1939-11-03 The Auburn Plainsman

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VOL. LXIII Z-I ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, NOVEMBER 3, 1939 No. 18
SOPHOMORE HOP OPENS
TODAY WITH TEA DANCE
Morgan and Orchestra
Featured in Dances
Athletic Book Required for Admission
Along with Special Fraternity Tickets
By BOB ANDERSON
The. first of the series*of five dances of the Sophomore
Hop, featuring the music of Russ Morgan and his orchestra,-
will begin at Graves Center this afternoon at 5:00 o'clock.
According to Chairman Tom Henley of the Social Com­mittee,
over 400 block tickets to the dances have been sold.
In addition to a large number of coeds, approximately 150
out-of-town girls have accepted bids to the dances and
are due in Auburn today.
Staff Photo by Lewis Arnold
When the leaves begin to fall 'round Auburn it'* time for the freshmen to get ready for the annual
ODK Cake Race, scheduled this year for December 13. Here are a group of them getting in trim for the
2.7-mile grind.
Cabinet Petitions Deans
For New Absence Rule
ASKS FOR JOINT STUDENT-FACULTY
COMMITTEE TO DRAW UP CHANCES
In a momentous session last night the Executive Cabinet,
student legislative body, petitioned the Executive Council,
governing body of the administration, to appoint a joint
student-faculty committee to draw up a revised absence
system.
The petition, which passed without a dissenting vote,
requested three committee members from the Executive
Council, one of them to be Executive Secretary Ralph
Draughon who would serve as " ^ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
chairman, and three committee
members from the student body.
The student governing body
asked for an acknowledgement of
the acceptance, rejection, or modi­fication
of the proposal and asked
that it be considered as soon as
possible.
Chief talking point of the Cabi­net
forces is the overwhelming
vote against the present system
which was expressed Wednesday
when almost three-fourths of the
student body went to the polls to
cast 2586 votes against the two-point
rule and only 44 for it,
The petition was presented to
the Cabinet by President John
Ivey and passed unanimously.
Ivey said last night that the
Council, composed of deans from
each school, would hold its next
meeting on Tuesday and that the
petition would be presented to
them or to Dr. Duncan, president
of the college, before then.
After the paper was presented
to the Cabinet last night and dis­cussed,
John Watters, senior rep­resentative,
moved its adoption,
the motion being seconded by
Margaret Pearson, woman's repre­sentative.
In presenting the petition to
the Cabinet, Ivey stated that it
had been drawn up so as to elimi­nate
any evidence of "high pres­sure"
methods on the part of stu­dents,
that it had not been writ­ten
in that sense at all. He also
said t h a t Executive Secretary
Draughon did not know he would
be asked to serve as head of the
committee.
The formal petition follows:
Whereas, the student body of
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute
has expressed its desire for a cut
system other than that now in ef­fect
by a vote of 2586 to 44, and
Whereas, the present system
has many features which handicap
both the faculty in its administra­tion
and the students in their
compliance,
The Executive Cabinet, govern­ing
body of the Undergraduate
Students Association, submits this
petition to the Executive Council
for consideration and action.
We, the Executive Cabinet, be­ing
the duly elected representa­tives
of the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute student body, in an ef­fort
to secure and maintain bet­ter
relations between the adminis­tration
and the student body, pe­tition
the Executive Council to
appoint a committee composed of
the Executive Secretary and two
other members of the Council to
work jointly with a committee
composed of three students, the
chairmanship of the joint com­mittee
to reside in the Executive
Secretary.
The purpose of this joint com­mittee
shall be to investigate the
merits of other systems, to devise
a new set of regulations govern­ing
class attendance applicable to
the administrative set-up of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
and to recommend their findings
to the Executive- Council for con­sideration.
We respectfully request an ac­knowledgement
of the acceptance,
or rejection, or modification of
our proposal after it is given con­sideration
at the earliest possible
date.
Student Executive Cabinet,
John Ivey, Jr.,
President.
In the Cabinet session all of
the members expressed them­selves
as opposed to the present
system, most of them approving,
a dean's list.
Jim King, vice-president of the
Cabinet: "I favor a progressive
cut system, a certain number of
cuts for freshmen, more for soph­omores,
more for juniors."
Dan Hollis, junior representa­tive
: "I am in favor of a dean's
list. Students with 90-or-above
averages should have no attend­ance
rules, those with averages
below 90 a certain number of cuts
based on the previous semester's
average."
Otis Burnside, sophomore rep­resentative
and secretary of the
body, expressed his approval of
cuts according to the number of
credit hours of the course. Mar­garet
Pearson, woman's repre­sentative,
favored a dean's list
or cuts based on the number of
credit hours.
John Watters proposed the most
radical scheme, that of doing a-way
with excuses entirely and al­lowing
each student a lenient
number of cuts, any cuts over that
number failing the student. Or,
he stated, this plan might be com­bined
with the dean's list pro­posal.
Bob Anderson, sophomore rep­resentative:
"I believe that we
should have a set number of cuts
per semester with unlimited cuts
for upperclassmen with 90 aver­ages
or above, according to pre­vious
semester's grades."
The total vote of 2630 was said
by the Elections Committee to be
the largest vote ever recorded in
an Auburn election.
BOTH TIGER TEAMS
LEAVE FOR GAMES
Varsity Meets Boston;
Frosh Play Mercer Cubs
Auburn's Tigers arrived this af­ternoon
in Boston where they will
meet the Eagles of Boston Col­lege
at Fenway Park tomorrow.
A small but enthusiastic group of
supporters gathered at the depot
to see them off Wednesday night.
The party reached Greensboro,
N. C, yesterday about noon. They
stopped there for a brief work­out
of about two hours.
Soon after the game tomorrow
the team will leave for New York.
A brief sightseeing tour of the
city has been planned for Sunday
morning. They will arrive in Au­burn
Monday morning at 11:42
after a trip of about 2500 miles.
The Auburn freshmen will jour­ney
to Americus, Ga., tonight to
battle the Mercer Frosh. The
game with Mercer will be the sec­ond
of the season for the Tiger
Cubs, who played the first .of
their schedule of three games last
week to win 13-2 over the Florida
freshmen.
According to Coach "Bat" Mc-
Collum, starters in tonight's game
will be: center, Jack Ferrell of
Birmingham; guards, Fred Knight
of Cullman and John Maddox of
Andalusia; tackles, Jim McClurk-in
of Birmingham and J. B. Law­less
of Bessemer; ends, Fagan
Canzoneri of Bessemer or Fred
Hurst of Birmingham and Henry
Monsees of Savannah, Ga., or Gar­land
Childrey of Atlanta, Ga. At
quarterback, Clarence Graham of
Tallassee; halfbacks, Monk Gaf-ford
of Fort Deposit and Aubrey
Clayton of Colliersville, Tenn.;
fullback, Jim Reynolds of La-
Grange, Ga.
Total Enrollment'
Reaches Nearly 3500
Total enrollment for API this
year has reached 3476, Charles
W. Edward, registrar, stated early
this week. This is an increase of
486 over the enrollment at the
same time last year, or approxi­mately
16 per cent higher.
Particularly noticeable is the
increase in enrollment of coeds
from 485 to 575, a rise of ap­proximately
19 per cent.
Coed attendance is expected to
increase appreciably the second
semester of this year and the
first semester of next session be­cause
of the completion of the
new girls' dormitories which will
be ready for occupancy early in
1940.
Auburn's percentage of in­crease
in enrollment is above that
of the country as a whole, the
average being .94 per cent. East­ern
schools show an average in­crease
of .28 per cent, Southern
schools, 2.8 per cent, and West­ern
schools, 1.2 per cent.
Arrangements Are
Completed For
Birmingham Parade
Draughon Visits Alumni
In'Birmingham to Talk
Over Plans for Day
Executive Secretary R a l ph
Draughon returned yesterday
from Birmingham where he dis­cussed
with alumni and Auburn
friends the program for the Arm­istice
Day game between Auburn
and Villanova on November 11
when the ROTC corps will pa­rade
in Birmingham.
George Mattison, Jr., president
of the Alumni Association, is tak­ing
an active part in arranging
for the parade.
Already more than 1600 ROTC
cadets have signed up to make
the trip, and two section of a
special train will be run from Au­burn
to the game. The trains will
leave Auburn at 6:30 Saturday
morning, November 11. When
they reach Birmingham the ca­det
corps will form and parade
through the downtown section.
All divisions of the ROTC unit
will be represented including the
motor battery. Arrangements are
being made for the motor battery
to fire a 21-gun salute in honor
of the World War dead at Legion
Field on the afternoon of the
game.
Col. John J. Waterman, military
commandant here, is in charge of
arrangements for transportation
of the military units. He has an­nounced
that two trains will bring
the students back to Auburn from
Birmingham. One will leave Sat­urday
night at 8:30 p.m., the oth­er
at 11:30 p.m.
Dawson Mullen, colonel of the
engineer regiment, will be in
charge of the ROTC unit in the
absence of Cadet Brigade Colonel
Walter Chandler, who will be with
the football team. Mullen was the
originator of most of the plans
which will be carried out on No­vember
11.
Auburn Professor
Named Fellow of
Health Association
Dr. Robinson Honored
At Meeting of Group
In Pennsylvania City
Military Department Issues Official
Directions for Trip to Birmingham
Trains to Leave at 6:15
And 6 : 2 0 in the Morning
The Military Department issued
today the official directions for
the complete trip to Birmingham.
1. Loading at Auburn: The .bri­gade
will start loading at 6:00
a.m. Saturday, November 11. The
first train leaves Auburn at 6:15
a.m. and the second at 6:20 a.m.
The brigade will fall in on Gay
Street in column of battery (com­pany)
mass without distance fac­ing
north, head at railroad tracks,
in order; band, engineers, 1st F.
A., 2nd F.A., horse battery, motor
battery.
During Tuesday drill period,
the brigade will be marched to
the entraining point so every man
will know where to report Sat­urday
morning.
Men who are escorting young
ladies to Birmingham on the spec­ial
trains, are requested to bring
these young ladies to the point
where the battery forms—so that
they can get on the same car.
Cars will be loaded 70 to a car.
Space on the second train will be
held for men living in Opelika and
these men will not have to come
to Auburn to get on the train.
2. Detraining at Birmingham:
On arrival of each train in Bir­mingham
Terminal Station, men
will leave the train, cross inter­vening
tracks (not down the stair­ways),
go through the station and
on to 25th street.
The brigade will form in column
of battery mass, without distance,
on 25th Street, headed north,
head at 7th Avenue in the order:
band, engineers, 1st F.A., 2nd F.
A., horse battery, motor battery.
Men having hand baggage can
NEW SYSTEM FOR
STUDENT CENTER
TO BEGIN MONDAY
Hall to Remain Open
From 6:00 to 10:00 for
Benefit of Student Body
The Student Center will open
Monday night under the new sys­tem
of operation by which it is
to be kept open for use by the
students, John Ivey, president of
the Cabinet, which is in charge
of the Center, said yesterday.
It will be open from 6:00 to
10:30 on week nights and until
10:30 or 11:00 on Friday and
Saturday nights.
The Center has already 'been
provided with a Coca Cola dis­pensing
machine, but the nickel­odeon
has not been installed yet,
the exact date of installation not
being known yet. W. T. Ingram,
purchasing agent for the college,
said this week that the -nickel­odeon
would probably have to re­main
silent during the greater
part of the day in order not to -m- , , • . , ,_
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disturb students who come to the .. . T, , . n D , . -
„ . . . , „ , that Dr. M. O. Robinson, profess-
Center to study. However, he • , . . , ., 0 , ,
' • _.. ' , or of bacteriology m the School
went on to say that this was not . -,r . • ,, ,. . , ,
, .. .. , . . of Veterinary Medicine has been
a definite decision. _• . , _„- _ • - ., .„
named as a fellow of the Amer-
Arrangements have been com- i c a n pUDl i c Health Association,
pleted for Mrs. Hoyt Jolly, host- T h e honor was conferred upon
ess at the Center during the day, h i m a t a meet i n g of the Asso-to
be on duty at night. ciation held in Pittsburg, October
Proceeds from machines install- 16-20.
ed in the Center will be put into After receiving his BS degree
a fund to be used for further im- in agriCulture Dr. Robinson enter-provements,
which are already be- ed t h e School of Veterinary Medi-ing
planned by the Cabinet. cine a t t n e University of Penn-sylvania
and was graduated from
there in 1925. He became asso-
T o d a V <- ciated with the Auburn School of
Page Veterinary Medicine in 1937.
Morgan Plays 1 For 12 years prior to coming
Cabinet Petitions Council 1 to Auburn, he did milk control
Southward, The Tide of work in the eastern United States
Empire 3 wi * n a territory that extended
Home Ec Girls 3 from Detroit to Florida. His mer-
Athletes in Classrooms 4 itorious work in that field con-
Auburn Meets Boston 5 tributed to his recent honor.
Italian Doctor Visits Here __6 "
Z^^^Z^^^^^^Zl Former Professor
Conducting Survey
Of Came in State
A former instructor of zoology
here and the possessor of college
degrees in wildlife and related
subjects, Fred S. Barkalow is now
the project leader of the state­wide
game census being conduct­ed
by the State Department of
Game Conservation in conjunction
with the federal government.
The purpose of the investiga­tion
is to determine the distribu­tion
and approximate population
of the more important game and
fur-bearing animals, especially
Virginia white-tailed deer, wild
turkeys, and bob-white quail. Af­ter
the investigation is completed,
plans will be undertaken for a
rehabilitation program and the
setting aside of large game areas
where the average man can hunt
and fish. The annual cost of the
project will be $12,000, $9,000
being furnished by the federal
government and the rest by the
Alabama State Conservation De­partment.
Barkalow will begin his work
on the Pea River project in south­eastern
Alabama.
leave it in the baggage room and
return for it after being dismissed
from the parade.
3. Movement to point where
parade starts: As soon as the bri­gade
has formed on 25th Street
(10:15 a.m.) and roll call com­pleted,
it will be marched by Act­ing
Brigade Commander north to
8th Avenue, east on 8th Avenue
to 19th Street at which point the
parade starts (10:30 a.m.) While
the brigade is halted with head at
19th Street, it will be closed up,
leaving cross streets open for
traffic to cut through the col­umn,
4. Route of the parade: The
route of march for the parade will
be south on 19th Street to 1st
Avenue, west on 1st Avenue to
20th Street, north on 20th Street
to 7th Avenue.
5. Dismissal at end of parade:
As each battery arrives on 7th
Avenue between 20th and 21st
Streets, it will be dismissed and
the men will promptly clear the
street so as not to delay the units
in rear.
6. Disposal of standards, guid­ons
and sabers: At the point
where batteries are dismissed a
truck from Auburn, with two en­listed
men of the detachment, will
be spotted. Standards, guidons
and sabers will he put in the body
of the truck. Officers will tag
their sabers to insure their get­ting
the same saber back after
return to Auburn. Tags can be ob­tained
from the Military Office.
7. Time of departure of special
trains from Birmingham: The 1st
train will leave Birmingham at
8:00 p.m. and the 2nd train at
11:30 p.m. Special tickets are
good on special trains only.
Dietician Addresses
Home Economics Club
Ibbie Jones, dietician of Troy
State Teacher's College, outlined
the qualifications of a dietician
to members of the Home Eco­nomics
Club, which met in Smith
Hall last night.
Miss Jones listed the follow­ing
points as essentials for girls
entering the field of dietetics:
driving ambition, good organiza­tion,
knowledge of the economic
set up of the whole country,
knowledge of the different foods,
wise buying, preparation of dishes,
good health, personality, tolerant
understanding of employees.
Morgan's band, originator of
"Music In The "Morgan Manner,"
arrived here this afternoon. The
orchestra consists of 17 pieces
and features a girl vocalist, Caro­lyn
Clark.
The sophomore grand march,
which will be led by Theodosia
Murphy, of Americus, Ga., escort­ed
by Bert Powell, sophomore
class secretary, will be held Sat­urday
night at 10:30. All sopho­mores
who intend to take part in
this lead-out have been requested
to give their names to Charles
Flowers, vice-president of t he
sophomore class, or to Bert Pow­ell.
Regulations concerning regis­tration
of out-of-town girls have
been set up by Dr. Rosa Lee
Walston, director of women stu­dents
and social activities. Each
student who has invited an out-of-
town date must give to Dr.
Walston the girl's name and the
address at which she is visiting
in Auburn. Each girl visiting at a
fraternity house must register at
the fraternity house, where she
will receive a ticket which will
admit her to the dances. Each girl
visiting in private homes in town
will register on arriving at the
first dance with a member of the
faculty social committee at a desk
on the porch of the hall at Graves
Center.
Students who are attend­ing
dances on a one-night fra­ternity
ticket will have to
present their athletic books
at the dance. Without these
athletic books they will not
be admitted to the dance.
The dance tonight will begin
at 9:00 o'clock. Tomorrow morn­ing's
dance, that of the "A" Club,
will be at 11:00. The Scabbard
and Blade dance tomorrow after­noon
will begin at 4:00. Tomor­row
night's dance will also begin
at 9:00.
Lead-outs for the various fra­ternities
participating in the
block-ticket plan have been sched­uled.
Tonight at 10:30, the fol­lowing
fraternities will have a
lead-out: Phi Delta Theta, Pi Kap­pa
Phi, Sigma Chi, Sigma Nu,
Tau Epsilon Pi, and Theta Chi.
Tomorrow night at 11:30, these
fraternities will lead-out: Sigma
Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Phi Epsilon,
Pi Kappa Alpha, Delta Sigma Phi,
Continued on page 6
Tom Henley, chairman of the
Social Committee, which brought
Russ Morgan and his orchestra to
Auburn for the Sophomore Hop,
beginning at Graves Center this
afternoon.
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Southward The Tide
Of Empire —
INDISPUTABLY American in­dustry
is moving toward the
South. Gone are the old days
when an agrarian South sent its
cotton to booming textile mills on
the river banks of New England.
New England has moved to a
New South, and the old mills are
brick shells of their former sel­ves,
for their machinery has gone
southward to an unexploited lab­or
supply, a milder climate, and
more accessible raw materials.
The South is fighting, and
rightfully so, for adequate indus­try
to balance its predominantly
agricultural economy, but in its
eagerness is the South forgetting
the dictates of caution? The fact
that some business bears the
label "industry" does not make it
per se a valuable addition to a
community.
The South's battle for a diver­sified
economy has been a gen­uine
fight, but we have accepted
more than one crumb from north­ern
tables by grabbing at any
straw that could possibly be con­strued
as industry.
The sweatshop is not an aca­demic
evil associated with New
York tenement houses, but the
South has its share of sweatshops
and instead of fighting them has
condoned many.
There are the sordid tales of
high school children being given
"vocational training" by working
a full-time day in factories, of
cities having mortgaged them­selves
to buy buildings for worth­less
industry. One wonders if the
government ever found out about
the WPA "schoolhouse" in Mis­sissippi
which mysteriously be­came
a 20-cents-an-hour factory
as soon as it was completed.
Numerous cities have taken the
the risk of future relief burdens
from some industry which may
be gone tomorrow, but are not
collecting one cent of taxes from
the industry to insure against the"
relief contingency.
All because the South needs
industry. Maybe it does, but it
needs healthy, wholesome indus­try
which will be an asset instead
of a parasite.
Other sections of the country
can keep their fly - by - night
sweatshops which milk labor of
its worth then move on to un­exploited
fields, never paying
their way.
It will require vigilance and
disappointments to separate the
bad from the good and take only
what is goodj but the long run
benefits will be immeasurably
greater.
Off To The Wars
REGARDLESS OF whether we
like it or not, it looks as if the
War Department has already de­cided
what each of us will do
and where we will go if the Unit­ed
States should become involv­ed
in the present European strife.
If we may accept Collier's as an
authority, the War office in
Washington already has our war
machine primed to turn out arm­ies.
Within eight days after Am­erica
goes to war 12,000,000
men between the ages of 21 and
30 will be registered for training.
Four days later the drawing will
begin; it will be like a huge lot­tery—
with military training and
first crack at the enemy for the
winners. In a little over 100 days
after we are drafted we will be
sufficiently trained to fight some­body
somewhere.
Between the ages of 21 and 30
and 31 and 45, the army believes
there will be nine and one half
million men fit to fight for their
country. The lists of these men
have been compiled for some
time now, their names being tak­en
from every voting precinct in
the United States. Every man,
regardless of his occupation and
physical condition, is tabulated.
From the files of the Social Se­curity
Board, from the Census
Bureau, and from the lists of
ROTC students the names have
been taken.
All of us on the lists, of course,
will not be accepted. Some of us
may be physically unfit, but our
service will not be deferred until
we have been examined by a mili­tary
board of doctors after we
have been drafted and sent to a
training camp. But even if we
don't meet the physical require­ments
we will be given a job "'
where our physical ineptitude
will make little difference.
This time we are all going to
war. Every private motor car will
be subject to conscription. Men
and women beyond the conscrip­tion
age will drive them. Even
privately-owned factories may be
taken over for government use.
They might even ask us to give
a share of our money for nation­al
protection and mobilization.
We're all going to war next time.
P.H.
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 STUDENT OPINION poll has
served two very important purposes.
First the Executive Cabinet has a very
tangible means of proving that prac­tically
the entire student body is op­posed
to the present absence rule. Al­though
the opposition has been pres­ent
for quite some time, there has
never been any reliable way of prov­ing
it until the opinion poll was held.
Second and most important is the
fact that now the student governing
group has the support and evidence
that some plan should be devised to
replace the rules under which we are
not functioning. Contrary to some com­ment
concerning the object of taking
such a vote, the Cabinet was only try­ing
to find the reaction of the stu­dents
as a whole and thereby have tan­gible
support from the entire group in
its presentation of the problem to the
administration.
* * *
It is not the place of the Executive
Cabinet to try to work out a new ab­sence
rule; however, it is the duty of
this group to present to the Executive
Council what is undoubtedly the will of
the group having voiced its opinion.
This it will do.
For four years we have heard the
fatherly voice of our officials feeding
us the virtues of democratic govern­ment,
stating that only through such
management of affairs, whether it be
of a national nature or simply a small
organization, that we could hope to
be able to cope with problems that will
come to us as citizens in future life.
To those same patient and well-schooled
officials the student body is
turning now with a resolve to really
find out how democratic we are here
at Auburn. Before the opinion poll was
held we were told that in proceeding
along this line we would undoubtedly
make some of the members of the Ex­ecutive
Council feel that they were
being "high-pressured" into changing
the absence rule, that we would do
the movement more harm than good
by carrying on; however, the Student
Executive Cabinet decided to give the
men on this group a chance to demon­strate
to the student body exactly those
same things that we harve been taught
about democracy since starting as fresh­men
at Auburn.
* * *
As the issue now stands the next
move pertaining to the working out of
some change in the absence rule is in
the hands of the Executive Council, a
group representing the administration.
* * *
There's just something about this
newspaper work that just gets you. The
freshmen trickle in and go to work ev­ery
September. Ye Ed tells them that
they're always welcome at the Plains­man
office, no matter whether they're
working or not. They all grin as if
thinking, "Who wants to loaf around
here anyhow?" But before long they
begin to drop in every day, and some­body
gives them some task around the
office. Soon they're insulting the editor
and cussing the business staff just like
veterans.
In a few weeks most of them are
dropping around four or five times a
day. Come about November and the
boys eat, sleep, and study at home, but
all their spare time is spent in the
Plainsman office.
Don't tell us that this newspaper work
doesn't get you. It happens every year
the same way. And they all love it.
* * *
Last week at the Associated Collegi­ate
Press Convention the old "war
eagle" came in for a new use. During
the evening a group of the boys from the
middle west in cooperation with the fel­lows
from the South decided to answer
the yells across the hall in which dele­gates
from the entire country were seat­ed.
The Yankee editors had ganged up
with the copy producers from the far
West and had composed some new yells
of their own.
Someone piped up with a question as
to what would be a good rebel yell. Bob
Armstrong winked at John Godbold and
told the boys that he thought a few good
"war eagles" would serve the purpose.
Thereupon the crowds there assembled
got an earful of our favorite football
game vocal effort. The boys from Ohio
and Iowa thought it great fun, and be­fore
the night was over the "war eagle"
was being tossed around by practically
everyone present.
With the Co-ops—By A Fred Henning
LAST OF ALL we meet the freshman
class of co-operative students of sec­tion
A, now in school. The freshman
class, the largest of the three class
groups, is made up of 59 "rats." They
come from all parts of the state, and as
a group represent 27 different employ­ers.
These fellows have not as yet com­pleted
any work on their co-operative
jobs since it was their choice to attend
classes before going to work. Their al­ternates,
however, now comprising part
of section B, are already punching
clocks for those same 27 employers.
Among this group of employers there
are 18 new names on the list of com­panies,
corporations, mills, railroads,
and governmental departments main­taining
part-time, co-operative jobs for
students. In view of such information
it is evident that these freshmen did
some high-pressure selling to land these
jobs so that they might come to school.
On the other hand, there is another
group among the freshmen who as yet
are unassigned to co-operative student
employers. College officials believe,
however, that most of these assign­ments
will be made before the close
of the current quarter.
Besides being the largest class, the
freshmen co-ops are represented in
more fields of engineering than are
either of "the other two classes. Their
roster shows members enrolled in six
of the engineering courses taught here
in Auburn. As a group these freshmen
show a slight preference for electrical
engineering, being represented in that
study by 15 members.
The remaining engineering courses
in which these freshmen are enrolled
and the number in each are as follows:
12 in mechanical, 10 in civil, nine in
chemical, eight in textile,- and one in
industrial. The new field of engineer­ing
on which these freshmen have em­barked
is textile. Neither the pro-junior
nor the sophomore class of co-ops has
textile engineering students among its
ranks.
This is explained by the fact that
one-third of the new employers of co­op
students are empjoying students in
textile engineering. All in all, these
freshmen co-ops are active in campus
activities and are already proving them­selves
good students.
* * *
W. K. Jennings, a sophomore in Sec­tion
A, was unassigned until last Fri­day
at which time he was given a job
with the Pullman Standard Car Manu­facturing
Company, in Bessemer. His
acceptance of this offer necessitated
his having- to transfer to section B.
Another position offered by the Ten­nessee
Coal, Iron and Railroad Com­pany
was filled just recently by M. O.
Smith, who had enrolled as a regular
student at the opening of the fall
term. Both Smith and Jennings are
now at work and will return to classes
with Section B in December.
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.
MENACED LAST year by the martial
Martians of Mars, Auburn is once
more being invaded by the war-like in­habitants
of a belligerent planet. Those
venomous vicious vipers of Venus have
encamped in various lodgings through­out
the campus and are busily plotting
their nefarious schemes.
*
Under the guise of coming down here
to slip and slide with the riffin' slip-horn
of Russ, the fair Amazons will
leave the campus in a state of ruin and
desolation. Armed with curling eye­lashes
and teasing smiles, these face­tious
femmes fatale will rip many a
vest or shirt to get that fraternity pin.
Such things are esteemed, and such
methods sanctioned . . . . on Venus.
And the wailing will be loud and
long, and the students will wear black
. . . and white. Yea, the mournful cries
would awake pity in the hearts of little
old sticks and stones, but the gals will
not soften. But we can't blame the
maids, bless their little hearts, because
they mean well . . . maybe.
* *
Some of them really like their dates,
'tis said, and some are not as blood­thirsty
as others, and,' maybe, there will
be many a pin-hanging. Gaffed by that
glittering gob of gold, the gals will
gasp gracefully and greedily grab the
guys. Then . . . the clinch, fade-out, and
pin hanging.
* * *
A warning will do no good for even
the most hardened of the B. M. O. C.'s
on the campus. Only experience will
help, and even its effect lasts only a
short time. Nevertheless, in pity for
the coming plight of many, I shall give
a few of the ways which may prove
at least partially successful in repelling
the fair invaders.
* # * *
The most effective way of combating
this menace is to lock your doors and
bury your nose in a book. Have your
meals sent up by a rope from the win­dow.
Pull down the shades and don't
look out. Get under the bed and stay
there quietly. On no pretext listen to
the radio, for this is the surest road to­ward
breaking your resolutions and
venturing out.
This method would be almost safe,
except that you won't follow it. You'll
slip out to the dance to see just what
that little girl your roomie has looks
like, and you will be lost.
Indeed, you haven't a chance, for it
is inscribed on the sacred stones of
Solomon that your next step will be to
dance with the gal. After that, the late
date and the feeling t h a t ' i t ' s hard on
your roomie but that this is the real
thing at last and that it's meant to
be. She gets the pin. Later, you and
your roomie simultaneously begin tell­ing
of your pin hanging experiences.
Lo and behold, the wench has both pins.
Your resolutions will last 'til the mid­terms
. . . maybe.
* * * * *
Combat plan number two is known
as the smoke-screen baffler. You fire
up your pipe and retire behind the
sheltering cloud. When the persistent
miss asks who is there you falteringly
reply, "Ain't nobody here 'cept ole
black Sam, ma'am. I'se jest peeling the
taters fo dinnah. Yas ma'am, dat's all."
You feel pretty good now, but the
damsel answers, "Well, come on out,
Sam. You Ebony Council members have
some sort of pin, don't you?"
* * * * * *
Number three is known as the I-can-be-
as-tough-as-you-can trial and error
system. You take her to the dance and
promptly make her furious by flirting
with some other bag. The gal you're
flirting with turns out to be a bomb­shell
and she gets your pin. You bor­row
a pin to wear so that your date
won't catch on. She's not angry but
jealous, and she begins her campaign.
Before the evening is over, she has the
pin. You ain't doing so hot.
* * * * * * *
The conversation on homeward bound
trains after the dances runs something
like this. "I'll swap you this pin for
that one. I think yours is so much pret­tier."
"Which one? Oh, that one? I like it
too, but Fll swap if you'll throw in a
pledge button!"
* * * * * * * * *
Along the same lines, Carrie, the
Campus Conniver, connived this one
right out of a local collection. "I al­ways
say," says Carrie, little pretender
that she is, "be very, very careful dur­ing
duck-hunting season . . . especially
if you're a duck!"
* * * * * * * * *
This week it's Boston. I'm sticking
my neck out, as betting men use my
selections as a basis for their wagers,
but I'll get one sooner or later. Any­way,
it's Auburn 53, Boston 6.
College Students of Country Opposed to
Any Change in Present Neutrality Law
The New Student Center CAMPUS LEADERS—"Hank" Parker
THE NEW SYSTEM of operation
for the Student Center where­by
several improvements are be­ing
made and it will be kept open
at night is the partial culmination
of a dream which students have
had for lo these many years.
Granted, the installation of a
nickelodeon and drink machine
will not make a palace of the
Center, but they are steps in the
right direction. The next step
will be a soda fountain, an or­chestra
once or twice a week, and
floor shows.
Eventually we may acquire the
long - sought - for student union
building with all the facilities
which would make any student
body happy. Until then a con­stantly-
improved Student Cen­ter
will satisfy most of o ur
needs and at least will keep some
of us out of the brew joints.
"HANK" PARKER — his professors
call him Hankins—came to Auburn
from Brewton, Ala. Some Brewton
scribe might write a book about "Hank"
and call it "Local Boy Makes Good,"
because the diminutive Parker has done
just that in the four years he has been
in Auburn. This year he is the busi­ness
manager of the Glomerata.
"Hank" is enrolled in veterinary
medicine, and has one more year after
this one before he can be a full-fledg­ed
D.V.M. When asked about his future
plans he replied that he would "prob­ably
go into small animal work."
Parker wears the round key of ODK,
is a member of the Junior AVMA, and
is a pledge in Alpha Psi fraternity.
"Hank" entered politics in the spring
of his sophomore year when he joined
the race for junior representative to
the Cabinet. A dark horse, no one knew
exactly what his chances would be, but
he demonstrated in short order, for he
was swept in by a landslide of votes.
During the summer of '38 he served as
business manager of the rat bible for
the year.
Last spring he had little trouble in
winning the Glomerata post.
He is quite interested in church work
and has taken quite an active part in
it. At the recent Baptist Student Union
convention held at Howard College in
Birmingham Parker was elected state
president of the BSU. He serves on the
AS THE NATION debates the
way to stay out of a European
war, what is American college
youth thinking and saying about
the situation? Scores of personal
interviewers last week completed
the first of this year's polls for the
Student Opinion Surveys of A-merica
on campuses from coast to
coast—and found:
1. Students are opposed to
changing t h e neutrality law,
mainly because they believe this
would involve the U. S.
2. Even if the Allies were in
danger of losing to Germany, the
U. S. should not send troops to
help them.
3. College men—almost 6 out
of every 10—say they would not
volunteer if England and France
were losing and this country went
to their aid.
With the cooperation of the
Plainsman and over a hundred
other member newspapers, bal­lots
have been gathered for the
Surveys from typical students the
nation over, making up a scien­tific
cross-section on which are
based these weekly studies of col­lege
thought. Since the methods
used are exactly those of famous
public opinion polls that have
shown remarkable accuracy, the
Surveys represent the sentiments
of all the one and a half million
American collegians.
While Congressional oratory
got underway in Washington, in­terviewers
stopped students in
local council and is director of the sen­ior
Baptist Training Union. For two
years he has been a member of the
YMCA cabinet.
According to his staff members,
"Hank" is doing a fine job handling
the business side of the yearbook. Stat­ing
that his "only hope is that the stu­dents
will like it," Parker added that
he was going to do all that he could
to "put out the best Glomerata we've
ever had."
halls, libraries, dormitories, ask­ed
: "Should the neutrality law be
changed so that any country at
war could buy war supplies in
the United States?"
YES, answered .... 42 per cent
NO, answered .... 58 per cent
To the question, "If England
and France were in danger of de­feat,
should the U. S. send troops
to help them?" only 36 per cent
replied "yes."
Following that query, men stu­dents,
the majority of whom
are of conscription age, were ask- •
ed; "If England and France were
in danger of defeat and the U. S.
declared war on their enemies,
would you volunteer?" The re­sults
:
Would volunteer.... 42 per cent
Would NOT volunteer .... 58
per cent
Significantly, events in recent
months, climaxed by actual combat
in Europe, have apparently influ­enced
a good many, for in Febru­ary,
1939, the Surveys found that
only 2 out of every 10 would vol­unteer
if this country went to
war for other reasons than the
defense of the country. These
opinions, of course, are not a pre­diction
of what would happen if
this nation did declare w a r.
Shifts in sentiment may already
be seen since world war has be­come
more of a possibility. No
one can tell what war fever can
do.
This survey was begun about
the time when Hitler made his
last peace offer, and at that time
students, as they have in the
past, displayed their lack of con­fidence
in the Fuehrer. Only 13
per cent declared England and
France should accept his pro­posals
for the sake of world
peace. Sentiment was found to
be unusually uniform in all parts
of the country in the topic in­volved.
November 3, 1939 THE AUBURN P L A I N S M AN Page Three
All Home Ec Girls
Obtain Positions
YOUNG BAPTISTS
OF STATE CHOOSE
PARKER AS HEAD
Hankins F. Parker, Glomerata
business manager and local Bap­tist
student leader, was named
president of the State Baptist
Student Convention at the annual
meeting in Birmingham last week.
Parker succeeds William Weaver
of Howard College as convention
head, and will serve for one year.
In addition to his work with the
Glomerata staff, Parker is a mem­ber
of ODK, AVMA, and was re­cently
named for "Who's Who
Among American College Stu­dents."
This is the first time an Au­burn
student has been elected as
president of the state Baptist or­ganization.
The next convention will meet
in Auburn in the fall of 1940. It
has been five years since the State
meeting has been held in Auburn.
Fifty Auburn students and
leaders attended the convention
representing the local BSU. Earl
Gardner, local president was in
charge of the delegation which
was the largest from any college
or school in the state. Approxi­mately
400 were in attendance
representing 15 colleges and
schools.
Men's Glee Club
To Sing Before
Montgomery Group
Pres. L. N. Duncan and the Au­burn
Glee Club will take part in
a special "Auburn Day" program
before the People's Bible Class in
Montgomery Sunday morning, No­vember
5, at the Empire Theatre
in Montgomery.
Beginning at 9:30 a.m., the pro­gram
will precede the regular ad­dress
by Judge Walter B. Jones,
teacher of the non-denominational
Bible Class. As usual, the pro­gram
and Judge Jones's address
will be broadcast over Station
WSFA, Montgomery.
The program will open with the
Glee Club and the audience sing­ing,
"Glory, Glory Dear Old Au­burn",
after which W. H. (Billy)
Barton, president of the Montgom­ery
Auburn Alumni Chapter will
speak and introduce President
Duncan.
A group of six selections will be
sung by the Glee Club, including
three Negro spirituals, and Gordon
Hubbard, baritone, will appear on
the program as a soloist. The pro­gram
will close with the Auburn
Alma Mater.
The program has been arranged
by Harley L. Williams, chairman
of the Board of Control of the
People's Bible Class, and Lawrence
Barnett, director of the Auburn
Glee Club.
Graduates of '39
All Wed or Employed
Including several who have
married since graduation, all of
the 36 young women who graduat­ed
this year at Auburn in home
economics are now employed, ac­cording
to Mrs. Marion Spidle,
head of the Home Economics
School.
Of this number, 11 are now as­sistant
home demonstration agents
in Alabama; five are assistant
home management supervisors
with the Farm Security Adminis­tration;
and others are employed
as home economics demonstrators
with public utility companies,
teachers of home economics in
high schools, and student dieti-tions
in hospitals.
Alabama Extension Service has
the following graduates employed
in the capacity of assistant home
demonstration agent: Mary Cord-er
Beasley, Colbert County, Tus-cumbia;
Martha Joe Herndon,
Lauderdale County, Florence;
Rachel Hereford, Limestone Coun­ty,
Athens; Frances Mann, Walker
County, Jasper; Bobbie Nell Rob-bins,
Dale County, Ozark; Fannie
Kelly, Coffee County, Enterprise;
Rubye D. Pitts, Henry County,
Abbeville; Marjorie Miller, Tus­caloosa
and Pickens Counties,
with headquarters at Tuscaloosa;
Elise K. Taylor, Macon County,
Tuskegee; Frances Mullen, Co­necuh
and Butler Counties, with
office at Greenville; Anne Winn,
Madison County, Huntsville.
The Farm Security Administra­tion
employs the next largest
number of the 1939 graduates.
They are serving as assistant
home management supervisors
and are located as follows: Mrs.
Erma Ethridge, Etowah County,
Gadsden; Artha Mae Thompson,
Lamar County, Vernon; Neva
Teague, Randolph County, We-dowee;
Woodrow Killgore, Maren­go
County, Linden; Patsy Dumas,
Crenshaw County, Luverne.
Johnnie Lee Hulsey is with Ala­bama
Power Company at Tusca­loosa.
Katherine Kieffer is em­ployed
by the Birmingham Elec­tric
Company as commercial dem­onstrator.
Jane Billingsley is dietitian for
the Gadsden High School, and
Amy Haney is employed by the
State Training School for Girls at
East Lake where she is teaching
home economics.
As student dietitians through­out
the country there are Virginia
Cottle at Touro Infirmary, New
Orleans; Jeannette Frankel at the
New York City Hospital, Long Is­land,
New York; June Tooker,
Dumont, N. J.; Nellie Ruth Ward,
Vanderbilt University, Nashville,
Tenn.; and Evelyn Johnson at the
Walter Reed Hospital, Washing­ton,
D. C.
Sara Margaret Jones is assist­ing
in supervising a kindergarten
at Dothan; Frances Wilson is do-
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H. R. HUBBARD, Mgr.
Professor Gets
Letter Describing
European Crisis
A letter received here recently
by Dr. Edward E. Cureton, of
the Auburn School of Education,
from a professor at the University
of Edinburgh gives an idea of the
British attitude in the present Eu­ropean
War.
Prof. Godfrey H. Thomson, of
the department of education at
the Scottish university, wrote to
Dr. Cureton complimenting him
on a recent published study, "The
Principal Compulsions of Factor-
Analysts".
His letter, dated, Sept. 1, fol­lows:
"This is I fear a historic
date, our school children are at
this moment being evacuated, my
son of 22 is somewhere in the
Mediterranean, and the clock ap­pears
to have been put back by
25 years. But there is nothing fur­ther
I can do, and so I have open­ed
a reprint which came from you
this morning, and for twenty
minutes I have actually forgot­ten
the present. Very many thanks
for one of the wittiest articles on
factor analysis that I have ever
read—no, not one of the wittiest,
easily far the wittiest. If by any
good chance this war is over I
hope I may be able to make your
personal acquaintance in 1940 at
the International Conference of
Psychologists here next July. But
much I fear will happen before
then. In any case many thanks.
Yours sincerely, Godfrey H. Thom­son."
ing graduate work at Auburn in
textiles; Leonora Patridge is
teaching in Brent, and Carrie
Maude Jordan is employed as as­sistant
manager by the Jordan
Lumber Company in Washington
County.
Several members of the 1939
home economics graduates have
married, including Kathleen Snow
who married Paul Gilmore; Rene
Gibson, who is now Mrs. Andrew
Pollard; Margaret Fryer, who is
now Mrs. George Brazelton; and
Louise Welsted, who is now Mrs.
Charles Strozier and resides in
Jefferson City, Tenn.
Among the five students recent­ly
elected to the Auburn social
committee are two athletes, Carl
Happer, Birmingham, and Charlie
Kilpatrick, Carrollton, a junior
and senior, respectively. Happer
is a reliable in both football and
baseball, and Kilpatrick is a crack
pitcher on the diamond.
ALUMNI OFFICE
SEEKS ADDRESSES
OF GRADUATES
Lost! Thirty-five alumni! That
many graduates of the year 1939
do not have their street or busi­ness
addresses on file with the
alumni office. Since the Alumni
Association needs the addresses
in order to send them their mem­bership
cards in the Association,
the local Alumni Office, phone
161-W, is asking that anyone
knowing anything of the where­abouts
of the following graduates
notify the office. '
1939 Graduates with unknown
street addresses:
Adams, John Elvin, Montgom­ery;
Bickerstaff, Hugh Jennings,
Atlanta, Ga.; Cassels, V., Mont­gomery;
Doughtie, George Rob­erts,
Columbus, Ga.; Dunbar, John
Barnett, Montgomery; Franke,
Gustav Henry, Jr., Fort Clay­ton,
Canal Zone; Hughes, Joe D.,
Washington, D. C.; Jigger, Joseph
John, Simsburg, Conn.; Johnson,
Orson Alexander, Montgomery.
Knight, Albion Williamson, Bir­mingham;
Kolbe, Allison Linwell,
Birmingham; Lee, Forney Law­rence,
Selma; Luce, Dwain Greg­ory,
Mobile; Lyons, James Wilton,
Birmingham; Mantoux, Lopez
Joseph, Jr., Birmingham; Mize,
Arthur Eugene, Montgomery;
Mooney, Marcus Lawrence, Gads­den;
Morton, John Morgan, Mont­gomery;
Morris, Alexander Hamil­ton,
Columbus; Moss, Lawrence
Blakey, Gadsden.
Neely, Robert Herron, Jackson­ville,
Fla.; O'Gwynn, Ralph Smed-ley,
Selma; Plaisance, Edward
Beale, Birmingham; Pruitt, Davis
Sigvard, West Palm Beach, Fla.;
Rigell, Frank Stevens, Panama
City, Fla.; Risher, Christopher
Columbus, Meridian, Miss.; Roop,
Englar Abram, Warrensburg, Mo.;
Russell, Torance Albert, Jr., Bir­mingham.
Shivers, Mare Vincentelli, Mont­gomery;
Taylor, Edward Arnold,
Gadsden; Trucks, Louis Barcley,
Birmingham; Vogtle, Alvin Ward,
Jr., Birmingham; Warren, Wm.
Tilman, Jr., Birmingham; Wor-sham,
Stanley Moore, Birmingham;
Yelverton, Gerald Parker, Mont­gomery.
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W i t h , Ralph B. Draughon,
Charles S. Davis and Paul Irvine
as representatives from Auburn,
41 faculty members from 29
Southern colleges met Saturday
in Atlanta at a special conference
of Southern universities to discuss
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Army Appointments
Applications for extended ac­tive
duty as officers in the U. S.
Army under the Thomason act
are now available at the Military
Office here.
Full information may be obtain­ed
from Captain Harry L. Watts
who stated that applicants must
not be more than 28 years of age
of December 1, must never have
been married, and must hold sec­ond
lieutenant commissions in the
Reserves.
Deadline for the submission of
applications is November ' 15. A
total of 61 officers, for extended
active duty will be selected from
the Fourth Corps Area.
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Sophomore Hop, beginning this afternoon at Graves Center with a
tea dance and continuing through tomorrow night.
"Co-Operative Movements Affect­ing
Higher Education in the
South."
The conference studied ways
and means to bring colleges into
closer contact with one another
so that educational facilities may
be pooled for mutual use.
Dr. J. B. Clark, an Auburn
graduate and now dean at Mercer
University was named as chair­man
of a committee composed of
Ralph Draughon, executive secre­tary
of API and secretary of the
Conference, Charles Burts of Fur-man,
W. K. Greene of Duke, H.
T. Ramsey of Lincoln Memorial
and M. C. Huntsley, its purpose
being to consider all aspects of
the question of cooperative study.
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Williamson Rates
Vols 14th; A. P.
Rates Them First
Still differing remarkably in
their ratings of the Tennessee
Volunteers, the Paul B. William­son
Eating System and the As­sociated
Press Poll nevertheless
match each other more closely
this week than at any other time
during the current football sea­son.
Tennessee is ranked first in the
AP poll and 14 in Williamson's
ratings. Auburn is listed as 35 by
Williamson who ranks Boston Col­lege
as 53, Villanova as 41, LSU
as 19, and Georgia as 96.
Comparison of the two ratings
follows.
Williamson Associated Press
1. Michigan 1. Tennessee
2. Cornell 2. Michigan
3. Oklahoma 3. Cornell
4. Tulane 4. Notre Dame
5. N. Carolina 5. Texas A&M
6. Texas A&M 6. Oklahoma
7. Duquesne 7. Southern Cal.
8. Southern Cal. 8. Tulane
9. Duke 9. N. Carolina
10. Ohio State 10. Nebraska
MONDAY MORNING
QUARTERBACKS
HOLD MEETINGS
Auburn supporters in Birming­ham
and Montgomery are holding
weekly Monday morning quarter­back
meetings to discuss football.
Beginning last Monday, Auburn
supporters and members of the
Alumni Association are holding
regular Monday morning meetings
every week at the Whitley Hotel
in Montgomery.
In Birmingham too, a similar
group holds weekly meetings. Last
Monday the Birmingham group
met with Alabama adherents to
discuss week-end results and pick
next week's winners.
These get-togethers are in the
form of a luncheon with results
of the last weeks game being dis­cussed
along with plans for at­tending
each forthcoming foot­ball
game.
Finland Denies
Change in Olympics
The International Olympic com­mittee
denied this week that any
action had been taken toward re­moving
the 1940 games from Fin­land
to Detroit.
"Any decision regarding the
games will be taken only after
Finland renounces them," authori­ties
said.
Meanwhile, in Helsingfors a
Finnish foreign office spokesman
said, "Finland has by no means
renounced intentions of holding
the 1940 games and still has
hopes of holding them if the situa­tion
permits." He added that Fin­land
expected to make no decision
until May, the deadline which
would allow the Finns at least
three months for final prepara­tions.
Work on the Olympic stadium,
adjacent fields, the swimming
pool and athletic department
buildings still is proceeding, but
slowly because of the uncertain
political situation. Workmen now
are constructing bleachers in the
stadium to accommodate 60,000
for the games.
Final plans for the entire Au­burn
ROTC to attend the Tigers
five-star intersectional football
battle with Villanova in Birming­ham,
Armistice Day, November 11,
as a unit, have been completed.
The cadets, who will number close
to two thousand, will have a prom­inent
part in the Armistice Day
parade in the Magic City a few
hours before the Tigers kickoff
against the Pennsylvania Wild­cats.
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Tiger Athletes Star In Classroom
As Well As In Sports Competition
Two Highest Averages
Made by Senior Athletes
Surprising as it may seem, Au­burn's
athletics are as proficient
in the classroom as they are on
the athletic field. In fact they
might be called "brain men" as
.well as "muscle men." During the
second semester of last year some
of the participants in sports out­shone
most of the non-participat­ing
students.
The highest average attained in
the entire school during the sec­ond
semester of last year was
reached by an athlete, Frank B.
Gunter of Phenix City, a senior
and distance man on the track
team. He accumulated one of the
highest averages in Auburn his­tory,
97.71.
Second highest average for the
same semester was also that of
an athlete, this time a member of
the polo sq,uad, Elmer Almquist,
who averaged 96.63. Almquist has
also taken an active part in intra­mural
sports.
Others whose grades were over
90 were Walter Chandler, guard
on the football team, whose aver­age
of 92.06 was one of the high­est
in his course, business adminis­tration;
George Long, senior in
veterinary medicine and a mem­ber
of the track team, who reach­ed
91.17; and Buddy McMahan,
quarterback on the football team,
who averaged 90.62 in electrical
engineering.
In all 35 athletes were listed in
the group of students averaging
80 and above, as announced by
the Registrar's Office.
Eleven men from the football
squad reached the "80 or above"
mark: Franklin P. Buckner, Geter
Cantrell, Walter Chandler, Getty
Fairchild, Carl Happer, George
Kenmore, Gordon MacEachern,
Herndon McGehee, Buddy Mc­Mahan,
Max Morris, and Bud
Wendling.
The baseball squad was repre­sented
by Louis Diamond, Ralph
Frazier, Earl Hawkins and Ray
D. Loworn.
Kavanaugh's Points
Pass Century Mark
Giant Ken Kavanaugh, LSU's
great pass-catching end, marched
past the 100-point mark in scor­ing
by tallying two touchdowns
against Vandy last Saturday.
Kavanaugh's touchdowns during
his three seasons as a varsity star
now number 19 for a total of
114 points. An extra point made
on a pass this season brings his
points to 115.
From the track team were Jack
Cagle, Ben Dawsey, Bob Dickin­son,
Frank Gunter, George Hard-wick,
George Long, Herbert Mar­tin,
Chuck Morgan, Forrest Hom­er
Morgan, Robert Morton, David
Sprinkle, and Roy Wilson.
Four polo players attained the
honor rating: Elmer Almquist,
Bob Armstrong, John Blunschi,
and Dick Hall.
From the tennis team were
three over-80 men: J. W. McKee,
W. W. Thompson, and Vernon
Wells.
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Records of Auburn's remaining
opponents follows:
Boston College
35 Lebanon College 0
0 Florida 7
19 Temple 0
28 St. Anslem 0
82 7
Villanova
14 Muhlenberg 0
40 South Carolina 0
7 Texas A&M 33
7 Arkansas 0
68 33
Louisiana State
7 Mississippi 14
26 Holy Cross 7
7 Rice 0
20 Loyola 0
12 Vanderbilt 6
72 27
Georgia
26 Citadel 0
0 Furman 20
0 Holy Cross 13
6 Kentucky 13
13 NYU 14
45 60
Tennessee
13 N. C. State 0
40 Sewanee 0
28 Chattanooga 0
21 Alabama 0
17 Mercer 0
Fencing To Begin
About November IS
According to Ernest B. Smith,
director of intramural sports,
fencing classes will be resumed
for this year around November
15. Classes will meet three times
a week in the afternoon, the days
to be selected later by the stu­dents
taking part.
Practice will be held on the top
floor of the textile building with
the best and most experienced
fencers of last year's group serv­ing
as coaches.
All students wishing to take
part have been invited to do so
and should turn in their names to
the Intramural Sports Office in
Samford Hall some time before
November 15.
The fencing group holds two
tournaments in the spring of each
year, one for freshmen and the
other for all classes. All equip­ment
is furnished by the intra­mural
sports department.
Last year around 25 boys and
girls participated in fencing. J.
C. Hogg, senior in electrical en­gineering,
was the winner of the
all-campus tournament.
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meet on Friday, November 10.
The varsity clubs of Auburn and
Florida will dedicate the Tigers
new athletic field and stadium on
Thanksgiving Day, November 30,
in an outstanding league affair.
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November 3, 1939 THE A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN Page Five
on
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TIGER TALES
By BOOTS STRATFORD
Looks as though it's up to the sophomores from here
out. Deal, Cheatham, Faulk, Samford, Crimmins, Chalk-and
Cremer are the boys who will bear the burden along
with such sturdy veterans as Capt. Howell,
Ernie Mills, Kenmore, Dick McGowen, Carl
Happer and Mai Morgan. The sophs clicked
where seasoned campaigners failed, and
Coach Meagher will begin building his 1940
team now with these men. They should help
knock over a couple or three mighty good
football teams while acquiring experience
and finesse at the firing line.
8 OOTf SXQATFoRO
Seems that one Mr. McKeever of Bos­ton
College was sent forth to scout the
Tigers during the Tech game. Mr. McKeever elected to
fly down, ran into a rather bumpy head wind, and ar­rived
just in time to see the last play of the game!
But that ain't all. Seems also that said Mr. McKeever
developed an extremely acute case of air sickness on
the way down and didn't really care whether he saw
the game or not!
* * *
Boston will be handicapped by the absence of the little
colored jumping bean, Lou Montgomery, who was held out
of the Florida game and will be held out of Saturday's
affair with Auburn'.
* * *
They're really beating the publicity drum up Mid-
West way for Tommy Harmon, pace setter of the Mich­igan
point-a-minute men. They can't figure if he is bet-ten
than Red Grange in his prime or only just as good!
* * *
What we said last week about the Tech game being a
"must have" affair has become qualified by the fine first-half
game that the Tigers played. Any team that can play
like than, even in spots, has plenty on the ball and will just
maul almighty heck out of some unsuspecting ball club
ere the evening of December 9 comes around.
* * *
Missing four picks out of 10 choices last week sent
us down for a count of nine, but here we are back on
our feet, a bit groggy, it's true, pickin' 'em again.
The War Eagles of Auburn over Frank Leahy's
Eagles of Boston College. . . . The East won't see any
more football from down Auburn way like they wit­nessed
in the Manhattan spectacle—the Tigers, lean
and victory hungry, are after this one.
The Irish Green over the Gold and Black and Gray
of Army. . . . Notre Dame won't need her now al­most
legendary luck.
Mississippi over Vandy. . . . They say that the Com­modore
team is a sleeping giant—they'll be sleeping
sounder than ever when Junior Hovious slips them a
few knockout drops.
Georgia Tech over Duke. . . . A toughie, but we
believe the Jackets have the goods this year. Too bad
they had to play Notre Dame so early.
Tennessee over the Bayou Bengals of LSU. . . . LSU
will need more than their Bird-Kavanaugh combina­tion
to even get a good sweat out of the vicious Vols
of Major Neyland.
Kentucky's Wildcats over 'Bama's Tide. . . . We tried
a long shot with State over the Crimson and White last
week, so now we try at a little closer range with the Wild­cats.
Cornell over Columbia. . . . Even the Columbia Lion on
the comeback trail isn't tough enough for Carl Snavely's
Rose Bowl-eyeing Big Red outfit.
Rice over Fordham. . . . Pore ol' Rice is from below the
Mason-Dixon Line, so the nod goes to the Owls with fingers
crossed.
Southern Cal over Oregon State. . . . The Trojans will
be gunning for this one, for with the Beavers under their
belt, it looks like Coast title and a Rose Bowl jaunt.
A I T , 11 | Snakes Down ATO's
uburn learn to Meet ForPOO^H™e
Bostonians Tomorrow
Tigers Out for Victory After Defeats
In Georgia Tech and Manhattan Games
An up-and-coming Auburn eleven invades the East once
more tomorrow as they meet the also up-and-coming Boston
College Eagles in Fenway Park, Boston.
The Tigers entrained from the Loveliest Village Wed­nesday
night, unlimbered train-stiff muscles in a workout
in Greensboro, N. C, yesterday and arrived in Boston at
1:40 p.m. today where they are staying at the Kenmore
Hotel.
(Meet those Tigers, win or lose,
at 11:44 Monday morning.)
Practice last week continued to
be featured by the play of sopho­mores
Cheatham, Deal, Faulk,
Samford, Crimmins and Chalkley
and it is likely that these men will
start off against the Maroon and
Gold.
But the sophs have not jostled
such veterans as Dick McGowen,
Capt. Milton Howell, Ernie Mills,
Mai Morgan, Carl Happer and
George Kenmore out of the spot­light.
McGowen continues to be
sensational with his booting, while
his running, which has improved
markedly over last year, continues
on the upswing.
Jumpin' George Kenmore, who
chunked the Plainsmen's six
pointer against the Yellow Jack­ets,
has sparkled in carrying the
mail in practice last week and also
in slinging aerial efforts, the
principal receiver being Carl Hap­per.
Happer, who threw that vital
thrust to Dick McGowen to score
against State, also gave his pitch­ing
arm a good workout against
scrub opposition the past week.
Up at Chestnut Hill in the Hub
City, Gloomy Gil Dobie has re­tired
to the life of a country
squire and the keeper of the
Eagles is now boyish Frank Leahy,
Notre Dame man who molded the
famous Seven Blocks of Granite
at Fordham before taking over
the reins at Boston. So the Dobie
precision line smashes are sup­planted
by the scampers off the
conventional Notre Dame shift
right and left formations.
Threats to the Orange and Blue
will be the Boston Bomber, tough
little Charlie O'Rourke, New Eng­land's
Davy O'Brien, and his re-
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ceiver, end Gene Goodreault, one
of the finest pass snaggers from
the Hill in years. Capt. Bull Sch-wortzer,
running guard; Chet
Gladchuck, 240-pound behemoth
at the center position and Frank
Davis, line plunging sophomore,
•will also be thorns in the Tigers'
side.
Little Lou Montgomery, fine
little colored running back, will
not play out of courtesy to the
Auburn team. N
The Maroon and Gold has plen­ty
to pitch at the Orange and
Blue, but the will to win is strong
in the Tiger camp and they are
out for redemption in the eyes of
Eastern fans.
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After playing four scoreless
ties, Sigma Nu downed the ATO
boys by gaining more yardage in
four downs yesterday afternoon,
thereby winning the touch foot­ball
championship of League
Number Two.
For three times the two teams
battled each other, neither being
able to score. The fourth game
was played yesterday and it too
ended in a scoreless deadlock. By
agreement the four-down rule was
invoked and the Sigma Nu's came
through with a yard-gaining run
which won the game for them.
The SPE's have already won in
League Number One. In League
Number Three the Sigma Chi's
and Kappa Alpha's have each won
two games with two yet to be
played.
League Number four ended in
a three way tie between Delta
Sigma Phi, Pi K A and SAE. The
Pikes eliminated the Delta Sigs
in a close game Sunday after­noon
and were in turn defeated
12-0 by the SAE's, champions of
that league.
Inter-league playoffs will be­gin
October 30.
In other games of last week
ATO won over Sigma Pi, 20-0, Pi
Kappa Phi and Phi Delta Theta
tied up at 0-0, and Delta Sig de­feated
Alpha Psi, 35-0.
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FAMOUS ITALIAN
DOCTOR VISITS
VET SCHOOL
Leading Pathologist
Addresses Local
Kiwanis Club Meeting
Auburn was host to a distin­guished
visitor last week when
Dr. Alberto Ascoli, former -head
of the department of pathology
at the School of "Veterinary Medi­cine
in Milan, Italy, visited the
School of Veterinary Medicine
here.
In this country for a meeting
of the International Microscopists
Association, which was held in
New York City, Dr. Ascoli spent
several days here observing the
methods employed in the veterin­ary
school. The ship in which he
came to America was delayed by
war activities and he was unable
to attend the convention as was
his intention.
While in Auburn he addressed
the local Kiwanis Club. In his
speech he brought out that Eu­rope
is losing her preeminent
place in scientific achievement,
while America is progressing
more and more rapidly.
Dr. Ascoli is an internationally
known scientist and a widely rec­ognized
authority in the field of
pathology and immunity. In ad­dition
to having written numer­ous
treatises on immunity, he has
done extensive experimental work
in Bang's disease and undulant
fever.
Vet Med Seniors
Inspect Atlanta
Packing Plant
The senior class in veterinary
medicine, under the direction of
Dr. W. M. Howell, spent last Fri­day
on a meat inspection tour in
Atlanta, where they observed
packing operations of the White
Provision Company.
A study of the entire procedure
of the company was made. The
livestock buyers explained the
methods of grading various types
of livestock which were brought to
the plant.
They observed operations in the
slaughter room, and then in the
inspection room. Federal meat
inspectors demonstrated the meth­od
required by the government in
the inspection of meat that is to
be sold for public consumption.
Their observations included the
manufacture of packaged goods,
such as breakfast bacon, boiled
hams, weiners, and meat loaf.
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Intramural Track
To be November 15
The third annual intramural
track meet will be held this year
on November 15, the Intramural
Sports Office has announced. All
students except varsity letter men
and members of the varsity track
squad are eligible to participate.
The events in the meet and last
year's times are as follows: 100
yard dash, 10:8; 440-yard dash,
57.0; 880-yard dash, 2:20; one
mile, 5:16.3; two mile, 11:39.1;
shot put, 34 feet, 10% inches;
high jump, 5 feet, five inches;
broad jump, 18 feet, four inches.
A gold medal will be given to
the winner of the meet and a
bronze medal will go to the win­ner
of second place.
Entries for this year have al­ready
passed the total number of
participants in last year's con­test.
All students who are interested
and who have not signed up can
still do so by seeing Coach Hut-sell,
Coach Beard, or by signing
up in the Intramural Sports Of­fice.
Notices
ROTC Students will not wear
uniforms to drill Tuesday, and
Thursday of next week, to enable
pressing and cleaning for trip to
Birmingham.
* * *
Reserve Officers School will
meet Tuesday, November 7, 7:30
p.m. in the North Basement of
Samford Hall.
* * *
i
The following articles have
been found on the campus and
may be obtained upon proper
identification at Plant Service of­fice
in the Plant Service Build­ing:
one clip board, one note book,
three umbrellas, five purses, one
coin purse, two pairs colored
glasses, two pairs glasses, one tie
chain, one lead pencil, and four
fountain pens.
* * *
Ed Eeid, Montgomery, execu­tive
secretary of the Alabama
League of Municipalities, will ad­dress
the Auburn Business and
Professional Women's Club here
Monday at 7:00 p.m. in Broun
Hall auditorium. Miss Louise
Whatley, president of the local
club, will preside at the meeting.
Immediately after the tour the
students were lunch guests of the
company. They remained in At­lanta
over the week-end to wit­ness
the Tech-Auburn football
game.
Those making the trip were:
Dr. Howell, N. C. Batson, J. T.
Billingsley, C. V. Bodine, J. A.
Boehm Jr., P. F. Burnette, J. H.
Carter, C. C. Carlton, M. D.
Coane, C. E. Deal, L. R. Diamond,
H. Q. Dorsett, G. E. Eason, H. F.
Findley, H. S. Goldberg, W. O.
Greene Jr., E. P. Hamner, T. F.
Hodges, R. A. Houston, L. Jacobs,
L. D. Johnson, T. W. Lennon,
George Long, Bernard Marks, J.
G. Martin, C. T. Mason, J. T.
Mitchell, L. N. Ritter, T. C. Ross,
E. C. Roukema, W. O. Slappey, F.
C. Sullivan, B. C. Swindle, J. K.
Taylor, E. L. Trundy, J. W. Vin­son,
H. F. Vollberg, G. L. H.
Weaver, Joe Witten, U. E. What­ley,
L. F. Whitney, R. L. Wil-liams/
T. M. Wise, Arnold Wrabel,
and Tyler J. Young.
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Versatile Mickey
Rooney Featured
In 'Babes In Arms'
If a' vote were taken among
the former child stars in the his­tory
of motion pictures and the
theatre to determine the greatest
boy actor of all times, the winner
would be Mickey Rooney.
So says Arthur Freed, Holly­wood
producer, who learned his
entertainment A, B, C's at the
knee of that master discoverer of
kid stars—Gus Edwards.
"It is my personal opinion-that
Rooney at seventeen is a much
more talented kid than was the
one and only George M. Cohen
at that age. Mickey's supremacy
comes in his versatility. He is
equally at home in pathos and
drama as he is in comedy.
"Cohen started writing songs
when he was 17. Mickey started
writing them two years ago. I've
written quite a few myself and I
think I can judge music. Mickey's
newest song, 'Love on the Range'
is, in my opinion, better than any­thing
Cohen ever wrote and I
realize that I'm taking my repu­tation
in my hands when I say
that.
"Mickey, it seems, can do any­thing.
In 'Babes in Arms' he does
everything that any of them ever
did. He has dramatic scenes, he
has comedy scenes, he sings, he
dances, he gives impersonations,
he plays the piano^-everything."
"Babes in Arms", starring
Rooney and Judy Garland, will
be shown Sunday and Monday at
the Tiger Theatre.
Miss Lucille Rhodes, chairman of
the educational committee, has
arranged the program.
* * *
Professor E. D. Hess announces
the formation of a choral reading
club that will hold its meeting
twice each month. The first regu­lar
meeting will be held Monday
night at 7:00 p.m. in room 3 in
the "L" Building. Anyone inter­ested
in choral reading is invited
to become a member.
* * *
The next meeting of the new­ly
organized Radio Club will be
held Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m.
in Ramsay Hall. All "hams" and
those interested in radio are. in­vited
to attend.
Sophomore Hop
Continued from page 1
Lambda Chi Alpha, and Alpha Tau
Omega. At each of these lead-outs,
the fraternity presidents
will come forward with their
dates, who will be presented with
bouquets.
Two 30-minute broadcasts will
be given during the set of dances.
These will be at 9:30 on Friday
and Saturday nights over station
WSFA, Montgomery. Henley re­quests
that students "get to the
dances early, in time for the
broadcasts."
John Nixon, Birmingham, will
be in charge of these programs,
and will serve as announcer.
Block tickets for the dances
went off sale at 1:00 o'clock this
afternoon. Individual tickets for
dances may be bought at the fol­lowing
prices: Morning dance,
$1.50, afternoon dances, $2.00,
and $3.00 for the night dances.
Spectators will be admitted at
night only and for a price of
$1.25. Approximately 150 specta­tors
can be accommodated.
Rat caps are now available at
the Student's Supply Shop located
in the Pitts Hotel building. The
price is 50 cents.
* * *
All boys out for spring basket­ball
practice report to gym Satur-.
day to draw uniforms. Varsity
practice starts Monday.
* * *
Episcopal C h u r c h services,
22nd Sunday after Trinity. Cele­bration
of Holy Communion, 7:30
a.m., Church School, 9:45 a.m.,
Morning Prayer and Sermon,
11:00 a.m., Young People's Dis­cussion
Group, 7:00 p.m.
WALSTON SPEAKS
AS COEDS MEET
Dr. Walston opened the coed
convocation yesterday afternoon
with announcements pertaining
to the girls attending the Villa-nova
football game on November
11, out-of-town girls attending
opening dances, report cards, and
Thanksgiving holidays.
Prof. T. B. Peet made a short
talk on the appreciation of music
and played the "Scheheraqade"
by Rimsky Korsakow, a Russian
composer.
It was announced that the
swimming pool in Alumni Hall
will be opened the first of next
week. A definite schedule will be
posted later.
There will be a FHA and FFA See Jack Dunlop for your cor-joint
social Tuesday night. sage. Phone 281.
A meeting of the FHA will be
held Monday night at 7:00 p.m. in
Student Center. All members are
requested to bring dues.
* * *
The girl's glee club is looking
for an accompanist. Candidates
please report to the glee club
room in the Elec Lab at 4:30 p.
m. Tuesday afternoon.
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