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S vDL. LXXII ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1947 Number 39
GEORGIA AIR ATTACK IS FEARED
Photo by Leonard Whitten
Who's Who Honors 28 Auburn
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Students For 1948 Publication
Phi Kappa Phi
Elects Members
The Auburn Chapter of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa
Phi held a meeting on November 4 to elect new members.
These members were selected in recognition of their excell­ence
in scholarship, leadership, character, and promise of suc­cess
in their chosen profession.
The following students were Strong, Brewton; Archie Sulli-elected:
Ralph C. Boles, Notasul-ga;
Mrs. Patsey Bozeman Brill,
Linevillet Arthur L. Burnette, Col­lin
wood, Tennessee; Bradley T.
Cox, Killen; William H. Davidson,
Atlanta, Ga.; Ruth Lucile Dough­erty,
Decatur, Ga.; Laverne T.
Flanagan, Mobile; John M. Fuller,
Spartanburg, S. C; Norman F.
Gilbert, Birmingham; William
Lewis Goodman, Auburn; Samuel
B. Hooten, Birmingham; Martha
Huckabee,__Uniontown; James A.
Jackson, Chancellor; T. H. John­son,
Tallassee; Richard Lasday,
Anniston; Peggy Jo Lowery,
Birmingham; Carolyn McCrary.
Centerville; Eugene M. McEachin,
O p e 1 i k a ; Max R. McGlamry,
Phenix City; Gerald W. IJaylor.
Auburn; Thomas F. Parkinson,
Covington, Tennessee; Joseph S.
Powell, Fort Worth, Texas; Fred
A. Primo, Auburn; C. W. Rey­nolds,
Opelika; Robert T. Rich­ardson,
LaGrange, Ga.; Herman
Slaton, River view; John C. Spen­cer,
Tampa, Fla., William Ed.
Stephenson, Hartselle; Howard R.
van, Hodges; Glen L. Suydam.
Auburn; William Tackeit, Au­burn;
Alex C. Thomas Mobile;
Christopher C. Whatley, Opelika;
Thomas D. Wood, Jr., Birming­ham;
Cherry Wooldridge. Eufau­la;
Bronze C. Youmans, Patter­son,
Georgia.
Twenty-eight outstanding students of Auburn were re­cently
selected for the 1948 edition of "Who's Who Among
Students in American Universities and Colleges."
Each year "Who's Who Among Students" recognizes stu­dents
from.approximately 600 colleges and universities in the
United States and Canada. Howard J o h n s o n ^ £ a g f i.
cultural administration from E.
Tallassee; E m m e 11 Killebrew,
senior in industrial manageinent
from Cord'ele, Ga.; Bill Anderson,
junior in business administration
The Auburn honorees were se­lected
by a faculty nominating
committee which considered out­standing
effort and accomplish­ment
in academic work; extra­curricular
activities, and service
to the school.
During the school year certifi­cate
awards are presented to all
students selected. In connection
with the honor program, a place­ment
service is provided through
which members may be recom­mended
for employment.
Honored students above arc:
bottom row, left to right:Miriam
Rhyne, junior in education from
LaFayette, Ga.; Mrs. Laverne
Taylor Flanagan, senior in busi­ness
administration from Mobile;
Peggy Hartley, junior in labora­tory
technology from Georgiana;
Peggy Young, senior in home eco-
• nomics from Centerville; Peggy
Jo Lowery, senior in education
from Birmingham; and Edwina
Foreman, junior in applied art
from Birmingham.
Second row, left to right: Bob
Flanagan, senior in architecture
from Florence; John Shaffer, sen­ior
in jarchitecture from Mont­gomery;
O. H. Mims, senior in
forestry from Sylacauga; Charles
Scales, senior in mechanical engi­neering,
from Decatur; John
Monroe, junior in business admin­istration,
from Castleberry; and
Zeke Bass, senior in aeronautical
administration, from Albany, Ga.
Third row, left to right: Dick
O'Cain senior in business admin­istration
from Durant, Miss.; T.
from 'Birmingham; Seab Hayes,
senior in industrial management
from Hattiesburg, Miss.; Loyce
Turner, senior in veterinary
medicine from Valdosta, Ga.; and
J. O. Macon, senior in business ad­ministration
from Moultrie, Ga.
Fourth row, left to right: C.
Ray Martin, senior in mechanical
engineering from Iron City, Ga.;
Bobby Humphrey, senior in
mechanical engineering from Col­umbus,
Ga.; Jim Woodson, junior
in chemical engineering from Bir­mingham;
PaulPersons, senior in
mechanical engineering from Bir-mingahm:
Ralph Jennings, senior
in science and literature from La­Fayette;
Jimmy Coleman, junior
in commercial art from Hayne-ville:
and Fred Sumners, junior in
ag science from Tallassee.
Not shown are Billy Ball, junior
in education from Norton, Va.;
and Craig Green, senior in educa­tion
from Hope Hull.
Chi Epsilon Taps
Ten Upperdassmen
o Chi Epsilon, honorary fraternitv
of Civil Engineering, recently tap­ped
10 men to become members
of the organization. Seniors cho­sen:
John M. Dantzler, Birming­ham;
and Arthur C. Moore, Gads­den.
.
Juniors chosen: William M.
Barber, Warrior; Carl C. Cross-man,
Birmingham; B. R. Lowe,
Jr.. Mobile; Clive J. Luke. Bir­mingham;
Charles E. M i l l e r.
Warne, N. C; Homer Rutledge
Smith, Ozark; James E. Ward,
Fairhope; and Thomas 'H. Whit­field,
Birmingham.
They will be formally initiated
into the fraternity on Nov. 14.
For two days preceding this date,
they may be distinguished by the
purple and white ribbons which
they will wear on their lapels.
To contribute to the improve­ment
of the engineering profes­sion,
Chi Epsilon fosters the de­velopment
and exercise of funda­mentally
sound traits of charact­er
and technical ability among
engineers.
Coleman, Anderson
Election Winners
Jimmy Coleman and Bill An­derson
were elected Monday to
fill the posts of editor-in-chief
and business manager, respecti­vely,
of The Plainsman for the
next nine months.
Coleman received 819 votes out
of a total of 1254 cast. His only
opposition, Ray Fowler, received
435 votes.
Anderson ran unopposed.
Coleman is a junior in com­mercial
art from Haynesville, and
Anderson is a junior in business
administration from Birmingham.
Coleman succeeds himself as
editor, and Anderson will replace
C. Ray Martin as business mana­ger.
Dobbins Will Speak
At Plainsman Banquet
Charles Dobbins, editor and
publisher of the Montgomery
Examiner, and former editor of
the Montgomery Advertiser, will
be guest speaker at the annual
Plainsman banquet this year.
Mr. Dobbins is one of the
South's outstanding liberal news­paper
editors.
The banquet date has been
tentatively set for Dec. 4.
Beat Georgia Rally
Set For Friday
Big WSGA-Sponsored
Dance Will Follow
"Beat Georgia" pep rally will
be held Friday night at seven.
The group will parade through
town enroute to the stadium. All
students who have orange shirts
and blue ties are' urged to wear
them.
This year's' rally promises to be
one of the largest pre-Georgia
rallies ever held. The Pep Com­mittee
has engaged several ex-,
perienced guest speakers and
WSGA is sponsoring a dance after
the rally.
Fraternities are requested to
bring wood for the bonfire.
Phi lambda Upsilon
Taps 13 Students
Alpha Iota of Phi Lamba Up­silon,
National Honorary Society
for chemical engineers and che­mists,
tapped 13 juniors and se­niors
for membership last week.
The men honored are: John M.
Sublett, Huntsville; Louis A. Bul-lington,
Sheffield; Albert D. Kai­ser,
Natchez, Miss.; Wilbur G.
H o l m e s , Birmingham; W. E.
Blankenstein, Natchez, Miss.;
Marion M. Duncan, Columbus,
Ga.; C. E. Williams, Atchison,
Kansas; M. R. Bird, Birmingham;
Henchel Holley, Andalusian; Eu­gene
McEachin, Opelika; Harvey
I. Watson, Opelika; Joe B. Gallo­way,
Birmingham; and Wyatt H.
Thomas, Alexander City.
The purpose of Phi Lamba Up­silon
is to foster a spirit of fel­lowship
among the students; to
promote a higher standard of
scholarship; and to place honor
upon those students deserving of
recognition because of their out­standing
scholarship, character,
and potential ability to become a
credit to their profession.
Pictured above is Hugh Gas­ton,
publicity chairman for the
World Student Service Fund
Drive which is now in progress.
The WSSF Fund is designed to
aid students with books, cloth­ing,
and food in Western Eu­rope
and Asia.
Alpha Epsilon Delta
Initiates 9 Members
The Alabama Gamma chapter
of the Alpha Epsilon Delta fra­ternity,
national honorary organi­zation
for pre-medical, pre-dental,
and laboratory technician stu­dents,
initiated nine new mem­bers
last Monday night in Comer
Hall to swell its total to 30 ac­tives.
The initiates were selected from
students who had attained and
maintained superior scholastic
achievements, and who possess
the necessary qualities and char­acteristics
for a successful career.
New members initiated are:
Henry G. Glass, Uniontown; An­nie
Earle Lindsey, Abbeville; Bet-te
Simmons, Decatur; Lewis G.
Cain, Garfield, N. J.; Alfred C.
Walker, Finfield; Henry F. Turn­er,
Andalusia; Robert J. Mc­Laughlin,
Blue Springs; John P.
Robinson, Dothan; and James A.
Whiteside, Birmingham.
Battle Of The Bands
Set For Phenix City
After Grid Meeting
The traditional rivalry between
Auburn and Georgia will be car­ried
to an even farther degree
Saturday night when the Auburn
Knights meet the Georgia Bull­dogs
in the first of an annual
Battle of the Bands dance. The j
notes will fly in the ballroom of
the Idle Hour Park in Phenix
City when the two bands meet
there at 3 p.m. The management
of the park is donating a beauti­ful,
silver trophy to be awarded
the winner.
The winning band will be cho­sen
by actual vote, using the stub Mistress of the Inn', which opened Monday night at Langdon Hall. The Auburn Players shown tp^xmm^i s mm^M»^mMM —•* - ***** ™"— -Tte ""ssmrjaz-
Toomers and the Grill. !*& The Count.
First-Nighters
Acclaim Opening
Of 'Mistress'
By Tom Sellers
The Auburn Players opened
their current fall production of
"The Mistress of the Inn" last
Monday night at Langdon Hall.
Highlight of the show were the
foppish antics of The Marquis,
played by Lamar Ranier, and the
ludicrous portrayal of a woman-hating
Cavalier by Bob Black­burn.
Fast action and sarcastic
dialogue fill the play with laughs
from start to finish.
The sotting is in mid-18th cen­tury
Florence, and the period
costumes add spice to the roman­tic
aura of the inn. Mirandolina,
the Mistress, is gleefully played
by Betty Ramsay. She wins the
hearts of all the noblemen who
lodge at her establishment.
Other parts are as follows: The
Count, Tommy Eden; Ortensia,
Carol Dorrough; Djaneria, Shir­ley
Braswell; and Bill Moblcy and
Robert Laney.
"The Mistress of the Inn" is
scheduled to appear at West Point,
Ga. on Tuesday, Nov 18; Camp
Hill on Thursday, Nov. 20; Hef-lin
on Saturday, Nov. 22; Opelika
on Monday, Nov. 24 and Troy on
Friday, Dec. 5. Bookings for Dec.
1-3 are still open according to
Prof. Telfair B. Peet, director
of the Players.
Tryouts for "Angel Street",
which will be directed by Bob
Blackburn, are to be held Mon­day
night, Nov. 17 at 7:30.
Tomorrow night, the Players
will present "The Mistress of the
Inn" at the Auburn High School
auditorium at 7:30.
Voyles Busy Shaping
Tiger Counterattack
By Ronald Kuerner
Auburn's air defense will have to be at its best this Saturn-day
if they expect to stop Georgia's much-vaunted passing
attack in the season's closing home game at Columbus.
Fresh from a promising showing with Mississippi State,
the Tigers will have to figure some way to stop Hurlin' John­ny
Rauch, who completed an even dozen out of 20 passes last
week against Florida.
Auburn, while not coming out well, who has been coming into
on top against the Maroons, never
theless gave them trouble, !out-playing
them in certain depart­ments:
They outnumbered the
Maroons in first downs 15 to 11
and in passing, Auburn completed
9 to 15 for 112 yai'ds.
The Tigers were favored to lose
by at least four touchdowns, but
their unexpected showing ruined
many a person. Taking this into
consideration, the Tigers will pro­bably
be about 20-point underdogs
against the Bulldogs.
Rauch will be the man for the
Tigers to stop. Throwing two
touchdown passes against Florida
and quarterback sneaking over for
two more, Rauch strengthened his
bid for All-Southeastern honors
and will probably be out against
Auburn to gain even more pre­stige.
However, the Tigers can
counter attack with Travis Tid-his
own more and more.
While Auburn's record is far
from spotless, the Bulldogs don't
have too much to brag about.
They have dropped three out of
eight games, while defeating such
teams as Clemson, Florida, and
Furman. Alabama, North Caro­lina
and Kentucky have all teed
off on the Bulldogs. Even with
little Furman, the Bulldogs could
win but by six points.
The Tigers will go into this
game with a record of two victo­ries
against six defeats, starting
off the year by wininng two out
of three games and then dropping
the next five. They have shown
up remarkably against some teams
and were flops against others.
They fooled the experts both
against Georgia Tech and State,
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Pi Taii Sigma Honorary
Taps 25 Upperdassmen
Pi Tau Sigma, national honor­ary
fraternity in mechanical en­gineering,
tapped 25 undergrad­uate
students and one faculty
member last week. The students
were those chosen from the up-perclassman
who have shown
outstanding achievement in me­chanical
engineering.
Twice each year, Pi Tau Sigma
selects the students showing a
real interest and marked ability
in their chosen field for member­ship
in the fraternity.
Those selected were:
Prof. Leon M. Sahag. professor
of engineering drawing.
Robert R. Head, senior from
Oxford, Ala.
Derrill B. Chambliss, senior
from Memphis, Tenn.
Robert T., Scott, senior from
Montgomery, Ala.
R. H. Pricheit, senior from
Montgomery, Ala.
W. C. Atherton, senior from
Shawmut, Ala.
Robert C. Humphrey, senior
from Columbus, Ga.
Charles M. Scales III, senior
from Decatur, Ala.
William F. Lehman. Jr.. senior
from Wetumpka, Ala.
Sidney W. Ross, Jr., senior from
Selma, Ala.
Arthur C. Parker, senior from
Birmingham, Ala.
F. T. Payne, senior from Pike
Road, Ala.
Joseph E. Logan, senior from
Bainbridge, Ga.
William R. Davidson, senior
from Atlanta, Ga.
Norman F. Gilbert, senior from
Birmingham, Ala.
David B. Shall, junior from
Auburn, Ala.
Owen M. Ward, junior from
Pensacola, Fla.
N. Gillis Cammack, junior from
Selma, Ala.
M. E. Fox, junior from Birm­ingham,
Ala.
J. C. Farlow, junior from Mon-tevallo,
Ala.
John A. Robbins. junior from
Rome, Ga.
Leonard D. Braswell. junior
from Birmingham, Ala.
Seih H. Mitchell. Jr.. junior
from Fairfield, Ala.
Harold H. Franks, junior from
Wheeler, Miss.
Theodore C. Herring, junior
from Slateford, Pa.
Donald E. Mclntire, junior
from Greenwich, Ohio.
ALPHA ZETA HONORS
36 IN AG UPPERCLASS
The Alabama chapter.of Alpha
Zeta, national honorary fraterni­ty
in agriculture, tapped 37
juniors and seniors last week.
Membership in the fraternity is
based on scholarship, character,
and leadership "ability.
These tapped were: Will A.
Cope, senior, Inverness, Ala; Ro­bert
S. Ingram, senior, Lineville,
Ala; James E. Paseur, senior, New
Hope, Ala.; Thomas S. Byars,
senior, Latham, Ala.; Issac B.
Byrd, junior, Mobile, Ala.; James
E. Hill, senior, Sulligent, Ala.;
Charles C. Hortenstine- senior,
Abington, Va.; Marvin E. Merkle,
senior, Lincoln, Ala.
Foster G. Owen, senior, Nortii-port,
Ala.; Edward F. Pittman,
senior, Montgomery, Ala.; Regi­nald
J. Ray, junior, Wetumpka,
Ala.; James M. Rickey, junior,
Gadsden, Ala.; Jack P. Turner,
junior, Grove Hill, Ala.; John W.
Eddins, Jr., junior, Frisco City,
Ala.; Lowrey H. Davis, senior,
Opelika', Ala.; W. F» Browder,
junior, Gaylesville, Ala.; Robert
L. Harrison, junior, Fort Payne,
Ala.; Howard Hayne, senior, Ec­lectic,'
Ala.
Warren A. Davis, senior, Ope­lika,
Ala.; Jesse E. Smith, senior,
Harvest, Ala.; Archie W. Sullivan,
senior, Hodges, Ala.; Arto A.
Thorne.i senior, Belgreen, Ala.;
Eddy S. V i n s o n , s e n i o r,
Wetumpka, Alabama; William B.
Crowe, Jr., senior, Clanton, Ala.;
James B. Nichols, senior, Linden,
Ala.; John F. Horton, senior, Fort
Payne, Ala.; George C. Smith,
senior, Butler Spring?, Ala.; Vir­gil
S. Searcy, senior, Auburn,
Ala.; Samuel L. Cannerday, se­nior,
St. Joseph, Tenn.
John H. Rew, senior, Ward, Ala.;
Quinton Wrightv senior, Joppa,
Ala.; John F. Thornton, senior,
Vinemont, Ala.; Bill Ray, junior,
Elba, Ala.; Herman Slaton, senior,
River View, Ala.; Winfred Le-croy,
junior, Maplesville, Ala.; and
Fred L. Glaze, junior, Athens,
Ala.
Deans Will Lead Queens At Pan-Hellenic WSSF Dance Friday
Miss Auburn To Leadout
With President Draughon
Miss Essie Cnimpton, recently
elected Miss Auburn, will share
leadout honors with Acting Presi­dent
» Ralph Draughon Friday
night at the Pan-Hellenic WSSF
Dance.
The deans of the various schools
and departments will follow Miss
Crumpton and her escort with Hie
ten beauties as chosen at the
ODK-Glomerata Ball last night.
Miss Peggy Lowery, president of
the Pan-Hellenic Organization,
will be escorted by Dick O'Cain,
president of the Student Execu­tive
Cabinet.
Music will be furnished by the
Auburn Knights and the dance
will be held from 9 to 12 Friday
night in the Student Activities
Building. The dance is sponsored
by the Pan-Hellenic Society for
the benefit of the WSSF, and all
proceeds will be for that organi­zation.
Tickets may be bought
from all sorority girls and at the
booth at the Main Gate. The tick­ets
are $1.00 per couple or stag.
A special invitation is extend­ed
to the faculty and their wives
to attend.
Pi Kappa Alpha Fetes
New House Mother
Mrs. Selma H. Ford, Pi Kappa
Alpha's new housemother, was
presented at a reception held
Sunday, Nov. 2, at the chapter
house.
Serving as hostesses were Mrs.
Roger Allen, Mrs. Sara M. Tid-more,
Mrs. Byrd Lee, Mrs. P. M.
Norton and Mrs. E. S. Winters.
Trailer Court Couples
Enjoy Recent Dance
The married veterans and
wives of the Auburn School Trail­er
Court came forth with the
spii'its Friday night to play and
dance in the new school barn.
Dean Suggs of the Veterinary
School in welcoming the trailer
dwellers said that he was happy
that they could use and enjoy the
barn before the other animals
moved in. And enjoy it they did
—dancing, contests, prizes and
refreshments were enjoyed by all
present.
Phi Kappa Tau Elects
Fall Pledge Officers
At the pledge meeting held Nov.
4, the Phi Kappa Tau Pledges
elected officers for the Fall quar­ter.
Those elected were: Edwin
Richardson, p r e s i d e n t ' ; Perry
Smith, vice-president; Billy Que­nelle,
secretary; Leon Blackman,
chaplain; and Harold Ingram, so­cial
chairman.
Pledges Entertained
At Sigma Nu Dance
Sigma Nu fraternity held a
dance honoring the pledges of
Auburn's sororities and fraterni­ties
in the Student Activities
Building Friday night, October
31.
Music was furnished by a com­bo
set from the Auburn Plains­men.
Sigma Nu also held a formal
initiation Wednesday night for
the following men: Farrar W.
B o n d , Jr., Montgomery; Joe
Thrash and Paul Harrison, At­lanta.
Pan-Hellenic Award
To Alpha Gamma Qelta
The Gamma Delta chapter of
Alpha Gamma Delta sororiety re­cently
received the Pan-Hellenic
Scholarship Cup for the year
1946-47. The \ presentation- -Was
made by the president of the
council.
This is the chapter's fourth
consecutive year in winning the
award.
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Delta Sigma Phi Formal
Held For New Members
The Kappa Chapter of the Del­ta
Sigma Phi fraternity formally
initiated the following men last
Wednesday:
Chester Riser, Birmingham,
Ala.; Elmer Cowan, Opp, Ala.;
Jim Watson, Birmingham, Ala.;
and Willard Murphee, Moulton,
Ala..
DELTA SIGMA PHI HALLOWEEN
PARTY IS GHOSTLY SUCCESS
Miss Essie Crumpton
CINCINNATI SYMPHONY THRILLS
AUBURN MUSIC LOVERS ANEW
By Dick Inlow
Last Friday night in the new Student Activities Building
the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra gave probably the best
rounded program of music ever presented on this campus.
Thor Johnson, the young new conductor, mixed lighter music
perfectly with the heavier so that not once during the two
hour program did interest lag in
any degree.
Mr. Johnson seems to have pro­vided
a much needed spark of
life and energy into this world
famous orchestra that had of late
been somewhat guilty of listless
performances.
The appeal of this new conduc­tor
to the audience is not to be
overlooked either. He is one of
the few lucky men who have just
the right amount of the dramatic
in them without attempting to be
dramatic at all. All of his actions
on the podium seem sincerely di­rected
toward the shaping of the
music and at the same time pro­vide
a magnetic target for the
eye of the listener."
The program was opened with
an arrangement for orchestra
alone of Vivaldi's Concerto in D-Minor
for two violins. It was ty­pical
of the work of Vivaldi and
his contemporaries, and also of
Fritz Kreisler's imitations of Viva­ldi,
and therefore familiar.
Brahms' Fourth Symphony was
presented as the main work of the
evening. It was performed' in a
manner that proved Mr. John­son's
statement that the themes
of Brahms were the most perfect
for symphonic development. I
failed to gain the feeling of resig­nation
from the symphony that
the program notes indicated, the
co lor did not seem "dorminantly
grey." Of course, it was not the
The Delta Sig house was
pirates, clowns, and Indians
Jean Barnhart and Gene Dr
original costumes.
Miss Georgiana Adams, a
from Kent, England, entertained
with a few English songs. The
Delta Sig Rhythm Boys gave
their* interpretation of the "Can­nibal
King,,' "Brother Bill's Still
on the Hill" and others. Sandy
Southerland, in an appropriate
costume, gave an imitation of Al
Jolson singing "April Showers"
and "Swannee". Following the
entertainment, Mrs. Lawless, the
House Mother, served a very or-ginal
Halloween refreshment.
Those present were: Joe Mc-
Gee, Barbara Williams, Dan Fors-ter,
Essie Mae* Crumpton; Jim
Whiteside, Georgiana Adams;
Alpha Gamma Delta Tea
Welcomes New Pledges
The Gamma Delta chapter of
Alpha Gamma Delta sorority held
a tea honoring the chapter's new
pledges. Ann Hutto, chapter pre­sident,
greeted the guests assisted
by Faye Buck, representing the
pledges.
Mrs. Helen Salman poured the
coffee and Yvonne Cargile regist­ered
the guests. Over two hun­dred
and fifty visitors called.
same lightheartedness as the com­poser's
Second Symphony, but
neither was it grey or resigned.
After the regular intermission
three dances from the Gayne
Suite of Aram Khatchaturian
were offered; "The Dance of the
Rose-Maidens", "Lullaby", and
startling and entertaining "Sabre
Dance." These were followed by
the impressionalistic "White Pea­cock"
by Griffes.
The regular program was con­cluded
with the light "Capriccio
Espagnol" of. Rimsky-Korsakov.
Two encores were given in ans­wer
to enthusiastic and insistant
applause: A Slavonic Dance voL'
Dvorak and Tchaikowsky's "Waltz
of the Flowers" from the Nut­cracker
Suite.
The Cincinnati Orchestra re­turned
to Auburn this year by
popular desire. I know I speak
for all of Auburn when I say
that I hope that their schedule
may soon again include a perfor­mance
here.
invaded by a group of ghosts,
Halloween night for a party,
iver won prizes as the most
talented and charming visitor
Bob Conry, Mary Ellen Stammer;
Terry Bayne, Carolyn Hatcher;
Charles Baisch, Jean Barnhai-dt;
Gordon Kinsey, Helen Hamilton;
Ruel Russell, Margaret Sims;
Hugh Henderson, '"Chac"' Ever-rett;
Roland Wilson, Jean Smith;
Gene Driver, Barbara King; Glen
Montgomery, Nancy Bailey; Jack
Palmer, Peggy Ponder; Leonard
Oden, Sadie Bar Hugh; Dan Gil-more,
Nancy Waltz; Curley Dun-lap,
Jean Hudson; Bud Irwin,
Jeanne Walker; Charles Baird,
Gussie Arnnet; Jack Smith, Jean
Nazaretian, Jack Guilian, Jane
Bell; Eric Campbell, Hilda Pat­terson;
Bill Montgomery, Penny
Harmon; H. S. Sutton, Sara Corn­er;
John Steel, Frances Neigh­bors;
John Wurtele, Trudy York;
Jim Watson, Eleanor Janney; Pat
Logan, Modesta Bide; Hugh Edge,
Sara Pass; Wilie Rucker, Fay
Russell; Harold Johnson, Betty
Sue Grant; Jimmy Baird, Sara
Peters; Pete Stewart, Sally Salli-day;
Jack Rollins, Annette Foss;
Connie Miller, Joyce McGill.
The stags were De Lome Cum-baa,
Ashley Floyd, Louie Hollo-way,
Bill Grimes, Sandy South­erland,
John Poole, Harold Wise,
Bud Murphee and Ken Murphee.
The Wilbur Hutsell Cake Race
gives every freshman a chance to
engage in collegiate athletic com­petition.
Fraternities are urged
to select a training manager and
to get their pledges — and all
their freshmen—into condition^
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for they have just as good a
chance of winning as frat men.
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Vv THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, Nov. 12, 1947
i
Auburn Photographer
Is Painter On The Side
By Milch Sharpe
"That's near Oise on the Seine, isn't it?", the colonel said.
Mr. Alfred E. James, former art instructor at Auburn
and now owner of the James Studio, assured him that it was.
The picture under discussion was a small oil painting Mr.
James had done while in France with the 9th Air Force. He
had sketched it near that town
and now it was on exhibit with
a. number of other works in
Greenville, S. C.
During World War I, the colo­nel
had been in this little village
a,nd he recognized it from Mr.
James painting. And so a sale.
The small painting was only
one of many painted by Mr.
James while on duty in France
and England. Many of them, were
finished while he was a patient
'in a hospital. They were done
from water colour and pen and
ink sketches he had made in his
spare time. Together with a
igroup of oils done while at Cape
(God and other spots, in Maine,
•they were recently exhibited in
IGreenville at a showing with a
'local artist.
j No middle-of-the-road or radi­cal
in painting, his tastes and ta-jjlents
touch equally well in ab­straction
and realism. On the ab­stract
side, he has to offer, an oil,
^"Abstraction" which won third
?award at the U.S. Army exhibit
last West Palm Beach. In realism,
$his "Southwest of Paris" received
Hhe Outstanding Oil Prize at the
"annual Alabama Art League
jshow in 1945.
After studying with both Er-
Mr. Alfred James
Alpha Tau Omega Holds
Formal Initiation
The Alpha Epsilon chapter of
Alpha Tau Omega held its formal
^initiation recently for the follow­i
n g men:
; Tom McCreery, John Woodall,
JRicky Smith, Dick Allison, Gene
JDe Rieux, Charles Ethcridge, Bill
•Mobley, Buddy Walker, Vann
'Hennagan, all of Birmingham;
rBill Glover, Montgomery, Ala.;
Harry Golemon, Mobile, Ala.;
.Arthur L. Burnette, Jr., Florence,
Ala.; Guy Handley, Roanoke,
«Ala.; and David Nettles, Monroe-
{Ville, Ala.
I In addition to the members in­itiated,
Sonny Allen of Opelika,
was pledged.
nest Thurn ana Hans Hoffman
in Cape Cdd at their respective
schools, Mr. James says that his
work is a combination of styles
and that he paints as he feels. To
illustrate his point, he offers a
wide variety of paintings which
run from the vague abstraction
of Picasso to the three-dimen­sional
reality of an early Bing­ham.
He admits, however, that
his styles does seem to be a little
impressionistic.
His pet peeve? Mr. James
wants it known that he is now a
fully qualified Southerner and
wishes to be recognized as such.
He reveals that he was born in
Rhode Island, but is quick to
point out that he has lived in the
South for over ten years. Not
only that, but he married a
Southern girl . . . an Auburn girl
as a matter of fact.
REPRESENTATIVE
FROM VA TO SPEED
LOCAL CHECKS
Regional Office
To Be Notified of All
Delinquent Payments
A representative of the Ala­bama
Regional Office of the Ve­terans
Administration will be on
the campus this week to check the
cases of students whose subsis-tence
checks have not arrived
Harley A. Smith, VA Regional
Manager, said.
The VA representative will be
available at the Veterans Admin­istration
office at 235 Mell Street
from 8 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Full details on each delinquent
check will be transmitted imme­diately
to the Regional Office in
Montgomery. Mr. Smith has is­sued
instructions for every pos­sible
action to be taken to speed
up delivery of checks in cases
where there have been delays.
Students reporting non-receipt
of checks should provide the VA
representative with their "C"
number, full name and correct
address, the VA Manager said.
Veterans who have not been no­tified
of their "C" number should
give their service serial number.
BTU To Begin Week
Of Revival and Study
The Baptist Training Union is
sponsoring its annual study week
Nov. 17-21. Training Union Re­vival,
as it is called, will consist
of inspirational messages combi­ned
with the regular study. A
Brotherhood Breakfast at the
Pitt's Hotel Nov. 16 at 8:00 A.M.
will start off the Week. Dr. Clar­ence
Jordan of Americus, Ga.
will speak. Services will be .held
that night.
Seminars will be held at the
church each night in the week at
7:15 A.M. Miss Annie Parker,
of Alabama College at Monte-vallo,
Ala., will lead the seminar
on "Vital Problems in Christian
Living". Miss Frances Barbour,
Wesley Deputation
Visits Tallassee
The Wesley Foundation Depu­tation
made their initial appear­ance
at Tallassee last Sunday
evening.
This was the beginning of a
series of trips to be taken through
out the state in an effort to pro­mote
good will and better reli­gious
contact between various
groups. Their work is important
from an educational as well as
from a spiritual standpoint.
Those attending frorrt Auburn
were: Harold Eiche, who was the
principal speaker; Julia Anne Ta-tum,
Soloist; Lelias Pair, and
Henry Fransise.
Former Football Star
In Search for Plane
Capt. Jack K. Moore, former
member of the Auburn student
body, was a participant in the re­cent
search for the Army C-47
lost enroute from Talara to Peru.
He was in command of the com­munication
squadron charged
with maintaining communications
during the search operations.
He was a member of SAE frat­ernity
and was well known in
football and baseball as well as
scholastic standing.
Members of Ihe Pan-Hellenic Society sponsoring the WSSF
Dance are: Lt. lo Rt: 1st Row. Sue Miller. Peggy Young, Martha
Knight, Carolyn Braswell. 2nd. Row, Peggy Lowery, Eddie
Forman, Doris Parker, Betty Brown. 3rd Row, Anna Jean
Franklin, Betty Sue Colney, Jane Pope, Anna Hutto. 4th. Row,
Tootsie Hester, Jan Drake and Carmen Fornara.
the seminar on "Planning a Life"
"Deepening the Spiritual Life"
will be lead by Rogers Smith, sec-
' retary of Baptist student work for
the State of Tennessee.
The visitng leaders will take
part in informal discussion groups
in the dormitories and fraternity
houses during the week. |*||Jtj
Traylor Is Elected
To Head Sigma Chi
Ray Traylor, Montgomery, took
over duties as president of Sigma
Chi fraternity Wednesday even­ing.
He succeeds Lloyd Malone,
Birmingham, who will graduate
in December.
Others who remain in office arc
Joe Lee Green, vice-president,
Montgomery; George Kenan, se­cretary,
Mobile; and Martin T.
| of Nashville, Tenn.,.will conduct | Moody, treasurer, Piedmont
THETA UPSILON
ANNOUNCES EVENTS
Iota Alpha chapter of Theta Up-tsilon
announces the pledging of
[Ruth Graham. The ritual took
jplace on the evening of Nov. 6
•,in the chapter room at Dormitory
j4. Ruth is a Freshman from
Hazelgreen, Alabama.
Mrs. Jessie Freeman
of
of Bir-
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FILMED AS
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tmingham, president province
12 of Theta Upsilon sorority, will
Ivisit the Auburn chapter on Nov-fember
16 through 18. At this time,
jshe will hold regular chapter in-jspection.
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Members, pledges, and guests of
Theta Upsilon were entertained
Wednesday night by Doris Par­ker
and Grace Poole at a musical
party. Guest artist was Miss Olga
tibza who played several com-ositions
from the masters. She
also delighted everyone by sing­ling
a lullaby of Czechoslovakia
fin the native tongue refresh­ments
were served.
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Wesley Foundation
Hears Oxnam
I Philip H. Oxnam, field chaplain
at Maxwell Field, addressed the
Wesley Foundation Sunday night
on the subject, "Who is my bro­ther?"
Chaplain Oxnam is the son of
Bishop Oxman and former minis­ter
of the Hennepin Avenue Me­thodist
Church in Minneapolis,
Minn, lie has studied at the Uni­versities
of Missouri, Boston,
Michigan and Southern Califor­nia.
He entered the service in
1942, serving in Africa, Sicily,
Italy, Austria, Greece and Yugo­slavia.
He was wounded at the
battle of Salerno, and served with
the OSS in 1945. Ho was dis­charged
in Sept. 1945, but re-en­tered
the service in July, 1946,
and has been stationed at Max­well
Field since that time.
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Auburn Plainsman What Is It? HELP BURN THE BULLDOG FMbAY • » M « M ^ i M M M « t * i •DM
Published weekly by 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.
Entered as second-class matter at the post-office
at Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates
by mail: $1.00 for 3 months, $3.00 for 12 months.
JIMMY COLEMAN _._ Editor-in-Chief
Tom Sellers Managing Editor
Len Hensel Associate Editor
Ralph- Jennings ---.-- Associate Editor
Jack Simms Sports Editor
Roy Lilly Offle Manager
BILL ANDERSON Business Manager
Hal Breedlove Ass't. Bus. Manager
John Lanier _ Circulation Manager
Gene Byrd : Ass't Advertising Mgr.
Crawford Nevins .—. Collections Manager
Lloyd Simms „-. Ass't Circulation Mgr.
Staff Members . . Guy Cofield, Mitch Sharpe,
Jjm Dow, Phyllis Stough, Jim Rawston, Hugh
Edwards.
Thanks -
The Plainsman staff would like to ex­tend
a hearty "thanks" for your vote of
confidence.
Some editions have not lived up to your
expectations. We are students, just like
yourselves. Some of us carry 20 hours;
some of us more; some of us less. All of
us aren't journalism students. We have
depended on your help in gathering our
copy.
This is your publication. The masthead
of any issue states, "Published weekly by
the students of the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute . . .". You are free to work on
The Plainsman; you are free to contribute;
you are free to criticize.
Our first obligation is to you. On any
issue which might be detrimental to the
good name of the school, and consequent­ly
your own good name, we try to run
interference for you. Sometimes we are
subject to bitter criticism. Sometimes we
stand alone.
Just as a ship must have a rudder, a
newspaper must have a policy. We have
but one general policy, "To foster the Au­burn
Spirit." This entails being your sen­try;
^your call to arms; and your shock
troops. Wherever The Plainsman goes it
promotes, cherishes and defends the Au­burn
Spirit.
No one is infallible. We often miss
events which are important to you. With
your cooperation those events will be cov­ered.
When you or your group do something
that deserves publicity, sit down and write
us about it. It will be publicized.
The election results show your appre­ciation
for our work. We are working for
a better paper. We are doing our best not
to let you down.
THANKS.
To help meet the desperate needs of
destitute students in war-ravaged coun­tries
an organization known as the World
Student Service Fund was formed several
years ago. It is sponsored and has the
hearty endorsement of the religious org­anizations
of the country—Catholic, Jew­ish
and Protestant.
Distinguished American educators with
George N. Schuster as their president com­prise
the officers of the WSSF. Students
in fourteen of the more fortunate countries
of the world have combined under their
leadership to give a helping hand to their
less fortunate brothers elsewhere.
It is hoped that two million dollars can
be raised this year from the fourteen
'giver' countries to conduct the work of
supplying books, food, clothing and other
immediate necessities to the students of
Europe and Asia. We in the U.S. are asked
to give one million dollars. One might rea­sonably
ask why such a comparatively
small amount of capital. The simple
answer is that aid must be planned with­in
the limits of expected income and that
probably the one and a half million col­lege
students in the U. S. Will give no
more than one million dollars.
Forty-four percent of the two million
dollars total will be used in the Far East;
forty-four percent in Europe. Six percent
will be used for administration and over­head.
Six percent will be kept in reserve
for emergencies and other unforeseen con­tingencies.
—The Technique
Do-Nuts and Coffee ByBabs RAMBLING
With Len Hensel
Student Business
. *... .
Quietly, on every side of us, college stu­dents
are working out schemes to make
money. It seems that the day of griping
about not getting enough money from the
GI' Bill is over, and the boys have decided
to literally dig it up.
The almost forgotten man ori the cam­pus
is the one who arises early in the
morning; hustles off to a boarding house
or cafe to wait on tables; and meets an
8 o'clock class.
Noontime comes, and while most of us
leisurely stroll to our lunch, this student
runs back to the job; dons an apron; and
stands there ready to serve us.
But waiting on tables isn't all the hust­lers
are doing these days. Some of them
work in drug stores, clothing stores, shoe
shops, barber shops, printing shops, gro­cery
stores, and many other establish­ments.
And some of them start their own
business.
If a complete study of student-owned
businesses were made around Auburn and
Opelika, one would be amazed at the
initiative and labor shown by the pro­prietors.
In Opelika a couple of fellows back, the whole seat was held
started from scratch and established a
much-needed Venetian b l i n d business.
Here in Auburn, students have bought
night clubs, cafes, and radio-repair shops.
It is with a weary sigh that we must once A shoe store is now in the process of con- seat> but riot these ignorant nig
again speak of the recent "Wreck Tech" struction on College Street by a student,
fiasco. We had hoped the whole affair There are many more than these.
Occasionally, I run across something in one of the exchange
papers from other colleges that I like. The following was
taken from The University Echo, student newspaper at Chat­tanooga
University. It is entitled "Dirty Nigger'."
"Thank goodness that I live in
the South where we whites are
protected from dirty niggers by
our Jim Crow laws. Take the oth­er
night when three niggers had
to ride a crowded bus. I was
standing in the front with several
other whites when three niggers
got aboard. Now had we been up
N o r t h , t h ey
Kgssssissssi! tmiimmi could have stood
right beside us.
Instead t h e y,
fortunately, had
to move to the
rear where they
belong. S i n ce
the bus was so
crowded, t h ey
had to f o r ce
their way back,
and some of us
Jennings had to touch
their-filthy skin and clothes. Aft­er
about three blocks of travel,
they made it to the back, and all
of us in the front breathed a sigh
of relief.
"At length, several of the peo­ple
got out, and I was the only
one left standing. There were no
white seats available, but ,in the
What a wonderful bird the frog
are.
When he sit, he stand almost.
When he stand, he sit almost.
When he hop, he fly almost.
He ain't got no tail, hardly.
Pie ain't got no sense hardly
either.
When he sit, he sit on what he
ain't hardly got, almost.
—Author Unknown
Is Our Face Red
down by a single nigger. Now this
is where Jim Crow fails, for it
seems to me that when a white
man is standing, a seated nigger
should get up and give him his
would die a natural death. ,
But a grievous error was made recent­ly
by a Plainsman writer in reference to
our neighboring weekly publication, the
Opelika Eagle. Al Steinberg, in an article
entitled "Aubprn Got a Raw Deal on Pep
Rally Publicity in State," made this state­ment,
"The most libelous publicity given
us was in the Opelika Eagle." He quoted
several obvious bits of propaganda which
the Eagle had used as the head of an
editorial in their Oct. 23 issue.
After studying the Eagle's editorial, we
discover they labeled the falsehoods in
their head, "Hearsay." Further, they up­held
Auburn's position; flayed other news­papers
which had charged students,, facul-t}',
and school authorities with "disgrace",
and said, "we see no reason to class the
Auburn student body as vandals just be­cause
a small number of them instigated a
riot following a pajama parade pep rally."
As a whole the Eagle's editorial was im­partial,
less sensational, and far more in­telligent
than the publicity we received
from a number of state papers.
We believe the whole tragic affair boils
down to this: many people only read the
opening paragraphs of newspaper articles.
Apparently that is what happened in Stein­berg's
case.
^ We are deeply apoiogetic for the unfav­orable
aspect which Steinberg's article
threw upon the Opelika Eagle. Since the
matter has been called to our attention, we
wish to thank them for an exceptionally
fine criticism. Further, we wish to com­pliment
the Eagle for foregoing sensation­alism
and keeping the best interests of Au­burn
in mind during a time of crisis.
True, some of us are so loaded with
studies and labs that we deem it impossi­ble
to take time out for a job or business.
But if that subsistence check were to sud­denly
stop, or if dad were to run out of
dough, most of us would be able to find
the time. That is if-we want a college edu­cation.
So long as the spirit of free enterprise
is a part of our life, there will be ways to
make money. No one can tell just how
many ways.
gers. So I was forced to stand for
several miles while he sat with
several empty seats beside him.
At last, though, a white got up
and I sat down in his place.
In spi.te of prevailing precipi­tation,
1254 students managed to
get tp the polls Monday to elect
an editor and business manager
for The Plainsman.
The election was carried out in
a clean, orderly manner and the
whole thing went off without a
hitch.
Congratulations to J i m my
Coleman and Bill Anderson in
their hour of victory.
FILE THIRTEEN By The
Editor
File 13—an old army term for 'Wasiebaskei'
Old Favorites
November 5, 1947
Editor of the PLAINSMAN
Alabama Poly Inst
Mr. Editor:
Having just read today's issue
of your publication we accept
your challenge to voice our opin­ions
of the PLAINSMAN and its
staff. Since you have asked for
Many old favorites in the line of dance
music will soon start reappearing on the punches, but will tell you exactly
juke boxes as soon as the latest dictate of w h a t w e t h i n k of iL
D~+».;II„ „ • 4. cc i AT • i i First, why do all of the writers
Petrillo goes ° into effect. No union bands ins•is t. on s4t epp•in g on t tuh e s*t uAd e*n>t s
will be permitted to make records after toes? Why is every article con-
December 31 of this year. Record whole- demning the student body for its
salers believe that they now have a sup- short-comings and not giving it
ply of popular records on hand that will a h m e p r a i s e f o r i t s g o o d q u a l i"
last for approximately two years. After
that time, any record that has already
been made can be repressed, and if neces­sary,
South American bands will be train­e
d to play our type of rhythm. Petrillo's
movement was made in order to put more
small bands into night clubs and private
dances.
might support you. . .you have
certainly gone all out to gain
their support; BUT please re­member
that you have sold out
to a very small per cent of the
students, and it will be the other
groups who will elect a capable
head for the PLAINSMAN.
We agree with you and your
"When arguing with your first
sergeant, be sure you are right
then Ift the matter, drop."
* * *
1st Person: "Dull party isn't it?
2nd Person: Sure is."
1st Person: "Let's beat it out."
2nd Person: "Can't, I'm the
host."
* * *
"Bad officials are elected by
good citizens who didn't vote."
4! * *
"What's the matter with your
finger?"
"I was getting some cigarettes
and some clumsy fool stepped on
it." \ .
* * *
"Beware of the man who al­ways
finds God on his side."
* * *
Nurse: "You wish to see the
student who was injured in the
auto wreck last night?"
Coed: "Yes, it's only fair to
give him the kiss he tried so hard
to get."
* * *
"A serious impediment to mar­riage
nowadays is the increasing
difficulty o f supporting t he
government and wife at the same
lime."
* * *
He: "If you'll give me your
phone number I'll call you up
sometime."
She: "It's in the directory."
He: "That's fine! What's your
name?'
She: "It's in the directory too."
* * #
"The four S's for a great lady
are Sincerely, Simplicity, Sym­pathy,
and Serenity."
<? *f 4E
Coed: "Not only has he broken
my heart and wrecked my life,
but he's messed1 up my entire
evening."
BURP By BOYD HINTON
Phone 760
Hensel
The Plastic Tower ^ ****> ^^^
"I sat next to a funny fellow.
It seemed he had gotten a few
beers too many, and he talked a
little loudly, blowing his cigary,
rancid breath in my face. He had
evidently just finished work on
a coal truck, for his overalls were
covered with dust.
"When He at last stumbled off
.the bus, I had to laugh at him.
Then I thought of that lone nigger
back there, and thinking of how
filthy he was, I couldn't help but
lose my good mood. So thus I
rode until my stop, grumbling
softly about the dirty niggers."
Once upon a time, it was pos­sible
to walk through Main Gate
unmolested, and with reasonable
assurance, provided of course,
you were at least a sophomore,
that you would lose no friends or
money, but here of late ,this is
quite impossible..
Last Monday, I was strolling
very leisurely along, minding my
when a gorgeous hunk of femi­ninity
sidled up along side with
a pleasant "good morning." Im­mediately
I was on guard, and I
clutched by old calculus book
firmly, and put my hand over my
wallet, and returned the greet­ing.
!
"Have you voted yet," she said.
"Well no", I said*, "Who's runn­ing."
"Sadie Belle Piffle", she
said "And you be sure to vote",
and she left me as she raced to­wards
another victim.
I stood there alone but only for
a moment when another had me
by the arm, and then another, un­til
I tore myself away, only to
be confronted by a typical wheel,
properly decked out in coat and
tie. "Have you voted" he demand­ed
"Well no", I said, "Tell me
your name and I will though".
"Wise guy", he muttered and
turned on his heels and left me
cold. By this time I was near the
street, and was left to my own
devices. Had I known at least
what some of the candidates
looked like I undoubtedly would
have voted for one, but their
looks are deftly kept a secret.
"Why" or do you entertain the
same idea that I have. On Tues­day,
I ran across the same girl
that had my arm on Monday, and
gave her a big "Hello" "Touch me
and I'll scream", she yelled
"Don't you remember me" I said
"I'll call a cop" she swore.
"What's coming off", I said "No­thing"
she said; and left me there
clutching my old calculus book
eve nmore firmly and I walked
over toward the only person in
the booth, who wanted a match.
A Dash of Bitters By Jim F °r*e s i e r
To most of the world he is the
symbol of the British Empire.
Think of England, think of the
Battle of Britain, and you think
of him. Rising out of the smould­ering
ashes of a tottering Eng­land,
he flung back the gauntlet
at the Nazi hordes. In the dark­est
hour that England has ever
known, he was there to give them
the leader they sorely needed.
Through all the terrors, trials,
and doubts of the war with Ger­many,
it was always "Winnie"
who spoke for the British man in
the street. The allied world
cheered as Churchill denounced
the "jackal, Mussolini". They
thrilled as he pledged his people
to fight ". . .on the 'beaches, in
the hills. . .", When Winston
f. Churchill said that ". . .We shall
never surrender," you felt that
your confidence in the Allies was
well placed indeed, and how
could Hitler ever dream of win­ning
after hearing those words of
Churchill's?
It must have been a bitter blow
to the old warrior when his peo­ple,
whom he had led out of the
valley of Death, swept him out
of office as soon as the war end­ed.
It is no doubt comforting to
him to see that the people of
England are getting fed up with
watching their Empire crumble
around them. The recent elections
over there probably have old
Winnie chortling. The labor gov­ernment,
under Atlee, cannot, by
any stretching of the irnagination,
be termed either popular or suc­cessful.
Doubtless the average
Briton has mentally compared the
Atlee government w i t h t he
Churchill government. Any such
comparison must inevitably put
Churchill in the more favorable
position.
The philosophy of Winston
Churchill was summed up in an
address which he made last week
at his old school, Harrow. Said
he, "You must never despair of
your country's glory and never
cease to labor for it's enduirng
fame. Do not be daunted by long
monotony and wearying toil.
Whatever it be, remember the r e ­ward
is the same, in that you pass
on to another generation the
glories and happiness and virtue
of our island home."
* * *
It Can't Happen Here Depart­ment—
From The Birmingham
News, November 5, 1947.
"Shocked by the strip tease act
of a French dancer, 600 Danish '
students in an Amsterdam theater
pelted her with potatoes until po­lice
arrested 30.'*
Looks like this could develop
into another problem for the
United Nations.
ATTENTION: Elections Coinmit-tea;
ODK Glomerata Beauty Ball
Committee. ,
It seems to me that a better
system of selecting and electing
beauties could be inaugurated on
the campus.
I am not complaining about the
manner in which these selections
have been made before, but I
wonder if there couldn't be some
improvement.
Wasn't it Mark Twain who said,
"Everyone complains about the
weather and no one does any­thing
about it?" Well, I'll try to
offer a suggestion.
I believe that the election of
campus royally
and the select­ion
of Glomera-t
a b e a u t i es
could be hand­led
in a "Miss
America" fash­ion.
The contes­tants
could bo
placed on the
stage at t he
S t u d e n t Ag
S t u d e n t Ac
show off some of their talent.
(Not necessarily the bathing suit
variety) There would be an au­dience
from the student body, of
course.
They could hold eliminations
and have a regular contest with
finalists. The judges could be
fashion experts or something
along that line. They could be
called in from Birmingham or
Atlanta. It wouldn't do to have
local talent.
=!•• * *
ATTENTION: Coach Beard:
Don't you think it would be a
good idea to show special consi­deration
to fraternity and dor­mitory
housemothers for athletic
events. These women are an in-tergrafl
part of the college set-up
and are far closer to the students
than any other faculty_members.
In my opinion they should re­ceive
special consideration for
tickets to football games and oth­er
athletic events.
* * *
The new picture up above is
through the courtesy of Hugh ,
Alford. He made me shave before
I had this one taken.
* * *
Jim Watson just dropped in to
ask me to give him a plug for
orange shirts at the Georgia
game. So there's the plug.
* * *
I have heard numerous com­plaints
from people saying that
they never get a Plainsman. We
realize there is a shortage, but it
is due to the newsprint scarcity.
We print 5,500 copies, which
should be enough for everyone to
see.
If students would just take one
copy from those piles, everyone
would sec a Plainsman. Please
just take one copy.
BOOK REVIEW
By Mitch Sharpe
The Exchange Post By If v. Steinberg
Center of. Attraction
The city of Jerusalem, 33 centuries old,
has endured over 20 sieges and blockades,
18 reconstructions and two periods of deso­lation,
and has passed from one religion to
another six times, according to the Ency­clopedia
Britannica.
our opinion we will not pull any — — that the Auburn Spirit
has dropped; that the Wreck Tech
pep rally was a disgrace, but why
in hell must you fall back on
these subjects week end and
week out? If you are such a hot­shot
Charlie with the press, you
should be able to find other,
more pleasant subjects to write
about. We are sure that you have
heard the old saying about "wat­er
under the bridge. . ."
Reading issues of the PLAINS­MAN
that were edited long be­fore
your feeble time, we see
what an asset the paper can be.
With your past record as its edi­tor,
we can't understand why you
even attempt to retain your title.
In our opinion you have not only
made a damn fool of yourself, but
you have made one of the best
college newspapers in the coun­try
a farce. Why not wise up, you
crazy ?
Praying for a better AUBURN
PLAINSMAN. . . .
"Five students, who don't
give a damn whether you
publish this or not!"
ties? It has been so damn long
since any of you "big-time"
newspaper men have said any­thing
decent about us, that we
are beginning to think that may­be
we aren't worth a damn after
all!!
We noticed that you are trying
to retain the editorship in the
forth-coming election, and that
you have a long list of references
as to your experience. If you
have done so much work with
the press, why can't you give us
a decent school paper? We don't
think that you are capable,
frankly, and we don't agree with
some of the other members of
your staff who continually damn
the students. It is quite easy to
see why some of the fraternities
"You look sweet enough to
eat," he murmered soft and low.
"I am," said she quite hungrily.
"Where do you want to go?"—
Technology News.
?• * *
It seems that all colleges are
trying to eliminate registration
confusion by inaugurating new
registration systems. N e w a rk
College of Engineering success­fully
carried out a "registration
by mail." This system eliminated
long lines and enabled students
to register, secure receipts, sche­dules,
and books within a half-hour.
* * *
Visitor: "How did your horse
happen to win the race?"
Jockey: "Well, I just kept on
whispering to him, "Roses are
red, violets are blue, horses that
lose races are made into glue."—
Montgomery Weekly
* * *
Freshmen at the University of
Chattanooga were recently re­quired
to race across the foot­ball
field between halves of a
game. The rules of the race re­quired
that the Rats remove their
shoes. While the unfortunates
were racing, the upperclassmen
scattered the footwear in all di­rections,
thus causing the rat race
to end in a shoe hunt.
* * *
"Why does your grandmother
read her Bible so much?" asked
one little girl of another.
"I think," said the other little
girl, "that she's cramming for her
finals."—Hilltop News
Senator Lister Hill was the
principal guest speaker at Troy
State Teachers College on Octob­er
18, when the newly completed
men's dormotory received its for­mal
dedication. The new building
was dedicated to the late Dr.
Matthew Downer Pace.
* * *
Professor: Give the most im­portant
facts about nitrates.
Pupil: They're cheaper than
day rates.—Draper Inmate
* * *
A group to be known as the
Student Bar Association has been
proposed at Wayne University.
Included in the body would be a
governing board which would
control all student activities.
THE DEAD LOOK ON by Ger­ald
Kersh, Reynold Hitchcock,
$2.00. ;
It's a shame America has not
produced some young writer of
the same type as England's Hem-mingway.
Kersh has led a life as '
exciting as most of his novels. But
it takes more than experience to
write a good book. It takes talent,
and that qualification lets out a
majority of American writers to­day,
i
This particular novel is an im­aginative
look at the German ra­pine
of a Czech town like Lidice.
The story opens with the assassi­nation
of a mythical Gen Bertsch,
and closes with the assassination
of his successor, another Nazi
named Horner. The whole story
is a narrative of what was going
on to the individuals of the town •
as the Nazi command was plotting
its sooilation. Admittedly, the sto­ry
and its setting are new passe.
But for those people who read
with an eye toward gifted writing,
the book is as timely as it was
during the war. Kersh has anoth­er
excellent novel out now called
"Night in the City" which has
developed his technique even
more.
Of late, Kersh has been writ­ing
short stories between his no­vels.
His short stories capture
some of the classic style and form
and atmosphere of the golden age '
of literature when writers follow­ed
their aptitudes and channeled
them into readable and wonder­ful
prose. It is gratifying to find
a modern authpr who can write
among such moon-calves, nin­compoops,''
dolts, and other sim­pletons
who find inspiration in
the egregious absurdities of Joyce
and Stein.
Kersh has, too, that gift of com­bining
Hemingway's vividness
and yet retaining enough of Se-
(Continued on Page 5) \
5—THE PLAIMSMAft Wednesday, Now 12, 1047
Shall We Dance
By Tom Sellers
We moderns pride ourselves on being the most enlighten­ed
and brilliant version of homo-sapiens ever to worry it­self
into a brace of neuroses. Never has comfort been so com­fortable;
yet never before have good times been so compli­cated.
One of the simple pleasures of antiquity, dancing, is
an example.
Perhaps due to the chronic skin
affections of our Anglo-Saxon
forefathers fwho wore woolen
long-handles), our love for danc­ing
is hereditary. Great-grand-paw
cut his rug from sheer phy­sical
necessity (partners could
scratch one another's backs).
Nowadays we shun itchy lingerie,
but find it necessary to indulge
in- terpischorean orgies every so
often for lack of anything better
to do. Certainly there are people
who have been driven into learn­ing
to dance because of ennui at
social functions. The thing has
been carried so far that inability
to dance is frowned upon by peo­ple
who give parties, leaving
many a poor soul to spend a dull
Saturday night with his books
and insects.
Arthur Murray would have us
believe we are all latent Fred
Astaires, and a few egoists labor
under that delusion into their do­tage.
Lesser dancing teachers
(anyone who dances considers
himself a dancing teacher) take
the -novice by the arm and add
to his confusion by murmuring,
"Just relax now; take it easy and
drift with the music. Here we go
one, two, three, four . . . Why,
you're doing fine."
At this point something invari­ably
goes wrong. The pupil! sud­denly
loses control of his leg
muscles, steps on his instructor's
footwear; flounders helplessly for
a time; then topples like a dead
tree if not supported.
But let us leave this touching
little scene and look in on a mod­ern
rug-cutting. Everyone on the
floor has learned to slither hither
and yon without support and
everyone has forgotten he has
feet. It is one of those common
affairs where the music is adapt­ed
to fox-trots, rhumbas, bumbas,
jitter-bugging, waltzes, schmalt-
.zes, round dancing, square danc­ing,
three-dimensional dancing,
bunny-hug, Charleston, James­town,
wiggles, waggles ,and St.
Vitus. If one looks closely he may
spot several species at once, for
the whole mass can be scentifi-cally
categorized like plants. The
entire listing is impossible here,
but we shall analyze a few of
the more important types.
Probably the most peculiar
species in the jungle before us are
the LOVE-SICK, or AESTHETE
couples. They are characterized
by complete absence of mind
from body. This type never opens
its eyes unless stepped on and is
relatively harmless. Their move­ments
vary from a simple rocking
motion in one position to an oc­casional
elementary left-right-left.
Changes in tempo have no ef­fect,
and it is sometimes neces­sary
to revive them with cold
water at the end of the dance.
Next we go the other extreme
and study the PUGILIST or HA­LITOSIS
couples. They never
look at one another except by
accident, in which case each po­litely
turns his head and frowns.
They move as though operated
by a pulley, and dance so far
apart their occasional mumblings
are unintelligible. Uusually we
have here a married man dancing
with his wife's mother; a Boy
dancing with his sister, or a man
and wife of more than a year's
standing. As with the Aesthetes,
changes in tempo are ineffective
in breaking up their mechanical
pattern.
We must pause next to observe
the PALSY, or G'ftOOVY-WOO-VY
species. All jitterbugs fall
into this class, in addition to the
inebriates and extrovert's. They
are considered highly dangerous
by competent authority and
should be detoured. at all costs.
Their unique talent for moving in
four directions at once is esoteric
indeed, and scientists are not
agreed as to its cause. One hears
them utter strange noises which
sound much like "solid, Jackson,"
or "dig me, daddy." In one case
on record, which I have occasion
to doubt, a couple pulsed at such
a rapid rate a giant vacuum tube
was built around them for practi­cal
electronic uses.
Now that we have studied
three of the chief groups, it will
be interesting to note briefly the
queer hybrid specimens. For in­stance,
we see a combination of
the Groovy-WooVy and Halitosis
species; or an Aesthete and Hali­tosis;
or a Groovy-Woovy and
Aesthete. I recall a dance in At­lanta
recently where 1,000 coup­les
were of the hybrid varieties.
The band was ostensibly playing
a rhumba, but none of the danc­ers
were using similar steps. At
the height of a cacophonous cres­cendo
the main fuse blew. When
the lights came on 108 women had
fainted; 73 men had thrown their
hips out of joint; five musicians
had nervous breakdowns; 33 hus­bands
had asked for a divorce;
and the entire staff of the dance-hall
went on strike.
Where was I when the lights
wept.,,put? Jumpin' and jivin',
Jackson,,^umpin' and jivin,'!
Funchess Leaves For
Washington Meeting
M. J. Funchess, dean and direc­tor
of the Agricultural Experi­ment
Station, Auburn, left here
recently to Washington, D. C, to
attend the agricultural committee
meeting of the National Research
Council, November 7, committee
meetings of agricultural experi­ment
station directors, November
8and 9, and the annual meeting
of the American Association' of
Land Grant Colleges and Uni­versities,
November 10-12.
E. V. Smith, assistant dean and
director, will join him in Wash­ington
for the pre-convention
committee meetings and the As­sociation
conference. Director
Funchess represents the South
on the argicultural committee of
the National Research Council.
"I'll take you for the part . . . and to the
MIDWAY TAVERN for the best fish dinner
you ever tasted. It's East Alabama's finest night
spot."
iiii MM PROP.
R.D.WELLS
-OPaiKA-AUBURN ALA.HIWAY PHONE AUBURN 9136
YOU CAN ALMOST HtAR '£M
Auburn's cheering squad is shown practicing a yell for lhe all-important clash with the
Georgia Bulldogs in Columbus Saturday. Beginning with Head Cheerleader Bill-Newman, they
are Martha Waterhouse, Jimmy Kendrick, Jack Orcutt, Joy Justice, and Jimmy Hatch.
Writer Takes issue On Recent
us Election Publicity
By Roy Lilly
On Oct. 9, a new sheet entitled Cause for Alarm was
posted on eampus bulletin boards. It began: "On Monday,
Nov. 3, your intelligence will be insulted like hell!"
The article went on to enumerate what it called corrupt
methods of electing student officers. It made the great
national political parties work the
same way. The 10 fraternities
have, at the most, 1200 members.
There are approximately 7000 stu­dents
enrolled in college. The
line-ups comprise less than one-fifth
of the votes—not enough to
control the election.
revelation that 10 fraternities
form what is known as a "line­up."
The author explained that
a true representative vote cannot
be cast nor is the best candidate
always selected under this sy­stem.
He didn't explain why.
This sheet was, for the most
part, truthful. It no doubt had
the best interest of the students
at heart. But it was entirely un­necessary.
Here's why:
There was an article on the edi­torial
page of The Plainsman re­cently
which told of a new board
established on the campus to hear
students' complaints and take
them before college authorities.
If the story had been written in
the form of a letter to the editor
The Plainsman would have gladly
printed it. As a last resort avpe-tition
signed by 12 percent of the
student body can force the Exe­cutive
Cabinet to call an election
to vote on arty action that the pe­tition
demands. Why not try to
openly outlaw line-ups?
,Allow me to attempt to explain
the mechanism of a line-up. There
is nothing dark and sinister about
if. Representatives of fraternities
meet, select candidates which they
believe to be qualified for the of­fices'.
Then they agree to support
these candidates. They have no
means of preventing a truly rep-_
resentative vote from being taken.
If a student feels that he can han­dle
the job better than anyone
else, he is quite free to run. The
The article mentioned one good
thing—VOTE! If a person believes
in a thing, he should vote for it.
By exercising this power the cam­pus
can be controlled. As prev­iously
stated, 12 percent of the
students can cause an election on
any issue in which students are
involved. The Cabinet can even
be made to submit rules which
they have made for your approval.
We, the popular voters, govern
this campus. If we vote, campus
rules must be representative.
There is no cause for anonymous
publications; send your com­plaints
to the official college
newspaper; they will be printed,
and your name doesn't have to
appear.
Again let me compliment the
author of the articles on his spi­rit,
but there is no need for the
melodrama. \
VARSITY SHOE STORE
TO OPEN THIS r^ONTH
The Varsity Shoe Store will
open on College Street between
Teedie's Diner and Wright's some­time
this month, says Bryant Al-ford,
proprietor. Alford is a fresh­man
in business administration
from Montgomery. Foundations
for the building were laid last
Wednesday.
Latest styles of footwear, in­cluding
Weyenberg, Yorktown,
and International shoes priced
from $7.95 to $12.95 will be fea­tured.
Alford had three year experi­ence
selling shoes in Montgomery
before his entry into the army
air forces. After discharge he
worked a year for Lee's shoe
Store in Atlanta before enrolling
at Auburn.
"We intend to handle a good,
moderately priced shoe especial­ly
styled for college men," says
Alford. He has just returned
from the National Shoe Fair in
Chicago, where he studied all the
latest types of footwear and or­dered
his initial stock.
STUDENT SUPPLIES
School books and supplies are available at
reasonable prices
Next to Main Library
Phone 960-Extension 347
COLLEGE SUPPLY STORE
Leon M. Sahag
Professor Tapped
By Pi Tail Sigma
Professor Leon Marr Sahag,
head of the department of ma­chine
design and drawing, was
recently tapped as an honorary
member by the Alabama Tech
Chi chapter of Pi Tau Sigma, na­tional
honorary mechanical en-ginering
fraternity.
Honorary membership in Pi
Tau Sigma is based upon success­ful
achievements in mechanical
engineering.
The holder of*the Bachelor of
Science degree in electrical en-ginering
from the University of
N. C. and the Master of Science
degree in mechanical engineering
from Auburn, Professor Sahag
began his teaching career in 1923
as an instructor of mathematics
at the University of N. C. Prior
to this, he held a responsible
position with the Babcock & Wil­cox
Company. Professor Sahag
has served on the faculties of the
University of Akron and Texas
Tech Colleges, as well as holding
the position of assistant railway
equipment engineer with the
Timken Roller Bearing Company
before coming to Auburn in 1928.
He received his full professor­ship
here in 1938.
Since coming to Auburn, Pro­fessor
Sahag has authored three
textbooks^ in his chosen field.
They are: "Engineering Draw­ing"
"Engineering Lettering", and
"Applied Graphic Statics."
Book Review
(Continued from page 4)
royan's chimerical beauty to
make a pleasant and comprehen­sive
novel'. That is, one which
moVes something other than the
stomach and adjacent viscera as
is the case with the aforemen­tioned
writers.
Illinois Tech Junior: "Say, that
girl you had out last night sure
looked as if she had lots of good
stuff in her."
Fresh:-"She should! It cost me
five bucks a quart."
An open meeting of the Inter- j T>f. Joseph Weiss, Rabbi of
Faith Council has been announ-| Temple Isreal, Columbus, Ga., will
ced for Tuesday, Nov. 18, 7:15 p. relate his experiences as chaplain
m. The Wesley Foundation Group in the Armed Forces in the Far
will be host to the meeting. I East. • ^ * * $ !
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Something New Every Day
TAKING THE " B " COURSE g
The Story of
Ralph Rhudy
At General Electric, Ralph Rhudy
will tellyou, the ABC's are not so simple.
They're the letters designating the
intensive Advanced Engineering Pro­gram
courses by which the company
provides young engineers with instruction on
a graduate level.
Ralph, a graduate of the University of
Tennessee and a veteran with 3J^ years' serv­ice,
has completed G.E.'s "A" Course and
has been selected for the electromechanical
" B " Course. As a " B " student he will study
ever more deeply the problems of such fields
of interest as vector analysis, thermodynam­ics,
mechanics, and fluid (low.
While he studies, Ralph is concerned with
another, larger problem: to find the phase of
engineering in which he wants to specialize.
He has been helped in making this decision
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SAE, Alpha Psi Win League
Crowns; Others Continue Fight
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Play-Off Between Theta Chi, PiKA, and AGR
Will Be Held To Break Tie in League Three
By Bruce Grcenhill
The regular season of Inter-fraternity Touch Football came
to a close with SAE and Alpha Psi clinching the titlles to
Leagues 1 and 4 respectively. The top berth of League 2 is to
6e decided this week in an elimination between Theta Chi,
Alpha Gamma Rho, and PKA. The title to League 3 is also to
be determined this week. If SPE defeats Sigma Nu today in
a Postponement replay (weather permitting) it will take first
place; but in case of a Sigma Nu victory, there will have to
be a playoff between SPE and Sigma Chi for the title.
In last Wednesdays's play PKA, on a pass from Crocker to Law-
SAE, Kappa Sig, and SPE gained
victories. The calling.of the game
at the end of the third quarter
stopped the Pikes scoring at 22
points against TKE. Dow passed
to Lindsay and Nevens for two
touchdowns and Lindsay scored
the other on an end run. SAE
clinched the title to League 1 on
a forfeit by TEP. Dewitt Shy's
field goal gave the Kappa Sigs a
hard fought victory over OTS.
A last half surge gave SPE an
18-11 win over Lamba Chi. The
Lamba Chi scoring came on Hol­ly's
run, Northcutt's field goal,
and a safety by Robeson. The SPE
markers which, all came out in
the last half were scored on passes
from "Star" Fleming to Gate-wood
once and to Wiggington
twice.
The Thursday victors were Phi
Delta Theta, Theta Chi, Sigma
Chi, and Alpha Psi. The Phi Delt
win was over the men of Pi
Kappa Tau, 19-6. The Phi Delt's
star passer, Marsh, passed to
Thrasher, Hass, and to Kreiss for
all three of their scores; Tom
Lee kicked the extra point. The
Pi Kappa Tau score was made
Lutheran Church
Offers Instruction
Meetings are being held each
Friday evening for the purpose
of instructing those interested in
the doctrines of the Lutheran'
Church. Attendance is informal
and visitors are not obligated.
Announcing
The Kappa Chapter of the Del­ta
Sigma Phi Fraternity held for­mal
initiation November 5th for
four men. Those initiated were
Chester Riser, Birmingham; El­mer
Cowen, Opp; Jim Watson,
Birmingham; Willard Murphee,
Moulton.
ley. Delta Sig lost its second 2-0
game of the season, this time to
Theta Chi, when a pass from
center went over McGraw's head
and rolled out of the end zone for
an automatic safety.
Sigma Chi polished its passing
attack and took KA into camp
12-0. Higdon was on the throwing
end of both touchdowns, passing
to Simms first and later to Han-
Attention . . .
Coach Evans announced that
the first round matches of in-terfraternity
wrestling will be­gin
tomorrow night at seven
o'clock in the Alumni gym.
cock. Alpha Psi rounded out an
undefeated season by winning 8-
0 over ATO. Williams threw to
Moree and Tisdale made a safety
to put Alpha Psi in the playoff.
The playoff overall champion
will be between the winner of
each league in a schedule decided
by a drawing last Monday night.
It is to be run in a two defeat
and out basis. The play begins on
Monday November 17 and will
have the winner play winner—
loser play loser system of elimina­tion.
Ten New Members
Initiated By Sigma Pi
The Alpha Delta chapter of
Sigma Pi fraternity announced
the initiation last Thursday of
the following ten men:
Donald Bain, Pell City; Med-ford
Beverly, Roanoke; Ralph
Jackson, Lineville; G. W. Purdy,
Pell City; Coles Nix, Clayton;
Raymond Robinson, Wilsonville;
Bob Jones, Fayette; Charles
Brooks, Ft. Deposit; James W.
Johnson, Cullman; and Douglas
Fuller, Cullman.
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Voyles Chosen As
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Ed Danforth, sports editor of
the Atlanta Journal, announced
over station WSB Monday after­noon,
that Coach Carl Voyles was
one of three mentors chosen as
Coach of The Week.
The selections were made by
Southern, sports writers and
Southeastern Conference coaches.
The other two coaches chosen
were Johnny Vought of Ole Miss
and Bobby Dodd of Georgia Tech.
Independent Touch
Football Standings
Team W. L
Zippers
Bonecrushers
Newman
Episcopal
Drakes
Clays
Irish
Barracks
Outlaws
Navy „
FFA
Methodists
Canterbury
Devils
Pilots
BSU
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2
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1
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
2
2
1
2
2
2
3
Ray Pelfrey
Phi Kappa Tau Holds
Birmingham Party
The Auburn and Mississippi
State chapters of Phi Kappa Tau
held their annual joint party in
Birmingham Saturday in the
"Palm Room" of, the Thomas
Jefferson H o t e l . The party
honored the PKT alumni.
The room was decorated with
the colors of both schools by Ber­nard
Jenny and Robert Wheeler.
Announcing
The Society for the Advance­ment
of Management will meet
Tuesday, November 13 at 7 p.m.
in NB 123. New officers will be
elected. All .industrial manage­ment
students arc urged to at­tend.
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47 GLOMERATA
STILL ON SALE
A special 50lh anniversary
sale of the 1947 Glomerata is
now underway.
, Many Auburn alumni have
been writing for copies of the
last Glomerata. And many un­dergraduates,
who missed their
first opportunity to get a Glom­erata,
have expressed their de­sire
to have one.
Extra copies of this "largest
Auburn Yearbook ever'' have
been ordered, and are now
available in the Student Affairs
Office, 101 Samford —at $2.00
each. Orders are being taken by
Helen Hendry.
If you don't already have a
1947 Glomerata—order it now
at sale price. This will be your
last chance.
Owls Select Two
New Officers
At the last meeting of the Owls,
honorary society for sophomore
co-eds, Ann Esslinger was elected
president, and Emaleen Stoves
was elected secretary-treasurer.
Other members present included
Gussie Arnett, Norma Jean Bo-hannon,
Jule Colline, Doris Park­er,
andl Ruth Poor.
Projects for the year were dis­cussed,
and members volunteered
to assist in the WSSF drive by
working in the booths." on Ag and
Vet Hills.
Open Dance Planned
In Columbus Nov. 15
Delta Theta Chi sorority is
sponsoring a Georgia-Auburn
open dance on the night of Nov­ember
15 from 9 until 12 p. m.
in the exhibit hall of the fair­grounds
in Columbus, Ga.
Students of Auburn are invited
to attend this dance. Admission
is one dollar per person plus tax.
Theta Chi Elects
New Officers
Chi Chapter of Theta Chi frat­ernity
elected the following of­ficers
recently:
George Hamner, Columbus, Ga.,
president; tSquatty" L o w e l l,
Fairhope, vice-president; Hora­tio
Brown, Maplesville, secre­tary;
and Johnnie Allen, Jackson­ville,
Fla., pledge marshall.
Lambda Chi Alpha
Has Jungle Party
Last Saturday night Lambda
Chi Alpha Fraternity presented
a Bongo-Bongo club party. Pan­els
were decorated in jungle style
and the entire fraternity house
took on a jungle atmosphere.
Entertainment for the affair
was provided by a special floor
show and a skit produced and
acted in by Carl "Snipe"' Mori-sett
and Pat Archdeacon.
FOR SALE: One complete
set of Encyclopedia Brilannica.
New and unused. Still in the
original box unopened. For fur­ther
information write Box 218,
Auburn, Alabama.
FOR SALE: Zenith trans­oceanic,
portable radio. Call
Charles Ebert at 159.
Dorm 3 To Battle
Susan Smith Girls
At 5 P. M. Tonight
By Ouida Weekley
Dorm III is scheduled to play
Susan Smith Hall this afternoon
at 5 as the women's volleyball
tournament rolls into its third
week.
Delta Zeta was defeated by
Dorm II in the most exciting and
close-scoring game played so-far
this season. The. lead alternated
between the two teams from the
opening whistle until the game
e»ded; the final score was 25-27.
Another red-hot game was
played between Phi Mu and KD.
Phi Mu came out on top by a
score of 36-33.
Miss Martha Walton, sponsor of
the tournament, when asked to
comment on the teams hesitated
a moment and said, "Dorm II,
Delta Zeta, Alumni Hall, Dorm
IV, KD, arid AOPi'have excellent
teams for an intramural tourna­ment."
According to Miss Walton, the
teams showing the most improve­ment
since the beginning of the
season are Alumni Hall, AOPi,
and Dorm III. As a final state­ment,
Miss Walton said the Alpha
Gams should be given a bouquet
for having the most fun."
National Ratrngs as Women's
Volleyball Officials were given
to eight Auburn girls this week.
Tests recommended by the Na­tional
Ratings Board were given
by Harriette Donahoo, Marjorie
Bentley, and Marina Walton last
week. The test consisted of both
written and oral examinations.
Any girl who holds this rating
is eligible to officiate any intra­mural
volleyball game in the na­tion.
The eight Auburn girls who
won these honors are officiating
the tournament which is now in
process here.
6—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, Nov. 12, 1947
Fast action takes place as a Phi Kappa Tau speedster attempts an end run against League
I champions, SAE. (Photo by Jim Larkin Plainsman photographer).
Auburn Group At
Land Grant Meet
A delegation of 10 from Au­burn
attended the 61st annual
convention of the Land Grant
College Association in Washing­ton,
D.C., Nov. 10, 11, 12.
They are: R. B. Draughon, Act­ing
President; M. J. Funchess,
director of the agricultural ex­periment
station and dean of the
school of agriculture; E. V. Smith,
assistant director of the agricul­tural
extension service.
Mrs. Lillie Alexander, state
Home demonstration agent; Mar­ion
W. Spidle, dean of the school,
of home economics; J. E. Han-num,
dean of the school of en­gineering;
Roger W. Allen, dean
of the school of science and liter­ature;
Russell S. Poor, dean of the
graduate school, director of the
research council and the research
interpretation foundation.
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Inter fraternity
Football Standings
League I League II
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2 AGR
3 DSP
4 TKE
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IRC Program Monday
On Atomic Problems
T h e International Relations
Club meets Monday, November
17 at 7:15 p.m. in Social Center, j
The program, led by Gray B.
Ranson, will be a report on the
Conference for Atomic Education
recently held on the campus.
Special guests are the leaders
of the panel discussion that was
held at the Conference. They arc
Major Carl Kroninger, Prof. Oli­ver
Turner Ivcy, Prof. Jerome
Kuderna, and Dr. Fred Allison.
All members are urged to be
present. Bill Peck, secretary, ur­ges
members to clear dilinquent
excuses. Hugh Gaston, president,
will lead a short business session.
The International Relations
Club is an "open" club. All stu­dents
and faculty members inter­ested
are cordially invited to at­tend.
SPORTS STAFF
Jack Simms
Ronald Kuerncr
Edwin Crawford
Bruce Grecnhill
Glenn Robeson...
George Maitison
Ouida Weekly
Jim Larkin
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_ Asst. Editor
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Tiger-Bulldog Rivalry Was Begun
In 1892 By Doctor George Petrie
SPEAKS TONIGHT 7—THE PLAINSMAN
Georgia Holds 24-21
Edge in Long Series
By Jack Simms
When the Tigers tangle with the Georgia Bulldogs Satur­day
at Memorial Stadium in Columbus, it will be the 51st
gridiron meeting of the two schools. Way back in 1892, under
the direction of the late Dr. George Petrie,' these two schools
met in the first football game in the South. That contest was
played in Piedmont "Park in Atlanta on Feb. 22 and the Tigers
won a hard fought 10-0 victory,
won a hard fought 10-0 victory.
Only five years since then have
the teams failed to play, and
three of these failures were the
results of no team because of
war. The rivalry at these games
has been surpassed by none. It is
Auburn's day to howl and win,
lose, or draw, the boys from the
Plains do just like that.
As. usual, a capacity crowd of
over 20,000 will be on hand this
year. The game has been a sell
out for several months and the
Tiger football team set their
sights for a victory long before
the season opened.
At the present, Georgia holds
an edge in the series with 24 vic­tories
against 21 defeats. There
have been five ties, all of them
scoreless. The Tigers won their
last game from the Bulldogs in
the '42 season when the local gang
gained fame by-knocking the
bowl bound Georgians from the
undefeated ranks with a stunning
27-14 victory.
The longest winning streak of
the series was made by the Bull­dogs
when they touk nine straight
triumphs from 1923 to 1932. The
first touchdown in t Saturday's
game will send the total points of
the series over the 1000 mark.
Auburn has scored 451 points and
Georgia has an accumulated total
of 544 N
State Game
The Tigers looked good in last
weeks contest with Mississippi
State, and although they lost 14-0
the boys from the Plains played
their best game of the current
season. The backs were especially
improved and they ran harder
than in any of the previous games.
Cliff Grubbs almost stole the
show when he broke into the
open two times for what seemed
like sure touchdowns only to have
his blockers let a man slip
through and make the tackle.
When this boy got the ball, it
usually took three State players
to drag him down.
Along with Grubbs were Zac
Jenkins, Bill Waddail, Billy Ball,
and Russell Inman to do the ball
carrying for the Plainsmen. All
did a fine job but they just didn't
have the scoring punch. Three
fumbles stopped Tiger drives
deep in Mississippi State's terri­tory.
Auburn's line play was much
better last week than in previous
games. The forward wall was
fooled a couple of times by the
tricky running of Harper Davis,
but as a whole, it played heads-up
football. John Adcock, Phil
Poundstone, Max Autrey, and
Andy Douglass looked great in
their respective roles. Douglass,
filling in for the injured Hal Her­ring
at the center slot was given
much praise in the State papers
for his great defensive game.
Herring will have a hard time
pushing this New Orleans youth
out of the starting lineup this
week.
Auburn's outstanding player of
the day was John Liptak. He was
a demon .on defense and was one
of the Tigers leading offensive
stars. At no time were the Start­ers
able to gain ground around
his end, and he ofter was 'found
in the Delta team's baclcfield. He
caught six passes for a total of
82 yards and two of his catches
were nothing short miraculous.
The Tigers had an exceptional
day in the air. Tidwell completed
five of his eight passes, Inman
found receivers for half of his six
efforts, and Ball hit Liptak in his
only attempt. Travis was back in
his old pre-injury form when he
threw the ball, but he was trap­ped
several times and thrown for
losses. Trav' tried to run on se­veral
occasions and would have
made some long gains if his leg
had been in shape to carry him.
Auburn led the Maroons in first
downs 15 to 11 and also held an
edge in the air. The Tigers com­pleted
nine of their 15 passes for
112 yards while their favored
opponents connected on five of
their. 13 attempts for 40 yards.
Ed Danforth, one of the lead­ing
sports scribes in the South
picked„TTach Voyles as one of
the three Southeastern Coaches of
the Week.
Running from the straight "T"
formation has given the Tigers a
great deal more power and with a
few new twists that Coach Voy­les
will uncork Saturday, the
Plainsmen might well throw their
favored opponents.
The players are working hard
this week and they have the con­fidence
and determination to win.
They remember the stinging de­feat
the Bulldogs handed them
last year, and you can bet they
will do the best they can to gain
revenge Saturday.
TO LEAD RUNNERS
WHITEY OVEBTQN (above)
will lead Auburn's cross coun­try
track team in its first meet
of the year. Whitey -is unde­feated
in cross country compe­tition
and will be out to extend
his victory string whe n the
Tigers meet Georgia Tech here
Friday afternoon at 4:15.
With the exception of two
men, Auburn will run all of
last year's championship team,
and several new stars will be
seen in action here for the first
time.
LOST: Red female Spitz with
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and make child happy.
"Life in the South would run
smoothly and with more happi­ness,
if outsiders would keep
their noses out of our affairs."
—The Montgomery Weekly
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Bees To Meet Tech
In Albany Saturday
Coach Dan McMullen's Jayvees
will tangle with the !'B" team of
Georgia Tech in Albany, Georgia
Saturday while the varsity is bat­tling
with the Bulldogs in Colum­bus.
The Tiger "B" squad has lost
several of its key players to the
varsity since their last game, but
Coach McMullen hopes the run­ning
of Bobby Gillian, Chauncey
Wood, and Al Reeser will give
the Junior Tigers enough power
and speed to overcome their fav­ored
opponents.'
Cal Emmert, Arnold Fagan,
and Bill McGuire have all moved
to the varsity since the Clemson
game and their loss will be felt
to a great extent.
Saturday's game will be the
fourth of a five game schedule for
the "B" team. They lost to Missis­sippi
State, won from Miami, and
tied Clemson.
The final game of the season
will be against Tulane in Biloxi,
Miss, on Nov. 22.
ALL-STAR GAME
SET FOR DEC. 4
Coach Evans announced that
an all-star fraternity touch foot­ball
team will oppose that of the
independents in the a n n u al
Squires Ail-Star game at the Sta­dium
December 4.
Selecting the players for the
game will be all team managers,
officials and a Plainsman Sports
Staff representative.
The Squires plan to give prizes
for outstanding play in the con­test
and other activities will take
place before the game.
Coach Evans announced that
tickets will go on sale at a later
date and anyone may purchase
tickets from any member of the
Squires. The price will be 25
cents. Negotiations are underway
to excuse all students from classes
to attend this classic battle.
individual worker is freed from
the necessity of joining a union
to get a job. He may still be re­quired
to join a union to keep his
job, but not unless a majority of
the workers vote for such a re­quirement
in a government-su­pervised
election.
* * *
"Americans spent $8,700,000,000
in 1946 for alcoholic beverages to
set a record." It averages $89 for
each person over 18 years of age;
the total of $920,000,000 more
than the previous record in 1945.
—The New York Times
Zac Jenkins
Wednesday, Nov. 12, 1947
Georgia Air
Andy Douglas
QUARTERBACKS
MEET TONIGHT
The Auburn Student Quarter­back
Club will hold its fifth
meeting of the year in New Build­ing
222 tonight at 8:30. Featured
as speaker of the program will
be "Pop" Werner, Auburn's head
line coach.
Coach Werner will make a short
informal talk to the Quarter­backs
and will answer questions.
Billy Ball, president of the "A"
Club and organizer of the QB
Club, announced that plans are
underway to get the films of the
1942 Auburn-Georgia Tech game
for tonights meeting.
In his talk, Coach Werner will
discuss the Mississippi State game
and will give a short resume of
our prospects for a victory against
Georgia this week.
All Quarterbacks are urged to
attend this meeting which pro­mises
to be the most interesting
one to date.
Phil Pquncslone
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(Continued From Page 1)
but against Tulane they just
couldn't find the range.
Running out of the legitimate
"T" formation for the second
time, the Tigers found new of­fensive
power against the Maroons
and might even get the hang of
it better against the Bulldogs.
Both Tidwell and Russ Inman
were tossing passes, leaving the
Maroon defense baffled. However,
the Tigers couldn't link their
drives together and that, along
with numerous fumbles, stopped
i their drives cold.
They did have the satisfaction
of bottling up Shorty McWilliams.
Holding him to 65 yards in 20 tries
the Tigers couldn't cope however
with Harper Davis, who provided
the two touchdowns.
With improved blocking and
more of their new spirit, anything
could be expected from Auburn
in this week's contest.
Royce McMahan
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MAUREEN O'HARA
SUN.-MON., NOV. 16-17
THIS TIME FOR
KEEPS
ESTHER WILLIAMS
JIMMY DURANTE
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OF INTEREST TO ENGINEERS
Meet Prof. W. W. Hill
Prof. W. W. Hill was born ir
Sylacauga, Ala. on Sept. 12, 1877
He attended grammar school and
high school at Sylacauga, prepara­tory
school at Talladega Military
School, and entered Auburn in
1894 at the age of 17.
He received his B.S. degree in
1897, M.S. in 1898, M.E. in 1905,
and E.E. in 1906, all from Auburn.
While working on his M.E. and
E.E. degree he began his teaching
career as an instructor in shops
and math. Since he has been a
substitute end on the varsity team
while in college, the faculty saw
fit to make him Faculty Athletic
Manager during 1902, '03, and '04.
Upon receiving his E.E., he be­came
an instructor in electrical
engineering at Auburn (1906-
1912) and then associate profes­sor
in EE (1912-1924). During 1924
and 1925 he was on leave doing
graduate work and instructing at
John Hopkins. There he received
his M.E.E. degree and return­ed
to Auburn in 1926 with the
rank of professor which he has
held for the past 21 years.
It might appear that Prof. Hill's
entire career has been concerned
with instructing, but as a mattsr
of fact he has had a very con­siderable
amount of practical ex­perience.
For example, during
1898 and 1900 he was a telephone
engineer with Southern Bell, and
during his vacation from instruct­ing
in 1903 he installed the tele­phone
switchboard in Greensboro.
S. C. In the summer of 1905 he
worked at the Bell Laboratories
in N. Y., and from 1908 until 1918
he spent the greater part of his
spare time on the design and con­struction
of the electric power
plant and lines for the City of
Auburn and the college. He de­signed
and supervised the erec­tion
of the North Auburn high
tension transmission line and sub­station,
and from 1908 to 1920 he
was superintendent of the Auburn
Light and Water Co. as well as
manager of the college light and
water department. With this back­ground
of education and practical
experience, it is small wonder
that the has been at one time or
another the consulting engineer
for the Alexander City Cotton
Mills and the cities of Sylacauga,
LaFayette, and Opelika.
As far as membership in tech­nical
societies and other associa­tions
is concerned, the professor
can be considered a real "joiner.''
i
To list just a few: Alabama Edu­cational
Association, AIEE, Phi
Kappa Phi, Kiwanis Club, and
Eta Kappa Nu (1920-1939). Prof.
Hill has also served as counselor
for the student branch of AIEE.
since 1925, district chairman of
student branches of AIEE since
1935, chairman o: Alabama sec­tion
of AIEE (1939-1940) board
of directors of Kiwanis Club
(1933-1936', director of the First
National Bank of Auburn since
1923 and president of the same
bank since 1937.
When not actively engaged in
graduate work, instructing, field
work, or other activities, Prof
Hill found time to do a bit of
writing. He is the author of Elec­trical
Laboratory Experiment,
used in Auburn EE labs from
1906 to 1924; co-author of Report
of the Type Dam and Construc­tion
of Mitchell Dam, Ala. Power
Co. Engineering News, Sept. 1923;
co-author of Corona Loss on Elec­tric
Lines, AIEE Journal,, Aug.
1925. y'
Naturally this little sketch
would not be complete without
some mention 'of the fact thai
Prof, and Mrs. W. W. Hill of 271
South Gay St.-are grandparents
six times over. Their son, Maj.
W. W. Hill Jr. of the Army field
artillery, and a daughter, Mis.
Floyd Beatty of Memphis, Tenn.:
each have three children. - An­other
daugther, Miss Winifred
Hill, is quite well known on the
Auburn campus. She received her
master's degree at Cornell Uni­versity
and returned here as an
associate professor of mathe­matics.
* * *
Mr. Ira T. Hook, research engi­neer
of The American Brass Co.,
Ansonia, Conn., will speak in
Langdon Hall at 10 and 11 a. m.
on. Monday, Nov. 17. His subjects
will be the properties of copper,
brass, bronze and their uses.
The lectures will be supple­mented
by films showing the mass
production of these materials, also
the drawings of wire, bars, tubing,
etc. He will also have a film which
gives the highlights on the Chile
Copper Mine and shows the re­covery
of copper from ores. All
students are invited to attend
these lectures and to bring anyone
else who is interested.
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.The program for the ASCK
meeting on Nov. 3 was arranged
by Hugh Rose. The guest speaker
was Mr. Harvey of the Alabama
State Highway Department. His
subject was one that should be
W. W. Hill
of vital interest to every citizen of
Ala.—the Federal Aid appropria­tions
and state legislature appro­priations
for highways and how
the money was spent.
Mr. Harvey pointed out that
Alabama has not lost a penny of
federal aid money because the
state legislature failed to match
the federal aid money. He also
said that the federal government
as well as the state government
has placed more emphasis on
building the so-called "mail-box"
roads in the past few years.
The student chapter was sur­prised
by a visit from Mr. Trib-ble,
president of the Ala. section
of ASCE, and Mr. Francis, the
chapter's senior contact member.
The next meeting will be held
in Ramsey 202-A at 7 p.m. Nov.
17.
Ceremonies Mark
Armistice Day
A special Armistice Day cere­mony
was held on the Auburn
:ampus on Nov. II.
Auburn students, a large num­ber
of them veterans, paused at
11:00 a.m. as a local minister of­fered
a prayer.- Dean Zebulon
J-udd, of the School of Education,
delivered a short address honor­ing
those men who made the su­preme
sacrifice.
Col. George M. Williamson, Jr.,
head of the Military Dept., pre­sented
coldrs to two recently
formed reserve units the 768 F.
A. Battalion and the 582 Glider
F. A. Battalion. Both of these
units make their headquarters in
Annual Ag Fair
Marked By Hog
Calling; Exhibits
Wallace Drury of Greensboro
was named champion Auburn
"hog caller" at the annual Ag
Fair, held on the campus Thurs­day
night, Nov. 6. Runers-up
wore Jack Martin, Enterprise, and
John Goodson, Brent.
Ray Hester, Montgomery, was
judged champion "pie eater" af­ter
a lpng struggle with merin­gue.
Second and third prizes were
won by Ray Helms, Huntsville,
and Joe Pilcher, Selma.
First prize among exhibits at
the Ag Fair went to the depart­ment
of Zoology-Entomology.
Their, display included live bees
and bugs, live fish from the col­lege
ponds, and live bird dog
puppies as well as mounted wild­life
specimens.
Other exhibits prizes went to
the Agricultural Economics Dept.,
the Junior American Veterinary
Medical Association, and the F.F.
A., Auburn chapter, respecively.
Rufus White, Eufaula, was the
winner of a 13-month-old heifer
calf, given by the API Dairy
Science Club.
Master of Ceremonies for the
evening was Ralph Jackson, Line-ville,
junior in Agriculture Edu­cation.
Miss Essie Mae Crumpton, Tal-lassee,
presided as "Ag Queen".
Miss Crumpton was recently cho­sen
"Miss Aujaurn" by popular
vote of the Auburn Student body.
Contest judges were: Prof. J.
H. Blackstone of agricultural eco­nomics;
Graduate Assistant Jim­my
Butt of agricultural engineer­ing;
and Prof. F. E. Guyton of
zoology-entomology.
Exhibit judges were: Dean
Katherine Cater, Dean of Women;
Dr. C. P. Anson, head, department
of economics and business admin­istration;
and Dr. E. V. Smith, as­sistant
dean of agriculture.
This vegetable bedecked vehicle was one of the colorful
floats which appeared in the parade preceding the Ag Fair last
Friday.
Majors Tells More About
His Adventures In Europe
Auburn and are .commander by
Lt. Col. Henry M. Ranfro, Ope­lika,
and Lt. Col. George H. Con­nor,
Auburn, respectively. Per­sonnel
for the units are drawn
from reservists in Lee, Russell,
Macon, and Chambers Counties.
Representatives of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars and the Ameri­can
Legion took part in the cere­monies,
which were held directly
in back of Samford Hall.
By Luther Smith
"Russians in Germany were as
ardent traders as the old Ameri­can
Indians," said Hilton Majors,
Auburn senior in ag science and
formerly an Air Corps lieutenant
stationed in Germany.
Continuing with his impression
of the Russian soldier, Majors
told of the Asiatic system of bar­tering.
"They had just gotcen paid for
the war years in 1945, so the mo­ney
was burning holes in their
pockets. They would try to beg
the pants right off a person.
They'd buy anything that ticked,
or that appeared to be of the least
utility.
"Uniforms of both men and
officers were dirty and sloppy.
About his personal appearance,
the Russian soldier thought little.
It was with him a matter of no­vel
trinkets, of paying $100 for a
$5.95 watch.
"Though German c i t i z e ns
blamed America for those cease­less
bombings during the war
years, they detested Russians
more than the hunger in their
minds and stomachs.
"Russians accepted this hatred
with daily insults to those Ger­mans
in their zone. Most of the
Russian MPs were tall women
and duty to the USSR had been
driven into their minds. It was
these women who actually loath­ed
the entire German state. Rus­sian
men looked pretty stunted
Shown above is the Westinghouse power line on wheels which was scheduled for exhibition
last Friday. The demonstration was postponed until yesterday pending the weather. Lasting an
hour and a half short circuits are produced by a motor designed for that purpose, and within
90 seconds a complete power line is erected. The demonstration, which is being shown on
campuses all over the country, is an educational service of the Westinghouse Company offered
to all countries.
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and hen-pecked to me.
"Russian men would desert
from their army, put on German
clothes and change their citizen­ship.
Not a consuming patriotism
encompassed them, but rather a
lackadaisical attitude toward the
state and toward duty to their
compatriots.
"These deserters could be found
all over Germany—in Munich,
Hamburg, Berlin — and their
identity was seldom detected.
"Most Russians I saw couldn't
even write their own name. They
were in general illiterate and un­read."
Thus are the characteristics of
the Russian soldier, as delineated
by observant Hilton Majors, an­other
ex-GI who served his na­tion
in Europe. If any important
interpretations of Russia are tak­en
from Majors' statements, they
would be included in the follow­ing
sum-ups:
•f". Russia is not as formidable a
military power as some Ameri­cans
think her to be.
2. Russians are as a people no
different psychologically from
the rest of the world—the women
are highly impressionable and
the men not so receptive of an­tagonistic
ideate.
3. Russians are not as highly
civilized as are the Americans
and the English, and have accept­ed
Communism in complete ig­norance
of its standards.
Auburn Debaters
Given Awards
Four members of the Auburn
Debate Council were awarded
certificates of merit at the Dis­cussion
Tournament held at the
University of Alabama Nov. 6th,
7th, and 8th.
Receivers of the awards were
Maury Smith, who received a
certificate of Superior, and Gor­don
Hill, Henry Allen, and Kinne
Sutton who received ratings of
Excellent. Auburn men received
one-fourth of the ratings given.
Members of the Debate team
who made the trip included;
Newman Shankey, Robert Robin-sin,
Richard Stone, Thad Salmon,
Lee Taylor, Maury Smith, Gor­don
Hill, Henry Allen, and Kin­ne
Sutton.
Education Week
Is Announced
Dean Zebulon Judd, School of
Education announces the Ameri­can
Education Week Convocation,
tomorrow at 2 p.m. in Langdon
Hall.
"Education for a Changing So­cial
Order" is the theme of the
program. The following addresses
will be delivered: "The Present
Educational Situation" by Dr. Da­vid
W. Mullins; "New Schools for
New Times" by Dr. W. Morrison
McCall, State Director of Instruc­tion;
and "New Demands on
Teacher Education by Professors
Showalter and Kuderna.
All Education students are re­quired
to attend. Attendance will
be checked and reports of attend­ance
will be made to the various
professors concerned.
8—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, Nov. 12, 1947
Dr. Jordan To Speak
To Baptist Brothers
Dr. Clarence Jordan, founder
of Koinonia Farm at Americus,
Ga., will speak to the Baptist
Brotherhood and Y.W.A. at 8
o'clock Sunday Morning, Nov. 16,
in the Green Room of the Pitts
Hotel. His subject will be
"Christianity in Community Livi-ing."
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All reservations for breakfest
have been filled, according to
Howard Johnson, Brotherhood
president, but those interested in
hearing Dr. Jordan are invited to
attend..
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form, are some facts on .the
U. S. Air Force Aviation
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You receive approximately 52 weeks' training —
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3 * What's the story on duty after graduation?
After successful completion of the course, you will
be commissioned a Second Lieutenant, Officers Re­serve
Corps, and assigned to pilot duty with the
Uf S. Air Force at a starting monthly salary of
$336 (including flight pay). You will serve on
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and be eligible for $500 a year bonus for each year
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That's one 3-ou can answer for yourself by taking
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These are only a few of the advantages. Why
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get all the details?
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