1948-05-12 The Auburn Plainsman

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VOL. LXXIV ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1948 Number 7
Draughon Praises Gallalee For Taking Initiative
In Auburn^'Bama Athletic Relationship Renewal
Tells Plainsman Staff University President
Acted With Courage and Leadership
Acting-President Ralph Draughon told Plainsman staff
members Monday in his office that Dr. John M. Gallalee,
University president, "took the initiative in bringing about
the resumption of Auburn-Alabama athletic relationships."
Mr. Draughon highly praised the efforts made by Dr.
Gallalee to bring the two schools
together. He told staff members
that the University president dis­played
courage and leadership in
opening the question at this time.
Dr. Draughon said he received
a phone call from Dr. Gallalee on
April 19 asking if he would con­sider
a meeting to discuss the is­sue.
A rendezvous was arranged
at Ann Jordan Farm, owned by
the University, near Alexander
City on April 22. Present to draw
up plans were Dr. Gallalee, Ath­letic
Director Frank Thomas,
Head Coach "Red" Drew, and
Dean A. B. Moore, faculty athlet­ic
chairman, all of 'Bama. Repre­senting
Auburn-were Mr. Draug­hon,
Athletic Director Wilbur
Hutsell, Head Coach Earl Brown,
and Dean Roger Allen, faculty
athletic chairman. _ , ;
"It was there," Mr. Draughon
said, "that the important ground­work
for resumption of athletic
relationships were made."
Dr. Gallalee and Dean Moore
met Mr. Draughon and Dean Al­len
in Birmingham on May 2. It
was 'here that a statement for re­lease
to the press was drawn up.
Included in the release was the
announcement that the first Au­burn-
Alabama game would be
played since 1907. The date has
been set for Dec. 4; the site has
not been determined.
Mr. Draughon expressed hope
that a meeting of student dele­gations
from each campus be held
as soon as possible and'that Au­burn
act as host. T. C. Clark, Jr.,
Auburn director of student af­fairs,
said he had already talked
with Dean of Men Noble Hen-drix
of the University, to arrange
the meeting. Mr. Clark said Dean
Hendrix seemed very pleased
over the plan.
Freshman, Sophomore
Girls Will Hear
Vocational Lecture
A senes of vocational guidance
lectures will be given in Social
Center on May 18, 19, and 20 at
5 p.m. These lectures will be
given in interest of the new
freshman and sophomore girls in
school who haven't decided on
their careers.
The lectures will be for 45
minutes with a 15 mjnute ques­tion
period. The lecturers will
will talk on subjects pertaining
to their chosen field. The lec­turers
and their subjects are:
May 18—Miss Katherine Cater—
"Personnel"; May 19—Mrs. Jean
"Barr—"Professions in Music";
May 20—Miss Wathena Temple—
"Fashion Design."
All fresmm.en and sophomore
girls are urged to attend these
meetings. / .
AIO Will Choose Doll
Candidates Tonight
AIO meeting Wednesday night
at 7:15 in Student Center will be
very important. Elections started
last week will be concluded with
the electaon^of 11 representatives'
from the Various schools.
Independent candidates for AIO
Doll Dance Queen will be chosen
by popular selection.
Every independent student is
urged to attend, The meeting will
last only one hour. The Snack
Bar will be open.
AUBURN WILL ENTER SEC TRACK
MEET RATED THIRD; LSU FAVORED
Auburn will attempt to oust
favored LSU and Georgia Tech
in the Southeastern Conference
Track and Field meet in Birm­ingham
this week in their next
event of the season.
The Tigers, at present favored
to finish third, will have both
Jimmy Walker and Chauncey
Wood back in the fold after their
absence for several weeks. These
two will hoist Auburn's chances
in the dashes considerably. They
finished one-two in the Southern
Relays 100-yard dash.
As usual, the Tigers will be
favored to win both the two-mile
run and the mile with Fred
Carley and Whitey Overton, de­fending
champions in the two di­visions.
Carley will also be among
the favored in the half-mile.
In the 120-yard high hurdles'
the Tigers are expected to have
top finishers in Joe Pennington
and Jack DeMedicis. They are
also seen aS top contestants in the
low hurdles.
Other events in which the" Ti­gers
will have a good chance of
earning points will be the broad
jump, javelin, and relays.
Dr. Jordan Will Speak
To Canterbury Club
Dr. W. T. Jordan of the history
department will speak to the Au­burn
Canterbury Club this Sun­day
following services and sup­per
, in the Parish House. Dr.
Jordan's topic will be ''Growth of
the Protestant Church in the
South." Visitors are welcome.
TAU BETA PI INITIATES
76 EN6INEERS, i WOMAN
FRANK ROBISON, above,
will s u c c e e d O. H. (Bugs)
Mimms as business manager of
the 01°merata this month. He
was victorious in the publica­tions
election of April 15. Robi-son
is a junior in industrial
management f r o m Birming­ham.
LAMBDA EPSILON CHI
INITIATESSIX
Lambda Epsilon Chi, pre-law
honorary society, initiated five
pre-law students and one faculty
member into the Auburn chapter
this week. They are: John G.
Blackburn, Auburn; David Net­tles,
Monroeville; Frank Matusic,
Crafton, Pa.; Richard Lawless,
Albany, N. Y.; Mary Alice Boo-ras,
Auburn; and Prof. Richard
Bjurberg.
A banquet will be held at the
end of this quarter in honor of
the hew members.
IRC To Take Cook's
Tour of Hawaii Monday
' "Hawaii" will be tha topic of
discussion at the International
Relations Club meeting Monday
at 7:15 p.m. in Social Center.
Bob Cook will show colored
slides of the beautiful isles before
the discussion. •
All students interested in inter­national
affairs are cordially in­vited
to attend.
Tommy Floyd Chosen
For Lisle Fellowship
Tommy Floyd, science and lit
junior from Opelika, has been
chosen one of the 50 students
picked in the United States for
the annual Lisle Fellowship. '
The Lisle Fellowship was
founded to help eradicate racial
and religious prejudices. The
Fellowship is now in its ninth
year.
Tau Beta Pi, national engi­neering
honor and service so­ciety,
will initiate 76 men next
week, and will present the Wom­an's
Badge to one "woman engi­neering
student.
The purpose of Tau Beta Pi is
to mark in a fitting manner those
who have conferred honor upon
their Alma Mater by distinguish­ed
scholarship and exemplary
character as undergraduates, or
by their attainments as alumni.
The Woman's Badge will be
presented to Grace Ward, student
in textile engineernig. She is the
second student to receive this
honor at Auburn.
The 76 men to be initiated are:
Aeronautical Engineers: Carn­ey
W. Payne, Wilmer H. Reed
and Phillip J. Hughes.
Agricultural Engineers: Tom E.
Corley, Perry M. Roberson, and
Merton V. Stephens.
Civil Engineers: L. G. Elias,
Clive J. Luke, E. O. Norman,
John D. Sykes, M. A. Barnes, W.
W. Dixon, R. H. McLemore, and
C. E. Miller.
Chemical Engineers: Ed. Ash-mead,
Robert V. Scalco, Norman
R. Wallner, Harvey I. Watson,
Charles E. Williams, L. A. Bull-ington,
M. R. Byrd, Judson Hawr
thorne, Herschel Q. Holley, Wil­liam
H. Rozier, John W. Seeger,
and John W. Sublett. '
Electrical Engineers: Hugh M.
DeJarnette, Ray W. Donaldson,
John W- Eastman, Curtis. God­win,
Glenn L. Henderson, Albert
E. Pearce, Louis W. Plan, Frank
P. Richardson, Henry C. Sapping-ton,
Truman B. Shaw, Hugh B.
Vallely, Edward P. Williams,
Robert L. Bailey, Lee W. Brad­ley,
Robert W. Flournoy, Jr.,
Richard T. G a l l o w a y , R. N.
Heath, Gaston V. Jones, William
A. McArrell, Joseph L. Nail, Jr.,
and Samuel J. Zachary.
Engineering Physics: Joseph H.
Hafford, Kent P. Howard, and
Claude J. King.
Mechanical Engineers: Robert
D. Anderson, P. B. Barron, Sam
Bounds, Leonard D. Braswell,
Don W. Brause, D. B. Chambliss,
James E. Coward, James C. Far-low,
Martin E. Fox, Thomas F.
Furlong, Leslie W. Hatcher, T. C.
Herring, J. F. LIndsey, Grady
Loftin, Donald M. Mclntire, Seth
W. Mitchell, David L. Shall,
James A. Steel, Gene DeRieux,
Fletcher Eddins, Arthur A. Fa-gen,
J. P. McLaney, arid Ned-
Varner.
Textile Engineers: William A.
Edwards and Gaston T. Hester.
AIEE HEARS TALK
BY LT. BOONE ON
ELECTRO-THERAPY
At a recent meeting of the Au­burn
Student Branch of the
American Institute of Electrical
Engineers, members heard Lt. A.
W. Boone, Army Medical Corps,
give an informative talk on elec­tro-
therapy.
Xt. Boone has had experience
with this type of work at Duke
University, and intends to return
there for further study upon
completion of his tour of duty in
the Pacific area.
His discussion contained such
interesting topics as cautery dia­thermy,
and discussion by elec­trical
means. He also described
briefly the electrical principles
and circuits involved in this
work.
Blue Key And ODK Tap 41 Men For
Leadership, Scholarship, And Ability
Scabbard and Blade
Initiates 20 Men
Scabbard and Blade, national
honorary military society, initi­ated
20 neophytes into Auburn's
Company L, 5th Regiment at sun­rise
Sunday morning. The initia­tion
ceremonies climaxed a week
of strenuous training.
New members are: John A.
Oerting, Pensacola, Fla.; Laur­ence
A. Alexander, Georgiana;
Alsie M. Riley, Andalusia; Walter
G. Jones, Talladega; Charles H.
Tucker, Birmingham; Carlton D.
Russell, Augusta, Ga., K. W. F.
Feltham, Anniston; Ell wood W.
Burkhardt, Auburn; William O.
Ralls, Jr., Arcadia; L. G. Thom­as,
Jr., Groveland; B. Floyd
Younginer, Jr., Macon, Ga., W. E.
Rawlinson, Jr., Opelika; H. W.
Griffith, Bessemer; Robert K.
Vann, Huntsville; R u s s e l l J.
Suther, Selma; R. G. Niver, Tam­pa,
Fla.; John W. Eddins, Jr.,
Frisco City; C. Dean Hanson,
Foley; and G. E. Hinson, Chicka­saw.
Woodchoppers Ball
Set For Friday
The Forestry Club will present
its Woodchoppers Ball at the Stu­dent
Ac 'Building Friday night.
This is the first dance of its kind
on the Auburn Campus. The
dance ' will. be i informal—even
shoes are optional. Blue jeans will
be the chief dress. •r r__„_ s
There will be an^area plainly
marked off for ari old fashioned
bar room. Free pXinch will be ser­ved
to all. I MAY
The Auburn v Plainsmen will
play for the dance;., which will
last from 9 till 12. Tickfets Sire' 'ber,
ing sold by all For1
members and may also
chased at the door. I
Announcement Is Made Jointly By Campus
Heads of Both National Honor Societies
Twenty men students and one faculty member were tap­ped
by Blue Key, and 20 men were selected by Omicron Del­ta
Kappa for membership in the two national senior honor
societies this week, according to Blue Key President Ralph
Jennings and ODK President Emmet Killebfew.
Blue Key selects men on their ability of leadership and
scholarship and what they have
Dames,Club Special
Meeting Is Tonight
An important called meeting of
the Dames Club, organization for
student's wives, will be held to­night
at 8 o'clock in Social Cen­ter.
As a part of festivities held during "Home Ec Holiday" the
catering class of ihe home ec department is shown at a lunch­eon
April 31 in Smith Hall. The luncheon was held in honor of
visiting high school girls within the. state. (Photo by Hugh
Alford.
MATH CLUB, ELECTS
Officers were elected by the
Math Club Thursday. They are
Joe Hafford, president; John
Griffin, vice president; Dick In-low,
secretary; and Prof. S. L.
Thompson, treasurer.
Edgar Will Attend
Washington Meet
Other News of Ag
Hill is Presented
Dr. S. A. Edgar of the poultry
department, agricultural experi­ment
station, will attend the In­ternational
Congress on Tropical
Medicine and Malaria to be held
May 10-18 in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Edgar did research on cer­tain
drugs used as prophylactic
and therapeutic agents against
malaria while in . t he Phillipines
'with the U.S. Army. At this sta­tion
he is studying the effects of
mosquitoes on poultry production.
Certain species have been identi­fied
in Alabama that were not
known to be in this- section.
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A five-day training course will
be held May 17-22 for techni­cians
and alternate technicians of
county breeding associations at
the artificial insemination unit of
the agricultural experiment sta­tion.
/
'technicians and alternates from
20 counties are expected to at­tend
the/training course. They
?ceive detailed instructions
on artificial insemination pre­sented
by trained members of the
Experiment Station staff and
others.
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Two meetings are scheduled for
Monday night in Ross auditorium.
The Ag Club meets at seven and
Alpha Zata will meet at eight!
Graham McTeer
Appointed Plainsman
Associate Editor
Graham McTeer, sophomore in
architecture from Tallassee, has
been appointed associate editor of
The Plainsman effective with this
issue. He succeeds Ralph Jen­nings
who will continue as a
staff member and columnist for
the remainder of the quarter.
Jennings stepped down in or­der
to apply more time to his
studies.
Professor Recalls Old Days At Auburn When Church Attendance Was Required
By Dr. A. W. Reynolds
(Editor's note: Dr. Reynolds is
head of the history department)
As an u n d e r g r a d u a t e and
graduate student at Alabama
Polytechnic Institute from 1908
to 1913, I was greatly impressed
with many aspects of student
life. I shall comment mainly on
two significant institutions of
those days—compulsory church
attendance and the "wager of
battle." /
•In 1908, the physical plant,
staff, and student body were
small. Within the five-year
period, the faculty and officers
increased from 54 to 74 and the
student body from 701 to 820.
The town population, according
to the 1910 census, was 1,408.
The students were serious mind­ed;
outside attractions were few;
and transportation, except by
train, was slow. Students rarely
visited home, and two I or three
trips per year to Opelika and one
or two football "specials" round­ed
out their traveling schedule.
Many students who lived more
than one hundred miles south of
Auburn reported that, upon their
arrival in the old home town at
Christmas time, the residents
invariably asked whether there
had been a hard winter, with
snow and ice, "up North."
The East Alabama Male Col­lege,
a Methodist institution, re­quired
chapel and church atten­dance
and when the Agricultural
and Mechanical College of Ala­bama
was founded in 1872, its
catalog announced that students
were required to attend the daily
morning religious services in the
chapel and "expected" to attend
the church of their choice at least
once on Sunday. The 1879-80
catalog required both chapel and
church attendance. The 1908-09
catalog continued these require­ments
"unless excused on the
written requests of parents for
religious scruples." Toward the
end of World War I, these com­pulsions
were discontinued, and
the 1920-21 catalog carried the
announcement that "while at­tendance
at Sunday services is
voluntary, it is urged and ex­pected
that students will attend
the church of their choice." The
1921-22 catalog stated: "Convo­cation
exercises are held every
Saturday morning in Langdon
Hall, the students being addressed
by some outstanding business or
professional man. Freshmen and
sophomores and all first and se­cond
year students are required
to attend." /
The ringing of the college bell
and the beating of the drums
were the signals for the 10:40
o'clock assembly of the student
body in Sunday mornings. In uni­form
they lined up in front of
Langdon Hall in their respective
companies and the sergeant called
the roll. Some students, through
the generosity of the sergeant,
succeeded in absenting them­selves—"
riding the sergeant"—as
the practice was called. Other
students resorted to various
means of escape. The chief ave­nue
to freedom lay in walking
out with the Catholic students.
Since there was no Catholic
church in Auburn, the adherents
of' that faith were permitted to
fall out' from the ranks and go
home. The increasing size of the
Catholic contigent from Sunday
to Sunday was unmistakable
proof of the effectiveness of this
method. A third expedient was
also successfully used. The Bap­tist,
Methodist, and Presbyterian
students were ordered to assem­ble
and, attended by officers,
were marched in column of
squads to their r e s p e c t i ve
churches. Presbyterians "who
planned to escape admitted that
they were seriously handicapped
in two ways: smallness of num­bers
and proximity of their
church (now the Y hut) to the
point of departure; nevertheless
a few notable escapes were effec­ted.
The longer and more circui­tous
Baptist and Methodist routes
of march afforded unexcelled op­portunities
for a quick break
from the ranks. The terrain was
ideal in affording places of shel­ter,
including1 buildings, alleys,
lumber piles, empty boxes and
barrels, signboards, trees, and
dense undergrowth. Only shack­les
would have prevented deser­tions
along these routes. The ra­pidity
of movement in the initial
break; the ability to take im­mediate
advantage of cover; and
the incredible acceleration . of
speed in the fairly "open spaces",
when pursued, would seem to be
an apt characterization of the
qualifications of those who resor­ted
to this method of liberation.
Certainly some of the remarkable
success, in later days, of Auburn
athletes and war heroes may
properly be attributed to the in­heritance
of these traits from
their Sabbath-day refugee fore­bears.
For those who had sought and
not yet found liberation, there
was one last resort. This was pre­sented
after arrival at the church
when the pastor offered the
opening prayer. Ensconed at
vantage points next to open win­dows,
the dull thud of young hu­man
bodies falling to mother
earth was convincing evidence
to the congregation that these
few had successfully accomplish­ed
their mission. Of course, the
winter season precluded the use
of this method. A local telephone
poll of both observers and parti­cipators
reveals that Sunday de­fection
from the ranks probably
averaged from one-third to one-half
of the student body, depend­ing
upon a number of factors
ranging from the humaneness of
the sergeants to weather condi­tions.
Local druggists have assert­ed
that their annual distribution
of Grier's almanacs in those days
was greater than similar distri­butions
in cities between 5,000
and 10,000 population. Students
not only maintained constant con­tact
with the Auburn Weather
Station but also studied the
twelve Signs of the Zodiac, of
wfrich Aquarius (legs) and Pis­ces
(feet) were deemed most ef­ficacious.
Cloudy, unsettled, blus­tery,
and stormy weather, with
prospects for showers, were un­usually
favorable omens for es­cape.
BSU Members Work
v
With Local Negroes
Members of the Baptist Stu­dent
U n i o n conducted study
courses at three. local Auburn
Negro Baptist churches during
the past week. Four classes at
different age levels were taught
in each church.
Gilbert Butler, was general di­rector
for these study courses,
with Sarah Smith, Bob Stanley,
and Ed Trippe acting as directors
in the churches.
Besides the four books taught,
a varied program was given, in­cluding
m o v i n g pictures and
recreation.
done to foster Auburn's relations
with other colleges and within
the school itself.
Omicron Delta Kappa's pur­pose
is to recognize those men of
the senior class who have attain­ed
a high degree of efficiency in
collegiate activities and for their
character, leadership and scho­lastic
achievements.
The following men were honor­ed
by Blue Key: Thomas M. Mill­er,
junior in veterinary medicine,
Enterprise; Claude J. Kendrick,
junior in architecture, Ft. Walton,
Fla.; Seth H. Mitchell, junior in
mechanical enigneering, Fair­field;
James E. Coleman, junior
in applied art, Hayneville; Hugh
W. Gaston, junior in architecture,
Lebanon, Tenn.
Thomas J. Sellers, senior in
science and literature, Smith's
Station; James R. Williams, jun­ior
in education, Birmingham;
Paul H. Sarvis, junior in build­ing
construction, Sylacauga; Rob­ert
L. Riedel, senior in veterinary
medicine, Kissimmee, Fla.; Rob­ert
K. Vann. junior in chemical
engineering, Trussville; Charles
W. Jones III. junior in aeronauti­cal
administration, Greenville;
Hugh W. Griffith, junior in elecr
trical engineering,' Hueytown;
Frasier T. Galloway, junior in
agriculture science, H a r t f o r d ;
Robert W. Hursion, |junior. in
business administration, Tuscum-bia.
i
Donald W. Brause, junior in
mechanical engineering, Kensing­ton,
Conn.; Aired L. Durrance,
junior in chemical engineering,
Miami, Fla.; Henry L. Turner.
senior in education, Leesburg;
James W. Newberne, junior in
veterinary medicine, Adel, Ga.;
Harvey D. Piper, senior in busi­ness
administration, Kelso, Wash.;
Harvey I. Watson, s e n i o r> in
chemical' engineering, Opelika^
Coach Danny Doyle, faculty, Au­burn.
Those honored by .=- Omicron
Delta Kappa are: Harris M. Al­len,
junior in business adminis­tration,
Charleston, S. C; James
P. Forrester, junior in industrial
management^ Atlanta; Russell L.
Inman, junior in education, Birm­ingham;
vTed E. Robbins, junior
in business administration, Birm­ingham;
Hal A. Breedlove, senior
in pre-medicine, Montgomery;
Henry E. Trippe, junior in science.,
and literature Auburn; Luther J.
Kirkland, junior in pharmacy,
Foley; Jack Simms, junior in
science and lit, Arlington, Va.
Frank H. Robison, junior in in­dustrial
management, Auburn; •
John H. Lanier, junior in chemi­cal
engineering, Birmingham;
James G. Varn, junior in business
administration, Cor d e l e , Ga.;
Kenneth W. F. Feltham, junior
in business administration, An­niston;
William F. Byrd, junior
in civil engineering, Gadsden;
Robert P. Teeple, senior in elec-.
trical engineering^ Jacksonville,
Fla.; Roswell C. Beard, junior.in
agriculture science, Moultrie,
Ga..; Charles L. Williams, senior
in veterinary medicine, Buena
Vista, Ga.; Leonard D. Braswell,
senior in mechanical engineering,
Birmingham; John S. Richardson,
senior in aeronautical adminis­tration,
Athens; Jack P. Tucker,
junior in agriculture science,
Grove Hill; John W. Eddins, jun­ior
in ag engineering, Frisco City.
Tommy Barnes, (left), president of Phi Mu sorority, is shown
presenting Gillis Cammack with the cup which he won along
with the title of "Dream Man of Phi Mu." recently. Gillis is
president-elect of the Student Executive Cabinet.
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2—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, May 12, 1948
ATO's Dance This Weekend
Miss Emily Cammack of Selma Will Lead Out
With Chapter President-Ira Long Saturday
Alabama Alpha Epsilon Chapter of Alpha Tau Omega
will present its annual Orchid Ball from nine to 12 Saturday
night in the Student Ac Building. Miss Emily Cammack,
Selma, will lead the dance with Ira Long, Trenton, Tennes­see,
chapter president. Mrs. C. E. Lowe, housemother, will
present a bouquet of orchids to
Miss Cammack.
Other members and dates are:
Jimmy Woodson, Iris Ferguson,
Jack Bentley, Marion Collins,
Gene Millsap, Peggy Pruitt, Dil­lon
March, Virginia Stevens,
Tommy Tanner, Joy Thigpen,
Bobby Reid, June Nelson, Jack
Charlton, Vennctte Cox, Bob
Hurston, Rossy Meadows, Dick
O'Cain, Peggy Young, Bill New­man.
Jennie Sue Pate,
Bill Steele, Jane McLain, Par­ker
Williams, Sally Davis, Frank
Craddock, Shirlee Penn, Hunt
Thompson, Jane Jordan, Alfred
Frazer, Peggy Hansen, Bob Tate,
Carolyn Harlan, Bo Morthland,
Marie Hocker, Bedford Lamp-kin,
Babs Barinowski, Bob Tay­lor,
Nancy Hearn, Jack Stanly,
Jean Ryan.
Byrd Lee Moore, Billie Lou
Estes, George Wallace, Martha
Bailey, Jack Jones, Evelyn Mc-
Williams, Joe Logan, Sara Pass,
Adrian Watson, Kitty Austin,
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WARD'S MEN'S WEAR
Joe Ward — Walton Hyde
Luther^ Strange, Amy Batson,
Jimmy Riddle, Kit Henderson,
Billy Harrell, Joyce Acker, • Ed
Warley, Beverly Langley, Paul
Miramom, Eula Price. •
Buddy Alford, Beverly Cos-hath,
Horace McCurry, Jane
Frazer, Walter Jones, Margaret
Moffett, Porter Kendrick, Fran­ces
"Barksdale, Jimmy Kendrick,
Jinney Blanton, Emmett Wigin-ton,
Bettye Joyce Smith, Bob
Jaivney, Mary Frances Crowley,
Lewe Mizelle, Mary Cottle, Rae-ford
Liles, Elsa AJlgood,
Bob Fleming, Lydia Bridges,
Calvin Lowery, Betty Under­wood,
Bill Glover, Mary Ellen
Ashley, Bob Willingham, Mariam
Kirkwood, Ricky Smith, Jane
Henry, Ed Gilder, Clara Jean
Hoile, Harry Golemon, Betty
Jean Jordan, Bill Mobley, Shir­ley
Braswell, Gene De Rieux,
Betty Watson, Gene Fitzgerald,
Ann Hahn, •-'
Tom McCreery, Elizabeth Go-lightly,
Al Briley, Nell Ansley,
Buddy Walker, Terry Thibodeau,
Vann Henagan, Jean Hufham,
Dick Allison, Sally Holt, George
Galliher, Peggy Hine's, Vann
Goodner, Betty Jane Tate, Fred
Hahn, Martha Marsh.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim McCollum,
Milton Taff, Carolyn Ellis, Shel­don
Whittlesey, Diane Gardner,
Aaron Groth, Gerry De Loney;
George Kidd, Caroline Morton,
Herman Blagg, Jean McKenzie,
Buddy Vaiden, Barbara Newman,
Dick Webb, Ann Eggleston,
Ry Bailey, Catherine Freeman,
Edwin Barker, Anne Miller, Da­vid
Oppen, Virginia Lee, Her­bert
Burton, Doris Crawford,
Spud Wright, Annie Jean Allen,
Raymond Bowman, Patsy Allen;
Mac Taylor, Louise Merrill, Clem
Auburn Player
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CHESTERFIELDS.
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Chesterfield — year after year —
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CHIEFS
Is Proud
To Salute
Frasier »
Galloway
As An Outstanding
Member of the
Auburn Student
Body
Frasier is a senior
in ag science from
Hartford; president of
Sigma Pi fraternity;
president of Ag Coun­cil;
past-pi'esident of
Ag Club; associate su­perintendent
of Bap­tist
Student's Sunday
School; group leader
in BSU; 1947 State
winner of Swift essay
contest; member of
Alpha Zeta, national
ag honorary fraterni­ty;
member of Blue
Key; selected Great
Greek for 1948 by In­ter-
fraternity Council.
WHERE THE AUBURN STUDENTS TRADE
Miss Emily Cammack, above,
will lead the Alpha Tau Omega
formal Saturday night with Ira
Long, chapter president, in the
Student Activities Building.
Miss Cammack is a home ep
junior from Selma.
Torbert, Carolyn Denson, Jack
Kimbrough, Christine Sanne-mann,
Gilmer Blackburn, Gene
Hurt,
Charles Hickey, Margene
Roane, Max Stowers, Janet Her­ring,
/Pete Bellenger, Hunter
Stickney, Charles Henagan,
Frances Harwell, Putt Ward;
Mary Jean Clark.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M, Evans, Jr.;
Mr. and Mrs; Jim Flanagan; Bob
Martin, Miss Mary Grace Davis,
Mr. and Mrs. C! A. Walker; Mr.
and Mrs. Walter A. Brand; Mr.
and Mrs. Lloyd Krannert; Mr.
and Mrs. Ferman Stewart; Mr.
and Mrs, Harry Johnston; Mr.
and Mrs. Kenneth Goodwin;
Charles Mahery, Pat Bridges, and
Robert Bryson, Elizabeth Polk.
Frank Wilson, Miss Elizabeth
Thomas, Jack Blankenship, Jean
Marie Fuller, David Nettles,
Aleta Whatley, Jim Chase, Bobby
Bentley.
Pi Kappct Phi Holds
Initiation Picnic
Pi Kappa Phi held formal ini­tiation
Saturday for three new
members. After the ceremony a
picnic was held in their honor at
Lake Chewacla, where supper
was served to members and their
dates. After supper the party
moved to the fraternity house
for a house dance. ,
The new members are Ted
Harper, Fairfield,; Ray Hester,
Montgomery; arid John Roberts,
Montgomery.
Sigma Nu Announces
New Officers; Vann
Is Commander
Beta Theta chapter of Sigma
Nu fraternity held election of of­ficers
for the next fpur quarters
last week. Robert K. Vann, Truss-ville,
was elected as chapter com­mander
to succeed Homer H.
Turner, Huntsville, who has ser­ved
during the last year. Instal­lation
of all the hew officers was
held at the end of the meeting;
they will'take office immediately.
Other men who were elected
are Renis Jones, Montgomery, Lt.
Renis Jones, Montgomery, Lt.
Commander, "Hot" Holder,
Huntsville, treasurer; Jack Land-ham,
Lincoln, was. reelected re­corder;
Bruce Burson, Selma,
house manager; Joe Thrash, Tal-lassee,
chaplain; Kirk Jordan,
Montgomery, pledge marshall;
Edwin Crawford, Nixburg, re­porter;
Tommy Smothers, Colum­bus,
Ga., Alumni contact officer;
Joe Monroe, Huntsville, historian;
and Oliver Semmes, Pensacola,
Fla., sentinel.
SIGMA PHI EPSILON
INITIATES 14 MEN
Fourteen men were initiated by
Alabama Alpha of Sigma Phi Ep­silon
May 2. The men receiving
their pins were Bruce J. Green-hill,
Birmingham; Ray ford M.
Dennis, Dothan; Ray Henderson,
Dothan; Alfred F. Parrish, Do­than;
William B. Fleming, Grove
Hill; Hugh G. Spurlock, Birming­ham;
John L. Barber, Talladega;
George Jack Barker, Gadsden;
Robert Lee Fowler, Oneonta;
Gerald S. Feild, Depatur; William
G. McArdle, Birmingham; Tho­mas
L. Nichols, Dothan; Walter
L. Rice, Opelika; William J.
Word, Scottsboro.
Phi MM Honors New
Initiates At Banquet
Phi Mu sorority recently initia­ted
Sue Coutler and Bess Dansby
of Columbus. A banquet was
given in their honor after the
ceremony. Miss Coulter was pre­sented
a bracelet as model pledge.
Gloria Herring received a brace­let
for the highest scholastic
average, and Anna Jean Frank­lin,
past president, was awarded
a bracelet for having the most
outside activities. Miss .Franklin
was awarded,, a pair of silver
candlesticks from the sorority:
SPE ANNOUNCES
PLEDGING OF 7
The following men were
pledged by Sigma Phi Epsilon
fraternity during the current
quarter: John Turner, Stelle; Guy
Bullock, Piedmont; Jack Crouch,
Tarrant; Billy Ballard, Opelika;
Billy Parsons, Americus, Ga.;
John Sawyer, Oneonta; Paul
Black well, Decatur.
NOTICE: Anyone interested
in flying to southern or eastern
Virginia at end of quarter con­tact
Jack Frost, 320 S. Gay.
Alpha Gams Announce
Election Of Officers
Alpha Gamma Delta sorority
recently elected the following of­ficers
for 1948-49, announces
Carmen Fornara, chapter presi­dent.
They are Betty Lou Brock, re­cording
secretary; Vivian Gar­rett,
corresponding secretary;
Betty Jean Jordan, scribe; Jane
Salmon, chairman of names;
Martha Norton, activities chair­man;
Patsy Allen, rush chairman;
Martha Bailey, house president;
Nell Ansley, guard.
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O L I N L. HILL
' "The Man with the Tape"
Research Program Prochiceis Technique
, for Tapering Molten Nylon Bristles
Difficult mechanical problems
solved by Du Pont chemists
and engineers to make nylon
paintbrushes practicable
Nylon bristles used in toothbrushes and
hairbrushes are uniform in diameter—
that is, they are "level." But paint­brushes
made from such bristles did
not paint well. Studies of the best natu­ral
bristles showed that they were ta­pered,
so a research program to produce
tapered nylon bristles was started.
Some difficult mechanical problems
were encountered. Level brush bristles
were being made by extruding molten
nylon through spinneret openings de­signed
to produce filaments of perfectly
uniform diameter. A new technique had
to be found to make tapered ones. Since
it was mot practical to taper the fila­ment
after cooling and drawing, a pre­cise
taper had to be put in just as the
nylon emerged molten from the spin­neret.
And it had to survive the drawing
operation, in which nylon is stretched
to several times its original length!
Techniques originated in laboratory
The original idea for solving thjs prob­lem
came from Du Pont chemists, who
worked put the techniques in the lab­oratory,
in the somewhat crude form
represented in the accompanying dia­gram.
It being largely a mechanical
problem, chemical and mechanical en­gineers
were called in to cooperate soon
after the studies got under way. After
further laboratory development, the
engineers put the operation on a pro­duction
basis.
The final result was a highly efficient
process for tapering nylon bristles. As
the molten filament emerges from the
spinneret, pinch-rq!ls driven by a series
pf gears pull if,slowly, then quickly.
The size of the filament varies with the
speed of pulling—Jhick diameters re­sulting
at slow speeds and thin diam­eters
at fast. Next the nylon goes to
the drawjng' operation, where it is
stretched by rollers to give it strength
and resiliency. (
Engineers designed special machines
Following spinning and drawing, in
which many filaments are handled si­multaneously,
the nylon is "set." Then
it goes to a special machine, designed
by Du Pont engineers, which "feels
out" the crests and troughs and cuts
the bristle at these points. This type of
design was necessary because of the un­avoidable
small variations in the length •
of individual bristles. Sorting the bris-
Present state of development of the "spin-draw"
machine evolved from the crude laboratory
apparatus shown in the diagram below.
ties and sandpapering their ends com­pletes
the process.
Many techniques contributed to the
development of the optimum properties
of nylon in tapered bristles. At the lab­oratory
stage, x-ray studies were made
to learn the effect of various degrees of
crystalization oh bristle drawing and
setting. Numerous devices were designed
to test the bristles—for example, a ma­chine
that simulates the abrasive effect
on a brush swept back and forth over a
surface. Even after manufacture was
established* high-speed stroboscopic
photography and other stroboscopic
studies were employed to improve co­ordination
in the various operations
and make a more uniform product.
The development of these bristles
furnishes another striking example of
the great variety of problems, often
intricate, that may arise out of the dis­covery
of a new substance like nylon.
ENLARGED VIEW
OF TAPERED FILAMENT
Questions College Men ask
about working with Du Pont
What are.the opportunities
in development work?
The conception of an idea in a research
laboratory is merely the starting point at
Du Pont. Men with training in mechanical,
electrical, metallurgical, and chemical engi­neering
are required to demonstrate the
practicality of the laboratory findings, in­cluding
small-scale operation of the new
process. Even after the full-scale plant is
operating, development work is continued
to iinprove efficiency. Write for booklet,
"The Du Pont Company and the College
Graduate," 2518-A Nemours Building, WU-mington
98, Delaware.
t
Diagrammatic representation of the first laboratory apparatus used to establish the principle of
making nylon from molten plastic. (From an early patent.)
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laptist Student Union Council
Installs Newly-Elected Officers
Wednesday, May 12, im'QUJZ THE PROFS'
RETURNS TO AIR
TONIGHT—WJHO
Installation services for the re­cently
elected Baptist Student
Union Council were held in the
Baptist Church during the regu­lar
preaching service Sunday
night, May 2. New members of
the council are: .
President, Curtis Henson; vice
president, Ray Barnes; Sunday
school superintendent, Harold
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O L I N L. HILL
"The Man with the Tape"
After a week's absence "Quiz
the Profs" will return to the air
this evening at 9:30 oyer
W.J.H.O. Last week's broadcast
was cancelled due to a special
Music Week program.
Guest participants on tonight's
session will include Prof. Robert
Sutton and Mrs. Harriet Bomar
Ellis. The master of ceremonies
is Hod Ogden.
"Quiz the Profs" is a produc­tion
of the Auburn Producers and
is under the direction of Ford M.
MacElvain.
Landry; Training Union director,
Jamie Jones; YWA president,
Lois Williams; Noonday Medita­tion
"director, Jimmy Bartley;
Brotherhood president, !*•- ,
Whitt; Social director, Herman
Reid; Secretary; Marie Deason;
Devotional director George
Capps; Stewardship director, Ed
Trippe; Editorial director, Bil-lie
Ruth Fant; Enlistment direc­tor,
Gene Brooks; Publicity direc­tor,
Wilburn v-Sample; Music
discusion director, Billy Austin;
Campus Prayer Meeting director,
Bobby Stuckey; Pastor Advisor,
Rev. Hoyt A. Ayers.
The greater council consists of
the following:. Sunday Schoql
presidents, Jack Cox, Jack Bran-yon,
Ralph Nelson, Junius Kend-rick,
Dick Galloway, Eleanor
Steele, Maxine Thompson, Robbie
Quinn; Training Union presidents,
Ella Frances Romine, Jeanette
Dicks, Marilyn Dennis, Glenn
Marsh, Bill Jones, Aurelia Pow­ell,
Sarah Pate, Regen Johnson,
Elbert Owens, Melvin Brantley,
Robert Bryson, Fred Browder,
Lloyd McMurtrie, Shelly Bostick,
Rena Garner, Waddy Thompson,
Annita Harris, George Williams;
Sunday school associates, Dick
Hudson and Margaret Ann Mc-
Gowin; Training Union associates,
Albert Kaiser and Christine Du-
Bose; Bible discussion leaders,
Elbon Christine, Jeanne Fuqua;
Abner Hawkins, Cliff Sanford,
Bill Hicks, Fred Glaze; Devotion­al
associates, Marie Golson and
Darlene Wilson;. Open House
Chairman, Frasier Galloway; As­sociate
Open House chairman,
Jimmy Beaty; Recreational chair-ma^,
Ozel Hinkle; Recreational
associate, Bruce Long; Editorial
associates, Sara Hovey and Ann
Lindsey; Curator, €toy Mickle;
Friendship Circle Chairman Paul
Carrol; Friendship Circle associ­ate,
Joy Love; Enlistment, Rich­ard
Havron and Donna Lindsey;
Enlistment Records, Harold Potts;
Librarian, Bennie Ruth McCrary;
Treasurer, Charles Alford; Asso­ciate
treasurer, Alfred James
Noonday Meditation associates,
Bill Hardy and Kathryn Douglas;
Reporter, Beverly Jones; Alumni
Secretary, Raymond Woolf; Bap­tist
Student Magazine representa­tive,
Gilbert Butler; House chair­man,
Glenn Coppock.
Economics Professor
Completes Work For
Doctorate
Prof. Harold E. Klpntz, depart­ment
of economics and business
administration, has just com­pleted
requirements for a Ph.D.
degree in economics at the Uni­versity
of North Carolina. He sat
for his final oral examinations
May 1 when he defended his dis-sertion
"An Economic Study of
the Southern Furniture Manu­facturing
Industry.".
Prof. Klontz's major academic
interests have been in the fields
of resources and statistics. He
has been on the Auburn faculty
since- September, 1946. He will
receive the doctorate degree »at
commencement exercises in June.
Speeding was the direct cause
of 9,400 deaths and 260,000 in­juries
in 1947 traffic in the
United States. Heed speed limits.
Sigma Nu Initiates
Six New Members
Theta chapter of Sigma
Nu fru^^-v!^ held formal initia­tion
Wednesv. jf night. The initia­tes
are L. S. Biggs and W. C.
Biggs, Talladega; B. B. Gary,
Georgetown, Georgia; P h i l ip
Mullane, Birmingham; O l i v e r
Semmes, Pensacola; and Bob
Scarbrough, Eufaula.
Beta Omega chapter of Alpha
Delta Pi held initiation Apml 29
for the fqllowing pledges: Mary
Cobb, Scottsboro; Nancy Wilson,
Russellville; Ruby V i r g i n ia
Brockway, Mobile; Jane Henry,
Birmingham; and Pat Clancy,
Grayson.
Lorene Owens
SPHINX
NEW OFFICERS
Lorene Owens
Is President
Sphinx, senior women's honor
society, held election of 'officers
for '48-'49 at its regular meeting
April 28. Lorene Owens, senior
in Home Economics, was elected
president. Other officers are Mar­tha
Callahan, vice-president;
Eloise Killion, secretary; Kath­ryn
Douglass, treasurer; and Sue
Farrington, historian.
Installation of these new offi­cers
was held May 11 in Social
Center..
SIGMA PI CHOOSES
NEW OFFICERS
Members of Alpha Delta chap­ter
of Sigma Pi fraternity elec­ted
officers May 5. The new of­ficers,
who were installed at this
meeting, and who will serve un­til
the end of fall quarter, 1948,
are Frasier Galloway, president;
Ralph Jackson, pledge trainer;
Warren Richardson, house mana­ger;
Sid Brown, treasurer; G. W.
Purdy, secretary; Leonard Hoop­er,
historian; DeWitt Robinson,
Interfraternity Council repre­sentative;
John Crates, rush
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A HAIR RAISING TALE OF TROUBLE
By Mitch Sharpe
So you have been wondering
too!
00 you really want to know
the truth? Theji lend an ear."
Here's actually what causes my
hair to take on that peculiar
color and sheen rampant among
this year's crop of college hots
who think that bleached hair is
all the rage.
1 live with two other impov­erished
veterans and we can only
afford a triple bed in the back
of single closet. What with can­ned
beer a quarter a can and
good liquor at near-astronomical
prices, and o^f a pithy quality at
that, my roommates have been
driven to other forms of drink.
One drinks nothing but hydro­gen
peroxide (and giggles when
the bubbles get in his nose) and
the other drinks only ammonium
hydroxide (and'doesn't giggle
about anything).
Well, it so happens that I sleep
in the middle of this triple bed
of ours. To' make matters worse,
chairman; Jack Estes, social
chairman; Bruce Barksdale, yard
chairman.
After the meeting, new offi­cers
bought members the tradi­tional
round of coffee at Jake^s
Joint.
I have been extremely nervous
ever since Dr. Leese struck pretty
close to home with some of his
lectures on maladjustment when
I took Psychology 211 under him.
For awhile it was just an insigni­ficant
twitch, but now I have a
full blown and sleep-destroying
trauma. What with all of these
things preying on my mind, it is
only natural that I should turn
and toss in my sleep. I roll first
to the right, then to the left. And
this locomotion continues all
night and every night.
It doesn't take much chemical
knowledge to figure out what
happens. One sodden roomie
(the one on the right) breathes
peroxide on my tousled lock for
awhile and then I turn and am
greeted with the exhalations of
amonium hydroxide (from the
one on the left). Result: a thatch
of thinning almost translucent
blonde hair on top.
If you find this narration a
little far fetched and absurb, just
what would you believe? You
wouldn't believe me if I said that
the sun and God or one of the
other by themselves does it,
would you?
If you can't accept any of these
things then use your own ima­ginations.
But, please, just quit
asking me if I bleach my hair
or what I put on it. Damnit, I
don'tl
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^llbum Plainsman Parking and Traffic
Published weeklySby the students of Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. Edi­torial
and business office on Tichenor Avenue,
Phone 448.
Deadline for social and organization news
is Saturday, 9 a. m.
Deadline for want ads, classified ads, etc., is
Saturday noon.
Entered as second-class matter at the posi-office
at Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates
by mail: $1.00 for 3 months, $3.00 for 12 months.
JIMMY COLEMAN
Tom Sellers
Mitch Sharpe
Editor-in-Chief
Managing Editor
Associate Editor
Graham McTeer - Associate Editor
Ronald Kuerner Sports Editor
BILL ANDERSON
Hal Breedlove
John Lanier
Gene Byrd
Business Manager
Advertising Mgr.
Circulation Manager
_. Collections Mgr.
Crawford Nevins Ass't. Circulation Mgr.
Staff Members—Beverley Ann Burkhardt,
Spud Wright, Phyllis Stough, Bob Newton,
Ralph Jennings, Jack Simms, Angus Gaskin,
Boyd Hinton, Jim Forrester, Irv Steinberg,
Webb Chastain, Bruce Greenhill, Joe Pilcher,
and Edwin Crawford.
The Plainsman stands for. . .
An • efficient educator and admin­istrator
to serve as Auburn's new
president.
A colorful, modern band, with a
bandmaster who can devote all his
energies toward its development.
Adoption of the name Auburn Uni­versity
in place of Alabama Poly­technic
Institute.
Institution of a cut system based
on scholastic averages.
An enlarged stadium with a mini­mum
of 30,000 seats.
Old Wound Is Healed
The resumption of athletic relations
with the University came as a sudden, but
pleasing surpise to nearly everyone in
Alabama. In a simple, friendly meeting be­tween
school officials on April 23 a 41-
'year old wound in the side of Alabama
athletics was healed.
A great deal of credit for the agreement
should go to Dr. John M. Gallalee, Uni­versity
president. Dr. Gallalee set the ball
rolling in a telephone conversation with
Acting president Ralph Draughon, and
through the fine cooperation between the
two school heads the game was made pos­sible.
The Plainsman has worked for several
quarters on a program to build better re­lations
between the University and Au­burn.
This good-will should not stop on
the athletic field, but should develop in all
phases of college activity. Perhaps the re­moval
of the barrier to sports will serve as
a- beginning of amicable meetings in all
fields..
We/believe both student bodies will
view the contest this year in a spirit of
friendly rivalry, and that all past dif­ferences
will be forgotten. It looks like a
much-needed shot in the arm for the Au­burn
Spirit, and no one can dispute its val­ue
as a financial injection into the athletic
fund. , ;
As Acting-President Draughon s a id
Monday, the game marks a new era of
good feeling between Alabama's two larg­est
institutions of higher learning. The
benefits of it, both real and spiritual, are
almost innumerable.
Let's make this gridiron battle a model
of good sportsmanship!
Let Them Vote
A sore spot in the otherwise well-con­ducted
publications election recently was
the fact that third quarter freshmen were
not allowed to participate in the voting.
These students had as much at stake in
the outcome as upperclassmen, yet they
were denied the ballot.
Many freshmen were bold enough to
attempt voting, only to be turned away at
the polls. Of course regulations should be
enforced, but it would seem this one is
hardly democratic. Freshmen should be
encouraged early in their college careers
to take an interest in campus activities.
We trust the Elections Committee will
see fit to remedy this situation soon. -
Further emphasis has been added to
the campus parking problem by the work
begun on the new engineering lab to be
constructed on the lot between Ross
Chemical Lab and Ramsay Hall, hereto­fore
used for parking. Ground was broken
Thursday for the building. This limits the
parking ^space on the campus even more,
and much of that still available was never
intended to be used for that purpose. The
increased college enrollment and number
of students with cars created the demand
for more space. \
The Board of Trustees met last week to
consider the plan proposed by the student
faculty committee appointed to study traf­fic
and parking problems. It authorized
acting-President Draughon to appoint a
board to draw up a traffic code to be put
into effect. The college and city attorneys
met yesterday to decide what legal action
could be taken.
Students and officials have realized, for
some time that the situation had reached
a degree where action had to be taken, but
no one has reached a solution. When the
parking code is drawn up, it will become
law. It has taken time and planning for
the final step, and students should realize
that the ruling is for the benefit of the
entire campus and accept it as such.
Library Services
You can't depend on your judgment
when your imagination is out of focus.—
Mark Twain.
The setting up of regulations determining
who may take books from API libraries
and how long these books may be kept is
the first of many functions of the libraries,
according to a recent release prepared by
Virginia Cooksey.
Of the several departments in the main
library, lour are directly concerned with
service to the reader. The first of these is
the circulation department, headed by A.
Orin Leonard.
This department keeps and makes avail­able
all material which may be used out­side
the library. It also regulates condi­tions
for use of material outside the lib­rary.
Within the circulation department is the
reserve book section, designed to enable
more people to use' circulating material
when the demand is heavy. *
Mrs. Harriet Bomar Ellis heads the re­ference
department. This section of the li­brary
is particularly useful to the reader
needing less common reference works.
Mrs. Ellis will aid scholars in locating re­search
materials and also will handle in­ter-
library loans for them.
Working primarily with faculty mem­bers,
Miss Farley Lee aids, encourages, and
cooperates with them in modern use of li­brary
services and materials. In addition,
Miss Lee is an instructor in library orien­tation
and is supervisor of branch libraries.
The serials librarian is Mrs. Elsie Bryant
Clemons and her job is to look after all
periodicals. She checks them when they
are received by the library, has them
bound at regular intervals and also handles
al subscriptions of the library.
The library and the branch libraries of­fer
the API student a wide variety of
periodicals for his pleasure as well as
study. They include a majority of the popu­lar,
magazines, scholarly publipations,
technical journals, bulletins of the learned
and scientific societies,' profesisonal jour­nals,
and publications of various U. S. go­vernment
agencies and offices as well as
publications of certain foreign govern­ments
and the United Nations.
All these services also are offered by the
branch librarians to the faculty and stu­dents
of that particular school or depart­ment.
Miss Nina Hall is in charge of the Agri­cultural
Library, which keeps almost all-,
the publications of the U. S. Department
of Agriculture and a file of the less well
known bulletins' from the API Agricul­tural
Extension Station.
The Library of the School of Architec­ture
and the Arts, supervised by Mrs. Wil­lie
Caulkins specializes in reference works
needed by the student of architecture.
At the Veterinary Medicine Library,
Miss Marjorie Stephens is in charge of
books. The Engineering Library, with Mrs.
Sybil R. Sharpe in charge, makes avail­able
all current issues of periodicals of
special interest to engineering students.
That branch also keeps a file of the U. S.
Almanac.
The fifth branch library, that of Chemis­try
Department, is headed by Dr. John
Peavy Wright, who also is executive sec­retary
of the department.
Supplementing the services of these
groups are technical departments which
do their work "behind the scenes." All
these activities are coordinated by the di­rector
of libraries, Clyde Hull Cantrell.
Do-Nuts and Coffee By Babs the common man
%
by mitch sharpe
"Oh! She was pinned today . ."
Cartoon By Phil Andrews
The Plastic Tower By Ralph Jennings
I,think one of the cleverest letters I have ever read was
from William Faulkner, the novelist, to the Postmaster General
of the U.S. The spirit of individuality asserted itself publicly
early in Faulkner's career. Like so many other Southern boys
who wanted to do things, it.was necessary for Bill to support
himself while he struggled
through, his apprenticeship. He
got the job of postmaster at the
University of Mississippi post of­fice,
but his duties began to in-terefere
with his writing. His let­ter
' of resignation to the Post­master
| General is one of the
brighter items on file in Wash­ington.
*»
"As long as I live under the
capitalistic system," he wrote, "I
expect to have my life influenced
by the demands of moneyed peo-
... pie. But I will
, , , be damned if I
| propose to be at
\ the beck and call
| of every ' itine-
: r a n t scoundel
who has two
cents to invest in
a postage stamp.
.This, sir, is my
'resignation."
I happen to be
an admirer of
Faulkner, so %
never tire of
Jennings
hearing stories and legends about
him. Along with many other
people who feel the same way, I
consider Faulkner the greatest
American writer - since Mark
Twain. (I may be an individual­ist,
but I still consider Thomas
Wolfe somewhere near the top.)
Anyway, another story about
Faulkner concerns a job to which
he was to report in Hollywood.
He was supposed to meet Nun-nally'
Jbhnson, and Johnson was
to show him his office, etc. Ac­cording
to Roark Bradford, the
story was like this:
"Are you Mr. Johnson?" he
asked. \
"I am. Are you Mr. Faulkner?"
"I am."
There was an awkward silence.
During this silence Faulkner
fished into his hip pocketr took
out a pint of whiskey and began
uncorking it. This act was com­plicated
by the fact that the bot­tle
had been sealed, with heavy
tinfoil. Bill dropped his hat on
the floor and went to work with
both hands. In the process, he cut
his finger on the tinfoil. He at­tempted
to staunch the flow of
blood by wetting the wound with
his tongue, but it was too deep a
cut for that. Next, he looked
around for a suitable drip "pan.
The only thing in view was the
hat at his feet. Holding the bleed­ing
finger over the hat, he con­tinued
to work, methodically and
silently, until the bottle was fi­nally
uncorked. He then tilted it,
drank half its contents, and pass­ed
it to Johnson.
'Have a drink of whiskey?" he
offered.
"I don't mind if I do," said
Johnson, finishing off the pint.
This, acording to the legend,
was the beginning of a drunk
which ended three weeks later,
when studio sleuths found both
Faulkner and Johnson in a Okie
camp, sobered them up, and got
them to work.
* . * *
Alabama's electorate evidently
has had a change of heart if
the election results are any indi­cation,
and they usually are. Big
Jim's concise improprieties, which
in the past few months have
been about as subtle as a blow
in the groin, evidently have
brought him into public disfavor.
One thing has me 'petrUbed. Do
you think he will have to sneak
up on his wife to kiss her?
FILE THIRTEEN By The
Editor
File 13—an old army term for 'Wastebasket'
Dr. A. W. Reynold's story, in
today's Plainsman praients some
interesting facts on the way rela­tions,
between the college and
students have changed since years
past. The trend through the years
seems to /have been "less dis­cipline,
more freedom" for stu­dents.
This is further' evidenced
by the following information ta­ken
from the Holyoke College
catalogue rules in 1837:
"No young lady shall become a
member of Mt. Holyoke Semi­nary
who cannot
kindle & fire,
mash potatoes,
repeat the multi­plication
table,
and at least two->
thirds of the
s h o r t e .r cate­chism.
"Every mem­ber
of the school
shall walk a
mile a day un­less
a freshet,
earthquake, o r
some other calamity prevent.
"No young lady shall devote
more than an hour a day to mis-
Coleman
cellaneous reading.
"No young lady is expected to
have gentlemen acquaintances
unless they are turned mission­aries
or agents of b enevolent
societies."
* * *
It is seldom that brother and
sister get their pictures in the
paper the same day—as in the
case of Gillis and Emily Cam-mack
in today's Plainsman.
* * *
Acting-President Draughon was
talking to a group of students the
other day and the subject turned
to Auburn traditions. Someone
mentioned the petrified stump
near the lathe, and Mr. Draughon
related an interesting story of
how someone in Buildings and
Grounds innocently hauled it
away to a junk pile several years
ago. Members of Phi Delta Theta
discovered its absence and raised
a howl until it was returned.
Their fraternity was founded near
where it now stands.
Mr. Draughon said an Auburn
alumnus sent the stump from
Arizona's Petrified Forest in the
1870'B.
Bacon: Great beauty always
has a touch of strangeness.
First Degree Burn . . . Romeo:
I'm burning with love for you."
Juliet: "Come now, don't make
a fuel of yourself."—Pen.
* • *
Most people who ask for help
on a decision, do not want assist­ance,
only approbation.
« * »
"If you don't marry me, I'll
take a rope and hang myself in
your front yard."
"Ah, now Herbert, you know
Pa doesn't want you hanging
around."-.-Yellow Jacket.
* * *
Picture Sentence: As the cock­er
spaniel sped with her nose to
the wind, the pressure • stream­lined
her ears until they looked
like the unstarched ears of a rab­bit.
* • •
Prof.: "Decline 'love', Miss
Noodle."
Miss Noodle:
Not me!"
"Decline love!
"A man's true | wealth is the
good he does in the world."
* * *
He: "If you love me, kiss me."
She kisses him.
He: "It's all off." .
She: "Why?"
He: "If you kiss me, you'll kiss
anyone."—West Pointer".
* * *
The depression was that period
when they sold a man-sized
candy bar for five cents.—Greens­boro
Herald-Journal.
* * *
Teacher: "James, why is the
English language c a l l e d the
mother tongue?"
James: "Because father never
gets a chance to use it." '
* * *
Looking for faults, like charity,
should begin at home.
A Dash of Bitters »**»*««•«
General Eisenhower, whose
press agents continue to make
public statements that he is not
available for the presidential
nomination, is acting very much
like a politician who is learning
the ropes fast. Since the famous
Washington cocktail party inci­dent
the General has evidently
been taking some excellent ad­vice.
His publicity has been good.
Pictures of that well-known Ei­senhower
grin have been placed
before the American public with
clocklike regularity. All this,
however, was just penny ante
stuff. Several weeks ago his son,
who received a commission at
OCS and when last heard from
was a captain stationed at West
Point on the Hudson, became a
proud papa.
• As soon as young Mrs. Eisen­hower
was able to receive visi­tors
in rushed Captain Eisenhow­er
closely followed by General
Eisenhower and an army of
newsreel photographers. While
the Captain and the General con­verged
on the newest addition to
the clan the newsreel men quick­ly
deployed into position to re­cord
the baby bussing. Never one
to disappoint a photographer, the
General grinned mightily and
clasped to his manly chest his
young sib. What a touching scene.
You can almost hear the happy
shouts of "Roll 'em!" The result­ing
pictures must have had the
good old honest professionals
such as Truman, Taft, Dewey, and
Stassen choking with rage and
envy. One can imagine the
President banishing Margaret to
some remote corner of Texas or
Sibera with a farewell speech
sounding like something out of
King Lear.
Last week those ever alert
press agents, or whatever they
-are called, decided that it was
time to remind news conscious
America that Ike is still a
Grandpa. From headquarters
(GHQ?) came the news that
General Eisenhower is afraid the
present crop of grandchildren is
going to find their world a most
unhappy place unless nations can
eliminate causes of war. A sober
truth, of course, Then the Gene­ral
coyly added that he was per­sonally
concerned because he is
a brand-new grandfather. Clever
old Ike. When you've got a good
thing, hang onto it. Irritate, irri­tate,
irritate
To borrow a line from Wolcott
Gibbs, where it all will end,
knows God! q q
BURP By BOYtt HINTON
Phone 880-W
A good deal has been, written
of late about the' merit of the
pictures that come out of Holly-
Wood, and I will leave all of that
to the movie critics, but my big
gripe is mainly about what goes
on on the screen while the fea­ture
is off.
To begin with, there is no ex­cuse
for the paid advertisements
that flash on immediately after
the end of the picture, especially
if the ending was dramatic or tra­gic.
You are there wiping away
tears when suddenly you are
startled almost, out of wits by
some fourth-rate actor making a
fool of himself. It is hardly fair
to the movie patrons to make
them pay to get in and then force
them to watch something that is
written to the level df the moron
and lower caste idiot; Radio has
an excuse for commercials be­cause
that is their only source of
revenue but never for the movies.
They make me, and nearly every­one
else I have spoken to about
it, hostile, to the product. They
are simply a bore.
My second big gripe is the way
newsreels are cut up and pre­views
inserted. My knowledge
. of what goes on in the projec­tion
booth is very limited but is
does seem that something could
be done to avert this. There you
are, earnestly watching some­thing
that happened in some far
off place when suddenly, you
hear soft ""music and see some
greasy-haired slick clutching a
chemistry blonde and a sleepy
unseen voice sounding off about
the fine picture that is coming
next week. Always the best pic­ture
ever made is coming, com­ing
but somehow they never
live up to the previews.
My third complaint concerns
not the picture, but the people
(Continued on page 6)
\
The Exchange Post By Irv steinbej*
"John, dear," she asked softly,
"Can you drive with one hand?"
"Yes, my sweet," he cooed in
ecstasy of anticipation.
"Then," said the lovely one,
"you'd better wipe your nose. It's
running."—Bio-Chemical Review.
- , * * *
During a recent lecture on
Military • Physical Training, Sgt.
Chapman of the API military
department told of an absent
minded calisthenics instructor
who, while giving calisthenic one
day, commanded, "Hands on hips-place,"
"Hands on shoulders-place,"
"Shoulders on hips-place."
The sergeant said that the last
command presented a problem
which had never before been
anticipated in the Army. '
» * *
A young man,—and one with a
sense of humor, are the top char­acteristics
of a good college pro­fessor
for the year 1948, accord­ing
to the results of a nation-wide
survey conducted by the depart-
- ment of economics at Loyola Uni- V
versity, Chicago.
* - • » •
Acting-Governor M. E. Thomp­son
of Georgia, in ceremonies on
the South Campus, recently broke
the ground to launch construction
of the University of Georgia's new
$1,600,000 Veterinary Medicine
Building, whieh is expected to be
one of the finest in the nation.
* • *
At the request of many indus­tries
and public health agencies
throughout the United States,
Georgia Tech in 1948 is offering
a summer course in industrial
hygiene.
* * *
He: Only a mother could love
a face like that.
She: I'm about to inherit a
fortune.
He: I'm about to become a
mother.—Purdue Exponent
* * *
At the University of Virginia
some 2000 students signed a peti­tion
asking that a University
Tavern Club be allowed to exist.
* * »
She: "How about giving me a
diamond bracelet?"
He: "My dear, extenuating
circumstances perforce me to pre­clude
you from such a bauble of
extravagance."
She: I don't get it."
He: That's just what I said."
—Draper Inmate
* * *
Bystander: "Fishing?"
Disgusted Fisherman: "No, just
drowning the worms."—Draper
Inmate
Just to prove that I can take
criticism and ignore it as blithe­ly
as the next, I will mention
something which happened re­cently.
I was sitting in the Grill
when all of a sudden I heard a
triumphant cry raised from a ta->
ble next to m|ine. Glancing
around, I beheld a table re­splendent
with a modest meal
and a modest and sole inhabitant.
There sat able and august Orin
Leonard, a doggy sort of John;
Kieran (although he claims he is.
more of the unmusical Oscar Lej
vant type). Mr. Leonard is a,'
stanchion in the college library i.
system. He had found a mistake,
in this column which I could in
no way fob off on the printers.
Gleefully he pointed out that I
had used inner-campus where I
should have used intra-campus.
I have never held the state of
Georgia in* very high esteem,
and I don't intend to in the near
future. There are many reasons
for this statement. I'll list one
right off. Last week the Auburn
Players went over to Columbus
(a town in Georgia which clings
like a diuretic appendicle on the
side of the alimentary Chatta-i*
hoochee River) to bring a taste h
of |culture to this frontier of
American culture. The audience
which turned out nowhere merit­ed
a performance. The number-was
so absurdly small that even
Columbians ought to blush. But
then as Spenser Spenser in the
very play which was presented
said, "Art has its adversaries".
Last week, Jim Forrester had
something to say about the An­drews
Sisters and their merciless
treatment of The Sabre Dance. I
agree with him in every state­ment.
To me the Sabre Dance has
always been a listenable piece of
music until the Andrews Sisters
took it up. But then, I should
have known that they would.*',
They always do things like that.
Even a rhinoplastic operation on
the middle sister has failed to
improve either their collective
looks or singing. Not |only all
these things, but Aram Khatcha-turian,
composer of the Sabre
Dance, is in enough hot water
with Uncle Joe already. Uncle
Joe says that his music is tinged
with that decadent touch asso­ciated
with capitalistic and bour-geoise
composers over here in
the US. If Uncle Joe ever hears
the Andrews Sisters' mutilation
of Aram's piece, it [might well
mean the salt mines for him.
CORNERED
By Bob Newton
A Senatorial fight is now going
on to amend to death the bill al­lowing
the several Southern
states to set up regional universi­ties.
The bill has already passed
the house by a huge majority. ."
The only argument used by the
would-be amenders is the moth-eaten
vote seeker, anti segre­gation.
The bill, originally planned in
1935, allows the states concerned
to set up a regional system of
higher education to be supported ,
. by the states. The schools to be J
set up under this plan are to '
be segregated.
Senator Morse of Oregon and
Senator- Ferguson of Michigan
are against this bill because of
the segregation implied in it.
However one of Wisconsin's se­nators,
who is himself against »
segregation, exposed the fallacy
of Ferguson's and Morse's "rea­soning."
This Senator gave the ex­tremely
small proportion of
Negroes enrolled in Michigan's
medical school as an example of
the discrimination practiced in
Senator Ferguson's own back
yard. After advising the senators/ <l
to begin their reforms at home.V
the Senator from Wisconsin went
on to explain the plight of one
school that could only be re­lieved
by the pending bill. This
school is a medical school for Ne­groes
having approximately one
half of the Negro medical stu­dents
in the entire United States.
It is a crying shame that the
pseudo-liberals and the "do-gooders"
must always be trying
to run someone else's business.
This bill has been pronounced by
many educators^ North and South
alike, a pioneer in the field of
education. This bill is the product
of sincere men trying to solve a
very complex problem. It can be
the beginning of a«new and bet-!
ter era in the field of education—•
or it can be a political football!
for self-righteous senators to play
with and then discard. The house
has passed the bill. The final de­cision
rests with the Senate.
(Tigers Win;Vandy Plays Here This
Nixon Pitches One-Hitter as Auburn
Takes Pair From Georgia Ball Club
After "stretching their South- season. As does Auburn's Nixon,
eastern Conference baseball lead | Adcqck plays the outfield while
not pitching and his batting clip
is exactly .425.
with two rousing victories over
Georgia, the Auburn Tigers will
engage a new opponent on the
local diamond this week-end.
Coach Tommy Harrison will
bring his Vanderbilt Commo­dores
in Friday for a first look
al the Plainsmen and their peer­less
hurler, Willard Nixon. A
£ecpnd game will be played
Saturday.
Willard Nixon got credit for
both victories over Georgia,
pitching a one-hitter in the first
game and hurling a relief role
in the second game after John­ny
Francis was injured. Auburn
won the first game 6-1, and the
second 5-4.
Georgia lead-off man Paul Es-kew
garnered the lone-hit off the
Auburnvace with an infield blow.
With a record of seven wins and
four losses in the eastern division
of the league, Vanderbilt has been
somewhat of a dark horse and
itill entertains a faint hope of
/crashing the sectional playoffs.
The Commodores have to play
Auburn four times and anything
might develop.
The Vandy mound staff is
spearheaded by basketball star
Billy Joe Adcock, who has won
five and dropped but one this
Adcock is scheduled for duty
against Nixon Friday. Coach Har­rison's
choice is likely to be Jim­my
Stephens for the Saturday
close-out. Stephens was the ace
of the staff last year and has
won four for the Nashville dele­gation
this spring.
Coach Danny Doyle has yet to
designate his Saturday hurling
assignment but it is sure to come
from the trio of George Hill, Den­nis
Kinlaw, and Johnny Francis.
Francis was the long shot that
turned out to be money in the
bank for Auburn in the second
game of last week's series with
Georgia. The husky Nashville,
Tenn., righthander, who had ap­peared
only twice as a relief
pitcher this year because of a
tonsil ailment, returned from the
hospital two weeks ago. While he
was going through a few warm-up
tosses early, last week, Doyle
noticed his improved speed and
control and decided to send him
against the Bulldogs Saturday.
Francis took the mound and
for several innings held the us­ually
hard-hitting Georgians to
seven scattered hits of the fluke
variety. It was in the seventh
frame that a screaming liner off
Golfers Capture
7th Straight Win
By Downing Troy
Auburn's golf team won its
seventh straight match of the
season in Columbus last week by
trimming Troy State Teachers
College, 17-1.
Captain Jack Key, Jr., who
shot a two-under par 70, was
the low scorer for the Tigers and
teamed up with Pat Poyner for
a double victory.
Key defeated No. 1 man Joe
Spradley of Troy, who shot an
87, to collect three points for the
Tigers, while Poyner shot a 78 to
gain a 2-1 win over Ed Causey of
Troy, who fired an 82.
Bud DeBardeleben went two
over par to cop a trio of points
from Troy's Bud Ward. DeBarde­leben
shot a 74 to Ward's 91. John
Hall, number four man for the
Tigers, took three points from
Jack Brawnes with a 75 to the
Troy man's 83. The Auburn duo
also won the second doubles
match.
Auburn meets Mercer in Macon
Friday. .
the bat of Chub Jenkins speared
Francis on the leg and Doyle
called NJxon from the 'outfield
'to finish. Francis did complete the
play to first, however, in time to
get Jenkins.
'PILE' ENGINEER...ACCOUNTANT...SILICONES SPECIALIST
for each, General Electric has assignments to his liking
General Electric is not one business, but an
organization of many businesses. Graduates
of American colleges and universities are find­ing
that the 12S plants of General Electric offer
opportunities to all degrees of specialists, all
sorts of enthusiasms, all kinds of careers.
'PILE' ENGINEER
Quoting Dr. W. I. Patnode (Cornell '27) of
the General Electric Nucleonics Project:
"Seldom has the engineer been offered the op­portunity
to achieve greatness that is contained
in the development of atomic power . . . The
pile engineer must know radiation as the aero­nautical
engineer knows air flow, as the electrical
engineer knows electromagnetism . . . There is
work for more pile engineers." »
. . . ili i'i u
S^^ftju.
Jimmy Walker
Montgomery School
Cops Prep Trqcjc
Meet Help" Here
Lanier High School of Mont­gomery
proved its worth here
Friday and Saturday as it walked
off with the Alabama State High
School Track Championship by
a good margin over second-place
Phillips.
Defending champions ^West
End could muster but nine points
to finish sixth. Those finishing
in the top five were: Lanier 39,
Phillips 24, Woodlawn 15 1-2,
Bessemer 14, Ensley 10.
One of the top performers of
the day was the mile in which
DeRieux of Woodlawn turned in
a neat 4.24.4 time to win easily.
His time was one of the best
turned in the history of the meet.
Other teams scores were: Mur­phy
of Mobile, 6 1-2; Talladega,
6; Starke, 6; Andalusia, 5; Ram­say,
3 l-2*;Troy 2 1-2; and Mc-
Gill, 2. '
Sigma Alpha Epsflon fraterni­ty-
has elected Lawrence W.
Cheney, Columbus, Ga., to serve
as comptroller. He succeeds John
p. Anthony, Birmingham.
Walker's Running Was Called Mediocre
In High School-But Look At Him Now!
By Edwin Crawford
For the first time in over a decade Auburn's track t e am
has a man who can win consistently in the sprints against
t h e very best dash men in the South. He is of course Jimmy
Walker, the short, stocky l i t t l e speedster, who is undefeated
in a dual meet thus far this season in both the 100 and
220-yard dashes. With Walker in
UP FROM BTC
Donald L. Millham (Union '27), today the
G-E Comptroller, is one of the many top officials
of General Electric who got their start in the
company's Business Training Course. BTC
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their line-up the Tiger cinder-men
have one of the best bal­anced
track teams in .the South
as Auburn teams have never had
a real outstanding sprint man un­til
Walker was uncovered.
The story of the discovery of
this great little speedster, who is
considered one of the nation's
outstanding dash men, is very in­teresting.
Walker was a better
than average runner when he
was at Phillips High in Birming­ham,
but at that time the track
followers around Birmingham
just considered him a mediocre
track man who had plenty 'of
fight and ability, but was just
not the type runner who could
win against college competition.
Jimmy enrolled at Auburn in
the fall of 1946 but was unable to
run with the varsity due to scho­lastic
difieulties. However, when
the Southeastern AAU meet was
held here at Auburn last spring
he entered the 100-yard dash-an
eyent in which he would be
competing against such top-notch
sprinters as Buddy Fowlkes and
Jim Bailey of Georgia Tech;
Sam Ridley of Alabama; and
Carl Christian of Auburn. But the
presence of these "name" run­ners
didn't bother the hard-fight­ing
Walker, and he pulled the
biggest upset in the day by win­ning
the event in the very fast
time of 9:7. This time was ever
more remarkable because of the
fact that the track was a • sea of
mud and that the race was run in
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From then on Coach Wilbur
Hutsell gave Jimmy plenty of
attention as he saw the great
possibilities of the Magic City
youngster. In his first meet this
season Jimmy was nosed out by
Bill Adams of Florida in the fast
Florida relays. However, the next
week found Walker entered in
the Southern relays and he
turned in a very good time as
he lead the way in the 100 and
the 220. He continued his win­ning
ways in the Tiggr's dual
meets against Georgia, Misissippi
State, arid Florida, and he is being
counted on very -heavily by
Coach Hutsell in tomorrow's im­portant
meet with the powerful
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.
Coach Hutsell is not the type
cpach that likes to give too
much praise to any one individ­ual,
.but he admits that Walker
is one of the most outstanding
dash prospects that he has ever
cpached since he has been at Au­burn.
With Walker returning
again next spring for two more
years of tradk eligibility, the Ti­ger
cindermen will be rugged foe
for their Southeastern Conference
opponents.
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Auburn Thindads
Lose To Techmen
In Last Dual Meet
A short-manned Auburn track
team did its best against Georgia
Tech's superior resources last
week, but couldn't quite make the
grade and suffered a 73 1-2-^-5 1-2
defeat at the hands of the Engi­neers
in their last duel meet of
the/season.
The Tiger squad, without the
services of sprinters Jimmy Wal­ker
and Chauncey Wood, were
virtually lost in the dashes, al­though
f.ine showings by Chris­tian
and Flournoy did gain them
several points in those races.
Walker, who is hospitalized,,
and Wood, with leg trouble, were
both unable to compete,
The Tigers managed to cop but
fpur firsts among the 14 events,
running the mile, two-mile,
javelin and 120-yard high hurd­les.
However, they did gain
points on seconds and thirds.
Fred Carley and Whitey Over­ton
of Auburn finished in a tie
in the mile, while Overton eppped
first place in the two-mile run.
Jim Wood copped a first for the
Tigers in the javelin thrust and
Joe Pennington won a first in the
high hurdles.
It was Auburn's second defeat
of the season, while the Tech
group remains unbeaten.
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AleS WILL SHOW
JET PLANE FILMS
Two films on jet planes will be
shown to- members of The Ins­titute
of Aeronautical Sciences,
Tuesday, May 18, at 7:15 p.m.
The films will be shown in Ram­say
109.
During the meeting, plans for a
social function will be discussed.
All aero engineering and aero ad­ministration
to attend.
students are urged
Pi Kappa Phi Fetes
Alpha Gams At House
Pi 'Kappa Phi was host Thurs­day
night at a house dance given
in honor of the Alpha Gamma
Delta sorority. The house was
filled to overflowing as fifty-five
girls responded to the invitation.
The house was given a "new
look" by red and" white stream­ers
which decorated the rooms.
Mrs. Burke W h i 11 e y, house­mother,
was hostess.
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6—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, May 12, 1948
United World Federalist Leader
Is Scheduled For Opelika Lecture
, Vernon Nash national vice-president
of United World Fede­ralist
and internationally known
author and lecturer will speak on
"The Prospects of a Governed
World" at Trinity Methodist
Church.
Prof. Bjurberg, history instruc­tor,
will present the speaker.
Dr. Nash is pioneer in urging
that peace is a by-product of
responsible government. His lec­tures
cite the futile trials man
has made of loose associations of
fully sovereign states and recount
the success pf federal systems of
government among populations
with acute differences of race,
language, and culture.
Vernon Nash's convictions and
presentation arise not only from
exhaustive study pf all printed
materials in the field of interna­tional
relations; he has had first
hand experience in more than
twenty different countries, He has
proven to.be one of the most dy­namic
and constructive speakers
that lecture listeners have had the
opportunity to hear.
Mr. Nash founded the first
school of journalism in Asia at
Yenching University, Peiping,
China, in 1924. He has also been
professor of journalism at»the
University of Missouri and is
author of several books. He is
now spending most of his time
in the crusade for world peace
through federated world govern­ment.
Several weeks ago the Auburn
Debating Team led a panel dis­cussion
on "World Government"
at Trinity church. Because of the
interest stimulated by this pro­gram
which was under, the di­rection
of Professor R. H. Bjur­berg
it was decided by a group
in the church to invite some au­thority
on the subject to speak
here and Mr. Nash, recognized
as one of tfye best, was secured
for the meeting.
Gamma Delta chapter of Al­pha
Gamma Delta sorority an­nounces
the pledging of Lucy
Rutledge and Billie Lou Estes,
both of Birmingham. This is the
first quarter at Auburn for both
girls.
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'PRODUCERS' SET
BANQUET DATE
The Auburn Producers, student
broadcasting organization, will
hold a second annual banquet on
May 14. Plans for the event were
announced by Martha Morris,
chairman of the Banquet Com­mittee.
Guests of the Producers will in­clude
Mrs. James Lawson, facul­ty
adviser, and Marion Hyatt,
manager of station WJHO.
Vernon Nash
Vacancies Exist
In Naval Flight
Training Program
Approximately 800 Vacancies
for entry into Naval flight train­ing
will exist after July 1 for
NROTC and college graduates,
Lt.. Robert. N. Adrian of the
NROTC Unit announced today.
Actual flight training for those
appointed will follow an indoc­trination
course at Pensacola,
Fla. The indoctrination course is
expected to extend from one to
four months, and 19 months of
flight training will be given.
Candidates for the program
must be between 19 and 25 years
of age as of July 1 and have
completed four years, (120 semes­ter
hours) in an accredited col­lege.
Candidates still, in college
who expect to meet the education­al
requirements within 60 days
may also apply.
Application forms and further
information may be obtained by
writing the office of Naval Of­ficer
Procurement, Box 1364, At­lanta,
Ga. 1
RADIO CLUB OFFERS
LIFE MEMBERSHIPS
The Auburn Radio Club now
offers its . graduating members
and alumni the opportunity to be­come
life-time members and re­ceive
a special membership card.
The desire for this arrangement
ha? been expressed by many Au­burn
"hams," and it is expected
that there will be an increasing,
number joining in the coming
months. In the past the club has
had many enjoyable QSOs with
the alumni on the club frequency
of 7230 Kc, and this will con­tinue
to be the club's designated
frequency for this purpose.
The weekly mile per watt con­test
was won by Stan Owens,
W4LHV. His winning entry was
made by contacting ZL2RD in
New Zealand with 7.4 watts, wh
New . Zealand with 7.4 watts,
which gave him a score of 1130
miles per watt. He also made con­tacts
with Czechoslovakia and
Italy. Prank O'Kelley, W4NIA,
contacted Brazil and New Bruns­wick,
Canada, and Hank Heitt,
wan, Canada.
The club was very pleased
when informed that Professor
Grady Saunders received his
"ticket" as W4NQH and Hubert
Harris received his as W4NQA..
Both wil soon be on the air
knocking out CQs.
Everyone interested in ama­teur
radio is invited to meet' at
7 p.m. on Tuesday nights on the
second floor of the AC lab build---
ing.
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Three Delta Zeta
Members Are Honored
Three members of Beta Xi
chapter, Delta Zeta sorority, re­ceived
the annual Delta Zeta.
award Wednesday night at the
regular chapter meeting. *
Ruth Upton, Panama City,
Fla., was presented the loving
cup for being the outstanding
senior of Delta Zeta. The cup is
awarded on the basis of scholar­ship,
leadership, outside activi­ties,
and service to the sorority.
Ruth is a, senior in the school of
science and literature majoring
in business administration. She
has held the following offices in
Delta Zeta: first vice-president
(pledge trainer); second vice-president
i (in charge of rush);
recording secretary, and historian.
Ruth's campus activities include:
Dolphin Club, Owls, Oracles,
Freshman Advisory Committee,
Glee Club, ahd publicity chair­man
for Red Cross.
Margaret Wade was presented
the model pledge bracelet for
outstanding interest in the soro­rity
and outside activities. Mar­garet
is from Brewton and is a
freshman in home economics.
She is secretary of the Interfaith
Council and is freshman repre­sentative
to WSGA.
June Whatley, Auburn, was
presented a cup for outstanding
schoolastic record while a pledge.
She is a member of Oracles, and
is a freshman in science and
literature.
f Former Navy Airmen
May Join Birmingham
Naval Reserve Unit
Former Navy pilots and crew­men
enrolled at Auburn can now
become affiliated with the Naval
Reserve Flying Base in Birming­ham.
Although the Birmingham
squadron is Qh a voluntary basis
at present, plans are under way
to put it on an organized basis
about J u ly 1.
There are 16 planes on hand at
the present time, says Lt. Com-m'ander
B. R. Carlisle, and more
are.on the way. Plans are being
made to begin picking up pilots
and crewmen at Auburn and the
University of Alabama.
All persons, interested are ur­ged
to contact Lt. (jg) S. T.
Cooper, Box 1808, Auburn, Ala­bama,
phone. 1263-J as soon as
possible.
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that come pay to see them.
Children under eight years of
age and lovers of any age should
be forbidden to enter a movie
house. Why people will bring
small children to the show is
quite beyond me. They couldn't
possibly enjoy the picture while
some noisy urchin is yelling at
the top of his lungs, standing up
in the seat, asking fool questions,
and wanting a drink of water. If
they annoyed their parents half
as much as they annoy me, they
would keep them at home. But
the lovers present the most seri­ous
problems. In the first place
they want to sit cheek to cheek,
and whisper sweet nothings in
each others ear, or else the boy
is making cute sayings at every
thing that goes on, trying his best
to impress her on how clever he
is. .
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FOR SALE: Jeep with radio,
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tire. 17,000 miles. See Ronnie
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FOR SALE: 1946 Cushman
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FOR SALE: < Large chest of
drawers. Plenty of space and a
full size mirror. $15.00. Can be
seen at Apt. L-3 Garden Court.
Call Blair. 851.
FOR SALE: One pair new
Florsheim shoes. Size 7-C worn
once. Reduced price. Call 424-M
after 5 p. m.
Typing % done for students.
Twenty cents per page single-space,
15 cents double space.
Contact' Mrs. J. M. Whatley,
Route 2, Auburn. Guaranteed
work.
LOST: Pair of rimless glasses
in blue case about 2 weeks
ago on campus. Reward. Cal^
410-W.
KDs Entertain Sigs
At Softball Picnic
Kappa Delta sorority honored
Beta.Theta of Sigma Nu with a
Softball picnic Thursday. Frater­nity
members and dates enjo^d
an afternoon puting of softball.
As a handicap the boys batted
left-handed and ran the bases
backward. The girls showed su­perior
form and handed the boys
a humiliating defeat. Later a
picnic supper was held at the
Sigma Nu house. While some of
the party played volley ball,,
others enjoyed dancing.
Alpha Psi Announces .
Election Of Officers
Alpha Psi fraternity announces
the election of officers at a re­cent
meeting. They are: Derrell
Smalley, president; Larry Reidel,
vice-president; Nelson Makinson,
secretary;* Maurice Tipton, trea­surer;
Angus Gaskin, representa­tive
to IFC; Claude Jamerson,
house manager; Lywood Box,
steward; Lamar Moree and J. D.
Martin, sergeant-at-arms; Cecil
Gray, editor of alumni news; Sid
McCain, sports manager; Derrell
Smalley, outstanding junior of
the year; Karon Jennings and
Ray Ward, rush chairmen.
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