LEADS INTERFRAT BALL
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Miss Betty Barnes, sophomore in commercial art from Montgomery,
who will lead the Interfrateiraity Council Ball tonight
with Tommy Schuessler, LaFayette, president of the organization.
Betty Barnes to Lead
Interfrat Council Ball
Tigers Win Over Vanderbilt 36-34 in Tourney Opener
Lead Changes Hands
Sixteen Times In
Course,of Game
By BILL MARTIN
A last-minute field goal by
Fagan Canzoneri gave the Auburn
Tigers a thrilling 36-34 victory
over Vanderbilt last night in
their initial game in the 1942 SEC
tournament in Louisville.
The Tigers were trailing the
Commodores 33-34, with but a few
moments of playing time remaining
when Canzoneri swished his
goal to put his team back in the
lead. Just to make the win certain,
Frank Manci sank his last free
throw and the Plainsmen, fourth
seeded in the Tourney, won by
the two-point margin.
The lead in score had changed
hands sixteen times during the
course of the game. Vandy led 3-0
before Auburn could score, at the
first of the game. Auburn's first
score came on a foul shot by Williams.
Manci was guarded very closely
all evening but managed to
elude his guard on enough occasions
to sink 10 points to be tied
for the night's high score with
Red Dehoney of Vandy. Shag
Hawkins played his usual superb
ball and was the main ball hawk
throughout the contest. Hawkins
was the best passer on the floor
and also got eight points to his
credit. Ben Park got a taste of
playing different positions as he
appeared at forward, guard and
center.
In today's match the Tigers
move up to take on the Tulane
Green Wave. The Tulane boys
defeated the Auburnites in their
only other match this year.
Auburn 36
Manci, F 10
Williams, F 5
Park, F, G, C 4
Hawkins, C _
Canzoneri, G
Tanner, G
Motley, G
Vanderbilt
Olsen, F
Thewatt, F ....
Baird, F
Dehoney, C _
Webb, C
Owen, G
Jenkins, G
Rue, G
... 8
.... 5
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10
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7
5
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Tiger Coach Ralph Jordan, interviewed
over the radio after the
game, stated that the Auburnites
were "very delighted to win the
game."
"Tennessee is the best all-around
team we've played this
season," he said.
Auburn has played every conference
team with the exception
of Alabama and Kentucky.
Jordan also said, "Mississippi
State has a good chance of upsetting
Tennessee," and that the
"Conference is stronger this year
than last, with Alabama, Auburn,
Tennessee and Kentucky having
stronger teams than last year."
Last night's loss was the first
time that Vanderbilt had ever
been beaten in the first round of
an SEC meet.
Ihs Qlcrindmmv 'TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT
VOLUME LXV ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27,1942 NUMBER 42
Dance Begins Tonight
In Center at Nine
Betty Barnes, a sophomore in
Commercial Art from Montgomery,
will lead the Interfraternity
Councill Ball tonight with Tommy
Schuessler, the president of
the organization. The dance will
be held in Graves Center and will
feature t h e music of Bobby Adair
and the Auburn Knights.
A package of Chesterfield cigarettes
will be required of each
man who attends. The Chesterfield
brand was selected because
of the Glenn Miller Chesterfield
salute to the Interfraternity formal
Thursday night over a nationwide
hook-up.
Graves Center will be decorated
with the insignias of the different
fraternities who are represented
in the Council. Each fraternity
has two members on the
Council.
The date list is comprised of
Kappa Alpha, Tommy Schuessler,
Betty Barnes; Sammy Nettles,
Helen Wagner; Phi Delta Theta,
Tommy Bailey, Harriet Clements,
Billy Duncan, Margaret McCain;
Pi Kappa Phi, Bob Guillot, Nell
Lazenby, Bill Couch, Jane Gate-wood;
Delta Sigma Phi, Bob
Kloeti, Joe Sprague, Christine
Dukes; Sigma Nu, Clarence Michaels,
Annice Watkins, Zac Perry,
Patty Campbell; Beta Kappa, Jack
Houser, Doris Carpenter, Dillard
Morris.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Woodie
Hubbard, Jimmy Rouse; Sigma
Pi, John Pope, Ann Gossett, Reuben
Brawner; Tau Epsilon Phi,
Harold Michelson, Evelyn Johnson,
Bob Corman, Eleanor Bell;
Pi Kappa Alpha, Joe Gandy, Chris
Golson, Lansing Smith; Alpha
Gamma Rho, Bob Bright, Mary
Sanders, Ed Stewart; Sigma Phi
Epsilon, Felix Turnipseed, Charles
Rew; Omega Tau Sigma, Wil-burn
Cockran, Mana Conner,
Charles Swearinger, Georgette
Davies.
Alpha Lambda Tau, Ralph
Stamford, Carolyn Dickinson,
Hugo Parkman, Barbara Shippey;
Theta Chi, Bill Curry, Tommy
Stevens; Kappa Sigma, Bill Gor-dy,
Marjorie Gregory, Mac Hunter,
Doris Ruth Bedingfield; Alpha
Tau Omega, Z. A. Snipes, Laura
Wallace, Charlie Scott, Monta
Mitchell; Lambda Chi Alpha,
Charles Wagner, John Sanders,
Ann Dees; Sigma Chi, C. B. Hewitt,
Mary Hazel Ford, Henry
Green; Alpha Psi, Tom Roby, Tom
Sutton.
Choral Club Begins Tour With
Concert Here Monday Night
On Monday night, at 8 P. M., the
thirty-six members of the Auburn
Choral Club will present a concert
in Langdon Hall.
There will be no admission
charge for college students, but,
in order to be admitted, activities
books must be presented at the
door. Tickets for townspeople are
priced at twenty-five cents, while
high school pupils are to be
charged ten cents.
The prgram will feature a number
of regular choral selections to
be presented by the entire group.
In addition to these, there will be
several piano solos by William
Tamblyn, of Auburn. During other
portions of the program, special
numbers will be presented by a
women's sextet and a men's octet.
Some of the different types of
music which will be included on
the Monday night program are
humorous songs, popular selections,
college songs, spirituals, and
patriotic numbers,
Madge Jarrard and William
Tamblyn will accompany the
choral group at the piano.
Immediately following t h is
single presentation, the newly organized
group will leave for Maxwell
Field in Montgomery, where
they will appear the following
night. On Wednesday, Huntington
College will be visited, while
Thursday will find the group
showing its talents at the University
of Alabama. The next stop
of the tour will be at Sylacauga on
Friday.
Arrangements have been made
to broadcast brief programs in
Birmingham and Montgomery. It
is also hoped that a number of
high schools in the state will be
visited.
Unless plans for a concert
which would be given Saturday
night at a Talladega army camp
materialize, the members of the
club will board their chartered
bus and head back in the direc-tin
of Auburn after the Sylacauga
performance.
Officers of the organization are
Ernest Capell, Greenville, South
Carolina, president; Evelyn Martin,
Plantersville, vice-president;
and Roy Wilson, Birmingham,
business manager.
FROSH SWIMMERS
All members of the freshman
swimming team are requested to
meet in Alumni Gymnasium Monday
afternoon at five o'clock.
Forty-three Qualify for Campus Offices
King and Butts In
President's Race
SOPHOMORES GIVE
DANCE MARCH 14
Proceeds of Dance to Equip First Aid
Stations and Buy Defense Stamps
The "Red, White, and Blue Defense
Dance" will be the order of
the day Saturday, March 14. The
dance is the project of the Sophomore
class, whose president, Roy
Fuller, announced the plan today.
The dance will be given at
Graves Center from 3 to 5 in the
afternoon, music by the Auburn
Knights. Fuller announced that
the admission will be 25 cents and
one defense stamp for each boy,
50 cents and a defense stamp for
each couple.
The money raised by the dance
will go to equip the 11 first aid
stations that the college is going
to establish on the campus. The
profit from the sale of the stamps
naturally is all Uncle Sam's.
Fuller added that there will be
a booth selling the defense stamps
at the dance as well as fifty sophomores
who will start a sales
drive on the campus next Tuesday.
These fifty students will
wear red, white, and blue arm
bands to distinguish them, and
will sell both tickets and stamps.
Fuller, aided by a committee
composed of Cullen Ward, Chester
Stephens, and Kay Hall, has
arranged the dance as the project
of the class of '44.
Candidates For
Publications Jobs
To Meet Board
Candidates for the major publications
offices on the campus
will meet the Publications Board
Tuesday afternoon at four o'clock
in Mr. Draughon's Office, for
examination of qualifications.
These candidates will include
all those proposing to run for the
editorship and business managership
of The Plainsman and the
Glomerata.
Candidates may obtain information
as to requirements to run for
these offices from Kirtley Brown,
secretary of the Publications
Board, in the News Bureau office.
Included in the requirements
are a two-grade-point average, a
minimum of 90 semester hours of
credit at the time of candidacy,
certain courses with an average
of two grade points in each, a
year's experience on the publication,
and a one-thousand word
paper on plans for work in that
office.
Marine Corps
Officer Here
On Campus
Men who have received application
blanks for enlistment in
the Marine Corps from Colonel
Waterman are requested to note
the following information:
Non ROTC Seniors and Juniors
of Auburn will be given an opportunity
to enlist in the Marine
Corps Reserves and attend The
Candidates' Class, the successful
completion of which leads to a
commission as 2nd Lt. in the U.
S. Marine Corps Reserve.
It is desired by the Marine
Corps that Juniors who are enlisted
shall continue to work toward
their degree and it is not
contemplated that they will be
called prior to their graduation,
but in the event that his becomes
necessary they will be given a six
months' notice.
Interested students should begin
work at once to obtain a recent
passport-size photograph of
themselves, a copy of their birth
certificate, and the necessary
recommendations. Further information
may be obtained from a
Marine Recruiting Officer who
will be on the campus in the office
next to that of J. V. Brown,
first floor Samford Hall, on the
27th and 28th of February.
SEMESTER GRADES
Students may receive their last
semester's grades if they will go
by their respective Dean's offices.
Women's Student Government
Elections Slated for March 23
Any Suggestions For
Your Professors?
By HERBERT MARTIN
Does your English professor
frighten you with horrible grimaces
in class? Does your math
instructor bore you with more
than twice-told tales? You'll have
a chance to get even.
Does your history prof repeat
the same phrase endlessly? Do
you object to the way your economics
teacher grades? You, too,
will be offered revenge.
It's all a part of the new type,
for this campus, of student opinion
surveys, and it will be run in
conjunction with the Spring Elections
on March 24 and 25.
There's nothing to buy, and
nothing to sell, and you don't
sign your name on any dotted
line. You don't bring any reasonable
facsimiles, and you don't
have to save box tops or cigarette
coupons. In fact, all you have to
do is to write down your opinions
about any or all faculty members
and drop them in a box at the
polls.
You don't identify yourself, and
the sentiments won't be traced.
You drop any constructive or
destructive criticism you have
there. Results will be studied by
the Cabinet with an eye to improvement.
Candidates Will
Be Examined On
March 14
Election for officers of W.S.G.A.
from among the women students
will be held on March 23 and petitions
of the candidates for these
offices are due March 12, according
to Nelle Gilchrist, this year's
president of the Women's Stu-ent
Government.
The candidates will meet with
the Examing Board on March 14,
and those that qualify will be
announced on March 19. Election
of the W. S. G. A. officers will
be held at the Social Center.
Offices that are to be filled by
the election are president, vice-president,
secretary, treasurer,
and town representative.
In addition to the W. S. C A.
election, another election has been
planned for the officers of the
dormitories. These officers will
be House President and Vice-president.
Petitions for these offices are
due on March 27, and the candidates
meet the examining board
on the following day. All petitions
are due in Mrs. Green's office
on specified date.
Election of the dormitory officers
of the respective dormitories
will be held on March 30 between
6:30 and 7:30.
Invitation Sales
Off to Slow Start
Graduation invitation sales are
progressing slowly this week, according
to Bobby Haas, chairman
of the invitations committee. Sale
of the invitations opened Monday
and will close March 15, but Haas
urged that all students wanting
invitations place their orders at
the first opportunity as those
placed later may not be filled in
time.
Haas added that all students in
Agricultural Education who are
leaving this week-end to do practice
teaching should get their orders
in before leaving as they will
not return in time to order later.
At the present rate of sales all
orders will not be placed in time.
There will be a sales table at
the main gate in the next few
days and invitations may be obtained
there as well as from the
members of the committee. The
prices are: invitations 15 cents
each; personal cards, $2.25 a hundred
($1.50 a hundred if student
furnishes plate); leather booklets,
65 cents each.
Members of the committee selling
the invitations are Haas, Fred
Curtis, Harry Huff, Jimmy Fitz-patrick,
Nelle Gilchrist, Cum-mings
McCall, Herbert Martin,
and Jimmy McCauley.
Bullington and Canzoneri Qualify To
Run for Social Committee Chairmanship
By MILTON KAY
F o r t y three candidates for class offices and representatives
to the Executive Cabinet have qualified for the Spring
Elections, which will be held March 24 and 25, before the
Qualifications Board Tuesday night. One more candidate has
as yet to qualify before the Board.
All candidates t h a t appeared before the Board, except the
candidates for the publication offices, were questioned as to
their fitness for the office sought, their plans if elected, and
their ideas of student government
in general.
The Qualifications Board judging
the candidates is composed of
both student and faculty members
and the senior representatives to
the Executive Cabinet.
Senior Class Candidates
Candidates for the offices of
the senior class who qualified before
the Board are as follows:
President of the Executive Cabinet,
Pete King and Jimmy Butts;
Representative to the Executive
Cabinet, Homer Wright, Dune
Lyle, Warren Fleming, Bob Guillot
and Lewis Morgan; Women's
Representative to the Executive
Cabinet, Frances Ellis, opposed by
Mary Tinsley, who as yet has to
meet the Qualifications Board;
President of the Senior Class, M.
S. Lufkin and Paul Crow; Vice-president,
Ralph M. Standford and
Billy Caplinger; Secretary, Annice
Watkins, unopposed; Historian,
Martha Gerhardt and
Gloria Vann Smith; Treasurer,
Marion Strickland, unopposed.
Junior Class Candidates
Candidates for the offices of the
junior class are as follows: Vice-president
of the Executive Cabinet,
Henry Park and Cullen Ward;
Representative to the Executive
Cabinet, Roy Fuller, Lawrence
Cattle, and Tommy Briscoe; President
of the Junior Class, Chester
Stevens, Bill Nordan and Jim
McCrory; Vice - president, Bill
Moseley and Roy Bozeman; Secretary,
Betty Jane Harwell, Nick
Nigosian and Doug Stevens;
Treasurer, Ralph Carroll, unopposed;
Historian, Kay Hall and
LinWell Dobbins.
Sophomore Class Candidates
The following candidates for the
offices of the sophomore class
qualified before the Board: Secretary
of the Executive Cabinet,
Russell Upshaw, Harry Dicus and
Ed Cadenhead; Representative to
the Executive Cabinet, Kenneth
Kirkwood and John Spencer;
President of the Sophomore Class,
Bobby Garrison, Luther Taylor,
Fred Sumners and James Moore;
Vice-president, Jimmy Davis and
C. A. Shepherd; Treasurer, Frank
Fair, Bill Rodgers and George Mc-
Carty; Secretary, Earl G. Jones,
unopposed; Historian, Annie
Katherine T h r a s h e r , Estelle
Gaines and Dale Wilson.
Two juniors, Tom Bullington
and Fagan Canzoneri, qualified
for the position of Chairman of
the Social Committee for next
year.
School of Education
To Present Party
Tomorrow Night
The School of Education will
hold its first party tomorrow
night from 8:30 until 12:30. The
combined dance and party will be
held in Alumni Gym and all
members of the faculty and students
taking education will be admitted
free.
Numerous games will be provided
for the guests at the same
time the dancing is taking place.
There will also be a floor show
and various folk and square
dances in which the dancers may
participate.
Arrangements for the party are
in the hands of a joint student-faculty
committee. Funds for the
entertainment are being furnished
by the Future Homemakers
Club, the Collegiate F.F.A. Chapter,
and Kappa Delta Pi, honorary
educational society.
Thirty-three Freshman Girls
Given Membership in Oracles
Thirty-three freshman girls
were tapped for Oracles in Women's
Convocation last Thursday
morning. The girls were chosen
on a purely scholastic average, a
three point average being the only
requirement. Sphinx, senior honor
society for women, sponsors
Oracles.
The girls who received the
honor were: Barbara Stump, Emo-gene
Bennett, Sarah Kirkwood,
Myrta Henry, Evelynn Martin,
Laline White, Dorothy Hackney,
Mary Jo Spradley, Helen Perkins,
Mailande Chaney, Lucile Glahe,
Ruth Guggenheim, M a r y Jo
Chambers, Winnie Ruth Price,
Dale Wilson, Mittie Jones, Frances
Baldwin, Jane Sheffield, Betty
Cosby, Katherine Goldsmith,
Marcia Hartzell, Viola Long, Isa-belle
Downey, Doris Ruth Bedingfield,
Patricia Bromley, Rosemary
Burns, Eugenia Kegley, Tutter
Thrasher, Vernelle Fordham, Pat
Elliot, Dorothy Steele, Sarah Conner,
and Dale Garber.
Page Two THE P L A I N S M AN February 27, 1942
Paper, Hangers, and Shirt Boards Wanted!
Now that the student body has received
their refund from the once much maligned
Ideal Laundry, cooperation between the
laundry and the student body seems much
closer. But there is one remaining duty
for the student body to do to make this
cooperation complete.
In a recent edition of The Plainsman,
there was an advertisement published by
the leading laundries and dry cleaners of
both Auburn and Opelika, giving their revised
delivery and pick-up service and a
special appeal for garment hangers, garment
bags and shirt boards, also the paper
in which the bundle is wrapped. This appeal
was made because of the coming
shortage of both garment hangers and paper
products.
The new delivery service and pick-up
service revisions have not affected Auburn
students, but the special appeal to the
students, especially by the Ideal Laundry,
for the garment hangers and paper products
also seems not to have affected the
student body. This is not because the students
lack cooperation, but because the
result of their not sending the desired
necessities for good laundry service has
not been shown.
Some students are gathering their coat
hangers, wrappers, and shirt boards and
returning them to the laundry every week,
but for the most part students have not
fulfilled the appeal.
A little later in the year, if we fail to
cooperate with the laundry, there will be
a shortage of paper and hangers and students
will be required to make a weekly
trip to the Ideal Laundry office to receive
their laundry by hand. And not wrapped
in paper!
Although we do want to cooperate with
the laundry in every way that is possible,
we are also looking out for ourselves. We
don't want to have to make a weekly trip
to the laundry to get back our clothes
piece by piece, or wrapped in newspaper,
(even though it may be The Plainsman),
but we rather have our clothes wrapped in
that familiar brown wrapping paper. M.K.
Auburn's Powerless Qualifications Board
A few years ago, Auburn's Student Executive
Cabinet instituted a series of Elections
Rules, one specification of which set
up a Qualifications Board, the purpose of
whch is to examine prospective political
candidates and to enforce elections rulings.
The establishment of that Qualifications
Board was a forward step toward real student
government.
But when the Board was established, no
one could predict how it would work.
It hasn't worked, successfully.
It could be a very important help in student
government. But it isn't.
And that's not the fault of the members
of the board. •
The fault lies in the fact that the Board,
as an organization, has no power. The students
who established it put no teeth into
it.
For example, there is nothing in the
Constitution of the student body which requires
a candidate for student government
office to have even a passing average!
The only thing even hinting of this is the
ruling which states that one who holds an
office must not be on probation. And
another which states that a student must
be a member of the class in which he plans
to hold office.
That sounds like it would prevent students
with below passing averages for one
or two or three years from running for
office—but it doesn't. A student in Auburn
may have an average of below
seventy, and still be a member of the class
in which he first registered.
And the ruling that a below-average
student can't hold a student government
office isn't being enforced.
Unless Auburn's Qualifications Board
can be given some power, then it serves
no purpose whatsoever. It would seem
that the Executive Cabinet could do something
constructive about a situation like
this.
On Ballot Stuffing and Miscounting of Votes
Since the political bull began flying over
the Plains thick and fast this year, we've
heard no less than two prospective major
campus office-holders say, "If I don't get
elected, I'll know that somebody stuffed
the ballot boxes, or that the vote-counting
was crooked."
Believe it or not, at least two would-be
office holders on this campus had the ego
to say that. Of course, they didn't say it
in those words — but that's what they
meant.
Those kinds of guys don't deserve to hold
an office. They don't even deserve to call
themselves Auburn men. The Greeks
have a name for their breed.
They don't blame this promised ballot,
box stuffing or crooked vote counting on
any one person—specifically. They just
hint that "so-and-so" doesn't like me, or
"so-and-so" is on the elections committee
and he's favoring my opponent.
Anybody with common sense could see
that they were just preparing themselves
for defeat. After defeat, they'll yell loudly
that they were rooked. They'll claim that
the boxes were stuffed, or that whoever
counted the votes miscounted the votes.
They haven't any basis of fact for those
claims. Auburn has the fairest system of
balloting and ballot counting possible. The
elections committee, composed of seniors
selected on the basis of their honesty, keeps
a careful check on the ballot boxes. The
boxes are locked at all times. They are
not opened except in the presence of the
entire committee.
Each ballot is triple checked. The voter's
student activity book is punched to prevent
double-voting, his name is checked
in the student directory, and his ballot
must be signed. How could anybody stuff
the ballot box?
After the voting is over, the entire Elections
Committee, gathered behind locked
doors, counts the ballots in groups of three
—counting the ballots for each office separately,
so that no group counts all the votes
for one office.
In that way, all the committee except
two or three persons could be as crooked
as snakes, and still be unable to do any
dirty work.
So if you hear any disappointed office-seeker
saying that he was rooked out of
his job, that so-and-so is crooked, because
he helped his opponent to win by stuffing
or by miscounting, just put him down as
a bad loser. He lost a fair election.
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To the Students
It's an Easy Life
For the past two or three issues, we've been letting someone else
do our work of writing copy for this column. We don't ask them to—
they just come trooping down to the office with all these pleading, or
cussing, or holier-than-thou, or united-we-stand articles, and ask us to
print them.
There's really no other place in this paper for such articles. Perhaps,
for some of them, there should be no place at all. That's up to the
readers to determine, though.
They're all editorialized, all opinionated, all a little on the "preachy"
side—and all too long for good preachy, opinionated editorials. So we
just stick them in this column.
Here's one for today, by a co-op senior, W. H. Weaver. What's
it worth to you? He calls it:
What Do You Want to Know?
Here is a question that vitally concerns us. We students at Auburn,
particularly engineering students at Auburn, have an engineering
library. Little difference does this fact seem to make to the average
student. He simply plods along his weary way, hoping some day to
receive a degree without ever having even so much as thought about
using his library.
This indifference to our little haven of knowledge is evidenced by
the desert-like appearance that confronts us when we enter the
portals of Ramsay Hall. Now and then a tired lad with an armful of
books, the contents of which he is entirely oblivious, might be seen
entering the library only to sit and wait a few moments for his next
class.
Fellows, let's stop this nonsense, and buckle down to the job. As
the forty-niner might say it, "Thar's knowledge in them thar books",
and it is up to you and me to go and get it. Certainly it will not
come to us any other way.
"How to Find It"
With reference as to just how the engineering library is used: we
might say that it is used exactly as any public library is used. There
is a card catalog, which includes three cards for each book in the
library. These cards will aid you in finding material on any subject
dealt with in this library. Each book is listed on a card under the
name of its author. If the author's name is not known, perhaps the
title of the book sought is known. If this is the case, there is a card in
the catalog with the title listed on it.
If neither the title nor the author is known, surely the student
knows to what subject he wishes to refer. In this case, there is also
a card to guide the student concerning books on the particular subject
of his interest. All of these cards are in alphabetical order, and
will give you little or no trouble in finding your information.
Included in the card catalog, for the benefit of you seniors who
are writing or planning to write your thesis, there is a separate file
which contains reference cards to the theses of your fellow students
of former days. This file is plainly marked, "Engineering Theses"
for your convenience. This is an excellent opportunity to engineering
students as a whole to forsee what is expected of them in the last
laps of this mad race for information.
'Engineering Pats on the Back'
Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates by
mail: $2.50 per year, $1.50 per semester.
While we are on the subject of indexes, we might as well look
into the Engineering Index. Often a student desires some up-to-date
information and statistics on certain engineering operations. The first
thing that comes into his mind is (we hope) the engineering library.
Assuming this to be true, we see that he immediately goes thence in
search of his much-needed data.
As he enters the door of Ramsay, he sees the library crowded (after
publication of this article); and fearing that he will not get a seat,
rushes to the Engineering Index to find his material. As this index
is, in effect, an engineer's Readers Guide, he soon locates his subject
matter, and subsequently the name and date of the issue of the magazine
in which it was published. After he finds his magazine, the rest
of his task is comparatively simple (nothing to do but compile the
information into its legible and informative state).
"They Have a Librarian"
Students recently have been asked to present their library cards
to the librarian, Miss Jenkyns, when checking out a book. Let's
cooperate with her, fellows in preserving the condition and safety of
our books. There are students of three national defense schools, in
addition to the engineering students, who have access to the library.
The students of the defense schools are not required to pay a contingent
deposit, and are therefore not permitted to check books out
of the library over night. We as engineering students are allowed to
do this. Let's not abuse that privilege, and remember to bring our
cards when we wish to check material out of the library.
As a form of suggestive study or reading, the Engineering Council
is keeping a weekly bulletin board just outside the engineering library
for the interest and convenience of the students.
Fellow students, it is your library, and you are helping pay for it.
Why not show your appreciation of this addition to the engineering
school by using it to give yourself a big mental boost?
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're all for keeping the soldiers
smoking, although tobacco is
not included on most training
sheets, but we think this Inter-fraternity
Council idea of bringing
cigarettes to the bawl tonight
is as silly as manicuring a goat.
* *. *
It's also as stupid as chewing
corn shucks.
* * *
And it's things like that that
gave rise to the expression of
"bringing owls to Athens". Athens
had plenty of owls.
* * *
It's not that every soldier always
has the smokes, but they
can buy the dern things at about
two-thirds the price we pay. Why
don't we just bring the price of
a local pack of cigs to the dance?
It'll buy quite a few more at some
post exchange.
* * *
And they'll be fresh.
* * *
And the smokers will have a
choice of brand.
* * *
Not to speak of our cute ole
editor, he, but he has set himself
up as the guardian of our
public morals. He arms himself
daily with big black and red pencils,
and searches through copy
with a maddening thoroughness.
In fact, (censored), he (censored),
(censored). .
* * *
For the first time in history, a
method of fighting a bomber effectively,
from the ground, has
been invented. This new method
should make anti-aircraft guns as
out of date as a bustle. And we invented
it.
* * *
You see airplanes are pulled
along by propellers. Without propellers,
an airplane must glide
around in waltz tempo, searching
for a landing. It follows, therefore,
that by destroying the propeller,
one may spoil the effectiveness
of an enemy bomber.
* * *
The marvel of this invention is
that it is so simple and easy to
operate. A child can work it. And
it makes the plane responsible for
its own downfall, and you can
take that two ways.
* * *
Better still, it does not destroy
the plane. As, the bomber will be
over friendly territory, every one
brought down counts twice . . .
one less for them and one more
for us.
* * *
It's a wonder someone hasn't
discovered this before, but here
it is. The invention is a simple coil
of copper wire. The defender of
the home soil merely throws it
into the air, entangling it in the
enemy propeller. The revolutions
of the propeller tighten the coil,
finally snapping the propeller or
stopping it entirely.
* * *
It hasn't been officially tested
as yet, but in unofficial dreams
it worked astoundingly well.
Watch for it at your neighborhood
theater.
* * *
First aid notes . . . what to do
in case of a bayonet wound . . .
First, pray that the feller who
stuck you isn't in a hurry, because
if he is, he won't waste time pulling
the thing out of your carcass.
He'll just pull the trigger and
out will come the sticker.
There'll be room left for a sandbag,
and if one is handy, throw it
in.
If he politely puts his foot on
your chest to pull the bayonet out,
he'll probably crush your ribs. If
he doesn't, you're lucky. You're a
noncombatant, but you're home
free, and should, with luck, escape
becoming a lovely corpse.
* * *
And that sub that fired on the
California coast. If it was a practical
jaunt, it cost the Nipponese
more than $500 to come over and
fire the dern thing . . . that $500
represents the damage done. And
if it was to destroy morale, it
backfired.
* * »
Karrie, the Kampus Kutie, says,
"It's about time for that Rising
Sun to set, or for someone to sit
on it!'
Here, There, and Elsewhere
By JOHN SCOTT, JR.
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.
The news of the various war
scenes still follows the established
winter pattern: Good news from
Russia; bad news from the Far
East and the Atlantic; and confusion
from North Africa.
Beginning with the good, we
trace the advance of the Russian
forces for the last ten days in the
area around Lake Illmen. This
lake is the scene of the victory
reported by the Russians yesterday,
in which they claimed the
killing of 12,000 Germans and the
encirclement of 45,000 more. Even
when these figures are discounted
to allow for a little over-enthusiasm
by the Russian announcement,
they comprise a major victory.
The Russian announcement
found Adolph Hitler at the much-moved
"front line" headquarters
we have heard about so often.
Hitler was there preparing for
the Spring drive back across Russia,
instead of being with the rest
of the Nazi big-wigs at the celebration
in Munich—the 22nd anniversary
of the declaration of the
Nazi platform in that city.
The region around Lake Illmen
is a low, swampy,' river-cut land
that will be one of the last sectors
of the Russian front to thaw out
this Spring. The fact that the
thaw is beginning in the southern
regions seems to make it probable
that Hitler is concentrating forces
there for a swift counter-attack
back past Crimea to take Rostov
again. Perhaps something of this
sort has occurred and the Russians,
realizing that there was
little reserve power behind those
German forces in the North,
struck at General Von Bush's
army just when he could offer
the least effective resistance.
The thing of interest just now
in that area will be the German
reaction to this move by the Russians.
They must send men to relieve
that northern wing, or they
can go ahead with plans in the
south and leave 45,000 men to be
cut to pieces. Which of those alternatives
to act upon makes a
nice problem for Adolf in his
"front line" headquarters.
In the Far East the scene is
just as gloomy as it was last week
and the week before. The Burma
Road is either cut or nearly so,
and the whole of Burma is endangered.
This is possible for the
Japanese because they have the
men and arms in Burma that
should have been expended in
the Malay drive. The fall of Singapore
has done more than kill
British sea power in the East; it
has opened the door for the drives
into India and Australia.
The Burma Road has been the
subject of everything from religious
addresses to colored cartoons.
It has been surveyed by
Australian mechanics and American
politicians. And, its importance
has been stressed so much
that the name "Burma Road" is
probably familiar to everybody in
the country over the age of three.
Just why, when the vitality of
the whole Chinese war effort depends
on its retention, this road
should be given up, with anything
less than a true last ditch stand, is
more than we can readily understand.
Burma is worth all that it
would cost to hold it.
As long as we hold Burma, we
can cut Japanese supply by land
into Malaya. We can force them
to supply their newly won bases
at Singapore and in Sumatra by
sea all the way from Japan and
northern China. Naturally the extension
of the Japanese sea-borne
supply chain gives us that much
better chance to use our Navy and
what air power we have over
there.
There has been some wonder
that the Japanese have not gone
on with the attack on Java, instead
of pressing the Burma campaign.
It seems that they think
the Java engagement will have a
better chance of success, with
fewer losses, if they have first
crippled the Chinese who are always
at their backs on the continent.
And cutting the Burma Road
really cripples them.
In Libya the war is seemingly
at a standstill. The various towns
(Continued on page 3)
February 27, 1942 T H E P L A I N S M AN Page Three
Mitec
Mitec Hop To
Be Second
Semi-Formal
Clarence Methvin
To Lead With
Mary Ann Pugh
The Mitecs will give their second
semi-formal dance of the
school year tonight in the Girls'
Gym on Opelika Road. Leading
the dance with the president.
Clarence Methvin, Jr., will be
Mary Ann Pugh of Birmingham.
She will be presented with a large
bouquet of dark red roses during
the leadout by Mr. J. D. Wade,
faculty advisor for co-op students.
The decorations for the dance
comprise a glistening array of
overhead streamers in the colors
of the organization, blue and
white, and a backdrop on which is
mounted a huge replica of the
Mitec Key.
Chunky Barnes and the Auburn
Plainsmen will play for the
dance.
The following date list omits
the names of some of the Mitecs
who will attend: E. W. Morris,
Annie Laura Roberts; J. Coleman,
Mary Jane Phillips; F. W. Schultz,
Josephine Schultz; J. G. Win-nette,
Mary Smith; F. Gurly, Margaret
Gurley; R. Colvin, Hilda
Hunter; R. H. Robertson, Margaret
Southerland; H. H. Van Allen,
Pauline Cotney; H. E. Zeiger,
Dixie Black; R. E. Russell, Louise
Pollard; W. H. Weaver, Beulah
Newsome; W. McDuff, Gay Williams;
A. H. Postell, Helen Johnson;
R. Simpson, Nellie Clark
Roan;
W. Breen, Louise Rogers; R.
Fergerson, Sara Boles; P. Persons,
Phi Omega Pi Dances Are This Week-end
LEADS MITEC BALL
Miss Mary Jane Pugh, of Birmingham, pictured above, will lead
tonight's Mitec Ball in the Girls' Gym on Opelika Road. Miss Pugh
will be escorted by Mitec Club President Clarence Methvin. The
dance will be the second Mitec Informal of the year.
70 LEAD P.O.P. DANCE
Miss Martha Davidson Vest, of Haxtselle, will lead the annual
Phi Omega Pi sorority dance at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Saturday night at Bibb Graves Center. Miss Vest who is president
of the chapter, will be escorted by Ben Scarborough.
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Margaret Prather; J. Fogleman,
Virginia Hollingshead; W. J.
Rucker, Jo Key; F. Trimble, Mary
Johnson; R. L. Holmes, Dot Tarp-ley;
G. P. Davis, Betty Jones; J.
Windham, Kitty Hurst; W. L.
Dawkins; Mary Merritt; C. Cul-verhouse,
Virginia Jones; Mack
Riley, Bebe Dickson; N. Turnip-seed,
Era Vail; J. Clayton, Carolyn
Davis; S. G. Sandlin, Betty Rucker;
H. M. Alford, Mildred Taylor;
E. W. Pace, Ellen Vail; J. B. Jones,
Marguerite Morgan;
W. M. Green, Lucile Glahe; L.
L. Ramsey, Frankie Jo Grindle;
S. L. Ross, Nellie May Pike; W. C.
Reid, Dorothy Johnson; T. Bou-mont,
Elsie Kilgore; J. McWhir-ter,
Helen Joyce; J. I. Joyner,
Jane Martin; G. D. Burnett,
Louise Wooldrige; G. M. Cook,
Betty Wilmore; W. H. Myers,
Charlotte Gibson; J. C. Souther-land;
R. B. Morgan, Henrietta
Denmark; J. H. Dryden, Carolyn
Jenkins; J. Rasberry, Sarah Book-out;
W. Davis, Corrine Tatum; Mr.
and Mrs. G. H. Gould; Mr. and
Mrs. J. O. Taylor; K. R. Brown,
Maudine Summers; B. Galloway,
Mary Ella Funchess.
Pan-Hellenic to Give Tea in Gym Saturday
The Pan-Hellenic Council will
give a tea dance Saturday afternoon
from three until five in the
Girls' Gym on Opelika Road. Bobby
Adair and the Auburn Knights
will furnish music for the affair.
Ten bids have been given to
each of the seven sororities on
the campus. A blanket bid was to
the members of the Interfrater-nity
Council.
Representatives to the Council
and their dates are: Kappa Delta,
Dorothy Finn, Arnold Blackwell;
Laura Wallace, Z. A. Snipes; Chi
Omega, Ann Pafford, Marion
Grady; Martha Gerhardt, Wiley
Fancher;
Phi Omega Pi, Martha D. Vest,
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Jack Bean, Marjorie Prince, Don-ny
Parker; Theta Upsilon, Norma
Ray Autrey, Mike Blevins, Mildred
Browne-Davis, Phillip Lett;
Alpha Gamma Delta, Christine
Blackburn, Bradford Clopton, La-nelle
Dobbins, Allen Grubbs;
Delta Zeta, Delores Sanders, Joe
Cordell, Lucinda Lassetter, Curtis
Adams; Alpha Delta, Elaine
Reddick, Steve Searcy, Doris
Odum, Ed Bagley.
Knights Will
Play For
Annual Formal
Martha D. Vest
Will Lead With
Ben Scarborough
Psi chapter of Phi Omega Pi
entertains with its annual formal
dance tomorrow night in Graves
Center. The dance begins at nine
o'clock and features the music of
the Auburn Knights.
Martha D. Vest, senior in Home
Demonstration from Hartselle and
the president of Phi Omega Pi
sorority, will lead the dance with
Ben Scarborough.
The auditorium will be decorated
in the-sorority colors, blue and
white. A blue backdrop with a
large V on it will be mounted behind
the orchestra. In the V will
be written the Greek letters of
Phi Omega Pi. The backdrop is
sprinkled with silver stars. A
lighted POP pin will be placed at
the end of the hall from which the
leadout starts.
A breakfast in the sorority
room in Dormitory Two will be
given after the dance for all members,
pledges, alumni, and their
dates.
Roommates, and suitemates of
POP's, alumni, and rushees of the
sorority have been invited to the
dance. A blanket bid has been
given to the Pan-Hellenic Council.
The date list includes: Elaine
Witmer, Check Stephens; Mary
Edith Foshee, Bill Jones; Lucile
Walden, Peyton Thrasher; Nel-rose
Evans, Jack Evans; Marjorie
Prince, George Reddick; Nellie
Mae Pike, Everett Daily; Julia
Smith, Lt. Julian Codina; Dorothy
Irish, D. K. Clanton;
Emmie Bagley, Tom Deal;
Sarah Ann Bennett, Andy Elmer;
Emogene Vick, Julian Duran; Pat
Ford, William Ford; H e l en
Vaughan; Martha Asbury, Ray Ellis;
Helen Le Gendre, Charles
Adams; Sue Montgomery, Ed
Lindsey; Lavele McMahan, Johnny
Cubley; Dorothy Zachery,
Jesse Jordan; Martha Ann Reese,
Ye well Lee Lynch; Mary Wilson;
Marion Fitch, Leon Sahag; Lillian
Thrower, Jack Easterling; Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Cooper.
Alumnae attending the event
will include: Virginia West; Marie
Hodge, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Hanson, Dorothy Pitts, Hazel
Sanders, Mr. and Mrs. Marion Tis-dale,
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Goode,
Rebecca Pate, Mr. and Mrs. Zebu-
Ion Judd, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Low-ery,
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas King.
SCOTT
(Continued from Page 2)
of Cirenaica have changed hands
so many times that both armies
are just as much at home there
as on the continent of Europe.
Both armies have learned to fight
a desert war, and both armies
have learned just what the other
side is capable of doing.
With things so evenly matched
now, we can expect little startling
news from the North African
war until one side of the other
gets the supply problem licked.
Both teams in that game are too
tired to go on, and neither team
has the substitutes on hand to do
it for them. We can only wait until
the navies and air forces settle
the matter of who is blockading
whom in the Mediterranean before
we can decide who will finally
win in Libya.
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during the last three years.
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Page Four THE P L A I N S M AN February 27, 1942
Hutsell Seeks Event to Fill
Date as Florida Relays Cancelled
Florida, winner of the 1941 Cake
Race, stands out as a future distance
reliable, as does Ken Kirk-wood
of Waverly. Predicted to be
a top hurdler in Southeastern
Conference circles is Andy Lamar,
first yearman from Birmingham.
Scheduled Meets for Track Team
Include Tech, SEAAU, and SEC
By JOHN PIERCE
Cancellation of the Florida Relays, which previously have
served as Auburn's opening tract event, this week turned
Coach Wilbur Hutsell upon a hunt for an event to fill in at
the early season vacancy. The Relays, scheduled for Gainesville,
Florida, have been called off due to present emergency
conditions.
Meets thus far scheduled for the Plainsmen include a dual
meet with Georgia Tech in Atlanta, the SEAAU event, also
in Atlanta, and Birmingham's annual
SEC meet.
Weather Hinders Trackmen
Track activities have been held
virtually at a standstill this year
because of the alternate cold and
wet weather. "It's been the worst
track weather I've ever seen," remarked
Assistant Coach Jeff
Beard yesterday. "The track has
either been too wet or the weather
too cold to allow any advanced
work. In fact we haven't had a
single suitable day since we opened
training on the first Tuesday of
January."
Looking ahead, Coach Hutsell
predicted a widespread and increasing
interest in track during
the coming months.
"Strong legs are a valuable asset
in any branch of the service,"
he said. "I expect some of the
greatest turnouts in years in the
near future."
Freshmen Stand Out
While very little has been done
in the way of organization of the
squad by events, there have been
unusually promising showings on
the part of competitors for the
freshman squad.
Bob Ortagus, Neptune Beach,
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Wallace Beery is definitely in
his own territory as a tough top
sergeant with a heart of gold, in
Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer's "The
Bugle Sounds," story of the new
mechanized army, which will be
shown Sunday and Monday at the
Tiger Theatre.
The action is strictly authentic,
approved by the War Department,
which permitted two camera
crews to accompany regular army
troops on maneuvers at Fort
Knox, Ky., and Fort Lewis, Wash.,
respectively. Beery journeyed to
Fort Ord for actual scenes with
the tank corps. Accordingly, when
an avalanche of roaring tanks
careen across the screen, it is the
real thing.
The story presents Beery as a
first sergeant of cavalry with a
record of 29 years in the service.
He's a slave-driver and a martinet,
but his men worship him and he
is a comfort to his superior officers.
Beery swaggers through the
role with such realistic effect that
several enlisted men in the audience
ducked involuntarily when
he bellowed.
Stone as Colonel
Lewis Stone is a commanding
figure as the colonel, playing the
role with the excellence to which
the public has become accustomed
through his long career. Donna
Reed has the romantic feminine
lead as the bride of William
Lundigan, who appears as a selective
service recruit in Beery's
platoon.
Convincing performances are
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O'Neill, Chill Wills, Tom Dugan,
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Booed—in Fun;
No Casualties
By B. MARTIN
Last week at the Valley Boxing
Matches held in Lanett, three of
the members of the Auburn
Sports department a c t e d as
judges.
Coaches Jimmie Hitchcock and
Jeff Beard and Professor Raport
of the intramural department
were the men who had the job of
saying who won and lost the
scraps.
In one match the decision was
rendered against the home town
lad and a deafening roar of boos
and hisses came, directed at
Hitchcock, much to the amazement
of some, since it was very
unusual to hear boos instead of
cheers thrown at Auburn's famous
All-American.
It so happened that the booers
and hissers were all friends of
Coach Jimmie and the uproar was
all in fun, so nobody was killed.
PI TAU SIGMA TO
TAP FIVE MEN AT
MITEC DANCE
Pi Tau Sigma, National Honor
Society for Mechanical Engineers,
will tap five men tonight at the
Mitec Dance. The men were selected
from the Co-op 'B' Section,
it was announced today by S. J.
Price, president of the chapter.
The names of the tappees will
not be announced until tonight at
the Co-op dance.
These men w e r e selected
Thursday night in recognition of
their outstanding records as students
and their potentialities as
leaders in the fields of Mechanical
and Aeronautical Engineering.
NYA STUDENTS TO
WORK FULL TIME
THIS MONTH
NYA students will be allowed
to work the full 50 hours this
month, said Dr. J. V. .Brown, director
of student employment and
housing.
Time cards, properly signed by
supervisors, must be brought to
his office not later than 4:30 p. m.
on Tuesday afternoon, March 10.
Unless the cards are turned in on
time, students will be delayed in
receiving their checks until the
following month.
Corner High School in Jefferson
County has three graduates playing
regularly with Auburn's freshman
and varsity cage teams this
season. Center Shag Hawkins,
who was the ace scorer in the
Southeastern Conference l a s t
year, and Guard Jack Tanner are
two varsity mainstays and Forward
Frank Wadsworth is show-
Intramural Highlights
By BILL MARTIN
Intramural Swimming
Entry deadline for the intramural swimming meet has
been set at Monday, March 9, and no entries will be accepted
after that date. All fraternities must indicate to Professor
Raport, before that date whether or not they plan to enter
a team in the meet. The seven events to be covered by the
meet include the 50' and 25 yard free-style, the 50 yard backstroke,
the 50 yard breaststroke, the 200 yard four man relay,
the 150 yard three man medley relay, and diving.
Basketball
The fraternity basketball schedule has been completely
run off and the champions of each of the four leagues have
been announced, leaving only the playoffs, which will be run
off about the second week in March, to determine the campus
frat champions. LEAGUE I Champs, Alpha Gamma Rho;
LEAGUE II, Sigma Chi and Alpha Lambda Tau wound up
in a tie and the champion will have to be determined in a
playoff the first of next week; LEAGUE III champs, Phi
Delta Theta; LEAGUE IV champs, Sigma Nu. The R.O.T.C.
tournament is still in progress and no definite results are
available.
Tennis Courts
Five new tennis courts have been completed on the campus
and are now ready for use by any of the students. These
hard-surfaced courts are located between the infirmary and
the Field House and with the Spring coming on, it seems
that this new addition to the campus has come at a very opportune
time.
Crowded Gym
Proving that A.P.I. is using its crowded gymnasium facilities
to the very best advantage is the fact that some 300 basketball
games have been played under, the room of old
Alumni Gym this season and with the play-offs in both the
frat and R.O.T.C. divisions coming up there will be more
pounding of the hardwood and prospective cord-stripping yet
to come. These three hundred games have been played by
58 different teams and with an average of nine or ten men
on a team, something like 580 boys have used the same court
for these scheduled games. The teams that have taken advantage
of their best facilities include the varsity, the freshmen,
20 fraternity teams, 28 R.O.T.C. teams and eight independent
teams.
Besides the basketball court, the gym has afforded recreation
to hundreds of others through the swimming pool,
table tennis, shuffle board, fencing, boxing, and numerous
other things to suit anyone's taste.
The ones in charge of the gymnasium are due more than
a world of praise for their splendid work in arranging the
programs to accommodate such a great number of students
in such a cramped situation.
Boxing Tournament
A large number of the original entrants in the Mitec sponsored
boxing tourney have been working out regularly each
day and from what this correspondent has seen, the boxing
will be of extra good quality if determination means anything.
The tournament is to be run about the middle of March.
ing up well for the plebes. All
three receive their mail from the
Dora Post Office.
Only 1941 regular not back in
Auburn's hardwood ranks this
season is' Forward Bob Dunbar,
Birmingham, who enrolled in the
Army Air Corps and now has his
wings. Fast and very aggressive,
Dunbar was a mainstay at forward
under Coach Ralph Jordan
and was eligible for one more season
of collegiate competition.
KAPPA SIG PLEDGES
ELECT NEW OFFICERS
At a recent meeting of the
pledges of the Beta Eta chapter
of Kappa Sigma the following officers
were named: Ed Humphries
of Opelika was elected president;
Jimmie Davis of Auburn, vice-president,
and Charles Bailey of
Birmingham, secretary-treasurer.
Bob Knowles of Miami, Florida,
succeeds George Chipman as
pledge master.
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Hopefuls to Meet
Monday Afternoon
Coach Jimmie Hitchcock, Auburn
baseball mentor, has issued
a call for all baseball batteries interested
in trying out for the '42
diamond team to report to the
Field House at 3:30 Monday afternoon.
This meeting of pitcher and
catcher hopefuls will usher in
practice sessions for the coming
season. Date for opening workouts
6f the entire squad has not
yet been announced.
Jack Ferrell, regular catcher
with the Plainsmen for the two
past seasons, is captain of this
year's team.
Robert Frost Talks
To Auburn Audience
By LEONARD HOOPER
To a group of his loyal fans assembled
in Alumni Gymnasium,
Robert Frost presented a very interesting
lecture and discussion
of his works and of current affairs.
Mr. Frost, who is considered
by many to be America's outstanding
living poet, talked quite
intimately with the audience
about his poetry and his philosophy.
He revealed that he will have a
new volume of verse to come off
the presses sometime in April.
Mr. Frost was presented by Dr.
Rosa Lee Walston, Auburn Dean
of Women.
Toward the end of his lecture,
he recited some of his verse, at
the request of various members
of the audience.
Among his more familiar works
which he recited were: "Swinger
of Birches"; "A Peck of Gold";
"I Could Give All To Time";
"Triple Bronze"; "The Gift Outright";
"The Road Not Taken";
"Stopping By The Woods On A
Snowy Evening"; "A Considerable
Speck"; and the ever-popular,
beloved "Death Of The Hired
Man."
After the lecture, a large number
of Frost admirers stayed on
to talk to Mr. Frost, who was
very gracious in answering questions
and discussing literature.
Prof. George M. O' Donnell,
who attended a summer poetry
camp with Mr. Frost, presented a
lecture on the appreciation of his
works at the Women's Convocation
yesterday morning.
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