 84th
session here at the local Pres­byterian
Church today and tomor­row.
As a part of his examination,
Mr. Stayton will preach the Pres­bytery's
opening sermon at 7:30
p.m. tonight.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Stayton, of Birmingham, Mr.
Stayton graduated at Auburn in
1933 and was later an instructor
in "chemistry here. He will receive
the bachelor of divinity degree at
the Columbia Theological Semi­nary
in May.
Page Three
Lost Alumni
The following whose classes and
last known addresses are given,
are on the "lost" file of the Alum­ni
office. Anyone having any in­formation
on them, kindly report
it to the Alumni office, Plant
Service Building, Auburn.
Class of 1916: Burns, W. A.
Jr., San Antonio, Texas. Class of
1928: Burns, Wm. M. Jr., Dothan;
Burnett, Joe L., Birmingham.
Class of 1939: Burnum, Thos. S.
Jr., Decatur; Bussey, J. F., New
Orleans, La. Class of 1927: But­ler,
J. J., Birmingham.
Class of 1900: Butler, Rufus, J.
M., Eufaula. Class of 1935: Cal-lan,
Eugene, Prattville; Calloway,
G. M., Montgomery. Class of 1922:
Camp, N. G. Class of 1936: Camp­bell,
Blake, Columbia, Tenn. Class
of 1923: Cannon, Herbert E.,
New Orleans, La. Class of 1923:
Cannon, J. A., Auburn; Carnes,
S. A., Atlanta, Ga. Class of 1935:
Carr, Geo. L., Tuscaloosa.
POP's Install New
Group of Officers
Mattybelle Tabor, sophomore in
home economics from Owens Cross
Roads will serve as president of
Phi Omega Pi sorority for next
year, according to a recent an­nouncement.
She will succeed Vir­ginia
West of Auburn.
Other officers elected for next
year are vice-president, Marion
Fitch; recording secretary, Mar­tha
West; corresponding secre­tary,
Mary Jane Weaver; pledge
sponsor, Carolyn Rich; alumnae
chairman, Mrs. J. H. Hanson; and
alumnae secretary, Rebecca Pate.
The retiring officers were in
charge of the installation service.
Dr. Traylor Takes
Over Vet Hospital
In Montgomery
Dr. David H. Traylor, graduate
of the API Veterinary School in
1938, is now in charge of the
veterinary hospital formerly op­erated
in Montgomery by the late
Dr. Frank Windsor, Jr.
Dr. Traylor will practice at the
hospital, now known as the Clover-dale
Dog and Cat Hospital.
Until his present transfer, Dr.
Traylor had been with a veteri­nary
institution in Atlanta.
Since 1776 the College of Wil­liam
& Mary has initiated 799 stu­dents
into Phi Beta Kappa.
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Page Four T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN April 9, 1940
**te
Big Bulger, weight man on the
cinder squad, will be looked to
for points against Mississippi
State's Bulldogs on Saturday.
Drawing, Practice
For Horse Show
Begin This Week
Outside Entries Are
Expected; Winners to
Receive Trophies
Drawing by seniors for jump­ing
mounts for the 18th annual
Auburn Horse Show will be held
Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock at
the stables, Capt. K. L. Johnson,
director of the show, said yester­day.
Sophomores who wish to ride in
t h e contests will have an elimina­tion
class Saturday afternoon at
1:15. Juniors will draw for jump­ing
mounts Monday afternoon at
3 o'clock.
Handsome cups will be given
first-place winners in the boys'
events, and bronze bowls are to
go to top riders in the girls' con­tests.
Runners-up in all events
will receive ribbons.
The show is to be held in the
ROTC riding pasture at 2 p.m. on
Sunday, April 21. Stands will be
erected to take care of spectators.
Admission charge will be 35
cents for both students and non-students.
Horses are now available for
sophomores to ride on Monday,
Saturday, and Sunday afternoons
from 1 to 3 o'clock to practice for
Sophomore Horsemanship.
In addition to the Auburn ROTC
horses, several groups of outside
horses will be entered in this
year's show, including several
jumping mounts from Ft. Ben-ning.
The program for the 1940 Au­burn
Horse Show consists of 11
events as follows: Class 1—Sopho­more
Horsemanship. Class 2 —
Junior Jumping. Class 3 — Polo
Stake Race, " B " Squad. Class 4
—Five-gaited horses. Class 5 —
Ladies' Jumping. Class 6 — Pony
Class. Class 7 — Senior Jumping.
Class 8 — Polo Race, " A " Squad.
Class 9—Pair Jumping. Class 10
—Ladies' Horsemanship for Inter­mediate
Riders. Class 11—Ladies'
Horsemanship for Beginners.
The first place winners of the
1939 Auburn Horse Show were:
Sophomore Horsemanship—Cagle,
Ladies' Jumping—Suzelle Hare,
" B " Squad Polo Stake Race —
Williams, Pair Jumping — Mary
Lydia Williamson and John Dub-berly.
Ladies' Horsemanship —
Claire Wolfe, Junior Jumping —
Elmer Almquist, Ladies' Horse­manship
— Winifred Hill. "A"
Squad Polo Race — Brown, " B"
Squad — Morgan, Taylor, Wil­liams,
Bedford, and Nichols, Sen­ior
Jumping — W. Smith.
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API Cindermen Race
Miss. State Saturday
State Bulldogs Will Offer Tough
Competition to Hutsell's Trackmen
Meeting the Maroon track team from Mississippi State
at Starksville, Miss., this Saturday, the Tiger tracksters
will open their Southeastern Conference dual meet sched­ule
of four engagements.
Coach Wilbur Hutsell will be directing his nineteenth
Auburn cinder squad.
Other dual meet encounters are scheduled with Geor­gia
at Auburn on April 20, Florida at Gainesville on May
4, and Georgia Tech in Atlanta • ^ — — — —
on May 11. The Tigers will also
participate in the Southeastern
Conference meet in Birmingham
on May 17 and 18 and in the Na­tional
Collegiate Meet at Minn­eapolis
on June 21 and 22.
Fresh from a victorious en­gagement
in the Florida Relays
where they nosed out the strong
Maryland team, the Tigers hope
to add another triumph against
the Maroon cinder team. Under
the leadership of Captain "Chuck"
Morgan, ace high hurdler; Bob
Dickinson, dash man and broad
jump specialist; and Chester Bul­ger
in the weight division, the
Tigers should finish high in the
conference standings this season.
A newcomer to the squad, Hoyt
Hall, pole vaulter who tied for
first place in the Florida Relays,
is expected to give added strength
to the cinder team.
The Maroons boast a spotless
two-year record in dual engage­ments
against stiff competition.
Auburn also has a like record,
not having been defeated in a
dual meet since an engagement
with Georgia in 1937.
Education School
Leading In Coed
'Mural Program
The School of Education, win­ner
of the coed intramural basket­ball
tourney, led the women's in­tramural
sports program this week
in points, folowed by FHA in sec­ond
place and Kappa Delta in
third.
Competition in the mass bad­minton
program, next to last
group event on the women's in­tramural
slate for this semester,
began this week at the Boys' Gym
with eight games on the schedule.
Along with this, singles tourna­ments
in both tennis and badmint­on
are now in progress, according
to Miss Fannie Stollenwerck, di­rector
of coed intramurals.
Five top-ranking girls will be
chosen from those participating
in the intramural tennis program
to represent Auburn at a tennis
day to be held at Judson College
in May.
Tennis is the last group com­petitive
sport, will get under way
immediately after the mass bad­minton
competition.
SOFTBALL ENTERS
SECOND WEEK
Pi K a p p a P h i ' s Look
T o Be O u t s t a n d i ng
Thrown for a loss by bad
weather, the Softball tournament
got under way slowly last week
but all games were to be made
up immediately, and this week's
games are being played on sched­ule.
In five games last week Pi Kap-pi
Phi emerged as the standout
team, though the season is still
young to be picking winners. The
Pi Kap's swamped the Sigma Pi's
by 11-2. I n the other games Delta
Sig nosed out the Pi K A's 9-8,
SPE whitewashed the Lambda
Chi's 9-0. Kappa Sig nosed out
Phi Delta Theta 8-7, and the KA's
overwhelmed the Alpha Psi's by
12-4.
The stock of the Pi K A's, pre­season
favorite along with Beta
Kappa, dropped after their loss
to the Delta Sig's and the surpris­ingly
strong Pi Kappa Phi's now
look like a strong contender for
major honors. Leroy Montgomery,
freshman from Birmingham, looks
to be one of the best pitchers on
the campus and is sure to miss his
share of games.
The KA's, paced by Walt Chan­dler
and Dick Brannon, a r e another
t e am that will bear witching. In
practice sessions the SPE's also
look good.
Alpha Psi and Lambda Chi
clashed yesterday afternoon in the
first of this week's diamond
matches.
On the'Mural Slate
TODAY
SAE vs. Sigma Pi—BF.
TEP vs. ATO—CF.
Pi K A vs. Kappa Sig—GG.
Delta Sig vs. Phi Delta Theta
—BF.
WEDNESDAY
KA vs. AGR—GG.
THURSDAY
Theta Chi vs. ALT—BF.
ATO vs. Sigma Chi—GG.
Sigma Nu vs. TEP—BF.
All games at 4 o'clock.
Tigers-Petrels
Meet Tomorrow
G e o r g i a C o m i n g to
A u b u r n o n F r i d ay
Off for a four-day road trip
beginning tomorrow m o r n i ng
Coach P o r t e r Grant's baseball Tig­ers
meet their ancient rivals the
Oglethorpe Stormy Petrels tomor­row
and Thursday in Atlanta.
Then on Friday and Saturday
they'll r e t u r n to home grounds to
face Georgia's best diamond squad
in a decade on Drake Field.
Hurling duties will be divided
between the Tigers' all-too-sparse
crop of tossers consisting of Char­lie
Kilpatrick, Tommie Mastin,
Louis Diamond, and Bob Day.
Remainder of the s t a r t i n g line­up
will be the same as in the past
several games: Ralph Frazier at
first, Charlie Rollo and Carl Hap-per
at second, Woodie McNair at
Short, "Mac" McCluskey at third;
Fred Hurst, Capt. Tommie Thomp­son,
and George Kenmore patrol­ling
the gardens; while catching
duties will be split among Red
Caudill, Dick McGowen, and Jack
Ferrell.
Exact information on t he
s t r e n g t h of the Petrels was not
available here today, but the At­l
a n t a school always places heavy
emphasis on baseball and turns
out crack teams, so the Tigers
will be up against formidable op­position.
ODK Selects
Continued from page 1
neering, is a member of Scabbard
and Blade and of ASME. He serv­ed
for two years on the Plainsman
staff.
ODK is a national honorary
leadership organization, having
chapters in leading colleges and
universities throughout the coun­try,
although it has kept its Cir­cles
concentrated in Southern
schools. Selection of members is
based primarily on character and
is conditional to scholarship, lead­ership,
and on social and extra­curricular
activities such, as for-ensics
and publications.
Honorary and alumni members
of the local chapter of ODK in­clude
Gov. Frank Dixon, President
L. N. Duncan, Executive Secre­t
a r y R. B. Draughon, Coach Wil­bur
Hutsell, Dr. Charles Davis, P.
O. Davis, State Superintendent of
Education Albert Collins, Grover
Hall, and Judge T. D. Samford.
A manuscript of Dante's "Di­vine
Comedy" dated 1337 is on
exhibition at Brown University.
GUS' PLACE
3 doors below Ben
Frankin Store
NOW OPEN FOR
SERVICE
• Sandwiches
• Regular Meals
GUS ROUSE, Prop.
REWARD—For r e t u r n of golf set.
Stolen April 6. Robert T. Jones
matched, 5 irons, 3 woods.
A.L.T. marking punched on
metal plates. Phone 79-W.
NOTICE — All students who at­tended
church ' services Sunday
and did not t u r n in their names
to YMCA members, phone their
names in to Bill Carroll, YMCA
president, at the Delta Sigma
Phi house.
Smart college women stay ahead of fashions
and style changes. Spring clothes are
now being shown at
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"The Shop of Original Styles"
BROAD STREET COLUMBUS, GA.
Spring Is Here . . .
Prepare your car for spring and summer driving. We in­vite
you to come in and meet our new service manager,
Mr. Clarence Vinson, 15 years with Ford. He will be
glad to give your car a thorough check up with latest
laboratory test set, free of charge.vHe can tell about the
heart, lungs, blood pressure and might help indigestion,
where the gas bill won't be so high.
Bring the kiddies with you for Pan Am funnies. Dick
Tracy is after the crooks and we are after new satisfied
customers.
Tiger Motor Co., Inc.
CECIL (LUM) WARD PHONE 3 0 0 ANDERSON (BLACK) BLACKBURN
YELLOW JACKETS
TRIP AUBURN IN
FIRST OF TWO
First Inning Slips
Fatal for Auburn Team;
API Wins Second
With a four run outburst in the
f i r s t inning to back him up, Pitcher
Red Oliver hurled the Georgia Tech
Yellow Jackets to a 4-2 victory
over the Auburn Tigers in their
initial conference game of the 1940
season Friday in Atlanta.
The Jackets scored their runs on
three walks, an error, and a single
by Bud Gilmer. Tommie Mastin,
sophomore southpaw hurler for the
Tigers settled down after t h a t and
allowed only two hits throughout
the remainder of the game.
The Plainsmen nicked Oliver for
five hits, all singles, and he held the
Tigers runless in every inning ex­cept
the eighth when the Bengals
pushed over two tallies with two
walks, a single by Kenmore, and
an error.
The box score follows:
Freshman Swimming
Tournament Will Be
Held Friday at Gym
The annual freshman swimming
meet for the Alpha Phi Omega
trophy will be held Friday, April
12, at 4 p.m. in Alumni Gym. All
regular freshmen are eligible to
compete in the tournament.
Entries for the tennis and golf
tournaments will still be taken
this week. Names of freshmen de­siring
to enter these competitions
should be turned into the intra­mural
sports office on the second
floor of Samford Hall within the
next few days. -
Alpha Phi Omega, national
scouting fraternity, awards cups
each year to winners of freshman
tournaments in swimming, tennis,
golf, fencing and rifle marksman­ship.
All cups for these sports will
be awarded at the same time other
intramural sports awards are
made.
Tech 7. Base on balls off Mastin 6,
Oliver 7. Passed ball: Stevens. Um­pires
Garner and Van Houten. Time
1:60.
Farley Visit
Continued from page 1
tained with a chicken barbecue. Im­mediately
after the entertainment,
he boarded the 8 o'clock t r a i n for
Atlanta. "My stay in Auburn was
very pleasant," the Postmaster-
General said on leaving. "I enjoyed
every minute of it."
Reed College has a student-faculty
group of musicians who
play on old English flutes called
recorders.
Fifty five per cent of the stu­dents
at Albion College are work­ing
their way through school,
wholly or in part.
Students at Dartmouth College
smoke 40,000 cigarettes a day.
Freshmen wishing to enter the
swimming meet should turn their
names into the intramural sports
office this week and be a t t h e gym
at 4 p.m. Friday.
AUBURN
Rollo. 2b
Thompson, cf .
McNair, ss
Frazier, lb
Kenmore, rf
McGowen, c
Hurst, If
McCluskey, Sb
Mastin, p
xHapper
ab. h. o. a.
. 4 0 0 8
. 4 1 2 0
3 1 0 3
.3 0 10 0
. 4 1 4 1
. 4 1 7 0
. 4 1 0 0
_ 4 0 0 0
. 3 0 0 1
. 1 0 0 0
Totals
GEORGIA TECH
.34 6 24 8
McNenney, ss
Voorhies, 2b —
Stevens, c
Wheby, cf
Lewis, 8b
Van-Heuvel, If
Gilmer, rf
Burpo, lb
Oliver, p
Totals
ab. h.
. 33 0 0
3 0 8
4 0 2
4 1 1
2 0 1
2 1 1
3 2 9
3 0 1
x—Batted for Mastin in 9th.
..27 4 27 9
Auburn
Tech
000 000 020—2
..400 000 OOx—4
SUMMARY—Runs: Voorhies, McNen­ney,
Stevens, Vanden-Heuvel, McNair,
Frazier. Errors: Kenmore, Mastin, Mc­Nenney,
Burpo. Runs batted in: Ken­more,
Lewis, Gilmer 2. Three base hit:
Lewis. Stolen base: Stevens. Sacrifice:
McNenney. Left on bases: Auburn 7:
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S t a r t i n g W e d n e s d a y,
A p r i l 1 0 t h for
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Exactly as shown in its fam­ed
Atlanta Premiere
GONE
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This production will not be
shown anywhere except at
advanced prices — at least
until 19U.
T h r e e S h o w s D a i ly
Matinees 10 a.m. & 2 p.m.
Admission - - - - 77c
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Night Shows 7 p.m.
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4400 TIMES
HIS OWN WEIGHT
AMAN could lift four ioo-ton freight cars
if he were proportionately as strong as a
new Alnicp magnet assembly recently de­veloped
in the General Electric Research
Laboratory.
The greatly increased strength of the new
magnet is due to a special mounting, which
permits the magnetic flux to pass through
many air gaps instead of the usual two in
bridging from pole to pole. This makes
possible a more efficient utilization of the
magnetic energy. In recent laboratory tests
a magnet weighing only one quarter of an
ounce was able to support 69 pounds—about
4400 times its own weight. This new de­velopment,
although not yet commercially
available, broadens the field of permanent
magnet applications.
TWO OUT Of TWENTY
N his selection of the 20 outstanding men
and women of 1939, Durward Howes,
editor of "America's Young Men," honored
two General Electric leaders: Philip D. Reed
and Katharine B. Blodgett.
Mr. Reed has been with General Electric
since 1926. He received his engineering
degree from Wisconsin in 1921 and his law
degree from Fordham University three
years later. In 1937 he became the assistant
of Gerard Swope, President of General
Electric. Mr. Reed is now Chairman of the
Board of Directors.
v\\W '//A
KATHARINE I I I O O O TT
I
Miss Blodgett was graduated from Bryn
Mawr in 1917, received her M.S. degree
from the University of Chicago, and spent
the next six years in the General Electric
Research Laboratory in Schenectady. In
1924 and 1925 Dr. Blodgett studied at the
Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, Eng­land,
where she received the degree of Doctor
of Philosophy. Returning to the G-E Re­search
Laboratory, she has since been
engaged in the study of molecular films.
GENERAL W ELECTRIC