1940-01-26 The Auburn Plainsman

              Glee Club Tryouts
Monday and Tuesday THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN Auburn vs. Howard
Tomorrow Night
VOL. LXIII z-i ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, JANUARY 26, 1940 No. 34
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Recently featured in a nationwide radio release over the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Auburn
Glee Club is seeking to add new members this semester through a tryout session to be held Monday night,
January 29, at 7 o'clock. Director Lawrence Barnett has announced that the Girls Glee Club will also
hold tryouts Tuesday, beginning at 4:30 p.m. Both tryouts are to be held in the Glee Club room at the L
Building.
Successor Not Yet Grant To Address
Faculty On Monday
Former Minister to
Albania Taught Here
Hugh Grant, formerly instruct­or
in journalism at API and later
United States minister to Albania,
is scheduled to address the Au­burn
Faculty Forum Monday
night, at 7:30 in the dining room
of the new Women's Quadrangle.
Ordinarily held on Wednesday,
the Forum meeting has been shift­ed
to Monday night for this spec­ial
attraction.
Mr. Grant, accompanied by his
wife and daughter, is expected to
arrive in Auburn Sunday for a
visit of several days. The Grants
will be guests of Dr. and Mrs. L.
N. Duncan and Dr. and Mrs. JB.
R. Showalter during their stay
here.
Hugh Grant was associate pro­fessor
of political science and head
of journalism instruction at Au­burn
from 1923 to 1927, leaving
Auburn to become secretary to
Senator Hugh Black. In 1933 he
became connected with the Divis­ion
of Western European Affairs
of the State Department where he
remained until 1935. In that year
he was appointed minister to Al­bania
by President Roosevelt and
held this post until the national
identity of the Balkan nation was
lost through invasion by Italy.
Mr. Grant has a number of
movies of scenes in Albania, which
may be shown during his visit
here.
Coach to Take Rice
Place February 1
Auburn officials stated yester­day
that if a successor is chosen
for the position of head line coach
of football, left vacant by Coach
Dell Morgan, who takes over a
similar position at Rice Institute
on Feb 1, he will come from the
present staff of Auburn coaches.
However, the consensus of opinion
seems to be that if any one of the
assistant line coaches is elevated
to the position of head it will be
after spring training is over.
The head line coach would
come from the staff of aides that
includes Porter Grant, end coach;
Buddy McCollum, freshman ment­or;
Ralph Jordan, head basketball
coach, tutor of the centers, and
chief scout; Boots Chambless,
guard coach and scout; Bobby
Blake, assistant freshman coach;
and Jimmie Hitchcock, backfield
tutor. Of the group the four line
instructors are the most likely
choices.
Who will take over Morgan's
duties as varsity baseball coach is
another matter that has not yet
been decided.
Morgan has been line coach at
Auburn since Jack Meagher be­came
head coach here in 1934 and
is regarded as one of the top line
mentors of the South. He is ex­pected
to help the new Rice coach,
Jess Neely, conduct Spring foot­ball
practice.
The new Rice line coach began
his coaching career in 1926 at the
completion of his competitive days
at Austin College. He coached
high school football at Panhandle
one year, then tutored Lubbock
High two years until he accepted
the job at Texas Tech in 1930,
where he remained until 1934,
when he was invited by Meagher
to accompany him to Auburn.
Jack Meagher, head coach and
athletic director, was not avail­able
for any statement on the pos­sibility
of Morgan's successor for
either of his two major jobs.
Coach Meagher has been in Bir­mingham
for several days work­ing
on arrangements for a proj­ected
football-game next fall with
Villanova.
AuBu/W
Chicago University
Appoints Rauber to
Celebration Post
Dr. Earle L. Rauber, acting
head of the department of eco­nomics,
has been appointed a
member of the national commit­tee
of the Alumni Foundation of
the University of Chicago and
chairman of the Foundation's Au­burn
committee.
Appointment of Dr. Rauber by
Clifton M. Utley, vice-chairman of
the Foundation, marks the open­ing
of a series of activities by
alumni looking to participation in
the Fiftieth Anniversary Celebra­tion
of the University in 1941.
First objective of the Foundation
is an alumni gift to be presented
at the anniversary celebration.
A graduate of the University
of Chicago in 1924, Dr. Rauber
continued his studies there and
received his PhD degree in 1930.
Sigma Pi's Choose
New Housemother
Mrs. David W. Crossland of
Montgomery has been named as
housemother for Sigma Pi frater­nity.
She assumed her new duties
on Jan. 10.
Mrs. Crossland was formerly
hostess of the tea room at Hunt­ingdon
for two years and has serv­ed
as housemother for a fraterni­ty
at the University of Alabama
for two years.
BEHIND THE HEADLINES
Cl'll n l%lf I *s *^e sta*us °f *ne P°st °f head line
311 l/UUDllUI coach. Popular belief is that assistant
line coaches will continue in their positions "and no head
will be appointed, at least at present. See column 1.
M l |\ I • comes to town this afternoon to take
LUUf UlJCn over the Graves Center bandstand for
the Junior Prom. He'll have a job on his hands pleasing the
crowd that heard Hal Kemp twice yesterday. See column 7.
Wf\rtr\\\r\\\t\Y\e are u n (*e r w a ^ t o a(*d an 11th game to
n c Q O l l d l l O n S Auburn's already tough 10-game grid
schedule for next fall. The opponent? The tough Villanova
Wildcats. The scene? Birmingham. See page 4.
r VA»M« ^'S D e e n s m c e Auburn and Howard met
j 6 V 6 n l U u i S in intercollegiate sports. They resume
relations tomorrow night at 7:30 in Alumni Gym, preceded
at 6 o'clock by the Freshmen-Tallassee game. See page 4.
Book by Faculty
Member Adopted by
State High Schools
Prof. S. L. Chesnutt, professor
of agricultural education, stated
Wednesday that his new book, •
"The Rural South", had been
adopted as a standard 10th grade
textbook for all state-supported
high schools of Alabama and that
it might be adopted in other
Southern states.
According to the author the
book, which came off the press of
the Dixie Book Company of Mont­gomery
a few days ago, is intend­ed
to discuss agricultural prob­lems
in a manner understandable
to school children.
In six sections and 30 chapters
Prof. Chesnutt discusses the back­ground,
the people, the factors
and influences, the change in
economy, and the future outlook
of the South.
In his section of acknowledge­ments
he expresses his apprecia­tion
for the help of a number of
Auburn faculty and administrative
members including Dr. L. N. Dun­can,
Dr. Paul Irvine, Dr. J. R.
R u t l a n d , Executive Secretary
Ralph Draughon, L. O. Brackeen
and Emmett Sizemore of the Ex­tension
Service, and former facul­ty
members Dr. R. L. Johns and
Dr. George Scarseth.
Mr. Chesnutt's book was print­ed
in mimeographed form some
time ago and distributed to 12
Alabama high schools and used,
after which it was incorporated,
along w i t h suggestions and
changes, into the present finished
volume.
See Montgomery Advertiser ed­itorial
on page 2.
Second Semester Duchin to Take Over Bandstand
Kmorrlw At Junior Prom This Aft. :ernoon
Fee-Paying Lines Close
At Noon; Late Fee Will
Be Added on Monday
Only 1,671 students had regis­tered
for the second semester
when the fees line closed yester­day
afternoon, the accountant's
office said this morning.
Registration officials u r g ed
yesterday that all students who
had not registered by tomorrow
morfling do so as early as possible.
Fee payment lines will close
promptly at 12 o'clock tomorrow
and will not reopen until Mon­day,
when the late registration
fee of $3 goes into effect.
A registration figure close to
the first semester mark of more
than 3500 is expected for the sec­ond
semester.
SOILS MEN HOLD
STATE MEET HERE
District supervisors of Ala­bama's
soil conservation program
met in Auburn Tuesday and Wed­nesday
for a series of discussions
devoted to problems of soil im­provement
in the state. Originally
scheduled to continue* through
Thursday, the meetings were
brought to an early close because
of unfavorable weather.
Eleven district supervisors at­tended
the meetings. Also present
were Extension Service workers
and Soil Conservation Service
men.
Pinal speaker on the two-day
program was Dean M. J. Punchess
of the School of Agriculture, who
talked on "Fitting Soil Conserva­tion
into a Farm Program." Oth­er
speakers during the session
were Dr. L. N. Duncan, president
of Auburn; P. O. Davis, director,
Alabama Extension Service; O. C.
Medlock and Jule Liddell of the
Soil Conservation Service; A. W.
Jones, state director, Agricultural
Adjustment Administration; and
M. H. Pearson, state director,
Farm Security Administration.
Several field meetings on the
Experiment Station had been plan­ned,
but were called off because
of weather conditions.
CIVIL SERVICE
EXAMS PLANNED
Hathcock Speaks to
Group of Seniors
Announcement of the consoli­dated
Civil Service examination
for junior professional assistants
for work in the United States De­partment
of Agriculture and oth­er
Federal agencies sets Feb. 5
as the date when application for
examination must be on file with
the Civil Service Commission in
Washington, D. C.
S. L. Hathcock, principal eco­nomic
adviser for the United
States Civil Service Commission
in Washington, D. C, addressed a
group of Auburn seniors Wednes­day
afternoon on a number of as­pects
of Civil Service work.
Prompt action is necessary in
preparing the application because
some students may need time for
obtaining the required certificates
of residence. Copies of the an­nouncement
are posted on the
Samford Hall bulletin board and
in Dean M. J. Funchess' office,
and will give full directions for
obtaining application forms.
The announcement lists 28 op­tional
subjects and an applicant
can be examined in only one of
the optional subjects.
Students are not eligible for ap­pointment
until they complete
their courses and have a bache­lor's
degree, but they may be ex­amined
this spring and can then
complete their qualifications im­mediately
on graduation.
Salaries are $2,000 a year, but
there are also some openings at
$1,800 and $1,620 a year for
those willing to accept these rates,
which allow equally good oppor­tunity
for promotion and advance­ment.
The written examination will
last about 5% hours, and the date
will be announced later.
The Civil Service Commission
has announced the optional sub­jects
for examination as includ-
Continued on page 4
Hal Kemp Makes Hit With Large Crowds
At Two Mid-Year Dances Yesterday
At 4 o'clock this afternoon Eddy Duchin and his or­chestra
will take over the Junior Prom bandstand at Graves
Center, filled yesterday afternoon and night by Hal Kemp
and his band, for a four-dance stand lasting through to­morrow
night.
Duchin's band is flying down from Washington, D. C.
today and was scheduled to arrive in Atlanta, Ga. this
morning. In spite of reports in yesterday's daily papers that
planes could not land at Atlanta
because of weather conditions,
Tom Henley, Social Committee
chairman, said this morning that
in a telephone conversation with
the city last night he was told that
Duchin's chartered plane could be
brought in there with safety.
However, in case a landing can­not
be made in Atlanta, the band
will fly on to Montgomery, where
Henley will meet them.
Davis Speaks At
State Press Meet
Former Plainsman Head
Has Charge of Forum
Neil Davis, publisher of the Lee
County Bulletin and former edit­or
of the Plainsman, led a discus­sion
on "Editorial Problems" Sat­urday
afternoon at the meeting of
the Alabama Press Association in
Birmingham last week-end.
Davis presented a brief speech
on the subject and the round-table
forum followed. Among ed­itorial
problems discussed were
the treatment of Negro news, ed­itorial
page features, and giving
the city personality through the
editorial pages.
The Association meeting, held
Friday and Saturday, was the
largest ever held, with more than
100 newspapers represented. Sat­urday
night the editors were spec­ial
guests at the "Symphony of
the South" broadcast.
Reporter Finds That Hal Kemp Still
Has His Southern Characteristics
Band Leader Retains
His Dixie Drawl
By HERBERT MARTIN
Despite the recent statement of
two eminent sociologists who
bravely asserted that women
marrying musicians have small
chances for domestic happiness,
14 young ladies have taken the
step with members of Hal Kemp's
band, and are all happily married
at present.
This fact was revealed with a
number of others by no less a per­sonage
than Hal Kemp himself as
he submitted to grueling question­ing
during intermission of last
night's dance. A goodly percent­age
of the orchestra wives accom­panied
the band to Auburn.
Kemp, who lived the first 14
years of his life in Marion, Ala.,
still retains much of that good old
southern drawl and has forgotten
none of the hospitality and cour­tesy
learned way back when.
Though he answered to a num­ber
of questions, Kemp could be
evasive when he chose. When ask­ed
his opinion of such bands as
Artie Shaw's former organization
and the present Woody Herman
group, he replied harmlessly that
he liked good music no matter
how it was played or who played
it.
Beginning his musical career
with a job pumping a player piano
in the Marion theatre, Kemp has
since mastered every instrument
in the band. A trumpet player for
quite a while, he finally decided
that reed instruments were more
to his liking and changed to his
present sax and clarinet combina­tion.
One of the band members snap­ped
two full reels of movie film
of the automobile accident suf­fered
by several of the musicians
Tuesday night but lost them in
Birmingham when they invited
some Howard College students to
join them for a party the next
night. Some enterprising lad con­fiscated
the evidence.
Mr. Kemp, who rose to fame
from a start as a college band
leader at the University of North
Carolina, thinks that college or­chestras
have a good chance of
making good if they are willing
to work, and work hard. Leaving
NCU in the middle twenties, as a
result of winning a trip abroad in
a collegiate band contest, by 1931
the Kemp Krew was at the top in
Continued on page four
Tony Sarg Marionettes
To Show Here Feb. 9
Tony Sarg's famous marionet­te
show will make their annual
appearance in Auburn on Friday
night, Feb. 9, at 8 o'clock in Lang-don
Hall. Only one performance
will be given.
The Sarg troupe, generally con­ceded
to be the best marionette
show in this country, will present
"The Adventures of Robin Hood."
Last year the marionettes appear­ed
in Daniel Defoe's famous tale,
"Robinson Crusoe."
As in the past, the Auburn
Players, campus dramatics group,
are sponsoring the appearance of
the Sarg company. Announced ad­missions
for the one performance
are 25 cents for adults and 15
cents for children.
According to Prof. Telfair Peet,
director of the Players, attend­ance
at last year's show was dis­appointing
for an attraction of
this caliber, and he has expressed
the hope that more people will see
the marionettes perform Friday
night.
The stage used by the Sarg
marionettes is much smaller than
that employed in ordinary drama­tics,
but by carefully gauging the
height of the marionettes in rela­tion
to that of the .scenery on the
stage the Sarg troupe creates an
illusion of size.
Duchin Forced Down
A long-distance telephone call
received by Tom Henley from
Eddy Duchin in Charlotte, N. C.
at noon today revealed that
Duchin's plane had been forced
down there and that his band
would be delayed in getting to
Auburn.
In view of this, the time of the
tea dance this afternoon has been
changed to 5 o'clock, at which
time Duchin will be here, Henley
said.
Yesterday afternoon Hal Kemp
and his band played to a near
capacity crowd, and last night
Graves Center was filled. Featur­ing,
in addition to his music, the
Three Smoothies, Bob Allen, and
Janet Blair, Kemp was praised on
every side by those who heard
him.
The grand march and Junior
Leadout will take place tonight,
with junior class president John
Deming leading with Crommelin
Underwood of Montgomery.
The grand march, which will be­gin
at 10:20 will be broadcast
over station WSFA in Montgom­ery
and possibly over WAPI in
Birmingham. Announcer J o hn
Nixon will read the name of each
boy, his date, and her home town.
Teacher Trainer
Studies API Methods
Dr. G. P. Cahoon of Ohio State
University, who is making a study
of methods of teacher preparation,
visited Auburn this week as the
guest of Dr. Jerome Kuderna, pro­fessor
of education here, and Mrs.
Kuderna. Dr. Cahoon is consultant
for the National Committee on the
Teaching of Science, and is recog­nized
as one of the leading figures
in his field.
Reorganization of teacher prep­aration
is now in progress at Ohio
State, and certain features of the
Auburn teacher training system
will be incorporated into the new
program at the midwest school.
Old Man Winter invaded Auburn this week in full force and blanketed the campus with one of the
biggest snowfalls in the memory of Auburnites.
This aerial view of part of the main campus was taken Wednesday when the snow was at the height
of its beauty by W. G. Rhodes from an airplane piloted by Frasier Fortner.
The large group of buildings in the foreground is the new Women's Quadrangle occupied this month
for the first time.
Page Two T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN January 26, 1940
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The Decline of the
College Pacifist
NO LESS than lamentable is the
passing of the college pacifist.
With him goes one of the bright
colors in the rainbow of the col­lege
campus.
Here at Auburn, we have not
seen many of his type, but we
have heard, and occasionally he
has flashed on and off the screens
of theatres — great crowds of
youths waving banners and flags,
tying up traffic on the thorough­fares
of the world in their ex­uberance;
defiance at the cam­era,
and those who stand behind.
"We will not fight! With no
hands to pull the triggers, and
no bodies to receive the shells
there can be no more war."
But the Roman legions of Mus­solini
flung the lie in their teeth,
as a million black men died fight­ing
machine guns with spears.
The ranks were aghast.
Spaniards carved Spain for a
banquet and the gluttonous dic­tators
crashed the party.
Then came the stupified Czechs,
the gallant Poles, and the gamb­ler
Finns.
It was the end; no man today
with the intellect of a grasshop­per
can depend on the wilted
wand of Righteousness for de­fense.
The stupified collegians have
dispersed. All passings are sad,
but this one is especially so, for
it is the death of another fairy
tale, and with it passes the optim­ism
of a million youths and maid­ens,
these million starved at the
feast of dictators. C.J.B.
The Yankee Cooking
Question
EVER SINCE the appearance of
a recent editorial on New Eng­land
cooking, the defenders of
the rock-ribbed Northeast have
protested en masse. People whose
only connections with New Eng­land
is that their grandfathers
chased some of the "down East-ers"
at Bull Run have risen to
the defense of New England
boiled dinner, Boston b a k ed
beans, and brown bread.
At last out of the protests
comes the discordant note of one
champion of the Southern cause,
not from Beacon Hill but from
Wisconsin, a brief note written
by George Knight, '39, now a
graduate student at the Institute
of Paper Chemistry, Appleton,
Wis.
"Your editorial on the Yankee food
just couldn't be passed up without some
remark. You must have spent the two
weeks here in Appleton instead of in
New England, because your article per­fectly
describes that which we are try-ting
to exist on, especially the potatoes.
When the other fellows here in the
house read the passage, they accused
my roommate (graduate of the Univers­ity
of Alabama last year) and me of
writing it."
Will the band please play
"Dixie"?
Regional Universities for
The Southern Negro
IN A session of educators several
weeks ago the proposal was
advanced for regional universities
for the Negro race throughout
the South.
No Southerner can have lived
in the South and not have been
aware of the plight of the Negro
in his search for education. There
are only a handful of Tuskegee's
and Fisk's and Hampton Insti­tute's.
The Negro race has scat­tered
colleges, but most of them
are weak and many of them are
no more than vocational high
schools. A South which has had
difficult enough time educating
its white children, and we are
not arguing the merit of its stand,
feels that it must educate the
white first and give to the Negro
the table scraps that are left.
Yet, the most of us are in a-greement
that the Negro must be
educated if his lot is to be bet­tered.
No one but a fool can fail
to see the wisdom in those crys­tal
words, "If you want to keep a
man in a ditch you've got to stay
down there with him." The South
has kept the Negro in a ditch of
ignorance and poverty and has
stayed right there with him in
payment.
For the most effective advance­ment,
leadership for the Negro
must come from within the ranks
of his own race, yet the South
has not adequate facilities for
educating in sufficient numbers
the leaders that are needed. The
regional university may be the
solution to the problem. Instead
of each state struggling to sup­port
a Negro college that may be
or may not be good, several
states would combine their fi­nancial
resources to support one
good- university to serve the Ne­groes
of that region.
The idea is adaptable to the
South's need and is certainly in
agreement with the states' thin
pocketbooks.
La Fayette, We Have
Already Went!
FUNNY ISN'T it how a terse
catchy phrase can catch the
public eye. Remember, "I do not
choose to run," "Tippecanoe and
Tyler too," and "It's Toasted."
Such a phrase has been "La-
Fayette, we have already went!"
It was the closing sentence of a
brief editorial written in a few
leisure minutes this summer by
Herbert Martin of the Plainsman
staff and appearing in an early
issue this year.
Grammatically incorrect, yet
conveying a world of meaning in
its terse pithiness that little
catch-phrase has been quoted in
college papers all over the coun­try.
Perhaps it boils down to a
very few words the whole senti­ment
of an aroused American
people, convinced that they have
no obligations to Europe, de­termined
not to fight this time.
The Texas Clown
THE STATE of Texas, great and
big as it is, has contributed
some clowns to the circus of A-merican
politics. Remember Ma
and Pa Ferguson, and now there's
Gov. Lee O'Daniel who has
changed the state seal to a bis­cuit
and the governor's office to
a flour warehouse. But the big­gest
clown of all is Martin Dies,
"whose antics have been surpass­ed
only by those of the ill-starred
Zioncheck.
The activities of the Dies com­mittee
are reminiscent of the
witch-hunts of Salem and the in­tolerant
red hunts of post World
War days in America. Real states­men
who were working for a bet­ter
United States when Martin
Dies was looking for Communists
under his cradle, have turned a- '
way with distate for his bucolism.
No other form of government
will take over in America so long
as democracy does its job of gov­erning.
The efforts of Dies and
his associates and the money be­ing
expended on them might do
America greater service if they
were directed toward some posi­tive
and constructive activity.
The Plainsman Forum
Letters to the Editor
The Washington Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN
Field House Scored Again
Editor
The Auburn Plainsman
Dear Godbold:
On January 16 Aw Ning raised a
question in The Plainsman Forum —
the untility of the new field house. I
am one of the about 3000 (my esti­mate)
out of 3500 students who were
flabbergasted by his letter.
I am one of those "unelightened"
who believed that there was a new bas­ketball
court in the building, and may­be
a swimming pool. Can the college
give me or the rest of the 3499 stu­dents
one justification for spending
$60,000 for a glorified dressing room
and office building for a small group?
About 300 (my estimate) students
take part in inter-collegiate athletics,
and of these many are on scholarships.
To this add the number, say half as
many, who come here as guests of the
school and representatives of other col­leges,
the members of the coaching
staff and their helpers, estimated at
around 20, the students taking classes
in the building, estimated about 50 who
are non-athletes and not counted in the
preceding figures. Then we have a $60,-
000 building serving 520, about 450 of
them students, while the rest of the
student body, (more than 3000) sits and
twirls its thumbs waiting for gym facili­ties.
I wonder if any college officials were
at the Auburn-Vanderbilt game where
students had to come at 7:00 if they
wanted good standing room and earlier
if they wanted one of the few hundred
seats? Hundreds more of students
would have liked to have come but did­n't
under those conditions. And that
night two teams from two of phe best
schools in the South played on an un­dersized,
torn up, swaying floor and
had to stand in the spectators when
they took the ball out of bounds.
I'm one of 3500 Auburn students.
The basketball team, the swimming
team are ours, not anybody else's.
Then when the money was at hand why
wasn't a provision made for all of us
that wanted to see them in action in­stead
of a fortunate few? Also, I pay
a large student activity fee half of
which goes to athletics (not of my
choice either). Then why was no pro­vision
made for me to use the field
house just as much as the select 500.
Very sincerely,
Indignant Senior
press our opinions upon the subject
with a few criticisms for the old and
a few suggestions for the new.
First of all, one of the primary rea­sons
why the rule, as it was originally
used, failed to work seems to us to be
that asking a student to report his class­mates
to the professors is very stiff and
more than most of us can stomach. The
matter itself is not primarily a faculty
matter, college students are old enough
and have become experienced enough
to be acquainted with the meaning of
personal honor, and it is up to them
to take care of the matter themselves.
In the creation of a new rule it
seems logical to consider those that are
in successful use at the present. For
instance, the one used at Annapolis,
West Point, and VMI works and has
worked for a number of years.
The principle difference between
their system and the one used at API
is that the students themselves take
care of the matter of offenders by
means of a "Kangaroo Court" made up
of outstanding student officers of the
school.
Any offenders are reported to one
of these officers; this sets in motion the
action of the court which collects the
evidence and holds a trial, calling in
the accuser and the defendant, and the
business is conducted in much the
same manner as a regular court of law.
The constitution and procedure would
be unwritten and the meetings secret.
If the student is found guilty he is
given a chance to resign from school,
and if he refuses to resign the "silence
rule" is imposed on him, and no student
will speak to him under any conditions.
Perhaps we are soft hearted, but we
favor a second chance to offenders be­fore
the request for resignation is pre­sented.
A Student
The Honor System
Editor
Auburn Plainsman
Dear Sir:
With all of this talk around the camp­us
about reinstalling the honor system
it seems fitting and proper that we ex-
Plainsman Index Scored
Editor
The Auburn Plainsman
Dear Sir:
"Behind the Headlines" is an inter­esting
feature and it adds to the at­tractiveness
of your front page. How­ever,
I believe that sometimes you count
columns from right to left and some­times
from left to right, and sometimes
you don't count at all. When you say
something is going to be in Column 1
would it be too much trouble to put it
there?
Yours,
McDuff
Editor's Note: In changing around front
page stories last issue, "Behind the
Headlines" slipped by -without our mak­ing
corrections in the column index.
But we do count columns from left to
right.
With the Co-ops—By C 1 Bastien
Mitec Club
AT THE meeting of the Executive Cabi­net
of the Mitec Engineers on Tues­day
evening, the details for the social
were worked out, and it will probably
be on Friday evening, Feb. 9, at 9
o'clock in Student Center.
All Co-ops who wish to attend this
social are requested to attend the meet­ing
next Thursday night, 7 o'clock,
room 109, Ramsay.
Other Club business was discussed at
the Cabinet meeting in connection with
slight technical changes to the consti­tution,
suggestions for colors to become
the official club colors, and also the
design for official stationery and the
securing of key designs.
Alumni Hall
At the last meeting, by popular re­quest,
Mr. A. O. Taylor gave an out­line
of what had been done and was
being done in connection with the Co­ops
taking over Alumni Hall in June,
and it all sounded very rosy in the
light of Mr. Taylor's enthusiasm.
* * *
Briaerean Society
The formation of a chapter of Tech's
honor society for Co-ops was discussed
Tuesday evening, by those Co-ops who
are eligible, and it was decided to re­ply
favorably but to await more de­tails
of the society's structure before
giving a final answer.
Auburn Professor's New Book
Praised by Newspaper
THE LATEST number in the series of
"Southland Books," written by Ala-bamians
and printed by the Dixie Book
Company, Inc., of Montgomery, is "The
Rural South" by Mr. Samuel Lee Ches-nutt,
professor of agricultural educa­tion
at Alabama Polytechnic Institute.
It is a school text book suitable for use
in any Southern state, but its textbook
character is not forbidding to the gen­eral
reader. He can skip the questions
at the end of each chapter and confine
his reading to the narrative and com­ment
by the author. The original illus­trations
are by Nathan Glick, the maps
and graphs by W. K. Hollis. There are
numerous photographs also.
The historical background of agricul­ture
in the South includes the period of
the aborigines, the period of the early
pioneers, of slavery and the plantations,
of war and its effect upon Southern
economy, the flowering of industry, the
growth of tenancy, the impending threat
of serfdom. Much attention is given to
the development of popular education
in the South, the public health service
and all related problems in our civiliza­tion.
Prof. Chesnutt has done a thorough­going
job. Not only is his book inter­esting
and challenging, but it is enter­taining.
The reader will find the au­thor's
choice of illustrations particular­ly
happy and helpful.
The Advertiser gladly commends this
book to all students of Southern life. It
is a noteworthy contribution to our re­gional
literature.—Montgomery Adver­tiser.
Ohio State University fraternity
pledges have an annual "Ditch Night"
on which they defy the rulings of the
actives.
The democrats have been invited to
hold their 1940 convention in the famed
football Rose Bowl stadium in Cali­fornia.
Playwrite Maxwell Anderson edited
the University of North Dakota year­book
in 1912.
A University of Virginia scientist has
developed a centrifuge machine which
exerts a force a million times greater
than gravity.
Borah's Fatal Stroke Came After Doc­tor
Found Him in "Best of Health";
Leaves Small Estate; Refused Many
Big Offers for Writings, Law Cases;
Mrs. Borah Will Give Up Apartment;
Perhaps Will Write of Experiences;
FDR's "Gift" to Congress on His
Birthday is a Hospital Building Plan.
WASHINGTON—It was a stroke, and
not a fall, that caused the death of
Senator Borah. He was stricken only a
few hours after he had been assured he
was in excellent health.
The tragic details of the great Idaho-an's
end are as follows:
Following his serious illness last sum­mer,
Borah was very careful about him­self,
and on Monday, Jan. 15, he un­derwent
a physical examination. Around
4 P.M. he telephoned Mrs. Borah (af­fectionately
known as "Little Borah")
in high spirits.
"Mary," he said jubilantly, "the doc­tor
tells me that I'm in the best condi­tion
I've been in for several" years.
Borah then spent an hour or so in his
office dictating and reading. Then he
drove home, where he ate a light sup­per,
and after running through several
newspapers, retired about 9 o'clock. He
rose at eight the next morning, his usual
hour, and appeared to be in good health,
inquiring cheerfully of Mrs. Borah how
she had slept.
Mrs. Borah heard him turn on the
water in the shower. Ten minutes later
she heard it still running and went to
the door, which was closed, and knock­ed.
There was no answer. She waited
a few moments, and then knocked
again. No answer. Then she tried to
open the door, but couldn't.
Frightened, she called the maid and
together they were able to open the
door. The reason Mrs. Borah had been
unable to push it open was because the
Senator had fallen against it.
It was this that gave rise to the re­port
that he had fallen and injured
himself. But when Dr. Worth Daniels
arrived, he immediately diagnosed the
case as a cerebral hemorrhage. Borah
never regained consciousness. Several
prominent consultants were called in
Tuesday afternoon, but they shook their
heads.
It was after their visit that Mrs.
Borah courageously allowed the press
to be informed that her husband was
dying.
No Plans
Mrs. Borah's plans for the future are
still uncertain—except for one thing.
She has definitely decided to give up
the spacious, beautifully furnished a-partment
in which she and the Senator
lived for many years. It was their only
home. They had none in Idaho.
Anno Domino
Senator Henry Ashurst, courtly Ari­zona
veteran and one of Borah's closest
Senate friends, had a strange experi­ence
with him the day before he was
stricken.
Ashurst's seat is directly across the
aisle from Senator George Norris, who
had been away for several weeks hav­ing
a physical check-up at Johns Hop­kins
Hospital in Baltimore. He returned
to the Senate that day and Ashurst was
greeting him just as Borah, who sat
next to Norris, came in.
"Bill," said Ashurst, "I was just tell­ing
George how well he looks. He tells
me the doctors didn't find a thing
wrong with him."
"That's fine, George," smiled Borah.
"It's good to have you back."
"George," continued Ashurst, "you
didn't have to go to Baltimore to find
out what's wrong with you. I could have
told you. It's very simple. All us old
timers have it. We're suffering from
Anno Domino, that's all, just plain An­no
Domino."
Birthday Gift
The President is going to reverse the
usual order this year and send Congress
a gift on his birthday, January 30.
It will consist of a special message
urging a $10,000,000 appropriation for
the construction of 25 hospitals, in vari­ous
parts of the country to be designat­ed
by the Public Health Service and the
American Medical Society. He went out
of his way to choose his birthday to
submit this plan, and he will describe it
as the first step in an ultimate nation­wide
health-insurance program.
The President also will emphasize in
his message that while the Federal Gov­ernment
should take the initiative in
building the hospitals, the localities
must maintain them.
Surgeon General Thomas Parran
tried to persuade him to recommend a
certain amount of federal aid for up­keep.
Parran proposed one dollar per
day per patient. But Roosevelt rejected
this.
"Nope, that's out," he told the Inter­departmental
Health Program Commit­tee
headed by Miss Josephine Roche.
"It's all right for the Government to
build them, but the localities must op- .
erate them. We want to tie the locali­ties
directly up to these hospitals so
that they will have a personal interest
in them."
NOTE — Significantly, at the con­clusion
of the conference the President
directed Miss Roche to continue work
on formulating a national health-insur­ance
program, even though there is no
chance of passing anything of this na­ture
at the present session of Congress.
Plains Talk
By Herbert Martin
Editor's Note: The opinions expressed in this
column are those of the writer and are not to
be construed as the editorial policies of this
paper.
DEARLY Beloved:
We are gathered this week to cele­brate
a momentous occasion, the reach­ing
of another mile­stone
in life's eternal
journey for pleasure.
In rotund numerals,
13,726.1705 visiting
damsels have arrived
to add to the joy,
glamour, pulchritude,
and gaiety of the
restivities. B e f o re
progressing further,
is it not fitting that
we should pause to
reflect upon the best
methods of extracting the most in phy­sical
and esthetic pleasure from the
short time allotted us?
* * *
Largely from the ancient files of the
Auburn Plainsman, undergraduate pub­lication
of the student body of Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute, located in
Auburn, Ala., near the Auburn-Georgia
line just east of Loachapoka, we offer
the following suggestions for making
the most of the dance weekend. All of
these wee words of wisdom cannot be
blamed on the Plainsman, as we have
drawn upon many other sources.
1. The best informed inebriates will
not mistake life savers for port holes.
2. Don't request numbers from Mr.
Kemp tonight. The scene do change to
Duchin.
3. Believe everything that the maids
tell you on the dance floor. Then you'll
think you're a devil with the women.
4. Make it plain that there are plen­ty
of girls in Auburn to talk to, when
discussing recreational features with
the moll from home.
5. Don't hang around after taking
her to the house because she "needs
sleep." You'll feel even shorter when
you have proof that that late date isn't
the sandman.
6. If that telegram has just come
saying that she can come after all, and
you with another date, stop thinking
that you must be a power-house, or
even a sub-station, and start figgering!
7. Sleigh-riding without a sleigh is
hardly practical. Put some barrel staves
on the wheels of the wagon before get­ting
all worked up over possibilities.
8. It's funny, but the people who
travel in the best circles don't have to
do it. They could walk a straight line
if they so desired.
8. jr. By all means celebrate. Cele­brate
exams being over; celebrate the
dances. But, don't mix them. . . .
* * *
Having been asked to refrain from
mentioning details which might scare
away prospective enrollees who are in­specting
the campus this weekend, we
shall dispense with our expose of slum
living conditions as practiced (they
even have a house to practice in be­fore
moving into the real thing) near
the steam shovel just north of Bullard
Field. This story, entitled A Day in Her
Life, or, No Mirror to Guide Her, will
reappear in all of its tinsel garnishings
in the next issue, if the big bad holly­hocks
don't nibble the ears off the
friendly little com stalks.
* * *
What with burning the midnight oil
last week and this, and burning the
candle at both ends since that date, we
feel like a fire hazard. We should be
investigated.
* * *
Orchids and Johnson Grass to Ope-lika's
Martin Theater. . . . Orchids for
bringing top bands to the stage there
with increasing regularity. . . . Johnson
Grass for the calibre picture you have
to sit through to hear the music.
The kind of people you love to hate
. . . those lads who congregate in the
center of the dance floor instead of a-round
the sides to hold their off-color
bull-sessions.
* * *
With Oh! Johnny! making the success
that it has, although handicapped by
being introduced by Orrin Tucker and
Bonnie Baker, we figger it just natural­ly
must be a purty good tune.
* * *
With all due respect for the age of
this couplet which is as old as last sum­mer's
sing hits, Karrie, the Kampus
Korn Karrier, kwotes:
"The bird stood on the railroad track;
The train he did not see . . .
Oooohhh . . . Shredded Tweet!"
January 26, 1940 T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN Page Three
SIDNEY SCAQBOQOUGH
/IL/13AM/1 POl-^ —— AUBUR.M
S I D N E Y "SCAB" SCARBOROUGH, former Auburn quarterback and
baseball star, has b e e n named head coach at Tech High School, Atlanta,
Ga. He succeeds Gabe Tolbert, venerable Smithy coach under whom
Scarborough played in high school days. Sid has been backfield coach
f o r the Smithies since he graduated from Auburn in 1938.
Vandy Sinks API In
Close-Fought Game
Freshmen Conquer
Columbus Team
Pinky Lipscomb and associates
took Auburn's measure for the
second time Saturday night as
Vanderbilt squeezed by a band of
hard-fighting Tigers 50-46 in
Alumni Gym. The loss left Au­burn
with a .500 average in SEC
competition, three won and three
lost.
Lipscomb repeated to the exact
point his first performance against
Auburn when he racked up 20
points, 9 goals and 2 foul shots.
Right behind him was Guard Jack
Irby, who rang up 7 goals and 3
foul shots for a total of 17.
Auburn's sophomores carried
the burden of the battle as usual,
Frank Manci leading the pack with
11 points. Manci, still leading SEC
scorer, was badly off form and
couldn't seem to hit the basket
with his usual deadly accuracy.
Vandy led all the way and time
and again the Tigers edged up to
within a point or two but could
never quite overcome the Com­modore's
lead.
As usual, the Auburn men's
failure to come through in the
clutches with their free throws
was a heavy liability. Out of 17
foul shots the Tigers made good
only 6, while the Vandymen capi­talized
on 6 out of 8.
The mighty Lipscomb was easi­ly
the outstanding man on the
court. His ball-hawking ability was
superb, and his eye for the bas­ket
was one of the best seen on
an Auburn court in a long time.
J. P. Streetman, first-string
forward who had just been dis­missed
from the infirmary Wed­nesday
following a case of in­fluenza,
did not start the game,
Bob Dickinson beginning in his
place. He did go in before the
game was half over but was pull­ed
out and Dickinson sent back.
Lineups:
Vanderbilt
Lipscomb, f —
Millikin, f
Hanna (c), c
Irby, z
Holdgraf, g ...
Davis, f
G F PFTP
...9 2 4 20
0 O
1 8
3 17
3 3
1 2
Totals
Auburn
Dickinson, f
Manci. f
Hawkins, c .
Faulk, s
22 6 12 50
G F P F TP
...2 2 1 6
Gibson (c), g -
Streetman, i
1 11
1 10
3 8
1 5
1 6
Totals 20 6 8 46
Halftime score: Vanderbilt, 28; Au­burn,
26.
Free throws missed: Dickinson, 2;
Lipscomb, Hanna.
Referee: Ben Chapman (Montgom­ery).
In the preliminary game of the
evening the freshmen won over
Chadwick's Service Station of Co­lumbus
by 37-21. Led by the stel­lar
play of Center Henry Mon-sees,
freshman in business admin­istration
from Savannah, Ga., who
rimmed 4 field goals and 6 foul
shots for a total of 14 points, the
Baby Tigers were never seriously
threatened by their opponents.
This marked the third victory out
of five starts for the Tiger Cubs.
Pittsview downed them 50-47 and
Opelika High School nosed them
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Phone 72
Opelika, Alabama
Your patronage appreciated
We carry a complete line of
shoes for both men and
women c o l l e g e students.
The best in riding boots and
p a n t s are featured at our
complete store.
KOPLON'S
OPELIKA'S BEST
J. R. MOORE
Jeweler & Optometrist
All Makes of Watches
Silverware ~ Diamonds
Repairing a Specialty
Eyes Scientifically
Examined
Glasses Correctly Fitted
Broken Lenses
Duplicated
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Opelika — Phone 120-J
SPRING GRID WORK TO BEGIN
Squad Reporting to
Coaches on Monday
About 65 to be Practicing; Dell
Morgan's Place Will be Hard to Fill
They call it "spring training," but Auburn will have
to scrape the snow off the ground to begin six weeks of
it Monday afternoon. A squad of approximately 65 foot­ball
players, including 17 lettermen will report when Coach
Jack Meagher declares the annual warm-weather session
under way.
A number of graduating lettermen will be keenly miss­ed,
but a vacancy far harder to fill than that of any player
will be the spot of Head Line
Coach Dell Morgan who steps in­to
the same position with Rice In­stitute
of Houston, Texas, next
Thursday.
The 11 lettermen to be replaced
are Captain "Hatch" Howell and
Garth Thorpe, guards, Mai Mor­gan
and Getty Fairchild, centers;
Alternate - Captain Bill Nichols
and George Wolff, tackles; Gus
Pearson, end; "Bunchy" Fowler,
quarterback; Bill Mims, halfback;
Charlie Haynesworth and Geter
Cantrell, fullbacks. Also missing
will be reserve halfback Baker
Riddle.
Auburn will count heavily on
her sophomores next year, partic­ularly
at the weak center, guard,
and tackle position. Likely-look­out
26-25. They have won over
Columbus Manufacturing Com­pany
21-37 and Central High
School of Phenix City 30-28.
Lineup:
AUBURN
Players and position FG FT TP
Bright, f - 3 1 7
Walker, t 0 0 O
Childrey, i 2 2 6
Stokes, f 0 0 0
Tipper, f —- O 0 0
Monsees, c — 4 6 14
Ellis, c 2 0 4
Clayton, sf —1 0 2
Wright, g 0 0 0
Canzoneri, g 1 0 2
Rimel, g —0 0 0
Young, g 0 0 0
Finney, g 0 0 0
Smyer, g 0 0 0
Totals
CHADWICKS
Carpenter, f .
Latimer, f
King, f
Smith, c
Jones, g
Carmack, g ...
Matthews
Totals
26 9 35
2
1
0
3
0
0
1
-14 7 21
Dunhill Pipes
By ALFRED DUNHILL
of London
Are now being featured
by our complete Jewel­ry
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For . . .
$10.00
Cook Jewelry Co.
Opelika
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For the convenience of
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we maintain a local de­pot.
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Auburn — Opelika
536 Phone 37
ing first-years stepping into varsi­ty
squad posts will be Tex Wil­liams,
center; Jim McClurkin and
Joe Eddins, tackles; Henry Mon­sees,
Fred Hurst, Fagan Canzon­eri,
and Clarence Grimmet, ends;
Clarence Harkins, Monk Gafford,
and Bill Yearout, halfbacks; and
Jim Reynolds, fullback.
Also aiding the 17 lettermen
coming back are 19 other varsity
squad members of last season: Ross
Dean, Dan Carmichael, and Frank
Bartlett, fullbacks; Ty Irby, Fred
McCarty, Paul Ellis, and Woodie
McNair, halfbacks; Frank Buch-
Freshmen To Meet
Southern Union
In Wadley Tonight
Auburn's once-beaten freshman
cagers meet Southern Union Col­lege
at Wadley tonight as the next
game in their 12-game schedule
for this year.
Beaten by Opelika High and
winner over Chadwick Service
Station of Columbus, the fresh­men
will probably toss their usual
combination of Monsees, Childrey,
Finney, Canzoneri, and Clayton
against the Southern Union squad.
Tomorrow night the Baby Tig­ers
will meet the Tallassee Ramb­lers
in Alumni Gym in the pre­liminary
bout to the Auburn-How­ard
game.
Next Thursday, Jan. 30, they
will travel to Langdale to play
Valley High of Fairfax.
ner and Jim Sims, quarterbacks;
Theo Cremer, end; John Chalk-ley,
Joe Cordell, Francis Crim-mins,
and ' Max Morris, tackles;
Ben Park, Nick Ardillo, and Vick
Costellos, guards; Abb Christz-berg
and Hugh Maddox, centers.
So Refreshing
X \ so be
refreshed at home
Opelika Coca Cola
Bottling Co.
Phone 70
LAST CALL
100 SHEETS $•
100 ENVELOPES
Burton's Book Store
The remainder of their sched­ule
is: Feb: 1, Beauregard High
School at Auburn; Feb. 3, Valley
High at Auburn as preliminary to
the varsity contest with Georgia;
Feb. 9-10, Marion Military Insti-'
tute at Auburn; Feb. 16, Colum­bus
Manufacturing Company and
Feb. 17, Maxwell Field of Mont­gomery,
both of these games to
precede Auburn-Sewanee games
in Auburn.
The last opponent in Central
High School of Phenix City in Au­burn
on Feb. 21, on the night of
the Auburn-Georgia Tech game.
ROOM FOR RENT —New brick
house, North Burton Street,
outside entrance, hot and cold
running water, adjoining bath.
Call 287 or see Miss Pate in
Samford 205.
7 Athletes Finish
Work for Diplomas
Requirements f o r graduation
were completed by seven Auburn
athletes and Cheerleader Charlie
O'Reilly, Huntsville, during the
first semester of the current scho­lastic
year. The athletes have been
Tiger standard-bearers in foot­ball,
basketball, and baseball.
They are: "Milton Howell, Bes­semer;
Bill Mims, Hayneville;
Geter Cantrell, Lanett, and John
D a v i s , Birmingham, football;
George Kenmore, Americus, Ga.,
and Francis Riddle, Talladega,
football and baseball, and J. P.
Streetman, Marianna, Fla., bas­ketball.
The versatile and scholar­ly
Kenmore completed his four
year course in three and a half
years.
<LAnnouncements
Tatum Motor Co. wishes to announce
the appointment of Ottis Ward to its
sales staff in Auburn. Ottis Ward and
Sam Tatum will handle the sales of
Chevrolet and Buick cars in Auburn.
For demonstration, call Auburn 29, or
Opelika 553.
Tatum Motor
Co.
In Person
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Page Four THE A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN January 26, 1940
Mai Morgan Signs
For Pro Baseball
With Tallassee
Three-Letter Athlete
Also to Coach at
Lineville School
The signing of Malvern Morgan
to play pro baseball with the Tal­lassee
Indians was announced last
week by President J. 0. McCul-lough
of the Indians.
Morgan, an outstanding Auburn
athlete for the last three years,
has made an enviable record with
three letters each in football, base­ball,
and basketball.
He will be used at third base
next season by the Indians, though
he played first for Auburn. His
presence will bolster considerably
the Indian infield when the Ala­bama-
Florida race gets under
way. Last spring Morgan batted
.359 on Coach Dell Morgan's nine
and during the summer months
accummulated a .365 average as
a member of the Lanett team of
the Chattahoochee Valley League,
where he has played for several
summers.
Morgan will graduate from the
School of Textile Engineering in
June and will be associated with
the Tallassee Mills when not en­gaged
in baseball for the Indians.
He was recently appointed head
coach at the State Secondary Ag­ricultural
School at Lineville for
next year.
Allan Jones Movie
To Play at Tiger
Sunday and Monday
Allan Jones, here Jan. 9 as
feature of the Auburn Concert
Series is one of two co-stars ap­pearing
in Sunday's and Monday's
attraction at the Tiger Theatre,
"The Great Victor Herbert." Co-starred
with the attractive movie
idol, who made an outstanding
hit with students here', are Mary
Martin, Broadway singing star
who rocketed to fame on her sing­ing
of "My Heart Belongs to Dad­dy",
and Walter Connolly.
The show includes 28 of Her­bert's
unforgettable melodies, and
is a rousing romance of the show
world of the early 1900's.
The film tells of the romance
of a stage-struck girl and the
matinee idol of the day, who meet
in Composer Herbert's gay world,
find fame in starring in his ope­rettas
and happiness in their
friendship with the great man.
"The Great Victor Herbert"
then traces the couples' dramatic
experiences, over which Herbert,
in the person of Connolly, casts a
long shadow.
The story of the movie repre­sents
Producer-Director Andrew
Stone's solution of one of the
knottiest production problems of
the year; how to build a drama
around Victor Herbert, a man
whose life was singularly lacking
in the incident and excitement vi­tal
to a good film plot.
* A number of Herbert's most
famous songs are included among
those in the picture: "A Kiss In
the Dark", "Ah Sweet Mystery of
Life", "Kiss Me Again", and "I'm
Falling In Love With Someone",
being among them.
LOST — A Knit-Tex tweed over­coat
lost at Midway Tavern Sat­urday
Night, January 20. Find­er
please return to Sigma Chi
house and receive reward.
FOR RENT—Room for one boy,
available now, 148 W.
nolia.
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API-Howard Resume
Rivalry Tomorrow
Freshmen to Play
Tallassee Ramblers
For the first time in seven
years Auburn and Howard College
of Birmingham will meet each
other in intercollegiate sport to­morrow
night at 7:30 when the
Magic City Bulldogs invade Au­burn
for a basketball game in
Alumni Gym.
In the preliminary game ' t he
Auburn freshmen will play the
Tallassee Ramblers at 6 o'clock.
Auburn should be stronger than
they were against Vandy Satur­day
night, for J. P. Streetman, in­fluenza
victim, is rounding back
into shape and John Huff, who re­ported
for practice Monday after
a siege of mumps, will be at least
partially in condition again.
Streetman played for a few
minutes against the Commodores,
but this will be Huff's first ap­pearance
since the two games with
Spring Hill in the middle of De­cember.
However, Streetman's place in
the infirmary has been filled by
sophomore Jack Tanner who also
has influenza. Tanner will be
missed but not so much as Street-man.
Auburn's defensive work has
been none too impressive this
year, so Coach "Shug" Jordan has
been giving the boys special de­fense
drills at the last few prac­tices.
What effect his work will
have remains to be seen tomor­row
night.
Hal Kemp
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musical entertainment.
Suffering from cold during his
trip south, Mr. Kemp offered as
explanation his belief that south­ern
buildings are not built to with­stand
cold. Still heading south, the
band plays tonight in Jacksonville,
Fla.
Playing for Victor records for
the past four years, Kemp form­erly
waxed for Brunswick for an
exact decade. He can't understand
why the best recordings somehow
don't catch on with the public,
and lesser tunes become best sell­ers.
An exceedingly busy man who
must divide band leading with the
pleasant chore of looking out for
the charming Mrs. Kemp, also an
Alabama native, Mr. Kemp never­theless
found time to be quite
obliging toward all who asked
favors. Interrupted many times
for autographs, requests, and the
like, he always managed to be
more than courteous and usually
saw that the requests were play­ed
in short order.
Hal Kemp was sincere in his lik­ing
for Auburn. Auburn is sincere
in its liking for Hal Kemp.
Sunday-Monday
Allan Jones
Mary Martin
"My Heart Belongs to Daddy"
Walter Connolly
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TIGER
WHITTEN MAKING
SUCCESS OF JOB
AT MERCER U.
Added to the Mercer Universi­ty,
Macon, Ga., coaching staff
last September as freshman line
coach, Norman "Chink" Whitten,
graduate of Auburn in 1938, has
received much praise for his work.
. Coach Whitten took a place
with the Bear coaching staff the
second week in September at the
close of the Georgia-Florida base­ball
league. He began helping
freshman coach Joe Kilgrow, and
his work was lauded by the Mer­cer
Cluster, student newspaper:
"Since joining the Mercer staff,
he has worked individually and
collectively with the freshmen
linemen to improve their play.
This improvement was especially
noted in the Monroe game when
the frosh line held the Aggie
backs to a minimum of yardage."
" . . . His many changes in col­lege
make him a very valuable
man for the Mercer staff. . . ."
Whitten played guard under
Coach Jack Meagher during the
1935-36-37 seasons. For three
years he was a catcher on the
Tiger baseball team and signed
with the Montgomery Rebels of
the Southeastern League when he
graduated. In the fall of 1938 he
tried out with the Philadelphia
Phillies, who still own his contract.
After playing Class D ball in the
Alabama-Florida League last year,
he will move up to Class B com­pany
with Pensacola of the South­eastern
this spring.
MEAGHER WORKS
FOR 1ITH GAME
ON GRID CARD
Howard to be Played
In Opening Game,
Clemson at Homecoming
Coach Jack Meagher is now in
Birmingham attempting to make
arrangements for another game to
be added to Auburn's 10-game
gridiron roster for 1940, a con­test
with Villanova in Birming­ham
on Dec. 7, it was learned on
good authority here yesterday.
However, no word as to his suc­cess
had been received from
Coach Meagher yesterday after­noon.
As usual the Traveling Tigers
will play one of the toughest
schedules in the country, the
schedule announced last Friday
revealed. Several changes have
been made in the card, however.
Birmingham-Southern, which has
discontinued intercollegiate ath­letics,
the sought-after Villanova
Wildcats, Manhattan, and Ten­nessee
do not appear on the list
of opponents. Tennessee officials
announced several weeks ago that
Auburn had been dropped from
their 1940 schedule, and though
Plains athletic officials tried to
convince the Volunteers other­wise,
Auburn's place was taken
over by the University of Vir­ginia.
New teams are SMU, Clemson,
and Howard. Howard will take
Birmingham-Southern's place as
opening-game opponent and Clem­son
will be the Homecoming Day
rival.
Complete schedule:
Sept. 27—Howard in Montgom­ery
(Friday night).
Oct. 5—Tulane in New Orleans.
Northwestern University receiv­ed
more than $9,000,000 in gifts
during 1939.
The College of the City of New
York has 14 special courses for
city government employees.
Cinemaactor Spencer Tracy will
soon be awarded an honorary de­gree
by his alma mater, Eippon
College.
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Additional Prom
Bids Are Listed
Following are the last of the
list of girls to whom bids to the
Junior Prom were sent out this
year by the Social Committee:
Katherine Boswell, Montevallo;
Jane Osborn, Florence; Jacque­line
Brown, Selma; Liza Allison,
Lookout Mountain, Tenn.; Fran­ces
Spain, Birmingham; Wilmer
Savage, Montgomery; Lelia Aiken,
Wesleyan College; Frances Craig,
Florence; Sara Cottingham, Bir­mingham
; Carolyn Armstrong,
Birmingham; Doris Johnson, Uni­versity
of Kansas; Virginia Mc-
Culloch, Huntsville.
Sue Smith, Macon, Ga.; Caro­lyn
Funderburk, Dadeville; Con­nie
Beeland, Greenville; "Pat"
Shelly, Birmingham; Julia Trian-
Oct. 12—Miss. State in Bir­mingham.
Oct. 19—SMU in Dallas.
Oct. 26—Georgia Tech in At­lanta.
Nov. 2—Georgia in Columbus.
Nov. 9—Clemson at Auburn.
Nov. 16—Louisiana State in
Birmingham.
Nov. 23 — Boston College in
Boston.
Nov. 30—Florida at Gaines­ville.
tos, no address; Lenora Canzan-eri,
Bessemer; Elizabeth Canzan-eri,
Bessemer; Aileen Franklin,
Lehigh; Mrs. Max Johnson, Old
Hickory, Tenn.; Sally Moore, Mid-dleburg,
Va.; Dodie Black, Bir­mingham.
Sibbie Greer, Mobile; Eula Lee
Neal, Mobile; Mrs. S. Seidler, Bir­mingham;
Elizabeth Davis, How­ard
College; Judy Neely,'Birming­ham;
Sheila Averett, Gulf Park
College; Marguerite Crane, Lake­land,
Fla.; Lil Culley, Birming­ham;
Mary Nell Chiles, Albert-ville;
Bette Jane Hays, Fairfield.
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Civil Service
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economist, agronomist,
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archivist, b i o l o g i s t (wildlife),
chemist, engineer, entomologist,
forester, geographer, information
assistant.
Legal assistant, librarian, met­allurgist,
meteorologist, olericul-turist,
plant breeder, poultry hus­bandman,
public welfare assistant,
range examiner, rural sociologist,
social anthropologist, soil scien­tist,
statistician, textile technolo­gist,
and veterinarian.
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