1939-11-07 The Auburn Plainsman

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VOL. LXIII Z-I ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, NOVEMBER 7, 1939 No. 19
Holidays Pared to
One-Day Period
Thanksgiving Day to be Only Holiday;
Christmas Vacation to be Lengthened
Thanksgiving holidays for this year have been reduced to
only one day, Thanksgiving Day, and the days saved will be
added onto the Christmas holidays, Dr. L. N. Duncan an­nounced
to a meeting of ODK and Blue Key members yester­day
afternoon.
The decision to effect the change was made Saturday morn­ing
in a special meeting of the Executive Council. It comes
as an attempted solution of the problem of students not being
• here on the day of the stadium
STUDENTS CROWD
HALL FOR SOPH
HOP AND MORGAN
The annual opening dances clos­ed
Saturday night as a crowd of
1,200 packed to capacity the audi­torium
at Bibb Graves Center.
Tom Henley, Social Committee
chairman, announced yesterday
that this was the first profitable
set of opening dances held in
Auburn in several years.
Over 400 block tickets were
sold for the dances, which fea­tured
Russ Morgan and his 17-
piece orchestra, and every dance
was well attended.
The dances began with a tea
dance Friday afternoon and in­cluded
a Friday night dance, and
"A" Club dance Saturday morn­ing,
a Scabbard and Blade dance
Saturday .afternoon, and ended
with the Saturday night dance.
In a statement yesterday SHen-ley
said, "I, personally, am very
well satisfied with the way the
dances went and appreciative of
the fact that there was no rowdy­ism
on the floor. I want to apolo­gise
to all those who had to wait
in line to get in the dances. I
promise that a better system of
handling tickets at the door will
be worked out for the mid-term
dances. I appreciate the patronage
and support given by everyone
and promise an even better band
for the mid-terms!"
A meeting of both the faculty
and student social committees
will be held Thursday afternoon
at 5:00 o'clock to discuss the
dances and to plan for improve­ments
in the future.
Morgan's band is playing for
three dances in Atlanta this week,
for one in Knoxville, and returns
to Alabama to play in Birming­ham
Friday night. From Birming­ham
Morgan will journey North,
playing for dances at The Citadel
and VMI.
Fraternity lead-outs were held
at the Friday and Saturday night
dances, dates of fraternity presi­dents
being presented with bou­quets.
The following presidents of
various fraternities, and their
Continued on page 4
DR. M. O. ROBINSON
Three professional honors have
been conferred recently upon Dr.
M. O. Robinson, professor of bac­teriology
in the School of Veteri­nary
Medicine. He has been nam­ed
a fellow in the American Pub­lic
Health Association and has
been appointed to two offices in
the American Veterinary Medical
Association, including the chair­manship
of a special committee on
food hygiene and secretary of
the section on sanitary science
and food hygiene.
dedication and Homecoming Came
with Florida on Thanksgiving
Day, November 30.
The additional days included in
the holidays, which were original­ly
scheduled to begin Wednesday,
November 29 and extend through
Sunday, December 3, will be add­ed
to the Christmas vacation per­iod
and instead of getting out on
Thursday, December 21, students
will be free on Saturday, Decem­ber
16.
The following letter was re­ceived
by the Plainsman this
morning explaining the change in
holidays:
To the Students:
The Thanksgiving Holidays as
set in the calendar have been
changed so that there will be only
one holiday, Thursday, November
30. Classes will resume on Friday,
December 1, as usual.
The Christmas Holidays as set
out in the calendar have been
changed to begin with the end
of the last class on Saturday, De­cember
16.
We have made these changes in
the hope that the entire student
body will join in the ceremonies
of Home-coming Day on Novem­ber
30, when the new stadium
will be dedicated. We hope that
these dedication services will be
the occasion for the return of
thousands of former students of
Auburn. We feel that the day will
mark a great event in the history
of this institution and sincerely
hope all students will join with us
in making this the greatest cele­bration
in the history of the col­lege.
L. N. Duncan,
President
College officials have asked the
cooperation of students in putting
over the Homecoming Day when
several thousand old grads are ex­pected
to return to the campus.
Billy Smith, pep manager, is
making plans for a card display
and special freshman cheering
section at the game.
The concrete stands of the sta­dium
will accommodate about
8,000 of the expected crowd, while
wooden bleachers will be erected
to care f o r several thousand
more.
Ivey Leads Staff
Writers in October
The completion of the month of
October finds three members of
the editorial staff amassing over
200 column inches in the Plains­man.
Columnist John Ivey led all
other writers with 273 inches. He
was closely followed by Dan Hol-lis
with 268 inches. Herbert Mar­tin's
work totaled 203 inches.
Bob Anderson and Boots Strat­ford
were in the hundreds with
118 and 105 inches respectively.
Among the next in line were
Redding Sugg, 79; Donald Brew­er,
56; Bob Chisholm, 46; Emma
Nell Parrish, 46; Park Holland,
40; J. B. Martin, 35; Dot Floyd,
28; Rene Bidez, 27; Bob Foster,
27; Merle Woodard, 25.
Other staff members with less
than 25 inches were Sumner Nes-bitt,
Billy Ryan, J. H. Wheeler,
Willard Hayes, Arthur Jones, and
Holdman Baker.
Notices
Football tickets to the Villanova
game will go on sale at the gym at
8:00 a.m. F r i d a y continuing
through noon. ROTC students must
present their student activity
books and railroad tickets in or­der
to get tickets to the game.
* * *
Tennis Court Committee will
meet Wednesday afternoon in
Samford Hall at 5:00 o'clock.
Staff Photo by Lewis Arnold
Like the Mounties, the Plainsman reporter always get his man. Here's Plainsman newsgatherer Bob
Anderson getting his. He is interviewing Salvador Solorzano, student from Mexico, and brother-in-law of
the President of Mexico.—Engraving Courtesy Birmingham News.
Card Display Planned For ROTC Corps
Section At Game With Villanova
No Practice Possible;
Directions will be Clear
Colorful card displays by Au­burn's
cheering section at Legion
Field will be a novel feature when
the college turns out to see the Au-burn-
Villanova game in Birming­ham
on Nov. 11.
Billy Smith, senior from Bir­mingham,
will be in charge of the
displays and the 1,800 members of
the Auburn ROTC unit will parti­cipate.
Cards are already being printed
under Smith's direction. Smith said
last night that it would hardly be
possible for the cadet corps to prac­tice
the card display but that
directions simple enough to insure
complete understanding of the for­mations
would be printed on the
cards.
Each card will be placed in a
definite seat in the cheering sec­tion
and must not be moved from
that seat. The section has been
mapped out seat by seat and the
change of positoin of a single card
will interfere with the entire dis­play.
Preparatory to the part that the
cadets will play in Birmingham's
Armistice Day parade, the Auburn
regiment is drilling this week on
the campus in civilian clothes. Col.
John J. Waterman, commandant,
has issued orders for each cadet to
have his uniform cleaned and
pressed for the parade. Brass but­tons,
rifles, and shoes are also
slated for polishing and care.
Auburn alumni will gather at an
elaborate banquet and "pep rally"
Friday evening, 6:30 o'clock, at the
Tutwiler Hotel. Working with Hay-den
Brooks, Birmingham, presi­dent
of the Jefferson County Alum­ni
Chapter, and George A. Matti-son,
Jr., general president of the
Auburn Alumni Association, in
staging the banquet and making
other arrangements are George
Lanier, Joe Pate, John Mathews,
Hub Hahn, and Wayne Nelson of
Birmingham. Mr. Mattison is also
vice-chairman of the Armistice Day
committee in Birmingham.
SOCIAL CALENDAR
CHANCES GIVEN
•
George Hiller, president of the
Interfraternity Council, announced
this morning that the following
changes have been made in the
social calendar: The Phi Omega Pi
sorority will have its dance Friday,
November 10, the Junior AVMA
on November 24. Pi K A will have
a morning and afternoon dance as
well as the scheduled night dance,
this affair being on November 18.
The "A" Club has givenwjover
one of their listed dance nights to
the Interfraternity Council which
is honoring all pledges on the night
of December 16.
Hiller also announced that any
organization wishing to have a tea
dance must see him in order to in­sure
against conflicts.
Notices
A new Social Dance Class will
be formed the second semester.
All men and women who report
January 30 or February 1 to the
student center from 7:00 to 8:00
p.m. will be admitted to the class.
* * *
Entries are now open for in­dependent
volleyball. Entries close
November 22 and play begins No­vember
27.
* * *
Don't forget to sign up for the
all-campus track meet before it
is too late. Entries close Novem­ber
13.
* * *
The traveling exhibit of the
Birmingham Camera Club is to be
put on display in the Library of
the Architecture Building. The
public is cordially invited.
MERCER FROSH TIE
BABY TIGERS 12-12
Freshmen to Meet Tech
Baby Jackets here Friday
Friday night in Americus, Ga.,
the Auburn Baby Tigers and the
Bear Cubs from Mercer played to
a 12-12 tie in a hard fought game.
The most sensational play of the
game came on the first play after
Auburn came into possession of the
ball not 5 minutes after the kick-off.
Monk Gafford, shifty Auburn
halfback, swept 70 yards for a
touchdown behind excellent block­ing.
The second Auburn touchdown
came in the final period as a result
of a long pass fiver the goal. Both
tries for conversion were wide.
Mercer's two touchdowns bore a
remarkable similarity to those of
Auburn. The first was after a 70-
yard run and the second after a
long pass. Neither of their attempts
for the extra point was success­ful.
In a final attempt to score the
Bear Cubs made an unsuccessful
try for a field goal.
Friday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock
the Baby Tigers will meet the
Georgia Tech freshmen in the new
stadium. Auburn students may get
in by showing their student ac­tivity
books at the gate. All non-students
attending must pay an ad­mission
fee.
Today
Page
Change in Holidays 1
Absence Rule Action 1
Student Center Opens 1
Stay for Homecoming 2
Plant Service Department— 2
Snake Bit—That's Us 2
Up in Society 3
Dewey for President 3
Professors at Vet Metet 3
Pre-Villanova ,
Came Pep Rally
To Be Thursday
The "Vanquish Villanova" pep
rally has been set for 7:30 Thurs­day
night at Langdon Hall. The
cheerleaders and the band will be
on hand.
Since the entire cadet corps is
going to Birmingham, Billy Smith,
pep manager, has urged that as
many students as possible be pres­ent
at the rally to get set for the
game.
Directories To Go
Out Wednesday
Distribution to be
At Student Center
The Registrar's Office an­nounced
today that it has the
1939-1940 edition of the Auburn
Student Directory ready for dis­tribution
on Wednesday by Mrs.
Hoyt Jolly at Student Center.
The new edition of the direct­ory
is limited to one per student,
and each student's name will be
checked when he receives his di­rectory.
The Registrar's Office
will not be able to replace lost
copies.
The new directory is essentially
the same as the issue for 1938-
1939. The list of students, their
addresses, and their telephone
numbers is complete as of the
present time. The map of the
campus included in the book shows
all the buildings now under con­struction
as well as the old build­ings.
CHORAL READERS
GIVE CONCERT
Under the direction of Prof. E.
D. Hess, a choral reading program
was presented before the literary
department of the Woman's Club
last Wednesday at the Lee Coun­ty
High School.
This was the first appearance
of the group, which was formed
as an extra curricular activity
for boys who are taking public
speaking. Eight selections were
rendered, the first being the
"Twenty-fourth Psalm", repeated
in unison. Vachel Lindsay's "The
Mysterious Cat" was the second
number, and was followed by
"Raggle, Taggle Gypsies," both
being given in unison.
Ralph Irwin took the solo part
in "The Froggies" and the other
members joined in the chorus. A
duet, "No Sir, No, Sir," was ren­dered
by Ralph Irwin and Merle
Woodard, with the entire chorus
sounding an echo.
"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,"
and "I Couldn't Hear Nobody
Pray", negro spirituals, were sung
by William Lee.
Concluding the program was a
medley of voices combining to
chant "The Congo."
Since this is the first group of
this kind on the campus, Prof.
Hess has formulated definite plans
for the organization of a choral
reading club.
Council Names Group
To Study Cut System
College Officials Will Work With Student
Committee on Changes in Attendance Rules
Meeting in special session on Saturday morning, the Exec­utive
Council accepted the petition of the Executive Cabinet
asking for a joint student-faculty committee to make changes
in the absence rule. The Council requested Dean John J.
Wilmore, School of Engineering, to choose a faculty committee
which will serve concurrently but not jointly with a student
committee to be appointed by John Ivey, Jr., president of the
Executive Cabinet.
Executive Secretary R a l ph
Draughon was chosen as chairman
of the committee and Dean J. W.
Scott, School of Science and Lit­erature;
Dean F. C. Biggin, School
of Architecture and Allied Arts;
and Dr. Rosa Lee Walston, direct­or
of women students, as mem­bers
of the group.
Dr. Duncan said yesterday that
the faculty committee would work
with the student committee in all
possible ways and would be glad
to consider suggestions from the
students.
The petition which was present­ed
to Dr. Duncan Friday morn­ing
was passed Thursday night by
unanimous vote of the Executive
Cabinet. It came as the result of
an investigation by Cabinet mem­bers
of the absence situation here
as compared with that at other
schools and a poll of student opin­ion
Wednesday on the retention
of the present system, 2588 stu­dents
voting against it and 44
for it.
Student Hall Opens
Under New Schedule
The Student Center opened its
doors last night under its new
schedule and approximately 50
students dropped in between the
hours of 8:00 and 10:00.
The new nickelodeon was in­stalled
yesterday and was in use
last night.
The hours at which the Center
will be open at night are from
8:00 to 10:00 instead of 7:00 to
10:00 as announced in last week's
Plainsman. From 7:00 to 8:00 on
Tuesday and Thursday it is re­served
for the Social Dancing
Class.
On Saturday nights the Center
will remain open until 10:30. Dr.
Rosa Lee Walston, director of
women students, has emphasized
that the facilities of the recrea­tion
hall are available only to
students having activity books.
Notices
The playoffs in touch football
are getting under way. In the fra­ternity
division Sigma Nu and
SAE are in the first bracket and
Kappa Sigma and SPE in the oth­er
bracket. The independent—as
well as the fraternity—playoff will
be a double elimination.
* * *
MITEC Engineers will meet
Thursday afternoon at 5:00 p.m.
in Ramsay 109.
Interfrat Council
Holds Uneventful
Monthly Meeting
Plans for ODK Cake Race
And Council Bridge
Tournament Announced
In an uneventful session with
no outstanding questions being
settled, the Interfraternity Coun­cil
held its monthly meeting last
night and disposed of a number
of routine matters.
Winfrey Boyd, president of
ODK, announced that the annual
ODK cake race will be held Wed­nesday
afternoon, December 13.
As in the past, a cup will be a-warded
to the fraternity having
the first four men to finish.
Julian Myrick, Pi Kappa Al­pha,
announced that Auburn's
Parent's Day will be observed the
first Sunday in May.
Marshall Hooper, chairman of
the Bridge Committee, said that
plans had been completed to start
the interfraternity bridge tourna­ment
soon after Thanksgiving.
Each fraternity is to have one team
composed of two men and substi­tutions
may be made after each
match if the team so desires. The
tournament will be conducted in
the Round Robin manner, every
fraternity playing every other
fraternity. A total of 256 matches
will be played.
John Ivey announced that a
nickelodeon has been installed in
student center. The student center
will be open every night from
8:00 until 10:00 o'clock and until
10:30 on Saturday nights. If the
present set-up is successful and
students show an interest in it a
milk bar may be installed in the
Center at the beginning of the
second semester.
Julian Myrick, Pi K A, moved
that a limit be set on the amount
of money a fraternity may spend
on decorating the WPA Hall for
dances. The motion was referred
to the various chapters and will
be voted on at the next meeting
of the council.
W. B. Campbell nominated
George Hiller for Auburn's rep­resentative
to the National Inter­fraternity
Conference on Novem­ber
30. Hiller was unopposed and
was elected. Campbell was elected
alternate delegate.
An Apple For The Teacher - Here's Your
Chance To Buy A Nice One For A Nickel
But Kindly Don't Forget
To Leave the Nickel
At least one student has faith
in the implicit honesty of the Au­burn
man, and the remarkable
point is that his faith is being
justified.
He is Tom Rowan, sophomore in
agriculture, the man responsible
for those attractive orange and
blue boxes placed around over the
campus. Neatly made, mounted on
tall legs, and bearing on their
fronts the words "Honor System",
the boxes have aroused wide com­ment.
There are four of the boxes so
far, located in Samford, Ross,
Comer, and the Main Vet Building.
You see, Tom is an apple sales­man,
but his sales technique con­sists
of putting his apples on dis­play
and staying as far away from
them as possible.
He buys large Delicious apples
by the crate and fills the boxes
each morning. If you want an ap­ple
you simply help yourself and
drop a nickel in the cash box.
The neat little silent salesmen
made their first appearance on the
campus Monday morning, each
filled to the brim with nice red
apples. By noon there were only
eight apples left in all four of the
boxes, while the cash boxes con­tained
pennies, nickels, dimes, and
quarters all mixed together with a
few tokens. In one morning almost
75 apples had been sold and the
money in the cash boxes tallied
exactly. Not one person had taken
an apple without paying.
Rowan brought the apple-sell­ing
idea to Auburn with him from
the University of Florida where
he attended school before coming
here. Florida operates on the hon­or
system, while Auburn abandoned
its honor system several years ago.
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Syphilis Retreats
WE AMERICANS must have our
sensibilities shocked at times
before we can be impressed —
someone has to horrify us before
we can be convinced. So it was
with syphilis. Until a few years
ago syphilis was a behind-the-barn
term and America's Mrs.
Grundys allowed it to flourish
while refusing to recognize it.
During the middle thirties A-merica
became syphilis-conscious
almost overnight. For the first
time the actual facts about vene­real
diseases were made known
to the country as a whole. We
were shocked; we (did something
about it, and since then syphilis
has been on the run.
The schools, the churches, in­dustry—
all of them began con­certed
campaigns against the
scourge. But human indifference,
yours and mine, is holding up
the campaign to reduce it to a
negligible problem.
We all tramp down to the
doctor's office every third year
and take our typhoid shots like
little lambs. Syphilis attacks 28
times as many people as typhoid,
but how many of us who take ty­phoid
shots like martyrs have
gone to the trouble to take a
Wasserman ?
All of us quake in our shoes at
the faintest whisper of infantile
paralysis, but a good case of
syphilis can put a case of infan­tile
to shame, and syphilis attacks
50 times as many people as does
infantile paralysis.
We're all fools aren't we. The
health office in Opelika will give
any of us a free Wasserman. But
here we all sit, not particularly
busy maybe and surely not a great
deal concerned, just sitting while
you may have it and we may
have it.
Auburn on Display
PEP MANAGER BILLY Smith
states that he is making plans
for a card display in the ROTC
corps section at the Villanova
game in Birmingham, this being
the first time' in many a football
season that the War Eagles have
been able to form a large and
un-trespassed-on cheering sec­tion.
The tough thing about it all is
that it will be impossible to prac­tice
the display. It will be doubly
necessary that every cadet stay
on his toes and perform the sim­ple
directions in order to put it
over.
Because a number of prob­lems
are to be worked out yet,
exact details are not available.
But one point is clear—whatever
the directions, they will be sim­ple
and nobody will be in any
danger of softening of the brain
from trying to figure them out.
The card display will be im­pressive
if it works; if it's rag­ged,
well there's nothing that
looks any more ludicrous than a
miserable card display at a foot­ball
game.
It's going to fake the utmost
in cooperation with every man
doing his part. But we can do it.
Stay For Homecoming
THE SIREN voices of the great­est
homecoming in Auburn his­tory
are being accompanied by
the discord of one big problem
which can determine whether
the occasion will be labeled a
success or a failure.
If holidays begin on Wednes­day
afternoon and the game is
not played until Thursday, many
of the students will leave town.
The freshmen, particularly, will
pack their bags and depart as
soon as that last class is over.
This complicates plans which are
already being made for a fresh­man
cheering section at the game
and possibilities for a card dis­play.
Alumni do not come to the old
campus to see the buildings emp­ty
and the grounds devoid of
students, and most of them will
be bitterly disappointed if they
should find a scattering of stu­dents
instead of the 3500 they
will expect.
We will hardly have the op­portunity
to participate in such
an occasion again. Only once in
a college lifetime does a college
put on such a program, for an
institution can dedicate its first
stadium but one time.
November 30 will mark the
culmination of a dream of Au­burn
men for years. En masse,
from all the South and the na­tion
the old boys are coming
home to the grandest school in
the world. Every Auburn man
from the president of the student
body down to the lowliest fresh­man
on the third floor of the back
street boarding house will be
needed here on Homecoming
Day.
Snake Bit - That's Us
COMES WAR and all else is for­gotten.
When the guns begin to
pop everything else is relegated to
the back seat.
For three years we've wondered
what we'd do if we ever got to be
editor of the Plainsman. We swore
that we'd put out a paper that
everyone would read, that we'd
write editorials that everyone
would acclaim, that we'd catch all
the misspelled words and incorrect
sentences. In short, we'd be the
very best editor ever.
But what's the use? This is one
sheet that doesn't report war news,
so when it hits the streets it's
glanced at and thrown aside for
details of how many ships have
been torpedoed, how many planes
were lost in the latest air raid, how
many thousand soldiers were lost
in gaining a hundred yards of ter­ritory.
The problems of college life and
campus look pale and insignificant
alongside those of war. After all
who's interested in who won the
latest intramural game or in the
need of an honor system, when he
can read some nice bloody news.
Particularly is it true when we
think of the possibility of our be­ing
in it. Joke about it as we
may, everyone of us has a knot in
his stomach when he thinks of.
having to go. Any other problem
is pretty small as compared with
the chance of a bullet in the giz­zard.
So we read the dailies and pray
that we can stay out and throw
the Plainsman in the nearest
wastebasket, paying it no more
mind than a year-old quiz.
Darn Europe anyhow.
Grover Hall is now writing of
Clarabelle's kitten named Jeff.
Clarabelle, incidentally, has at­tracted
,more attention than all of
the "down with Hitler" and "better
government" editorials that the
Advertiser could carry in a gen­eration.
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WITH THE DAYS slipping quickly by
it won't be much longer until we
find ourself confronted with the last
two Thursdays in
November, the most
talked of duo of
Thursdays of t he
year. The Thanksgiv­ing
t u r k e ys have
been granted a stay
of execution for at
least a week this
year.
To Auburn, Thanks­giving
brings one
more chance to open
its doors wide to the
many thousands of alumni and tempt
them to return to the folds for a Tur­key
Day show at "the Alma Mater. We
have $1,500,000 invested in what may
well serve as the side show for the
day . . . our new buildings which are
almost ready for their coming out par­ty.
We have hard work and pride in­vested
in a student body that is now
one of the largest in the South . . .
and within the student body and facul­ty
lies that great Auburn spirit that
is always glowing. However, this year
it is taking on a brighter hue as we
make plans for those Auburn Tigers
to put on a show in the stadium for
which we have waited almost 10 college
generations.
* * *
Along with happy expectations for
any out-of-the ordinary event there
comes a whole batch of worries. Lead­ing
this group of trouble makers is
the problem of having our Thanks­giving
holidays start with the ending
of classes on the day prior to Home­coming.
We will be confronted with the
proposition of. either staying here and
helping Auburn really do itself proud
before the visitors or running home to
take advantage of that last big meal
before Christmas. The latter alterna­tive
is a pretty hard habit to overcome.
Then the proposition boils down to
the fact that something ought to be
done in order to insure" the student
body's being present on Turkey Day. It
is primarily a question of when we start
holidays. Even though we like that
turkey dinner as much as anyone, in
view of present problems a proposition
offering Thanksgiving Day as a holi­day
and swapping the rest of the week
to the professors in exchange for a few
days Christmas would be welcomed.
* * *
Last year it was commonly thought
that the Opening Dances here at Au­burn
could never be made a success.
In fact it was generally believed that
the Social Committee was suffering a
very untimely death in its ever pres­ent
struggle with the all powerful dol­lar.
Since mid-night of Saturday last,
there is not a bit of doubt left as to
what can be done regarding the dance
sets here at Auburn.
Tom Henley has just finished giving
us a lesson as to the virtues of offer­ing
the student body a real attraction.
The Social Committee has at last hit
on the scheme that will mean bigger
and better dances, but if they try to
make them any bigger they will have
to find some way. of doubling the size
of Graves Center. Well done is the
general theme we would send to these
party planners.
Plant Service Department Does
Everything—Well, Almost Everything
The Plainsman Forum
Letters to the Editor
The "Plumed Knight" and the
"Iron Chancellor"
Editor,
Auburn Plainsman
Dear Sir:
One of the choice arguments of some
of the Isolationists in their forensic
fulminations during the recent Senate
debate over the Neutrality Bill was that
for the United States to change its Neu­trality
Law in the midst of war would
not only be an unneutral act but also
would incur the displeasure of Herr
Hitler, thereby subjecting our coun­try
to the probability of German sabo­tage
and to the possibility of German
attack on our shores.
Many of the Repealists refuted these
arguments on the Senate floor. Of par­ticular
interest, however, has been the
attitude of Senator Carter Glass, of Vir­ginia,
who has often disagreed with the
Chief Executive on domestic issues but
who sees almost eye-to-eye with the
President on the neutrality issue. Un­able
to participate in the Senate debate
or to cast his vote for repeal, Senator
Glass recently issued a statement from
his Washington hotel room in which he
heartily indorsed the repeal of the arms
embargo but took a lukewarm view­point
on the cash and carry provision.
In regard to the latter problem the
Senator would stand by international
law. He said: This country went into
the World War to vindicate its rights
on the high seas, and now to relinquish
these rights through fear of Hitler is
to dishonor our dead."
The above statement of Senator Glass
in regard to relinquishing our rights
through "fear of Hitler" and the stock
arguments of the Isolationists concern­ing
Herr Hitler's prospective wrath over
repeal are quite reminiscent of the at­titude
taken by Secretary of State
James G. Blaine, the "Plumed Knight,"
who, according to the story portrayed
by one of his biographers, issued a spir­ited
challenge concerning the preten­sions
of Count von Bismarck, the "Iron
Chancellor" of Germany, who had cre­ated
the German Empire by three suc­cessive
Blitzkriegs.
For many years the tropical Samoan
Islands had been the apple of discord
between Germany, Great Britain and
the United States. In this three-corner­ed
contest for supremacy, German in­sults
to our nationals and German dis­regard
for our property rights on the
islands had aroused the ire of the A-merican
people. President Cleveland
dispatched warships to the scene. Short­ly
after Harrison's inauguration, how­ever,
a tropical hurricane destroyed prac­tically
all the ships stationed in the
harbor of Apia. Chancellor Bismarck
then proposed a conference between
the interested powers to settle the Sa­moan
controversy. When the conference
met in Berlin in 1889, Bismarck at­tempted
to secure recognition of Ger­many's
political predominance in the
islands. The British and the American
representatives cooperated, however,
and the result was a tripartite protec­torate
over Samoa. Ten years Jater,
Great Britain withdrew. Samoa was
then divided between Germany and the
United States. After the world War,
New Zealand was awarded a mandate
over the German portion.
During the negotiations at Berlin, the
"Iron Chancellor," so the story goes,
adopted an arrogant attitude toward
the three American representatives. In
fact there had been a considerable
amount of bickering among the latter.
The American representatives cabled
home and the Chancellor was very ir­ritable.
Blaine, with glowing patriotism
and characteristic firmness, flashed
back: "The extent of the Chancellor's
irritability is not the measure of Amer­ican
right."
The vigorous assertion of American
rights and the total disregard of Ger­man
threats by Blaine and by many of
his contemporaries offer a striking par­allel
to the firm and fearless speeches
of many of the Repealists both in the
Senate chamber and throughout the
nation in regard to Herr Hitler's prob­able
reaction to our final attitude on
the neutrality question. Many of our
foremost editors and columnists have
indeed refused to perform the "kow­tow"
to Herr Hitler.
Judging from the recent vote in the
Senate and in the House of Represen­tatives,
it seems that undoubtedly the
new bill will very soon become law.
Speaker Bankhead recently said: "The
neutrality resolution is my 'must bill'
of the moment. It must pass, and I be­lieve
it will pass when the Senate sends
it over to this end of the Capitol."
The two Alabama and Georgia Senators
gave their approval to the Bill. "It is
a sensible bill," says Senater Lister Hill.
Senator Russell states: "The people of
America, and only the people, can and
will determine the course of the Unit­ed
States as regards the war in Europe
or rather our participation or non-par
ticipation in it. They are supreme."
Senator Bankhead truthfully points out
that the Embargo and the Non-Inter­course
Act of Jefferson's and Madison's
time failed in their purposes and even
brought about threats of secession.
President Roosevelt on the same sub­ject
says: "That policy turned out to
be a disastrous failure: first, because
it had brought our nation close to ruin;
and second, because it was the major
cause of bringing us into active parti­cipation
in European wars in our war
of 1812."
Most Americans undoubtedly believe
that the Chief Executive and Congress
are trying their level best to preserve
our neutrality and to keep us out of
war and they are willing to trust them
and to leave the final verdict with them,
knowing that they have given much
serious thought to this most intricate
problem. The new law will reflect pub­lic
opinion. The columnist, Mr. Harlan
Miller, aptly concludes his belief re­garding
President Roosevelt's ability:
"No other President has had a prepara­tion
so broad and deep for the hand­ling
of America's foreign relations."
Dr. A. W. Reynolds, Ph.D.,
Professor of History,
Alabama Polytechnic
Institute.
THE JACK OF ALL trades at API is
Dr. J. V. Brown, head of the Plant
Service Department. The services ren­dered
by this division of the school
range all the way from the delicate
task of fixing a clock to the more
grimy one of shoveling coal.
The crew of 40, consisting of car­penters,
plumbers, electricians, ground-keepers,
and janitors, is kept working
constantly to fill the orders received
through approximately 50 telephone
calls daily.
Five years ago when Dr. Brown took
over the management of the depart­ment,
the Plant Service consisted chief­ly
of one carpenter in a small work­shop
in the "L" Building. Since then
the crew has grown to its present size
and may now boast a stock valued at
$5,000 and occupies the storage space
of a whole building.
By going through the stock rooms
one may see paints, lumber, piping,
water faucets, light bulbs, wiring, and
much other equipment all stored in its
individual room according to whether
it belongs to the electrical, carpentry,
or plumbing department.
Some of the hundreds of things to
be found in the miscellaneous store­room
are brooms, bath tubs, chairs, ra­diators,
clocks, beds, an electric stove,
and a piano. One small room contains
hundreds of pillows.
Among the services performed by
the department are the cleaning of the
grounds, the making of keys, and gen­eral
building maintenance. One of the
most difficult tasks of all is that of
removing paper streamers from the trees
and shrubs after a particularly hilarious
pep meeting. Although the department
is solely for the purpose of perform­ing
duties in connection with the col­lege,
many persons out in town will
telephone the office and request such
services as the hauling of pianos and
similar articles.
About 30" box-carloads of coal are
burned annually, and yearly expendi­tures
of the department are close to
$80,000.
Plains Talk
By Herbert Martin
Editor's Note: The opinions expressed in this
column are those of the writer and are not to
be construed as the editorial policies of this
paper.
BOARDERS OF THE good ship API
were more or less successfully repel­led,
and the loss in numbers was not
as great as feared. Russ Morgan, who
aided and abetted the visiting warriors,
has been run out of town, and the field,
what's left of it, is in the possession of
the visitors.
Congratulations to Tom Henley for
one of the most successful sets of dances
ever to be held here. The Mid-terms
really should be fine.
*
Freshmen come to college. They
stand in line to register, to eat, and
to find rooms. They stand in line to
get assigned to classes, draw uniforms,
and other school-beginning activities.
In later years they stand in line to get
ticket books, football tickets, Glome-rata
proofs, and in hundreds of assort­ed
lines that take their toll of the stu­dent's
time.
Saturday night hit a new high. Stu­dents
stood in line, not to get drunk
or to catch a ride but to buy tickets to
the dance. Opening dances in past
years have gone begging for patrons,
and you could pack all attenders in an
under-size match box for transporta­tion
to and from the hall. Saturday
night dancers froze stiff, literally, to
get a chance to get in, either to get
warm or to dance. Such a thing has
never been recorded in the annals of
Auburn. It could have been avoided
with three or four well-placed entry
lines.
Personal . . .
Mr. John Ivey, care of Well?:
I don't want to give any more space
to such a thing so far removed from
our campus, but do you think that,
good or bad, Charlie Lindbergh de­serves
to take up two columns in a col­lege
newspaper, as you and your fair-minded
student, probably in your em­ploy,
have so generously donated to
him? The space could better be filled
with ads. You have probably read
"We" and your correspondant has prob­ably
read something about the kidnap­ping,
but are either one of you able
to judge Lindbergh? Why not stay
within the scope of a college paper,
and leave broader questions for those
more able to cope with them?
Yours antagonistically,
Aroused Reader
And a little of my own private
stock . . .
ODE TO DEBTORS
Ode . . . to cleaner, 60 cents,
For cleaning coats and pressing pents.
Ode . . . to Unk, just four bits more,
Gosh, it's hell to be so pore.
Ode . . . to bank, it's overdue
Wrote a check and overdrew.
Ode . . . quite a bit for last month's
hash.
Gosh, I'd work for a little cash.
Ode . . . to roomie, ode . . . to pal
Ode . . . for flowers fer me gal
Ode . . . much more to other folk.
Gosh, it's hell to be flat broke.
The above was written with all due
apologies to former poets who have
chosen the same subject.
* * * * *
Carrie, the Campus Copy Criminal,
copied this definition from a local junk­yard.
"A snob," says Carrie, "is just
another person with a Tin-Lizzie brain
and a Packard complex!"
Thanks from the Director of
Women Students
To the Editor of the Plainsman:
The highly gratifying manner in
which the Opening Dances were con­ducted
makes me request that you give
me space in your columns to express
my appreciation to all of those who co­operated
so beautifully in making the
event successful.
To Mr. Henley and the other mem­bers
of the Social Committee we are
greatly indebted for careful planning
and conscientious execution of innumer­able
details. The Social Committee,
however, could not have succeeded with­out
the good will of the student body.
My office in particular is apprecia­tive
of the way in which students fell
in line with a new system which was
necessarily somewhat confusing at
points, because it was in the experi­mental
stage. Because of the pleasure
which the opening dances gave, it
should be possible to look forward with
even greater delight to the mid-term
dances.
Sincerely yours,
Rosa Lee Walston
Director of Women
Students
will reopen on January 1. Under this
arrangement the Auburn students will
be returning to school on New Year's
eve night, and will not have the op­portunity
to take part in the New Year
celebrations. We feel sure that we are
speaking for the student body as well as
for ourselves when we say that this is
an important night of our vacation, and
we think we should have the privilege of
being home with our parents and
friends on that night.
We do not ask for a longer vaca­tion,
but that the dates be changed so
that the college will close on December
22 and reopen on January 2. This ar­rangement
will cause no loss in classes,
and we don't see why it should be ob­jectionable
to the college officials.
We thank you for your kindness.
J. L. Griswald
J. O. Colvard, Jr.
Dan Hollis, Jr.
W. T. Carey, Jr.
P. Holland
Roy Rackley
Frank Tobey
Carroll Adams
They want to celebrate New
Year's at home
Editor,
The Auburn Plainsman
Dear Sir:
We need your help in aiding us to
make a worthwhile change in the dates
6f our Christmas vacation. That is, we
need your help if we are to be suc­cessful.
The attitude of the student
body must be known before we can
start our campaign. Therefore we ask
that you publish this letter so that our
intentions may be known to all stu­dents.
As the holidays stand now the col^
lege will be closed on December 21 and
Give us better rest rooms
Editor,
The Auburn Plainsman
Dear Sir:
Last year a student wrote a letter
to the Plainsman asking that the men's
rest rooms on the campus be improved.
In response to the request some of
them were bettered.
However, none of them are furnished
with paper towels, soap, or mirrors.
Like the student who wrote last year,
I think that I deserve just as much
consideration as any faculty member,
but somehow they rate the above nam­ed
articles while I don't.
Can't purchases of these articles be
arranged through student activity
fees?
Sincerely yours,
A student
November 7, 1939 T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN Page Three
UP IN SOCIETY
By EMMA NELL PARRISH
The gaiety of the season reached a peak
last week, climaxing in the Sophomore Hop
Friday and Saturday and one of the larg­est
crowds in dance history Saturday night.
On Monday night SAE entertained with
a colorful Halloween party. Decorations
were in keeping with the holiday season,
and some of the guests bobbed for apples
in the good old Halloween way. Delicious
refreshments were served by Mrs. Ruby
Hart.
Another party was given the same evening by Pi K A. Dancing
was enjoyed throughout the evening, amid decorations featuring pump­kins,
cornstalks, and the harvest moon.
* * »
Halloween night was marked by house dances given by Lambda
Chi Alpha and Sigma Chi. The Lambda Chi house was temporarily
turned into a "roadhouse" and about 80 "hoboes" and "hoboesses"
enjoyed dancing. Hot coffee was served with sandwiches, cookies, and
peanuts. The pledges of Sigma Chi and representatives from other
pledge groups participated in contests and stunts as well as enjoying
a dance in the Sigma Chi living room.
* * *
Members and pledges of Sigma Pi entertained on Wednesday eve­ning
at the chapter house with Prof, and Mrs. Henry Goode chaperon­ing.
* * *
Theta Upsilon gave a possum hunt on Friday night.
The group had Smith Hall as its starting point. After
one possum was in the bag a huge bonfire was built,
and the members, pledges, and their dates gathered
'round for apples, parched peanuts, and marshmallows.
Eleanor Home, co-adviser for the chapter, and H. R.
Benford chaperoned.
* * *
With the arrival of Russ Morgan and the several hundred out-of-town
girls the entire campus became dance-conscious, and the stream
of social events was resumed.
Houseparties were given by SAE, Phi Delta Theta, Theta Chi, Pi
K A, SPE, and Kappa Sig. A.number of other groups held banquets
and buffet suppers.
* * *
Theta chapter of Alpha Psi, national veterinary fraternity, initiat­ed
five veterinary students a few days ago. The new men are Neal
C. Batson, Northport, A. Lamar Blalock, Nicholls, Ga.; S. Reid Bowen,
Jr., Tifton, Ga.; J. Willard Byrd, Broxton, Ga.; and Thomas E. Lan-ham,
Edgefield, S. C.
* * *
Sigma Nu has announced the initiation of Robert Linderman, K.
L. Lott, George Parker, and A. B. Morrison. Formally pledged to Sigma
Nu this semester were Robert Harris, Jack Leak, Hal Walker, Evert
Young, Rembert Hauser, A. B. Morrison, Joseph Jones, Clarence
Michels, Jack Dryer, Ralph Hunt, Malcolm Cook, Donald Cottier, Charles
Atkins, John L. Jernigan, Robert McKnight, Warren Sockwell, George
Parker, Robert Linderman and Buddy Shaw.
* * »
The marriage of Miss Mary McGehee of Evergreen to DeWitt Tal-madge
Stuart, Jr. of Pineapple took place last Saturday. Stuart at­tended
Auburn for two years where he was enrolled in agriculture.
He was a member of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity.
* * » .
The engagement of Miss Mary Penn Darden to David Wesley Can­on
was announced Sunday morning. Canon, who is from Opelika, is
an alumnus of API, graduating with the class of 1938. He is a mem­ber
of Scabbard and Blade and of Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
* * *
Pi K A recently initiated 10 new men into its Upsilon chapter
here. They included Pharis Johnson, Jr., Jack Dandridge, Robert Harris,
Raymond Allen, Reese Gwillim, Byron Carrell, Charles Bradford, Mark
Skelton, Charles Farrow, Mark Skelton, and Harry Moore.
Alumnus Appointed
To Important Post
Roger B. McWhorter, graduate
of Auburn in 1909, has been ap­pointed
by President Roosevelt to
membership on the International
Joint Commission which supervis­es
the boundary between the
United States and Canada.
Mr. McWhorter, 51, civil engi­neer
from Riverton, Ala., is chief
engineer of the Federal Power
Commission. He will remain in this
post and perform his additional
duties without pay. Mr. McWhort­er
received his civil engineering
degree at Auburn in 1913.
His appointment followed an­nouncement
by the President that
the three non-governmental A-merican
members of the commis­sion
would be replaced by federal
officials in order to save money
and give the commission expert
technical assistance in connection
with boundary questions arising
from negotiations of a new St.
Lawrence waterway treaty with
Canada.
LOST—Pair of glasses in blue
case, having Dr. Quina, Pensa-cola
printed on it. Please no­tify
Mrs. Flynn Hudson, 104
Perry St. or call 566.
"Dewey for President" Five Professors
C* Pi J • f l l C Fr0m AUDUrn TO
bay btudents or U.b. Speak At Vet Meet
Collegians Want
Him if Roosevelt
Not a Candidate
Thomas E. Dewey, youthful
New York district attorney, is
first choice for the United States
presidency among the nation's col­lege
and university students, if
President Roosevelt does not run
again.
Six months ago the Student
Opinion Surveys of America,
sounding board of United States
college youth, found in its first
poll on presidential possibilities
that Paul V. McNutt, Democrat,
held the lead with a popularity of
17.7 per cent, only 2.1 per cent
over Dewey. Today the racket-busting
Republican has climbed a-head
and has with him over a
third of those collegians who de­clare
they have made up their
minds on a candidate for 1940.
McNutt has dropped to second
place, Vice-president John N.
Garner following a close third.
The poll represents the opinions
of students without including
President Roosevelt as a possible
candidate. Staff interviewers also
ask a cross-section of students in­cluding
all age, sex, geographical,
and political groups, "Would you
like to see Roosevelt run for a
third term?"
Only 31.8 per cent said yes. But
since last January the President
has increased his third-term ap­proval
among collegians from 28.2
per cent, the continuing polls of
the Student Opinion Surveys show.
The Surveys are published week­ly
by student newspapers the na­tion
over, including the Auburn
Plainsman, which cooperate by
conducting local interviews that
are mailed to the headquarters at
the University of Texas for tabu­lation.
To the question, "If Roosevelt
is not a candidate in 1940, whom
would you like to see elected pres­ident?"
These answers were given:
May'39 Today
1. Dewey (R)___ 15.6%-.33.8%
2. McNutt (D)__17.7%-_11.0%
3. Garner (D)_._ 9.7%— 9.4%
4. Van'berg (R)_ 3.8%— 8.3%
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5. Hull (D) 8.3%— 7.9%
All Others 29%
In both polls it has been found
that most college youth apparent­ly
pay no attention to political
party lines. Many who say their
or their parent's sentiments lie
with the Republican party select
a Democrat, and vice versa. There­fore,
in the results above there
is no attempt to separate Demo­crats,
Republicans, or any oth­ers.
Comparisons with the polls of
the American Institute of Public
Opinion show that possible candi­dates
leading among the nation's
voters are the same among col­lege
students. With Republican
voters Dewey is a favorite. With
Democrats Garner is the leader,
and McNutt, who has been gain­ing
consistently, is second only
to the vice-president. Among stu­dents,
however, Garner led only
in the South. In every other sec­tion
of the country Dewey and
McNutt are more popular.
The answers above represent
opinions only of those students
who have decided on a possible
candidate. There is a large num­ber—
about 4 out of every 10—
who say they do not yet have any
particular choice.
To Take Active Part on
Program at Convention
In Columbia, S. C.
When the Southern Veterinary
Medical Association convenes for
its annual meeting Thursday in
Columbia, S. C, the local School
of Veterinary Medicine w i ll
through its faculty contribute
much to the program.
Dr. L. E. Starr, assistant dean
of the local school, will present a
paper on "Boynton's Tissue Vac­cine
as an Immunizing Agent
Against Hog Cholera."
Drs. R. L. Mundhenk and J. E.
Greene will discuss "Differentia­tion
of Heart Worm Larvae from
Other Hematozoa."
A paper on "Coccidiosis in Do­mestic
Animals and Birds" will be
read by Dr. J. L. West.
Dr. I. S. McAdory, dean of the
local school and state veterinar­ian,
will assist Dr. M. J. Rattray
Sr. of Vidalia, Georgia with a
clinical demonstration of "Ten-donnotomy
on Mule or Horse."
Dr. Starr is a member of the
board of directors of the asso­ciation
and will serve in that ca­pacity
when that body convenes
during the meeting.
Despite its present low stand­ing,
the University of Chicago
grid team has won more Big Ten
championships than any other
team. \
LOST—Blue coat left on corner
of College and Thach three
weeks ago. Return to Charles
Hubbard at 128 So. Gay or
Phone 663.
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WALSTON SPEAKS
IN MOBILE TODAY
Addressed Theta Upsilon
Pledges Last Week
Dr. Rosa Lee Walston, director
of Auburn women students, is in
Mobile today to address three
civic groups.
Speaking on the "South's Eco­nomic
Problems," Miss Walston
will talk to the student body at
Murphy High School Tuesday
morning. At noon she will be the
guest of the ladies auxiliary of
the Woman's Club where she will
speak in "Outstanding Books of
1939."
Tuesday night Miss Walston is
slated to speak to the Mobile
Business and Professional Wom­an's
Club on "Opportunities for
Women in the Professions."
On Wednesday she will attend
a meeting in Montgomery of the
State Board of Parent Teachers
Association.
Dr. Walston was the guest of
the pledges of Theta Upsilon at
their meeting Monday night. The
meeting was held at the home of
Earle Rives, pledge secretary, on
the Wright's Mill Road.
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Page Four THE A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN November 7, 1939
Former Auburn Sf udenl Promoted to Rank W A X W O R K S
Of Brigadier General in Marine Corps
Smith, Graduate of 1903,
Approved by Roosevelt
Word has just been received
that Holland McTyeire Smith, an
Auburn graduate of the class of
1901, has been appointed and
sworn in as Brigadier General in
the United States Marine Corps.
He was formerly a colonel.
Gen. Smith was selected to the
rank he now holds in 1938 and
was promoted to that rank in Au­gust
of this year upon approval
of President Roosevelt.
Gen. Smith received the degree
of bachelor of science at API in
1901 and the degree of bachelor
of law from the University of
Alabama in 1903. He was born in
1882 at Seale, Ala., and was ap­pointed
a second lieutenant in the
Marine Corps in 1905. He was
promoted to the rank of first lieu­tenant
in 1908 and to captain
in 1916. He was appointed to the
rank of major in 1920, lieutenant
colonel in 1930, and colonel in
1934.
Prior to the World War he serv­ed
in the Philippine Islands and
Santa Domingo. He also served
on board the U. S. S. Prairie,
Dixie, and Buffalo. During the
World War he took an active part
in some of the most bloody bat­tles
participated in by the Marine
Corps. He served in the capacity
of brigade adjutant and assistant
operations officer during t he
war. He saw action at the battle
of Verdun, Chateau Thierry, St.
Mihiel, Bellau Wood, Marne,
Meuse-Argonne, and other import­ant
frays.
For his services in France dur­ing
the war General Smith was
awarded a Meritorious Service Ci­tation
and the Croix de Guerre
with Palm for his courage and
remarkable ability in Bellau Wood
and vicinity.
He has served as a member of
the general staff of the United
States Army; as a member of the
joint army and navy committee;
as chief of staff and officer in
charge of operations and train­ing.
He has also served as force
marine officer of staff of the
commander, battle force, of the U.
S. fleet, and chief of staff and
personnel officer, Department of
Pacific, in San Francisco. He is
now on duty as Assistant to the
Major General Commandant.
Other awards held by General
Smith in addition to awards re­ceived
during the World War in­due:
Purple Heart, Victory Med­al,
Expeditionary medal for ser­vice
in Panama, Santa Domingo,
and Haiti, the Dominican Cam­paign
Medal, and the Mexican
Service Medal.
Before attending Auburn Gen­eral
Smith lived in Montgomery
where his mother still resides.
I n Name Only' To
Show At Tiger
Theatre This Week
'Uncle Sam The Farmer',
Latest March of Time
On Same Program
With Carole Lombard, Cary
Grant and Kay Francis in the top
row characterizations, "In Name
Only' comes to movie-goers with
one of the most high-powered
casts ever assigned to one picture.
One of the very few screen en­tertainments
to develop the "other
Voman's" side, "In Name Only"
limns with emotion-gripping pow­er
how a wily wife strives to bar
the loss of her husband to anoth­er
woman with whom he has fall­en
in love. Although the wife
openly admits that she does not
love her husband, she wants to
keep him only for the luxuries
and social position he gives her.
The situation develops — with
the wife's unscrupulous fight to
retain her status and to keep her
husband's parents ignorant of the
true circumstances — to a stir­ring
climax, after a lightning-fast
series of stirring highlights which
mark "In Name Only" as one of
the year's most significant pro­ductions.
On the same program Wednes­day
and Thursday the latest
"March of Time film entitled
"Uncle Sam—The Farmer," brings
to the screen the story of the 32
million American citizens who
comprise this country's great
farming population — their life,
work, hopes and new problems
created by the war now under­way
in Europe.
America's major economic prob­lem,
agriculture, comes in for
comprehensive and topical treat­ment
by the alert March of Time
editors. It was the last war that
was largely responsible for the
plight of the farmers and the de­partment
of agriculture is certain­ly
watching that the Second World
War does not equally harm the
farmers of this nation. Consider­able
attention is paid to the ef­forts
of the department of agri­culture,
which regularly employs
75,000 men and women, in carry­ing
out its task of preserving and
improving the billions of acres of
fertile soil that is one of the coun­try's
greatest assets. A typical
Ohio farm family is chosen from
among the 32,000,000 Americans
who comprise the farm population
to illustrate how the government
helps the farmer. In a sense, it is
an inspiring object lesson.
PRESCRIPTIONS
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"720 In the Books" is the latest
Decca production from the Jan
Savitt band. This is a medium
tempo number with Bon Bon fea­tured
on the vocal course. On the
other side of the record is "El
Rancho Grande" played in a more
sentimental manner. Very good.
* * *
Tommy Dorsey slides his trom­bone
"So Many Times" while Jack
Leonard puts another feather in
his cap with vocal exercises on the
same tune. Leonard is the favorite
here at Auburn and hits a new
high with this one. "Baby, What
Else Can I Do" is the plea of
Anita Boyer, new song sensation
with the Dorsey tune makers. This
record is good and stifles all com­ment
about the loss of the Dorsey
"lick." Victor.
* * *
Tony Pastor, the singing tenor
sax, is feature on the Artie Shaw
production of "If What You Say
Is True." In the groove with a fine
arrangement, Artie makes the
most of this record. Sweetly and
smoothly, Helen Forrest croons a
course of "Many Dreams Ago."
The highlight is the fine sax
course by the reed section.
* * *
Glenn Miller playing "Out of
Space" with vocal work by Ray
Eberle coupled with "So Many
Times" go to make one of the
best sweet tune combinations of
the week. Played in the Miller
style with the mellow work of the
clarinet-sax section these arrange­ments
are not to be missed. Blue­bird.
* * *
For a bit of that harlem swing
Decca has released an Andy Kirk
production of "Say It Again."
Featuring some fine ride courses
and the piping of Pha Terrell, this
tune is good. On the sentimental
side "Why Don't I Get Wise To
Myself" is another vocal bit by
Pha Terrell. This tune proves that
the Kirk band can give on the
sweet as well as hot tunes. Add
it to the Kirk hits.
* * *
"Mama's Gone, Good Bye"
played by Freddy Martin and his
band features the voice of Glen
Hughes and the trio. Not bad;
however, Bill Stoker singing
"Early In the Morning" on the
reverse side makes the record
worth listening to. We remem­ber
Bill from the old Kay Kyser
band and he is certainly a fine ad­dition
to the Martin band. Blue­bird.
* * *
Eddy Duchin and his famous
fingers tickle the ivories under
the billing of "Honestly" and "If
What They Say Is True." Vocal
refrains by Stanley Worth and
Johnny MacAfee on the tunes re­spectively.
The Duchin band has
hit a happy medium between his
old style and the modern swing.
A good sweet band. Columbia.
* * *
For the week's worst we give
honors to the Jan Garber produc­tion
of "I Wonder What's Become
of Sally?" Lee Bennett tries nob­ly
to pull the tune through, but
it wasn't possible. "I'll Take You
Home Again Kathleen" is much
better and is again the vocal ef­fort
of Lee Bennett. Vocalion
shoots a blank.
* * *
"My Cat Fell In The Well" and
the Eddie DeLange swingsters go
well together. Eddie does the pip­ing
in this novelty which really
sells. In a slightly different style
Eddie again sings in "Old Heart
of Mine." This Bluebird has done
justice to a great young band.
* * *
"Lilacs In The Rain" sung by
Nan Wynn and played by the
famous Hal Kemp is our bid for
Tech Wins Cross
Country Race 37-21
Sparked by Captain Artie Small,
-Georgia Tech's cross country team
defeated Auburn over a 3.6 mile
course by a score of 21 to 37
here Friday afternoon.
Small finished in first place,
his time being 16:44.5.
First 10 of the 14 runners fin­ished
as follows: Small, Tech;
Cagle, Auburn; Kaufman, Mc-
Guire, Ferguson, Tech; Drake,
Holley, Auburn; Cash, Whitney,
Tech; and Gibson, Auburn.
Others in the race included
Hooper, Tech; and Lipscomb, Rus­sell,
and Morgan, Auburn.
one of the best sweet tunes in this
group. Hal really gives us new
slant on this tune. "The Girl With
The Pigtails In Her Hair" fea­turing
the Smoothies and their
novelty singing, is something dif­ferent.
Kemp is undoubtedly keep­ing
his place among the really out-stand
bands.
* * *
Sonny Burke and his orchestra
dream up a bit of a novelty un­der
the name of "The Last Jam
Session". This tune features the
various instrumentalist in the
band and is well arranged so as
to give some interesting exhibi­tions.
"Tea For Two" is given
a classic treatment and shows
Sonny Burke's band off for the
fine organization that it is.
* * *
Harry James takes an old one
out as he turns out a brand new
Columbia production of "Willow
Weep For Me." Harry has one
of those swinging organizations
that just can't be kept from
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jumping. Coupled with "My Bud­dy"
this record is one of the best
ever turned out by this band.
Prank Sinatra is featured on the
vocal course of the latter tune.
* * *
For a fine small hot combina­tion
Wingie Malone has given us
"Fare Thee, My Baby, Fare-Thee-
Well" and "Limehouse Blues."
The first of this group has the
vocal attention of Wingie himself
in his jig style. The latter tune
is strictly pamming at its best. A
good one to add to the stack of
tunes by fine small combinations.
* * *
Artie Shaw has just released
"I Surrender, Dear" and "Oh,
Lady Be Good." This production
is the best record tuned out by
this out-of-the world band since
they did the masterpieces under
the name of the "Artie Shaw Al­bum"
last year. Bluebird.
Myrick, Pi Kappa Alpha, Frances
Cofer; Winfrey Boyd, Delta Sig­ma
Phi, Mary Lucas Hall; Charles
Kelley, Lambda Chi Alpha, Betty
Chambers.
LOST—A dark blue overcoat left
in Martin Theatre, Opelika. Re­ward.
John Rice, 315 S. Gay St.
Opening Dances
Continued from page 1
dates, were in the lead-outs: Carl
Morgan, of Phi Delta Theta, with
Dorothy Auttman; George Hiller,
Pi Kappa Phi, Dotty Davis; Frank
Cayce, Sigma Chi, Frances Dowl-ing;
Billy Smith, Sigma Nu, Eloise
Leonard; C. W. Thompson, Jr.,
Theta Chi, Louise Woodward;
John Ivey, Alpha Tau Omega,
Tony Williams.
Herbert Schiff, Tau Epsilon Pi,
Peggy Green; Porter Pease, Sig­ma
Alpha Epsilon, Ann Brown;
Turner Murphy, Sigma Phi Epsi­lon,
Margaret Wallace; Julian
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