1940-04-02 The Auburn Plainsman

              "Chimes of
Normandy", 8:15 THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN Complete Returns,
Tonight
VOL. LXIII z-i ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, APRIL 2, 1940 No. 52
Executive Council
Passes Orientation
Three-Day Adjustment Period for
Freshmen Scheduled for September
Orientation for freshmen became a reality Saturday
morning when the Executive Council voted in a special
session to hold an orientation period for all incoming mem­bers
of the class of 1944 before the actual opening of
school in September.
No concrete system has been set up as yet, the Council's
action doing no more than providing that the adjustment
period for first-year students would take place. However,
President L. N. Duncan said yes-terday
that the freshmen would
come to Auburn before the up-perclassmen
and would undergo a
definite program of acclimatiza­tion
for three days, beginning on
Monday, Sept. 9, and continuing
through Wednesday, Sept. 11.
Upperclassmen will be expected
to start arriving on Thursday,
Sept. 12, and no one except fresh­men
will be registered before
that day, Dr. Duncan said.
A large part of the orientation
work will be carried on by select­ed
senior leaders, both men and
women.
Dr. Duncan emphasized that
the success of the program would
be partially dependent on the co­operation
of all students, the up­perclassmen
as well as the fresh­men.
Conferences between students
and the administration are expect­ed
to begin in a few days when
actual plans will begin to take
form.
Further details on the adminis­tration
of the adjustment period
are expected to become available
• in a few days, too, prebably some
time next week.
ATHENS SINGERS
TO APPEAR HERE
Glee Club Coming on
16th, Admission Free
A concert will be given here by
the Athens College Glee Club on
April 16 in Langdon Hall at 8:15
p.m.
Sponsored by the Auburn Home
Economics Club, the concert will
be given free to the public un­der
the direction of Mrs. Mary
Emma Peck.
Entertainment for the girls is
being planned by API authorities,
and the young women will be the
guests of the college while here.
Accompanist for the glee club
concert will be Miss Madelyn Rog­ers.'
Selections will vary from dig­nified
sacred numbers to lulla­bies.
The Club will appear in Ope-lika
also when it makes the trip
to Auburn.
Second Showing
Of 'Chimes' Is
Tonight At 8:15
Initial Show Thrills
Packed House; Bob Haas
Is Audience Favorite
The second performance of "The
Chimes of Normandy" will begin
tonight at 8:15 o'clock in Langdon
Hall.
Last night's premiere showing
packed the auditorium with a ca­pacity
crowd—a large percentage
of whom "came to scoff" but "went
away marveling".
Turning in fine performances in
their first attempt in Auburn at
light opera, Fred Mohns and Jean
Byrd sang the male and feminine
leads, respectively, those of Henri,
Count of Corneville, and Germaine,
village maiden who is revealed to
be the orphaned Marchioness.
Favorite of both audience and
cast was Bob Haas, sophomore
member of the Glee Club, who took
the role of Gaspard, the village
miser and guardian of Germaine.
Singing only one line, Haas gave
what was perhaps the most bril­liant
performance of any student
on the stage in Auburn this year,
as he gloated over his hoarded
treasures or raved and ranted in
his fits of madness.
Lem Edmondson, as Grenicheux,
a sailor, did a fine piece of acting.
Especially good was his solo near
the end of the second act, in which
he tells, falsely, of his rescue of
the maid Germaine.
Bailli, the village governor, was
excellently portrayed by Jim Burt,
freshman from New York.
In the second feminine role, Mar­tha
Daily conquered a bad case
of stage fright to sing the parts
of the saucy Serpolette with the
best.
The entire combined boys and
girls glee clubs, acting as a chorus,
characteristically were in top form.
Members of Mrs. Louise Forte's
dancing classes excelled in the folk
dances of the village maidens.
Continued on page 4
ELECTIONS SLATE
PRESIDENT OF THE
EXECUTIVE CABINET
Jim King
Paul Pruitt
EDITOR OF THE
GLOMERATA
Ed. M. Paul
William B. "Trigger"
McGehee
BUSINESS MANAGER OF
THE GLOMERATA
Kirk Newell
Ed Welden
EDITOR OF THE
PLAINSMAN
Dan Hollis
"Boots" Stratford
BUSINESS MANAGER OF
THE PLAINSMAN
Warren G. Darty,
(unopposed)
SENIOR REPRESENTATIVES
TO EXECUTIVE CABINET
Cliff Beckham
Jack Birdsong
John D. Davis
Bill Dodd
Drew Hale
Tom O. Roby
CHAIRMAN OF THE
SOCIAL COMMITTEE
John Deming
Albert Head
Jim Madill
PRESIDENT OF THE
SENIOR CLASS
Jim Bacon
Merlin Bryant
Sam Pettus
Harold Sutton
VICE-PRESIDENT
SENIOR CLASS
John A. Curry, Jr.
Wallace Wise
SECRETARY, SENIOR CLASS
D. K. Christenberry,
(unopposed)
HISTORIAN, SENIOR CLASS
Bobby Nester
PRESIDENT, WOMAN'S
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Frances Hodge
Dorothy Hurst
Elizabeth Wheeler
VICE-PRESIDENT, WSGA
Ethel Gardiner
Freda Kyle
Jean Laird
SECRETARY, WSGA
Dora Brice
Eleanor Hightower
Claudia Weinmann
TREASURER, WSGA
Mildred Brown Davis
Ernestine Lloyd
WOMEN'S REPRESENTA­TIVE,
EXECUTIVE
CABINET*
Bettie Belle Brandt
Margaret Lindon
Sue Quattlebaum
API Downs Pro's;
Teams Meet Again
This Afternoon
Daytona Beach Nine
Licked Behind Fine
Hurling of Mastin
Tommy Mastin, Auburn's soph­omore
left-hander, earned his var­sity
spurs on Drake Field yester­day
afternoon by handcuffing the
Daytona Beach Islanders, pro
team from the St. Louis Cardinal
Camp in Columbus, Ga., by a
count of 9-1.
Another team from the Redbird
group will clash with the Plains­men
on Drake Field this afternoon
at 3:30.
The pro boys got only three hits
off Mastin, while the Tigers were
collecting 11 off three Islander
hurlers.
George Kenmore was back in
the lineup for the Tigers and gar­nered
2 for 4, one of them a
triple. Fred Hurst starred by
finding his batting eye and slam­ming
a four-base blow and making
a beautiful shoe-string catch in
his left field post. Capt. Tommy
Thompson, who also turned in
some neat fielding, came through
in the clutch as usual to get a
couple of singles when they were
needed.
Continued on page. 4
Archie Harkins
Chosen PSA Head
50 Delegates Attend
State PSA Session
Archie Harkins of API was
chosen by the Presbyterian Student
Association as new state president
as they closed their convention here
last week-end. Other new officers
are Carolyn Norris of Alabama
College, vice-president, and Ken-yon
Meeks of the University of
Alabama, secretary-treasurer.
About 50 delegates from the Uni­versity,
Montevallo, and Jackson­ville
State Teachers College attend­ed
the conclave in addition to about
50 Auburn students who took part
in the activities.
The program opened Friday
night with a banquet in Smith Hall,
which around 100 attended, and
closed Sunday at noon with church
services and communion at the
Presbyterian Church.
Officers of the PSA expressed
this morning their keen enjoyment
of the speeches delivered by Dr.
George M. Gutzke, keynote speaker.
The 1940-41 officers succeed John
Yuell, University of Alabama,
president; Archie Harkins, the new
president, of API, vice-president;
and Imo Heacock, Montevallo, sec­retary.
AlChE Selects New
Officers, Delegates
The Auburn chapter of the A-merican
Institute of Chemical En­gineers
selected officers for the
coming year at an important meet­ing
in Ross Chemical Laboratory
last night.
Leroy Thompson, a junior from
Greenville, was elected president
of the chapter, Cecil Clements, An­dalusia,
also a junior was chosen
vice-president, while A. L. Dodd,
a sophomore from Birmingham
and R. H. Linderman, a junior
from Lake Wales, Fla., were elect­ed
secretary and treasurer, respec­tively.
The chapter also selected Francis
Woofley of Ft. Benning, Ga., and
P. H. Perry of Hurtsboro to rep­resent
it on the Engineering Coun­cil.
The meeting was terminated af­ter
delegates were chosen to rep­resent
the Auburn chapter at the
Southeastern Convention of AIChE
to be held at the University of
North Carolina in Chapel Hill this
month. Leroy Thompson, the new
president, and A. J. Hawkins were
selected as official delegates. Joe
Perkins, senior, was selected to
present a paper to the convention
which he has prepared from the re­sults
of experiments carried on in
the Chemical Engineering Labora­tory
this year.
Junior Class Votes Today
College Creates
New Set-Up In
Two Departments
Brown Heads Student
Housing and Employment,
Brewster, Plant Service
By GEORGE HEARD
In a general expansion of cam­pus
service facilities during the
past few days, the Plant Service
Department went out of existence
as such, its director, Dr. J. V.
Brown, filled a newly-created post
as Director of Student Employ­ment
and Housing, and a new
Department of Buildings and
Grounds was organized with Sam
Brewster, a graduate of Texas
A & M College, as its head.
Dr. Brown's new department
has -not set up definite headquar­ters
as yet but is temporarily oc­cupying
the office 'formerly used
by the physics department on the
first floor of Samford Hall.
Mr. Brewster has outlined a
schedule of work for the coming
year which includes landscaping
the new infirmary, the new sta­dium,
and the President's Home,
and the building of new campus
walks. He said planting of grass
and shrubbery -on the campus
-would not be started until Jan.
1, 1941, when a planting period
of three weeks will begin.
The New Buildings and Grounds
head graduated from Texas Agri­cultural
and Mechanical College,
and later received a master's de­gree
from MIT. He has been em­ployed
by the Alabama Extension
Service and the Tennessee Valley
Authority and until early in 1940
served in the cabinet of the Gov­ernor
of Tennessee as Commis­sioner
of Conservation.
The Department of Buildings
and Grounds was created to pro­vide
for meeting problems of cam­pus
construction and maintenance
brought about by the large expan­sion
program of the school now in
progress. Work of the department
will be carried on under three di­visions.
The Campus Planning Di­vision
will guide the future growth
of the college as to architecture,
engineering, and landscaping. The
Construction Division will be re­sponsible
for directing and super­vising
convict labor on the cam­pus.
The Maintenance Division
will carry on repair work.
Continued on page 4
WEST TO SPEAK
TO AERO CLUB
"Russ" West, an official in the
Alabama Air Service, will address
members of the Auburn Aero
Club on "Safety in Flying" to­night
at 8 o'clock in Ramsay 109.
Mr. West, a veteran of 20 years
flying, is connected with the CAA
pilot training program now in
progress here. All Auburnites in­terested
in flying have been in­vited
by Club members to hear
the lecture.
There will be a meeting of all
club members immediately before
Mr. West's talk.
Seven Kappa Sig's
Attend Macon, Ga.
Regional Convention
Seven members of the local
chapter of the Kappa Sigma fra­ternity
attended their district con­clave
last week-end at Mercer Uni­versity
in Macon, Ga. Officers
and members attending were
George Whitney, treasurer; V. V.
Mitchell, president; Bill Miller,
secretary; William Gallagher,
house manager; Peyton Thrasher,
Malcolm Hunter, and Pete Main.
Chapters represented at the con­clave
were from the University
of Alabama, Auburn, University
of Georgia, Georgia Tech, Mercer,
University of Florida, and the
University of Miami.
Business sessions were held Sat­urday
afternoon a n d Sunday
morning. The visiting members
were entertained with a Kappa
Sig dance Saturday night and with
a banquet Sunday at noon.
LIBRARY HOURS
ARE EXTENDED
It was announced this week
that for the remainder of the
term the library will remain open
until 6 p.m. on week days instead
of closing at 5 p.m., as has been
the case since the new library ad­ditions
were completed.
Miss Mary. E. Martin, head li­brarian,
announced the complete
library schedule of open hours as
follows: Monday through Friday,
8 a.m. through 6 p.m. and 7 p.m.
through 10 p.m.; Saturday, 8 a.m.
through 4 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m.
through 5 p.m.
OTHER PETITIONS
DUE THIS WEEK
Deadline for Papers
Is Thursday Afternoon
Elections Committee Chairman
John Watters pointed out last
night that all freshman and sopho­more
candidates for office must
get in nomination blanks between
the hours of 8 a.m. tomorrow
morning and 1 p.m. Thursday af­ternoon.
Each petition must con­tain
the signatures of four per
cent of the number of registered
voters in the candidate's class and
must be deposited' in the petition
box inside the front door of the
KA house.
No petitions are acceptable that
are turned in either before or
after the time given, Watters
said. He called attention to the
fact that petitions already turned
in by several candidates are not
acceptable since they were turn­ed
in before the proper time.
These candidates, he said, must
turn in new petitions.
Elections for candidates from
the freshman and sophomore
classes will take place on April
11, with the polls being open from
9 to 5.
Women Students Also
Selecting Officers
Special Edition of Plainsman to
Carry Complete Results Tonight
A total of approximately 300 students had voted by
noon today after four hours of balloting in the junior elec­tion.
Elections head John Watters predicted a record vote,
the weather being ideal and interest high.
The polls, which opened at 8 this morning, will close
promptly at 5 this afternoon. Boxes are located on Ag Hill,
where all ag students vote; on Vet Hill, where all vets
vote; and in the Student Center, where all other students
ballot.
Senior Class Meets
Tomorrow Afternoon
There will be a meeting of the
senior class at 5 o'clock tomorrow
afternoon in Langdon Hall, Presi­dent
Kenneth Funchess announced
today.
The purpose of the meeting will
be a discussion of the senior block
ticket plan for the final dances.
Members of the Social Committee
will be on hand to explain the
scheme.
'Gone With The
Wind'To Show
Here April 10-14
The long-awaited technicolor
production of Margaret Mitchell's
"Gone With the Wind" will show
in Auburn for four days begin­ning
April 10, according to Man­ager
Gus Coats of the Tiger Thea­tre.
Each day's showing of GWTW
will include matinees at 10 a.m.
and 2 p.m. and a night reserved-seat
showing beginning at 7:30.
Reserved seat sales will begin to­morrow
morning at 9 o'clock at
the Tiger Theatre box office.
"Gone With the Wind", star­ring
Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'-
Hara and Clark Gable as Rhett
Butler, is universally regarded as
the greatest hit picture Hollywood
has ever produced. No detail was
spared to make the filming of Miss
Mitchell's best seller a thrilling
and accurate picture of life in the
South during the trying days of
the American Civil War.
Supporting actors in the cast
include some of Hollywood's best,
notably Leslie Howard as Ashley
Wilkes, Olivia de Haviland as Me-lanie,
and Thomas Mitchell, the
doctor of "Stagecoach", as Gerald
O'Hara. The picture was produce/!
by David O. Selznick and direct­ed
by Victor Fleming.
Technical work on the produc­tion
included the building of sets
totalling a million feet of lum­ber,
and the hiring of extras who
were on the scene for a total of
12,000 working days. Walter
Plunkett, one of Hollywood's fore­most
stylists, created more than
5,000 separate articles of ward­robe
for GWTW.
Exhibits Completed For First Engineers
Day Tomorrow; Fun Promised Spectators
Program Concludes
With Dance, 8-11
The complete schedule of events
was released this morning as final
arrangements went into effect for
Auburn's first Engineers Day here
tomorrow.
Program for the day will begin
about 1:30 when exhibits will be
opened for view by spectators and
will close with a ball from 8 to 11
in Graves Center..
A group of engineers said last
night that all of the exhibits would
not be of a technical nature but
there would be amusement and
pleasure as well.
The complete program follows:
American Society of Mechanical
Engineers will exhibit internal
combustion engines and an air-con­ditioning
unit at the mechanical
lab in Ramsay Hall and will have
a display exhibit of steam en­gines
at the steam lab in Broun
Hall.
Aeronautics exhibits include dis­plays
of an airplane with the fabric
removed, aircraft engines, aircraft
instruments, a wind tunnel, model
airplanes.
The annual Textile Open House
at the Textile Building, already a
well-established affair, will be one
of the main attractions. It will be
in operation from 3 to 5 in the af­ternoon
and from 7 to 9 tomorrow
night.
AIEE will sponsor demonstra­tions
at Ramsay 109 and the elec­trical
lab of photoelectric cells, po­larized
light, radio, and television.
Ten-minute movies will be shown.
At the D. C. lab in the west end
of Ramsay Hall Eta Kappa Nu
will exhibit oscilloscopes, a minia­ture
steam plant, high voltage ap­paratus,
trick switches, miniature"
motors and generators.
The American Society of Indus­trial
Engineers will offer demon­strations
of radio tubes, an auto­matic
dial telephone system, and
fluorescent lighting in the tele­phone
lab on the third floor of
Ramsay Hill.
At the Chemistry Building Phi
Lambda Upsilon will sponsor va­rious
types of equipment used in
chemical operations.
Students in cooperative engineer­ing
courses will offer exhibits of
products made in the different
plants where co-op men work.
At the highway lab in Broun
Hall there will be an instrument
display, an exhibit of bridge mod­els,
and a model of a raidroad un­derpass
for College Street.
Demonstrations of shop opera­tions
will be presented at the shops
adjoining Langdon Hall.
Counting will begin by boxes
immediately after the polls close
and will be continued without in­terruption
until the results are
computed. As soon as complete
figures are available they will be
turned over to the Plainsman,
and will be given in a special is­sue
of the Plainsman as soon as
possible after counting is finish­ed.
No results will be given, either
at the polls, by elections officials,
or at • the Plainsman office until
copies of the paper are sent out
on the streets.
Women students are selecting
WSGA officers and women's rep­resentative
to the Executive Cabi­net
at a special box at the Stu­dent
Center.
For one final time, Chairman
Watters called attention t h is
morning to the fact that students
may not vote unless they present
their activity books. Those who
cannot locate their second semes­ter
books may bring their first
semester ones, Watters said.
He also pointed out that peti­tions
for candidates for sopho­more
and junior officers are due
this week and must be turned in
between the times set. Complete
details are given elsewhere in this
issue of the Plainsman.
Chi Epsilon Taps
Four New Members
Freeland, Jackson, and
Two Non-Students Picked
Chi Epsilon, honorary civil en­gineering
fraternity, made public
today the selection of two outstand­ing
juniors and two honorary mem­bers.
The two students are Mc-
Daniel Jackson and L. B. Freeland
and the two honoraries Chris J.
Sherlock and William P. DeJar-nette.
Membership in Chi Epsilon is
based on scholarship, character,
practicality, and sociability.
Freeland is president of Sigma
Pi fraternity, manager of the polo
team, and a member of ASCE.
"Mac" Jackson is secretary of
SPE fraternity, a member of AS­CE,
of IRC, and of the Engineers
Council. He transferred to Au­burn
from The Citadel.
Mr. Sherlock is Highway Direc­tor
of Alabama and a leader in the
movement to modernize Alabama's
highways. He served for several
years as Assistant Highway Engi­neer
and later was promoted to
Chief Highway Engineer, then to
Highway Director in 1939.
Mr. DeJarnette is division engi­neer
of the Alabama Highway De­partment
with headquarters in
Alex City. He has talked to ASCE
several times and visits Auburn
often. He is an alumnus of Geor­gia
Tech.
Chi Epsilon was founded at the
University of Illinois in 1922 and
has chapters at the leading engi­neering
schools of the country. The
Auburn chapter was founded in
1937, and since that time has work­ed
with ASCE for the promotion
of civil engineering at Auburn. It
was one of the societies instrumen­tal
in the founding of ASEC and
is taking an active part in Engin­eers
Day.
Initiation of new members will
be held on April 11, followed by a
banquet.
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Sincere Apology
IN LAST Friday's paper some
of the details of today's elec­tion
were given incorrectly. In
part it was the Plainsman's fault;
in the main it was not. However,
we accept full responsibility,
realizing that the worst error a
newspaperman can make is to
publish facts incorrectly, no mat­ter
who is at fault or what the
circumstances. We tender our
sincere apology to those candi­dates
who may feel that they
were injured by the error.
For Freshman Week,
"Thanks"
THE Plainsman is expressing the
almost unanimous sentiment of
the student body when it says,
"Thanks", to the Executive Coun­cil
for establishing a freshman
orientation week for next Sep­tember.
If the orientation period
is as successful as we believe it
will be you will not regret the
step you have taken.
Of course, all plans are yet to
be made, Saturday's ruling be­ing
no more than an enabling act
providing that there would be an
orientation week. But, as has
been said before, when the time
is at hand for planning, next
year's officeholders will be ready
to assist in whatever way they
can. Eventually the need for co­operation
will go far beyond a
small collection of officeholders
to the students at large, and we
are convinced that they, too, will
pitch in at the call.
All Over? No!
IN A very few hours the fanfare
and the shouting will be over
and the fateful results announc­ed.
Congratulations to those who
win.
Actually no one will lose, for
even if a candidate polls fewer
votes than someone else, he has
still gained. He has the personal
satisfaction of knowing that he
has tried in earnest and has put
up a tough scrap. Until he grad­uates
he can see every day the
faces of the dozens of n ew
friends that he has made. And
all the rest of his life he can car­ry
with him the lessons in con­vincingness;
in dealing with oth­ers,
and in personality cultiva­tion
that he has learned while
"politicking."
As for you lucky ones who
come out on top, you will be high­ly
honored, for it is a distinct
achievement to be well liked by
your fellows. Some of you will be
chosen on the basis of your popu­larity
alone, but most by capa­bility
as well.
Finally, never forget that hold­ing
an office may be an honor,
even a privilege — but most of
all it is a responsibility. The work
won't be over when the votes are
counted. That's merely the begin­ning.
A Pause To Honor
The Unsung
PROBABLY in no other place is
achievement rewarded so mag­nanimously
as in college. How­ever,
we college people recur­rently
acknowledge achievement
only, seldom giving thought to
the circumstances which make it
easy or difficult for a man to do
something.
The actual heroes of college
are not just the men in the pub­lic
consciousness and the ones
who get their names and pictures
in the papers. There's the boy in
the third-floor back room of a
dirty boarding house, who eats
only two meals a day, neither of
those very good ones. There's the
boy who's 'batching" on a smelly,
two-burner oil stove and canned
goods from home.
Among the distinguished un-honored
are the NYA students.
It's no child's task to work 40 or
50 hours a month, often in ad­dition
to other work on the side,
and still make good grades. Yet,
NYA students are far above the
average in scholarship, and this
becomes doubly impressive when
one remembers that jobs are giv­en
primarily on the basis of fi­nancial
need and not on scholas­tic
worthiness. At Auburn, for
example, a minimum scholastic
requirement is in force, but it is
lower than the general average
of the entire school.
In spite of this, NYA students
are still superior. A glance at the
list of Auburn students averag­ing
90 for the first semester re­veals
an appreciable number of
workers. A recent survey cover­ing
62,000 students in 666 insti­tutions
located in 46 states, the
District of Columbia, and the ter­ritories,
disclosed that NYA stu­dents
ranked higher in scholar­ship
than the general student
body in 80 per cent of the col­leges.
Two-thirds of the NYA-em-ployed
students had scholastic
averages that placed them in the
upper half of the student body.
Maybe, after all, there's some­thing
to the old saw about "the
man who works for his education
gets more out of it."
Books Are Welcome
REPRESENTATIVES of the ODK
Library Drive, which will go
into high gear in a week or so,
were genuinely astonished when
a student came around a few
days ago and presented them
with a book, expressing his in­terest
in the drive and his de­sire
to make a contribution to it.
ODK will probably not ap­proach
m a n y undergraduates,
since the literature they are pri­marily
searching for would hard­ly
be accessible to the ordinary
student. But do not be misled by
the lack of emphasis here on the
campus and assume that student
help is not wanted. Even though
the main force will be exerted
elsewhere, help from the campus
is welcome — in fact, any help
from anywhere will be received
with pleasure.
No Reason For Pessimism
AT A meeting of well-known
youth leaders and educators in
Washington last December, sev­eral
facts were brought out which
should brighten the horizon a
bit for the college senior who is
pessimistic about his chances of
getting a land upon graduating.
"Our greatest problem," one
prominent educator pointed out,
"is to be found in the 60 per cent
of our secondary and high school
students who must look forward
to semi-skilled or unskilled jobs.
Only 25 per cent of our high
school graduates are going to re­ceive
pre-professional jobs, and
but 15 per cent, highly skilled
jobs."
While the problems of job-get­ting
for the college senior are ad­mittedly
difficult, at least he has
a much greater chance to find
skilled employment where he can
put into practice what he has
learned, despite all the jokes a-bout
college graduates running
filling stations. .
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.
WITHIN the next few weeks students
will be asked to go to the polls to
legalize a change in the name of the
Executive Cabinet.
Confusion has arisen
because of the simi­larity
in name of the
f a c u l t y Executive
Council and that of
the Student Execu­tive
Cabinet.
Changing the name
of this body would
call for a constitu-t
i o n a 1 amendment.
The Cabinet favors
shortening the name
to merely Student Cabinet and will pre­sent
this suggestion to the student body
for approval.
* * *
In drawing up the new constitution,
framers neglected to take into consid­eration
the fact that second semester
ticket books do not have the picture of
the owner. The main purpose of the
activity books in elections is to iden­tify
the bearer, and although they can­not
do this with no picture, they must
be produced at the polls to qualify the
voter.
It's the law of the constitution, and
cannot be violated. This is just one of
those things that the wisest of men,
well-schooled in drafting of constitu­tions,
might easily overlook. It's hard
to think of all possible situations that
might arise when you are not faced
with them, and this oversight does not
detract in any way from the credit due
those who worked so hard for the suc­cessful
completion of the revised con­stitution.
* * *
Just in case you're worried . . .
In all probability, Broun Hall will
last the "year without cremating several
hundred students . . . although first
band attempts at solving the score of
"Rhapsody in Blue" may have sounded
like anything but Gershwin's composi­tion
to listeners, don't be worried. It's
a beast, but we'll get it . . . poison oak
or ivy infections from Ag Bottom these
warm spring nights may be effective­ly
treated with a saturate solution of
sodium thiosulphate . . . the campus
remains colorful in spite of our recent
attack upon red fingernails and asso­ciated
evils.
* * *
Ain't it funny? No April Fool issue,
complete with scandal and humerous
features. We run a high class jernt, ac­cording
to Ye Ed.
* * *
We liked . . .
The weather this week-end, change­able
as a woman's heart . . . the Alpha
Gamma Rho grand march, complete
with smooch and favors . . . the three
brawny inches showing between most
white coat sleeves and the wearers'
hands at the Lambda Chi spring form­al
. . . the decorations at the SPE Nite
Klub house dance . . . the peace and
quiet of classes Saturday morning.
* * *
This junior inspection trip must be
the stuff. Juniors have been dropping
in all week-end, only to leave again for
points south, east, west, and north.
We've heard gruesome tales about the
various experiences of the wanderers,
but accurate details are not available
at present, and anyway, we promised
not to tell.
* * *
And we find that collegiate hazing,
European style, makes American col­lege
freshman hazers look like Little
Lord Fauntleroys. Such is the observa­tion
of Miss Joop Ruurs, a Washington
State College exchange student from
Amsterdam, Holland.
The blonde, blue-eyed Dutch miss re­lates
that at some of the European uni­versities
she has attended — she has
studied at Amsterdam, Munich, Cologne
and Paris — freshmen are hazed un­mercifully.
They must shave their heads
completely.
One of Miss Ruurs brothers, during
his- shaven-headed, green-capped per
iod, was made to hold on to a rope with
his hands and hang on as the rope
dangled three stories from the ground.
His hazers then began lowering the rope
slowly. At the end of twenty minutes,
when his hands and arms were almost
numb from the strain, he finally got
his feet on the ground.
* * *
We wonder . . .
What that was they were cooking in
the home ec department yesterday
morning? . . . how Auburn ever got a-long
without Student Center ? . . .
whether this year's world's fair will
flop- with the resounding boom of last
year's? . . . what it's like on the Gulf
today?
* * *
This is not to be constructed as the
editorial policy of this column, but
Karrie, the Kampus Kut-up, wants to
wish you all a very foolish April's Fool
Day yesterday.
TODAY'S THE DAY
<'•;
The Future, of the GOP, If It Campus Events
Has One, Becomes of Interest
WITH Republican clubs springing up on
many college and university campuses
in all sections of the nation, interest in
the Grand Old Party's future is growing
steadily among US collegians.
Although seemingly anxious to see the
Republicans come out on top in the com­ing
battle of ballots, collegiate editorial
writers do not like the methods or the
men that are being proposed as weapons
for the war. Here is a review of col­legiate
comment on the party's activities:
From the University of Iowa Daily
lowan: "Because the split in the Demo­cratic
ranks would be an unfortunate up­heaval
distressing in times when there
are important problems to solve, we are
hopeful that the concerted efforts to
revive the full strength of the GOP will
be a success. The normal functioning of
our party system, without the split in
Democratic ranks, should result when the
Republicans succeed finally, as they ap­pear
to be doing, in their revival."
From the Alabama Polytechnic Insti­tute
Plainsman: "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 eyeteeth yet."
From the Washburn College Review:
"William Allen White, hell, or high wa­ter
notwithstanding, nobody has ever
been genius enough to reconcile the Re­publican
party with liberalism. Not even
Teddy Roosevelt could do that. The Re­publican
party has no political crutch to
stand on except conservatism."
From the University of Oklahoma
Daily: "While he (Republican Joseph W.
Martin) condemns the Roosevelt admin­istration
as having totally failed to re­store
prosperity, and says that national
finances must be saved and the small
farmer and small employer must be res­cued
from domineering federal bureau­cracy,
he fails to suggest any definite
program to remedy the evils which the
new deal was designed to benefit. Thou­sands,
if not millions, of persons would
like to see relief and subsidization done
away with, but it will not be until some
party suggests some program other than
that old one of laissez-faire."
On the other hand, the Jambar of
Youngstown College says: "Granted that
Roosevelt and his ilk know the ins and
outs of every major political maneuver,
they are over-looking one factor — the
people are beginning to think. Thinking
people naturally side with a leader who
has their best interests at heart, one who
is progressive, yet can keep the ma­chinery
of government in constant
check."
So you see, collegiate editorialists are
watching carefully the coming campaign
and platform of the Republican party —
and many are hoping there will be some­thing
they can honestly support and still
maintain the collegian's traditional liber­al
viewpoint. (ACP).
On Ag Hill Plants Are Raised With
"Fuss and Feathers" But Without Soil
By GEORGE HEARD
PLANTS grow better in water than in
soil! Not only that, but the quality
yielded is much greater than when rich
soil is used! These astonishing state­ments
were made in an interview last
week by Dr. Anna L. Sommers, asso­ciate
soil chemist in Auburn's Experi­ment
Station. «
For the past nine years Dr. Som­mers
has been carrying on research in
the growth of plants in water—experi­ments
to find the reaction of plants to
one or more of the 92 chemical ele­ments,
and it seems that the work can
be carried out much better using water
than soil, because dirt contains other
elements which interfere with the ex­periments
on the element being tested.
This process of growing plants in water
is known as "hydro-ponies."
So far the work at Auburn has not
passed the experimental stage. Toma­toes,
carrots, wheat, peas, and cotton
are a few of the objects of the test.
Experiments in hydro-ponies are also
being carried on in other parts of the
country, and in some places the work
has passed the experimental stage. A
professor at the University of California
was one of the first to be successful
in actually raising plants in water. He
used a small tank eight inches deep and
raised tomato plants six -to eight feet
in height and from the plants got an
average yield of six pounds of toma­toes
per cubic foot.
Crop* Actually Raised
One of the first commercial attempts
actually to raise crops in this manner
was carried out on Wake Island in
the middle of the Pacific. Food and re­freshments
were needed there for the
passengers on the China Clipper and
the soil there was unfit for cultiva­tion,
so the hydro-ponic system was
tried. It was so successful that enough
food was raised for the island's need,
plus a surplus to export to other is­lands
at which the Clippers stop.
The system is also proving beneficial
to nurseries,- especially those that spec­ialize
in growing a small number of
plants. One-year old plants grown by
this method are very much better than
the average plant grown in soil. Not
only is better quality obtained but not
as much space is required for grow­ing.
Until a short while ago Dr. Sommers
Tuesday, April 2
8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. — Junior and
WSGA elections. Boxes at Student Cen­ter,
Ag Hill, Vet Hill. Bring your tick­et
book.
8:00 p.m.—Aero Club meeting. Ram­say
109. "Russ" West, speaker.
8:15 p.m.—Operetta: "The Chimes
of Normandy". Langdon Hall. Adm.
free to students with activities book;
others 25 cents.
8:30 p.m. (approximately) — Elec­tion
returns.
Wednesday, April 3
1:30-5:00 p.m. — Engineers Day.
Exhibits on display. Ramsay Hall.
3:00-5:00 p.m. and 7:00-9:00 p.m. —
Textile Open House. Various processes
in the manufacture of cotton fabric
will be demonstrated.
8:00-11:00 p.m. — Engineers Ball.
Graves Center.
Saturday, April 6
2:30 p.m.—Polo: Auburn vs. Atlanta
Horseguards. Bullard Field
Sunday, April 7
5:30 p.m. — Address: Postmaster
General James A. Farley. Auditorium,
Graves Center.
Coming Events
April 15-16—Annual ROTC Inspec­tion.
April 16 — Concert: Athens College
Glee Club. (Free.) Langdon Hall.
April 21—Annual Horse Show
April 26-27—Final Dances. Jack Tea-garden
and Band.
Drink 500-Year Old
Milk? Its Possible
HOW would you like a glass of 500-
year-old-milk for breakfast? Several
centuries hence some lucky individual
may have the opportunity of enjoying
that very thing, and he may thank the
ghost of Dr. C. W. Root, head of Syra­cuse
U.'s bacteriology department.
It was nearly 11 years ago when Dr.
Root placed in the cornerstone of Hend­ricks
chapel a hermetically sealed flask
of cow's milk, along with a flask of
neutrient agar, both purified of all bac­teria
before sealing.
"Five hundred or a thousand years
from now some one will be able to
drink that milk, which will be as sweet
as it was the day it was placed there,"
said Dr. Root in a recent lecture.
The purpose of Dr. Root's experiment
is simply to demonstrate that, with the
absence of bacteria, foodstuffs can in­definitely
retain their nutrient value
and edibility.
used metal tanks to carry out her ex­periments,
the sides being painted to
prevent the metal from interfering with
the reactions taking place. Around two
months ago this system had to be dis­continued
because the special paint
could no longer be obtained. She now
uses glass jars filled with the water
and by means of siphons transfers the
water to the plants. This, says Dr. Som­mers,
should in the end be more effec­tive,
although refills have to be made
more frequently.
April 2, 1940 THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN Page Three
UP IN SOCIETY
By EMMA NELL PARRISH
LAMBDA CHI GIVES SPRING FORMAL
Friday night Lambda Chi Alpha entertained with the first spring
formal of the season. Preceding the dance the chapter was host at a
banquet at the Baptist Church.
Graves Center was decorated with LXA colors and the coat of
arms. The Knights furnished music, and three no-breaks and a Lambda
Chi lead-out were featured. Heading the lead-out were D. W. Moody
and Miss Frances Galloway. Following the dance a breakfast was serv­ed
at the chapter house. A number of alumni were present.
* * *
PRESBYTERIAN STUDENTS BANQUET
Members of the Alabama Presbyterian Student Association were
entertained at a banquet at 7 o'clock Friday, night in Smith Hall as
the opening feature of the PSA state conference here. Lem Edmon­son
was toastmaster for the occasion. More than 100 guests enjoyed
the banquet and the after dinner speech by Dr. G. M. Gutzke.
* * *
-ALPHA GAMMA RHO WEEK-END
Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity concluded a week-end of festivities
Saturday night with their annual dance given at Bibb Graves Center.
Along with two no-breaks there was an Ag Club lead-out and an AGR
lead-out, during which dates were presented with favors. Leading the
grand march were Miss Alice Page and V. V. Rhodes.
Friday night the chapter entertained with a house dance, and pre­ceding
the dance Saturday with a banquet at the Baptist Church.
* * *
RECEPTION FOR MISS GALT AND MR. MORTON
Miss Pattie Haney and Miss Berta Dunn were co-hostesses at an
informal reception Saturday afternoon given for Miss June Gait and
Mr. Jack Morton, whose engagement was announced last week. A
number of guests called between 4 and 6 o'clock.
Both Miss Gait and Mr. Morton are Auburn graduates. At one
time he was secretary to the dean of the School of Architecture and
Allied Arts, was a member of Sigma Chi and of Scarabs.
Miss Gait graduated in 1938, Mr. Morton in 1939.
* * *
JAMES-OTT MARRIAGE
Miss Tressie Irene James was married to William Bancroft Ott, Jr.,.
last week at the First Avenue Methodist Church in Montgomery. Mr.
Ott graduated from Auburn in 1939 in business administration. He
was a member of Pi Kappa Phi and of Delta Sigma Pi.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. B. James of Mont­gomery,
where they are making their home.
Alpha Psi Installs
New Frat Officers
Theta Chapter of Alpha Psi
Fraternity elected and installed
new officers for the coming year
Wednesday night.
The new men taking office were
Fred Schell, president; Robert A.
Dickinson, vice-president; W. Vir­gil
Petty, secretary; Guy W.
Moorman, treasurer; Jeff W.
Byrd, and S. Reed Bowen, ser-geants-
at-arms; and H. Gregg
Brown, reporter.
Mr. Dickinson was also reelect­ed
representative to the Interfra-ternity
Council.
As a token of esteem for his
efforts in behalf of his fraternity,
retiring president Ralph L. Wil­liams
was awarded an instrument
bag by the chapter.
Other retiring officers were: T.
C. Ross, Tifton, Ga., vice presi­dent;
Guy W. Moorman, Douglas,
Ga., secretary; 0. E. Jung, Jr.,
E. St. Louis, 111., treasurer; Thom­as
B. Sutton, Sylvester, Ga., ser­geant
at arms; and W. V. Petty,
Dawson, Ga., reporter.
Scarab Convention
To Be Held Here;
Kelley In Charge
Scarab announced last night
that Charles Kelley, fourth year
in architecture, had been select­ed
to be in charge of all arrange­ments
for the Scarab national
convention to be held here next
fall.
New officers for the coming
year were also given. Bruce Ren-for
was chosen as new president,
A. R. Smith as vice-president,
Leslie O'Gwynn as secretary, Al
Northington as treasurer, and Joe
Lacy as sergeant at arms.
Glenville State Teachers Col­lege
basketball teams have travel­ed
more than 250,000 miles in the
past 14 years.
Alumni Office
Asks Addresses
Of Lost Grads
Anyone Knowing Where
Any of The8e Are, Tell
Auburn Alumni Office
The Alumni Office issued last
week the names of 50 alumni who
are on the "lost" files of the
Alumni Association, no record of
their present addresses being on
file there.
The list of 50, together with
each's class and last known place
of residence is given below. Any­one
knowing the whereabouts of
any of these alumni is urged to
communicate at once with the
Alumni Office, second floor of the
Plant Service Building. The tele­phone
number is 161-W.
Adams, Jas. Monroe, '36-39,
Birmingham; Adams, R. L., 1934,
Jacksonville, Fla.; Alexander, F.
C, Ensley; Acker, John H., 1927,
Chattanooga, Tenn.; Allen, Jas.
Anderson, 1900, Birmingham; Al­len,
J. G., Montgomery; Allen, J.
N., 1927, Montgomery; Allen,
Simeon A., Carbon Hill; Almon,
L., 1927, Town Creek; Anderson,
J. H. L., 1919, Texarkana, Texas.
Anderson, J. P., Atlanta, Ga.;
Armstrong, R. O., 1928, New Mar­ket;
Arnall, Robt. H., 1926, At­lanta,
Ga.; Arnoll, R. H., 1926,
Decatur, Ga.; Atchison, Francis
B., 1938, Goodwater; Atkins,
Robt., Heflin; Avery, Albert M.,
1903, Dallas, Texas; Avery, James
Oliver, Hamilton; Avery, J. V.,
1918, Kansas City, Texas; Avery,
P. S., 1912, Atlanta, Ga.; Bagby,
R. T., 1903, Birmingham; Bailey,
Wm. S., 1906, Memphis, Tenn.
Baker, John Herbert, 1927, Bir­mingham;
Baldwin, W. 0., 1922,
New York, N. Y.; Barker, M. R.,
1921, Birmingham; Baron, Wm.
W., Norwood, Ohio; Bartholdus,
Wm. Joseph, 1933, New York, N.
Y.; Barton, H. H., 1926, Chero­kee;
Bass, Clyde, 1935, Birming­ham;
Batson, S. E., Sylacauga;
Bean, Russell N., Birmingham;
Beard, J. B., 1928, Scottsboro.
Beatty, Wm. Gibbs, 1933, Bir­mingham;
Beck, Chas. Paul, 1929,
Tela, Honduras, C. A.; Beggs,
John J., Ensley; Bemiss, Howard,
Birmingham; Bender, Finley Sea-gle,
1925, Chattanooga, Tenn.;
Bennett, Hugh W., 1929, Auburn;
Bennett, Harry W., 1878, Cleve­land,
Ohio; Bennett, Robt. Love,
1888, Dallas, Texas; Benson, J.
W. L., 1912, Mobile.
Benton, Harmon, 1891, Lock-hart,
Texas; Bethea, A. J., Los
Angeles, Cal., Bethea, J. G., At­lanta,
Ga.; Bishop, Corbett, 1931,
On the basis of new research,
Harvard University geologists es­timate
that civilization on the
North American continent is 25,-
000 years old.
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You see a man who is
wearing a new suit. Spring
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OPELIKA
VIVIEN LEIGH TO
BE AT MARTIN
The varsity of the greatest
screen players of the age has just
been joined by Vivien Leigh —
currently to be seen with Charles
Laughton in Paramount's "Side­walks
of London" — who got her
letter from New York City's mo­tion
picture reviewers for her
epochal performance as the Scar­lett
O'Hara of "Gone With the
Wind."
The dark-haired, green-eyed
British girl who won the year's
award, as well as the most wide­ly-
publicized movie talent hunt of
all -time, will be seen in a color­ful,
present-day role in "Side­walks
of London," when it plays
at the Martin Theatre Friday.
Cast as a hellion of a cockney
street entertainer and a flirt of
flirts, Miss Leigh is said to have
ample opportunity to display the
energy, tempestuousness and fiery
charm that made her such a sen­sation
as Scarlett.
Muddy Grounds Halt
Athletic Contests
Muddy grounds, result of heavy
Friday night rains, Saturday
caused cancellation of the finale
of a three-game Auburn-Purdue
baseball series and postponement
of the Tiger polo team's match
with the Atlanta Horse Guard.
The Tigers and the Big Ten
Boilermakers divided their first
two diamond tiffs.
Another polo scrap between the
Tigers and Atlanta Riders has
been carded for Bullard Field
here next Saturday.
The University of Wisconsin
was the first American college to
have courses in Scandanavian
languages.
Brown University's swimmers
have won the New England Inter­collegiate
meet for eight consecu­tive
years.
New York, N. Y.; Black, Bruce
H., Decatur; Blackstone, John H.,
1938, Gadsden; Blair, Wm. Robt.,
1923, Birmingham; B l a n k s,
George, Anniston; Blumenfeldt,
C. M., Ensley.
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OPELIKA
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OPELIKA
MISSWHATLEY
RECEIVES 1940
DANFORTH PRIZE
Margaret Whatley of Auburn,
junior in home economics, has
been selected by Mrs. Marion
Spidle and her staff as the recipi­ent
of the Danforth Fellowship,
awarded annually to a home eco­nomics
junior by the Danforth
Foundation and Ralston Purina
Mills.
Miss Whatley is president of
the Home Economics Club, mem­ber
of the Open Forum, WAA,
and Theta Epsilon, honorary or­ganization
for home economics
students.
The award will cover the bene­ficiary's
expenses for two weeks
in St. Louis, Mo., and two weeks
of leadership training at the A-merican
Youth Foundation Camp
on Lake Michigan at Shelby, Mich.
Thirty-seven outstanding home
economics students from 37 states
receive the awards.
Miss Whatley's time in St.
Louis will be spent in research
laboratories making nutritional
studies, doing experimental bak­ing,
observing X-ray methods,
practicing special methods for
studying nutrition properties of
milk, eggs, cereals, flour, and
sanitation aids.
Problems of employment will
be reviewed, and the representa­tives
from the different states
will make trips through large in­dustrial
plants.
US Air Corps Representative Scheduled
To Stop Here From May 6 To May 11
Information on File
At Military Office
Acting as the spearhead for an
intensive drive for flying cadets
in the Fourth Corps Area, Second
Lieutenant Lewis B. Meng, Air
Corps, will be in Auburn from
May 6 to May 11 to interview can­didates
for appointments to the
Army flying corps. His visit will
be to prepare for the visit of the
Examination Board of Air Corps
officers, which will examine can­didates
here during May 13-18.
Lt. Meng's stop here will be the
last one on his tour of Southern
colleges.
Col. John J. Waterman, com­mandant,
announced Saturday
that envelopes containing com­plete
information about the ap­pointments
are now at the Mili­tary
Office and may be obtained
there or from Lt. B. M. Cornell,
head professor of aeronautical
engineering. Col. Waterman call­ed
attention to the fact that the
appointments are available to stu­dents
who have completed as much
as two years of college work.
Classes in flying training are
now being formed every s ix
weeks, and qualified applicants
usually receive appointment with­in
six weeks from date of appli­cation.
Course of Instruction
The course of instruction re­quires
nine months, including
three months elementary, three
months basic, and three months
advanced training. In addition to
the flying training the instruction
includes courses in navigation,
meterology, radio, and other sub­jects
allied with military aviation.
It consists of approximately 215
hours in the air, during which
time the student receives instruc­tion
in all maneuvers necessary
to pilot military airplanes.
Upon successful completion of
the course of instruction, the fly­ing
cadet is commissioned a sec­ond
lieutenant in the Air Corps
Reserve, receives his wings and
the rating of a pilot. Then, pro­vided
Congressional appropria­tions
exist, he is called to extend­ed
active duty with the Regular
Army Corps in the grade of Sec­ond
Lieutenant, Air Reserve, with
the same pay and allowances as
an officer of similar rank in the
Regular Army.
Under present authorization, an
Air Corps Reserve Officer may be
ordered to active duty with his
consent, for periods of one year,
which may be extended to a total
of not more than seven years.
In 1860 Southwestern Univers­ity
students had to attend three
daily prayer services, the first be­ginning
at four a.m.
Harvard's physics department
has attained a world's high pres­sure
record of 2,800,000 pounds
per square inch.
Seventeen Ohio convicts have
received certificates for comple­tion
of Ohio State University ex­tension
courses.
WSUI, radio station of the
State University of Iowa, is on the
air 2,496 hours per year.
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FRATERNITY DIVISION — Softball
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Kappa Sigma vs Phi Delta Theta
SPE vs Lambda Chi
Pi Kappa Phi vs Sigma Pi
Beta Kappa vs TEP
Alpha Psi vs Kappa Alpha
SAE vs Theta Chi
Sigma Nu vs ATO
Beta Kappa vs Sigma Chi
Alpha Psi vs Lambda Chi
SAE vs Sigma Pi
TEP vs ATO
Pi K A vs Kappa Sigma
Delta Sig vs Phi Delta Theta
Kappa Alpha vs AGR
Theta Chi vs ALT
ATO vs Sigma Chi
Sigma Nu vs TEP
Pi K A vs Phi Delta Theta
SPE vs Kappa Alpha
Pi Kappa Phi vs Theta Chi
Beta Kappa vs Sigma Chi
Delta Sig vs Kappa Sigma
Alpha Psi vs AGR
SAE vs ALT
Sigma Nu vs Sigma Chi
Beta Kappa vs ATO
SPE vs Alpha Psi
Pi Kappa Phi vs SAE
Lambda Chi vs AGR
Sigma Phi vs Theta Chi
Beta Kappa vs Sigma Nu
Sigma Pi vs ALT
TEP vs Sigma Chi
SPE vs AGR
Lambda Chi vs Kappa Alpha
INDEPENDENT DIVISION — Softball
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Alumni Hall vs Porch House
Terrels vs North Alabama
Carr Hall vs Sara's Wildcats
Hot Shots vs Thach
Ware House vs FFA
Creel vs Rentrof
Alumni Hall vs Hornsby Hall
Terrels vs Carr Hall
Porch House vs Ware House
North Alabama vs Sara's Wildcats
Thach vs Creel
Porch House vs FFA
Hot Shots vs Rentrof
Alumni Hall vs Ware House
Hornsby Hall vs FFA
Terrels vs Sara's Wildcats
Hot Shots vs Creel
North Alabama vs Carr Hall
Ware House vs Hornsby Hall
Thach vs Rentrof
Alumni Hall vs FFA
Porch House vs Hornsby Hall
Each independent team is required to submit a list of its play­ers
at, or before, its second scheduled game. Only those players
listed shall play with that team during the season.
*BF—Bullard Field
CF—Chemistry Field
GG—Girls* Gym.
Tigers Take First
In Florida Relays
Dickinson Leads With Two Firsts;
Hall, Morgan, and Bulger Also Score
Textiles Holding
Display Tomorrow
Open House is Part
Of Engineers Day
Phi Psi will stage its annual
Textile Open House at the Textile
Building tomorrow from 3 to 5 in
the afternoon and from 7 to 9 at
night. Eighty-five students will
demonstrate the entire process of
cotton manufacture from raw cot­ton
to the finished product.
The following members of Phi
Psi will supervise the operation of
machines during the Open House:
Superintendent, John Kenneth
Orr, Jr., Atlanta, Ga.; Assistant
Superintendent, William Charles
Knight, Andalusia; Overseer of
Card Room, Joe Ware, Birming­ham;
Overseer of Spinning Room,
John Hatfield, Eufaula; Boss Dyer,
Hulett L. King, Huntsville; Assis­tant
Boss Dyer, Paul Otey Ander­son,
Jr., Uniontown; Superinten­dent
of Test Laboratory, Robert
Heathcote, Great Neck, N. Y.;
Overseer of Weaving, Nathan J.
Adams, Fairfax; Second-Hand of
Weaving, J. D. Danner, Nixburg.
Led by Bob Dickinson, Capt.
"Chuck" Morgan, and Hoyt Hall,
Auburn's cinder Tigers got the
revenge they have waited a year
for in the Florida Relays Satur­day
at Gainesville. Nosed out last
year 31-30 by North Carolina, the
Plainsmen were out for a win
and they got it.
Dickinson paced Auburn scor­ing
with two first places, in the
running broad jump and the 100-
yard dash finals. Morgan was
first in the 120-yard high hurdles
and tied for third in the running
high jump. Hall, stepping into the
shoes of Auburn's mighty vaulter,
Dave Sprinkle, tied for first place
in the pole vault. Big Chet Bulger
won second in the shot put.
In winning the high hurdles
Morgan tied his old record of 15.2
seconds.
SPRINT MEDLEY RELAY—Univers­ity
Class: Won by North Carolina (Hoff­man,
Jennings, March, Davis) ; second,
Tech (Beals, Estes, Mimma, Small);
third, Duke (P. Spence, Brown, Vail,
Profenius). Time, S minutes, S6.4 sec­onds
(new record. Old record, 3:37.1 by
North Carolina).
POLE VAULT—Three-way tie: Hall,
Auburn; Montfort, Duke; Rayburn, Flor­ida.
12 feet.
RUNNING BROAD JUMP — Won by
Dickinson, Auburn, 21 feet 8V3 inches;
second, Beals, Tech, 21 feet 2Vs inches;
third, Rayburn, Florida, 21 feet 1 inch.
ONE-MILE RELAY—University Class:
Won by Maryland (Fields, Kehoe, Chron-ister,
Miller) ; second, Alabama (Jones,
Bullock, Warner, Boswell) ; third. North
Carolina (Hoffman, Morrison, French and
March). Time 3:24.3 (new record. Old
record 3:27 of North Carolina).
JAVELIN — Won by Salisbury, Geor­gia,
198 feet 2Yt inches; second, Young,
Vanderbilt, 196 feet 3% inches; third,
Webb, Tech, 186 feet 2% inches. (New
record. Old record 178 feet 2% inches
by Hal Standley of Alabama).
TWO-MILE RELAY FINALS — Won
by Maryland (Miller, Fields, Chronister,
Kahoe) ; second, Alabama (James, Warn­er,
Station, Bullock) ; third. North Caro­lina
Brockett. French, Morrison, Wise).
Time, 7 minutes 56.4 seconds. (New
relay record. Old record of 8:14.3 set
last year by North Carolina).
120-Yard Hurdles Finals — Won • by
Morgan, Auburn; second, March, North
Carolina; third, Browning, Florida. Time
15.2 seconds.
100-YARD DASH FINALS — Won by
Dickinson, Auburn; second, Kearney,
Florida; third, Beals, Georgia Tech. Time,
10.1 seconds.
SHOT PUT—Won by Smith, Florida,
47 feet 1% inches; second, Bulger, Au­burn,
16 feet 9% inches; third, Lack,
Duke, 46 feet 6% inches. (Smith's throw
was new record, breaking his own mark
on 46 feet 6 inches last year.)
RUNNING HIGH JUMP, COLLEGE
FINALS—Won by Horn, Alabama, 6 feet
3 M> inches; second, Rayburn, Florida, 6
feet 1 % inches; tied for third, Patter­son,
North Carolina, and Morgan, Au­burn,
5 feet 9% inches. (New record.
Old record of 6 feet 3 inches set by
Kelly Horn, of Alabama, last year).
QUARTER MILE RELAY, UNIVERS­ITY
CLASS—Won by Duke (Brown, Sar­gent,
Spence, Vail) ; second, Tech (Estes,
Clift, Pair, Beals) ; third. North Carolina
(Groves, Haigh, Jennings, March). Time,
43.5.
Plant Service
Continued from page 1
Mr. Brewster announced that ployed on the API campus. So
the new set-up would include a far as is known, this enterprise is
school for janitors and maids em- the first of-its kind in Alabama.
The Mix-Match is spring's newest fashion.
Two costumes in one! Smart striped jackets
with matching and solid color skirts. Select
your Mix-Match at
K A Y S E R - L I L I E N T H A L , I n c.
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BROAD STREET COLUMBUS, GA.
Scabbard and Blade
Initiates This Week
Initiation of recently-tapped
Scabbard and Blade neophytes will
take place this week-end, accord­ing
to John Rice, captain of Blade.
The festivities will begin Friday
afternoon uptown, and following
usual custom the new men will
camp out Friday night.
The men will also present *their
stage show at the Tiger Treatre
Friday night between showings of
"The Light That Failed", movie
.being sponsored by the Woman's
Club for the benefit of an Auburn
playground.
Saturday morning the custom­ary
show will be put on at Toom-er's
Corner.
Working off demerits will take
up Saturday afternoon, and Satur­day
night the men will go on a
ride into the country. Formal ini­tiation
will end the ceremonies on
Sunday morning.
STOP for a pause
GO refreshed
Opelika Coca Cola
Bottling Co.
Phone 70
Auburn-Daytona
C o n t i n u e d from page 1
DAYTONA BEACH
ab h o a
Stpeter, 2b 4 0 0 8
Vierling, cf _ 2 1 8 0
Harrington, cf 2 0 2 0
Manush, If 2 0 0 0
Marafino, If ._ 2 0 0 0
David, lb - 2 0 7 0
Leonhardt, lb 10 2 0
Jusczyk, ss 2 1 2 2
Atwater, ss 10 0 1
Burleson, rf 10 2 0
Carlson, rf _ 1 0 2 0
Booma, 3b 2 0 0 0
Sigafoos, 8b 110 0
Rados, c - 1 0 0 1
Smetana, c 2 0 4 0
Dakai, p . 1 0 0 1
Zimmerman, p .: 10 0 2
Sheets, p 10 0 0
Totals - 28 8 24 10
AUBURN
ab h o a
Rollo, 2b _.. S 1 1 2
Happer, 2b 2 1 0 0
Thompson, cf 8 2 2 0
Wright, cf 2 0 1 0
McNair, ss 4 0 0 1
Frazier, lb ._ 8 2 12 1
Kenmore, rf _ 2 2 2 0
McGowen, c 2 0 5 1
Ferrell, c 110 0
Hurst, If 4 1 3 0
McClusky, 3b 4 1 1 2
Mastin, p 4 0 0 5
Totals 84 11 27 12
Daytona Beach 010 000 000—1
Auburn 001 320 21x—9
Second Showing
Continued from page 1
Not to be forgotten was the
splendid work of the orchestra,
directed by Lawrence Barnett.
Orchids go to Mr. Telfair Peet,
who directed the action of the op­eretta,
and to Paul Rudolph, in
charge of the setting of the stage.
Notice!
There will be a meeting of the
Auburn swimming team Thursday
night at 6:45 p.m. in the "A" Club
room. The election of the new cap­tain
and co-captain will be held.
The varsity and freshman mana­gers
will also be elected. Tenta­tive
plans will be made for next
year's meets. All the members of
the freshman and varsity squads
are urged to attend, as a social will
be planned also.
Patronize Plainsman advertisers.
We buy men's sec­ond-
hand Clothing
and Shoes.
Jake's Place
123 So. 9th Street
Opelika, Alabama
THE MOST
IMPORTANT
ANNOUNCEMENT
IN THIS CITY'S
ENTERTAINMENT
HISTORY
Starting Wednesday,
April 10th for
four days
Exactly as shown in its fam­ed
Atlanta Premiere
GONE
WITH
THE
WIND
This production will not be
shown anywhere except at
advanced prices — at least
until 1941.
Three Shows Daily
Matinees 10 a.m. & 2 p.m.
Admission - - - - 77c
(not reserved)
Night Shows 7 p.m.
Admission $1.12
(all seats reserved)
Prices include tax
No telephone reservations
Reserve seat sale starts
Wed., April 3rd, 9 a.m.
TIGER
Phone 67 For Informa­tion
Only
Boilermakers Whip
Auburn By 6-1
Barrage of Home Runs
Features Win by Purdue
A barrage of home runs, three
of them in the eighth and ninth
innings, completed P u r d u e 's
slaughter of Auburn Friday after­noon
on Drake Field after the
Boilermakers already held a 2-1
edge. The final count was 6-1.
Auburn's lone marker was also
scored on a one-base marker.
Louis Diamond started on the
mound for Auburn and held out
well enough till the sixth. Then
with his control wobbling a bit,
he was pulled and Bob Day went
in to relieve him. Day's hurling
fooled the Purduemen for a couple
of stanzas, but they solved it in
the last two innings to the tune
of four runs, including the three
four-base knocks.
Capt. Tommy Thompson was in
Number 1 position on the Auburn
hit parade with 2 for 5, one of
them the circuit blow that ac­counted
for the Tigers' lone score.
Woodie McNair, playing his
usual fine game at shortstop, was
finally caught by the law of aver­ages
and muffed one. Diamond
and Day also erred afield for the
Tigers.
Don Blanken was high hitter
for Purdue getting two of the
seven Indiana hits, one of them a
home run.
PURDUE
ab h o a
McFerren, 2b 6 1 4 1
Vernon, cf 4 1 2 0
Wargo, rf 5 1 1 2
Mackiewicz, 3b 4 1 1 3
Hearne, ss 3 0 8 2
Smithson, lb _ 3 1 8 2
Yeager, If 8 0 8 0
Higgins, p _ 1 0 0 3
Fisher, c 3 0 3 1
Blanken, p. If .. 4 2 2 2
Totals 86 7 27 16
AUBURN
Rollo, 2b 5 1 2 1
Thompson, cf 4 2 4 0
McNair, ss -2 0 1 8
Frazier, lb 1 0 9 0
Hurst, If 4 0 4 0
Wright, rf _ 3 0 0 0
xKilpatrick, _.l 0 0 0
Prather, rf 0 0 0 0
McCluskey, 3b 3 1 1 1
Caudill, c 2 0 0 1
McGowen, c 2 0 6 0
Diamond, p 2 1 0 2
Day, p 0 0 0 1
Vickery, p 0 0 0 0
zFerrell ...1 0 0 0
Totals 80 B 27 9
x—Batted for Wright in 8th.
z—Batted for Vickery in 9th.
Purdue 000 020 013—6
Auburn 000 100 000—1
SUMMARY — Runs: Vernon, Wargo,
Mackiewicz, Smithson, Blanken 2, Thomp­son.
Errors: McNair, Diamond, Day, Mc­Ferren,
Vernon. Runs batted in: Thomp­son,
McFerren, Wargo 2, Mackiewicz,
Blanken. Three base hit: Vernin. Home
runs: Thompson, Mackiewicz, .Blanken,
Wargo. Stolen bases: McFerren, Fisher.
Sacrifices: McNair, Frazier, Smithson.
Left on bases: Auburn 9: Purdue 6. Base
on balls off Diamond 4, Blanken 2, Hig-gins
2. Struck out by Diamond 3 in 5
innings (one on when relieved in 6th) :
Tracksters Book
Three Dual Meets
Three dual meets and, tentative­ly,
a fourth one have been sched­uled
by Coach Wilbur Hutsell for
his 1940 thinly clads. In addition
the Plainsmen will be represented
at two other meets.
With a victory at the Florida
Relays under thier belts, the Ti­gers
will clash with Georgia at
Auburn on April 20, followed by
Percy Beard's Florida 'Gators at
Gainesville on May 4, and Georgia
Tech in Atlanta on May 11.
Tentative arrangements have
been made for a meet on April
13 with an as yet unnamed con­ference
rival.
The Auburn cindermen will en­ter
the annual SEC track and field
carnival in Birmingham on May
17-18 and will be represented at
the national collegiate meet in
Minneapolis, Minn., on June 21-
22.
On Saturday, April 20, the
Fourth District high school meet
will be held on Auburn's new
eight-lane track, the widest in the
South.
off Day 4 in 3 % ; off Blanken 3 in 5.
Hit by pitcher by Blanken (Frazier).
Winning pitcher: Blanken. Losing pitch­er:
Diamond. Umpires: Hall and Barnes.
Time 3:00.
featuring
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THE
AUBURN PLAINSMAN
VOL. LXIII Z-I ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, APRIL 2, 1940
W. H. McGehee And Kirk Newell
Will Head 1941 Glomerate Staff
Hollis Wins Plainsman
Editorship By Big Margin
Dan Hollis, Theta Chi from" Headland, was elected Editor
of the Plainsman for next year by a decisive vote of 370 to
188 over John "Boots" Stratford, Phi Delta Theta from Mont­gomery.
Balloting by boxes is as follows: Student Center, Hollis,
206; Stratford, 157; Ag Hill, Hollis, 110; Stratford, 23; Vet
Hill, Hollis, 54; Stratford, 8.
Hollis is enrolled in Agriculture taking a major in jour­nalism
and during the present year has served on the Editor­ial
Board of the Plainsman. Stratford is taking aeronautical
administration and has served as Sports Editor for the Plains­man
this year.
Warren Darty, Lambda Chi from Lake Wales, Fla., was
unopposed for the position as business manager of the Plains­man
for next year. He is enrolled in aeronautical administra­tion.
JOHN DEMING WINS POSITION AS
CHAIRMAN OF SOCIAL COMMITTEE
John Deming, SAE from Evergreen, swept into the office
as chairman of the Social Committee with a landslide vote
over two opponents. The vote was Deming, 411; Jim Madill,
110; and Albert Head, 33.
The balloting by boxes is as follows: Student Center—
Deming, 261; Madill, 67; Head, 31. Ag Hill—Deming, 117;
Madill, 14; Head, 2; Vet Hill—Deming, 33; Madill, 29; Head, 0.
Deming is enrolled in pre-medicine and is President of
the junior class at present. Madill is a Vet Student and is
from Dade City, Fla. Head is enrolled in business adminis­tration;
his home is in Troy.
Sam Pettus was elected President of the 1941 Senior Class
by a vote of 231 to the 163 of his nearest opponent, Merlin
Bryant.
Harold Sutton, following close on the heels of the second
man, tallied 110. Jim Bacon received 47 votes.
John A. Curry defeated Wallace Wise for the vice-pres­idency
of the class by a vote of 316 to 216.
For secretary, D. K. Christenberry was unopposed.
Helen Martin, only girl candidate, defeated Bob Nester
by a vote of 286 to 237 for the office of Senior Class Historian.
Pettus, new president of the Senior Class, is enrolled
in Civil Engineering, and is from Hope Hull, Ala. Curry, vice-president,
is an Ag-Education student from Wallace. Chris­tenberry,
from Stewart, is enrolled in Ag-Ed. Helen Martin,
Historian, is taking Home Economics, and is from Planters-ville.
Wheeler Victor;
Quattlebaum
Also Elected
Elizabeth Wheeler, Kappa Delta,
swept into the presidency of the
Woman's Student Government
Association today with 151 votes,
followed by Dorothy Hurst of Ze-ta
Delta with 129 and Frances
Hodge of Alpha Gam with 43.
New women's representatives to
the Executive Cabinet is Sue
Quattlebaum, Chi Omega, who
accumulated 159 coed ballots to
116 for Bettie Belle Brandt, K. D.
Margaret Lindon, Alpha Gam, was
far behind with 49.
For the vice-presidency of the
WSGA, Ethel Gardiner came out
on top with 123. Jean Laird was
second with 101, and Fred Kyle
trailed with 94.
In the most hotly contested race
of the coed elections, Dora Brice
barely squeezed in as secretary
with 109 votes. Right behind her
was Claudia Weinmann, who gar­nered
107, and Eleanor Hightow-er
with 104.
Mildred Brown Davis swept in­to
the treasurer's place with a
total of 193. Ernestine Lloyd only
other candidate polled 119.
The final results left the posts
fairly well divided between the
sororities, Chi Omega emerging
with two posts, the representative
to the Cabinet and the vice-presi­dency
of WSGA. Kappa Delta won
the other high post, presidency of
WSGA, and Alpha Gam wangled
the secretary's place. The treasur­er's
position went to the indepen­dent
candidate, Miss Davis.
A total of 320 girls out of about
400 voted in today's balloting, as
compared with only a little more
than 100 last year.
W. H. "Trigger" MeGehee and Kirk Newell were today
elected Editor and Business Manager, respectively, of the
1941 Glomerata.
McGehee tallied 373 votes to the 164 of his opponent, Ed
M. Paul. Newell received 390 votes to Ed Welden, his only op­ponent's,
153.
Results from the three boxes are as follows:
For Editor the Glomerata:
Student Center, W. H. McGehee, 239. Ed Paul, 111.
Ag Hill, McGehee, 99, Paul, 27.
Vet Hill, McGehee, 35, Paul, 26.
For Business Manager of the Glomerata:
Student Center, Kirk Newell, 244, Ed Welden, 106.
Ag Hill, Newell, 106, Welden, 26.
Vet Hill, Newell, 40, Welden, 21.
McGehee is a junior in Architecture, from Tullahoma,
Term. Newell is from Birmingham, and is enrolled in mechan­ical
engineering.
HALE, BECKHAM AND ROBY ARE
CHOSEN TO EXECUTIVE CABINET
Jim King, Phi Delta Theta from Rome, Ga., was swept
into the position as President of the Executive Cabinet by a
landslide vote of 434 to 122 for his only opponent, Paul Pruitt,
an Ag Ed from Gaylesville.
Balloting by boxes is as follows: Student Center, King,
300; Pruitt, 58; Ag Hill, King, 82; Pruitt, 54; Vet Hill, King,
52; Pruitt, 10.
King is enrolled in industrial engineering. During his
sophomore year he served as secretary of the Cabinet and this
year he has served as vice-president of the Cabinet. Pruitt
served on the Cabinet during his sophomore year as Cabinet
Representative from his class.
Mike Howard, University of
Iowa's wrestling coach, was once
national A. A. U. heavyweight
champion for five consecutive
years.
New York . University has just
received a gift of 275 old clocks.
In the contest for the three senior representatives to the
Student Executive Cabinet, Drew Hale, non-fraternity man
in ag science, won easily with a total of 361 votes. Consid­erably
behind was Cliff Beckham, another non-frat ag science
man, who polled 293 ballots. Last of the senior cabinet posts
went to Tom O. Roby, veterinary medicine student and mem­ber
of Alpha Psi fraternity. John R. Davis, Alpha Gamma
Rho, polled 252 votes; Bill Dodd, Kappa Alpha, 212, and Jack
Birdsong, independent student in industrial engineering, 175.
Voting by boxes for the class offices was as follows:
President of the class:
Student Center—Pettus, 172; Sutton, 96; Bryant, 45; Ba­con,
43.
Ag Hill—Bryant, 83; Pettus, 42; Sutton, 10; Bacon, 0.
Vet Hill—Bryant, 35; Pettus, 17; Sutton, 4; Bacon, 4.
Vice-president: Student Center—Curry, 196; Wise, 140.
Ag Hill—Curry, 93; Wise, 42.
Vet Hill;—Wise, 34; Curry, 27.
Secretary: Christenberry, unopposed.
Historian: Student Center—Nester, 186; Martin, 159.
Ag Hill—Martin, 89; Nester, 36.
Vet Hill—Martin, 38; Nester, 17.
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Polytechnic I n s t i t u t e , Auburn,
Ala.
Editorial and business offices on
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may be reached after office
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Bus. Mgr.
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the post office at Auburn, Ala­bama.
Subscriptions rates by mail:
$2.50 per year, $1.50 per semester.
Challenge To The Winners
Congratulations to you who
were lucky enough to come
out on t h e long end of t h e vot­ing
today! ,
Now that you have landed
the posts you've worked so
h a r d for, let's see you do
something with them. Like all
egotistical seniors, this year's
crop h a r d l y sees how t h e jun­iors,
can take over the jobs
they are vacating, not realiz­ing
t h a t a year ago t h e y were
just as green as you a r e and
that the seniors before them
felt as they do now.
As a matter of fact, all of
you will probably do better
t h a n did any of t h e officehold­ers
this year.
Be t h a t as it may, all of you
have, here and now, an oppor­t
u n i t y to prove your mettle,
if you have any. P l a n n i n g for
freshman orientation w e ek
will begin in a few days. The
e n t i r e program will have to
be mapped out down to the
last tiny detail, and it's on
your shoulders that most of
t h e work will fall. Then, if
you come through now, when
you return to school early
next September to t r y to show
t h e class of 1944 h ow to live
t h e Auburn way, you'll be
successful.
You have your chance. Go
to it.
Tracksters Schedule
Three Dual Meets
Three dual meets and, tenta­tively,
a fourth one have been
scheduled by Coach Wilbur Hut-sell
for his 1940 thinly clads. In
addition the Plainsmen will be
represented at two other meets.
With a victory at the Florida
Relays under their belts, the Ti­gers
will clash with Georgia at
Auburn on April 20, followed by
Percy Beard's Florida 'Gators at
Gainesville on May 4, and Georgia
Tech in Atlanta on May 11.
Tentative arrangements have
been made for a meet on April
13 with an as yet unnamed con­ference
rival.
The Auburn cindermen will en­ter
the annual SEC track and field
carnival in Birmingham on May
17-18 and will be represented at
the national collegiate meet in
Minneapolis, Minn., on June 21-
22.
On Saturday, April 20, the
Fourth District high school meet
will be held on Auburn's new
eight-lane track, the widest in
the South.
Plants Successfully Grown
In Water Instead Of Soil
By GEORGE HEARD
Plants grow better in water
than in soil! Not only that, but the
quality yielded is much greater
than when rich soil is used! These
astonishing statements were made
in an interview last week by Dr.
Anna L. Sommers, associate soil
chemist in Auburn's Experiment
Station.
For the past nine years Dr.
Sommers has been carrying on re­search
in the growth of plants in
water — experiments to find the
reaction of plants to one or more
of the 92 chemical elements, and
it seems that the work can be car­ried
out much better using water
than soil, because dirt contains
other elements which interfere
with the experiments on the ele­ments
being tested. This process
of growing plants in water is
known as "hydro-ponies."
So far the work at Auburn has
not passed the experimental stage.
Tomatoes, carrots, wheat, peas,
and cotton are a few of the objects
of the test.
Experiments in hydro - ponies
are also being carried on in other
parts of the country, and in some
places the work has passed the
experimental stage. A professor at
the University of California was
one of the first to be successful in
actually raising plants in water.
He used a small tank eight inches
deep and raised tomato plants six
to eight feet in height and from
the plants got an average yield of
six pounds of tomatoes per cubic
foot.
One of the first commercial at­tempts
actually to raise crops in
this manner was carried out on
Wake Island in the middle of the
Pacific. Food and refreshments
were needed there for the pas­sengers
on the China Clipper, and
the soil there was unfit for .culti­vation,
so the hydro-ponic system
was tried. It was so successful
that enough food was raised for
the island's need, plus a surplus
to export to other islands at which
the Clippers stop.
The system is also proving ben­eficial
to nurseries, especially
those that specialize in growing a
small number of plants. One-year
old plants grown by this method
are very much better than the
average plant grown in soil. Not
only is better quality obtained
but not as much space is required
for growing.
Until a short time ago Dr. Som­mers
used metal tanks to carry
out her experiments, the sides be­ing
painted to prevent the metal
from interfering with the reactions
taking place. Around two months
ago this system had to be discon­tinued
because the special paint
could no longer be obtained. She
now uses glass jars filled with the
water and by means of siphons
transfers the water to the plants.
This, says Dr. Sommers, should in
the end be more effective, al­though
refills have to be made
more frequently.
'Wind* Booked For
Tiger, April IO-I4
The long - awaited technicolor
production of Margaret Mitchell's
"Gone with the Wind" will show
in Auburn for four days beginning
April 10, according to Manager
Gus Coats of the Tiger Theater.
Each day's showing of GWTW
will include matinees at 10 a. m.
and 2 p. m. and a night reserved-seat
showing beginning at 7:30.
Reserved seat sale for the picture
will begin tomorrow morning at
9 o'clock at the Tiger Theater box
office.
"Gone with the Wind," starring
Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara
and Clark Gable as Rhett Butler,
is universally regarded as the
greatest hit picture Hollywood has
ever produced. No detail was spar­ed
to make the filming of Miss
Mitchell's best seller a thrilling
and accurate picture of life in the
South during the trying days of
the American Civil War.
Supporting actors in the cast in­clude
some of Hollywood's best,
notably Leslie Howard as Ashley
Wilkes, Olivia de Haviland as
Melanie, and Thomas Mitchell,
the doctor of "Stagecoach," as
Gerald O'Hara. The picture was
produced by David O. Selznick
and directed by Victor Fleming.
Technical work on the produc­tion
included the building of sets
totalling a million feet of lumber,
and the hiring of extras who
were on the scene for a total of
12,000 working days. Walter Plun-kett,
one of Hollywood's foremost
stylists, created more than 5000
separate articles of wardrobe for
GWTW.
Local Girl Wins
Danforth Prize
Margaret Whatley of Auburn,
junior in home economics, has
been selected by Mrs. Marion
Spidle and her staff as the re­cipient
of the Danforth Fellow­ship,
awarded annually to a home
economics junior by the Danforth
Foundation and Ralston Purina
Mills.
Miss Whatley is president of the
Home Economics Club, member of
the Open Forum, WAA, and Theta
Epsilon, honorary organization for
home economics students.
The award will cover the bene­ficiary's
expenses for two weeks
in St. Louis, Mo., and two weeks
of leadership training at the
American Youth Foundation Camp
on Lake Michigan at Shelby,
Mich.
Thirty-seven outstanding home
economics students from 37 states
receive the awards.
Miss Whatley's time in St. Louis
will be spent in research labora­tories
making nutritional studies,
doing experimental baking, ob­serving
X-ray methods, practicing
special methods for studying nu­trition
properties of milk, eggs,
cereals, flours, and sanitation aids.
Problems of employment will be
reviewed, and the representatives
from the different states will
make trips through large indus­trial
plants.
The University of Vermont in
1941 will celebrate the sesquicen-tennial
anniversary of its found­ing.
Athens Glee
Club Will Sing
Here April l6
A concert will be given here by
the Athens College Glee Club on
April 16 in Langdon Hall at 8:15
p. m.
Sponsored by the Auburn Home
Economics Club, the concert will
be given free to the public under
the direction of Mrs. Mary Emma
Peck.,
Entertainment for the girls is
being planned by API authorities,
and the young women will be the
guests of the college while here.
Accompanist for the glee club
concert will be Miss Madelyn
Rogers. Selections will vary from
dignified sacred numbers to lulla­bies.
The Club will appear in Opelika
also when it makes the trip to Au­burn.
Longer Hours For
Library Announced
It was announced this week
that for the remainder of the se­mester
the library will remain
open until 6 p. m. on week days
instead of closing at 5 p. m., as
has been the case since the new
library additions were completed.
Miss Mary E. Martin, head li­brarian,
announced the pomplete
library schedule of open hours as
follows: Monday through Friday,
8 a. m. through 6 p. m. and 7 p. m.
through 10 p. m.; Saturday, 8 a.
m. through 4 p. m.; Sunday, 2 p.
m. through 5 p. m.
Harkins Chosen As
New PSA Head
Archie Harkins of API was
chosen by the Presbyterian Stu­dent
Association as new state pres­ident
as they closed their conven­tion
here last week-end. Other
now officers are Carolyn Norris of
Alabama College, vice-president,
and Kenyon Meeks of the Univer­sity
of Alabama, secretary-treas­urer.
About 50 delegates from the
University, Montevallo, and Jack­sonville
State Teachers College
attended the conclave in addition
to about 50 Auburn students who
took part in the activities.
The program opened Friday
night with a banquet at Smith
Hall, which around 100 attended-,
and closed Sunday at noon with
church services and communion
at the Presbyterian Church.
Officers of the PSA expressed
this morning their keen enjoy­ment
of the speeches delivered by
Dr. George M. Gutzke, keynote
speaker.
The 1940-41 officers succeed
John Yuell, University of Ala­bama,
president; Archie Harkins,
the new president, of API, vice-president;
and Imo H e a c o c k,
Montevallo, secretary.
Motion pictures are being taken
of student orchestra conductors at
Northwest Missouri State Teach­ers
College so that they may study
their faults.
April 2, 1940
Changes Made
By College In
Working Setup
By GEORGE HEARD
In a general expansion of cam­pus
service facilities during the
past few days, the Plant Service
Department went out of existence
as such, its director, Dr. J. V.
Brown, filled a newly-created post
as Director of Student Employ­ment
and Housing, and a new De­partment
of Buildings and Grounds
was organized with Sam Brewster,
a graduate of Texas A & M Col­lege,
as head.
Dr. Brown's new department
has not set up definite headquar­ters
as yet but is temporarily oc­cupying
the office formerly used
by the physics department on the
first floor of Samford Hall.
Mr. Brewster has outlined a
schedule of work for the coming
year which includes landscaping
the new infirmary, the new stad­ium,
and the President's Home,
and the building of new campus
walks. He said planting of grass
and shrubbery on the campus
would not be started until Jan­uary
1, 1941, when a planting
period of three weeks would be
inaugurated.
The new Buildings and Grounds
head graduated from Texas Agri­cultural
and Mechanical College,
and later received a master's de­gree
from Massachusetts State.
He has been employed by the Ala­bama
Extension Service and the
Tennessee Valley Authority, and
until early in 1940 served in the
cabinet of the Governor of Ten­nessee
as Commissioner of Conser­vation.
The Department of Buildings
and Grounds was created to pro­vide
for meeting problems of cam­pus
construction and maintenance
brought about by the large ex­pansion
program of the school
now in progress. Work of the de­partment
will be carried on under
three divisions. The Campus Plan­ning
Division will guide the future
growth of the college as to archi­tecture,
engineering, and land­scaping.
The Construction Division
will be responsible for directing
and supervising convict labor on
the campus. The Maintenance Di­vision
will carry on repair work.
Seven Kappa Sig's
Attend Convention
Seven members of the local
chapter of the Kappa Sigma fra­ternity
attended their district con­clave
last week-end at Mercer Un­iversity
in Macon, Ga. Officers
and members attending were
George Whitney, treasurer; V. V.
Mitchell, president; Bill Miller,
secretary; William Gallagher,
house manager; Peyton Thrasher,
Malcolm Hunter, and Pete Main.
Chapters represented at the con­clave
were from the University
of Alabama, Auburn, University
of Georgia, Georgia Tech, Mercer,
University of Florida, and the
University of Miami.
Business sessions were held
Saturday afternoon and Sunday
morning. The visiting members
were entertained with a Kappa
Sig dance Saturday night and with
a banquet Sunday at noon.
• H i
April 2, 1940 THE A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN Page Three
Council Of Deans Stamps
Approval On Orientation
Orientation for freshmen became a reality Saturday
morning when the Executive Council voted in a special ses­sion
to hold an orientation period for all incoming members
of the class of 1944 before the actual opening of school in
September.
No concrete system has been set
up as yet, the Council's action do­ing
no more than providing that
the adjustment period for first-year
students would take place.
However, President L. N. Duncan
said yesterday that the freshmen
would come to Auburn before the
upperclassmen and would under­go
a definite program of acclimati­zation
for three days, beginning on
Monday, September 9, and con­tinuing
through Wednesday, Sep­tember
11.
Upperclassmen will be expected
to start arriving on Thursday,
September 12, and no one except
freshmen will be registered before
that day, Dr. Duncan said.
A large part of the orientation
work will be carried on by se­lected
senior leaders, both men
and women.
Dr. Duncan emphasized that the
success of the program would be
partially dependent on the coope­ration
of all students, the upper­classmen
as well as the freshmen.
Conferences between students
and the administration are ex­pected
to begin in a few days
when actual plans will begin to
take form.
Exhibits Feature
Engineers' Day
The complete schedule of events
was released this morning as final
arrangements went into effect for
Auburn's first Engineers Day here
tomorrow.
Program for the day will begin
about 1:30 when exhibits will be
opened for view by spectators and
will close with a ball from 8 to 11
in Graves Center.
A group of engineers said last
night that all of the exhibits would
not be of a technical nature but
there would be amusement and
pleasure as well.
The complete program follows:
American Society of Mechanical
Engineers will exhibit internal
combustion engines and an air-conditioning
unit at the mechani­cal
lab in Ramsay Hall and will
have a display exhibit of steam
engines at the steam lab in Broun
Hall.
Aeronautics exhibits include dis­plays
of an airplane with the fab­ric
removed, aircraft engines, air­craft
instruments, a wind tunnel,
model airplanes.
The annual Textile Open House
at the Textile Building, already a
well-established affair, will be one
of the main attractions. It will be
in operation from 3 to 5 in the af­ternoon
and from 7 to 9 tomorrow
night.
AIEE will sponsor demonstra­tions
at Ramsay 109 and the elec­trical
lab of photoelectric cells, po­larized
light, radio, and television.
Ten-minute movies will be shown.
At the D. C. lab in the west end
of Ramsay Hall Eta Kappa Nu
will exhibit oscilloscopes, a minia­ture
steam plant, high voltage ap­paratus,
trick switches, miniature
(Continued on Page Four)
Purdue Tames
Tigers In Final
Tilt Of Series
A barrage of home runs, three
of them in the eighth and ninth
innings, c o m p l e t e d Purdue's
slaughter of Auburn Friday after­noon
on Drake Field after the
Boilermakers already held a 2-1
edge. The final count was 6-1.
Auburn's lone marker was also
scored on a one-base marker.
Louis Diamond started on the
mound for Auburn and held out
well enough till the sixth. Then
with his control wobbling a bit,
he was pulled and Bob Day went
in to relieve him. Day's hurling
fooled the Purduemen for a
couple of stanzas, but they solved
it in the last two innings to the
tune of four runs, including the
three four-base knocks.
Capt. Tommy Thompson was in
Number 1 position on the Auburn
hit parade with 2 for 5, one of
them the circuit blow that ac­counted
for the Tigers' lone score.
The box score:
PURDUE
ab. r. h. o. a.
McFerren, 2b 5 0 1 4 1
Vernon, cf 4 1 1 2 0
Wargo, rf 5 1 1 1 2
Mackiewicz, 3b 4 1 1 1 3
Hearne, ss 3 0 0 3 2
Smithson, lb 3 1 1 8 2
Yeager, If 3 0 0 3 0
Higgins, p 10 0 0 3
Fisher, c 3 0 0 3 1
Blanken, p-lf 4 2 2 2 2
Totals 35
AUBURN
Rollo, 2b
Thompson, cf
McNair, ss
Frazier, 3b
Hurst, If
Wright, rf
xKilpatrick
Prather, rf
McCluskey, 3b
Caudill, c
McGowen, c
Diamond, p
Day, p
Vickery, p
xxFerrell
5
4
2
1
4
3
1
0
3
2
2
2
0
0
1
6
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
7
1
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
27
2
4
.1
9
4
0
0
0
1
0
6
0
0
0
0
16
1
0
3
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
2
1
0
0
Totals 30 1 5 27 9
xBatted for Wright in eighth
xxBatted for Vickery in ninth.
Score by innings:
Purdue...- 1__000 020 013—6
Auburn 000 100 000—1
SUMMARY — Errors, McNair,
Diamond, Day, McFerren, Vernon.
Runs batted in, Thompson, Mc-
Farren, Wargo 2, Mackiewicz,
Blanken.Three-base hit, Vernon.
Home runs, Thompson, Mackie­wicz
, Blanken, Wargo. S t o l en
bases, McFerren, Fisher. Sacrifices,
McNair, Frazier, Smithson. Left
on bases, Auburn 9, Purdue 6.
Bases on balls, off Diamond 4, off
Blanken 2, off Higgins 2. Struck
out, by Diamond 1, by Day 4, by
Blanken 1. Hits, off Diamond 3
with 2 runs in 5 innings (one on
when relieved in sixth); off Day
4 with 4 runs in 3 2-3 innings
(none on when relieved in ninth);
off Blanken 3 with 1 run in 5 in­nings.
Hit by pitcher, by Blanken
(Frazier). Winning pitcher, Blan­ken.
Losing pitcher, Diamond. Um­pires,
Hall and Barnes. Time of
game, 2:10.
Air Corps Man
Will Be Here
Acting as the spearhead for an
intensive drive for flying cadets
in the Fourth Corps Area, Second
Lieutenant Lewis B. Meng, Air
Corps, will be in Auburn from
May 6 to May 11 to interview
candidates for appointments to the
Army flying corps. His visit will
be to prepare for the visit of the
Examination Board of Air Corps
officers which will examine can­didates
here during May 13-18.
Lt. Meng's stop here will be the
last one on his tour of Southern
colleges.
Col. John J. Waterman, com­mandant,
announced Saturday
that envelopes containing com­plete
information about the ap­pointments
are now at the Mili­tary
office and may be obtained
there or from Lt. B. M. Cornell,
head professor of aeronautical en­gineering.
Col. Waterman called
attention to the fact that the ap­pointments
are available to stu­dents
who have completed as much
as two years of college work.
Classes in flying training are
now being formed every six
weeks, and qualified applicants
usually receive appointment with­in
six weeks after date of appli­cation.
The course of instruction re­quires
nine m o n t h s , including
three months elementary, three
months basic, and three months
advanced training. In addition to
the flying training the instruction
includes courses in navigation,
meterology, radio, and other sub­jects
allied with military aviation.
It consists of approximately 215
hours in the air, during which
time the student receives instruc­tion
in all maneuvers necessary to
pilot military airplanes.
Senior Class To
Meet Next Week
There will be a meeting of the
senior class at 5 o'clock tomorrow
afternoon in Langdon Hall, Presi­dent
Kenneth Funchess announced
today.
The purpose of the meeting will
be a discussion of the senior block
ticket plan for the final dances.
Members of the Social Committee
will be on hand to explain the
scheme.
Alpha Psi's Install
New Officers
Theta Chapter of Alpha Psi
Fraternity elected and installed
new officers for the coming year
Wednesday night.
The new men taking office were
Fred Schell, president; Robert A.
Dickinson, vice-president; W. Vir-gil'Petty,
secretary; Guy W. Moor­man,
treasurer; Jeff W. Byrd, and
S. Reed Bowen, sergeants-at-arms;
and H. Gregg Brown, reporter.
Mr. Dickinson was also reelect­ed
representative to the Interfra-ternity
Council.
As a token of esteem for his
efforts in behalf of his fraternity,
retiring president Ralph L. Wil­liams
was awarded an instrument
bag by the chapter.
Other retiring officers were: T.
C. Ross, Tifton, Ga., vice presi­dent;
Guy W. Moorman, Douglas,
Ga., secretary; O. E. Jung, Jr.,
E. St. Louis, 111., treasurer; Thom­as
B. Sutton, Sylvester, Ga., ser­geant
at arms; and W. V.. Petty,
Dawson, Ga., reporter.
Largest employers of student
help at the University of Florida
have signed a code governing la­bor
and wages conditions.
CHI EPSILON LISTS FOUR
NEW MEMBERS TODAY
Chi Epsilon, honorary civil en­gineering
fraternity, made public
today the selection of two out­standing
juniors and two honorary
members. The two students are
McDaniel Jackson and L. B. Free-land
and the two honoraries Chris
J. Sherlock and William P. DeJar-nette.
Membership in Chi Epsilon is
based on scholarship, character,
practicality, and sociability.
Freeland is president of Sigma
Pi fraternity, manager of the polo
team, and a member of ASCE.
"Mac" Jackson is secretary of
SPE fraternity, a member of AS­CE,
of IRC, and of the Engineers
Council. He transferred to Au­burn
from The Citadel.
Mr. Sherlock is Highway Direc­tor
of Alabama and a leader in the
movement to modernize Alabama's
highways. He served for several
years as Assistant Highway Engi­neer
and later was promoted to
Chief Highway Engineer, then to
Highway Director in 1939.
Mr. DeJarnette is division engi­neer
of the Alabama Highway De­partment
with headquarters in
Alex City. He has talked to ASCE
several times and visits Auburn
often. He is an alumnus of Geor­gia
Tech.
Chi Epsilon was founded at the
University of Illinois in 1922 and
has chapters at the leading engi­neering
schools of the country. The
Auburn chapter was founded in
1937, and since that time has
worked with ASCE for the pro­motion
of civil engineering at Au­burn.
It was one of the societies
instrumental in the founding of
ASEC and is taking an active part
in Engineers Day.
Initiation of new members will
be held on April 11, followed by a
banquet.
Scarab Convention
To Be Held Here
Scarab announced last night
that Charles Kelley, fourth year
in architecture, had been selected
to be in charge of all arrangements
for the Scarab national convention
to be held here next fall.
New officers for the coming
year were also given. Bruce Ren-fro
was chosen as new president,
A. R.' Smith as vice-president,
Leslie O'Gwynn as secretary, Al
Northington as treasurer, and Joe
Lacy as sergeant at arms.
Mozart's comic opera, "Abduc­tion
from the Harem," will be pre­sented
in its entirety for the first
time in the U.S. by the music de­partment
of the University of
Michigan.
Auburn Wins In
Florida Relays
Led by Bob Dickinson, Capt.
"Chuck" Morgan, and Hoyt Hall,
Auburn's cinder Tigers got the
revenge they have waited a year
for in the Florida Relays Saturday
at Gainesville. Nosed out last
year 31-30 by North Carolina, the
Plainsmen were out for a win and
got it.
Dickinson paced Auburn scor­ing
with two first places, in the
running broad jump and the 100-
yard dash finals. Morgan was
first in the 120-yard high hurdles
and tied for third in the running
high jump. Hall, stepping into the
shoes of Auburn's mighty vaulter,
Dave Sprinkle, tied for first place
in the pole vault. Big Chet Bulger
won second in the shot put.
In winning the high hurdles
Morgan tied his old record of 15.2
seconds.
Two mile relay finals: Won by
Maryland (Miller, Fields, Chronis-ter,
Kehoe); second, Alabama
(James, Warner, Station, Bullock);
third, North Carolina (Brockett,
French, Morrison, Wise). Time 7
minutes, 56.4 seconds. (New relay
record. Old record of 8:14.3 set
last year by North Carolina.)
120-yard hurdles finals: Won by
Morgan, Auburn; second, March,
North Carolina; third, Browning,
Florida. Time 15.2 seconds. (Mor­gan
tied own record. Browning
stumbled while leading near fin­ish).
100-yard dash finals: Won by
Dickinson, A u b u r n ; second,
Kearney, Florida; third, Beals,
Georgia Tech. Time 10.1 seconds.
Shot put: Won by Smith, Flor­ida,
47 feet 5-8 inches; second,
Bulger, Auburn, 46 feet, 9 7-8 in­ches;
third, Lach, Duke, 46 feet,
6 3-4 inches. (Smith's throw was
new record, breaking his own
mark of 46 feet, 6 inches set last
year.
Running high jump, college
finals: Won by Horn, Alabama,
6 feet 3 1-2 inches; second, Ray-bun,
Florida, 6 feet 1 1-2 inches;
tied for third Patterson, North
Carolina, and Morgan, Auburn,
5 feet 9 1-2 inches. (New record.
Old record of 6 feet, 3 inches
set by Kelly Horn of Alabama
last year.)
Quarter mile relay, University
class: Won by Duke (Brown, Sar­gent,
Vail, Spence;) second, Tech
(Estes, Clift, Pair, Beals); third,
North Carolina, (Groves, Haigh,
Jennings, March). Time 43.5.
Discus: Won by Smith (Florida);
142 feet 7 3-8 inches; second,
Nania (Duke) 134 feet, 1-4 inch;
third, Lach (Duke) 129 feet 9 3-4
inches. (New record—old record
128 feet 1 3-4 inches by Smith of
Florida.) >
One mile team race, university
class: Won by Maryland (Chiron-ister,
Kehoe, Fields); second,
North Carolina (Crockett, Hardy,
Vawter); third, Florida (Severin,
Bunning, Watson, and Hartsten).
Time 4:29.8.
Pole vault — three-way fie:
Hall, Auburn; Montfort, Duke;
Rayburn, Florida. 12 feet.
Running broad Jump: Won by
Dickinson, Auburn, 21 feet 8
1-3 inches; second, Beals, Tech,
21 feet 2 1-8 Inches; third, Ray-burn,
Florida, 21 feet 1-2 inch.
One mile relay, university class:
Won by Maryland (Fields, Kehoe,
Chronister, Miller); second, Ala­bama
(Jones, Bullock, Warner,
Boswell); third, North Carolina,
(Hoffman, Morrison, French, and
March). Time 3:27
March). Time 4:24.3. (New record.
Old record 3:27 of North Caro­lina.
Javelin — Won by Salisburyi
Georgia, 198 feet 2 1-4 inches; sec­ond,
Young, Vanderbilt, 196 feet
3 5-8 inches; third, Webb (Tech)
186 feet 2 1-2 inches. (New record
178 feet 2 1-2 inches by Hal
Standley, of Alabama.)
Bradley Polytechnic Institute of­fers
a course in watch making.
L
Page Four
Tigers Down
Daytona In
Hit Spree
Tommy Mastin, Auburn's soph­omore
left-hander, earned his var­sity
spurs on Drake Field yester­day
afternoon by handcuffing the
Daytona Beach Islanders, pro
team from the St. Louis Cardinal
Camp in Columbus, Ga., by a
count of 9-1.
Another team from the Redbird
group will clash with the Plains­men
on Drake Field this afternoon
at 3:30.
The pro boys got only three hits
off Mastin, while the Tigers were
collecting 11 off three Islander
hurlers.
George Kenmore was back in
the lineup for the Tigers and gar­nered
2 for 4, one of them a triple.
Fred Hurst starsed by finding his
batting eye and slamming a four-base
blow and making a beauti­ful
shoe-string catch in his left
field post. Capt. Tommy Thomp­son,
who also turned in some neat
fielding, came through in the
clutch as usual to get a couple of
singles when they were needed.
DAYTONA BEACH
ab. h.
Stpeter, 2b 4
Vierling, cf 2
THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN
Harrington, cf _
Manush, If
Marafino, lb ...
David, lb
Leonhardt, lb ...
Jusczyk, ss
Atwater, ss
Burleson, rf
...2
_ 2
.. 2
_ 2
... 1
.. 2
1
1
Carlson, rf 1
Booma. 3b —.'. 2
Sigafoos, 3b 1
Rados, c
Smetana, c
Dakai, p
Zimmerman, p
Sheets, p
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
o. a
0 3
2 0
2 2
Totals 28 3 24 10
Rollo, 2b
Happer, 2b
Thompson, cf —
Wright, cf
McNair, ss
Frazier, lb
Kenmore, rf —
McGowen, c .—
Ferrell, c
Hurst, If
Mastin, p
AUBURN
1
1
2
0
0
3 2 12
2 2 2
2 0 5
1 1 0
4 1 3
4 0 0
Totals 34 11 27 12
Daytona Beach .._ 010 000 000—1
Auburn 001 320 21x—9
Engineers' Day
(Continued from Pare Three)
motors and generators.
The American Society of Indus­trial
Engineers will offer demon­strations
of radio tubes, an auto­matic
dial telephone system, and
fluorescent lighting in the tele­phone
lab on the third floor of
Ramsay Hall.
At the Chemistry Building Phi
Lambda Upsilon will sponsor va­rious
types of equipment used in
chemical operations.
Students in cooperative engi­neering
courses will offer exhibits
of products made in the different
plants where co-op men work.
At the highway lab in Broun
Hall there will be an instrument
display, an exhibit of bridge mod­els,
and a model of a railroad un­derpass
for College Street.
Demonstrations of shop opera­tions
will be presented at the
shops adjoining Langdon Hall.
ELECTION RESULTS
PRESIDENT OF THE
EXECUTIVE CABINET
Jim King—434
Paul Pruitt—122
EDITOR OF THE
GLOMERTA
Ed. M. Paul—164
William B. "Trigger"
McGehee—373
BUSINESS MANAGER OF
THE GLOMERATA
Kirk Newell—390
Ed Welden—153
EDITOR OF THE
PLAINSMAN
Dan HoUls—370
"Boots" Stratford—188
BUSINESS MANAGER OF
THE PLAINSMAN
Warren G. Darty,
(unopposed)
SENIOR REPRESENTATIVES
TO EXECUTIVE CABINET
Cliff Beckham—293
Jack Birdsong—175
John D. Davis—252
BUI Dodd—212
Drew Hale—361
Tom O. Roby—291
CHAIRMAN OF THE
SOCIAL COMMITTEE
John Deminfc—411
Albert Head—33
Jim MadiU—110
PRESIDENT OF THE
SENIOR CLASS
Jim Bacon—47
Merlin Bryant—163
Sam Pettus—231
Harold Sutton—110
VICE-PRESIDENT
SENIOR CLASS
John A. Curry. Jr.—316
Wallace Wise—216
SECRETARY, SENIOR CLASS
D. K. Christenberry.
(unopposed)
HISTORIAN, SENIOR CLASS
Helen Martin—286
Bobby Nester—239
PRESIDENT, WOMAN'S
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Frances Hodge—43
Dorothy Hurst—129
Elizabeth Wheeler—151
VICE-PRESmENT, WSGA
Ethel Gardiner—123
Freda Kyle—94
Jean Laird—101
SECRETARY, WSGA
Dora Brice—109
Eleanor Hightower—104
Claudia Weinmann—107
TREASURER, WSGA
Mildred Brown Davis—193
Ernestine Lloyd—119
WOMEN'S REPRESENTA­TIVE,
EXECUTIVE
CABINET
Settle BeUe Brandt—116
Margaret Lindon—49
Sue Quattlebaum—159
Textiles Fete
With Open House
Phi Psi will stage its annual
Textile Open House at the Textile
Building tomorrow from 3 to 5 in
the afternoon and from 7 to 9 at
night. Eighty-five students will
demonstrate the entire process of
cotton manufacture from raw cot­ton
to the finished product.
The following members of Phi
Psi will supervise the operation of
machines during the Open House:
Superintendent, John Kenneth
Orr, Jr., Atlanta, Ga.; Assistant
Superintendent, William Charles
Knight, Andalusia; Overseer of
Card Room, Joe Ware, Birming­ham;
Overser of Spinning Room,
John Hatfield, Eufaula; Boss Dyer,
Hulett L. King, Huntsville; As­sistant
Boss Dyer, Paul Otey An­derson,
Jr., Uniontown; Superin­tendent
of Test Laboratory, Rob­ert
Heathcote, Great Neck, N. Y.;
Overseer of Weaving, Nathan J.
Adams, Fairfax; Second-Hand of
Weaving, J. D. Danner, Nixburg.
Lecture Schedule
Rabbi Blachschleger, of Mont­gomery,
will deliver a lecture in
Auburn on Tuesday evening, Ap­ril
9, at 8:15 in Langdon Hall. His
subject will be "The Social Teach­ings
of the Prophets" and admis­sion
is free to students, faculty and
the public.
The lecture is sponsored by the
Jewish Chataqua Society.
Capital University has an an­nual
Liquidation Day on which all
studentse are expected to settl
their indebtedness and pay their
bills.
Plainsmen Down
Daytona Again
Auburn took its second game in
succession from a pro team when
it again downed an aggregation
from the St. Louis Cardinal farm
at Columbus, Ga., this afternoon
at Drake Field by 12-11 in a wild-hitting
spree.
Charlie Kilpatrick started on the
hillock for Auburn, made way for
Vickery, then he in turn was re­lieved
by Bob Day. Day was the
winning pitcher.
Fred Hurst, who found his bat­ting
eye yesterday with a homer,
kept it today by scoring two runs
with a pinch hit down the third-base
line. Happer garnered a four-base
wallop.
Petitions Must Be
In This Week
Elections Committee Chairman
John Watters pointed out last
night that all freshman and soph­omore
candidates for office must
get in nomination blanks between
the hours of 8 a. m. tomorrow
morning and 1 p. m. Thursday af­ternoon.
Each petition must con­tain
the signatures of four per
cent of the number of registered
voters in the candidate's class and
must be deposited in the petition
box inside the front door of the
KA house.
No petitions are acceptable that
are turned in either before or af­ter
the times given, Watters said.
He called attention to the fact that
petitions already turned in by sev­eral
candidates are not acceptable
since they were turned in before
the proper time. These candidates,
Army Reserve
Officers Plan
May Meeting
The 1940 Annual Convention
and Contact Camp of the Alabama
Reserve Officers Association, US
Army, will be held at Auburn on
May 3, 4, and 5.
Presiding officer at the conven­tion
will be Major Catsby ap R.
Jones, Selma, president of the Ala­bama
Department. Major John E.
Pitts, Auburn chapter president, is
making arrangements for the
meeting.
Major Jones stated that officers
attending the meeting will receive
21 hours credit toward attending
active duty camps.
Speakers on the three-day prog­ram
include Congressman Andrew
J. May, chairman of the House
Military Affairs Committee; Col.
Ed. Bres, New Orleans, national
president of the ROA; Maj. James
K. Lawlon, Gainesville, Fla., pres­ident
of the Fourth Corps Area
Reserve Officers Council; Lt. Col
D. H. Barber, Montgomery, na­tional
membership chairman; Col.
E. H. Pearson, New Orleans, chief
of staff for the Third Military
Area; and Col. Cliff E. Early, At­lanta.
Governor Frank Dixon will ad­dress
the convention , and Dr
George Petrie, head professor of
history and graduate school dean,
will speak on "Military History of
Auburn." Official welcome to
Auburn will be extended by Mayor
C. S. Yarbrough and Pres. L. N.
Duncan.
Blade Initiation
Is Next Week
Initiation of recently - tapped
Scabbard and Blade neophytes will
take place this week-end, accord­ing
to John Rice, captain of Blade.
The festivities will begin Friday
afternoon uptown, and following
usual custom the new men will
camp out Friday night.
The men will also present their
stage show at the Tiger Theatre
Friday night between showings of
"The Light That Failed," movie
being sponsored by the Woman's
Club for the benefit of an Auburn
playground.
Saturday morning the custom­ary
show will be put on at Toom-er's
Corner.
Working off demerits will take
up Saturday afternoon, and Satur­day
night the men will go on a
ride into the country. Formal ini­tiation
will end the ceremonies on
Sunday morning.
he said, must turn in new petitions.
Elections for candidates from
the freshman and sophomore
classes will take place on April
11, with the polls being open from
9 to 5.
More than 600 high school stu­dents
participated in a mock Re­publican
nati olcaonn
publican national convention at
Temple University, nominated
Vandenberg for the presidency.
Microfilms of daily newspapers
are being made at the University
of Michigan library in order to
conserve storeage space.
April 2, 1940
Second Showing
Of 'Chimes' Is
Tonight At 8:15
The second performance of "The
Chimes of Normandy" will begin
tonight at 8:15 o'clock in Langdon
Hall.
Last night's premiere showing
packed the auditorium with a ca­pacity
crowd—a large percentage
of whom "came to scoff" but
"went away marveling."
Turning in fine performances in
their first attempt in Auburn at
light opera, Fred Mohns and Jean
Byrd sang the male and feminine
leads, respectively, those of Henri,
Count of Corneville, and Ger-maine,
village maiden who is re­vealed
to be the orphaned March­ioness.
Favorite of both audience and
cast was Bob Haas, sophomore
member of the Glee Club, who
took the role of Gaspard, the vil­lage
miser and guardian of Ger-maine.
Singing was one line, Haas
gave what was perhaps the most
brilliant performance of any stu­dent
on the stage in Auburn this
year, as he gloated over his hoard­ed
treasures or raved and ranted
in his fits of madness.
Lem Edmondson, as Grenicheux,
a sailor, did a fine piece of acting.
Especially good was his solo near
the end of the second act, in which
he tells, falsely, of his rescue of
the maid Germaine.
Bailli, the village governor, was
excellently portrayed by Jim Burt,
freshman from New York.
In the second feminine rol, Mar­tha
Daily conquered a bad case
of stage fright to sing the parts
of the saucy Serpolette with the
best.
The entire combined boys and
girls glee clubs, acting as a chorus,
characteristically were in top
form. Members of Mrs. Louise
Forte's dancing classes excelled
in the folk dances of the village
maidens.
Not to be forgotten was the
splendid work of the orchestra,
directed by Lawrence Barnett.
Orchids go to Mr. Telfair Peet,
who directed the action of the op­eretta,
and to Paul Rudolph, in
charge of the setting of the stage.
Vivien Leigh
Showing At Martin
The varsity of the greatest
screen players of the age has just
been joined by Vivien Leigh —
currently to be seen with Charles
Laughton in Paramount's "Side­walks
of London" — who got her
letter from New York City's mo­tion
picture reviewers for her
epochal performance as the Scar­lett
O'Hara of "Gone With the
Wind."
The dark-haired, green-eyed
British girl who won the year's
award, as well as the most wide­ly-
publicized movie talent hunt of
all time, will be seen in a color­ful,
present-day role in "Sidewalks
of London," when it plays at the
Martin Theatre Friday. Cast as
a hellion of a cockney street en­tertainer
and a flirt of flirts, Miss
Leigh is said to have the energy,
tempestuousness, and fiery charm
that made her such a sensation as
Scarlett.