1944-08-08 The Plainsman

              Keep your appointment
With the Blood Bank Ihs QlaJLnAmarvIf you're not the type
Who can drive a tank
"REACHES EVERY HOME IN AUBURN"
VOLUME LXVIII
ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN* ALABAMA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1944 NUMBER 33
FIVE STUDENTS QUALIFY
FOR PUBLICATIONS ELECTION
Rand, Woodall, Garber, Pope To Run;
Steindorff Takes Office Unopposed
Although not one of the five candidates for positions on
The Glomerata and The Plainsman met all the requirements
for qualification, the Publications Board decided at its meet­ing
Tuesday night to qualify these students to run in tomor-
. row's election as "an emergency measure."
All third quarter juniors, first
and second quarter seniors may
vote in the election Howard Ful-enwider,
chairman of the election
committee, said. Polls will be
placed in Student Center, on Vet
Hill, and in Ross Chemical Labor­atory
and will be open from 8 a.m.
till noon and from 1 p.m. until
5. Voters will not be required to
show their student activity cards.
Henry Steindorff, Greenville,
was the only candidate for busi­ness
manager of The Plainsman.
He is a junior in mechanical en­gineering,
a member of Pi Kappa
Alpha social fraternity, Sabers,
Alpha Phi Omega, and Interfra-ternity
Council. For the past year
he served as advertising manager
of The Plainsman. His grade aver­age
is 2.3.
Martha Rand. Tuscumbia, qual­ified
for editor of The Plainsman.
She is enrolled as a junior in
architecture, and has served as
society editor and managing edi­tor
of The Plainsman. Her average
is 3.58.
Dorolh Woodall. Huntsville,
also qua Jed for editor of The
Plainsman. She is a junior in sci­ence
and literature, president of
Phi Omega Pi sorority, a member
of the Pan-Hellenic Council, an
Auburn Player, and has served as
feature editor and managing edi­tor
of The Plainsman. Her aver­age
is 2.8.
Dale Garber, Jackson, Miss.,
junior in science and literature,
qualified for the position of busi­ness
manager of The Glomerata.
She is a member of Alpha Delta
Pi, has served as secretary of
WSGA, is a member of WAA
council, and has worked on the
Glomerata staff. Her average is
3.3.
B. A. Pope. Jr.. Newsoms, Va.,
also qualified for business mana­ger
of the Glomerata. He is a
junior in veterniary medicine, a
member of AVMA, and Omega
Tau Sigma professional fraternity.
His grade average is 3.3.
Mr. Kirtley Brown, secretary of
the Publications Board, said that
the qualification of these students
who did not wholly meet the re­quirements
will not be considered
as a precedent for future action
of the Board. The requirements
for qualification will remain the
same.
Students to supervise at the
polls have already been appoint­ed.
Gibbs Ashley and Mary Jo
Bridges will be stationed in Stu­dent
Center; Lois Rogers and Eu­gene
Griffiths will be on Vet Hill;
and Jack Young and Rueben
Burch will supervise in Ross.
Albert Thomas
Is Missing
Over Germany
Lieutenant Albert L. Thomas,
son of Professor and Mrs. Albert
L. Thomas, was reported missing
in action on July 19. He is be­lieved
to have been lost in a 2000-
plane raid over Germany in which
aircraft factories were the main
target and over one of the sec­tors
in which the robot bombs are
believed to be made.
Albert is in the 15th Air Force.
He is a member of Sigma Chi
and Alpha Phi Omega fraterni­ties
at Auburn.
Campus Red Cross
Quarters Closed
Field Direcor Byrd S. Walker,
who has been in charge of the
campus Red Cross, has been trans­ferred
to Camp Forest, Tennessee.
Pending permanent arrange­ments,
the work of the field office
here will be taken over by the
Lee County Chapter, of which
Mrs. Dale Porter is director.
THE TI6ER NOSE
. . . that now is the time to be­gin
cramming for finals.
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. . . and that Lake Chewacla
looks more like the Chattahoochee
River than anything else. Too
much preciptation and mud.
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. . . if Red Cross Blood Donor
Unit nurses inserted one tube,
running alcohol, into the left arm
and one tube into the right arm
draining blood, that Auburn
would have more 'Lil'l Abners'
on the campus than there are in
a first-run edition of the Atlanta
Journal, and also more blood do­nors
on time.
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. . . the donkey baseball game
would be much more thrilling to
the spectators, but also more dan­gerous
to the players, if some of
these roman-nosed Alabama
mules were used instead of don­keys.
Auburn Marine
Hikes Barefoot
Over 200 Miles
A former Auburn student, Ser­geant
U. G. Light, from Arab, re­cently
completed a barefoot 200
mile patrol over the island of
Cape Gloucester, New Britain.
The former API football player
covered the first five miles with
a decided limp and finally asked
his patrol leader for permission
to remove his shoes.
After this he outwalked his
group and marched ahead of na­tive
carriers even.
Sergeant Light explained that
he had never worn shoes until
his twenty-first birthday, when
he left the farm to go to school.
"I can do anything with these
bare feet that you can do with
your shoes on," he said matter of
factly.
Furthermore, upon returning to
camp, he borrowed a football and
putted it 75 yards on the fly just
to prove a point to skeptics.
Light is a veteran of Guadal­canal,
and his parents live in
Arab.
Sparks Hits
Tenant Farmer
Situation
Senator Bankhead
Unable To Attend
Four-Day Meeting
Although Senator John H.
Bankhead was unable to attend
the Southern Farm Bureau Train­ing
School held here last week,
the program was carried to a very
successful conclusion for (the more
than 400 farm men and women of
13 Southern states who spent the
first four days of last week here
as guests of the college.
Highlights of the four-day con­vention
was the speech by Gover­nor
Sparks, who condemned the,
tenant farmer situation in Alaba­ma.
In addition to spending much
time in class work and to listen­ing
to addresses by national lead­ers,
the members of this conven­tion
visited the nationally famous
experimental work in fertilizing,
stocking and fishing farm ponds,
and the forestry experimental
work in thinning 1-year-old slash
pine, fire control versus no con­trol,
comparisons of wood quality
and quantity from good native
and poor stands, 17-year slash
pine on formerly eroded sites and
under-planting pines on hard­wood.
At the conclusion of the meet­ing,
Edward A. O'Neil, president,
and W. G. Ogg, Washington rep­resentative,
stated that some of
the highlights of the American
Farm Bureau Federation program
for saving agriculture and the na­tion
from a postwar collapse fol­lows:
1. Maintain agriculture on a
bounty basis with industry and
labor. Only such a policy will
provide the maximum exchange
of goods and services between
county and city and assure stable,
prosperous economy.
2. Perfect a national farm pro­gram
which will enable farmers
to obtain a fair share of the na­tional
income, preserve their soil
fertility, dispose of price-depress­ing
surpluses, adjust production
to market requirements whenever
necessary, bring about a more ef­ficient
administration with less
expense, less centralized control
and effective coordination of all
agricultural programs.
3. Regain share of export out­lets
for farm surpluses.
4. Strengthen the cooperative
credit system so as to provide
adequate credit at the harvest
cost consistent with a sound sys­tem.
5. Reorganize direct govern­ment
lending agencies to elimi­nate
bureaucracy, political use of
credit, excessive costs, socialistic
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RULES .GIVEN
FOR DONORS,
BLOOD BANK
Over 700 people from Lee Coun­ty
have signed up for the blood
bank scheduled to be in Auburn
Wednesday, Thursday, and Fri­day,
completing the quota neces­sary
for the three day operation.
Every volunteer is urged to
keep his or her appointment, to
be on time, and to eat no dairy
products (including eggs, butter
and milk) for four hours before
giving blood.
The basement of the Baptist
Church will be the station of the
Mobile Unit which comes from
Atlanta.
An excuse will be given for a
class missed, if a student donor
needs one. <
Rain Is Plentiful But
Not Like It Us'ta Be
By Ted Bryson
The students of Auburn are now
wearing their web feet! This may
seem unusual for the new students
but the old ones are used to them.
The web feet we mean. It has been
rumored that the new frosh have
been running around chanting,
"Rain, rain, rain, that's all I see
around here." Ah, but the old stu­dents
say, "So much sunshine. I
can't stand it."
Putting all kidding aside we'll
all agree that there has been an
exceptionally large amount of
rainfall in the last few days. Even
our private weather man will
vouch-for that! According to of­ficial
weather tabulations as re­corded
here by Prof. J. M. Rob­inson,
the rainfall for the five
days, July 29-August 3, was 5.19
inches.
The heaviest fall for a day in
the past week was 2.66 inches on
July 30. Just to prove that the
weather for the summer here is a
freak, the rainfall on July 30 of
last year was exactly nothing!
So all you students who haven't
web feet had certainly better
get them quick. We AIN'T kid­ding,
Senior Class
Veterinarians
Give Dinner
At a dinner given by the senior
class of the School of Veterinary
Medicine last Wednesday night at
the Clement Hotel in Opelika, Dr.
B. T. Simms spoke on the sub­ject
of the future of our nation.
"The future rests in the hands
of the boys who are now graduat­ing,"
he said. Dr. Simms traced
the history up to the present time
and made predictions as to the
economic welfare of our country.
The faculty of the vet school
and the forty-eight members of
the graduating class were present.
Bob Reisinger acted as toast-master
and Herbert Riddle intro­duced
*he guest speaker.
Reuben Brawner, Irwin Cooper
and Lawrence Cottle were on the
program committee.
BULLETINS
Invitations
The Committee for Senior Invi­tations
regrets to announce that it
will be the end of this week or
the first of next before the invi­tations
will be distributed. Pres­ent
day conditions are causing the
unavoidable delay at the manu­facturers.
Convocation
Convocation will meet Thurs­day
afternoon at 5 o'clock in
Langdon hall. The purpose of the
meeting is to honor graduating
seniors and to install newly elect­ed
officers of WSGA.
DuBose, Sahm, Cardwell, Slaughter,
Popwell Win In WSGA Elections
Legionaires,
Lions To Play
Donkey Ball
Proceeds Will Be
Used To Finish
"Roll-Of-Honor
Auburn Post of the American
Legion has accepted the challenge
of the Auburn Lions Club to play
a game of Donkey Baseball.
The game will be played on
Bullard Field, Wednesday, Au­gust
9 at 8 p.m.
Players will fun the bases
astride real, live donkeys instead
of afoot.
Asmall admission fee is to be
charged, the proceeds from which
are to foe used by the Lions Club
in completing the Roll-of-Honor
board" now under construction.
Insert at bottom of story
This is not the first time Au­burn
h«s had the opportunity to
witness such a contest. Approxi­mately
two years ago one was
held ©n rat football field Iwith stu­dents,
particularly those who took
part in the rodeos formerly held
here, serving as one team while
faculty members served as the
opposing team.
Lt. Ted Benning
Recuperating In
English Hospital
The victim of shrapnel wounds
received in France, Lt. Ted Ben­ning,
former API student from
Atlanta, is now recuperating in a
hospital in England, according to
reports received here.
Lt. Benning is in the engineer
corps, having received his com­mission
upon completion of ad­vanced
ROTC training at Auburn.
He was graduated in architecture
last year, and was a member of
Scarab, honorary architectural
fraternity.
He is a brother of Frank Ben­ning,
associate editor of last year's
Glomerata, who is in school here
now.
Play Presented
Until Thursday
"Dangerous Corner," the play
produced by the Auburn Players
under the direction of Mr. Telfair
Peet will run through Thursday.
It is being presented in the Y-Hut
at 8:15 p.m. and admission is
granted to students upon presen­tation
of Student Activity cards
at the door. Others will be charg­ed
an admission fee of twenty-five
cents.
New Officers Will Take Over Duties
Thursday At Special Convocation
By Sarah Smith
New president of the Women's Student Government Asso­ciation
for '44-'45 is Ann Dubose, of Huntsville who, in a
closely contested race at Social Center Wednesday, won over
Pat Kirkwood. Election of the five other new officers on the
coed governing body took place at the same time.
The new prexy is a junior in home economics and a mem­ber
of Alpha Gamma Delta eoror-
New WSGA Head
Ann DuBose. junior in home
economics from Huntsville. and
* member of Alpha Gamma Del­ta
sorority was elected president
of WSGA for the '44-45 term in
the general WSGA elections held
last Wednesday.
CULPEPPER NEW
CHIEF AUBURN
FIRE DEPT.
According to Mr. J. T. Culpep­per,
new chief of the Auburn fire
department, fighting fire is not
only dangerous, but also very
fascinating, or maybe, he adds, it's
fascinating because it is so dan­gerous.
"From the moment you start
out to a fire you are in danger
of someone's running into the en­gine
and causing a wreck. Then
when you arrive at the ^ scene
there's always danger of gejting
caught under falling rafters, or
stepping on a high tension wire."
Mr. Culpepper came to Auburn
to take over his duties as fire
chief last Thursday from Eufaula
where he was assistant chief. He
has been a fireman for the past
twenty years.
The Auburn fire department at
present consist of Mr. Culpepper
and Mr. Acton Nix. However, they
are expecting additional help
soon. James Dunaway and Don
King are the student members of
the department.
Mr. Culpepper says that it is
hope that through the exercise of
care in safety measures that Au­burn
can set a record for defeat­ing
the fire hazard.
'New Play Ranks Among Best' Says Critic
Compliments Argo;
Ending Subtle But
Makes Good Play
By H. Monroe
It was somewhat against our
better judgment that we allowed
ourselves to be persuaded to
see the first night performance
of "Dangerous Corner," and when
it came to the thought of review­ing
the acting of a bunch of stu­dents
we did have our misgivings.
Reviewing a play is definitely out
of our line, but taking the advice
of the critic in that long run play
on Broadway, "Arsenic and Old
Lace," we figured that we could
sit through the first act, leave,
and then pan the hell out of it.
But we didn't leave at the end
of act one, and we were still sit­ting
on the edges of our seat at
the end of act two.
All in all,.the play by any
standards, ranks among one of the
best that the Auburn Players'
have ever produced. It was well
cast. Very well cast. The stage
decorations were well carried out
and the electricians did an ex­cellent
job. A prompter was un­necessary.
In our estimation all it
lacked was a squeaky orchestra—
a violin, a piano, and an old set
of trap drunis—beginning things
by playing the "Star Spangled
Banner" to compare with some
of the leading plays on the Great
White Way.
The play itself is concerned
with an interlude one evening in
the lives of a group connected
with the publishing racket. It was
an interlude which never existed;
an interlude that was spent in
unmasking the characters in the
drama—and left us wondering
about some of ithe people we know
on this campus. Far be it from
us to list the names of any of
the heads of halls, people we've
dated, etc., etc. If there were any
baffled theater-goers, our advice
is that they see it again. We'll
agree .that the ending was sub­tle—
but it was just that which
made the play itself a well writ­ten
play.
Gordon Argo turned out an
especially good performance. His
diction and mode of expression
were good—and with this go our
compliments to an able director,
Mr. Peet. Argo did the job well
without overacting his part.
The remainder of the cast held
up the high standards of the
Auburn Players. The only criti­cism
which we can find is of one
young lady who does not know
how to enjoy the luxury of the
lowly cigarette. In this modern
age, we did not know that such
existed—not in Auburn at any
rate.
The Y-Hut seated a capacity au­dience—
and so, if you want to
get seats, you'd better go early
during "Dangerous earners" suc­cessful
run. If you are expecting
to see a drama filled with a bunch
of amateurish hams, you will be
disappointed. Our hats are off to
an excellent performance.
ity. She was opposed by Pat Kirk-"
wood.
Vice-president will be Jessie
Sahm, Birmingham, a junior in
education and a member of Pi
Omega Phi sorority. The other
candidate was Martha Ellis.
Vam Cardwell, of Evergreen,
will hold the secretarial chair.
She is a sophomore in business
administration. Her opponent was
Vivien Duncan.
Winner of the race for treasurer
is Joyce Slaughter, of Montgom­ery.
A sophomore in home eco­nomics
and a member of Kappa
Delta sorority, she won the office
over Virginia Duncan of Atlanta.
Mary Popwell, of Birmingham,
will be representative to the cab­inet.
She is a junior in home eco­nomics,
and a member of Theta
Upsilon sorority. Her opponent
was Doris Karcher.
The new officers will take over
their duties Thursday, August 1,
when tibey will be installed at a
special Convocation.
ON THE CAMPUS
APhiO
Alpha Phi Omega, national ser-4
vice fraternity, will hold formal
pledging ceremonies Thursday af­ternoon
at 5 p.m. above Bensons.
IAeS
IAeS will meet Monday at 7:15
in Ramsey 109. A film will be
shown, and all aeronautical engi­neering
students are urged to at­tend.
Veterans
All discharged servicemen who
are interested in forming a cam­pus
organization please contact
Wiggins or Laney at the ATO
house and suggest a meeting date.
Phones 898 or 9123.
AVMA
The AVMA will hold its regu­lar
meeting tonight at 7:30 in the
old Vet Building.
Sabers
There will be a Sabers meeting
at 8:00 in the basement of Sam-ford
Hall.
AIChE
The Auburn student chapter of
the American Institute of Chemi­cal
Engineers held their regular
meeting on July 31. Dr. C. R.
Saunders spoke on "The Prelimi­nary
Research on Synthetic Rub­ber."
Lancaster and Lapp
Visit In Midwest
Professor E. B. Lancaster, act­ing
dean of the School of Archi­tecture
and College Architect, and
Dr. V. W. Lapp of the Physical
Education Department have just
returned from a ten day trip to
Chicago, Iowa, and points in Illi­nois.
They attended the annual con­vention
pf the Lions International,
as Dr. Lapp is president of the
Auburn Lions and Prof. Lancas­ter
is vice-president.
While they were gone, they vis­ited
the campuses of the Univer­sity
of Iowa, the University of
Wisconsin, the University of Illi­nois,
and Purdue University in
connection with our post-war
building program. They received
valuable information in regard to
gymnasiums, union buildings, au­ditoriums
and other luniversity
buildings from the college archi-tests
they saw on the trip.
They hope to be able to use to
advantage such information with
plans for future building.
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That Ballot Can Pack A Punch \. I
Tomorrow is another one of those days
—there's an election. To many of Auburn's
students the outcome is pretty important,
so there is no doubt that they will appear
at the polls to vote. However, it is always
a little astounding to see the actual fig­ures
on a campus election and realize what
a large number of students failed to vote
at all.
Maybe some of you just aren't interest­ed,
maybe it slips your minds, maybe you
just don't have time—but surely you know
what a difference it would make if every
student exercised his privilege of partici­pating
in the selection of student officials.
There's no doubt that often it would mean
a difference in the actual result.
It doesn't matter so much to us how you
vote, or at least we certainly can't say so
in this publication, but do vote one way or
another. Don't just take that I'11-get-by-just-
as-well-whoever-wins attitude.' Have
an opinion. Express it by taking the few
seconds necessary tomorrow to check the
candidates of your choice on a ballot!
And if you get tired of aspiring politi­cians
accosting you with that oh-my-good-friend-
I-kriow-I-can-count-on-you smile,
and that "Have you voted yet?", just smile
back in that same sincere way and say,
"You know I have."
If You Like To Sleep
To soothe your conscience at the end of
the quarter in which you haven't been
studying much, there's nothing like an all-night
study session and a pot of hot coffee
to keep the sleep away.
Although there is a certain novelty in
staying up, you will actually learn very
little that you can apply on that forthcom­ing
final. At the same time the loss of sleep
is often more detrimental to remembering
facts and applying them to the quiz than
no studying at all and a night of sleep
would be.
All your college life you have heard the
old saying that all you need to do to pass
any course in college is to study conscien­tiously
two hours a day for each class. No
doubt your immediate comeback has been,
"Well, if I really wanted to make such
grades badly, I could spend all my time
studying the way Mary does, and of course
I'd be on the Dean's list!"
Then you cite as proof the student who
dated every night last quarter, yet kept up
a 4. average. Although these students are
favorite topics of conversation, they are
much fewer in number than these discus­sions
would lead you to believe.
At least part of their studying is done in
their spare time—a few minutes wait at
the telephone they spend reviewing a
chemistry formula; a walk alone across
the campus finds them mentally going over
the economics lecture; even while combing'
their' hair they are automatically filing
the historical events and their significance
into the proper pigeon holes of their mind.
They have so thoroughly trained them­selves
that .they don't realize what they
are doing, and make it a kind of involun­tary
action.
Even to these students, however, the
most important part of studying is making
it regular. Half an hour a day in actual
study is worth much more than three or
four hours the night before the quiz.
That outside reading that should be done
during the quarter—they do it during the
quarter. Term papers seem to be easy for
them because they can write one without
having to beat a deadline.
Adopting the tactics of these students,
will lead you to the conclusion that the
most important thing in real learning is
keeping up with the subject day by day.
Even if you have been negligent the first
part of this quarter, there is still time to
raise your grades—and, incidentally, in­crease
your store of knowledge—by keep­ing
up with class work and assignments.
These days are hot and busy and hard
studying can slip by for so long that it
seems impossible to catch up. So now,
is the time to decide to get down to your
studying and stick to it.
Not only will you feel like you have
really learned something at the end of the
quarter, but you will be able to sleep
peacefully the night before your finals
while the more f lighity of your classamates
are keeping up the old vigil with coffee
and books.
You Failed Last Time
The Red Cross needs a pint of your blood.
Giving one pint, doctors say, will not hurt
Yet with this pint, the life of the boy across
the street may be saved.
As long as there is a single American
fighting in France, in Italy, on the Pacific
atolls, or; in China and India, blood plasma
will be needed urgently.
That need MUST be filled. Auburn has"
been honored with a chance to help fill
that need, and it is up to us to see that it
is done.
Already more volunteers have pledged
give blood than the Mobile Unit is able to
take care of. But that, as we found out in
April, is no indication that we can fill our
quota. On the fourth visit here, the Bank
fell below its quota partly because of vol­unteers
who were not physically able to
donate, but mainly because of unfilled ap­pointments.
If it is not possible to fill an appointment,
the time to cancel it is now. The biggest
problem facing the Red Cross workers is
one of people who have appointments but
neither come to the Blood Bank or tell the
Red Cross so that other donors may take
their places. This leaves a gap in the line,
and wastes precious time.
Because there are only a few reserve
donors, and no ASTs to fill in for those who
don't come, we urge those students who
are able, but who have not yet signed up,
to see Mr. Bob Smith at Burton's Book
store. Students who do this will guarantee
that this time we will not fail.
It seems only fair to ask students to
appear in the Basement of the Baptist
Church ON TIME. If the men in the front
lines are able to get to their battles on time,
certainly students should be able to arrive
for their appointments, which they them­selves
made, on time.
Donors are asked not to eat any dairy
products for four hours before giving
blood. A film will form on the blood which
makes processing impossible, thus wasting
everyone's time.
With students cooperating as fully in the
actually donating as they did in volunteer­ing,
the Fifth Blood Bank can and will go
over the top.
Letters To The Editor
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Around The Editor's Desk
If there are any freshmen who read this column, then we're
just offering a timely warning—the annual ODK-Wilbur Hut-sell
cake race is just a few months off. And running nearly
three miles without a rest, when the runner has had no training
for the ordeal, isn't exactly pleasant. Fraternities would do
well to see that their rats aren't caught unprepared.
* * * * *
Last week, on the editorial page of this paper, we ran anoth­er
editorial concerning the serviceman-fraternity situation. We
made the statement, "The Army, the largest fraternity in the
world, saw fit to make regulations on the situation, and it is
much more able financially and otherwise to take care of ser­vicemen
who visit this area."
It so happens that regulations weren't made just to meet
this situation. Personnel, other than those called for in the
college contract are automatically prohibited from taking ad­vantage
of the housing and meal facilities of the Army Unit
here at Auburn. It is evident that the statements we made
cast some reflection on the service branch here, a thing that
was entirely unintentional and unnoticed until called to our
attention. In our efforts to illustrate our point in the editorial,
we neglected to catch the other meanings that might be con­strued
from our statement. We hope the point under question
has been made clear.
* * * * *
There is going to be an election for publications officers
tomorrow. We're not going into a full, detailed account of why
you should vote. We take it that those reasons are self-evident.
We're just asking you to think about them enough so you will
want to vote—and then go vote.
*#* T* *J* *(C «j<
Someone proposed a drastic step a few days ago, for those
who insist on taking advantage of the short cuts on the campus,
to the disadvantage of the grass. The gist of the idea was this.
Jusf have a candid photographer wander over the campus at
random throughout the week, photographing those beautiful
but dumb coeds who apparently consider themselves well edu­cated
after several quarters in college, merely because they
have learned that a straight line is the shortest distance be­tween
two points.
Not that we are set up for any such arrangement, but the
idea appeals to us. Imagine you, Miss Coed, on the front page of
The Plainsman, walking across the grass, with the caption over '
the picture, "She's Guilty."
* * * * *
We see that our fellow columnist, "Vet" Fulenwider has
given some pointers on. the subject of hitchhiking, in his col­umn,
"War Eagle." With football season rapidly approaching,
and so few upperclassmen here to instruct those new fresh­men,
we wish to commend said columnist for his foresight.
We feel sure that freshmen will read those suggestions and
heed them. We know you freshmen are proud that you are
Auburn Men, but if you'll just apply those simple everyday
rules of good behavior while hitchhiking, then you'll make the
guy that picks you up proud, too.
* • * * w *
The following letter was received from Ward Riggins, former
Auburn student from Jesup, Georgia, who is now a midship­man
at the Naval Academy at Annapolis:
August 3, 1944
Editor, The Plainsman,
Even though we don't have much time for reading, I can
think of no better way of spending these few extra minutes
than on The Plainsman.
With all due respect to the Auburn Rat, he leads a free and
easy life compared to that of a Plebe.
There are quite a few Alabama boys here, two of which are
Auburn men. It surely makes a guy feel good to find someone
this far away that's familiar with good old API.
Sincerely,
Ward
Dear Editor,
After reading of the revision of
the physical education course at
Auburn and discussing it with a
great many students we have
reached an opinion that we feel
sure is shared by the majority
ity of students at Auburn. We
wish to present it to you and ask
that you present it to the school.
Physical education, to the best
of our knowledge was begun in
order to prepare our young men
for the Armed Services. At the
beginning of the war it was found
that a great majority of the se­lectees
were physically unprepar­ed
for the rigors of Army life and
as a result the Government re­quested
that colleges install a PE
course into their curriculum. This
was done at Auburn, and at a
few other schools in the South­east.
Those considered unfit for
military service were given ex­emption
from this program and
permanent excuse granted, j
Now many discharged service
men are returning to school, and
there are still a number of stu­dents
who cannot possibly be in­ducted
into the Army. The new
ruling states that all students
with the exception of seniors will
be compelled to schedule PE, and
if any student misses five classes
he will be suspended from col­lege.
We wish to know what pos­sible
reason the Eexecutive Coun­cil
can have for forcing 1-Cs,
4-Fs, and recuperating students
to take restricted or rest PE.
The new ruling states that in
order to make PE more effective
and more suited to the needs of
the students a new program will
be started in September. May we
ask what good can be obtained
from compulsory attendance at a
table-tennis game, or archery
class, or a rousing game of shuf-fleboard?
The amount of exercise gain­ed
in these sluggish sports is
negligible and surely if a person
wishes to indulge in any of these
games he will do so without being
compelled. And to force a recently
ill or a disabled student to leave
his comfortable room, walk some
distance to the gym, rest and hour
and then walk back home is ridic­ulous.
Most certainly more good
could be obtained by leaving him
at rest in his own room. The
time that the Executive Council
proposes that we spend in re­strictive
or rest PE could be put
to much better use in studying or
even in extra-curricula activities.
The veteran has certainly done
his share while he served in the
service. The 4-F cannot possibly
serve in the Armed Forces and
both will get as much exercise
in normal pursuit of school affairs
as is necessary for his well be­ing.
We highly resent being forced
to take restrictive or rest PE,
when to our knowledge no plausi­ble
reason has been set forth for
the existence of these courses.
At the present—to our certain
knowledge—there are five upper­classmen
seriously contemplating
changing schools if they are forced
into the farce of taking restrictive
or rest PE. There are many others
in school who feel the same way,
and who knows how many possi­ble
future students will attend
other schools where there is no
required PE course for physically
unfit students. It seems silly that
the future of Auburn should foe
harnessed by so petty an obstruc­tion..
Jack Thornton
• Bill Laney
Clint Wilkinson
Barry Graves
Al Lowe
Tom Tabor
mar iac\\i
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.
"Nobody seems to be able to get
the laundry's goat," said the lad
as he opened his weekly bundle.
All of which reminds us that said
local concern has not been raked
over the literary coals in this
seething cauldron, known to some
as The Plainsman Office, in quite
some time.
* * *
That could mean only one of
two things . . . Either the laun­dry
has closed down for the sum­mer,
or it is doing an exception­ally
good job. Confidentially, we
heard that the establishment is
going to declare a button dividend
for all its patrons.
* * *
Like many another profession,
the art and science of hitchhiking
has suffered greatly due to war­time
driving restrictions. Time
was, in the good old days, when
all we had to do, if we wanted to
get home on a weekend was to
put on a war cap. take our turn at
the corner—and then wait a few
minutes until a car stopped for
us and we were on our way. It
was a lot fun then, especially on
the weekends when there were
football games in Birmingham,
Montgomery, or Atlanta. And
even though the numbers of the
men standing waiting for rides
often ran over a hundred, the
prospects for eventual arrival
were still good. But those days
are gone now, and the best we
can do is take our place on an
empty corner, poke out a nervous
thumb, and hope for "the best.
* » «
Although the noble game has
declined in restrospect, it is wise
to keep the freshman student up
on the rules and courtesies of this
means of travel. Having marie up
his mind that he wants to go
somewhere, our would-be-hitch­hiker
takes his stand on a likely
corner and waits for his prey to
approach. He flips the pages of his
hitchhiking manual and his eyes
settle down on rule number
one . . .
* * *
Stand on the down stream side
of the traffic light. This will al­low
the motorist to make the light
before he stops to pick you up.
* * *
So he plods across to the other
side of the intersection, puts down
his bag, sits on it, and continues
reading . . .
Stand up, wear a smile, appear
alert when a car approaches!
* * *
Let it suffice to say that he does
this, all of it, in the proper order,
and, somewhat to his surprise,
and ours as well, the first car
stops and picks him up.
Tell the driver who you are.
Don't play guessing games by just
.telling him what your initials are.
You may have a long way to go
and you may think that games
make the time pass, but not this
kind of game anyway . . . And
steer clear of political, religious,
and any other type of discussion
that is likely to lead to bloodshed
on the highway. We recall once
when we were going home, and
one of the rides along the way
was with a politician. We knew
how we were going to vote before
we got into the car, and we were
more sure of ourselves after we
got out—but we did have the
discretion to keep our ideas on
the subject to ourselves.
• * •
Remember that your benefactor
may want you to do some of the
driving—if he has been driving
all night; you can be pretty darn
sure that he will. So don't start
out by telling him what a whiz
you are with a car, being able of
course to make it think it's an
airplane, etc.
* * *
Don't throw fruit peels, cigar­ette
ashes, or discarded chewing
gum in the floor of the car. Some
people are so fastidious about
such things. They are just natur­ally
hard to please, you know.
« • *
Frankly, it's in our blood and
enjoy hitchhiking. There is noth­ing
quite like it. And one meets
the most interesting people! The
last time we hitchhiked overv. in
the direction of Columbus, we
rode with one man who had brok­en
his back in four places, one
who drove eighty-five all the way,
one who was doing a thriving
business in bootleg liquor, and
another who'was a minister of the
gospel. It takes all kinds to keep
the world on an unsteady keel,
and if you want to meet them
all, try hitchhiking!
(Continued on page 3)
August 8, 1944 T H E P L A I N S M AN Page Three
Cardinal Key Will Sponsor
Saturday's Samford Swing
New Gl Bill O f
Rights Gives
Educational Aid
Campus Dance Saturday Night
Set For Samford Terrace
New Name Tags for Visiting Servicemen
And Hostess Tags for Girls To Be Added
Under the sponsorship of Cardinal Key, Samford Swing
will start promptly at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, and last until almost
eleven o'clock.
Music for the dance is to be furnished by a nickelodeon
with popular records on it, and the terrace back of Samford
Hall is to be used for dancing.
Chairs or benches for spectators
will be furnished by the Depart­ment
of Buildings and Grounds,
and bridge tables are to toe set up.
Servicemen are asked to regis­ter
at the guest table at the head
of the steps and to receive their
new name tags there. Girls who
wish to come without dates will
wear hostess cards.
The street for the dance will
be lighted with blue, yellow, and
white lights, and the sale of soft
drinks and popcorn will be con­tinued.
This is the next to last cam­pus
dance scheduled for the sum­mer
quarter and is given for the
entertainment of students and
visitors to the campus. Everyone
is invited to attend.
The members of Cardinal Key,
national honor society, who are
registered in school this quarter
are Bobelle Sconiers, Jane Shef­field,
Mary Jo Spradley, Lois Rog­ers,
and Betty Cosby.
Next week's dance is to be spon­sored
toy the staffs of the Glom-erata
and Plainsman and Sphinx.
An attempt is being made to se­cure
an orchestra for the occasion.
Five Men Initiated
. Into Phi Kappa Tau
At Recent Ceremony
Ten men were recently intiated
into Phi Kappa Tau fraternity.
New members of the .Alpha
Lambda chapter are Harry Base-more,
Columbus; Lawrence Al­len
Callan, Auburn; Frank Har­vey,
Anniston; Edmond Jones,
•Mobile; Homer McNaron, Jr., An­niston;
Howard More, Mobile; Ed­win
Ray, Enterprise; Carl Span-yer,
Jr., Mobile; Lynn Tate, Alex
City; and Richard Wold, Spring
Hill.
YOU'LL ALWAYS
BE PLEASED WITH
The Food
Served
AT THE
GRILLE
The Grille is Auburn's
finest and most modern
restaurant.
The Grille invites the
students to come in of­ten
for "the best food
in town."
THE AUBURN
GRILLE
JOHN GAZES, Mgr.
Under provisions of the new GI
Bill of Rights, veterans on the
Auburn campus who are eligible
will receive compensation for tui­tion,
fees, and books, plus an ad­ditional
amount for subsistence.
The bill is retroactive to June
22, 1944.
Eligibility and length of bene­fits
are dependent upon the time
the veteran spent in active ser­vice,
whether education was im­peded,
and disabilities received
while in service.
A minimum of a year's educa­tion
is provided for those eligible
with the government paying up to
$500 in annual tuition and fees.
Longer periods of education,
not exceeding four years except
in special cases will be determined
by the length of time in service.
A form has been prepared for
the applications of disabled vet­erans
who consider themselves
eligible under the servicemen's
act.
Officers Elected
By Kappa Sigma
Kappa Sigma fraternity elected
officers for the coming quarter
at its regular meeting on Wed­nesday
night.
Oscar Frazier, Selma, was elect­ed
president; Jack Gregory, Tus-kegee,
vice-president; Bill Pierce,
Milstead, secretary; Bill Ranson,
treasurer, and Lamar Ware, Au^
burn, pledgemaster.
fiu*i * Wat * ^t-am^i
EARL ATKINSON
IS MADE MAJOR
IN AIR CORPS
John Earl Atkinson, son of Prof.
T. P. Atkinson, is now a major.
About a year after graduating
from the West Point Military
Academy, Major Atkinson was
transferred from the Quartermas­ter
to the Air Service. He re­ceived
his training for the Air
Service in Georgia, South Caro­lina,
and Florida. After receiving
his wings at Valdosta, Ga., he was
transferred to a field in Florida,
where he became a B-17 pilot.
Later he joined another unit in
Boise, Idaho, where he became a
B-24 pilot.. Several months later
he received his final training for
foreign service near Lincoln, Ne­braska.
On completing this training,
Major Atkinson (then Captain)
flew his own bomber via Auburn
to Florida. From there he piloted
his plane to northwest Africa, via
Brazil. After further training
he was assigned to the 81st
squadron of the Army Air Corps
in Italy in the vicinity of Foggia.
A recent letter from Major At­kinson
to his father states that
while in a hospital recovering
from a knee injury sustained in
a fall from his motorcycle, his
commanding officer secured for
him this recent promotion.
As operations officer of his
squadron Major Atkinson does not
go on all its missions, but accord­ing
to last reports he has accu­mulated
twenty-two to this credit.
Some of these missions have tak­en
him to Romania, Austria, Ger­many
and France. On one of them
one engine of his plane was de­stroyed
and another severely
damaged. About the only opposi­tion
they now receive is "ack-ack,"
which gives fliers plenty to
worry about.
Lt. Jack Brush, recently com­missioned
at Ft. Belvoir, Va., and
on his way to his new post, Camp
Mackall, N. C, was a visitor in
Auburn this past week. Lt. Brush
was a student at Auburn, a mem­ber
of ODK, the track team and
PiKA social fraternity.
* * *
Lt. James E. Pritchett, former
student in electrical engineering
and a member of Pi Kappa Phi
has been assigned to the AAF Pi­lot
School in Courtland as flying
instructor.
* * *
Marine Corporal Thomas G.
Meriwether has been promoted to
that rank upon graduating from
Marine Aviation Supply School
Naval Training Center in San Die­go.
Corporal Meriwether is a
member of Kappa Alpha frater­nity.
* * *
Lt. Albert 5. Collins has been
assigned as pilot to the Army Air
Forces Bombardier School at Big
Spring, Texas.
* , * *
A/C Ed Bethel, USNR, former
student of engineering and a
member of SPE, visited in Au­burn
last week en route to a new
station in Oklahoma.
* * *
Sgt. A. D. "Lan" Lipscomb is
spending a fourteen day furlough
at his home in Auburn. He is sta­tioned
at the Selma Air Field.
He is a former student in phar­macy
and a member of Sigma Nu
fraternity.
* * *
Lt. Ed Lee, Monroeville, grad­uate
of '43 and member of Kappa
Alpha fraternity, Scabbard and
Blade, and Interfraternity Coun­cil,
has been promoted to rank
of first lieutenant, according to a
release from the Ninth Air Force
Fighter Base in France. His group,
flying P-51 Mustangs, are said to
have destroyed 380 enemy planes
and on missions to Kiel, Berlin
and Gydnia set distance records
for fighters.
"Four Jills In A Jeep" Comes
To Tiger Theatre On Sunday
Kay Francis, Carole Landis,
Martha Raye and Mitzi Mayfair
may be of the gentler sex, but
Irving Starr finds it hard to be­lieve.
Starr, who handled the produc­tion
reins for 20th Century-Fox's
"Four Jills In A Jeep," the film
opening here next week at the
Tiger Theater, had to "adjust"
some truths of their adventures
while entertaining at military
camps in England and North Afri­ca
and which are dramatized in
the film. Starr believes in enter­tainment,
- not visual diaries.
The picture features the four
feminine stars with Jimmy Dor-sey
and his Orchestra, John Har-
Dick Haymes, radio's sensational
singing star. Alice Faye, Betty
Grable, Carmen Miranda and
George Jessel, who acts as master
of ceremonies, are the film's guest
stars.
"Women are very inconsistent,"
Starr sighed. "When they discov­ered
we'd made a musical comedy
of their adventures, they were not
gentle with us at first. We achiev­ed
a knockout victory when we
pointed out they had gone over
to give the boys entertainment,
so we were right in using laughs,
songs and dances.
"When we decided to be thor­oughly
realistic about the clothes
they wore in North Africa, they
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Lt. Milton M. Christie has been
assigned to the Courtland Army
Air Field as flying instructor.
* * *
Lt. N. O. Smith, recently com­missioned
at Ft. Belvoir visited
here last week en route Camp
Claiborne, Louisiana.
» * «
Paul Mallette, Mobile, recently
received appointment as a flight
officer at the Columbus Army Air
Field, Mississippi.
* * *
Ralph Carter, former student of
mechanical engineering from
Bessemer was recently promoted
to the grade of private first class,
at the Signal Corps Training Cen­ter's
sub-post, Fort Monmouth,
N. E.
* * *
Donald Cottier, Auburn, has en­tered
the USNR Midshipmen's
School located on the campus of
the University of Notre Dame, In­diana.
Pfc. Jack Gwin, former student
of engineering from Union
Springs visited on the campus this
past weekend. He is now stationed
in Texas.
* * » .
Lt. J. D. Bridges, Lt. Kilshaw
Clisby, and Lt. Ben Brown, for­mer
students at API and members
of Sigma Chi fraternity were in
town over the weekend. They are
all stationed at Fort Benning.
* * *
Lt. Doug Nettles, Mrs. Nettles
(Ruby Sufoer), and their little
daughter visited Lt. Nettles' fath­er
in Auburn last week. Lt. Net­tles
is a former vet student, and
Mrs. Nettles was a student in the
school of home economics.
* * «
Lt. James Swanner is visiting
his family in Auburn after' hav­ing
been stationed at Cherry
Point, North Carolina. He is a
former student at API.
* * *
Ens. Bob Adams, USN, former
instructor in architecture, visited
in Auburn this past week.
* * •
Bill Bittner, third class petty of­ficer,
USN, visited the campus
over the weekend. He is a former
API student and_ member of Phi
Kappa Tau fraternity.
* * *
Lt. Ed Kersh, former art stu­dent
at Auburn is visiting here
this weekend. He has been sta­tioned
at Camp Rucker and is en
route Fort Meade.
WAR EAGLE
(Continued from Page 2)
And last and most important of
all . . . you may be a traveller-without-
funds, but don't forget
that you still must have your Sun­day
manners along.
* * *
And speaking of interesting
people, we heard of a coed who
is reputed to have kissed twenty,
boys in one day not long ago. We
are wondering how many of them
she slipped up on and how many
of them she had to run down.
War Bonds should mean
something more to you than
just "a good sound Invest­ment."
Figure it out yourself.
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" 'Those mussed, shabby clothes
were all right over there,' they
argued. 'We didn't have any com­petition'."
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Page Four
LEE COUNTY BULLETIN, AUBURN, ALABAMA August 8, 1944
Finals Begin Tomorrow
In Interfrat Softball
Alpha Psi, Sigma Chi, And OTS Hold
Leads; Expect Berths In Playoffs
Inclement, weather held the last
week of campus softball at a
standstill, but ole Sol has come
forth again to brighten things up
for the finals slated to begin to­morrow.
Alpha Psi, Sigma Chi,
and OTS remained in first posi­tion
in their respective leagues
and are expected to be the teams
battling it out for the cup.
With one more win Alpha Psi
will take League I in stride. Sig­ma
Chi has cinched League H and
is expected to forfeit the remaind­er
of its games scheduled for
league play. Trouble still brews
in League i n as OTS and KA-TC
clash this afternoon to. decide
which will gain a berth in the
finals. OTS needs only a victory
over the boys from the other, side
of town while KA-TC must de­feat
OTS twice to take the honors.
Each team has lost one game to
the other, OTS having won 8 and
lost 1 .while KA-TC has.won 7 and
lost 2, one to OTS and the other
to SAE.
. Games to be played this after­noon
will be the KA-TC tilt, Al­pha
Psi matching PDT, while Sig­ma
Chi forfeiting its game.
A scheduled of the finals as yet
hasn't been made up as league
winners are yet to be determined.
All games begin at 6:30 on Bul-lard
Field.
SPARKS HITS
(Continued from Page 1)
policies, and the saddling of bor­rowers
with exessive debts.
6. Get enacted an adequate tax
program to reduce the national
debt as rapidly as possible without
jeopardizing free enterprise and
to reduce the cost of government.
7. Eliminate monopolistic prac­tices
in industry and labor.
8. Reduce distribution costs.
9. Improve rural life by rural
electrification, highway develop­ment,
better schools and churches,
better hospital and health facili­ties,
and constructive programs
for community improvement.
10. Preserve constitutional gov­ernment
and the American way
of life.
States represented at the meet­ing
were: Alabama, Arkansas,
Florida, Georgia, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Mississippi, North Car­olina,
Oklahoma, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia'.
Tatum Made Skipper
Lt. Zachry Tatum, son of Mr.
and Mrs. S. H. Tatum, has been
made the skipper of a mine
sweeper somewhere in the Medi­terranean,
according to a letter
received by his parents.
BUY MORE THAN BEFORE
" V 9.
Alumni Debate
On "Bama-API
Football
By Nick Nigosian
The old question concerning
"Bama-Auburn football relation­ships
still flares up occasionally,
There appeared recently in a large
Alabama daily paper, the follow­ing;
"The question of whether the
University of Alabama and Au­burn
should renew athletic rela­tions
will be debated at a Kiwanis
Club luncheon at the Tutwiler
Hotel Thursday by R. A. (Dick)
Polglaze, Auburn alumnus,, who
will take the affirmative, and
Borden Burr, University of Ala­bama
alumnus, who will argue
the negative. Devereaux Porter,
alumnus of Vanderbilt and past
president of Kiwanis, will be mod­erator.
"The program has been arrang­ed
by James E. Chappell and Mil­ton
Fies, new program committee
members of the club. Ehney A.
Camp president of the club, will
prtside."
What we want to know is, what
the hell did' they decide. Who
won?
As for the recent decision of the
Committee on Physical Education
and Athletics at the University,
the things is tragic.
Somewhere there are some
"Ethiopians in the woodpile" who
are slick politicians. The thought
has been well-expressed by an
Auburn student who can read be­tween
the lines of the University
decision: "The University has ev­erything
t6 lose and nothing to
gain by playing Auburn."
To those of you who need ex­planation
here it is: The Univer­sity's
Committee considers Ala­bama
a first-rate school and Au­burn
a second-rate school, if a
first-rate school were to be de­feated
by a second-rate school
then the prestige of the first-rate
school would be greatly damaged!
We believe that it is for the
above reason that the University
refused to play football and other
allied athletics.
We have to hand it to them,
they are an accomplished group
of diplomats who know how to
camouflage the above paragraph
into a document of excuses and
flowery phrases.
(May we suggest that you read
the June 3, issue of The Plains­man:
both the editorial "What the
Neighbors Think" and "Tiger
Tales.")
Quoting Mr. Buckles of the Uni1
versity News Bureau: "In these
hectic times, I can't see why it
'SIGHTING Jack Sords
Sgt. Pierce
Promoted At
Opelika Camp
Staff Sergeant Judge G. Pierce,
who for approximately 20 years,
was stationed here, has been pro­moted
to first sergeant at the Ope­lika
prisoner of war camp.
Sergeant Pierce entered the ar­my
December 3, 1923, and until
May of this year was stationed
here. Since 1925 he had been in
charge of ordnance and material
for the ROTC unit. Since 1939 he
also had been assistant gun drill
instructor and in charge of com­munications
and in charge of ord­nance.
Sergeant Pierce has held a rat­ing
above private first class for
all his years in the army except
for approximately 12-14 months
after entering the service.
At Opelika, Sergeant Pierce is
in charge of military police, serv­ing
under Major Paul D. Lee, pro-vist
marshal.
The sergeant is married to the
former Miss Mary Bottoms, of Au­burn
and Opelika, and they have
two children, George and Sarah
Pierce. Sarah has finished high
school and George is a senior.
The Pierces make itheir home at
128 Ross avenue, Auburn.
Seregant Pierce has four ne­phews
and four brother-in-laws
who have seen or are seeing ser­vice.
One nephew was lost over
Germany.
is such a life and death matter
that Alabama and Auburn play
football together. Our No. 1 in­terest
right now is watching how
our boys break through that At­lantic
line of fortifications in
France."
Here we have a well-known ex­ample
of "passing the buck." We
are led to believe that it doesn't
make any difference whether Ala­bama
and Auburn ever play foot­ball
or not? And then too a bar-relful
of excuses are covered up
by the fact that there is a war
going on (as if we Auburn stu­dents
need to be reminded of the
fact.)
May we heartily. endorse the
statement made by Ed Danforth
of the Atlanta Journal: "Finally,
the idea that it is no life or death
matter that Auburn and Alabama
do not play because there's a
war going on is one that back­fires
loudly and litters the place
with scraps of paper. In these
days when unity of purpose have
swept men of good will into a glo­bal
war to destroy the intolerant
protagonists of the master race
idea, our old grudges and petty
disagreements look more puny
than ever. THERE NEVER WAS
A BETTER TIME TO FORGET
THE OLD DISAGREEMENT,
NOR A MORE AWKWARD MO­MENT
TO BE STUBBORN AND
UNKIND THAN IN THE MIDST
OF THIS WAR."
TIGER TALES
The smoothness and precision
With which Auburn's freshman-studded
football club operates this
Fall when it' tackles an eight-game
schedule after a season's
idleness, might well depend upon
the actions of one man, Curtis
Kuykendall, only returning let-terman.
for the Plainsman squad.
Coach "Dutch" Voyles, high in
his praise of the 168 pound, line
crashing Mississippian, feels that
the calm, deliberate judgment
Kuykendall has continuously
demonstrated as captain of one
of the practice teams this Sum­mer,
coupled With his two years'
varsity experience at Auburn, will
be all that is needed to inspire,
once the season is begun, the con­fidence
and enthusiasm that is
now so doubtful in this year's
inexperienced team.
Kuykendall, a last quarter
junior in the School of Veterinary
Medicine at Auburn, was quite a
star athlete back in his home toWn
high school in Sallis, Miss., be­ing
captain of the football, track,
and basketball teams. Coming to
Auburn on a football scholarship
in '41, Curtis received two years
of valuable training and experi­ence
under "Marine Jack" Meagh­er,
former head coach at the
Plains.
Playing in a large majority of
the games of the 1942 season, he
saw action in that never to be
forgotten Georgia-Auburn game
of '42 in which Auburn upset the
"Bulldog" 27-13, snatching the
Georgia eleven from the ranks of
the undefeated and spoiling their
record as the nation's number
one team for that year.
Outstanding Track Man
Ah outstanding track man,
Kuykendall won the 440-yard
dash in this year's SEC track
meet, was a member of the win­ning
relay team in the SEAAU
meet this Spring as well as being
high-ppint man for the meet, tied
for first place in the pole vault in
the '42 SEC meet, and came in
"second this year in that event.
As a student, Kuykendall is a
member of Omicron Delta Kappa,
national honorary society for col­lege
seniors; Spiked Shoe, honor­ary
society for trackmen; the "A"
Club at Auburn; the American
Veterinary Medical Association;
and Alpha Psi, professional vet­erinary
fraternity.
According to present plans,
Curtis is slated to fill the right
halfback slot on the starting team
this Fall, in addition to calling
signals for the Tigers.
PLAY RUNS TIL THURSDAY
"Dangerous Corner" will con­tinue
at the Y-Hut each evening
through Thursday. Admission is
free to students and service men.
All others will be charged 25c.
Tuesday
DONALD CONNOR
SUSANNA FOSTER
in
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Wednesday and Thursday
WS&B&
4th Infantry
Completes
'44 Schedule
Auburn's 1944 gridiron sched­ule
was recently completed with
the addition of Ft. Benning's 4th
Infantry team. The Georgia Tech
game is now to be played October
14 in Atlanta.
Sept. 29—Howard in Montgom­ery
(night).
Oct. 7—4th Infantry in Auburn.
Oct. 14—Georgia Tech in At­lanta.
Oct. 21—Tulane in New Or­leans.
Oct. 28—Open.
Nov. 4—Presbyterian; home­coming.
Nov. 11—Mississippi State, Bir­mingham.
Nov. 18—Georgia in Columbus.
Nov. 24—Miami in Miami
(night).
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Thursday, August 10
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