1940-02-02 The Auburn Plainsman

              Anti-Cheating
Is Under Way THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN Get Those
Bulldogs
VOL. LXIII z-i ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, FEBRUARY 2, 1940 No. 36
Committee Appointed to Consider Cheating
Tigers Meet Veteran Georgia Squad
In Conference Game Tomorrow Night
Rats Play Fairfax High
In Preliminary Battle
The Georgia Bulldog's veteran
aggregation will furnish opposi­tion
for the Auburn Tigers' sec­ond
Southeastern C o n f e r e n c e
home game of the season in Alum­ni
Gym tomorrow night at 7:30.
In a preliminary battle beginning
at 6:00 the Auburn Freshmen will
tangle with Valley High School of
Fairfax.
The Tigers were defeated in
their initial conference home game
with Vanderbilt in a thrilling
game, but they are all set to even
the count against the Bulldogs
from Athens. The loss to the
squad of Teedy Faulk via the
scholastic route will hurt their
chances but the return of Bob
Dunbar, Billy Fleming, and Mar­vin
Motley from the ineligible
dungeon will go a long way to­ward
making up this loss.
Shag Hawkins is almost a cer­tain
starter at the center position,
while the forward posts are un­certain
because of a three-way tie
among Bob Dickinson, J. P.
Streetman, and Frank Manci. No
prediction can be made as to the
guard slate because of an injury
to Ray Gibson, scholastic troubles
of Jack Tanner, and a slow re­covery
from illness by John Huff.
The Georgia aggregation boasts
a veteran starter in every posi­tion
on the team. The starting
lineup will include five six-foot­ers,
all of whom are starting
their second season as first-string­ers.
The starting lineup for the
Bulldogs will include Cecil Kelly
and Jim Killian at the forward
posts, lanky Dan Kirkland at the
center position, and guards Alex
McCaskill and Roy Chatham.
MAGICIAN WILL
PERFORM HERE
NEXT TUESDAY
The well-known magician, Grey-stoke,
will be presented in an ex­hibition
next Tuesday night at
8:15 in Langdon Hall. The famed
sleight-of-hand artist is being pre­sented
under the auspices of Al­pha
Phi Omega, national honor­ary
scouting fraternity. Admis­sion
will be 25 cents.
The magician will come here
for his exhibition from Columbus,
Ga. One of the most outstanding
magicians of the modern age,
Greystoke rarely makes appear­ances
in towns the size of Auburn.
Students, faculty members, and
townspeople are invited to attend
the show.
Registration Total
Passes 3,000 Mark
Registration figures at 9:30
this morning totalled 3,049. This
figure is well above that for the
second semester of last year, when
final second semester registration
reached 2,850.
The co-op engineers coming in
April 1 and Saturday students, as
yet not registered, will swell this
semester's total to well past the
3,000 mark.
Net enrollment for both semes­ters
of this year is expected to
pass 3,500. The net enrollment
figure includes only the number
of different students in school
during the year, counting each
student only once whether he is
enrolled one or two semesters.
Notice
All NYA students who have not
as yet received their checks for
the period Dec. 12 to Jan. 11
should come to Samford, Room
107, Saturday morning, Feb. 3,
between 9 and 12 and leave their
names and addresses with Mr. W.
W. Hill. This applies to those stu­dents
who have already been by
to report that their checks have
not arrived.
Cadet Rifle Team
Schedules Matches
Will Compete in First
Postal Match Tomorrow
Opening its 1940 season, the
Auburn ROTC cadet rifle team
will compete tomorrow afternoon
in the Fourth Corps Area rifle
match. This match is scheduled to
continue on Feb. 10 and 17, and
will come to an end on March 12.
A series of 12 postal matches
to include encounters with schools
in several different sections of
the country has been scheduled
for the rifle teams during the
1940 season.
Final selections for the various
teams have been made, and a
meeting of all members has been
called for tomorrow at 7:45 a.m.
to elect a permanent captain.
Varsity team matches are with
New Mexico Military Institute,
Georgia Tech, and Virginia Mili­tary
Institute, all on Feb. 17.
Auburn ROTC cadet t e am
matches include Fourth Corps
Area Match, Feb. 3, 10, 17, and
March 2; University of Tennessee
and Georgia Tech, Feb. 17; Uni­versity
of Maine and Oregon
State, Feb. 24; William Randolph
Hearst Match, March 9.
Auburn Engineer Regiment R-OTC
matches are against Missouri
School of Mines, Feb. 17; Society
of American Military Engineers,
March 23.
Dawson Mullen, team captain,
has asked that men now on the
teams consult the bulletin board
outside the engineer's ROTC class­room
and also the one on the
range at least twice a week for
announcements and changes of
schedule. The present schedule for
firing is Tuesday and Friday af­ternoons
from 3 to 6 o'clock and
Saturday mornings from 8 to 12
o'clock. Practicing at drill period
will continue as before.
This year's team is the first one
in two years and the first one
to be active in several years.
SBEHIND THE HEADLINES
Tllfl Diane f o r *^e abolishing of cheating among the
l l l v I IC1II3 student body become more concrete with
the appointment last night of a joint student-faculty com­mittee
to consider proposed changes in handling of cases.
See column 4.
Out of Competition are two of Auburn's basket-balers,
Teedy Faulk and Ray
Gibson, as the Tiger courtmen face a veteran Georgia five
tomorrow night at 7:30 in Alumni Gym. In the windup
game the Tiger Babes will play Valley High School.
See column 1.
Dnnl/orl a r e ^ matches for Auburn's rejuvenated rifle
DOOKvQ team. The first match, a postal Fourth Corps
Area contest, will be fired tomorrow. See column 2.
Auburn, Dell Morgan leaves behind
him a record as a fine coach and a
swell fellow. Auburn's loss is Rice's gain.
See page 3 and Tiger Tales, page 4.
RIFLE TEAM CAPTAIN Dawson
Mullen. His squad opens its sea­son
with a Fourth Corps Area
postal match tomorrow.
New Bible Class
To Begin Sunday
Dean Hannum to T e a c h ;
Students are Invited
A new Bible class dealing with
the life and times of Christ will
hold its first session at the Epis­copal
Church Sunday morning
with Assistant Dean of Engineer­ing
J. E. Hannum in charge. The
class is open to anyone whether
affiliated with the church or not,
and Dean Hannum has especially
invited students to attend.
The main topic for study dur­ing
the first part of the course
will be "Life in Palestine at the
Time of Jesus." Material covered
will include such subjects as the
geography of Palestine, the gov­ernment
and religion of the peo­ple,
their mode of living, character
of their industry and trade, and
their historical background. Later
in the course will come a study of
Christ's life and teachings.
Classes are scheduled to last 30
minutes, closing in time for mem­bers
to attend regular church serv­ices.
Dean Hannum has had consid­erable
experience in work of this
kind. Several years ago he taught
a class of this type in Hollis, N.
Y.; and he has done intensive re­search
on the subjects which will
be discussed in the new class here.
Dances Scheduled
Tonight-, Tomorrow
Two dances are on the social
calendar slate for this week-end,
Chi Omega's tonight and Sigma
Pi's tomorrow night.
Tonight Ruth Lowe will lead
with Garth Thorpe the Chi Omega
Ball, which begins at 9 o'clock at
Graves Center. Elaborate decora­tions
are under construction, a
novel lead-out has been planned,
and a large number of out-of-town
guests invited. During inter­mission
a party will be held at
the chapter room for members and
their dates.
Tomorrow night Clyde Brown
will lead the Sigma Pi formal with
Margaret Goodwin of Tuscaloosa.
Don Odell is in charge of arrange­ments
and Bob Wilkinson is in
charge of decorations.
A tea dance at the chapter
house is scheduled for tomorrow
afternoon and a house breakfast
will follow the formal tomorrow
night.
The dance will begin at 9 o'clock
at Graves Center.
As He Leaves
Notices
There will be a very important
meeting of the YMCA at Student
Center, Monday night at 7 o'clock.
All members and students desiring
membership please be there.
* * *
There will be a meeting of the
Physical Education Club, Monday
night, Feb. 5 at 7:30 in room 209
at Samford Hall. All students who
are majoring or minoring in Phy­sical
Education are urged to be
there.
Students, Faculty
Comprise Joint Group
Organization Presidents to Meet Monday
Night; Cabinet Approves Tentative Plan
Meeting in its first session of the second semester last
night, the Executive Cabinet appointed a joint student-faculty
committee of eight members to consider the formu­lation
of a definite plan for the abolishing of cheating. In
addition it called for Monday night a meeting of the presi­dents
of all campus organizations, to be held at 8 o'clock
in the President's Office to discuss anti-cheating plans.
The eight-man committee, which is to begin function­ing
immediately, will be compos- ~~~"~"—-7————————^-^
ed of four students and four fac­ulty
members. From the faculty
are Dean J. W. Scott, head of the
School of Science and Literature,
Dr. James Naftel of the Agron­omy
department, Dr. Roger W.
Allen of the chemistry depart­ment,
and Dr. Charles Davis of the
history department.
Students members are Frank
Cayce, Winfrey Boyd, George
Hiller, and Dawson Mullen.
The joint committee will be
called into session at some time
before the meeting of organiza­tion
heads Monday night.
The Cabinet also placed its
stamp of approval on a tentative
new plan presented by John Ivey,
Jr., president, including in its
scope changes in the entire meth­od
of handling cheating cases. Al­though
the plan was openly dis­cussed
among Cabinet members,
Ivey asked that it not be made
public until it has been discussed
by the student-faculty committee.
If it is sufficiently developed by
Monday night, it will be discussed
at the organization presidents'
meeting, he said.
The proposed new set-up is bas­ed
on a study of the handling of
cheating at several other Southern
schools. It was discussed freely by
Cabinet members and when final­ly
put to a vote was unanimously
approved.
Sphinx Announces
Bridge Tournament
Contest is Open to
All Women Students
Plans for two coed bridge tour­naments
to be held by Sphinx hon­or
society were made public last
night by Hulda Rutland, Sphinx
member in charge of the competi­tion.
Separate tournaments are to be
held for individual teams and for
teams representing coed organi­zations.
Individual teams have
been asked to register by placing
names and addresses before Feb.
10 in a box which will be pro­vided
for the purpose in the din­ing
hall at the Women's quad­rangle:
Organization teams must
register with Hulda Rutland be­fore
Feb. 10.
All women are eligible for the
individual team competition ex­cept
those registered in the tour­ney
for organization teams. All
teams will be composed of two
persons. The individual team win­ner
will receive a prize, and a
cup is to be given the winning or­ganization
pair.
Miss Rutland announced that
complete rules for the competition
would be worked out very soon.
APPLICATION IS
STILL OPEN FOR
SYMPHONY CROUP
Applications will be received up
to Feb. 15 from young people,
NYA workers and non-NYA, for
the Ail-American Youth Orchestra
of 109 persons being recruited
through the National Youth Ad­ministration.
The orchestra will
accompany Leopold Stokowski, in­ternationally
known conductor, on
a South American tour next sum­mer
and then will be continued as
a permanent organization.
Fifteen to 25 years of age are
the approximate age limits set for
applicants. The 51 state offices
of the NYA are handling the ap­plications,
which should be sent to
them and not to national NYA
headquarters.
Preliminary auditions have al­ready
been given in some states.
The orchestra will be a paid,
professional, union organization,
according to Mr. Stokowski.
BSU Officers Hold
Planning Meet Here
The semi-annual planning meet­ing
of the officers of the Auburn
Baptist Student Union was held
Friday and Saturday of last week
in the Auburn Baptist Church.
The meeting, originally planned
in the form of a week-end at
Spring Villa, but changed to Au­burn
because of weather condi­tions,
was for the purpose of
making plans for the more effici­ent
operation of BSU organization
during the coming semester.
The group had as speakers at
various times during the program,
the state BSU secretary, Chester
Quarles, the Rev. Claude Bowen
of Opelika, and the Rev. Virgil M.
Gardner of Lafayette.
Leading local Baptist Student
Union activities for this year is
Hank Parker, senior in veterinary
medicine from Brewton. Parker is
also head of the state BSU group
in Alabama.
Holy Smoke! There's A Man Living In
The Practice House With Six Girls
And the Dean of Women
Knows All About It!
There's a boy living in the
Practice House! Honest there is,
and Dr. Rosa Lee Walston knows
all about it, and she hasn't a sin­gle
protest. And he's a regular
ladies' man too, for all six girls in
the house are caring for him.
But, you see, he's only six
months old, and he's the only baby
in a home management house in
the state of Alabama. He's Grady
Leon Young, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Grady Young of Auburn.
Mr. Young is a junior in veteri­nary
medicine.
Since the new. Practice House
opened, plans have been under
way to keep a baby there, but the
scheming just materialized a week
ago Wednesday when Leon ar­rived
at the house for his first
stay. Now he's there every day
from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Upstairs close to the rooms of
his six bachelor mothers, Leon has
a well-equipped nursery kept at
just the right temperature. Every
morning his formula is prepared
with thorough sterilizing of bot­tles,
nipples, and containers, and
he is fed promptly at 6, 10, 2, 6
and 10.
Downstairs in the basement his
clothes are laundered in the elec­tric
washing machine. But for all
the scientific care, he's still a
normal, unspoiled, better-than-average
baby, the girls in the
House say.
Miss Florence Davis is in charge
of the Practice House. Before
coming to Auburn she had previ­ous
experience in similar work at
Iowa State.
Other Buildings
Being Planned By
API Says Duncan
Vast Program of Campus
Improvements Launched
By College Administration
A new physical training build­ing
with a basketball court and
adequate seating facilities and an
auditorium with a seating capaci­ty
of 5000 were outlined as the
next steps in the building pro­gram
for "greater Auburn" by
Dr. L. N. Duncan before 300 Ag
Club members in Ross Chemistry
Auditorium last Wednesday night.
Speaking to the agricultural
students on "The Progress and
Future Needs of Auburn", the
college president briefly reviewed
the $1,500,000 building program
now nearing completion on the
campus. He asked for the support
of the Ag students and the stu­dent
body as a whole in "taking
pride in keeping the new build­ings
in good condition."
Dr. Duncan also announced that
an outstanding landscape archi­tect,
Mr. Sam F. Brewster, grad­uate
of Texas A and M had been
engaged by the College Planning
Board to carry out a comprehen­sive
landscape program in connec­tion
with the new buildings and
the entire campus grounds.
An effort is being made to en­gage
the State Highway Depart­ment
in a paving project which
will include all the principal drive­ways
of the campus that are not
already paved. An extensive sys­tem
of sidewalks connecting all
parts of the campus, will also be
constructed along with this proj­ect.
Johnson Will Speak
To Textiles Monday
George Johnson of LaGrange,
Ga., will come to Auburn Monday
night for a lecture to be delivered
to textile engineering students in
the Textile Building at 7:45.
Also present will be officials of
the Calloway Mills.
A meeting of Phi Psi, textile
fraternity, will be held at 7:15,
preceding Mr. Johnson's speech.
JUNIOR CHAMBER
LAUNCHES SOCIAL
HYGIENE DRIVE
Conducting Educational
Drive Against Syphilis,
Other Social Diseases
An extensive social hygiene
campaign is now underway in Au­burn,
sponsored by the Junior
Chamber of Commerce, with Dr.
William Fuller of the Auburn
Health Center acting as chairman.
The campaign places emphasis on
syphilis and venereal diseases. The
local Jaycees are conducting this
program in connection with the
national program of the Chamber
of Commerce.
At the present time the Junior
Chamber has secured the coopera­tion
of seevral groups and indi­viduals
in this drive. Among these
are the City Council; local city
physicians; Dr. J. M. Dennis, col­lege
physician; and Dr. W. H. Y.
Smith, state director of venereal
disease control.
Bob Smith, member of the
Health Committee of the Jaycee
group, said today that although
yesterday was National Social Hy­giene
Day, the Junior Chamber of
Commerce had designated this en­tire
month as Social Hygiene
Health Month for Auburn and Lee
County. He explained that the
policy of the group is carrying out
this program was to contact all
civic and college groups by lec­tures.
Talks will be made to the Inter-fraternity
Council, the Women's
Convocation, and the non-frater­nity
students of the college by Dr.
Fuller. Assisting the Junior Cham­ber
in the college program are
George Hiller, president of the
Interfraternity Council; J o hn
Ivey,, president of the Student
Executive Cabinet, and Virginia
Adams, president of the Women's
Student Government Association.
Notice
The regular meeting of the
Choral Reading Club will be held
Monday night, Feb. 5 at 7 o'clock
in room 3 of the "L" Building.
Anyone interested in work of this
kind is invited to attend.
Hugh Grant Concludes Auburn Visit With
Speech To Current Events Classes
Predicts That Germany
Cannot be Starved Out
By BOB ANDERSON
"Whenever anything of import­ance
happens in the world, there
is always an Auburn man in on
it . . . and when the Italians in­vaded
Albania, an Auburn man
was there, too." So said Dr. Pe-trie
to a Langdon Hall capacity
crowd Tuesday night as he intro­duced
Hugh S. Grant, United
States Minister to Albania.
"Dr. Petrie paid me the highest
compliment he could have, when
he called me an 'Auburn man'."
So said the genial Mr. Grant, and
his audience showed by long and
loud applause that it agreed with
him.
Speaking to assembled Current
Events classes, faculty members,
and visitors, in his last speech in
Auburn, Mr. Grant told of his in­troduction
to diplomatic life, be­ginning
with his appointment by
President Roosevelt, of his trip to
Albania, of his duties in and out
of the American Legation in Ti­rana,
of his views of present-day
affairs in Europe, and of the Ital­ian
invasion of Albania.
"My life seems to have been
divided into 'four-year' periods,"
said Mr. Grant. Four years in col­lege,
four years in Auburn as a
Professor of Journalism and Po­litical
Science, and four years in
Albania. "And although the four
years in Albania were certainly
the most exciting, the four spent
in Auburn were the happiest."
Commenting on several of the
most important events which led
up to the present European War,
Mr. Grant stated that in his opin­ion,
"Mr. Chamberlain affected
truly British public opinion at the
time," in the Munich conference
with Herr Hitler.
He told of being in Germany at
the time of the historic meeting
of the two dictators of Europe,
Hitler and Mussolini, and of his
impressions of these two as men.
Der Feuhrer, he said, impressed
him not as a military man at all,
but as a rather small, unsoldierly
man who shuffled when he walk­ed.
Senior Mussolini, in spite of his
"waistline" was quite the soldier,
and with his military stride, man­aged
to keep several yards ahead
of Herr Hitler as they passed
down the lines of German soldiers.
Germany, he said, was prepar­ing
for war two years ago by
limiting the rations of each of its
citizens, allowing them to eat only
certain foods and certain amounts
of these, all to accustom them to
living on war-time food allow­ances.
For this reason, he believes,
"the starving out of Germany is
unlikely."
He was of the opinion that the
German people are behind Mr.
Hitler all the way—that a revolu­tion
is unlikely in that country.
In closing his speech, Mr. Grant
told the audience to "Keep your
eyes on the Balkans." Things are
liable to happen there, he said.
"The World War started there."
And he ended his warning by say­ing,
"I thank God I'm an Ameri­can.
I never appreciated the fact
until I spent four years in Al­bania."
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appearing today.
Alabama Digs
ALABAMA'S director of finance
and administration in the De­partment
of Education, Dr. R. L.
Johns, has made public his be­lief
that Alabama gets more edu­cational
benefit per dollar spent
than any other state. This state­ment
of an authoritative person
makes Alabamians feel a little
better about her public education
circles.
It is common knowledge that
although Alabama spends about
as little on education as any state
in the nation she does spend a
larger portion of her total income
on education than do most other
states. The consolation to be de­rived
from this fact is consider­able,
since it is evident that the
state's educational ills stem not
from incompetence or indiffer­ence
but as from her traditional
and omnipresent poverty.
Even though the Department
of Education has managed to dis­cover
11 points in which Ala­bama
ranks educationally in the
upper fourth of the states, the
picture is not at all rosy. Ala­bama
leads in 11 points, yes, but
these points are not very import­ant.
Alabama ranks near the bot­tom
in only five points, but be­fore
there is any rejoicing at the
record, look at these five. The
state places actually at the very
bottom of the list in some of these
and very close to forty-eighth in
the others. In the total expendi­ture
per child enrolled, in the
average length of the school
term, in value of school property
per child enrolled, in school tax­es
per child enrolled, and in to­tal
income per child enrolled,
Alabama is in the lowest fourth
of the nation.
These five items are more than
enough to cast gloom over the lit­tle
ray of success originating in
Dr. Johns. But do not let them
darken the whole situation or en-g
e n d e r discouragement. It is
heartening to realize that Ala­bama,'
a very poor relation of the
Union, is not leaning on her
shovel; for she is digging away
at tremendous obstacles, and
though they may not look much
smaller, it is nonetheless true that
they have been and are being di­minished.
R.S.
The Australian Pine-
Anorher Find in
Southern Forestry?
DONALD D. Bode, professor of
chemistry at the University of
Tampa, made a report for the
Manufacturer's Record some
weeks ago relating his findings
concerning the Australian pine
tree, and what he has discover­ed
gives promise of another fea­ther
in the cap of the already
important forest industry of the
South.
The Australian pine is not a
true pine but a hardwood. Its
most remarkable characteristic
is its speed of growing, for it pro­duces
six times as much wood in
one year as the Southern jack
pine, which is one of the fastest
growing native American trees.
Measurements show that the tree
grows 35 feet tall in six years
with a trunk nine inches in di­ameter.
The tree was imported to this
country from the South seas;
consequently it grows best in the
southerly regions of the country,
Florida, southern Texas, and
California, or any region where
the mean temperature does not
fall below 54 degrees.
In Florida, where the principal
studies were made, a few trees
were planted for windbreaks a-long
the shore, and it was found
that they grew well in sand on
islands near shore, where the
bases of their trunks are in the
water at high tide.
Furthermore, it has been com­puted
that where it would take
120,000 acres of fast-growing
slash pine to maintain a 200-ton
rayon mill, 24,000 acres of Aus­tralian
pine could do the same
job, resulting in a saving of land
area of roughly 80 per cent. Part
of this tremendous advantage a-rises
from the fact that the wood
is 25 per cent heavier than the
slower growing native p u lp
woods of the South.
Already forestry is looming
larger and larger as one of the
sources to which the South may
turn for release from its decadent
one-crop economy. If Prof. Bode's
findings live up to their potenti­alities,
forestry will be even more
of a hope. C.J.B.
Welcome Back, "Well?"
EVEN greater than the pleasure
of making a new friend is that
of greeting an old one again. So
it is with "Well?", the column by
John Ivey, Jr., which has been
missing from the Plainsman ed­itorial
page for more than two
months. It was taken out and
replaced simply as an experi­ment,
by "The Washington Mer-ry-
Go-Round", nationally syndi­cated
column by Drew Pearson
and Robert S. Allen.
The "Merry-Go-Round" met
with far more approval than was
anticipated, but the absence of
"Well?" drew forth more objec­tions
than we ever dreamed of.
So the reliable old column, a fea­ture
of the Plainsman for many
moons, is back in its time-worn
corner of the editorial page, and
Pearson and Allen move over to
make room.
The Apathy of
Young America
SPEAKING before the First Vot­ers
League meeting in Austin,
Texas, several weeks ago, Presi­dent
Homer P. Rainey of the Uni­versity
of Texas remarked that
the danger today to our demo­cratic
government is not that
youth has taken up foreign
"isms" but that the youth of the
United States is apathetic and in­different
to the conducting of
our present system.
Something of a "let-alone"
policy, with a subconscious justi­fication
such as, "It ran before I
got here so it can run without me
now."
President Rainey praised the
timely birth of the First Voters
League by saying: "Many of us
have felt that we have needed an
organization of this sort which
would dramatize the entrance of
youth into adulthood."
Dr. Rainey pointed out that the
two duties of young citizens are,
first, to assume an active part in
government, and second, to learn
how to exercise their part intelli­gently.
Here, students are treated and
deserve to be treated as children,
for it is the mark of a child to
shirk responsibility wherever pos­sible,
and the youth of this coun­try
has done just that in the past.
C.J.B.
Well?
By John Ivey, Jr.
(JoHH IOS.i
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.
WHEN THE matter of cheating is men­tioned
some groups immediately take
steps to change the subject, others are
curiously interested,
and still others will
commit themselves by
jumping up and say­ing
that something
ought to be done. By
far the greater part
of our student popu­lation
here at Au­burn
can be included
in the latter two
groups.
However, the ques­tion
of devising ways
and means looms large in the path of
thought before the idea gets very far
underway. According to reports, the
ways and means have been devised and
now await official approval.
It is not the idea of anyone that we
should try to start an honor system
. . . this is far beyond comprehension.
It is not the purpose to search madly
for a group of pious individuals who can
stand up and say, "We are the 'pvtre
in spirit' and have never done anything
wrong; therefore, we warn you that the
cheating that has been going on around
here has got to stop because it isn't
nice." Where could we find such per­sons?
The question has to be discussed
much more frankly and realisticaly than
that.
It is, however, the aim of the Execu­tive
Cabinet to get the entire student
body to realize that we should try to
correct our faults if we have been act­ing
wrongly on the matter of cheating,
or if we consider ourselves pretty well
above such a level, see what we can do
by adding force to the work that there
is to be done.
* * *
National
Congress has started digging into the
national wallet to get the funds for
the new defense program. . . . Roose­velt
continues to enjoy the game of
keeping his stooges in an embarrassing
position regarding his third trip to the
White House. . . . It looks like a mast­er
showman keeping his powerful politi­cal
strings well guarded yet watching
carefully the squirming of those per­sons
who might want to jump the gun
for self-grandizement. . . .
The American Federation of Labor
Kingfish Green puffs out his chest and
demands that Uncle Sam wave his wand
and get the country's industrial groups
into action and give them confidence
in the future . . . this burst of demands
from such an organization seems a bit
ironic in face of the mighty efforts of
the Federal government for the past
seven years to start the ball running,
first in the right direction and then at
full speed. . . .
* * *
International
Another issue of history's "Jack the
Giant Killer" episodes continues to be­come
more interesting as the Finns ski
the Russian bear back to its den. No
doubt the Soviet bear should have pur­sued
his traditional habit of hibernating
during the winter months . . . it would
have been much cheaper and much less
embarrassing.
Once again Britain's Chamberlain is
courting the United States with the
promise of increased trade and colored
stories of British idealism in the pro­tection
of the peoples of Western Eu­rope
. . . sometimes we wonder whether
John Bull will again allow man to set
up another Treaty of Versailles or pur­sue
his war-time promises of making
arrangements for a permanent peace
. . . right now we hear schemes for a
" Federation of European States, but
what will be the tune if England and
France defeat Germany in a long, bit­ter
war?
* * *
The problem of Russia's deciding to
join the cause of Nazi Germany has
been the object of many speculations;
however, if one would stop to look
back into the matter, the union of Rus­sia
and Germany came about as a cli­max
of faithlessness on the part of the
Allies.
Germany made threats on the Czechs
. . . Russia immediately notified France
that she was ready to join that country
in the defense of the small country, as
already agreed upon by treaty. . . .
France put her fate with Britain . . .
then came Munich without Russian par­ticipation
and a complete ignoring of
Russia's interest in the matter . . .
France and England later started a
campaign to win Russia's support un­der
the provision that Russia should aid
them in case of attack, but when ask­ed
to come to Russia's aid if she be
attacked by Japan, England and France
backed down. . . .
Germany's efforts to get Russian aid
went in the form of promises of certain
slices of Poland and other economic
considerations. . . . France and England
in a moment of panic sent promises to
Russia that would have given almost
anything to Russia if she had steered
away from Germany. . . .
Well, the rest is a matter of present
day record. Through their policy of
selling the Czechs down the river and
doing it without considering Russia,
and through an exhibition of selfish­ness,
the Allies lined up two of the
most ruthless political doctrines of our
present day. Now bloodshed and human
suffering follow quite naturally.
CAMPUS CAMERA
The Plainsman Forum
Letters to the Editor
How to be Punctual—
In One Lesson
Editor
The Auburn Plainsman,
Dear Sir:
For the benefit of the professors and
many of the students who cannot ap­preciate
our efforts at getting to gym
on time, we would like to explain why
as only a girl who takes gym should at­tempt
to explain why. Here is a typical
noble effort at being punctual:
When the bell rings and not one min­ute
before the bell rings, we tear out
of Professor Johnson's family class
which holds sway on the fourth floor
of Broun (the one nearest to the sky
and farthest from Mother Earth). By
the time we reach the stairs between
the third and second floors we find it
packed and jammed with students a
little more fortunate than we since they
have classes on the third floor and
hence no additional flight of stairs.
Somehow we get through the mob and
downstairs with only bruises and minor
injuries to arrive at the third and last
stairs.
The overflow of students here is even
worse and we earnestly start wishing
we were either large enough to keep
from being stepped on or small enough
to slip through tiny spaces. If we are
lucky enough to hit the ground floor
on both feet, we hurry on out the door
and up the street in the general di­rection
of town.
We walk through town briskly, very
briskly indeed, as the clock at the fill­ing
station reads 9:09 and we are sup­posed
to be at the gym and dressed by
9:15. By the time we reach the rail­road
station we break into a run be­cause
it is now 9:11 and we have only
four minutes left to get to the gym,
which is approximately half way be­tween
Auburn and Opelika.
We puff past the Beta Kappa House
and up the path leading to the gym­nasium.
In front of the latter build­ing
we start unbuttoning shirts and
skirts. Once inside the gym we run on
down stairs with our shirts in our
hands and our skirts hanging on by one
button or one remaining zip.
In the remaining split second we peel
out of some more clothes and jump into
the gym suit which we button as we
run out to the tennis courts only to
find that the roll has already been call­ed
and we're tardy again. Tired and
out of breath we pick up balls and a
racquet to start getting our exercise.
Now Mr. Editor, don't you think it
would be about as easy for us girls to
take war too? We sure have that double
time down pat.
Sincerely,
J. C.
For More Telephones in
Dormitory
Beloved Keeper of the Presses:
It has come to my attention that
there is nothing less than a pitiful lack
of phones at the new dormitories. "One
phone per 100 girls." I ask you, could
it be just?
Time was when I used to go to the
phone with no other idea or "equip­ment"
than the phone number of "The
one in mind" and the idea of what I
was going to do when I got done with
the call. Now, I never pick up the re­ceiver
without a snack of lunch and a
couple of magazines. Many a time I
have waited for a half or three quar­ters
or an hour, time enough to eat a
bite, read a magazine or two, and take
a nap.
It is my firm belief that the tele­phone
company would save a young
fortune in wear and tear on equipment
if they would install a couple of extra
phones in each dormitory at their own
expense, for I do not hide the fact that
as my nerves get frayed with the con­stant
repitition of "Line's busy," my
hand falls heavier and heavier on the
hook, and many a word have I said to
the wall concerning the "long winded
galoot."
One Saturday afternoon I counted 30
times that I heard the answer to my
prayer, "Line's busy," before I gave up
and went home with my ardour become
ashes and my hopes seared to grieving
pessimism.
I say, install more phones.
The Village Idiot
WORLD* YOUNGEST
FRATERNITY BROTHER
IrcTTE (BROWNER., YEAR OLD SON
OF THE BASEBALL COACH AT
OOLDRADO ST. COLLEGE OF EDUCA­TION,
TOOK THE PLEDGE IN DELTA
PSI AND SIGNED THE PETITION
WfTH HIS HANDPRINT/
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COPIES OF THEIR PAPER AT THE N Y U -
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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.
LAST WEEK we made a little mistake.
It seems that even for the opening
dances, frat tickets were good for only
$2.50 trade—in val-ue.
The mistake was
made because of an
error in transit of
propaganda from So­cial
Committee t o
fraternity h o u s e s .
Honorary leadouts will
reappear at the Fin­als.
These statements
made last issue were
not personal. They
" merely reflected the
opinions of numerous students who
talked to us about it. We still say "Con­gratulations"
for work done this year.
* * *
Popularly accepted definitions . . .
Date—A couple of minutes' chat plus
half a picture show combined with a
mad rush to reach dormitories before
curfew.
Dating parlor — Small open room,
with just space enough for one boy, one
girl, and one chaperon.
Pin-hanging—Locally associated with
ripped vests, torn shirts, or broken fast­enings.
Honor system—Something to do with
apples.
Fraternity man—Student hiding what
he is behind bit of tin on shirt.
Sorority girl—Student, usually fem­inine,
with an average of 75 or lower,
who wants you to vote for somebody
for something.
Dances — Something to sign for so
you can stay out later than 11:00.
Cuts — Two hours sleep per credit
hour.
Science and Lit—Crip course which
has the hardest subjects in school.
Glomerata—Idealistic pamphlet large­ly
imaginary, but appearing perhaps
once during each college generation.
Plainsman—Advertising circular dis­tributed
twice weekly to students who
happen to drop by office.
Independents—Best athletes on camp­us
who won't sign with intramural
sports office.
A DAY IN HER LIFE (cont.)
4:00—Is awakened by buzzer from
dream about how she will spend her
share of the $1,000. Her sleepy "Yes?"
is answered by "Someone to see you."
4:05—Buzzer rings again. She wakes
up, and finally rolls out of bed. Re­membering
who is waiting, she dresses
neatly and swiftly, praising Allah be­cause
she finally has a mirror.
4:10 — Trips on bottom step, falls
sprawling and slides up hall to stop
on his feet.
4:15—Still giggling about fall.
4:20—Still giggling about fall.
4:30—Ditto.
4:35—Etc.
4:40—Finally recovers, chases boy­friend
up town for ice cream. Boy gets
tired of her chasing him and tries a 7-
Up.
4:55 — Finished ice cream, now at
date's frat house, dancing with date's
brothers, who think that she's not so
cute, but at least she's available.
5:30—Hunts up date, time to go back
to pen.
5:35—Chases date up town for ice
cream, also pop corn, cookies, gum, and
candy.
5:40 — Rushing home, breathless,
fluttery, and pursued by panting male.
5:45—Makes it, time to get ready
for food. Bids date adieu.
6:00—??? read next installment.
(to be continued)
* * *
Karrie, the Kampus Konfucious, not
to be outdone, offers some definitions,
geographically speaking.
Finland—Cold climate, unhealthy for
Russians.
Russia—What sororities and sopho­mores
do to a new freshman coed.
Sweden—What you do when you put
sugar in your coffee.
Germany—Obsolete.
Italy—Much like rooster sitting on
fence loudly applauding peace pro­posals,
but prevented from doing any­thing
because of the necessity for hold­ing
on to the fence with both feet.
Chile—Well. . . .
Alaska — What he promises to do
when he agrees to get a date.
Hawaii—Common greeting.
Lapland—Ag Bottom, Bullard Field,
baseball field, new stadium.
Canada—What the prospective sui­cide
asked his wife.
Hungary—Who ain't?
Danzig—Jooking with a cold.
With the Co-OpS—By C 1 Bastien
Social:
THE CO-OP social, which is to be held at
Student Center, will probably be put
off till Friday the 16th. All Co-ops are
expected to attend, and any freshman
who does not, does so with the full un­derstanding
of what fate befalls in­corrigible
freshmen.
Briaerean:
Over the week-end, the Briaerean So­ciety
at Tech, telegraphed those here
who are eligible for membership in the
society, an invitation to attend a form­al
dinner dance in Atlanta on the eve­ning
of Feb. 9 for the purpose of be­coming
acquainted with the society's
members and their aims. The six who
are eligible have all said they will go.
They are: J. I. Joyner, J. F. Gurley, R.
H. Robertson, Don Kirk, R. B. Morgan,
and C. J. Bastien.
* * *
Mid-Term Dances:
AmO"ng the Co-ops seen at the mid­term
dances were Avery Bruce, R. H.
Alexander, Wilbur Shriner, C. A. Baum-hauer,
and S. R. Bowen. It's good some
of us have some money.
Overheard in connection with the
dances was the comment that many of
the boys couldn't tell the difference be­tween
Duchin and the local orchestras.
Could it be that colleges are also im­bued
with the "keep up with the Jones­es"
spirit?
* * *
Infirmary:
Ben Galloway, who got out of the
hospital last week, says that it is swell,
the service, the nurses and all. He even
advises us to try it out at the first
opportunity.
* * *
Miscellaneous:
The snow, last week, is generally con­ceded
as a foul break for the acting
officers of the Co-ops. And their first
opportunity to drill, too!
The sergeant asked, "What is the
best way to clean a rifle after shoot­ing,"
and one discouraged soul was
heard to reply, "Immerse in oil."
F. G. Kirwin gave a good talk last
Monday afternoon in the sophomore
war class on the construction of the
Mobile tunnel, on which he works when
he is at work. Very instructive and in­teresting
too.
February 2, 1940 THE A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN Page Three
Washington Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN
John L. Lewi* Resents FDR's Per­sistent
Pressure to Make Labor
Peace; Declines to Resume "Fu­tile"
Talks With AFL, Though
Green is Willing; Another Dem­ocrat
Hit by New Deal Prose­cution
in Tobacco Stocks Case.
WASHINGTON — Behind John
L. Lewis' splatter of anti-Roose­velt
fury was one factor which he
carefully avoided mentioning. This
was the President's persistent pri­vate
prodding to get Lewis to re­sume
peace negotiations with the
AFL.
Lewis bitterly resented this
pressure, and it is no secret among
his intimates that he developed
considerable personal heat against
Roosevelt for "needling" him. At
their last conference, several days
before Lewis entrained for the
miners' convention, he staged an
angry scene.
The President has had three pri­vate
talks with John L. in the last
six weeks, and each time he has
quietly brought up the question of
labor peace, despite Lewis' obvi­ous
resentment. Several days be­fore
the last meeting, Roosevelt
conferre'd with AFL President
William Green and told him he
thought the time had come to
make another serious peace ef­fort.
Green said the AFL was
ready to resume parleying, but
doubted that Lewis wanted peace.
Later Roosevelt told Lewis that
he had Green's assurance of the
AFL's readiness to renew negotia­tions,
and asked him to cooperate.
But John L. hit the ceiling.
He declared that he was sign­ing
no "blank checks," that the
AFL knew his terms and had re­fused
to accept them, that he saw
nothing to be gained by resuming
futile palavers that would lead
only to more recriminations. Lewis
also made it clear that he was fed
up with being summoned to the
White House and prodded about
labor peace.
Roosevelt kept his temper but
persisted in his demand that the
two rival camps make a new
harmony effort.
"The country wants peace," he
said quietly, "the rank-and-file of
both organizations want peace and
the labor movement needs peace.
It's something that must be done,
John."
That terminated the talk. Grim­ly,
Lewis departed.
Redmond is Picked
To Be ASCE Prexy
At their weekly meeting Monday
night the student chapter of the
American Society of Civil Engi­neers
elected John Redmond, Jr., as
president for the second semester.
Other officers chosen were Rob­ert
W. Dees, vice president; Jim
Scrivner, treasurer; Morgan W.
Bunch, secretary.
Following the election, the new
officers took over the meeting. Red­mond
briefly discussed the plans
for the new semester, which include
talks by several guest speakers,
and a section meeting of the Amer­ican
Society of Civil Engineers to
be held at the University of Ala­bama.
The next meeting will be held
at 7 p. m., Feb. 5. in room 200
Ramsay. The new officers have urg­ed
every member who has not been
in regular attendance to come to
this meeting.
NOTE — Strongest influences
behind Roosevelt's persistence are
two top-flight labor leaders: Dan
Tobin, head of the powerful AFL
teamsters' union; and Sidney Hill-man,
president of the Amalgamat­ed
Clothing Workers and co-found­er
of the CIO. Both are in con­stant
touch with the President
and unswerving in urging that he
keep after Lewis and Green.
At their last conference several
weeks ago, Tobin told Roosevelt
he was going to demand that the
AFL Executive Council, now
meeting in Miami, take definite
steps toward a new peace parley.
Indicted Democrats
When you balance up all the
income tax and criminal prosecu­tions
brought by the New Deal,
it will be seen that about as many
Democrats have been hit as Re­publicans.
Some of the biggest Republic­ans
in the country have been
presecuted, such as Andrew Mel­lon
and Charles E. Mitchell on in­come
taxes, and Richard Whitney
for stock market manipulation.
On the Democratic side the New
Deal has prosecuted Boss Pender-gast
of Kansas City, the Louisiana
machine, and is now investigating
the McNutt machine in Indiana.
Latest move against a Demo­cratic
bigwig is the indictment of
E. Kehaya, chairman of the Demo­cratic
Foreign Language Commit­tee.
Kehaya was extremely active
for Roosevelt during the 1936
campaign and raised considerable
money.
The indictment in New York
against Kehaya, together with oth­er
officials of the Standard Com­mercial
Tobacco Company, is on
a charge of stock manipulation
brought by the Securities and Ex­change
Commission.
According to U. S. District At­torney
John Cahill in New York,
who handled the indictments, Ke­haya
and his associates juggled
their tobacco stocks in such a
manner as to cause a loss of four
million dollars to the investing
public.
ART EXHIBIT — Private Art
School. Friday, Feb..2, 1:30 to
10 p.m.; Sat., Feb. 3, 9 a.m.
to 10 p.m. Studio, 114% S. Gay
St. Public Invited. M y r t le
Langston, Director.
LOST—Black Shaeffer fountain
pen. Believed lost at 1st Na­tional
Bank. Finder please re­turn
to Professor Waldo, or
Phone 583-W. Reward to find-
ROLLER SKATE
For Health's Sake
Organ music. Every evening.
Sat. & Sun. Mat. Group
rates 25c
Open everyday — morning,
noon, and night, including
Sundays.
Ladies free every Monday
night during February when
escorted by date.
Auburn Roller Rink
Sunday and Monday
Martin Theatre
•THE PLACE TO GO"
Auburn Represented
At Miami Air Races
By Two Students
API was represented at the Na­tional
Air Races, held the 5th, 6th
and 7th of this month in Miami, by
Forrest Shelton of Tuskegee, who
flew down from Montgomery and
Bobby Jack Chapman of Spring­field,
Mo., both students registered
in aeronautical engineering here.
Shelton flew down in the "Fly­ing
Cavalcade", a group of planes
several hundred strong which as­sembled
at various locations over
the country and attended the Air
Races en masse. He flew in a plane
furnished him by a commercial
sponsor, with all other expenses
being paid by another sponsor.
Both Shelton and Chapman are
holders of student flying permits,
and Shelton recently acquired the
necessary number of flying hours
allowing him the privilege of ap­plying
for a commercial license,
which he has already done.
Dell Morgan To Leave Great Coaching
Record Behind When He Joins Rice Staff
Sears Roebuck Club
Selects J. C. Haupt
As New President
The Sears Roebuck Scholarship
Club recently elected new officers
for this semester. Heading the or­ganization
as new president is John
G. Haupt, junior in ag science from
Elberta. Other officers include D.
K. Christenberry, vice president;
Charles Alton, secretary-treasurer;
and W. D. Ivey, reporter.
A program of work was discuss­ed
at the meeting, and plans were
made for presenting a program
before the Ag Club this semester.
It was announced that the drive
sponsored by the Sears Club to ob­tain
a clock for the Ag Library
was successful, and the new clock
will be installed at an early date.
The Sears Scholarship Club is
composed of 22 juniors and 10 out­standing
sophomores enrolled in
agricultural courses. These stu­dents
receive scholarships amount­ing
to $100 per year from Sears
Roebuck and Co. The group is one
of the most active agricultural or­ganizations
on the campus.
Line Coach Has Turned
Out Good Forward Walls
Coach Dell Morgan, recently
appointed head line coach at Rice
Institute, leaves behind him a fine
record as line coach and baseball
coach at Auburn and in addition
did yeoman service as freshman
basketball coach.
He has turned out many alert
lines and linemen, but perhaps his
best product was the Tiger fore-wall
of three years ago, which
rendered a powerful Michigan
State squad, led by the redoubt­able
Johnny Pingel, helpless and
impotent in their Orange Bowl
battle. Auburn won 6-0 by means
of Ralph O'Gwynn's touchdown.
Other examples of Morgan's
coaching skill of more recent
memory were the Tiger's goal line
stands against Villanova and
Georgia during the season just
past. Especially memorable was
the Horation stand in Birmingham
when the Orange and Blue rush
wall rose to the peak to hurl back
Villanova's slashing attack four
times from the 1-yard line, to
hold and win the fray at 10-9.
Numerous are other examples
of his skill as line coach but also
remarkable is his record as base­ball
coach.
In five years of coaching, his
bat wielders have won the South­eastern
loop crown once, in 1937,
and were runners-up in the '39
season. His complete record as a
baseball coach follows:
Won Lost
1985 - — 4 4
1936 - 5 3
1937 (SEC Champions) — - 8 1
1988 5 7
1989 (runners-up) 10 4
LOST — A Knit-Tex tweed over­coat
lost at Midway Tavern Sat­urday
Night, January 20. Find-
.er please return to Sigma Chi
house and receive reward.
FOR RENT — Two apartments
nicely furnished for light house­keeping.
253 E. Glenn. Phone
373.
Flowers For All
Occasions
•
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Shop
PHONE 6J1
Sizzling Steaks and
Sea Foods are
our Specialty
Auburn Grille
Air-Conditioned
If You Suddenly
realize that you need something to com­plete
your meal, don't hesitate to phone
868 for fresh meat and grocery supplies.
H. L. WELSTED
GROCERY AND MARKET
You will also smile
when a pair of
gabardine are
being worn.
•
PRICES VARY
FROM
$5.95
to
$6.95
to
$7.50 'For a tailored suit see the
man with the tape."
OLIN L. HILL
"The Man With The Tape"
MONTGOMERY IS
TO HEAD PHI's
In election of officers held Wed­nesday
night, Alabama Beta of
Phi Delta Theta selected the fol­lowing
men to serve during the
second semester: president, Penn
Montgomery, succeeding C a rl
Morgan; warden, Nick Nichols,
s u c c e e d i n g Gordon Hood;
chaplain, Billy Fleming, to succeed
Preston Reeder; secretary, Sea-well
Jones, reelected; choristers,
John and Wilson Taylor, reelect­ed;
and librarian, Harold Smith,
reelected.
Men automatically reelected
were Boots Stratford, reporter;
Don Goodall, historian; Turner
Williams, alumni secretary; and
Kirby Clements, treasurer.
Public Invited to
AIEE Movie Monday
Monday night the Auburn stu­dent
branch of the American In­stitute
of Electrical Engineers
will present a sound motion pic­ture
in Broun Auditorium at 7
p.m. While this is a regular meet­ing
of the chapter, everyone is in­vited
to attend whether they are
electrical engineers or not.
The picture, a production of the
Okonite Company, is called "Rub­ber
Insulated Cables" and deals
with the manufacture of these
cables from the time the raw rub­ber
is gathered until the product
is finished. Lowell Thomas, the
well-known radio commentator,
makes the narration, while a musi­cal
background is provided by a
symphony orchestra.
LOCAL PIKA's
TO BE HOSTS AT
FRAT CONCLAVE
Upsilon chapter of Pi Kappa
Alpha will act as host next Fri­day
and Saturday for a meeting
of the Alabama and Georgia-Flor­ida
Districts of the fraternity.
The program planned is a house
dance Friday night for the guests,
a discussion meeting of the rep­resentatives
and officers Saturday
morning and afternoon, and a
formal banquet that night.
Officers of the fraternity pres­ent
will be A. H. Knight, presi­dent
of Alabama district; H. S.
Smith, president of Georgia-Flor­ida
district; R. D. Hickman, na­tional
alumni secretary; R. M.
McFarland, executive secretary;
and J. F. Malone, assistant execu­tive
secretary.
LOST — "Experimental Cookery"
book. Left in Ramsay 109—Re­ward.
If found, leave at Plains­man
Office or Auburn Printing
Co.
Fur jackets over
son's sensation
store for ladies
two-piece suits are
Visit Columbus'
the sea-leading
to see these combinations.
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Page Four T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN February 2, 1940
TIGER TALES
By BOOTS STRATFORD
Dell Morgan has gone from the Loveliest Village, and
though he leaves gloom in his wake, for few are those
that can match his skill, still he carries with him the best
wishes of the hundreds who knew and ad­mired
him as a man and a coach. He earn­ed
the respect of each athlete who was
guided by his coaching genius, and he in­stilled
a deep affection in their hearts. We
wish to add our congratulations and best
wishes to this forward step of his and to
dub him what every man who has met him
knows him to be—a man's man.
* * *
That prospective game with Villanova
SooTS GXRATPOZD in Birmingham Dec. 11 will probably fail
to materialize. Reason: Birmingham sponsors feel that
such a late season game will not draw well enough to
enable them to put up a guarantee of $18,000 smack­eroos
Also discredit that recent rumpus about booking
more games for Montgomery next season. Contracts
have already been signed, and the only game Mont­gomery
will get will be the Howard season opener to
take the place of the Birmingham-Southern game.
* * *
A new head line coach will not be selected until spring
training is over and will probably come from a trio com­posed
of Boots Chambless, guard coach; Ralph Jordan,
center coach and head basketball coach; and Buddy Mc-
Collum, freshman coach. . . . Also, a new baseball mentor
will not be selected for a little while yet.
* * *
No criterion or coach are we, but we do think that
Auburn's spring training season begins too soon and
lasts too late. We think Coach Bill Alexander of Geor­gia
Tech has the right idea about this thing; he has
cut his training period drastically and yet we would
be willing to wager that the Techs will get along all
right next season. . . . Too much football is worse for
a player than too little, for it causes him to lose inter­est,
and the zip in his play will fall off accordingly.
Football is played in each of the nine school months
at Auburn and that is just too much football.
* * *
Such a hue and cry goes up every talent hunting sea­son
among the coaches about "steals", that other schools
have made from their "territory", we predict in the not-so-
distant future that the country will be marked off in
"zones" in which coaches outside of each zone will be re­stricted
from drawing material. Just another step toward
professionalism. Already many schools use junior colleges
as "farms" for their athletic talent.
* * *
We always had a faint suspicion that former
Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney was a stuffed
shirt, but now all doubt is removed, as witness his story
of a mythical engagement between Joe Louis and Jack
Dempsey in the current issue of "Look" Magazine.
Excerpts—"One has to go back to the Homeric contest
between Ulysses and Irus, the Beggar, to find its
equal",—"Louis was silenced and the abysmal urge in
Dempsey was gratified",—"Had Louis' resistance been
commensurate with the force of his own blow, he would
have won."
* * *
Fake or real, the rank odor of such overwhelming evi­dence
of the intelligentsia rather stifles us. We await with
keen anticipation and a clothes-pinned nose Mr. Tunney's
article in next week's Satevepost in which he will give his
version of the famous "long count."—Perhaps we rankle
too quickly at said Mr. Tunney's weighty outburst,—we al­ways
were a Dempsey fan.
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Sigma Chi Looks
Good In Victory
SAE, Snakes, Phi's,
And KA's Also Win
With a 55-7 win over the Lamb­da
Chi five the Sigma Chi's serv­ed
notice of their intentions to
add another cup to the trophy
shelf. They had little trouble tak­ing
their first scheduled game,
with "Sinkey" Scholze, Bill Lee
and Earl Guy hitting the board
with deadly accuracy.
The SAE's downed the Alpha
Psi's in a practice game 15-7. Al­though
the Vets were without the
services of their star forward J.
W. McKee, they put up a strong
defense that had the SAE's wor­ried
until the final whistle.
In an overtime period the Sig­ma
Nu's eked out a hard-earned
victory over the ATO's. Although
it was a scheduled basketball
game, the tilt wound up being a
sissified football game with Dave
Rogers and Meredith Hazzard
carrying the ball for the Snakes
and Crocket Cook and "Birdlegs"
Martin doing the heavy chores for
the ATO's. In the final period
Hazzard's field goal and Craig
Jackson's foul shot cinched the
game at a 17-14 victory for the
Sigma Nu's.
In a game between the Phi Del­ta
Theta's and the Pi Kappa Phi's
the Phi's came out on the long
end of a 16-9 score. With Boon
Comer and Bo«ts Stratford play­ing
basketball for the Phi Delta
Theta's and Ben Craig and Kirby
Clements furnishing the humor,
the game was a side-splitter from
start to finish. The Pi Kappa Phi's
show promise of a strong team but
teamwork is sorely needed.
The above games were played
on Wednesday night. Last night
the KA's bumped the Kappa Sig's
17-9 in the only game of the
night. A scheduled game between
Notices
Convocation of women students
will be held Thursday, Feb. 15,
from 11:00 till 12:00. All convo­cations
in the future will be held
at this time.
* * *
There will be another Women's
Student Government tea held at
the Social Center on Wednesday,
Feb. 14.
the Delta Sig's and the SPE's was
not played.
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Mid-Term Means
New Supplies
Here Are A Few Reminders:
Clip Boards 50
Loose-Leaves Notebooks .25
Second Sheets - yellow, (80 in pkg.) 05
White "Eggshell" Drawing 10
Book Filler 10
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First Real Spring Practice Held As
Lettermen Report For Initial Duty
Meagher Predicts Same
Quality Team Next Year
Seventeen lettermen and 38
other varsity football prospects
turned out in uniform yesterday
afternoon at Drake Field for the
first full-sized session of the 1940
spring training grind. Questioned
by reporters, Coach Jack Meagher
summed up this football material
in these words, "It looks as if
we are not going to be any strong­er
next fall." He admitted, how­ever,
that the lettermen returning
"should be much better next
year."
Lettermen reporting included
Howard Burns, center; Alternate-
Captain-elect Ernest Mills, Walter
Chandler a n d Wallace Wise,
guards; Chester Bulger and Gor­don
MacEachern, tackles; Teedy
Faulk, Jim LeNoir, Babe McGe-hee
and James Samford, ends;
Lloyd Cheatham and Buddy Mc-
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Mahan, quarterbacks; Captain-elect
Dick McGowen, George Ken-more,
Carl Happer and Bud Wend-ling,
halfbacks, and Rufus Deal,
fullback.
All of Coach Meagher's 1939
assistants except Line Coach Dell
Morgan, who has accepted a sim­ilar
position at Rice Institute, were
present to instruct the Tigers in
the spring drills.
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February 3.
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