1939-09-19 The Auburn Plainsman

              Pep Meeting
Thursday THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN Dean of Men
Editorial Page 2
VOL. LXIII z-i ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, SEPTEMBER 19, 1939 No. 5
Staff Photo by Lewis Arnold
Walter Chandler, Brigade Colonel of Auburn'i ROTC Unit, snaps
to "Present Arms." When not soldiering, Chandler is a member of
Scabbard and Blade, Blue Key, the "A" Club, and a guard on the
football team.—Engraving Courtesy Birmingham Post.
OPENING DANCES WILL BE NOVEMBER
3-4 WITH RUSS MORGAN PLAYING
Students Like Morgan
And His Trombone
By BOB ANDERSON
Your reporter has been rambl­ing
again—this time in the realms
of some of the B.S.O.C.'s to find
out just what those ladies and
gentlemen think about Mrs. Hen­ley's
little boy, Tommy, and his
latest move as Chairman of the
Social Committee — namely, the
signing of Russ Morgan's band to
play for the Soph Hop.
Billy Smith, the red-headed
powerhouse of the Sigma Nu
lodge, says, "Russ Morgan has al­ways
been a favorite with us (from
Ag Bottom) and we're all looking
forward to a big dance set this
year, and think that Henley show­ed
very good judgment in his
choice."
John Watters, newly appointed
Elections committee head, said,
"It's by far the best band we've
ever had for the openings, since
I've been here." (Nobody knows
how long John has been here. He
was here when everybody else
came.)
To get the ladies' point of view,
we called on Virginia Adams and
Betty Showalter. Virginia, presi­dent
of the Women's Student
Henley Announces Change
At Request of Duncan
The date for the Opening
Dances has been finally set as No­vember
3 and 4, Tom Henley,
chairman of the Social Committee
said yesterday.
The change in dates was made
at the request of Dr. Duncan af­ter
it was found that the original
date of October 21-22 conflicted
with Religious Emphasis Week.
Russ Morgan and his band will
play for the hops, Henley having
been able to persuade him to
change his appearance date here.
Government, was very enthusias­tic.
She said, "That thrills me to
death. I think he's grand." Betty,
after meditating for several min­utes,
said, "I think he'll be swell."
Kenneth Funchess, senior class
prexy, 'lowed, "I like that slide
trombone."
But George Hiller, Interfrat
council president, summed it all
up simply, when he said, "I think
it's fine."
We couldn't find anyone who'd
say Morgan wasn't any good, or
that they didn't like him, so it
looks like he must be tops. So,
we'll see you at the Openings.
—
Registrar Asks
Local Addresses
Of All Students
Charles W. Edwards, registrar,
stated yesterday that a number of
students had registered without
giving their Auburn addresses. It
is necessary that these be on file
in the Registrar's Office so that
students may be found whenever
they are wanted. Students who do
not have their local addresses on
file may fail to receive mail and
long-distance telephone calls.
The following are the freshmen
who did not give their addresses
when they registered. They are
urged to file them with the. Reg­istrar's
Office at once.
Frances G. Arant, John Cooper
Ball Jr., Barbara Bell, Wilfred A.
Black, W. T. Black, Barnard Bost-wick,
Alvie Bradford, Bobby
Blake, Jesse O. Bryan, William K.
Carter, John D. Cheatwood, Mal­colm
C. Cooke, Walter Cooner,
Allan B. Cowart.
Stuart Douglass, Lee E. Dykes,
Betty Lou Durham, Richard A.
Edmonds, Walter S. Farley, Char­les
E. Finney, John A. Griffith,
Oscar R. Hall, John Hart, Harold
Jacobs, Isaac Johnson, James C.
Johnson, John S. Jones, Julian H.
Jones, King L. Jones, Louis Lan-drum,
Aubrey T. Latham, Thorn-
Continued on page 4
Notices
Students who have not cleared
Solid Geometry for admission are
requested to meet Professor C. A.
Christensen in Room 202, Broun
Hall, at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday,
September 21. Students who have
not cleared Plane Geometry are
requested to meet with Professor
Ernest Williams in Room 203,
Broun Hall, at 4:00 p.m. Wednes­day,
September 20. Shortages in
Plane and Solid Geometry en­trance
requirements must be clear­ed
during the present year.
The Ideal Laundry will be best
able to serve the students if they
will stick to the rules and regula­tions
for picking up laundry.
'Positively no laundry will be
accepted after Wednesday at 1:00
p.m. for delivery that week ex­cept
those boys who live in dor­mitories
and whose bags contain
their uniforms.
All freshmen who are interest­ed
in going out for the swimming
team are requested to come to the
pool in the gymnasium on Wed­nesday
from 4:00 to 5:30.
All cooperative students are re­quested
to meet with Mr. A. O.
Taylor in Broun Auditorium on
Friday evening, September 22 at
7:00.
The Open Forum Club will hold
its first meeting of the year Tues­day
night, September 19, at 8:00,
in Room 421, Broun Hall. All stu­dents
are cordially invited to at­tend.
Continued on page 4
Blue Key Selects
Two Senior Men
Honor Organization Announces Its Choice
Of Charlie Kilpatrick and Kenneth Orr
Charles Kilpatrick and John Kenneth Orr were tapped
yesterday afternoon by Blue Key, national leadership so­ciety
for senior men.
Kilpatrick is from Carrollton, Ala., and is a member
of Kappa Sigma social fraternity. He is a captain in ROTC
and is a Scabbard and Blade pledge. He is a first-string
pitcher on the baseball team, and a member of the "A"
Club. He was recently appointed to the social committee.
Orr, who is from Atlanta, Ga.,
is also a member of Kappa Sigma.
He is a lieutenant colonel and
brigade adjutant in ROTC, and is
a Scabbard and Blade neophyte.
He is taking textile engineering
and is a member of Phi Psi, hon-
REGISTRATION
REACHES 3372
orary textile fraternity.
George Kenmore, Americus, Ga.,
is president of the Auburn chap­ter
of Blue Key. Frank Cayce, a
senior in mechanical engineering,
is vice-president. Leo Bidez is sec­retary
- treasurer. Corresponding
secretary is Paul Nichols.
The objects of Blue Key, as set
forth in its constitution are as
follows: "To study, discuss, and
strive to further the best inter­ests
of Alabama Polytechnic Insti­tute;
to promote the spirit of fra-ternalism
among students of Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute; to
foster intercollegiate relation­ships
and develop a national spir­it
by placing the stamp of ap­proval
upon college leaders, which
will make it possible to recognize
them wherever they may be
found."
Ten Coeds Taking
New Course
Auburn's new four-year course
in laboratory technique is being
studied this fall by 10 women stu­dents,
the maximum number which
can be accommodated in the
course at the present time.
Directed by Dr. L. E. Starr, the
course leads to a bachelor of
science degree and is designed to
train young women as assistants
and technicians for the medical,
dental, and veterinary professions.
Following are the names of
young women enrolled in the
course: Frances Williams, Center;
Catherine Boyd, Montgomery;
Ruth McConnico, Atmore; Willie
Lee Miller Prater, Tuskegee; Gay
Ellis, Auburn; Margaret Broad-well,
Birmingham; Margaret Brad­ford
Martin, Auburn; Elizabeth
Allen Odem, Birmingham; Mar­garet
Jerome Thompson, Gadsden;
Evelyn Miller, Mt. Andrew.
Figure is 367 Higher
Than Total Last Year
Final Registration figures for
this year, released by the Regis­trar's
Office this morning show
that 3372 students have enrolled
for the first semester of this
school year.
The total figure for this year
exceeds last year's final total by
367 students. Final registration
figure for the first semester of
last year was 3005. The present
total is the largest enrollment of
all time for API, and when the
final registration figures for the
entire year are tabulated the to­tal
should reach 3600.
Total number of women stu­dents
had not been ascertained
when the Plainsman went to press
today, but Dr. Rosa Lee Walston,
director of Women students, said
that the total was well above 500,
this being a decided increase over
last year's women enrollment.
RAT CAPS CO ON
SALE TOMORROW
Rat Caps for freshmen will go
on sale tomorrow morning at 8:00
in the gymnasium. Student ath­letic
activity books will be given
out at the same time. Rat caps
will cost 50c.
Attention is called to the act of
the Student Executive Cabinet
last Thursday night which states
that all freshmen must purchase
their rat caps before being given
their student activity books.
All freshmen are urged to wear
their rat caps to the pep rally
Thursday night. Freshmen are al­so
asked to wear their rat caps
at all times when outside the
buildings. Student organizations
including the Executive Cabinet,
the Interfraternity Council, and
the "A" Club have stated that
they will enforce the wearing of
rat caps this year.
Flash! Editor Kelley Predicts
Annual Will Be Different! Ho Hum!
Tells Reporter
Usual Story
By REDDING SUGG
Plans are afoot to make the
1940 Glomerata a completely mod­ernistic
and a very colorful record
of the school year. Charles Kelley,
the editor, dropped a few hints the
other afternoon which make even
the staff of Auburn's premier pub­lication
think twice before malign­ing
their traditional rival.
The annuals of the western col­leges
have taken the lead over
those of the east in originality and
general attractiveness. The east­ern
schools follow a more or less
stereotyped plan which has been
used ever since the first annual.
Editor Kelley announces that the
Auburn Glomerata will, like the
western annuals, depart from the
usual set-up.
Generous use of color will dis­tinguish
the 1940 Glomerata. It
will have tint blocks, which, from
the hasty explanation received,
are colored backgrounds on which
pictures and drawings in contrast­ing
colors will be used. The print­ing
will also be in color against
harmonizing backgrounds.
The yearbook will combine dry-brush
sketches with abstract pho­tography
in its determination to
be thoroughly modern. Dry brush
sketches are to be seen in such
svelte magazines as Harper's Ba-zarr
and Vogue. What such draw­ings
represent is usually left
largely to the imagination, but at
any rate they are decidedly mod­ernistic.
When asked what ab­stract
photography is, Kelley rath­er
vaguely declared that he knew
but just couldn't explain it on
the spur of the moment. We imag­ine
that examples of abstract pho­tography
can be found in issues
of Coronet magazine. Such pic­tures
in an Auburn Glomerata will
certainly be revolutionary.
This year's annual will be more
pictorial and less literary than
ever. It will endeavor to record
the school's activities in compre­hensive
photographs with few ex­planatory
lines.
The staff of the Glomerata is
contemplating a change in the
method of presenting the pictures
of the student body. Heretofore
the students have been divided in­to
their respective classes. This
year they may be grouped accord­ing
to their courses and depart­ments.
Editor Kelley is determined to
publish a Glomerata which will be
the last word in modernism. He in­tends
to utilize color and unusual
drawings to attain his end. We
wish him luck, realizing that
if he succeeds the inequality be­tween
Auburn's two major pub­lications
may be partially removed.
Walters Gives
Members For
Interfrat Council
nemuei* rui I l IJ i— i A A ••
Elections Group Holds F , r s t Meeting
Wellborn, Chiles,
McCoy, and Weaver
Are Selected
The four members of the Elec­tion
Committee appointed yester­day,
by John Watters, chairman,
are Fred Wellborn, Ted Chiles,
Charles McCoy and G e o r ge
Weaver.
All the members chosen by Wat­ters
are seniors. Fred Wellborn
from Section is enrolled in Ag, is
a member of the Ag Club, and is
society editor of the Alabama
Farmer. He won the Danforth
Fellowship Award in 1939. He is
a Scabbard and Blade neophyte
and a captain in ROTC.
Ted Chiles of Albertville, is
taking textile engineering. He was
a member of the executive cabinet
in 1937-38. He is a Scabbard and
Blade pledge, and is a lieutenant.
He is a member of Pi Kappa Al­pha
social fraternity and of Phi
Psi.
Charles McCoy is from Bartow,
Fla. He is a member of Kappa Al­pha
social fraternity. His course
is chemical engineering.
George Weaver is from Kultz-town,
Pa. He is enrolled in veteri­nary
medicine. He was president
of the Glee Club last year and on
the Interfraternity council, rep­resenting
Alpha Psi.
Duties of the committee are to
plan and conduct all elections, act­ing
, as election officials and
clerks and counting the ballots.
BLADE INITIATES
THIS WEEKEND
Fourteen men will begin three
days of activity Friday morning
when they start on Auburn's most
colorful initiation, that of Scab­bard
and Blade.
All during the day Friday the
neophytes will attend classes in
uniform and will command imagi­nary
military units at the order
of Scabbard and Blade members.
Beginning Friday afternoon
they will drill up and down Col­lege
Street and at the main
corner. At this time they will be
in full uniform, complete with
packs and rifles. ,
Early Friday night they will
enjoy a brief banquet, after which
they will pitch pup tents at some
point on the campus. Tents are
taken down at the end of an hour
and camp moved to some other
spot. This will continue all
through Friday night.
Saturday morning the initiates
will again appear on the main
corner as two armies, one group
dressed in the guise of cannibals
and the other as pirates. A pirate
treasure chest will be opened at
some time during the morning.
Saturday afternoon is spent in
some form of entertainment at
which the neophytes work off de­merits
which they have accumu­lated
during the preceding part
of the initiation.
The traditional Blade ride be­gins
early Saturday night and
continues w i t h interruptions
throughout most of the night. The
neophytes will ride bareback and
backwards.
Committee on
Courts to Meet
Alpha Phi Omega announced
today that several more organiza­tions
had endorsed the drive for
tennis courts launched last week.
A list of previous organizations
approving the drive was published
in last Friday's Plainsman.
A member from each of these
organizations approving the meas­ure
will join in a committee meet­ing
Wednesday afternoon at 5:00
in Room 301, Samford.
"A" Club Dance
The "A" Club will hold its sec­ond
dance of the school year Sat­urday
night at Graves Center.
George Wolff said today that
the dance would begin at 9:15 and
continue until 12:00. Music will
be by the Auburn Knights. Admis­sion
is 75 cents.
Dr. Walston and Executive Secretary
Draughon Discuss Problems With Croup
Meeting last night in its first important session of the
year, the Interfraternity Council discussed with Dr. Rosa
Lee Walston, director of women students, the rules for co­eds
living in dormitories and temporary dormitories under
school supervision. Dr. Walston presented the rules to the
group and discussion followed.
————— - Ralph Draughon, executive sec­retary,
spoke briefly to the Coun­cil,
asking its cooperation in pre­venting
recurrences of disturb­ances
after pep meetings. He also
outlined the purposes and concept
of Religious Emphasis Week,
which will be held here from Oc­tober
15 to October 21 and asked
the cooperation of fraternities in
putting it over.
Richard Bjurberg told the group
of the creation of the Inner-
Church Council to further relig­ious
aims in Auburn, asking the
help of the greeks in making Re­ligious
Emphasis Week a success,
this being one of the goals of the
newly created inter-church group.
Bjurberg, who was present as
the official representative of the
Auburn Debate Council, present­ed
plans for an interfraternity
debate tournament. The Council
voted to participate officially in
the tourney, leaving the details
to be worked out by the Debate
Council.
Fraternity intramural sports
will begin next Monday, Bill
Campbell, intramural sports chair­man,
announced. He called for a
meeting of all fraternity football
managers to be held tonight in
Samford Hall at 8:15.
The suggestion that golf be in­cluded
in the intramural program
and cups awarded to winners was
overwhelmingly approved.
Marshall Hooper, Kappa Alpha
representative, suggested the hold­ing
of an intramural bridge tour­nament,
and Gordon Hood of Phi
Delta Theta put the suggestion
in the form of a motion, which
was passed. Hooper and Jim King
of Phi Delta Theta were placed
in charge of plans.
Prof. J. M. Robinson, adviser
to the Council, announced that
the membership had been reduced
to 19 because of the national
merger of Lambda Chi Alpha
and Theta Kappa Nu and
the withdrawal of the charter of
the local chapter of Phi Kappa
Tau.
CHEERLEADERS TO
TRY OUT AT PEP
RALLY THURSDAY
Hatcher, Gammage, and
Gandy will be Present
To Lead Second Meeting
All would be freshmen cheer­leaders
will strain their lungs and
vocal chords, scream, shout, and
tear their hair at the pep rally in
Langdon Hall on Thursday night
at 7:30.
Billy Smith, Pep Manager, ask­ed
today that all freshmen desir­ing
to be freshman cheerleader
for this year be on hand at the
rally. Each prospective cheerlead­er
will lead the audience in one
or two yells. A committee of
judges will select the best parti­cipant
in the tryouts.
Chick Hatcher has already been
selected as head cheerleader for
this year. Other cheerleaders are
Joe Gandy and Davis Gammage,
sophomores. They will be on hand
to lead yells also.
The Auburn Band will be on
hand to play football songs. Prof.
Frank Grubbs has announced that
there are still several places va­cant
on the band, and that all
newcomers are welcome to try
out.
Radio Features
News Of Auburn
"The Voice of the Plainsman"
is the name of a new 30-minute
radio program being presented
each Saturday at 3:00 p.m. over
station WCOV, Montgomery.
The program is conducted un­der
the supervision of Tony Grif­fin,
freshman from Montgomery.
He has had previous experience
with this station on radio pro­grams.
Griffin prepares the script
and acts as master of ceremonies.
The order of the program in­cludes
gossip and news about Au­burn's
campus, social functions,
football team, and other interest­ing
current events concerning the
Continued on page 4
It was erroneously reported in
Friday's Plainsman that Prof.
Frank Grubbs was band master.
Mr. P. R. Bidez is band master,
and has been for some 20 years.
Prof. Grubbs is assistant band di­rector,
and is in charge of the
training band.
Secret Practice
Staff Photo by Lewis Arnold
Secret practice for Auburn's footballers has begun, and students
are asked to cooperate by staying away from the practice field. Glyn
Blackwell, Jim Edwards, and Jack Cagle look the situation over.
Page Two T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN September 19, 1939
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One More Time
ON THIS PAGE appears the
Plainsman's annual editorial on
rowdyism among the freshmen.
In substance it is about like all
the others which have appeared
almost every fall since a student
newspaper was first born on the
Auburn campus.
The same story has been told
again each September. The fresh­men
wreck the town, one or two
may be punished, the Plainsman
writes an editorial, somebody
holds a convocation. Nothing
more.
Granted—the freshmen made
asses of themselves. But who is
there who can conscientiously
blame them? They come to Au­burn
knowing nothing of its tra­ditions,
customs, or rules. In a
strange and new environment
they are put through a mill of
registration, rushing, and tests
which make a strong man quail.
What they learn of Auburn they
pick up in the boarding houses,
on the street corners, and in the
drug stores.
From the mouth of upperclass-men
they hear tales of "how I
helped to tear up the town when
I was a freshman," and they are
urged to repeat the treatment.
The cheerleaders plead with them
to get that "great Auburn Spir­it"
and out they go with their
blood reeling and their emotions
soaring—to go wild again.
Seldom is one official hand
raised to orient them until after
their sin has been committed. Re­collect
for just a moment what
has been done toward giving this
year's freshmen a sound basis
for their life in Auburn. A recep­tion
has been given—by a stu-d
e n t organization. Editorials
have been written—by students
in the student newspaper. A
church-college convocation has
been held, which, so far as it
went was excellent. However, we
have yet to see a freshman class
which can be oriented by one
thirty-minute speech which it is
not even required to attend.
The whole system is like that
of a mother, who, after her
daughter is in trouble, takes her
off in the corner and tells her the
facts of life.
During the second semester of
last year, a group of students
worked out in minute details
plans for a "freshman week," a
period of time of three or four
days before registration when
new students would come to Au­burn
to be acclimated to their
life here. The idea was killed, not
from want of student support and
enthusiasm but from lack of offi­cial
guidance and cooperation.
The old story was told again
—there was no one person who
could work with the students to
put the plan into effect. There
were difficulties in the way which
had to be worked out, and there
was no one to solve them. Then,
as how, there was no one indivi­dual
given the job of handling
student affairs and student af­fairs
alone. Another good idea
was added to the list of those
which have died for want of of­ficial
nourishment.
There was no one at fault; no
one had fallen down on the job.
It was a case of its being no­body's
job. Officials were over­burdened
with other duties. The
handling of student problems,
which seems to be incidental to
other duties, had to be shelved in
favor of other matters which
were more pressing at the mo­ment.
If one searched through all
of Auburn's history he could find
no better argument for a dean of
men to direct student activities.
This last point we have to
make. If you wish to bring these
freshmen in as green as June per­simmons
and do nothing to ac­climate
them—then, that is your
affair. But when they err in their
ignorance, then be honest enough
not to blame them.
Probably there will be a con­vocation
or a meeting in a day
or two. The freshmen will be told
that they have been bad little
boys and mustn't touch. The
Plainsmen will write another edi­torial.
Come on fellows, let's go down
to convocation. Let's lock the
stable one more time. Somebody's
stolen that durn horse again.
Well?
By John Ivey, Jr.
BELOW ARE TWO articles that ap­peared
in this column during the
early part of April last year. In light
of the activity after the mass meeting
last Thursday night, it seems fitting
that they be published again. They were
pleas to set up some system that would
avoid the possibility of such acts on
the part of first year men.
Miss Mary Moss Wellborn—By Dot Floyd
And So Again
ANOTHER MARK goes up on
the wall to show the number
of times the freshmen have dis­ported
themselves at the expense
of the town. Those boys who
"blew it out" Thursday must be
proud of themselves today. Af­ter
all, it's quite an accomplish­ment
to have mobbed a bus driv­er,
tried to crash a theater, and
insulted automobile drivers. Not
every college man has done that.
Bet the folks back home would
be proud of you if they knew
about it.
However, we believe that you
had your fun because of ignor­ance.
Nobody has exerted any
especial effort to tell you how to
behave, and probably from a lot
of the tales that the upperclass-men
tell you have thought that
freshmen are expected to go out
and cavort like Comanches every
night in the week. Now you know
better.
Of your own will you have
chosen Auburn as your school.
But that does not give you a free
hand to do as you please. Going
to Auburn is a responsibility as
much as a privilege. Because you
are Auburn men you have the
duty of doing nothing that will
reflect on Auburn, and little af­fairs
such as you staged last
Thursday night do it no good.
You fellows are a part of Au­burn.
If you don't love it already,
the time will come when you will.
That alone should be insurance
against any more post-pep-meet­ing
outbursts.
On Going To Church
IN THE BATTLE of university
life we forget many things
which should be remembered.
Particularly do we forget the en­richment
which comes f r om
church services.
Occasional concentration on
things of a spiritual nature is as
much a part of an education as
the more prosaic. In the reverent
atmosphere of a church one finds
a peace, a quietude the like of
which is found nowhere else. No
matter what the creed or cere­mony,
a man may find and know
his own soul in the presence of
worship.
If a student is a believer, he
can go and find new strength for
his faith. If he is a non-believer,
there is no better place in which
he can reestablish his faith in his
own code — and all of us have
one.
No matter whether one be­lieves
in certain details or not,
there are basic tenets of human
relationship to which we all ad­here.
Once in a while they need
renewing.
(April 4, 1939)
Next September another freshman
class will come to Auburn. Included in
that group will be many boys who are
to live away from home for the first
time and many who will be coming into
a new group life that will be different
from that found in their own communi­ties.
The average first year men come to
Auburn along with their second, third,
and fourth year school mates and are
given very little aid in finding their
way around Auburn. They know noth­ing
of what Auburn stands for other
than what little information they might
have picked up as a result of read­ing
the college literature.
As soon as the "rats" arrive about
half of them find themselves hurried off
to fraternity houses where they are dat­ed
up for days in advance and after
three or four days of being rushed from
Greek to Greek they end up with a
pledge button on their shirt and a bloat­ed
idea of their own importance coupled
with a complete lack of further in­formation
about Auburn.
The other half of the new arrivals
wander through the ordeal of finding
a place to stay, getting registered, and
finding a place to eat. Finally, all fresh­men
meet to find out how little they
know via the English placement tests.
To make a long story short, the first
week a freshman is in Auburn he learns
very little about the school or what is
expected of him as an Auburn student
in manner of conduct. He is likely to
get the wrong idea as to the proper out­let
for the so-called spirit with resulting
displays of rowdiness such as we had
last fall.
These difficulties might be partially
solved by a "Freshman Week." This
would necessitate all first year men ap­pearing
in Auburn a week earlier than
the rest of the student body. During
this time they would be aided in getting
places to room, and eat, get their reg­istration
over with along with the fresh­man
placement tests, and then they
would be ready for some real useful in­formation
about Auburn and the con­duct
expected of Auburn men. By the
time the rest of the students arrived,
the freshmen would be better prepared
to start school.
Although we realize that this would
be a departure from the usual pro­cedure,
the idea seems very worthwhile
if properly conducted. It would require
the cooperation of all concerned and
would finally necessitate some rules in
regards to fraternity rushing, but all
this could be worked out during the re­maining
weeks of the present semester.
* * *
(April 14, 1939)
More about freshman week is the or­der,
but it seems as though the advan­tages
of such an addition to Auburn's
present plan of student activities are al­most
self-evident. Many of the better
schools in the country have a scheme
similar to the proposed idea now in op­eration.
Furman University of Greenville,
South Carolina, has a most novel sys­tem
for "rat" education. The freshmen
are taken on a three-day camp im­mediately
on their arrival at the insti­tution.
During the course of this outing,
the new men are given regular instruc­tion
as to the type of work that will be
expected of them, slants on the various
school activities, and other information
that will be of aid to first year men.
By the time set for the opening of
school, they have become Furman men
instead of the bunch of green "rats"
they were when taken up to the camp.
Under our present set-up we seem to
be satisfied to let the freshmen wander
around Auburn in a daze, knowing lit­tle
about their new surroundings, try­ing
to adjust themselves to a new en­vironment
they know little or nothing
about . . . an impossible task.
When they finally think they are set­tled,
the new men have accumulated a
series of muddled conceptions which,
when considered as a group, they think
represent the Auburn Spirit. Nearly a
semester passes before they can really
fit themselves correctly to Auburn and
what it stands for.
By a well-planned program properly
executed in charge of men who really
have the project at heart, we could set
this group of newcomers on the right
path to begin with. It would mean few­er
first-year men dropping out of
school because of failures in studies or
because of a general misunderstanding
of Auburn which ultimately results in
their leaving. Why not give this sugges­tion
a test?
* * *
The two above clippings are not the
only comments that were made last
ONE OF THE NEWEST, most interest­ing,
and most responsible personali­ties
on the campus is Miss Mary Well­born,
one of the new heads of halls.
Miss Wellborn comes to the Auburn
co-eds from Washington, D. C., where
she has been associated with interna­tional
peace societies since 1928. Her
education has been garnered from the
four corners of the earth, but she gain­ed
her formal education from the Mis­sissippi
State College for Women and
the University of Virginia.
In 1928 Miss Wellborn became con­nected
with the National Women's Par­ty
in Washington. In this work she
spoke before many state legislatures all
over our country, continually working
for equality of men and women in all
legal matters. Prior to 1928 Miss Well­born
taught at Athens College, Athens,
Ala.
As assistant secretary to the Amer­ican
Commission of the International
Colonial Exposition, she was sent to
Paris, France, in 1930. This exposition,
in which many of the nations of the
world were joined, was to promote in­ternational
good will, tourist trade,
and consequently peace.
Upon her return to the United States
late in 1931, Miss Wellborn was asso­ciated
with Grover "Gardenia" Whalen
in promoting the New York George
Washington Bicentennial celebration.
Here she was in charge of the very
successful reconstruction of Mount
Vernon.
The Women's International League
for Peace and the People's Mandate to
End War occupied her time from 1933
to 1935. In these two organizations she
worked in close cooperation with many
college, church, and national societies
for the promotion of peace and good
will.
In 1935 Miss Wellborn was sent to
Geneva, Switzerland to confer with our
international representatives again for
the furtherance of peace. This work,
which carried her all over Europe, pro­vided
many opportunities for radio
work. These she was quick to accept.
She planned programs, rehearsed (some­times
with great difficulty) statesmen
who had no desire to be rehearsed, and,
finally, actually presented the pro­grams.
It is interesting to note that the first
broadcast out of Ethiopia to this coun­try
during the Italian-Ethiopian war,
was arranged by Miss Wellborn. Pre­sented
by NBC, the speaker for this
program was the Empress of Ethiopia,
Haile Selassie's wife.
Upon her return to the United States,
Miss Wellborn established her head­quarters
in Washington, and was work­ing
with Pan-American conference
groups until her present appointment.
Her presence in Auburn is mostly due
to a former Auburn student, Louise
Wier, who, as many will remember, was
enrolled in the School of Architecture
a few years ago. Miss Wellborn, while
visiting Miss Wier, expressed her inten­tion
of leaving the type of work in
which she was engaged. During her vis­it
she became acquainted with Dr. Rosa
Lee Walston.
When the position of head of hall
had to be filled, Dr. Walston remember­ed,
and asked Miss Wellborn to accept
the position.
Every girl on the campus should
sieze the opportunity, to become ac­quainted
with Miss Wellborn. Go by and
hear her story of how she almost dis­rupted
an international broadcast by
the turn of a head—someone else's
head. Hear the many amusing stories
of her experiences abroad. Her's has
been an interesting life.
The Don Cossack Chorus—By Dan Hollis
THE DON COSSACK Chorus, one of
the last surviving remnants of one
of the most colorful group of people
in European history and unique expon­ents
of some of the most stirring and
exciting music ever conceived, appear
on the Auburn Concert Series at Graves
Center on November 23.
Under the shrewd leadership of little
Serge Jaroff, the 36 giant singing
horsemen of the steppes, comprise one
of the world's most famous choral or­ganizations.
This year they are cele­brating
their fifteenth anniversary, and
hold the record of having sung in more
consecutive concerts and appeared in
more cities than any other choral or­ganization
in the world.
The group has given more than 3750
widely acclaimed concerts in the Unit­ed
States, Mexico, New Zealand, the
Orient, Australia and every country in
Europe. They have preserved the color­ful
folk songs and stirring music of
Russia that might otherwise have been
forgotten.
The members of the chorus were first
brought together as a unit at the no­torious
"Camp of Death" at Tchelengir
near Constantinople. Almost all of them
were former army officers in the Im­perial
Army of Russia, and were cap­tured
by the Bolsheviks in the revolu­tion
during the World War.
In an attempt to forget the pain and
suffering they endured in the prison
camp they would sing while seated a-round
their small campfire at night.
Among the prisoners was little Serge
Jaroff, a choirmaster before the war.
He decided that the group had potential
musical abilities and set about to train
them into a musical organization. After
the war they practiced at night for two
years, working in factories and mines
in the day.
Their fame as singers began to spread
and soon they were asked to form the
choir at one of the most famed cathe­drals
in Europe. People came from all
over the continent to hear them. A con­cert
master visited the cathedral and
after hearing them sing decided to place
them on the concert stage. From then
on the history of the Don Cossack Chor­us
is a series of international triumphs.
Many of the songs of the chorus have
never been set down in writing. They
alone hold these songs in their mem­ory.
The great liturgical works of
Tchaikowsky and Gretchninoff are also
presented in the inimitable manner of
these masterful singers. Some of the
soldier songs for which they are noted
are often illustrated with dancing, as
are some of the folk songs.
This unique group of singers, since
their exile from Russia after the war,
have been men without a country. They
have traveled all over the world on
Nansen passports, given by the League
of Nations and so called after Nansen,
Norwegian philanthropist. Their pass­ports
bear the inscription "en voyage"
in the blank provided for the home­land.
In striking contrast to his giant sing­ers,
is Serge Jaroff, diminutive musical
genius and leader of the famed choral
group. With his face and fingers as a
baton he can make church bells ring,
the ocean waves roar, the wind moan,
and a sunlit brook whisper, all from
the 36 giant voices of his comrades.
spring concerning the necessity for
some training course for newcomers to
Auburn; however, one can plainly see
that nothing ever came of the sugges­tions
. . . students were not able to
get the proper attention from college
officials . . . this was mainly because
there was no person with the duty of
looking after student affairs.
Below is a clipping from this column
that appeared in the second issue of the
Plainsman this fall. We think it fitting
to reprint it since many happenings all
point to one great weakness in the Au­burn
educational set-up. No one has the
sole job of guiding the "out-of-class ac­tivities"
of the Auburn male student.
* * *
With the many new improvements to
the landscape here on the campus, we
feel that it is time to give a little
thought to the much needed change in
the conduct of student-faculty relation­ships.
* » *
At present when a student has some
problem that appears important to him,
he must try to find some faculty mem­ber
to aid in the settlement thereof.
However, in some cases it is impossible
for the individual so troubled to find
a member of the faculty who can give
the much-needed advice. Such is the
case on many occasions due to the fact
that the professors here are usually
busy with their teaching or some other
interest.
* * »
Although there are about one-sixth
as many girls as boys in the student
body, the coeds have for years had a
dean of women to whom they could
look for advice and aid on problems
of interest to women students. This is
entirely proper as far as the girls are
concerned, but what about the three
thousand male students . . . why
shouldn't they have a similar opportuni­ty
to have their interests brought for­ward?
* « *
Auburn has now reached the stage
where the students need and should de­mand
a dean of men. The question has
been brought to the attention of the
college authorities time and time again
by members of the student body who
were interested in suggesting progress­ive
measures for the improvement of
general student relationships . . . but
the idea has had little support on the
part of the authorities.
* * *
Time and time again student initia­tive
has been lost amid the hopeless
task of waiting until some college offi­cials
could find time from their al­ready
many and important duties to
work with the students.
* * *
It is not the task of any one indi­vidual
to push such a project as the
one suggested; however, it seems that
in such a case, when the addition of
such a position to the administrative
staff is of dire necessity that the need
could be filled without having certain
groups beg for a change.
Plains Talk
By Herbert Martin
COLLEGE OFFICIALS really should
have informed ROTC students that
Mrs. Roosevelt was accustomed to us­ing
Mountain time instead of the local
Central Standard. The unit looked pret­ty
wilted by the time that the speaker
of the afternoon arrived. I was un­lucky.
I sneezed just as she began talk­ing,
and I missed most of her speech.
One cadet reports that the new com­mand,
"Squat by bunches," made its
first appearance on Bullard Field last
Thursday. Playing soldier is bad enough;
it must be pretty bad over there where
all of the playing has already been
completed. All's fair over there now,
and love has nothing to do with it.
*
The good name of the Auburn Spir­it,
which cloaks many questionable
deeds, was dragged in the dust once
more after last Thursday's pep meet­ing.
The freshmen have had their taste
of mob rule once more, and are prob­ably
a little ashamed of it by now. I'm
not so proud when I look back at some
of the things that our class did last
year.
A mob of rats easily led, a few up-perclassmen
who are perfectly willing
to suggest various deeds of violence,
plus the history of other freshman class­es
of other years . . . this combination
always produces the same results. In
all probability, the good citizens of Au­burn
are safe for another twelve
months.
* *
"Snake" Kelley, the people's choice
for Editor of the Glomerata, said, when
questioned as to the time of the prob­able
appearance of the booklet, quote,
Ugh unquote.
Kelley, who promises by his actions to
follow a long line of former Glomerata
editors into the state pen, was more
loquacious when the conversation turn­ed
to contents of said pamphlet. Kelley
states that this year's Glomerata will
be, of all things, different. Pictures in
the senior panels will be taken from
the seniors' freshman ticket book pho­tos.
A novel feature of the book will
be the replacement of the beauty queen
section with a section devoted entirely
to razor-back hawgs. Queen Jessiegonia,
a Eutaw hawg, will lead the parade of
razor-backs. She will be accompanied
by none other than Editor Kelley, smok­ing
a cigarette.
A forward step has been taken by
the band with the abolition of hazing
as applied to the physical extremity.
The time-honored, and time-worn, prac­tice
of allowing each upperclassmen
three licks with .a drumstick per fresh­man
per trip has been discontinued.
Such a step would be good for any
organization. This remaining evidence
of barbarism on our campus could be
replaced by something that would still
remind the rat that he is a rat but
which would be of a more humane na­ture.
After all, you wouldn't beat a
dog or a horse the way that some of
these freshmen catch it. I realize that
a freshman's status in comparison with
these animals is questionable, but even
a rat doesn't always deserve what he
sometimes gets here.
* * * *
I may be barking up the wrong tree,
because I really don't know any of the
plans of the cheerleaders, but I would
like to know whether or not we are
going to have any coed cheerleaders
this year.
Personally, I'd holler a heap more if
some cute little girl out in front looked
like she kinda' wanted me to than if the
whole male student body turned a doz­en
hand-springs. If nothing has been
done in the way of securing a couple
of fair maids to take over this job, why
couldn't tryouts be held next week, and
the announcements made when the rat
cheerleader is selected?
* * * * *
A nosegay of big red roses goes to
Tom Henley and his Social Committee
for the signing of Russ Morgan for the
Opening Stumbles. This band is the best
opening band to appear here in these
many dark years.
The feature of the three big dance
sets in Auburn is doubtful if the dances
fail this year. Henley was on the spot,
and he deserves a world of credit for
formulating his present workable plan.
If his bands this year live up to the
caliber of the first one, as every indi­cation
seems to guarantee, Auburn will
again have some of the famous dance
sets which in former days drew the
cream from all over the South.
Henley is working for Auburn and
the future of Auburn as well as for the
success of this social year, and the stu­dents
and organizations of Auburn owe
him their support. When Auburn stu­dents
unite and back a thing squarely,
the thing goes over. Auburn's social
future is at stake this year, and the
students owe it to themselves to stand
behind the Social Committee in the way
that counts.
* * * * * *
"Home," says Carrie, the Campus
Courter, "was never like this!"
September 19, 1939 •—
Home Economics Head
Attends Meeting
Mrs. Marion W. Spidle, head of
the Auburn school of home eco­nomics,
attended the recent meet­ing
of the State Home Economics
Council in Birmingham where she
was appointed temporary chair­man
in charge of district meetings
because of the illness of Miss Su­san
Brandon, Birmingham.
Attending the meeting, also,
were representatives from Ala­bama
College, the University,
State Welfare Department, Na­tional
Youth Administration, Ala­bama
Extension -Service, public
school lunch room managers, A-merican
Dietetics Association, and
Auburn. Mrs. Gladys McCain
Moncus, president of the Alabama
Home Economics Association pre­sided
at the meeting.
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Society Notes
Theta Upsilon Pledge Service
Iota Alpha chapter of Theta Upsilon sorority held pledge service
Friday afternoon at 5:30 when the Iris Degree was given to: Fran
Mallett, Troy; Lucille Paulk, Opp; Earle Rives, Auburn; Margaret
Banks, Opelika; Mary Elizabeth Pritchett, Linden; Mary Elizabeth
Purvis, Opp; and Lallie Bragg, St. Petersburg, Fla.
The service was held in the Theta Upsilon Club Room at Graves
Center. The rainbow colors, symbolic of the sorority, were carried
out in a profusion of mixed garden flowers. Helen Porch, president
of Theta Upsilon, read the service and was assisted by Ann Mason,
chaplain, and Eleanor Home, co-adviser for the chapter. The sponsors
for the service were Alice Little, Jeanne Mayberry, Mamie Kate Mitch­ell,
Ruby Morrison, Sibyl Richardson, Carleton Farish, and Lallie Fee
Cook.
Immediately after the service the pledges were honored with an
informal supper at the Tiger Cafe.
Alpha Gamma Rho Dance
Alpha Gamma Rho entertained rushes and pledges at a house par­ty
on Friday evening initiating the opening of their new frat house.
Refreshments were served to the following coeds: Anniece Polk,
Mary Guy Inzer, Ann Mason, Katherine Pace, Ruby Broly, Dorothy
Snellings, Mae Patton, Mary Wood, Flo Kinard, Mary Pace, Mary
Johnson, Ann Hightower, Mildred Davis, Kate Jones, Jess Wittel,
Bessie Berdette, Corinne Carnes, Evelyn Thomas, Frances Hamilton,
Mary Elizabeth Prickett and Margaret Tamplin.
Kappa Sigma House Dance
Kappa Sigma Fraternity gave a house dance on Friday evening
entertaining pledges, rushees and dates.
Delicious punch and cookies were served to the following girls
present: Margaret McCain, Mary Ellen Bagby, Emily Hixon, Betty
Showalter, Virginia Charlton, Ruth Lowe, Winifred Heidenreich, Mary
Colvin, Laurie Ernst, Jean Atkins, Jimmie Jerkins, Mary Carmack,
Martha Hicks, Sue Quattlebaum, Jane Ussery, Mary Frances Nichols,
Sue Faulkner, Nancy Ray, Dorothy Blackmon, Ann Pafford, Peggy
Green and Prudence Ozier.
Sigma Chi Dance
Sigma Chi was host Friday night at a house dance for the ac­tives,
pledges, rushees and dates.
Mrs. Lena A. Ziglar, housemother, assisted by Misses Helen
Jordan, Margaret Smith, Francene Breedlove, and Marguerite Enochs
served punch and sandwiches to the guests.
Among the girls present were Jane White, Dora Ruth Robinson,
Dorothy Johnson, Helen Jordan, Martha Gerhardt, Terry Bost, Arnold
Owens, Georgene Hawkins, Henrietta Reeves, Annice Watkins, Rebecca
Pettey, Bebe Stone, Phyllis Galvin, Marguerite Enochs, Elizabeth Rob-
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Helen Barnes, Former
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Miss Helen Barnes and Mr.
Donald P. Griffith were married
September 5 at the Chi Omega
sorority house at the University
of Missouri.
The bride, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Leslie G. Barnes, St. Peters­burg,
Fla., is a graduate of St.
Petersburg Junior College and at­tended
API last year where she
was a member of the Chi Omega
sorority, Auburn Players, and
Cardinal Key.
Mr. Griffith is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. T. M. Griffith, St.
Petersburg, Florida. He received
his B.A. degree from the Univer­sity
of Florida, where he was a
member of Beta Theta Pi fra­ternity.
He is now a student at the
University of Missouri, working
toward a bachelor of journalism
degree.
Mr. and Mrs. Griffith will make
their home in St. Petersburg, Fla.,
at the end of the school year.
erts, Jane Bayliss, Frances Dow-ling,
Margaret Smith, Ernestine
Lloyd, and Francene Breedlove.
Also present were Miss Zoe
Dobbs and Mrs. P. B. Hambrick.
Chi Omega Breakfast
Mrs. M. G. Malott, national
president of Delta Zeta Sorority,
was entertained on Sunday morn­ing
by the officers of Chi Omega
sorority.
Breakfast was served at the
Pitts Hotel to Mrs. Malott;
Dorothy Hurst, president of Zeta
Delta local colonizing chapter of
Delta Zeta; Ruth Lowe; Sue Quat­tlebaum;
Helen Jordan; and Flo
Pickens, officers of Chi Omega;
and Mrs. John Ivey and Mrs. S.
L. Toomer, alumnae of Chi
Omega.
Complete football record of the
Auburn Tigers reveals that they
will inaugurate their 1939 sched­ule
of 11 games against Birming­ham-
Southern in Montgomery,
Friday night, September 29, with
a 47 year old record of 197 tri­umphs,
124 defeats and 27 ties.
The Tigers 47 teams through 1938
have scored 5592 points against
2813 for their rivals.
A fancy passing sophomore,
Paul Ellis, of Atlanta, Ga., is the
lightest member of Auburn's squad.
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Dr. Duncan To
Serve As Delegate
Delegates from Auburn to the
first Alabama Conference of the
n e w l y Consolidated Methodist
Church of America will be Dr. L.
N. Duncan, president of the col­lege.
The conference is to be held
November 29 to December 1 in
Montgomery.
President Duncan, and his al­ternate,
Mrs. B. B. Ross, were
elected at the third quarterly con­ference
of the Auburn Methodist
Church which was held September
10.
Last May three of the largest
Methodist churches in America,
which had long been engaged in
disputes of both lay and clerical
nature, settled their differences
and united into one organization
at a conference in Kansas City,
Mo. The conference in Montgom­ery
is the first Alabama meeting
since the merger.
Election of delegates to the
next general conference, to meet
in Atlantic City, will be part of
the business of the meeting.
Christie-Gilder
Troth Announced
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Cuthbert
Christie of Montgomery have an­nounced
the engagement of their
daughter, Miss Helen Edwards
Christie to G. Caldwell Gilder, of
Mt. Meigs. The wedding is to take
place in October.
Miss Christie was graduated
from Sidney Lanier High School,
later attending Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute and Huntingdon Col­lege.
Mr. Gilder is the elder son of
of Mr. and Mrs. Gilder, Sr., of Mt.
Meigs. He is a graduate of Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute, where
he was affiliated with the Lambda
Chi Alpha fraternity.
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THE surging waves of a stormy sea are
beautiful to an artist, disconcerting to
a food-loving passenger, but just another
problem to an engineer. Whenever a sleek
ocean liner plows her bow through a heaving
swell, her engines feel an added load, and
her captain wonders if the fuel will last.
So, G-E engineers built an all-electric meter
that will accurately measure the power put
out by the propeller of any boat, from a
tiny tug to a transatlantic greyhound.
The meter is essentially a combination of
two electric generators mounted a little
distance away from each other on the
propeller shaft, and connected to instru­ments
which can be located at any point
on the ship. The generators are so mounted
that at no load the voltages generated are
exactly 180 degrees apart in phase and there­fore
add to zero.
When a load is placed on the revolving
shaft, the torque causes a small angular
twist in the shaft; consequently, the two
generated voltages no longer add to zero. The
resultant voltage is proportional to both
the shaft twist and the propeller speed,
and hence the meter can be made to read
directly in horsepower. The installation can
easily be modified to indicate total horse­power-
hours and to write an automatic
log of the power delivered during the trip.
Among the G-E engineers who developed
the device are A. V. Mershon, Pratt Insti­tute
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NICODEMUS, the brown-nosed seal,
playfully swam up to the North Pole,
tripped the circuit-breaker and plunged
Santa's workshop into darkness.
Absurd? Not as far as the successful opera­tion
of G-E outdoor air-break switches is
concerned. These have been placed in a
special room in the General Electric Research
Laboratory at minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit,
sprayed with water, and tested when coated
with ice to a thickness of one and a half
inches. And the observers, who check the
operations with pitiless eye, are members of
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Ag Fair to be
Combined With
Lion's Festival
The annual Ag Fair, presented
by the Agricultural Club, and the
Lions Fun Festival this fall are
to be combined, according to an
announcement by W. G. Eden,
senior manager for the Ag Fair.
Eden appeared before the Lions
Club last week and presented the
proposal. Arrangements for the
combined event are being planned
by a joint committee.
Members of the committee are:
E. W. McElwee, Fred Kummer,
and F. S. Barkalow of the Lions
Club, and W. G. Eden, Fred Well­born,
and Earl Kennamer of the
Ag Club.
The Ag Fair is an annual event
presented the Agricultural Club,
usually in November. The Lions
Club Fun Festival usually pre­sented
in the summer, was post­poned
until fall this year.
T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN •September 19, 1939
Young Addresses
Mass Meeting Of
Vet Students
Both old and new students were
welcomed to Vet Hill last Wed­nesday
night whep Tyler J.
Young, president of the local
junior chapter of the American
Veterinary Medical Association,
called a mass meeting of all vet­erinary
students.
Each of the officers addressed
brief remarks of welcome to over
a hundred students and urged
that all join the organization in a
spirit of cooperation that would
ultimately create a close bond be­tween
the students and' aid them
in deriving the most benefit from
their college work.
Young stated that the programs
this year would consist principal­ly
of talks of interest by members
and local friends of the associa­tion;
whereas, in the past, they
have consisted largely of talks by
visiting speakers.
For the benefit of the new men,
excerpts from the constitution and
by-laws were read by the report­er.
He also read a letter from the
secretary of the national Amer­ican
Veterinary Medical Associa­tion
which explained the close co­operative
relationship between
that body and*the junior chap­ters.
The next three weeks will be
spent in perfecting the organiza­tion
for the current year, and the
next meeting will be tomorrow
night, at which time members of
the faculty will appear on the
program.
Auburn News Featured
Continued from page 1
Plains. These items are introduced
over the air as Campus Capers.
Each week, Griffin will inter­view
some outstanding member of
the Auburn student body or facul­ty.
Last Saturday, he interviewed
George Hiller, president of the In-terfraternity
Council.
Questions which were asked Hil­ler
in the interview included: How
would a new fraternity be form­ed?
What is the purpose of the
Interfraternity Council? How are
the representatives to the council
chosen? How is the Social Calen­dar
made up? How does a fra­ternity
go about picking the Greek
letters for its name?
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Club or Frat.
A Club
Opening dances
Opening dances
.Kappa Sigma
Pi Kappa Alpha
A Club
Phi Omega Pi
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..December 9 Beta Kappa
..December 15 .Sigma Alpha Epsilon
..December 16 A Club—SAE tea
..January 5 Kappa Delta
..January 6 Theta Upsilon
..January 12 A Club
..January 13 Kappa Alpha—Tea
Thursday January 25 Mid Term Dances
Friday January 26 Mid Term Dances
Saturday January 27 Mid Term Dances
Friday .February 2 Chi Omega
Saturday .February 3 Sigma Pi
Friday .February 9 Alpha Psi
Saturday .February 10 Pharmaceutical Ball
Friday Pebruary 16 Zeta Delta
Saturday Pebruary 17 SPE
Friday Pebruary 23 Interfraternity Council
Saturday Pebruary 24 Beaux Arts Ball
Friday March 1 Theta Chi
Saturday March 2 Phi Delta Theta
Friday March 8 Delta Sigma Pi
Saturday March 9 Sigma Nu
Friday March 15 .Military Ball
Saturday -*- March 16 Honor Society Ball
Friday March 29 Lambda Chi Alpha
Saturday March 30 ___.Alpha Gamma Rho—Tea
Friday April 5 Sigma Chi
Saturday April 6 ATO—Sigma Chi Tea
Friday April 12 Final Dances
Saturday April 13 Final Dances
Friday April 19 Alpha Gamma Delta
Saturday April 20 Chemical Ball
Friday April 26 Delta Sigma Phi
Saturday April 27 0. R. C. (Ag Club Alt.)
Friday ..May 3 O. R. C. (Ag Club Alt.)
Saturday May 4 T. E. P.
Friday .May 10 O. R. C. (optional)
Saturday May 11 -F. F. A.
Tigers to Travel
More than 7000 Miles
For Football Games
Only one of their 11 games be­ing
scheduled for Auburn, the
Auburn football Tigers of Coach
Jack Meagher will travel 7,612
miles. Their lone home tilt will be
their annual Southeastern Con­ference
round with Florida that
will dedicate their new stadium
next Thanksgiving Day, November
30.
A speedometer check reveals
that the Bengals will ride the Pull­mans
118 miles to meet Birming­ham-
Southern in Montgomery,
Friday night, September 29; 756
to meet Tulane in New Orleans,
October 7; 270 to meet Mississippi
State in Birmingham, October 14;
1966 to met Manhattan in New
York City, October 21; 232 to
meet Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Oc­tober
28; 2424 to meet Boston
College in Boston, November 4;
270 to meet Villanova in Birming­ham,
Armistice Day, November
11; 874 to meet Louisiana State
in Baton Rouge, November 18;
76 to meet Georgia in Columbus,
November 25, and 626 to meet
Tennessee in Knoxville, December
9.
Addresses Requested
Continued from page 1
as L. Lawson, Wm. Morgan Les­ter,
William S. Lynn.
Margaret McCain, Max P. Mc-
Gill Jr., John H. Maddox, George
L. Mallory, Allen Miller, Evelyn
Miller, Milton R. Miller, T. Calvin
Miller, Walter B. Milner, Fred­eric
B. Mitchell, Annelu Moore,
Thomas W. Morgan, Carl P. Mor­ton,
Douglas C. Murray, James M.
Persona, Stephen M. Powell, Mary
E. Pritchett, Bill G. Sherling,
Clifford C. Singley, Joe Samuel
Smith, Melba Stone, Lloyd Tan-,
ner, Montgomery V. Truss, Clyde
Ware, James W. Worthington,
Bobby Yarbrough.
Tackle Heaviest Player
Heaviest player in Auburn's
football ranks this season is a
junior tackle from Rumford, Me.,
Chester Bulger. The massive Bul­ger,
who is one of the leading
tracksters in the Southeastern
Conference, tips the scales at 215
and has lots of ability to go with
his power.
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The swimming team will meet
in the "A" Club room Tuesday
night at 7:00 o'clock. All fresh­men
and upperclassmen interested
are invited to attend.
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• Your fraternity or sorority seal or the Au­burn
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GEORGE HILLER
President of the Interfraternity
Council which announced today
the social calendar for the coming
year.
Coed Convocations
To Be Bimonthly
A system of holding regular
convocations for Auburn co-eds
every two weeks will be installed
here this week. Dr. Rosa Lee Wal-ston,
director of women students,
said today that the first of these
convocations will be held Thurs­day
afternoon at Langdon Hall at
4:30 p.m.
A discussion of her experiences
in Paris and Geneva will be given
at the meeting by Miss Mary Moss
Wellborn, newly appointed head
of hall at the Woman's Quad­rangle.
Miss Wellborn was form­erly
in Paris as American secre­tary
at the Intercolonial Exposi­tion
and was in Geneva as secre­tary
of the People's Mandate to
End War.
Virginia Adams, West Point,
Ga., president of the woman's stu­dent
government association, will
preside at the meeting. Regular
chapel seats will be assigned and
the girls will occupy these seats
at the Thursday afternoon convo­cations
every two weeks. Roll will
be called.
Notices
Continued from page 1
Seniors may obtain their class
rings from the following students:
Jim King, John Watters, Red
Bamburg, John Rice, and Bunchy
Fowler.
Mr. L. F. Livingston, Agricul­tural
extension representative for
E. I. Dupont de Nemours Co., will
present a reel in connection with
his address, Relation of Chemistry
to Agriculture, before Ag. Club
at Langdon Hall at 7:00 o'clock
Thursday night according to R.
W. Gay, president of Ag. Club.
Mr. Livingston, now stationed
at Wilmington, Delaware, is a
former president of the American
Society of Agricultural Engineers.
Student season tickets for the
Concert Series go on sale Wed­nesday
morning, Sept. 20, at the
Main Gate and on the first floor
of Samford Hall. The cost is $1.00
for the six attractions, including
Allan Jones, H. V. Kaltenborn,
Don Cossacks, Roth Quartet,
Joseph Knitzer, and Ralph Pear­son.
Only 1,400 tickets are available
and students are given exclusive
opportunity to buy them through
September 30. After that sales
open also for one week to the
faculty and townspeople and later
to the public.
For full information on Concert
Series, see special page in this is­sue
of the Plainsman.
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8 States Represented
Represented in Auburn's foot­ball
ranks this season are eight
states, but only two of the Tigers,
Tackles Chester Bulger, Rumford,
Me., and Gordon MacEachern,
Haverhill, Mass., live above the
Mason-Dixon line. Native state of
34 of the Tigers is Alabama, 10
reside in Georgia, and one each
hail from South Carolina, Louis­iana,
Virginia and Florida.
Excused football games for the
Auburn students this year are the
Tigers engagements with Birming­ham-
Southern in Montgomery,
Friday night, September 29; Mis­sissippi
State, Birmingham, Octo­ber
14; Georgia Tech, Atlanta,
October 28; Villanova, Birming­ham,
Armistice Day, Novem­ber
11; G e o r g i a , Columbus,
November 25, and Florida, Au­burn,
Thanksgiving Day, Novem­ber
30.
And the students also will be
allowed time off from their class­es
to attend Auburn's outstanding
intersectional clash with Manhat­tan
in New York City, October
21, and attend "Auburn Day" at
the New York World's Fair on
October 20, if they secure writ­ten
permission from their parents
not later than October 15.
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Bachelor Mother"
To Show At Tiger
The mirth-mixing talents which
Ginger Rogers exhibited so effec­tively
in such previous hits as
"Stage Door" and "Vivacious
Lady" are developed to new hilar­ious
heights in "Bachelor Mother,"
the attraction Wednesday and
Thursday at the Tiger Theatre.
Miss Rogers enacts the role of
a department store salesgirl who
suddenly becomes a synthetic
mother. She finds an abandoned
baby, and despite her frantic de­nials,
the whole world believes
she is the tot's mama. When she
plans to abandon the baby herself,
her boss informs her that he will
so ostracize her in the business
world that she will never have a
chance of earning her livelihood—
and all because she refuses to ful­fill
her duty to society: raising
"her" baby!
Hopelessly Ginger accepts the
task. When a romance springs
from her boss' constant meetings
with her under the guise of assist­ing
her in bringing up baby, Gin­ger's
self-appointed jealous boy
friend apprises her boss' father
that his son is actually the in­fant's
father. The boss' father de­mands
that his son marry Ginger
so that he can rightfully assert his
role as grandfather to the baby,
and the story assumes hilarious,
side-splitting proportions!
Matching Ginger's splendid por­trayal
is that of her co-star David
Niven, seen as the boss. With
Charles Coburn as the frustrated
grandfather, Frank Albertson as
Ginger's green-eyed admirer, E.
E. Clive as an acidulous butler,
Perike Boros and Ernest Truex in
the featured cast, "Bachelor Moth-
Auburn Professors
Publish Cotton Study
Fifty-eight ideas for using cot­ton
are suggested in a bulletin
just issued by the Engineering
Experiment Station of API.
Drs. A. R. Macormac and C. A.
Basore have developed and ac­cumulated
thirty-one projects bas­ed
on the utilization and process­ing
of cotton fiber, sixteen pos­sible
useful applications of cot­ton
seed products in addition to
those commonly known, and ten
based on the use of the whole
cotton plant.
An extensive bibliography is list­ed
in the bulletin, making it use­ful
to anyone interested in a study
of cotton from almost any angle.
er" boasts a superb acting roster.
The latest issue of March of
Time "Soldiers With Wings"
rounds out this enjoyable pro­gram
at the Tiger Theatre. "Sold­iers
With Wings" tells the com­plete
and authentic story of the
U. S. Army Air Corps and was
filmed with the full cooperation of
the U. S. Government.
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Will Be Sold
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Famous Artists Will Appear Here
SALE OF SEASON TICKETS WILL
GET UNDERWAY WEDNESDAY
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Members Of Don Cossack Group
Met In Russian Camp Of Death
CHORISTERS FOUGHT IN
CZAR'S ARMY DURING
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
When they arrive in Auburn for
their concert on November 23, the
36 singers of the famous Don Cos­sack
Chorus will have rounded off
an even 850,000 miles of travel to­gether
since 1921, when they met
as prisoners of the Red Army in
the notorious "Camp of Death" at
Tchelengir.
It was during the bloody Soviet
Revolution that the members of
the chorus first met in the prison
camp. Like all other Cossacks
these men rallied to the service of
the Czar. When they were defeat­ed
they were sentenced to the
"Camp of Death" along with 80,-
000 other Cossacks.
Around the open campfire at
night, the ever-dwindling group of
imprisioned Cossacks would gather
to forget their miseries in singing
the songs of the "Homeland," and
here in this squalid prison camp,
Serge Jaroff, conductor of the
chorus today, found that which his
artistic soul had been craving-raw
material of an almost breath­taking
beauty with which to work,
natural, untrained voices that
could create effects almost un­dreamed
of. Day and night for
fifteen months the little lieutenant
worked with these half-starved
men, training his chorus to a hair-trigger
perfection.
Today, he looks back over a
career of more than 3750 concert
triumphs in the leading cities of
five continents and an internation­al
musical repute that seems al­most
as unbelievable to him as
one of the wild Cossack hero tales.
His command is law to the 36
choristers and a veritable dynamo
of energy, Jaroff seems almost to
draw out the thrilling musical
sounds for which the Don Cossacks
are famous, by magnetic power.
Arranging for transportation
and lodgings for the giant choris­ters,
few of whom speak any Eng­lish,
presents numerous problems
to the Don Cossacks' American
manager. Brought up in the sad­dles
of fiery Cossack steeds and
having spent their early lives gal­loping
across the wide plains of
the Ukraine and leading the char­ges
of the Czar's regiments
through forests, swamps and riv­ers,
none of the men are used to
city life and the utmost care must
be taken to keep them together in
an orderly traveling unit.
Questioned about the folk music
of which he and his Don Cossack
singers are the sole surviving ex­ponents,
Jaroff explained that the
songs of Russia may be divided in­to
nine or ten different classifica­tions.
"First," he observed, "we
have the Builinui, ballads of a leg­endary
or semi-historical charac­ter,
many of which have been pre­served
in the works of Moussorg-sky
and Rimsky-Korsakoff. Then
there are the Dukhovie Stikhi, the
ecclesiastical folk songs, in the
style of Byzantine church music.
Our plaintive lyric songs—the la­ments
of maidens for their lost
lovers and orphans for their par­ents,
the plaints of unmarried
women and old men are given the
name of Protiazhnuia."
PRICE OF TICKETS
Season tickets for the entire
course of six attractions will be
sold to college students for $1.00,
while those for the faculty and
out-of-town people will be sold
at $3.00.
Sale of student tickets begins
Wednesday, September 20. Tick­ets
for the faculty and towns­people
go on sale on October
2, and, if the supply is not ex­hausted,
they will be sold to
out-of-town people beginning
October 9. Tickets may be pur­chased
in accordance with the
above dates on the first floor of
S a m f o r d Hall. Mail orders
should be addressed to Kirtley
Brown, News Bureau, Auburn,
Ala.
Concert Slated
By Roth Quartet,
Eugenia Buxton
The illustrious Roth String
Quartet has become widely known
over the United States through
hundreds of personal appearances
in every section of the country and
numerous broadcasts.
A rare musical treat is in store
for Auburn students and citizens
on February 27 when the Roth
String Quartet will present a con­cert
in conjunction with Miss Eu­genia
Buxton, talented American
pianist.
Miss Buxton made her musical
debut three seasons ago and has
won wide acclaim for her artistry,
proficiency, and accurate finger
technique.
One critic says of the youthful
pianist, "Eugenia Buxton again
demonstrated that she belongs to
those few pianists of the younger
generation who do not permit
themselves to be hampered either
by tradition nor by the demands of
popular taste. She possesses that
talent rare among performing ar­tists
which draws fire from one's
own personality as well as from
the talent which the latent serves."
The Roth String Quartet made
its first American appearance 11
years ago. All members of the
quartet studied at the same con­servatory
in Hungary. Members of
the quartet are Feri Roth, first
violin; Jeno Antal, second violin;
Ferenc Molnar, viola; J a n os
Scholz, cello.
Press notices received by the
Roth Quartet pay high tribute to
the group's preeminence in the
field of chamber music. The San
Francisco News observed, "A con­cert
of the kind one dreams about
but rarely dares hope to hear.
Allan Jones Rose
From Mine Worker
To Ranking Star
Noted Artist Has Appeared
In Movies; Played Opposite
Jeannette McDonald
From mine laborer to top rank­ing
tenor of stage and screen Allan
Jones has steadily risen until to­day
his concerts are packing the
music halls and his movies are
jamming the theaters.
Jones will come to Auburn on
January 9, fresh from the starring
role in the picture, "The Life of
Victor Herbert." Heralded as a
popular leading man in Hollywood,
as well as a brilliant soloist, Al­lan
Jones has appeared in such
film favorites as "The Firefly"
with Jeannette M a c d o n a l d;
"Show Boat," "Everybody Sing,"
"Rose Marie," "A Day at the
Races," "A Night at the Opera"
and "Reckless."
A native of Scranton, Pennsyl­vania,
Jones made his debut into
the singing world at the age of
four. He first appeared at ice
cream festivals, church picnics
and later in the St. Luke's Epis­copal
choir. His first teacher was
his father, Daniel Jones, who mi­grated
from Wales.
Ran Errands
At fourteen Jones was running days in September when the world
errands for a clothing store in hung on the brink of war, he lived,
order to pay for music lessons. AT- ate and slept in his radio studio,
ready he had determined to make reading news reports, talking by
Kaltenborn Catapulted Into Spotlight
Through Coverage of European Crisis
singing his career and his ambit
ion was to make enough money
for further study. He later work
radiophone to European capitals,
listening to the speeches of Euro­pean
statesmen, and then going on
for lurtner stuay. He iaxer wont- r ^ immediately, impromptu
ed as a bank messenger after , . „ , te
school hours, but this did not pay
him enough, so when vacation
time came he hired out as a lab­orer
at the mine his father super­intended.
For two years Jones toiled
around the mines as truck driver,
steam-shovel operator, and boss
of the "floating gang.' When he
had saved $1,500 he enrolled at
the Syracuse University Music
School. His talent was quickly
recognized there and one month
later he was awarded a scholar­ship
at New York University. Lat­er
he was given a scholarship for
study under Claude Warford.
The urge for European study
was strong in young Jones, but his
funds were low. He hit upon a
scheme to make possible a trip
abroad. Arriving in Scranton,
brimful of enthusiasm and con­fidence
one day, he announced a
The popular movie "Firefly"
in which Allan Jones Is co-starred
with Jeannette Mac-
Donald will be brought here Fri­day,
Sept. 22, for a special re­turn
engagement at the Tiger
Theater. This was the n*»vie in
which Allan Jones first won
wide acclaim. It was in this pic­ture
that he gave his famous
rendition of the "Donkey Song."
concert for the home folks with
himself as star. The house was a
sell out, netting $1,100 for the
handsome young singer.
In Europe Jones studied at the
Warford Summer School and with
the distinguished French com­poser-
conductor, Reynaldo Hahn,
and with Felix LeRoux of the
National Opera.
Under Damrosch
role of the Broadway production,
Dean of American Radio
Commentators Will Speak
Here Dec. 14
It was during the European
crisis of September 1938 that Hans
V. Kaltenborn was catapulted in­to
sensational acclaim and won his
title of "dean of American news
commentators."
Mr. Kaltenborn was in Berlin
and London during the last week
in August this year just before
Hitler started his troops into Pol­and.
He left London by plane at
1:00 p. m. on August 30 and was
talking over CBS from New York
the following evening at 6:30 p. m.
Mr. Kaltenborn has been on the
air for a long time. But it was
his performance last year at the
age of 60 that showered him with
gifts, citations and honors as
America's most distinguished com­mentator.
Through those eighteen
Back in America Jones was im­mediately
booked as soloist with
the New York Symphony under
Dr. Walter Damrosch. In the title pretive articles. He expanded the
to digest and explain the latest
news from the front.
The usual hurried voice and
steamed-up excitement of the ra­dio
commentator was a drug on
the market now. There was
plenty of excitement in the world
as it was. People did not want
synthetic drama now; they wanted
calm appraisal. They wanted
Kaltenborn.
He gave them what they want­ed.
Eighty-five times during those
eighteen days, Mr. Kaltenborn
was on the air. Robustly his tall,
strong figure stood up under the
strain. His broad, pink face grew
daily a bit pinker; his clipped, in­cisive
sentences grew daily a bit
more explosive. But still he was
the calm observer, the detached
newspaperman doing his job.
Son of Officer
He is the son of a Hessian
guards officer, Baron Rudolph
von Kaltenborn, who came to
America in' protest against the ab­sorption
of Hesse by the kingdom
of Prussia. The Baron married an
American school teacher, and set­tled
in Milwaukee. Hans von
Kaltenborn was born in Milwau­kee
in 1878 and spent his early
boyhood in the small town of Mer­rill,
Wisconsin.
After the war, the town of Mer­rill
was too small to hold him. He
aimed for the big world, and in
1902 he was off to New York by
freight train and to Europe by
cattle boat to see the Paris Ex­position.
He toured France that
summer on a bicycle, learning the
language and selling stereoscopes
to the French to pay his way.
Back in New York, he got a job
on the Brooklyn Eagle, but after
three years as a reporter he de­cided
he needed more education.
Studying by himself, he prepared
for Harvard and entered the uni­versity
in 1905 as a special student.
Soon he branched out into the
writing of editorials and inter
family budget by giving lectures
"Boccaccio," the youngtenor won on current events. Soon he was
a magnificent reception by critics gratifying his desire for travel by
organizing and conducting tours,
In other years, he and Mrs. Kal-and
public alike. Following this,
he sang operettas for three years, .
and was heard with the St. Louis tenborn traveled alone, just study-
Municipal Opera for several sea- ™S conditions in Russia, Europe
sons. Among his favorite roles are
the leading tenor parts in "Tosca,"
"Romeo and Juliette," "Faust,"
"Manon," and "LaBoheme."
and the Far East,
Dignified as has been his pub­lic
appearance, Mr. Kaltenborn
likes to unbend in his unprofes-
But it was inevitable that the «onal moments and have fun. Af-
L ,J ,. t e r the recent war crisis was over,
outstanding young tenor should be h e g a v e a p a r t y a t h i s h o m e f or
sought by the producers of sound t n e p e 0ple from the broadcasting
films. In Hollywood he has chalk- station. He surprised everybody by
ed up one success after another, doing the Suzy-Q.
Program Is Said to Be Most
Outstanding Ever Brought
To Auburn
The finest concert course in the
history of Auburn has been ar­ranged
this year for the benefit
of students and faculty by the
Concert Series Committee headed
by Prof. James R. Rutland.
The course will include Allan
Jones, leading young American
tenor; H. V. Kaltenborn, dean of
American news commentators;
Don Cossack Chorus, the best
choral group on tour today; the
Roth String Quartet, ranking mus­ical
group of its kind, and Eu­genia
Buxton, one of the best
pianists; and Joseph Knitzer, ex­cellent
violinist. Also on the
course is a lecture by Ralph Pear­son,
widely known artist and
writer.
H. V. KALTENBORN
Knifzer Hailed As
Talented Artist
"An artist fairly bursting with
talent" is the way Joseph Knitzer,
brilliant young violinist, has been
characterized by a New York mu­sic
critic.
Appearing in Auburn on Octo­ber
24 as the first feature of the
Auburn Concert Series, Knitzer
will bring with him a reputation
remarkable for its outstanding
successes. At 26 Knitzer today
stands as one of the world's fore­most
violinists.
Knitzer was born in New York
City in 1913. When his father, a
native of Leipsig, discovered mus­ical
talent in his son at the age
of three, he began taking him to
weekly concerts. At the age of
seven Knitzer commenced his for­mal
study of violin. When he was
14 he made his debut as a soloist
with the New York Symphony
under Walter Damrosch. He was
the youngest soloist ever to play
with this orchestra.
It was in 1934 that he won the
Walter Naumburg Award and the
following year the prize of the Na­tional
Federation of Music Clubs,
as well as the Schubert Memorial
Award. In 1935 he was the only
violinist besides Fritz Kreisler to
appear under the baton of Leopold
Stokowski.
1939-40 CONCERT SERIES
Joseph Knitzer
Violinist Oct. 24
Don Cossack Chorus — Nov. 23
H. V. Kaltenborn Dec. 14
Allan Jones, Tenor — Jan. 9
Roth String Quartet and
Eugenia Buxton,
Pianist Feb. 27
Ralph Pearson,
Artist-Writer March 1
All attractions on the series will
be held in the auditorium at
Graves Center except the lecture
by Ralph Pearson, which will be
given in Langdon Hall.
In order that many students
may attend the entire series, sea­son
tickets will be sold to them
for $1.00. Season tickets will be
available to the faculty and the
public for $3.00, the number of
such tickets depending upon those
available after students have been
given an opportunity to purchase
their tickets.
Beginning Wednesday morning,
September 20, ticket sales will be
opened exclusively through Sep­tember
30 to students who may
purchase them from a desk on the
first floor of Samford Hall. For
one week, October 2 through 7,
the faculty and townspeople of
Auburn will also be permitted to
buy season tickets. On October 7,
if 1,400 tickets have not been sold
(seating capacity of the auditor­ium),
ticket sales then will be
opened also to out-of-town peo­ple
at $3.00.
Out-of-town orders for tickets
should be sent to Kirtley Brown,
News Bureau, Auburn, Ala.
Since there is only a limited
number of tickets available, 1,400
in all, the college students are be­ing
given the first opportunity to
purchase them.
Members of the Auburn Concert
Series Committee include Prof. J.
R. Rutland, Lawrence Barnett,
Miss Rosa Lee Walston, Mrs. S. L.
Toomer, Telfair Peet, Frank Ap-plebee,
and Kirtley Brown.
Directs Don Cossacks
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