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VOL. LXIII z-i ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, JANUARY 12, 1940 No. 31
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Auburn-Opelika
Radio Station
Studios Expected to
Be Located Somewhere
Between Two Towns
Federal approval of a new 250-
watt radio station to serve this
section of the state was announc­ed
Wednesday by the Opelika-
Auburn Broadcasting Company.
Permission to install the station
was granted by the Federal Com­munications
Commission a f t er
several months litigation in Wash­ington.
The station, which has not yet
been named, will broadcast under
250 watts of power during the
daytime and 100 watts at night.
Programs will be broadcast over
a frequency of approximately
1370 kilocycles.
Definite sites for the station
and for studios have not been se­lected
but the broadcasting com­pany
hopes to locate them approxi­mately
midway between Opelika
and Auburn.
Operating as a partnership, the
broadcasting company will be
owned by four Opelika business
men, Yetta G. Samford, Thomas
D. Samford, Jr., C. S. Shealy, and
John Herbert Orr. Orr will serve
as general manager.
Application for permission to
operate the new station was made
by the broadcasting company sev­eral
months ago. About the time
the application was made Roy
Martin of Columbus, Ga., owner
of the Martin Theatre in Opelika,
was also seeking permission to
operate a station in Opelika. How­ever,
he withdrew his application
a few weeks ago.
Station WRBL of Columbus
contested the broadcasting com­pany's
application in Washington.
PLAINSMEN 51-45
Frank Manci Paces
Tigers with 18 Points
Vanderbilt's courtmen opened
their Southeastern Conference
season in Nashville last night with
a 51-45 win over Auburn's green
but fast-improving Tigers.
Leading the Commodores was
Pinky Lipscomb, all-conference
forward who scored 20 points.
Right on his trail for scoring
honors was Frank Manci, Auburn
sophomore star, who racked up
18 markers. J. P. Streetman, for­ward,
and Teedie Faulk, guard,
totaled 9 points each.
Early in the game the Black and
Gold got away to a 9-point lead,
but Auburn, with Manci pacing
the five, closed up and stayed
there for the rest of the game.
At the half Vandy was leading by
only two points, 28-26.
Hurting Auburn as much as
anything else was the lack of re­serves.
Coach "Shug" Jordan
made only two substitutions,.while
Vanderbilt made five.
Today the Tigers move on to
Sewanee where they will meet ex-
Tiger Joel Eaves' team tonight.
Rumors have been circulating
among sportswriters that Coach
Jordan is slated to take over the
recently-vacated head coach's posi­tion
at Sewanee and will talk
about it while the team is there.
Continued on page 4
State Extension Workers Meet
Wellborn Elected
Ag Club President
The Ag Club held its last meet­ing
of the first semester last Wed­nesday
night in Ross auditorium
and elected officers for the next
semester. Fred Wellborn, senior in
agriculture from Section, Ala.,
will serve as president of the or­ganization
for the next semester.
Elected as vice-president of the
club was Rayvon Pettis, senior in
agriculture and a member of Al­pha
Gamma Rho fraternity. Other
officers include Jack Cagle, sec­retary;
Fred Harlin, treasurer;
and Tom Rowan, reporter.
Each of the new officers made
short acceptance speeches, and
the retiring officers said a word
of thanks to members for their co­operation
during this semester.
Retiring officers are Robert Gay,
president; Chan Vickery, vice-president;
Virgil Rhodes, secre­tary;
Luther Gowder, treasurer;
and Merlin Bryant, reporter.
Grant Rumored as
Candidate Against
Rep. Luther Patrick
Hugh S. Grant, former API
journalism instructor and public­ity
director, one-time secretary of
Sen. Hugo Black, and last Unit­ed
States minister to defunct Al­bania,
is being boomed as a pos­sible
rival for Rep. Luther Patrick
in the next congressional election.
Rep. Patrick, Birmingham's fa­mous
"poet-politician", who rose
from a place as poetry reader over
a Magic City radio station to that
of member of the United States
House of Representatives, repre­sents
the ninth congressional dis­trict.
Grant, who has not yet been
officially relieved from his min­istership,
has remained non-com­mittal
on the rumors of his can­didacy.
He arrived in Birmingham sev­eral
weeks ago with his wife and
daughter.
Mr. Grant was in Albania at
the time of its invasion by the
Italian forces and was the last
representative of a foreign na­tion
to talk with King Zog before
the monarch fled the country with
Queen Geraldine and their infant
child.
The King and Queen fled to
Greece after leaving Albania.
Myth Of Auburn'BMOCY Dispelled-
They Aren't Big Shots After All
Seniors' Ego Deflated
By Reporter's Findings
Maybe some of Auburn's big-shots
aren't such big shots after
all. In a recent poll to discover
just how well known several of
the leading senior office holders
in Auburn were, it was discovered
that they weren't.
Oh, of course, a few were fair­ly
well-known, those who have
their names smeared all over the
Plainsman twice a week, but the
majority of these would-be BMO-C's
weren't even known by half
of the people questioned.
To determine this fact the
Plainsman conducted a survey of
a cross-section of the students,
about 30 in all, supposedly rep­resentative
of every type, class,
and species of the enrollment.
The poll revealed that only 53%
of the student body knows who
the president of the Executive
Cabinet is. That is, only 16 out
of the 30 knew that John Ivey,
Jr., was the students' chief execu­tive.
And only two of the 30, or
about 6 % % knew the vice-presi­dent,
Jim King.
Along with Ivey in the 53%
group came Tom Henley, chair-
, man of the Social Committee. Six­teen
out of the 30 knew who held
that office, too.
Fewer students knew who held
the offices of Cabinet vice-presi­dent,
president of Sphinx, and
captain of Scabbard and Blade
than any others. King, Betty Sho-walter,
and John Rice each rated
6%%.
Forty-seven per cent of the
students interviewed knew that
Virginia Adams was president of
the Women's Student Govern­ment.
Only four of the 30, 13% knew
the president of the senior class,
Kenneth Funchess.
Winfrey Boyd was known by
33% to be president of ODK, and
George Kenmore by the same per­centage
as president of Blue Key.
The president of the Interfra-ternity
Council, George Hiller,
and chairman of the Elections
Committee, John Watters, also
tied up, with 20% each.
The editor of the Glomerata
was recognized as Charles "Buck"
Kelley by 33% of those question­ed.
He was nosed out by his busi­ness
manager and the ad-monger
for the Plainsman, each of whom
had 40% who said "We know
'em."
Continued on page 4
InThe ir A/\n nua ion MHe re
Dr. Foster Addresses
Assemblage Last Night
Three Days of Activity Closed by Speech
Of President of University of Alabama
In a speech before the entire Extension Service of the
state last night, Dr. Richard C. Foster, president of the Uni­versity
of Alabama, pointed out that progress is coming to
the state of Alabama and that Auburn, Montevallo, and
the University of Alabama are playing a prominent part
in it. He spoke at a banquet in the new dining hall of the
Women's Quadrangle.
More than 300 Extension Service members were pres­ent
as Dr. Foster paid tribute to ——^^^^^^^^—^^—^^^^^^^
Dr. L. N. Duncan, president of
Auburn, as a most able educator.
"Proof of his ability can be seen
on the Auburn campus today in
the wonderful new buildings",
said the University executive.
He complimented the Extension
Service on its fine work and P.
O. Davis, director of the Service,
on his selection by the Progressive
Farmer as "Man of the year in
Alabama agriculture."
Sen. J. Miller Bonner spoke
briefly for Gov. Frank M. Dixon,
who was unable to be present on
account of illness. He read a tele­gram
from the governor, express­ing
his regret that he was unable
to be here.
Last night's banquet climaxed
three days of intensive activity by
Extension Service workers in
their meeting here, their first one
in two years.
During the week many distin­guished
speakers from the state
and from the National Extension
Service have been heard.
The heads and supervisors of
the other agricultural agencies of
the state, including the vocational
agriculture department, the Soil
Conservation Service, the Farm
Security Administration, and the
Agricultural Adjustment Admin­istration,
met with the extension
service group.
The Extension Service gathering
met jointly with the local Pro­duction
Credit Association yester­day.
The director and supervisors
of the Extension Service spoke at
the joint session.
Half-hour programs have been
broadcast daily from 12 until
12:30 from the new studio-audi­torium
in Duncan Hall. The pro­grams
were a cross-section of the
meeting. They featured speakers
from the Extension Service and
various musical presentations.
Last night's banquet was fol­lowed
by a half-hour radio broad­cast
from 9:15 to 9:45 from the
new studio in Duncan Hall.
Prom Bids To Be
Taken Up Tuesday
New Plan Devised for
Admission to Hall
All bid cards for the Junior
Prom are to be collected Tuesday
night, Jan. 16, at 9 o'clock, ac­cording
to a social committee an­nouncement
last night. No -bid
cards will be accepted after that
date.
To prevent congestion at the
entrances to Graves Center, a
new arrangement for admission
will go into effect for the dances.
All fraternity men holding special
tickets and all holders of block
tickets for the entire set will enter
the west door of the hall. Spec­tators
will be admitted at the east
end of the building, and all others
at the two doors on the front.
Henley announced that the con­tract
for decorations had been let
to Allen Lamar and Bobby Law­rence.
Hal Kemp is not on the air at
present, but Eddy Duchin's or­chestra
may be heard over the
Columbia network from 11:30 to
12 o'clock p.m. on Thursday and
on Saturday over the same net­work
from 5:30 to 6:00 p.m. EST.
Jones Sings To
Plaudits Of Full
House At WPA Hall
Audience Approved of
Singer's Pleasing
Voice, Personality
Allan Jones' concert at Graves
Center Tuesday night was marked
by the enthusiastic reception
which the tenor's audience of more
than 1400 gave every number on
his program.
Mr. Jones' first songs were a
group from the works of Handel,
of which the familiar "Every Val­ley
Shall Be Exalted" from the
famous oratorio "The Messiah"
perhaps received the most ap­plause.
The second part of the pro­gram
was devoted tq French songs,
including "Le Secret" by Faure
and the "Hymn to the Sun" of
George.
Following intermission, Gibner
King, the accompanist, played
three piano selections and was
brought back to the stage by a
storm of applause for an encore.
His most popular piece was "On
Wings of Song," by Mendelssohn-
Liszt.
Mr. Jones was particularly ef­fective
singing the noted aria "O
Paradis" from Meyerbeer's opera
"L'Africaine." In his concluding
group, he sang perhaps the most
touching number of his entire
concert, Tschaikowsky's "None
but the Lonely Heart."
After the program the tenor
was recalled four times for en­cores.
By request he sang the
"Donkey Serenade," the song from
"The Firefly" which made him
famous with movie-goers every­where;
"Only Make Belief," from
Jerome Kern's "Show Boat";
"Gianina Mia," also from "The
Firefly"; and finally, "Thine A-lone,"
which he sings in his latest
movie, "The Great Victor Her­bert."
Possessed of a charming per­sonality
as well as of a pleasing
voice, Mr. Jones audibly met with
the approval of the capacity audi­ence.
Miss Lee Awarded
Place as Head of
Hall in New Dorm
Miss Janet Lee of Tomah, Wis.,
has already taken a post as the
fourth head of hall in the new
Women's Quadrangle and is head­ing
dormitory number three.
In addition to her place as head
of hall Miss Lee is serving as an
instructor in physical education.
She came to Auburn from Den­ver,
Col., where she was an in­structor
in physical education at
the Colorado State Women's Col­lege.
She received her AB degree
from LaCrosse State Teachers
College, LaCrosse, Wis., and her
MA degree from Colorado College
at Colorado Springs, Col.
Miss Mary Moss Wellborn is
head of hall in dormitory number
one, Miss Mary Meade in number
two, and Mrs. Willie Calkins, num­ber
four.
Staff Photo by Lewis Arnold
"INTO THE VALLEY OF DEATH" might be the title of this, for there are girls to the right of
him, girls to the left of him, girls to the front of him. He's Allan Jones, singer of screen and stage, who
appeared here Tuesday night before a capacity audience of 1400.
On his right is Freda Kyle, junior in education, and hanging on his left is Kathryn Jenkins, fresh­man
in business administration. Peeping over his shoulder is Laura Wallace, freshman in commercial art.
The two pencil-holding males are Plainsman reporters Bob Anderson (left) and Dan Hollis.
STECKEL SPEAKS
TO AUBURN COEDS
Talks on Qualities
Of Girl in Business
Dr. Minnie L. Steckel of Ala­bama
College at Montevallo ad­dressed
the convocation of Au­burn
coeds in Langdon Hall yes­terday
afternoon on the subject
"Women in Business."
Dr. Steckel gave the results of
a statistical study undertaken by
the Business and Professional
Women's Clubs in which informa­tion
was gathered on the 10 de­sirable
characteristics for women
who are entering business work.
Dr. Steckel's findings have been
published in the pamphlet "Ala­bama
Women and Their Employ­ers",
of which she is author. It
was published in 1939. In the
course of her talk she made fre­quent
references to this publica­tion.
Cardinal Key Will
Open Dorm Tea Spot
Refreshment Oasis to Open Monday Night
In Basement of Dormitory Number One
A tea room, sponsored by Cardinal Key with the assist­ance
of Owls, both honorary societies for women students,
will open Monday night at 8:30 in the basement of dormi­tory
number one at the new women's quadrangle.
The room will serve milk, soft drinks, candy, and other
light foods for the benefit of the coeds in the dormitories,
who are not allowed to order food from town.
Cardinal Key members said last night that the recrea­tion
spot will be open every night ^——~~~———~m~~~—~~~~~~~~~^~
Work Progressing
On Tennis Courts
14 New Courts Being
Built on West Thach
Work is steadily progressing on
the 14 tennis courts which have
been under construction on West
Thach Avenue since the first week
in December. The courts, costing
approximately $125 each, are be­ing
built by convict labor under
the supervision of Prof. Dan T.
Jones and the intramural sports
department.
Some of the courts are to have
clay tops and the others tar. They
are being financed in large by the
school, with a part of the money
coming from profits from the
ODK musicales of 1938 and 1939
and from the Lions Club.
-Five of the courts, which will
be ready for their top dressing
with the advent of warm weather,
are located on the south side of
West Thach, bordering the base­ball
field. The remaining nine will
be on the north side, three of
them just past the new classroom
building and the other six between
the drainage ditch, which crosses
the terrain a few yards further
out West Thach, and the first vet­erinary
medicine building.
Work will begin on the nine on
the north side as soon as the first
five are completed.
to all coeds, between the hours
of 8:30 and 10:30. Girls with
dates can also take advantage of
the tea room, but they must come
in through the side entrance.
The tea room will be kept open
during examinations for the bene­fit
of students who may want to
take a few minutes off from study
to get a bite to eat or something
to drink.
Members of Cardinal Key and
Owls will operate the eating cen­ter,
serving in relays of two.
Helen Porch, senior in home
economics, was in charge of ar­rangements
for the room. Amy
Drake, senior in education, is
president of Cardinal Key.
API Engineers Will
Hear R. A. Polglaze
R. A. Polglaze of Birmingham
will speak to Auburn engineering
students at the regular monthly
meeting of the ASEC seminar
Monday night at Graves Center
at 7:30.
Mr. Polglaze, an outstanding
contracting engineer of the state,
was a special student in engineer­ing
here during 1905-06, and
1909-12.
Engineering Council officers
did not know the subject of his
address when questioned this
morning.
BEHIND THE HEADLINES
C /»/»/\rrli was *n e f°u r-day state-wide gathering of
J U C C V S S I U I Extension workers held here this week
with approximately 400 agricultural workers attending.
See column 3.
/* l y of 1940 is the approval of a radio sta-vOOQ
rieWS tion for Auburn, something the college
has missed greatly since WAPI left here years ago.
See column 1.
r was the applause for Allan Jones, golden-
LllOriTlUllS voiced tenor of radio and screen, at his
concert here this week. See column 4.
are the so-called "big shots" of the camp-
MOI 3 0 D l y us according to a survey conducted
See column 1.
to the independent teams this
among students.
Wllflt HdPPened year? is the question asked by
the intramural sports department in an appeal for more
teams in the campus sports program. See page 3.
was Allan Jones in giving interviews to stu­dents
and posing for pictures. Everyone found
him charming. See page 4.
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Take Care of the
New Buildings
NOW THAT Auburn has dis­pensed
with the problem of
getting much-needed new build­ings,
the next problem is that of
keeping them. Those shiny new
walls must be kept that way, and
the handsome equipment mustn't
be marred.
No one could have exhibited
more pride in Auburn's expansion
than the student body. The stu­dents
have been voluble in their
cry for new buildings, loud in
their praise that have been ob­tained.
We are a little curious
to see if the cries and the praises
were sincere enough to insure
that the new buildings will be kept
new.
A Southerner Discovers
New England
ONCE UPON a time some Miss
Post (surely not even acquaint­ed
with the famous Emily) wrote
a little, squib in the American
Mercury about what horrible food
Southerners ate. It aroused wide­spread
comment, and a lot of us
wanted to tar and feather the
lady, who very obviously ate
sugar in her cornbread.
Miss Post described "charac­teristic"
Rebel foods such as
fried.carrots, which no Southern­er
had even heard of before and
never hopes to. Very obviously
Miss Post was talking through
her beribboned bonnet.
Last spring we spent two weeks
existing on Yankee cooking. Po­tatoes
! Have you ever eaten Irish
potatoes twice a day for 14 days?
We don't mean "potatoes", ior
a Southerner means sweet pota­toes
when he says that. We mean
Irish potatoes — boiled, French
fried, baked, steamed, mashed,
browned, fricassed, creamed,
fluffed, hashed, lyonnaissed, sal-aded.
Never let it be said that a Yan­kee
isn't versatile. He can think
of 1000 ways to disguise Irish
potatoes. And incidentally, did
the waitress ever bring you a
plain boiled potato, not season­ed
or prepared, just a round,
white, boiled potato as naked
as a pearl?
As for string beans . . . a devil­ish
New England cook takes a
normal self-respecting s t r i ng
bean and chases it through a pot
of boiling water. When you get
it, it's so raw that it would sprout
if planted and tastes like stewed
alfalfa.
Down South people eat weiners
and hamburgers on picnics, at
the circus, and after dances. The
Yanks have weiners (they will
call them frankfurts) every second
day and hamburgers (known as
hamburg sandwiches) s e v en
days a week. However, they'll
fool you on those hamburgers.
Every third day they call them
"Salisbury steak sandwiches."
Speaking of sandwiches. . . .
We never order a Southern sand­wich
that it doesn't come equip­ped
with mayonnaise, lettuce, to­mato,
pickle, and maybe a few
potato chips on the side. How
can we forget the first Yankee
sandwich, when we asked for a
ham and got two dry slices of
bread with a slice of ham be­tween?
At our disgusted look the
waiter popped, "Hell, buddy, if
you wanted that bread buttered
why didn't you say so."
We shall never forget the sur­prised
New England faces that
greeted our peals of laughter at
seeing "Face of Rump" on the
menu. We really thought that
someone had gotten ends mixed,
but it turned out to be just our
ignorance, or maybe lack of ver­satility
of the Yankee terminol­ogy.
Alabama and Small-
Scale Industry
THE LATEST Alabama Chamber
of Commerce report lists $23,-
000,000 of new industrial invest­ments
in the state during the year
1939. Of the total, $20,000,000
was for expansion of already-established
industries and $3,-
000,000 for the founding of new
enterprises.
The list of new industries is
particularly of interest—61 new
establishments in one year. Hair
oil, mops and brooms, Venetian
blinds, toys, tung oil, ribbon,
cheese—all these and more just
as varied are on the $3,000,000
list.
It is'small industry that furn­ishes
the real background for the
industrial stability of a commun­ity,
and nearly all of these new
enterprises are of the small type.
Small-scale industry brings with
it fewer of the problems of la­bor,
of depressing social and eco­nomic
conditions, more of a feel­ing
of pride and interest in the
industry itself and in the com­munity.
The term "home owned and
operated" in referring to indus­try
has a broader significance
than as a mere slogan for adver­tising.
Moreover, small-scale industry
can be financed with capital from
the state itself, and in a poor
state like Alabama that is import­ant.
The state, of course, seeks
new capital, desires it earnestly,
but a healthy growth of its own
facilities offers advantages not
true of an influx of out-of-state
financing and its accompanying
problems.
Ireland lost its virility through
absentee ownership of land —
Alabama has no desire to lose
hers through too much of the
same kind of ownership in indus­try.
What's the Matter With
The Independent Teams?
THE INTRAMURAL Sports de­partment
reports that inde­pendent
teams are not partici­pating
in intramural sports this
year as they have in the past.
Surely it is not because these stu­dents
have suddenly lost all inter­est
in athletics. In the past many
independent teams have partici­pated
in the sports program, and
the competition has been merit-ous
and hard-fought.
Perhaps there should be a lit­tle
explanation of the way the
intramural program is carried
out. The intramural sports pro­gram
is financed by the students
themselves through a portion of
their student activity fees. It
costs them nothing else to enter
this program; they have no spec­ial
fees to pay in order to take
part in these sports. The exercise
should be helpful to all students,
as only freshmen are required to
take any sort of physical train­ing.
Certainly the independent
teams have not become lazy all
at once. The basketball season is
just getting underway. Sign up
your team now and show the in­tramural
department that real
spirit. D.H.
The Plainsman Forum With the Co-OpS—By C J. Bastien
Letters to the Editor
History of the FFA Co-op
Editor, The Plainsman:
In response to many inquiries as to
how the FFA Co-Op Book Exchange is
operated and why we do not get a more
central location so that we may better
serve our student body, I present the
following article.
The FFA Cooperative Book Exchange
was organized during the summer school
term of 1936 by the students enrolled
in Agricultural Education at API. It
was believed by many that savings could
be made on the cost of books and sup­plies
for students, and with this point
in view it was decided that the Col­legiate
Chapter of the FFA would spon­sor
a cooperative enterprise to handle
books and supplies fop the students.
A committee was appointed to write
a constitution which was adopted by the
chapter with few changes. A board of
directors consisting of six members was
elected, and this board then selected
the manager for the Exchange. The
manager is placed under bond, and he
takes full responsibility for manage­ment.
It was decided that the manager
should receive a small per cent of all
the sales. Such a salary is justified be­cause
he must keep up with all business
transactions, buy and sell supplies, and
keep an accurate set of books.
Profit derived from the Book Ex­change
is to be used for purchasing
more books and supplies or set aside in
a sinking fund for future operation un­til
such time as the manager and board
s of directors shall declare that the capi­tal
is sufficient for adequate operation
of the store. At that time prices will
be further reduced as it is not our pur­pose
to make a profit other than is nec­essary
to care far the expense of the
store.
This store was organized primarily
for agricultural students but since oth­er
schools expressed a desire to save
with us it was decided to expand the
business, and we now handle some books
and supplies for every school except the
Schools of Business and Architecture.
However, all students are benefiting
by our operation at present whether
they trade with us or not, for the other
stores have met our prices on most
books and a few supplies. In the three
and one half years that we have been
operating we have saved the students
who traded with us approximately $6,-
000. Based on an enrollment of 3,475
as reported by the registrar for this
semester and a saving of 10 per cent
on $15.00 worth of books and supplies
per person, since all stores gave ap­proximately
that discount.
We have saved the students this se­mester
alone $5,212.50, and this saving
for the year, including summer school,
will amount to well over $10,000. We
do not believe that any organization on
our campus is saving the students that
much money annually and believe that
when the college officials realize this
fact that they will provide us an ade­quate
building that is easily accessible
to all the students. We admit that the
name and the system of management
of the book store may have to be chang­ed
to suit the college, but so long as
we accomplish our purpose we do not
mind doing whatever is best for our
college. If you are as interested in this
undertaking as many of you have mani­fested,
then show the college authori­ties
that you are interested, and we be­lieve
that in the near future that more
students can get work in the store, you
can get waited on much faster, and that
we can save you even more money.
Hoyt A. Nation, (Mgr.)
The Plainsman is Radical
Editor
The Auburn Plainsman
Dear Godbold:
To you, Mr. Editor, and the "parlor
pink" editorial stand of your paper, I
say "phooey". Your latest "contribu­tion"
to the field of political thought is
an editorial in the last Plainsman on
the Federal Trade Commission.
Like a thousand other agencies of the
United States government, that is be­coming
as dictatorial as some of the
countries of Europe, the Federal Trade
Commission is a millstone on the neck
of the small and the large business man.
He has been told what he can't do un­til
business is afraid to take any defi­nite
step. There is not any other rea­son
than these for the frozen condi­tion
of the country's assets and capital
today.
While I believe that questions of na­tional
interest ought to be discussed in
student newspapers I think that an
editor is taking unfair advantage when
he uses a student newspaper to express
his personal political opinions.
Very sincerely yours,
A Democrat
P. S.—And I vote too.
Don't Abuse the N e w Cut Rule
Editor
Auburn Plainsman
Dear Editor:
I don't make a practice of writing a
letter to the Plainsman every time I
have something to say which I person­ally
don't want to stand behind. The
reason for this letter is different; I
want more people than I could possibly
see to see for themselves if there isn't
a bit of truth in these statements.
It's about the new cut rule. Let's not
abuse the privileges granted us.- The
system will be on probation for next
semester, and the way in which we re­ceive
it may mean its continuation or
its abolishment. The new set-up is quite
lenient as compared with the former
two per cent way of handling cuts, and
if we use it and don't abuse it until we
do lose it, we shall all benefit. The cuts
are allowed for those times when we
need an absence and don't have a pre­sentable
excuse. Let's don't waste them
just because we are too lazy to attend
classes.
Yours sincerely,
Confucious
The Washington Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN
Ousting of Hore-Belisha Shows Cabinet
Seeks Early Peace with Hitler; His
Successor is Pro-German; Tories
Would Turn War Against Russians;
War Minister's Popularity a Threat
to Chamberlain Despite Army Rows;
Landon Wants Midwest to Look Over
GOP Dark Horses so Invites Martin.
WASHINGTON—Tip-off to the much
discussed ousting of Leslie Hore-Bel­isha
as British Minister of War is the
fact that his successor, Oliver Stanley,
is one of the most pro-German members
of the Cabinet.
Stanley is the son of Lord London­derry,
educated in Germany and a mem­ber
of the Cliveden set which was re­sponsible
for the Munich pact and en­couraged
a rapprochement with Hitler
before war broke. Oliver Stanley, now
43 years old, has been promoted to high
position solely through the influence of
his father.
Add to this the facts that Hore-
Belisha is Jewish and was the most ac­tive
member of the British Cabinet in
prosecuting the war, and you get the
main reason why Chamberlain ousted
him.
That reason is: Chamberlain and the
overwhelming majority of the Cabinet
want to make an early peace with Ger­many,
then turn against Russia; and
Hitler will not talk while a Jew is head­ing
the British army's drive against
Germany. With a pro-German Minister
of War, the chances for peace are bet­ter.
Popular Belisha
Also—and this must have been a
contributing factor—Hore-Belisha was
the most energetic, one of the youngest,
and decidedly the most popular cabinet
member in Britain. As such, he con­stituted
the chief political threat to
Chamberlain. He had greater potentiali­ties
than any other man for leading an
effective opposition to Chamberlain.
Many people predicted that he would
be the next Prime Minister.
Therefore, it was better for Cham­berlain
to polish him off and place him
on the side-lines now, rather than after
he got too important.
It is worthwhile to remember that the
Chamberlain Cabinet is composed large­ly
of men old in years, even older in
mind. Anthony Eden, now Minister of
Colonies, is young, but has not been a
vigorous member of the Chamberlain
Cabinet. A quiet career man, he has
been content to sit on the sidelines and
let Hore-Belisha do the scrapping.
Malcolm MacDonald, son of Labor
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald,
also is young, but has been a big dis­appointment.
As Secretary for the Do­minions
he is a nonentity.
The Old Order
When Duff Cooper was First Lord of
the Admiralty, he and Hore-Belisha
made a young, hard-headed team of
fighters for -Empire defense. But with
Duff Cooper's resignation Hore-Belisha
remained the one representative of the
new generation, surrounded by starchy
representatives of a system which is
making its last muddling stand.
These factors were more important
than Hore-Belisha's row with the army,
though this row was by no means petty.
As War Minister, Hore-Belisha first
fired all the fuddy-duddies at the head
of the army, replacing them with young­er
men. This was all right, but then he
made the mistake of riding herd on the
younger men.
Finally, and least forgivable of all,
he democratized the British military
schools, making it possible for a com­moner
to become a high ranking officer.
Hitherto, British military colleges had
been open only to young men of wealth
Mitec Club
AT THE meeting of the Mitec E n g i ­neers
Clubs last week the freshmen
present were introduced and given a
hearty welcome into the club. Mem­bers
were asked to give some thought
to the planning of a social to be given
within the next month. Bob Morgan
was elected as corresponding secretary.
Word was given out that a Coop bas­ketball
team is to be formed to take
part in intramural sports, and all Co­ops
who are interested are requested
to see Don Kirk at the first opportunity,
or meet at the gym on Saturday morn­ing
for the first workout, at 9.
The next meeting will be on Thurs­day
evening, Jan. 18, at 7 o'clock, in
room 109 Ramsay, and all Coops are
asked to be present.
Coop Statistics
In looking over the statistics on the
Coops in Mr. A. O. Taylor's office last
week we found that our numbers are
increasing greatly as time passes; for
instance, there are 26 members in the
pre-junior class, 65 in the sophomore
class, and 85 in the freshman class, or
a total of 176 Coops now attending
school in both sections.
This number represents approximate­ly
25 per cent of the students in the
School of Engineering and makes our
numbers only slightly less than those in
• the entire School of Veterinary Medi­cine
or The School of Chemistry and
Pharmacy.
"Nice going, Mr. Taylor."
Incidentals
A great deal more talk has been
heard concerning the Coops moving into
Alumni Hall in a body, and taking it
over as "Coop House." All who spoke
were in favor of it, and we don't see
why it can't be done next summer.
A touch football game was played on
Saturday between the sophomores and
pre-juniors, and a couple of the out­standing
players for their respective
sides were Ben "Hurricane" Galloway
and Bob "Cyclone" Morgan.
There has been some talk of form­ing
a chapter of the Georgia Tech hon­or
society for Coops, The Briaerean,
and a number of the boys are in favor
of this action. Let's hear some more
about this.
Professor of the Week
The boys who are taking drawing
from Prof. L. M. Sahag say that they
are certainly learning things.
Congratulations to a hard working
professor.
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.
WHAT WITH the Finns rapidly back­ing
Russia up the crick (they call
them the Rushin' Russians now), and
Germany helping out
the British blockade
by steadily scuttling
her own navy, it looks
as if 1940, ushered
in behind the eight
ball as far as back­ground
and s t a ge
props were concern­ed,
may turn out to
be a pretty good year
after all.
~ ~ ~~ " Allan Jones proved
twice during his brief stay here that
he is equally as fearless in real life as
in reel life. At the concert, when at­tacked
by a man-eating monster, com­monly
known as the hornet, of the
Vespidae family, he calmly killed the
little beast and disposed of the carcass
with grace, ease, and dispatch.
Earlier in the day he braved a fate
worse than death with comparable calm­ness
as he went bravely to the new zoo
for lunch. It is conceivable that an un­protected
male might be persuaded to
wander into the confines of the zoo,
but for a man of Mr. Jones' reputation
and evident personal charm to eat a
meal there was just asking for it. Lucky
as a Finn, he managed to dine there
almost incognito. What will those girls
who didn't recognize him have to tell
themselves about that?
and position. Hore-Belisha shocked the
army to putting the cadets on the same
status of equality as at West Point.
So the clique which controls the Brit­ish
army began greasing the skids for
him from the very start. All of which
added up to his exodus last week.
Landon's Job
One of the few speeches Representa­tive
Joe Martin, astute Republican floor
leader, will make this winter will be at
the Kansas Day dinner in Topeka, Jan­uary
29.
While Martin is definitely a dark-horse
presidential possibility, he isn't
lifting a finger to boost his candidacy
and has emphatically told friends he
wants nothing done in his behalf. If the
lightning should strike, he would ac­cept;
but he will run up no rods for
himself, and he takes a rigidly neutral
stand toward all active candidates.
Martin's No. 1 goal is to be Speak­er
of the House in case it goes Republi­can,
and he will do nothing to impair
his chances. He agreed to go to To­peka,
home-town of Alf Landon, out of
friendship for the ex-candidate.
Martin became warmly attached to
Landon as one of his 1936 campaign
managers. Landon has no 1940 choice
as yet, is still "looking 'em over." But
he wants the Middle West to get a
close-up of all GOP possibilities.
The active candidates are themselves
seeing that the region gets a chance to
look them over. So because Martin is
keeping aloof from the race, Alf in­vited
him to be guest speaker at the
Kansas Day gathering.
"I'm doing my best," explained Lan­don,
"to find the best man possible for
the party. I conceive that to be my duty
to the 17,000,000 Republicans who vot­ed
for me and thus named me as their
leader."
NOTE—On that plea Martin could­n't
say No. The dinner is attracting
much attention among Midwestern Re­publican
politicos. Delegations of them
from all the states of the section will
look Martin over.
We hate to mention this . . . we
don't like to carry tales. Still, the fact
cannot be concealed that one of the
beauties selected to grace the charm
section of the forthcoming (?) Glom-erata
did a proverbial Cinderella and
lost one of her very unglass-like slip­pers
at the Allan Jones concert Tues­day
night.
* * *
Hal Kemp's record of "Blue Moon­light"
really shows this band at its sym­phonic
best. Not to shake any sticks at
Wax Works through the few musical re­marks
we manage to muster, but a-long
the same line, try the Kemp Krews'
disc on "Paradise" for easy listenin'.
. . . wonder if Eddy Duchin, with
his new vocalist, will play "01' Man
Mose" a la his wax versions??
* * *
We saw a rat cap the other day!
Didn't stop to ask the rodent the why
of it all, but we bet he had an inter­esting
story.
* * *
Sorority pledges who have rooms on
the Bullard Field side of the new halls-for-
detention-of - irresponsible - females
can pick up a few easy pledge points
for watching drill by rolling over and
gazing through the windows. Of course,
they may miss the thrill of seeing the
individual medals on this or that well-turned-
out soldier, but they'll probably
have other chances.
* * *
And speaking of the new set-up, we
hear that this two or three dates a week
limit for freshman coeds isn't the mini­mum;
it's really supposed to be the
maximum, girls.
* * *
We like the following poem which
appeared in the Montgomery Advertiser
some time ago. Any resemblance to per­sons
living or dead is entirely coinci­dental.
There was a dachshund, one so long
He hadn't any notion
How long it took to notify
His tail of his emotion;
And so it happened, while his eyes
Were filled with woe and sadness,
His tail went wagging on
Because of previous gladness.
* * *
Karrie, the Kampus Kwestioner,
Kwizzes Kwadrangle. . . .
"Just what," wonders Karrie, "is the
purpose of all those little baskets out­side
of the bathroom windows in the
new partitioned zoo? If said baskets
were originally meant for romantic bal­conies,
they were sadly misplaced. Any­way,
what would one want with 200
baskets when there are 400 "bags"
within whistling distance??"
Syracuse Sets Up
Unusual Student
Complaint System
DESIGNED TO give students a voice
in the conduct of their courses and
the method of presentation of subject
matter, a five-man student committee
has been appointed by the men's stu­dent
government of Syracuse Univer­sity
to hear and correlate all sugges­tions,
and complaints and present them
to the proper administrative authorities.
Suggestions for improvement of sub­ject
matter or classroom presentation
and complaints against texts or instruct­ors
will be handled by the committee,
to be known as the Suggestion and In­quiry
committee. Petty or insincere
complaints will be disregarded. Students
must submit their suggestions or com­plaints
in writing to the committee. All
communications must be signed, but the
signatures will not be made known to
any but the committee. Material will
go to the deans of the respective col­leges,
or to administrative officers, un­signed,
acording to the plan.—(ACP). •
January 12, 1939 T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN Page Three
tor.
TIGER TALES
By BOOTS STRATFORD
Rumors that "Shug" Jordan, Auburn basketball men-is
to take over the duties of head football coach at
Sewanee still go unconfirmed. The position
is to be filled within the next few days, and
do not be too surprised if Jordan signs a
contract when the Tigers encounter Se-
I wanee's cage squad this weekend. If this
likeable coach does take over the post, his
| leave of the Plains will be keenly felt for
Ralph Jordan, ever a gentleman, is one of
the finest men Auburn has ever turned out.
BooTS •STUATFbZD
On the well-known spot goes Bill
Alexander, coaching wizard of, the Geor­g
i a Tech Yellow Jackets, for Atlanta sports scribes
have already acclaimed the Jackets as another champ­ionship
ball club in 1940. Some even going so far as
to scent roses in the air, which is a pretty hefty sniff
3,000 miles and eleven months off!
* * *
T h e r e ' s room for t h o u g h t in this editorial concerning
t h e University of Chicago, t h a t we p r i n t verbatim.
Actually the college authorities have excellent reasons for with­drawing
from the arena of big-time intercollegiate football. They have
the radical notion that college sports are no more than recreation for
the students. With that idea in mind, Chicago has stressed, and will
continue to do so more than ever its extensive program of intramural
athletics. In former days Chicago held the top place in the "Big Ten"
football conference. Now it has no place at all, but far more of the
students are participating in the 12 intramural sports than ever before
in the college's history.
Chicago football has become the target of many jokes. Now the
college's lack of football will be the springboard for many more jests.
But it is not at all improbable that in the near future many of the
other colleges where education is clearly the first purpose will follow
suit.
* * *
Baseball season is not far in the offing when you
hear ol' Diz start yelping 'bout his pay.
And speaking of baseball, will somebody tell us
why it is that in the Florida Grapefruit League every
Spring, the St. Louis Browns always wind up some­where
around the top while the World Champion
Yankees customarily end up near the cellar and in
the regular season the reverse is true?
AUBURN'S 1940 BASKETBALL SQUAD:
Head Coach, Ralph Jordan, Auburn.
Publicity Director, Elmer G. Salter, Auburn.
Student Manager, Joe Dean, of Moultrie, Ga.
Colors, Orange and Blue.
Nickname, Tigers.
Seniors:
Ray Gibson*
John Huff*
J. P. Streetman*
Bob Dickinson
Sophomores:
Shag Hawkins
Teedy Faulk
Bruce Allan
Frank Manci
Charlie Ham
Tommie Mastin
Marvin Motley
Woodie McNair
Ben Park
Jack Tanner
Lee Hall
•Letter winner last
Pos.
G
G&C
F
F
C
C&F
C
F
F
F
F
F
G
G
G
season.
Age
23
20
22
23
19
21
18
19
20
18
20
21
21
19
19
Ht.
6-2
6-2
6
5-9
6-3
6-1
6-3
6-1
6-1
6
6-2
5-10
5-11
5-11
5-11
Wt.
178
175
175
145
187
170
165
155
165
160
178
155
190
157
162
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Smith Asks for More
Intramural Teams
ERNEST B. SMITH, director of
intramural sports. He asks for
greater participation and more in­terest
on the part of independent
teams.
Basketball Rules
Changed This Year
When college court teams meet
each other this year, they are
playing under revised basketball
rules that are intended to reduce
fouling and minimize the disad­vantages
many claimed existed
under last year's regulations.
Here is the complete list of rule
revisions announced for this year's
rule book:
1. The end line of the court
shall be four feet from the face
of the backboard (this had been
optional last season). The excep­tion
to this rule is for courts
where the physical limitations of
the floor do not permit such an
extension but a two-foot minimum
is required. The ideal court is 94
feet in length from outside line
to outside line with 86 feet from
the face of one backboard to the
face of the other.
Independents do not
Meet Expectations
According to Ernest B. Smith,
director of intramural sports, in­dependent
teams are not partici­pating
in the sports program as
well as they should or as they
have in the past. He urged this
week that independents form
teams and enter them in the ex­tensive
intramural program.
Entries in the independent bas­ketball
division must be turned
into the intramural sports office
on the second floor of Samford
Hall not later than Feb. 4. Play
will begin on Feb. 8.
Independent teams may be or­ganized
among students in board­ing
houses, among specific groups
or organizations, among students
in dormitories, or among students
in various schools and classes.
ROTC batteries may also form in­dependent
teams among the non-
2. A slight change has been
made in the specifications of the
ball relative to its resilency.
3. (a). After a free throw from
a technical foul the ball is to be
awarded to the team which was
awarded the free throw, the ball
to be put in bounds at midcourt.
(b). When a personal foul is
called the offended team has the
option of trying a free throw or
of putting the ball in play from
out-of-bounds. If two free throws
are awarded this rule applies to
the last free throw. It does not
apply in the case of a double foul.
4. For college teams, ten-min­ute
quarters instead of twenty-minute
halves is optional.
5. If a player in the act of
throwing for goal is fouled from
behind or roughly handled from
any direction, two free throws
shall be awarded whether the field
goal is made or not.
6. Any player on the team can
call time out instead of just the
captain of the team as in the past.
Sunday &
Monday
Humphrey B0GART
Flora R0BS0N
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Sigma Nu's Lead Auburn Fraternities
In Intramural Participation Points
Mrs. Ida Benfey Judd of New
York City is working to have
some US university establish a
Mark Twain Chair for the Ad­vancement
of Humor.
Snakes Have 218;
SAE's are Second
With one semester of intra­mural
competition nearly gone,
Sigma Nu leads the fraternity di­vision
in participation points with
a total of 218. SAE, last year's
cup winner, is close behind with
209.
Kappa Sigma, runner-up in
touch football is a close third with
197. Delta Sig is in fourth place
with 167. Following in fifth posi­tion
is SPE with 155.5.
The other fraternities are lined
up in the following order:
Theta Chi, 165; Sigma Chi, 163;
Phi Delta Theta, 163; ATO, 154;
Pi Kappa Phi, volley-ball winner,
fraternity members of the bat­tery.
Entries for foul-throwing will
close on March 15, and play in
that division will begin immedi­ately
upon close of entries. Other
sports open to independent teams
and individuals include softball,
horseshoes, track, and tennis, all
of which begin around April 1.
Medals are awarded to winning
teams and individuals.
150; Kappa Alpha, 145; Pi K A,
144.5; Sigma Pi, 120; Alpha Gam­ma
Rho, 119; Alpha Lambda Tau,
102; Beta Kappa, 102; Lambda
Chi Alpha, 98.5; Tau Epsilon Phi,
97; Alpha Psi, 85.
The above-listed points include
the volleyball tournament but no
activities following the close of
the tourney.
In volleyball Pi Kappa Phi went
through with little trouble, drop­ping
only one game in its entire
schedule of seven matches, each
match consisting of two out of
three games. Making up the Pi
Kappa Phi team were J o hn
Lowery, Homer Gentry, "Frenchy"
Gunter, LeRoy Montgomery, Bob
Smith, "Dopey" Phillips, and Ben
Nuttall.
With practice games already
underway in basketball, the Sigma
Nu's, the SAE's, who lost most of
their last year's squad but still
have material, and the Alpha Gam­ma
Rho's look to be the stand­outs.
But in intramural basketball
anything can happen!
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LICKED BY VANDERBILT, BUT LOOK OUT SEWANEE—The Auburn Tigers were downed last
night 51-45 by Vanderbilt but are out for Sewanee blood tonight and tomorrow. So far the boys have
won two, Spring Hill and LSU, and lost three, Spring Hill, LSU, and Vandy.
No. 1, J. P. Streetman, senior forward and letterman. No. 2, Coach Ralph Jordan. No. 3, Ray Gib­son,
letterman and senior guard. He has played a standout defensive game all year. No. 4, John Huff,
guard, who was lost to mumps just on the eve of the trip to LSU. No. 5, Bob Dickinson, little but tough,
a reserve forward last year, he should see a lot of action this season. No. 6, Charlie Ham, forward, one
of the sophomores who are carrying much of the Tigers' load this year.—Engraving Courtesy Birming­ham
News.
WAX WORKS...
Cab Calloway shouts his way
through "Jiveformation Please"
and "I Ain't Getting Nowhere
Fast." The band sounds much bet­ter
than any ever to play with
Cab before; however, the loud
wailings of the leader finally be­come
a bit tiresome.
* * *
A Krupa original called "On
the Beam" gives the King of the
Drums plenty of exercise while
on the reverse side of the disc a
great Ellington tune called "Hodge
Podge" gets a brand new outing.
Gene Krupa and his band have
done a couple of fine numbers for
Columbia on this one. The first
of the group hits a pretty fast
tempo while the latter kicks along
slowly but swingingly.
* * *
Two very fine ballad tunes
played in one of the sweetest of
New Hardy Family
Movie Scheduled to
Show in Auburn
Making an actor out of an au­tomobile
required the services of
two machinists, an electrician, a
radio expert and an automotive
engineer, when Mickey Rooney's
"jaloppy" turned comedian on its
own account in "Judge Hardy and
Son," eighth all-new adventures
of the Judge Hardy Family, which
will be shown Sunday and Mon­day
at the Tiger Theatre.
The scene called for Mickey to
drive blithely along a country
road. Suddenly a wheel flies off,
followed by a fender. Mickey gets
out of the car. The remaining tires
promptly go flat and the cover of
the rumble seat flies up.
The scene was taken several
times in long shots and close-ups.
To achieve these effects required
the utmost skill of designing and
mechanical ingenuity. It worked
perfectly on the set and the "act­ing
automobile" at once became
the pride of the Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer prop shop.
Andy Turn Detective
"Judge Hardy and Son" sees
Mickey turning detective when
his father, Judge Hardy, played
by Lewis Stone, interests himself
in the foreclosure case of a lov­able
old couple, and a missing
relative must be found. Mickey's
sleuthing gets him into contact
with three pretty girls and re­sulting
complications with his
sweetheart, Polly Benedict, play­ed
by Ann Rutherford, Hilarious
trials and tribulations for Andy
Hardy follow.
styles come billed as "Tomorrow
Night" and 'You're A Lucky Guy."
With the treatment of Jimmy
Dorsey and his fine band. Helen
O'Connell explains the "Lucky
Guy" tune and Bob Eberly gives
the first of the duo of tunes his
usual excellent vocal work. By the
way, Bob is leading all the other
male crooners in popularity right
now. Typical Dorsey.
* * *
Benny Goodman and Mildred
Bailey team up to record "Blue
Bird In the Moonlight" a nd
"Faithful Forever." Benny's new
band hits its stride on these two
numbers. Mildred Bailey is still
tops in her own style. . . . "Faith­ful
Forever" is an old tune that
Benny just recently brushed up
and has turned out to be one of
his best.
* * *
Glenn Miller, whose band is
knocking on the doors of leader­ship,
is now on CBS for three 15-
minute stands per week. On Tues­day,
Wednesday, and Thursday
nights he swings from 10:00 to
10:15. And along with him are
the inimitable Andrews sisters.
* * *
Someone asks us why we hard­ly
ever mention records that are
really no good. To tell the truth,
if a record, is really a "stinker"
we had rather not mention it be­cause
of the lack of space. Some­times,
however, we do take a
crack at a not-so-good number . . .
so you get the idea, anyway!
CAA Scholarships
Established By
Shell Company
Establishment of . a $15,000
scholarship and award fund, for
which 9,000 students in 400 A-merican
colleges will be eligible
to compete, has been reported by
the Institute of the Aeronautical
Sciences of Rockefeller Center,
New York.
The fund, sponsored by the
Shell Oil Company, will provide
aviation scholarships for student
pilots and avaiation awards for
colleges and flight schools which
participate in the Civil Aeronau­tics
Authority's civilian pilot
training program.
Plans for the administration of
the fund call for the selection of
the nation's three best student
pilots by means of an audit on
grades and a nation-wide flight
competition next June. There will
be seven regional elimination con­test,
following which the seven
winners will compete at Washing­ton
for three scholarships amount­ing
to $1,000, $750, and $500,
respectively.
The institution which is judged
to have made the best record in
training student pilots as a parti­cipant
in the CAA program, and
the flight school which has achiev­ed
the outstanding flight training
record in the United States will
receive trophies.
The Shell scholarship fund will
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Visitor Predicts
Bright Future for
Southern Dairying
Great possibilities for the South
to develop a large dairying in­dustry
were cited here this week
by Dr. B. V. Hammer, head of
the bacteriology department of
Iowa State Agricultural College
at Ames, Iowa.
Speaking to a dairying class of
Auburn students, Dr. Hammer
said "the South is well suited for
the dairying industry because of
climate, pasture land and oppor­tunity
to grow feed". He added
that he saw "no reason why cheese
cannot be made as well here "as in
the Northern states".
Dr. Hammer, who visited the
campus with Mrs. Hammer, is a
world authority on dairying prob­lems
and has done much research
in this field. He was accompanied
through the college here by Prof.
A. D. Burke, head professor of
dairying.
'Swell Fellow' -- That's The Auburn
Student Body's Opinion Of Allan Jones
FSA PROMOTES
API GRADUATE
W. V. Albright, graduate in ar­chitecture
in 1927, was appointed
regional engineer for the Farm
Security Administration in Ala­bama,
Florida, Georgia, South
Carolina, and the Virgin Islands,
on Saturday by E. S. Morgan,
southeastern FSA administrator.
Albright, a native of Greenville,
S. C, joined the FSA in April,
1936, as assistant regional engi­neer.
He also attended Clem-son
college.
'Big Shots'
Continued from page 1
Only 26% knew who the Brig­ade
Colonel of the ROTC unit is
Walter Chandler. Billy Smith was
known to be pep manager by 40%.
As you can see, only three of
17 office-holders were known by
over half the students questioned,
which isn't saying much for the
BMOC's, is it?
The poll is more accurate than
one might think, too. No seniors
were questioned in the survey, as
all 17 of the "big-shots" were
from that class. But of the 30 in­terviews,
12 were with freshmen,
ten with sophomores, and eight
with juniors.
Two of the students, both
freshmen, didn't know any of the
office-holders. Nobody interview­ed
knew them all. So take down
those chests, big-shots. And let
your heads shrink to normal size.
Things like this are good for the
ego. No?
provide cash awards for instruct­ors
of the seven qualifying stu­dent
pilots, and engraved watches
will be given to the seven stu­dents.
Each of the 49 contestants
in the seven regional contests will
receive parchment certificates.
Plainsman Reporters
Like Actor-Singer
By BOB ANDERSON
and
DAN HOLLIS
Sprawling comfortably in an
easy chair in the guest room of
the "Mansion" Tuesday afternoon,
Allan Jones, singing star of screen
and stage, told of his life and talk­ed
freely and interestingly.
His visit to Auburn began Tues­day
afternoon when he arrived
in the automobile of his friends,
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Kennedy of
Birmingham. Also with him were
Gibner King, accompanist and
friend of the singer, and his dog,
a big German Boxer just one year
old.
On arriving, the first act of the
singer—one of the most obliging
celebrities ever to visit Auburn—
was to proceed to a barber shop
and get a shave. After that he
was driven by Mr. and Mrs. Law­rence
Barnett and Mr. Kirtley
Brown to the dining room of the
new women's quadrangle where
he thrilled several hundred coeds
by his appearance.
Almost Mobbed by Coeds
Following Wnch at the table
with Dr. Rosa Lee Walston and
the heads of several of the new
dormitories, he was escorted out
of the hall—and into a session
with Lewis Arnold, Plainsman
staff photographer.
Arnold had his plans all made
for a picture, but when the in­habitants
of the dormitories saw
that the singer was going to have
his picture taken, he was almost
mobbed by a rush of girls who
wanted to be photographed with
him. So Lewis' plans were chang­ed,
and Mr. Jones' picture was
taken with a background, fore­ground,
and "side-ground" of ad­miring
Auburn coeds.
After resting for an hour or
so in the "Mansion" Mr. Jones
drove to the WPA Hall with Mr.
King for a strenuous two-hour re­hearsal.
He sang in his shirt
sleeves with his collar open at
the throat. At his feet on the
platform was "Boxer", the dog,
who lay quiet, never moving un­til
the end of each song, when
Jones would playfully pet him.
During the rehearsal, the sing­er
was frequently interrupted and
corrected by his accompanist.
There was no shirking in that re­hearsal—
if some part of a song
wasn't just right, they practiced
it until it was.
His Musical Career
Speaking of his life, in his room
after the rehearsal, Mr. Jones told
that he began life in Scranton,
Pa., where he earned money for
his early musical training by op­erating
a steam-shovel in the lo­cal
coal mines.
Corduroy play clothes in the form of shirts,
slacks, and skirts are the college girl's
choice when seen at
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B E N S O N
"We Lead Others Follow"
He studied at Syracuse Uni­versity,
then won a scholarship to
New York University, where he
studied voice with Claude War-ford.
With money made at a bene­fit
recital in his home town he
financed further study in Paris
with Reynoldo Hahn. His accom­panist,
Gibner King, also studied
with Warford, and in France at
the same time Jones was there.
Back in America he made his
concert debut with the New York
Symphony under Walter Dam-rosch.
Following a part in Charles L.
Wagner's production of "Boccac­cio"
Jones received a prediction
from the New York Times that
has since proved true: "Youth,
good looks, and grace were added
to a fine voice in Allan Jones'
playing. His tenor is capable of
charming pianissimo or ringing
bravura, and with this assembly
of gifts one may foresee a bril­liant
future."
Opera engagements followed.
His favorite roles were leading
parts in "Tosca", "Romeo and
Juliet", "Faust", and "La Bo-heme."
Moving pictures claimed
him. He reached stardom in "Show
Boat", "A Night at the Opera",
"The Firefly", "Honeymoon in
Bali", and currently, "The Great
Victor Herbert."
His first movie was "Reckless."
Of this he said, "If you had blink­ed
your eyes in Reckless, you
would have missed me."
"Swell Fellow"
He was modest, he was unas­suming,
completely the antithesis
of what one would expect in a
person so famous. All in all, the
term "swell fellow" would cer­tainly
describe him.
Rhodes Chosen to
Head Ag Fraternity
New Alpha Gamma Rho offi­cers
were elected Wednesday
night to take the place of those
who will finish school at the end
of this semester.
V. V. Rhodes was made presi­dent
to take the place of "Red"
Bamberg. P. R. Pettis became
vice-president to relieve Chan
Vickrey who also finishes. Riley
Newman will take Rhodes' place
as usher for the lodge. J. C. Eiland
was elected treasurer for next
year.
Vanderbilt
Continued fro
Lineups:
Vanderbilt (51) G
Lipscomb, f 8
Davis, f 0
Hanna, c 5
Thweatt, c 4
Woodward, c 4
Milliken, g 1
Peebles, g 0
Little, g 3
Irby, g 0
Holgraf, g 0
Totals 21
Auburn (45) G
Streetman, f 3
Dickinson, f 1
Manci, f 8
Hawkins, c 3
Gibson, g 0
Faulk, g 4
Tanner, g 0
m page 1
F PFTP
4 2 20
1 1 1
1 1 11
2 3 10
0 0 0
0 0 2
0 0 0
0 2 6
1 0 1
0 2 0
9 11 51
F PFTP
3 1 9
0 0 2
2 2 18
1 2 7
0 3 0
1 2 9
0 0 0
Totals * 19 7 10 45
• Half-time score: Vanderbilt 28,
Auburn 26.
Free throws missed: Streetman
man 3, Hawkins 1, Gibson 1,
Faulk 2, Milliken 1, Little 1.
Referee: Chin Johnson, Nash­ville.
Miami University tests have
proven that men have more rhy­thm
than women.
Almost totally blind since the
age of 10, a Keuka College stu­dent
has written a new psychology
book in Braille.
New York University has more
students (37,376) than any oth­er
US college or university.
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name on pen. If found notify
Jimmy Seal or call 585-J. Re­ward.
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