1941-05-23 The Plainsman

              Last Issue
Of Year
VOL. LXIV Z-I
77i£ VlaJuriAmarL See You
In September!
"A UBURN—tbe friendliest college in the United States"
ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, MAY 23, 1941 NO. 68
ROTC Corps Rated
'Excellent' 22nd Year
Waterman Praises
Work of Staff of
Reserve Officers
For the twenty-second consecu­tive
year Auburn's ROTC unit has
rated "Excellent", according to in­formation
received this week by
Colonel John J. Waterman from
the Commander of. the Corps
Area.
This rating was made after Au­burn's
Corps and equipment was
inspected by army officers on
May 12 and 13.
Officers inspected the work of
various ROTC classes and the
equipment in use by the cadets
and the military department.
Colonel Waterman stated that
this year's inspection was a tribute
to the training offered in Auburn
ROTC units. All of the Army offi­cers
on duty here now, with the
exception of three, are Reserve
Corps officers, and the majority
of them are graduates of Auburn,
who received their commissions
upon graduation. These officers
have been responsible for holding
up this year the standards which
in the past have been kept up by
regular army men with from nine
to sixteen years of service on
their records.
Federal inspectors gave Auburn
an "excellent" rating on every
point. Last year the rating was
excellent on every point with the
exception of "driving in draft,"
part of the work of first year ad­vanced
ROTC students.
ODK Water Fountains
The long awaited water foun­tains
will be unveiled next Mon­day
afternoon at 5:00 in back of
Samford Hall.
Invitations Still
Available at Gate
Seniors in ROTC May
Purchase Calling Cards
At Reduced Prices
Extra invitations for the senior
graduation exercises will be on
sale at the main gate of the camp­us
for three more days, according
to information released yesterday
by Drew Hale, Chairman of the
Invitations Committee of the Stu­dent
Executive Cabinet.
The hours of distribution for
invitations are from 9 until 12 and
from 1 until 5, except for Friday
morning, when the hours will be
from 10 until 12 o'clock.
After Monday, the last day of
public sale, invitations may be
obtained by calling Hale at 268-M
from 12 until 1 o'clock, or from
6 until 7. They will also be sold
in the basement of Smith Hall any
night after 7 o'clock.
Hale also announced that all
ROTC seniors who are going into
active service in June and who
want to get their calling cards at
a reduced price may do so by con­tacting
him at the main gate dur­ing
the distribution hours on Fri­day,
Saturday, and Monday.
These cards will be engraved to
U. S. Army Regulations, through
the efforts of Colonel John J.
Waterman, Commandant of Au­burn's
Cadet Corps.
Prices of these cards will be
$2.00 per hundred. Orders must
be paid for at the time of place­ment.
Plates from which the cards are
engraved will be included with the
shipment.
Sigma Nu's Win
Intramural Trophy
PiKA's Rousted in
Horseshoe Tourney
Sigma Nu fraternity captured
the all-year Intramural Sports
cup yesterday afternoon when
they defeated Sigma Alpha Epsi-lon
in the finals of the Horseshoe
Tournament.
Placing second, close on the
heels of the Sigma Nu's, were the
Pi Kappa -Alpha's, who lost the
all-year cup when they came in
third in the horseshoe competition.
Sigma Nu totaled 711.5 points
for the year, including tourna­ments
in football, volleyball, bas­ketball,
track, horseshoes, tennis,
golf, and Softball.
Pi Kappa Alpha had a total of
702 points, in the same competi­tion.
Third place and other places in
the year-cup competition had not
been averaged officially at the
time of this writing.
Until the finals in horseshoe
competition the PiKA's were lead­ing
in all-year averages. Had they
defeated the SAE's, they would
have won the cup margin, in spite
of the results of the PiKA-Sigma
Nu game.
Golf, horseshoe, and tennis
competition were the last tourna­ments
which applied on the all-year
totals.
SAE won the Golf tournament,
with Phi Delta Theta placing sec­ond
and Sigma Nu third.
Sigma Chi won the tennis com­petition,
with Delta Sigma Phi
second arid Theta Chi and Lamb­da
Chi tying for third.
'Too Young', Bama Coaches Said to
America's Second College Punter
So Auburn's Captain
Made His All-SEC
Honors Elsewhere
By JOHN PIERCE
They wouldn't take him in at
Woodlawn High School and they
gave him the brush-off at the
University of Alabama a couple
of years later—but it's our guess
that there's been just a bit of
weeping and wailing and gnash­ing
of teeth at those places since
the day he walked in and set his
bags down for a four year stay
here at Auburn.
Because tousle-headed Dick Mc-
Gowen, two years All-Southern
football choice, baseballer of pro­fessional
excellence, and recently
elected most valuable Auburn
athlete of 1940-41 has done ev­erything
he's started on in a
plenty big way. Consequently he
picks up his bags early next week
and walks out leaving behind one
of the most colorful records in
Auburn athletic history.
He'll leave at that time for a
year's active duty as a second
lieutenant of artillery, so we
thought we'd drop by and pick up
the why's and hows of his achieve­ments
at Auburn for Plainsman
readers before he got away.
Grew Up With Football
"I've been playing it as long as
I can remember," he told us as he
tilted back on one leg of a chair
and propped his feet on the desk.
"Back when we were hardly big
enough to pick up the ball we
were having games between our
fourth and fifth grade classes in
school. I can still recall my kick­ing
one 45 yards for the first
time. That was when I was about
12 years old and in the seventh
grade. I was plenty happy about
that one."
Then the following year some­thing
happened that almost ruin­ed
everything for the boy who
was to become one of college foot­ball's
greatest punters. He was
swinging an ax around one af­ternoon,
miscued, and cut deep
(Continued on page 3)
What's Happening To Us?
A faculty member makes a few observations on Au­burn's
past and expresses some hopes for its future —
hopes which every Auburn man and woman will want to
consider long and earnestly.
He was beginning his senior year. "Auburn's not like
it used to be," he said earnestly. "When you speak to
some folks now, they look at you as if to say, 'What are
you selling, Bud?' and pass by with a funny look."
"What's happened to the Auburn spirit?" asks a col­umnist
who refers in rather vague terms to a lack of un­derstanding
between students and administration.
"Why, when I was in school you could stand on Toomer's corner
and recognize every student who passed by—and most every student
in school would pass by within an hour," comments a young alumnus
with a touch of nostalgia.
"Nowadays some students look on cheating as a game," comments
another who bemoans the drive for grades at any price.
A former editor of The Plainsman attempted to express a need
that he had felt by inserting the legend, "Auburn—friendliest col­lege
in the United States."
"There was'a time when the members of the football team them­selves
would have handled a fellow who was guilty of that sort-of
thing," comments a faculty member.
All of these and many more are evidences of a deep concern for
something in the "old days" which many feel is about to be lost. It
is a healthy sign. There is also the promise that if a way is defined
to preserve whatever elements of the "Auburn Spirit" are endangered
of slipping away, there will be many who are willing to take steps
to preserve whatever is worthwhile.
Why?
The groping, the vagueness, the wondering indicate that a great
many are finding it difficult to understand the "Why?", to deter­mine
exactly what has been happening that leads them to believe
that "things are different." Of course, a part of it is due to that
universal tendency of human beings to glorify the past, to remember
what was pleasant, to forget what was unpleasant. There never has
been an alumnus anywhere, anytime, anyplace, who, on returning to
his alma mater's lawn did not sigh at least once for "the old days"
and express assurance that "things have changed." Having stood
on his favorite corner and searched the passing faces of students,
he saw none of the faces of his friends and was sure that the world
was changing. And since those who passed did not recognize him, he
was sure the change was for the worse. And his heart ached.
Somewhat the same thing is true of the senior. He does not know
all the freshmen. Many of them do not recognize that he is a Per­sonage.
So part of all the concern is a normal process of time, and with­out
regard to place.
Rapid Growth -
But in addition to time, other changes of a vital nature have
been occurring at Auburn. The place has grown at a dynamic pace
—tripled almost in half a decade.
Wherever there is a rapid rate of growth, there is a tendency,
in the words of the sociologist, toward a "degree of social disorgani­zation."
The established group is not as effective in exercising "social
control."
Applied here, this simply means that, in the case of girls for
instance, the proportion of new girls to old each recent year has
been so great that those with "Auburn ways" were not always able
to "educate" incoming groups of freshmen. In the matters of man­ners,
attitudes, values, students have far more influence on each
other than do faculty members. A faculty member sees a student
three hours a week; the student at a boarding or fraternity house
sits with his fellow students at meals almost that long in a single
day. Morever, the relationships between students are personal, where­as
relationships between faculty members and student are largely im­personal.
In short, the student body has not been as successful in assimilat­ing
the large number of incoming students as it once was. There are
almost as many freshmen at Auburn today as there were students
in 1934!
Upperclassmen-Freshmen Relations
In 1934 the incoming freshman was under the constant surveil­lance
of upperclassmen. His conduct was governed in large measure
by their attitudes. They had the most powerful weapon known for
the control of human conduct, more effective than any law, more
easily used than any decree—ostracism. The students in the hall of a
dormitory can punish an offender more effectively with a single
glance than can all the deans in collegedom.
Changes in Students
Not only has the size of Auburn been increasing, but its make­up
and composition have likewise changed. Obviously there are more
people from cities here today than previously. And life in Birming­ham
is less personal, and less friendly, than life in Opp or Boaz or
Town Creek. Unless taught otherwise the freshman from Birming­ham
is going to speak only to persons to whom he has been intro­duced,
or perhaps been in a class with for a semester.
Another change in the composition of the student body is the
higher ratio of girls to boys. This inevitably brings a change in some
attitudes. There is more emphasis, for instance, upon social activities,
upon clothes, upon dances. Part of the "Old Auburn" was that it was
predominantly a men's school.
And these are critical times—times which naturally would be
reflected on the campus here where students leave daily for a future
that is a blank beyond next week.
Is Old Auburn Gone?
What does all this mean? Is the Auburn of old gone forever? Is
that intangible something known as the "Auburn spirit" fading be­yond
recapture?
The answer depends entirely on what one wishes to preserve,
how he defines those intangibles worth preserving. If one has in
mind the old bicycle path out to Wright's Mill when he pictures the
meaning of Auburn. If one means a student body of 1200 students.
If one thinks that restoration would require the removal of New
Classroom Building or the filling in of the stadium. If Auburn means
going down to the depot on Saturday nights and whitewashing the
trains as they go by. If shaving the heads of freshmen is essential.
If putting the student body on a single train headed for the big
game is necessary. If these are a part of one's concept of an enduring
Auburn, then the answer is obvious and final. These cannot be a part
of the Auburn of the future.
And so many will despair.
The New Auburn
But others will be assured that these things, while being import­ant
in a sense, seem so now only because they are tangible associa­tions
with the past. They know that the Auburn down through the
coming years can preserve and strengthen many of the values of the
past, and what is more add new glories that will be as maturity is
to adolescence when compared to the past. A Boy Scout can exhibit
Dr. and Mrs. L N. Duncan To
Give Reception for Seniors
evidences of all the finer traits;
he cannot be a statesman.
Growth does not mean the loss
of a personality, even though it
does bring change. This is true
not only of individuals; it is true
of institutions. MIT has a person­ality.
Harvard has quite a differ­ent
personality. Annapolis is like
neither. Notre Dame has still dif­ferent
characteristics. All are
larger than Auburn. It would be
folly to emulate any one of them,
or a collection of them. Auburn
has a personality all its own.
There is no more deluded creature
than the unimaginative girl who
buys lipstick recommended by
Joan Crawford, and then pretends
she's something she's not. Auburn
need be like nothing else except
itself.
Future Goals
What should be the goals in
the future?
Certainly one thing w h i ch
should be maintained and strength­ened
is the spirit of fellowship be­tween
Auburn men and women.
The bond that links one to an­other,
both in school and after­ward,
is priceless. It should mean
no less in the future than it has
in the past.
Nor will Auburn want to for­get
its basic heritage: founded in
the interest of the people of this
State, including those who toil
and sweat, it has a responsibility
that goes beyond any individual,
or group of individuals. Every
time a man or woman buys a
mansion, or a peck or meal, or a
box of snuff, or a piece of fat-back,
he or she helps to support
Auburn. Auburn's justification
for existence will have ceased if
it ever forgets that it was not
established here for the benefit
of a fortunate few who are able
to attend its classes. It's students
are given preparation not in or­der
to increase their respective
earning capacities, but because
the tasks for which they are be­ing
equipped are in the public in­terest.
New Truths
With increasingly adequate fa­cilities,
Auburn can symbolize the
search for new truths, not only
in the laboratories here, but in the
laboratories of the social sciences,
which are to be found wherever
there are human beings. The in­quiring
mind, the objective, un­prejudiced
approach, in short the
qualities associated with science
and truth should prosper here as
never before.
There should be a premium on
individual integrity. And with it
a recognition that the person who
cheats is an enemy not of him­self
alone, but of Auburn too.
Rules and Regulations
There may be a greater need
for rules and regulations until
such time as students themselves
are able to enforce a pattern of
conduct in keeping with the ideals
of the past. And where rules are
required for those who have not
learned, it should be with the rec­ognition
on the part of both fac­ulty
and students that policemen,
while necessary, are but a tem­porary
and second-choice solution.
A healthy understanding be­tween
faculty and students can
be based only upon mutual respect
and good will.
Manners are a superficial, but
important evidence of morals. If
based upon sincerity, and not
upon artificial requirements of
expediency, they lend a gracious-ness
and a naturalness which
makes any situation more pleas­ant.
All of these considerations
might be kept in mind by Auburn
students of the present and fu­ture.
They enter into every min­ute
of his stay here; they are a
part of his equipment for the fu­ture.
They will be important any­where
and at any time; but they
will be nurtured more in the li­brary,
in the classroom, on Col­lege
Street, on the field of sports,
in church, and in the laboratory
than at a neighboring roadhouse.
A Vital Role
These things will not be achiev­ed
by resolutions, nor by admoni-
(Continued on page 4)
Dr. Charles W. Sheerin to Deliver
Baccalaureate Sermon, June 1
Commencement exercises for the senior class of API
will begin at 9:00 a.m., Sunday, June 1. On Sunday eve­ning
from eight o'clock until 10:00 p.m., there will be a
President's reception for the senior class at the President's
home.
Dr. and Mrs. L. N. Duncan have issued a cordial in­vitation
to all members of the senior class to attend the
reception and to bring their parents with them.
At 4:30 p.m., Sunday, the sen-
Sh eerm
The Rev. Charles W. Sheerin,
above, of New York City, will
preach the baccalaureate sermon
at commencement exercises here
on June 1.
Two New Courses in
Philosophy to Be
Taught Next Year
Two three-hour courses in phil­osophy
will be taught here next
year by Miss Mildred Emory who
has been appointed to the Auburn
faculty and head of hall for Dor­mitory
III at the Women's Quad­rangle.
A native of Virginia, Miss
Emory graduated from Hollins
College and later did graduate
work at the University of Mich­igan
and Bryn Mawr College in
Pennsylvania. Miss Emory comes
to Auburn from Bryn Mawr.
One of Miss Emory's courses
will be titled "Introduction to
Philosophy" and the other will be
"Ethics". Purpose of the first
course will be to acquaint the stu­dent
with the problems and meth­ods
of philosophy, and to show the
relation between philosophy and
the other fields of thought. The
course in ethics will include a
study of fundamental problems of
conduct in individual and social
experience. Also the course will
deal with the various types of
ethics viewed in their historical
and sociological relations.
Caps and Gowns
All seniors will either call for
their Caps and Gowns Thursday,
Friday or Saturday before Sun­day
Graduation Exercises or have
some friend call by for them.
This is especially true as the
Cap and Gown will be used for
the Sunday Exercises.
iors, faculty members, and the
choir will assemble for the proces­sion
to the stadium. The bacca­laureate
sermon will be held at
the Auburn Stadium at 5:00 p.m.
Charles W. Sheerin, Doctor of Di­vinity
and vice-president of The
Nation Council, Protestant Episco­pal
Church of New York City,
will deliver the sermon.
An exhibit of sketches and
paintings by the School of Archi­tecture
and Allied Arts will be
open to the visiting parents in the
Architectural Building from 9:00
a.m. to 12:00 m. on Sunday and
Monday, June 1 and 2. The ex­hibit
will also be open from two
until five o'clock on Monday af­ternoon.
Holy mass will be held at the
Catholic Church on Sunday morn­ing
at 10 o'clock and at 11 o'clock,
church services will be held at the
various protestant churches.
The open house period will come
from 10:00 a.m. until 12:00 m.,
Monday, June 2. During this per­iod
all faculty members will be
in their offices to meet the par­ents
of the senior class members.
Coffee will be served to the
senior class members, their par­ents
and friends by the Home Eco­nomics
Department from t en
o'clock until 11:30 a.m. The cof­fee
will be served in Smith Hall.
At 4:30 o'clock, Monday after­noon,
the senior class members
and the members of the faculty
will assemble for the procession
to the commencement exercises.
The exercises will be held at the
Auburn Stadium and will begin at
five o'clock.
The baccalaureate address will
be made by Pierce Harris, doctor
of divinity and pastor of the First
Methodist Church of Atlanta,
Georgia.
A senior class of 510, the larg­est
in the history of Auburn, ex­pect
to receive their degrees at
the 69th Commencement Exer­cises.
Among this year's graduat­ing
class are many students who
have been chosen by their class
mates as the leaders of the class
and all students of the school.
Senior ROTC Exam
All officers commissioned May
20, 1941, and all ROTC Seniors
who received certificate in lieu of
commission (under age) report at
Langdon Hall, 8:30 a.m., May
29th, for examination by a board
of officers for certificate of ca­pacity
for promotion to grade of
1st Lieutenant.
Women's Intramurals Close with Play
In Badminton; Year Awards Are Made
Hasselton Takes First
Place in Badminton
By FRANCES INGRAM
Women's Intramurals for the
year 1941-42 came to a close with
play-offs in the badminton tour­nament
this week. Louella Hasel-ton
took first place in the bad­minton
singles.
Awards were made to the 25
girls who attained the highest
number of points in participation
in intramural sports.
Third year awards, consisting of
intramural letters, were made to
Sara Tant Davis, Flo Kinard,
Nancy Eager Whitman, and Emma
Nell Parish.
Second year awards, certifi­cates,
were presented to Louella
Haselton, Sara Lee Banks, Bobbie
Thomas, and Dot Floyd.
First year award, which is an
intramural charm with a school
seal on it, was presented to Sara
Smith, Francis Ellis, Blanche
Ellis, Lillie B. Whatley, Jeanne
Bussey, Etta Breeden, Grace New­man,
Marjorie McKinnon, Allene
Snead, Mae Patton, Katharine
Herlong, Doris Avery, Dottie Nor­man,
Minnie Tippins, Anne Hooge,
Eloise Lapp, and Annie Lou O'-
Grady.
Fourth year award, a blue scarf
with orange A, has never been a-warded.
These awards are made on all-year
participation to the twenty-five
girls who have the highest
points and who participated in all
intramural sports.
Page Two THE P L A I N S M AN May 23, 1941
There'll Always
Be An Auburn
Now the clatter of the typewriters in
the Plainsman office has stopped again,
for another vacation.
In another week the whole campus
will be quiet as the Plainsman office is
now. But that peace won't last long.
J n a few days Summer School registra­tion
will begin, and then the school it­self.
That'll go on for eleven weeks, and
the campus will be quiet again, for a
couple more. Then regular session will
start again, and so on.
So it's just an eternal cycle. It'll be
going on for years, in spite of war, or
revolution, or sabotage. We'll change,
of course. And Auburn'll change, too.
There'll be more buildings, maybe some
less. There'll be new walks and foun­tains,
and trees.
There'll be new students. Some of us
will go, today, or tomorrow, or the next
day, or next week, and not come back.
Lots of things can happen today, or to­morrow,
or the next day, or next week.
Some of us will come back. But if we
do, we won't have over three or four
years more to stay here—unless one of
us gets to be a professor, or something
like that, and stays here for that reason.
We're all pretty worried about our
exams, and the war, and other things.
For some of us, there doesn't even seem
to be a ray of hope. But things will, of
course look better, later. They're never
quite as dark as they seem.
Whatever happens to us, there'll still
be an Auburn. That's the only thing that
we can be absolutely sure of. We, being
people, have to die. Auburn, being Au­burn,
doesn't. And it won't.
What's Happening to Us?
Elsewhere in this issue is an article,
written at the request of the Plainsman
staff, by a member of the faculty of Au­burn.
We consider that article the clearest
conception of "what's happening to Au­burn"
that we have yet seen—and we've
seen and heard many versions.
We want to make a special request
of every student, and every faculty mem­ber,
of Auburn, to read that article, and
to think about what it means.
That article, as we say, states clearly
and in concise terms just what has hap­pened,
and what is happening, to the
students of Auburn. Only by such a
school-wide understanding of the matter
can anything be done about it.
Nothing has ever happened in Au­burn,
or, for that matter, anywhere,
which could not be straightened out or
improved upon by a cooperative move­ment
of all people concerned. But all
those people must agree upon the mat­ter,
and upon the solution of the mat­ter,
before such cooperation may be ob­tained.
We of Auburn have been going around
asking "what's happened" for so long
that we've forgotten to ask "what can
we do about what's happened." Those
few who have asked "what are we go­ing
to do about it" have contemplated
everything from suicide and quitting
school to outright revolution. Neither of
those contemplations are solutions.
Perhaps if everyone will read that ar­ticle,
and think about it, we will at least
understand among our selves the prob­lem
that we have to face, what's hap­pened,
and begin to think about what
we're going to do about it. We have all
summer to think in.
To the Students
From THE EDITOR
Dear Students
We are in a rather different position
from that of all the other editors who
have published the "last issue of the
year." We won't get to write a swan
song, and say, "we've made mistakes,
we hope you've not become too disgust­ed
with us, we thought we were right,
we've enjoyed it, and so on." We won't
get to do that, because, God and Uncle
Sam willing, we'll be back in the editor's
chair next year. So we aren't saying
these lengthy goodbyes. We're just say­ing,
"So long, until September."
There are two jobs on the campus of
Auburn in which the office-holder is in
a position of '"responsibility" to every
single person in school and in town. One
of these jobs is that of the Editorship of
the Plainsman. When you're the editor,
every hour or so somebody calls you or
comes by to see you, and asks for some
space in your paper for something or
other. If you don't give them that space,
you make them mad. If you do, you
usually make somebody else mad. We
realize that we've made plenty of you
mad. We hope that you can forgive and
forget, between now and September.
Politicians all over Auburn have been
making promises for a whole year now,
of what they'd do next year. We have
only one promise which we feel that if
we try, we can assure you of. That prom­ise
is, to make the Plainsman once again
"your newspaper." If we can do that,
we'll consider our year-and-a-half of
editorship well spent.
We can do that only with your co­operation.
If you DO have anything
you'd like to see in print, bring it by. We
don't mind making that other fellow
just a little mad at us, for printing it.
We'll do that, rather than make you
mad — because we're for you — be­cause
you came by to bring us some­thing
you really thought was worth
printing.
Good luck to you all,
The Editor
Studying for Exams?
Chief Hawkins
Says Goodbye
Chief Hawkins isn't Chief Hawkins
anymore. He's gone to Birmingham, to
work in connection with the ABC Board.
When he left, he left word with a mu­tual
friend, requesting that we express
for him his regret at leaving, and his
goodbye's to Auburn's students.
Auburn lost something when they lost
"the chief." We don't know why he
went. Probably had a much better job.
Or maybe people had quit committing
crimes in Auburn, and he didn't feel the
need to stay. Or maybe he just hated to
see them plowing up that cornfield that
was next to his house.
But he left word with us to tell you
"goodbye" and "Was good to have
knownya", and "If you're ever in Bir­mingham,
look me up."
Tribute to Alpha
Phi Omega
This week the much-publicized Fin­gerprint
Drive was held on the campus.
That Fingerprint Drive owes much of
its success to the efforts of the local
chapter of Alpha Phi Omega.
For two years Alpha Phi Omega had
been working on the possibilities of such
a drive. They had aroused interest in
Auburn in the drive. They had asked to
be allowed to sponsor the drive.
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By BOB CHISHOLM
As the chimes of old Samford
Tower ring out on the sultry
spring air, we realize that another
year at Auburn is about over.
Soon the campus will be quiet,
the merry shouts will not echo
among the buildings, and will set­tle
down to peace and solitude, at
least until summer school starts.
In a way we almost feel a deep
regret as this year comes to a
close. To the seniors that are go­ing
out, we extend our heartiest
congratulations and best wishes.
We hope that they know that
their worries are just now begin­ning
and not just ending.
To the undergraduates, we hope
that the present world affairs will
shape up into such a form that
all of us can return to Auburn in
the fall. We should appreciate ev­ery
day of college that we can
get, because once it is over, it is
gone forever. Your college days
should be the happiest of your
life.
* * *
Throughout the year we have
written a lot of copy, some good,
some bad. We have thrown orchids
where we thought they should be
thrown and we have tossed lemons
where we felt they would do the
most good.
We have tried to write to please
as many students as possible, but
it is hard to please everyone. It
has been lots of fun, though, and
we have made lots of friends
through this column.
* * *
The graduation day parade
ceremonies were very impressive.
They brought home the seriousness
of the situation that is facing ev­ery
man and woman graduating
from colleges and universities in
By HERBERT MARTIN
General Delivery
By REDDING SUGG
The other day I was surprised to realize how thoroughly the minds
of our generation are immunized against propaganda, especially war
propaganda. We probably have the most suspicious and cautious minds
the world has ever seen before. Our parents contrast with astonish­ment
their innocence of 1917 with our experience today, and they are
ever more astonished by the change which has come about within
themselves. In 1917 they considered it disgraceful, whether flatfooted
or not, to be outside the ranks of the army; but today they tend to
join with us in congratulating anybody who manages to get. himself
deferred from military service.
* * * *
Most people think these differences are due to the world-wide re­action
against war after 1918 and more particularly to the strong
waves of isolationism which washed over this country through the
thirties and which still are in noticeable tides. These differences, dis-couragingly
enough, appear to be unfortunate at the moment; for,
although they indicate a wholesome and welcome disenchantment with
war, they also do an excellent job of making us vulnerable to om­en
emies.
* * * *
There is bitter irony in the fact that if we are to be in this war
as an official, bombed and bombing belligerent, we must sack many
of the hard-won gains of the pacifists in order to come out victorious.
We apparently are faced with the task of waking ourselves to a
thorough-going job of war-making, and about the only way to do it
is through emotionalism.
* * * *
Periodically I get scared at the thought of a war between en­thusiastic
Germans and apathetic Americans—and I rather wish some­body
could at least temporarily hoodwink me and my generation into
an eagerness to "conquer the Hun"; that is a pretty terrible thing to
wish, but isn't it less terrible than the fate of France? (I admit, a little
sheepishly, that all this very possibly may be, not my own thoughts,
but those of some propagandist whose job is beautifully done!)
* :|: * *
This year I think we have attended the lengthy funeral of the Au­burn
Spirit, 1872-1941. The rites have been somewhat undignified, but
the reason for that is that a more important event has been going on
at the same time. The next edition of the Auburn Spirit has been pre­pared,
and next September it ought to begin to function. This year
has been a period of transition, and its disturbances have been indica­tions
of health rather than of disease. The Auburn Spirit, 1872-1941,
has been outgrown; no more will Auburn be the small college of a
few years back. The new Auburn Spirit will necessarily be larger, a
little less personal, a great deal more comprehensive; and it ought
to be, in its own way, just as effective as its beloved predecessor has
been.
* * * *
The patter of platitudes which customarily makes commencements
somewhat insincere is unbearable this year. The boy and girl graduates
of 1941 so obviously have no time for the luxury of being boy and
girl graduates. An inconsistent world has decided that the 1941 grad­uates
shall be men and women and that their graduation shall seem
rather grim under its greeting-card frills. That is the situation. Since
the conventional sentiments are so completely out of place, and since
I do not feel called upon to talk about the dark ages everybody seems
to expect, I hope I do not sound curt when I say only—"Good luck"
to the Class of 1941.
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.
There's a bare chance that
there will be an outdoor swim­ming
pool built here soon. We
hear, in fact, that it's a real fact.
This comes as surprising news to
us, as just one week ago an out­door
pool within the city limits
was plowed up because no one
ever swam there except a bunch
or herd or flock of mosquitoes.
* * *
This pool, something less than
a dozen feet long, and about half
as wide, was formerly behind a
home on East Magnolia. Still, with
three pools (Alumni Gym, Hall,
and the new one) Auburn will get
along well enough for a town its
size.
* * *
And, with the new tennis courts,
as well as Chewacla, Ag Bottom,
and the stadium, recreational fa­cilities
will be of the best.
* * *
Speaking of recreational facili­ties,
juniors are all thrilled over
the location of the summer camp
this year. We hear it will be about
10 miles from Ft. Benning prop­er,
three miles from Cusseta, and
practically no distance at all from
sand, scrub pines, and sunstrokes.
Night life at Cusseta is said to
consist of one open.-all-night fill­ing
station.
The sand is four inches deep,
the tents are when it rains, and
even the pines are threatening a
walkout. Still, it's about time we
realized that we are actually at
war, whether we are sending arm­ed
forces over thar or not.
* * *
This is said to make the dating
situation around Columbus quite
a bit less than fair to middlin',
with dates being about as scarce
as feathers on an egg.
* * *
Recreational features are ex­pected
to include removal of sand,
cutting of grass, if there is any
there, and fighting among our­selves.
* * *
It may be a good idea, though.
Might keep us from getting the
feeling that Uncle Samuel's army
is a playground, and might get
our minds on what we're really
there for.
* * *
Most juniors seem to feel that
they may not have as much play­ing
around as they have heard
this country this year. Dr. Duncan
spoke a little pessimistically, we
thought, but behind his talk he
showed that he had the greatest
confidence in all Auburn men and
women.
As the seniors received their
commissions we felt a lump in our
throats. Every graduation cere­mony
has its emotional side, yet
somehow when one sees the fine
young men that are being turned
out at API he can't help but feel
proud that he is a part of it all.
* * *
We are grateful to our school
fathers for their help and guid­ance
during the past year. Al­though
we haven't always liked
what they've done, and although
we haven't done what they liked,
we have gotten along very well.
Auburn is improving rapidly,
and within the next few years we
should have one of the finest,
most modern colleges in the
South. The rapid growth of the
school shows its potentialities. And
the end is not in sight. Auburn is
shooting for the top and will at­tain
her goal eventually.
* * *
The freshmen of this year are
now growing into real college stu­dents
as they become sophomores.
The sophomores are sticking out
their chests as they rise to the
junior class. The juniors are a lit­tle
frightened by the prospect of
being seniors. And the poor sen­iors,
well, they haven't got a thing
to say. They've done all they can
do.
* * *
And as this last paper of the
1940-41 year rolls from the press­es,
we hope that all of the stu­dents
of Auburn will have a good
summer, whether they are work­ing
or vacationing, and we hope
that each and every one of you
students who want to come back
next fall will be able to do so.
Good luck to all, fellows; we'll
be back with you when those au­tumn
leaves begin to fall on the
old beloved campus.
tell of, but that they'll learn a
little about being officers, and
have a pretty good time doing it.
And, they feel that, anyhow, those
boys from Florida and LSU are
going to need somebody to keep
them out of trouble.
* * *
Directions for reaching the
camp have not been completely
charted as yet, but it's not one
of those places you swing into on
grape vines for the last two miles,
possibly because there are no
grape vines.
V * *
We may have stepped on a few
toes this year, but there was noth­ing
personal in that, and if we
have seemed to be giving unde­served
build-ups to any individuals
or organizations, there was noth­ing
personal in that, either.
* * *
We've made some mistakes,
plenty of them, and we think we
may have been on the right track
once in a while. Anyhow, it was
all meant for the best, and we
think we've at least been fair
about them.
* * *
Around this time of year it is
customary to tell the editor and
senior members of the staff good­bye
and we've enjoyed working
with them, but the editorial staff
will be back intact, cuss it. On the
dirty side there's Darty (ouch),
Warren G., and Wilson, Frank B.
The traditional feud between the
staffs has been present as always,
with the editorial fellows accusing
the business staff of trying to put
out an advertising circular of the
kind you put behind screens, and
the money boys saying that that
is better than wasting space on
the stuff we want to run.
That's been fun, too, and we're
going to miss both of these gen­tlemen
next year. And we still
want to know why Wilson, ad
manager, bought the car, and
Darty, money grabber, didn't!
* * *
We're finishing out our second
year with Karrie, this issue, and
we're still grateful to you for tak­ing
us in. We didn't have much
of anyplace to go, and a steady
home where everybody at least
said he was a friend, and usual­ly
was, has been pretty welcome.
* * *
We want to wish you one of
those summers where all of the
fish bite and are big 'uns, and
all of the people you meet at
those places you meet people are
the kind you've wanted to meet.
* * *
May all the girls latch onto a
Clark Gable, and all of the men
take their choice, and may all of
your worries be little 'uns.
* * *
We hope and expect to see you
next September, but these days
it's pretty risky to make a definite
date to be anywhere three months
from date.
Anyway, Karrie, the Kampus
Kollege Kareer Kloser, kloses
with, "It's been fine, and if I
don't get back here next year,
I'll try to pop up in another col­umn
where I'll get better space.
Thanks to everybody who has
managed to struggle through the
tripe that's always above me, and
I've got a feeling I'll be back on
deck when registration rolls a-round
next fall."
"And, PS, if you run across an
extra man this summer of the tall,
not-too-dark, and pretty as I am,
please bring him along. I'm get­ting
sorta tired of this drip."
Next Year's Plainsman
The students of Auburn, and
the members of the Plainsman
staff are in a way fortunate —
in others unfortunate — in that
next year's Plainsman will be
edited by the same staff, with
possible exceptions in the repor-torial
end of this year.
These staff members, having
had one semester of editing the
paper, and all being ffndergrad-uates
who will return to school in
September, should know how to
publish the paper as you, the stu­dents
like it.
Next year's Plainsman will be
published by the Lee County Bul­letin
Publishing Company, with
offices next to the Telephone
Building, on Tichenor Avenue.
There should be a copy of the
Plainsman waiting for all of you
who come next year, when you
come back.
\
May 23, 1941 T H E P L A I N S M AN Page Three
Auburn, I94Q-4I--The Year in Review
Student Elections
Biggest News Story
Hollis Resignation, Final Dances,
Letter System, Among Headliners
By WILLARD HAYES
Every nine months, from September through May,
school is in progress on the Campus of the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute and in that nine months certain events
take place.
This being the last issue of the Plainsman, the time
has arrived when the year should be reviewed, and since
this is a college newspaper, the events should be reviewed
according to the news that has appeared in the Plains­man
during the school year.
Probably the most interesting
story to the students was the one
covering the student elections held
on April 4. Three of the major
candidates went into office unop­posed.
They were Bill Moore,
president of Executive Cabinet;
Bob Anderson, editor of the
Plainsman; and Jimmy Rouse,
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business manager of the Plains­man.
Other of the higher officers
elected were Francis Crimmins,
social chairman; Joe Meadows and
Sam Nettles, Glomerata heads;
Hugh Maddox. president of the
senior class; Pete King, vice-presi­dent
of the Cabinet; and Nelle
Gilchrist, president of WSGA.
Supposedly the passing of the
election ended all the news Value
of the election, but about a month
later it was necessary to hold an­other
election as Francis Crim­mins
resigned from his post as
social chairman. In the later elec­tion
Jim Morgan was elected to
take Crimmins' place.
Hollis Resigns as Editor
Another story causing comment
on the campus appeared in an is­sue
of the Plainsman which came
out with a large story on the front
page announcing the resignation
of Dan Hollis as editor of the
Plainsman. That issue appeared
on February 11, and the stories
in the Plainsman and the com­ments
which circulated on the
campus probably rates that story
as second for the year. As a re­sult
of the resignation made by
Hollis upon his getting a job with
the government resettlement pro­gram,
Bob Anderson took over
the duties of editor for the year.
Board Cancels Final Dances
With the March 18 issue came
the third story of the year with
a front-page coverage and huge
headlines covering the action tak­en
by the Finance Board of the
Social Committee. The story point­ed
out that due to the lack of
interest by seniors, it would be fu­tile
to have final dances. In their
place was the senior class dance
which was held for the seniors
only.
Council Adopts Letter System
At the beginning of the semes­ter
came the making of the fourth
largest story of the year. The
story came with the announce­ment
that the school would adopt
the letter system of grading for
the current semester, but the stu­dents
did not like the idea, so the
administration agreed to continue
the use of the numerical system
as that was the system called for
in the catalogue.
However, on March 7 the Exe­cutive
Council announced that the
letter system would begin its re­gime
next • year, and that the
deans and department heads
would decide what will constitute
the students' grades.
Cabinet Forms Qualification
Board
At the beginning of the semes­ter
" came the story announcing
the forming of the qualification
board, before which all students
in campus politics must appear.
Not only did the new ruling re­quire
a personal appearance be­fore
the board, but it also re;
quires a written paper of not less
than 200 words.
Cut System Change
The sixth most important story
appeared on February 21 an­nouncing
the new cut system.
The new system allows the stu­dents
a quota of one cut for each
hour taken. After the tremendous
increase in failures it became
necessary for the administration
to take action through the Execu­tive
Council.
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into his leg. Blood poisoning set
in and the doctors looked and
shook their heads, saying he'd
never walk again.
The medical prophecy too was a
miscue, however, and pretty soon
the leg was back in its former
shape. Asked if it was his kicking
leg he had injured he laughed and
answered, "No. It was'my left one
—the one I cut back on."
High school days came and Dick
made the rounds, playing two
years at Empire and one each at
Day's Gap and Horse Creek. And
he'll swear those names are au­thentic.
He recalls with a smile
the occasion where he was turned
down upon his application to at­tend
and play football at Wood-lawn
High School. The team was
all made up, Malcolm Laney said
to him, early in the summer.
Bounced by Bama
Second brush-off in his grid ca­reer
came when he was picking a
college to attend. Offers had
come in from Birmingham-South­ern,
Howard, Georgia Tech, LSU
and Auburn. Alabama looked at
him once, said he was too young.
Better run off to junior college
for a couple of years and try
again, they told him.
Of all the schools open to him
he liked Auburn, however, and
soon headed for the Plains. "Any­way,"
he told us as he looked
•down at the bandaged hands he
had torn up in a fall from a horse
three days before, "I had an un­cle
who graduated here in '32 and
he had told me a lot about Au­burn."
• And just about every freshman
knows what the Empire Express
has done since then. He played
from the first team left half spot
during his freshman year, shared
the position with Spec Kelley as
a soph, and took over by himself
after that. First his phenomenal
kicking, then his all around back-field
ability threw him in the spot­light
and he was on his way. At
the close of the '39 season he had
gained a spot among the five top
college punters in the business,
positions on some All-Southeastern
teams, and runner-up honor for
title of the most valuable foot­ball
player in the SEC.
Those, and his leadership on the
field, were enough to see him in­to
the captaincy of the '40 eleven.
During that year he led all Au­burn
scorers, ranked as the sec­ond
punter in the country, won
his second Blue Key outstanding
player award in the Clemson
Homecoming (he had taken the
first against Florida the previous
year), was named the most valu­able
Auburn player, was named
on the Associated Press All-
Southeastern team, and received
honorable mention for pi-actically
every All-American selection.
Dick Prefers Baseball
But that just covers football,
and it turns out that baseball is
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his first sporting love. In two
years he's earned two letters in
showing well in practically every
spot on the field. Starting out as
a catcher, where he played his
junior year, he was temporarily
moved to first base, then to left
field where he showed in the ma­jority
of this season's games. His
hitting was .333 during the recent
schedule and his work in the pas­tures
was something to stump the
most bitter critic in the bleachers.
Out there an uncanny ability to
chase down long swats and a
deadly throwing arm established
him as one of the Conference's
best.
Off the athletic fields he is a
major in education, is a member
of Blue Key, the 'A' Club, of
Scabbard and Blade, and is a lieu­tenant
in Uncle Sam's reserve
corps.
He's had two professional of­fers,
one in baseball from the
Cleveland Indians and another
from the football Brooklyn Dodg­ers,
so it looks like life is just
starting for this guy who's been
making the headlines for the past
four years. With careers in coach­ing,
baseball, football or the army
open and Dick McGowen's char­acteristics
in leadership to go a-long
chances are you'll be hear­ing
a lot more about him.
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Page Four THE PLAINSMAN May 23, 1941
List of Seniors to Graduate June 2
Is Continued from Last Issue
(Continued from last issue)
(Pre-Medicine). — Joseph Ed­ward
Welden, Wetumpka.
(Foreign Service). — Jack Bu-ford
Carmichael, Montgomery;
William Franck Miller, Atlanta,
Ga.
(Science a n d Literature). —
Maude Crockett, Leighton; Hilton
Hermann Earle, Mobile; Doris
Campbell Hardwick, Huntsville;
Jean Marjorie Howie, Ft. Knox,
Ky.; Kate Eileen Jones, Auburn;
Jean Hollis Laird, Savannah, Ga.;
John Booker May, III, Washing­ton,
D. C.; Elizabeth Howard
Perry, Auburn; Beatrice Louise
Rains, Albertville; Frank Monroe
Renfro, Opelika; James Elizabeth
Sartain, Jasper; David Robinson
Savelle, Auburn; Carolyn Tatum,
Opelika.
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—Marion Russell Avery, Jr., Red
Bay; Hugh Allen Bassham, Bethel
Springs, Tenn.; Joseph Charles
Bateman, Columbia, N. C; Sid­ney
Anderson Berry, Jr., Vina;
Martin Birn, Washington, D. C.J
John Blunschi, Jr., Eutaw; Ed­ward
F. Boyette, Selma, N. C;
Thomas Edward Brown, Spartan­burg,
S. C ; George Harvey Clan-ton,
Quitman, Ga.; Charles Ross
Dean, Auburn; Robert Arden
Dickinson, Montgomery; Robert
LeRoy Dickinson, Bishopville, S.
C; Bennie Smith Edward, Mo­bile;
Calvin Wilkes Evans, Naru-na,
Va., John Whitney Evans, Jr.,
Naruna, Va.; James Ashby Fau-ghn,
Benton, Ky.; Edwin Hender­son
Ferrell, Opelika.
Wilbur Coburn Haire, Quincy,
Fla.; Hobart Hare, Wilmington,
Del.; Sylvan D e a n Haworth,
Okeene, Okla.; Newell Galbreath
Jerome, Wilson Ark.; Warren Al­ton
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GEO. E. STONE
SATURDAY
KARLOFF
The Mad Monster of the
Cinema . . . in
"The Devil
Commands"
With
RICHARD FISKE
AMANDA DUFF
Serial and Cartoon
SUNDAY - MONDAY
Joyously Together Again!
The love we all dream of finding . . . made an
exciting . . . glowing . . . unforgettable reality . . .
from the first tender kiss . . . to the last rapturous
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CAN YOU
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TUESDAY
The Man Who Lost Himself"
BRIAN AHERN KAY FRANCIS
WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY
"So Ends Our Night"
TIGER
jock, N. C.; George Linwood Le-wallen,
St. Petersburg, Fla.; Wil­liam
Matthew Long, Burlington,
N. C.; Raymond Damascus Lov-vorn,
Wedowee; Gordon MacEach-ern,
Haverhill, Mass.; George
Thirza McDaniel, Jr., Eastman,
Ga.; John William McKee, Selma;
Merwin Hale Matthis, New Bern,
N. C; Howard Norvell Mead,
Greensboro, N. C ; George Allen
Melton, Atmore; John Jackson
Moore, Marion Junction; Guy
Whitley Moorman, Douglas, Ga,
Hankins Fred Parker, Brewton;
Walter Virgil Petty, Dawson, Ga.;
John Burr Piggott, Purcellville,
Va.; Lyman Edward Porter, Quin­cy,
Fla.; Milton Philip Sause,
Baltimore, Maryland; Fred George
Schell, Union Springs; George
Kenneth Smith, Columbia, S. C;
Cecil Julius Spears, Dublin, Ga.;
David Gimmel Sprinkle, Washing­ton,
D. C.; Julian DuBose Stith,
Mullins, S. C; Otto Marshall
Strock, Elloree, S. C; William
Monroe Thompson, Camden; Fred­erick
Franklin Warren, Middle-burg,
Va.; Vernon Leo Wells, Sel­ma;
James Price Whitman, Jr.,
Winf ield; Alexander Taliaferro
Wiatt, II, Hampton, Va.; Henry
Grady Young, Lyerly, Ga.
Master of Science in Agricul­ture.
— Jean Wallace Borland,
Pinckard; Mannard E. Holt, Banks-ton;
Hoyt Austin Nation, Dutton;
William Flynt Nichols, Prattville;
Thomas Hayden Rogers, Auburn;
Ernest Harold Stewart, Belle
Mina; Coyt Taylor Wilson, Vina.
Master of Science in Agricul­tural
Economics. — John Homer
Blackstone, Gadsden.
Master of Science in Agricul­tural
Engineering. — William Joe
Russell Browder, Knoxville, Tenn.;
Charlie Mack Stokes, Elba.
Master of Science in Wildlife
Management. — Joseph Earl Her­bert,
McKenzie; Henry Howze
Howell, Jr., Birmingham; Lloyd
George Webb, Moultrie, Ga.
Master of Science in Chemistry.
—Edward Francis Rehm, Mobile.
Master of Science in Education.
—Alverta Roberts Bishop, Lanett;
Thelma Caine, Safford; Nelle
Seale Coulter, Phenix City; Mat-tie
Frank Davis, Lanett; John Wil­liam
Harris, Wadley; Crawford
Clift Haynes, Woodland; J. P.
Howard, Eclectic; Colburn Ed­ward
Hooton, Langdale; Nelia
SPORTS PEN
By JOHN PIERCE
We had a rather long and drawn out tirade worked up on the
subject of "What Price Football" and inspired by the almost unani­mous
feeling among the Auburn football players that they haven't
been getting quite the deal they should have during the past year.
However we're letting it ride until next year just to see how condi­tions
are then, if there are any conditions and if there is any foot­ball
team.
Condensed down to a minimum the general cause of discontent
centers around this. There may have been in the past sordid exhibi­tions
of conduct by a handful of the athletes that served to plaster
a bad name on the group, but does that call for a concentrated
campaign of sleuthing and spotlighting of every misdemeanor into
some monstrous crime? With those rare exceptions the actions of the
athletes haven't been out of conformity with those of the student
body. For every miscue by a footballer you can find a proportionate
number of such among other students of the college.
The fact that the footballers spend their spare hours out on a
practice field rather than hanging around the administrative offices
doesn't signify, to our knowledge, that they have less pride or less
desire to succeed than any others on the campus, and, as we stated
before, we are making room for the exceptions.
The athletes aren't doing themselves any great favor by knocking
each other around every afternoon—they're doing things for the
school and for the student body. Why can't they receive a square
deal off the athletic field?
* * * *
And that just about cleans things out for the year. We could
make a lot of apologies here—apologies for a negligible coverage of
intramurals, of varsity tennis, of freshman baseball and track, and
for many other cases where we failed to give sufficient credit where
it was due. It's just been, however, the failings of a skeleton sports
staff in trying to hang on to six or seven wires at once. It seems
that it takes a full year to find out all the ropes of a job like this
and we'll be back next year with hopes for just a little stronger help.
We've traveled some 8,000 miles since September watching ev­ery
kind of sports event but ring-around-the-rosie and that just must
not be in season yet. We've seen Auburn teams take a couple of
pretty awful beatings but we haven't ever lost our respect for the
fight those team have put up against overwhelming odds. And we
know it will be that way next year and the following years as long
as Auburn is on the map. We've watched Auburn teams in action
in around sixty events and we
can't name any greater thrill than
just having been there watching
those events unfold.
And we'd like to express our
appreciation to publicity director
Elmer G. Salter, to the Auburn
coaching staff, and to the athletes
themselves for the generous help
and cooperation they've given
throughout the year. Stepping in­to
this job after but a week on
the paper left some bewildering
consequences to be faced and
their generosity has been instru­mental
in pulling us through.
larger and larger number of men
and women become convinced of
the importance of practicing them.
These men and women can be as­sured
that they are playing a vital
role in the building of an endur­ing
Auburn, one that will be a
credit to the golden memories of
the past and in keeping with the
needs of the ever-present NOW.
What's Happening?
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