1944-05-22 The Plainsman

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Out Thz Plaindman When Samford
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'TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT
VOLUME LXVIII ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, MONDAY, MAY 22, 1944 NUMBER 23
I04 Seniors, Graduate Students To Receive Degrees
AP HEAD FORECASTS
INVASION NEWS ROUTE
Simms Describes Future Press Problems
At Formal Banquet Of ACPA Convention
In a talk at the banquet which closed the organizing con­vention
of the Alabama Collegiate Press Association last
week-end, Mr. Leroy A. Simms, head of the Alabama state
bureau of the Associated Press, predicted that the first news
of the Allied invasion will come direct from Gen. Eisenhow­er's
headquarters the moment the story breaks. He described
the plans that the Associated
Press has made for handling this
story, which he said will be one
of the biggest world-wide stories
in history. The news agencies
have been assured, Mr. Simms
said, that this time the bulletin
which notifies the world that the
big push is on will not come from
Germany or from some British
source which has jumped the re­lease
hour agreed upon.
Mr. Simms told the college
journalists some of the difficul­ties
encountered in getting dis­patches
past the various censors.
He praised the Russian official
communiques as being the most
complete and valid of those of
any nation.
Noticing a pretty stranger
seated at his left at the conven­tion
banquet, Nick Nigosian,
Plainsman reporter, attempted
to get acquainted. To start a
conversation with her, Nick
turned to her and said, "What
course are you taking in school?"
It wouldn't have taken the
proverbial feather to knock him
over when he found out that
the attractive brunette was not
a student as he had assumed,
but Mary T. Brown, wife of
..Kirtley Brown, director of stu­dent
affairs.
Bob Sharman, editor of The
Plainsman was elected as the first
president of the new organization,
which comprises editors, busi­ness
managers, and staff mem­bers
of all campus publications.
He will serve throughout the year
and will preside at the second
annual convention, which will be
held next spring at the Univer­sity
of Alabama. Sharman is from
LaGrange, Ga., and is trainee in
the ASTP-Veterinary unit at Au­burn.
Bill Brown, chairman of the
pcblications board at Howard
College and business manager of
the "Crimson," was elected vice-president
of the A.C.P.A. He is
from Tuscaloosa, Ala. Roberta
Largen, of Huntingdon College,
was elected secretary-treasurer.
She is editor of "Jells and Pome­granates,"
the Huntingdon an­nual.
Norma Johnson, Birmingham-
Southern, business manager and
editor-elect of the "Southern Ac­cent,"
was elected chairman of
the ways and means commitee.
She is from Birmingham, Ala.
Martha Jackson of Alabama Col­lege,
editor of the "Montage,"
was elected chairman of the cor­respondence
committee.
The convention's "Page 1 Per­sonality",
crowned at the ban­quet
by "breaking into the front
page" (sticking her head through
the front page of a copy of the
Plainsman) was Miss Shirley
Smith from Springville, Ala.,
who was the first co-ed ever
elected editor of The Plainsman
and who received notice the day
the convention opened that the
Auburn paper under her editor­ship
had been awarded the rat­ing
of "All-American" by the
American Collegiate Press Asso­ciation,
placing it among the
small class of the elite among
the nation's campus newspapers.
It was the second time that The
Plainsman had received this hon­or.
Chi Os Collect Cans
Between 5000 and 6000 pounds
of tin cans were collected Sat­urday
by members of Chi
Omega sorority according to an
estimate made by Local Chair­man
Robert E. Smith.
Beryl Gilliam, Columbus, Ga.,
is Chi Omega chairman of the
drive.
ROTC UNIT AGAIN
RATED "EXCELLENT"
The high standards which
API's ROTC has always main­tained
in the past are still being
upheld as shown by the result of
the annual inspection last Tues­day.
The corps, although much
smaller in numbers than former­ly,
made a showing at the inspec­tion
that was quite in keeping
with their traditional excellency.
The inspection was made by
Captain Harold L. Morgan, now
on duty at the University of Ala­bama,
who visited the military
classes and reviewed the men on
the field. Before he left, Capt.
Morgan told Col. John J. Water­man,
commandant, "After seeing
the performance of the men and
inspecting the training facilities
of Auburn, I have no choice but
to give them the highest rating."
Col. Waterman said Friday
that, although the rating of "Ex­cellent"
is not official until no­tice
is received from the Com­manding
General of the Fourth
Service Command, there is no
doubt but that such a report will
be received.
He also stated that the credit
for this satisfactory showing is
due to the men of the corps who
out-did themselves in alertness
and precision at the inspection.
On the day of the inspection
the men wore the uniform to all
classes, and held drill and a pa-
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LIONS CLUB
PLANS TO ERECT
HONOR ROLL
If their plans for collecting $1
each from 250 citizens materi­alize,
the members of the local
Lions Club" propose to erect a
Roll-of-Honor board on College
Street. The board will be placed
in the lawn area in the center
of the street near the Main Gate.
It will bear the names and ad­dresses
of all Auburn service men
and women.
The response to the appeal for
funds was not nearly so good as
had been expected. Mr. John
Self, chairman of the club's hon­or
roll committee, stated that al­though
they naturally thought
that everyone would be inter­ested
in the honor roll and con­tribute
readily they are still not
discouraged as to the ultimate
success of the project.
The club has asked that any­one
possessing information about
persons who should be included
on this list please turn it in to
their committee. All lists turned
in will be checked for duplica­tions.
Those sending in names
should indicate on their list
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WE CALL HER THE BOLD FACE TYPE
Poking the front page of a Plainsman over her head. Bill Van
Hemert, toaslmaster, officially crowns Shirley Smith page one per­sonality
of 1944 at the Alabama Collegiate Press Association ban­quet.
Dr. L. N. Duncan is caught laughing at the goings on.
Rutherford Speaks To Cadets
"One average-size pistol isn't
very effective against a Jap plane
attack of the Pearl Harbor scale,"
Lt. Commander R. Rutherford
told the Naval Aviation cadets
in his talk to them Saturday
noon.
Commander Rutherford, who
saw action in the Pacific combat
area on the USS Enterprise, flew
to Auburn Saturday morning to
review and talk to the cadets.
Now Squadron Commander of the
Instrument F l i g h t Instructor's
School in Atlanta, he took part
in the defense of Pearl Harbor,
the bombing missions against
Wake Island, and the attack on
the Marshall Islands. He related
vividly his experiences on these
missions to the cadets.
He was at his home in Pearl
City, on Dec. 7, 1941, when Pearl
Harbor was attacked. "When I
realized we were actually being
attacked by Japs that Sunday
morning, I grabbed my pistol, ran
outside and began shooting at
Nip planes right and left. To my
extreme disgust, I didn't even
down one though," he said re­gretfully.
Commander Rutherford de­scribed
the tragedy of Pearl Har­bor
as brutal beyond imagination.
"The day after the attack I saw
corpses stacked 14 feet high and
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IT'S ALABAMA'S MOVE
It has been 37 years of folly. Thirty-seven years in which
students, taxpayers, and sports fans, have been cheated of and
denied something all have wanted and by all the laws that man
observes—should have had. And that is football between Au­burn
and Alabama.
We don't know who or what is responsible; we wish we did
so we could tell you. It. remains just a damnable mystery to us.
That word "mystery" seems to fit the situation very aptly.
Here's why.
Governor Sparks wants sports relations. He said so pub­licly.
The students of both schools want sports relations. We
have talked at length with representatives of both sides. Au­burn's
president, Dr. L. N. Duncan, answered very promptly
and forcefully to the affirmative when the question was put- to
him. Dr. Paty, president of the University, referred the prob­lem
to the Board of Trustees which will meet, as well as we can
ascertain, around the seventh of June. KEEP YOUR EYE ON
THAT DATE!
Why Dr. Paty didn't take it upon himself to answer the ques­tion
we'll probably never know. Surely he has as much power
in the University's administration as Dr. Duncan does in Au­burn's.
What we intend to do is keep alive interest in the proceedings
of that meeting in June. If the result is victory for the two
schools then—WAR EAGLE! If the result is just another brush-off,
then we want an explanation. And we do mean explana­tion.
Detailed and based on actual facts—not theories.
If the result is negative, we want to know who was against
the idea, his name and why he is against it. We don't want
anyone hiding behind legal proceedings.
This is the first time, we believe, that the situation has come
to such a crisis. How any other answer but the "green light"
can come from the meeting we can't see.
So until that meeting does come off, keep hoping that the
"Tide" will roll and the "Tiger" roar this fall when they clash
on the gridiron.
Commencement Exercises
To Be Sunday In Langdon
Three-Fourths Of Those Finishing
Are Alabamians; Engineering
School Has Largest Number
Keverting to the peacetime panoply of caps and gowns
for the first time since June, 1942, 104 Auburn seniors and
graduate students expect to receive degrees at commence­ment
exercises to be held Sunday, May 28, in Langdon Hall.
They will march from Samford Hall to historic Langdon.
President George R. Stuart, Jr., of Birmingham-Southern
College, who will deliver the bac-
Smith, Blake Paper
Rated All-American
First Woman-Edited Plainsman In History
Receives Highest Possible Citation
AU-American rating, the highest citation that any college
newspaper can achieve, was given The Plainsman, Auburn's
weekly publication, in a recent scoring made by ACP, only
recognized national organization for judging college news­papers.
Editor of the All-American, Miss Shirley Smith, a gradu­ating
senior in science and litera­ture
with a double major in Eng­lish
and journalism, is from
Springville, Ala. Beginning work
on The Plainsman staff while a
sophomore, Miss Smith jumped
from News Editor to the position
of Editor-in-chief during the last
quarter of her junior year, be­coming
the first woman editor of
the paper in the history of Au­burn.
She finished out the term
of Pvt. Buck Taylor, also an All-
American editor, serving six
months at the head of the staff.
Editor Taylor was inducted and
transferred from Auburn to an­other
camp after he had served
one quarter as editor.
Smith, after receiving her di­ploma
this spring, plans to join
her mother in California where
she hopes to become affiliated
with one of the newspapers of
that state.
John Blake, business manager
of the All-American paper, went
into office at the same time Miss
Smith became editor, finishing
out the term of Jack Berry, who
was called into service in the
navy after serving three months
as the dollar man for Buck Tay­lor's
All-American sheet. Blake,
member of PiKA social fraternity
and ODK honorary fraternity,
received his degree in chemical
engineering at the end of the
fall quarter of 1943.
This is the second time in the
history of the school that the
paper has received such a rating,
the other rating, as mentioned
before, being given to the publi­cation
edited by Pvt. Buck Tay­lor.
SEVEN AUBURN MEN
GET COMMISSIONS
Seven former members of the
Auburn Advanced Course ROTC
have been commissioned Second
Lieutenants in the Field Artillery
Reserve. Those commissioned
were Ralph Adams, Charles Ber­ry,
James Boman, William P.
Coats, Emerson Evans, James
Flinn, Jr., and Clark Hereford.
QUARTER
TO OPEN
ON JUNE 6
With a larger enrollment of
teachers expected than in other
war years and with a probable
heavy influx of freshman women
students, the regular summer
quarter at'Auburn will open June
6, with the first of two six-week
terms for teachers starting the
next day.
Registration for students in the
regular curricula will be Tues­day
and Wednesday, June 6 and
7, with classes beginning June 8.
The first term for teachers will
begin June 7 and end July 14.
The second will run from July 17
through August 25, the day the
regular quarter closes. Teachers
and others who may find it de­sirable
to take advantage of the
six-week terms may complete
two five-hour courses in each
term.
Under the accelerated program
at Auburn, the college year is
considered as starting with the
summer quarter. Freshman en­rolling
now and continuing
straight through can earn a bach­elor's
degree in three calendar
years, with none of the courses
and none of the terms curtailed.
High government officials as well
as educators are urging both boy
and girl high school graduates to
start college in the summer and
prepare themselves as soon and
as rapidly as possible for their
part in the war effort.
Boys of 17 finishing high school
in the spring may complete sev­eral
quarters of college work be­fore
being called into the ser­vice.
Complete curricula in all
schools and all departments are
being offered in API's summer
quarter, with a full staff of in­structors.
The program for Freshmen
Orientation Week begins with
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Delivering Ihe baccalaureate
address to Auburn's graduating
seniors next Sunday in Lang­don
Hall will be George R. Stu­art,
president of Birmingham-
Southern College. President Stu­art
has been closely connected
with education for many years
and has served as vice president
of Birmingham-Southern and as­sistant
to the president there.
G. R. Stuart
Will Address
Graduates
George R. Stuart, Jr., president
of Birmingham-Southern College,
will deliver the baccalaureate ad­dress
at the commencement exer­cises
.to be held Sunday, May 28,
at 2 p. m., in historic Langdon
Hall.
President Stuart, son of the fa­mous
Methodist evangelist and
singer, the late Rev. George R.
Stuart, who was for many years
associated with Sam Jones, and
grandson of the founder of Vir­ginia's
Sullins College, assumed
the presidency at the Birming­ham
school when the former
president, Dr. Raymond R. Paty,
was named president of the Uni­versity
of Alabama. President
Stuart at the time was vice-pres­ident
of Birmingham-Southern
and formerly had served as as­sistant
to the president.
Born in Cleveland and reared
in Knoxville, Tenn., President
Stuart received his A. B. degree
from Birmingham-Southern in
1924. Two years later he received
the degree of M. A. from Emory
University.
Before going into educational
work, President Stuart was a
prominent lawyerv in Birming­ham.
He is married and has a son,
George R. Stuart, III, 7, to carry
on the famous name, and a
daughter, 4.
Dr. L. N. Duncan, president of
API, will confer the degrees, 96
of which will be bachelors' de­grees,
eight masters' degrees, and
two professional degrees.
Theta Epsilon Dines
Mary Bowen, president of The­ta
Epsilon, announced that the
society will hold its initiation and
banquet tonight at the Pitts Ho­tel.
Miss Olga Bibza, instructor in
the PE department, will be guest
speaker at the banquet.
calaureate address, and Auburn's
president, Dr. L. N. Duncan, who
will confer the degrees, will also
be in cap and gown. Deans and
department heads will have seats
on the platform, but there will
be no academic procession of the
faculty.
Of the graduates, 78 are from
Alabama, 13 from Georgia, 3 each
from Mississippi and Florida, one
from Puerto Rico, and one each
from the following states: Mary­land,
Arkansas, South Carolina,
Louisiana, Tennessee, and the
District of Columbia.
The School of Engineering
leads in the number of graduates,
with 25 receiving bachelor de­grees
and two receiving profes­sional
degrees. The second larg­est
number is from the School
of Home Economics, with 17 un­dergraduate
bachelor degrees
and one master's degree. A total
of eight master's degrees will be
conferred.
Under the accelerated program
at Auburn, there is a commence­ment
every quarter, and the
spring class tends to be no larger
than any of the others.
The candidates for degrees are
as follows:
Graduate School
Master of Science in Agricul­ture:
James Blanding Dick, Au­burn.
Master of Science: Frances Hol­iday
Engel, Auburn.
Master of Science in Education:
Sara Ingram Atkins, Opelika; Lu-cile
David, Columbus, Ga.; Rex
Aurelius Powell, Columbus, Ga.;
Lenora Chapman Sherlock,
Montgomery; and Minnie Smith
York, Opelika.
Master of Science in Home
Economics: Margaret Saxon
Scarbrough, Auburn.
Professional Degree of Civil
Engineer: Thomas Fitzhugh Ho-bart,
Birmingham. •
Professional Degree of Me­chanical
Engineer: Robert Madi­son
Young, Tampa, Fla.
School of Agriculture
Bachelor of Science in Agri­culture:
Henry Grady Pinkston,
Millerville.
School of Architecture
Bachelor of Arichitecture:
Katherine Page, Clanton.
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ONTHECAMPUS
Football
All men students interested in
coming out for football call Coach
Voyles at 914 or go by the Field
House.
Invitations
Senior invitations are here.
Anyone who hasn't received his
or would like to have more, call
Herman Dean at 9107.
Radio Announcer
Men students with experience
as radio announcer who desire
part-time employment are asked
to apply to Kirtley Brown in
Samford Hall.
Showalter To Speak
Citizens of Auburn are invited
to an open meeting of the Au­burn
Council of Churches to hear
Dr. B. R. Showalter discuss "Some
Impressions of Canadians and
Their Thinking." The meeting
will be held Thursday, 'May 25th,
8 p. m., at the Methodist Church.
Page Two THE P L A I N S M AN May 22, 1944
STUDENTS TO FORM
CAMPUS ORCHESTRA
Fred Carley To Direct; Applications
May Be Obtained At President's Office
Plans for a new campus band are being made in an effort
to solve the problem created by the recent disbanding of the
Ambassadors, only orchestra on the campus last quarter, by
Fred Carley and Bob White, former members of the Ambas­sadors.
All students, both men and
women, interested in playing in
the orchestra have been urged by
Carley, who is to direct the new
band, to obtain their application
blanks from Mrs. Wallace Tid-
PRATHER OPENS
PRIVATE LAKE
TO PUBLIC
The private lake of O. C. Pra-ther,
on the new airport road, has
been opened to the public for
swimming and boating, according
to an announcement made by Mr.
Prather.
Mr. Prather stated that a small
charge has been established for
the purpose of defraying the ex­pense
of life guards and upkeep.
However, he said, all service men
and women may enjoy the privi­leges
of his lake without charge.
more, receptionist in the Presi­dent's
Office before the end of
this week if possible.
"A large amount of experience
is not necessary," said Bob White,
who directed the Ambassadors,
but who is scheduled to graduate
this quarter. "What we want are
members who are interested in
having a good band."
The orchestra is being formed
for the benefit of the student
body rather than as a money-making
scheme, they explained,
and the co-op method will be
used, with profits being divided
among the members of the band.
Carley and White stressed their
desire for coeds to try out for po­sitions,
pointing out that two girls
had been members of the Ambas­sadors.
"We particularly need a drum­mer,"
they said, "but as yet no
positions have been definitely as­signed."
Work Of Four API
Artists In National
Jury Exhibition
Joseph Marino-Merlo, associate
professor of applied art, Pvt.
Maltby Sykes, of Sheppard Field,
Tex., former assistant professor of
applied art, and two API grad­uates
in art, Miss Marygene Gib­son,
Tunica, Miss., and Cpl. Har­ry
F. Lowe, III, Opelika, are in­cluded
in the current National
Jury Exhibtion of the Mint Mu­seum
of Art at Charlotte, N. C.
Prof. Marino-Merlo and Cpl.
Lowe are exhibiting water col­ors.
Pvt. Sykes is represented by
an oil portrait and two litho­graphs.
Miss Gibson's work is an
etching.
Paintings by Prof. Marino-Mer­lo
and Pvt. Sykes were accepted
for the present jury exhibtion of
the Southern States Art League
at Dallas, Tex. Paintings by Cpl.
Harry F. Lowe are also being
shown during May in the Annual
Jury Exhibtion of the Associa­tion
of Oklahoma Artists at the
Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa,
Okla., and the first cooperative
annual exhibition at the State
Teachers College, Indiana, Pa.
ALL-AMERICAN EDITOR, BUSINESS MANAGER
FOUND—Gold intramural golf
Key in pool hall. Owner call 448
or come by Plainsman office.
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TOWN AND COUNTRY
The Plainsman, awarded Ail-American rating in the Thirtieth
Critical Service of the Associated Collegiate Press, had as editor,
Shirley Smith, left, and as business manager, John Blake, right.
This is the second time that The Plainsman has received superior
rating, the first award of this kind having been made the preced­ing
quarter when Buck Taylor and Jack Berry were serving as
editor and business manager, respectively.
Danforth Names Boshell
As Tops In North America
Agricultural Freshman Given Trip,
Scholarship To Leadership Camp
Buris Boshell, freshman in agriculture from Phil Camp­bell,
Ala., has been chosen by the Danforth Foundation as
the most outstanding agricultural freshman of North Ameri­ca.
This distinction carries with it a full scholarship to the
American Youth Foundation
Leadership Training Camp, and
$21 travel expense money provid­ed
by last summer's Danforth
Fellows. The camp will be held
near Shelby, Mich., from August
14 through August 27.
Boshell was chosen from among
a group of each of whom had
been selected as the most out­standing
freshman in the school
of agriculture of his university.
The Danforth Foundation also
offers, in conjunction with the
Ralston Purina Mills, a four-week
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Also
Latest War News
Popeye In
"Happy Birthdaze"
TUESDAY, MAY 23
Double Feature
No. 1
TIMBER QUEEN
With
RICHARD ARLEN
MARY BETH HUGHES
No. 2
GUNSMOKE
MESA
With
GUY WILKERSON
DAVE O'BRIEN
JIM NEWILL
Also
Pete Smith's
"Groovie Movie"
Special:
"America's Hidden Weapon"
WEDNESDAY, MAY 24
ROSIE THE
RIVETER
With
JANE FRAZEE
FRANK ALBERTSON
VERA VAGUE
Also
Our Gang Comedy
"Radio Bugs"
Novelty:
"Unusual Occupations"
summer fellowship to the most
outstanding junior in the School
of Agriculture in each of thirty-nine
state colleges. This award
includes expenses for two weeks
in St. Louis where those selected
will be entertained by a planned
program of visits to the Ralston
Purina Mills, experimental sta­tions,
and various modern plants
to study manufacturing and man­agement.
After this two-week period,
these students are sent to Shel­by,
Mich., for the summer camp.
Eddie B. Vinson, junior in agri­culture
from Wetumpka, Ala.,
has been selected from API.
Dietitians
Hold Meeting
In Smoky City
API Home Ec
Professor Presides
At Opening Session
A program which the dietitians
of Alabama believe will lead to
the raising of standards in their
profession was projected at the
annual meeting of the Alabama
Dietetic Association, held at the
Bankhead Hotel in Birmingham
Saturday, May 20. The president
of the organization, Miss Beatrice
Finkelstein, assistant professor of
nutrition at the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute, was in charge
of arrangements for the conven­tion
and presided at the opening
meeting at 10:30 a.m.
Dr. Lillian B. Storms, Fremont,
Mich., vice-president of the
American Dietetic Association,
was the principal guest speaker.
She was heard at the luncheon at
12:30 p.m. Dr. Storms is a na­tionally
recognized authority on
infant foods and holds a Ph. D.
degree in chemistry from Colum­bia
University.
Other prominent speakers were
Dr. E. Neige Todhunter, head of
the department of foods and nu­trition
at the University of Ala­bama,
whose subject was "Pro­fessional
Qualifications of Dieti­tians",
and D. W. Lawson Shack-leford,
director of the Jefferson
hospital at Birmingham, who talk­ed
on "Dietetics and Its Contri­bution
to the Well-Being of the
Patient". Both these speeches
were delivered at the 11 a.m.
meeting.
A symposium on "Nutrition
Work With Children" was held in
the afternoon, with Miss Aman­da
Tucker, nutritionist for the
state department of health, Mont­gomery,
presiding. Miss Sallie
Hill, woman's editor of "Progres­sive
Farmer", presided at the sec­ond
morning session.
Recommendations for the en­forcement
of a higher level of
standards are expected to be acted
upon.
Oracles, Theta Epsilon
Tap Seventeen Coeds
Carolyn Dixon Receives Chi Omega Award
For Outstanding Record In Social Science
In recognition of scholarship and leadership qualities
among the women students, two-honorary societies tapped
17 new members and Chi Omega made its annual award at
Women's Convocation, May 11, in Langdon Hall.
Seven girls were tapped for Oracles, freshman honorary
society, by members of Sphinx, senior honorary sorority.
Chosen because of having a three-point
average during the preced­ing
quarters, the following girls
were tapped:
Mickey Sullivan, Nancy Black,
Ann Grant, Bobbie Sullivan,
Margaret Crane, Eleanor Han-num,
and Margaret Johnson.
Theta Epsilon, national hon­orary
home economics club, tap­ped
ten girls for membership.
These coeds, selected on the ba­sis
of their work in the field of
home economics, to be eligible for
membership, a girl must be un­usually
outstanding, and in the
second or third quarter of her
junior year according to the rules
of the organization. The following
home economic coeds were se­lected:
Anne Dubose, Susan Deloney,
Marjorie Hester, Jessie Mosley,
Gwen Tucker, Faye Campbell,
Jane Grady, Ruth Tipton, There­sa
Gunter, and Mary Evelyn Jef­ferson.
For her outstanding record of
never having made below a three-point
average during her four
years at API, Carolyn Dixon was
awarded the Chi Omega Scholar­ship
cup, given annually to the
girl having the highest average
majoring in social science.
Miss Dixon, Richland, Ga., is
a member of Chi Omega sorority
and is scheduled to graduate at
the end of this quarter.
GRADUATES
(Continued from Page 1)
Bachelor of Interior Decoration:
Jan DuKate Matthes, Biloxi,~Miss.
School of Chemistry
Bachelor of Science in Chemis­try:
Betty Jane Garman, Auburn.
Bachelor of Science in Chemi­cal
Engineering: Walton Haslette
Bartee, Jr., Huntsville; and Karl
Douglas Romine, Cullman.
Bachelor of Science in Labora­tory
Technology: Sara Elizabeth
Bailey, Andalusia; Opal Elizabeth
Deason, Billingsley; Pauline Jew­ell
McGinnis, Montgomery; and
Julia Ellen Wynee, Florence.
School of Education
Daisy Wanda DeRamus, Bir­mingham;
Madge Jarrad, Mont­gomery;
Louise Virginia Kenne­dy,
Roanoke; Minnie Elizabeth
Lambeth, Auburn; Fannie Lee
Machen, Tallassee; Mary Frances
Neel, Columbus, Ga.; Sarah Ruth
Neel, Columbus, Ga.; Gwendolyn
Owens, Brundidge; Carolyn Page,
Samson; Stella Spurlin, Demopo-lis;
and Charlye Frances Wil­liams,
Auburn.
Bachelor of Science in Agricul­tural
Education: Millard Fill
Moore, Russellville; and James
Floyd Turk, Uriah.
Bachelor of Science in Home
Economics Education: Martha
Edna Blake, Sheffield; Frances
Hendrick, Brundidge; Kathleen
High, Waverly; Edity Harper
Hunt, Brent; Martha Frances Kil-gore,
Decatur; Nina Faye McCall,
Brewtn; Dorothy Louise Myrick,
Waycross, Ga.; Wilda Rao Phil­lips,
Section; Margaret Vesta
Trammel, Comer; and Ethel Waid
Boaz.
School of Engineering
Bachelor of Aeronautical Ad­ministration:
William Norman
Barrington, Jr., Birmingham.
Bachelor of Aeronauticl Engi­neering:
Quay Milford Fortner,
Auburn; John Spottswood Hick-son,
Naranja, Fla.; James Felder
Huggins, Montgomery; Virgil
Wood Lipscomb, Jr., Americus,
Ga.; and Vesta Christine Stovall,
Washington, D. C.
Bachelor of Electrical Engi­neering:
William Taylor Doug­las,
Jr., Mobile; Aaron Zed Rob­inson,
Jr., Whistler; and Van
Brittain Seelbinder, Birmingham.
Bachelor of Industrial Engi­neering:
Allen Tate Braswell, Jr.,
Birmingham; Frank Hillman
Bridgers, Birmingham; Howard
Alexander Buchanan, Birming­ham;
John James Burke, Attalla;
Robert Chapman Chisholm, Hat-tiesburg,
Miss.; George Leslie
Cobb, Magnolia, Ark.; Robert
Dudley Erwin, Jr., Birmingham;
Charles Rust McDonald, Mobile;
Barna Wayne Peake, Birming­ham;
Robert Henry Shine, Bir-
A Phi O Scouts
Initiate Seven
Into Fraternity
Delta chapter of Alpha Phi
Omega, national service frater­nity,
initiated seven pladges last
Thursday night into active mem­bership—
six as active members
and one as scouting advisor.
The seven initiated w e re
"Chief" Shine, Jay Green, Bill
Wiggins, Carter Denton, Oliver
Sanford, Kinne Sutton, and Foy
Campbell.
"Chief" Shine, of U-Drive-It
fame, was initiated as scouting
advisor because of his years of
experience with the Boy Scout
movement. He has served in the
capacity of scoutmaster, assistant
scout executive, and scout exec­utive
in the Atlanta-Birmingham
area.
Jay Green, a junior in chemical
engineering from Mobile, is also
a former sports editor of The
Plainsman, Jay is a member of
the track team, secretary of Sa­bers,
member of AIChE, and The­ta
Chi social fraternity.
Bill Wiggins, sophomore in
business administration from
Sheffield, is a member of ATO
social fraternity.
Carter Denton, junior in pre-med
from Oneonta, is a member
of the Interfraternity Council;
Sabers; Alpha Epsilon Delta, hon­orary
pre-med fraternity, and
Theta Chi social fraternity.
Oliver Sanford, member of Phi
Kappa Tau social fraternity, In­terfraternity
Council, and the
band, is a junior in agriculture
from Dadeville.
Kinne Sutton, sophomore in
pre-med from Villa Rica, Ga., is
a member of Tau Kappa Alpha,
debating fraternity; Kappa Sig­ma
social fraternity; and the
Glomerata staff.
Foy Campbell, member of the
Ag Club, FFA, and Theta Chi
social fraternity, is a junior in ag
administration from York.
mingham; Robert Henry Sven-son,
Jr., Auburn; Wayman Ers-kine
Vanderford, Birmingham;
and Robert Lemuel White, Spar­tanburg,
S. C.
School of Home Economics
Bachelor of Science in Home
Economics: Dorcas Marguerite
Adams, Ashford; Sarah Anne
Bennett, Hartselle; Luginia Car­ter,
Valdosta, Ga.; Annette
Brown Cheney, Brewton; Cath­erine
Juanita Cross, Andalusia;
Linnelle Dobbins, Enelle; Nancy'
Frances Driskell, Brewster, Fla.;
Helen Cottrell House, Sylacauga;
Elizabeth May Jones, Montgom­ery;
Kathryn Kennedy, Tallassee;
Helen Irene Lehmann, LaGrange,
Ga.; Mary Elizabeth Loranz, Bir­mingham;
Jane Ann McCall,
Gulfport, Miss.; Ellenor Christine
McGehee, Greenville; Emily
Frances Snipes, Ellaville, Ga.;
Eloise Swann, Butler; and Sarah
Louise Tumlinson, Falkville.
Bachelor of Science in Nursing:
Laura Helen DeShazo, Leeds.
School of Science and
Literature
'Bachelor of Science: Sara Lu­cille
Campbell, Section; Alice
Mae Mathilda Chateau, New Or­leans,
La.; Herman Eugene Dean,
Jr., Birmingham; Carolyn Hough
Dixon, Richland, Ga.; Ruby Jean
Edwards, Atlanta, Ga.; Olive
Cathryn Goldsmith, Atmore; Bil-lie
Myrick Goode, Auburn; Myra
Kathryn Harmon, Notasulga; Gil-more
Harold Massey, Monroe-ville;
Ralph Bradfor Meehan, At­lanta,
Ga.; Anne Oglesby, Heflin;
Doris Nelle Payne, Hartselle; Lu-cile
Virginia Riley, Auburn; Shir­ley
Ann Smith, Springville; and
Bettie Jayne Stebbins, Townsend,
Ga.
School of Veterinary Medicine
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine:
Clyde Frank Hale, Morristown,
Tenn.; Rufus Edward McFerrin,
Greenville; and Saes Quinones-
Sambolin, San German, Puerto
Rico.
May 22, 1944 T H E P L A I N S M AN Page Three
DELTA SIGMA PHI FRAT PRESENTS
"SAILORS' BALL" SATURDAY NIGHT
Delta Sigma Phi presented its
traditional "Sailors' Ball" Satur­day
night in the gym. Music was
furnished by Cecil Mackey and
his orchestra.
The gym was decorated with
the traditional colors of the fra­ternity,
green and white, form­ing
the setting of a ship. Mem­bers
and pledges wore white sail­or
suits with a green tie.
Miss Virginia Grayson, Bir­mingham,
a junior in the School
of Home Economics, led the dance
with Ted Hopton-Jonds, presi­dent
of the Kappa chapter of Del­ta
Sigma Phi.
Other members and their dates
were James Whiteside, Grace El­len
Cross, Birmingham; Bobby
Dean, Martha Grace, Tuscaloosa;
Buddy Irwin, Jackie Swann,
Moss Point, Mississippi; J. Her­man
Smith, Peggy Blalock, Bir­mingham;
and Archie Ray, Emily
Lindsay, Cedartown, Georgia.
Jack Rollins, Mary Jane Smith,
Birmingham; Merril Horton,
Maxine Tatum, Opelika; Philip
Raymond, Alta Holmes, Sylacau-ga;
Robert Scogin, Zona Hines,
Huntsville; and Lew Sanderson,
Bettye Hendricks, Montgomery.
Arthur Mitchell, Martha Pat­terson,
Auburn; Charles Wood,
Alma Holmes, Sylacauga; Dan
Loposer, Marion Gay, Panama
City, Florida; Bill Montgomery,
Frances Perry, Wedowee; Harold
Meeks, Betty Jacobs, Birming­ham,
Don Hopton-Jones, Char­lotte
Ragland, Birmingham; Carl
Hicks, Betty Smith, Birmingham;
and Harold Lee Falkenberry, La­cy
Wikle, Huntsville.
Buck Strickland; and Charles
Baisen.
Patty McCoy Wed
To Ensign Horton
Of interest in Auburn is the
wedding of Miss Patty Elizabeth
McCoy to Ensign Clarence Wil­liam
Horton, USNR, which took
place on Wednesday, May 10, at
4:30 p.m., at the Baptist Church
in LaFayette.
The bride is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. McCoy, of
LaFayette. She is a graduate of
LaFayette High School, and has
completed her sophomore year at
Alabama Polytechnic Institute.
She was a member of Oracles,
freshman honor society; The Au­burn
Players, dramatic organiza­tion;
a council member of Bap­tist
Student Union, and managing
editor of The Plainsman, weekly
college newspaper.
The groom is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. C. C. Horton, of Court-land.
He is a graduate of Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute with
a degree of electrical engineer­ing.
He is a member of Alpha Lamb­da
Tau social fraternity, and
while at API was associate editor
of The Plainsman, and a member
of the Interfraternity Council.
Being commissioned before grad­uation,
he went to Ft. Schuyler,
N. Y., for his indoctrination and
has since been stationed atthe
Fleet Sound School in Key West,
Florida.
Some Sabers Swim;
Others Just Eat
Members of Sabers, sophomore
military society, and their guests
gathered back of Samford Hall
and boarded a truck to go to Che
wacla State Park Saturday, May
13.
Everyone partook of the hot-dogs,
but only the most hearty
braved the rigors of the lake.
Members and dates were Henry
Steindorff, Mary Furr; George
Struther, Minnie Ward Bamburg;
Bob Snellings, Mickey Sullivan;
Avon Edelman, Ann Cagel; Billy
Randolph, Martha Brush; Gus
Baldwin, Nancy Black; and Char­lie
Askew. Captain and Mrs. Har­old
Sutton were chaperones.
"SAY IT WITH
FLOWERS"
King's Flower Shop
Phone 611 Nito 365
LEADS DELTA SIG "SAILORS' BALL'
Miss Virginia Grayson from Birmingham, a junior in the School
of Home Economics and a member of Zela Tau Alpha sorority, led
the Delta Sig dance with Ted Hopton-Jones. president of the fra­ternity.
ADPi Honors Founding
Members of Alpha Delta Pi so­rority
observed Founders' Day
last Monday by wearing white
dresses and pinning "blue and
white ribbons under their badges.
Monday evening all members of
the active chapter and several
alumnae attended a banquet at
the Pitts Hotel.
ADPi was founded in 1851, be­ing
the oldest social sorority in
this country. It came to the Au­burn
campus, as Alpha Delta, in
Thera U Will Present
Loving Cup To Student
Tomorrow evening in the Wom­an's
Dining Hall at the Quad­rangle
Theta Upsilon sorority
will present its annual award of
a loving cup to the most repre­sentative
woman student of the
year.
This year the committee for
October 1941 and joined the na­tional
organization in October
1942.
Kappa Sig Treats
With Barbecue
And Picnic
Kappa Sigma Fraternity enter­tained
its members and pledges
with a hay-ride and real South­ern
barbecue held at Chewacla
Park on May 13. A dance was
held later on in the evening at
the fraternity house on North
Gay.
Chaperones and guests for the
evening were Mrs. Mary Bickler;
Mrs. Gully Simpson; Mrs. Joyce
Allison; Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Ware;
Captain and Mrs. H. L. Sutton,
Jr.; and Mrs. H. L. Sutton, Sr.
The members, pledges and
their dates attending were Geor­ge
O'Neal, Betty Sue Smith; La­mar
Ware, Libby Heard; Don
King, Tee Hugg; Gus Baldwin,
Nancy Black.
John Ben Jones, Rebecca Plow-den;
Jack Gregory, Alta Wise;
Billy Salmon, Virginia Fletcher;
Arthur Bradfield, Marion Snow;
Karow Wilson, Laholm McLen-don;
John Wallace Jones, Mary
Roberts; Fred Patterson, Lilibel
Carlovitz; Virgil Lipscomb, Mar­gie
Burford.
Herman Dean, Margaret Nell
Maxwell; Harry Gilmer, Faye
Freeman; Byrd Lee, Mildred La­mar;
Bill Randolph, Martha
Brush; Jimmy Acree, Joyce Al­lison;
Kinnie Sutton, Anne
Grant; Billy Floyd, Lois Town-send.
Sidney Ingram, Wylene Hill;
Charlie Smith, Florence Farn-ham;
Bob Stanley, Mildred
Woodham; Billy Joe Roberts,
Jule DeGraffenried; Marshall
Lane, Bert Rains; Allen Bras-well,
Carolyn Robinson; Lewie
Tanner, Catherine Cutler; Cope
Goodwin, Frances Carter; Bill
Pierce, Judy McEachern; Lamar
Cannon; Bill Ivey; Oscar Frasier;
Hugh Capers; Don Wiggins; Ran­dolph
Blyth.
the selection of the most repre­sentative
woman student was
composed of Dean Marion W.
Spiddle, Miss Jewell Davis, Miss
Harriett Barnes, Miss Mary
George Lamar and Mary Pop-well,
president of Theta Upsi­lon.
FOR SALE: Grade "A" Goat
milk and registered Mississippi
brush goals. Magnolia Dairy Goat
farm. Sam A. Cox, owner and
operator, 428 y2 W. Magnolia,
phone 434.
Have a Coca-Cola = Eto Zdorovo
(HOW GRAND!)
...or bow to make foreign flyers your friends
To visiting Russian and British Allies, the good old American invi­tation
Have a "Coke" says We're with you. And in your home, there's
no finer welcome to friends than Coca-Cola from your own refrig­erator.
Coca-Cola stands for the pause that refreshes,—has become
a symbol of democratic friendliness to people around the globe.
BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY
OPELIKA COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO.
V
It's natural for popular names
to acquire friendly abbrevia­tions.
That's why you hear
Coca-Cola called "Coke".
. G . O . O . O . O . U . G . O I
RENT A BIKE
AT
CHIEF'S
(ACROSS FROM CHIEF'S U-DRIVE-IT)
DAVIS, HOLLINGER LEAD BALL
FOR INTERFRATERNITY COUNCIL
INTERFRAT COUNCIL BALL LEADER
Miss Betsy Davis, LaGrange, Georgia, member of Alpha Delta
Pi sorority, led the Interfraternity Council Ball with Shannon
Hollinger, president of the Council and member of Kappa Alpha
fraternity.
The Interfraternity Council Ball
Friday night was led by Miss Bet­sy
Davis, from LaGrange, Geor­gia,
with Shannon Hollinger,
president of the Council and
member of Kappa Alpha and
Omega Tau Sigma fraternities,
from Camden.
The dance was held in Alumni
Gym with the Tuskegee Band
furnishing music.
Each fraternity on the campus
was represented in the decora­tions
by a banner on the wall of
the gym, and on the backdrop
were Greek letters of all the
fraternities.
Members and their dates were
Shannon Hollinger, KA, Betsy
Davis; Chick Webb, ATO, Elaine
Hill; Money Allen, SAE, Ray
Monroe; Jimmy Smith, SAE, Vio­la
Coons; Henry McCreary, Sig­ma
Nu, Becky Fincher; and How­ard
Fulenwider, Sigma Nu, Mary
Furr.
Gene Griffiths, PiKA, Martha
Ellis; Ted Hopton-Jones, Delta
Sig, Virginia Grayson; Bob Dean,
Delta Sig, Martha Grace, Tusca­loosa;
Herbert Riddle, Alpha Psi,
Frances Perry; and Curtis Kuyk-endall,
Alpha Psi, Betty Ware.
Clifton McLean, OTS, Rhanalda
Ritch; Jack Young, OTS, Katy
Sue Brock; Council Sapp, KA,
Marion Cronin; Frank Hale, Sig­ma
Chi, Betty Beall; Charles
Grant, Alpha Gamma Rho, Mar­tha
Sivley; and Warren'Williams,
Pi Kappa Phi, Martha Frances
Kilgore.
Henderson Floyd, Lambda Chi,
Mozelle Breeden; Luther John­son,
SPE, Virginia Heath; Bob
Humphrey, SPE, Carolyn Self;
Charles Peacock, Jean Gaunt;
Lamar Ware, Kappa Sig, Libby
Heard; Bill Randolph, Kappa Sig,
(Continued on Page 6)
From Major General Uhl
to the women of
AUBURN
Of all the women in America, there is prob­ably
no group who should be more deeply con­cerned
with the outcome of thi«? war than you
young college women.
Through the fruits of your study and your
good fortune, you can appreciate better than
most how much is at stake. Neither you nor
I can yet tell how much personal sacrifice
is needed to assure victory, but we cannot
afford to let it be too little and too late.
At this moment, the Army urgently needs your
eager minds and skillful hands to help speed
our soldiers' victorious return.
Frederick E. Uhl
Major General, U. S. Army
4th Service Command, Commanding.
Find out today about your place in the
Women's Army Corps. Learn how you can use
your background, your aptitude in one of 239
vital Army jobs.
Clip the coupon below, and mail it at once.
You will be sent an interesting illustrated
booklet explaining the opportunities the WAC
offers you—the valuable experience the Army
gives you, the deep satisfaction you'll feel in
helping to speed America's victory.
Special deferment now
offered college women!
If you want to finish your college semester
before starting your Army career, you
can enlist in the WAC now and arrange
to be called to active duty later—any
time within the next 4 months.
You must be at least 20 years old
before joining the WAC.
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Did You Ever See A Rich Teacher?
"Deliver me from ever being a school
teacher" is a remark all too frequently
heard from college students when the
subject of vocations is broached. And
those boys and girls are really sincere in
asking for deliverance from the fate, as
they see it, of getting an expensive educa­tion
only to use it toward a profession in
Which salaries are low, social restriction
is high, promotions go slow, and responsi­bilities
come fast
Not many years ago several of those
same students were vowing "when I grow
up I'm going to be a school teacher." And
had they not investigated further and
weighed the relative advantages and dis­advantages
of teaching, many of them
might have kept right on wanting to be
teachers.
Unfortunately, we can't say as we blame
them, for we are of the opinion that while
the teaching profession may be worth­while
in itself, there are enough serious
drawbacks to account for the reluctance
with which the field is viewed.
Principally, low salary.
How some teachers who make a hun­dred
or less than a hundred dollars a
month, with a three-months vacation with­out
pay, manage to dress as well as they
are expected to, do the things they are
asked to do (such as taking periodical
short courses in teaching methods), and
still have money left on which to eat is
beyond us.
The return on the money which a per­son
invests in preparing for a teaching
career is a small one. And even smaller,
when we consider the salaries which un­skilled
and semi-skilled laborers are mak­ing
these days. It's enough to drive any
self-respecting teacher to a defense plant.
And that is just what has happened.
Elementary, high school, and college
teachers all over the country are leaving
their high chairs of learning for a factory
bench or, at best, the swivel chair of a
Washington bureaucrat.
And why shouldn't they. We can't go
on forever asking the poor teacher to
"think of humanity—think of posterity-think
of the value of an educated nation".
Sooner or later, he is bound to think of
himself—his family—and of the best way
to provide for that family.
If he doesn't think of those personal
things he's a martyr. Not a martyr to the
cause of education, for education has not
been helped by his not insisting on better
conditions in the teaching profession, but
a martyr to the up-and-coming-cause of
politics.
It is by the teacher's tolerating, year
after year, of low salary, slow promotion,
no retirement plan, that the general public
has not become conscious of the real situa­tion.
For if the public did fully realize
what slow progress education is making
they might worry less about an immediate
need, like a new road, and insist on more
money being used for education—a need
not so apparent, perhaps, but many times
more vital.
Politicians may appropriate money as
they see fit, and to their own advantage
at times, but it is the public who puts
those politicians in office. If that public
would make it to the politician's advan­tage
to campaign for education and then
to follow up his campaign with accom­plishment,
then those would-be office­holders
might sit up and take notice.
Thus, as we see it, the road toward
obtaining better-paid teachers, and hence
better education, has its beginning with,
first, the teachers, who we believe should
organize and demand their rights; second,
the public, who should take a long-run
view of the many implications and the
results of good and bad educational sys­tems;
and, third, the men at the top, who
control the money bags, who will, if com­pelled
to do so, loosen those draw-strings
and spread a little of that money in the
right direction.
An Old Subject But Still A Darn Good One
"I do not see why the University of Ala­bama
and Auburn can't engage in intercol­legiate
relations," is the statement often
made by the students of the two schools.
That statement is made every year and
will probably be made for many years to
come if the responsible officials do not en­ter
into the proper agreements to make
intercollegiate relations possible between
the two schools.
The fact that we do not compete in vari­ous
activities casts a bad reflection on the
two schools—yes, on the whole state of
Alabama. And that bad reflection is that
we are not civilized enough to be good
sports and enter into clean, friendly com­petition
between the two schools. Well,
that idea was exploded when the recent
basketball game was held here in Auburn
between the Pi Kappa Phi's of the Uni­versity
and the OTS's of Auburn.
Much has been written on proposed in­tercollegiate
relations between the Uni­versity
and Auburn, and it seems as if
much more will be written before such
relations come about—heaven forbid!
Not withstanding all that has happened
in the past to make such relations more
difficult, there seems to be more reason,
from the student's viewpoint, to begin such
relations. We students can not see why
just because our granddad threw a pop
bottle at the granddaddy of one of our
University friends at the last Alabama-
Auburn football game we cannot have
friendly relations again. We cannot see
why because we have many friends at the
University who feel the same as we do
about intercollegiate relations; they want
them also.
Many of us, including the writer, has
had many high school friends who have
gone to the University. The fact that they
continue to remain our friends makes us
all the more want to compete with them in
all types of intercollegiate activity; not
just football. We all feel that if Georgia
can play Georgia Tech and Mississippi can
play Mississippi State, all in a friendly
spirit with no bloodshed, then Alabama
can play Auburn in the same friendly
spirit.
If we expect to see the nations of the
world live in peace and harmony after this
war, is it asking too much to have peace
and harmony between Auburn and the
University? If we can't iron out our dif­ferences,
how can we expect nations, whose
problems are more complex, to iron out
theirs?
(Editor's Note: The differences referred
to above are not the student's differences.)
"-YOU NEEO ANY HELP?"
Around The Editor's Desk
Alabama's colleges which for many decades have stood
aloof and independent of one another, and often recognizing
the existence of one another only because of some insult or
touchy problem that was brought up, finally became organized
and welded together into one powerful unit this past weekend
with the formation of the Alabama Collegiate Press Associa­tion,
consisting of eight of Alabama's 19 colleges and uni­versities.
The papers, magazines, and annuals—accepted voices of
the students—are about the only means of promoting friendly
relations and cooperation among the state's,.colleges on a large
scale, so the publications took it upon themselves to see that
these foolish misunderstandings, and lack of understanding
should cease.
The second, and just as important if not more so than the
first, was the working out of details for wholesale distribution
and interchange of ideas, problems, suggestions, and opinions
to and between the institutions. That furnishes the power for
the organization.
And speaking of power—we hope that the proper parties
that are concerned with anything that goes on in the state of
Alabama realize and comprehend the powers of such an
organization, once it takes a stand on a matter and decides to
stick together to support or throw it over. We don't know how
much the similar organization that exists in the state of
Georgia had to do with it, but we might cite an example in the
case of Eugene Talmadge, former governor of Georgia. The
colleges of Georgia certainly had much to do with his defeat—
and few people will deny that the colleges were right. And
the voice of the students was heard through their publications
to a large degree.
Not that Alabama has any such problem, or has had such a
problem in the past, but we do wish to call it to the attention
of the students of the present and hope they will remember it
should any such unfortunate affliction be thrust upon them in
future years. Most of the nation's leaders must come from
college students. It is only their right to see that should ever
any thing that would hinder them in securing their education
for leadership, they should have some means of altering the
circumstances.
We hope the visiting colleges enjoyed the press conference.
Whether it was evident or not, there was a lot of hard work
put into the event by members of The Plainsman staff. It's
difficult to attempt this, but we want to reward in some man­ner
the students who worked so untiringly and unselfishly
making the necessary preparations. We're going to name
them. We can't draw the line so fine as to put them in the
order of the amount of work done but here they are:
NICK IMIGOSIAN
DOTTIE WOODALL
MIMI SIMMS
SHIRLEY SMITH
BILL VAN HEMERT •
There were many others who contributed much time and
effort; we deeply appreciate that also. Those five we named
were for "outstanding service over and above the line of duty".
And it would not be complete without thanks to Mr.
Kirtley Brown and Mr. Charles Scarritt, members of the
faculty who supported us and gave advice that was invaluable.
This is the last issue for SMITH. We're sorta at loss as to
what to say. We've made it pretty rough on the "columness"
at times—exposed her, perhaps ridiculed, and persecuted her—
but now comes the time when we want to take off our hat.
And here are a few of the many reasons why: She was the
first woman editor of The Plainsman, winner of an Ail-Amer­ican
rating, and most important of all, editor during a time
that was one of the most trying for any editor who has ever
taken over the reins of the paper. She took over during war
time, at the beginning of a summer quarter when" students
were leaving in droves, and had a good paper—All-American.
We hope AP, UP, and INS get wise. Keep it up, Smith.
Campus Cross-Country
By SUSAN BROWN
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 used to be a fascinating
game played about this time of
year—two or more players, an
indefinite playing time, and a
victory that was a marvelous
mental ftat. You remember it.
It was called "You can't possibly
have more work to do than I
have" and this term end it is
teetering on the brink of the
void. It's not much fun to play
when you have to stop with fi­nals
and few, few students can
honestly throw in reports, note­books,
and term papers. Are the
professors tired (or bored) of
reading term papers, and check­ing
reports and notebooks? Is
that Why we take a quiz "out
of the book" and" get a grade for
a quarter's work from three Sat­urday
quizzes and a final on ma­terial
that any high school stu­dent
can read and absorb? Stu­dents
arise!
* * *
Contradiction:
"Anticipating a big time at Au­burn
this week-end are the edi­tors
and business managers of
the publications who are now
wishing that 'Bama dreamed up
the press conference."
Column 'Let's Face It—Crim­son-
White May 12, 1944.
* • •
SYNTHETIC RUBBER MEN
WILL HOLD CONFERENCE
MONDAY MAY 15
—Headline in Purdue Exponent
We'd really like to see that.
* * *
Impersonation of the week took
place at Emory. Trainees Priles
called Walter Winchell in New
York concerning the line in the
Winchell program that the V-12
program would be discontinued.
After a long try at contacting
Winchell, Priles saw his efforts
were futile and gave up. In the
meantime trainee Larrow went
to a nearby telephone, called, and
asked for the "young man who
wanted to talk to Mr. Winchell".
Priles hurried to the. phone. Lar­row
solemnly explained in his
deepest, most masculine voice
that he was William Randolph
Hearst, that Winchell's column
was in his chain, that he knew
the call must be important and
had taken the liberty to see what
the young man wanted. Priles
was thoroughly deceived and
Larrow explained that the navy
had too many officers and had
to do away with its college train­ing
program. The rumor spread.
It was the next noon before Lar­row
revealed his part in the act.
* * *
The new book Spring Harvest,
a collection of short stories by
former students in H u d s on
Strode's class in Creative Writ­ing,
published by Alfred Knopf
of New York, went on sale in
Tuscaloosa Monday. Strode and
Ed Kimbrough autographed the
first copies of the book, the first
of its kind ever to be published.
* * *
Record authorities Steve Jack
and Mel Woody at Purdue ob­served
that the "war born short­age
of new records has forced
many casual collectors into the
discovery that there is another
side to that "certain record." They
cite as examples the Mills Broth­ers
"Paper Doll' which was worn
out before the record was turned
over and "I'll Be Around" began
to be played, Duke Ellington's
classic "I'll Take the A Train,"
played and played while "I've
Got It Bad" on the reverse suf­fers
comparative obscurity, and
Bradley's "Celery Stalks At Mid­night",
which is almost unknown
in comparison with "Down the
Road Apiece". "This could go
on forever" write Woody and
Jack and we don't doubt it, but
next time you play "that rec­ord"
turn it over and get a new
treat.
* * *
Garlic and leeks to you stu­dents
who leave school to loaf
for the summer.
WE--THEY
By SHIRLEY SMITH
Editor's note: The opinions expressed
In this column are those of the writer
and are not to be construed as the edi­torial
policies of this paper.
The time has come. We've
said for the last year or so that
we 'were saving up for the last
column of the last issue of the
last quarter. And this is it.
* * *
From the hundred and one
things we've been collecting in
the back of our head, we are
going to allow ourselves the
privilege of selecting one—and
doing it.
* » *
And quit skipping -your eyes
down this column to see what it
is. Just be patient.
* * »
Yes, be patient and let us ask
you a question. If this were
your last column, etc., and you
knew you could probably get
away with saying almost any­thing,
what would you say?
» » »
Would you write about the
good friends you've made at
Auburn? Those close friends—
the kind that know you as well
as you know yourself? Your
roommate, the boy you've had
most of your classes with, the
girl you go by the Grille with
for a cup of coffee and a hour's
talk, the professor who has pa­tience
to listen to your theories
and ideas, and who then sort of
sets you straight?
» * •
About those folks whom you
don't know so well personally,
but who you know are your
friends because they are friends
of Auburn? Chief Shine, Colon­el
Waterman, Dean Petrie?
* * •
Maybe you'd write about your
good times at Auburn. Those
good times that give you that
slap-happy, ' wine-women-and-song
feeling. Football gamjes,
a good "Auburn" dance, a hay-ride
and-a picnic at Chewacla?
* * *
Or perhaps about those times
that didn't seem so special at the
moment but which you remem­ber
for some reason you can't
quite put your finger on? That
day a bunch of you lit out for
the circus in Montgomery, the
walk you took with your best
boy friend out in the country
that spring afternoon, that night
down at the Plainsman office
when the whole staff started
singing at the top of their voices
all the songs that had been popu­lar
since they were born.
* * *
Maybe you'd think about the
good you've gotten out of col­lege.
Book larnin'—how you
can plan well-balanced menus,
dissect a horse, work a slide
rule?
* * *
Or social accomplishments—
how you feel sort of poised and
confident when you're with oth­ers,
how you have learned to ad­just
to almost every situation,
how you seem to have "found
yourself and know, more than
ever before, anyway, what you
want out of life?
* » *
Or would you use the oppor­tunity
to criticize a few of those
things you know there's no point
in criticizing, but which you
would like to get off your chest.
The way you can't leave a pair
of gloves or an umbrella in a
classroom half an hour before
somebody decides "finders, keep­ers",
the flash-bulb smiles that
some of those campus politicians
have, the general lack of out-of-class
relations between students
and faculty?
* * •
You might want to knock a few
things. But you'd probably be
more inclined to praise, since it
doesn't seem quite sporting to
criticize and then run. Besides,
when you're in the mellow mood
of graduation, you probably
wouldn't feel like being disagree­able.
• • *
About that one thing we are
going to allow ourselves to do.
(And there's no use skipping to
the next paragraph, 'cause there
ain't no more.) We just got
through doing that thing we've
been saving for the last column
of the last issue of the last quar­ter.
Yup, we just wrote a swan
song. Guess we put one over on
you, all right, all right.
May 22, 1944 T H E P L A I N S M AN Page Five
Spotlights On Auburnites
By MIMI SIMMS
I
Over a picture of two monkeys in the Plainsman's pin-up
department is printed, "Smith advises Sharman on matter of
editorial policy!"
Although the office often resembles a monkey house,
Shirley Smith and Bob Sharman offer evidence, plus a small
bribe, that they have been grossly misrepresented—well, at
least, that these characterizations don't wholly present their
true personalities.
* * *
"We newspaper people can't speak for ourselves, but
we'll get you yet!" they promised. Editor Sharman looked
for his trusty orange fountain pen which he keeps filled with
green ink, and observed, "I'll do the censoring on this story
myself!"
Shirley, although she has been working under Bob for
two quarters now, still remembers "the good old days" when
a woman ran the office—namely Shirley Smith. To relieve
the editor of this work, she volunteered for the job of okeying
the column.
* * .*
Because this was the first time in history that Bob and
Shirley have argued which one would do the work instead of
Which one won't do it, the office grew silent to observe the
outcome. In a few minutes, it returned to its normal state of
confusion when a story that needed rewriting was found.
Bob, with a magnanimous gesture, handed the copy to Shirley
and said, "If you are so interested in getting some work done
around here, you might try rewriting this!"
But Shirley, a graduating senior with a double major
in Sociology and English and Journalism, is experienced in
dealing with such assignments, and knows how to evade the
issue. "What was that you were saying about the whole
staff getting down to work, Pfc. Sharman?." she chattered.
"And what are you doing now?"
So, Bob assumed a busy air, and piled it on the heap of
stories for the junior staff to write.
* * *
After a few moments, Bob demanded, "Where is that post
office key, Miss Smith? Well, do you have it or have you lost
it again? And don't tell me that you left it on your desk
in your room!" Then Bob confided, "I don't see how she
will ever keep house. She'll probably lose the key the first
night, and have to put up a tent on the lawn!"
* * *
"Let him rant. He's harmless, you know," Shirley in­formed
the office. "Anyone who would put a lock on a cabi­net
and not even give his managing editor a key to the lock—
well, they just aren't human! Personally, I think the reason
he won't let us in is that he's got a still locked up in there!"
* * *
"The first woman editor! She's always holding it over
my head that I worked for her first. I don't think she ap­proves
of the efficient way I run the office," Bob said, laugh­ing.
"Just because she was chosen page one personality, she
doesn't have to show off every time she doesn't agree with
me!"
* * *
Because note-writing is one of the best ways of seeming
busy without doing any work, they both are apt at littering
the desk with detailed masterpieces.
Note-writing and talk are not their only common loves.
They are both enthusiastic horsepeople, and own horses at
home. They like to do crazy things—like chaining chairs
to posts around Main Gate. Both are fluent in an argument,
and both are quite forgetful.
(Continued on Page 7)
'SHE WHO WAS QUEEN OF THE MAY'
Miss Martha Blake, junior in home demonstration from Shef­field,
Ala., reigned as May Queen at the May Day festivities on
May 6.
"ROTC Attracts Best Of Students,"
Say Purdue, Johns Hopkins Presidents
"The effect upon the morale
of the students in the Reserve
Officer Training Corps has been
good and I have nothing but good
to say of the system," Joseph S.
Ames, president of Johns Hop­kins
University said recently.
"To the best of my knowledge,
the influence of the Corps has
been in every way satisfactory.
Participation in the Corps is en­tirely
voluntary with our stu­dents,
and yet the number of
young men who join remains
very high. The quality of man it
attracts is, I think, the best among
our undergraduate students."
Praising the officers and en­listed
men stationed on his cam­pus,
President Ames continued,
"Classwork has been admirable
and of real college standards. In­quiry
from many of the young
men who have taken part in the
organi2ation convinces me that
they have obtained a great deal
of good from an educational
standpoint from their work."
"I have never noticed any trace
of the fact that the operation of
the system encourages militar­ism."
g0**^*4L^et
From Edward C. Elliott, Purdue
University's president, comes the
statement that "ROTC is regard­ed
as an integral and valuable
element in the plan of technical
education, to which this institu­tion
is primarily devoted."
"Entirely apart from the ques­tion
of the specific training of
men for Reserve military com­missions,
and from the relation of
the military training to engineer­ing
instruction, I consider that
the ROTC contributes largely and
efficiently to the development of
these essential qualities of which
dynamic character is composed.
Naming personal responsibility,
the spirit of purposeful coopera­tion,
and the inspiration of
the leadership, Dr. Elliot com­mended
ROTC for its practical
service to his school.
"I have always considered that
this training had the important
aim of giving to the young men,
RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING KEEP GENERAL ELECTRIC YEARS AHEAD
AUTOMATIC PILOT
Flying blind most of the time, a pilot has a hard job keeping his plane on its
course. An automatic pilot, electrically-driven, allows him to relax occasionally . . .
to save his physical and mental resources for the job that may, and often does, lie
far ahead.
An electric motor spins 12,000 revolutions per minute to keep the gyroscopic
mechanism, guiding power of the automatic pilot, rotating at constant speed.
The unit is tightly sealed to insure constant speed of rotation even when the air
outside contains many dust particles or its temperature is very low.
The automatic pilot is able to take over the controls and hold the plane on a
predetermined course. Any pitch, roll, or yaw—that is, lengthwise or crosswise tilt
or turn of the plane—produces an electric signal in the G-E automatic pilot. This
signal is amplified and converted into hydraulic power which moves elevators,
ailerons, and the rudder to bring the plane back to its correct position. General Electric
Company, Schenectady, N. Y.
Hear the General Electric radio programs: "The G-E All-girl Orchestra" Sunday 10 p.m.
EWTi NBC—"The World Today" news, every weekday 6:45 p.m. EWT, CBS.
BUY WAR BONDS
GENERAL H ELECTRIC
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.
Georgia "Bulldog" The Victim
In First Auburn Football Game
Dr. Perrie's Boys
Trounce Georgia
Team, 10-0
By Mimi Simms
"We came through with a 10-0
victory in our first inter-colle­giate
football game in February,
1892, but I don't know who would
have been winner if it hadn't
rained that day," Dr. George Pe-trie,
Auburn's first football coach
and dean for many years, of the
graduate school, told students at
the pep rally Thursday night.
"It was the first time that two
southern schools had fielded foot­ball
teams in a neutral city. That
is, Atlanta was neutral when the
game between Alabama A&M
and the University of Georgia
was over!" Dr. Petrie went on.
"We had organized a team in
the fall of '91, and since it was
one of the first teams in the
South, we only played against
who are fortunate enough to re­ceive
it, something in sharp con­trast
to the present day tenden­cies
to personal irresponsibility
and lawless individuality. It helps
them realize that strength of
character depends upon certain
common realities of life rather
than upon sentimental preach­ments."
ourselves. University of Georgia
was evidently doing the same
thing, so we arranged for a game
in Atlanta."
We Played Us ^
The Auburn men had to learn
about football as they went along.
Georgia had the same disadvan­tage,
though, Dr. Petrie explain­ed,
for they had never played an­other
team either.
"I had to go over to Athens
to make some final plans, and
they took me out and showed me
their team. They looked good,
and frankly, I wasn't so sure
we'd show up that well. But our
boys were determined to put all
they had into the game," he con­tinued.
Two Coaches!
A special train for Alabama
A&M's team, as Auburn's first
team was called, was chartered to
Atlanta—with two cars on it! One
was for the team and the crther
for the boys from Starke, a school
in Montgomery.
"It raised our spirits materially
to see A&M's orange and blue
decorating a house on the out­skirts
of Atlanta. It was the work
of an Auburn man who had grad­uated
a year before I came here,"
Dean Petrie explained.
We Were Democratic
"We got settled in the hotel and
then took a streetcar out to the
field. The Georgia team went in
private carriages, but you know
we Auburn folks have always
been democratic!"
"Although we had brought two
teams, and Georgia had more men
than we did, neither team sent
in a substitute during the whole
game!" Dean Petrit added.
"Our team was happy, but dir­ty.
They were wet with rain and
wet with mud. In fact, they had to
walk back to the hotel."
Full. Full, Full
"At least, all but one of them
walked," Dean Petrie amended.
Two drummers came by in a
buggy, and they pulled our 215
pound player in with them. The
buggy was quite full, but the
drummers were even fuller!
"Eleven of the twenty-two men
I took to Atlanta are still living, .
which is pretty good proof that
football gives a man good health
and long life."
And long life has come to Au­burn,
too, in the teams of later
years. From this beginning and
with this now famous spirit,
shown by Auburn men since that
first game, API has produced
some of the South's outstanding
teams.
LOST: Pair of rimless glasses
in case last week. Call Donna
Sims at 9129.
ferHfi^ •JJ* FRED WARINO'S
776 VICTORY TUNES
Five Nights a Week
all NBC Stations s**w**l *JOH N NESBITT'S
PASSING PARADE
Tues.Wed.Thurs. Nights
all CBS Stations
Page Six THE P L A I N S M AN May 22, 1944
Goldsmith Wins
Danforth Trip
To Michigan
Award To Include
Camping Expenses;
Future Position
Out of nearly 300 applicants
from all over the nation, Cathryn
Goldsmith, API senior in educa­tion,
from Atmore, is one of the
from 12 to 15 college seniors to
toe awarded the William H. Dan­forth
fellowship.
The fellowship will pay all her
expenses during a five weeks'
stay at the American Youth
Foundation Camp at Shelby,
Mich., on the scenic wooded
shores of Lake Michigan. She
will receive training in directing
religious activities at the camp,
and in September she will be
placed in a position on some col­lege
campus where she will work
with the students, faculty, and
local churches in the field of re­ligious
activities.
The scholarship was establish­ed
by William H. Danforth, presi­dent
of the Purina Mills, in St.
Louis, Mo. It is a non-sectarian,
and the basis of selection is upon
a four-fold achievement; mental,
physical, spiritual, and social,
with special emphasis on the re­ligious
aspect. This is the second
year that a fellowship of this
kind has been offered.
The camp will be held the last
two weeks in July for girls, the
first two weeks in August for
boys, and the last week for fac­ulty
members from colleges all
over the nation.
Last week Cathryn received a
personal letter of congratulations
from Mr. Danforth, who request­ed
that she extend to Dr. L. N.
Duncan, president of API, and
Mrs. Duncan his invitation to at­tend
the camp, all expenses paid,
the last week when faculty mem­bers
will gather. The invitation
has been extended but Dr. Dun­can
has made no definite plans
as yet.
CHAIRMAN MARY JO AND CO-WORKERS DISPLAY RED CROSS CHARTER "Spotter" Puts Eye
On Enemy Targets
As charter members of ihe first Red Cross collegiate chapter lo be established in Alabama, and with the added distinction of stand­ing
at the top, in membership, the people in the above group have a right to be proud. They are, standing, left to right, Annie Catherine
Thrasher. Kay Hall. Mr. Bob Smith, Audrey Wilson, Howard Fulenwider, Miss Carmen Croft, Herman Dean, Mrs. Dale Porter, Frances
Meadows, Prof, A. D. Burke, Mr. Kirtley Brown, Mary Jo Bridges, Dr. L. N. Duncan, Ann Dubose, Maxine Tatum, and Lois Rogers.
Seated, left lo right, are Pfc. Lawerence Cottle, Pfc. Gibbs Ashley, Sarah Kirkwood, Betty Cosby, Mary Evelyn Jefferson, and Doris
Ruth Bedingfield Hunter.
Interesting Folks, Incidents Made
Convention Unconventional
DAVIS
(Continued from Page 3)
Martha Brush; and Clive Lake,
PKT.
John Wegener, PKT, Halsa Ky-ser;
Chalmers Bryant, Alpha
Gamma Rho; Harold Watkins,
Phi Delta Theta; Bill Ingals,
Lamba Chi; Don Rosenburg, TEP;
Henry Steindorff, PiKA; and Bill
Wiggins, ATO.
BUY WAR BONDS
AND STAMPS
By Dottie Woodall
This week for the first time,
the populace of Auburn saw stu­dents
smiling on Monday. It has
always seemed that the feeling
about Monday was pretty unani­mous,
so no doubt the staff mem­bers
of the Glomerata and The
Plainsman owe an explanation to
somebody for that treasonous
glow they were spreading around
after "The Convention".
What had begun as just one
of those things everyone is in
favor of, but nobody is quite
confident about, was an accom­plished
fact. The Alabama Colle­giate
Press Association, an organ­ization
which just a week ago
existed only as an idea, is now
a working actuality.
Now We Know How
Lucky We Are
Editors, business managers, and
staff members of the publications
of seven Alabama colleges arriv­ed
Friday afternoon. Many of
them were visiting Auburn for
the first time. It is really fun
to show strangers around —
there's no knowing what may
happen. The things they notice
first may not be at all the things
one would ordinarily think of
showing them as part of "the
sights". For example, no one here
has ever thought it particularly
remarkable that the Plainsman
office is in the same building
with the printing office. Some of
the convention delegates just
couldn't get over how convenient
that is—guess it should be listed
SWIMMING
and
BOATING
Now Available to the Public at
PRATHER'S
LAKE
On New Airport Road
Walking Distance From Town
Life Guards on Duty at All Time
OPEN 2 P.M. TO 7 P.M.
Children Under 12 . . lOc
Others 15c
SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN
FREE
Boats For Hire . 25c per hour
under Blessings We Never Ap­preciated
Till Now.
Somebody always has to "take
the cake" it seems, and the
Plainsman's managing editor, po­tential-
sweet-girl-graduate that
she is, definitely "took it". Stand­ing
on ,the porch of Social Center
Saturday afternoon just before
the track meet, she noticed a
group of strange boys talking to
the little girl from Birmingham-
Southern who reads palms.
Don't Leave Anyone Out
She immediately, all hospitali­ty
and big sunny smile, started
telling them that she would have
someone at the gate to identify
them and give them compliment­ary
tickets to the track meet.
Seeing that she had mistaken
them for delegates they entered
into the spirit of the thing with
such an appreciative remarks, as
"You mean you'll get us in free?"
—"Hey, fellers, she's gonna give
us tickets to the track meet!"—
"Oh, boy, I'd really like to see
that!"
She was a bit overwhelmed by
the extent of their joy, but it was
several minutes before she caught
on that they were the track meet
—at least part of it. They had
come down from Ga. Tech to par­ticipate
in it!
Flashes For The Future
There are a lot of things
that will be remembered about
this first convention. When the
organization is grown up, and its
convention has long since be­come
an expected annual affair,
there'll still be someone to re­member
how many times the
Glomerata's wide-eyed photogra­pher
had to try before he got that
picture of Ann Wood receiving
the University's bouquet; Shir­ley's
dazed look as she came
through that first page; and those
leading questions Norma John­son,
of Birmingham-Southern's
Hilltop News, asked Mr. Leroy
Simms.
Incidentally, she didn't get him
cornered until three trials. Final­ly,
he admitted that probably the
only objection the AP had ever
had to women journalists was
just "we never had used them".
The feminine contingent which
was by far a majority of those
present, were very interested in
his statement that in 1940 the As­sociated
Press was employing
two women, while today this has
increased to 200.
Herbert Fleming, '42,
Is Observer-Pilot
In South Pacific
Lieutenant Herbert J. Fleming,
of Geneva, Ala., who was grad­uated
from API in 1942, has one
of the most exciting and satisfy­ing
jobs in the Southwest Pa­cific
area.
As "observer-pilot" of field ar­tillery
units, he is one of the
"eyes" of our heavy field artil­lery
fire and observe the results.
He is known as an artillery "spot­ter"
because he "spots" enemy
targets, and then from the cock­pit
of his plane, radios their po­sition
to the artillery gunners.
His job requires skill and dar­ing,
as the planes are only lightly
armed, but immense satisfaction
comes from actually observing
the results of our artillery shell­ing.
Fleming has been serving in
this capacity since his arrival in
this theatre in January, 1943.
Before receiving his commis­sion,
Fleming served from 1934
to 1938 with the U. S. Marines.
He attended API from 1938 to
1942, graduating with a bachelor
of science degree in agricultural
engineering and receiving a com­mission
as a second lieutenant in
the field artillery reserve.
Called to active duty in June,
1942, he attended both the bat­tery
officer's and pilot training
courses at the field artillery
school, Fort Sill, Okla., before
sailing for overseas service.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. S.
Fleming, now live at Geneva.
Begin New Phase
Of Flight Training
At Maxwell Field
Five former students from API
have reported to the pre-flight
school at Maxwell Field, an in­stallation
of the AAF Training
Command, to begin another phase
of their training in the U. S. Ar­my
Air Forces.
Here the aviation cadets are re­ceiving
nine weeks of intensive
physical, military and academic
instruction.
These men are aviation cadets
William H. Dickey of Chatom,
who attended the Institute in
1939-43 (B. S. Degree); Felix W.
Fleming, Huntsville, 1942-43;
Frank F. Fleming, Huntsville,
1942-43; Robert H. Smith, Bir­mingham,
1939-41; and Seaborn
R. Stevens, Jr., Americus, Ga.,
1940-43.
The Axis Stops at Nothing,
ijie Don't stop your War Bond
Payroll Savings at 10%. Every
soldier is a 100 percenter. Fig­ure
it out yourself.
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BURNING
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1. COLLEGE OUTLINE
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"That's where
we'll put
our new
GAS RANGE"
W H I L E Charlie was home on fur­lough,
he and Polly had lots of fun plan­ning
the house they intend to build after
the Nazis and Japs are licked. Naturally
enough, she gave a good deal of atten­tion
to the kitchen.
"And what is that beautiful X mark by that wall?" he asked, kidding her a bit.
"Oh" she said, quite seriously, "that's where we'll put our new Gas Range!"
* • •
It is true that the war must be won before Polly can have her new Gas
Range. But today she finds happiness in dreaming about it; fitting it into
their way of living in those days when Charlie is back home again.
Like other wise homemakers, Polly knows that the Gas Range she'll
buy after the war will give her years of dependable service; that she'll
save countless steps and have more time for restful living because of its
automatic heat controls.
She knows, too, that this post-war Gas Range
will compliment the loveliness of her new kitchen,
and that it will cost little to operate—with Alabama's
low-cost Natural Gas.
"Well, honey," Charlie said, reassuringly, "now
that you've selected the exact spot to put that new
Gas Range, it's fine to know we'll have enough War
Bonds by then to buy it!"
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May 22, 1944 T H E P L A I N S M AN Page Seven
Auburn Coeds Enroll
In Buck's Flying School
"Flying Tigresses"
May Solo After Eight
Hours Instruction
By Dottie Woodall
Not content with invading the
Engineering and Vet Schools,
API's girls are now taking to the
air. Buck Frame's flying school
out at the airport now has around
twenty regular students most of
whom are Auburn coeds. These
girls are extremely enthusiastic
about flying, and many of them
go out twice in one day. However
the rule is about one hour a day.
After a student has had 8 hours,
she may solo. That is, she may if
the instructor feels that she is
ready to. The other day when
your reporter took a "sample"
lesson—privilege of the press—
she wondered how a girl ever
dares the plane up alone the first
time. It's all lots of fun to fol­low
the instructor through on the
"stick" and "rudder"—but there's
a certain desirable security in
knowing it's really not "up to ya,
kid."
According to Instructor Logan,
the girls are just as quick at pick­ing
up the fundamentals of flying
as his other students—the navy's
cadets. He said that far from be­ing
scared, the girls are rather
self-confident, and are making
excellent progress toward that
first goal—35 flying hours.
To one who has never been
up at all before—to say nothing
of taking a lesson, it's a big thrill
to get buckled into the seat and
put on a pair of earphones. One
of the first discoveries after these
preparations is that the commu­nication
system works only one
way. The instructor can talk, or
shout, to the student, but the stu­dent
would only be wasting
breath to try to reply. Logan said,
"This is the first time I've ever
been in a situation where I could
talk to a woman and she couldn't
talk back!"
Most of the girls who are tak­ing
these lessons had never done
any flying before. Winifred Row-ell,
from Mobile, is an exception
to this. She had had 25 hours in
Mobile. However, she said that
she had forgotten some of the
things she used to know about
it. "It's a thing you have to keep
at or it gets away from you," she
said.
Two nights a week these girls
go to ground school out at the
airport. They are studying navi­gation,
Civil Air Regulations, me­teorology,
aero-dynamics, and
motors. The classes are held on
Tuesday and Thursday nights.
They can only last until about
8:45 because so far the girls do
not have permission to stay out
after 9:15.
Jeannelle Swindell whose wings
are so new that you can hardly
notice them yet has broken all
records for early rising in dormi­tory
II. It's possible, though not
the general practice, to get in an
hour's lesson at sunrise. Well—
she did it. Her roommate says she
hopes she'll get an alarm clock
if she plans to do it often. These
people who say "Please wake me
up" and then fail to cooperate
when the time comes to actually
do it!
These people who talk as if fly­ing
were just a business, oran
ordinary accomplishment like
playing the oboe or something,
will have a new convert to deal
with. It is glamorous just like the
the Wright brothers thought.
There's no other "first time"
quite like it.
Westminster House Result
Of Student Cooperation
Recreation Center Contains Facilities
For Sports, Banquets, Entertainments
By Nick Nigosian
Former Auburn students from
all over the world have sent in
contributions to make possible
the present Westminster House,
Presbyterian student center lo­cated
adjacent to the Presbyte­rian
church on South Gay street.
Auburn students have already
contributed more than $600 and
are still contributing. One Au­burn
alumnus, who graduated in
May, 1942, and is now a pilot
in the Air Corps, has sent a tenth
of his salary every month since
graduation—a total of over six
hundred dollars.
Since Dr. Sam Hay came to Au­burn
in 1926 he had felt the need
of better facilities for church ac­tivities
among the students.
Through his endeavors and those
of the Auburn church the Ala­bama
Synod of .the Presbyterian
church bought the property on
South Gay adjacent to the church
in 1922. A mortgage was taken on
the property and it was rented
until money was made available
by gifts of the churches and Pres­byterians
of Alabama to pay the
mortgage and provide for the stu­dent
center.
When the depression came,
many of the churches of the state
•had enormous debts on their own
buildings and the Alabama Sy­nod
did not think it wise to be­gin
a campaign for funds.
In 1940 the synod set up a
committee to raise money within
its bounds to free the property of
debt, to change the rooming
house into a student center, and
to provide facilities for the same.
The committee consisted of the
following: Dr. H. V. Carson, pas­tor
of Trinity Church, Montgom­ery,
chairman; Dr. Harold J. Dud­ley,
pastor of the First Church,
Birmingham; Dr. Melton Clark,
pastor of the First Church, An-niston;
Dr. Ansley Moore, pas­tor
of the York church and a re­cent
Auburn graduate; Dr. Hay
of Auburn; Mrs. B. F. Austin of
Montgomery; and Mrs. D. H. Ed-ington
of Mobile.
Soon after the committee was
set up, Dr. Carson went to the
Army and Dr. Dudley became
chairman. The work of Dr. Dud­ley
was outstanding and has been
the greatest single factor in the
success of the campaign, Dr. Hay
says.
Mr. Dick Bjurberg, while a stu­dent
here, did much work in pop­ularizing
the cause before groups
and churches in the state. In 1941
he contacted many prominent
people and obtained a good deal
of money as well as many
pledges.
Mary Loranz, a graduating
senior this month, was chairman
of the student committee at Au­burn.
Many former Auburn students
have made deputation trips to
churches in the state and made
speeches on the need for a stu­dent
center for the Auburn Pres­byterian
students, who in normal
times numbered more than four
hundred.
To date between $12,000 and
$13,000 has been received. This
money has freed the property of
debt and paid for all remodeling
and improvements. As more
money comes in it will be used to
provide additional Sacilities.
A former Auburn student, Jim
Franklin, while home on fur­lough,
drew up plans for the pres­ent
center. Remodeling of the
center was completed last quar­ter.
Presbyterian students have al­ready
put to good use the huge
hallway, which is used for ban­quets;
two rooms, used for Sun­day
school and vespers; and one
combination sitting and living
room. The kitchen has made pos­sible
many banquets and group
gatherings where refreshments are
served.
The ladies of the church have
done most of the work in furnish­ing
the center. Their last contribu­tion
has been the making of 50
sofa pillows.
Plans are in the making for a
recreational center in back of the
building. Badminton equipment
has been purchased, and, begin­ning
Saturday, work is to begin
on reconditioning the tennis
court, picnic tables, and concrete
shuffleboard court.
The hedge which encloses the
property was planted by stu­dents.
Later native trees and
shrubs will be planted.
Presbyterian students and ser­vicemen
are being urged to con­tinue
to make good use of "their"
student center, Dr. Hay said.
SPOTLIGHTS ON AUBURNITES
(Continued from Page 5)
"Bob is even more forgetful than I am, though, and he
sometimes takes a girl to t h e drug store and t h e n forgets to
pay his check—until she reminds h i m ! " Shirley tells us.
* * *
Both are blessed w i t h freckles. There, however, t h e re­semblance
ends for Shirley is short, w i t h a s t r a w b e r r y blond
feather cut that seems to invite p a t t i n g h e r on t h e head. She
has brown eyes, and an infectious smile. She always forgets
to put on any lipstick, but keeps some in t h e desk drawer
anyway. This annoys Bob, who does a lot of worrying.
I n fact he thinks he has a perfect formula for losing
weight. "Just put out t h e Plainsman for a couple of weeks,"
he advises. "I lose t h r e e pounds every week between Wed­nesday
and F r i d a y ! " Although Bob did weigh enough—once
—to j o i n t h e vet-ASTP, h e swears t h a t he's at least 30 pounds
in the hole now! But his uniform still fits, and his hat, al­though
it hides his n a t u r a l l y wavy black hair, doesn't fall
i n to his eyes. It was p a r t l y his cat eyes and black h a i r that
elected h im president of t h e Alabama Collegiate Press Asso­ciation
last week, his staff thinks.
* . # . . . . • ' *
After a few minutes of work, the editor and managing
editor seem to be about to b r e a k down from the strain. So
t h e y stopped to talk.
Philosophy flows fast and furiously. "Sincerity is What
I value most," Shirley tells us, "and after that I like cinna­mon
rolls and coffee at the Grille!"
Not to be outdone, Bob advanced his belief that every­one
should be moderate in everything—or at least moderately
radical, t h e way h e is!
* * *
As usual, Shirley got i n the last word. "I don't believe in
t h e theory of evolution. That big ape m a y be a monkey, but
I 'm certainly not!"
DIPLOMA IN HAND, BILLIE GOODE IS SET
TO TRY FOR COMMISSION AT EIGHTEEN
"My advice to freshmen is to
pay no attention to any advice
you may receive!" said Billie M.
Goode, youngest graduating sen­ior
and holder of an almost per­fect
scholastic. average for his
college years.
"In my youth," Billie remark­ed,
"I got off to a late start. I
was almost seven before I en­tered
school." His mother taught
him to read, though, and he start­ed
school in the second grade.
Skipping the first part of the
fourth grade and the second se­mester
of the fifth, Billie went on
to attend Phillips High School in
Birmingham, his home town.
After two summer sessions at
Lee County High School, Billie
was ready to start college at 15.
In his freshman year he shot up
from 5 feet 9 to 6 feet 1.
A near quiz kid, he placed sixth
in the Alabama state tryouts. "I
didn't make it ,but I did get a
key out of it," he quipped.
"The greatest thrill of my life
was being initiated into Phi Kap­pa
Phi when I was 17!" Only the
upper five percent of the seniors
in each school are chosen, Billie
explained.
"I spent the first year of my
college life on the fourth floor
of Broun, surrounded by pretty
(?) women. Too bad I was too
young to appreciate my position.
Then, because I had had most of
what is taught, I changed my
course to business administra­tion."
Studying, he feels, shouldn't be
merely cramming the night be­fore
a quiz. "Anyone who pays
attention in class and keeps up
fairly well in his—or should I
say her now that Auburn is a
girls' school—daily work will
have a better than passing aver­age."
An accomplished musician, Bil­lie
plays the piano. "I have been
taking intermittently—that's a
good word and it's spelled i-n-t-e-r-
m-i-t-t-e-n-t-1-y! Of course, I
have played steadily ever since,
except for three weeks once when
I had scarlet fever!" Billie went
on.
"I love to read, especially Erie
Stanley Gardner's mystery sto­ries.
Liszt is my favorite compo­ser,
and I am never on time to
an eight o'clock class. You can
ask Herr Roe about that!"
"I'd be a dope to turn down
Theta Upsilon Gives
Gym "Pinafore Prom"
Theta Upsilon sorority sponsor­ed
the weekly campus dance at
Alumni gym this Saturday. The
gym was colorfully decorated
with white crepe ruffles, carry­ing
out the theme of the "Pina­fore
Prom". All girls were re­quested
to wear their pinafores.
This was the last campus dance
for the spring quarter but plans
are being made for the campus
dances to be held in the street
adjoining Ross Chemical Lab for
the summer quarter.
that commission the Navy offered
me for a buck private's bed.
That's why I'm going Navy, I
hope!"
Slated for the Delta Sigma
Pi award because he has the
highest average of any graduat­ing
business administration sen­ior,
he said that it is not being
given this year because the chap­ter
on this campus is inactive.
Riding Offered As PE Substitute
Auburn Academy
Has 14 Horses For
Interested Students
By Van Hemeit
If you like to get out in the
open air, enjoy a thrill, and don't
mind eating off the mantle once
in a while, the place to go is
down to the old Army stables,
and the things to do is to ride
one of the horses you will find
there—unless somebody else has
beat you to 'em of course.
The Auburn Riding Academy,
as the establishment is called, at
present consists of fourteen
horses, a tack room filled with
an ample assortment of saddles,
and whatever else you put on a
horse, and six capable grooms.
These horsemen are Clifton Mc­Lean
and Jim Carney, originators
of the Academy idea; Bill Staple-ton;
Bill Hays; Eli Gersten; and
Eugene Castellow.
From a small beginning in an
equally small barn on the out­skirts
of town, the Academy has
emerged in the course of a few
short months into a thriving es­tablishment.
In the original barn
there were only four horses. Mc­lean
and Carney were, as before
mentioned, the proprietors of this
small establishment.
In February of this year, Dr.
Warren S. Edwards became in­terested
in the idea of a riding
academy. It was through his in­terest,
and of course investment,
that the idea became a reality and
moved to more suitable quar­ters
in the old Army stables.
The Academy now proposes a
plan whereby a regular riding
class may be created.
This proposal would provide
that riding be substituted for P.E.
This plan is now being consider­ed,
and if the students show
enough interest it is expected to
become effective. All those who
would be interested in this plan
Coeds Marion Boyle and Kimball Boan are shown astride two
of the Auburn Riding Academy's 14 first-class mounts. If enough
interest is shown in riding by the students, a regular riding class to
take the place of PE, will be set up for those who wish to have in­struction.
should contact either Clifton Mc­Lean
or Jim Carney at the OTS
house.
The present rates of $1.50 per
hour on Friday, Saturday, Sun­day,
and after 6 p.m. on week
days, and $1.00 per hour Mon­day
through Thursday up to 6
p.m., will be reduced somewhat
to those who attend the pro­posed
riding class if enough stu­dents
become interested.
Riding is not only good for
your health, according to Jim
Carney, but it is interesting and
instructive as well. After all, the
horse has not been put out of
production for the duration as the
car has. And who knows, some­day
even you may be stranded
in the middle of the great west­ern
desert with no other com­panion
than a horse. In such a
situation the ability to ride would
be of incalculable value. And you
can learn to ride right here in
Auburn! Tallyho!
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Page Eight THE P L A I N S M AN May 22, 194
AUBURN PLACES FOURTH
IN SEC TRACK MEET
Kuykendall Wins 440-Yard Dash; Men
Place In Four Other Events Entered
Auburn's tracksters, five strong, took fourth place with
a total of 15 points in the annual Southeastern Conference
meet held in Birmingham Saturday. Georgia Tech set a new
SEC record scoring 90 points after placing in every event and
taking six first positions. LSU, the defending champion, was
second with 65 points and Tulane third with 47 points.
The most spectacular event of
the afternoon was the 440-yard
dash with Curtis Kuykendall
nosing out Jim Bourgeois of LSU
by a foot to win that event. Due
to illness this past week, Kuy­kendall
was upset in defending
his pole vault championship by
Bill Donehue of Georgia Tech.
Kuykendall had defeated Done-hue
in last week's SEAAU here
at Auburn
Curtis Kuykendall was unable
to compete in the mile relay be­cause
of a pulled muscle suffered
in winning the 440-yard dash.
Jay Green, Auburn's two-miler,
was unable to participate due to
induction, and Tom Tabor, dash
man, was ruled ineligible last
week.
Results of the events in which
Auburn placed entries are as fol­lows:
Pole Vault—Won by Donehue,
Ga. Tech; Kuykendall, Auburn;
Watson, LSU; and Jordan, Ga.
Tech, tied for third; Pickett, LSU,
11 ft. 8 in.
440-Yard Dash—Won by Kuy­kendall,
Auburn; Bourgeois,
LSU; Enders, Ga. Teoh; Love,
LSU; Cady, Ga. Tech. Time, 50.2
sec.
Mile Run—Won by Serrie, Ga!
Tech; Deoliveria, LSU; Fred Car-ley,
Auburn; Schneider, Tennes­see;
Stone, Ga. Tech. Time,
4:32.8 min.
880-Yard Run—Won by Hill,
Ga. Tech; Leblanc, LSU; John­son,
Ga. Tech; Brackin, Vander-bilt;
Taff, Auburn. Time, 2:02:5
min.
Mile Relay—Won by LSU; Ga.
Tech second; Auburn; and Tu­lane.
Auburn's team was com­posed
of Taff, Carley, Askew and
Lasday. Time, 3:27.6 min.
Auburn Will Play Host
At Recreation Clinic
The first Industrial Recreation
Clinic ever to be held in Ala­bama
will open for 3 days begin­ning
May 29, with representa­tives
from 27 industrial firms in
eight states already registered for
attendance. Dr. V. W. Lapp, pro­fessor
of physical education at
API, is in charge of arrangements
and will be director of the clinic.
The purpose of the clinic, which
will include many practical dem­onstrations
of recreational pro­grams,
is to acquaint those res­ponsible
for the administration
of such programs with the value
of industrial recreation to both
the worker and to management
and to assist industry in promot­ing
recreational activities which
can be used as an effective re­source
in war.
ROTC UNIT
(Continued from Page 1)
rade. The batteries gave exhibi­tions
of drill, guard duty, rifle
marksmanship, and retreat pa­rade.
Major Henry B. Mills, of the
University of Alabama, was orig­inally
detailed to make the in­spection,
however, due to illness
he was unable to do so.
AUBURN IS
SECOND IN
AAU MEET
Stimulating a reaction from the
crowd that was almost compar­able
to the football interest of
yore, Auburn's Curtis Kuyken­dall
hunkered down and cold
outran a Tech man in the last
event, the mile relay, of the SE­AAU
track meet Saturday before
last to secure enough points to
place Auburn second in the meet.
Although Georgia Tech, win­ner
in the meet with 65 2/3
points, outclassed the field with
its swarm of Navy Jackets, Au­burn
was able to run up 25
points with a number of third,
fourth, and fifth places in the
meet. Kuykendall, in addition to
running anchor on the winning
relay team, took first place in the
pole vault, and ran second in the
440.
Far back in the running were
small squads entered from Mer­cer
University and Hunter Field,
Savannah, with 11 points each
and Howard College with 7
points. Numerous high school
athletes competed and Tom Dick­ey
of Baylor School, Chattanooga,
won top honors in the 220-yard
dash after the favorite of the
meet, Hudley Elebash of Tech,
had been slightly injured and was
scratched.
Service athletes generally gave
good accounts of themselves.
Lieut. Joseph H. Mangus of Camp
Sibert, Ala. sprinted for the last
200 yards to come from far be­hind
and overtake Jay Green,
Auburn, who had built up a tre­mendous
lead, and win the two
mile event.
Sgt. David Shrader of Hunter
Field, former Pittsburgh (Kan.)
State Teachers College athlete
took the discus throw and placed
second in the shot.
In addition to taking the 120-
yard high hurdles, Tech also took
first place- in the 880-yard run,
taken by Albert Hill; in the shot
put, won by George Hills; in the
100-yard dash, won by Hudley
Elebash, and in the broad jump
won by Tom Carpenter.
Vets Leading
ByOneGameln
Softball Series
In defeating the Campus All-
Stars Friday, 6-5, the Vets took
a one-game lead in a series of
games played in the past two
weeks. The Vets have won two,
tied one, and lost one to the All-
Stars in the four games played so
far.
The first game of the series
played Thursday, May 11, result­ed
in the Vets winning 7-3. Cliff
Hart and George McCarty were
on the mound for the Vets with
Joe Altmeyer pitching for the
All-Stars. Morgan and Dykes hit
home runs with men on base for
the Vets. Outstanding for the All-
Stars was Howard Buchanan who
played a brilliant game at short­stop.
Tuesday's game ended in a 0-0
tie. A pitching duel between
Hart, and Peacock for the Vets
and Fowler for the All-Stars
spotlighted the game, all three
yielding only three hits.
TENNIS TEAM TAKES HOWARD;
JOHNSON WINS IN FRAT GOLF
QUARTER
(Continued from Page 1)
dinner in the Quadrangle dining
hall June 6, followed by the
Sphinx step sing on the dining
hall steps. Leadership convoca­tion
and freshmen reception will
be held at the President's home
Wednesday, June 7. On Thursday
morning, June 8, convocation for
women students will be held in
Langdon Hall, and the various
church organizations will hold
receptions Thursday evening.
Applications for residence in
the Quadrangle, dormitories for
women, indicate that there are
very few vacancies left. Two fra­ternity
houses, Delta Sigma Phi
and Pi Delta Theta on South Col­lege
street, will be open for wom­en
teachers who attend summer
school.
Yesterday afternoon the Fifth
Co. Vets won the fifth game of
the series with the Campus All-
Stars, 11-9.
The All-Stars came back Thurs­day
to win 7-4 and outdo the
brilliant coaching shown by the
5th Co. Vets in the first inning.
Fowler hurled for the All-Stars
with Hart starting for the Vets
and being relieved by Bob Lewis
in the fourth.
In winning Friday's game, 6-5,
the Vets gave the All-Stars an
early lead of 5-0 which was tied
in the 5th with the help of John
Morgan's homer with two men
on. George O'Neal led the All-
Stars with a home run in the
first. The Vets winning run was
scored in the sixth. Joe Altmeyer
started for the All-Stars, being
Alvin Smith, Athen's Pre-
Flight, (USN) is shown cross­ing
the finish line to win the
mile run which was one of the
thrillers of the SEAAU track
meet held here Saturday before
last.
LIONS CLUB
(Continued from Page 1)
whether or not each one is white
or colored.
The time required to collect
sufficient funds will determine
the date of erection of this board.
Late Wednesday afternoon only
16 contributors had been listed,
and the majority of these were
members of the club which or­iginated
the idea. The general
public must take a more active
interest in it before the plan can
be realized.
relieved by Fowler in the fifth,
and McCarty began for the Vets
with Peacock relieving him and
being credited with the win.
Netmen Lose Only
Two Matches;
Johnson Scores 70
At the same time that Auburn's
track team was placing second
in the recent AAU track meet,
the tennis team was defeating
Howard College, 7-2. Auburn lost
only one single and one double
match.
Howard's No. 1 and No. 2 men
are in the finals of their intra­mural
tennis tournament, and the
members of the Auburn team are
leading in the Interfraternity
meet here.
Results of the single matches
are as follows:
Herman Dean defeated Arthur
Bolton, 6-4, 6-3; Allen Braswell
won from Henry Heath, 6-3, 5-7,
6-4; Charlie Peacock over Bill
Guiney, 6-1, 6-2, Norman Mc-
Leod defeated Guy Elmore, 6-3,
6-3; Jack Simms defeated Joe
Stammer, 6-2, 6-2; and Buddy
Hays lost to Wayne Normer, 2-6,
7-5, 6-3.
In the doubles matches, Dean
and Braswell defeated Heath and
Bolton, 6-3, 6-0; Peacock and
McLeod won from Guiney and
Elmore, 6-4, 6-2; while Simms
and Sutton lost to Normer and
Stammer, 6-1, and 6-1.
Johnson Wins
Auburn's open intramural golf
tournament was completed last
Friday with Harper Johnson win­ning
first place having a total
of 70 points. John Wood was run­ner-
up with 74 points.
Dr. V. W. Lapp of the PE de­partment
awarded a gold and
bronze medal for first and sec­ond
place winners. Tied for third
place were Don Rosenberg and
F. W. Cannon with Bill Sandlin
and Julius Hoarty in fifth and
sixth places.
Harper Johnson shot the first
nine in 33 and the second nine
in 37 to win the tournament.
BUY WAR BONDS
AND STAMPS
RUTHERFORD
(Continued from page 1)
100 feet long", he said. The dam­age
and confusion of the sur­prise
blow was terrific. Some
time later he was with the flight
of planes which loaded and head­ed
for Wake Island to aid the
American Marines still holding
out on that outpost, but twenty
hours away from their goal, it
surrendered. The help was too
late.
He exhibited to the cadets his
"hunting license" for Japs, which
had been printed on board his
ship just before the attack on the
Marshall Islands, and distributed
to all the fliers. The card licenses
the holder to hunt Japs, no holds
barred, the season beginning Dec.
7, 1941, and lasting till the "ris­ing
sun" has been set. "We didn't
take those with us on our mis­sions",
he added with a twinkle.
"We weren't too sure how the
Japs would appreciate our Amer­ican
brand of humor, if they were
found on any prisoners."
Dismissing summarily the row
upon row of campaign ribbons
decorating his own chest, Com­mander
Rutherford spoke highly
of the exploits of his American
comrades in Pacific action. "We
are none of us heroes," he de­clared.
"We just have a tough
job to do, and we're doing it."
He described life on an air­plane
carrier to the prospective
pilots as characterized by good
conditions, with good food, but
living in a high tension, and in a
continual state of half-readiness.
Prior to his talk, the entire ca­det
detachment at Auburn took
part in a review before Com­mander
Rutherford, at Bullard
Field.
Interestingly enough, the Au­burn
cadet barracks or "ship"
is officially named the "USS En­terprise"
after the carrier on
which he served, and which has
become famed for its exploits
in the south Pacific area.
DZs Defeat
Gams, KDs
In Softball
Delta Zetas became the leadin|
contenders for the girls' intra
mural sports cup when they de
feated the Alpha Gamma Delta!
and the Kappa Deltas softbaf
teams this week.
In the closest game of the softl
ball tournament, the Delta Zeta|
ran up 7 runs to the Gams
Pitcher Emma Jean Maddox and
Melissa Winters were DZ star!
and Pitcher Mary Jo Bridges wal
the Gams outstanding player. A I
in all tournament games, thJ
DZs did not play their last in|
ning.
Although the Kappa Deltal
took the lead in the first inninj
by scoring six runs, Emma JeaJ
Maddox and Melissa Winters leq
the DZs to a 17-6 victory. KI
Pitcher Mary Claire Burns walkl
ed Louise Tolbert every time shl
was at bat, much to the amuse|
ment of the spectators.
Other outstanding DZ player|
were Bonnie Walker, Ann Tharp
Tee Hug, and Opal Deason. Mar
Bidez, Virginia Williamson, Tuti
ter Thrasher, Catherine Wrigh^
and Joy Camp were the spark
of the KD team.
Mary Nell Childs, WAA presj
ident, announced that bad weath
er last month delayed the tennil
tournament and the final resultf
for the WAA cup cannot be tabu
lated. The cup will be awardel
next quarter at Convocatioif
however.
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