1941-10-21 The Plainsman

              TRY WRITING
AN AUBURN YELL!
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MASTER PLAN?
TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT a
VOLUME LXV ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1941 NUMBER 11
AUBURN MASTER
PLAN DISPLAYED
"Greater Auburn"
Of Future Depicted
On Huge Drawing
A master plan, of the Auburn
of the future, has been placed on
display in the lobby of Samford
Hall.
This plan is a result of the ef­forts
of Dr. L. N. Duncan, and
Mr. Sam Brewster, who have at­tempted
to plot the buildings and
landscaping of "Greater Auburn"
in its growth during the next few
years.
A plaque accompanying the
huge drawing states: "The mas­ter
plan affords you a preview of
what A. P. I. will look like in the
years to come. It has been ar­rived
at from a careful study of
existing features and future
needs. When you see campus
construction crews at work, you
may look at the master plan and
see the objective toward which
they are working. There are ap­proximately
600 acres included
in this plan. The work involved
in making it come true is tre­mendous
so won't you please help
by cooperating in every way pos­sible?
"Detail plans on a large scale
are carefully prepared on every
job before construction starts.
"It is difficult to make grass
grow on the campus due to the
sandy soil. Won't you please help
make your college attractive by
not walking on lawn areas?"
Accompanying the master plan
is a detail plan of the new Presi­dent's
Home and the landscaped
area surrounding it, illustrating
the second paragraph of the
plaque. Among the many new
buildings pictured on the master
plan is an auditorium, which, ac­cording
to the scale drawing of
its size, is larger than the entire
quadrangle area.
The auditorium is to be located
on Thach Avenue, diagonally
across from the Field House.
Across Thach from the auditor­ium,
the master plan calls for an
Armory.
Also within this area will be a
men's gymnasium.
A Girl's Gymnasium, a Home
Economics Building, and an en­tire
new quadrangle, the same
size as the present one, will be
located on Bullard Field.
The Drill Field on the master
plan is located where the golf
course is at present, at the end of
West Magnolia. Gun and Motor
sheds will also be located there.
An Administration Building,
and a Faculty Building will be
located between the Library and
the Sigma Nu House on Mell
Street.
In Ag Bottom, the plan calls
for a pond, to be called "Tiger
Pond."
Opposite the AAA Building, on
Ag Hill, will be an outdoor swim­ming
pool and bath house.
Behind the Auditorium in Bibb
Graves Center, there will be sev­eral
men's dormitories.
On Vet Hill several new build­ings
will be located, and five
classroom buildings on the main
campus.
New Yell Contest
Open to Students
Pajama Parade in Stadium Thursday
Night Will Feature First New Yells
By HERBERT MARTIN
Any plans to attend the pre-wreck-Tech mass meeting
and pajama parade Thursday night at the Stadium at eight
won't be out of order, for more than one reason.
For one thing, this affair is an Auburn institution, an an­nual
get together, and the most interesting thing this side of
t h e Mason-Dixon. Then, at this meeting, the first winner of
the Plainsman-Cheerleaders sponsored yell-writing to yell
right contest will be announced. Details of this contest will
be told two paragraphs down, in
case you care to skip.
Several members of the coach­ing
staff will be on hand to tell
a few of the inside family secrets
about the team and prospects.
The band will serenade as usual,
or even better, and Glomerata
photographers will be out to snap
the better costumes for their an­nual
booklet.
All frosh are requested to wear
pajamas, and quite a few coeds
are frosh. Students are requested
not to bring torches, as things
will be quite warm enough in
trying out the new yells.
The yell-writing contest will
be a weekly affair until the foot­ball
season ends. The four or five
best yells submitted each week
will be tried out at the pep rallies,
and the composer of the best will
be awarded a year's subscription
to the Plainsman, which may be
mailed anywhere in the Western
Hemisphere.
Rules are so simple that it's a
wonder someone hasn't already
submitted an entry. There's noth­ing
to buy, and no wrappers or
reasonable facsimile's thereof
need be included.
All you have to do is to think
up a yell and be a college stu­dent,
with a limited ability to
write. Print or type your holler­ing
idea on one side of the paper,
together with your name, Auburn
address, and telephone number.
If you are a coed, a brief descrip­tion
should be included, but this
is not essential in some cases.
Each student is permitted only
one entry per week. Entries must
be dropped in the box provided
for the purposes, and placed in
Lipscomb's Tiger Drug Store, be­fore
four o'clock on Wednesday
afternoons, to be eligible for that
particular week's contest.
The contest is open to all stu­dents
with the exception of
members of the Plainsman staff
and of the squad of cheerleaders.
PRE-LAW SOCIETY
ELECTS; MEETING
TO BE THURSDAY
Cullen Ward, sophomore from
Auburn, was recently elected
president of the pre-law society
for the current semester.
Other officers elected include:
vice-president, Bob Varner; treas­urer,
Bob Guillot; and secretary,
Clara Ellen Slaton.
At the last meeting, society
keys were distributed to the
sophomore members and a pro­gram
of work for the year was
planned. Plans include speeches
on the campus by prominent law­yers
from Birmingham and Mont­gomery.
The pre-law society will meet
Thursday night at 8 p. m. in
Broun Auditorium. All members
are urged to attend.
TAU BETA PI
By error, one of the members
of Tau Beta Pi was omitted from
the story of their selections in
Friday's issue.
GORDON WOOD, a senior in
textile engineering, from Anda­lusia,
was among the thirteen
tapped.
Wood is a member of Phi Psi,
honorary textile engineering so­ciety.
The Plainsman regrets the
omission of Mr. Wood's name.
Dragonette Opens Series Tomorrow
Auburn-Howard Freshmen Meet
In Benefit Game Tomorrow
Tigers Out For
Revenge After Last
Year's Pup Defeat
By BILL MARTIN
Tomorrow night at Legion
Field in Birmingham, the Auburn
rats will clash with the Howard
freshmen in a football game that
will be a fitting conclusion to a
day of activity in the Magic City
set aside to raise funds for the
crippled children in that vicinity.
This ball game is entirely a
program for charity, but never­theless
will be a most interesting
feature as the Tiger Kittens try
hard to gain revenge for the up­set
last year suffered at the hands
of the Bulldogs from Howard. In
the afternoon, a state high school
band contest will take place on
the football field and will share
top honors of the day with the
football setto. All of the receipts
from these attractions will be
given to charity. The officials, the
coaches, and even the ballplayers
must have ducats to enter the
stadium, and no one can get in­side
the gates without paying the
full admission price, so we can
see that Birmingham citizens go
in for charity in a big way.
The Georgia freshmen turned
on all of their power to hand the
Tigers a defeat in the first 1941
encounter 13-0, but the Auburn
boys gained a world of experience
in the loss, and appear to be
ready to take the tomorrow night
foes In stride. A number of men
showed above the average ability
in the last game, though the team
worked together as one man and
no single player let his team­mate
out-charge him. With one
game under their belts, the
plebes will be able to throw
every thing they have into the
fray tomorrow night and the fire­works
should be fast and furious.
The starting team still has
several positions wide open, and
the definite first string will not
be known until game time, but
there are several boys, whose
performance in the Georgia game,
stamped them as almost sure
starters in this battle. Bill Ellis,
left end, out did himself defen­sively
and offensively to practi­cally
insure himself a starting
assignment, and Cecil Dennis,
who seemed to be the most con­sistent
ground gainer against
Georgia, is in the thick of the
fight for the fullback slot. The
coaches will probably give the
home-town boys on the Auburn
roster a chance to show before
the home folk, and the starting
line-up may read something like
this: LE, Bill Ellis; LT, Herman
Goodwin; LG, Jack Thompson;
C, Jim Bradshaw or Cy Kirsh;
RG, Bert Trapani; RT, George
Willoughby; RE, J. E. Branton;
QB, Stuart Gaines; LH, Bill
Donnahue; RH, Curtis Kuyken-dall;
FB, McCoy Hewlett.
The Bullpups have a strong set
of pigskin toters this year, but
the Auburnites, who will be out
for blood, are shaped up to come
away with the victory.
OPENS SERIES
Plainsman Business Staff
There will be an important
meeting of the business staff of
the Plainsman Tuesday night at
the Plainsman office in the Lee
County Bulletin building at 7:00.
All students willing to work
and interested in advertising and
general business work are invited
to attend.
MITEC MEETING
There will be a Mitec meeting
Thursday, October 23, at five
o'clock in Broun Auditorium. The
meeting will be of a special bus­iness
nature and the announce­ment
of the dance plans will be
made.
All members are urged to be
present.
EXECUTIVE CABINET
It was announced yesterday by
Billy Moore, president of the Exe­cutive
Cabinet, that there will be
a meeting of the Executive Cabi­net
tonight at eight o'clock in
Student Center.
Miss Jessica Dragonette, above,
crown princess of radio, will
sing tomorrow night in Alumni
Gymnasium, opening Auburn's
current concert series.
MOBILE STUDENTS
There will be a meeting of the
Mobile students at 8:15 on Thurs­day
night, October 23, in the
auditorium of Broun Hall. All
students from Mobile and towns
nearby are urged to be present.
DANCE CLUB
The Dance Club will hold an
important meeting Wednesday,
October 22, at 5:00 P. M. in Alum­ni
Gym. All members are urged
to attend, and all others interest­ed
in modern dancing are invited.
Freshman Play "Who's Got
The Petrified Stump"
Famous Landmark
Disappears From
Ancient Location
By JOHN SCOTT, JR.
Things are looking up around
Auburn for the upperclassmen
who enjoy sending freshmen on
fruitless errands after things no­body
wants found anyway. For
years there were two old faith­fuls
that you could send the fresh­men
to look for, not counting
four-foot yardsticks and left-hand
hammers. Some freshman found
out that there are no such things
as these last two articles and he
told someone else, after making
him promise not to breathe a
word about it, so everybody soon
learned that these two tools were
not really sold in Auburn.
The first of the two much-sought
Auburn standbys was the
machine in the local laundry that
was supposed to shoot buttons
through one-half of each pair of
socks. After very little search,
this machine was actually located
and by glancing through any
dresser drawer you can readily
see that it is still in splendid
condition and is operated full-time.
The other object of much in­tensive
search was the historic
petrified stump that reposed for
years between Langdon and Sam-ford
Halls. In recent years this
stump has been gradually emerg­ing
from its obscurity, and has
become too well known to be
worthy of an energetic freshman's
time. Now, however, the stump
has dissappeared and the upper­classmen
can once again send out
droves of first-year gullibles in
search of it.
It is to be hoped that the first
freshman who finds said stump
will notify the Plainsman office
at once, in order to put an end to
the controversy raging there.
Half of the staff thinks that it :s
being used as a foundation brace
for Broun Hall, and the other
half is just as firmly convinced
that these fellows who have been
cutting down so many of the trees
on the campus have brought their
work to the much feared obvious
conclusion — chopping down the
stump. Any one who discovers
the true fate of the p. s. will be
given a one week's subscription
to the Plainsman.
New Books In
Library Listed
By KEITH CORBETT
A number of books have been
added to the Auburn Library in
the past two weeks. This collec­tion
brings up-to-date the litera­ture
in the social sciences, poli­tics,
engineering, agriculture, and
factual and fictional works. -
There are several books of par­ticular
interest to the students.
Two books, MaCann's 'Nostrada­mus,
The Man Who Saw Through
Time', and Notredame's 'Oracles
of Nostradamus', both biogra­phies,
are welcomed by the large
number of students who saw the
movie short on Nostradamus sev­eral
months ago. This short start­ed
an interest in many students
in the life of this very remark­able
and unusual man that ended
in a research in the Library for
all items concerning the life of
this man.
Another particularly outstand­ing
book is the biography of Hit­ler,
'What Mein Kampf Means to
America' by Francis Hackett.
This interpretation by one of the
leading biographers of to-day
gives to the American people,
the nature of the man that set
the world on fire with destruc­tion
and death.
There are three other books
of interest to those interested in
the inside of American life.
'Robert E. Lee' by Winston tells
the story of one of America's
most beloved men; the man who
believed in the rights of man so
much that even when arms were
unsuccessful, turned to teaching
to carry on in the face of adver­sity
the principles to which he
had given his life.
Carrol's 'The Man Who Would
Not Wait: The Story of Aaron
Burr' covers much of the political
scene of the~ early Americas.
Rich's 'William Allen White,
The Man From Emporia' tells
about one of the outstanding
figures in American life. Allen,
the publisher of a small town
newspaper has become one of the
most influential people in the
United States. His common-sense
editorials in his paper, The Em­poria
Gazette have brought him
renown. His love of the 'common
people' has kept him at his little
town even though offers of great
positions and great fortunes have
been his.
The following are among the
number that has been bought by
the Auburn Library. They are
some of the better fictional and
non-fictional books for your en­tertainment-
and enlightenment.
These are: The Charlie Chan Om-nibus
by Biggers; Fire in the
Sky by Collier; Island Magic by
Gouge; Reckon with the River
by McMeekin; The Transposed
Heads by Mann.
Concert at 8:15 In ,
Alumni Gymnasium
Pan-Hellenic to Give Reception After
Concert at Home of President Duncan
Jessica Dragonette, "America's Beloved Soprano," will
formally open the Auburn Concert and Lecture Series to­morrow
night in Alumni Gym, at 8:15 o'clock before an ex­pected
capacity crowd.
Accompanied by H- Maurice-Jacquet, noted pianist and
composer, Miss Dragonette will sing both classical and semi-classical
selections from the pens of such famous composers
as Liszt, Handel, and Massenet.
Immediately following the pro­gram,
the Pan-Hellenic Council
will hold a reception at the home
of President Duncan in honor of
Miss Dragonette. Invitations have
been mailed this week to students the fact that she herself has writ
and faculty members who are to
be present for the occasion.
Miss Dragonette, who has been
selected as the "Queen of Radio,"
has been acclaimed from coast to
coast for her success in estab­lishing
a friendly relationship
with her audiences and it is well
fitting that she should open the
current Concert and Lecture
Series.
Miss Dragonette has announced
her program for Wednesday night
as follows: "If Music Be the Food
of Love, Play On" (Clifton),
"Alma Mia" (Handel), C'est Mon
Ami" (Marie Antoinette), "Le
Jardinier du Roi" (Marie Antoi­nette),
Aria:—"O Quante Volte,
O Quante" (Bellini), "Ave Maria"
(Schubert), "Mit Einer Wasserli-lie"
( G r i e g ), "Liebestraum"
(Liszt), "Cantares" (Turina). In­termission.
Aria:—"Te Souvient—II du
Lumineux Voyage (Thais)" (Mas­senet),
"Kerry Dance" (Molloy),
"Annie Laurie" (Lady Scott),
"Strictly Germ Proof" (Sacco),
"The Lilacs Are in Bloom" (Ty­son),
and "Cupid Captive" (La
Forge).
These selections have been
carefully chosen by Miss Drago­nette
for the audience and the
program should prove to be very
different and entertaining, as she
has been noted for her wide and
unusual repertoire and also for
ten the lyrics to many melodies.
One of these, Liszt's "Liebe­straum,"
will be presented on the
program.
In addition to her weekly "Sat­urday
Night Serenade," Miss
Dragonette will also make forty
concert engagements during the
year, appearing in such cities as
Chicago, Milwaukee, and Pitts­burgh,
in additon to her appear­ance
in Auburn.
In a pre-season concert this
year, Miss Dragonette appeared
with the Wisconsin Symphony
Orchestra, in Madison. Sterling
Sorensen, Music Editor of the
Capital Times, of that city wrote
as follows concerning the con­cert:
"In her pre-season concert last
night, Miss Dragonette sang with
felicity, with rich variation of
tone coloring, excellent diction
and luster, and her phrasing was
such as one hears seldom in
many months of concert-going.
She sang with true regard to the
demands of each song or aria, and
there was quietness as well as
heroism in the purity of her in­flection
and pulse of interpreta­tion.
Heard Elected Alabama BSU
President for 1941-42 Term
Auburn Represented
At Annual Meet
Held in Tuscaloosa
Fifty students and several
faculty members from Auburn
invaded the University of Ala­bama
campus this past week-end
to attend the 19th annual State
Baptist Student Convention. The
keynote of the meeting was "Su­preme
Allegiance to Christ."
George Heard, an Auburn jun­ior
in Aeronautical Administra­tion,
was elected president of the
State Baptist Students for the
coming year at the election held
on Saturday night. Heard is from
Fairfield, Alabama, is a member
of Sigma Chi fraternity and is
the present News Editor of the
Plainsman.
The Convention was presided
over by Russell Baxley of the
University. He and his co-work­ers
provided an excellent pro­gram
for the students from all
over the state who were attend­ing.
Such outstanding speakers
as Dr. J. D. Grey, of New Or­leans,
Dr. F. B. Pearson, Monte-vallo,
Dr. John Xan, Howard Col­lege,
Birmingham, Dr. J. C. Stiv-ender,
Birmingham, Dr. Randall
Jones, Auburn, Dr. J. I. Riddle,
Montevallo, Dr. T. L. Holcomb,
Nashville, and Dr. Allen Graves,
Nashville, spoke to the students.
Topics were discussed by these
well known men and in some in­stances
the students took part in
open house discussions. Race re­lations,
Alcohol, Sabbeth Ob­servance
and many others were
talked about and lectured on to
the students.
Miss Mary Nance Daniel and
Mr. Davis Woolley spoke to them
on the possibilities of the Baptist
Student Unions in this state.
Miss Daniel is the Baptist Asso­ciate
Student Secretary for the
entire south and Mr. Woolley is
the State Student Secretary and
Training Union Director for Ala­bama.
On Saturday afternoon the
convention heard the singing of
the colored students from the
Stillman Institute under the di­rection
of Charles Tyler. There
were also many talks by various
students from the different cam­puses
over the state. Auburn stu­dents
who made talks were:
Ernest Burgin, President of the
BSU in Auburn, Bill Lynn, June
Forbus, Richard Calloway, Bill
Knight, Frances Ingram, and
George Heard, the newly elected
president.
The new officers for the com­ing
year will be: George Heard,
President, from Auburn; Miss
Mary Curtis, first Vice-president,
from Alabama College; Miss Mar-jorie
Stith, second Vice-president,
from Alabama College; Miss
Flora Shirey, third Vice-presi­dent,
from the University of Ala­bama;
Miss Juanita Cross, Secre­tary,
from Troy State Teachers
College; Bennett Alford, Treasur­er,
who attends Snead College in
Boaz; Joe Bill Knowles, Ridge-crest,
Chairman from Howard
College; Miss Betty Howell,
Florence State Teachers College;
Miss D. Pickens, Baptist Student
Magazine Representative from
Judson College; Ray Atchison,
Publicity Chairman from Howard
College; and Dr. Earl B. Edding-ton,
the Pastor Advisor from the
Hunter Street Baptist Church in
Birmingham.
Next year there will be no state
convention but a South-wide
Convention to be conducted in
either Memphis or New Orleans.
Page Two T H E P L A I N S M AN October 21, 1941
We Told You So
We told you that the Auburn Spirit
wasn't dead.
At the game Saturday, the students
didn't get down-in-the-mouth when SMU
was pouring it to us. I n fact, when Au­b
u r n had t h e ball on t h e i r own t w o or t h r ee
y a r d line, t h e whole cheering section start­ed
yelling, "we want a touchdown!"
We've "had t h e biggest and best pep ral­lies
in years, and yet t h e r e hasn't been any
track greasing, or picture show or dorm
raiding. But everybody's had a swell time
at the rallies.
Those things show the Auburn Spirit.
Master Plan
Brainchild of President Duncan and B
& G Director Brewster is their all-campus
master plan.
This master plan is t h e G r e a t e r Auburn
of the future—on paper, and in the pro­cess
of becoming an actuality.
It is an architect's drawing of the Au­b
u r n to be, w i t h new buildings, detailed
landscaping, every bush, tree, and shrub,
every blade of grass, every addition to
present campus facility plotted, planned
and marked.
This week the master plan was placed
on display in the lobby of Samford Hall,
fastened upon an upright bulletin board,
and lighted so that every Auburn student
could see and marvel.
The plan is of course, for t h e future, in
i ts entirety. But the present improve­ments
of the grounds, these new walks,
t h e landscaping now in progress, and foun­dations
for buildings now u n d e r construc­tion
are all a part of it.
Dr. Duncan and Mr. Brewster declare
that this plan will be complete, in a few
years. It'll take work, money, and time.
I t ' s a masterpiece of planning. Nothing
could be more complete than an Auburn
fulfilling that plan.
Orchids to Dr. Duncan and Mr. Brew­ster
for their foresight and efforts.
Elections Rule Controversy
With t h e s t a r t i n g gun of t h e season's first
political race still sounding in our ears, it
is just a l i t t le surprising to have questions
already arising concerning t h e wisdom of
t h e election rules. The r u l i n g that seems
to be the center of controversy is that
one which prohibits the soliciting of votes
by any means other than personal contact
and conversation. This rule has been
questioned by both candidates and voters
who are interested in aiding some candi­dates.
The a l t e r n a t i v e that they offer is
limit to t h e amount of money that any one
candidate may spend in his electioneering
efforts.
Some years ago t h e r e was no limit to
t h e amount that any candidate could
spend, or to t h e actions that any candidate
could perform in his campaign. After this
policy had reached the logical conclusion
of using cards, loudspeakers, sandwich
boards, cigars, airplane-spread pamphlets,
and free shoeshines, it became apparent
t h a t the successful candidate must be pre­pared
to spend a considerable s um in t he
course of his candidacy. To p u t a stop to
such as this t h e student body voted on an
amendment to t h e constitution of t h e As­sociated
Undergraduate Students, as the
student government organization is offic­ially
known. This amendment was to t he
effect that t h e r e would be no expenditures
for any means of "politicking" in a student
election.
Those who have been questioning the
desirability of this r u l e have not advocated
t h e r e t u r n of t h e old s y s t em of unlimited
expenditure, but rather some plan in­volving
a m a x i m um which each student or
his supporters might spend for each elec­tion.
They seem to think it possible to
limit the expense so that there might be
no hardship imposed on those who have
no money to use for such purposes. Such
is not the case, as will be easily seen if
similar systems are examined.
Most states in the U. S. have a law
limiting the amount that each candidate
for a political office may spend in the
course of his campaign. These laws are
intended to prevent the use of such ex­pensive
means of campaigning that only
t h e rich could afford to seek an office.
None of these laws are completely success­ful,
and most a r e complete farces. Friends
contribute money for various usages that
is classed as gifts, associates give various
election equipment such as cards, sign­board
space, small gifts for t h e candidate
to present to members of t h e electorate,
and any other articles or services that
might be useful. None of these' may be
classed as expenditures by the candidate,
but all a r e given with the expectation of
something in r e t u r n . Membership on va­rious
committees, appointment to positions
t h a t have a neat financial return, and in
some cases promises of influence in the
right place to secure for t h e donor of such
"gifts" the offer of membership in this or
t h a t society are only a few of t h e rewards
that may be bought by t h e use of money
for the benefit of a candidate. This is t he
case in s t a t e and national politics and this
would most certainly be t h e case in cam­pus
politics h e r e if we attempted to allow
some small expenditures by each candi­date
in an election.
The only way to prevent our student
elections from coming once more under
the ranking of a professional endeavor is
to prohibit the use of any means of cam­paigning
other t h a n the personal approach
method. The only limit that can be im­posed
and enforced on both candidate and
supporter is a limit of exactly no dollars
and cents. j.s.
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ANY CARTOONISTS PI ains Talk
Freshman Greeks
Sometime in t h e n e a r future the would-be
organization called "Freshman Greeks"
will meet its doom or salvation before the
I n t e r f r a t e r n i t y Council.
The idea behind Freshman Greeks is
excellent. In fact, it is Utopian. Just
imagine an organization which is going to
h e l p the school, help the fraternities, help
t h e pledges, help t h e campus to determine
i ts future leaders, help itself, and help its
members to get elected to campus offices.
Wouldn't that be wonderful?
But t h e idea is great. The backers of t he
idea, at least its upperclassmen backers,
have nothing but t h e i n t e r e s t s of the fra­ternities,
pledges, and A u b u r n at heart. In
t h a t "they are sincere. We are sincere in
giving t h em that credit.
But it won't work. Just as soon as t he
I n t e r f r a t e r n i t y Council passes on the or­ganization,
it will cease to be a philanthro­pic
society and become a political one.
The freshmen will forget about buying the
school a set of encyclopedies, forget about
teaching greek ideals, forget about every­t
h i n g except politics.
Each f r a t e r n i t y will be paying t e n dol­l
a r s a year into a purely political organi­zation,
one with a perfect constitution,
one with perfect ideals, but one with the
one and only idea of electing its candidates
to office.
The I n t e r f r a t e r n i t y Council can stop
this unnecessary movement. For Auburn's
sake, let's hope they do.
• ThB Plaindmarv •
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To the Students
Open Letter to the Young Ladies of
Alabama College:
Recently the Plainsman's veteran slam columnist, Herb Martin,
visited your campus. He came back to Auburn, and for the lack of a
subject of more interest, wrote about Montevallo.
In a short time, somebody in Montevallo read that column, and
told somebody else about it, and somebody else told one Miss B. A.
Biggs, President, the student body, Alabama College.
And so, Miss Biggs, unable to restrain herself, dashed out a very
executive-like letter, and our friend, Editor Jeanne Appleton, of the
Alabamian, published same in her newspaper.
That letter was as follows:
Open Letter to an Auburnite
Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates by
mail: $2.50 per year, $1.50 per semester.
Dear Farmer Boy:
We appreciate most gratefully your deep interest in the young
love situation at Alabama College as evidenced by your "Plains Talk"
of September 30 in the PLAINSMAN. But we do object to the
writer's enjoying the charms of our campus one week-end and using
the data collected in his column the next week. He doesn't have to
inflict himself upon our attractive girls if he doesn't like us, does he?
We accept criticism, gracefully, we hope, but we think that much
of what you have included in your advice to the A. C. students is not
generally true. In the first place, we believe you are grossly misin­formed
on the methods of obtaining dates. As far as we have been
able to ascertain, there are only two means of getting a date: Calling
a girl you know or getting a friend of yours to introduce you to a
friend of hers.
About automobiles, we do avoid them. Airplanes are more pop­ular
with our up-to-the-minute femmes.
We find that in order to keep the beauty for which A. C. is general­ly
renowned, our lovelies demand more sleep than your Auburn fe­male
inmates dare steal from dates. We are also interested in uphold­ing
our high scholastic standards rather than wasting wee hours away
with Auburn farmers. We might add, however, that our scholastic
matters do not prevent our finding numerous week-ends to spend in
traveling—sometimes even to the Village of the Plains to dances,
house parties, etcetera.
As far as entertainment goes, we feel that our students are intelli­gent
and informed enough to keep any Auburnite well-occupied for
quite a while with light and charming chatter or intellectual mental
fare, as the farmer boy prefers. So you see we do not need a replica
of the "Ag Bottom" which A. P. I. is well known for.
And finally, in answer to your statement, "It's all right for bridge,
but it's a helluva place for young love," we are led to believe that love
is indigenous to marriage, and statistics show that A. C. grads
measure up to yours in marriage rates. Need we say more?
In greatest sincerity,
BETTY ANN BIGGS,
President, Student Government.
We have a few questions we'd like to put before you young ladies
of Montevallo.
We're not attempting to answer them. We probably couldn't. But
you might be able to. We're just presenting questions, backed by
statistical and accepted facts.
Question 1. What gives you the idea your girls are attractive?
The farmer boys of Auburn who come up to see them?
Question 2. Are there just two ways of obtaining dates? Does
Miss B. have the right of final authority on that matter, in her po­sition
as your president?
Question 3. How many of your up-to-the-minute femmes have
ever ridden in an airplane? And how many of them have ever ridden
in an airplane that landed or took off from Montevallo? (If there
are any, the planes were probably piloted by our farmer boys. We
teach 'em to fly down here.)
Question 4. Who said Alabama College was renowned for beauty?
(Besides Miss B.? And the college beauties of the past?)
Question 5. (We can't think of a question to ask on this one. The
very idea of an Alabama College girl, one of those poor ruled-by-rules
ladies, calling an Auburn coed an inmate, is so ridiculous as to be
sublime.)
Question 6. Could anybody blame you for traveling from there
when you can?
Question 7. If Montevallo girls are so capable of entertaining the
lads with chatter, etcetera, why do they restrict you from walking
with dates at night outside of lighted areas? Maybe you should tell
your rule makers that that rule is unnecessary, you wouldn't need to
walk in the dark, anyway.
Question 8. If Miss B. likes Alabama College so much, and Au­burn
so little, why didn't she go to summer school up there two
summers ago, instead of coming to Auburn? Was it because of the
farmer boys, or the wee small hours, or the dances, houseparties, etc.,
or to uphold her high scholastic standing, or in a genuine attempt to
acquire some real college knowledge? And what does Miss B know
about Ag Bottom, other than it's close to the Pi Kappa Phi house?
» * * * *
Note to Martin:
However, Bird, take our advice, and henceforth don't take too
many cracks at those Montevallo gals. When Auburnites go up
there to see them, all they can hear is "We can't do this and we can't
do that, and we're just prisoners here," and so on. But according to
Miss B., they like it that way. And you can't argue with a woman.
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.
We got on a Gallup kick the
other day. We got out a little ef­ficient
looking notebook, sharpen­ed
a couple of pencils, one stolen,
and rushed off like a herd of
girdled turtles, asking students
this personal question, "Do you
neck?"
* * *
Well, we asked 20 students. We
asked 10 boys and 10 coeds. The
10 boys said yes; the 10 girls said
no.
* * *
That would seem to be that, but
in analyzing the data obtained, we
were struck by the impractabili-ty
of it all. Ten boys admitted a
tendency to woo; 10 girls would
have no part of it. Giving the
boys benefit of the doubt in ref­erence
to truth, but realizing that
the girls were also telling the
truth, in all probablity, we won­dered,
"Where in the naughty
world did the boys find girls?"
* * *
Questioning a couple of the
boys, we found that we had been
speaking to the wrong girls, and
should ask some from Dormitory
(name withheld because of traf­fic
problem).
* * *
Once more, taking an awful
chance, we asked 10 more coeds,
"Do you neck?" We offer the
answers for your approval.
* » • . •
Number One: Boy, do I!!!
A Bystander: Boy, does she!!!
She does.
* * *
Number Two (2): Right now?
. . . In front of all these people?
* * *
Number Three: Wait a while.
* * *
Number Four: Who, ME? With
whom?
* * *
Number Five (fife): That's for
me to know and you to find out!
She does.
* * »
The above information was re­trieved
from a mutual friend.
* * *
Number VI: Who told you?
* * *
Number Seven (Baby needs a
new pair of shoes): Sorry. I have
a date tonight.
Number Eight: Let's osculate.
* * *
Number Nine: Some say I can
and some say I can't.
Me: The question was, do you?
Number Nine: Well, I try.
* * *
Number X: Are you kiddin'?
* * *
Resolution based on the fore­going
data: He was on the ball
and way ahead of his time in a
lot of things, but when it came to
lovin', Plato was just a square
kid.
* * *
"Aw Nuts" to "Aw Nuts" to
"Aw Nuts". . . .
We were sincerely grieved to
notice the editorial stand taken
by the Plainsman as to that noble
and expressive yell of "Aw . . . .
Nuts!" after Auburn penalties.
We trust the writer of said edi­torial
either didn't see the SMU
game or would like to take a
few of his remarks back.
* * *
It's not that the yell means that
old Auburn has gotten a raw deal
(what does that remind you of?)
and the cheering section is out for
blood. On the other hand, neither
does it mean that we're happy as
little lilting larks about the
whole thing.
* * *
"Aw-w-w-w, Nuts!" merely
shows that we resent the officials
meddling in a collegiate game.
"Gee-e-e-e, 'Tanks!" shows that
there are really no hard feelings
when the other lads lose a few
yards via official footsteps.
* * *
It isn't the best yell in the
world. . . . that being War Eagle.
. . . . of course. . . . but we love
it just the same. And we'll holler
it, by dern!!
* * *
Karrie, the Kampus Kutest Ko-ed,
sharpens her gaze on score
comparisons "Tulane beat Au-"
burn, censored to nothing," says
Karrie, "and looked like a pretty
good football team. . . . a dam'
good football team. Rice licked
Tulane, 10-9. Now LSU tromps
Rice, 27 to 0, making Tulane look
less than somewhat, until you
hear that the Greenies rolled over
the NC Tarheels, 52-6. . . . get
that, 52-6. Auburn ought to lick
Tech, 53-6, which means that. . ."
The World This Week
By EDDIE BERMINGHAM
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.
Problematical Fall of Moscow
Moscow as it stands today can
be no more than a symbol of
Soviet resistance. Cut off from
the rest of Russia, its importance
as a manufacturing and commun­ications
center is ended. Only for
the purpose of morale does it
have any value to the allies other
than that of keeping several Ger­mans
busy trying to capture it.
In looking at the Russian war,
we are inclined to forget that
Russia even being in the war was
a break the allies had no reason to
expect. Russia began this war as
a silent partner in the Axis. By
this war not only has Hitler lost
countless supplies and equipment,
but he has done himself out of
the supplies he could have ob­tained
from a friendly Russia.
The necessity of a Russian war
was just as much of a blow to
Hitler as a war with the United
States would have been to Eng­land.
If Russia falls, and there is no
telling whether or not it will, the
allies will still be better off than
they were before the Reds began
to fight. Has not Hitler been kept
busy all summer? If you remem­ber,
when the Russo-German war
began, none of us gave Russia
credit for more than a month in
the field at the most. Russia has
done such a fine job fighting that
we have come to expect her to
win our war for us.
For the United States the im­portant
developments in the
weakening of Red resistance are
going to come in the Far East.
The Germans have been badger­ing
Japan to seize Vladivostok
and Nippon is obviously taking
the suggestion seriously. Now
that the siege of Moscow has sev­ered
communications between the
port of Archangel and the rest of
the country, and German victor­ies
in the south are threatening
supply routes there, the Trans-Si­berian
Railway is assuming the
status of a Burma road. If the
bait becomes too tempting, (and
the Russians have admittedly
drawn on their Eastern armies
for the war in the west) we are
liable to be faced with the neces­sity
of thwarting a Jap grab.
The State Department has already
taken steps to avoid any minor
explosions with orders forcing the
abandonment of a shipping route
to Siberia which passed in sight
of Japan.
Nobody else in the East is in a
position to check Japan, and as
soon as those slant-eyed orientals
in the new cabinet find that no
matter what they say to the
United States, the answer will
still be a polite "no," they will
come to the obvious conclusion
that they are going to have to
move right away, before the ma­chine
gives out of gas, or else
politely subside, and in the old
oriental tradition of saving one's
face, there is no place for polite
subsidence.
The fact that Japan cannot
possibly have the reserves to con-tine
such a war is immaterial.
The time for them to have started
a fight was two years ago. They
missed their chance theq, and are
now paying the price of procras­tination.
That oil in Burma is
farther away every day. So all
they can do is pull a bluff in the
North and hope that the luck of
the Irish will see them through,
on a long shot.
But our State Department has
played a little poker in its day,
and is not likely to be willing to
trade Japan enough oil for other
conquests for an open road to
Moscow. With the stakes as high
as they are, it is much more like­ly
to suggest that the Army oc­cupy
Vladivostok as it has Ice­land,
and be ready for the shoot­ing
it hopes the Japs will be
afraid to start.
October 21, 1941 THE P L A I N S M AN Page Three
Combined Men's and Women's
Glee Club Members Announced
Plans Being Made for Week's Tour
To Be Held Early in February
By MILTON KAY
The combined Auburn Glee Clubs, which are under the
direction of Mr. Lawrence Barnett, have been holding regu­lar
rehearsals in p r e p a r a t i o n for t h e week tour which will be
made early in February.
Although the club has been organized for four years, this
is t h e first year that it has been prominent in school activi­ties,
w i t h the membership doubled over that of last year.
Male members of the Glee Club
are tenors, Ed Henderson, Anda­lusia;
Carl W. Stapleton, Bir­mingham;
Harry Hagan, Jr., At­lanta,
Ga.; W. G. Brooke, Biloxi,
Miss.; Walter S. Going, Birming­ham;
Roy E. Wilson, Birmingham;
Henry Herbert Hinds, Montgom­ery;
Raymond Hubbard, Bir­mingham;
R. H. Mann, Tallassee;
Richard Somerville, Aliceville.
Basses, Ernest C. Capell, Jr.,
Greenville, S. C; D. W. Moody,
Jr., Crooke Springs; Jimmy Over­ton,
Birmingham; Clyde D. Ware,
Toomsboro, Ga.; Sam Mayo,
Quincy, Florida; Walter S. Kelly,
Ripton; Douglas S. Baker, Skip-perville;
Jack Morgan; Homer
Hamlin, Aliceville; Herbert C.
Hoik, Foley; Mark W. Mathews,
Vidalia, Ga.; Bill Martin, Rich­mond,
Va.; Joe Fowler, Oneonta;
Andrew J. Ellner, Mobile; Ken­neth
K. Bateman, Birmingham;
John P. Roberts, Uniontown; R.
A. Azbell, Sheffield; and Steve
Conner, Eufaula.
Female members of the Glee
Club are sopranos, Faye Wide-burg,
Chicago, 111.; Mary Jane
Jansen, Mobile; Sara Lou Con-nell,
Birmingham; Dorothy Mur-dock,
Laurel, Miss; Janet Cloud,
Guntersville; Sarah Ellen Jack­son,
Auburn; Margaret Johnston,
Auburn; Ruth Blaire, Montgom­ery;
Kathryn Blake, Auburn;
BOB'S TAXI
9111
Operated Entirely by Students
Mary Largent, Auburn; Sarah At­kinson,
Auburn; Sarah Anne Ben­nett,
Hartselle; Mary Christina
Guarisco, Daphne; Helen Krauss,
St. Petersburg, Fla.; Mailande
Cheney, Livingston; Nellie Jo
Clayton, Auburn; Henrie Cook,
Butler; Madie Harper, Montgom­ery;
Mary Ella Funchess, Auburn;
Julia Grace, Tuscaloosa; Altos:
Martha Northcutt, Chipley, Fla.;
Vernelle Fordham, Anniston;
Mailande Cheney, Livingston;
Jean Beasley, Auburn; Evelyn
Martin, Plantersville; Catherine
Norton, Clayton; Nanette E.
Whitman, Montgomery; Sara
Frances Godfrey, Auburn; Mar­garet
Chambers, Washington, D.
-C.; Annie Mae Knapp, Auburn;
Minnie Tippins, Auburn; Mary
Ann McMillan, Auburn; Dale
Garber, Jackson, Miss.; Millie
Mae Flewellen, Opelika; Mar-jorie
Walls, New Market; Evelyn'
Alisan, Carlowville; Alyne Dar­by,
Florence; Mamie Elizabeth
Piper, Fairfax; Annie D. Brooks,
Auburn; Jacqueline Breedlove,
Opp; Evelyn Knapp, Auburn;
Mana Connor, Crangeburg; and
Kathleen MacNamee, Prospect
Park, Penn.
DELTA ZETA GIVES
SPAGHETTI SUPPER
Delta Zeta Sorority recently en­tertained
members, pledges, and
several guests with a Spaghetti
Supper at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. P. O. Davis.
Those present were: Delores
Sanders, Mary Vaughn, Valera
Porter, Margaret Kilburn, Allen
"THE BRIDE CAME
C.O.D." PLAYING
AT TIGER THIS WEEK
The Hollywood he-men who
have been "dishing it out" for a
decade, are learning to "take it"
now and they aren't liking it
particularly well, either.
It is Bette Davis who slaps
Jimmy Cagney, the actor who
started all the rough stuff with
women in pictures, in their new
production, "The Bride Came
C.O.D." which will be shown
Wednesday and Thursday at the
Tiger Theatre. That was Jimmy's
own idea, however. The script
writer had it that Jimmy would
belt Bette but the reformed Cag­ney
flatly refused to hit another
woman in or out of pictures.
So Bette had an inning that she
has, presumably, been awaiting
for a number of years. When she
and Jimmy worked together in
"Jimmy the Gent," neither of
them was a top-rank star and
Jimmy couldn't very well refuse
to do what the director and writ­er
proposed, any more than Bette
could refuse to be roughed up by
the redhead.
She was willing to "turn the
cheek" for the Cagney slap,
knowing that he is an expert and
probably would not hurt her, but
he wouldn't stand for it. So Bette
slapped Jimmy and all the ac­tresses
in Hollywood who have
been hit by Cagney, probably told
themselves that he was getting
just what he deserved.
Odom, Georgette Davis, Anne
Owsley, Virginia Chase, Elaine
Burdette, Doris Ford, Clara El­len
Slaton, Beverly Kilian, Alice
Chateau, Martha Anne Merkel,
Theresa Hug, Dorothy Conley,
Jacqueline Breedlove, Jane Shef­field.
Barbara Shippey, Mavis Wid-ney,
Elizabeth Mills, Willie Chase,
Marion Tompkins, Louise Brooks,
Sarah Alice Finley, Dot Hurst,
Jo Hurst, Mary Jane Jansen,
Rosemary Burns, Martha Owen
Ingram, Dale Garber, Carolyn
Jones, Mary Jo Salter, and Marion
Hayes.
The supper was held in honor
of the new pledges.
Essay Contest
Announced By
Scribner's
First Prize Of
$1000 Offered
By Magazine
"George Washington's Foreign
Policy Today" is the subject of
the $1500 prize essay contest be­ing
conducted by Scribner's Com­mentator
magazine, Lake Geneva,
Wisconsin. The first prize is $1000.
There are also prizes of $200 and
$100 each, and eight $25 prizes.
The contest closes December 1,
1941.
Scribner's Commentator is the
national magazine planned and
edited solely for the safety and
future of America. It is obtain­able
by subscription only and is
not available on newsstands.
Full details of the contest may
be obtained by writing to Scrib­ner's
Commentator, Lake Geneva,
Wisconsin. All manuscripts should
be addressed: Contest Editor,
Scribner's Commentator, Lake
Geneva, Wisconsin.
PLANE AND LICENSE
OWNERS REQUESTED
TO REGISTER
All plane owners and private
pilots are requested to come by
the office of Professor Robert
Pitts, in the Engineering Build­ing,
some time in the very near
future to register for the Alabama
Civilian Air Defense Service.
This request was made by Pro­fessor
Pitts yesterday and he urg­ed
that all private pilots and
plane owners do this at once so
that registration for the National
Program in the near future will
not be so confused. There will not
be any charge for this service.
Registration will cover all pilots
and plane owners whose licenses
are currently effective. When
new pilots are licensed they
should register as soon as pos­sible.
Registration blanks may be ob­tained
in Professor Pitts' office
in the Ramsay Building.
On many of the defense projects encountered by the Bell
System, the work sheets — showing telephone facilities
needed and time allowed—would make a good, conservative
engineer's hair stand on end.
For example, take the Navy's huge new air base near
Corpus Christi, Texas, which covers 14,500 acres, includes 29
separate flying fields and 481 buildings. Closely connected
with the base are Defense Housing projects for 1700 families.
Imagine the complex problems involved in planning tele­phone
facilities for this new "city" where formerly there
were sand dunes—in obtaining and installing miles and miles
of wire and cable, switchboards, telephones by the thousand.
But telephone engineers and construction men took hold
—proceeded to shatter records—completed their huge task
in seemingly impossible time. For men with the "will to
do," there's a real thrill in such Bell System work!
Ride in Safety and Comfort
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ATLANTA
AND RETURN
AUBURN - TECH
FOOTBALL GAME
SATURDAY, OCT. 25TH
"The Auburn Special"
Leave Auburn 7:50 A.M.
Arrive Atlanta 10:45 A.M.
Return—Leave Atlanta 7:30 P.M.
WESTERN RAILWAY
OF ALABAMA
J. B. PATTERSON
Montgomery, Ala.
W. W. SNOW
Atlanta, Ga.
This Week-end in Football
By BILL MARTIN
Another hectic week-end of
football has passed and has caus­ed
the narrowing of the nation's
undefeated to a select few. Now
let's take a gander at some of the
results, first looking at the re­maining
teams on Auburn's sche­dule,
and then at the other teams
in the Sootheastern conference.
S.M.TJ. proved too much for the
Plainsmen last Saturday but the
Tigers were in there all the way
and did not let up one iota dur­ing
the contest showing the fine
stuff the Auburnites are made of
and we are always proud of our
boys, win or lose. The Meagher-men
finished the fracas in almost
top shape for the Tech game next
week.
Auburn's next opponent will
be Georgia Tech in Atlanta this
Saturday, and looks to be a tough
customer. Last week saw Tech
fall stubbornly before a strong
Vanderbilt team 14-7, but not be­fore
outplaying the Commodores
according to the statistics. The
Jackets countered 17 first downs
to Vandy's 9, and made 278 yards
from scrimmage as compared to
243 for Vanderbilt, and showed a
lightning fast offense led by
Ralph Plaster in the place of the
injured Johnny Bosch. Watch for
a slam-bang game when these
two ancient rivals come to blows
on Grant Field Saturday.
Following Tech on the "hard­est
schedule in the country" will
be Frankie Sinkwich and the
Georgia Bulldogs. Last week-end
saw Sinkwich strengthen his bid
for "All American" honors by
starring in Georgia's 7 to 3
triumph over Columbia.
Mississippi State, who takes the
field against the Tigers follow­ing
Georgia, enjoyed a week-end
of rest as ther game with Catho­lic
U. was cancelled.
On November 15 Auburn meets
a team which has made itself the
Oka
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surprise team of the conference,
L.S.U. After holding Mississippi
State to a 0-0 deadlock two weeks
ago, the Bengals sprang what was
probably the biggest upset in the
collegiate football circles last
week by knocking Rice out of the
charmed circle of the undefeated
with a surprisingly sound thrash­ing
to the tune of 27-0.
Villanova, Auburn's Philadel­phia
opponent, took another vic­tory
under her belt as she down­ed
Baylor 13-6 Friday.
Clemson, who will help us cel­ebrate
Homecoming in the finale
of the current season on Novem­ber
29, and who seems to be
headed for a bowl bid, took a va­cation
last week.
Now we will run down the line
in other conference games. Prob­ably
the hardest fought game last
week was played in Knoxville
by Alabama and Tennessee. Led
by All Southeastern Jimmy Nel­son,
the Crimson Tide finally
broke their Tennessee jinx by
turning in a 9-2 victory.
Ray Terrell took the spotlight
from the Ole Miss touchdown
twins, Hapes and Hovious, in
leading the Rebels to a 21-0
swamp of Holy Cross. Though
Terrell was the offensive star,
the "H" boys got together in the
third period to manufacture a
score on a 76 yard march, and
RECREATION FOR
FACULTY POSTPONED
Due to the concert by Jessica
Dragonette at the Gymnasium on
Wednesday evening, October 22,
the regular faculty recreation
period this week will be held on
Thursday evening, October 23,
from 8 to 10 p. m. However, those
who wish to do so may come at
7:30 and participate in the latter
half of Mrs. Forte's social dance
class.
After this week the recreation
hour for the faculty will be held
on Wednesday evening, 7 to 10.
In addition to the facilities for
shuffleboard, badminton and
table tennis, the faculty is also
invited to swim in the gymnas­ium
pool. A lifeguard will be
present and swimming instruct­ion
is available.
showed that they were still very
capable.
Tulane brought forth a tidal
wave that would have carried
any team in the country in its
wake, but the misfortune of be­ing
on the receiving end of the
punishment fell to North Carolina
as she took a 52-6 drubbing. The
highlight of the game came on
the first play when Tulane half­back
Lou Thomas grabbed the
opening kickoff and dashed 102
yards to a touchdown.
In the other two conference en­counters,
Florida was upset by
Maryland 12-13 and Kentucky
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Page Four THE P L A I N S M AN October 21, 1941
Plainsmen Meet Tech Saturday
Lose to SMU In
Fumbling Spree
Georgia, Mississippi State, L S. U.
Villanova, and Clemson Follow Tech
Holding a record of two wins against two losses in four
games played, Auburn's Plainsmen this week head back into
the SEC race as they meet Georgia Tech Saturday afternoon
in Atlanta- Following the Jackets come, on successive Satur­days,
Georgia, Mississippi State and L.S.U. Intersectional
contests with Villanova and Clemson will round out the '41
schedule.
Against Southern Methodist at Legion Field Saturday it
was careless ball handling by the
Tigers in the tight spots that de­cided
the issue as they fell be­fore
Matty Bell's air-minded
Mustangs. Five Auburn fumbles
were gathered in by the South­western
co-champs and four kicks
were blocked. All of which can
be used to sum up the game's
general complex. Because the
Plainsmen outgained the visitors,
228 to 224, and showed as good
an offensive throughout. But you
can't toss the ball around and
expect to come out on top when
you're up against a team that
rarely loses over one or two
games a season.
S.M.U. scored early, counting
on a fourth down pass from How­ard
Maley to Lendon Davis before
four minutes of the game had
passed. They made it 14 with a
plunge by Presto Johnston later
in the same period, and went
ahead to take a 20-0 lead midway
in the third on a left end sweep
by Johnston. Auburn's score
came when Ty Irby burroughed
through from the four yard line
in the final period.
Offenses Stand Out .
It was an offensive show from
the start, with the Methodists
doing the shooting in the first
half "and Auburn coming back to
roll up its heavy yardage in the
final periods. Line play, though
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lax on the defensive end, was
hard and rough and gave the 12,-
000 shirt-sleeved customers sev­eral
shows to watch whenever a
wide array of S.M.U. and Auburn
backs wasn't galloping for long
gains or turning loose passes.
The lineman in the Auburn
wall who probably stood out
more than any other was guard
Nick Ardillo, the same Nick who
it was feared wouldn't be ready
for action following a side in­jury
received against Tulane. As
it was, the 185 pound junior from
Amite, Louisiana, entered the
game with his injury padded, for­got
all about his inconvenience
and threw himself into the line
play with a vigor that had him
stamped even when the Mustangs
were pulling away at a gallop in
the first quarter.
Alt.-Capt. Francis Crimmins
and Joe Eddins turned in out­standing
performances at the
tackle spots. For Joe, playing
before the home towners, it was
probably the best played game
he's put up yet for Auburn. Rick
Ferrell seeing considerable ser­vice
as a guard, also stood out.
For SMU in the line it was
one Clarence Booth, a 215 bundle
of activity at right tackle, who
carried off the honors for the
day as far as line play went, and
it went quite a way in Mr.
Booth's case. Early in the after­noon
Clarence packed his suit­case
and moved in to spend the
week-end with the Auburn back-field.
Before the evening was
over he had seriously hampered
Auburn offensive moves and
blocked two kicks, one of which
was a setup for the final SMU
touchdown.
Though Presto Johnston was
billed as the Mustang big gun in
the backfield and scored 13 of
the 20 points it was a sophomore
named Howard Maley who start­ed
off the scoring and did more
in the SMU offensive jump than
Johnston. It was Maley who al­most
singlehandedly moved the
ball after the opening kickoff to
the Auburn goal, climaxing the
59 yard drive with a 38 yard pass
for the score.
For Auburn it was Monk Gaf-
-ford, running, passing, kicking to
lead the Auburn offensive drives,
gaining 70 yards of Auburn's 152
gained rushing and rating as the
outstanding running back of the
day. Ironic .it was that it was
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Followed by a trio of football-mad cowboys complete to horses,
spurs, ten-gallon hats and Alabama accents, Southern Methodist
moved into Birmingham over the week-end to try out their fire­works
in a final test before the impending game against Pete Lay-den
and his Texas Longhorns. If the Mustangs did nothing else,
which, unfortunately, is not true, they showed 12,000 onlookers that
the rumors about the Lone Star State and its wide open football
aren't without a good deal of basis.
The visitors were equipped with a set of backs who could step
and pass a football to any given point into the hands of any given
player. And the main reason must be emphasized as the pro­tection
given them by both linemen and backs who held off Auburn
linemen long enough to let the pitchers wind up, watch the air­planes
overhead, glance at all the bases and let go for another
completion and 10 or 20 yards.
Red Maley was a master in this line and lit the first touchdown
bomb with a throw that Mickey Owen could have caught. And
there were others who could do the same thing. Among these was
a number 41 named Abel Gonzales and I will now get on Abel.
A familiar feeling it does give to write once more of the boy
who was doing all the fancy kicking for the Mustangs Saturday.
The last time I wrote about him was five years ago when I was
hopping around for a high school sports section in San Antonio.
And to keep up with Abel in those days you had to hop. Anyway, I
grew through three years of Alamo Heights High School with the
guy and watched him pull in all kinds of all-state and sectional
football honors when he weighed exactly 135 pounds. In fact one
writer refused to pick him on his All-south Texas team because he
weighed under 150, but was subsequently embarrassed when re­minded
a few days later that Bobby Wilson had just made All-
American from S.M.U. with an overall tonnage of 141.
So. weighing 135, Abel started watching the college offers roll
in. He picked S.M.U. and after sitting idle one year with apendi-citis
and another through some mx-up with a five or six year
plan he's playing deadly ball as a sophomore for Matty Bell. It
was he who laid his foot against the ball which soared out on the
one yard line, who later kicked two more out on the 1 4and 15,
and who passed twice with two completions.
"You've got a good ball club, John," he said after the game.
"They had plenty of drive. Of course the fumbles hurt a lot." Which
is the way just about everybody figured it after the game. But in
watching the Southwest during the next two or three years don't
forget this guy named Gonzales.
He's up to 155 now and if Auburn and S.M.U. decide to keep up
the series chances are you'll hear more of him than you'll want, as
he can do everything on a football field.
* * * * * _
Of 42 men on the S.M.U. squad 41 are from Texas. The other
didn't miss it much, coming from Shreveport. . . . Clemson, Villa-nova,
Georgia and Mississippi State remained undefeated over
another week-end, leaving a giddy future ahead for the Plains­men.
And who knows now what to expect out of L.S.U.? . . . .
Auburn has scored in 13 of its last 14 football games. Tulane was
the only team since Tennessee to mark up a shutout. . . . Voices
from Coach Wilbur Hutsell's track practices are talking about a
freshman hurdler, Andy Lamar, who looks like another Chuck
Morgan. . . . Auburn slid to 49th with the Williamson system, but
still stood above Rice, Boston College, L.S.U., Yale and Colgate.
Six Auburn opponents are among the first 25.
Subjects of Football, War Discussed
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5.
6.
7.
8.
Texas
Michigan
Duke
Navy
Texas A & M
Tulane
Minnesota
Ohio State
9. Northwestern 18.
10. Pennsylvania 19.
11. Santa Clara 20.
12. Oregon State 21.
13. Fordham 22.
14. Missouri 23.
15. Clemson 24.
16. Vanderbilt 25.
17. Villanova
Mississippi State
Purdue
S.M.U.
Notre Dame
Detroit
Alabama
Ole Miss
Georgia
Monk's two fumbles, one deep in
Mustang territory and another on
the Auburn 25, which turned the
direction of the game. Certainly
he was up to a high par except
for the bobbles which gave the
Methodists two breaks they didn't
pass up.
Capt. Lloyd Cheatham, seeing
duty as the Auburn signal caller
during the majority of the game,
stood out in his blocking assign­ments
above any back on the
field. Other convincing backfield
displays were those of Clarence
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Harkins, who sparkled in his run­ning
power before going out with
a renewal of a two-week old in­jury,
and Charlie Finney, wing-back
speed merchant.
Weakness for Auburn was the
pass defense which evidently
hadn't improved even after the
severe lesson dished out by sev­eral
boys representing Tulane
University of New Orleans. But
line strength showed improve­ment,
certainly in clearing holes
for the Auburn backs.
So the Auburn team still stands
as a machine which has yet to hit
on all fours against a major op­ponent.
This week will be a full
one for Jack Meagher's squad, as
there are six pretty rough weeks
featuring four undefeated foot­ball
teams ahead.
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Jacque Houser, student in­structor
in aeronautics, announc­ed
this morning that there would
be a meeting of all those students
who are interested in model air­plane
building or flying model
airplanes. This meeting will be
held in Ramsay 108, the Aero­nautical
Offices, at five o'clock
Wednesday afternoon.
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Student Opinion
Survey Conducted
On Campus Here
By JOHN SCOTT, JR.
This week tTiere were eight
more questions asked of Auburn
students than there were last.
These eight new arrivals made
up the first poll conducted by the
Student Opinion Survey, a Gal-lupesque
opinion poll whose
questionaires are answered by
the students of hundreds of col­leges
in all parts of the country.
The Student Opinion Survey is
conducted by a central office at
the University of Texas, whose
president is head of the Survey
Advisory Board, and by stu­dents
on the campuses of the
many schools cooperating. The
poll is operated through these in­dividual
enterviewers w h o se
function it is to read the ques­tions
of -that particular survey
to a certain number of both boys
and girls as determined by the
quota, and to record their ans­wers.
This week Auburn students,
twenty-five in all, expressed
themselves ab ut collegiate foot­ball
in one group of questions,
and about America's part in the
war in another group. The ans­wers
were surprising in many re­spects,
but the most noticeable
factor was the disagreement be­tween
boys and girls about their
opinion of the draft.
The first group, which was the
football group, was answered by
both boys and girls in such a way
as' to leave no doubt about the
fact that they approve of big-time
college football with all its
trimmings. The second group,
the war group, found that the
boys were all for keeping out of
war as long as possible, and that
even when we eventually be­came
engaged in it, only one stu­dent
was found who was in favor
of volunteering for expeditionary
service. It was noticeable that
this exception was a sixteen-year
old freshman enrolled in a
draft-exempt course.
These opinions about the draft
and the advisability of our
entrance into the war contrasted
with those of the girls.' While the
boys were unanimous in favor
of staying out until impossible to
do so, the girls were about evenly
divided between this policy and
that of entrance now. Among the
girls, it was shown, enthusiasm
for active participation varied di­rectly
as did age up to the age of
twenty-one, but with the boys
the opposite was the case.
These eight questions clearly
showed that opinion on the Au­burn
campus, as judged by those
twenty-five students, may be
somewhat divided about the
support that is to be given to the
Army, but it is solidly behind the
football team. Also it showed that
only the boys who are about to
be called have really made up
their minds as to what they think
about the drafting of college
students, while most of coeds
are quite certain that it's a
splendid idea. If no other conclu­sion
may be drawn from this sur­vey,
at least we have definitely
shown how little Auburn stu­dents,
meaning coeds, care about
what happens to Auburn students,
meaning the boys, either now or
later.
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