1947-01-15 The Auburn Plainsman

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Vol. LXXII WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1947 ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA Number tfl
TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT
Chemistry School Is
Recognized by ACS
Full Membership In
Chemical Society
Is Source of Pride
The chemistry school of Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute today
received national recognition in
being accorded full membership
in the American Chemical Socie­ty-
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The society's committee on
professional training in their
progress report announced the
new status of the API chemistry
school.
President L. N. Duncan termed
the full membership a signal
honor to Auburn.
"We are indeed proud," Dr.
Duncan said, "of the recognition
that has been given to our
school of chemistry. It is well-merited
and friends of the insti­tution
who have long known of
excellent work of the depart­ment
will be greatly pleased.
This Institution, which is pri­marily
dedicated to training in
the professions related to the ap­plication
of science to human
needs, has always stressed the
importance of the fundamental
physical and natural sciences,
basic to engineering, agriculture,
nutrition^ medicine, veterinary
medicine, pharmacy, and archi­tecture.
We are happy that our
graduates in c h e m i s t r y will
henceforth be nationally recog­nized."
The report, reads, "The depart­ment
of chemistry of the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute has
met the requirements for profes­sional
training as to faculty, cur­riculum,
facilities, et cetera, and
graduates of this department are
now eligible for full membership
in the Society after two years of
graduate study or experience in
chemistry."
Members of the committee are
R. A. Beebe, Amherst; W. A.
Noyes, Jr., University of Roches­ter;
B. Riegel, Northwestern Uni­versity;
H. B. Weiser, Rice; W. G.
Young, University of California
at Berkley; S. C. Lind, Universi­ty
of Minnesota; and E. M. Bill­ings,
Eastman Kodak Company.
Tiger Rag Helm Goes
To Payne and Macon
At its first regular meeting of
the winter quarter Monday night,
the Interfraternity Council elect­ed
the editor and business man­ager
of the Tiger Rag. The new
editor is Lenny Payne, Lambda
Chi Alpha, who succeeds Ralph
Jennings, and the post of busi­ness
manager will be filled by J.
O. Macon, Kappa Sigma, who
succeeds Ray Traylor. These men
will serve until June. Three
others were appointed on a com­mittee
to act in an advisory ca­pacity.
They are Buck Hails,
chairman, assisted by Tommy Al­ley
and Starr Prolsdorfer.
Mad Dog Warning
Given Residents
Auburn residents were warned
to continue to be on the lookout
for stray dogs this week as the
Police Department told of dis­covery
and death of a rabid dog
here.
A rabid dog came to town
from the country several weeks
ago and presumably bit the dog
_wned by Culman Matherson.
The Matherson dog subsequently
developed rabies, according to
the police and it was killed and
its head sent to Montgomery for
examination. The examination
ivealed rabies.
The original rabid dog is
thought by police to be dead,
gutiilocal residents are urged to
reful about stray dogs not
ing a tag showing they have
innoculated. Police have
inced that all stray dogs
illp5e shot.
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Dr. Patrick To Head
English Department
Appointment of Dr. Walton R.
Patrick as Head of API's English
Department and plans for ex­pansion
of journalism and speech
phases of English at Auburn
w e r e announced recently by
Dean Roger W. Allen.
Dr. Patrick, who has been As­sociate
Professor of English at
Auburn since September, was at
L.S.U. from 1937-42. He served as
an artillery major in the Army
from 1942-1946, stationed vari­ously
in England, France, Bel­gium,
Germany, Luxeombourg.
As head of the English Depart­ment
Dr. Patrick fills a perma­nent
position at Auburn which
has been vacant since 1941. Com­menting
on his expansion plans
Dr. Patrick said, "We plan to
develop both journalism and
speech at Auburn and also hope
to expand graduate work to meet
the needs of English teachers in
this area."
Dr. Patrick edited "Story Mas­terpieces"
by Pelican Publishing
Company 1940 and his articles
on American Literature have ap­peared
in several technical journ­als.
Anybody Lose a Camera
Up Around Virginia?
The following letter was re­ceived
Monday at the Presi­dent's
office:—Gentlemen: Re­cently,
while emroute from
Washington; D. ' C f l o Rich­mond,
Va., I picked up two stu­dents
who said they were at­tending
your school. After they
had gotten out of my car I
noticed that one of them had
left a camera.
I would appreciate your post­ing
a notice in some conspicious
place to the effect that the
owner may receive same by
furnishing me with an ade­quate
description. Yours very
truly, Kenneth U. Vaden,
Gretna, Va.
AIO HOLDS ELECTION
OF MAJOR OFFICERS
The Auburn Independent Or­ganization,
at its last regular
meeting of the fall quarter, elect­ed
new officers to serve for the
winter and spring quarters. The
newly elected officers are Clyde
McLemore, president, senior in
AE; Zeke Bass, first vice presi­dent;
Jimmy Duke and Lorene
Owen, second vice presidents;
Raymond Lee, third vice-presi­dent;
Clyde Hall, publicity di­rector;
Fern Nix, secretary; Bob
Wheeler, treasurer; and Ed Mil­ler,
representative to the Cabi­net.
House of Representatives
includes: Gene Underwood. Vir­ginia
McDonald, Faye McLain,
Mittie Cook, May Dee Ratliff,
Justice Tucker, Virginia Boykin.
ROUNDTABLE FORUM
OVER WJHO TONIGHT
"What Is A Liberal Educa­tion?"
will be the topic for the
thirty - minute Auburn Round-table
to be broadcast over Sta­tion
WJHO Wednesday night, be­ginning
at 7:30.
Dr. B. R. Showalter, director
of extension teaching at A. P. I.,
Jack Kendiick, associate profes­sor
of history, and Neil O. Davis,
editor of the Lee County Bulle­tin,
will take part in the first
discussion.
The Roundtable will be broad­cast
on alternate Wednesdays
throughout the winter quarter
with Bob Bowen, Sophomore in
business administration, as mod­erator.
DUAL PRESENTATION
OF MILITARY MEDALS
NEAR ROSS TODAY
Two Auburn students, John
Roland Hill and Perry Felix
Goodson, will be awarded mili­tary
medals in a formal presen­tation
today at 4 p. m. in front
of Ross Chemical Laboratory.
Goodson, who is a freshman
in aeronautical engineering and
a graduate of Lafayette High
School, will receive a Gold Star
in lieu of a second Air Medal
and Permanent Citation. Hill,
who is a junior in ""industrial
management, graduate of Au;
burn High School, and mem­ber
of PiKA social fraternity,
will receive five Gold Stars in
lieu of the second and third
Distinguished F 1 yi n g Cross,
second, third, and fourth Air
Medal, and temporary citation.
SPEAKER
Dr. C. H. McCloy
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Operators are always talking over
the phone. Be a big time operator
and write for the VETERANS
JOURNAL.
Is Forum Speaker
Dr. C. H. McCloy, research
professor of physical education at
the State University of Iowa,
will be speaker at Faculty Forum
at 7 p. m. Jan. 16 in the Quad
rangle Dining Hall. Dr. McCloy
is also president of the Pan
American Institute of Physical
Education.
A Fellow receiving the Ameri­can
Academy of Physical Educa­tion
Research award in 1938, Dr.
McCloy has published 14 books
in Chinese and six in English and
has contributed to numerous
Chinese and American education­al
journals. He is general editor
for F. S. Crofts and Company,
Physical Education Series.
Dr. McCloy will speak at the
banquet of the student section of
the Alabama Association for
Health in Birmingham Jan. 18.
Radio Club Organized
To Extend Knowledge
Are you interested in amateur
radio? If so, you should know
about the API Radio Club which
was organized - last quarter to
"extend the knowledge of the
radio art and to serve as a means
of social contact among its mem­bers".
.
A transmitter, owned by the
club, will be put on the air this
quarter. Since only holders of an
FCC amateur license may oper­ate
transmitting e q ' u i p m e n . t,
classes will be held in both code
and radio theory to prepare non-licensed
members for the exami­nation.
Schedule of classes is an­nounced
in 'On The Campus'.
Membership is open to anyone
who is interested.
RADIO MEMO
Tiger Varieties, Monday, 9:30
to 10:00, Tex Shewell and Bob
Wood.
College News, Tues. and Thurs.,
6:55 to 7:00, Mildred Lippitt, Jr.'
Auburn Roundtable, Alternate
Weds., beginning Jan.'22, tf:30 to
8:00. "What is a Liberal Educa­tion
and Why is There a Need
for It", Bob Bowen.
Spotlights on Auburnites, Wed.,
9:30 to 10:00, Len Hensel and Jim
Bradley.
Faculty Forum, Thursday, Jan.
16, 3:15 to 3:45.
FRANK KEOWN'S LETTER
Fellow Students,
With the beginning of a new year we still face many problems
that have arisen from the readjustment from "war days" to "Col­lege
days". In the past few months many problems, have been
solved, but there are still many that can be solved, and will be if
every person will do his share of the work.
Beginning January 1, 1947 a
new Student Executive Cabinet
(student governing body) began
work mapping out plans to help
all students and to better Au­burn
in any way possible. Plans
to help every student in getting
a better education, better living
conditions, creating a better un­derstanding
between faculty and
students, creating more and bet­ter
social activities, and helping
every student in every way are
a few of "the plans already being
worked on.
The Student Executive Cabi­net
is made up of students elect­ed
by the student body to serve
them in all activities. Many stu­dents
are confronted ,by prob­lems
that could be solved if they
would either contact their class
representative or mail their prob­lems
to the Cabinet. ',
A special committee, called the
Student Relations Committee,
has been appointed to study all
grievances concerning the stu­dents.
This committee has all the
power of the Cabinet and is ac­tually
the backbone of the Cabi­net's
power. Referring to Article
•XI, Section 3 of the Constitu­tion
of Associated Under-gradu-ate
Students — "The purpose of
the committee (Student Relations
Committee) shall be to hear, in­vestigate,
and work out a plan
of settlement of all or any griev­ances
submitted by any student
or group of students". Also, in
Article XI, Section 8—"The com­mittee
shall have the authority
to act on behalf of all the un-der-
graduate students of A.P.I.
When any changes .or adjust­ments
are to be made, the com-iaisBtMfeuslistfl^
e^ttw^^B^seSaiwfe-••.<• -President- of Student
either the Council or Deans, Di­rector
of Student Affairs, Presi­dent
of the College, Board of
Trustees, or Governor of the
State of Alabama".
The Student Executive Cabi­net
now has an office in Student
Center and all students who have
grievances should bring them to
the office or mail them to the
Cabinet at Student Center.
During the past four quarters
I have noticed many changes in
the spirit at Auburn. As many of
the old boys started coming back
and every one's mind was re
lieved by the ending of the war,
I, along with many others, not­iced
a change in the spirit. As
time progresses more people
started speaking, more freshmen
began wearing their rat caps and
walking around the main gate,
and that Great War Eagle cry
could be heard. Each quarter
these and many other important
boosters of the Auburn Spirit
became more noticeable. Auburn
has always been known for hav­ing
the greatest spirit of any col­lege.
It is up to you and I to see
to it that this reputation is up­held.
I believe that one of the
chief benefactors of our school
spirit is the wearing of the rat
cap. Many boys feel that they are
too old to wear a rat cap. I do
not believe that any man is too
old to develop a school spirit
that he will remember the rest
of his life.
Every student is invited to at­tend
all Cabinet meetings. Each
meeting will be announced in
The Plainsman.
Sincerely,
Frank Keown
Executive Cab.
Scarab Revives Annual Beaux-Arts
Ball Next Month in Girls Gym
On February fourteenth, stu­dents
of the School of Architec­ture
and the Arts will forget their
studies and abandon the drafting
rooms for a" night of revelry—
the Annual Beaux-Arts Ball.
The 1947 Beaux-Arts Ball, re­viving
a tradition dormant since
1941, is expected to dwarf the
merrymaking % of all previous
balls. This year the guests will be
carried back to Ancient Egypt,
to the palace of King Khufu to
enjoy the annual harvest festival.
The theme adopted will be car­ried
out in the decorations and
the costuming of the guests. The
irrevocable rule that every guest
must be in costume will be en­forced
again this year, according
to Charles Waggoner, .president
of Scarab. As usual the celebra­tion
will start when the sun sets
behind Samford Tower and will
last until midnight. This is the
night that the art students tra­ditionally
indulge in their most
irresponsible caprices. A tenta­tively
arranged program calls for
a King's Feast, a torch-light par­ade,
the Annual Ball, and a
Queen's supper for the Court.
Members of Scarab regret to an­nounce
that due to lack of space
in the girls gym only a few in­vitations
will be available to stu­dents
outside the school of Archi­tecture
and the Arts. It was
hoped that by now one of the
hangers would be available and
that the dance could be attended
by students from all schools as
was the custom in the past.
The Beaux-Arts Ball on the
Auburn campus was originally
fashioned after the annual affair
held in Paris. The Bal des Quartz
is a long standing tradition that
dates back to 1892 in the school
of the Beaux-Arts in Paris. The
first Beaux-Arts Ball was held
on the Auburn campus in the
spring' of 1931. Oddly enough this
dance was held in the Architec­tural
Library. Since 1931 the
dance has been held in the Stu­dent
Center, Graves Center,
Alumni Gym, and Girls Gym.
Many varied themes have been
employed to make each Ball a
success. The costuming and dec­orations
have used the following
modes: Spanish, Wizard of Oz,
Exotic, Oriental, Surrealist, and
Roman arid Greek. Usually the
theme is adopted from sketches
done by students of the School.
The annual hall is sponsored by
Scarab, Architectural Honorary
Fraternity, and is supported by
all- students.
In planning for the revival of
the annual affair, members of
Scarab have done considerable
research on the customs, dress,
and habits of the Ancient Egyp­tians.
A pamphlet showing the
typical costumes of the Egyptians
has been published and distri­buted
to the students.' Also an
exhibit of suggested decoration
themes has been on exhibit in
the school library. A souvenir
program-invitation is now being
printed, and favors have been ob­tained.
In order to secure successful
planning, the following commit­tees
have been appointed," and
are working on the plans for the
1947 Ball: Costume Committee:
Kenneth Cochran, John Fuller,
Carl Lancaster, and James Shel­ley.
Decorations Committee: Al­fred.
Fraser, Walter Hall, Frank
Benning, Lewis Scarborough, and
John Shaffer. Program Commit­tee:
George Galloway, Albert
Williams, | Eugene Milsaps, and
Jack Skewes. Parade Committee:
Z. A. Snipes, Lochren Wise, Har­ry
Clements, and Henry Fair.
Publicity Committee: Charles
Waggoner, Lamar Brown, Starr
Prolsdorfer, and Harry Shields.
The Officers of Scarab are Char­les
Waggoner, President; Starr
Prolsdorfer, Vice President; La­mar
Brown, Secretary; a n d
George Galloway, Treasurer. ~
FRANK KEOWN
University Trio
To Give Concert
The University of Alabama
Trio will appear in concert at
2:30 p. m., Jan. 19 in Langdon
Hall in another of a series of ex
change concerts sponsored by
the API Music.department.
Ottokar Cadek, violinist, Mar­garet
Christi, cellist, and Dr. Al
ton O'Steen, pianist, will play
"Smetana" and other numbers
Miss Christi will play Rachmani-nof's
Cello Sonato and Mr. Cadek
will be featured in solo numbers
The next concert in the faculty
series will be Jan. 26, a viola con
cert by Edgar Glyde, assistant
professor of music.
Program:
Trio No. 5 in D Major (Ghost)
Opus 70 No. 1, Beethoven. Alle­gro
vivace e con brio—The Trio
Sonata in G for Violoncello and
piano, Opus 19, Rachmaninoff.
Andante, Allegro mosso, Miss
Christy and Mr. O'Steen.
Intrada, Desplanes - Nachez;
Variations on a theme of Cofelli
Tartini-Kreisler; Nocturne, Lili
Boulanger; Cortege, Lili Boulan
ger; Polonaise Brilliante for vio­lin
and piario, Wieniawski; Mr.
Cadek and Mr, O'Steen.
Trio in G Minor, Opus ,15, Sme
tana; Moderato assai, Allegro ma
non agitato: Andante: A Tempo:
Maestoso: A Tempo; Finale, Pres
to, The Trio
Office of The Plainsman
Now Being Remodeled
The office of The Plainsman
has been moved to another loca­tion
within the Bulletin Building
and is still in the process of being
remodeled.
When work is completed the
office will have pastel green
walls, a red imitation tile floor,
two fluorescent light fixtures,
and a western exposure. '
Pre-Columbian Art
Now On Exhibit
Pottery and Stone
Work Also Included
An exhibition of "Pre-Colum­bian
Art of Latin America" will
be on display at the School of
Architecture and the Arts Gal-
Jery until February 1. It is the
traveling exhibition prepared by
the Brooklyn Museum.
This exhibition presents ex­amples
of the various arts which
flourished in Central and South
America before the Conquest,
thus giving a condensed picture
of the high civilizations inhabit­ing
those regions before the ar­rival
of Europeans.
Thirty-five pieces of stone, pot­tery,
jade, textiles and basketry
have been selected from the col­lections
of the Brooklyn Museum
together with 15 framed photo­graphs
of architecture, drawings
and Brooklyn Museum School
Service plates. The show is fully
labeled.
The pottery includes jars,
bowls and figures from Mexico,
Panama, Nicaragua, Costa Rica,
Colorrihia, Ecuador, Peru and
Brazil.
Specimens of stone work begin
with the modified stone celts
from the Archaic period in Mexi­co,
and show the continuity of
development through fine sculp­ture
from Costa Rica. -
The superb weaving at the
ancient Peruvians is represented
by several pieces form the Brook­lyn
Museum's well-known col­lection.
on the campus...
Directories . . .
. . . listing students, faculty, and staff members at API for the
fall quarter may be obtained in the mailing room in the basement
of Samford Hall, it was announced by the News Bureau.
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Executive . . .
. . . Cabinet meets tomorrow afternoon in Student Center at
5 p. m. All students are invited to attend this meeting and see their
government in action.
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Glue Your . . .
. . . eyes upon the posters that are being made concerning the
World Student Service Fund. Drive to be held the first week in
February.
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Alpha Phi Omega . . <.
. . . will hold its regular meeting next Tuesday'night at 7:30 in
the director's room over the First National Bank. All old members
back in school are urged to attend.
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ASAE Meets . . .
. . . in the Ag Engineering Building at seven p.' m. next Tuesday.
Future meetings this quarter will be held at the same hour on the
first and third Tuesdays. All AN students are urged to attend.
Others are welcome.
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AIO .
. . .meets tonight in Samford room 215 at 7:15. All independents
are invited.
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API Radio Club . . .
. . . meets every Tuesday at.7 p. m. in Ramsay 300. Anyone in­terested
in learning code and radio theory preparatory to taking
FCC exam is invited to attend. Radio code (beginning) Wed., 5 p. m.
Code (medium speed) Tues. and Thurs., 5 p. m. Theory, Mon. and
Thurs. 7 p. m.
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EE Students . . .
. . . are invited to attend the American Institute of Electrical En­gineers
meeting Monday, 7:30 p. m. in Ramsay 109.
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Owls...
. . . honor society for sophomore women, will hold meeting at
Social Center on Thursday, January 23 at 5 p. m. AH new members
are urged to attend. This is the first meeting of the winter quarter.
Elections will be held.
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Friday Frolic . .
. . . at Alumni Gym in form of dance Friday night from 9 'til
12. Semi-formal and script. Music by The Auburn Plainsmen
Orchestra.
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Ballroom . . .
... .dancing class is offered at 9:00 and at 4:00 daily. Men who
are beginning can join the class by registering Friday, January
17th between 1:00 and 5:00 p. m. at Alumni Gym. No credit. Attend­ance
is requested.
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Industrial . . .
. . . Management students are invited to attend The Society for
the Advancement of Management meeting Tuesday 7 p. m., at the
Shop Building. The program will be featured by a report on the
:r*eeri£';meeti]Tg- of SAM in New York. ^
Dean Spidle Attending
Meeting in Biloxi
Mrs. Marion Spidle, dean of the
A. P. I- School of Home Econo­mics,
is attending a meeting of
the Southern Cooperative Group
at Biloxi, Miss., which began
Monday and lasts through Wed­nesday.
The meeting is in con-juction
with the Southern Agri­culture
Works conference.
A member of the Housing Com­mittee,
Mrs. Spidle will partici­pate
in the program.
Jack Anderson
Anderson Elected New
Head, Alpha Phi Omega
Jack Anderson, SAE from
Huntsville and a senior in elec­trical
engineering was elected
president of Alpha Phi Omega,
National Honorary Service Fra­ternity
at their last meeting of
the fall quarter. Edward G. Len-nep,
Jr., Pi K A from Moss Point,
Miss., and a senior in mechanical
engineering was elected vice-president.
Other officers elected were
John S. Bath, Secretary; James
F. Burnarh, treasurer; Ralph E.
Jennings, sergeant-at-arms; and
James C. Lyle, alumni secretary.
Prof. A. L. Thomas, faculty ad­viser,
accompanied by Edwin
Lennep and Percy Carter at­tended
the National Convention
of Alpha Phi Omega in Kansas,
City, Mo. Carter is the outgoing
president.
Police To Crack
Down On Drivers
Local Officers Cite
Traffic Regulations
A drive to enforce traffic regu­lations
was launched last week
by the Auburn Police Depart­ment.
Cooperation and assistance was
asked of all local citizens in the
effort to reduce traffic violations
to a minimum.
Persons receiving traffic tick­ets
must report to City Hall
within 48 hours. Those who do
not report within this length of
time will be summonsed to Re­corder's
Court.
A one hour parking limit from
8 a. m. to 6 p. m. will he en­forced
'on Magnolia Ave., be­tween
Gay St., and College St.,
and on College St., between Mag­nolia
Ave., and Tichenor Ave.
Other regulations which are
now in effect and will be en­forced
include no parking on left
side of street, no double parking,
no U-turns except at street inter­sections,
turn right on red light
after full stop, speed limit 25
miles per hour.
AG ENGINEERS HEAR
SOIL SPECIALIST
L. G. Brackeen, Chief of Soils
Survey Division of Alabama,
spoke to a group of Ag Engineer­ing
students at their first society
meeting this quarter last Tues­day.
Mr. Brackeen's topic was "The
Adaptability of Farm Machinery
to Soils in Alabama".
Professor Copeland
Speaks on Cancer
"The "Effect of Diet on Can­cer"
was the subject of a lecture
by Professor D. H. Copeland to
the Ag Club Monday night.
Professor Copeland^ has been,
for four years, working in the
Experiment Station Nutrition
Laboratory, where extension ex­perimentation
is being carried on
with rats to determine the causes
of cancer. Professor Copeland
showed several slides in conjunc­tion
with his lecture. , ^
The Ag Club will meet again
next Monday night in Ross Au­ditorium
at 7, and every two
weeks thereafter. The program
committee is working up more
enjoyable programs for future
meetings. All men enrolled in any
phase of agriculture are invited
to attend these meetings and be­come
active members of the club.
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Kappa Delta Holds China Ball Saturday Night
Betty Heaslett Will Lead With
Jimmy Goodson at Girls Gym
Auburn Knights Will Furnish Music
Miss Betty Heaslett, senior in physical education from
Birmingham, will lead the Kappa Delta China Ball Jan. 18
in Girls Gymnasium with Jimmy Goodson.
Music will be furnished by the
Auburn Knights. Decprations will
carry out the theme, complete
with a Buddha, bridge, backdrop
of red with gold letters, and
cherry blossom.
Mrs. James Lawson will pre­sent
a bouquet of roses to Miss
Heaslett.
Date list:
Mary Jane Hudson and Billy
Harrell; Betty Heaslett, Jimmy
Goodson; Reese Screws, Claude
Sanders; Susanne Lowe, Ed Len-nep;
Faye Conner, Hamilton Wil-kins;
Ray Monroe, Bill Laney;
Jane Morris, Bill Crocker; Sue
Miller, Hal Marsh; Doris Brown,
Ray S h e r e r ; Ann Moreland,
Ralph Kelley; Ada Wright, Guy
Folmer; Tut Hollingsworth, Joe
Champion;
i Bettye Blaylock, Bennett Ki-nard;
Rosemary Dabney, Glenn
Deal; Mary Lee, John Shaffer;
B. J. Dobbs, Soup Goyer; Sue
Read, Johnny McEachern; Ann
Summerour, B a r r y Holloway;
Barbara Williams, Joe McGee;
Peggy Hartley, Joe Culpepper;
Carolyn Naftel, Ottis Pa veil;
Peggy Pruitt, Jim Stahnke; Emi­ly
Pruitt, Jack Seay; Anne Bing­ham,
George Galloway; Dorothy
Taylor, Darvin Pippin; Virginia
Ann Holcombe, Gus Leslie; Caro­lyn
Self, Bob Varner; Jean Edge-man,
Martin Wilson; Ethel Ghol-ston,
Ted Hixon; Sara Goodson,
Jimmy Naftel; Joan Monroe,
Ralph Whdte; M a r y Anne
Grieme, Frank Allen; Sara . Ed­wards,
Jimmy Lacey; Mildred
Lippitt, Buddy Barnes; Sara Tid-more,
Charlie Smith; Frances
Buchanan, Kinne Sutton; Betty
Chambers, Dick Martin;
Mary Carolyn Legg, Don Hor-ton;
Mimi Folmar, Charlie Stan­ley;
Martha Hay, Burt Varde-man;
Gene Hurt, Dick Beding-field;
Marjorie Hester, Charles
Hightower; Mac H i g h t o w e r ,
Hamp Morris; Betty Sue Eaton,
Roger Smith; Edwina Foreman,
Bill Morrison; Modesta Bidez,
Pat Logan; Jule De- Graffenried,
Edward Bouchard; Sara Dil-worth,
Tubber Thiemonge; Mr.
and Mrs. William Thrash; and
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Broadnax.
Phi Delta Theta Gives Their
First Annual Bowery Ball
The Alabama Beta of Phi Delta Theta presented their first an­nual
Bowery Ball, January 7. Other Phi chapters, of the South are
famed for their annualvgala event. The Auburn Phi brothers and
their dates will not soon forget this novel party, which in the fu­ture
will become a tradition of the chapter.
A "Bowery Honky Tonk"
theme was effectively carried out
by. the signs cleverly composed
and displayed on the walls of the
fraternity house.
The fire-place was converted
into a bar for the evening from
which refreshments were served.
A mirror above the bar stated
that there was "no brass rail . . .
but wait 'til next year".
All members and their-' dates; r^*
dressed appropriately fpi\ the oqjgi
casion. The costumes and tablea
illuminated by candles in whiskey
bottles and saw-dust on the floor
completed the atmosphere.
Members and their dates were
Billy McGehee, Doris Brown;
Bert Fergurson, Frances Johnson;
Chan Hitchcock, Katie Jo Boone;
Bubber Berry, Jean Barnhart;
Tom Lee, Jule De Graffenreid;
Huddie Varn, Anna Rugh White;
Lee Lamar, Jimmy Henderson;
Gray Carter, Trigger Howard;
Jimmie Taylor, Abbie Hender­son;
Homer Carter, Mauveline
Shaw; David Lewis, Jean Orr,
Joe Boulo, Mary Fearn Geron;
Don Hoi-ton, Ed Morgan; Robert
Howell, Marian Hindman, Bud
dy Barnes, Mildred Lippitt; Nick
Nicholson, Helen Snowden.
Bill Paxton, Jean Bradford;
Billy Haas, Margaret Sims; Joe
Meade, Evelyn Corbett; Ronnie
Butler, Jennie Sue Pate; Robert
Frese, Bobe Albright; Dick Mar­tin,
Katherine Gilder; Bill Hous­ton,
Mildred Pruitt; Bob Law­rence,
Berma Kyle; Wlyie Pound-stone,
Love Henderson; Barry
Holloway, Ann Summerour;
Harold Watkins, Connie Bergen;
Joe Sutherland, Louise McNeil;
Bob Osborn, Tootsie Jackson;
Mark Cooper, Pat McCann.
Dan Brock, Jane Ashford; Don
Thrasher, Frances Buchanan; Joe
Vason, Keddy Ratliff; Tom P.
Ollinger, Ann Moreland; Henry
Tyree, Rooney Curry; Windel
Taylor, Dot Taylor; Richman
Waits, Betty Grant; Burt Varde-man,
Martha Hay; Hugh Cald­well,
Elizabeth Ard; Francis Pet-erman,
Yvonne Cargile; Darrow
Beasley, Lois Sadler; Reese
Bricken, Anne Rouse; Charlie
Spivey, Mary Lee.
Beverley Burkhardt
JiJocieiyJiditox
^Bfe'verley Ann Burkhardt, jun-ior,"
fh'wArcriitecture from Auburn,
has been named Society Editor
of The Plainsman for 1947.
Be v e r 1 e y is
active in campus
activities and
has been Society
Editor d u r i ng
the past year.
I She is president
of t h e l o c al
chapter of Alpha
Gamma Delta
sorority, presi­dent
of Spinx,
Burkhardt ' Senior Women's
Society, and was named for
"Who's Who in American Col­leges
and Universities of 1946"
besides numerous other campus
honors.
Ann Cofield, Chi Omega from
Tuskegee, has been named as her
Assistant.
SAE Selects Officers
At the last regular meeting of
the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fra­ternity,
officers were elected for
the next six months. The follow­ing
officers were elected: Jim
S e a y , Montgomery, president;
Robert "Buck" *Hails, Montgom­ery,
vice president; Emmett Kil-lebrew,
Cordele, Ga., secretary;
John Spencer, Tampa, Fla., treas­urer;
and James Biggers, Colum­bus,
Ga., warden.
LEADS FOR HER SORORITY
Miss Betty Heaslett
Above is Miss Mildred Baggeit, Atlanta, Ga., who is the
newly elected President of the Beta Omega chapter of Alpha
Delta Pi Sorority here at Auburn.
Girls May Choose One of Eight
Greek Letter Societies On Campus
Auburn coeds have the oppor­tunity
of joining any one of
eight sororities. These Greek-letter
societies, listed in order of
their colonization on the campus,
are Kappa Delta, Chi, Omega,
Alpha Omicron Pi, Theta Upsilon,
Alpha Gamma Delta, Delta Zeta,
Alpha Delta Pi, and Phi Mu.
Kappa Delta, 70 c h a p t e rs
strong, was founded on this carri-pus;
in..l923 and its program in­cludes
a Hospital Fund which is
sent to the Cripple Children's
Hospital in Richmond, Va. A
Student Loan Fund is kept for
Kappa Delta's in need of finan­cial
assistance. Betty Heaslett is
chapter president.
Chi Omega was organized here
in 1923. Its chapters number 68
and annually presents a gold
mecraT to an American woman of
noble accomplishment. In addi­tion
the local chapter gives a gold
medal to an outstanding woman
student 'oJNthe' college. -Louise
Landham heads the local chap­ter.
Alpha Omicron Pi, formerly
Phi Omega Pi, was begun in Au­burn
in 1927 and has an active
alumnae chapter. The' national
sorority supports social service
work in Eastern Kentucky, and
they have a scholarship loan
available to outstanding actives.
There are 44 chapters and Mary
Willie Garvin is local president.
Theta Upsilon has 19 chapters
and "was colonized on this cam­pus
in 1935. They-give a cup to
the most representative worryan
student. Chapter alumnae give a
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cup to the undergraduate with
highest scholastic average. Mil­dred
Chambliss is local presi­dent.
Alpha Gamma Delta began in
Auburn in 1939 and boasts 53 un­dergraduate
chapters. They main­tain
two summer camps for un­derprivileged
children and- over
400 kids attend. Local Alpha
Gam's hold annual cake raffle to
send their share to camp fund.
President is Nancy Reinsmith.
Delta Zeta, which has 57 chap­ters,
was organized here in 1940
and supports a fund for the main­tenance
of a school and nursing
unit for mountain people in Ken­tucky
besides a fund set aside for
deserving girls in scholarship.
Wynn Hall is president of the lo­cal
Delta Zeta's.
Alpha Delta Pi, installed on the
Auburn campus from Alpha Del­ta
in 1942, was active in war re­lief
and in the sale of bonds dur­ing
the war. It maintains several
scholarship funds and carries on
several philanthropic projects. It
'has 64 chapters and Craig Green
is local president.
Phi Mu is one of Auburn's
newest sororities, having been
colonized here in January 1946,
maintains a mountain school in
Kentucky for men and women in
an isolated community. It also
maintains a scholarship fund. It
has 60 chapters and Faye Irvin is
the local chapter president.
2—THE PLAINSMAN January 15, 1947
AOPi Holds Annua
Rose Formal Dance
Delta Delta cnapier of Alpha
Omicron Pi held its first Rose
Formal in Girls Gym Saturday,
January 11. The sorority theme
was carried out with a canopy of
red and white covering the ceil­ing.
Mary Willie Garvin, chapter
president, led the dance with
Bobby Gilliam and was presented
with a bouquet of roses by Mr.
and Mrs. George Dean of Mont­gomery,
immediate past national
president of AOPi.
Music "was furnished by the
Auburn Knights.
Members pledges and their
dates were Helen. Walden, Curtis
Silvernail; Virginia Stephens,
Jack Lee; Jane McLean, Andy
Tomasso; Sara Clark, Pewee
Oestreicher; Ida Lee, Jimmy
Gunter; Mary Frances Kilpatrick,
Lefty Walther; Jane Pope, Bern­ard
Blake; Jackie Davis, Don
Jackson; Martha Knight, Bill An­derson;
Carolyn Knight, Claude
Crain.
Faye. Clements, Harry Kenny;
Virginia Bridges, Perry Jenkins,
Lynette Robinson, Tex Shewell;
Joy Justice, Jack Turbeville'; Do­ris
Bragg, Bob Hall; Virginia Da­vis,
Paul Sturdivant; Katherine
Shelburne, Bob Williams; Dot
Bost, Billy Norman; Billie Phil-lipsi
Harold Talbot; Anne Shotts,
Harold Osman; Mr. and Mrs.
Steve Maddox; Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Bedford.
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SAEs HONOR RUSHEES
WITH HOUSE DANCE
A house dance highlighted this
quarter's rushing as members of
the S.A.E. fraternity returned
from a well - deserved vacation
over the Christmas Holidays.
January 7 f o u n d the living
room of the SAE house turned
into a dance floor for the mem­bers,
rushees, and their dates.
As added entertainment, Mont­gomery
Allen operated the mo­tion
picture projector showing
the Auburn-Florida game. Travis
Tidwell narrated a play by Vlay
description of Auburn's best
game of the year.
After the movie, punch and
cookies were served by Mrs.
Anne Stover, the house mother.
The dance drew to a close with
the playing of "Violets" at eleven
o'clock when the late permission
for the girls came to an end.
Plans Made To Select
Sigma Chi Sweetheart
Sigma Chi is inaugurating a
new plan to select their "Sweet­heart
of Sigma Chi". Each soror­ity
has been invited to nominate
two candidates and each dorm
has been invited to nominate one
independent entry. The right to
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nominate any number of candi­dates
is reserved by active mem­bers.
A loving cup with the name of
the sweetheart engraved on it
will be presented to the candi­date
that is selected. She will
keep this cup for the following
year. If a sorority gets three
names on t he cup it will be given
to the sorority permanently.
A house dance was given Sat­urday
in honor of the sweet­heart
candidates. Those present
iincluded —Jeanne Orr, Jo Anne
Carroll, Nancy Hearn, Yvonne
Cargile, June Hay, Emily Ca-mack,
Caroline Johnson, Cecile
Hinson, Jean Charles, Sue Hamil­ton,
Mildred Chambliss, Beverly
Childs, Jo Anne Swanson, Jean-nette
Richardson, Marjorie Law-ing,
and Reese Screws.
ADPi Gives Rush Party
In Form Of Circus
The Alpha Delta Pi Sorority
gave its winter quarter rush par­ty
in the sorority chapter room
last Saturday night from 7 til 9.
Guests were invited to a circus,
complete with side shows and
other forms of entertainment.
Tootsie Hester presided as
barker and guests thrilled to see
the ape-woman, Siamese twins,
mermaid and numerous other od­dities.
The sorority room featured
novel booths hung with crepe
paper and balloons.
Hot dogs, cokes, and candied
apples were served during the
evening.
Five Students Make
Home Ec Dean's List
Five students in the School of
Home Economics made high
scholastic averages during the
fall quarter, entitling them to
special privileges on the Dean's
List for the winter quarter.
They are Betty Ramsey, At­lanta,
Ga.; Corinne Allen, Bir^
mingham; Margaret Young, Sum-merville;
Jean Jordan, Douglas,
Mobile; and Louise Sahag, Au
burn.
API ORCHESTRA HAS
RESUMED PRACTICE
The API Orchestra has re­sumed
practice under the direc­tion
of Edgar Glyde two days
and one night a week. All musi­cians
in this area are invited to
join the group, which meets in
Langdon Hall from 4 to 5 p. m.
and 7:30 to 10 p. m. every Tues­day
and from 4 to 5 p. m. every
Thursday.
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Sigma Pi Has Election
Of Charter Officers
The Alpha Delta chapter of
Sigma Pi Fraternity recently
elected officers to serve for the
winter and spring quarters. The
new officers are Don Nebrig,
president. 4ME, Decatur; Frasier
Galloway, pledge chairman-vice
presidents AG, Hartford; Dewitt
Robinson, house manager'vice
president, 2AG, Cullman; Lelton
Lovvorn, treasurer, 4ED, Cull­man;
Jim Seamans, secretary,
2BA, Atlanta; Leonard Hooper,
historian,- 2AT, Bay Minette;
Warren Richardson, Interfrater-nity
Council representative, 2ME,
Byron, Ga.; Bert Hudson, rush­ing
chairman, 2AG, Cullman.
Father King of Lanett
Entertains Newmanites
i >£••
The Newman Club got off to a
fast start this quarter with a
meeting which was held Monday
night January 6th. This meeting
produced a clever magician in the
person of Father John King, C.
M., pastor of the Holy Family
Church, Lanett.
A large crowd of Newmanites
saw such specialties, as "Where's
the Dime?," "The Mysterious
Chinese Rice Bowl," and "The
Upside Down Coca Cola Bottle."
Father King prefaced his patter
by revealing that he shows these
tricks to children and "children
love it," he said.
This was Father King's second
appearance in the social hall of
the Sacred Heart Church. Last
year he presented a magical show |
Auburn Thespians
To Play Tuskegee
The Auburn Players will pre­sent
"Oliver Oliver", three - act
comedy by Paul Osborh to a
Tallassee audience next Thurs­day,
Jan. 16. They will take the
play to Tuskegee Jan. 22 for pres­entation
before the Supper Club.
Telfair B. Peet is director.
"Oliver Oliver", played 10
times to drawing room audiences
last quarter, may be booked for
two showings a week this quar­ter,
i
Other members of the cast in­clude
Skippy Duchac, Elizabeth
Deese Jones, Dot Harper, Robert
Blackburn, JacK C. Jones, Bill
Etheridge, and George Miller.
at a parish reception under the
auspices of the Holy Name So­ciety.
KDs Entertain Rushees
With Qay-90's Party
A "Gay Nineties" party was
given by the Kappa Delta Soror­ity
to honor their rushees last
Friday night. ...
From the "stage of the late
1800's came the Kappa Delta Gay
Nineties Revue. " "Little Nell"
was inacted along with a Barber
Shop Quartet, a novelty dance
routine;' the singing of "She is
more to be pitied than censored"
and a version of the Can Can.
During the evening sorority
and 1890 songs were sung.
Cocktails of soft drinks and
sandwiches were served.
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January 15, 1947 THE PLAINSMAN—3
"".Pictured in the Bell Telephone
^Company advertisement on this
page is Hal Dumas, a graduate of
the Electrical Engineering School
of API.
LOST: Gray raincoat left in
car between Auburn and Col­umbus
while hitch-hiking Dec.
18. Reward for return. Call
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Traffic Regulations Now in Effect and
to Be Enforced Immediately
1 Hour, Parking Limit: From 8:00 A. M. to
6:00 P.M.
Parking Lanes are marked and all vehicles
must be parked inside lines.
Vehicles must not be parked in prohibited or
marked-off zones.
No parking on left side of street
No double parking.
No U-turns except at street intersections.
Vehicles must stop at all stop signs.
Turn right on red light after full stop.
Speed Limit 25 miles per hour.
We solicit your cooperation and assistance in the en­forcement
of all traffic ordinances and regulations.
People receiving traffic tickets who do not report to
City Hall in 48 hours will be summoned to Recorder's
Court. •' \
POLICE DEPARTMENT
CITY OF AUBURN, ALABAMA
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WALTER S. GIFFORD
President of the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company. SLarted as
a clerk with the Western Electric
Company in 1904. '
CHESTER I; BARNARD
President of the New Jersey Bell Tele­phone
Company. Started with the
Bell System as a clerk in Boston in
1909.
WILLIAM C. BOLENIUS ,
President of the Wisconsin Telephone
Company. First telephone job was in
New York City as a traffic inspector
in 1921.
., ALLERTON F. BROOKS ' • ; , :;
President of The Southern New Eng^
land Telephone Company. Startecfas-engineer's
assistant in New Haven in
1911. ..•.>:>..
, vferblft E. COOLEY
President 6! the Southwestern i Bell
Telephone Company. Started*his tele­phone
career as a clerk m San Fran-.
' • Cisco in 1911.' •: •
HAL S. DUMAS
President of the: Southern Bell Tele-
§hone and Telegraph Company,
tarted as a traffic student in Atlanta
in 1911.
RANDOLPH EIDE
President of The Ohio Bell Telephone
Company. First telephone job was as
a special inspector in New York in 1911.
• S-H
JOE E. 1-IARRELL
President of the New England Tele­phone
and Telegraph Company.
Started with Bell System as a clerk in
Atlanta in 1913.
• . : • • ! -
RUSSELL J. HOPLEY
President of the Northwestern Bell
Telephone' Company. Staited as
collector in Fort Madison, Iowa, in 1915.
Tliese are presidents of operating telephone companies of'
the Bell System. They all started at the bottom of the lad­der
. . . Nine years ago the Bell System first published ah
advertisement like this, except that there are now thirteen
new faces in the pictures. These new presidents also started
at the bottom. '
• • •
The Bell System aims to keep the opportunity for advancement
open to all.
One of its traditions is that its executives come up from the
ranks. That has been true of the business for many years a nd
nowhere is it better illustrated than in the careers of t h e m en
who now serve as presidents of Bell Telephone" Companies.
As a group, ,«hey have put in 6 1 1 years of telephone service*
an average of 3 6 years each.
PRESIDENTS OF BEll TELEPHONE COMPANIES AND THEIR FIRST JOBS
Name Company Date Place of Start
W«lter S. Gilford Amcr.Tel. & Tel. Co. 1904 Chicago
Chester I. Bwnard New Jersey Bell Tel. 1909 Boston
- Co.
•Willum C. Bolenius Wisconsin Tel. Co. 1921 New York City
•Allerlon F. Brooks Southern New Eng- 1911 New Haven
land Tel. Co.
First Pay First Job
$10 week Clerk. Payroll Dept.
$50 month Clerk
$28 week Traffic Inspector
$12 week Engineer's Assistant
•Victor E. Cooley
•Hal S. Duoiai
Randolph Eide
•Joe E. Harrell
•RUMCII J. Hopley
Southwestern Bell
Tel. Co.
Southern Bell Tel.
& Tel. Co.
Ohio Bell Tel. Co.
New England Tel.
& Tel. Co.
Nor'hwestern Bell
Tel. Co.
•William A. Hughe. Indiana Bell Tel. Co
•Thomas N. Lacy
•H. Randolph
Maddux
•Graham K.
McCorkk
•Floyd P. Odgen
Phillip C. Staples
•Mark R. Sullivan
•Carl Whilmore
Michigan Bell Tel.
Co.
Chesapeake &
Potomac Tel. Cos
Illinois Bell Tel. Co
Mountain States
Tel. & Tel. Co.
Bell Tel. Co. of
Penna.
PacificTel.&Tel.Co.
New York Tel. Co.
1911 San Francisco
1911 Atlanta
1911 New York City
1913 Atlanta
1915 Fort Madison. la
1917 Kansas City
1905 Philadelphia
$60 month
$50 month
$15 week
$14 week
$40 month
$60 month
$10 week
1921 Washington. D. C. $30 week
1902 Eminence, Ky.
1911 Kansas City. Mo
1904 Baltimore
1912 San Francisco
1910 San Francscio
$20 month
$40 month
$12 week
$50 month
$65 month
Cleric
Traffic Student
Special Inspector
Clerk
Collector
Ground Man
Installer
Student Engineer
Office Boy
Student-Clerk
Salesman
Clerk
Field Man
•Aateriiks indicate new president! since December. 1937.
WILLIAM A. fiuGHES
President of the Indiana Bell Tele­phone
Company. Started his telephone
career as a ground man in Kansas City
in 1917.
BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM I
«T, THOMAS N. LACY H. RANDOLPH MADDUX GRAHAM K. McCOKKLh FLOYD P. OGDEN PHILLIP C. STAPLES MARK R. SULLIVAN CARL WH1TMORE
President of the Michigan Bell Tele- President of The Chesapeake and President of the Illinois Bell Tele- President of The Mountain States President of The Bell Telephone Com-- President of The Pacific Telephone President of the New York Telephone
phone Company. With Bell System Potomac Telephone Companies, phone Company. Started with Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company. pany of Pennsylvania. Started with and Telegraph Company. Started as Company. First Bell System job was
tinct; 1905. Started in Philadelphia Started, student engineer. Washington. System as an office bov in Eminence, Started as student clerk in Kansas Bell System as salesman in Baltimore a tittk ai San Francisco in 1912. in San Francisco as afieldmin in 1910.
ai an installer. e CC, in 1921. s Ky., in 1902. City in 1911. in 1904
4—THE PLAINSMAN January 15, 1947
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CHICAGO • BOSTON - Los ANGELES - SAN FRANCISCO This and That By Ole Timer
Registration Changed In Offing
Doubtless the many non-veterans who
stood in the registration lines last quarter,
thereby contracting flat feet, and t h e many
' ex-GIs who already had flat feet, but who,
regardless of that, were compelled to crawl
forward toward that shaft of light emanat­ing
from the Student Center's door, will
be happy to know this: changes are in t he
offing to faciliate registration.
Auburn's Registrar, Charles Edwards,
announces that many time-saving ideas
will be incorported in a new system of
registration, with t h r e e objectives in view:
"(1) Ironing out plans that will enable
t h e student to clear any line without un­necessary
delay, (2) determining before­hand
the possible demand for a certain
subject with the thought of having a d e ­partment
offer a ^sufficient number of
sections to meet the demand, (3) develop­ing
a plan' which must be somewhat ar­b
i t r a r y in character providing for an even
distribution of demands for classes in both
afternoon and morning hours."
At the last registration, a numbering
s y s t em was moderately employed for ex­perimental
purposes. Even the numbering
system is a far cry, however, from t h e ease
with which the University of Texas regis­t
e r s students by using the bloc system,
where in those registering are a r b i t r a r i ly
assigned classes to ceriain hour blocs in
order that registration may b e speeded up.
Mr. Edwards revealed that he has not
turned' away a single Alabama student
finding living accomodations. The college
is, he says, exerting itself to c a r r y a load
that will probably become three times as
great as its normal capacity. Such a situa­tion
calls for cooperation and considera­tion
of all concerned, he intimated. The
student has been very cooperative so far,
and is asked to bear with the administra­tion
until a new plan can be advised.
Mr. Edwards^ invites suggestions from
students concerning, facilitation of regis­tration,
either in writing or in personal
conferences. Elimination of Saturday
quizzes came via student suggestion. Per­haps
a b e t t e r method of registration now
lies dormant among the API capita.
Everything's new—a new year, a n ew q u a r t e r , and a n ew
editor—and even new steps in Samford Hall. Someone certain­ly
deserves a pat on t h e back for those steps. For a number
of years—three or four, anyway—we've been watching ex­pecting
to see somebody t u r n an i n v o l u n t a r y flip-flop on t he
antiques.
Tribute To Dean Funchess
A great tribute to Dean Marion J. F u n -
chess appeared in t h e Alabama Farmers
S t a t e by Publisher-Editor Hartwell Hat-ton.
It is reprinted in full:
Some of the most notable and valuable
contributions to the advancement of agri­c
u l t u r e in Alabama have been made by
t h e Auburn Experiment Station. In dis­cussing
it here, the explanation must be
made at once that one column of news­paper
space is inadequate. Hence the dis­cussion
will be undertaken serially.
The Agricultural Experiment Station of
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, an approx­imation
of its official entitlement, em­braces
not only the activities that go on
at Auburn but at seven substations, seven
experiment fields, five f o r e s t r y j j n i t s , and
a breeding plant.
Because the station has grown from a
fairly small stature to i t s present size un­der
the direction of Dean Marion Jacob
Funchess, it is perhaps proper first to
glance at this transplanted South Caro­linian
who came to A u b u r n more than 37
years ago and has remained ever since.
Dean Funchess was born on a cotton
f a rm near Orangeburg in the Carolinia
"low country." Its residents will debate
with those of the Delta which is t h e great­er
cotton producing section and Dean
Funchess holds little truck with those who
say the time has come to quit growing cot­ton.
He still beleives that Alabama's agri­cultural
economy can develop and still
have a place for cotton. All of that, how­ever,
is beside the point.
In 1908 Dean Funchess was graduated
from Clemson Agricultural College. Then
he went up to the University of Wiscon­sin
for graduate study in soils. In August,
1909, he came to Auburn with a master's
degree as assistant professor of agronomy.
Friends had advised him t h a t in Alabama
t h e r e would be p l e n t y of research work.
Whether there were those who could
foretell then the great amount of research
to be undertaken in Alabama or whether
t h e young South Carolina agronomist's
passion for research has been the de­termining
factor, may be argued, but t he
fact is t h e r e has been a mortal lot of r e ­search
in the last 37 years and Dean
Funchess has been in it up. to his neck.
At the end of his first there years -in
Auburn, in 1912, h e was made associate
professor. In 1915 h e became full profes­sor.
Five years later he was appointed
head of t h e d e p a r t m e n t of agronomy and
soils and in 1924 he was made dean of t he
school and director of t h e station.
One of t h e South's greatest research cen­ters
is now under "the direction of Dean
Funchess. He had been director three
years in 1927 when there was an adminis­t
r a t i on in the Capitol that seemed willing
to spend some money for education. The
dean got his name in t h e pot and funds
were made available for expanded re­search
at t h e agricultural experiment sta­tion.
Appropriations gained then marked
off a n ew era in t h e station's usefulness.
From then on, t h e main station at Au­b
u r n became the p a r e n t of many substa­tions,
some of which have become famous
in their own right. Dean Funchess has
made good use of t h e money available and
t h e quality of his work has led to more
and larger appropriations. His s t a t i on pos­sibly
will be among the favored ones in
the division of research.money under t he
Hope-Flannagan Act.
One reason for the success of t h e Au­burn
station under Dean Funchess has
been his insistence that research that does
not butter the farmers* bread is not worth
very much. He continually talks about
"bread and b u t t e r " research and that is
the kind of research that goes on. To facili­t
a t e application of findings to actual farm­ing
operations, Dean Funchess brought
forth a plan for farm-size experimenta­tion.
In this research results would be a p ­plied
on a farm-scale basis. The first of
these was begun in 1937. Since then many
farm-scale experiments are going on in
all parts of the state. On these experi­mental
farm units, which range in size
from 31 to 202 acres, land, labor, crops,
and livestock are combined into systems
of farming. Results from these actual ex­periments
show that Alabama farm in­come
can be doubled.
Well, a lot of incomes have been doubled
since Dean Funchess came to Alabama. A
lot more will be doubled yet because they
say research is in its .infancy, but that is
a phase of the experiment station to be
dealt with later on.
And to start the new quarter
off right we learn there are to
be no more Saturday quizzes. A
couple of "hip's" and a "hooray"
for that. Offe of the most ob­jectionable
features of Auburn
life has been banished from the
Plains—we hope forever.
And now, since it's too late for
us to follow the time honored
custom of columnists and list
New Year's Resolutions and
Christmas gifts, suppose we just
list a number of things we would
like to see during this year.
fc * *
First of all we'd like to see
. the City of Auburn enforce the
ordinance forbidding d o u b le
parking. They have had one for
quite sometime and have stated
a number of times that it will
be enforced but no signs of any
such are evident. -~
Then we'd like to see B&G fill
in the holes in the entrance to
the parking lot next to the New
Building. Hell, we've seen slit
trenches that weren't as deep as
those holes!
And in the same neighborhood
we're getting tired of hearing
the New Building called the New
Building. After all it's several
years old now. It may have an
official name but it still appears
on the class schedules as "NB".
And we'd like to recommend
to the college officials serious
study on the proposition of de-emphasizing
final exams. We
wouldn't ask that they, be elimi­nated
entirely but we would like
to see tHem put on the same basis
as other quizzes—to count the
same, be about one hour long,
and cover,about the same amount
of material. It has always seemed
manifestly unfair to base a large
part of the student's grade on one
!wo or three hour exam.'
And there certainly must be an
easier way to handle registration
than what the school is doing
now. It seems ridiculous to have
to stand jn line four or five or
even more 'hours in order to get
in the classes you want. And
certainly there are better places
on the campus than the Student
Center for headquarters. The
place is a fire trap anyway and
by the time, a hundred people
get packed in it's murder. Why
not Alumni Gym for this purpose
•—at least you'd have room to
turn around!
And now getting away from
the college, we'd like to see the
Southeastern Conference have a
shakeup in it's football officials.
We saw better officiating in
some high school games this fall
than in any of the college games
we witnessed. When you hear
the home crowd booing the offi^
cials for failing to calr* a penalty
on a home player that's really
something. And we know that
happened at least once this year.
We'd also like to see the local
theatre break down and include
a few cartoons and other shorts
on their programs and show the
full newsreels instead of just one
or two scenes. If we have to sit
through advertising such as
"There's a Ford in your future"
we can at least expect to be Pro­vided
with a little extra in the
way of entertainment. At any de­cent
theater in the state you can
"always expect to see at least two
shorts. Playing to near capacity
crowds at every performance,
the Tiger should be able to spend
a little more money to procure
shorts.
And lastly, we'd like to see
those Auburn Tigers when they
.meet up with the teams they
lost to last year. (Or for that
matter, when they meet up with
any team next fall.)
We'd like to conclude with a
Amherst many years ago, but
surely in times of changing
weather like this:
The melancholy days are here,
The saddest in our annals.
It's far too cold for BVDs
And far too hot for flannels.
Page Miss Gaichell
"Now, in getting a meal, what
is the first and most important
thing?" asked the domestic sci­ence
instructress.
"Find the can-opener," shouted
thirty modern damsels without a
moment's hesitation.
* * *
"The mother flea cried when
her son went to the dogs."
* * #
Bachelors be thankful!
Mr. Newlywed: "Doesn't this
steak have a queer taste to you?"
Mrs. Newlywed: "I can't under­stand
it. I burned it a little, but
I rubbed vaseline on it right
away."
* *. *
"A jitterbug is one who chews
gum and is wrigley all over."
* * #
Angel Chillun
Mama: "I'm so glad, twins,
you're sitting quietly and not dis­turbing
daddy while he naps."
Twins: "Yes'm. We're really
watching though to see his ciga­rette
burn his fingers."
* * *
"None but a mule denies his
family."
* * *.
Papa goes shopping
Pap: "Some s a f e t y pins,
please."
Clerk: "What size, sir?"
Papa: "Six months, please."
* * *
"What could Adam have done
to God that made him puWEve in
the garden?"
* * *
So Modest
Jig: "Have you heard what the
mayonnaise said to the refrigera­tor?
Jog :'No."
Jig: "Close the door, I'm dress-
"Adam and Eve had many ad­vantages;
one principal one was
that they escaped teething."
* * #
As is!
Arthur: "I wonder what would
happen if you and I agreed on
anything?"
Alice: "I'd be wrong."
* * *
"When a man is wrong and
won't admit it, he always gets
angry."
* * *
Commanding Officer: "The
Kaydet who kissed a girl good­night
on the lakeshore last night
take one step forward . . . March!
COMPANY, HALT!"
# * *
"To make a woman hold her
tongue, be you first silent."
Page St. Peter
First Devil: "Ha! Ha! Ho! Ho!'
VSatan: "Why the laugh?"
First Devil: "I just put a wom­an
into a room with a thousand
hats and no mirror."
* * *
A minister's attempted eulogy
at a funeral: "We have here only
the shell; the nut is gone."
Still hope
Love-lorn: "Earnest, couldn't
you learn to love me?"
Luke-warm: "I might. I learn­ed
to eat spinach."
The Exchange Post By Anonymous
This story came out of a journ­alism
class at the University of
Kentucky when the class was
discussing the value of evidence
presented in a sensational mur­der
case.
The question was raised wheth­er
the victim would turn to face
his attacker before turning to
flee.
A returned war veteran in the
class spoke: "I believe the man
would have turned toward the
slayer before running. My reason
is that I once came face to face
unexpectedly with a German
soldier. He crouched and half
lunged toward me before turning
to run."
There was a pause and then
the veteran pointed to his wrist,
"This is his watch I'm wearing."
"Where, oh where has my little
dog gone?" And Donald R. Wil­liams,
student at the University
of Utah, wondered why it had to
happen at all. So did members of
the University's Geology Depart­ment.
The Dog, Nippie, followed Wil­liams
to school one day. Nippie
was later discovered contentedlyi
sleeping in the Geology Building.
Beside him was a well-chewed
bone.
The bone, well-chewed as it
was by the pup, had previously
been the department's highly-prized,
ancient Orintho-Scelinda
bone.
According to the custom of a
psychology professor at Purdue,
the doors of the lecture room are
locked when the bell rings, thus
preventing the entrance of peo­ple
who cannot seem to get there
on time.
At a recent meeting of the
class several civilian students ar­rived
a fraction of a second too
late to get in. Before long they
were joined by more and more
fellow students, and in practical­ly
no time the group numbered
a dozen, including throve sailors.
Much twisting of the door knob
ensued but to no avail. The situ­ation
looked hopelsss, but in the
case of the sailors absenteeism
meant demerits so something had
to be done. Alter looking about,
one member of the group dis­covered
there was a door to the
lecture room through the math
office beside it, but this entrance
was barricaded by filing cabi­nets.
That problem was soon solved
when the fellows managed to
move the cabinets. Then into the
lecture room and to their seats
trooped the determined twelve.
Relenting at the sight of such
eagerness, the prof decided they
deserved an extra ten points for
effort.
Letters to the Editor
FILE THIRTEEN By The Editor
It feels fine (?) to be new edi­tor
of ye olde Plainsman but it
doesn't feel any too good to have
to answer such questions as,
"You're the new editor—when in
h . . . is the next issue coming
out?" • ^
The reason no Plainsman came
out during the first Wednesday
of the quarter was due to re­modeling
of the building. There
was just no place to work among
sea f fords, wet plaster, electri­cians,
and brickmasons. Besides,
a new press was installed, and a
paper can't be printed without a
press. But now that it's out have
you noticed the eight-column
pages? Last quarter it was seven.
X * *
A letter was received here re­cently
addressed in care of "Ala­bama
Polynomial Institution".
We thought it was'funny until
an official of the college remark­ed
that a letter was received sev­eral
weeks ago addressed to "Mr.
Alabama Polytechnic, Jr."
* * *
There is always room for one
more on the Plainsman staff. If
you can read proof, write copy,
type, or tell good jokes, you're
welcome. We'd like to see every
organization and every dormitory
on the campus with a couple of
good reporters that are interested
in their college paper enough to
make it one of the best informed
in the country.-^
* # *
News travels faster than many
of us realize. The first letter your
new editor received came from
within the walls of one of our
state institutions. The editor of
the Draper Inmate wished to ex­change
papers weekly. Two
copies of the prison paper have
been received already and we
only hope that we can do as
well.
The Plainsman wants a humor­ous
columnist capable of writing
a weekly column similar to Bil­ly
Stephenson's "Rat Reuben"
which was discontinued about a
year ago. Billy played a part of
a hill-billy freshmen' who was ap­parently
having a hard time get­ting
adjusted to college life. In
letters to Mama back home in
the hills, "Rat Reuben" struggled
with mispelled words and mis­placed
-modifiers. Once he wrote,
"Please send me my double bar­rel
shotgun, Ma. There's squirrels
running all over the campus."
Dear Editor:
In answer to the question of
the day—What happens to the
fourth button?—the following,
complete, authentic, explanation
is offered.
When our shirts first reach the
"Rawdeal", they are carefully
shuffled to prevent accurate de­livery.
Next, the shirts are placed
in a vat of boiling lye to remove
all contrary stains. The rinse
water is prepared by passing a
bar of soap on (stilts) through a
tub of ice water. After a quick
dip into the rinse water, the
shirts are gently clubbed with an
eight pound jagged rock to in­sure
thorough drying.
The button remover is nothing
more than a row of knotty pine
boards set in an upright position.
The shirts are* grasped by the
fourth button and quickly snatch­ed
through the knot holes, thus
demolishing each and every
fourth button. Any button which
survives the remover is expertly
clipped off with a pair of sharp-nose
scissors, placed in a beauti­ful
walnut frame, and proudly
displayed on the trophy board in
the button remover room.
The new binders on our shirts
read as follows: Your Shirt, Sir
—Finely Finely Finished! The
slogan, correctly worded, reads:
Your Shirt, Sir—Finally F I N-I
S H E DM!
Sincerely
John Morrison
248 S. Gay
Auburn, Ala.
DEAR MR. COLEMAN:
First of all, we'd like to tell you
how much we enjoyed putting
"Mr." before the name of the
editor; it has been sooo long
you know. It was beginning to
look as if The Plainsman would
be plagued by females for ever
and ever.
Now to get down to the gripe.
As you kr»ow, all letters have a
gripe. Registration! M Ah, what a
lovely word! Soon mothers will
be using it to frighten their poor,
innocent, defenseless children.
The registration for the winter
quarter looked as if it had about
as much organization and plan­ning
as the hopelessly fouled up
"Hurry up and wait" program of
the army. Why oh why oh why
oh why oh why can't something
be done about at? Why do we
have such a short time in which
to register? Couldn't it be carried
over a three week period to ease
the strain? Why can't the actual
administration of the registration
be handled in a more expeditious
manner? Why can't the dean of
each school handle registration
for his students, and after pro­cessing,
return the cards to the
students for the payment of
fees? Why can't the registration
line be held open after the be­ginning
of school for students
who need to change courses in­stead
of having the long lines
in SarMord Hall? In conclusion,
we'd like to say that if the ad­ministration
can't make any
changes, the least they could do
would be to furnish K Rafions
It may be late but there's still
plenty of time to make those New
Year's resolutions for, after all,
.there are still three hundred and
fifty-one days left in 1947—in­cluding
today. That's time enough
to make—and break—countless
resolutions. In case you've al­ways
had a secret desire to make
A's now's the time to start study­ing.
A few A's always come in
handy if you have an inferiority
complex or misunderstanding pa­rents
lurking in the background
some place.
The best resolution might be
to resolve to learn how to live
so as to get the
most out of col­lege.
To do this,
first, you have
to decide what
type of person
you wish to be.
There are what
may be called
f o u r main
PAYNE classes of stu­dents,
with variations ranging all
the way from one extreme to the
other. Of these the rarest is the
studious type and is by far the
least complicated. All you have
to do is get up, study, go to class,
study, eat, study, and go to bed
'(alone).
The second type may be called
the wild type. To be classified so
requires a positive genius for
over sleeping and cutting classes.
You never study, take in all of
the social functions, and acquire
a bad reputation in the quickest
possible time. A very interesting
and much - misunderstood type
similar to these are the big
wheels. This is by far the hardest
type to become since it necessi­tates
joining all campus organiza­tions,
making all of the social
events, meeting everyone, going
to classes, studying enough to
make the honor societies, getting
in every issue of the paper, hav­ing
your picture on every other
page of the yearbook, and con­stantly
publicizing yourself.
The most interesting and the
laregst group is the average type.
To begin with here you surround
yourself with the spirit of doing
just enough to get by. You put
over a good bluff and work as
little as possible. You learn to
loaf like the devil, bury your­self
under layers of mediocrity,
and conserve all of your excess
energy. This enables you to have
the time and desire to make
friends, have a good time, and de­velop
a calm, serene personality.
Eventually it is inevitable that
.you learn the route to Opelika
and the location of a certain
building painted green. Another
interesting feature of this is that
a thorough knowledge of all the
local night spots is gained. This
proves invaluable when friends
visit. The result after five or six
years is a degree, a well-poised
personality, and some damned
good memories.
Whichever type you select,
make your resolutions center
around it. Perfect your style and
strive for excellence.
book review
"Then and Now"
By W. Somerset Maugham
Droolmatically dry as the per­iod
represented in it is W. Somer­set
Maugham's "Then and Now."
Though II Valentino's fatuity is
adequately identified ,the Epicu­rean
side of Machiavelli's nature
is overplayed, giving the manu­script
an attribute and pulling
power in the form of sex. Sex is
the droolmatie color and intes-persedly
splashes the pages with
mind-designs of semi-naked bath­ing
beauties. Between the reams
of compelling sex may be found
a story of war, of dictatorship in
the form of Cesar Borgia, shadily
symbolic of present dictatorships,
a story violently dry.
Highmarks of "Then and Now"
are the portrayals of Machiavel­li's
political and sexual frustra­tion,
the latter being unduly ac­centuated.
How a man approch-ing
s enility—a man who, one
would believe after reading "II
Principe," was craftier than the
craftiest fox Uncle Remus could
cook up—is outsmarted by a
youth in his post-adolescent non­age,
how a politician cloathed in
grossness attempts debauchery
upon the wife of another, how
such a man's mild desires crum­ble
as almost truculent demands
take their place: all of these com*
(Continued on page 5)
and pup tents. "They also serve
who only stand and wait."
Two. Loyal Auburn
Students
Fund For 'Greater Auburn' Gets Big
Boost From Donors Pinion and Coalson
The 1947 program for building
the Greater Auburn Fund receiv­ed
its initial kick-off early when
two donations of $500.00 each
were received in the Alumni of­fice.
Shelton C. Pinion '39 was
one of the donors and Mr. Judson
J. Coalson the other. Sam or
'•Pinion" as he is known among
most Auburn men, has always
been actively associated with Au­burn.
He was a member of Blue
Key Honorary Fraternity, Alpha
Gamma Rho Social Fraternity
and President of the Student Gov­ernment
Association while a stu­dent.
After leaving Auburn he
was affiliated with the Extension
Service of API and later entered
the lumber business in Russell-ville,
Alabama where he is now
located. Pinion is married to the
former Miss Helen Coalson and
they have one son, Jimmy, age 4,
who is rapidly being groomed, by
his father, "to be a future football
player at Auburn.
Little is known about the quiet
mannered, honest, and solid look­ing
Mr. Judson J. Coalson. He is
a married man, a partner in the.
lumber business with "Pinion"
and the father of Mrs. Helen Pin­ion.
This man never attended Au­burn.
As a matter of fact he had
only seen the campus one time
and that was on the day he made
his contribution. That shows the'
faith of the citizen in Auburn.
The desire was no doubt promul­gated
by the Great Auburn Spi­rit,
the prestige of the Institution
and from the will of this man to
help where he felt his contribu­tion
would serve the best pur­pose.
A gift such as this should set
all Auburn men to thinking. The
1947 program is way ahead with
this as a beginning.
•This year's program is to, be
conducted with the aid of all
the officers. All officers are to
be given a territory and are to
map" out the program for their
area. Present plans call for a
meeting of all officers sometime
in February. In addition Presi­dent
Boyd expects to appoint a
"Greater Auburn Fund" commit­tee,
the chairman of which will
guide this year's program.
The building of a Greater Au­burn
Fund is one of the purposes
for organizing the alumni. The
objectives of the fund are to build
a Greater Auburn, aid in the sup­port
of worthwhile and patriotic
undertakings, to adequately fi­nance
an Alumni Association, and
to aid in the development of an
athletic program.
Other institutions have been
conducting annual programs such
as this among their alumni. It
was felt by Auburn Alumni that
such a program of annual giving
should be instituted at Auburn if
the Institution was to maintain
its place as an educational enter­prise.
LET'S BURY KILROY
Old Man Mose is dead. Why
ain't Kilroy?
One college newspaper has con­ducted
a campaign for "burying"
Kilroy and that wouldn't be a
bad idea here. «
It was funny for a while to' see
the name of this ephemeral,
evanescent guy appearing every­where—
but. now he gets about as
big a laugh as Ed Wynn's jokes.
Can't somebody think of some­thing
funnier? «
Suck Tdylbr Returns !W£ WiNNEk T ! !
Irene Long, Argo, has '. been
named Assistant to John New­ton
Baker in the API News
Bureau. Irene, who will receive
her B. S. in Journalism-Eng­lish
here in March, edited The
Plainsman during the past
year and was chosen for "Who's
Who In American Colleges and
Universities." ,
To Civilian Status
Lieutenant William Buck Tay­lor,
Jr., former editor of The
Plainsman, has been discharged
from the Army after serving as
Public Relations Officer for Mili­tary
Government, Ryukyus, with
headquarters on Okinawa for six-months.
In 1944, his senior year at
Auburn, Buck edited The Plains­man
and his issues rated All-
American. He was a member of
Spades, Phi Kappa Phi, Scab­bard
and Blade, Omicron Delta
Kappa, and Delta Sigma Pi hon­orary
societies. He was news edi­tor
of The Glomerata and presi­dent
of Phi. Delta Theta social
fraternity and The Auburn Play­ers.
Prilchell-Perry
Miss Lora Pritchett and Marvin
Chapman Perry were married De­cember
26, First Baptist Church,
Auburn, Dr. Hoyt A. Ayers offi­ciating.
The young couple is re­siding
on Wright's Mill Road and
continuing- their studies at Au­burn.
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AEA Foresees Need For Better
Equalization Of Education
The Alabama Education Asso­ciation,
in^askmg for prompt con­sideration
of the school needs in
1947, calls attention to the urgen­cy
of better equalization of edu­cational
opportunity in the state
and nation. The association main­tains
that this alone can prevent
waste in human resources, pro­vide
sufficent training in skills
anoMdeals. needed for the atomic
age, and improve the effective­ness
of democracy.
Stating that the national per
pupil expenditure is more than
twice that in Alabama, the AEA
is in accord with Governor-Elect
James E. Folsom in his program
to raise the average salary of
teachers from the present $1,300
to $1,800. Among Us other rec­ommendations
are the establish­ment
of a minimum term of nine
months and the provision of
adequate facilities for an effeci-ent
instructional program, adding
that $75,000,000 could be spent
with justification on school con­struction
alone in Alabama.
This 1947' case for the schools
is strengthened with citations
from the booklet "Our Children",
the annual report of the profes­sion
to the public, as prepared
by Dr. Willard E. Givens, execu­tive
secretary of the National
Education Association. This re­port
says "There is no time to
quibble over the reasonable cost
of education" if it can give us
defense for the individual and
security for democracy. The
question is raised whether, in
the United States, this "reason­able
cost" has been met when,
in 1940, the average citizen of
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nine years and when 350,000 reg­istrants
in the draft could not
sign their names.
Dr. Givens shows further, in
this study, that the success of the
army, in teaching thousands to
read and write, showed conclu­sively
that "there is no excuse in
this country for illiteracy of
those who are mentally compet­ent".
.
January 15,1947 THE FLAtNSMAN—5
Harold Smith Receives
Silver Star Medal
Lt. Harold W. Smith, USNR,
API graduate from Decatur, has
'been awarded the Silver Star
medal at New Orleans.
Lt. Smith entered the Navy in
1942 and served overseas 18
months. He participated in ac­tions
at Zambales, Subic Bay,
Grande Island, Marivelles Bay,
and Bataan. Along with the Sil­ver
Star he is' entitled to wear
the Purple Heart, and various
campaign ribbons.
In civilian life he is a pharma­cist.
He is a member of Phi Delta
Theta fraternity.
Flight Training Offered
To AH Auburn Students
Courses in flight training are
offered as free electives by the
Aeronautical Engineering De­partment
to all' regularly enrolled
students of A.P.I., men, women,
veteran and non-veteran. In the
case of veterans who wish to en­roll
in a course of flight training
under the G.I. Bill of Rights,
only those attending college un­der
the Public Law 346 are eligi­ble.
Further information can be
obtained from the Auburn School
of Aviation.
Book Review
(Continued from page 4)
prise an attention more flam-bouyant
than any scheme even a
Caldwell could devise.
However, the gaudiest of in­teriors
are often dulled by an
excessiveness of implication. For
instance, visualize a room with
dozens of red roses strewn upon
its tables, its floor, with a paint­ing
of a Paris lady upon its
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ceiling, and add only six text­books,-
half a dozen cigarette
stubs thrown about them, and,
though the roses be increase a
thousandfold, the Paris lady's
proportions tripled, still there
stays the implication of dull
study,, a monotony,xan unendura­ble
dromsh sound as of a studious
sigh.
Thus has Maugham detracted
from a fuller reading enjoyment
of "Then and Now." He has dot­ted
his manuscript with an over­flow
of political intrigue, offset-ing
the characteristics anyone,
judging from Machiavelli's tryst
mistake, would consider the pro­tagonist
possessing. Nevertheless,
the author does aptly describe the
Italian Renaissance, and its
countless factional wars, perhaps
using some parts of the 1935
Spanish Civil War for a more
definite color. ,
—Luther Smith
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Pictured above is ihe winner of the Tiger Rag's "Miss Ag
Bottom" Contest. The cartoonist is Doug Early, sophomore in
industrial design fr.om Birmingham.
Rent Controls Same
By New Executive Order
Rent controls are "in no way
affected" by the recent execu­tive
order providing for merger
of OPA with other agencies into
the new Office of Temporary
Controls, James A. Hines, Area
Rent Director, was advised today
by the Regional OPA office in
Atlanta.
"Under present plans, we con­tinue
our rent operations without
interruption, as an administrative
unit under the new agency," Mr.
Hines said he has been informed,
adding that OPA's enforcement
division still retains "full power
to enforce all provisions of rent
control regulations."
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6—THE PLAINSMAN January 15,1947
Sports Script
By Frank Sego
Bradley Brings Basketball Back . . . . . . .
Jim Bradley. API's pioneer master or the mike, is planning a
streamlined series of student broadcasts over WJHO each week of
tnis quarter. One of the anticipated programs will bring you stay-at-
homes ,a play by play account of the Tigers' 1947 basketball
games directly from the floor" of the local court. Jim started last
'January, and with an energetic- staff, has since been successful in
developing the two campus broadcasts, "Spotlights on Auburnites"
and "Tiger Varieties". It'll be rough sailing to convert those rapid
ball matches but we believe you can do it, Jim.
Maybe Next Time, Travis and Harry . . . . .
,:To pick an All-American backfield from the gridiron season
iUSt closed was not an easy task to undertake but there are numer­ous
observers who'll go along with this column in wondering why
c?Ur own Travis Tidwell and Alabama's Harry Gilmer was given
kn almost complete run around onSJJhe country's top selections.
Looks as though a man who led the nation in the two, departments
of combined yardage and pass completions, even if he is a fresh­man
in a nation of highly seasoned competition, should be given
more than just an occasional mention. Thanks, though, to the
Football Weekly's Three Deep All-American, which did recognize
him on its pick.
Then there is Hiuiin' Harry of whom Grantland Rice praised
as being the best passer he had ever seen after the Tide star's 1945
performances. Gilmer did make several of the third teams along
with most of the honorable mentions but after seeing him in action
i n , t h e Blue-Gray game, this writer is convinced that his passing
'feats were nothing short of sensational in every respect. I suppose
'one.has to belong to an undefeated, or at lea^t once defeated teani
before he can expect to draw recognition. Oh' well, there is a 1947
season to look forward to. . * • * *
Coveted Heisman Memorial Trophy Presented Annually
In 1935 the Downtown Athletic
Club of New York City, Inc., ona.
of the world's largest Clubs and
occupying an entire thirty-six
story building in lower Manhat­tan,
decided to award a trophy
to the Outstanding College Foot­ball
Player in the United- States.
Consequently, Frank Eliscu, a
well-known New York sculptor
was commissioned to create a
bronze figure of a football play­er
which when properly en-scribed
would become the per­manent
possession of the winner
each year.
Various methods of balloting
to elect the winner we're con­sidered,
but finally the commit­tee
agreed that the sportswriters
COACHING STAFF
ATTENDS MEETING
Three m e m b e r s of API's
coaching staff attended the Na­tional
Collegiate Athletic Asso­ciation's
• annual meeting Jan.
5-8 in New York City. They are
Coaches Carl Voyles, Wilbur
Hutsell, and Albert H. Werner.
and broadcasters would be the
only impartial and qualified elec­tors.
These men are in a position
to see the players in action and
scan press reports. More than 750
equally chosen from all sections
of the United States, now act as
electors.
The bronze was cast and first
won by Jay Berwanger of the
University of Chicago in 1935.
In 1936, John W. Heisman,
then Director of Athletics at the
Downtown Athletic Club of New
York City, Inc., passed away and
the Trophy was renamed the
Heisman Memorial Trophy.
This seemed particularly fitting
and met with instant approval
because John Heisman h ad
coached football for thirty-seven
years from 1892 through 1927 at
eight different colleges. He was
the inventor of the spin play and
direct snap from center to back
and was considered by many as
the originator of the forward
pass. One of his teams, Georgia
Tech of 1916, ran up. what may
be football's largest score when
it beat Cumberland University
222-0. In 1917 the same team
played what was probably the
M Could Happen Here
Mi:vThe attempt of Alvin J. Paris to bribe Merle Hapes and Frank
.'Filchock into throwing the New York Giants-Chicago Bears champ-
•ionship gird battle has already gone before a jury in New York.
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The suave Paris was found guilty and faces a possible maximum
sentence of 10 years imprisonment and a fine of $20,000. His guilt,
however, is not of such great importance now because the fact is
beginning to blossom that big time gamblers and racketeers are
at large with intentions of ruining our American game of football
in order to satisfy their own financial interests. If bribery is being
attempted in professional circles where players are receiving fairly
lucrative salaries, then it is startling to think what might happen
on the collegiate front where an athlete is merely out for the glory
of the alma mater. • '
Sam Adams, A Friend to Auburn . . . . . . .
Definitely a friend to the Auburn athletic situation is Sam
Adams, veteran sports editor of the Alabama Journal. About a
month or more ago when the Tiger football squad was summoned
to cast a secret ballot as to whether or not they, resented the present
coaching setup, Sam carried a series of columns presenting the
problems faced by Coach Voyles and his staff. In this series he
exposed certain individuals who were spreading ugly rumors about
Voyles and the '46 campaign because, for obvious reasons, they
wanted various members of the staff out of the way. One incident
in particular related that A FORMER AUBURN MAN had expressed
himself previous, to the Tiger-Vanderbilt encounter by saying that
he hoped t i e Nashville • eleven stomped Auburn, 100-0. Such a'
jesture, aimed at the coaching staff, is not, only a detriment to
member's of the staff but the school as well. And to think that this
man is an Auburn graduate!
Unusual Characters Roam Campus
As A-Club Holds Its Initiation
Don't be alarmed by the sud
den appearance of several strange
looking characters around the
campus this week. Some may
appear happy, cheerful^ or sad.
Others will be begging, pleading,
or gritting their- teeth. Each will
be escorted by some strange ani­mal.
Anyway, it's mere a pro­cedure
of the A-Club in their
latest initiation.
You-may hear them at 5 o'clock
in the morning. You may see
them digging for something. They
may perform as professional
players on the stage of the Tiger
Theatre. They may be found en­tertaining
at the basketball game.
Some may even be seen practic­ing
to become barbers.
It is possible that you may
recognize some of these char­acters,
who have distinguished
themselves on the Tiger gridiron,
diamond, track, or basketball
court. In case you don't, -here
they are:
Russell: Dressed as a powder-
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OPELIKA COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO.
faced chorus girl with long
blooners and a big, black torn cat.
Waddail: A big time gambler
with long hair, mustache, derby
hat, and a suit case .of brick.
Wilson: An ail-American foot­ball
player with a greased pig.
Harper, Chas.: Li'l Abner, com­plete
with pig.
Harper, D o n : An English
Knight with his spear, bow and
arrow, and dog foi; protection.
Brouse: Alley Oop carrying
stick with rock tied to end and a
hound dog.
Fulmer: Black Phantom, mask,
guns, and wolf dog.
Hepler: Little girl with bobby
sox, short dress, bloomers, to
match, doll, and calf.
Herring: lioagy Carmichael
with guitar, stove pipe hat, and
mule.
Lannom: Cowboy with - guns,
10-gallon hat, boots, and a mule.
McKinney: Little boy in short
pants, red bow tie, baby bottle,
bonnet, and carrying goose.
Mitchell: Superman with goose.
Moore: Tennessee Negro with
rooster.
Poundstone: Negro woman car­rying
o'possum and calf.
Pyburn: Bellhop with urine
pot.
Cook: Hula girl, mop hat, and
mice.
Alley: Hobo; shoes don't
match; stick with red bag and a
goat.
Lasaday: Tennessee mountain­eer
with long beard, horn rim­med
glasses, and a chicken.
Shelby: Girl in two-piece bath­ing
suit, sun glasses, and umbrel­la.
Cole: Jiggs of the comics with
rolling pin, bugle, and dog.
Morrisett: N e g r o preacher
with black rimmed glasses, gone
of corn bread, can of syrup, and
a cat.
Stepp: Policeman with badge
gun, cat, and dog.
VOLS ROUT AUBURN
66-32 IN LOOP MEET
Featuring "Lefty" Walther,
former Auburn Naval R.O.T.C.
Trainee, the Tennessee Volun­teers
rolled to an easy 66-32 vic­tory
over the Tigers at Alumni
first doubleheader ' in football
with Furman and Wake Forest,
all in one day. John Heisman was
twice President of the American
Football Coaches Association,
first President and organizer of
the Touchdown Club and a truly
great figure in the football
world. t •
Winners of The Heisman Mem­orial
Trophy to date are as fol­lows:
1935 Jay Berwanger, Chicago
1936 Larry Kelley, Yale
1937 Clinton Frank, Yale
1938 Davey O'Brien, TCU
1939 Nile Kinnick, Iowa
1940 Tom Harmon, Mich.
1941 Bruce Smith, Minn.
1942 Frank Sinkwich, Ga.
1943 A. Bertelli, Notre Dame.
1944 Leslie Horvath, Ohio St.
1945 F. Blanchard, West Point.
1946 Glenn Davis, West Point.
The Heisman Memorial Trophy
is football's greatest individual
award. The man who wins it goes
to New York early in December
with his- coach where before a
galaxy of football stars, past and
present; he is fittingly hbnored
and presented with an individual
Heisman Memorial Trophy.
Gym Saturday night.
Tennessee flashed a smooth
working machine that complete­ly
outclassed the Auburn quintet.
By his splendid playing Satur­day
night, Walther left no doubt
in the mine or me spectators that
he truly is an AlLAmerican bas­ketball
player. .-• '
Wright and Bailey were the
high scorers for the Vols rack­ing
up 13 and 11 points respec­tively
and it was- largely through
the accurate long distance shoot­ing
of Bailey and Wright that
the Vols rolled up an early lead.
Williams, who scored 8 points
for the Tigers, was the star of the
night for Auburn. Williams, who
plays a very good game, has
shown, promise of developing int«
a really fine player.
Wednesday night the Auburn
quintet will tangle with the Geor­gia
Tech Yellowjackets at Alum­ni
Gym and on Friday the squad
will journey to Gainesville to
meet the up and coming Florida
squad in a double header.
TIGER CAGERS
FACE JACKETS
IN GYM TONITE
Towering Tech Center
Takes Floor at 7:30
Fresh from their shellacking at
the hands of Tennessee, Coach V.
J. Edney's game but inexperienc­ed
Tiger cagers fall host to an im­proved
Georgia Tech Yellow
Jacket five in Alumni Gym to­night
at 7:30. Following this ap­pearance
they take the road for
a two-game series with Florida
this week-end.
Facing the Plainsman will be
six-foot, eight-inch Center Jim
Nolan, who teams with Forward
Frank Broyles to make the Engi­neers
a miserable combination.
Edney's starting lineup will
probably see Capt. Frank Wil­liams
and Alt.-Capt. Jaek Powell
at forwards, Ray Williams at cen­ter,
with Erskine Russell and
Bill Dawson at guards.
The game will be broadcast
over radio station WJHO with
im Bradley, Travis Tidwell, and
Frank Sego handling the play-by-
play description.
GONE FROM THE PLAINS
Rec Swimming Meets
Open to Men Three
Days: Guard Needed
Instructor J. W. Borchardt an-sounces
that, though the PE
swimming pool is not yet open,
recreational swimming m e e ts
will be opened up for men from
3:50 though 5 P. M. on Mondays,
Wednesdays, and Fridays.' Plans
are being tentatively considered
for co-recreational classes.
There is need ton a qualified
lifeguard. Anyone who. has a
senior life-saving or instructor's
rating in the American Red
Cross, can pass requirements.
All the swimming classes will
take a prescribed course in
American National Red Cross
lifesaving and certaificates will
be given upon completion of pre-
Teedie Faulk.- above, the versatile left flankman of Coach
Voyles' 1946 aggregation who entered the restaurant busi­ness
here last quarter-, has sold his interest in favor of a whole­sale
grocery business in Gadsden. A veteran of the. Army Air
Forces, Faulk was a senior in the school of physical education. •
scribed tasks.
Men interested in such classes
or in forming a v,arsity swimming
squad may contact Coach Borch­ardt
at the Gym today or Friday
from 3:50-5 p. m. This is a great
chance for getting the life-saving
certificate.
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At .the same time, the gaseous reactants
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the rate of passage through the re­action
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pressure conditions. There are other
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the industrial production of urea, but
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Along with its advantages, the use of
high pressure gives rise to problems that
often severely tax the abilities of engi­neers
and chemists. For example, (1)
difficulties of design of packing glands,
valves, connecting rods, closures, etc.,
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(2) extraordinary corrosion prob­lems
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High pressure synthesis has now be­come
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Benefits The Veteran's Journa Join The A.V.A.
Today
Voicing The Veterans Views
AVA Success Demands 4,000 Members
EXPOSING THE VETERAN'S JOURNAL Campaign Starts
By Jim Watson
Many students are expecting this veterans' newspaper to
be a "rabble-rouser". It is not that. It is the policy of this
paper to not take sides on any question, but to present the
actual facts on all questions concerning veterans. No school
as big as Auburn can be as good as Auburn without having
some serious controversial problems to solve. These problems
can arrive at a practical solution
easier and faster if everyone is
informed of the facts. There is no'
sense in avoiding important is­sues
just because they may hurt
somebody's feelings, when the
issues will only return later and
hurt .more. NOW is the time to
act. This is the only democratic
way a newspaper can operate.
Of course it will be the job of
the VETERANS JOURNAL to
make sure that the information
published is true and unbiased.
Before this issue went to press,
there were many inquiries as to
whether or not THE VETERANS
JOURNAL would try to change
some of the situations that now
exist in Auburn. Most of the vet­erans
believe that the merchants
and householders are "robbing"
•veterans, as well as the other stu­dents.
Each day new rumors are
started about some crooked deal
which has taken place between
merchants and students. Other
rumors have organized the
merchants into a secret group
which has the power to raise
prices all over town. This group
supposedly can influence the
length of school quarters and de-1
termine the number of days va­cation
which could be allowed for
national holidays without hurt-ing
business in Auburn. Such'
rumors as these do no good to
anyone; they only tend to dis­courage
some veterans. Pvssibly,
some rumors are true.
Therefore, it will be a very
helpful to have a means of track-to
be true, will be published no
matter whom they concern.
In an interview with Mayor
Wright, the Mayor stated that
if there was any organization, of
the merchants which was schem­ing
against veterans or anyone
else, he did not know about it.
He was fully in favor of our re­porters
investigating all affairs,
already, the Mayor has presented
the facts to a reporter on the
cost of cashing checks, which ap­pear
in another column.
If any person at any time has
a complaint to make about Au­burn's
civil government, he may
talk it over with the new City
Manager, Eddie McCree, whose
office is 'in the city hall. Mr. Mc­Cree
is very interested is doing
anything for the betterment of
Auburn and for helping veterans.
The veterans of Auburn do not
know most of their benefits. Each
da}', something new is done by
national, state, or local govern­ments
which will help veterans;
however, a majority of veterans
cannot take advantage of these
benefits because they do not
know about them.
It is the purpose of THE VET­ERANS
JOURNAL to keep all
ing down rumors and complaints.
THE VETERANS JOURNAL has
undertaken the job of investigat­ing
every complaint that comes
in, no matter how small. The
matter will be thoroughly invest­igated
by a select group of re­porters
and all facts, once proven I sports articles. Veterans make up
act of congress which affects I which can determine its rights
them.- There is much national j and strive for these rights,
news which veterans can read
in THE VETERANS JOURNAL.
This publication is primarily
interested in the advancement of
veterans in leadership and scho­larship;
however, anything which
is done to help veterans will al­so
help the other students.
There is a great need for hard
working reporters on the staff of
our newspaper/There are many
important positions to be filled
in order to present interesting
features, editorials, news, and
the majority of .this school; there­fore
veterans should have a lead­ing
place in the student activities
and should take interest in the
Veterans Associations and news­paper.
Last quarter, there were only
400 veterans who were members
of the Veterans Association. This
is a very small percentage, con­sidering
there were 43 veterans
in school. It is no wonder that
veterans did not want to join
because as far as they knew, they
did not get anything out of being
a member. Many veterans did
want to join but did not know
how. This quarter membership
cards are in the Veterans Af­fairs
Office where any veteran
can join in about one minute
with one dollar. A dollar pays up
the dues for one full year (four
quarters). This entitles the vet­eran
to wear the Auburn Veter­an
Association Key, but it also
entitles him to turn in his com­plaint
or praise for anything
which concerns him. He now has
a newspaper to defend him and
to inform him of his rights. The
least any veteran can do is to
join the Veterans Association and
show that he is willing to help
veterans informed of each new the veterans organize into a body
If this school has every veteran
as a member of the association, it
would have a much better school
spirit and would thus advance in
leadership, scholarship and social
functions. With 400 members, the
Veterans Association could afford
to get a big name band here for
the first time in five years. There
is no end to the improvements
which can be made When all vet­erans
join the A.V.A. This quar­ter,
the A.V.A. will bring several
entertaining programs to the
campus. All of these programs
will be covered by the VETER­ANS
JOURNAL in order that
fulest details may be known far
enough in advance that students
can plan to see the features.
This paper will bring to you
all the information on what is
being done to increase the GI
pay. At present the veterans at
Auburn are asked to sign a peti­tion
to their congressman to try
to pass a bill on GI pay increase
in order that veterans can meet
the high cost of living at Auburn.
If you have not yet signed the
petition, do so at once. The peti­tion'
is in the Veterans Affairs
Office.
Although this paper comes out
with THE PLAINSMAN, it is
completely independent of THE
PLAINSMAN. THE VETERANS
JOURNAL has its own private
office, located at 331 Armstrong
Street and the phone number is
952. The staff is made of nothing
but veterans and it has its own
editors and reporters.
In each issue, there will be a
poll taken on some important
question concerning veterans.
Each veteran should clip this bal­lot,
mark it, and deposit it in the
ballot box in Samford Hall.
Remember, no item is too small
THE FIRST ISSUE GOES TO PRESS
For Membership
The big campaign for mem­bership
in the Auburn Veteran's
Association is now underway.
Here's your best chance to
latch on while things are begin­ning
to take shape. It's an op­portunity
you, as a school veteran
here at Auburn, can't afford to
miss.
This is the biggest and most
important project the Associa­tion
has ever attempted. In a
sense the successc of the mem­bership
campaign may easily re­flect
the progress of the AVA as
a whole.
We need your help in this tre­mendous
campaign. We need it
badly.
In a program designed to
round up every solitary veteran
on the API campus it will take a
lot of cooperation on your part.
Most fellows see the signifi­cances
of the AVA; however, get­ting
them to join seems to re­quire
a pair of hand cuffs or ball
and chain.
Yet, on the other hand a lot of
guys have only a vague idea of
what the AVA stands for and
what we intend to do. In this re­gard
the Veteran's Journal is
striving to its utmost in acquaint­ing
its members with situations
affecting them.
Our membership total at pres­ent
runs pretty close to the 275
mark. Pretty sad, isn't it?
The G.I. enrollment at Auburn
approaches 4,000. There's not one
single reason on the sweet earth
we can't corral them all.
Men, women this is big! We
are planning big things in recre­ational
line as well as the finan­cial
and business end.
Things are coming to a head
fast. With our newspaper acting
and talking independently, in ad­dition
to having some prominent
-person behind our goals we are
a dead cinch to get the ball roll­ing
and get results. Results that
will mean something to all of us.
Brother and sister, the lids off!
If you haven't joined the AVA
yet, don't worry. Just put in your
apperance (along with One Iron
Man) at The Veteran's Office,
Samford Building and we'll do
the rest. '
To sum things up, the main ob­jective
of this drive is' to build
a powerful, smooth-working ma­chine.
Such an organization can
demand that you, the average
veteran, gets a square shuffle.
What we really mean gals,
guys, is this:—We Need You—
You Need Us! '
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Close- Up Of A Real Guy
By Luther Smith i ball, preferring to enter the field
One of the most affable men of education. His first position in
holding down a job at Auburn is j t h e educational field was that of
P. M. Norton, Veterans Coordina- j c o a c h at S t a t e Secondary Ag
tor. Since February of 1944, when School. From there, he went to
ganization for handling the Hamilton, Walker County, also as
an ori coach. • . •
affairs of veterans was establish­ed
here, Mr. Norton has held the
reins and has spurred a 10-1
horse into an astounding stretch-
Ve's Urged To
Urging veterans to keep their
National Service Life Insurance,
C. C. Horton, Director, State of
Alabama Department of Veter­ans
Affairs, reminded today ijiat
World War II veterans have only
until January 31, 1947, to rein­state
their lapsed Government
insurance without a physical ex­amination.
Recent amendments permit
of insurance in a lump sum with
few restrictions as to benefici­aries,
Horton said, andr endow­ment
policies as well as tej#l
There followed a series of prin-cipalships,
most notable of which
where in Crenshaw, Covington,
race. Those doubts regarding the I and Monroe Counties. Mr. Nor^
advisability of an API veterans j ton pushed his wide experience
affairs set-up have been allayed,: into the foreground when he
mainly because of the remark-' came to Auburn two years ago. It
able manipulation of Mr. Norton, j was a return to home grounds,
The veterans coordinator attri-! for at Auburn he had done grad-butes
his ability to get along with "ate work many years before.
others to the fact that he was Mr. Norton takes pride in his . . , . , . , , , .
reared with seven brothers and J Auburn Veterans Affairs o u t f i t i ; disab,hty coverage may be had-at
one sister. Having spent four and well he may, for it was one
y e a r s at Carrollton, Pickens of the first established in the
County, Norton moved in the South. Its purpose, as defined by
early 1900's to Birmingham, him, is: "to help vets in any
where he attended Simpson i way possible."
High School. He later received j «T enjoy working with the vet-his
undergraduate degree at erans and get most pleasure.out
of it when I am able to do some­thing
for them. I enjoy talking to
the boys whether they have
problems or not," states the co-
Birmingham Southern.
At Birmingham Southern, Mr.
Norton played basketball, base­ball,
and football, there winning
the Porter Athletic Club Cup as
the best all-around athlete. Dur-reasonable
rates.
10,000,000 veterans who have
allowed their GI Insurance to
lapse have until this time to re­instate
without a physical ex­amination.
Sign a statement that
your health is as good as when
your policy lapsed and pay two
months premiums.
Not To Late To File Disability
Claim
Additional information from
ordinator. "The veteran has M o n tgomery is the report that
brought a much better type of v e t e r a n s s i g n ing statements when
ing his college stay, he served at j work to the campus; he is more i discharged that they were 'in
time or another as captain | serious-minded; his purpose is • ' .goocl health" and did not desire
c • ( _ J to file a disability claim have not
Conservatively - dressed Mr. j "signed away their rights." The
Norton now resides in Auburn,; State of Alabama Department of
where one of his daughter is in j Veterans Affairs assures veterans
college and another in grammar that they may, file a claim for
school
one time or
of all three teams on which he
served.
After sweating out the Army
in World War I, the veteran ath­lete
turned down a contract from
Connie Mack to play pro base-
PARENTS NIGHT OUT
The Baby Sitters Club of Au­burn
Hall is now functioning
again for the winter quarter.
Members of the club may be
reached by phone at 9102, 9103,
or 945 between 8:30 and 9:30 p.
m. Their rates are 50 cents for
the first hour, 30 cents for each
hour thereafter. Transportation
must be furnished. Calls should
be placed at least 24 hours in ad­vance.
To assure sitters for the
weekend, calls must be placed by
Thursday night.
for THE VETERANS JOURNAL
to investigate and report on. All
letters to the editor must be
signed.
THE VETERANS JOURNAL
will follow the same code of
ethics as THE PLAINSMAN and
it has its constitution filed with
the Publication Committee.
Drive For Vets'
Bonus Starts
Last week the Eightieth Con­gress
put on a new drive for vet­eran's
bonuses.
President Truman has stated
before that the G I Bill of Rights
were complete except for a few
minor changes, but four bill were
introduced to the House to give
veterans money for the time
spent in the service.
Three of the bills were intro­duced
by Democrats and one by a
Republican. Reps. Donald L.
O'Toole, of New York, John Les-~
inski, of Michigan, and Stephen
Pace, of Georgia, were the Dem­ocrats
and the Republican was
George B. Schwabe, of Okla­homa.
Pace's measure was the most
generous of the four offered. His
bill provided a pay of $5 for each
day spent overseas and $4 a day
for each day spent in the states.
This would be paid to all veter­ans.
O'Toole's, Lesinski's, and Sch-wabe's
were about a like as they
would pay the veteran $4 a day
for each day spent overseas and
$3 a day for each day spent in
the states. Lesinski and Schwabe
said that a maximum of $4500
could be paid to any one veter­an.
The veterans committee of the
House said that it would approve
a bill if it got the chance. How­ever,-
all of the bonus bills in­troduced
in the last congress
never got out of the Veterans
Committee. All of the last bills
were blocked by the failure to
reach an agreement on the sum
that should be paid.
service incurred or aggravated
disabilities any time after dis­charge.
Terminal Leave
Deadline Aug. 1
Montgomery, Ala. Jan. 9.—The
Alabama Veteran's Administra­tion,
said that Veterans of the
State of Alabama is one of the
lowest states in the union for fil­ing
claims for terminal leave.
The deadline for the application
is August 1, 1947. The coordinator
said that if the present rate-of
applications continues many vet­erans
will not meet the deadline.
The Veteran's Journal
THE VETERANS JOURNAL is published by the authority™^
the Auburn Publication Board, being accepted December 9, 19<|6.
It is published weekly as an insert of THE PLAINSMAN and tfe
staff consists of veterans attending Alabama Polytechnic Institute
The office of THE VETERANS JOURNAL is located at 331 Arm­strong
Street, Auburn, Alabama, Phone 952. %•
Editor-in-Chief , .....:... ... Jim Watson i*.
Assistant Editor-in-Chief — Jack Burke
Associate Editor —— James Hunnicutt
City Editor .': Virginia Riley %
Feature Writers Herb Holdsambeck, Luther Smith
Sports - Frank Sego
Cartoonist - —— Moriarity - |
Correspondence Manager ., Kyle DeShazo
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FRANK SINATRA—Voice of Sinatra
WHITTEMORE AND LOWE—Two Piano Solos
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FAMOUS COLORATURE ARIAS—Lily Pons
WAGNER-TRISTAN AND ISOLE—Excerpts from
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8—THE PLAINSMAN January 15, 1947
$65 Won't Do It
By Jack Burke
The Veteran of World War II has yet to face a crisis so
.critical as the one now pending before him. This crisis, a
financial one, may readily develop into one which will "not
only affect his present economic status but his future well-
'being.
Today hundreds of GI!s in colleges and universities
throughout this nation are forced to discontinue their studies
Girls cut in on man! Why? Look at
that Van Heusen Shirt! Famous
Van Heusen collar styling sends yojir
Eye-Q zooming. Figure-fit tailoring
emphasizes the athlete In you. Style,
comfort, plus magic sewmanship and
Sanforized, laboratory-tested fabrics to
give you many semesters of economical
wear. Graduate to Van Heusen today •
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man most
likely to
Succeed
Van Heusen Shirts and ties
as a result of inadequate subsis­tence.
Other similar students fre­quently
become discouraged, dis­gusted,
and often disappointed
while frantically attempting to
budget their governmental allow­ance
in the ever-changing tur­moil
of rising prices, absurd
costs and ridiculous demands on
veteran consumers. x
A casual glance at the typical
veteran's monthly budget would
be more than enough to convince
the tightest miser in Scotland
how outrageous it is for him to
exist on the meager subsistence
now in effect. Even Mandrake,
The Magician, would have trou­ble
meeting ends in the same
situation.
Listed below is a sketchy esti­mate
on what the average vet­eran
is up against. The figures
below were taken from a recent
survey conducted by the writer.
The estimate, as you can easily
see, is rather conservative.
Budget
Single veterans in Auburn:
Room _.: $12.00
Food Costs :'. 40.00
Laundry and Cleaning 10.00
Personal Articles 3.00
Insurance, gov't. 6.50
One Month Total $71.50
Present' Subsistence $65.00
Married Veterans in Auburn:
Room 1 $30.00
Food Costs - 55.00
Laundry and Cleaning ___..20.00
Insurance, gov't. 6.50
One Month Total.....:$111.50
Present Subsistence $90.00
The items mentioned above are
the bare necessities of life. Throw
in a couple of kids (be careful),
transportation, cigarettes and
other forms of recreation, then
things begin to really get tough.
Brother, I mean rough. To pay
off, veterans are digging deep in­to
their savings which are fast
becoming non-existant.
You hear a lot of people who
insist that we are already getting
too much. It's plain to see that
these blind jerks are simply not
looking ahead. More trained,
educated men for the world of
tomorrow are not only pertinent
but essential if our way of life
is to continue its progress. And
who is more deserving of an
education than the veterans?
What are we doing? What can
we do? First, we, and numerous
other organizations like" us, are
pulling all the hair and" strings
we can find. At the present time
the millions of letters and peti­tions
are pouring into Congress­men
for all over the nation urg­ing
and asking them to take ac­tion
on an amendment increas­ing
the present amount to a fair
sum. Let's keep after them! What
can you do? You can do quite a
bit by signing our petition forms
for raise in pay.
So, you guys, get on the ball,
and shuffle on down to Veterans
Office, Samford Hall, and mark
your big X on the petition blank.
We need everyone's support on
this deal.. Kilroy's signed his.
How about you, Mac- We want
every veteran on this campus to
back this major operation, cause,
blast it, I'm broke!! You, too?
THE
SMOETEM
POLL
WANTED: Passengers to and
from Phenix City or Colum­bus
. . . Arrive in Auburn daily
7:45 A. M., depart 5:00 P. M.
S. A. Grant, P. O. Box 1052 or
call 897.
In each issue of THE VET­ERANS
JOURNAL, this column
will present a news article or a
veteran's opinion of some item
that will be of interest to other
veterans. At the end of this story,
there will appear a ballot which
each veteran should mark arid
deposit in THE SMOTEM POLL
BALLOT BOX in Samford hall.
If any veteran has a news item or
question he would like to see
in this column, he should mail it
to the VETERANS JOURNAL or
deposit it in the box provided in
the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity
house. Be sure to label your
story.
Private Robert Johnstone; an
eighteen year-old Marine was
killed on Luzon in 1945. After his
death, his parents did not lament
his death in the same way that
other parents under the same cir­cumstances
were doing. In a spi­rit
which they believed was his,
they put his $10,000 Insurance
policy to a scholarship fund at his
college in Lafayette Pennsylvan­ia.
This scholarship was to be for
some Japanese or other Oriental.
The recipient was named re­cently
as Robert Nishiyama, 22,
of Tokyo. Robert worked in a
war materials plant at the be­ginning
of the war and later vol­unteered
for the Kamikaze (sui­cide
corps). His flight was sche­duled
for September 12, 1945;
thus the war ended before he
made his one-way trip. Said he:
"I want to try my best to repay
Mr. and Mrs. Johnstone for the
loss of their son. I can do this
only by giving my small bit to­ward
establishing good will be­tween
our two countries." At
present, Nishiyama is an interp­reter
for the U .S. Army.
other Japanese men to school
in the United States on similar
scholarship funds?
YES ( ) NO ( )
Do you think that problems
between such nations as the
United States, Japan and
Germany can be solved more
earily by educating people in
democratic ways?
YES ( ) NO ( )
Do you think that it is
worth the price to our govern­ment
to give veterans their
education?
YES ( ) NO ( )
Please deposit this ballot in
the box in Samford Hall today.
Submit questions in same box.
Unclassified
The Vets Journal is in dire
need of good writers. (Brother,
we just ain't kidding). If you're
interested in the welfare of your
veterans' newspaper, you may
help us locate capable students
to fill positions in all branches
of our journalism work.
STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF
Bank of Auburn
AUBURN, ALABAMA
d
At the Close of Business December 31, 1946
RESOURCES
Cash and Dues from Banks
United States Government Obligations
Other Bonds and Securities
Loans and Discounts
Overdrafts
Furniture and Fixtures ...
LIABILITIES
' .' y Capital Stock
Surplus
Undivided Profits
Deposits
$ 623,955.52
. 400,600.00
. 343,300.00
. 938,909.51
424.89
2,000.00
$2,309,189.92
50,000.00
50,000.00
52,674.73
2,156,515.19
$2,309,189.92
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S. L. TOOMER, President EMIL F. WRIGHT, Executive Vice-President
R. F. BLAKE, Cashier
C. L. HARE
H. R. HUBBARD
D I R E C T O R S
C. FELTON LITTLE E. L. SPENCER
EMMETT SIZEMORE S. L. TOOMER
EMIL F. WRIGHT
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