1947-08-06 The Auburn Plainsman

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70 FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT
VOL. LXXII ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1947 Number 29
Auburn Students
To Help Restore
World Education
Contributions Will
Assist Students
In Western Europe
By Jim Forrester
The future of man rests in the
minds of the students of the
wor.ld.
Since 1937 students in 15 lands
have united, under the banner
of the World Student Service
Fund, for reconstruction of war-wrecked
educational plants. In
the past nine years, almost $2,-
500,000 has been sent by WSSF
to the relief of fellow students
in 18 stricken countries of Asia
and Europe. With the end of the
war in 1945 the need for world
student relief rose sharply. This
coming year will mark the cri­sis
when funds must meet the
urgent needs of 400,000 students,
or the opportunity for valuable
relief, rehabilitation and recon­struction
will be lost.
In educational centers through-cut
Europe and Asia, there is a
desperate need for notebooks,
textbooks, paper, food, medical
care, and recreational facilities.
The funds raised by WSSF are
used to ease these tragic short­ages.
In Cambloux, France, 323
French students, rundown in
health and spirit after life in the
r e s i s t a n c e or concentration
camps, returned to school after
short stays at the Chalet des
Etudiants. The Chalet has served
as a model for student rest cen­ters
in Rome, and Chester, Eng­land,
serving Italian and Dutch
students respectively. In Leysin,
Switzerland, over 200 tubercular
students from France, Belgium,
Holland, A u s t r i a , Yugoslavia,
Czechoslovakia, Italy and Greece
can be treated at a time in the
International Student -Sanato­rium.
Hundreds more need help,'
but only the most needy curable
cases can be accepted. In India,
student living co-ops are being
established at Indian universities
with modest help from WSSF
grants. Refugee Burmese stu­dents
have received help from
their Indian colleagues.
A secret rendezvous of Roman nobles (above) as they plot to take Cafesar's life come "Ides
of March". Practice session at "Y" Hut shows (left to right) George Miller as Cassius; Bob
Blackburn as Marcus Brutus; Prof. Hoepfner as Decius Brutus; James Masey as Casca; Zack
Adamson as Cinna; and John Lyle as Meiullus Cimber.
30-MINUTE PROGRAM
OVER WJHO HONORS
LATE PRESIDENT
"The Things That Count",
weekly AIO radio show, present­ed
a half-hour program last night
over WJHO in commemoration
of the death of Dr. Luther N.
Duncan. -
The program featured the fav­orite
music and poetry of Au­burn's
former president. Dr.
Duncan's favorite music were the
great hymns of faith.
Heard on the program were
"Jesus, Lover of My Soul,"
"Nearer My God To Thee," and
the poem, "The Bridge Builder."
Chosen by the students in spec­ial
tribute to his memory were
"The Lord's Prayer" and "Ave
Maria."
"A well lived life" was select­ed
for the theme of the program
as one of the "things that count"
and as symbolic of Dr. Duncan's
life.
Auburn students heard on the
program were Furman Rogers,
Homer Russell, Edna Earle Bass,
Fred Donaldson, Hugh Barker,
Thomas McKinney, Bob Ingram,
Durrell Davis, Herbert Gladin,
Robert Willingham, and Mary
Byers.
On the Campus
Tau Beta Pi . . .
. . . will meet next Wednesday,
Aug. 13, at 5 p. m. in Ramsay
109. This will be the last meeting
of the quarter. All members are
urged to be present.
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AIChE . . .
. . .meets Monday, Aug. 11, at
7:30 p. m. in Ross 203. A movie
"Romance of Industry," on chem­ical
processes in industry will be
shown. All chemical engineering
students, especially freshmen are
invited.
* * •
Marion Spidle Club . . .
. . . will meet Tuesday, Aug. 12,
at 7:30 p. m. in Social Center.
Wives of all students are cordial­ly
invited.
Spectators Pant For Oxygen
As Brutus Murders Caesar
By Tom Sellers
The Auburn Players opened their summer spectacle,
"Julius Caesar" last Monday night on a steamy, sweltering
stage. An audience composed of brow-mopping culture-lovers
failed to fill the ancient, ninety-plus degrees "Y"
Hut. But truly may it be said that "Caesar" is a "red-hot"
• play in more respects than Au-
Cabinet Banquet
Tomorrow Night
The annual • Executive Cabinet
inauguration banquet will be
held tomorrow night in the
121emenT"HOTeri'*in Opelika.
The date list includes F. M.
Fuller, Kittie Green; C. Ray
Martin, Emily Pruitt; Zeke Bass,
Teena Tucker; Tim Miller, Rene
Hodge; Van Cornelison, Winifred
Cornelison; Paul Persons, Daisy
Persons; Bob Flanagan, LaVerne
Taylor; John Spencer, Edwina
Foreman; Jimmy Duke, Lorine
Owens; Harry Barnes; Bill An­derson;
Dick O'Cain; Seab Hayes;
Emmet Killebrew; Ollie William­son;
Sammy Kirkland; Hollis
Geiger; J o h n Lanier; Bobby
Humphrey; Lewis Scarborough;
Gillis Cammack; Lynn Hawkins;
and Charlie Scales.
Faculty members who will be
present are Ralph Draughon;
Dean K a t|h elr|i n e Cater; and
Thomas Schuessler.
William Hall Preston
Preston Will Speak
At Union Services
William Hall Preston, Asso­ciate
Southwide Baptist Student
Secretary from Nashville, will be
speaker at the Union Service
August 10 under the sponsorship
of the Baptist Church. The ser­vices
for the evening will fea­ture
"Auburn Youth Night" with
Mr. Preston speaking on the
theme "God Has S o m e t h i ng
Great For You."
Mr. Preston is a graduate of
Ripon College in Wisconsin and
holds two graduate degrees from
George Peabody College in Nash­ville.
For many years he has
been a favorite speaker among
students throughout the South.
Plans for this service are being
made by students and students
will be in charge of the program
at the amphitheater.
gust weather.
In view of a myriad stumbling
blocks which only the director
and cast can appreciate to their
full extent, the play was mag­nificent.
There were moments of
color; of tenderness; of fiery,
surging hate. As intended, the
mlulti-cjolored lighting arrange­ment
lent realism to otherwise
slow-moving scenes. Almost ev­ery
scene had a tense climax
which left melting spectators
panting for oxygen.
Prof. Telfair B. Peet, director
of the Players, arranged the
scenes as did Shakespeare him­self
when the fabled Bard of
Avon toured England with his
troupe. This "flow of action"
technique is made possible by
alternately using front and back
sides of the curtain. One short
break about the midpeint of
"Caesar" divided it into two
parts. Through a combination of
tragic circumstances, p e r h a ps
blamable on history itself, the
glorious scenes are nearly all in
the first half. This makes one
feel that the play should be end­ed
just after Marc Antony com­pletes
his emotional oration.
Shakespeare . was prone to
twist facts somewhat to prove
his points. "Caesar" is essential­ly
the story of a man, Brutus,
who is true to his beliefs. Brutus
has an inborn hatred of dictator­ship;
he is persuaded to murder
one of his dearest friends be­cause
of that hatred. Caesar is
portrayed as a haughty individ­ual
who believes himself to be
all-powerful. Led by Marc An­tony,
a group of Roman nobles
plan to make Caesar king. Op­posed
to Antony's political phi­losophy
is Cassius, who is guided
by selfish motives. Cassius and
several of his frienls 'persuade
Brutus to join their.side. Caesar,
having been forewarned by a
soothsayer, is tricked into ap­pearing
before the Senate on
the fateful "Ides of March". The
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Final Standings
Open Division .
Softball Leagues
League 1 League 4
team W L team W
TC 7 1 DSP' .6
OTS 6 2 AG HO 5
Vag 3 5 SC 4
WG 2 6 Out 3
KS 2 6 LCA 3
League 2 League 5
team W Lleam W
Bap 8 OFae < .6
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PKA 3 5ATO 5
SPE 2 6PDT . 3
SAE . 1 7TKE . 1;
League 3 . League 6
team W L team - W
SN 7 1 PB 7
KA 5 3 HP 5.
PKT 5 3 Lat 4
FFA 4 4 Pir 3
Pac 1 7 Gyp 0
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Thursday's results -
OTS^Vag, 10-1; Bap-AP, .5-1;
PKT-FFA, 6-5; AG HO-LCA,
14-2; ATO-Fac, 4-2; Lat-Pir, 12-7.
Monday's results
WG-KS, 1-0; PKA-SPE, 16-15;
SN-KA, 7-5; DSP-SC, 11-3; Fac-
TKE, 24-9; PB-HP, 10-4.
Student Cross-Section of Ideas
Is Set Against Legislature's *No
Game-No Appropriation* Rule
Poll Shows Sir Against and Four For
Tiger-Tide Game Through Senate Action
Contestant-Note
Contestants-Note
The "Miss Homecoming Elec­tion"
will'be held Monday, Au­gust
18, according to informa­tion
received today from F. M.
Fuller, chairman of the elections
Committee. The names of all
candidates must be turned in to
Fuller at the Alpha Gamma Rho
house not later than Sunday at
12 p.m., August 10.
All candidates should be in
Student Center 7:30 p.m., Mon­day,
Aug. 11. At this time a
board of judges will select five
candidates from the total num­ber.
These five will be submitted
to the student body fpr election
by popular vote. One candidate
will be elected Miss Homecomr
ing, and the remaining four will
serve as the court.
'Rally Weekend' Planned
By Auburn Baptists
"Rally Weekend" will be ob­served
Saturday and Sunday by
BSU. The Baptists have planned
an. altday barbecue at Chewacla
Saturday beginning at 9 a. m. for
Students and alumni.
William Hall Preston (picture
on this page) will be special
guest and speaker for the day.
Transportation will be provided
by BSU. All students who wish
to go may meet at the Baptist
Church at 9 a. m.
Langdon Step Sing
Set For Tomorrow s;
Auburn's traditional Step Sing
will again take place tomorrow
night on the steps in front of
Langdon Hall. Dr. Hollace E.
Arment, head of the Music De­partment
and conductor of the
sings, has announced that Mrs.
Eleanor Abercrombie will be the
guest artist.
Music department o f f i c i a ls
have expressed their satisfaction
as to the attendance thus far at
the sings, having about 1200 peo­ple
for the fipt one and approx­imately
600 for the following
programs.
VETERANS MUST
GET SUPPLIES
BEFORE AUG. 16
All charge accounts at book
stores for veterans attending
Auburn under the GI Bill
will be closed August 16, ac­cording
to a memorandum re­ceived
from Roy G. Cargile,
college bursar.
Ahe memo read: "All veteran
equipment, and supplies for
charge account's for books,
the summer quarter, 1947, will
be closed at the close of busi­ness
on Saturday. August 16,
1947, at all book stores. Vet­eran
students should purchase
what supplies are needed to
complete the quarter prior to
this date."
Ag Club Election Is
Set For August 18
The Ag Club met in Comer
Hall Monday night to nominate
officers for the fall quarter.
These officers will be elected
at the next meeting, August 18,
Charles Hearn, president, said.
Those nominatel were — for
president: Charles R e y n o l d s,
Frazier Galloway, Fred Sum­mers,
and Virgil Searcy. Vice-president:
Jesse Culp and Gerald
Naylor. Secretary: Tom Byers,
Robert S. Ingram, and Foster
Owen. Treasurer; Frank Britt,
Bill Hollis, and Billy Seal.
Reporter: Lelias Pair and Mar­vin
Arline. Monitor: Glover Pugh.
All ag students are expected to
be at the next meeting.
Pharmacy Admission
Rules Are Given
Applications for admission to
the school of pharmacy must be
in the hands of Dean Lynn S.
Blake not later than four weeks
before the opening of the fall
quarter.
A transcript of high school or
other credits should accompany
the application. Upon approval
of his credentials, the student
will be notified of his accept­ance.
The quota for new students
is sixty.
Freshmen may enter only in
September.
Pre-Registration and Fee Payment
Information Is Listed For Students
Officials of the registrar's office call to your attention the
following information on pre-registration payment of fees.
The Plainsman urges that you keep your appointment.
Schedules of Study for the
Fall Quarter will be planned in
conference with the Dean or his
representative, as follows:
STUDENT ENROLLED IN
SUMMER QUARTER
JUNIORS — Wednesday (1-4
p.m.), Thursday, Friday—August
6, 7, 8
SOPHOMORES — M o n d ay
through Thursday — Aug. 11-14
F R E S H M E N — M o n d ay
through Thursday— August 18-
21
PAYMENT OF FEES FRIDAY
AND MONDAY —AUGUST 22
and 25. (alphabetic schedule for
payment of fees will be an­nounced
later)
Students enrolled in the Spring
Quarter but not in Summer
Quarter Tuesday and Wednesday
—September 4!3 and 24
Former Students not enrolled
in either Spring or Summer
Quarter Thursday, September 25
New Transfer Students (first
matriculation at API) Friday and
Saturday (to noon)—September
26 and 27
First Q u a r t e r Freshmen —
Orientation Program Thursday,
Friday, and Saturday—Septem­ber
25, 26, 27.
SCHEDULE FOR PAYMENT
OF FEES
All students will report to the
Student Center alphabetically in
accordance with
schedule:
the following
FRIDAY, AUGUST 22
A-Bak—
Bal-Bla--
Blb-Bro—
Brp-Car—
Cas-Con—
Coo-Dav—
Dav-Dz—
E-Fer—
Fes-Goz—
Gra-Har-,.
Has-Jac—
Jad-Lz—
A.M.
8:30- 9:00
9:00- 9:30
9:30-10:00
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00
11-00111:30
11:30-12:00
P.M
1:30- 2:00
2:00- 2:30
2:30- 3:00
3:00- 3:30
3:30- 4:00
MONDAY, AUGUST 25
M-Mor—
Mos-Ols—
Olt-Ufa—
Pfb-Rea—
Rez-Sim—
Sin-Sz—
T-Tea—
Teb-Uts—
Utt-Wha—
Whb-Z—
Students failing
to register as
scheduled above
A.M
8:30- 9:00
9:00- 9:30
9:30-10:00
10:00-10:30
11:00-11:30
11:30^12:00
P.M.
1:30- 2:00
2:00- 2:30
2:30- 3:00
3:00- 3:30
(
( 3:30- 4:00
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GLEE CLUB ON AIR
The Men's Glee Club will pre­sent
a 30-minute radio program
over, WJHO tomorrow at 9:30
p. m. This program will feature
college songs, old-fashioned har­mony
specialties, and Negro
spirituals. The Auburn Veteran's
Association, sponsor of this pro­gram,
will devote a few minutes
of the program to a discussion of
the income tax amendment.
LATE REGISTRATION FEE:
The late registration fee will be
chargeable to fulltime students
(undergraduates) b e g i n n i ng
Tuesday, August 26.
THE VETERAN'S ADMINIS­TRATION
WILL NOT PAY
L>TE REGISTRATION FEE.
J. Dorrance Kiser
Auburn Artist To Study
Under Jean Chariot
At Colorado Springs
Dorrance Kiser of Birmingham,
graduate student in Applied Ar|,
has been accepted for study at
Colorado Springs Art Center this
fall.
Kiser, an ex-GI, has done re­search
in the medium of al fres­co
under Prof. Maltby Sykes. He
is past president o fthe Art Guild,
local honor society for art stu­dents,
and is a member of Phi
Kappa Phi, national scholarship
honor society.
Current director of the, Color­ado
Springs Art Center is Jean
Chariot. Under his leadership
and that of other noted Ameri­can
artists the Center has de­veloped
into a national art
mecca.
On Friday of last week the
State Senate attached an ulti­matum
to the bill appropriating
money for Alabama and Auburn.
In this ultimatum they intimat­ed:
"No football games between
you two colleges, no money for
you."
Coach Frank Thomas of Ala­bama
had earlier announced that
no game could be arranged for
this' season, whereas Coach Carl
Voyles of Auburn has continual­ly
favored such a game. Jack
Simms, Plainsman Sports Editor,
has been attempting to reach
Coach Voyles for a statement
pertaining to the Senate's ulti­matum,
but when the issue went
to press, had not been able to
contact him.
The Plainsman, in order to get
a cross-section of student's ideas
on the appropriation amendment,
conducted a campus poll, the re­sult
of which follows: Six stu­dents
were found to be against
the Senate decision and four in
favor of it.
The question asked was: "What
do you think of the State Sen­ate's
action in making Auburn's
and Alabama's 1948 appropria­tion
contingent upon the two
schools' football teams playing
each other?"
Answers received were:
Howard Baker, Clanton: "Darn
good idea. Two institutions of
higher learning should be able
to get along in sports. I think
they should play ball."
Wofford Smith, Birmingham:
"It stinks! The state legislature
should have nothing to do with
athletics. I think that lowers the
Mullins Will Speak
At Veterans' Meeting
In Langdon Tomorrow
The AVA will hold a meeting
at 7 p.m. tomorrow night in
Langdon Hall. Dr. David W.
Mullins, professor of education
will introduce the subject, the
Income Tax Amendment. All
veterans are urged to attend.
AVA's Executive Committee
appointments have been com­pleted
by the association's presi­dent,
John Monroe. The appoint­ments
are as follows: Len Hen-sel,
Luther Smith, Bill Newman,
Henry Cobb, Lawson Beatty,
Morris Tipton, Ruel Russell, Bob
V. Flanagan, Jack Tate, John
Harris, Pete Keith, George Elias,
Leonard Pease, George Ryan,
Mercer Cotton, Walter Robinson,
H^ M. Kenney, Harold Lichten-stein,
Ernest Baker, and Ted
Gail.
state of our government but as
far as the actual game goes, I'm
for it."
Sara Edwards, Birmingham: "I
think it's very good. I think that
if they should have to play once
that they'll keep on playing."
John Shaffer. Montgomery: "I
don't think good will can bo
legislated."
Ray Fowler, Auburn: "When
educating Alabama youth de­pends
solely upon the playing of
a football game, then education
has assumed a shallow and in­significant
meaning to our legis­lators.
However, Alabama and
Auburn should meet> in a foot­ball
game."
Reid Trapani, Savannah, Ga.t
"Since the heads of both schools
have not solved the problem
which has been pending it had
to be done through an outside
source. I am in favor of it."
Louis Lanier Johnson. Deais-ville:
"I think that they should
do it in a way other than hold­ing
a sword over the two school's
heads. Have a compulsory ath­letic
meeting between adminis­trations
of the two schools.
Don McCormick, Birmingham:
"I think that the game is a good
idea, but I think also that poli­tics
should be left out of it and
the schools left to decide for
themselves." •• • •'
Milford T. Kuykendall. Ft.
Payne: "I think it's kind of a
hard thing to force them to play;
but if they won't play any other
way they must be made to do
it."
Ara Thompson, Troy: "I don't
think the legislature did a,wise
thing, but I favor the two teams
playing each other."
Auburn Man Gets
Navy Air Medal
Richard T. Lewis, 23, former
aviation radioman, third class,
Birmingham, has been awarded
the Navy Air medal, Eighth Na­val
District headquarters.
Lewis, who is now a student at
Auburn is a veteran of air-sea
rescue flying in the Pacific.
Serving overseas for 10 months,
he also was in one of the . es­corts
for the atomic bomb.mis­sion
to Nagasaki, Japan.
Citation for the award, signed
by Secretary of the Navy James
Forrestal, said that while partici­pating
in a difficult sea-landing
operation under adverse condi­tions
and far from friendly
forces, Lewis assisted his pilot in
effecting the r e s c u e of six
downed airmen whose plane had
crash-landed near Triton Island.
ARCHITECT PROFESSOR SAYS HOME
BUILDING IN STATE IS LAGGING
Home building in Alabama, al­ready
200 years behind the times,
is moving backward today, an
architect warns.
Prof. Walter E. Burkhardt,
professor of architecture, cites
three reasons for the "recession."
First, shortage and high cost
of materials have lowered build­ing
standards for the average
pocketbook.
Second, the small profits in­volved
in residential building
have turned architects to other
branches. "Women can be an
awful problem for home archi­tects,
too." Burkhardt grimaced.
Third, the need for educating
the public to new designs has
not been met. Magazines and
newspapers have hindered rather
than helped by perpetuating tra­ditional
building styles, Prof.
Burkhardt believes.
Explaining the effect of high
building costs, he said a majori­ty
of new homes are erected by
contractors without advice of
architects or consideration of
particular conditions.
Prof. Burkhardt added, how­ever,
the Alabama1 Society of
Architects has developed basic
home plans which for a small
charge can be altered to fit needs
of the individual family.
By this method, architects may
find home building profitable,
he said.
Prospects for public education
are not entirely dark, Burkhardt
added. Auburn architectural stu­dents
tend toward modern de­signs
100 percent. The Federal
Agricultural Administration has
helped educate for building and
people will gradually demand
homes better suited to modern
living than those of the past,
Burkhardt sees. Costs will also
increase the number of function­al
residences, the professor pre^-
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""Auburn Pla'msmcm
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and business office on Tichenor Avenue,
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Ralph Jennings
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Tom Sellers
Jack Simms
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Editor-in-Chief
_ Managing Editor
— Associate Editor
Associate Editor
Sports Editor
Society Editor
Office Manager
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Where To Complain
If., yon, as a student, have a legitimate
gripe regarding the administration, |0wn;
or anything which you believe is detri­mental
to your purpose of being in Au-~
burn, to whom would you take your
troubles?
Your answer is—not the president's of­fice,
not your roommate, not The Plains­man—
but a group- of students known as
the Student Relations Committee:
This Committee has been set up by'the'
Student Executive Cabinet to hear; in­vestigate,
and work out a plan of settle-jment
of all or any grievances submitted
.by students.
All facts are kept cohfidental if the
complaining party so desires.
Remember, for gripes, contact a mem­ber
of this committee. Pictures of the
committee are presented in this issue of
The Plainsman. If necessary, make use of
this service.
In a? brilliant Birmingham New§' edi­torial
of1 August 3, entitled "T4ie #riifer
and the Man," there are several queries
which can be answered.
The editorial writer asked:: "How'-is- it'
that a" neurotic woman; who strikes' you-as
quite childish in some respects, .can-write'
a book- revealing gif ts- of expression
and understanding Which one would* nev­er
have ascribed to her?"
Juxtapositionally, it may be . asked:
How is it that an architect, seemingly de-void;
of personality, design a Building
which' is astonishingly modernistic and'
imaginistic? Or how is it that an artist,
repulsive in manner, paint a work loved
by all mankind?
The answef? Talent lies* not in per­sonality,
nor are the two in any way simi­lar.
Talerit is mosT closely" associated' with
the" ability topersevere, genius means hard
work. Whether or nota'rflan "Succeeds"
depends entirely upon himself>. notf upon
the college from which he graduate's otf
even the- number of degrees he holds.
Personality helps, but, in the light of* the'
future, talent is alL
The News writer asked: "Where is the
line to be drawn between the writer and
the man?" There is no line, between*writer
and man. Where is the line to be' drawn1
between the engineer and^ the'man?There*-
is no line between engineer and' man. The'
writer interprets observed human emo­tions
and resulting, actions; the engineer
studies types of construction; df which
wire goes here, arid1 which thefe; and at-'
tempts to piece the best-fitting" bricks to­gether.
Both may display little genius in-their
personalities, both may be sadists,
but the outcome of their talent establishes
vrfitit you attempt fo pats on a curve or a hill.
m- Pfasfefc TowerBy Ralph Jenninss
them or destroys them.
Any Spare Time?
Auburn now has two radio journalism
organizations: The Auburn Broadcasters
and the Auburn Producers. The Broad­casters
group was established several
quarters ago by Paul Owen and J jm Brad­ley.
The Producers set-up was established
last week by the Auburn Independent
Organization. Both groups are open to any
student on the campus who wishes to dei
velop his talents in radio broadcasting,
script-writing, producing or directing.
Neither is limited to a particular faction
or body.
This university should be proud that
it possesses associations which are non-political,
which allow each student an
equal chance. Too many colleges have
certain cliques—cliques which run things
their way and allow little room for addi­tional
talent. There have been rumors of
line-ups here, of political filthiness. How­ever,
every student sophomore, junior,
and senior not too slothful has the un­questionable
right to participate:
The International Relations Club, two
radio broadcasting organizations, engi­neering
organizations, (in fact, clubs in
every phase of student life) have open
membership.
Truly, Auburn is democratic.
South, Will Miss Jtm
Old Jim Curley has gone to jail at last
and those faithful, leather-lunged Boston
Irishmen who idolized him will miss him
and mourn him. And, oddly enough, the
South will miss Jim Curley, too.
The South will miss him because for
all these years he has provided an answer
to those citizens of the Hub who looked
•—as only a Bostonian can look—down
their noses at depraved and backward
Dixie. When a Huey Long or a Cole Blease
or a Bob Reynolds capered across the na1-
tional political stage and the Brahmins
chorused, "Well, after all, what can you
expect?" the sensitive Southerner had
but to gesture to Boston's City Hall, the
gold-domed Capitol of Massachusetts, or
the Congress of the United State. Old Jim
wa always there, or just leaving, or just
moving back again.
Old Jim did it all just the way Theodore
Bilbo did it. He was endowed with a gold­en
tongue and a conspicuous lack of
scruple and the ability to explbit the class
and religious prejudice of his constituen­cy.
He proved that demagogy pays off ih
the Hub of the Universe just as readily
as it does in the far reaches of a- defeated
Confederate state.—.Condensed1 from Char­lotte
(N. C.) News.
Forestry at Auburn
Forestry, begun as" a single course in
1397- with an $80 experiment, in 1926; be­came
a separate department at Auburn
July 1.
History of this development is' told' in
a publication this month by Lamar M.
Ware,, head of the department of- horti­culture
and forestry for 16-yearsi
As the man chiefly responsible for the
growth of Auburn's^ fbr-estry research-and
education program, Dr.-Ware has ren­dered
"an account of (his); Stewardship"
before turning, over the new department
to another man.
The fight for approval of the program
over objections of men who believed' the
South could not support another forestry
school reached success July 3J 1945; On-that
day the Alabama legislature passed
a bill providing annually $25,000 for for­estry
education* and' $25-;0OO' for research.
Arrangements for a $150,000 forestry
building and $50>000' in equipment were
also completed.
In the past spring quarter 140- sopho­mores
and freshmen enrolled' in the for­estry
degree course at Auburn.
The brochare, "History/ and- Contribu­tions
of the Forestry Pre-grant of Alabama
Polytechnic Institute;" also Contains eval­uations
of the program- by forestry offi­cials
throughout (fte natlbrt; All of these
praise Auburn's WOrfe Principar contri­butions,
according; to John Curry of South­ern
Forestry Experiment Station^ have
been:
Evaluation of broad* present andi p6feh>
tia! forest benefits which' is generally/ ac­cepted
throughout the^ Soutfit
The farmer and snfall landowner have
been shown to beJ biggest problem in;
forestry practice in the- South;
The definition of values' fo bV gaitred'
in full and; intensive* use- of* fbres't lfahd'
and its products.
Definition of critical problems for re­search.
Since experiments are costly and
time-consuming Auburn's practical' and
direct approach has developed a; large
number of worth-while projects;
Curry's only criticism is the overload­ing
of forestry workers in Auburn's "de­sire
to assist all of Alabama and1 to do it
soon."
There's nothing like having, a sophisticate around to bright­en;
up the Plainsman office. Jim Forrester seems to fill the
bilL A-little incident happened the other day which shouldn't
pass without being re-toldi Shakespeare would' have frowned
oh it as a-low form of humor; judge for yourself. A story was
being, told about the Russian
Jennings
sion- was that
white" stallion
Revolution. It seems that in 1917,
the Bolsheviks formed the Third
International, and decided that
organized religion was no longer
necessary to the
state. A m o ng
o t h e r things,
they burned the
churches, for­bade
the open
practice of re­ligion
and turn­ed
the remain­der
of the edi­fices
irito mu­s
e u m s . The
particular case
U n d e r discus-of
a beautiful
which was the
pride and: joy of a White Rus­sian
duchess. In order to defam-ate
drier of the cathedrals, one
of trie ikonj( was removed, and a
large hole was cut through the
canvas. Theft the stallion's head
was inserted, allowing his head'
to' protrude, collar-fasKidn. In
that condition, he was paraded
through the streets of Moscow;
At' trie conclusion of the story,
Forrester merely peered over
the; rims of his glasses and said,
"Well^ mighty yokes from little
i&ms grow, I always say."
* * *
"Omnium consensu capax im­perii,
nisi imperasset."
Conjecture is running rampant
iri» all quarters as to who will be
riarhed president of A u b u r n.
W'heri a person comes to your
hiirid as a possibility for Au­burn's
presidency, apply the Lat-ih'
sentence above to him, and I
promise you that it will serve
as1: a marvelous criterion. Any
educator could stand the test; no
politician could. The translation
of the Latin is: "Everyone would
have .thought, him capable
ruling—if he had not- ruled;"
of
Miscellaneous items picked up
from here and there:
Street cleaners, more than
likely, will never be bothered'
by the indiscretions of horses on
elevated- tracks.
One of the greatest' novels
w r i t t e n in the Anglo-Saxon
tongue is "David Cop-a-feel" by.
Dickens.
Talent' can get you so far—
theft you've got to start using
ytiur head.
Work hard, and, if you can't
work hard, be smart'; and, if you
can't be smart, be loud.
Under the bonnet of organized
morality lurks a very filthy
mind.
* *" * '
Quotes:
"Alrhost all df our faults are
more pardonable than; the meth­ods
we invent to hide them:"—
Spann.
"Take a little wine for thy
stomach's sake." — I Timothy,
5-23:
"Science is morally neutral.
Science may be turned to the
weal or woe of mankind. While
science itself has no conscience,
the scientist has. The scientist
from now on must assume a new
role of social responsibility and
leadership."—Allison.
"Our schools increasingly re­gard
the teaching of a trade as
their chief function. Any fool
can learn a trade, but' knowing
a trade has nothing to do with
being an educated, competent
citizen in a republic. So; as
schools grow more and!more 'vo­cational;'
their moral authority
and intellectual prestige dimin­ish."—
Philip Wylie.
WheH' the world's troubles rest
tba' heavily on- your shoulders
recall the fact that it takes
160,000 honey bees to manufac­ture
a pound of honey. Half
wave their wings to evaporate
the water from the nectar, etc.
The other half gather the nec­tar.
Einstein once went to dine on
a1 train. Being near-sighted and
having forgotten his glasses, try
as he would, he could not de­cipher
the printed menu. Filial­ly
he held it up to the waiter.
"Please read' this to me?" Re­plied
the waiter, "Boss, L cairi't.
Fse ignorant like you."
* * *•
Link relates: Said the first
Husband: "My wife |finds my
money wherever I hide it." Ad­vised
the second husband: "My
wife never finds mirie. I put it
in the basket with my undarned
socks."
* * *
Says Unc Levi Zink: "It's the
instalment plan that will keep a
lot' of animals from wearing
their own fur coats next win­ter."
* • *• *-
Once a little moron stayed up
all night to study for his blood
test.
"MacDuff, I'm in love with
your wife. If you will give her
to me I'll pay her weight in
gold."
"A few weeks, first, a few
weeks, first!" 4
"What for, to think it over?"
"Hoot, mon, na! To fatten
her."
*- * *
"At last," said the novelist; "I
have written something that will
be accepted by any magazine."
"What is it?" asked a friend.
"A check for a year's subscrip­tion."—
West Pointer.
* • * * " ,
"Never put' oft till' tomorrow
the man you can get tbday".
West Pointer.
* *• *•
"But, darling, why aren't you
wearing my fraternity pin?"
"All the fellows say it rips
their coats."—Columns.
* * * .
Floorwalker to lady clerk:
"Since so many clerks have been
taken into the arrned services,
we'll have to put you on the
main floor in men's underwear."
* *• *
"Trouble'leaches us two things
—who our friends' really are and'
those who Have just' been wait­ing
to catch us bent over at the
right angle."—Standard Demo­crat.
By Jim Bradley
A Dash of Bitters By Jim Forrester
Here is a mythical story about
a mythical professor in a mythi­cal
American college. Any re­semblance
to any actual person,
living or dead, could very easily
be coincidental.
This instructor has a unique
conception of what constitutes
an absence from his class. Here's
how it goes. Anyone who arrives
after he does is absent. That's
final. No excuse. Whether it be
one minute after the hour or
ten, he is absent. Not late, but
absent. If the student enters the
class "late", he is certain to re­ceive
a - vituperative welcome
calculated to make him feel that,
compared to him, a grave rob­ber
is a saint. Because of this,
most of his students will not
even attempt to enter the class
if he is already there. Two ab­sences
are sufficient to drop
anyone from his roll. Sometimes
this cunning creature even locks
His class-room door behind him
when he enters. Cute kid, eh?
From all this, you might sup­pose
that his classes are all lec­ture;
that he devotes the entire
hour to instruction. .Such, how­ever,,
is several miles shy of the
truth. He often devotes as much
as half the hour to long-winded
tales of his fishing prowess or to
corny jokes of the "twenty-three
skidoo" type, and woe to
the scholar who doesn't laugh
long and loudly. Evidently, he
considers this sort of thing of
such vital importance that to
miss a single minute of it is to
jeopardize your education.
His classes are composed most­ly
of juniors and seniors, yet he
treats them as if they were an
undisciplined group of grammar
school brats who have to be kept
in line by constant bullying tac­tics.
This is his idea of how to
handle men.
No one can deny that he can
be a competent instructor. The
importance of his courses attest
to that. It is impossible to get a
degree in a c e r t a i n technical
course without at least two quar­ters
work from him. Because of
this, and because he is always
ready to issue an' F to anyone
who stands up to him and asks
for decent treatment, he is able
to continue his high-handed
method of instruction.
Class-room discipline is, of
course, an essential of good in­struction.
Without proper dis­cipline,
any course becomes noth­ing-
more than a farce. However^
too much discipline is just as
dangerous, because it- creates in
the student a smoldering hatred
for the instructor.
Suddenly as if by magic the
fog lifted itself quietly from the
landing strip to stop a few- hun­dred
feet above and hover there
like a great bird with it's'wings
spread to protect its little ones.
The distant, but distinct, drone
of a plane was heard. The drone
grew louder and louder until
suddenly it was overhead' lost in
the fog. Again I spoke into my
microphone.
"Kalamazoo to Wimpy. Kala­mazoo
to W i m p y . Come in
Wimpy."
Static sounded in my ear; then
came a clear and excited voice.
"Wimpy to Kalamazoo. Wimpy
to Kalamazoo. Where in the hell
am I?"
"Kalamazoo to Wimpy. This is
Bill. You have just passed over
our strip: You have just passed
over our strip."
"Yes," came the cool reply.
"But I am over water now.
can see Red Rock below me now.
Red Rock below me now." His
voice was clear and steady.
"Kalamazoo to Wimpy. Listen
to me Joe. Circle Red Rock.
Circle Red Rock. Head North.
Head due North. Airspeed one-sixty.
Airspeed one-sixty. Fly for
three minutes. Three minutes.
A l t i t u d e three-Hundred feet.
Three-hundred feet: You will
pass directly over end of strip.
Directly over end of strip. Over
to you, Joe.
"This is- Wimpy. Thanks Bill,
here I come." Trie radio was
silent except for some static.
I watched the end of the land­ing
strip. I glanced at my watch.
One minute. Tick-Tick-Tick. The
seconds clicked' away. Two min­utes.
I watched the sweep-sec­ond
hand swing around the dial
of my watch. Fifteen seconds
left. I heard the plane overhead.
Then I saw it break through the
fog, above me. As soon as he
saw the strip He throttled' back,
lowered his flaps and made an
almost perfect' landing. Hardly
had I reached' Joe's plane before
the fog began to settle back to
the ground:
God had performed another
one of his little acts to save a
man's life . . .
Book Review
The Exchange Post By Irv Steinberg
FILE THIRTEEN By The
Editor
Army Blazed Routes Through
W<*st
Army Engineers found the five most
feasible railroad routes to the Pacific
Coast in exploring, the unknown west in-the
1850's: Today passengers on stream­liners
of the Union Pacific, Southern Pa­cific,
Santa Fe, and Northern Pacific are
carried smoothly over the mountains on
lines laid out by* the Engineers. The fifth
route is used, by sections, by local lines.
I guess you're wondering what
The Plainsman is doing corning
out1 on Wednesday again, huh?'
We received so many com­plaints
that' we had only one
thing to do—change back. We
still think that Friday is a better
, day providing,
P52 of course, that
§|f the paper can be
i | distributed ear­ls
Her in the day.
But there are
JH§ complicat i o n s.
| The Lee County
Bulletin,, which
prints this papi­er,
is still on the
press and- has to
be removed. As'
Coleman the popular song
goes—"ft Takes Time." Then,
Bill Aiidefson; citculattdn man­ager,
Has* a1 conflicting class and
is unable to deliver the papers
utitil i p. m. on Fridays. It's a'
little Headache.
:*! ¥ <*
•> Emilio Juan Bendeck, mechan­ical
engineering student from
Tezucigalpa, Honduras, has writ­ten
a poem for The Plainsman
entitled' "My Dream." Bendeck
has a' role in "Julius Caesaf."
Luther Smith's book review on
this page is well-executed des­pite
its brevity. The Plainsman
would like to have more book
reviews. All contributions will be
appreciated; but Hke Luther,
please be brief.
Speaking df bdoks, H. G. Pitch-ford,
one of Dr. Cantrell's able as­sistants
at' the Main Library; rec­ommended'
that' I read "Color
Blind" by Margaret Halsey. Well,
I read it and my review is sim­ply:
"From her viewpoint, the
author couldn't' have chosen a
mdre appropriate title."
One for Readers Digest: In the
agfe-old dispute between France
and Germany over the Ruhr
.question, there have been many
"Saar-caustic" remarks.
In chemistry lab, one day, a
group of prospective chemists
were puttering with a few odd
chemicals, trying to produce
pretty colors and odd smells
when someone slipped up quiet­ly
beside them and suddenly
touched a test tube containing a
colorless liquid to their arms. It
was hot and they jumped, a vi­sion
of acid burns in their mind.
"Guess what I've get here!"
He chortled.
"Concentrated sulfuric?" they
croaked.
"No," he said, "hot water."
—The Technique
* * *
More than 100 Latin American
students, representing 20 differ­ent
foreign countries, began last
week, the eight week English
course- being held on the cam­pus
of Louisiana State Universi­ty.
The short course, which is
the second of its kind at LSU,
is designed to give Latin-Ameri­cans
a working knowledge of
English and an introduction to
life in the United States.
* * *
Published in each issue of
"The Technique" official school
paper of Georgia Tech, are the
college Student Council Minutes.
Publishing this gives the student
body an opportunity to learn
just what the council is trying
to do for the college.
* * *
Anything that's fun these days
is either illegal, immoral or fat­tening:
—Bee Gee News
* *• *
You've probably heard about
the fellow that's ready to serve
another 20 years on an island
in' the Pacific . . . He's at Alca-traz.
—Mobile Press
Emory University started' a
drive for stricter enforcement of
the campus driving regulations.
The drive was the result of too
much reckless driving about the
campus.
* * *
Laundry window sign: "We
Do Not Tear Your Clothes With
Machinery. We Do It Carefully
By Hand."
—Draper Inmate
* * »
The Auburn Glee Club really
sounded good at last week's stepN
sing. We would like to hear
more from this musical organi­zation.
Then there is the fellow who
winked at the elevator girl and
she took him up on the ninth
floor.
—New Mexico Lobo
She: "Joe has false teeth."
He: "Did he tell you that?"
She: "No, it came out in the
conversation."-
—Slipslick
* * *
A Mobile merchant grew wea­ry
of repeated requests for the
time so he put in a clock . . .
Now people keep asking him if
the clock is right!
* * *
The Notre Dame Scholastic re­cently
ran the following article:
Army brass has been around'
Notre Dame trying to round up
talent to form an ROTC unit
here on- the campus. In their
days of toil, they -succeeded' in
inducing 100 men to sign on the
dotted line. Let's see, 100 divid­ed
by 4,600- . . . about 2% . . .
No wonder the Army is for com­pulsory
military training.
By Luther Smith
Title: "East River" by Sholem
Asch: People had begun to won­der,
after publication of "The
Nazarene" and "The Apostle,"
whether or not Sholem Asch were
the only- writer who followed a
perfect and logical plot forma­tion.
They whispered to them­selves:
"Ah, this writing—it is
wonderful. Never have I been
floated so far from reality. Nev­er
have I been put so close to the
ideal soul."
Now comes "East River," and
people say "Never have I been
put so close to the true souL"
"East River" is Asch's most real­istic
book. In it are the pangs,
the heartaches, the lifelike ter­rors
of humdrum existence along
East River in New York.
On Forty-eighth Street lived a
conglomeration of all religions
and nationalities. There were
Jew, Irish, and American fam­ilies.
But each of them is an
individual with a heart and a
soul and a mind of his own, and
it is up to each character to eith­er
dedicate his life to himself
of to others.
Mary McCarty gave a portion
of her soul to Nathan Davidow-sky,
victim of paralysis. And
though she gave her soul to
him, she realized that consum­mation
of their desire for each
other could never be attained.
Hence, she tossed the pure, silk
parachute of her soul to the four
winds, was compelled to give
herself in marriage to Nathan's
brother, and later, regretting that
mistake which, once made, causes
irreparable damage, attempted
to pull back in the "tattered re­mains
of her parachute.
Sholem Asch dips farther to­ward
surrealism in "East River"
than even Taylor Caldwell would
dare. For pleasure reading and
for a good story I recommended
this new book by a great sym­pathetic
writer.
Never To Know—
By Luther Smith
Where is it? The second
page . . .
Torn out? Why, no!
'D she forget to mail it? Don't
guess so . . .
Wait . . .
Darn you, breeze,
Seizing my letter!
Now I'll never know, never.
-
Student Relations Committee Members — Their Job Is to Hear Your
Glenn Crim Bob Flanagan Bobby Humphrey La Verne Taylor
Co-Chairman
Paul Persons
Co-Chairman
Bronze Youmans Jimmy Coleman
C. Ray Martin Charlie Scales Eddy Foreman
Gene Millsap
Seab Hayes
John Spencer Van Cornelison Ralph Jennings
Formed iy Executive Cabinet
To Investigate Grievances of Students
The Student Relations Com­mittee
was formed by the Execu­tive
Cabinet to hear, investigate,
and work out a plan of settle­ment
of all or any grievance sub­mitted
by any student or group
of students. All facts in any
case are kept confidential at the
discretion of the complaining
£arty.
Students who have compliants
to make should voice them to any
member of the committee pic­tured
on this page. The commit­tee
meets periodically, and stu­dents
with, grievances are urged
to appear before.this group.
This committee, which has as
its co-chairmen Paul Persons
and LaVerne Taylor, has the
authority to act on behalf of all
the undergraduate students of
Auburn. When any changes or
adjustments are to be made, the
committee refers the case to
either the Council of Deans, di­rector
of student affairs, presi­dent
of the college, board of
trustees, or'governor of the State
of Alabama.
The Student Relations Com­mittee
acts for the betterment
of the students in any way pos­sible,
provided the action • is ap­proved
by the Cabinet.
'DOG DAYS' TALK IS PLAIN BUNK
SAYS DOCS AT ANIMAL CLINIC
AIO Will' Select
Miss Homecoming
Candidate Tonight
The Auburn Independent Or­ganization
will choose a candi­date
for Miss Homecoming" to­night
in Student Center at 7:15.
Other matters which will be
decided upon are the amount of
spare desired in the next issue
of Glomerata, whether to increase
dues, and final arrangements
for Saturday night is Street
Dance.
Besides regular weekly en­tertainment,
Harry Barnes, pres­ident
of the Student Executive
Cabinet, will give a 10 minute
talk on student affairs. Refresh­ments
will be served after the
meeting.
Dog Days are the bunk, says
officials of Auburn's Small Ani­mal
Clinic. And owners who
watch their pets for signs of
madness from July 3 to August
11 are just victims of an old
superstition.
The period is so called because
the rise of the Dog Star on the
eastern horizon heralded the
overflow of the Nile River in
ancient Egypt—not because ra­bies
is more common than at
other times.
But summer heat is just as
hard on dogs as on people, so
the Clinic is recommending ways
to keep Rover comfortable and
healthy.
If your dog is long-haired, he
should be trimmed or clipped.
Keep him clean and watch for
signs of skin disease. It's much
easier to check eczema in its
early stages.
Be sure fresh water is always
available and shade his pen with
tree tops or shredded newspapers.
Since fleas and ticks thrive in
summer months, keep Rover cov­ered
with insecticide powders.
Prepared flea powders should
contain rotenone, pyrethrin or
DDT. Be n z i n e hexachloride
should be an ingredient of tick
powders.
As for! diet, the fat content of
your dog's food should be re­duced
from 18 per cent to less
than 10. Prepared food should be
supplemented with eggs, milk
and meat as well as table scraps.
If a dog's diet follows his own­er's
closely, his chances of hav-
Wesley Students
To Fish Saturday
A special feature of Wesley
Foundation activities this week­end
will be a fishing and swim­ming
party at the home of Sua
Farrington of Dadeville.
All Methodist Students and
their friends are asked to meet
at the foundation at 1:30 p. m.
where transportation will be
provided. The outing is under
the direction of Cary Burns.
All students are asked to
bring their own fishing equip­ment.
ing a suitable seasonal diet are
good.
The same goes for exercise—
if its too hot for Rover's master
to exercise, it's too hot for Rov­er.
Just use "horse sense," the
Clinic advises.
Spectators Pant
(Continued from page 1)
conspirators murder him. Marc
Antony, whom Brutus thinks has
Phillipi, and Cassius persuades a
servant to run him through. La­ter,
Brutus falls on his own
sword. Marc Antony pays the fi­nal
tribute to Brutus by saying
"this was the noblest Roman of
them all."
The Players, crippled by a lack
of seasoned performers, did a
well-rounded job. Most of the
cast was new, untested, and pa­thetically
green. Everyone tried.
They tried terribly hard. But to
do justice to a superb play such
as "Caesar", there must be a far
Adams, Titinius; Jack Burk,
been appeased, stirs the Roman
mob into madness by a skillful
speech. Brutus and Cassius are
forced to flee. A triumvirate,
composed of Marc Antony, Oc-tavius
Caesar, and Lepidus, gath­ers
an army to oppose the troops
of Brutus and Cassius. The mur­derers
of Caesar are defeated at
greater number at tryouts from
which to select a cast.
Bill Ethridge, as March An­tony,
was completely poised and
wonderful. His masterful hand­ling
of the oration scenes was
soul-curdling. Griffin Harris, as
Julius Caesar, displayed remark­able
talent and composure. Bob
Blackburn, as the idealistic Bru­tus,
came through with a heart-filled,
sweaty, completely top-bracket
interpretation. George
Miller, as "Cassius, handled a
difficult role with practiced
grace, James Masey, as Casca,
was tops among the lesser roles.
He is a boy to be watched.
Remainder of the cast follows:
Henry G. Pitchford, Octavius
Caesar; Mack Ivey, Lepidus;
Prof. T. C. Hoepfner, Decius Bru­tus;
John Lyle, Metallus Cim-ber;
Zack Adamson, Cinna; Max
Strato; Betty Harris, Lucius;
Leonard Hart, Pindarus; H. G.
Pitchford, a soothsayer, Emilio
Bendeck, servant to Octavius;
Anne Mauldin, Calpurnia; Bar­bara
Neal, Portia; Jack Burk,
Owen Munro, Edna Scott and
Marjorie Sands, citizens of Rome.
Incidental music was composed
for the production by Prof. Hu­bert
Liverman. >
The play will continue -through
Friday, August' 8 this week, and:
Monday through Wednesday next
week.
Prof. Peet did a fine job of
direction on "Caesar". The play
revealed patient coaching. There
was hardly a forgotten line
throughout.
Burned
By Lulher Smith
I was burned by a cigarette
spark,
And ointments of soothing
year on year
Assuaged not its scorch.
I inhaled deeply of your love.
my dear;
The spark left my soul in
ashes.
As driver lashes out with
stinging whip,
Your nonchalance struck. I
never knew,
Nor ever will, the sweetness
of your lips.
Glee Club according to Mrs. S.
Turner Jones, alias "The Baton",
who is the director of the group.
At present, the Glee Club is
organized much like any club in
that it has its own student offi­cers;
however school credits are
given for this, course. Any men
who are interested in joining the
Glee Club should contact Mr. S.
Turner Jones or attend a Glee
Club meeting held over Toomer's
corner on Tuesdays and Thurs­days
at 4 p.m.
Auburn Photographer
Accepts Macon Job
Max Ziegler, College pho­tographer,
has resigned to join a
photographic firm in Macon, Ga.
Ziegler came to Auburn in
January to replace Lewis Arn­old
who left Auburn to accept a
position with the Birmingham
News Age-Herald. • i
A native of Chicago, Ziegler
had wide experience as a pho­tographer.
He worked in Birm­ingham,
Chicago, and continued
his trade as an aerial photogra­pher
in the Air Forces.
Hugh Alford, a student, is act­ing
as a temporary replacement
for Ziegler.
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Chiefs Is Proud
To Salute
Bob Blackburn
As an outstanding
member of the stu­dent
body.
Bob, a junior in
science and literature
f r o m Jacksonville,
Fla., is a v e t e r an
member of the Au­burn
Players. He is
currently playing the
role of Marc«s Brutus
in Shakespeare's 'Ju­lius
Caesar' which be­gan
Monday at the
"Y Hut and runs un­til
August 13.
WHERE THE AUBURN STUDENTS TRADE
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4—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, August 6, 1947
ARTHUR ST. CLAIR DUNSTAN
One of Nation's Top Engineers
Works Quietly in Labs at Auburn
By Mary Bright
If Auburn had an ivory tower, A r t h u r St. Clair Dunstan
would probably h u r r y to claim it.
Head of Auburn's electrical engineering department
since 1899, Professor Dunstan has sent his students into the
top of their profession and is nationally recognized as one
of the nation's leading engineers.
Yet a modest, retiring nature
has kept him out of the lime­light.
Finally cornered in his
office-laboratory, Professor Dun­stan
revealed a keen but charita­ble
sense of humor. Asking if he
were to be interviewed, he
quoted Mark Twain:
" 'What are you going to do
it with?'"
He interprets the success of
his former students with, "The
boys were so glad to get away
from me they did their best to
keep from coming back."
Among those "boys" were M.
S. Sloane, president of New
York Consolidated Edison Com­pany,
H. Y. Hall, manager of
Hellgate Power Plant in New
York, and H. S. Dumas, presi­dent
of Southern Bell Telephone
Company.
Professor Dunstan was busy
translating a letter in French
when found. He has a reading
knowledge of five languages—
English, French, German, Pol­ish
and Russian. The last two he
taught himself through curiosity.
"When I was at the University
of Chicago I noticed signs in the
Polish quarter and wondered
how a human could pronounce
the combinations of consonants."
Several years ago when the
War Department called for men
who could speak Polish and
Russian, several Auburn students
claiming the knowledge were
"screened" by Professor Dun­stan.
V He found most knew nothing
of the tongues and had figured
Ho one at Auburn could discover
their deceit. "One boy had a
Polish grandmother but he knew
no more of Polish than the aver­age
American."
In the engineering field, Pro­fessor
Dunstan has developed
one adventurous hobby. Asked
by a Montgomery hospital years
ago to help find lost radium
needles, he developed a radium-finding
machine. Altogether, by
combining the instincts of a
sleuth and the methods of a
scientist, he has recovered over
$50,000 in the precious element.
Two cases are clearest in his
memory. One hunt for two ra­dium
needles in Huntington, W.
Va., took him into a snowstorm
on Thanksgiving Day. He found
both in a hospital incinerator.
Another case involved pursuit
of a railroal conductor who had
stolen a $5,000 package of ra­dium.
Although convinced of the
man's guilt, Professor Dunstan
couldn't prove it. Years after
the conductor was mortally in­jured
in a train wreck and con­fessed
the theft on his deathbtd.
Professor Dunstan, who fin­ished
here in 1889, has a family
duty, Professor Dunstan finds
civil engineer, came to Alabama
from Fredericksburg, Va., during
the boom after the Civil War.
Young Arthur became an electri­cal
engineer after graduate work
at Johns Hopkins University
and University of Chicago and
returned to head Auburn's new
electrical engineering department
in 1899. His only son, an electri­cal
engineer formerly with Ala­bama
Public Service Commis­sion,
is now with the utilities
unit of the Federal Housing
Commission in Washington, D. C.
Professor Dunstan has design­ed
power plants both in Ala­bama
and Georgia and has ap­peared
as expert witness in many
legal suits.
As oldest active professor on
API, Professor Dunstan finds
Auburn greatly changed since
his youth. Education then, he re­calls,
was marked by the boom
of' drums which waked students
STUDENT SUPPLIES
School books and supplies are available at
reasonable prices
Next to Main Library
Phone 960-Extension 347
COLLEGE SUPPLY STORE
Mr. T. C. Hoepfner, assist­ant
professor of English, is
playing the part of Decius
Brutus in the Auburn Players'
current proluciion, " J u l i us
Caesar."
Mrs. Fortner
Loves Her Boys-
All 27 of 'em
Gray-haired, motherly Mrs.
Max Fortner of Auburn loves
boys and her household proves
it.
For nine years "Madam," as
she's affectionately called by
her boys, has boarded men stu­dents
at Auburn. It's a business
she likes.
Upstairs, downstairs—all over
the white-columned old house—
she has spread boys—27 of them.
Until recent years all Auburn's
men students boarded in private
homes and most still do. Madam
has made her's a favorite—with
a waiting list a year long.
When she and her husband
brought their three young sons
to Auburn their principal in­come
came from boarding stu­dents.
All three sons married—
one was killed in the recent war;
another moved to Dothan. The
eldest, Jake, who teaches aero­nautical
engineering, has con­verted
his mother's basement
into a hamburger joint Madam's
financial struggle is over but
the boys stay on.
"Max wants quiet sometimes,
but it wouldn't do him a bit of
good to ask me to clear the
house," Madam says firmly.
Besides, boys are quieter than
they were before the war, Madam
says. And when the house be-in
the morning and ordered them
to bed at night.
Fun then, he says, consisted
of Friday night literary society
meetings and fraternity sessions
on' Saturday night.
His eyes had a reminiscent
twinkle, however, as he spoke
of sliding down the outside ban­nisters
of old Samford Hall and
ringing the ancient "Bull Bell"
with an invisible thread.
PERFECTION
Is what our chefs strive for in
the preparation of every dish
our menu offers you. Eat with
us for enjoyment
HOMELY PORTIONS!
We know you want to see a
full dish, not the design of our
China—so we pile your platter
generously.
Watson Reports
On Ross Fire,
Samford Clock
By Jim Watson
Many Chemistry students, with
wicked smiles on their faces,
watched the flames sweep across
the top of Ross Hall last Friday.
But much to their dismay, a lad
with a fire extinguisher calmly
smothered the flames.
For over two years, there has
been a leak in the roof of Ross
and finally the repairmen were
working on it. While heating the
tar with a blow-torch, the tar
became ignited. The workmen
sounded the alarm and Marion
Grace, chemical stockroom man­ager,
grabbed the nearest fire
extinguisher for the kill. The
fire broke: out very near to the
tower on top of Ross and, accord­ing
to Grace, ther tower has much
once. i g n i t e d .
The fire was put
out before the
Auburn Fire De­partment
arrived
on the scene,
carbon disulfide
and ether stored
i n it w h i ch
Watson would have cer­tainly
made apretty flame if
and the firemen only lost two
moves at checkers.
However, the chemistry pro­fessors
in Ross say "let it rain"
because there is no longer a hole
on the roof.
Clock Gets Painted
Time apparently stood still
Tuesday afternoon as many stu­dents
were startled to discover
that there was no clock in Sam­ford
Tower. The disappearance of
the clock was only temporary
however, because the workmen
from Building and Grounds had
unbolted the clock faces, moved
them aside of the tower and re­painted
them.
There are many interesting
facts about the clock that are
not generally known by the pub­lic.
The clock's face is located
seven stories above the ground,
the mechanism being three stor­ies
below the faces and transmits
its power to the hands by wooden
rods and beveled gears. The bell
is situated in the section of the
tower where the openings can
be seen.
The bell has a clapper which
will strike the sides of the bell
when the rope is pulled; how­ever,
a separate hammer strikes
the bell each hour for the time.
In the past, the bell was rung
before pep-rallies. There are
many names, dating back quite a
few years, which have been in­scribed
on the clock and the tow­er.
But until it becomes neces­sary
to put another coat of paint
on the block face, Smoe, the leg­endary
dweller of the clock will
remain undistrubed except-, by
the sound of the gong each hour,
and the distant cries of "War
Eagle".
RICE and O L D SHOES
WINGARD RECEIVES
CHEMICAL GRANT
Prof. Robert E. Wingard, as­sistant
professor of chemical en­gineering
at Auburn, has just re­ceived
a Grant-in-Aid from the
Alabama Academy of Science.
The grant will be used for re­search
in the important opera­tion
of filtration under constant
pressure.
There are now no filtration
equations which can be used for
testing such substances as paper
pulp, when they are filtered un­der
constant pressure.
Prof. Wingard hopes, through
experimenting, to modify the
present filtration equations to
cover this field. More efficient
operation and design of machines
would result.
Cobb-Helms
The wedding of Miss Martha
Catherine Cobb and Nolan Da­vis
Helms is announced for early
fall. Mr. Helms is an Auburn
textile engineering grad.
* * *
Hollingsworth-Champion
A home wedding, July 23,
united Miss Mary Elizabeth Hol­lingsworth,
KD, Auburn, and
Joseph Stewart Champion, KA,
Auburn.
* * *
Davis-Dean
Sept. 14 is announced for the
wedding of Miss Annette Clifton
Davis and Walter Wood Dean,
Phi Delta Theta, Auburn.
* * *
McGehce-Schuessler
Of high social interest is the
announced engagement of Miss
Betty McGehee and Thomas War­ren
Schuessler. The groom-to-be
is" the capable and popular direc­tor
of student affairs at Auburn.
* * *
Crawford-Hinds
Late August has been set for
the wedding of Miss Bettye
Crawford and John Ross Hinds.
Bettye and John are both known
On the Auburn campus. The
groom-to-be is now a student in
pre-law at the U of Ala.
» * *
Rhodes-Tale
Miss Lila Rhodes and Paul
Edward Tate have set Aug. 9 for
their wedding. Both are former
Auburn students.
* * *
Self-Varner
Miss Carolyn Hood Self, KD,
Auburn, and Robert Edward
Varner, Phi Delta Theta; Au­burn,
have set Sept. 2 for their
wedding' date.
* » *
Landress-Trippe
June 6, 1st Baptist Church,
Auburn, was the wedding day of
Miss Helen Leland Trippe, Phi
Mu, and Orin Davis Landress,
Jr.; PiKA, Auburn.
* * *
Hardin-Poor
The engagement of Miss Vir­ginia
Hardin and Harold Edgar
Poor, Jr., is announced. Mr.
Poor is an Auburn graduate,
aeronautical engineering.
* * *
Houser-Cook
.July 3 saw the weddmg of
Miss Susan C. Houser and' Mal­colm
C. Cook, Sigma Nu, Au­burn,
Trinity P r e s b y t e r i an
Church, Montgomery.
* ;.» *
Page-McDaniel
The marriage of Miss Virginia
Page and Thomas Scott McDaniel
took place at Clayton St. Baptist
Churcn, Montgomery, July 12.
Both the bride and groom are
remembered as students on the
Auburn campus.,
* * *
Johnson - Denson
Announcement of August 30 as
the wedding day of Billie Vic­toria
Johnson to Robert Victor
Denson is recently announced.
Both are Auburn students. Mr.
Denson will receive his degree
in August.
* * *
Stickney-Carmichael
The approaching marriage of
Miss Alice Walker Stickney and
George Malcolm Carmichael, Jr.,
is announced. Mr. Carmichael,
with Reserve Officers Training
School Ft. Benning, is an Alpha
Gamma Rho, Auburn.
* * *
McGrath-Snow
Early fall is announced for
the wedding of Miss Virginia
Thomas McGrath to Harry Ear­ly
Snow, KA, Auburn.
* * *
Hollingsworth - Johnson
September is set for the wed­ding
of Miss Angelyn Hollings­worth,
Chi Omega, Auburn, and
Luther M. Johnson, Jr., SPE,
Auburn.
* * *
Smith-Terry
July 4 was the wedding day
for Miss Jean Smith, Auburn,
Secretarial Training graduate,
and Dewey C. Terry.
* * *
Walden - Silver nail
Miss Helen Walden and Cur­tis
Silvernail, two popular Cam-pusites,
were married June 20,
First Baptist Church, Mobile.
FOR SALE: 1942 National 12
ft. house trailer. Modern con­veniences,
excellent condition.
Located one block from cam­pus.
Reasonable price. See Bill
Williams 161 W. Glenn or call
509.
FOR SALE: One 1942 Alma
21-foot house traitor. Excellent
condition. Located one block
from campus in shady location.
Reasonably priced. See at 242 Vi>
E. Magnolia or call S54W.
One tropical worsted summer
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Double Feature
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SONGS OF THE
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JIMMY WAKLEY
No. 2
MORRIS RESTAURANT
AUBURN
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Former Auburnite
Gets Promotion
Alfred E. Cook, Union Springs,
recently was promoted to the
grade |of staff sergeant while
serving as sergeant major with
the Officer's Personnel Branch
Headquarters, Camp Rizal.
Before entering the service, he
graduated from Union Springs
High School and attended Au­burn,
where he was a member
of I Sigma Nu fraternity, and
was employed as a bookkeeper
with the Alabama State High­way
Department.
comes too noisy she sticks her
head out the door of her first-floor
apartment and tells the re­velers
"Grandma's got to sleep."
FOR SALE: 1941 Westing-house
Electric stove in good
condition. Call Ben Rosummy,
Jr. at 407-XM.
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August 10 & 11
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August 12 & 13
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