1939-09-08 The Auburn Plainsman

              Freshman Reception
Saturday Night THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN Hear Dr. Petrie
Sunday Night
VOL. LXIII ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, SEPTEMBER 8, 1939 No. 2
Honored Speaks
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Dean F. C. Biggin of the School
of Architecture and Allied Arts,
who on September 28, will receive
a formal certificate of his election
as a fellow of the American Insti-tue
of Architects.
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Dean George Petrie of the Grad­uate
School and head of the his­tory
department, who will address
the convocation Sunday night at
the amphitheater.
Zeta Delta Now
Colonizing Here
The national president and
members from all over the South
are in Auburn for the instating
of Zeta Delta colonizing chapter
of Delta Zeta sorority, which is
making its first appearance on the
Auburn campus this year.
Mrs. M. G. Malott, of the Rio
Grande Valley, Texas, national
president of Delta Zeta, is in Au­burn
to direct activities of the
new sorority. Members from LSU,
Brenau, University of Alabama,
and Florida State College for
Women are also here.
Sue Millirons of Waverly and
Dorothy Hurst of Leeds, both
formerly of the chapter at Howard
College and now students here,
are the initial members of the lo­cal
group. Mrs. Mary Bailey, Lee
county home demonstration agent,
was a charter member of the chap­ter
at the University of Alabama.
Delta Zeta was founded in 1902
at Miami University, Oxford,
Ohio. It now has 51 active chap­t
e r s and 120 alumnae chapters.
Among its outstanding undertak­ings
is the sponsoring of a social
service project in Western Ken­tucky.
Mrs. Malott stopped in Auburn
while en route to University of
Miami, Coral Gables, Fla., where
she will be present at the installa­tion
of a chapter on September
28.
Notices
All students who are not receiv­ing
copies of the Plainsman leave
name and address at the Plainsman
office in the complaint box.
The Choral Reading Club will
meet in iRoom 4, "L" Building
Tuesday night at 7:00 o'clock.
Phi Psi will meet Monday night,
September 11. Every member is
urged to be present.
The Debate Council will meet
Monday afternoon at 5:00 o'clock
in Room 4, "L" Building. For fur­ther
details see Letter to Editor
on Page 2.
All new and old students who
have not yet had identification pic­tures
made for their student ac­tivities
books report to the Student
Center between 1:00 and 5:00 Sat­urday
afternoon to have pictures
made.
The Camera Club will meet in
Room 109 Ramsay Hall, Saturday
afternoon at 4:30 to organize for
the coming year. All old members
and everyone interested in photo­graphy
are urged to come. Faculty
members will be especially wel­come.
Ladies Riding Class will begin
soon. For further details see story
in third column.
All students must register their
motor vehicles in the office of the
Executive Secretary. For further
details see story on this page.
Phi Lambda Upsilon will present
a movie "Beyond the Rainbow"
on Monday night at the Chemistry
Building.
H o m e r Wright, Postmaster,
states that there are still plenty
of post office boxes to be rented.
Students who do not have a box,
be sure that your address is on
file at the post office.
First "A" Club
Dance Scheduled
The "A" Club will begin the
all-campus social program for the
1939-40 session when it gives the
first dance of the year at Graves
Center, Saturday night.
Following the usual custom, the
dance will begin at 9:00 and con­tinue
until 12:00, George Wolff,
president of the "A" Club told
Plainsman representatives yester­day.
Playing will be the Auburn
Knights in their first dance ap­pearance
since returning from a
summer tour in the east.
Admission will be $1.00.
Saturday Students
Will Begin Classes
This Weekend
Saturday classes in education
for teachers employed in East
Alabama will begin on September
16, according to announcement of
Dr. Zebulon Judd, education
school dean.
First meeting will be held at
9 a.m. in Samford 314, at which
time courses given will be deter­mined
by the preference of those
present, he said. "It is highly im­portant,
therefore, for every teach­er
who plans to enroll for these
classes this fall to be present at
the first meeting," he added.
Teachers may take for college
credit one or two courses each
semester, carrying three to six
semester hours. Each class lasts
three hours, 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon
and 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Courses
are completed in' one semester,
and those studying through two
semesters will complete either two
or four courses, earning six or
12 semester hours of credit.
Dr. Judd said that in the past
many East Alabama teachers have
driven in to Auburn for Saturday .
classes from distances ranging
from a few miles up to 150 miles
or more.
YMCAtoHold '
First Session
The Auburn Chapter of the
YMCA will hold its first meeting
Monday night at seven o'clock in
Student Center. The "Y" is a ser­vice
organization on the campus
which works with the churches and
their societies to give the student
a well rounded college life as far
as religious activities are concern­ed.
The "Y" has been rather in­active
over the summer, but plans
which have been made for the
coming year include: hobby night,
the fraternity go-to-church con­test,
the sponsoring of the fresh­men
tennis tournament, and week­ly
programs concerning campus
problems which students meet
each day.
All of the old members are
urged to attend this first meeting
as well as any student who is in­terested
in "Y" work. Most cordial­ly
invited are those freshmen who
were in Hi-Y Clubs in their home
towns.
Blue Key To Hold Reception For
Freshmen Saturday Night At Eight
Knights Will
Furnish Music
Auburn freshmen will official­ly
meet college and administrative
officials at the annual freshman
reception to be held from 7:00 to
8:30 Saturday night on the lawn
of the women's social center,
formerly the president's home. All
freshmen are invited to attend.
Sponsored by Blue Key, honor
society for senior men, the re­ception
is held each fall for new
students to Auburn.
Freshman will be greeted per­sonally
in the receiving line by
the deans and their wives and ad­ministrative
officers and their
wives.
Members of ODK have been in­vited
to attend and will introduce
freshmen to the receiving line,
Paul Nichols, in charge of publici­ty
for the affair, said yesterday.
During the reception, refresh­ments
will be served by members
of Cardinal Key and Sphinx, hon­or
societies for senior women.
After the reception, music will
be furnished by the Auburn
Knights, who have just returned
to school after a tour of the east.
In case of rainy weather, the
affair will be held in Graves Cen­ter.
Members of Blue Key are
George Kenmore, president; Frank
Cayce, Leo Bidez, Paul Nichols,
Walter Chandler, Charlie Knight,
Getty Fairchild, Ed McGowan,
Marshall Hooper, Elmer Almquist,
Red Bamberg, and Jimmy Calla­way.
New Colonel is
Friend of Old
Auburn's new commandant, Col.
John J. Waterman, F. A., is a life­long
friend of Col. F. C. Wallace.
F.A., whom he succeeded here at
Auburn this week.
Both of them began their mili­tary
careers in 1902 at the Cen­tral
High School in Washington
where they were members of the
same squad, Colonel Wallace be­ing
No. 4 and Colonel Waterman
No. 6.
In 1906 they were both appoint­ed
to the U. S. Military Academy
where they were roommates dur­ing
their plebe year. They both
graduated in 1910 and were com­missioned
in the U. S. Army.
In 1927-28 they were both as­signed
to duty at Ft. Sill, Okla.,
and they served together for four
years on the Field Artillery Board,
1931-35.
Colonel Waterman arrived here
last week to assume his duties as
commandant of Auburn's ROTC
unit and head professor of mili­tary
science and tactics. Colonel
Wallace completed his tour of
duty here this summer and is now
serving as executive officer in the
office of the chief of Field Artil­lery
in Washington.
Ladies Riding
To Begin Soon
The Military Department in co­operation
with the Auburn Polo
and Riding Club will again con­duct
a Ladies' Equitation Class,
consisting of twenty one-hour
periods, commencing September
18.
The class will be divided into
two sections, viz; Beginners—4:00
to 5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday; Ad­vanced—
4:00-5:00 p.m. Tuesday-
Thursday.
As in previous years, in case
the number of applications exceed
the number of horses available,
priority for enrollment will be as
indicated below:
1. Women students.
2. Members of faculty families.
3. Members of college employ­ees
families.
4. Residents of Auburn.
5. Non-residents of Auburn.
Enrollment may be made by
registering with Mrs. Hackney,
Secretary, in the office of the
Commandant. The fee of $7.50
must be paid at the time of regis­tration.
There will be no refunds
of fees.
Stockholders May
Give Airport For
Student Training
College Must Have
A i r p o r t t o Get
F l y i n g P r o g r am
A meeting of the stockholders
of the Opelika Airport will be held
on Monday, September 18, for the
purpose of discussing plans for
deeding the airport to API.
Lt. B. M. Cornell, of the aero­nautical
department, and other of­ficials
are at work on the possibil­ity
of obtaining for the school one
of the government grants for Ci­vilian
Pilot Training. In order to
do this, it would be necessary for
the airport to belong to API.
There is at present no hangar
on the port which would meet the
requirements of the government.
The college is to build such a
hangar in the event of obtaining
the airport. There is a fund of
several thousand dollars available
for this purpose.
The government hopes to train
eleven thousand civilian pilots
this year by establishing training
corps in several colleges in vari­ous
parts of the nation. A num­ber
of these posts have already
been established.
According to the plan, there
would be a commercial operator
furnished who would be in charge
of instruction. He would have un­der
him one instructor and one
plane for each ten students to be
trained. Each student would be
given from 25 to 50 hours of flight
instruction, and 72 hours ground
instruction in the aeronautical de­partment.
The ground training
would begin around October 1,
and flight instruction sometime in
November.
Thirty or forty students could
be given instruction each year in
Auburn. Each student would have
a fee of $40, half of which would
go for various materials and for
a medical examination, and half
to the school as fees.
Under the government plan, the
college receives about twenty dol­lars
per student enrolled in the
corps, from the government, in
addition to being supplied with
the operators and flight instruct­ors
and with planes.
Episcopal Church services for
next Sunday will be as follows:
9:45 A. M., Church School and
Bible Class. 11:00 A. M., Morn­ing
Prayer and Sermon. 7:00 P.
M., Young Peoples Service League.
Total Enrollment
Continues To Soar
Past 3000 Mark
More t h a n Five H u n d r ed
Co-eds Sign Up w i t h More
E x p e c t e d Daily
A record enrollment was fore­seen
this morning when the total
registration figures released by
the Registrar's office reached
3165. These figures were compiled
at the.close of registration yester­day
afternoon at 5:00 o'clock.
The enrollment at present is
about 300 higher than the num­ber
at this time during last year's
registration. The final total for
this school year should reach the
total of 3500 as predicted last
week.
An increase in the number of
women students was noted as the
total passed 500, according to Dr.
Rosa Lee Walston, dean of wom­en.
This figure is well above the
figures for last year.
Registration this year was great­ly
facilitated by improved meth­ods.
Engineering students regis­tered
at the close of last year's
session, and Veterinary students
registered at Vet Hill. All fresb-men
registered at Graves Center,
and upper classmen at the gym­nasium.
Late students were registering
this morning, and more students
are expected early next week. Late
students are required to pay late
registration fees.
Women students have been
placed in Alumni Hall and many
men students are being lodged in
the cabins in the WPA village
temporarily, pending completion
of the Women's Dormitory group
around Christmas.
With the new buildings near-ing
completion, many new faculty
members being added, and an in­crease
in the general education
allotment this year from the state,
the increase in students will not
overcrowd the facilities of the col­lege.
Freshman tests are now over
and regular classes have begun.
Vehicles Must
Be Registered
All students owning motor ve­hicles
must register them in the
office of the Executive Secretary
as soon as possible.
Required by law and by college
regulations, each automobile, mo­torcycle,
and motor scooter must
be officially registered.
Students desiring to register ve­hicles
should know the make,
model, motor number, and the li­cense
number. There will be no
fee for registration.
Auburn Players to
Cast Next Thursday
Three Parts
Already Cast
Director Telfair Peet announced
at a business session of the Auburn
Players last night that open try-outs
for the Players' first pro­duction,
"The Crime at Blossoms,"
will be held next Thursday night,
September 14.
Mr. Peet explained that three of
the essential roles in the play would
be filled before the tryouts from
old Auburn Players to provide a
nucleus of experienced actors for
the large cast of twenty-three.
People new to the Players, especial­ly
freshmen, will be welcomed at
the opening casting session Thurs­day
night.
The Players voted to join with
the men's and women's glee clubs
in giving an operetta, "The Chimes
of Normandy," during the second
semester. "Moor Born," a story of
the three Bronte sisters, was dis­cussed
as a possibility for the sec­ond
play of the first semester.
The business meeting at the Y-Hut
followed a Players' picnic at
Chewacla Park. Those attending
were Prof, and Mrs. Peet, Miss
Continued on page 4
City Laws Must
Be Observed
A drive against traffic violators
will get under way tomorrow in
the City of Auburn.
Mayor C. S. Yarbrough and
Police Chief G. G. Hawkins stated
yesterday that strict enforcement
of the city's traffic laws will be
in effect in the future. Mayor
Yarbrough deplored the lack of at­tention
to local regulations in re­cent
months, and Chief Hawkins
has been instructed to enforce
traffic laws to the letter.
Chief Hawkins stated that pe­destrians,
according to local rules,
have the right of way when cross­ing
on the green light at Toomer's
Corner. In other words, if an
automobile makes a right or left
turn it must wait for pedestrians
to cross before continuing.
Automobiles are allowed to make
right turns on red lights, provid­ing
they come to a full stop first.
Pedestrians have been warned
against jay-walking by huge signs
on the pavement.
Convocation to be
Held Sunday Night
HENLEY GIVES
PLANS OF SOCIAL
COMMITTEE
i •
October First is
Deadline for Payment
Of Fraternity Pledges
October 1 is the deadline for
payment of monetary pledges
made to the social committee last
spring, Chairman Tom Henley an­nounced
yesterday.
Three lodges have already rais­ed
the money to be paid in.
Probable date of the opening
dances will be October 20-21 or
November 3-4, Henley also stated.
The new plan for putting on
the three big dances of the year
go into effect for the first time
this session. Each fraternity, if
it agrees to participate in the plan,
agrees to buy a number of block
tickets equal to 80 per cent of
the number of its membership.
The responsibility for paying for
these tickets rests on each frater­nity,
the social committee making
collections from the treasurer of
the fraternity instead of each in­dividual.
Fraternities which participate
have the advantage of getting
tickets for their members at a
greatly reduced price. Also, the
chances of getting a good band
for the dances is greatly increas­ed,
since the social committee will
have a large cash working fund
with which to obtain a band, in­stead
of having to borrow money
as in the past.
Participating fraternities will
be given leadouts; dates of the
presidents will be given corsages;
and other courtesies will be ex­tended
those who aid the social
committee in its plan.
So far eleven lodges have an­nounced
their passage of the plan:
Phi Delta Theta, Pi Kappa Phi,
SAE, Sigma Nu, Lambda Chi,
SPE, Theta Chi, Sigma Chi, Tau
Epsilon Phi, Delta Sigma Phi, and
Pi Kappa Alpha.
BSU Will Give
Social Saturday
The opening reception for all
Baptist students will be given by
the Baptist Student Union at the
Baptist Church Friday night at
7:30 o'clock.
The theme of the party accord­ing
to Miss Grace Newman, chair­man
of the social committee, will
be "The Collegiate Pow-Wow."
Working with Miss Newman for
this special occasion are Hankins
Parker, Tom Woolley, Sarah
Rowe, Annie Moon, and others.
An invitation is extended to all
Baptist students, faculty mem­bers,
church members, and friends
to attend this social affair, hon­oring
the new students.
Plans were made for the social
and other B. S. U. activities at
the Pre-school Planning Meeting
held at Spring Villa September 1
and 2. Several surprise features
are to be included in the Friday
evening program which will be of
unusual interest to both new stu­dents
and old students. A large
number of guests are expected to
be present.
Draughon Attends
Chicago Meet
Ralph B. Draughon, executive
secretary of API, was one of 12
college officials from the South
who attended a five weeks course
in college administrative problems
given at the 'University of Chica­go
this summer. The 12 officials
were chosen by Chicago from
member schools of the Southern
Association of Colleges and Sec­ondary
Schools.
The course began on June 19
and continued for five weeks.
During this period the educators
enrolled set up their particular
problems and worked out practical
solutions.
Dr. Petrie Will
Deliver Speech
For the first time in Auburn's
history, local churches and the
College will cooperate in staging
an open-air convocation service
Sunday evening at the amphithea­tre
in the WPA village. The ser­vice
will begin at 8:00 o'clock.
Principal speaker will be Dr.
George Petrie, head professor of
history and graduate school dean,
whose subject will be "A Great
Opportunity." Dr. Petrie, an in­spirational
speaker, is entering his
fifty-first year of service at Au­burn.
A cordial invitation by the local
ministers and President Duncan
has been issued to all students and
the Auburn public to attend the
services. Ralph Draughon, Execu­tive
Secretary, urges all student
organizations to cooperate in mak­ing
this program a success.
An address of welcome will be
made by President Duncan and the
following Auburn ministers will
take part in the services: the Rev­erends
William B. Lee, Episcopal
Church; Sam B. Hay, Presbyter­ian
Church; James R. Edwards
and Davis Wooley, Baptist Church;
and W. C. Cowart and Frank
Moseley, Methodist Church. The
convocation service was arranged
by the Rev. Cowart, Methodist
minister.
Similar convocations were inau­gurated
during the past summer
school session.
The program for the convoca­tion
service is as follows:
Prelude, orchestra and piano;
hymn, congregation; Invocation,
Rev. William B. Lee; Hymn, "Day
is Dying in the West"; Scripture,
Dr. J. R. Edwards; Offertory; Ad­dress
of Welcome, President L. N.
Duncan; Introductions of local
pastors and other religious lead­ers
on campus; Hymn, "Rock of
Ages"; Sermon: "A Great Op­portunity",
Dean George Petrie;
Period of Dedication; Hymn, "Rise
Up, O Men, of God and Be Done
with Lesser Things"; Benediction,
Rev. Sam Hay.
Dr. Dennis Gives
Health Rules For
Coming Year
Last year's health rules will be
officially followed this term un­til
the new hospital is completed,
according to a statement made
yesterday by Dr. J. W. Dennis,
newly-appointed college physician.
All physical examinations for
new students who have not turn­ed
in blanks signed by another
physician will be postponed until
the opening of the hospital. This
does not apply, however, to ROTC
examinations, which will continue
as scheduled.
Dr. Dennis' office is temporarily
located in the rooms used as the
college physician's office in Broun
Hall. Office hours are from 8:30
to 11:30 and from 1:30 to 3:00.
Last year's health rules are as
follows:
1. Physical Examinations: New
students who have not at the time
of registration complied with cata­log
rules as to physical examina­tion,
typhoid, and small pox vac­cination,
are required to report to
the college physician for examina­tion.
A fee of $2.00 is charged for
such examinations. Vaccinations
are free. Students not complying
will not be allowed to take final
examinations until the physical ex­amination
and vaccinations have
been completed.
2. Excuses for Illness: All ex­cuses
will originate with the col­lege
physician. Excuses submitted
from other physicians should be
approved by the college physician
before being accepted by instruc­tors,
or the Registrar's Office.
3. Location of the Health Of­fice
and Infirmary: Office of the
college physician — 103 Broun
Hall, Tel. 155. College infirmary
—235 Mell Street, Tel. 155 (ex­tension).
Continued on page 4
Page Two THE A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN September 8, 1939
The Auburn Plainsman
Published Semi-Weekly by the
Students of The Alabama Poly­technic
Institute, Auburn, Ala.
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To The Co-eds
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following
editorial first appeared in the
second issue of last year's Plains­man.
It was reprinted in college
papers all over the country and
was the subject of a number of
congratulatory letters. We make
no apology for reprinting it at
this time. It still holds good.
You co-eds who are enrolling
at Auburn for the first time may
think that a male newspaper
editor is hardly a fit person to
give you advice.
However, having been at Au­burn
for several years, having
watched the co-eds—some good
and some bad •— come and go,
having seen college change some
of them from ugly ducklings to
charming young ladies and some
of them from attractive young
ladies to swell-headed fools—all
in all we'd like to hand you a lit­tle
advice which might be of
some value. You can take it or
leave it.
You are in a unique situation
at Auburn because of the over­whelmingly
large number of boys
in proportion to the number of
girls. Conditions are-probably dif­ferent
from any you have ever
faced before. There are differ­ent
social groups here just as
elsewhere. Choose your associ­ates
— male and female — very
carefully, for by your choice of
friends you are going to place
yourself in a definite group. And
once you're in one group, even
though it's the wrong one for
you, you'll find it virtually impos­sible
to change.
Keep your wits about you. If
you receive unaccustomed atten­tion
from the boys, don't let it
go to your head. Swell-headed-ness
as a freshman has ruined
the popularity of more than one
co-ed. Don't believe all that the
boys tell you. If he's a real Au­burn
man, he's probably told
twenty other girls the same thing.
And last but not least, be
friendly. Meet the people about
you at least half way. You can
make your years here among the
happiest of your life, if you'll
make friends, but you can't
make friends by expecting others
to do all the befriending. You'll
like Auburn. See to it that Au­burn
likes you.
Write Us A Letter
FOLLOWING ITS usual custom,
The Plainsman will devote a
part of each issue's editorial page
to letters expressing student opin­ion.
To reiterate what has been
said before The Plainsman is the
student newspaper, and the stu­dents
have the right of express­ion
through its pages.
To be honest about it, letters
to the editor are sometimes dy­namite.
Like Diogenes who must
be still looking for that honest
man, we'll bet that the patron
saint of newspaper editors is out
somewhere yet inquiring for the
reader who'll b e s t i r himself
enough to write anything compli­mentary.
College students are ad­dicted
to throwing bouquets, but
more often they're of the lily
rather than the laurel type. In
view of this a few rules must be
set down for letters to the editor.
We must insist that all letters
be signed. But if you so desire,
your name Will be withheld and
the letter published under a nom
de plume. Frankly, we don't like
to publish letters under pseudo­nyms,
but we'll do it. The man
who'll lambast someone from be­hind
the screen of anonymity
could use a bit of sand in his
craw.
Every letter must be signed.
Whether you wish to remain
nameless to the public rests with
you, but the editor must know
the author of every letter. If you
want yours published under a
fictitious name, simply state that
you do. But be sure to sign your
name. In keeping with sacred
newspaper tradition, names of
the anonymous are kept abso­lutely
confidential.
Whatever you have to say,
write us a letter. We'll be glad to
get it.
How Shall We Educate?
IT WASN'T too many years ago
that every man who went to
college was educated in the lib­eral
arts, and only the upper
crust of society went at all. Out
of the colleges came the profess­ional
men, the statesmen, and the
gentlemen farmers. Technical
training was something for the
great unwashed, the concern of
the common clod.
Came the birth of Morrill Act
and the A & M college in 1862.
For the first time schooling of a
technical nature became a fea­ture
of college education. Grad­ually
the trend moved from the
old type of education to the new.
The liberal arts scholar languish­ed,
and in his place rose the high­ly
trained technical e x p e r t,
schooled long and well in his
trade but knowing little of the
arts.
No doubt both types of educa­tion
have their merits—to argue
one as opposed to the other would
be foolish; however, each type
has much to give to the other.
No matter what the technical
man's field nor what his ambi­tion,
his life will not be restricted
to his work alone, and therein
rises his need for classical train­ing
as well. The technical teaches
him how to work; the classical
teaches him how to live.
No matter what a man's contri­bution,
there is more to life than
labor, whether it be for one's own
sake or someone else's. Any man
who sacrifices the rich experi­ences
of what man has done and
thought to live only within the
shell of his own activities, bears
and deserves the appellation of
narrow.
In the broad vistas of litera­ture,
of economics, of history, and
all of man's thought, one can
find the broadening knowledge
which makes him an actual par­ticipant
in the ferment of society,
something more than a mere
worker ant.
Train our engineers and our
builders well in their professions,
but in doing so do not blind them
to thought. The object is not to
turn out carbon-copy trade school
graduates, but thinking, living,
broad scholars.
Shorts? Never!
NEIL DAVIS, former Plainsman
editor and now head man
around at the Lee County Bulle­tin,
came out this summer with
the editorial suggestion that men
around Auburn wear shorts. Of
course, he's speaking of shorts
to replace the present long-legged
britches, not of the blue or pur­ple
striped kind worn away from
the public eye.
Now, Neil, if you wish to wear
shorts in all your long-shanked
glory it's all right with us. May­be
you could get by with it. But
imagine how some of the local
lights would look in them.
Think of the hirsute limbs
that would flap in the breeze, the
bare white appendages that
would bask in the sunshine. Oh
the bows, the knocks, the bony,
the dimpled. We shudder at the
thought.
The short skirts of femininity
have given us a look at knees
such as we haven't had since
1927. Now with promise of skirts
going higher and threat of return
of the bustle, we have about all
the burden we can stand at the
moment. " '
Spare us the masculine leg. Is
nothing sacred any more ?
Well?
By John Ivey, Jr.
WITH THE many new improvements to
the landscape here on the campus, we
feel that certainly time for a little
thought to the much needed change
in the conduct of student-faculty rela­tionships.
At present when a student has some
problem that appears important to him,
he must try to find some faculty mem­ber
to aid in the settlement thereof.
However, in some cases it is impossible
for the individual so troubled to find
a member of the faculty who can give
the much-needed advice. Such is the
case on many occasions due to the fact
that the professors here are usually
busy with their teaching or some other
interest.
* * *
Although there are about one-sixth
as many girls as boys in the student
body, the co-eds have for years had a
dean of women to whom they could
look for advice and aid on problems
of interest to women students. This is
entirely proper as far as the girls are
concerned, but what about the three
thousand male students . . . why
shouldn't they have a similar opportuni­ty
to have their interests brought for­ward?
* * *
Auburn has now reached the stage
where the students need and should de­mand
a dean of men. The question has
been brought to the attention of the
college authorities time and time again
by members of the student body who
were interested in suggesting progress­ive
measures for the improvement of
general student relationships . . . but
the idea has had little support on the
part of the authorities.
* * *
Time and time again student initia­tive
has been lost amid the hopeless
task of waiting until some college offi­cials
could find time from their al­ready
many and important duties to
work with the students.
The Main Gate We Almost Had Plains Talk
It is not the
vidual to push
one suggested;
in such a case,
such a position
staff is of dire
could be filled
groups beg for
task of any one indi-such
a project as the
however, it seems that
when the addition of
to the administrative
necessity that the need
without having certain
i change.
Jerry Yelverton, director of the Au­burn
Knights up until a year ago, is
now holding down the first sax chair
with Glenn Miller and his famous band.
Yelverton played with the Knights for
three years and during his work with
this group, the organization was class­ed
as the best college band in the
country . . . having been booked by
the Music Corporation of America for
an entire summer in the middle west
and northeastern states. Another Au­burn
man makes good.
* * *
And now the famous Horace Greeley
quotation, "Go West Young Man," has
been changed by the southerners to,
"Stay south young southerner." This is
as it should be. For years the flower of
southern manhood has been flocking to
the north and other sections of the
country in answer to attractive offers
for a profitable future. Movements
have been started to bring about a
fuller and more complete development
of the South's economic potentialities
by encouraging young southerners who
have finished their college work to stay
in the South and aid in developing what
has been rightfully called by many peo­ple
"the nations new frontier."
* * *
If some of the old grads were to come
to Auburn without any warning as to
the change in the number of co-eds
gracing the campus, we predict that the
graduate school would show a decided
increase in enrollment . . . must be a
feature of the new deal we have been
hearing about.
Pleas Hull, official University of
Georgia bell ringer, estimates he has
rung the instrument 250,000 times in
six years.
Texas Christian University statistici­ans
have figured out that the Horned
Frogs' game average 140 plays each.
ONCE UPON a time Auburn almost
had another main gate to match the
one on the corner of College and Mag­nolia.
A turn of the cards, a little
tough luck, is all that prevented its
being built. And all this wasn't so long
ago, either.
The gate was the brain child of Wood-ie
Hall, president of the senior class
back in 1938. It was his ambition as
class president for his class to leave to
Auburn a gift that would be remember­ed.
More than anything else he wanted
the class of '38 to leave behind it a
tangible symbol of its having been here.
The answer to his dreams, where that
idea came from nobody knows, was an­other
campus gate to be erected at the
corner of South College and Thach, the
other corner of the front campus.
Woodie went to work on plans. He
procured estimates from contractors
and builders. He sketched gates on the
backs of envelopes, corralled all his
friends to talk gate with them, and prob­ably
dreamed of golden gates at night.
The Plainsman and the student body
fell in solidly behind his proposals.
Financing was the main problem. Fi­nally
Woodie hit on a scheme. Each
class member was to donate a portion
of his contingent deposit to raise the
necessary funds. The seniors were call­ed
into session and enthusiastically
agreed to do their part.
A student in the School of Archi­tecture
drew up plans for the construc­tion.
The architect's drawing looked
fine. Much in the style of the present
gate, the new one was to be more elab­orate.
It was to have a small pillar in
front of each of the large ones with
chains connecting. Benches were to be
placed alongside the chains, these seats
to be traditionally reserved for seniors.
Then came the downfall of all the
hopes. Somewhere, someone who was
estimating costs computed far too low.
President Hall found that it was going
to cost much more than he had thought.
The amount available from contingent
deposits was not going to be enough.
In one last effort he tried to get the
senior class together to finance the de­ficiency.
It was close to the end of
school with exams and graduation in
the offing. Numbers of the seniors were
too engrossed to display much interest.
Adamant college officials decided
against excusing seniors from classes
for a class meeting. His last chance
gone, Hall gave up in disgust.
Somewhere probably reposing in
somebody's desk drawer or trunk,
there's an attractive architect's draw­ing
of the main gate which almost stood
at the other corner of the front camp­us.
Maybe Woodie still has it as a re­membrance
of the gate which he al­most
built.
Campus Leaders—John Ivey, Jr.
"GOOD FELLOW." That in two words
describes John "Poison" Ivey. President
of his class during his freshman year,
reelected during his sophomore year,
member and vice-president of the Ex­ecutive
Cabinet as a junior, and presi­dent
of the cabinet—unopposed—as a
senior. That's his record.
Ivey is one of the local yokels, hav­ing
been raised about two whoops and
a holler from Samford Hall. During his
first two years in college he tooted a
trumpet for the Auburn Knights. As
a junior he put aside his horn for his
spectacles and books and became a
scholar.
Since then his most notable service
has been as head of the student-faculty
committee which spent several months
of last year studying the constitution of
the student government and recom­mending
revisions in it. The fruits of
the committee's work have already par­tially
appeared in the form of the con­stitutional
amendments which were
swept in last spring by a landslide of
votes. Though Ivey won't talk, no one
will be surprised to see more revisions
this fall.
A year ago he took up debating on
the behest of some friends and found
to his surprise that he liked it. There­upon,
he developed into an effective
table-pounder, being one of the debate
squad's standbys during the past sea­son.
For three years he has been on the
Plainsman staff, being one of the most
consistent writers on the sheet. He still
writes the column, "Well", which ap­pears
to the left.
The past spring he was elected presi­dent
of the southeastern division of the
National Student Federation of Amer­ica,
nation wide student government
organization. This makes him a vice-president
of the national organization.
"Poison" is a Spade, an ODK and
somehow finds time to be president
of ATO, his social fraternity. General­ly
he may be found in company with
Kappa Delta Tony Williams.
One thing is certain. John Ivey firm­ly
believes in student government. He
believes that it means real student gov­ernment
and not just the empty form.
He believes that above all it should be
active and honest. And from long asso­ciation
with student government he
knows its problems.
His administration should make Au­burn
history.
Letters to the Editor
Editor,
The Auburn Plainsman
Dear Sir:
In reply to your request, I am glad
that you have given me an opportunity
to make some general statements re­garding
the work of the Interfraternity
Council for the coming school year. As
president of the Council, I realize my
responsibility to every fraternity in the
organization and the responsibility of
my office in general student affairs.
I wish to assure each group of my fair­ness
and impartiality. I truly mean this,
for there is so much that the Council
can do if we all work together for the
best interests of Auburn.
One of the first acts of the Interfra­ternity
Council will be the preparation
of the social calendar for the year. The
calendar will be opened and dates pick­ed
in much the same manner as last
year. Each fraternity may choose its
dance date. Each organization will be
allowed one night dance and two tea
dances during the year.
As usual the Council will sponsor an
extensive interfraternity sports pro­gram,
and cups will be awarded the
winner and runner-up in each sport.
This year a standard size will be adopt­ed
for the cups. The cups have been
getting larger each year and now the
Council will put a stop to this by mak­ing
every first place cup the same size.
This maximum size cup will not be ex­ceeded
this year or in years to come.
Attention is called to the new Coun­cil
rule allowing full scholarship men
to take part in most of the Interfra­ternity
athletic contests. Last year these
men were not eligible for any of the
contests. The rule now reads, "Indi­viduals
receiving full scholarship are
eligible for fraternity intramural com­petition,
with the exception of football
and basketball."
I want every man, both fraternity
and non-fraternity, to feel that I am
his friend, regardless of affiliations,
and I want the help on every Auburn
man in making this a year of real ser­vice
to our school.
In closing, I wish to express again
my appreciation to you, and to the
Plainsman, for this opportunity of pledg­ing
an administration which will be fair
and straight to all.
Very sincerely yours,
George Hiller, President
The Interfraternity Council.
Editor,
Auburn Plainsman
Dear Sir:
You freshmen are being told of the
wonders at Auburn, fraternities are
rushing you, entrance tests have both­ered
you, organizations are worrying
you, but we are here to ask for your
cooperation.
On this campus is the newly-organiz­ed
Debate Council which offers you as
a freshman a chance to express your
thoughts, pro or con, freely and un-censored.
Freedom of speech is the
backbone of this Council. It is with this
freedom that we of the Debate Coun­cil
invite all freshman interested in dis­cussion
groups, in formal debating, or
in public speaking to our first combin­ed
Council meeting on next Monday,
September 11 at 5 o'clock in room 4
of the "L" building.
The Debate Council, although a sep­arate
organization, works in close co­operation
with the honorary debate fra­ternity,
Tau Kappa Alpha. It is this
' fraternity that sponsors each year a
freshman tournament in debate. Two
prizes are awarded. One is a beautiful
cup awarded to the team which wins the
debates in the tournament; the other
prize is a key given to the best fresh­man
debater for the year. After the
tournament is over, a freshman debate
team is chosen to represent the school
in intercollegiate debates. These and
other opportunities are offered to fresh­men
interested in debating.
Come to this important Debate Coun­cil
meeting. Help us plan for the year.
You be the outstanding freshman. Don't
forget the date: next Monday, Septem­ber
11, 1939; the place, room 4 in the
"L" building. Will see you there.
Richard Bjurberg,
Student Publicity Head,
Auburn Debate Council.
By Herbert Martin
TODAY'S EDITION of Plains Talk is
taken in part from the diary of an
Osage Indian.
Dear Diary:
Ugh! Heap big scientist him find some
cliff-dweller's carvings. Him figured out
what they said. Carvings say, quote,
"Drink Schlitz, the beer that will make
Milwaukee famous." Unquote. Anoth­er
say, quote, "Often a bridesmaid but
never a bride." Unquote. Ugh! That
heap big advertising, yeah man!
Love and xxxxx's,
Chief Hate-' um-paleface.
* *
A news bulletin in the Opelika Daily
news of July 26, 1939, stated that rail­roads
of South Manchuria are busier
than ever before.
* * *
Auburn's campus, always beautiful,
is the scene of much improvement at
present, and will, it seems, get more
and more beautiful as this work pro­gresses.
There is one spot on the campus
that is being neglected. The ground
back of the chemistry building could
be made into a place that would add
to the beauty of the campus instead of
detract from it.
Now, paths cut up the grass so badly
that the field is losing the appearance
of a plot of grass, and is beginning to
look like an untidy baseball field, with
base paths running to about eight bases.
If some paths were constructed where
needed, and students asked to use these
paths only, the grass could be cared
for so that it might give the impression
of being well-kept. Surrounded as it is
by campus buildings, it could become
one of the beauty spots of the campus.
* * * *
My brain having held together for
this one more issue, I am able to have
a little print in the poetry corner. This
little pome is dedicated to the freshman.
POME TO FROSH
The frosh have been wined;
The frosh have been dined.
At the various frats they've et.
Though some have been pinned,
They've not had to bend
Before upper-classmen as yet.
All freshmen have sinned
And no doubt had to lend
Money to the roomie who's found,
That the money just sent
Him for board and for rent,
Goes quickly in this little town.
But the frosh will awaken,
With a rear like raw bacon,
To the important fact some night,
That the brothers aren't nice,
If they have to ask twice,
And he still doesn't do it just right!
* * * * *
Fraternity, in its place, is fine. It
helps make new boys feel at home, and
carries out the Auburn tradition of
friendliness. I think that it is all right
to invite boys over to eat a meal and
to try to pledge them when they get
there, but, sho' nuff, it's going a little
too far when frat men meet every bus
and train with a sandwich in one hand
and a pledge button in the other.
* * * * * *
"And then there was the poor skunk,"
says Carrie, the Campus Cutie, "who
cried when he went to church because
he had to sit in his own phew."
Student Polls
ALWAYS interesting are the results of
various polls conducted on college
and university campuses. Those seeking
to gain further insight into the way
the wind of collegiate opinion is blow­ing
will examine with interest the re­sults
presented here:
College of the City of New York,
school of business: President Roosevelt
was selected in a senior poll as the
"most outstanding man alive," and 85
per cent voted they would not fight in
a war abroad.
University of Minnesota: "Students
voted 3 to 1 against a third term for
President Roosevelt."
At Harvard College: 60 per cent of
the student body favors the National
Labor Relations Board, and 98 per cent
opposed going to war to maintain the
"open door" in China.
At Hunter College: A majority of the
students favor cooperation with other
nations as the best road to peace.
One-quarter of the Princeton Univer­sity
freshmen are more than six feet
tall.
Most major national sororities en­gage
in some sort of philanthropic work
among the poor and underprivileged.
The majority of the Wellesley Col­lege
freshmen have indicated that they
prefer homemaking as a career.
Storage and warehousing is a new
course being offered in the University
of Texas school of business administra­tion.
University of Toledo collegians vot­ed
81 per cent against the new "up­sweep"
hair-dos for women.
September 8, 1939
THE A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN Page Three
TI6ER TALES
By BOOTS STRATFORD
This is a word to the freshmen, but the
upperclassmen might well pay heed.
It concerns the AUBURN SPIRIT, and
we wish that we could write those words
in letters of fire a mile high and even then
our regard for them would be expressed
in only a mild measure. It's indeed marvel­ous,
this nebulous and intangible thing that
is yet so strong a bOnd to bind thousands
of men and women into one united whole
with complete disregard of creed, age, or
sex. This SPIRIT is that thing which changes Auburn from
just another good and growing school into something which
an Auburn man will love and honor the rest of his days.
Wherever men of integrity gather in this world, the
name of Auburn is recognized and respected because of
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BILL NICHOLS
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Bill is a senior letterman who
saw a lot of service last year. He
has picked up valuable experi­ence
which should make this, his
last year, the outstanding one of
his football career.
this SPIRIT that is so truly
Auburn's alone. You new
men have, perhaps, already
acquired some of this feel­ing
deep in you and you will
continue to do so all through
your four years here.
There are many ways of
manifesting t h i s feeling
among ourselves, but the
best way we know of to let
the whole' world know that
the bright flame of our AU­BURN
SPIRIT is not dying,
is to stick solidly with our
Continued on page 4
Halfback Ranks
Will Be Strong
George Kenmore Being
Counted on Heavily
Banking heavily upon Junior
George Kenmore returning to the
active fold and displaying the
class that tagged him as one of
the South's better all-around backs
in 1937, Coa.ch Jack Meagher be­lieves
that it is highly possible for
Auburn's left halfback ranks to
be stronger during the 1939 cam­paign
than they were last season.
"We lost a mighty valuable
triple-threat in Spec Kelly, who,
in several games, was tops in every
field, but the left half slot will be
more powerful than last year if
Kenmore comes through in a big
way," says Coach Meagher. And
he also adds that the department
will be about as potent as it was
in 1938 if Kenmore fails to round
back into A-l shape as a con­valescent.
The dependable Kenmore, who
can pass and run with the best and
kick with the average, had an op­eration
last Christmas and now
seems to be physically all right.
He performed brilliantly in base­ball
with the first place Lanett
club in the Chattahoochee Valley
league this summer and is look­ing
forward to two more banner
gridiron campaigns before saying
adios to the Collegians.
1 At the present time Kenmore,
of Americus, Ga., is in the No. 1
left halfback group with Junior
Dick McGowan, the Empire Ex­press,
who is tipping the scales
at close to 180 and is the Ben­gals'
heaviest halfback. A crack-erjack
as a sophomore, McGowen,
a standout in any flock of booters,
should be a much superior all-around
back this year and Coach
Meagher is looking to big things
from him. And it is almost cer­tainty
that either Kenmore or Mc­Gowen
will be a starter at left
half in Auburn's opening tilt of
the 1939 season with Birmingham-
Southern in Montgomery, Friday
night, September 29.
Rivals of McGowen and Ken­more
when practice started on
September 1 were Senior Francis
Riddle and a trio of sophomores:
Continued on page 4
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We're using more than 250 college
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and devitalizing feats recently
performed by the Parker Vacumatic to
prove i t will last for life. No other pen
we know has ever faced such torture.
Yet the Parker Vacumatic did it—can
do it any time—and come forth in per­fect
working order.
of with ink, this in­credible
pen wrote a
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its long life.
3rd—"Electrocution": Every Parker
Diaphragm proved 100% leak-proof by
exposing it to 5,000 volts of electricity
which flashes a red light if there's even
a pinhole leak.
4th—"Drip Te«t": Pens filled and
hung points down for hours in frigid
temperature, then in torrid temperature.
5th—Dropped 3,000 f t from an air­plane
to prove the lovely laminated pearl
barrel and cap are Non-Breakable.
You never saw such a pen. You never
owned one. A sacless pen that holds far
more ink than ordinary rubber sac pens
—shows the ink level a t all times, hence
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Listen to what the
Smiths are saying • • •
HE: "Did you realize that fall is just
around the corner?"
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send our fall clothes to Ideal Laundry. I
always like to have them Sanitoned sev­eral
weeks b e f o r e cool weather rolls
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and that means you'll want them to look clean and neat. Sanitone Triple-Action Cleaning will
restore the color and freshness your last winter's clothes had when new. So 'phone 193 or 294
right away and let one of our representatives pick up those about-to-be-needed suits and
dresses . . . he'll be over in a jiffy and have them back cleaned and ready for the fall season
in no time at all.
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Page Four
Tiger Tales
THE A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN September 8, 1939
Continued from page 3
athletic representatives, win,
lose, or draw. So remember
this fall at football contests
that the world is looking at
you to see if the AUBURN
SPIRIT burns as bright as
ever, and there's no better
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Dance Classes
Start Tuesday
Recreational dancing classes for
Auburn students are being plan­ned
by Mrs. Louise Kreher Forte,
instructor in physical education.
A social dancing class open to
all students will hold its initial
session on Tuesday, Sept. 12, at
7 o'clock at the Student Center.
Permits to enter the class must be
obtained from the Intramural
Sports Department at 210 Sam-ford,
since the number in the
class is limited. There is no fee
charged for the class, which is
non-credit.
A tap dancing class will be con­ducted
each Monday afternoon
from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. in Stu­dent
Center. The first meeting
will be Monday, Sept. 18. Begin­ners
and intermediate tap dancers
are invited to join the class, which
will be recreational and non-credit.
Each Wednesday afternoon
from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. a dance
club will meet in the Student Cen­ter.
The first meeting will be
Wednesday, Sept. 20. Old mem­bers
are urged to attend, and
freshman girls are invited to join.
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Taylor-Lamarr
Portray Tropic
Love Story
The widely-awaited appearance
of Robert Taylor and the sensa­tional
Hedy Lamarr in "Lady of
the Tropics," a languorous drama
of smouldering passions l a id
against an exotic background of
Indo-China, will be shown at the
Owl Prevue Saturday Night and
the regular show Sunday a nd
Monday at the Tiger Theatre in
what is heralded as the most fas­cinating
romance of the year.
A dramatic tale of an adven­turous
American and a beauteous
half-caste of the Orient, the pic­ture
surrounds Taylor and Miss
Lamarr with lavish settings rem­iniscent
of the mysticism and
splendors of the Far East in a
story written especially for the
stars by Ben Hecht.
Three years in preparation,
"Lady of the Tropics" brings to
the screen for the first time a
panorama of background scenes
of little-known places of Indo-
China and Cambodia which were
filmed by a photographic expedi­tion
exclusively for the picture.
The love story has its begin­ning
in the harbor of Saigon, with
its teeming Oriental traffic of
ocean liners off-shore, quaint na­tive
craft at the docks, natives
babbling in the colorful, narrow
market places and caparisoned
elephants and oxen lumbering
through the streets.
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Health Rules
Continued from page 1
4. Office Hours of College Phy­sician:
All students are expected
to report to the college physician
when in need of medical advice
or attention. In order to provide
for the needs of the students, the
college physician has arranged the
following schedule:
8:30-9:30 a.m.—In office for
consultation with students.
9:30 a.m.-12 noon — "Visits to
students unable by reason of ill­ness
to report to health office.
1:30-3:30 p.m. — In office for
consultation with students.
4:00-7:00 p.m.—Visits to stu­dents
unable by reason of illness
to report to the health office.
5. Emergency Calls: The college
maintains a continuous service of
24 hours a day for emergencies.
In case of emergency call tele­phone
number 155. Someone will
always answer at all hours of the
day or night. Please do not call
the college physician at his home.
All calls made through number 155
will reach him or members of his
staff.
6. Visits of the College Physi­cian
and the Visiting Nurse: When
the student is unable by reason
of illness to report at the health
office during the regular hours
set aside for consultation, he will
be visited in his quarters by the
college physician or by the visit­ing
nurse. Except in case of
emergency, calls to the health of­fice
for visits should be made be­fore
9:30 a.m. on the day of the"
beginning of the illness, and un­less
such notification is made on
the day of the beginning of the
illness, no official excuse for class­es
missed will be granted. Stu­dents
visited during the day, and
sent to bed as a result of illness,
and subsequently seen out of their
rooms, contrary to the advice of
the physician or the visiting nurse,
will not be granted excuses from
classes missed.
7. Unnecessary Calls for Visits:
The college physician and the vis­iting
nurse will systematically vis­it
all students unable to report
to the health office, but when the
physician feels that a student is
making unnecessary demands for
visits in order that he may obtain
excuses from classes under pre­tense
of illness, a reasonable fee
may be assessed against the stu­dent
for each such visit, and ex­cuses
from classes may be denied.
8. The College Infirmary: The
college infirmary is maintained
only for emergency cases and for
contagious diseases. A charge of
two dollars per day will be made
to cover the costs of room, board
and laundry for the student while
in the infirmary.
9. Other Services: Major opera­tions,
consultations, and special
nursing costs are to be paid by
the student. X-ray examinations
are not included in the regular
services of the health service, and
costs of them will be paid by the
student. The average cost is $3.00
per examination.
10. Service of Other Physicians:
A student may call a private phy­sician
if he so desires, but the stu­dent
will assume the responsibili­ty
for the services rendered.
Halfbacks Strong
Continued from page 3
Paul Ellis, Woodie McNair and
Steve Johnson. There is a chance
of Riddle becoming a mainstay as
a spot player. A pretty good pass­er
and punter and speedy ball
carrier, Ellis has a swell opportun-ty
to develop into a reliable soph­omore.
McNair also is a nice
looking sophomore candidate and
Johnson likely will see service as
soon as he becomes more experi­enced.
It now looks like he is too
inexperienced to play much this
fall. And he might be held out of
action.
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BSU CONVENES AT
SPRING VILLA
William Hall Preston, south-wide
associate student secretary
of the Baptist Sunday School
Board, was the visiting speaker
at the annual pre-school planning
meeting of the Baptist Student
Union held at Spring Villa last
week-end. Others on the program
who brought inspirational mes­sages,
according to Earl Gardner,
B.S.U. president, were: Miss Cary
Wheeler, of the University of
Georgia, Miss Margaret McCellan,
of Howard College, Dr. R. Elton
Johnson, Baptist missionary to
Brazil, and Dr. Claud B. Bowen
of Opelika.
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OWL SHOW TONIGHT
Richard Dix in
THE LOST SQUADRON
On Our Stage
"AUBURN KNIGHTS"
Saturday
Auburn Players
Continued from page 1
Mary George Lamar, Amy Drake,
president of the players; Jane
Smith, Sara Lee Banks, Betty Sho-walter,
Lem Edmonson, Dawson
Mullen, Arthur Elsberry, Mary
Carmack, Knox Millsap, W. L. Ell-ner,
O. Martin Holland, Warren
Bridges, Bennie Edwards, Rubye
Morrison, Robert Wilson, Dan
Hollis, Claudia Weinmann, Julian
Braswell, Richard Bjurberg, Orrin
Taliaferro, and J. H. Wheeler.
The Players are the only dra­matics
group on the Auburn cam­pus.
Productions given during the
last two years have included
Shakespeare's " K i n g Lea r,"
"Hedda Gabler," by Ibsen; the
American premiere of Galsworthy's
"The Forest," and a number of
light comedies. The majority of
the active Players are seniors, and
Prof. Peet states he is anxious to
enlist a number of new people in
dramatics this year.
Owl Prevue Saturday
1 1 : 0 0 P. M.
R e g u l a r Showing
Sunday & Monday
THE LOVE MATCH
OF THE CENTURY1
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In the thrill­ing
arms of
r o m a n t ic
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You are cordially invited to see the new fall
samples of tailor made clothes I am show­ing
in. rear of College Barber Shop.
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Extra Pants $6.75 with zippers
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