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Next Issue, Jan. 26 THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN Hoard Those Absences VOL. LXIII z-i ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, JANUARY 19, 1940 No. 33 EDDY DUCHIN, "the magic fingers of radio", who will bring his band to Auburn for four of the dances of the Junior Prom next week. Committee Issues More Prom Invites Total is 355; Bid Boxes Collected The Social Committe mailed out 138 more Junior Prom invitation Tuesday night to raise to 355 the total number of girls invited to attend Auburn's biggest social affair next week. Remainder of the group of invitations sent out Sunday, as continued from Tuesday's Plainsman included bids to: From miscellaneous towns in Alabama are: Mary Hackney, Mary Hall, and Ann Tatum, Opelika; Margaret Fraley and Helen Ham-by, Fairfax; Jane Billingsley and Gail Sandberg, Gadsden; Bessie Wright and Martha Young, Fairfield; Marjorie Miller and Lloyd Pierce, Selma; Caroline Acree and Jerry Morgan, Dothan; Martha Blake, Sheffield. Dorothy Jilek, Marbury; Willie Theman, Lanett; Elizabeth Clop-ton, Scottsboro; Sara Walker, Jasper; Sara Pride, Huntsville; Erin Douglas, Leighton; Mary Patterson, Waverly; Margaret Mitchell, Bessemer; Annie Folmar, Troy; Cecil Lightfoot, Alex City; Mayme Bennett, Fairhope; Mary Hornsby, Ozark; Woodrow Kill-goe, Linden; Elizabeth Bright, Andalusia; Alice Fulford, Athens; Laura Serritt, Florence. Georgia Sara Jordan, Polly Rushton, Louella Stone, and Louise Woodward of Atlanta; Betty Henderson, Eloise Lennard, Katherine Wilkinson, and Evelyn Baty of Agnes Scott; Dot Bailey of Athens; Mayme Sheppard and Graham Wright of University of Georgia; Anne Wright, of Shorter College; Virginia Hershberg, Annie Brooks, Beuna Vista; Chick Stokes, Eleanor Key, Columbus; Martha Black-well, Savannah; Jane Kay, Albany; Evelyn Priester, Forsyth; Margaret Cook, Dawson; Jessie Pierce, Ft. Benning; Elsie Mann, Concord; Lavonia Cranford, New-nan. Florida Elizabeth Greene and Eleanor Webb, St. Petersburg; Midge Scott, Margaret Vogt, FSCW; Margie Oxford, Lakeland; Lynn Kanner, Palatka; Sophie Spivak, Jacksonville; Mary Riley, Pensa-cola. Virginia Louise Stumberg, Sara Crock-ette, of Hollins College; Martha Smith, Randolph-Macon College; Josepaul Easterling, Richmond; Catherine Carpenter, Lynchburg; Ruth LaMarr, Hernden; Jean Thompson, Fredericksburg. Louisiana Frances Galloway, New Orleans; June Mitchell, Ruston; and Mary Moore, Earlyne Seals, and Carroll Reiley of LSU. North Carolina Mary Clinard, University of North Carolina; Mary Dell, Duke; Norma Garland, Rocky Mount; Ann Fox, Womans College; and Jeane Hoyle, Charlotte. New York Patricia Donevan and Ann Berg-er, Brooklyn; Louella Haselton, Jamaica; Eula Semple, New York City; Judy Helmick, Skidmore College. California Lana Turner, Judy Garland, and Margaret Early of Hollywood; Helen Herrick of Long Beach. Continued on page 4 BEHIND THE HEADLINES rr a r • t in student responsibility" is what All tXPCrimCni Executive Secretary Ralph Draughon calls the new absence rule as he issues explanatory regulations on it. See column 6 CL I in t n e k n e e s Dut naPPy a r e t n e seven CAA JMOKy students who have made their solo flights after eight or more hours of dual instruction. Bobby Nester was the first. See column 5 It' H "LI that ' • P - Streetman, influenza-stricken it S I OSSIDIC forward will be in the line-up when Auburn plays Vanderbilt tomorrow night at 7:30. See page 3 TL C\ f*\ U an(* D r " L - *** D u n c a n a r e Auburn's 1116 UICG v l U D representatives on the Alabama "Symphony of the South" program over CBS tomorrow night at 9:30 to 10:00. • See column 5 /* i l l will not leave Auburn. The rumors of VOQCM JUlUUl the popular mentor's departure are quieted by Coach "Jenks" Gillem acceptance of the Se-wanee head coaching position. See page 3 Cabinet To Have Office Next Term Other Changes Slated For Student Center The Executive Cabinet will maintain an office in the Student Center during the second semester, Cabinet officers said yesterday, as soon as a few scheduled changes are made in the Center. A radiator is to be installed in the room occupied by the YMCA, and Mrs. Rena Jolly, Center hostess, will move her office there. Mrs. Jolly's present headquarters will then be turned over to the Cabinet. At one time Mrs. Jolly's present office was the headquarters of the Cabinet, but for the past few years it has maintained no office of its own, meeting instead in the President's office. In addition the Center floors are to be redone, the walls and workwork repainted, furniture repaired, and drapes and furniture covers cleaned. Vets Elect New AVMA Officials George Long and Cary Carlton Chosen Heads The local student chapter of the American Veterinary Medical Association elected George Long of Foley, president and Cary Carlton of Arcadia, Fla., vice-president, at its last meeting of the semester. Both Long and Carlton are seniors and will graduate in May. Beginning next year, or perhaps later this year, the organization will function under a new set-up in which the activities of all student chapters will be more closely unified. The senior association recently issued a new constitution and bylaws under which all student chapters will operate. Each chapter will direct its business to suit its own conditions, but only under guidance of the official constitution and by-laws. The election clauses of the new document provide that all officers be elected for one collegiate year, and the election to be held late next semester will be governed thereby. The senior association has also adopted an official key and diploma for senior members of the student chapters. Several of the new keys have already been purchased locally. The local organization was organized about 1907 under the name of the Auburn Veterinary Medical Association. It became affiliated with the American Veterinary Medical Association in 1932 and became known as the Junior AVMA, but it continued to operate under its own constitution and by-laws. Eight Instructors Added to API Staff Eight new members will be added to the Auburn faculty for the second semester. Nearly all of the seven are replacing other faculty members, thereby leaving the to-total of faculty and administrative officers at about 255. Vernon W. Lapp has been employed by the physical education department, which will now offer a major, instead of just a minor, as previously. Francis E. Johnstone, Jr., will replace Keith C. Barron as assistant vegetable breeder in the horticulture department. D. M. Turn-ey will replace N. R. Crawford as instructor in animal husbandry. R. W. Montgomery, teacher of vocational agriculture in the Camp Hill high school for the past year and a half, will come to Auburn as assistant professor of agricultural education. Others are Sam F. Brewster, who resigned as first commissioner of conservation in Tennessee to accept a teaching position here; N. W. Muller, instructor in chemical engineering; Miss Janet Lee, who has already taken her place as head of hall in dormitory number four; and M. W. Williams, instructor in anatomy in the School of Veterinary Medicine. Chairman of the committee which is handling arrangements for Auburn's Roosevelt Birthday Ball on Jan. 30. TAYLOR HEADING BALL COMMITTEE Roosevelt Birthday Fete to be Jan. 30 A u b u r n ' s 1940 President's Birthday Party and Ball will take place Tuesday, Jan. 30, at Bibb Graves Center, Alex O. Taylor, chairman of this year's Ball committee has announced. There will be games of bridge, Chinese checkers, and similar amusements this year in addition to the dance, the games beginning at 8:30 and the dance lasting from 9:30 until 12:30. The Auburn Plainsmen, featuring R o s a 1 y n Shepherd and a 13-piece orchestra, will play. Admission is to be $1.00 per couple for the dance and 25 cents per player for the games. The party is an annual affair, the proceeds to go for the support and medical care of children crippled by infantile paralysis. FIFTY-ONE TO GRADUATE AT CLOSE OF TERM Fifty-one Auburn students are candidates for undergraduate and graduate degrees at the close of the first semester session, according to a list released today by the registrar's office. Degrees will be awarded these students at the regular commencement exercises in May. Graduates in the School of Agriculture include Robert P. Armstrong, Jr., Terrell F. Cannon, W. Woodrow Chestnut, Bernard M. Crow, Wendell Wade Crowder, Leo Bryant Hollinger, C. L. Hol-lingsworth, William Drew Mims, George Wendell Pruett, Francis Baker Riddle, William Temple Seibels, Charles Chan Vickery. School of Education graduates, including students enrolled in education, agricultural education, and home economics education, are Robert C. Bamberg, George Stuart Butler, Marilyn Belcher, William Howard Dudley, Oliver Boyd Gowder, Sidney Lanier Griffin, Irby E. Hammonds, Sarah Speake Hardwick, Milton L. Howell, Bellaire Krudop, Samuel Perry McClendon, James Henry McRae, Robert Presley Robbins, J. P. Streetman, Jr., Orrin Taliaferro, Dora A. Traylor, Wallace T. Vernon, Ward Wagnon, John In-man Warner, Jr., Anne Whatley, Malcolm Ellis Wilson, Mary Evelyn Yates. Three students are graduating from the School of Engineering, G. W. Cantrell in textile engineering, Eugene Morelli in mechanical engineering, and Hubert Wiley Stone in electrical engineering. Augustus Gaines Williams, Jr., is the sole student graduating in pharmacy. Graduates in the School of Science and Literature are Lawrence F. Aycock, Herbert T. Hinz, George Vernon Kenmore, Willmar Patrick Locke, James Norton Mc- Nutt, Charles Benedict O'Reilly, Jr., Louise Christine Simms. T. Upton Cleary and Tyler Jennings Young are candidates for the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. Students expecting to receive advanced degrees include James Barnard, John E. Davis, Jr., B. G. Nelson, Pearl Grace Stroud. Administration Clarifies New Class Attendance Regulations Duncan And Glee Club To Appear On CBS Program They Will Represent API on "Symphony of South" Broadcast Dr. L. N. Duncan will speak and the Auburn Glee Club will present a 10-minute program when Alabama celebrates its 120th anniversary of statehood with a giant program and a 30-minute nation-wide broadcast over CBS tomorrow night. The program is entitled~"A Symphony of the New South" and will be broadcast from 9:30 to 10:00, CST over CBS. Gov. Frank M. Dixon will be the featured speaker and will serve as master of ceremonies on the preliminary program, which will be held in the Municipal Auditorium in Birmingham and will begin at 7:30. Other musical organizations participating include the Birmingham Civic Symphony Orchestra of 76 musicians, led by Dorsey Whit-tingdon, and the Tuskegee Institute Choir of 100. voices, directed by W. E. Dawson, famous Negro composer. The Glee Clubs from the University of Alabama and Montevallo will also sing. Other speakers include Dr. Richard Foster, president of the University of Alabama; Dr. A. F. Harmon, president of Alabama College at Montevallo; and Dr. F. D. Patterson, president of Tuskegee Institute. Benjamin Russell of Alexander City, president of the Alabama State Chamber of Commerce will introduce Gov. Dixon. All stations in Alabama will cut in on the program at 9:00 and will carry the broadcast for one hour, including the nation-wide broadcast at 9:30. Draughon Emphasizes that New Rule is "Experiment in Student Responsibility" With a series of regulations issued yesterday the President's Office clarified the new absence rule passed Jan. 9 by the Executive Council to go into effect the second semester. When he issued the explanatory regulations Ralph Draughon, executive secretary, emphasized that the new absence rule is an experiment in student responsibility. "The manner in which students use cuts will determine whether the rule is retained and ~"—"""—""~""•""•"""•"•""—"""'—'^~~ Seven CAA Students Make Solo Flights Seven of-Auburn's 20 CAA students made their solo flights this week, winning their wings under the federal government's flying training program here. All of them were aeronautical engineering students. Bobby Nester, junior, was the first. He took off alone Tuesday morning with eight hours dual flying time behind him. Wednesday, R. B. Allen, sophomore, and R. N. Campbell, junior, made their initial flights alone. W. W. Wyatt, junior', J. C. Mc- Culloch, senior, and J. H. Harper, senior, soloed Thursday. In obedience with CAA regulations a student must have completed at least eight hours of dual flying before he can make his solo flight. whether other responsibilities are given them as well," he pointed out. His recommendation was that students not absent themselves from class for no reason but husband their number of cuts, saving them for emergencies. The original rule provided that each student is allowed a quota of cuts for each course amounting to twice the number of credit hours in that course. When the student exceeds his quota in any course he is automatically dropped with a zero. When a student is dropped for excessive absences from courses aggregating more than 40 per cent of the hours for which he is registered, he is dropped from college for the duration of the semester. The rule also provided for a dean's list of the upper five per cent of the enrollment in each school, those on the list to have unlimited cut privileges. The Explanatory Regulations The clarifying rulings, as issued by the administration are as follows: 1. All absences acquired by members of student organizations in the conduct of student activities shall be charged against the allowed quota of the individual student absenting himself from classes. This applies to Student Executive Cabinet, Interfraterni-ty Council, Women's Student Government, Student Social Committee, all initiations of honorary or other clubs or societies, all conventions whether fraternal, religious, professional or otherwise. 2. Occasions requiring student representatives, such as funerals, weddings, dedications, or other ceremonies resulting in absences from classes, shall in each case be charged against the allowed quota of each student so participating. Students attending such ceremonies shall be selected from those having unexpended privileges. 3. Absences on college business shall not be charged against the quota. This applies to inspection trips, field trips, official athletic team trips as scheduled in advance, practice teaching. 4. Absences incurred as the result of special requests from parents shall be charged against the allowed quota of the individual student. Special requests from parents shall be discouraged, and granted only when the reasons given are such as to satisfy college authorities that an emergency exists. In any case, all such requests shall be made in advance, and granted only after full consideration. Special requests coming after absences have been incurred shall be denied. 5. When a student has been dropped from a course for exceeding his quota he shall not be reinstated except upon evidence of illness involving treatment in the College Infirmary, or unquestionable evidence of similar confinement under care of a physician, if away from Auburn. Such evidence to be from the physician treating the student and to give information both as to the diagnosis and the treatment. 6. When a student has suffered an injury of such nature as to prevent him from attending classes in which physical exercise is required but which would not bar his attendance upon routine lecture and laboratory classes, the College Medical Officer may excuse him from such classes, and the absences so incurred shall not be charged against the quota, PROVIDED, that to be excused from MILITARY CLASSES un-this rule, the student shall report to the Military Office in uniform prior to 10:30 a.m. of drill day. Upon satisfaction of the military authorities the student will take a card from the Military Office to the College Medical Officer for excuse from drill. Where the injury is such that absence for a period of days from drill or riding classes is required, the College Medical Officer will excuse for the period estimated required for recovery. At the end of the period, the student will report again to the Medical Officer if the recovery is not sufficient for resumption of drill or riding classes. 7. Any absence not in the purview of the above rules and regulations shall be considered as a special case, and shall be investigated by the Executive Secretary for men, and the Director of Women Students for women, who will recommend to the Executive Council for final decision. Staff Photo by Lewis Arnold The administrative officers and participating students of the Civil Aeronautics Authority flying program at Auburn. Front row, left to right, Bobby Nester, Robert S. Carstens, Bobby Jack Champman, Alex McKenzie, W. W. Wyatt, Marshall Hooper, Charles L. Davis, Hugh Grundman. Second row, Rollins Ald-ridge, R. N. Campbell, James Harold Harper, Oliver P. Board, R. M. Stewart, Bill Carroll, R. G. Campbell, Edwin C. Allen, E. R. Callaway, Carlyle McCulloch, Boiling H. Rawlinson. Third row, J. B. Atkinson, co-owner of the Alabama Air Service, which is handling instruction; L't. B. M. Cornell, head of the department of aeronautical engineering, J. K. Ashley, of Alabama Air Service; Wren Allen, instructor and co-owner of Alabama Air Service; Jimmy Brennan, instructor; Prof. Robert G. Pitts of the aeronautical engineering department. Page Two T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN January 19, 1940 The Auburn Plainsman Published Semi-Weekly by the Students of The Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Ala. Editorial and business offices on Tiche-nor Avenue. Phone 448. Editor may be reached after office hours by calling 169-W. John Godbold Editor Robert H. Armstrong __ Business Mgr. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates by mail: $2.50 per year, $1.50 per semester. Member Pissocided Golleeiate Press Distributor of Golle6iateDi6est EDITORIAL STAFF EDITORIAL BOARD John Ivey, Jr. Dan Hollis Bob Anderson Herbert Martin Boots Stratford Sports Editor Emma Nell Parrish Society Editor Lewis Arnold Staff Photographer NEWS STAFF Holdman W. Baker George Heard C. J. Bastien Park Holland Rene Bidez Art Jones Betty Belle Brandt Bobby McKnight Donald Brewer Sumner Nesbitt Billy Ryan Redding Sugg Bob Chisholm Claudia Weinmann Bob Foster J. H. Wheeler Willard Hayes Merle Woodard BUSINESS STAFF Frank Wilson Asst. Bus. Mgr. Martin Wender Asst. Bus. Mgr. W. G. Darty Office Mgr. Richard Shepard Asst. Office Mgr. Vernon Morgan J Layout Mgr. Johnston Hawkins Advertising Mgr. Joe Gandy Asst. Adv. Mgr. Jimmy Rouse Adv. Asst. Leonard DeLoach Adv. Asst. Lewis Burton Adv. Asst. Walter Going Circulation Mgr. Roy Isbell Circulation Asst. Joe Reed Circulation Asst. Don Hopton-Jones Circulation Asst. Nobody's Fooling This Time THE ADMINISTRATION means business with this new absence rule. Two years ago officials were forced by unprecedented laxness in class attendance to impose the rigid "two point" rule, something they had no more stomach for than did we. This year the students insisted that they'd like another trial, that they could be adults about going to classes. The administration swallowed its doubt, licked its fingers — burned by past experience-—and decided to give us a chance. Once the decision was made they went far more than half way by giving us a system that's very liberal, but they refused to make it unconditional; sagely, they put us on trial for one semester to see if we will observe their brainchild. This time no person will be pampered or nursed along, as students frequently were under the old "20 per cent" rule. If you go over your quota of unexcused absences, out of the class you'll go with a cold zero. If you are dropped for absences from a certain per cent of your total hours, home you'll go with your bags packed. When you begin your tale of explanation and woe and your parents begin their tearful appeals for reinstatement, you'll all find some surprisingly deaf ears over in Samford Hall. We asked for a rule based on the assumption that we were mature enough to be discreet. Now we have exactly what we requested. Those of us who don't live up to it will be- bitterly disappointed to find that there are no exceptions and no special cases. Debts To Society And Their Payment OCCASIONALLY, at least far too frequently, one picks up a newspaper to read of a "highly respected citizen" of some town being identified as an escaped convict and returned to prison to serve the duration of his term. The entire philosophy of imprisonment is involved in any attempt at impartial judgment of such a case. Is the sentence for a convicted criminal for the purpose of punishing him or is it to rehabilitate him? If punishment is the objective, then there is justice in making him take his medicine. But if the motivating idea is rehabilitation, then a case like this is controversial to justice. Assuming that the term "highly respected citizen" is genuine, sending the offender back to prison is contrary to the original purpose in mind. A man who has broken the law and then made himself a man a-gain needs no more of the "rehabilitation" of a prison. There is something basically wrong with a philosophy of protection for society that can send back to prison to rub elbows with criminals a man who has thrown aside his-anti- social tendencies. He owes no "debt to society." His debt has been paid when he made himself into an honest man. The Paper War WHENEVER THE newspapers keep telling us over and over what we want to hear, we begin to wonder and then to question, and in the case of the Russo-Fin-nish War we are beginning to question. It is all very nice to believe in the strength of the case of virtue, but in war the value of virtue at the front is zero. This incessant talk of the victory of the Finnish forces everywhere and all of the time over incredible odds is beginning to wear down even our inherent gullibility, and a thing or two has recently seeped through in the news that gives some support to our incredulity. First of all, the fact that the Russians slipped when they chose this season for the war is questionable, as evidenced by the statements of authorities who say that this is the only season during which the war could be fought in that region, because the land is so low and swampy. (There are 7,000 lakes in and a-round the region of the Manner-heim Line.) It is held that war with modern equipment a n d methods would be impossible in any season in which the water is not frozen over. With a little calm thought, if the above reports are true, it is not only incredible but impossible that those in authority would make many of the mistakes attributed to them by our news reports, which are probably one-sided. Another thing, the report that the Russian fighting troops are ill-equipped and even without gloves is almost unbelievably crude when one knows that the troops in and around Moscow, 300 miles south of the front, are well equipped for the Season. Finally, the fact that it is reported that our State Department discounts all Finnish reports by 60 per cent before examining them should be enough to make the use of "salt" prevalent with news readers. C.J.B. Anybody who would steal eight bucks' worth of light bulbs off a Christmas tree would take a rattle away from his baby cousin. When is Uncle Samuel going to quit putting nasty tasting stick-um on the back of his postage stamps? Vanilla would be much nicer. Not protesting, just wondering. Everybody who brags about how he has finished studying for exams ought to be tossed out of Samford Hall tower. And no fire net below either. The Plainsman Forum Should Roosevelt Run for a Third Term? Plains Talk By Herbert Martin Kro PROBABLY THE biggest question in the minds of Americans at the present time is not, "Will we go to war?" but, "Will President Roosevelt seek a third term?" Newspapermen and political observers have repeatedly tried to corner Mr. Roosevelt on this question, but so far he has avoided making a public decision. Of course there is always the problem of breaking the age-old precedent established by several of Mr. Roosevelt's predecessors. I do not think, however, that he will let custom stand in his way, if he wishes to run for the presidency again. Apparently the breaking of this precedent is the biggest objection in the minds of the majority of the American people. And so I ask the question, "Why shouldn't Mr. Roosevelt seek a third term?" He is evidently the strongest member of his party, politically speaking. Some people may say, "Why be a 'hog' about it?" That would hardly be a sensible question. This is a democratic country and the people should elect the person they think will best fulfill the duties of political offices. If the people of the United States want to elect Mr. Roosevelt for a third term as president of their country, that is their right and they should do so. Opinion polls have recently shown a decided rise in public third term. The American people realize the critical political situation throughout the world and believe that retaining the same president would give more stability "to the government and help to keep us out of war. This is a democratic country. Why not let it remain so by giving its people an opportunity to vote for whom they please for president of the United States? D.H. Con "WILL I VOTE for Mr. Roosevelt for a third term?" may become an important question of the immediate future, the answer to which, en masse, may decide the entire future of this nation. There is, of course, the important point that the world is now at war and the nation needs an experienced head to guide it on its way, but in this day of dictators there is also the trifling details that there is such a thing as a too experienced head. Mention is made in the "Pro" editorial of the fact that "changing horses in the middle of the stream" is dangerous, but the reply is made that there will always be a "middle of the stream" in political and international problems, and the risk of putting an incapable politician in office is one of the legitimate and unavoidable costs of this form of government we hold to be best. The fact that Mr. Roosevelt refuses to assert himself on the question of a "third term" is laudable in the light that it is an almost invulnerable political weapon in the disorganization of the opposition, but is he just in its use? The longer he withholds this information the less time the voters will have to give to a scanning of the merits of the candidates, and the more likely are the voters to choose an unqualified man. Finally, there is the much depreciated item of precedent involved, and this, in our estimation, is the important point which all voters must consider in the last analysis. Precedent, in this case, may be taken as the "unwritten law" protecting the rights and security of the American people. > Democracies are created, operated, and preserved by apparently unimportant precedents; let no citizen toss them off lightly. C.J.B. 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. WE HATE TO see Karrie mistreated. Somehow, we think that we love her as much as Bergen loves McCarthy or Tom-my his Betty Lou. We may differ and we may have our little spats, but we hate to see anyone else take part in them. Karrie wuz misquoted last issue. Her s t a t e m e n t should have read, "It's great life, if your "don'ts" weaken!" The "s" was left off "don'ts", "' making Karrie sound pretty simple. We feel that she deserves a correction. * * * Guy Lombardo is quoted as attributing his success in picking hit tunes to his having a taste in music on a par with that of the average listener. It's our opinion that he is grossly overestimating his taste in music, and we attribute whatever success he may have gained to nothing but pure blind luck! * * * A DAY IN HER LIFE What has happened before: The gal ate breakfast, ror. . . . She also wished for mir- Letters to the Editor In Defense of the Coed Rules Editor Auburn Plainsman Dear Godbold: In reading The Plainsman Forum tonight, I found the letter written by a person who calls himself "Gallant Tommy O'Leary." To me it seems that he should sign himself "A Moron." For, to my mind, no one but a moron could say the things and make the charges that he made in his letter. I think that I am qualified to give an opinion on the new rules governing the girls in the new dormitories. I have been over at the dormitories every night except about 4 since I came back to Auburn on Jan. 1st. I have no complaint whatsoever to make towards those rules. I think that they are very lenient. What does this "Gallant Tommy O'Leary" want? Even though he may call it old fashioned, the school has to have some rules for the students to live up to to protect itself. Why doesn't he state his objections, instead of just "issuing a mild reproof of the practical jokers" as he calls them. I grant that the rules may be nothing short of an insult to the intellect and judgment of a few of the women students on this campus. But there are some that do need such rules, so the rules are made and all the students have to abide by them. "Gallant Tommy O'Leary," if you have some plausible suggestions, let's have them and no more of this griping. Also please answer this question: "How many parents would allow their daughters to come to Auburn to school if the school did not have these rules?" Or is it your idea to cut out the rules and thereby cut out the girls altogether? A Satisfied Junior. The Squires Protest To Whom It May Concern: The questionable gentlemen who purloined 60 (count 'em) colored light bulbs from the "Christmas Tree" on the "Thumbing Corner" on Friday night, Jan. 5, made a lamentable mistake. The one bulb left on the tree by some dreadful oversight is safe in the hands of the Plainsman. The persons concerned may obtain this other bulb by calling by the Plainsman Office for it at any time. Yours for more honesty on the campus. Squires 7:50 — After-breakfast intermission. Intermission, as usual, is spent in rearranging hair and applying fresh makeup. She is getting pretty good at making up blind by now. Do all girls kiss and then pull out the compact to make up? 8:00—Hastens to campus to see and be seen. Thinks she looks unusually fresh and appealing. Fact is, she probably does. 8:11—Patters breathlessly into class. 8:15 — Cleans fingernails, applies make-up, combs hair, wishes for mirror, goes into trance. 9:00—Awakened by bell, stops to smile at professor. 9:02—Student Center, a mirror at last. 9:11—Patters breathlessly into class. 9:15—Applies make-up, wishes for mirror, goes into trance. 9:59—Is awakened by professor's question. 10:00—Saved by the bell. . . . and so 'til noon. (to be continued) Not exactly new, but . . . And then there was the little duck who was a year and a half old before he found out that his pants were down! * * * For the benefit of those young ladies who may feel that the present rules and regulations are a bit stiff, we would like to mention these rules which prevail at the institution currently showing at Montevallo. We quote verbatim. . . . * * * Referring to conduct on dates . . . ". . . At night students and their dates may traverse the walk in front of Main, in front of Peterson Hall, Hanson Hall, and Ramsay Hall. . . ." Ah, Liberty! Dating privileges . . . "Sophomores and freshmen may have five night dates a month." Definition . . . "Any conversation of more than 20 minutes' length with a young man will be considered a date." Signing for dates . . . "No student who has not signed for a date may spend an entire evening talking to young men who are on the campus." Time limit . . . "At night young men may stay until 9:45 except on Friday and Saturday nights when they may stay until 10:30." Gawsh! * * * We learn that Duchin's first girl vocalist was Dorothy Lamour. It must have been quite a step from a Duchin song stylist to a smoochin' sarong stylist! * * * This isn't strictly original, but we wonder how many girls have lost their sorority pins during this first half-month of leap year? * * * These suggestions may be out of place, but Karrie, the Kampus Kaper Kutter, read these somewhere and would like to pass them on. Conceited little thing that she is, she thinks that they don't apply to her, but we believe that these tips to those who aren't exactly belles of the balls or prom-stoppers were meant for her. The rules can apply to boys at girl-breaks. Auburn girl-breaks are, bless 'em, as scarce as sick excuses will be under the new cut rule. 1. Smile, not for the effect, but mean it. Let that smile say that you're not only having a good time, but a good rush as well. Almost before you realize it, you will. 2. Don't be too sensible when meeting someone. You don't have enough time to impress new men with your wisdom, and they probably wouldn't be interested if you could. Start talking; tell him you didn't understand his name. If it's something simple like Smith or Jones, make him pronounce it several times. Still act puzzled, and make him spell it. 3. Don't gush, and don't try to be another type; capitalize on being the type that you are. 4. Avoid trite remarks such as "How do you like the dance?" and "Isn't the music swell?" We don't know just where Karrie found these jewels of wisdom, but we're fer 'em. The Washington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT s! ALLEN W i t h the Co-OpS—By C. J. Bastien Mitec Club THE MITEC ENGINEERS Club is planning to have a dance some time in the near future. The plans were discussed at the meeting last night, a social committee was appointed, and members with ideas on the subject are asked to make them known at the first opportunity. ' The Executive Cabinet is to meet next Tuesday night to discuss constitutional matters. The Briaerean Society, honor society for Co-ops, at Tech has issued a formal invitation to us to organize a chapter here, and Mr. A. O. Taylor has said that he will call a meeting of those who are eligible some time next week. * * * War The Co-ops will continue to drill through the exam period. For the first time the acting officers have been appointed from among the Co-ops themselves. Freshmen are to join their companies next Thursday and there will be a formal parade and inspection at that time. * * * Notices , All Co-ops interested in debating please get in touch with C. M. Bloom-field as soon as possible. Bloomfield is at last in his proper sphere. We would back Bloomfield with laryngitis in an oratorical contest against Daniel Webster and Demosthenes himself. The Co-op basketball team met last Saturday morning and held a good workout. All who are interested are asked to meet again next Saturday morning in the gym. Alumni Hall It has been heard that Dr. Duncan is in favor of Co-op plans for taking over Alumni Dormitory, and at the present time the details are being examined and worked out by R. B. Draughon, executive secretary, and W. T. Ingram, accountant. The plans are humming a-long nicely, and before long we may all have a home with a pool in the basement and a dining room in the rear. How does that sound? * * * Sick List After seeing the nurses around the new infirmary we are undecided wheth-ed to offer our congratulations to Ben Galloway, who is there with the measles, or to visit him with the hope of catching them. * * * Many a sophomore is groaning under the stupendous load of physics, and one philosophical soul was heard to say that he believed the reason it was taught was to imbue all engineers with an air of humility. * * * Statistic* Of the 30 Co-ops who attended school in September without jobs, Mr. Taylor secured jobs for 23 before the semester was over. More marks in the "good book" for Mr. Taylor. Alabama Natural Gas has agreed to take on two additional Co-ops. We now have a Co-op, Lucius Haney by name, who is alternating with a Tech man on a job at Woodward Iron. Welcome into the fold, Brother Haney. Sistie Dall Coveted Government's White Rats for Diet Experiments; CIO Doesn't Approve of Lewis' Presidential Boom for Burt Wheeler; Hillman, Other Leaders Seek Strong Third- Term Bloc for Roosevelt. WASHINGTON — While her brother "Buzzie" visited the Navy Yard and other manly spots, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt ("Sistie") Dall did her capital sightseeing in places that appeal to the feminine heart. Most important was the Bureau of Home Economics, where her lively and intelligent interest made a hit. Twelve-year-old Sistie was particularly intrigued by the Bureau's dietetic experiments, and was all ears and eyes as Director Louise Stanley showed her several cages of white rats. Dr. Stanley explained that the rats were used in experiments on balanced diets; in fact, that the menus which the Bureau recommends to housewives are based on the results of these rat tests. "How fascinating," exclaimed Sistie. "You know, I'm very much interested in dietetics. I wonder if I might take two of these rats home with me to Seattle to make some experiments." This was a poser for Dr. Stanley. Government property can't be given a-way, also the experiments had reached an important stage and the rats couldn't be spared. But the officials were touched by the little girl's enthusiasm and hated to disappoint her. Finally, Dr. Stanley solved the problem by appealing to Sistie's knowledge of government affairs. "You know there is a lot of red tape about matters like that," she explained, "and it would take some time to get the necessary permission to turn the rats over to you. You can probably get them much quicker from the Washington State University back home." "That's a good idea," replied Sistie. "I'll ask mother to get me some rats when I return home. I know about this government red tape. Terrible, isn't it?" CIO Rift John L. Lewis has the ways all greased for his powerful United Mine Workers to pin a presidential bouquet on Senator Burt Wheeler at their annual convention this month. But that doesn't mean the CIO is going for the Montana Senator. Far from it. Inside fact is that other CIO chieftains disagree with Lewis on Wheeler and are rooting for a Roosevelt third term. Prominent among them is Sidney Hillman, astute head of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and one of the founders of the CIO. A few days after Lewis bestowed his personal blessing on Wheeler, Hillman issued a ringing pronunciamento for Roosevelt, declaring that "as far as our membership is concerned, I am sure we will give the President greater support in 1940 than ever before. On his record he is the safest man not alone for labor but for the country." Similarly, and clearly as a direct answer to Lewis, Branch 1 of the CIO Hosiery Workers launched a "draft Roosevelt" d r i v e in Pennsylvania, stronghold of the miners. Behind Lewis' move is not so much enthusiasm for Wheeler as political strategy. He is convinced that Roosevelt will not run again and that he is quietly laying the groundwork for a compromise candidate, such as Secretary Cordell Hull. Hull is unacceptable to Lewis. Moreover, Lewis wants a voice in the selection of the Democratic standard bearer and he thinks he can put himself in a strong trading position by endorsing Wheeler. Hillman and the other dissenting CIO leaders can't see this reasoning. They hold that, regardless of what the President finally decides about running again, the best way to strengthen his hand in the convention is to build up powerful third-term support. The rift isn't serious, but wide enough at least to preclude any chance of Wheeler getting a blanket CIO endorsement. January 19, 1940 THE A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN Page Three Auburn-Vandy Tangle Here Tomorrow Night Ailing Forward May Be Able to Start Auburn's ailing J. P. Street-man, dismissed from the college infirmary Wednesday after a session with influenza, probably will be able to play against Vander-bilt tomorrow night, the infirmary reported yesterday afternoon. However, there's no doubt that the sparkplug of a forward will not be in top physical condition, if he plays at all. Auburn will miss the dependable service of the fifth highest scorer in the conference, for Streetman has amassed a total of 40 points against SEC competition already. When the Commodores take the floor at 7:30 they will find facing them the usual dependable foursome of Shag Hawkins at center, conference high-scorer Prank Manci at forward, Ray Gibson and Teedy Faulk or Jack Tanner, probably Faulk, at guards. Streetman's relief, whether he starts or not, probably will come from Bob Dickinson and Woodie McNair. Both showed up well against Sewanee. However, Dickinson has the edge in speed and experience. Vandy is bringing to Auburn a team that has played both hot and cold all year. They downed Auburn in a previous encounter 51- 45, but the Tiger squad had not been working together for long at that time, and Coach Jordan's sophomores had not developed as they have now. Coach Buford of the Nashville school will have Pinky Lipscomb at forward, Captain Ross Hanna at center or forward, and Joe Little at guard, all veterans. Lipscomb, reputed to be one of the best courtmen in the Conference was stopped cold Monday night by Gilbert Huffman, sensational Tennessee guard, and he couldn't even score one field goal. The flying forward rimmed 20 points at Auburn's expense in their other engagement of the year, and Auburn will be out to stop him tomorrow night. Coach Dell Morgan's freshmen, "JENKS" CILLEM ACCEPTS VACANT SEWANEE POST J. F. "Jenks" Gillem, head coach at Birmingham - Southern College for 17 years accepted the vacant chief coach's position at Sewanee Tuesday afternoon. His acceptance of the proferred place ended rumors that Coach "Shug" Jordan of Auburn might accept it. Coach Gillem is a Sewanee graduate and made the All-Southern eleven for three straight years while playing there in 1910- 11-12. He is still known as one of the greatest ends in Sewanee history and is one of the best kickers the South ever produced. He also made All-Southern as a pitcher in baseball in 1911 and 1912. Coach Gillem succeeds Harry "Hec" Clark who voluntarily gave up his job there at the end of the past season. The new appointment is not expected to affect the status of Joel Eaves, former Auburn star and now head basketball coach and end coach at the University of the South. upset last Saturday by Opelika High 26-25, will face Maxwell Field in a preliminary game beginning at 6:30. The freshman lineup will probably consist of Monsees, Childrey, Finney, Canzoneri, and Clayton, the leaders in the Opelika High game. Brief Sketches Given of Vanderbilt Players Who Will Appear Here Tomorrow Bob Dickinson Bob is expected to get first call to relieve J. P. Streetman, ailing forward, against Vanderbilt's Commodores tomorrow night. However, Streetman probably will be able to start. S e v e r a l M e m b e r s of S q u a d a r e V e t e r a ns Here are thumbnail sketches of the Gold and Black Cagers from Vanderbilt who invade Alumni Gym tomorrow night for a game with Auburn. Ross Hanna: Captain, serving his third year on the varsity. Usually plays center but can play forward. Pinky Lipscomb: Almost invariably a starter at one of the forward positions. Last year he was the leading Vandy scorer and high man in the Conference. Is co-holder of the one-game scoring record for this year. Shoots better with his left hand than with his right. Regarded as potential Phi Beta Kappa and Bachelor of Ugliness, highest individual honor that can go to a Vandy man. Joe Little: Playing his third year on the varsity. He plays guard with emphasis on the guarding, so he's never a high scorer but usually manages to drop in one or two. Jack Irby: Earned his letter last year as a sophomore. Teams with Little to make up the guard duet. He is generally regarded as the smoothest ball-handler on the squad and is noted for his fancy and unorthodox shots. Sizzling Steaks and Sea Foods are our Specialty Auburn Grille Air-Conditioned DRINK jfyuCmfie A FLAVOR YOU CANT FORGET It Gives A Sandwich A College Education ^Attention ^Patrons THE STAFF OF Rubye's Beauty Salon INVITES YOU TO VISIT THEIR NEWLY MODERNIZED SHOP ON EAST MAGNOLIA NEXT TO WILD BROTHERS. good to get where it i s . .. the drink that people the world over enjoy.. .winter ...summer...every day in the year. Its clean, exhilarating taste brings a happy after-sense of complete refreshment that everybody welcomes. THE PAUSE THAT R E FK* Bottled under authority of The Coca-Cola Co. by OPELIKA COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY, Inc. Phone 70 Why Have Half Cleaned Clothes? Do you know that home washing gets your clothes less than half as clean as professional laundry service? That the very water used in the Ideal Laundry's washers is over 6,000 times as clean as that used in ordinary honie washing? Of course, that's no reflection upon you because we should be able to wash clothes cleaner—it's our only business. Try this extra-clean service! Phone 193 - 294 For Prompt Service Ideal Laundry Maurice Holdgraf: Usually plays at guard and dishes out a lot of punishment on the court. His favorite pastime is following up under the basket where the going is tough. Harrison Rue: Big and powerful. Plays either the guard or center position. A sophomore and vastly improved over last year. Most of his very effective shots come from over his head. Joe Davis: One of the smaller boys, relying on speed and his basket eye. When teamed with his partner, Johnny Hyden, he can run the legs off most guards. Takes his playing seriously and is good at making follow-ups under the basket. Johnny Hyden: A sophomore with plenty of speed. His best and his favorite shot is a long one from a far-off corner. He is a forward. Poyner Thweatt: Relief man at the center position for Captain Hanna. A sophomore, he is particularly adept at recovering shots under both baskets. LOST—1 pair yellow gold frame glasses, tinted lens. Lost between Toomer's Drug & Kurtecy Sandwich Shop Monday morning. Finder return to Kurtecy Sandwich Shop and receive reward. ROOM FOR RENT — Room for one boy available Jan. 25. Gas heat. Price $7.50. Can be seen after 6 o'clock. 322 N. Gay. We buy men's second- hand Clothing and Shoes. Jake's Place 123 So. 9th Street Opelika, Alabama Jewelled formals sparkled with sequins are the kind of evening dresses that make social events a success. K A Y S E R - L I L I E N T H A L , I n c. The Shop of Original Styles BROAD STREET COLUMBUS, GA. Jortnat HOLIDAY DESSERT Serve Delicious FROZ - RITE ICE CREAM For the convenience of our Auburn customers we maintain a local depot. Opelika Creamery, Inc. Auburn — Opelika 536 Phone 37 Our Products Are Wholesome And Delicious • They are placed fresh daily in your favorite grocery store. • We are now featuring doughnuts. BALL'S BAKERY OPELIKA 1 0 0% All Wool Hard Finished Suits Single and Double Breasted SIZES 32 TO 50 $14.95 - $16.50 $19.50 - $22.50 Overcoats and Top Coats $14.95 to $22.50 Haynes Shirts and Shorts, Each - 25c Wing Shirts .$1.65 We do not sell cheap merchandise — but good merchandise cheap. 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BEAUTIFUL GLASSWARE * 10J4 x 7% Inch Relish Dish * S% Inch Candy Dish and Cover * 8% Inch Bowl * 8% Inch Bowl We "prospected" around and made a real "gold strike" when we discovered this exquisite rose colored glassware to sell at this low price! Just look at the beautiful bowls and dishes and you'll realize what extraordinary values they are! Buy all 4 NOW! Each, 9' 9 SAVE ON DENTAL NEEDS "SKYLINE" KITCHEN TOOLS "Warren's" Tooth Brush in sanitary cello window box; "Warren's" Milk of Magnesia Tooth Paste; "Warren's" Refreshing Antacid Tooth Powder; "Warren's" Effective Liquid £g Dentifrice, each "CANNON" TOWELS Your chance to buy 17x32-inch Turkish Towels at this price is almost as rare as finding a gold nugget. But here they are . . . in gay plaids £g or stripes, each Attractive, modern kitchen tools designed for real useability. The handles are shaped to fit your hand! All metal parts are nickeled! Red or green handles. Your choice of a great Qg variety of items, each WOMEN'S RAYON PANTIES Big savings for you! Unusually attractive styles in novelty weave rayon. Tea rose color. ^g Pull medium size. CADMIUM PLATED BATHROOM FIXTURES Shiny, rust-resisting fixtures for your bathroom. Selection of the following: * 18-Inch Towel Bar * Tub or Faucet Soap Dish * Tumbler and Tooth Brush Holder * Toilet Paper Holder * 3-Arm Towel Bar Wall Soap Dish Each 9 BEN FRANKLIN STORE H. R. HUBBARD, Prop. Page Four T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN January 19, 1940 Kemp's Singer Began His Career In A Drug Store Bob Allen Almost Flopped in His First Appearance Bob Allen, romantic song stylist who will appear here with Hal Kemp and his orchestra next week, was born on a farm and worked in a corner drug store for several years before he ever received a chance to demonstrate his vocal ability. The farm on which Bob was born and lived during his boyhood days was just outside of Cincinnati. He left home and went to the nearby city to work in a drug store for money to further his singing career. The store where he worked was next to one of the big theatres where Ben Bernie was playing with a vaudeville unit. Bernie was using local tal- BOB ALLEN ent in his show and one of his girl singers was a friend of Bob. His girl friend persuaded him to go back stage and meet "the old maestro." He went, so scared he didn't think he could sing, but Bernie pushed him out on the stage, and he came through with flying colors. With encouragement from Bernie he went to Chicago, after obtaining a leave of absence from the drug store where he worked. However when he left for Chicago he was still so uncertain about his success that he bought a round-trip ticket. When he arrived he obtained an audition at Station WBBM and was later sent to the Blackhawk Restaurant to sing for Hal Kemp and his orchestra. He has been singing with Kemp ever since that time. As a souvenier he still retains that return half of the ticket to Chicago. "HAVE Cable bungalow piano, ex- ' cellent condition. Will sacrifice this piano at a real bargain price. Write to S. E. Pace, P. O. Box 549, Montgomery, Ala." REWARD — LOST, Airedale Terrier, named Russ. Reward $4.00. Call 123-M. Well Kept Shoes are Essential to to Popularity! "Riteway is Our Way" "FOR NEW SERVICE" We Call for and Deliver RITEWAY SHOE SHOP Phone 35 Flowers For All Occasions • King's Flower Shop PHONE 61.1 Barbecue 10c PHONE 9119 For Speedy Delivery KURTECY Sandwich Shop "Pleasing You is Our Pleasure" 'GULLIVER' TO COME TO TIGER THEATRE SUNDAY After two years of work by some two hundred artists and the expenditure of more money than it is good taste to mention, "Gulliver's Travels," Max Fleischer's full-length animated cartoon in Technicolor reaches the screen! Scheduled for Sunday and Monday at the Tiger Theatre, "Gulliver" is the first picture of this kind to be produced since Walt Disney's "Snow White" of two seasons ago and the first ever to issue from Para-mount's studios. "Gulliver's Travels" comes from Jonathan Swift's immortal classic of the same name which, since its first appearance two centuries ago, has been read by countless millions of children and adults alike and been translated into virtually every language on earth. The picture opens with "Gulliver's" shipwreck on the shores of "Lilliput," a fantastic wonderland "somewhere in the South Seas," where the tallest inhabitant measures up to a man's boot and the highest building could be hidden behind a barrel. In spite of their size, the "Lilliputians" tie up the immense visitor while he is sleeping, and he awakes to find himself their prisoner. "Gulliver's" adventures crowd thick and fast when, after superhuman effort, the "Lilliputians" drag him to their capital city on a flat car. At first regarded as a menace, "Gulliver" turns into a national hero through his amazing feats of strength and soon becomes chief aide to "King Little," the ruler of the bantam kingdom. Notice Permits for the new Social Dance Class for men and women will be given Tuesday night, Jan. 30, and Thursday night Feb. 1, at 7:00 o'clock at Student Center. George Washington University will soon begin the construction of a million dollar auditorium. Sunday-Monday adventure-romance wer ADVENTURE with the ship, wrecked Gulliver among the Lilliputians—25,000 of them! MEET the grandest cartoon characters ever created... laugh at their lovable antics... sing their lyrical songs) THRILL to spectacle unequalled in its lavish splendor—the capture of the giant... Gulliver, single-handed, vanquishing the enemy fleet! HEAR these smash song hits: "Faithful Forever", "Bluebirds in the Moonlight", "It's a Hap- Hap-Happy Day"and five more! }•;.;.; ; , . : . ; , . ; . ; • , ; . ; . [ [. TIGER GEORGIE AULD and his Tenor Sax. He'll bring Artie Shaw's band to the Martin Theatre Sunday night. Two Graduating Vet Seniors Land Jobs Rafe A. Houston of Colquitt, Ga., and Tyler J. Young of Duf-field, Va., both of whom are completing their work in the School of Veterinary Medicine here this semester, have accepted jobs in the field of veterinary medicine. Houston will work with Dr. E. A. Davis of Columbus, Ga., and Young will leave immediately after exams for Silver Spring, Md., where he will be associated with the Ambassador Animal Hospital. Diplomas will be awarded to both at the regular commencement exercises in May. KA's Hold Week-End Of Entertainment Kappa Alpha entertained last week-end with a complete round of festivities capped by its annual formal Saturday night. The week-end of entertainment began on Friday afternoon with a steak fry. Saturday afternoon the chapter held a tea dance at the Student Center, followed by a buffet supper at the chapter house. The formal, held at Graves Center, was attended by several hundred guests and was led by Carrie Atkins of Selma and Marshall Hooper, chapter president. Following the dance, members, pledges, and their dates attended a breakfast at the chapter house. Chaperones were Mrs. M. W. McClendon, housemother, and Mrs. J. H. Martin. Prom Bids N Continued from page 1 South Carolina • Mary Dixon, Columbia; Jane Henderson, Converse College; and Mary Harper of Swansea. Massachusetts Jeanne Barton, Winthrop; Margaret Manfields, Haneshill; and Betty Black of Smith College. Texas Marguerite Manley of Weslaco and Jimmy Lee Barker of Crystal City. Illinois Margaret Kohn of Evanston and Caroline Barfield of Champaign. FOR FRESHER BREAD TRY INGRAM'S BREAD I N G R A M ' S BREAD Once Tasted Never Wasted Ingram's Bakery Opelika In Person! ON OUR STAGE ARTIE SHAW'S FAMOUS ORCHESTRA Under Direction of GEORGIE AULD Featuring KAY FOSTER ON OUR SCREEN "Oh! Johnnie, How You Can Love!" Featuring the Scorch Song of Year 3 COMPLETE STAGE AND SCREEN SHOWS Starting at 2:00, 4:30 and 9:30 P.M. ADMISSION Ba l c ony ,.... 25c Orchestra 4 0 c Sunday, Jan. 21 Martin Theatre The Place To Co DANf F Saturday, Jan. 20 l/MMV»L 9:00 p.m. 'til 1:00 a.m. — 99c Per Person ARTIE SHAW'S FAMOUS ORCHESTRA Idle Hour Park PHENIX CITY 2 Miles on Summerville Road Tennessee Lorraine Guinn and M a ry Garth, both of Knoxville. Other out-of-state girls to receive bids are Henrietta Reeves, Gulf port, Miss.; Catherine Ogin, Wopwolloper, Pa.; Sarah Atkinson, Baltimore; Md.; Verna Pitts, New London, Conn.; Bernice Ham-mett, Columbia, Mo.; Doris Wohl, Madison, Wis.; Martha Sue Foy, Paducah, Ky.; Norma Sakes, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa; Mrs. Leah Franklin, Cam-den, N. J.; Margie Miller, Detroit, Mich. Girls to whom bids were mailed out Tuesday night included the following Auburn girls: Jonnielyn Campbell, Frances Plaxco, Elizabeth Leyden, Jule Tisdale, Emma Nell Parrish, Gene Scott, Sadie Edwards, Suzelle Hare, Elaine Freeman, Margaret Lindon, Annice Watkins, Margaret Fletcher. Helena Miller, Billie Hightower, Frances d'Orsay, Mary Ellen Bag-by, Dorothy Benbow, Lydia Stanford, Jean Williams, Winifred Heidenreich, Deloris S a n d e r s , Emily Hixon, Eloise Williams, Annie Lyde Lewis, and Phyllis Gal-vin. From the University of Alabama are: Lulie Bartee, Martha Binion, Marguerite Newton, Frances Brown, Margaret Throckmorton, Faye Stapleton, Mary Dannel-ly, and Mary Lee Davidson. Other girls in the second group are Virginia Long, Birmingham; Nancy Burgett, Mobile; Julia Reid, Birmingham; Hazel Meadors, Birmingham; 'Jensie Turner, Converse College; Lillie Wood, Huntingdon; Ruth Scanlon, Tallahassee, Fla., Mr. and I Mrs. Terry Mosley, Maryville, Tenn.; Ruth Marion Payson, Whitinsville, Mass. Frances Smith, Montgomery; Julia Ridley, University of South Carolina; Juanita Bedgood, Montgomery; Brownie Davis, FSCW; Jane Berry, Rome, Ga.; Martha Woodruff, Anniston; Mary Chapman, Montgomery; Dorothy Ann Campbell, Oxford, Miss.; Ruth Thompson, Dadeville; Ellen Powers, Augusta, Ga. Jackie Morgan, Gulf port, Miss.; Ida Pease, Columbus; Edris Dona-van, Selma; Inez Huggins, Montgomery; Mary Ware, Alabama College; Lucile Rutland, Huntingdon; Nell Robinson, Huntingdon; Mary Joe Chingumano, Bessemer; Martha Louise Clark, Mobile; Mary Kate Boswell, Randolph-Macon; Nancy Turner, Montgomery; Ceil Nuchols, Winston Salem, N. C; Elvie Scarbrough, Columbus; Phyllis K. Noel, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Annette Lee, Montgomery; Virginia Long, Birmingham. Helen Johnson, University of Kansas; Florita Davis, New York City; Barbara Beeland, Randolph- Macon; Jeanie Anderson, Clayton; Carleton Sterne, Nashville, Tenn.; Betty Jane O'Guinn, Montgomery; Winifred Smith, Jacksonville; Marjorie Gregary, Shorter College; Raye Cohn, St. Petersburg, Fla.; Eloise Neville, Mobile. Beverly-Ann Gordy, Columbus, Ga.; Dorothy Berman, Birmingham; Betty Mead, Montgomery; Totsia Bellapania, McComb, Miss.; Mildred McCorstin, Birmingham; Yvonne Soloman, Columbus, Miss.; Mrs. R. S. Hunt, Jr., Columbiana; Ruth Butler, Huntsville; Mary Gay Blau, LSU; Pattie Campbell, Mobile. Dorothy Lancaster, Birmingham; Jean Hoffman, Birmingham; Kathleen Crossley, Opelika; Mary Howey, FSCW; Charlotte Petree, Montgomery; Isabelle Stowers, Montgomery; Frances Hug, University of Georgia; Dot Ruttman, Foley; Jean Freisleben, University of Georgia; Betty Shelby, Union Springs; Marjorie Sheppard, University of Georgia; Dorothy Bird, State Teachers College; Jensie Turner, Converse College; Joyce Wohl, Decatur; Evelyn Costine, Lakeland, Fla. (Continued next issue) For more pleasure at the movies see Paramount'* Feature Attraction THE GREAT VICTOR HERBERT starring ALLAN JONES and MARY MARTIN For more smoking pleasure enjoy CHESTERFIELD'S Feature Attractions ...REAL MILDNESS and BETTER TASTE. ALLAN JONES Mildness and Better Taste are Chesterfield's Feature Attractions the Right Combination of the world's best cigarette tobaccos in Chesterfield gives you two features you can get in no other cigarette... Real Mildness and Better Taste. On top of that, Chesterfield gives you a far cooler smoke. You can't buy a better cigarette. MARY MARTIN Copyright 1940. LIGGETT & MYERS TOBACCO CO
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Title | 1940-01-19 The Auburn Plainsman |
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OCR Transcript | Next Issue, Jan. 26 THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN Hoard Those Absences VOL. LXIII z-i ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, JANUARY 19, 1940 No. 33 EDDY DUCHIN, "the magic fingers of radio", who will bring his band to Auburn for four of the dances of the Junior Prom next week. Committee Issues More Prom Invites Total is 355; Bid Boxes Collected The Social Committe mailed out 138 more Junior Prom invitation Tuesday night to raise to 355 the total number of girls invited to attend Auburn's biggest social affair next week. Remainder of the group of invitations sent out Sunday, as continued from Tuesday's Plainsman included bids to: From miscellaneous towns in Alabama are: Mary Hackney, Mary Hall, and Ann Tatum, Opelika; Margaret Fraley and Helen Ham-by, Fairfax; Jane Billingsley and Gail Sandberg, Gadsden; Bessie Wright and Martha Young, Fairfield; Marjorie Miller and Lloyd Pierce, Selma; Caroline Acree and Jerry Morgan, Dothan; Martha Blake, Sheffield. Dorothy Jilek, Marbury; Willie Theman, Lanett; Elizabeth Clop-ton, Scottsboro; Sara Walker, Jasper; Sara Pride, Huntsville; Erin Douglas, Leighton; Mary Patterson, Waverly; Margaret Mitchell, Bessemer; Annie Folmar, Troy; Cecil Lightfoot, Alex City; Mayme Bennett, Fairhope; Mary Hornsby, Ozark; Woodrow Kill-goe, Linden; Elizabeth Bright, Andalusia; Alice Fulford, Athens; Laura Serritt, Florence. Georgia Sara Jordan, Polly Rushton, Louella Stone, and Louise Woodward of Atlanta; Betty Henderson, Eloise Lennard, Katherine Wilkinson, and Evelyn Baty of Agnes Scott; Dot Bailey of Athens; Mayme Sheppard and Graham Wright of University of Georgia; Anne Wright, of Shorter College; Virginia Hershberg, Annie Brooks, Beuna Vista; Chick Stokes, Eleanor Key, Columbus; Martha Black-well, Savannah; Jane Kay, Albany; Evelyn Priester, Forsyth; Margaret Cook, Dawson; Jessie Pierce, Ft. Benning; Elsie Mann, Concord; Lavonia Cranford, New-nan. Florida Elizabeth Greene and Eleanor Webb, St. Petersburg; Midge Scott, Margaret Vogt, FSCW; Margie Oxford, Lakeland; Lynn Kanner, Palatka; Sophie Spivak, Jacksonville; Mary Riley, Pensa-cola. Virginia Louise Stumberg, Sara Crock-ette, of Hollins College; Martha Smith, Randolph-Macon College; Josepaul Easterling, Richmond; Catherine Carpenter, Lynchburg; Ruth LaMarr, Hernden; Jean Thompson, Fredericksburg. Louisiana Frances Galloway, New Orleans; June Mitchell, Ruston; and Mary Moore, Earlyne Seals, and Carroll Reiley of LSU. North Carolina Mary Clinard, University of North Carolina; Mary Dell, Duke; Norma Garland, Rocky Mount; Ann Fox, Womans College; and Jeane Hoyle, Charlotte. New York Patricia Donevan and Ann Berg-er, Brooklyn; Louella Haselton, Jamaica; Eula Semple, New York City; Judy Helmick, Skidmore College. California Lana Turner, Judy Garland, and Margaret Early of Hollywood; Helen Herrick of Long Beach. Continued on page 4 BEHIND THE HEADLINES rr a r • t in student responsibility" is what All tXPCrimCni Executive Secretary Ralph Draughon calls the new absence rule as he issues explanatory regulations on it. See column 6 CL I in t n e k n e e s Dut naPPy a r e t n e seven CAA JMOKy students who have made their solo flights after eight or more hours of dual instruction. Bobby Nester was the first. See column 5 It' H "LI that ' • P - Streetman, influenza-stricken it S I OSSIDIC forward will be in the line-up when Auburn plays Vanderbilt tomorrow night at 7:30. See page 3 TL C\ f*\ U an(* D r " L - *** D u n c a n a r e Auburn's 1116 UICG v l U D representatives on the Alabama "Symphony of the South" program over CBS tomorrow night at 9:30 to 10:00. • See column 5 /* i l l will not leave Auburn. The rumors of VOQCM JUlUUl the popular mentor's departure are quieted by Coach "Jenks" Gillem acceptance of the Se-wanee head coaching position. See page 3 Cabinet To Have Office Next Term Other Changes Slated For Student Center The Executive Cabinet will maintain an office in the Student Center during the second semester, Cabinet officers said yesterday, as soon as a few scheduled changes are made in the Center. A radiator is to be installed in the room occupied by the YMCA, and Mrs. Rena Jolly, Center hostess, will move her office there. Mrs. Jolly's present headquarters will then be turned over to the Cabinet. At one time Mrs. Jolly's present office was the headquarters of the Cabinet, but for the past few years it has maintained no office of its own, meeting instead in the President's office. In addition the Center floors are to be redone, the walls and workwork repainted, furniture repaired, and drapes and furniture covers cleaned. Vets Elect New AVMA Officials George Long and Cary Carlton Chosen Heads The local student chapter of the American Veterinary Medical Association elected George Long of Foley, president and Cary Carlton of Arcadia, Fla., vice-president, at its last meeting of the semester. Both Long and Carlton are seniors and will graduate in May. Beginning next year, or perhaps later this year, the organization will function under a new set-up in which the activities of all student chapters will be more closely unified. The senior association recently issued a new constitution and bylaws under which all student chapters will operate. Each chapter will direct its business to suit its own conditions, but only under guidance of the official constitution and by-laws. The election clauses of the new document provide that all officers be elected for one collegiate year, and the election to be held late next semester will be governed thereby. The senior association has also adopted an official key and diploma for senior members of the student chapters. Several of the new keys have already been purchased locally. The local organization was organized about 1907 under the name of the Auburn Veterinary Medical Association. It became affiliated with the American Veterinary Medical Association in 1932 and became known as the Junior AVMA, but it continued to operate under its own constitution and by-laws. Eight Instructors Added to API Staff Eight new members will be added to the Auburn faculty for the second semester. Nearly all of the seven are replacing other faculty members, thereby leaving the to-total of faculty and administrative officers at about 255. Vernon W. Lapp has been employed by the physical education department, which will now offer a major, instead of just a minor, as previously. Francis E. Johnstone, Jr., will replace Keith C. Barron as assistant vegetable breeder in the horticulture department. D. M. Turn-ey will replace N. R. Crawford as instructor in animal husbandry. R. W. Montgomery, teacher of vocational agriculture in the Camp Hill high school for the past year and a half, will come to Auburn as assistant professor of agricultural education. Others are Sam F. Brewster, who resigned as first commissioner of conservation in Tennessee to accept a teaching position here; N. W. Muller, instructor in chemical engineering; Miss Janet Lee, who has already taken her place as head of hall in dormitory number four; and M. W. Williams, instructor in anatomy in the School of Veterinary Medicine. Chairman of the committee which is handling arrangements for Auburn's Roosevelt Birthday Ball on Jan. 30. TAYLOR HEADING BALL COMMITTEE Roosevelt Birthday Fete to be Jan. 30 A u b u r n ' s 1940 President's Birthday Party and Ball will take place Tuesday, Jan. 30, at Bibb Graves Center, Alex O. Taylor, chairman of this year's Ball committee has announced. There will be games of bridge, Chinese checkers, and similar amusements this year in addition to the dance, the games beginning at 8:30 and the dance lasting from 9:30 until 12:30. The Auburn Plainsmen, featuring R o s a 1 y n Shepherd and a 13-piece orchestra, will play. Admission is to be $1.00 per couple for the dance and 25 cents per player for the games. The party is an annual affair, the proceeds to go for the support and medical care of children crippled by infantile paralysis. FIFTY-ONE TO GRADUATE AT CLOSE OF TERM Fifty-one Auburn students are candidates for undergraduate and graduate degrees at the close of the first semester session, according to a list released today by the registrar's office. Degrees will be awarded these students at the regular commencement exercises in May. Graduates in the School of Agriculture include Robert P. Armstrong, Jr., Terrell F. Cannon, W. Woodrow Chestnut, Bernard M. Crow, Wendell Wade Crowder, Leo Bryant Hollinger, C. L. Hol-lingsworth, William Drew Mims, George Wendell Pruett, Francis Baker Riddle, William Temple Seibels, Charles Chan Vickery. School of Education graduates, including students enrolled in education, agricultural education, and home economics education, are Robert C. Bamberg, George Stuart Butler, Marilyn Belcher, William Howard Dudley, Oliver Boyd Gowder, Sidney Lanier Griffin, Irby E. Hammonds, Sarah Speake Hardwick, Milton L. Howell, Bellaire Krudop, Samuel Perry McClendon, James Henry McRae, Robert Presley Robbins, J. P. Streetman, Jr., Orrin Taliaferro, Dora A. Traylor, Wallace T. Vernon, Ward Wagnon, John In-man Warner, Jr., Anne Whatley, Malcolm Ellis Wilson, Mary Evelyn Yates. Three students are graduating from the School of Engineering, G. W. Cantrell in textile engineering, Eugene Morelli in mechanical engineering, and Hubert Wiley Stone in electrical engineering. Augustus Gaines Williams, Jr., is the sole student graduating in pharmacy. Graduates in the School of Science and Literature are Lawrence F. Aycock, Herbert T. Hinz, George Vernon Kenmore, Willmar Patrick Locke, James Norton Mc- Nutt, Charles Benedict O'Reilly, Jr., Louise Christine Simms. T. Upton Cleary and Tyler Jennings Young are candidates for the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. Students expecting to receive advanced degrees include James Barnard, John E. Davis, Jr., B. G. Nelson, Pearl Grace Stroud. Administration Clarifies New Class Attendance Regulations Duncan And Glee Club To Appear On CBS Program They Will Represent API on "Symphony of South" Broadcast Dr. L. N. Duncan will speak and the Auburn Glee Club will present a 10-minute program when Alabama celebrates its 120th anniversary of statehood with a giant program and a 30-minute nation-wide broadcast over CBS tomorrow night. The program is entitled~"A Symphony of the New South" and will be broadcast from 9:30 to 10:00, CST over CBS. Gov. Frank M. Dixon will be the featured speaker and will serve as master of ceremonies on the preliminary program, which will be held in the Municipal Auditorium in Birmingham and will begin at 7:30. Other musical organizations participating include the Birmingham Civic Symphony Orchestra of 76 musicians, led by Dorsey Whit-tingdon, and the Tuskegee Institute Choir of 100. voices, directed by W. E. Dawson, famous Negro composer. The Glee Clubs from the University of Alabama and Montevallo will also sing. Other speakers include Dr. Richard Foster, president of the University of Alabama; Dr. A. F. Harmon, president of Alabama College at Montevallo; and Dr. F. D. Patterson, president of Tuskegee Institute. Benjamin Russell of Alexander City, president of the Alabama State Chamber of Commerce will introduce Gov. Dixon. All stations in Alabama will cut in on the program at 9:00 and will carry the broadcast for one hour, including the nation-wide broadcast at 9:30. Draughon Emphasizes that New Rule is "Experiment in Student Responsibility" With a series of regulations issued yesterday the President's Office clarified the new absence rule passed Jan. 9 by the Executive Council to go into effect the second semester. When he issued the explanatory regulations Ralph Draughon, executive secretary, emphasized that the new absence rule is an experiment in student responsibility. "The manner in which students use cuts will determine whether the rule is retained and ~"—"""—""~""•""•"""•"•""—"""'—'^~~ Seven CAA Students Make Solo Flights Seven of-Auburn's 20 CAA students made their solo flights this week, winning their wings under the federal government's flying training program here. All of them were aeronautical engineering students. Bobby Nester, junior, was the first. He took off alone Tuesday morning with eight hours dual flying time behind him. Wednesday, R. B. Allen, sophomore, and R. N. Campbell, junior, made their initial flights alone. W. W. Wyatt, junior', J. C. Mc- Culloch, senior, and J. H. Harper, senior, soloed Thursday. In obedience with CAA regulations a student must have completed at least eight hours of dual flying before he can make his solo flight. whether other responsibilities are given them as well," he pointed out. His recommendation was that students not absent themselves from class for no reason but husband their number of cuts, saving them for emergencies. The original rule provided that each student is allowed a quota of cuts for each course amounting to twice the number of credit hours in that course. When the student exceeds his quota in any course he is automatically dropped with a zero. When a student is dropped for excessive absences from courses aggregating more than 40 per cent of the hours for which he is registered, he is dropped from college for the duration of the semester. The rule also provided for a dean's list of the upper five per cent of the enrollment in each school, those on the list to have unlimited cut privileges. The Explanatory Regulations The clarifying rulings, as issued by the administration are as follows: 1. All absences acquired by members of student organizations in the conduct of student activities shall be charged against the allowed quota of the individual student absenting himself from classes. This applies to Student Executive Cabinet, Interfraterni-ty Council, Women's Student Government, Student Social Committee, all initiations of honorary or other clubs or societies, all conventions whether fraternal, religious, professional or otherwise. 2. Occasions requiring student representatives, such as funerals, weddings, dedications, or other ceremonies resulting in absences from classes, shall in each case be charged against the allowed quota of each student so participating. Students attending such ceremonies shall be selected from those having unexpended privileges. 3. Absences on college business shall not be charged against the quota. This applies to inspection trips, field trips, official athletic team trips as scheduled in advance, practice teaching. 4. Absences incurred as the result of special requests from parents shall be charged against the allowed quota of the individual student. Special requests from parents shall be discouraged, and granted only when the reasons given are such as to satisfy college authorities that an emergency exists. In any case, all such requests shall be made in advance, and granted only after full consideration. Special requests coming after absences have been incurred shall be denied. 5. When a student has been dropped from a course for exceeding his quota he shall not be reinstated except upon evidence of illness involving treatment in the College Infirmary, or unquestionable evidence of similar confinement under care of a physician, if away from Auburn. Such evidence to be from the physician treating the student and to give information both as to the diagnosis and the treatment. 6. When a student has suffered an injury of such nature as to prevent him from attending classes in which physical exercise is required but which would not bar his attendance upon routine lecture and laboratory classes, the College Medical Officer may excuse him from such classes, and the absences so incurred shall not be charged against the quota, PROVIDED, that to be excused from MILITARY CLASSES un-this rule, the student shall report to the Military Office in uniform prior to 10:30 a.m. of drill day. Upon satisfaction of the military authorities the student will take a card from the Military Office to the College Medical Officer for excuse from drill. Where the injury is such that absence for a period of days from drill or riding classes is required, the College Medical Officer will excuse for the period estimated required for recovery. At the end of the period, the student will report again to the Medical Officer if the recovery is not sufficient for resumption of drill or riding classes. 7. Any absence not in the purview of the above rules and regulations shall be considered as a special case, and shall be investigated by the Executive Secretary for men, and the Director of Women Students for women, who will recommend to the Executive Council for final decision. Staff Photo by Lewis Arnold The administrative officers and participating students of the Civil Aeronautics Authority flying program at Auburn. Front row, left to right, Bobby Nester, Robert S. Carstens, Bobby Jack Champman, Alex McKenzie, W. W. Wyatt, Marshall Hooper, Charles L. Davis, Hugh Grundman. Second row, Rollins Ald-ridge, R. N. Campbell, James Harold Harper, Oliver P. Board, R. M. Stewart, Bill Carroll, R. G. Campbell, Edwin C. Allen, E. R. Callaway, Carlyle McCulloch, Boiling H. Rawlinson. Third row, J. B. Atkinson, co-owner of the Alabama Air Service, which is handling instruction; L't. B. M. Cornell, head of the department of aeronautical engineering, J. K. Ashley, of Alabama Air Service; Wren Allen, instructor and co-owner of Alabama Air Service; Jimmy Brennan, instructor; Prof. Robert G. Pitts of the aeronautical engineering department. Page Two T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN January 19, 1940 The Auburn Plainsman Published Semi-Weekly by the Students of The Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Ala. Editorial and business offices on Tiche-nor Avenue. Phone 448. Editor may be reached after office hours by calling 169-W. John Godbold Editor Robert H. Armstrong __ Business Mgr. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates by mail: $2.50 per year, $1.50 per semester. Member Pissocided Golleeiate Press Distributor of Golle6iateDi6est EDITORIAL STAFF EDITORIAL BOARD John Ivey, Jr. Dan Hollis Bob Anderson Herbert Martin Boots Stratford Sports Editor Emma Nell Parrish Society Editor Lewis Arnold Staff Photographer NEWS STAFF Holdman W. Baker George Heard C. J. Bastien Park Holland Rene Bidez Art Jones Betty Belle Brandt Bobby McKnight Donald Brewer Sumner Nesbitt Billy Ryan Redding Sugg Bob Chisholm Claudia Weinmann Bob Foster J. H. Wheeler Willard Hayes Merle Woodard BUSINESS STAFF Frank Wilson Asst. Bus. Mgr. Martin Wender Asst. Bus. Mgr. W. G. Darty Office Mgr. Richard Shepard Asst. Office Mgr. Vernon Morgan J Layout Mgr. Johnston Hawkins Advertising Mgr. Joe Gandy Asst. Adv. Mgr. Jimmy Rouse Adv. Asst. Leonard DeLoach Adv. Asst. Lewis Burton Adv. Asst. Walter Going Circulation Mgr. Roy Isbell Circulation Asst. Joe Reed Circulation Asst. Don Hopton-Jones Circulation Asst. Nobody's Fooling This Time THE ADMINISTRATION means business with this new absence rule. Two years ago officials were forced by unprecedented laxness in class attendance to impose the rigid "two point" rule, something they had no more stomach for than did we. This year the students insisted that they'd like another trial, that they could be adults about going to classes. The administration swallowed its doubt, licked its fingers — burned by past experience-—and decided to give us a chance. Once the decision was made they went far more than half way by giving us a system that's very liberal, but they refused to make it unconditional; sagely, they put us on trial for one semester to see if we will observe their brainchild. This time no person will be pampered or nursed along, as students frequently were under the old "20 per cent" rule. If you go over your quota of unexcused absences, out of the class you'll go with a cold zero. If you are dropped for absences from a certain per cent of your total hours, home you'll go with your bags packed. When you begin your tale of explanation and woe and your parents begin their tearful appeals for reinstatement, you'll all find some surprisingly deaf ears over in Samford Hall. We asked for a rule based on the assumption that we were mature enough to be discreet. Now we have exactly what we requested. Those of us who don't live up to it will be- bitterly disappointed to find that there are no exceptions and no special cases. Debts To Society And Their Payment OCCASIONALLY, at least far too frequently, one picks up a newspaper to read of a "highly respected citizen" of some town being identified as an escaped convict and returned to prison to serve the duration of his term. The entire philosophy of imprisonment is involved in any attempt at impartial judgment of such a case. Is the sentence for a convicted criminal for the purpose of punishing him or is it to rehabilitate him? If punishment is the objective, then there is justice in making him take his medicine. But if the motivating idea is rehabilitation, then a case like this is controversial to justice. Assuming that the term "highly respected citizen" is genuine, sending the offender back to prison is contrary to the original purpose in mind. A man who has broken the law and then made himself a man a-gain needs no more of the "rehabilitation" of a prison. There is something basically wrong with a philosophy of protection for society that can send back to prison to rub elbows with criminals a man who has thrown aside his-anti- social tendencies. He owes no "debt to society." His debt has been paid when he made himself into an honest man. The Paper War WHENEVER THE newspapers keep telling us over and over what we want to hear, we begin to wonder and then to question, and in the case of the Russo-Fin-nish War we are beginning to question. It is all very nice to believe in the strength of the case of virtue, but in war the value of virtue at the front is zero. This incessant talk of the victory of the Finnish forces everywhere and all of the time over incredible odds is beginning to wear down even our inherent gullibility, and a thing or two has recently seeped through in the news that gives some support to our incredulity. First of all, the fact that the Russians slipped when they chose this season for the war is questionable, as evidenced by the statements of authorities who say that this is the only season during which the war could be fought in that region, because the land is so low and swampy. (There are 7,000 lakes in and a-round the region of the Manner-heim Line.) It is held that war with modern equipment a n d methods would be impossible in any season in which the water is not frozen over. With a little calm thought, if the above reports are true, it is not only incredible but impossible that those in authority would make many of the mistakes attributed to them by our news reports, which are probably one-sided. Another thing, the report that the Russian fighting troops are ill-equipped and even without gloves is almost unbelievably crude when one knows that the troops in and around Moscow, 300 miles south of the front, are well equipped for the Season. Finally, the fact that it is reported that our State Department discounts all Finnish reports by 60 per cent before examining them should be enough to make the use of "salt" prevalent with news readers. C.J.B. Anybody who would steal eight bucks' worth of light bulbs off a Christmas tree would take a rattle away from his baby cousin. When is Uncle Samuel going to quit putting nasty tasting stick-um on the back of his postage stamps? Vanilla would be much nicer. Not protesting, just wondering. Everybody who brags about how he has finished studying for exams ought to be tossed out of Samford Hall tower. And no fire net below either. The Plainsman Forum Should Roosevelt Run for a Third Term? Plains Talk By Herbert Martin Kro PROBABLY THE biggest question in the minds of Americans at the present time is not, "Will we go to war?" but, "Will President Roosevelt seek a third term?" Newspapermen and political observers have repeatedly tried to corner Mr. Roosevelt on this question, but so far he has avoided making a public decision. Of course there is always the problem of breaking the age-old precedent established by several of Mr. Roosevelt's predecessors. I do not think, however, that he will let custom stand in his way, if he wishes to run for the presidency again. Apparently the breaking of this precedent is the biggest objection in the minds of the majority of the American people. And so I ask the question, "Why shouldn't Mr. Roosevelt seek a third term?" He is evidently the strongest member of his party, politically speaking. Some people may say, "Why be a 'hog' about it?" That would hardly be a sensible question. This is a democratic country and the people should elect the person they think will best fulfill the duties of political offices. If the people of the United States want to elect Mr. Roosevelt for a third term as president of their country, that is their right and they should do so. Opinion polls have recently shown a decided rise in public third term. The American people realize the critical political situation throughout the world and believe that retaining the same president would give more stability "to the government and help to keep us out of war. This is a democratic country. Why not let it remain so by giving its people an opportunity to vote for whom they please for president of the United States? D.H. Con "WILL I VOTE for Mr. Roosevelt for a third term?" may become an important question of the immediate future, the answer to which, en masse, may decide the entire future of this nation. There is, of course, the important point that the world is now at war and the nation needs an experienced head to guide it on its way, but in this day of dictators there is also the trifling details that there is such a thing as a too experienced head. Mention is made in the "Pro" editorial of the fact that "changing horses in the middle of the stream" is dangerous, but the reply is made that there will always be a "middle of the stream" in political and international problems, and the risk of putting an incapable politician in office is one of the legitimate and unavoidable costs of this form of government we hold to be best. The fact that Mr. Roosevelt refuses to assert himself on the question of a "third term" is laudable in the light that it is an almost invulnerable political weapon in the disorganization of the opposition, but is he just in its use? The longer he withholds this information the less time the voters will have to give to a scanning of the merits of the candidates, and the more likely are the voters to choose an unqualified man. Finally, there is the much depreciated item of precedent involved, and this, in our estimation, is the important point which all voters must consider in the last analysis. Precedent, in this case, may be taken as the "unwritten law" protecting the rights and security of the American people. > Democracies are created, operated, and preserved by apparently unimportant precedents; let no citizen toss them off lightly. C.J.B. 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. WE HATE TO see Karrie mistreated. Somehow, we think that we love her as much as Bergen loves McCarthy or Tom-my his Betty Lou. We may differ and we may have our little spats, but we hate to see anyone else take part in them. Karrie wuz misquoted last issue. Her s t a t e m e n t should have read, "It's great life, if your "don'ts" weaken!" The "s" was left off "don'ts", "' making Karrie sound pretty simple. We feel that she deserves a correction. * * * Guy Lombardo is quoted as attributing his success in picking hit tunes to his having a taste in music on a par with that of the average listener. It's our opinion that he is grossly overestimating his taste in music, and we attribute whatever success he may have gained to nothing but pure blind luck! * * * A DAY IN HER LIFE What has happened before: The gal ate breakfast, ror. . . . She also wished for mir- Letters to the Editor In Defense of the Coed Rules Editor Auburn Plainsman Dear Godbold: In reading The Plainsman Forum tonight, I found the letter written by a person who calls himself "Gallant Tommy O'Leary." To me it seems that he should sign himself "A Moron." For, to my mind, no one but a moron could say the things and make the charges that he made in his letter. I think that I am qualified to give an opinion on the new rules governing the girls in the new dormitories. I have been over at the dormitories every night except about 4 since I came back to Auburn on Jan. 1st. I have no complaint whatsoever to make towards those rules. I think that they are very lenient. What does this "Gallant Tommy O'Leary" want? Even though he may call it old fashioned, the school has to have some rules for the students to live up to to protect itself. Why doesn't he state his objections, instead of just "issuing a mild reproof of the practical jokers" as he calls them. I grant that the rules may be nothing short of an insult to the intellect and judgment of a few of the women students on this campus. But there are some that do need such rules, so the rules are made and all the students have to abide by them. "Gallant Tommy O'Leary," if you have some plausible suggestions, let's have them and no more of this griping. Also please answer this question: "How many parents would allow their daughters to come to Auburn to school if the school did not have these rules?" Or is it your idea to cut out the rules and thereby cut out the girls altogether? A Satisfied Junior. The Squires Protest To Whom It May Concern: The questionable gentlemen who purloined 60 (count 'em) colored light bulbs from the "Christmas Tree" on the "Thumbing Corner" on Friday night, Jan. 5, made a lamentable mistake. The one bulb left on the tree by some dreadful oversight is safe in the hands of the Plainsman. The persons concerned may obtain this other bulb by calling by the Plainsman Office for it at any time. Yours for more honesty on the campus. Squires 7:50 — After-breakfast intermission. Intermission, as usual, is spent in rearranging hair and applying fresh makeup. She is getting pretty good at making up blind by now. Do all girls kiss and then pull out the compact to make up? 8:00—Hastens to campus to see and be seen. Thinks she looks unusually fresh and appealing. Fact is, she probably does. 8:11—Patters breathlessly into class. 8:15 — Cleans fingernails, applies make-up, combs hair, wishes for mirror, goes into trance. 9:00—Awakened by bell, stops to smile at professor. 9:02—Student Center, a mirror at last. 9:11—Patters breathlessly into class. 9:15—Applies make-up, wishes for mirror, goes into trance. 9:59—Is awakened by professor's question. 10:00—Saved by the bell. . . . and so 'til noon. (to be continued) Not exactly new, but . . . And then there was the little duck who was a year and a half old before he found out that his pants were down! * * * For the benefit of those young ladies who may feel that the present rules and regulations are a bit stiff, we would like to mention these rules which prevail at the institution currently showing at Montevallo. We quote verbatim. . . . * * * Referring to conduct on dates . . . ". . . At night students and their dates may traverse the walk in front of Main, in front of Peterson Hall, Hanson Hall, and Ramsay Hall. . . ." Ah, Liberty! Dating privileges . . . "Sophomores and freshmen may have five night dates a month." Definition . . . "Any conversation of more than 20 minutes' length with a young man will be considered a date." Signing for dates . . . "No student who has not signed for a date may spend an entire evening talking to young men who are on the campus." Time limit . . . "At night young men may stay until 9:45 except on Friday and Saturday nights when they may stay until 10:30." Gawsh! * * * We learn that Duchin's first girl vocalist was Dorothy Lamour. It must have been quite a step from a Duchin song stylist to a smoochin' sarong stylist! * * * This isn't strictly original, but we wonder how many girls have lost their sorority pins during this first half-month of leap year? * * * These suggestions may be out of place, but Karrie, the Kampus Kaper Kutter, read these somewhere and would like to pass them on. Conceited little thing that she is, she thinks that they don't apply to her, but we believe that these tips to those who aren't exactly belles of the balls or prom-stoppers were meant for her. The rules can apply to boys at girl-breaks. Auburn girl-breaks are, bless 'em, as scarce as sick excuses will be under the new cut rule. 1. Smile, not for the effect, but mean it. Let that smile say that you're not only having a good time, but a good rush as well. Almost before you realize it, you will. 2. Don't be too sensible when meeting someone. You don't have enough time to impress new men with your wisdom, and they probably wouldn't be interested if you could. Start talking; tell him you didn't understand his name. If it's something simple like Smith or Jones, make him pronounce it several times. Still act puzzled, and make him spell it. 3. Don't gush, and don't try to be another type; capitalize on being the type that you are. 4. Avoid trite remarks such as "How do you like the dance?" and "Isn't the music swell?" We don't know just where Karrie found these jewels of wisdom, but we're fer 'em. The Washington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT s! ALLEN W i t h the Co-OpS—By C. J. Bastien Mitec Club THE MITEC ENGINEERS Club is planning to have a dance some time in the near future. The plans were discussed at the meeting last night, a social committee was appointed, and members with ideas on the subject are asked to make them known at the first opportunity. ' The Executive Cabinet is to meet next Tuesday night to discuss constitutional matters. The Briaerean Society, honor society for Co-ops, at Tech has issued a formal invitation to us to organize a chapter here, and Mr. A. O. Taylor has said that he will call a meeting of those who are eligible some time next week. * * * War The Co-ops will continue to drill through the exam period. For the first time the acting officers have been appointed from among the Co-ops themselves. Freshmen are to join their companies next Thursday and there will be a formal parade and inspection at that time. * * * Notices , All Co-ops interested in debating please get in touch with C. M. Bloom-field as soon as possible. Bloomfield is at last in his proper sphere. We would back Bloomfield with laryngitis in an oratorical contest against Daniel Webster and Demosthenes himself. The Co-op basketball team met last Saturday morning and held a good workout. All who are interested are asked to meet again next Saturday morning in the gym. Alumni Hall It has been heard that Dr. Duncan is in favor of Co-op plans for taking over Alumni Dormitory, and at the present time the details are being examined and worked out by R. B. Draughon, executive secretary, and W. T. Ingram, accountant. The plans are humming a-long nicely, and before long we may all have a home with a pool in the basement and a dining room in the rear. How does that sound? * * * Sick List After seeing the nurses around the new infirmary we are undecided wheth-ed to offer our congratulations to Ben Galloway, who is there with the measles, or to visit him with the hope of catching them. * * * Many a sophomore is groaning under the stupendous load of physics, and one philosophical soul was heard to say that he believed the reason it was taught was to imbue all engineers with an air of humility. * * * Statistic* Of the 30 Co-ops who attended school in September without jobs, Mr. Taylor secured jobs for 23 before the semester was over. More marks in the "good book" for Mr. Taylor. Alabama Natural Gas has agreed to take on two additional Co-ops. We now have a Co-op, Lucius Haney by name, who is alternating with a Tech man on a job at Woodward Iron. Welcome into the fold, Brother Haney. Sistie Dall Coveted Government's White Rats for Diet Experiments; CIO Doesn't Approve of Lewis' Presidential Boom for Burt Wheeler; Hillman, Other Leaders Seek Strong Third- Term Bloc for Roosevelt. WASHINGTON — While her brother "Buzzie" visited the Navy Yard and other manly spots, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt ("Sistie") Dall did her capital sightseeing in places that appeal to the feminine heart. Most important was the Bureau of Home Economics, where her lively and intelligent interest made a hit. Twelve-year-old Sistie was particularly intrigued by the Bureau's dietetic experiments, and was all ears and eyes as Director Louise Stanley showed her several cages of white rats. Dr. Stanley explained that the rats were used in experiments on balanced diets; in fact, that the menus which the Bureau recommends to housewives are based on the results of these rat tests. "How fascinating," exclaimed Sistie. "You know, I'm very much interested in dietetics. I wonder if I might take two of these rats home with me to Seattle to make some experiments." This was a poser for Dr. Stanley. Government property can't be given a-way, also the experiments had reached an important stage and the rats couldn't be spared. But the officials were touched by the little girl's enthusiasm and hated to disappoint her. Finally, Dr. Stanley solved the problem by appealing to Sistie's knowledge of government affairs. "You know there is a lot of red tape about matters like that," she explained, "and it would take some time to get the necessary permission to turn the rats over to you. You can probably get them much quicker from the Washington State University back home." "That's a good idea," replied Sistie. "I'll ask mother to get me some rats when I return home. I know about this government red tape. Terrible, isn't it?" CIO Rift John L. Lewis has the ways all greased for his powerful United Mine Workers to pin a presidential bouquet on Senator Burt Wheeler at their annual convention this month. But that doesn't mean the CIO is going for the Montana Senator. Far from it. Inside fact is that other CIO chieftains disagree with Lewis on Wheeler and are rooting for a Roosevelt third term. Prominent among them is Sidney Hillman, astute head of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and one of the founders of the CIO. A few days after Lewis bestowed his personal blessing on Wheeler, Hillman issued a ringing pronunciamento for Roosevelt, declaring that "as far as our membership is concerned, I am sure we will give the President greater support in 1940 than ever before. On his record he is the safest man not alone for labor but for the country." Similarly, and clearly as a direct answer to Lewis, Branch 1 of the CIO Hosiery Workers launched a "draft Roosevelt" d r i v e in Pennsylvania, stronghold of the miners. Behind Lewis' move is not so much enthusiasm for Wheeler as political strategy. He is convinced that Roosevelt will not run again and that he is quietly laying the groundwork for a compromise candidate, such as Secretary Cordell Hull. Hull is unacceptable to Lewis. Moreover, Lewis wants a voice in the selection of the Democratic standard bearer and he thinks he can put himself in a strong trading position by endorsing Wheeler. Hillman and the other dissenting CIO leaders can't see this reasoning. They hold that, regardless of what the President finally decides about running again, the best way to strengthen his hand in the convention is to build up powerful third-term support. The rift isn't serious, but wide enough at least to preclude any chance of Wheeler getting a blanket CIO endorsement. January 19, 1940 THE A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN Page Three Auburn-Vandy Tangle Here Tomorrow Night Ailing Forward May Be Able to Start Auburn's ailing J. P. Street-man, dismissed from the college infirmary Wednesday after a session with influenza, probably will be able to play against Vander-bilt tomorrow night, the infirmary reported yesterday afternoon. However, there's no doubt that the sparkplug of a forward will not be in top physical condition, if he plays at all. Auburn will miss the dependable service of the fifth highest scorer in the conference, for Streetman has amassed a total of 40 points against SEC competition already. When the Commodores take the floor at 7:30 they will find facing them the usual dependable foursome of Shag Hawkins at center, conference high-scorer Prank Manci at forward, Ray Gibson and Teedy Faulk or Jack Tanner, probably Faulk, at guards. Streetman's relief, whether he starts or not, probably will come from Bob Dickinson and Woodie McNair. Both showed up well against Sewanee. However, Dickinson has the edge in speed and experience. Vandy is bringing to Auburn a team that has played both hot and cold all year. They downed Auburn in a previous encounter 51- 45, but the Tiger squad had not been working together for long at that time, and Coach Jordan's sophomores had not developed as they have now. Coach Buford of the Nashville school will have Pinky Lipscomb at forward, Captain Ross Hanna at center or forward, and Joe Little at guard, all veterans. Lipscomb, reputed to be one of the best courtmen in the Conference was stopped cold Monday night by Gilbert Huffman, sensational Tennessee guard, and he couldn't even score one field goal. The flying forward rimmed 20 points at Auburn's expense in their other engagement of the year, and Auburn will be out to stop him tomorrow night. Coach Dell Morgan's freshmen, "JENKS" CILLEM ACCEPTS VACANT SEWANEE POST J. F. "Jenks" Gillem, head coach at Birmingham - Southern College for 17 years accepted the vacant chief coach's position at Sewanee Tuesday afternoon. His acceptance of the proferred place ended rumors that Coach "Shug" Jordan of Auburn might accept it. Coach Gillem is a Sewanee graduate and made the All-Southern eleven for three straight years while playing there in 1910- 11-12. He is still known as one of the greatest ends in Sewanee history and is one of the best kickers the South ever produced. He also made All-Southern as a pitcher in baseball in 1911 and 1912. Coach Gillem succeeds Harry "Hec" Clark who voluntarily gave up his job there at the end of the past season. The new appointment is not expected to affect the status of Joel Eaves, former Auburn star and now head basketball coach and end coach at the University of the South. upset last Saturday by Opelika High 26-25, will face Maxwell Field in a preliminary game beginning at 6:30. The freshman lineup will probably consist of Monsees, Childrey, Finney, Canzoneri, and Clayton, the leaders in the Opelika High game. Brief Sketches Given of Vanderbilt Players Who Will Appear Here Tomorrow Bob Dickinson Bob is expected to get first call to relieve J. P. Streetman, ailing forward, against Vanderbilt's Commodores tomorrow night. However, Streetman probably will be able to start. S e v e r a l M e m b e r s of S q u a d a r e V e t e r a ns Here are thumbnail sketches of the Gold and Black Cagers from Vanderbilt who invade Alumni Gym tomorrow night for a game with Auburn. Ross Hanna: Captain, serving his third year on the varsity. Usually plays center but can play forward. Pinky Lipscomb: Almost invariably a starter at one of the forward positions. Last year he was the leading Vandy scorer and high man in the Conference. Is co-holder of the one-game scoring record for this year. Shoots better with his left hand than with his right. Regarded as potential Phi Beta Kappa and Bachelor of Ugliness, highest individual honor that can go to a Vandy man. Joe Little: Playing his third year on the varsity. He plays guard with emphasis on the guarding, so he's never a high scorer but usually manages to drop in one or two. Jack Irby: Earned his letter last year as a sophomore. Teams with Little to make up the guard duet. He is generally regarded as the smoothest ball-handler on the squad and is noted for his fancy and unorthodox shots. Sizzling Steaks and Sea Foods are our Specialty Auburn Grille Air-Conditioned DRINK jfyuCmfie A FLAVOR YOU CANT FORGET It Gives A Sandwich A College Education ^Attention ^Patrons THE STAFF OF Rubye's Beauty Salon INVITES YOU TO VISIT THEIR NEWLY MODERNIZED SHOP ON EAST MAGNOLIA NEXT TO WILD BROTHERS. good to get where it i s . .. the drink that people the world over enjoy.. .winter ...summer...every day in the year. Its clean, exhilarating taste brings a happy after-sense of complete refreshment that everybody welcomes. THE PAUSE THAT R E FK* Bottled under authority of The Coca-Cola Co. by OPELIKA COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY, Inc. 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Takes his playing seriously and is good at making follow-ups under the basket. Johnny Hyden: A sophomore with plenty of speed. His best and his favorite shot is a long one from a far-off corner. He is a forward. Poyner Thweatt: Relief man at the center position for Captain Hanna. A sophomore, he is particularly adept at recovering shots under both baskets. LOST—1 pair yellow gold frame glasses, tinted lens. Lost between Toomer's Drug & Kurtecy Sandwich Shop Monday morning. Finder return to Kurtecy Sandwich Shop and receive reward. ROOM FOR RENT — Room for one boy available Jan. 25. Gas heat. Price $7.50. Can be seen after 6 o'clock. 322 N. Gay. We buy men's second- hand Clothing and Shoes. Jake's Place 123 So. 9th Street Opelika, Alabama Jewelled formals sparkled with sequins are the kind of evening dresses that make social events a success. K A Y S E R - L I L I E N T H A L , I n c. The Shop of Original Styles BROAD STREET COLUMBUS, GA. 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He left home and went to the nearby city to work in a drug store for money to further his singing career. The store where he worked was next to one of the big theatres where Ben Bernie was playing with a vaudeville unit. Bernie was using local tal- BOB ALLEN ent in his show and one of his girl singers was a friend of Bob. His girl friend persuaded him to go back stage and meet "the old maestro." He went, so scared he didn't think he could sing, but Bernie pushed him out on the stage, and he came through with flying colors. With encouragement from Bernie he went to Chicago, after obtaining a leave of absence from the drug store where he worked. However when he left for Chicago he was still so uncertain about his success that he bought a round-trip ticket. When he arrived he obtained an audition at Station WBBM and was later sent to the Blackhawk Restaurant to sing for Hal Kemp and his orchestra. He has been singing with Kemp ever since that time. As a souvenier he still retains that return half of the ticket to Chicago. "HAVE Cable bungalow piano, ex- ' cellent condition. Will sacrifice this piano at a real bargain price. Write to S. E. Pace, P. O. Box 549, Montgomery, Ala." REWARD — LOST, Airedale Terrier, named Russ. Reward $4.00. Call 123-M. Well Kept Shoes are Essential to to Popularity! "Riteway is Our Way" "FOR NEW SERVICE" We Call for and Deliver RITEWAY SHOE SHOP Phone 35 Flowers For All Occasions • King's Flower Shop PHONE 61.1 Barbecue 10c PHONE 9119 For Speedy Delivery KURTECY Sandwich Shop "Pleasing You is Our Pleasure" 'GULLIVER' TO COME TO TIGER THEATRE SUNDAY After two years of work by some two hundred artists and the expenditure of more money than it is good taste to mention, "Gulliver's Travels," Max Fleischer's full-length animated cartoon in Technicolor reaches the screen! Scheduled for Sunday and Monday at the Tiger Theatre, "Gulliver" is the first picture of this kind to be produced since Walt Disney's "Snow White" of two seasons ago and the first ever to issue from Para-mount's studios. "Gulliver's Travels" comes from Jonathan Swift's immortal classic of the same name which, since its first appearance two centuries ago, has been read by countless millions of children and adults alike and been translated into virtually every language on earth. The picture opens with "Gulliver's" shipwreck on the shores of "Lilliput," a fantastic wonderland "somewhere in the South Seas," where the tallest inhabitant measures up to a man's boot and the highest building could be hidden behind a barrel. In spite of their size, the "Lilliputians" tie up the immense visitor while he is sleeping, and he awakes to find himself their prisoner. "Gulliver's" adventures crowd thick and fast when, after superhuman effort, the "Lilliputians" drag him to their capital city on a flat car. At first regarded as a menace, "Gulliver" turns into a national hero through his amazing feats of strength and soon becomes chief aide to "King Little," the ruler of the bantam kingdom. Notice Permits for the new Social Dance Class for men and women will be given Tuesday night, Jan. 30, and Thursday night Feb. 1, at 7:00 o'clock at Student Center. George Washington University will soon begin the construction of a million dollar auditorium. Sunday-Monday adventure-romance wer ADVENTURE with the ship, wrecked Gulliver among the Lilliputians—25,000 of them! MEET the grandest cartoon characters ever created... laugh at their lovable antics... sing their lyrical songs) THRILL to spectacle unequalled in its lavish splendor—the capture of the giant... Gulliver, single-handed, vanquishing the enemy fleet! HEAR these smash song hits: "Faithful Forever", "Bluebirds in the Moonlight", "It's a Hap- Hap-Happy Day"and five more! }•;.;.; ; , . : . ; , . ; . ; • , ; . ; . [ [. TIGER GEORGIE AULD and his Tenor Sax. He'll bring Artie Shaw's band to the Martin Theatre Sunday night. Two Graduating Vet Seniors Land Jobs Rafe A. Houston of Colquitt, Ga., and Tyler J. Young of Duf-field, Va., both of whom are completing their work in the School of Veterinary Medicine here this semester, have accepted jobs in the field of veterinary medicine. Houston will work with Dr. E. A. Davis of Columbus, Ga., and Young will leave immediately after exams for Silver Spring, Md., where he will be associated with the Ambassador Animal Hospital. Diplomas will be awarded to both at the regular commencement exercises in May. KA's Hold Week-End Of Entertainment Kappa Alpha entertained last week-end with a complete round of festivities capped by its annual formal Saturday night. The week-end of entertainment began on Friday afternoon with a steak fry. Saturday afternoon the chapter held a tea dance at the Student Center, followed by a buffet supper at the chapter house. The formal, held at Graves Center, was attended by several hundred guests and was led by Carrie Atkins of Selma and Marshall Hooper, chapter president. Following the dance, members, pledges, and their dates attended a breakfast at the chapter house. Chaperones were Mrs. M. W. McClendon, housemother, and Mrs. J. H. Martin. Prom Bids N Continued from page 1 South Carolina • Mary Dixon, Columbia; Jane Henderson, Converse College; and Mary Harper of Swansea. Massachusetts Jeanne Barton, Winthrop; Margaret Manfields, Haneshill; and Betty Black of Smith College. Texas Marguerite Manley of Weslaco and Jimmy Lee Barker of Crystal City. Illinois Margaret Kohn of Evanston and Caroline Barfield of Champaign. FOR FRESHER BREAD TRY INGRAM'S BREAD I N G R A M ' S BREAD Once Tasted Never Wasted Ingram's Bakery Opelika In Person! ON OUR STAGE ARTIE SHAW'S FAMOUS ORCHESTRA Under Direction of GEORGIE AULD Featuring KAY FOSTER ON OUR SCREEN "Oh! Johnnie, How You Can Love!" Featuring the Scorch Song of Year 3 COMPLETE STAGE AND SCREEN SHOWS Starting at 2:00, 4:30 and 9:30 P.M. ADMISSION Ba l c ony ,.... 25c Orchestra 4 0 c Sunday, Jan. 21 Martin Theatre The Place To Co DANf F Saturday, Jan. 20 l/MMV»L 9:00 p.m. 'til 1:00 a.m. — 99c Per Person ARTIE SHAW'S FAMOUS ORCHESTRA Idle Hour Park PHENIX CITY 2 Miles on Summerville Road Tennessee Lorraine Guinn and M a ry Garth, both of Knoxville. Other out-of-state girls to receive bids are Henrietta Reeves, Gulf port, Miss.; Catherine Ogin, Wopwolloper, Pa.; Sarah Atkinson, Baltimore; Md.; Verna Pitts, New London, Conn.; Bernice Ham-mett, Columbia, Mo.; Doris Wohl, Madison, Wis.; Martha Sue Foy, Paducah, Ky.; Norma Sakes, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa; Mrs. Leah Franklin, Cam-den, N. J.; Margie Miller, Detroit, Mich. Girls to whom bids were mailed out Tuesday night included the following Auburn girls: Jonnielyn Campbell, Frances Plaxco, Elizabeth Leyden, Jule Tisdale, Emma Nell Parrish, Gene Scott, Sadie Edwards, Suzelle Hare, Elaine Freeman, Margaret Lindon, Annice Watkins, Margaret Fletcher. Helena Miller, Billie Hightower, Frances d'Orsay, Mary Ellen Bag-by, Dorothy Benbow, Lydia Stanford, Jean Williams, Winifred Heidenreich, Deloris S a n d e r s , Emily Hixon, Eloise Williams, Annie Lyde Lewis, and Phyllis Gal-vin. From the University of Alabama are: Lulie Bartee, Martha Binion, Marguerite Newton, Frances Brown, Margaret Throckmorton, Faye Stapleton, Mary Dannel-ly, and Mary Lee Davidson. Other girls in the second group are Virginia Long, Birmingham; Nancy Burgett, Mobile; Julia Reid, Birmingham; Hazel Meadors, Birmingham; 'Jensie Turner, Converse College; Lillie Wood, Huntingdon; Ruth Scanlon, Tallahassee, Fla., Mr. and I Mrs. Terry Mosley, Maryville, Tenn.; Ruth Marion Payson, Whitinsville, Mass. Frances Smith, Montgomery; Julia Ridley, University of South Carolina; Juanita Bedgood, Montgomery; Brownie Davis, FSCW; Jane Berry, Rome, Ga.; Martha Woodruff, Anniston; Mary Chapman, Montgomery; Dorothy Ann Campbell, Oxford, Miss.; Ruth Thompson, Dadeville; Ellen Powers, Augusta, Ga. Jackie Morgan, Gulf port, Miss.; Ida Pease, Columbus; Edris Dona-van, Selma; Inez Huggins, Montgomery; Mary Ware, Alabama College; Lucile Rutland, Huntingdon; Nell Robinson, Huntingdon; Mary Joe Chingumano, Bessemer; Martha Louise Clark, Mobile; Mary Kate Boswell, Randolph-Macon; Nancy Turner, Montgomery; Ceil Nuchols, Winston Salem, N. C; Elvie Scarbrough, Columbus; Phyllis K. Noel, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Annette Lee, Montgomery; Virginia Long, Birmingham. Helen Johnson, University of Kansas; Florita Davis, New York City; Barbara Beeland, Randolph- Macon; Jeanie Anderson, Clayton; Carleton Sterne, Nashville, Tenn.; Betty Jane O'Guinn, Montgomery; Winifred Smith, Jacksonville; Marjorie Gregary, Shorter College; Raye Cohn, St. Petersburg, Fla.; Eloise Neville, Mobile. Beverly-Ann Gordy, Columbus, Ga.; Dorothy Berman, Birmingham; Betty Mead, Montgomery; Totsia Bellapania, McComb, Miss.; Mildred McCorstin, Birmingham; Yvonne Soloman, Columbus, Miss.; Mrs. R. S. Hunt, Jr., Columbiana; Ruth Butler, Huntsville; Mary Gay Blau, LSU; Pattie Campbell, Mobile. Dorothy Lancaster, Birmingham; Jean Hoffman, Birmingham; Kathleen Crossley, Opelika; Mary Howey, FSCW; Charlotte Petree, Montgomery; Isabelle Stowers, Montgomery; Frances Hug, University of Georgia; Dot Ruttman, Foley; Jean Freisleben, University of Georgia; Betty Shelby, Union Springs; Marjorie Sheppard, University of Georgia; Dorothy Bird, State Teachers College; Jensie Turner, Converse College; Joyce Wohl, Decatur; Evelyn Costine, Lakeland, Fla. (Continued next issue) For more pleasure at the movies see Paramount'* Feature Attraction THE GREAT VICTOR HERBERT starring ALLAN JONES and MARY MARTIN For more smoking pleasure enjoy CHESTERFIELD'S Feature Attractions ...REAL MILDNESS and BETTER TASTE. ALLAN JONES Mildness and Better Taste are Chesterfield's Feature Attractions the Right Combination of the world's best cigarette tobaccos in Chesterfield gives you two features you can get in no other cigarette... Real Mildness and Better Taste. On top of that, Chesterfield gives you a far cooler smoke. You can't buy a better cigarette. MARY MARTIN Copyright 1940. LIGGETT & MYERS TOBACCO CO |
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