1940-03-08 The Auburn Plainsman

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VOL. LXIII z-i ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, MARCH 8, 1940 No. 46
"Alumni Day" Is Scheduled for Next Week
Staff Photo by Lewis Arnold.
Scene in the reserve reading room in the new wing of the Auburn Library. Somewhere in the library
ODK hopes to house their industrial-agricultural library, the collection of which is beginning immediate­ly.
The new wing was completed during the Christmas holidays and was occupied a few days later.
ODK Announces Plans to Form
Agricultural-Industrial Library
Permanent- Organization Created; Work
Begins Immediately; 5 Students Included
A complete library of all available information on ag­riculture
and industry in Alabama has been set as the
goal for a permanent campaign by Omicron Delta Kappa,
the complete working organization and plans being made
public for the first time this week.
The project, which comes as the result of more than
three months of preparatory arrangements by ODK mem­bers,
will attempt to build at Auburn a complete history
of agriculture and industry
Alabama as well as collect all
available information on present-day
conditions.
The entire plan of the campaign
was explained by Winfrey Boyd,
ODK president, as follows: "From
Auburn alumni and from others
in the South we hope to obtain
donations of books, manuscripts,
correspondence, and all other
kinds of material on Alabama's
agriculture and industry. We'll
have to purchase a lot of material
and books, so we are working for
all possible monetary gifts, too.
It seems only a dream now, but
by this permanent organization
we hope to build an agricultural-industrial
collection that will be
the best of its kind in the South
as well as in Alabama."
At a meeting of school offic­ials
and faculty members Wed­nesday
afternoon the organization
of the campaign was set up. An
executive committee to supervise
the permanent operation included
Dr. L. N. Duncan, president of
API, P. O. Davis, director of the
Alabama Extension Service, Ex-exutive
Secretary Ralph Draugh-on,
Dr. John Goff, Dr. Charles
Davis, W. H. Weidenbach, T. W.
Sparrow, T. D. Samford, Jr., and
five members of the Auburn ODK
Continued on page 8
From the President of the College
'The River' Will
Show Here Tonight
Famed Movie to be
At Broun Auditorium
The widely-discussed documen­tary
film, "The River", will be
shown in a program tonight at 8
o'clock in Broun Hall in accord­ance
with the nationwide observ­ance
of the seventh anniversary
of the Agricultural Adjustment
Administration.
"The River" is a vivid portray­al
of the ravages of floods and
the reasons for these floods. It
tells a graphic story of the use
and misuse of our natural re­sources,
and the price paid for
soil erosion and timber stripping.
John Farnham, president of the
Auburn Junior Chamber of* Com­merce,
sponsors of the program,
announced that a radio will be set
up in the Broun auditorium so
that all present may hear the ad­dresses
of President Franklin D.
Continued on page 8
Phi Psi, Textile
Fraternity Taps
Six New Members
Four Sophomores, Two
Juniors, Included in
Group Chosen Wednesday
At a special meeting of Phi Psi
Wednesday night six sophomores
and two juniors were tapped for
membership in the honorary tex­tile
engineering fraternity. The
men honored were Holdman W.
Baker, Eufaula; Bryan Bramlet-te,
Roanoke; Tom McCamy, Tal­ladega;
Fred Trammell, Fairfax;
Gordon Wood, Andalusia; John A.
Quenelle, Oxford; Jimmy Martin,
Auburn; and W. T. Curry, Gads­den.
Quenelle is a Pi K A, Martin a
KA, and Curry a Theta Chi.
Lambda chapter of Phi Psi was
established at Auburn in 1936.
Since that time it has been active
in sponsoring speakers, the year­ly
textile open house, and other
activities of interest to the textile
department and to the student
body.
Its purpose, as stated in the
constitution, is:
To promote good fellowship
among congenial men of the tex­tile
schools and colleges;
To encourage a high standard
in textile work;
To assist by every honorable
means the advancement of its
members.
Officers of the chapter here are
Kenneth Orr, president. Charles
Knight, vice-president; Otey And­erson,
secretary; T. J. Jackson,
treasurer.
Huntingdon Glee
Club Sings Here
Appreciative Audience
Praises Girl Singers
The Huntingdon College Glee
Club appeared before a large and
appreciative audience at Langdon
Hall Wednesday night and gave a
varied program of classical and
semi-classical selections.
The features of the program
were the first act of the opera
"Martha" by Flotow, the title role
of which was sung by Miss Arline
Hanke of Montgomery, and an
original composition by the late
Prof. Olaf Jenson of the Hunting­don
organ department entitled
"The Green Window." The last
number is a musical setting and
was given with a poem by Miss
Jane Westerbeke of Huntingdon.
The audience seemed to enjoy
the performance a great deal and
called for several encores.
The performance was sponsored
by the Auburn Glee Club, which
entertained the Huntingdon girls
at a dance in the Student Center
after the program.
The Huntingdon Club was made
up of 32 members. The president
is Miss Edna Earle Eagerton.
Intra-Squad Football
Game Is Highlight
Alumni Officers to Gather Friday;
Came Will be Saturday Afternoon
President L. N. Duncan, Alumni President George Mat-tison,
and Porter Grant, alumni secretary, today urged all
Auburn alumni to join with the college, the Alumni Asso­ciation,
and the "A" Club in celebrating Alumni Day in
Auburn on Saturday, March 16.
Activities will actually begin on Friday night when of­ficers
of the Alumni Association will gather at the new
dining hall of the Women's Quadrangle for a banquet. In-vitations
to attend the dinner
Alumni Day Program
Friday night— Banquet of all
Alumni Association officials.
Saturday morning — Inspection
of all new buildings.
Saturday, 10 a.m.—Polo, Au­burn
vs. Atlanta Horse Guards.
Saturday, 2:30 p.m.—Football
game. Orange vs. Blues.
Engineer to Speak
At Joint Meeting
Of ASCEandASME
E. E. Michaels, manager of the
Chicago Bridge and Iron Works,
will present a demonstration and
lecture on field construction work
at a joint meeting of ASCE and
ASME Monday night at 7:00 in
Ramsay Hall 200.
All engineering students are in­vited
to attend.
March 8, 1940
To the Alumni:
We cordially invite all of you
to come back to Auburn on Sat­urday,
March 16, for the final
football game of the spring train­ing
season and for the other fes­tivities
that have been arranged
for that day. If you can be with
us, you will take pride with us
in the new and greater Auburn
that has come into existence in
recent years.
We are sure that you will take
pleasure in seeing the great de­velopments
that have transpired
on the campus. The great building
program that was begun almost
two years ago is now practically
completed, and we are certain that
you will rejoice with us in the ad­dition
of these splendid facilities
for the training of our students.
We invite you to return to Au­burn
for a visit to your old
haunts, and to mingle again with
your old friends. While there have
been many changes, there is much
of the Old Auburn to welcome
you. You will come to an Auburn
in which we feel that we are keep­ing
the best of the old traditions
while we build constructively to
meet the needs of the present and
the future.
With the sincere hope that each
of you may be with us, I am
Sincerely yours,
L. N. Duncan,
President
Five Hundred High School Students
Here For Tournament; Ends Tomorrow
•rom the President of the Alumni
March 8, 1940
To all Auburn alumni:
Auburn continues its steady
progress forward. In keeping with
the desire to keep all Auburn men
in step with this progress you are
invited to Auburn on March 16th
to see the fulfillment of our last
great building program.
Plans have been made for your
entertainment which will culmi­nate
with a football game in the
afternoon, letting each of you at
first hand see our prospects for
next season.
Let's greet each other in the
"old Auburn spirit" and may the
old "War Eagle" resound from
early to late.
Sincerely yours,
George Mattison, Jr.
President
Auburn Alumni Assn.
All Being Housed
At Graves Center
Five hundred high school stu­dents
from all sections of Ala­bama
began competition here yes­terday
in the 21 contests of the
annual State High School Tour­nament.
Climax of the three-day com­petition
is scheduled for Langdon
Hall tomorrow night, when win­ners
of the contests will be an­nounced
and prizes awarded fol­lowing
the finals of the one-act
play tournament.
Headquarters of the tournament
have been set up in Student Cen­ter,
and the visitors are being
housed in the cottages at Graves
Center.
Contests are being conducted
in aeronautics, art, biology, books,
chemistry, dramatics, foreign lan­guages,
history, industrial arts,
journalism, Latin, mathematics,
mechanical drawing, music, phy­sics,
public speaking, science,
spelling, typewriting, and crea­tive
writing.
Dramatics Tournament
Sixteen one-act plays have been
entered in the dramatics tourna­ment,
which is being run off in
two divisions, one for small high
schools and the other for the larg­er
city schools. The small schools
finals are scheduled for 7 o'clock
tonight in Langdon Hall, with the
three winning teams from prelim­inary
brackets yesterday and to­day
competing for a place in the
grand finals tomorrow night.
The schedule of preliminaries
in the large schools division to­morrow
morning and afternoon
includes Tuscaloosa High School
presenting "El Cristo" at 9:30 a.
m.; Gadsden High School, "The
Slave with Two Faces," 10:20 a.
m.; West End High School, "The
Gift," 11:10 a.m.; last year's
winner, Murphy High School of
Mobile, "Goodnight Please," 3:00
p.m.; Anniston High School, "Al­chemy,"
3:60 p.m.; Ensley High
School, "Yellow," 4:40 p.m.
The grand finals in the drama­tics
tournament, set for tomorrow
Continued on page 8
NEW BUILDING
IS ACCEPTED
Physics Department
To Move in First
Completion and acceptance of
Auburn's new $175,000 general
classroom building on Thach Ave­nue
was announced this week, and
plans were under way for sev­eral
departments of the college to
move into the new structure im­mediately.
The physics department was ex­pected
to be the first to move in,
followed by the department of
economics and the office of Dr.
J. W. Scott, dean of the School
of Science and Literature. The
foreign language department and
the speech department will move
from the "L" building. It is un­derstood
that the English and his­tory
departments will remain in
Samford Hall.
It was announced that the new
classrooms would not be used ex­clusively
by departments which
are moving into the building, but
would be available to other de­partments
of the school as they
were needed.
The classrooms in the new
building vary in size, some accom­modating
as few as 35 students,
and others as many as 80. The
largest classroom in the building
is the accounting laboratory. One
thousand new tablet arm chairs
are being installed in the build­ing.
The physics department, pro­vided
with new, built-in labora­tory
tables and cabinets and the
most modern equipment, will oc­cupy
the entire basement floor
and part of the first floor.
CABINET SETS UP
ELECTIONS BAN
Supplementary List
Of Voters Issued
Students on probation and those
taking less than 12 hours of work
will not be permitted to run in
the spring elections, according to
a ruling passed last night by the
Executive Cabinet.
A committee consisting of Jim
King, Herbert Martin, and Dan
Hollis, was appointed by the Cabi­net
to consider changing the name
of the body, a subject which has
been under discussion for some
time.
Revision of the sections of the
student constitution relating to
the social and finance committees
was also discussed at the meet­ing.
The elections committee has an­nounced
that the following names
have been added to the list of
eligible junior voters published
last week: E. R. Callaway, W. O.
Wood, Jim King, Geraldine Ken­nedy,
Matt L. Holley, Lyman
Porter, Grover Thornton, James
Whitman, and H. R. Williams.
The following Co-ops are also
eligible to vote as juniors: B. C.
Brown, H. M. DeWitt, E. C.
Gentle, A. F. Henning, H. C. Mc-
Clanahan, D. J. MacKnight, R. A.
Sawyer, M. W. White, G. W. Wil-lard.
have already been mailed out to
more than 100 alumni officials,
and a majority of them have al­ready
accepted.
A polo game has been schedul­ed
for 10 o'clock Saturday morn­ing
between Auburn, the only col­lege
team in the South, and the
Atlanta Horse Guards.
API's new buildings will be
open Saturday morning for the
inspection of visiting alumni.
Highlight of the day's activities
will come Saturday afternoon at
2:30 when the Orange Squad and
the Blue Squad clash in a regula­tion
football game at the new Au­burn
stadium. It has been an­nounced
that students and facul­ty
members will be allowed to sit
in the wooden stands at the sta­dium
free of charge, and that all
others will be charged 25 cents
for seats in the concrete section.
At half-time of the football game,
George Wolff, president of the
"A" Club will present a gift to
Coach Jack Meagher in recogni­tion
of his six years of service at
Auburn.
Auburn Speakers
Debate Erskine
Hoyt Hall and Byrd Marshall
of the Auburn debate squad met
a duo of debaters from Erskine
College last night at Duncan Hall
auditorium in a non-decision de­bate
on the question of American
isolation.
Erskine was represented in the
debate by Jim Mays and John
Leitch. A vote was taken among
the audience following the debate,
but no official decision was an­nounced.
Auburn is scheduled to meet
Carson-Newman College in debate
here next Wednesday night.
Circulation of This
Issue is 10,000
Circulation of The Plainsman
more than doubled this issue as
10,000 copies rolled off the press­es.
Occasion for the tremendous
jump in volume was the fact that
copies were being sent to all alum­ni
in the South whose names were
available, and other copies were
being distributed among the 500
high school students here this
week for the annual State High
School Tournament.
The regular circulation of 3,-
800 provides for distribution of
the paper to all Auburn students
and professors, to a number of
out-of-town subscribers, and to
other college papers with which
The Plainsman carries on ex­changes.
Military Notice
All students attending drill are
warned that barbed wire is being,
strung along the hedge around
Bullard Field. Students are re­quested
to use the regular en­trances
to the drill field.
SOUVENIR COPY
OF 'ALUMNUS' IS
ISSUED YEARLY
The annual souvenir edition of
the Auburn Alumnus, under the
direction of Kirtley Brown, college
publicity director, will be publish­ed
in May around commencement
time.
The Alumnus, having discon­tinued
its former quarterly pub­lications,
exists only in its annual
souvenir issue.
The 1940 issue will contain 16
pages reprinted from the Glom-erata.
In addition there will be 8
pages of news and campus views.
This year's edition approaches
the record 1938 edition, which
contained 40 pages, including 32
pages reprinted from the Glom-erata.
BEHIND THE HEADLINES
A l u m n i Hair *s *"ne o c c a si°n> March 16 the date, when
A l l i l l I l / d f Auburn alumni will come back to the
campus to inspect the new buildings and to see the polo
and football teams in action. See column 7.
The Outstanding collection of its kind in the South,
is the goal as ODK launches its
permanent campaign to collect and maintain an agricul­tural
and industrial library in Auburn. See column 1.
High School Students from all over the state are
in Auburn fighting for
first place in the annual high school tournament. Finals in
the dramatic tourney are tomorrow. See column 3.
The Oranges
intra-squad tussle
Engineers' Day
look to be much superior to the Blues,
as the two squads are announced for the
intra-squad tussle at 2:30 on Alumni Day. See page 6.
has been definitely set for April 3,
the Auburn Student Engineers'
Council announces. * See page 8.
WELCOME TO AUBURN ON ALUMNI DAY!
Page Two T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN March 8, 1940
Auburn Alumni Association Officers — 1939-40
Class
President—George Mattison, Jr. '19 Birmingham, Ala., Transportation Bldg.
Past Pres.—Maurice I. Bloch '09 Selma, Ala.
Vice-Pres.—Dr. George Blue '10 Montgomery, Ala., Bell Bldg.
VICE-PRESIDENTS
1st District—Ed. A. Robert* '21 Mobile, Ala., Waterman SS Co.
2nd District—G. Mac Humphries '20 Bay Minette, Ala.
3rd District—Archie D. Carmichael '25 Dothan, Ala., South Foster St.
4th District—W. S. Hurst 08 Talladega, Ala., Morgan St.
5th.District—H. M. Brittain '13 Roanoke, Ala.
6th District—Ben Borden (D.B.) '33 Greensboro, Ala.
7th District—Carl Hare '21 Jasper, Ala.
8th District—Winston Alston '28 Decatur, Ala., 611 Grant St.
9th District—Malcomb M. Argo 12 Birmingham, Ala., 109 North 11th St.
VICE-PRESIDENTS OUT OF STATE
Atlanta, Ga.—Hal Dumas '11 Atlanta, Ga., Sou. Bell Tel. & Tel. Co.
Miami, Fla.—Frank C. McAlpine '00 Miami, Fla., Box 1842
New Orleans, La.—R. F. A. Benson '14 New Orleans, La., 4465 Music St.
Washington, D. C.—Fred H. Cutts '19 Washington, D. C, Securities & Exchange
Commission
New York City—Charlie Dudley '23 New York City, 7 East 8th St.
Memphis, Tenn.—Harry W. Esslinger '10 Memphis, Tenn., c/o Tech High School
Houston, Texas—John G. Howell '28 Houston, Texas, c / o Texas Co.
Jackson, Miss.—Howard H. Knowles '25 Jackson, Miss., c / o The Edwards Hotel
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Maurice I. Bloch '09 Selma, Ala.
Charlie DeBardeleben '94 B'ham, Ala., c / o Ala. Fuel & Iron Co.
C. E. Sauls '12 Mobile, Ala., c / o State Docks
S. L. Toomer '93 Auburn, Ala.
Dr. Geo. Wheeler '99 Montgomery, Ala., 270 Cloverdale
Eason T. Cook 'I4 Opelika, Ala., c / o Cooks Jewelry Store
Roy B. Sewell '22 Bremen,. Ga., c/o Sewell Mfg. Co.
Lee Ashcraft '93 Atlanta, Ga., 61 Trust Co. of Ga. Bldg.
Tilghman Turner '17 Montgomery, Ala., Bell Bldg.
ATHLETIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE
C. W. Streit '07 Birmingham, Ala., Protective Life Bldg.
J. Haygood Paterson, (chairman) '05 Montgomery, Ala., 808 Forest Ave.
Boozer Pitts (J. E.) '12 Auburn, Ala., 417 W. Magnolia
Emmett Sizemore (Unk) '21 Auburn, Ala., 346 Payne St.
John P. Illges '00 Columbus, Ga., 11 13th St.
Hayden Brooks '15 Birmingham, Ala., 230 So. 31st St.
Walker Reynolds '08 Anniston, Ala., 800 Glenwood Terrace
MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE
Tilgham Turner—Chairman '17 Montgomery, Ala., Bell Bldg.
George Egge '32 New Orleans, La., 2302 Prytania St.
Ernest Kilgore '25 Jackson, Miss., Box 234
George Lanier '33 Birmingham, Ala., Woodstock Slag Corp.
E. J. Pate '33 Birmingham, Ala., 3121 Hillside Ave. So.
W. B. Paterson III (Sonny) '33 Montgomery, Ala., Rosemont Gardens
H. H. Connor '01 Eufaula, Ala., c/o Eufaula Cotton Oil Co.
Paul P. Brinson __" '26 Mobile, Ala., c/o Waterman SS Corp.
Selwyn Turner '27 Mobile, Ala., 1251 Government St.
Hugh Agricola '16 Gadsden, Ala., Clubview Hts.
O. K. Seyforth '14 Anniston, Ala., c/o Ala. Power Co.
Jimmy I. Harrison '25 Tuscaloosa, Ala., c/o H. & W. Drug Co.
G. W. Williams '34 Tuscumbia, Ala.,
Ed B. James '25 Marion, Ala.
R. E. Martin '30 Andalusia, Ala., Box 509
Ed. B. Sherling "22 Greenville, Ala.
P. B. Jones *1 6 Dothan, Ala., 211 North Lena St.
Seymour Hall '09 Fairfield, Ala.
Charlie L. Harold '00 New York City, 4 Irving Place
Harry Kendall '1 S Macon, Ga., c/o Power Oil Co.
Clarence Turk '25 Jacksonville, Fla., c / o Sou. Bell Tel. & Tel. Co.
Geo. V. Long -'15 Tampa, Fla., c/o Sou. Adjustment Bureau
L. T. Smith '19 Pensacola, Fla., c/o Gulf Power Corp.
G. J. Ellis (Buck) '28 Chattanooga, Tenn., c/o Gen. Electric Co.
T. H. Bonner (Herb) '20 Atlanta, Ga., 134 Peachtree St.
Irving Patrick '24 B'ham, Ala., 2011 Comer Bldg.
Henry H. Booth 08 Anniston, Ala., 1125 Christine Ave.
Wm. F. Byrd '21 Gadsden, Ala., c/o Ala. Pipe Co.
Neal H. Collins '30 Montgomery, Ala., 109 Lexington Rd.
{;_ YV. Penton (Doc) '09 Montgomery, Ala., 100 Second St., Cloverdale
F. A. Reagan (Rip) '24 Alabama City, Ala., c/o Emma Sampson Hi
W. D. Chrietzberg (Hank) '34 B'ham, Ala., 2640 Canterbury Rd. (H'wood)
( c / o Ramsey High)
Wm. Vincent Fen ton (Bennie) '35 Winter Haven, Fla., c/o Firestone Tire Co.
Frank H. DuBose '29 LaGrange, Ga., Sylvan Road
C. L. Senn (Shot) '33 Carbon Hill, Ala.
Thos. M. Moore (Tom) '12 Mobile, Ala., 162 Michigan Ave.
Geo. L. Washington '16 Atlanta, Ga., c/o Westinghouse Elec. Sup. Co.
Sigma Nu Chapter
Initiates Men
Beta Theta chapter of Sigma Nu
recently held formal initiation for
the following men:
Walter Cooner, Montgomery;
Sack Dryer, Birmingham; Robert
Harris, Montgomery; Ralph Hunt,
Birmingham; John L. Jernigan,
Brewton; Joe Jones, Birmingham;
Buddy Shaw, Uniontown; Hal
Walker, Montgomery; E v e rt
Youngs, Montgomery; Clarence
Michels, Birmingham; W a r r en
Sock well, Hunts ville; Robert Mc-
Knight, Huntsville; H a r t w e 11
Perry, Hurtsboro; Patrick Perry,
Hurtsboro.
Preceding the initiation t he
chapter was entertained with a
formal banquet, over which the
housemother, Mrs. J. 0. Reid, pre­sided.
Georgetown University stu­dents
have voted Hitler the "most
outstanding personality in the
world today."
CAA pilot training students
have flown 80,000 hours without
a serious accident. Some 3,700
students have soloed.
The first book purchased by the
University of Texas library was
a concordance of the Bible.
Michael Supa, a blind Colgate
University student, has been elect­ed
to Phi Beta Kappa.
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Staff Photo by Lewis Arnold.
Scene at the Auburn-Opelika Airport as flight training instruc­tion
was given in December for the first time to students in Auburn's
CAA division. From left to right are Flight Instructor Jimmy Bren-nan,
Flight Operator Wren Allen, R. S. Carstens, and Boiling H. Raw-linson,
both students.
Auburn Division Of Civil Aeronautics
Authority Has Twenty Students Enrolled
C o l l e g e N o w O w n s the
A u b u r n - O p e l i k a A i r p o rt
When the Civilian Pilot Train­ing
Program of the Civil Aero­nautics
Authority was begun
throughout the nation last year,
Alabama Polytechnic Institute was
not on the list of qualified train­ing
schools.
Auburn's only airport, owned
by the Opelika Airport Corpora­tion
at that time, didn't have ade­quate
facilities to meet the gov­ernment
training qualifications.
Dr. L. N. Duncan and. Lt. B.
M. Cornell, head professor of
aeronautical engineering, got to
work—to make Auburn's facili­ties
adequate. That was August,
1939. By September the stockhold­ers
had agreed to donate the
field.
Twenty Students Assigned
In September, the Civil Aero­nautics
Authority assigned a quo­ta
of 20 students to train in the
program in Auburn. In October
the 20 "principals" were selected
and qualified from 90 applicants,
and ground school classes began
on Oct. 16.
Seventy-two hours of ground
instruction is required of each
student, in such subjects as His­tory
of Aviation, Civil Air Regu­lations,
Principles of Flight and
Airplane, Parachutes, Air Naviga­tion,
Meterology, Aircraft Power
Plants, Aircraft Instruments, and
Radio.
In December actual flight train­ing
began, with Alabama Air Ser­vice
of Montgomery as operators.
Thirty-Five Hours Required
A minimum of 35 hours (18
dual instruction and 17 solo), or
a maximum of 50 hours of flight
training are given to each stu­dent.
The ground school training
is given by API, through the
aeronautical engineering depart­ment.
A fee of $20 is paid the
college by each student, and this
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DIRECTORY WILL
BE ISSUED OF ALL
AUBURN ALUMNI
A directory which will contain
the names and information about
every Auburn alumnus registered
in the Association will be prepared
by the Alumni Office as soon as
the needed information has been
gathered.
The directory will be published
and issued probably within the
next school year.
The names, home addresses,
business addresses, classes, de­grees,
and the occupations and em­ployers
of all alumni will be con­tained
in the directory.
Through the post offices, orig­inal
home addresses, various
alumni clubs and groups, and
through the deans of various
schools at Auburn, information
about the unregistered alumni is
being collected now by Alumni
Secretary Porter Grant and his
staff.
is matched by the federal govern­ment.
Auburn now has 16 prospective
pilots, all of whom have reached
the "solo stage." They have suc­cessfully
completed the required
ground school training and took
examinations in this work Mon­day.
Upon completion of required
work and of examinations the
students will receive their ratings
as private pilots.
Four more students who replac­ed
the four dropped from the or­iginal
20 because they were not
considered capable of solo flight
in the required time, are now at
work on their training. .
Engineer Seminar
Has Good Record
G r o u p S e r v i n g This
Y e a r f o r First T i me
Through a one-hour course,
meeting one night a month for an
hour or so, Auburn engineering
students get all the benefits of
contact with prominent engineers
of the nation.
The course is Engineering Sem­inar
and it's the brain-child of
engineering students themselves.
Meeting one Monday night in
each month, all students in the
engineering school hear lectures
by the "higher-ups" in their vari­ous
fields. The students take
notes on these lectures, turn in
their written observations of the
topics discussed.
Proof that the seminar course
is considered as worthy of its ex­istence
is offered by a forthcom­ing
petition which is being drawn
up by the Auburn Student Engi­neering
Council in which it is re­quested
that the course be estab­lished
in the curriculum as a re­quired
subject in several courses.
Brought to Auburn to lecture
this year in the various seminars
have been several outstanding en­gineers
and administrative offi­cials
of engineering firms, includ­ing:
R. J. Stakelum, assistant
general manager of TCI; R. C.
Polglaze, well-known contracting
engineer; Hugh Comer, vice-presi­dent
of Avondale Mills; I. F. Mc-
Donnel, chief engineer of the Pub­lic
Service Commission; and J. H.
Shoemaker of General Motors.
When your appetite calls for something
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WORDS ON MUSIC
The campus hot shot who is
continually quoting song titles,
drumming with pencil on every­thing
within reach, and radiating
swing knowledge generally, may
be on the right track after all.
He can always grow up to be a
song plugger, who, for the bene­fit
of those who aren't in the
know, is a man who sell songs
to bands. This tid-bit of learning
comes direct from one Ed Cash-man,
M.C. for the new CBS pro­gram,
"Song Plugger". Demon­strations
of the correct "plug­ging"
technique are by Jack Leon­ard
and Ray Bloch's band. Listen
and then look on the band-bug
with a kinder eye. Fridays at
2:15 p.m.
We t u r n song pluggeis ourselves
long enough to ask if you have
ever heard the "War Eagle Fight
Song" by Jack Stone of Mont­gomery.
Its theme is the t r u e spir­it
of our school, and the song it­self
is truly great. This little plug
is written mainly in the hope that
some local musical aggregation's
leader will investigate. The song
deserves all that we can do for
it, and more too.
We have three mighty good
swing records this week too, by
three of the nation's leading swing
bands. First comes the Goodman-
Bailey combine on "That Lucky
Fellow", and "Heaven In My
Arms" . . . two that aren't popu­lar,
but should be. Columbia. Next
is C. Barnet's "Night After Night
After You", backed by "Now You
Know". The first is sho' nuff in
the groove. Bluebird. Vocaliondi-tion
of "I Used To Love You",
and "Liza" by Jim Lunceford
wind up our swing trio in fine
style. The last two are plenty
good.
"Plucked Again," and "Blues"
are back to back on another Co­lumbia
release by Duke Ellington
at the piano with bass accompani­ment.
The low bass notes in the
latter, and my well-known con­temporary,
Herb Martin, are on
about the same level.
Swinging through the week:
Sunday — Gray Gordon at 10,
NBC. . . . Monday—Lou Breeze
and really good shuffle rhythm
at 10:30, NBC. . . . Tuesday —
Glen Gray at 11:30 on NBC. . . .
Wednesday—Erskine Hawkins on
NBC at 11:30. . . . Thursday —
Bob Crosby and Cats at 10:30,
CBS. . . . Friday—Orrin Tucker
and B. Baker on MBS at 11:30.
Especially recommended: Cole­man
Hawkins at midnight on
Thursday, CBS.
Orchid: to Auburn Knighter Al
Cowart, for his swell job on "1*11
Remember." The high sax note is
better than Dick Stabile's best.
Did'ja know: Singing songster
Sammy Kaye is quite a track man.
He held the low hurdle champion­ship
for the state while attending
Ohio U.
Reunion: Bunny Berigan, of
some trumpet fame, is now back
with his old boss, Tommy Dorsey.
Maybe his theme, "I Can't Get
Started" is the key to his failure
as a band leader. Moral: There's
no place like home.
Faculty Activity Is
Coordinated in Forum
Croup Headed by
Dr. Roger W. Allen
By BOB ANDERSON
Largest and most representa­tive
faculty group on the Auburn
campus is the Faculty Forum,
which was first organized in the
spring of 1938.
Originally planned with the ob­jective
of promoting "fellowship
and mutual understanding" among
faculty and staff members of
API, including experiment station
and extension service employees,
the Forum has grown to its pres­ent
status of an exofficio advis­ory
group.
The Forum meets one day each
month, either for luncheon or
dinner. These sessions are made
up of varied programs of enter­tainment,
and business, and pro­fessional
discussion.
Members of the various depart­ments
are asked to give talks and
reports on phases of their work.
Prominent educators and pro­fessional
leaders often are invit­ed
to visit and speak to the group.
This year's Faculty Forum
adopted a constitution and elect­ed
the following officers: presi­dent,
Dr. Roger W. Allen; vice-president,
Dr. Charles S. Davis;
secretary, Miss Berta Dunn.
The group sponsors study and
discussion groups on trends in
higher education. Much of the im­portant
work of the Forum is
carried on in these sub-commit­tees.
Among the groups now ac­tive
are committees making thor­ough
studies of new systems of
registration, the general college
plan and curriculum revision, and
a new quarter system.
Each year faculty entertain­ments
are held by the Forum, a
social and dance being scheduled
for tonight at the Girls' Gym.
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Alumni Office to
Have New Quarters
In Samford Hall
The Alumni Office will be mov­ed
this semester from its present
location in the Plant Service
Building to a new office on the
main floor of Samford Hall, ac­cording
to Alumni Secretary
Porter Grant.
The new office will serve as a
meeting place for Alumni return­ing
to the campus, as well as a
business office for the Associa­tion.
This change of offices will be
possible when the new classroom
building is occupied and some of
the offices and classrooms now
used in Samford Hall will be va­cated.
One Boston University student
will win a trans-Atlantic phone
call with a leading European
statesman in a contest to create
interest in a Finnish relief cam­paign.
Creighton University medical
students and faculty members last
year treated free of charge 30,-
000 patients.
The Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Teaching has
resources of $26,917,932.
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DR. L. N. DUNCAN, president of Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
who today urged all alumni to be present at the Alumni and "A" Day
celebration taking place March 16.
Veterinary Medical Association
Holding Meeting Here This Month
Alumni Dues Used
To Retire Debt
All Fees Going to
Stadium Fund Deficit
The $5 yearly dues paid by all
members of the Auburn Alumni
Association are being used to re­t
i re the existing debt on the Ath­letic
Building and Stadium, Alum­ni
Secretary Porter Grant point­ed
out this week.
Of the original cost of $160,-
000 about $90,000 is still due on
the two structures, which were
just completed this year. The to­tal
debt is expected to be remov­ed
in a period of 20 years.
When the existing debt has
been paid, the dues for alumni
membership will go toward pay­ing
for the construction of other
buildings on the campus. About
500 alumni pay their dues an­nually,
Mr. Grant said.
All operating expenses of the
Alumni Office here are paid by
the college in order that the en­t
i re return from Association dues
may go toward giving the alumni
some tangible interest in the col­lege.
March 20-23 Is Date
For Annual Session
To hear lectures and observe
demonstrations on latest develop­ments
in veterinary medicine, more
than 100 veterinarians from Ala­bama
and nearby states are ex­pected
in Auburn for their 16th
annual conference, March 20-23.
Speakers and demonstrators will
include nationally recognized au­thorities,
leading practitioners and
officials in Alabama, and members
of the Auburn veterinary faculty,
said Dr. I. S. McAdory, state vet­erinarian
and dean of the Auburn
veterinary school.
Dr. L. A. Merillat, executive
secretary of the American Veteri­n
a r y Medical Association, Chicago,
111., will lecture and conduct clinical
demonstrations on large animal
practice. During the World War
Dr. Merillat held the rank of Col­onel
in the United States Veteri­n
a r y Corps. He is widely known
as a teacher and author.
Dr. T. A. Sigler, Greencastle,
Ind., outstanding large animal
veterinary surgeon, will lecture
and give demonstrations on sur­gical
procedures.
Widely known as a small animal
specialist, Dr. J. Gilbert Horning,
Houston, Texas, will lecture and
conduct demonstrations.
"Vaccination of Dogs with a
Modified Distemper Vaccine," is
the subject of a paper to be de­livered
by Dr. F. S. Swale, of
Grafton, Wis. Two papers will be
presented by Dr. B. M. Lyon, Pearl
River, N. Y.—one on swine erysip­elas
and the other setting forth his
observations on commercial biolog­ical
production. Dr. J. A. Severin,
Atlanta, Ga., will discuss "Canine
Nephritis."
A state plan for integrated vet­erinary
service will be discussed
by Dr. D. M. Campbell, Chicago,
111., editor of "Veterinary Medi­cine."
Dr. Campbell has traveled
widely both in America and Eu­rope
and has visited practically
all of the veterinary colleges and
research institutions in the world.
Dr. Elmer Lash, Washington,
D. C, assistant chief of the Bu­reau
of Animal Industries tuber­culosis
eradication division, will
discuss progress of the bureau in
the control of bovine tuberculosis.
Dr. R. E. Jackson, Montgomery,
inspector in charge for Alabama
with the Bureau of Animal Indus­try,
will report on the federal-state
program for combating Bang's
disease and will outline the Bu­reau's
plans for the coming year.
A report on swine diseases in Ala­bama
is scheduled by Dr. J. W.
Venable, Gadsden, an official of
the B. A. I. -
Dr. F. A. Clarke, formerly with
the U. S. Public Health Service and
now with the Alabama State Board
of Health, will discuss veterinary
problems which concern public
health.
Recent developments in rabies
Graduating Students
Are Made Members of
Alumni Association
The Auburn Alumni Associa­tion
has inaugurated the custom
of granting each member of each
year's graduating class a year's
active membership free.
Each graduate fills out the usu­al
blanks for membership and
thereby becomes an active mem­ber
of the association for one
year. Besides his membership,
research will be discussed by Dr.
Charles N. Leach and Dr. Harold
N. Johnson, of the Rockefeller
Rabies Research Laboratory,
Montgomery.
Other speakers on the program
include members of the Auburn
veterinary school faculty and the
following: Dr. B. T. Simms, direc­tor
of the B. A. I. Regional Lab­oratory
at Auburn, and Dr. Dale
Porter, also connected with the
laboratory, and Prof. W. D. Sal­mon,
animal nutritionist with the
Alabama Experiment Station.
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We're Not "High Hat"
The paid-up list of Auburn grads is not an exclusive or­ganization.
You too can have the honor of helping along the
work of the Auburn Alumni Association by sending your dues
of $5.00 to Porter Grant, Alumni Secretary, Auburn, Ala. As
an added inducement you will receive the Auburn Plainsman
which appears twice each week to keep you up to date with
progress at Auburn. But that's not all: If you take advantage
of this offer which lasts "for a limited time only", you will
be placed on the Paid-Up List through June 1, 1941. For your
convenience there is a form below.
GEORGE MATTISON, President
Auburn Alumni Association
Name
Address
Class
Mail to:
PORTER GRANT, Alumni Secretary
Auburn, Ala.
each graduate is given a year's
subscription to The Plainsman and
a membership card.
At the expiration of his allot­ted
year, the graduate has the
choice of remaining a member of
the Association and paying the
regular dues and receiving the
regular privileges, or of dropping
out of the association.
Drake University has a new
course in "The Administration of
Community Organization for Leis-
Woman's College of University
of North Carolina annually spon­sors
a summer art colony in an
Atlantic seacoast town.
Professors to Speak
At Water Works Meet
Two members of the Auburn
faculty will appear on the pro­gram
of the twelfth annual meet­ing
of the Southeastern Section
of the American Water Works As­sociation
to be held March 18-20
in Birmingham.
Thomas M. Lowe, head profess­or
of civil engineering, will take
part in the symposium on wells
and make a 15-minute talk. Alex
O. Taylor, director of engineering
extension, is slated to speak 10
minutes at the symposium on pipe
jointing material.
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The Auburn Plainsman
Published Semi-Weekly by the
Students of The Alabama Poly­technic
Institute, Auburn, Ala.
Editorial and business offices on Tiche-nor
Avenue. Phone 448. Editor may be
reached after office hours by calling
169-W.
John Godbold Editor
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Entered as second-class matter at the
post office at Auburn, Alabama. Sub­scription
rates by mail: $2.50 per year,
$1.50 per semester.
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Come On Home, Grads
IN the past Auburn has some­times
neglected its alumni and
not kept in close touch with them,
but it's always been because of
limited funds or more pressing
matters. On the other hand the
rank and file of Auburn alumni
have neglected Auburn equally
as badly. A once-small, though
increasingly larger, group of
faithful have handled the job of
alumni activity.
Now Auburn has come through
with a solution to its end of the
situation. A live Alumni Office in
Auburn, headed by Alumni Sec­retary
Porter Grant is evidence
of the fact that the school is do­ing
its part. The next move is up
to you alumni.
On Saturday, March 16, Au­burn
is holding Alumni Day. A
selected schedule of activities,
combined with a few business
matters will make up a complete
program for the day. On that day
Auburn wants every one of her
"old boys" here. Auburn has a
lot to offer to her graduates —
on the other hand she needs the
valuable aid that her alumni can
give.
They'll be coming in on Satur­day
the 16th from all places and
all directions. The hand of wel­come
is already extended. The
Alumni Association, the college,
the entire student body, the "A"
Club, and everyone else in Au­burn
will be waiting. Hop on
the band wagon with the other
Auburn men and come on down.
An Opportunity For
Auburn's Alumni
And Friends
AUBURN alumni and friends,
who have often longed for
some tangible, concrete way in
which they could do something
constructive for API, now have
their opportunity. Omicron Delta
Kappa, senior leadership frater­nity,
has announced this week
its plans for a drive to help build
the API library into a bigger and
a more effective institution. The
details of what it proposes are
included elsewhere in this issue.
Strengthened in its physical
equipment by the addition of a
new wing, directed by an excel­lent
staff, Auburn's library is a
good one, but the fact remains
that the library can be improved
by the addition of needed, valu­able
books and equipment. Like
any other institution, a library,
no matter what its status, can be
bettered. There is no more accu­rate
criterion of a college's worth
and standing than its library, and
it is ODK's aim, by obtaining
both books and money, to make
Auburn's one of the best college
libraries of the South.
This campaign is no fly-by-night
plan that will be abandon­ed
after a few months of work;
it is a long-term campaign to cov­er
a period of years, and final
plans are the results of months
of preparation. An administrative
board of faculty members and
alumni is serving with Omicron
Delta Kappa in the project and
will aid in coordinating the work
of ODK as its membership
changes from year to year.
In this campaign for a great
library, every Auburn alumnus
and friend has the opportunity
to make a tangible contribution
to Auburn's development. The
students of Auburn are counting
on you. They are convinced that
each of you will want to help.
The Preservation Of
Precious Rights
IN its press release of March 1,
the American Committee for
Democracy and Intellectual Free­dom,
a group of faculty members
and administrators from Ameri­can
colleges, issued a resolution,
which has significant application
to the Auburn student body.
T h e Committee's resolution
read:
RESOLUTION ON
STUDENT RIGHTS
Whereas, the Constitution of the
United States of America in Article 1
of the Bill of Rights guarantees that
there shall be no abridgment of free­dom
of speech, press and peaceful as­sembly,
and
Whereas, these freedoms and rights
are basic to the development of demo­cratic
institutions and procedures, and
Whereas, these same civil liberties
recognize by implication the importance
of free and full discussion, and
Whereas, intellectual growth at its
best depends upon intelligence, reason,
experience, and diversity, and
Whereas, American schools and col­leges
should maintain the highest pos­sible
standards for their students in
free and full discussion regarding con­temporary
social, economic, and politi­cal
as well as historical matters, and
maintain the right of students to or­ganize
in groups for Such discussions:
BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED,
that the American Committee for De­mocracy
and Intellectual Freedom urge
upon all thoughtful and responsible
public officials and especially upon all
school and college officials constant
vigilance and protective action to main­tain
these essential liberties for all stu­dents
and student groups without con­trol
or interference by governmental or
other external agencies.
The Auburn student body is for­tunate
in attending a school where
these rights are. understood as
sacred. API's officials believe in
student freedom. Probably the
best example of their attitude on
student affairs is all that has taken
place in the student body during
this school year.
A more liberal student govern­ment
has for the first time really
governed; a generous absence rule
is in effect; students themselves
have stepped in and asked for a
stop to cheating; the Plainsman
may express exactly what it be­lieves.
However, the mere existence of
liberalism as such is not enough— •
in order to be successful it must be
constructive liberalism. So long as
the Auburn student body's liberal­ism
is constructive, there is no
danger of its being abridged.
When it becomes destructive, with
its only objective being to tear
down, then API's officials will be
justified in taking away what has
been created this year.
CAMPUS CAMERA Plains Talk
Eyes On Georgia
ALL the nation watches with in­terest
the outcome of t he
quarrel in Georgia, where Gov.
E. D. Rivers has been hailed be­fore
a Federal Court for con­tempt
of court. The charge
against the governor rises out of
his use of National Guardsmen
to prevent the ousted Chairman
of the Highway Commission from
attempting to gain back his of­fice,
after Gov. Rivers had dis­missed
him.
Regardless of the merit of
the governor's position, and some
hold that he was justified in his
dismissal of Chairman Miller, he
was hardly justified in calling out
the National Guard and putting
military law into effect in defi­ance
of the civil law of the state.
Gov. Rivers may have been
sorely wronged, but he is beat­ing
his fists against a stone wall
in trying to crush civil law, which
is bigger than him or his office.
By Herbert Martin
HARRy STELLA.
ARMY RXJTBALL CAPTAIN. AND
ALLEN BERGNER..
NAVY'S LEADBLWERE
TEAMMATES WHEN THEY
ATTENDED THE SAME
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The Plainsman Forum
Letters to the Editor
A Defense of Auburn's
Research
Editor
The Auburn Plainsman
Dear Sir:
The author of the editorial on re­search
in your last issue is a very dis­cerning
fellow no doubt! He took about
six inches of space to prove that re­search
is an important part of educa­tion,
something that anybody with
sense accepts. Then his question was,
"Why doesn't Auburn do more re­search?"
I can give him the answer, which he
would know already if he weren't ment­ally
solidified to the tip of his toes —
"No money."
He, just like too many other critics,
who never stop to think, does not take
into consideration that research is ex­pensive
and that Auburn is a poor
school.
If Auburn could afford the research
the author of the editorial is talking
about, his barbs would be fair. Since
it can't, what he said was unfair to
the school and to faculty members.
My guess is also that he doesn't have
any conception of how much research
really is carried on here, anyhow.
B. J.
I've often rued the day I left that
school;
And thought myself a fickle, wander­ing
fool.
In those days lovely Auburn was so
pure,
The doctor's office was one room,
I'm sure.
I don't remember any edifice
Of great size used to test for syphilis.
Three hundred, so the PLAINSMAN
calmly grants,
Are stricken with the malady of
France!
If negative means there what it means
here,
Then I regret no longer, but do fear
All citizens will soon away embark,
And leave Lee County's Auburn in
the dark.
Eight hundred miles between us was
right tough,
I thought; but now I doubt if it's
enough!
In fun!
Ed Smith,
With apologies to Ollie Goldditto.
An Ex-Student Pokes Some Fun
University, Va.,
March 1, 1940
The Editor,
The Auburn Plainsman,
Auburn, Alabama
Dear John:
What's going on down there? What's
this stuff I read about
" . . . Latest totals of tests given,
according to Dr. J. M. Dennis, col­lege
physician, are well over three
hundred. Of this number, not one
negative specimen of blood has
been discovered." (!)
—Plainsman, 2-27-40, p.l.
Pardon if I wax poetic in disrespect
of "The Deserted Villege."
Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the
plain,
Where health and plenty cheered the
studying swain.
Tribute to Swimming Team
Editor
The Auburn Plainsman
Dear Godbold:
A few lines to express what I think
of a good bunch of boys who are work­ing
hard, the Auburn Swimming Team.
I guess nearly everybody on the camp­us
knows now that two of the swim­ming
boys hitch-hiked to Birmingham
to swim in the Southeastern AAU meet
a few weeks ago.
They showed the real Auburn spirit
as they have showed all year in their
long and strenuous practices and their
swell spirit. I'm no swimmer but I take
off my hat to a bunch of boys who are
working hard and not getting much
credit.
I see that the team has entered the
SEC meet. Here's hoping that they
don't have to hitch-hike there too. More
power to Auburn's coachless wond­ers,
who incidentally licked Emory in
their meet with them not long ago. And
Emory is always strong.
Yours truly,
Non-swimmer.
More Than Half of American College
Students Are Smokers, Survey Shows
AS a group, college students are giv­ing
the tobacco growers a good busi­ness,
for well over half of them re­port
that they are smokers. Less than
a third, however, smoke habitually, and
half of the women who attend the na­tion's
colleges and universities say they
never indulge in cigarettes.
Sending out its scores of interview­ers
to talk to students of all types, the
Student Opinion Surveys of America,
with the Plainsman cooperating, has
compiled statistics that show the to­bacco
habits of collegians.
"What is your favorite brand of cig­arette?"
a scientific cross section of
the colleges was asked. And this is what
they answered:
Lucky Strike 12.1%
Camel 10.4
Phillip Morris 8.0
Chesterfield 6.9
Old Gold 2.9
Pall Mall 2.3
All others 2.9
No particular choice 9.8
Smoke pipe, cigars only 3.4
Don't smoke 41.3
Both men and women in greater per­centages
prefer Luckies over any other
brand (14.1 men, 8.8 women.) But the
girls placed Phillip Morris second with
7.6 per cent, 7.1 per cent selecting
Camels. The preferences of men run in
exactly the same order as those for
all students above.
Any caricature of the typical college
woman as a habitual smoker appears
to be erroneous, for only 21.6 per cent
declare that they smoke regularly. Men
use cigarettes, pipes, and cigars out of
habit to quite a larger extent than the
coeds, 34.3 per cent, or over a third.
The complete tabulations follow, statis­tically
representing the entire U.S. col­lege
and university enrollment:
% % %
Men Worn. Both
Never smoke 35.7 50.4 4(1.3
Smoke regularly 34.3 21.6 29.5
Smoke sometimes __30.0 28.0 29.2
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.
IS our face red! Last issue we advanc­ed
the bright idea of wearing a pi­rate's
outfit to the Sailor Brawl Fri­day
night, and keep-ing
the costume on
for the Sigma Nu kid
party the next night.
The idea may be
all right, except for
one thing. The Delta
Swig affair doesn't
come off until April
26, Friday night be­ing
the time for that
other Delta Sig's
Commerce Ball. What
can we say?
* * *
At present, some 500 representatives
of high schools throughout Alabama
are gathered here for various contests.
Just what the contests are and who
wins them don't have a great deal of
interest for" us, but there's another
point we might consider.
These students are the best Alabama
has to offer. Most of them will con­tinue
their education in some college,
and they're the kind we want here. It's
up to us to see that they are favorably
impressed. We want to show them the
physical properties of Auburn which are
improving each year, and it is natural
for us to point with pride to the many
improvements which have taken place
recently.
* * *
But there is another thing we must
show them. We must make them see
just what it is that makes Auburn dif­ferent
from other colleges. Friendship
is one of our most valuable assets, and
we now have a chance to capitalize on
it.
* * *
And while we're preaching showing
Auburn in its Sunday clothes, in its
best and most friendly light, there we'll
be, exaggerating the thing, and trying
to corner off some luscious visitor from
the guiding hands of her companions
and teachers. We won't be by ourselves;
students will throng the walks from the
Main Gate to Samford Hall, generous­ly
offering to show the campus to the
visiting damsels, preferably by moon­light.
The girls won't be the only victims.
Auburn coeds will grab visiting males
so fast that there is grave danger of
dear old Broun Hall being blown down
by the wind.
* * *
Heard on the campus . . . "I like
blondes better . . . they get dirty quick­er."
Heard at the Opelika double-fea­ture
recently . . . "The thing I like a-bout
these cowboy pictures is the actors
act SO natural!"
* * *
We wonder . . .
Why Maulshagen, with the highest
average in school, didn't make the
dean's list? Why schedules require stu­dents
to get from the Hill to the fourth
floor of Broun in 10 minutes, or from
the zoology lab to the Girls' Gym in
the same time? Why we haven't had
but one Miss election in the past week
or so? Why the dormitories still have
no wet-weather walks?
* * *
Don't say we didn't call this shot.
The light opera to be produced by
the Auburn Players and both glee clubs
on April 1 and 2 will be something new
in this line of entertainment for Au­burn.
Title of the production is "The
Chimes of Normandy," and included in
the offering are most of the elements
for attracting and holding interest.
There will be treasure, gold and
jewels, a spooky castle, church, or
something, a miser, thoughts of crime
and violence, legend and superstition,
music, and you will see a man go in­sane
before your very eyes. We still
haven't recovered from one scene we
saw in rehearsal.
* » *
We have tried to keep personal preju­dices
out of this column, but we have
at last become convinced that this opin­ion
is not personal, but universal. We
do not like red fingernails.
What any girl can find attractive in
bloody, claw-like talons is beyond us.
A majority of the feminine hands seem
to be fresh from the kill, with the
blood of some animal dripping from the
fingertips.
Can it be that the demure, dainty,
girl is out of style? Has the sport trend
gone so far that a girl must not only
be athletic, but carnivorous as well?
What is the excuse for this vile demol­ishing
of nature's handiwork?
* * *
Karrie, Kampus Kommerce Kween,
wants to know what all the mystery is
about. Says Karrie, "If you really want­ed
to know, why didn't you ask me, in­stead
of sticking signs up all over the
place?"
Well?
By Bob Anderson
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.
Prodigal*—
A week from tomorrow Auburn alumni
will have a gala day in the Village of
the Plains—perhaps the most gala since
this year's Homecoming celebration. The
Old Grads will gather in hordes to re-stamp
the old stamping grounds and re­view
the re-vamping done since their
"year." All the old favorite hang-outs
will be revisited—and more important,
new ones will be discovered. Alumni
will see what a strong determination, to
create a better, a greater Auburn, plus
a million and a half in federal funds,
can do.
Five-Year Plan—
Attempting to fill an ancient need,
the new ODK drive for more books and
equipment in Auburn's library is by far
the most noteworthy student project of
a year of noteworthy student projects.
But the work to be done in the short
three months left of this term is only
the genesis of what promises to be a
permanent contribution to Auburn. ODK
plans to "start the ball rolling" in a
concentrated effort through M a r c h,
April, and May, and hopes to bring in
an avalanche of books and equipment,
and money to purchase more, during
the next five years.
• • * •
Walk of Fame—
Latest attempt to solve Auburn's long­standing
problem of unpaved walks is"
a plan, yet in its embryo stage, advanc­ed
by Dr. Hughes of the Physics De­partment.
First suggested to members
of Owls, honorary group for sophomore
coeds, Dr. Hughes' plan calls for the
construction of concrete walks. Each
small concrete block of the walks would
have some student's name stamped into
it—some student who had contributed
part of his contingent deposit toward
the construction of the walk.
It is estimated that this would mean
a cost of about $1.50 for each small
block. One dollar and a half to get
your name permanently and legally en­graved
in concrete on a campus walk!
The plan might prevent students from
cutting their names and initials in desks
and furniture in classroom buildings.
And there wouldn't be any reason for
wits to exclaim, "Fool's names, etc."
Wassermanizing—
The student anti-syphilis drive is still
under way, and in spite of a sudden
slowing down of the stream of students
who poured for some time into the In­firmary
to take the tests, there is still
an almost capacity crowd each day in
line for Wassermans. Dr. J. W. Dennis
states that from 15 to 20 students take
Wassermans each day. This week the
total rose to slightly under 500. Twenty
a day, 100 a week, 10 more weeks, 1,000
more Wassermans. This total of 1,000
prospective and 500 already-tested cases,
added to the unknown total of students
who had the tests from private phys­icians
and County Officials, should add
up to almost two-thirds of the student
body. Which isn't bad for three or four
months Wassermanizing.
* * *
Conclusion and Preview—
Ralph Pearson's lecture last Friday
night was the last of the 1939-40 Con­cert
Series. This season's artists and
lecturers included Joseph Knitzer, N tal­ented
and friendly young violinist; the
very Russian Don Cossack Chorus; Al­lan
Jones, ever-popular with the coeds;
modern artist Ralph Pearson; joint-re-citalists
Maurice Eisenberg and Joseph
Battista of the cello and piano, respec­tively;
and our choice for the top-notch-er
of the season, H. V. Kaltenborn. The
Concert Series Committee is now work­ing
on plans for next year's season of
programs. Latest prospect is that of a
13-player production of the opera, "The
Barber of Seville"—with four of the
13 to be chosen from among the lead­ing
singers of the Metropolitan Opera
Company.
Harvard Lap-Caller
Falls In Swimmers Lap
CHARLES N. Pollack, Harvard senior,
has a very, very red face—and here's
why:
When the Crimson relay swimming
team decided to make a try for a new
record in the 800 yard distance, Pol­lack
was chosen to call out the laps to
the swimmers from the edge of the
pool. The first three mermen turned
in excellent times, and the fourth mem­ber
of the team was well on his way
to breaking the established record,
when—Caller Pollack became over-ex­cited,
fell into the water atop the re­cord-
breaker!
He fled from the pool — with the
swimmers doing some tall calling of
their own in his direction!
March 8, 1940 THE A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN Page Five
Several of Auburn's new buildings are shown in this striking aerial view of a part of the campus,
taken in late January when the ground was covered with snow.
In the immediate foreground is the new Women's Quadrangle. The Dining Hall is the building at
the right end, distinguishable by its tall chimney. At the opposite end of the Quadrangle is the Women's
Social Center. The other four units are dormitories.
To the left of the Quadrangle are the Nursery School Building and the Practice House, the latter be­ing
the smaller building on the right.
In front of the Quadrangle and across Thach Avenue is the Classroom Building, accepted Tuesday by
college and PWA officials. .
Million And A Half Building
Program Now Almost Completed
Auburn Campus has More Than 35
Major Buildings, Many Small Ones
More than a name, even if it
be an historic one, is required to
make a university. An institution
of higher learning may be form­ed
by the assemblage of several
classes and a few bare essentials
of equipment into a "college" or
a "university" awarding bach­elor's
degree. But in the genuine
sense of the world, a "college" is
not what it purports to be un­til
it has the physical equipment
to achieve the purpose of educat­ing
in the broadest manner.
Excellent physical equipment,
buildings and furnishings, forms
the foundation upon which Au­burn
has been enabled to grow
and mature into its rightful stat­us
as one of the outstanding in­stitutions
of the nation.
With 35 major buildings and
many smaller structures Auburn's
1,045-acre campus is now one of
the best equipped in the South.
Feature of the campus and pride
of the administration are the al­ready
completed buildings of the
$1,500,000 building program and
the two others still under con­struction.
Completed Buildings
Already finished and occupied
is the Women's Quadrangle, a
huge structure of four separate
dormitory units connected by cov­ered
walks, a dining hall with
modern food preparation facili­ties,
and a social center for wom­en
students, the latter being lo­cated
in the former home of Presi­dent
L. N. Duncan.
Also completed is the addition
to the library, which has more
than doubled the previous capac­ity
of the building, now holding
approximately 100,000 volumes.
The Agricultural Engineering
Building, houses the increasingly
important department of agricul­tural
engineering. It includes five
classrooms, five research labora­tories,
four shops, 16 offices, a
library, and a seminar room.
The College Infirmary, one of
the best equipped hospitals in the
state, serves as a health center
for the entire student body. It
has hospital beds for 100 patients.
The Practice House and Nurs­ery
School are two small build­ings
adjacent to the Women's
Quadrangle. Both are used by stu­dents
in home economics.
The beautiful President's Home
takes the place of the old home,
now occupied by a social center
for women students.
The Physical Training Build­ing,
known also as the Field
House, was occupied about a
month and a half ago by the phy­sical
education department. It in­cludes
complete facilities for ma­jor
sports and offices for the
coaching staff.
Also finished is the beautiful
Auburn Stadium, officially opened
on Homecoming Day when Au­burn
met Florida in the first vars­ity
game on the football field.
In addition to the brick and con­crete
stands there are comfortable
wooden stands. Alongside the
playing field is one of the long­est
straight cinder tracks in the
country.
Buildings Under Construction
The two large buildings that
are not yet occupied are the Gen­eral
Classroom Building, a giant
structure, accepted Wednesday,
that will include classrooms and
laboratories, and the Veterinary
Classroom and Laboratory Build­ing,
which will give needed space
to the School of Veterinary Medi­cine.
Other Buildings
The major buildings already
here before the building program
began number around 20.
Alumni Hall, housing 124 boys,
may soon be turned into a coop­erative
dormitory for co-op engi­neering
students.
Alumni Gymnasium is used for
athletics. It contains the basket­ball
court.
The Animal Husbandry Build­ing
contains classrooms and lab­oratories
for animal husbandry,
dairy husbandry, animal nutrition,
and horticulture.
The Architecture Building and
the Commercial Art Building
house the School of Architecture.
Broun Hall is used as a gen­eral
classroom building and houses
in addition several laboratories.
Comer Hall is the location of
headquarters of the School of Ag­riculture
and of the Experiment
Station, and of offices, labora­tories,
and classrooms.
Duncan Hall, to which a new
wing was added late in 1939, is
headquarters for the Alabama Ex­tension
Service.
Extension Annex, known also
as the AAA Building, contains
state headquarters for the Agri­cultural
Adjustment Administra­tion
and the Soil Conservation
Service.
The Girls' Gymnasium is used
exclusively by girls for athletic
and physical training.
Langdon Hall, most historic Au­burn
building, contains an audi­torium
and a student center.
Included in the Poultry Build­ings
groups are a large number
of smaller buildings used for in­struction
and research in poultry
husbandry.
Erskine Ramsay Engineering
Hall is the home of the School
of Engineering and houses offi­ces,
classrooms, and an extensive
group of laboratories.
Ross Chemical Laboratory, im­posing
home of the School of
Chemistry and Pharmacy, is made
up mostly of laboratories but al­so
includes classrooms, offices,
the State Chemical Laboratory,
and the laboratories of the State
Toxicologist.
Wm. J. Samford Hall whose tow­ers
are Auburn's symbol, houses
the administrative offices, the
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2nd Semester Enrollment Passes 3,300; 'Fighting 69th'
Net Total Of 3,750 Expected For Year Booked For Tiger
MARTIN THEATRE
TO SHOW CASTLE
ON THE HUDSON'
"Castle On The Hudson",
which is scheduled for opening
this Sunday at the Martin Thea­tre,
marks the beginning of what
promises to be a big new year for
the cast of the picture. Ann Sheri­dan,
John Garfield, Pat O'Brien
are starred, with Burgess Mere­dith
heading the large supporting
cast.
For Miss Sheridan, "Castle On
The Hudson" marks the merging
of the strictly "oomph" phase of
her life into an era of cinematic
accomplishment. You'll remember
that early in 1939, she was se­lected
as the screen's "oomph"
girl, and since then has had little
opportunity to forget about it.
But "Castle On The Hudson"
gives her a meaty dramatic role,
and the early "rushes" on this
film were so good that she was
immediately cast in the top star­ring
role of "It All Came True".
FACULTY SOCIAL
TO BE TONIGHT
Faculty members will gather at
the Girls' Gymnasium tonight for
a combined dance and social be­ing
sponsored by the Faculty
Forum.
At 8 o'clock card games, Chinese
checkers, and other amusements
will begin, and at 9 o'clock the
dance will start, continuing until
11.
General chairman in charge of
arrangments is Prof. E. B. Smith.
Mrs. Louise Forte is in charge of
the dance and Miss Fannie Stol-lenwerck
and Miss Janet Lee of
the social.
Deans of the Graduate School,
School of Education, and the
School of Science and Literature,
the offices of the School af Mili­tary
Science and Tactics, and a
number of departments.
The Shops are a large group of
structures used as classrooms and
laboratories for students in engi­neering
subjects.
Smith Hall houses the School
of Home Economics and several
of its laboratories.
The entire department of tex­tile
engineering is located in the
Textile Building.
The Veterinary Buildings in­clude
five or six used by the
School of Veterinary Medicine.
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570 of Total Are
Women Students
Total second semester enroll­ment
at Auburn reached a total
of approximately 3,325 today
with the completion of registra­tion
for the group of co-op engi­neering
students who have been
registering during this week.
By late Wednesday afternoon
3,273 second semester cards had
passed through the Accountant's
Office and from 50 to 60 co­ops
were still in the process of
registering at that time.
The number of different stu­dents
in school this year for both
semesters, known as the net en­rollment,
should be around 3,750
for this school year, Registrar
Charles W. Edwards said Wed­nesday.
Total enrollment for the first
semester reached 3,543.
Second semester enrollment
statistics are not yet available in
detail, but during the first semes­ter
the students were distributed
among Auburn's eight schools in
the following manner.
Engineering 716
Science and Literature 577
Education 570
Agriculture 454
Chemistry and Pharmacy _267
Veterinary Medicine 263
Home Economics 163
Architecture 146
Harvard University has receiv­ed
a donation of 57,000 orchid
specimens and $68,000 to care
for them.
Cagney and O'Brien
Starred in War Film
"The Fighting 69th" co-starring
James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, and
George Brent starts at the Tiger
Theatre's Saturday night owl
show and runs through Sunday
and Monday.
Headed by the three stars, the
cast includes a long roster of
well-known players such as Alan
Hale, Jeffrey Lynn, Prank Mc-
Hugh, Dennis Morgan, Dick Fo-ran,
William Lundigan, and Guinn
"Big Boy" Williams. The original
story by Norman Reilly Raine,
Fred Niblo, Jr. and Dean Franklin
is based partly on the exploits of
the famous 165th New York in­fantry,
better known as the Fight­ing
69th, the Irish Brigade, of
which the late Father Francis
Patrick Duffy was regimental
chaplain. This is the role played
by Pat O'Brien, whose priest role
in "Angels With Dirty Faces"
will long be remembered. Cagney
is cast as a rebellious buck priv­ate,
and George Brent as "Wild
Bill" Donovan, colonel of the
69th. Alan Hale is the crusty top
sergeant, and Jeffrey Lynn por­trays
the wartime poet, Joyce Kil­mer.
The ups and downs of train­ing
camp life are vividly de­picted
in the film—the human in­terest
drama of the adjustment of
raw recruits from every walk of
life to the discipline of life in the
army.
Classroom Building
Accepted by College
And PWA Officials
The new general classroom
building, located behind Alumni
Gymnasium, and facing on West
Thach Avenue, was inspected and
approved Tuesday by college and
PWA officials.
Although official announcement
has not been made, it is known
that the physics department will
occupy some of the space provid­ed
by the new building.
Tentative plans call for use of
several of the rooms by the for­eign
language department, the
School of Science and Literature,
and for some public speaking
classes.
Donald and Maurine Nordland,
brother and sister, earned perfect
grades at Midland College last
semester.
For the first time in history,
faculty members of state educa­tional
institutions will this year
pay a federal income tax.
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Page .Six THE A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN March 8, 1940
TIGER TALES
By BOOTS STRATFORD
SPORTS SUPERLATIVES OF THE YEAR
Most exciting football game. . . . The Villanova game
with the Tennessee but a close second, when the Tiger rush
wall rose in its might to hurl back the slashing attack of
the Wildcats four times on the one-yard line.to protect a
10-7 lead, then giving an intentional safety so a free kick
might place them out of danger, all to hold and triumph,
, 10-9. A fella with heart trouble had no
business at that game!
Most disappointing football game. . . .
The Manhattan game when the Plainsmen
journeyed all the way to New York only to
fail dismally before a small crowd in the
Polo Grounds to the tune of a 7-0 score.
Most important step forward for Au­burn
athletics . . . the building and dedica­tion
of the new stadium and field house,
providing a home for the wandering Tigers
BOOTSSVMTFOZO whQ h a d n . t piayed an important game at
home in lo! these many years until the Homecoming fray
with Florida. Incidentally, this game gave the Manhattan
bout a close race for most disappointing game of the year,
the Gators semi-spoiling dedication day by deadlocking
us, 7-7. It was a great day for Auburn nonetheless.
* * *
Most valuable football player of the year. . . . "Dyna­mite
Dick" McGowen, captain elect, who shouldered more
than has share of kicking, ball carrying, and passing duties,
while also performing sterling service as a defensive ace.
This lad with the oak trees for legs kicked his team out
of danger many times with those booming spirals of his
and is a strong bidder for all-star honors next fall.
Most exciting basketball game. . . . The second Tech
game when the Tigers went on to win after trailing by
two points as the gun ending the game went off. Ray Gib­son
was given two foul shots just as the gun sounded,
and he sank them both in a marvelous display of ability
to come through in the clutch. The Tigers then went on
to win, 49-48 in the five-minute overtime period.
Most disappointing basketball game: . . . The first Tech
game, which was played in Atlanta, when the Orange and
Blue quintet fell to pieces rather badly and lost, 53-31, in
a wild contest.
* * *
SPRING SPORTS FORECAST
Coach Wilbur Hutsell and his assistant, Jeff Beard,
of discus fame, will bring their track and field squad
through another undefeated cinder season with Percy
Beard's Florida Gators giving the most trouble.
The Tiger baseball nine will win at least 75 per cent of
their games and may come through with Conference hon­ors
if things break right. George Kenmore will supply the
spark. >
* * *
The Orange and Blue polo squad will not be as potent
as the 1939 edition, losing both Herren and McNulty from
last year's championship squad, but will give a good ac­count
of themselves and will win about 70 per cent of
their games.
* * *
The new marching song, "War Eagle," which has been
submitted to the school for approval, will be bought and
used only if the writers come off radically from the re­markably
high price they think it is worth.
Polo Team May Play
Here on Alumni Day
Game Tentatively Scheduled With
Ft. Benning; Today's Came Cancelled
Visitors to Auburn on Alumni Day will have the un­usual
opportunity of seeing the South's only college polo
team in action if tentative plans for a game between Au­burn
and Ft. Benning materialize. However, Capt. L. E.
Jacoby said last night that it might be necessary to play
the game on Friday afternoon instead.
The Auburn horsemen were scheduled to meet the Ft.
Benning team on Bullard Field this afternoon in their first
game of the season, but the game
was called off because of rain.
This year's starting four will
come from a group of five seniors,
three of them letter wearers, all
of whom have seen a wealth of
experience under fire. Fred Schell
won his letter last year and Bob
Armstrong and Roger Hamel two
years ago. The other two seniors
a r e Elmer Almquist and Clyde
Brown.
Forming the remainder of the
A Squad, and, if they continue to
develop, maybe getting into some
of the games, are "Sleepy" Vines,
Bill Miller, H. H. Morgan, Jim
Bacon, John Blunschi, V. W.
Chumley, and Dick Hall.
The freshman squad of 24, a-bout
10 of whom were out for
fall practice, is being handled by
Capt. W. W. Whelchel, who also
assists Captain Jacoby with the
A Squad. None of the freshmen
will develop rapidly enough to
make this year's team, Captain
Jacoby said last night, but there
are some good prospects among
them, he pointed out.
On March 19-20 the Ohio State
horsemen will meet Auburn on
Bullard Field, the only college
team that will appear here this
spring. Both games will begin at
3:30.
The Atlanta Horse Guards will
be the next opponents on March
30. Negotiations for games are
also under way with the New Or­leans
National Guard and the
Thomasville Country Club of
Thomasville, Ga.
Since the first establishment of
baseball as a college sport, some
500 institutions have organized
and then discontinued it.
"ORANGES'AND'BLUES'TO CLASH
IN STADIUM ON ALUMNI DAY
Orange Squad Looks Auburn Tanksfers
Much the Stronger
Blues Have Edge in New Material;
Coach Meagher to be Awarded Gift
At least 3,500 alumni are expected to throng into the
Auburn Stadium on Saturday, March 16, at 2:30 to watch
Coach Jack Meagher bring spring training to a grand cli­max
with an intra-squad football battle between the Orange
Squad and the Blue Squad. The occasion will be the com­bined
Alumni Day-"A" Day celebration taking place all
day Saturday.
Coach Meagher must be planning to toss his old heads
against his new blood to see how ~~~
they'll stack up next year, for
the Orange squad by far has the
edge in experience. Out of 15 let-termen
who are listed for ser­vice,
11 are Orangemen.
On the powerful aggregation
there'll be such veterans as Cap­t
a in "Dynamite Dick" McGowen
at left halfback, Alternate-Cap­tain
Ernie Mills at guard, Carl
Happer and Bud Wendling at
right halfback, "Ripping Rufus"
Deal at fullback, Teedie Faulk,
J im Samford, and Theo Cremer at
ends, and Chet Bulger and Gor­don
McEachern at tackles.
Coming up from the freshman
ranks to aid the Orange veterans
a r e such promising boys as Tex
Williams at center, Joe Eddins at
tackle, Garland Childrey at end,
and Billy Barton at quarterback.
The Blue Boys
There are only a handful of
lettermen on the Blue squad. Bud­dy
McMahan will be at quarter;
Ross Dean, letterman in '38 will
be at fullback, and at end will
be Stancil Whatley, who won his
"A" in 1937, and Jim LeNoir.
However, the Blues have defi­nite
superiority in the material
coming up from the freshman
ranks. There will be Jack Ferrell
at center, Art Burnette at guard,
Henry Monsees at end, Bill Year-out
and Monk Gafford at half­back,
and Jim Reynolds at full­back.
Gift for Coach Meagher
At the half of the game the
"A" Club will present a gift to
Head Coach Meagher in recogni­tion
of his service at Auburn,
where he has been mentor since
1934.
As usual, there will be no ad­mission
charge for students, but
non-students will be charged 25
cents, receipts going to the "A"
Club.
Number 01 API Men
Playing Pro Ball
Hitchcock Brothers
Are Two of Several
Auburn's contribution to profes­sional
baseball has been a big one.
The record is given as correctly
as possible below, though baseball's
constantly shifting picture makes-absolute
accuracy impossible.
Jimmy Hitchcock, All-American
halfback of the great '32 eleven,
is playing at present with Mon­treal
of the International League,
while his younger brother, Billy,
holds down a position on the Kan­sas
City team.
Ben Sankey played last year
with Baltimore of the American
Association, and Harry Johnson
performed for the Atlanta Crack­ers,
but is now retired and is en­gaged
in a private enterprise in
Tuskegee. Ivy Griffin managed
Selma of the Southeastern League
last year.
"Chink" Whitten, former Tiger
catcher, is now holding down the
home-plate position as a member
of the Philadelphia Phillies farm
system.
Woodie Abernathy, who former­ly
played with Birmingham of the
Southern League, is now with
Knoxville of the same league, while
Malvern Morgan and Howard
Bazemore are now with the Tal-lassee
Indians. Casey Kimbrell,
better known as a football player,
is with Tallahassee of the Georgia-
Florida League.
Meet Georgia Tech
At Gym Today
The Auburn swimming team
will be host to the Georgia Tech
tank squad this afternoon at 4:30
in Alumni Gym at the first swim­ming
meet in Auburn this year.
A close match was predicted by
Coach E. B. Smith yesterday af­ternoon,
with Auburn probably
coming out the winner.
A list of the events and the
Auburn contestants are as fol­lows:
220-yard free-style—Gammage,
Austin, and McCall.
50-yard free-style—White and
McCall.
Diving—Norvell and Austin.
100-yard free-style—Kelly and
McCall.
Backstroke — Gammage a nd
Kelly.
Breast stroke—Mohns and Mil­ler.
440-yard free-style—Gammage
and Kelly.
- Relay—White, Yarbrough, Nor­vell,
and Smith.
BASEBALL IS NEXT
ON'MURAL CARD
E n t r i e s Must be
I n b y M a r c h 22
Next major intramural sport
on the spring schedule is intra­mural
baseball, which will begin
during the week of March 25, ac­cording
to the Intramural Sports
Office. Deadline for entries for
both fraternity and independent
teams will be March 22.
Also due at the same time are
entries for horseshoes, tennis, and
Softball.
Plans are underway to run off
a golf tournament, but arrange­ments
must be completed with the
Auburn Town and Country Club,
for use of the golf course before
any definite announcements can
be made.
Last year the powerful Beta
Kappa team won the intramural
baseball matches, downing the Pi
K A's in the finals.
Track Meet Not To
Be Held Alumni Day
M e n Not P r a c t i c i n g,
T r a c k is Not R e a dy
The annual All-Campus Track
Meet, held each spring as a fea­t
u r e of "A" Day, will not be held
during this year's combined "A"
Day and Alumni Day celebration,
Prof. E. B. Smith, Intramural
Sports director, said yesterday.
"The meet will not be held on the
16th for two reasons," Prof. Smith
stated. " I t ' s too early in the sea­son,
and nobody has been prac­ticing,
and the track isn't ready
yet."
The meet will probably be run
off within two weeks after "A"
Day, though, which will make it
sometime in March.
In last year's meet the SPE's
crack tracksters took an easy first
place with 26 points. New records
were set in the 100-yard dash, the
120-yard low hurdles, the 220-
yard dash, and the 880-yard re­lay.
ALPHA PHI OMEGA
WILL GIVE FOUR
CUPS TO FRESHMEN
Following its usual custom, Al­pha
Phi Omega, honorary scout­ing
fraternity, will award four
cups to freshmen this spring for
participation in athletics. All will
go to the winners of elimination
tournaments except the swimming
cup, which will go to high scorer
in a freshman swimming meet.
Entries for the tennis tourna­ment
must be in by Wednesday,
March 20, and play will start on •
Tuesday, March 26.
Second contest will be the
swimming meet on Wednesday,
March 27. Entries for it must be
in by that day.
The fencing bracketing will be­gin
on May 1, and fencers must
have their applications in by April
29. Last of the tournaments will
be golf, for which entries must
be in by May 6 and match play
will start two days later.
All students wishing to partici­pate
enter by leaving their names
at the Intramural Sports Office.
In honor of the school's fam­ous
athletes, an Ohio State Uni­versity
student group is planting
t r e e s bearing commemorative
plaques.
Point Standings
Sigma Nu 218
SAE 209
Kappa Sigma 197
SPE 171
Delta Sig 167
Theta Chi 165
Phi Delta Theta 163
Sigma Chi 163
ATO 154
Pi Kappa Phi 150
Pi K A 149
Sigma Pi 120
Alpha Gamma Rho 119
ALT 102
TEP 97
Lambda Chi 94
Beta Kappa 92
Alpha P«i 85
These standings do not in­clude
basketball points, since
all games have not been play­ed
yet.
Long Island University is the
first and only U.S. institution au­thorized
to give a Doctor of
Podiatry degree.
The art of relaxation will be
taught in ja special course at Co­lumbia
University teachers college
this spring.
Fairmont State Teachers Col­lege
is the oldest teacher train­ing
institution south of the Mason-
Dixon Line.
Beaver College students have a
"vagabonding" system that allows
them to audit any lecture given
in the college.
The New York legislature is
considering a bill that would make
all of the state's normal colleges
four year teachers colleges.
WE INVITE . . .
All Auburn Students and Alumni to make our
store your headquarters. We have tried to give
Auburn and East Alabama a store that can fur­nish
all your wants in the Jewelry line and at
prices equal to any big city store.
You will find our repair department equipped to
give you the best quality workmanship on your
watches, clocks, and jewelry.
Cook Jewelry Co.
EASON T. COOK, Class '14, Owner
115 SOUTH EIGHTH ST. OPELIKA, ALA.
ORANGE SQUAD
Centers
Howard Burns, 175, Ensley, junior, letterman.
Tex Williams, 175, Llanerch, Pa., sophomore.
Guards
Alternate-Captain Ernest Mills, 190, Columbus, Ga., senior,
letterman.
Walter Chandler, 190, Columbus, Ga., senior, letterman.
Ben Park, 190, Axson, Ga., sophomore.
Thurston Taylor, 180, Douglas, Ga., sophomore.
Max Morris, 190, Blountsville, sophomore.
Tackles
Chester Bulger, 216, Rumford, Me., senior, letterman.
Gordon MacEachern, 207, Haverhill, Mass., senior, letterman.
Francis Crimmins, 190, East Falls Church, Va., junior.
Joe Eddins, 190, Birmingham, sophomore.
Ends
Teedie Faulk, 170, Selma, junior, letterman.
James Samford, 175, Montgomery, junior, letterman.
Theo Cremer, 190, Birmingham, junior.
Fagan Canzoneri, 170, Bessemer, sophomore.
Garland Childrey, 170, Atlanta, Ga., sophomore.
Quarterbacks
Lloyd Cheatham, 190, Nauvoo, junior, letterman.
Billy Barton, 180, Montgomery, sophomore.
Sam Strickland, 165, Albertville, sophomore.
Ed Browning, 160, Mobile, junior.
Left Halfbacks
Captain Dick McGowen, 185, Empire, senior, letterman.
Jack Smith, 155, Montgomery, sophomore.
Paul Ellis, 150, Atlanta, Ga., junior.
Right Halfbacks
Carl Happer, 160, Birmingham, senior, letterman.
Bud Wendling, 170, Birmingham, senior, letterman.
Clarence Harkins, 175, Gadsden, sophomore.
Fullbacks
Rufus Deal, 200, Tuscaloosa, junior, letterman.
Hugh Foshee, 180, Alexander City, sophomore.
Charlie Smith, 185, Greenville, sophomore.
BLUE SQUAD
Centers
Jack Ferrell, 175, Birmingham, sophomore.
Aubrey Clayton, 180, Collierville, Tenn., sophomore.
Hugh Maddox, 190, Douglas, Ga., junior.
Guards
Vic Costellos, 170, Birmingham, sophomore.
Nick Ardillo, 180, Amite, La., sophomore.
Ned Barron, 180, Englewood, N. J., sophomore.
Arthur Burnette, 170, Florence, sophomore.
John Maddox, 178, Andalusia, sophomore.
Fred Knight, 190, Cullman, sophomore.
Tackles
John Chalkley, 190, Americus, Ga., junior.
J im McClurkin, 190, Birmingham, sophomore.
George Osborne, 190, Bear Creek, sophomore.
James Lawless, 190, Bessemer, sophomore.
Joe Cordell, 215, Hartwell, Ga., sophomore.
Jesse Ridgeway, 185, Remlap, sophomore.
Ends
Fred Hurst, 170, Birmingham, sophomore.
Henry Monsees, 180, Savannah, Ga., sophomore.
J im LeNoir, 175, Butler, senior; letterman.
Clarence Grimmett, 190, Birmingham, sophomore.
Stancil Whatley, 190, Cordova, senior, letterman in 1937—Not in
school in '38.
Kid Lott, 180, Birmingham, senior.
Quarterbacks
Buddy MaMahan, 180, Tuscumbia, junior, letterman.
J im Sims, 180, Moulton, sophomore.
Bob Flournoy, 165, Birmingham, sophomore.
Ed Buckner, 170, Gallion, sophomore.
Frank Buckner, 155, Gallion, senior.
Left Halfbacks
Bill Yearout, 180, Dyersburg, Tenn., sophomore.
Monk Gafford, 165, Fort Deposit, sophomore.
Woodie McNair, 150, Union Springs, junior.
Right Halfbacks
Ty Irby, 175, Eufaula, sophomore.
Charles Finney, 158, Five Points, sophomore.
Fred McCarty, 150, Moultrie, Ga., sophomore.
Fullbacks
J im Reynolds, 175, LaGrange, Ga., sophomore.
Ross Dean, 185, Auburn, senior, letterman in 1938.
Dan Carmichael, 185, Montgomery, sophomore.
Frank Bartlett, 180, Collinsville, sophomore.
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March 8, 1940 THE A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN Page Seven
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Institute, Houston, Texas, and his place as head baseball coach has been taken by Coach Porter Grant.
1 to go to Rice
Gridders Look Good
In Spring Session
Problem of Lack of Reserve Strength
Seems to be Solved by New Blood
In a fierce scrimmage that raged back and forth across
the rolling field of the new Auburn Stadium Wednesday
and that featured interchangeable battles between "green",
"white" and "orange" teams, one striking fact was brought
into bold relief as freshmen and reserves performed nobly.
This was that the Tigers' nemesis of the past few years
—lack of reserves—has at last been laid to rest. Especial­ly
was this evident in the rear works as a bunch of fresh­men
and reserve backs smashed the """"~^———""~——~~~~~~
Coif Tourney to be
Held This Week-End
line, darted through broken fields
and chunked the pigskin for size­able
gains.
Hugh Foshee of Alex City and
Jim Reynolds of LaGrange, two
s t a l w a r t first-year fullbacks,
smashed opposing lines for large
hunks of yardage and showed
plenty of spirit and drive in doing
so. They will give "Rippin* Rufe"
Deal a hard run for his money
for a first-string berth come next
fall.
Bill Yearout, left halfback from
Dyersburg, Tenn., looked like a
wandering thunderbolt in a broken
field while Paul Ellis, passer par
excellence, looked good as he pick­ed
his way nicely through a broken
field on a long touchdown run.
Fred Hurst, a 170-pound Bir­mingham
boy, sparkled with his
end play, and he and Henry Mon-sees
will be in there fighting when
first string end positions are pass­ed
out next fall.
Captain Dick McGowen, Carl
Happer, Lloyd Cheatham and Alt-
Capt. Ernie Mills performed for a
while with the "green" team and
sparked the greenies to several
touchdowns before they made their
exits to make room for more in­experienced
players.
The game between the "Oranges"
and the "Blues" on March 6 at
2:30 will be a rough scrap with the
Oranges favored to win because of
greater experience. But the "Blues"
have ambition as well as ability
on their side and figure to put up
a beautiful fight. It should be a
good ball game.
5 COURTMEN CAIN
MORE THAN 100
HARDWOOD POINTS
Auburn had three basketball
scorers to top the 100 mark in
points this season, as the Tiger
squad rolled up the second highest
total of tallies in the conference—
724 points.
The three ace point-manufactur­ers
were Center Shag Hawkins,
Dora; Forward Frank Manci,
Daphne; and Forward J. P. Street-man,
Marianna, Fla. Coming with­in
five points of the desired 100
was Guard Ray Gibson, Fort Wal­ton,
Fla.
The following is a table of the
number of tallies made by each
member of the Tiger team.
Name Points
Hawkins 163
Spring golfing at Auburn hits
full stride this week-end with the
announcement that Ward and
King, local clothing establish­ment,
is sponsoring a school golf
tournament open to faculty and
students alike.
The tourney will start tomor­row
at 1:30 p.m. and continue
through the afternoon and Sun­day
morning and afternoon. It
will be played in 9-hole match
play matches up to the semi-finals
and finals which will be 18-hole
events.
The purpose of the tournament
is to declare a school champion
from the students or faculty and
to find material for the varsity
golf squad. Entrance fee will be
$1, which will include green fees
and also go towards paying for
trips made by the varsity golf
team. Ward and King will furnish
two engraved silver loving cups
for winner and runnerup respec­tively.
Fees may be paid at Ward and
King.
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Sigma Chi Initiates
Eleven New Members
Eight men were initiated by
Gamma Sigma chapter of Sigma
Chi last week, in the second ini­tiation
of the scholastic year.
Several of the chapter's out­standing
alumni were present, as
well as visitors from other chap­ters.
Following the initiation, an
informal breakfast was held in the
chapter house.
Those initiated at both of the
year's initiations were:
Ed Gilmer, Montgomery; Billy
Phillippi, Camden; James Bourne,
Birmingham; Buddy McMahan,
Tuscumbia; Buddy Griffith, Bir­mingham
; Homer Carder, Birming­ham;
Warren Fleming, Atlanta,
Ga.; Vaughn Pope, Birmingham;
Russell Stewart, Atmore; Mande-ville
Phipps, Natchez, Miss.; Harry
Donovan, Tallassee; Billy Kim-brough,
Chipley, Ga.; and Eugene
Corbett, Morristown, Tenn.
John Held, Jr., famed cartoon­ist,
is now an artist-in-residence
at Harvard University.
The NYA college program is
reaching 18.8 per cent m o re
youths this year than last year.
"We Will Be Ready for You
Bowlers Soon"
says Mr. Crow Wright, manager of Au­burn's
new center for bowling.
With the work well underway, a formal
announcement will be issued soon. Read
the Plainsman for it.
Tiger Bowling Center
Baseball Practice
To Begin Under
Grant On March 18
New Coach Will Take
Over API Diamond
Squad for First Time
Baseball season at Auburn is
due to go into high gear on March
18 as several first class spike and
glove aspirants, along with Coach
Porter Grant, are released from
spring training and practice gets
officially under way.
Dick McGowen, football captain,
is a candidate for the catching
position and should show up well
behind the plate. Carl Happer and
Woodie McNair are other spring
trainers who are top-notch candi­dates
for infield jobs. Happer will
be stationed at either second or
third base, while McNair and Mc-
Cluskey will fight things out at
shortstop. Lloyd Cheatham is an­other
football man who will don
flannels and spikes on the eigh­teenth.
At present, workouts consist of
fat-removing jogs around the base­ball
field, batting practice, fielding
practice, and arm conditioning
work for the pitchers.
Besides the above mentioned
candidates, Ralph Frazier, sure-fielding
and good-hitting first base­man,
will be back to take over his
initial-sack duties. Charlie Rollo
and George Kenmore are rivals for
the second-base position, while in
the outfield, Alva Hawke will fill
the right-field post with Captain
Tommie Thompson in center and
Fred Hurst in left field. "Red"
Caudill, letterman catcher, will be
back to offer McGowen rivalry for
the big mitt position.
Florida State College for Wom­en
is the first institution in the
southeast to inaugurate internship
in local government.
COURSE IN LIFE All Auburn Students Can Take Active
SAVING STARTS Part In Intramural Sports Program
Classes Being Given
At Gym This Week
About 20 boys and six girls are
taking part in the life saving
course being conducted now at the
swimming pool in Alumni Gym­nasium,
Intramural Sports Direct­or
Ernest B. Smith said Wednes­day.
Although the course is already
in progress—it began Monday —
interested persons may still en­ter
if they will make up back
work, Prof. Smith pointed out.
The group meets every night
from Monday through Thursday
at 7:30 p.m. Instruction, in
charge of Robert C. Johnston, an
Auburn graduate, will continue
through March 15, next Thurs­day.
The course now in progress is
a preliminary one requiring 15
hours of attendance, and it is re­quired
of Life Saving Examiners,
Water Safety Instructors, and
Senior Life Saving Candidates, 19
years of age or over, before they
are eligible for the advanced
course.
The a d v a n c e d instruction,
known as the Life Saving and
Water Safety Instructor Course
will be taught by C. E. Fysal of
National Red Cross headquarters
at the Gym pool during March
18-22. Applicants must have com­pleted
the preliminary course be­fore
they can enter the advanced
group.
Ten Freshmen Given
Basketball Numerals
Nine Baby Tiger basketball play­ers
will receive freshman class nu­meral
sweaters for their services
on the squad this season. In ad­dition,
Manager Charles Rewwill
be awarded a sweater for his ser­vice.
The Cubs played their first few
games under Coach Dell Morgan,
then finished under Coach Elmer
Salter after Morgan left for Rice
Institute. While their play was
ragged at times they showed up
well considering the se«son as a
whole.
The following were chosen to
receive awards:
Forwards Hal Walker, Mont­gomery,
Karl Tipper, Carbon Hill,
Wide Variety of
Recreation Offered
Every student at Auburn has
any number of chances to parti­cipate
in sports. The outstanding
athletes of the college take part
in the major sports, football, base­ball,
basketball, and track, and
in the minor sports, tennis, swim­ming,
polo, and cross-country
running, but the impressive thing
about Auburn's program of sports
is the fact that the average stu­dent,
the student who does not
participate in the spectator sports,
has the chance to participate in
a great variety of intramural
sports.
The intramural program for
boys includes touch football, bas­ketball,
track, tennis, swimming,
polo, fencing, soft ball, and vol­leyball.
Students must take part
in these games as members of
teams, but they may engage as
individuals in tennis, badminton,
foul throwing, shuffleboard, fenc­ing,
horseshoe, golf, and track.
Tournaments, both among inde­pendents
and among fraternities
are^ held annually. The independ­ent
competitions are among teams
formed from such sources as
boarding houses, dormitories, and
student organizations.
Besides the student program
there is a faculty program, and
finally there is a program in
which both students and faculty
participate.
Prof. E. B. Smith, in charge of
boys' intramurals, is largely re­sponsible
for Auburn's wealth of
sports opportunity.
Women's Intramurals
In charge of the intramural
sports program for women stu­dents
are Miss Fannie Stollen-wreck
and Mrs. Louise Forte. Dur­ing
the first semester, women stu­dents
may participate in volley­ball,
shuffleboard, tenniquoits,
goal throwing, and twenty-one.
The second semester they may
take part in basketball, badmin­ton,
tennis, box hockey, and ar­chery.
and Jack Bright, Auburn; Centers
Harold Hollis, Dora; and Guards
Bob Ellis, Pensacola, Fla., and
Ed Young, Mount Hope, Marlin
Young, Decatur, Homer Wright,
Auburn, and Hal Smyer, Auburn.
Auburn Is Expecting You,
A L U M N I !
DON'T DISAPPOINT US! VISIT A.P.I.
FOR A GREAT DAY.
Homer Wright
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Welcome to Auburn,
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PROUDLY CAN YOU LOOK UPON YOUR A L M A
MATER, WHOSE GROWTH THE LAST FEW YEARS
HAS BEEN GREATER THAN ANY SCHOOL IN THIS
SECTION. IT IS WITH REAL PRIDE THAT AN AU- .
BURN GRADUATE TELLS THE WORLD THAT HE IS
AN "AUBURN MAN".
WITH THE SAME PRIDE WE LOOK UPON AUBURN'S
PROGRESS BECAUSE OF THE PART THAT WE HAVE
PLAYED IN ITS EXPANSION. ON ALUMNI DAY WE
EXTEND WISHES FOR "OUR SCHOOL" CONTINU­ED
GROWTH.
BENSON PLUMBING & HEATING CO.
Auburn May Have
New Song Next Year
Titled "War Eagle" in honor of
Auburn's famous battle cry, a new
song has been submitted to Au­burn
officials for approval and if
they decide to purchase it, it may
become one of the school's official
songs.
The marching song, which might
take the place of the not-so-well-known
"Auburn Victory March,"
was written by Jack Stone of
Montgomery and Fred Thompson
of Hollywood, Cal., co-authors of
"Phi Delta Theta Dream Girl."
In addition to the main chorus
the song has a special interlude
during which the cheering section
is featured.
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., Harv­ard
law student and son of the
Ambassador to Great Britain, will
be a delegate to the Democratic
national convention.
Haverford College has a new
program to train students in work
of relief, rehabilitation and social
reconstruction.
The educational clinic of Col­lege
of the City of New York has
trained 22,000 "problem" children
since its founding in 1913.
Each year the Women's Ath­letic
Association presents a cup
to the sorority winning the most
points in the various sports e-vents.
Other awards are made to
independent teams and individual
winners. Dancing classes are also
conducted under the intramural
program for women students.
Frederick-Williams
Funeral Home
LADY ATTENDANT
Auburn . . . . . . Opelika
We buy men's sec­ond-
hand Clothing
and Shoes.
Jake's Place
123 So. 9th Street
Opelika, Alabama
Owl Show Tonight
ROBERT DONAT,
MADELEINE CARROLL
"THE 39 STEPS"
Pictures of
"BEAUX ART BALL"
Sunday - Monday
Owl Prevue Saturday
CAGNEY
O'BRIEN »BRENT
PAT GEO.
TIGER
Page Eight THE A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN March 8, 1940
"RALPH F/?aZ/EIZ -AUBORhJ
Two of the reliables on whom
Coach Porter Grant will be count-
'BILL /JNOREH/S - GOSORU
ing when diamond rehearsals be­gin
on the 18th—Bill Andrews,
dependable pitcher, and Ralph
Frazier, first baseman and the
team's leading hitter last year.
Tis A Bit Of Old Ireland Down In
The Athletic Stockroom, Sgt. Murphy
Genial Irishman Picks
Best Football Players
By BOOTS STRATFORD
Shure and 'tis the Irish that rule
over Auburn's athletic stockroom
and in the person of one Sergeant
Andrew Murphy, who is as Irish
as his name and as the green neck­tie
that he wears every St. Pat­rick's
Day. And as the toughness
of his talk, too, although the Irish
twinkle in his eyes belies the sting
of his words.
Sarge (everyone calls him Sarge;
but few know either his first or last
names) is but four years retired
out of Uncle Sam's army from Fort
Benning, where he was stationed
for 18 years. His reminiscences
of Benning, as it grew from an
army post with a few shacks as
barracks and as a place where you
had to pack an army .45 in your
belt if you happened to win at
poker, to its present status of the
largest infantry training school in
the world, are indeed fascinating,
but his impressions of Auburn in
his four years here would no doubt
hold more interest for the Auburn-ite.
Coming here just before the
spring training season of 1936,
Sarge was a freshman along with
a fellow Irishman, "Spec" Kelly,
who was beginning his four-year
rampage over freshman and var­sity
opposition. On the varsity
eleven of that year such stalwarts
as Walter Gilbert, Frank Gantt,
Sam McCroskey, Joe Bob Mitchell,
Bobby Blake, Billy Hitchcock,
Hamp Williams, Joel Eaves and
Wilton Kilgore were dreadnaughts
to the enemy and "a fine bunch of
boys they were, too," according
to Sarge.
When questioned as to who he
thought was the best lineman dur­ing
his tenure here, Sarge answer­ed
immediately that without a
doubt it was Walter Gilbert, tall
oak in Auburn's forewall whose
uncanny sixth sense defensive abil­ity
enabled him to be always at
the enemy's point of attack be it
a smash at the line or a 40-yard
forward pass.
When choosing his favorite back-field
man, Sarge was torn between
his loyalty to fellow-Irishman
'Spec' Kelly and his admiration of
the great playing of Wilton Kil­gore,
Tiger fullback of '36. He
temporized by calling it a tie
though he did add that a team
would always be better off with a
broth of an Irish lad to bolster the
ranks when the going got tough.
We were about to ask Sarge a
few more questions when an on­rush
of football players demanding
equipment came streaming into the
stock room and we had to take our
leave. As we went out the door, we
glanced back and there was Sarge,
hat cocked on the back of his head,
letting loose a stream of warm in­sults
at a bunch of half-naked
boys who gave almost as good in
return, passing out equipment and
all the while enjoying himself
thoroughly!
Library Plans
Continued from page 1
chapter, Billy Smith, George Hil-ler,
Tom Henley, President Win­frey
Boyd, and John Godbold.
Personnel of all other commit­tees
will be chosen from the mem­bers
of the executive committee.
The five student members of the
executive group will change from
year to year as the membership
of the active chapter of ODK
changes.
A Finance Committee and an
Information Committee are to be
appointed at once, and a complete
constitution and by-laws is being
drawn up for the permanent or­ganization
and will be ready with­in
a few days.
The River'
Continued from page 1
Roosevelt and Secretary of Agri­culture
Henry A. Wallace, im­mediately
following the showing
of the film.
A. W. Jones, administrative of­ficer
of the AAA in Alabama, has
been invited to review the work
of the AAA in Auburn and the
state during the past seven years.
Arrangements are being made
to show another sound film strip,
"Pioneering a Permanent Coun­try,"
which will show some of
the background of agriculture and
some of the problems which the
AAA is designed to help solve. _
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Opelika
ENGINEERS' DAY SET FOR APRIL 3
This Year's To Be
First in Seven Years
Athletic Events, Exhibits by Several
Departments, Ball, All Schedued
April 3 has been definitely set as the date for the 1940
celebration of Engineer's Day, which is being held this
year for the first time since 1933. Prior to its discontinuance
in the low ebb of the depression Engineer's Day was con­sidered
to be one of the big events of the year in Auburn,
and officers of the Auburn Student Engineer's Council
hope to restore it to its former distinction.
Under the direction of the ASEC enthusiastic plans are
being developed, but a complete — '
National Officers,
Emory Members, Visit
Sigma Pi Chapter
draft of the program has not been
made yet. However, there will be
athletic events in the morning) ex­hibits
in the afternoon, and the
Engineers' Ball will be held that
night.
Exhibits are already being de­veloped.
They will be constructed
with the cooperation of all engi­neering
and chemistry depart­ments
and the physics depart­ment.
Each exhibit will be under
the direction of the president of
the engineering society which
represents that particular depart­ment.
The ASEC has already issued
an invitation to alumni and
friends to be on hand for the ac­tivities
on April 3.
Frank Nichels, traveling secre­tary,
and Walter H. Lemmond,
Grand Second Counselor, of Sig­ma
Pi fraternity visited the local
chapter last week-end. On Sun­day
the chapter held a special
meeting with the visiting officers,
alumni of the chapter, and a
group of members from Psi chap­ter
at Emory University.
After the meeting lunch was
served at the chapter house, and
during the afternoon the visitors
were shown the Auburn campus.
GEORGE WOLFF, president of
the "A" Club, which is working
with API and the Alumni Associa­tion
in presenting the joint Alum­ni
Day-"A" Day celebration on
March 16.
merce feels that the AAA has
made and is making a great con­tribution
to the improvement of
agriculture in Alabama as well as
in the improved business of Au­burn,"
Farnham said.
Dramatic Tourney
Continued from page 1
night at 7:30, will bring together
the winner of the small schools
competition and the winners in
the morning and afternoon brack­ets
of the large schools division.
The annual meeting of teach­ers
and coaches will be held in
Langdon Hall after the small
schools dramatics finals tonight.
Judging of the various contests
is being done by members of the
Auburn faculty. Dr. Leo Gosser
of the English department is gen­eral
chairman of the tournament.
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
is giving a reception for all con­testants
and their guests in So­cial
Center tonight from 10 to
11.
Contestants have been invited
to visit a number of laboratories
and exhibits on the campus, in­cluding
the art exhibit in the Ar­chitecture
Library; the electrical
engineering laboratories from 9
to 10 a.m. tomorrow; the indus­trial
engineering laboratories at
the same time; and an open house
at the Textile Building from 1:30
to 2:30 p.m.. tomorrow. Complete
processing of cotton from the bale
to finished fabric will be demon­strated
at the latter exhibit.
Patronize Plainsman advertisers.
Wonderful new costume jewelry
much to your spring outfit. A
selection awaits you at
KAYSER-LILIENTHAL,
The Shop of Original Styles
will add
wide
I n c .
BROAD STREET COLUMBUS, GA.
THE SUNSHINE AND OUR NEW
SPRING SUITS
HAVE BOTH
ARRIVED.
See these new suits
to learn the 1940
spring styles.
Note:
If you find Mr. Hill at
any time without his
tape, he will buy you a
Coca-Cola. "For a tailored suit see the
man with the tape."
OLIN L. HILL
Concert Series Star
Staff Photo by Lewis Arnold.
ALLAN JONES, star of screen and concert stage and a feature of the Concert and Lecture Series,
is shown surrounded by a bevy of Auburn students. On the day of his appearance here on Jan. 9, he
viewed the campus, and the picture was taken when he was visiting the newly completed Women's
Quadrangle. The two men in the foreground are Plainsman reporters.
Greetings Alumni!
After a leave of absence from the "Lovely Village",
we are sure that you are anxious to return on Alumni
Day.
If your "Ford" needs any service during your stay,
we invite you to stop at our service station on the
corner of North College and West Glenn Avenue.
TI6ER MOTOR CO., Inc.
J. A. Blackburn C. H. Ward
OLD GRADS!
Come back to Auburn. See our progress during
the last year. You will be welcomed
to a greater A. P. I.
—:o:—
SPEND YOUR LEISURE TIME AT
THE PITTS HOTEL
(Auburn's Newest and Largest)
Ben Franklin • • •
JOINS IN WELCOMING OLD GRADS ON ALUMNI
DAY. DURING YOUR VISIT HERE WE URGE YOU TO
SEE OUR COMPLETE 5c & 10c STORE, AUBURN'S
ORIGINAL DIME STORE.
THE PROGRESS SEEN ON OUR CAMPUS JUSTIFIES
ALUMNI DAY, AND WE ARE CERTAIN YOUR STAY
HERE ON THIS DAY WILL BE A PLEASING AND
EVENTFUL ONE.
BEN FRANKLIN
"Auburn's Complete 5c & 10c Store"