1939-10-24 The Auburn Plainsman

              Last Week For
Glomerata Pictures THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN Hear Knitzer
Tonight
VOL. LXIII z-i ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, OCTOBER 24, 1939 No. 15
THEODOSIA MURPHY of Americus, Ga., who has been chosen
by the Social Committee to lead the Sophomore Hop on November
3-4. She will lead the grand march on Friday night, November 3.
KNITZER PLAYS
HERE TONIGHT
Virtuoso Opens Annual Concert Series
At 8:15 in Craves Center Auditorium
Joseph Knitzer, talented American violinist will appear
on the stage at 8:15 tonight to open the Auburn Concert
Series for the year. The 26-year old musician has been
recommended to Auburn audiences as "an artist fairly
bursting with talent."
Approximately 1,000 season tickets have already been
sold to the Series, and a full house is expected for tonight.
This season is the fourth in Knitzer's career. He has
appeared in the Worcester and ""-——~~————-~"—^^^—^^^^^
Ann Arbor Festivals, the Detroit
and Dayton Symphonies, the Ford
and Kraft Radio Hours, as well
as under the batons of Leopold
Stokowski and Walter Damrosch.
This year he will appear with
the New York Philharmonic-Sym­phonic
orchestra.
The first part of the program
will include Allegro by Fiocco, In-trada
by Deplanes, and Chaconne
by Vitali. Part two will consist of
Wieniawski's Concerto Number 2
in D minor. There will be a brief
intermission following the second
part of the program.
Part three will be Andaluza by
Joaquin Nin, Sea Murmurs by
Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Danse Negre
by Scott-A. W. Kramer, Beau
Soir by Debussy-A. W. Kramer,
and Presto by Dohnanyi. The
fourth and last part of the pro­gram
will feature Nocturne by
Chopin-Milstein and Aus der Hei-mat
by Smetana.
Plainsman Panthers Shove Over Lone
Touchdown On Glomerata Graft Wave
But Graft Wave Tallies Twice to Win Game 13-7
The lights burned low in Plains­man
homes Friday night. The gal­lant
Plainsman Panthers were
licked—licked by a Glomerata
Graft Wave which came at them
so wide arid deep that they
couldn't withstand it.
The score was 13-7, but the
Panthers were outplayed even
worse than that.
Before the battle began on
Bullard Field at 4:30 Friday, both
sides were divested of their weap­ons
by an armed group of na­tional
guardsmen sent down by
Gov. Dixon to quell any possible
disturbance.
Center John Huff of the Glom­erata
had a nine-inch blackjack
wrested from him, while Jim King
of the same team was found to
be carrying a mayhem-style razor
in his sock.
"Bird Legs" Martin, puny but
potent Panther player, was rolled
on the ground and a hand grenade
jerked from his pocket. Boots
Stratford, pass-chunking back for
the newspapermen, slipped by the
guards with a bowie knife strap­ped
to his wrist, but he was re­moved
from the game in the sec­ond
quarter when he swung it in
the direction of Foster Haley,
Graft Waver.
The Graft Wave started rolling
in the first quarter before the
Panthers could even get their first
team on the field, spurting to a
touchdown with little trouble.
The pass tossing of back Jim
King and the snagging of John
Huff and Bill McGehee were too
much for the light Panthers. The
reporters had the edge in line
play, but their backs just couldn't
get going.
In the third quarter Bill Mc­Gehee
intercepted one of Boots
Stratford's long tosses and coast­ed
to the second touchdown of
the afternoon for the Wavers.
A few moments later a booming
Plainsman punt rolled out of the
hands of the Wave safety man,
and Holland recovered for the
newspapermen. A flat pass from
Stratford to Frank Wilson netted
the lone score. The extra point
was garnered by a low hard toss
from Stratford to Hollis.
In the fourth quarter the pant­ing
Panthers threatened one more
time but bogged down when one
of the Wave six-footers intercept­ed
a wild pass.
For the Glomerata, Huff, Mc­Gehee,
and King were standouts,
as was V. V. Mitchell before he
retired from the game after a
poke in the snoot. For the Plains-
Continued on page 4
ODK Sets Date for
Musical Miscellany
Miss Auburn Presentation and Selection
Of Glomerata Beauties to Feature Show
ODK will stage its annual Musical Miscellany on Mon­day,'
November 20, Charles Kelley, general chairman, an­nounced
today. In addition to the varied musical program
which will be presented, Miss Auburn for this year will be
announced and the selections for the beauty section of the
Glomerata made.
Just as last year, proceeds from the entertainment will
go into the general tennis court fund of the school. Last
year's miscellany netted $100 which
was turned over to the fund, now
being administered by the Intra­mural
Sports department.
Kelley said yesterday that the
musical program was not ready
to be announced yet, but that it
would be even better than last
year's when ODK gathered the
outstanding musical talent in Au­burn
and presented it in one pro­gram.
Miss Auburn will be chosen by
popular election on Wednesday,
November 15. The election, which
will be in the hands of the Glom­erata,
will be conducted as usual
by means of a ballot box at the
Main Gate. Results of the ballot­ing
will not be made public until
the Miscellany on the following
Monday when Auburn's represen­tative
coed of the year will be
presented to the public for the
first time.
The Glomerata beauties for the
1940 edition of the yearbook will
be selected by a group of impar­tial
judges from a group of girls
who will be featured on the pro­gram
along with Miss Auburn.
ODK's Musical Miscellany was
presented last year for the first
time, but the organization has al­ready
announced its intention of
making it an annual affair.
Billy Smith is in charge of ad­vertising
for the Miscellany and
Hank Parker in charge of pro­grams.
Sale of tickets to the entertain­ment
will begin in a few days.
Manhattan Trips
Auburn 7-0 In
Colorless Game
Auburn Threatens Late
In Game But is Halted
By New York Boys
Sparked by Eddie Fay, hard
luck halfback who had been out
of action most of the season due
to injuries, underdog Manhattan
College kicked over the dope
bucket and the . Auburn football
team with it to the tune of 7-0
Saturday afternoon at the Polo
Grounds, New York.
Fay's touchdown thrust was the
Jasper's second touchdown of the
season, but it was enough to put
the ball game on the ice and send
the sluggish Tigers back South
with another chapter added to
their already poor Eastern inter-sectional
record. The Plainsmen
have lost five games to Eastern
foes in recent years while tying
two.
The Kelly Green of Manhat­tan
moved into pay dirt early in
the fourth quarter with a 61-yard
drive from their own 39. Two
passes thrown by John Supulski
featured the march with Fay
through the score just as the
fourth quarter began. Joe Migdal
slapped the oval squarely through
the uprights to add the extra
point.
Fighting desperately to score in
the final period, Auburn drove
twice deep into Manhattan terri­tory—
once to the 17 when James
Samford gathered in a toss by
Bud Wendling and later to the 12
when George Kenmore fired one
to Bill Mims, but the gun halted
them at this point.
Auburn gained 81 yards on the'
ground while earning 11 first
downs and completed 10 out of
23 passes for 97 yards. Manhat­tan
made 10 first downs while
traveling 162 yards from scrim­mage
and completed two out of
nine passes for a total of thirty
yards; however, these two passes
came during the Jaspers' touch­down
drive.
ROWDYISM
(An Editorial)
.Last night the Plainsman re­ceived
the following letter signed
by a number of outstanding Ag
students to whose honesty and re­liability
we will gladly attest.
Editor,
The Auburn Plainsman
Dear John: ,
Our annual Ag Fair was held
Saturday night and we did our
best to give an enjoyable program
for those present, but it seems
that some person or persons tried
to wreck the affair. Some indecent
remarks were cast, but thanks to
one senior in agriculture those re­marks
were taken care of.
Then there was a little matter
of a stolen ham. If the guilty per­son
was that hungry, he is wel­come
to the ham, but if not, why
can't he be gentleman enough to
make amends? Also there was one
quail lost during the affair. It
wasn't so much of a monetary
loss, but the quail was an experi­mental
bird of the Wild Life de­partment.
The bird has been on ex­periment
since it was hatched and
research officials very much de­sire
that it be returned.
We are very sorry to say that
all the evidence we have regard­ing
these unsportsmanlike actions
points to those who will be our
future leaders irr sports at Au­burn.
We feel that they should
redeem themselves by returning
the ham and the quail.
Sincerely,
A Group of Ag Students.
There is no direct proof as to
who stole the ham and the quail.
In fairness, no one is being ac­cused
on circumstantial evidence.
But theft aside, a group of boys
did crash' the script dance which
was being given. They did disturb
and embarrass some of the per­sons
present. They did damage
one of the exhibits.
The same group of boys have
disturbed theater-goers with their
rowdy behavior in the theater.
Their conduct in general has been
a disgrace to Auburn.
Most of the boys here on fresh­man
football scholarships are
clean, well-behaved gentlemen.
With them we are not concerned.
But the fact that a freshman
can lug a football or cross block
a guard does not make him sacred
in the eyes of Auburn students or
the Auburn faculty and adminis­tration.
If he can't be a gentle­man
too he can get out. There is
no place for him here.
Auburn Players
Give First Play
Tomorrow Night
Freshmen to Attend the
Performance Wednesday;
Upperclassmen Thursday
"The Crime at Blossoms," a
satire in three acts, will be pre­sented
by the Auburn Players on
Wednesday and Thursday nights,
in Langdon Hall at 8:15 o'clock.
The Players have arranged to
present two performances of the
play on successive nights in an
attempt to find some way to ac­commodate
overflow crowds in
Langdon Hall. Performances of
plays last year were frequently
hampered by the inability of all
the spectators to find seats, and
the Players have felt that the in­crease
in enrollment in the stu­dent
body this year will make the
problem of seating even more
acute.
College students will be admit­ted
to the play free of charge
upon presentation of their activity
ticket books at the door. To in­sure
some equality in distribution
of the audience between the two
nights, freshmen have been re­quested
to attend the Wednesday
performance and upperclassmen
will be admitted Thursday night.
Faculty members and townspeople
may attend either performance.
Admission for the latter will be
25 cents.
"The Crime at Blossoms" is an
English play which deals with a
sex killing in a small Sussex cot­tage.
The action begins after the
crime has been committed, and
the play pictures the unpleasant
results which follow the attempt
of the owner to convert the scene
of the outrage into a public show-place.
The burden of the acting in the
play is carried by three people:
Mary Carmack, as Valerie Merry-man,
who attempts to turn the
"Blossoms crime" into money;
James Burt, as Chris, Valerie's
shiftless husband; and Claudia
Weinmann, as Mrs. Woodman,
housekeeper for the Merrymans.
Others with fairly substantial
parts include Mildred Lippitt as a
timorous Laundry Girl; Bill Ellner
as Mr. Palmer, an irate grocer;
Lillian Jane Smith as Mrs. Car-rington,
a searcher for scandal;
Knox Millsap as Mr. Carrington,
her faithful but unwilling hus­band;
Warren Bridges as Stern,
an Anglican vicar; and Arthur
Elsberry as a Very Late Visitor.
Persons with minor speaking
roles and walk-on parts are O.
Martin Holland, Ann Owsley,
Ruby Morrison, Gene Hurt, J. H.
Wheeler, Fae Howze, Katherine
Schurter, N a n c y e Thompson,
Henry Draughon, Jessie Whittle,
Sara Green, Elliott Brogden, Fred
Duggar, Lois Mclntyre, Mary
Moreman, Mary Elizabeth Eatman,
Helen May Holt, Sue Milliroris,
and Nancy Eagar.
The play is directed by Prof.
Telfair Peet. Jane Smith is
Prompter; James Reynolds, stage
manager; Sara Lee Banks, elec­trician;
Martha Daily, manager of
properties; and Warren Bridges,
sound technician.
SCIENCE AND LITERATURE CONCLAVE
SCHEDULED FOR TOMORROW MORNING
Adams to Speak; Student
Members of Loan Fund
Board to be Elected
Two student members of the
board of directors of the John W.
Scott Loan Fund, Inc., will be
selected tomorrow morning at a
convocation in Langdon Hall of
students of the School of Science
and Literature. Time of the con­vocation
is 10:00 a.m.
James Ramsay Adams, assist­ant
secretary of the Liberty Na­tional
Life Insurance Company,
will address the meeting which is
being sponsored by Delta Sigma
Pi, honorary business administra­tion
fraternity.
Classes will be excused for all
Science and Literature School stu­dents
from 10:00 a.m. until 11:00
a.m., and attendance at the con­vocation
is required.
A nominating committee com­posed
of Carl Happer, Winfrey
Boyd, and Tom Henley will pre­sent
a slate of nominations for
the two student positions on the
board of directors of the newly
established loan fund. Other nomi­nations
will be accepted from the
floor at the meeting, and election
of the student members will be
held at the same time. One senior
and one junior student will be
elected. The selected members
will assume immediate duties on
the 10-man board of directors.
Mr. Adams will speak on the
subject of "War and Modern
Economy." He is a graduate of
Emory University in Atlanta and
of the Life Office Management
Association of New York. He is
also professor of insurance at Bir­mingham-
Southern College.
Tau Beta Pi Chooses
Fifteen New Members
Three Juniors and 12 Seniors Selected
By Outstanding Engineering Society
Tau Beta Pi, national honorary engineering society, tap­ped
12 outstanding seniors and three outstanding juniors
at the engineering seminar Monday night.
Selected from the senior class were the following men:
Lafayette Felix Bledsoe, mechanical engineering, a
member of ASME.
Paul Murray Bryant, mechanical engineering, a member
of ASME.
ROTC's To March
In Birmingham
Special Train to be Run
If 1500 Students Sign Up
Arrangements have been com­pleted
to take the entire ROTC
unit to the Villanova game in Bir­mingham
on November 11 where
it will appear in an Armistice
Day parade. This will mark the
first time in 10 years that the
cadet corps has attended a foot­ball
game as a military unit.
All arrangements are tentative
until 1500 persons are assured for
the special train which railroad
officials have agreed to run.
All ROTC cadets making the
trip must sign up with the Mili­tary
Office, agreeing to allow
$1.00 to be taken from their uni­form
allowances. This, plus $1.00
furnished by the college, will cov­er
the expenses of $2.00 for the
trip, $1.50 being for a railroad
ticket and $.50 for a ticket to the
game.
Townspeople and non - ROTC
students may also take advantage
of the special train. For them the
price of the train ticket is $1.50,
and they must purchase their tick­ets
to the game in the usual man­ner.
When the plans were explained
to the Monday ROTC classes, a
vote was taken and the students
were almost unanimously in favor
of accepting the proposition.
According to Capt. Harry L.
Watts, the special will leave Au-
Continued on page 4
Pajama Parade to
Feature "Wreck
Tech" Pep Rally
One of the most colorful pep
rallies of the year will be staged
Thursday night in the form of the
annual Georgia Tech pajama pa­rade.
The rally will be on the fresh­man
football field at 8:30, with
the cheerleaders and the band on
hand.
Billy Smith, pep manager, has
urged that all freshmen be there
equipped with pajamas and rat
caps. He has requested that no
torches be brought.
John Ellis Chesnut, textile en­gineering,
a member of Phi Psi.
Malcolm E. Hannah, chemical
engineering, a member of AIChE,
Phi Lambda Upsilon, and Delta
Sigma Phi social fraternity.
James Harold Harper, aeronau­tical
engineering.
Robert E. Heathcote, textile en­gineering,
member of Phi Psi and
Sigma Nu social fraternity.
Henry C. Maulshagen, electrical
engineering, member Eta Kappa
Nu, Phi Lambda Upsilon, and ATO
fraternity.
Carl C. Motley, electrical en­gineering,
member AIEE, and
Eta Kappa Nu.
Walter J. Mueller, chemical en­gineering,
member Phi Lambda
Upsilon and AIChE (pres.), and
Delta Sigma Phi fraternity.
Edwin Munroe, electrical en­gineering,
member AIEE and Eta
Kappa Nu.
Richard G. Norville, mechanical
engineering, member ASME and
Sigma Chi fraternity.
Ben A. Scarbrough, civil en­gineering,
member ASCE, Chi
Epsilon, Scabbard and Blade, Del­ta
Sigma Phi fraternity.
The three juniors chosen were:
Wilbur B. Davenport, electrical
engineering, member of AIEE and
Sigma Pi fraternity.
James C. McCulloch, aeronau­tical
engineering, member of Pi
K A fraternity.
James Robert Windham, chem­ical
engineering, member AIChE,
and Phi Lambda Upsilon, pledge
Pi K A fraternity.
The tapping was carried out by
having Tau Beta Pi members line
up in front of the speaker's plat­form.
Names of neophytes were
called, and they came forward and
lined up in front of the members.
After a brief speech by Joe Mack
Gafford, president of the local
chapter, members pinned the
brown and white pledge ribbons
on the new men.
The purpose of Tau Beta Pi is
"to mark in a fitting manner those
who have conferred honor upon
their Alma Mater by distinguished
scholarship and exemplary char­acter
as undergraduates in engi­neering,
or by their attainments
as alumni in the field of engineer­ing,
and to foster a spirit of lib­eral
culture in the engineering
colleges of America." There are
69 chapters of the association in
the better engineering schools of
the United States. Alabama Alpha
was established here in May, 1920.
JOSEPH KNITZER, outstanding American violinist, who will be
presented in concert tonight at 8:15 o'clock in Graves Center.
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The War At Home
WHILE CONGRESS debates and
peace organizations propagan­dize
on how we can win the fight
to stay out of war, there is just
as important a conflict to which
faint attention is being conceded.
That is the battle to keep us out
of a disastrous war boom, wheth­er
we get in the actual flood-let­ting
or not.
Experience is a bitter pill for
America to swallow. The war
boom of the first World War put
American farmers in straits from
which they have never recover­ed,
and the bubble of the late
'20's burst in the faces of all A-merica.
But our money-hungry
pocketbooks and entombed capi­tal
are already pushing us down,
down the road to ruin again.
Undoubtedly there is another
horn to the dilemma. American
capital needs to be defrosted, un­employed
labor hungers for a
chance, and t h e government
needs the monies which would
pour in from depression-imposed
taxes during a boom period.
But there must be some middle
ground between the status quo
and sheer madness. The United
States is capable of undertaking
a careful, measured expansion,
built up fo the logical high point,
then tapered off when the bot­tom
falls out. And only a few
must Be fools enough to think
that the day of economic reckon­ing
will not come.
Slowing down of the maniacal
stampede would mean govern­mental
regulation. How could it
mean otherwise? In the face of
the ever-expanding bureaucracy
of the New Deal, increased cen­tralization
and control would be
almost too much for the already-weak
heart of the average Amer­ican
little business man.
Obviously, any next move will
depend on the outcome of the
neutrality discussion in Congress.
But after that is once settled the
United States must move or sen­tence
itself to economic prostra­tion
again.
An appeal might be made to
the better senses and the social
obligations of the business man,
but judging from business' coop­eration
with government during
the past few years, that would
be futile.
If it takes governmental power
to coerce business not to slice its
own throat and that of the nation
as well, then so be it.
We prefer a little more bu-reacuracy
to a repetition of '29
and the years that followed. And
so does America.
Orchids To All Concerned
RELIGIOUS EMPHASIS Week is
over, and an outstanding suc­cess
goes down on the record.
The attendance at the lectures
was excellent — better than ex­pected.
The forums were a dis­appointment,
but partially com­pensating
were Dr. Davison's un­derstanding
of the student and
his resultant discussion of mat­ters
pertinent to the student.
The results of the Week will
hardly be seen outwardly. Its
fruits will be realized in the
the minds of those students who
understand more deeply a nd
whose mental vision is a bit clear­er.
May Religious Emphasis Week
become an annual occasion.
It's Our Move
IN ALL THE DISCUSSION over
Auburn students hitch-hiking
through Montgomery we have
failed to bring out the Montgom-erians'
side of the question. Un­doubtedly
they do have a side.
In a meeting last week the
City Commission of the capital
city clarified the bone of conten­tion
by announcing that the law
of the city was that persons could
not hitch-hike in the street. There
seems to be no ordinance against
thumbing so long as the thumbers
stand on the curb.
The Commission also stated
that the police are called into ac­tion
only on the complaint of
home-owners who are disturbed
by rowdiness among hitch-hikers.
So long as hitch-hikers thumb
from the curb and refrain from
whooping it up, they will not be
chased out of town or given free
transport in Black Maria.
The most impressive statement
of the whole controversy was one
made in a letter to the editor of
the Montgomery Advertiser, re­printed
in last Friday's Plains­man.
"If these boys want considera­tion,
let them consider and re­spect
us too. We are also citizens
of Montgomery who love our
homes and want peace, but when
it is made unbearable by a few
unthinking youngsters who feel
they have all the rights because
they are going to college, it is
time for the city and police to set
them right."
Whoever wrote that struck the
crux of the situation in a few
lines. Montgomery has showed
that it will give consideration. If
any one of us cannot reciprocate,
we deserve to meditate on our
selfishness in the Montgomery
jail.
For example, the corner where
students gather to thumb for
rides back to Auburn — located
in front of a home and a church
and just across from another
home — could just as well be
moved one block down the high­w
a y toward Auburn, where
chances of catching rides are just
as good but chances of bothering
anybody are considerably lessen­ed.
Probably many of us do come
in the category of "unthinking
youngsters who feel they have all
the rights because they are going
to college." But others do have
rights. If we wish to preserve
ours we must recognize theirs.
Who'll It Be?
OUT OF ALL THE presidential
boomlets for favorite sons,
dark horses, and duds, one clear
cut fact emerges. The Democrats
have no one except Roosevelt.
The Republicans have no one.
Dewey is the only Republican
who isn't as colorless as a dead
herring, and he hasn't cut his
political eye-teeth yet. The Dem­ocrats
are in little better straits.
They have a few men of presi­dential
timber, but beside Roose­velt
they look small in mental
stature.
With Europe at war and A-merica
fighting to stay out,
Roosevelt's bid for a third term
is much more logical and if at­tempted
much more likely of suc­cess.
The old "don't change
horses in the middle of t he
stream" argument which has
been tried to success so many
times before may be with us
again come 1940.
By John Ivey, Jr.
Editor's Note: The opinions expressed in this
column are those of the writer and are not to
be construed as the editorial policies of this
paper.
WOVEN IN SUCH manner to make us
feel glad or sad come the "authentic"
news reports from Europe. Prom across
God's gift to Amer-
^ ^ H P ^ * TI 1 Ocean, we receive the
Oto/rW H>e.y— There are stories con­cerning
Great Brit­ain's
leaflet" bombing of the German
nation in hopes that power can be lent
to the already-growing anti-Hitler
movements within that country. The
John Bull ministers of war feel that
they are doing much more via propa­ganda
bombs than they can do with
powder and shell.
But what about our side of the war
of words? The American citizens fell
victim to the powerful effects of the
Allied propaganda machine during the
last war. Is it not reasonable for us to
expect that Britain will again consider
us' a fertile ground for emotional ap­peals
and slick schemes of winning pub­lic-
approval? If they choose to fight
the war against Hitlerism with well-phrased
sentences designed for German
consumption, we can well be aware of
similar exhibitions in this country where
the effect of such methods has already
been demonstrated.
We are just as much against the
policies of Hitler and his stooges as any­one,
but the danger to our country at
present, at least, is not from Hitlerism,
but from parties interested in involv­ing
us in Europe's welter of bloodshed.
* * *
Due to the start of war in Europe, all
the football games scheduled in England
for the curent season were called off
with the exception of one. However, be­fore
the English boys went in to give all
for their dear old school, they were
careful to see that their gas masks were
hanging where they could be reached
without loss of time.
* * *
Along with the tie score between Tu-lane
and the University of North Caro­lina
this past Saturday goes a very in­teresting
story concerning what is cer­tainly
the most outstanding exhibition
of school spirit we have seen in print
this year.
The students of the North Carolina
school joined in sending a telegram to
the football team just before it started
against Tulane on the latter's home
field. The message was signed by the
entire student body of some 3,800 stu­dents.
The team went into the ball game
slated to lose, but came out with a tie
score against what is surely one of the
best teams in the South.
* * *
Carolina is one school in which the
students enjoy one of most demo­cratic
atmospheres existing on any
campus anywhere. Of course the school
is large, but basking in the advantages
of an unbeatable form of student gov­ernment
coupled with an honor system
that has developed over a long period
of years, the students are brought closer
together by their training in self-gov­ernment
than those in other institutions
in the country.
* * *
The new arrangement for the use of
Student Center should undoubtedly give
the student body a chance to realize
fuller benefits from this recreation cen­ter.
Being open at night, it will be a
place where one may drop in with a date
instead of having to spend that last
two-bits at the picture show in order to
keep the lady friend in a good humor.
On the week-end there are a lot of
students who would much rather spend
a few nickels in the record player than
go through the agony of wrapping up in
a stiff shirt to dash out to a Graves
Center-struggle.
* * *
According to "Buck" Kelley, the
Glomerata flash, the year book crew is
expecting to take Student Center over
under the protection of the Glomerata
Empire. Kelley states that there has
been a serious minority problem within
the wall of that structure and that he
and Dictator Parker must defend the
rights of this down-trodden group . . . .
he must be referring to the photo­graphers.
It will more than likely end
up in a three-cornered fight between
the Executive Cabinet, the Glomerata
and the Plainsman.
* * *
In all this fussing and fuming in
Europe we aren't hearing much about
Mussolini. Wonder what's happened to
him? Apparently he of the jutting jaw
and expanded chest knows which side
his bread is buttered on. The Scandi­navian
countries aren't the only ones
profiting from staying out of the war.
Editor,
The Auburn Plainsman
Dear Sir:
Allow me to use the columns of the
Letters to the Editor to answer John
Ivey's vitriolic attack against a great
American, Lindbergh.
Apparently your "learned" columnist
has been drawing from such intellectual
fountains as the Hearst newspapers and
Dorothy Thompson.
Does Ivey forget that Lindbergh
flew from New York to Paris alone in
1927 in a plane which most of us
wouldn't dare fly from here to Mont­gomery
in now? That took a kind of
courage which Ivey seems incapable of
understanding. If it took a "glorified
airplane mechanic" to do it, then A-merica
could use a few more of his
kind instead of gutless newspaper
writers who criticize him.
America handed Lindy a dirty deal,
something Ivey chose to ignore in his
discussion. He asked for publicity, but
he had to make a living somehow. All
of us do. But did he ask for a life that
was a hell on earth because of the yel­low
press and the sensation seekers.
Did he ask that his son be kidnapped
and he be crucified for it in the wither­ing
light of sensationalism? And I sup­pose
he asked for the final slap—the
repeated violation by the press of the
sanctity of his home and family life in
order to publicize his second son.
As for the Nazi decoration, more
than one authority, including Life mag­azine,
which attacked him one week
and published an explanation the next,
have stated that the decoration was
pinned on him as a surprise move, that
he knew nothing of it, and could not
have refused gracefully.
Undoubtedly Lindbergh talks too
much. But don't we all, including your­self,
Ivey? Undoubtedly he poses as an
And So the Skeleton in
THE FOLLOWING news item appear-peared
in the Montgomery Advertiser
of October 18.
The City Commission formally receiv­ed
a petition yesterday morning signed
by 76 Auburn students, who live in
Montgomery, requesting that they be
allowed to stand on the streets and
thumb rides without being molested by
the police. Their feelings rumpled be­cause
of recent experiences with the
police department, the students told
the commission all other cities in the
State were hospitabily inclined toward
college boys. "And Montgomery, steep­ed
in the traditions of the Old South,
should measure up in this respect," the
petitioners observed.
While little comment on the part of
Commissioners W. P. Screws and W. A.
Gayle, the petition was filed and refer­red
to the police department. Mayor
Gunter did not attend the meeting on
account of illness.
The commissioners did say, however,
that Montgomery had no ordinance pro­hibiting
the Auburn students from
standing on the sidewalks and, in an
orderly manner, asking passing motor­ists
for a lift back to the campus. The
ordinance, adopted several years ago,
prevents anyone from standing in the
street and thumbing a ride. This law,
it was said, was not aimed at college
War And The Campus
AS ALWAYS HAPPENS when a great
political or social question faces the
nation, college students are today form­ing
organizations to influence the opin­ion
of their fellow students on the
questions of war and neutrality.
At Princeton University, undergrad­uates
have formed "The American In­dependence
League", which is "dedicat­ed
to the purpose of revealing, strength­ening
and expressing the determination
of the American people to keep out
of the European war." The League al­ready
counts one-third of Princeton's
student body as members, and a second
chapter of the organization has been
formed on the Harvard University
campus. Incidentally, national head­quarters
of the new organization are in
the offices formerly occupied by the
Veterans of Future Wars, now defunct.
Not quite so serious, but just as in­teresting,
are two other proposals that
have made their appearance in the last
week or two. In the University of Pitts­burgh's
towering Cathedral of Learning
there has sprung up the "Loyal Order
of Sons of Leavenworth," whose slogan
is "If America goes to war, we go to
Leavenworth."
Here's an interesting paragraph from
a letter explaining the organization:
"Hurry! Form your own District Cell of
the Loyal Order of Sons of Leaven­worth!
Pick your cell-mate while you
may. Write now for your free member­ship
card entitling you to all the privi­leges
of our future homes. Write to­day
to ask any questions you may wish
about our secret shuffle, our national
symbol—the ball and chain — or any
other practices of our exclusive Order."
On the Cornell,, University campus,
Stan Cohen, columnist for the Cornell
Daily Sun, stirred up a bit of interest
authority on a lot of subjects which he
knows nothing about. But after reading
your column, I gather that he isn't the
only person guilty of that.
As to your nasty reference about his
return to the land of the free, Lind­bergh
returned to America to take a
job with small pay and little apprecia­tion
in the aeronautics division of the
United States government, a job which,
according to Life magazine, he was ask­ed
by the government to come back and
take.
Yes, a man is a poor patriot who
gives up his beloved solitude and re­turns
to a country he has every reason
to hate to serve his government for a
pittance.
America could use more like him.
Sincerely,
A Fair-Minded Student.
Editor
The Auburn Plainsman
Dear Sir:
If ever we do get a dean of men, one
of the functions which I hope he will
exercise is that of a central authority
to excuse absences.
A year or so ago the father of one
of my friends died and I wanted to at­tend
the funeral. Ifer dean refused to
excuse me from classes. Several of my
friends who happened to be in differ­ent
schools were given excuses without
any hesitation.
Maybe I should be refused an ab­sence
because I am taking one course,
and my friends be excused because they
are taking some others, but I cannot
see the fairness.
All my protests to the dean were
useless. I didn't object particularly to
being refused an excuse; I did mind
being discriminated against.
B. A.
the Closet Is Buried
students and did not affect them now
unless they insisted upon getting out
into the street and making themselves
a traffic hazard and nuisance.
From sources outside the commission
it was learned at City Hall that the
police had been indulgent with Auburn
boys who came here for football games
and other weekend occasions. The mis­understanding
this Fall was said to have
arisen when the police, acting upon
complaint of citizens, took a few of the
boys into custody but made no charge
against them.
In their petition, the students said
they were citizens of Montgomery,
"paying taxes and voting here, so we
shquld be allowed to stand on the city
streets and ask for rides." For com­mercial
reasons they contended the city
fathers should permit thumbing rides.
They said they frequently came here
to buy clothing and other merchandise
to help Montgomery merchants.
"The Auburn students are not irre­sponsible
vagabonds, but serious stu­dents,"
the petition added.
In effect, the commission advised the
boys they and their college friends were
always welcomed to Montgomery, and
that so long as they conducted them­selves
properly, they need have no fear
of being arrested by the police of this
city.
with this telegram to Secretary of State
Cordell Hull: "Sun political experts ad­vocates
corridor through Canada to
join Alaska to Union, free enslaved
minorities in Vancouver, protect eco­nomic
future of nation. Would resort
to force if necessary. Can we expect
support of State Department?"
At this writing, the Hitler-like pro­posal
has met with no response from
Mr. Hull!— (ACP)
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COMPARED. WITH ANY other coun­try
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For instance, in the matter of auto­mobiles,
France shows one car to 25
persons, England shows one to 25, Ger­many
one to 55, Italy one to 109, and
the United States one to every five per­sons.
We in this country own 60 per cent
of the telephones in the world.
We own 44 per cent of the radios.
We have twice as many homes per
thousand of population as compared to
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world.
The amount of insurance we have in
force in our country is double that of
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Fourth-of-July orator! — The Silver
Lining.
By Herbert Martin
Editor's Note: The opinions expressed in this
column are those of the writer and are not to
be construed as the editorial policies of this
paper.
ONE WEEK FROM today we will have
a chance to take an active part in
showing student opinion on a question
which is of interest to all of us.
Many students consider the present
cut system unsatisfactory, and in the
student opinion poll next Tuesday all
students will have the opportunity to
express their views one way or the oth­er.
A vote for change in this balloting
will not insure a change, but it will be
a valuable tool in the work of change.
Students will be asked whether or not
they favor the present cut rule which
subtracts two per cent from their grades
for each unexcused absence. If stu­dents
desire to change this rule, sug­gestions
for the proposed new rule will
be taken into consideration by the group
which will form a more suitable rule
and offer it to the authorities for sub­stitution
for the present system.
It is believed that an overwhelming
affirmative vote for change will make
enough impression on the college of­ficials
to persuade them to listen fav­orably
to any suggested new plan.
For this opinion poll to enjoy maxi­mum
success, a really lop-sided affirm­ative
will be needed. For this reason,
let us urge you to take advantage of
this opportunity to help in abolishing
this rule. We feel that the students fav­or
change almost 100 per cent, but we
need proof to back this up. We are
hoping to get this proof Tuesday. If
you are with us, do your part by vot­ing
next Tuesday, and by urging oth­ers
to vote as well.
*
Cutting a few new teeth, and sharp­ening
those which it already possesses,
the Executive Cabinet is this year work­ing
toward making student government
a reality, instead of just a nice-sound­ing
phrase to throw into college pamph­lets
and publicity material.
By student government we mean just
that. We don't mean government by
that group elected to serve on the Cabi­net,
and we don't refer to the govern­ment
of any other select group. This
year, class meetings will be held for
two principal purposes. Number One
is to bring the classmen closer togeth­er;
Number Two is to determine stu­dent
opinion, and, as class presidents
are to serve on the Cabinet, to give the
classes an actual voice.
The new constitution will set forth
the powers of the students. The new
idea is to make use of these powers in­stead
of letting them accumulate dust
on some near-forgotten shelf.
* *
Outplayed and outclassed all the way
by a vastly superior Plainsman Panther
aggregation, a gamely fighting Glom­erata
Gas-house Gang nevertheless
managed to pluck two six-point posies
from the flower-basket of Lady Luck in
the feetball battle Friday. The Gas-housers
sat upon these gifts of the gods
until the cows came home, or at least
until darkness dimmed the eyes of the
sterling Panther receivers.
That sounds pretty good, doesn't it?
Actually, the Glamour Guys, assisted by
some brawny toughs who signed up for
the annual staff late Thursday night as
soon as they could dicker for salary,
played some pretty fine ball.
They manufactured a touchdown in
the opening moments the hard way, and
kept the Panthers backed up through­out
the half. Both second-half touch­downs
came as the result of undeniable
breaks. An alert G. G. (I didn't be­lieve
until Friday that there was any
such animal) grabbed a Panther pass
to open the second half and raced un­challenged
across the pay-off stripe.
Later in the same period, a Plainsman
punt, excellently screened by the gath­ering
darkness, bounced off the knee of
the Graft Wave safety man, and was
recovered by the Panthers deep in
Glomerata territory. A couple of pass­es
brought the tally.
After the next kickoff, the Glomera­ta
lads hid the ball in a hole in the
ground, and it wasn't found until the
fourth quarter was practically over.
Purty good, Kelley.
* * *
Plans for a dance to be given by fra­ternity
pledges as a group are under­way.
Nothing definite has been done,
but it seems to be an excellent idea.
Such an affair is bound to bring the
fraternities closer together, as these
men will in the future be the frat men
who will have a voice in fraternity
policy.
Cooperation is best taught by work­ing
together, and this dance might be
a step in increasing fraternity coopera­tion.
Men who might not become ac­quainted
for years will meet in the
work connected with this function.
Whoever thought of this idea had
something in his head besides the well-known
space.
* * * *
Carrie, the Campus' Cutest Coed,
says, "Women are primitive, ain't
they?"
October 24, 1939 T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN Page Three
UP IN SOCIETY
By EMMA NELL PARRISH
SAE Dance
A banquet and house dance was given by the pledges
of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Saturday night at the chapter
house. The dining hall was
decorated with the frater­nity's
colors of purple and
gold, and fall flowers were
used throughout the house.
Mrs. Ruby Hart, housemoth­er,
was chaperone for the
affair.
Dates of the pledges
were: Mary Frances Nich­ols,
Helonise Marshall, Ruth
Burton, Jule Tisdale, June
Wilson, Isabelle Dunklin,
Eva Wilkenson, Doris Carpenter, Jane White, Frances
Smith, Mary Stanley Bridges, Anne Rouse, Cornelia Stokes,
Margaret McCain, Connie B.eeland, Ann Beeland, Jane
Fletcher, Beth Knight, Nell Thompson and Barbara Brent.
Kappa Delta Supper
The patronesses of Kappa Delta Sorority entertained
the members and pledges at the home of Mrs. Wilbur Hut-sell
Sunday night. The guests were greeted by Mrs. Homer
Wright and a delicious cold plate was served buffet style
by Mesdames Hutsell, Wallace Tidmore, C. A. Cary, and
B. M. Cornell. After dinner coffee and cake were served.
Pi Kappa Phi Pledge Dance
The Pi Kappa Phi House was the setting for a social
given Friday evening by the pledges of the fraternity. Some
•„ 100 guests, including the pledges and mem­bers
of the chapter and their dates together
with two pledges from each of the other fra­ternities
on the campus and their dates, en­joyed
dancing and were later served refresh­ments.
Mrs. Stella Foy Williams, the chapter
housemother, chaperoned the social.
The social was arranged under the supervision of the
pledge officers, William Melton, president, and Frasier
Fortner, secretary and treasurer, both assisted by Jack
Fortner, pledge captain, and "D" Huggins, social chairman.
Home Management House Tea
The home economics faculty and home management
girls entertained at a formal tea from 3:00 to 6:00 Sun­day
afternoon in celebration of the formal opening of the
new home management house.
About 300 guests called during the afternoon. They
were greeted at the door by Miss Lilly Spencer. In the re­ceiving
line were Dr. and Mrs. L. N. Duncan, Mrs. Marion
Spidle, Miss Florence Davis, and Miss Beatrice Hicks.
Guests were shown over the new house by students and
faculty members. Presiding over the tea table was Miss
Dana Gatchell.
Irby-Threadgill Marriage
Miss Helen Earle Irby of Lower Peach Tree and Oscar
W. Threadgill of Birmingham were married October 15
fn a quiet ceremony in the study of the First Presbyterian
Church, Montgomery.
Miss Irby attended Auburn for the past two years, tak­ing
business administration. She was a pledge of Theta Up-silon
sorority.
Threadgill received his degree in agricultural engineer­ing
here at the August graduation exercises. He is a mem­ber
of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity.
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Students Passing Corner
By REDDING SUGG
Since clothes make the man
and the men make Auburn, we
decided to stand on Toomer's
Corner and list the visible gar­ments
of the first ten male stu­dents
to pass. College fashions
are national news on account of
their eccentricity, but even with
rose-colored glasses we could find
nothing particularly startling in
the vestments of the men inspect­ed.
Unexpectedly, they were all
almost well-dressed, even from an
"Esquire" point of view.
The first victim was brightly
though not flashily clad in sky-blue
pants with maroon checks,
a blue sweater, blue shirt, black
leather shoes, and a black belt. He
was followed by a young man
who carried out the high-water
tradition in regard to britches.
Third entry in the Plainsman
fashion survey lived up to expec­tations.
He sported trousers of
bilious green, generously speckled
with indiscriminate shades of red,
orange, blue, and purple. Begin­ning
again at the feet, we saw
white and brown saddle shoes; a
little higher we discovered one of
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Glancing up from the survey of
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moccasins, brown pants, a white
shirt, and a bronze tie. On the
heels of the foregoing contestant
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whose white shoes and shirt and
brown lower garments contrasted
with a violently striped tie. The
tie overshadowed a red and grey
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by a triumphant orange
and blue rat cap. After the lowly
rodent strode a lordly gentleman
whose drab clothes were saved
from oblivion by a huge orange
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a blue jacket.
Two friendly lads followed the
athlete. The lads wouldn't have
loved one another up so much had
they been of the female species,
for they were almost identically
dressed in dark trousers, white
shirts, and sweaters.
There are the results, plus a
few rainbow colored socks which
could not be accurately describ-
All of the ROTC uniforms are
here except the blouses, which are
expected to come in some time
this week.
* * *
Tennis Court Committee will
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301 at 5:00 o'clock.
* * *
Camera Club meeting tonight
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Page Four THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN October 24, 1939
Irene Dunne And
Boyer Cast In
New Love Story
" W h e n T o m o r r o w C o m e s"
F e a t u r e D i r e c t i o n of
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Three great names combine to
p r o d u c e "When Tomorrow
Comes," the attraction which will
be shown Wednesday and Thurs­day
at the Tiger Theatre.
The three are Producer-Direct­or
John M. Stahl, and the stars,
Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer.
For the past 10 years StahPs
name has been prominently listed
among the great directors of the
screen.
His "Back Street," "Magnifi­cent
Obsession," " "Only Yester­day"
and " Letter of Introduc­tion,"
have ranked among the
best pictures of their respective
years. He is recognized as one of
the screen's geniuses.
Miss Dunne, since her outstand­ing
work in "Showboat," "Magnif­icent
Obsession," "Back Street,"
and her more recent "Love Af­fair,"
is one of the great feminine
personalities of pictures. And
Boyer, who has supplanted Valen­tino
in the hearts of American
women, now ranks as tops among
the male personalities.
"When Tomorrow Comes" links
the players in a vital love story
played against the background of
the recent hurricane which devas­tated
portions of New England.
Boyer will be seen as a famous
French pianist, while Miss Dunne
is a waitress who meets and falls
in love with him in seventy-two
hours.
In supporting roles will be seen
Barbara O'Neil, Anslow Stevens,
Nydia Westman, Fritz Feld, Nella
Walker, and Greta Myer.
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"The Keystone of Golf", a
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and evening in Ramsay 102.
The movie is sponsored by the
intramural sports department, and
students, townspeople, and all in­terested
are invited to attend.
Making up the Institute team
are "Light Horse Harry" Cooper,
Lawson Little, Horton Smith, and
Jimmy Thomson. Sound comments
are by Bobby Jones.
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TIGER
Modest Youthful Virtuoso Prefers To
Talk About Inter-Collegiate Football
W i l l b e A c c o m p a n i e d by
W i f e in C o n c e r t T o n i g ht
By BOB ANDERSON
The life of a concert violinist
is "not a very good life if you
don't like it," said Joseph Knitzer,
in an interview in his hotel room
yesterday afternoon, and then
continued with, "but I like it."
The youthful virtuoso — he is
only 25 and looks more like a
typical football player than a vio­linist
— arrived in Auburn Sun­day
night, and was greeted as
he stepped from the train by a
crowd of several hundred wildly
yelling students and the music of
the Auburn Band. Incidentally the
Auburn Tigers came in on the
same train returning from their
game in Manhattan.
Knitzer opens Auburn's 1939
Concert Series tonight at 8:15 in
Bibb Graves Center, playing a
Guadagnini violin, vintage of
1750.
Preferring to talk about inter­collegiate
football to his own life
and work, Knitzer bemoaned the
loss of Southwestern to the Mis­sissippi
State team this past week­end.
His opinion of Auburn could
be seen to rise when he was in­formed
that the Tigers downed
the State eleven last week. His
wife, who accompanies him at the
piano in his concerts, is a South­ern
girl. Her father is head of the
Department of Greek at South­western.
Mr. and Mrs. Knitzer came to
Auburn directly from Greenville,
S. C, where he played a concert
at Furman University. Wednesday
morning they leave for Massa­chusetts,
from there go to Canr
ada, and from Canada back into
the South to Atlanta. Eight
months of the year the Knitzers
spend in playing the principal
cities and educational centers of
the nation. The other four months,
the summer season, they spend in
Vermont.
Born in New York, Knitzer was
raised in Detroit, where he began
his musical career at the age of
seven. He made his debut at 14
as soloist with the New York Sym­phony
under Walter Damrosch and
then turned his back on the pub­lic
limelight to study in Detroit,
Chicago, Philadelphia, and in New
York under Louis Persinger.
He has played in most of the
leading symphony orchestras in
the country, including such fam­ous
ones as the Detroit Symphony,
Philadelphia Symphony (under
Stokowski) and the New York
Philharmonic-Symphony.
In 1934 he won the Walter
Naumberg award, and the follow­ing
year the prize of the National
Federation of Music Clubs as well
as the Schubert Memorial Award.
His work on the radio has been
extensive, and he has played on
the Kraft Program with Bing
Crosby, on the Ford Radio Hour,
and on the RCA Magic Key pro­gram.
He is booked through the
Columbia Concerts Corporation.
This is the last week that pic­tures
for the Glomerata will be
made. Last year's pictures will
not be accepted. Also several
hundred proofs have arrived.
Come by and select the print that
you want in the annual as soon as
possible.
BOWL
Fun,
for
Health and
Relaxation
at
SNEAD'S
Bowling Alleys
Opelika
Swing into Fall with a new outfit from
Ward & King!
Just Received —
New Fall Patterns in
MANHATTAN
SHIRTS
% Manhattanized Collar
$2
New Fall Styles in Collegiate
SWEATERS and
JACKETS
Priced $2.95 UP
Sleeveless Sweaters —- $ 1 . 00
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Phone 190
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ROTC To Birmingham
Continued from page 1
burn about 7:00 o'clock Saturday
morning.
When the train reaches Bir­mingham,
the cadet corps will form
and parade through the downtown
section. Immediately following the
parade, the corps will take part in
an Armistice Day program. After
this, the unit will be dismissed.
At the present time the hour
has not been set for the returning
train to leave Birmingham. The
Military Department is attempting
to get the railroad company to run
two trains back; one at 6:00 and
the other to leave several hours
later, and also to get the return
tickets, which are at the present
good only on the special, made
good on Sunday trains. This has
not been definitely settled as yet.
The Department is also trying
to make arrangements to feed the
students at lunch. However, this
is only in the form of an idea,
and nothing definite has been
done.
The last time the cadet corps
attended a football game as a mili­tary
unit was on October 12,
1929. At that time the ROTC unit
went to Montgomery for the Au­burn-
Florida game.
University of New Hampshire
students may now rent reproduc­tions
of fine pictures to decorate
their rooms.
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these Carburetor Kaywoodies, you auto­matically
draw air in through a tiny inlet
in the bottom of the bowl. That incom­ing
air keeps the smoke cool, sweet and
serene, no matter how belligerently you
puff. In fact, the harder you puff, the
more air comes in. That's why it's called
a Carburetor Kaywoodie. Everybody .
knows that a Kaywoodie is the most so­cially-
conscious of pipes—gets itself ad­mired
everywhere. And the Kaywoodie
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money
TOOMER'S
THE STORE ON THE CORNER
Since 1896
Request Made for
Preservation of
Drill Field Hedge
The Military Department has
requested that persons crossing
the drill field or going on and
off it refrain from breaking
through the hedge surrounding
the field.
A great deal of effort has been
expended nursing the hedge to its
beauty, and it is being destroyed
by so many people forcing their
way through it instead of using
the regular entrances to the field.
Both the Military Department
and the ROTC cadets have al­ways
taken pride in the neat ap­pearance
of the field and the
hedge and are asking that all oth­ers
do the same.
Signs will be built in the near
future and placed around the
field, asking that persons use the
regular entrances.
Notices
All members of the Cadet Corps
who have not drawn their uni­forms
(except blouses) will do so
before drill Thursday, Oct. 26,
1939.
* * *
Tau Kappa Alpha, National
Forensic society, will hold its
first meeting of the year at 5:00
o'clock Thursday, October 26.
* * *
There will be a special examina­tion
for persons who did not have
a 1939 drivers license at the City
Hall on Thursday afternoon from
1:00 to 5:00 o'clock. It will be
given by the State Highway Pa­trol.
Prof. E. D. Hess will present a
choral reading program to the lit­erary
department of the Woman's
Club Thursday afternoon at the
Lee County High School. The en­tire
membership of the Woman's
Club is invited to attend.
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Phone 72
Opelika, Alabama
Your patronage appreciated
Plainsman-Glomerata
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man Stratford, Martin, Holland,
who played a great game at guard,
and diminutive Sumner Nesbitt
were outstanding.
It was a great game and we
wuz licked fairly.
EAT INGRAM'S BREAD
"ONCE TASTED NEVER WASTED"
We are now featuring a new and larger loaf
which weighs 20 ounces.
INGRAM'S BAKERY
OPELIKA
(/(/ClCCl/...opens Doors
to Fields where People
Live,W>rk & Achieve
X.o day there are about 1,000,000
cigar stores, drug stores, country and grocery stores where
you can buy cigarettes in the United States. These re­tailers,
and the jobbers who serve them, have built up
a service of courtesy and convenience unmatched by any other
industry catering to the American public's pleasure.
[HERE ARE ANOTHER MILLION people who
are engaged directly or indirectly in the transportation of
cigarettes to every town, hamlet and crossroads.
I T IS ESTIMATED that there are 1,602,000
tobacco farmers raising tobacco in 20 out of the 48
states. Good tobacco is one of the hardest crops to
raise and bring to market, requiring great skill and
patience from seed-bed planting to harvesting and cur­ing.
The modern tobacco farmer has done welt the job
of constantly improving the quality of his product.
LlIE AVERAGE LENGTH of service of the 13,230
people working in the Chesterfield factories, storage
houses, leaf-handling and redrying plants is over 10
years. This means that every step in the making of
Chesterfields, regardless of how small, is handled by peo­ple
who have had 10 years of experience and ability in
knowing their jobs.
JllULY TOBACCO OPENS DOORS to fields where
people live, work and achieve, and Chesterfield takes-pride
in its ever increasing part in this great industry that
is devoted entirely to the pleasure of the American public.
LO SMOKERS, Chesterfield Cigarettes have
always said, and now repeat, that in no other cigarette
made can you find the same degree of real mildnessand
good taste, or the same high quality of properly cured
and aged tobaccos. Chesterfield Cigarettes are made
with one purpose only... to give smokers everywhere
the MILDER, BETTER-TASTING SMOKING PLEA­SURE
they want. You can't buy a better cigarette.
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