1945-01-24 The Plainsman

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Mary B. Martin.
Main Library
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VOLLXIV ALABAMA, POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1945 NUMBER 15
API Plans l6 New Buildings For Post-War Student Body
ODK's President's Ball To Climax Polio Drive
Coeds, ASTPs Freed Tuesday Night To Go
To Dance In Alumni Beginning At 7:30
By Mary Lee
The fight to stamp out infantile paralysis will be carried
directly to Auburn civilian and soldier students next week in
a four-day campaign sponsored by Omicron Delta Kappa
honor society which is to be climaxed on Tuesday, January
30, with the annual Birthday Ball
API Takes First
Step Towards
Guidance Program
Iowa Dean Explains
Framework Of
System To Teachers
Meeting last week with the
prospective counselors, Dean
M. (D. Helser, Iowa State College,
explained just how the guidance
program worked on his campus
and suggested a framework for
the Auburn program,
The construction of the pro
gram is not yet complete, but it
will probably be used experi­mentally
next quarter, and will
meet its first challenge when new
freshmen come to Auburn this
June.
Under the Iowa State plan,
teachers are relieved of one-third
of their classroom instruction to
be free to see students. Each
counselor is given about fifty or
sixty students and advises them
on courses.
The system is so set up that
any student who wants advice or
gets into trouble may talk with
his counselor without fear of be
ing "exposed'
Freshmen make the most use
of the program while they are
adjusting themselves to campus
life, Dean Helser said, but other
students take advantage of the
opportunity too.
Students who receive defici­ency
slips are required to see
their counselor in the hope that
they may be able to pick up on
their studies. Student govern­ment,
as well as fraternities and
sororities, sees that all of its
members co-operate with the
plan.
Dean Helser stressed again and
again the fact that the counsel­ing
system is only to help the
student help himself.
Money has already been ap­propriated
to establish such a
program at Auburn.
of the President.
Zombie Lauderdale and his Au­burn
Collegiates have volunteer­ed
to play for the dance, which
is to be held at Alumni Gymnas­ium
from 7:30 p. m. to 9:30.
The 14 Glomerata beauties who
were selected for appearance in
the 1945 yearbook and all mem­bers
of ODK will sell birthday
ball tickets during the coming
week. Admission will be sixty-one
cents for each couple, with
stag tickets the same.
On Monday student leaders
and beauties will visit classrooms
every hour to solicit contribu-
Both coeds and ASTPs will
be given permission to attend
the dance. Any woman student
wishing to go will be allowed
ten minutes after the dance
is over to get back to her house
or dormitory. Dean Marion W.
Spidle said.
ASTPs will not be required
to attend study hall Tuesday
night if they have a ticket to
the dance, according to Col.
Gates.
The dance will be informal,
according to ODK president
Gibbs Ashley.
tions and sell tickets; all of the
proceeds will go to the National
Foundation for Infantile Paraly­sis.
Because of funds collected in
previous Birthday Ball drives, the
Foundation has been able to pro­vide
medical and surgical care,
hospitalization, orthopedic equip­ment
and whatever other sup­plies
were needed to give paraly­sis
victims the best care and
treatment possible.
The 1944 epidemic of the dread
disease, however made serious
inroads into the backlog of funds
upon which infantile paralysis
patients depend for the service
they need and must have.
Best Sales Talk
Wins Cup For KDs
To win the loving cup for sell­ing
the most tickets to theKip-nis
concert, Kappa Delta sorority
turned in a total of $83.80 to the
lectures and entertainment com­mittee
at 5 p. m. Thursday.
The contest, which was an­nounced
Tuesday, was open to
all fraternities and sororities.
Following the Kappa Deltas,
the Alpha Gamma Deltas placed
second with a total of $41.45 col­lected
for both student and adult
tickets. Delta Zetas ranked third
in salesmanship, their receipts
totaling $33.50. A collection of
$27.70 was turned in by Alpha
Delta Pi.
The cup will be presented to
Margaret Toomer, president of
Kappa Delta, later in the quarter.
Guyton Appointed
Chairman Of War Fund
For Red Cross
F. E. Guyton, professor of
zoology and entomology, has been
appointed as general country
chairman of the 1945 Red Cross
War Fund in Lee County by
A. D. Burke, chairman of the
county chapter.
Professor Guyton's selection
and appointment was unanimous
ly approved by the Board of Di
rectors of the Lee County Chap
ter,
LEADS FOR ODK
Program Will Cost About $6,000,000
And Will Extend Over Several Years
State Legislature Will Decide In May
Whether To Give Auburn Go-Ahead Signal
Anticipating a postwar enrollment figure of 6,000, Dr.
L. N. Duncan, president of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
has announced that he will present plans for a $6,000,000
building program to the Alabama legislature at its meeting
next May.
Studies describing some sixteen new buildings and other
equipment considered necessary
Junior Class Votes To "Carry On"
Tradition Of Spring Campus Carnival
...cover to cover
Editorials
Include a letter from Lowe and a treatise on the tennis team,
plus a heated discussion of conduct at a concert becoming to college
folks,
"Spotlight" and Social
A campus personality, fraternity and sorority doings—pledg-ings,
elections, initiations and parties are all on page 3.
Cabinet Election And The Colonels
Occupy page four. Pictures of Gates and Waterman and a couple
of weddings also.
Features On Five
Clint, Claxton, Cureton, and a convention at Huntingdon furn­ish
copy for this page, along with one of eur favorite jokes and a
letter,
Basketball And Intramurals
The sports page covers varsity and frat cage teams, and the
girls' bowling tournament. Some winnings were mightly close calls,
according to scores.
Decides To Sponsor
Former Project Of
Engineering School
Voting to carry on the Auburn
tradition of a spring carnival, the
junior class assumed the spon­sorship
of this project in its in-ltal
meeting on Monday, January
22.
Betty Grimes, president of the
junior class, presided at the
meeting.
Mr. Ralph Draughon, director
of instruction, pointed out the
need for more class meetings and
congratulated the juniors for
getting together.
President L. N. Duncan pre­sented
an insite into the future
building program, describing the
buildings to be constructed after
the war. Among these will be a
student union building "with a
huge dance floor" and facilities
for loafing between classes.
Mary Lou Turner, vice-presi­dent,
Jeannette Ellis, historian,
Malcolm Dykes, representative
to the Cabinet, and Buris Boshell,
newly elected vice-president of
the Cabinet were introduced, and
the business of the class project
was discussed.
The class decided to carry on
the carnival which has been tra-
(Continued on back page)
MIMS MAKES TALK
ON METHODS OF
COLLECTING BLOOD
Dr. Leroy Mims of the Bang's
disease Laboratory at the Serum
plant addressed the members of
the local junior chapter of
AVMA last Tuesday night.
He stressed in his talk the use
of right methods in the collec­tion
of blood samples and the
most efficient way of mailing
these samples to his laboratory.
Dr. Mims is outstanding in state
vet work and it is said that the
value of his work to cattle own­ers
of the state cannot be over
emphasized.
At this same meeting the new
publication, Auburn Veterinarian,
Veterinarian, was distributed and
new officers were installed. Jack
Young took office as president,
succeeding Frank Mulhern.
Few Appointments
Lett For Seventh
Blood Bank Visit
Twenty more volunteers will
put the. student quota of 250
donors for the Red Cross Blood
Bank's seventh visit to Auburn
on February 7, 8, and 9 over the
top, Mary Nell Chiles, chair­man
of the student drive, said
yesterday.
Appointments may be made
with any member of WAA until
the end of this week.
Releases signed by a student's
parents must be secured by all
donors under 21. All students
who have- not mailed releases
home are urged to do this. They
should be sent back to American
Red Cross, Auburn, Alabama.
No student who is under 18,
who has had malaria in the past
18 months, or who weighs less
than 110 pounds may donate
blood. These are national regu­lations.
Chairman Chiles urged all stu­dents
to meet their appointments
promptly. If for any reason,, a
student must break an appoint­ment,
he is asked to call the Red
Cross and cancel it. Miss Chiles
pointed out that Auburn failed
to meet its quota of pints of
blood for the last two visits be­cause
so many volunteers failed
to show up.
by a local planning commission
already have been filed witti
state and national planning
boards, "and with the Hon. Hayse
Tucker, State Director of Finance.
The list of building needs in­cludes
a student union building,
an engineering laboratory, men's
dormitories, women's dormitories,
agronomy and horticulture build­ing,
home economics building,
architecture and allied arts
building, agricultural engineering
annex, administration building,
'gymnasium, additions to the lib­rary
building, additional facilities
for veterinary medicine, indus­trial
engineering^ buildings, abat­toir
and freezer lockers outdoor
swimming pool and bathhouse.
Many old buildings will be re­painted
and put in better shape.'
In addition, Dr. Duncan stated,
Gov. Chauncey Sparks has from
time to time indicated his deep
interest in seeing that Auburn
has an appropriate auditorium.
Should the legislature approve
the program, construction of
buildings would begin as soon as
authority is obtained. Building
probably would be done in the
order listed.
Residents of Auburn and the
surrounding area are to be al­lowed
to use the facilities of the
projected abattoir and freezer
lockers and of the swimming
pool.
The local planning commission
appointed by Dr. Duncan is head­ed
by Prof. Alfred Edwards, as­sociate
professor of landscape
architecture, chairman. Others on
the committee include R. B.
Draughon, O. W. Bickel, W. T.
Ingram, V. P. Watwood, Homer
S. Fisher, L. M. Ware, and Tur-pin
C. Bannister.
A 4,616 enrollment at the end
of the 1942-43 session, Dr. Duncan
asserted, led the school admini­stration
to expect a minimum
postwar enrollment of 6,000 stu­dents.
"In view of the widespread
popular demand of young people
and their parents for the kind of
scientific, technical and practical
training offered by the institution
and the stimulus for returning
soldiers to complete their educa­tion,"
the Auburn president said,
"We estimate that the enrollment
here will be at least 6,000 stu­dents
soon after the closing of
the war."
Here's Proof That
We Can Write
B&G leads such a hard life.
They put out grass that stu­dents
walked on t h e n they
build walks that s t u d e n ts
wouldn't walk on.
Recently they p a v e d the
landing below the steps to the
campus on Thatch and College
corner.
That was in the morning. At
noon some students decided to
see if they could still spell
their names. And so the B&G
man repaved the landing. He
kept careful guard all after­noon.
The odds were against him,
and the pavement wasn't dry
when he went home for the
night.
Next morning he found evi­dence
that some of-API's stu­dents
are artists—his pave­ment
was adorned with hearts
and initials.
But just to show that presis-tence
is a good virtue, he final­ly
does have a landing without
any writing on it—though he
did have to miss his dinner to
get it that way.
Vet Publication
Makes Appearance
On "The Hill"
Forum To Hear Funchess
On Future of Agriculture
Dean M. J. Funchess of the
School of Agriculture will speak
to the January meeting of the
Faculty Forum next Monday
night at 7:30 in the Dining Hall
on post-war agriculture. Supper
will be served to the faculty as
usual.
Tickets may be purchased from
any of the secretaries of the
schools or in the President's of­fice,
F. E. Guyton, president of
the Forum, said.
Deadline Set By Sphinx
For Entires To Singing
Sphinx has set Feb. 1 as the
deadline for organizations who
wish to enter the Campus Sing
ot notify Doris Karcher, presi­dent,
of the number in their
group and the songs to be pre­sented.
Programs are to be printed
and cups awarded to the winning
groups. There is an entrance fee
of one dollar. Any group on the
campus is invited to enter the
contest, but the entire member­ship
of the group must partici­pate.
No groups with less than
ten members can be admitted to
the competition.
The sing will be from seven
until nine, Thursday, Feb. 15.
Songs are to be judged on
harmony, unity, general effort,
originality or persentation and
interpretation.
Coed and male groups will be
judged separately.
Members of Cardinal Key will
meet this afternoon at S p. m. in
the living room of Social Center.
Volume I, Number I — better
save 'em, boys. First editions get
to be pretty valuable some times.
The first issue of the Auburn
Veterinarian, publication of the
student chapter of AVMA with
Lawrence Pease as editor, ap­peared
last Tuesday. This book­let
is to be published once each
school quarter by the students of
vet school. It contains articles of
contemporary interest to practic­ing
an future veterinarians, news
of activities of vets and the vet
school, and information about
alumni.
A. G. Williams and Joe Bran­son
served as assistant editors;
Jimmy Acree as business manager
and Bob Sharman as make-up
man.
Erskine Jordan managed the
advertising while Warren Wil­liams
took care of the circula­tion
for The Auburn Veterinar­ian.
Introducing the publication
was a letter from Lieut. Colonel
Ridding S. Sugg, congratulating
the Junior-AVMA on its maga­zine
as a means of keeping
alumni in touch with their school
and college.
The cover of the issue was
designed by Dr. W. S. Bailey of
the department of pathology and
parasitology.
The magazine includes papers
written by alumni and under­graduates
on various ailments of
animals, and outstanding mem­bers
of the veterinary profession.
PLATTER DRIVE
POSTPONED UNTIL
SPRING QUARTER
The Red Cross drive for phono­graph
records has been postpon­ed
until the spring quarter, Pat
Elliot, chairman of the drive, said
yesterday.
This change in dates was made
in order to give groups partici­pating
in the drive more time to
collect records. In addition, stu­dents
going home between quar­ters
will have a chance to find
and bring back records.
Although a definite time for
the end of the drive has not yet
been set, the campaign for re­cords
definitely has not been
called off because phonograph
records rank high on the request
lists of servicemen in Alabamas
Army hospitals. All distribution
will be handled by the.Red Cross
and will go to the men in this
state. -'
The Red Cross chapter will an­nounce
the end of the drive later.
At that time the Executive Cabi­net
will award a loving cup to
the group amassing the most
platters, and the house or dormi- •
tory with the greatest per capita
collection to its credit will rate
an extra date for each girl.
Groups are urged by Chairman
Elliot to begin their work now.
All groups will be expected to
keep their own collections until
the end of the drive.
Red Cross First Aid
Will Be Canceled
Unless more students sign up
for first aid, the class cannot be
taught because Red Cross regu­lations
insist upon at least eight
trainees. Students interested are
asked to contact Virginia Wil­liamson
at .184 for time and place
of meeting.
Guild Exhibits
Student-Painted
Oils In Art Annex
Ten student-painted oils are
being exhibited in the front room
of the Art Annex as the first of
a series of exhibits sponsored by
the Art Guild.
The Annex is open to the pub­lic
every day from 8 a. m. to-4:30
p. m. and the pictures will hang
until next Sunday.
A blue ribbon will be presented
to the picture chosen as the best-by
student judges, Betty Wil-more,
president of the Art Guild,
said. The Art Guild members will
judge the pictures and will an­nounce
the winner of the ribbon
sometime this week.
Pictures now on exhibit and
their artists are "Mystery" by
Norma Denham, "Frank" and
"Little Sister" by Fred Duggar,
and "Wanderlust" by Vivienne
Duncan.
"Night Stop" and "Sere Land­scape"
by Luellen Hovey, "Sha­dows"
by Betty Jones, "The
Lodge" by Dorothy Jean Nichols,
and "Five and Ten" and "Tree
Trio" by Mildred Woodham.
The next exhibit will be of
water-color paintings. (Anyone in
college may submit a picture for
the exhibit. All entries must be
turned in to Prof. Merino-Merlo
by February 14. The exhibit will
open on February 21.
ON THE CAMPUS
Tennis Team
Boys interested in trying out
for the tennis team are asked to
call 921, leaving name, address,
and phone number with Norman
McLeod.
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Friendship Circle
The annual birthday party of
Friendship Circle will be held
Sunday night following church
services at the Baptist Church.
Miss Lelia Cooper will be hostess
at the party, which will be held
at her home on Opelika Road.
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Campus Hop
Student Center will play host
to all the dancing guys and gals
Saturday night at a Campus Hop.
The music will be from a juke
box. The Center will be open
'from 8 to 10:45 p. m.
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Page Two THE P L A I N S M AN WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1945
Tm typing a supply of letters to last me until we win the war
. . . rm turning my typewriter over to the Government,
tomorrowV
Biting Our Fingernails Tennis Tantrums
JAYWALKING
With THORNTON and LANEY
Editor's note: The opinions expressed in this column are
those of the writer and are not to be construed as the editorial
polities of this paper.
Seems that some of the girls around here don't agree with
our version of proper etiquette at a formal, as stated in a
letter in another part of this paper. We'd like to point out that
boys dance with the girls that entertain them most and it only
stands to reason that they would not dance with strangers if
they enjoyed the company of their friends more. Maybe the
girls should break down and try to be a little more entertain­ing.
If they can't get soldiers they could at least be a little
nicer to the students as long as they have to put up with them.
* * *
Once upon a time a temperance lecturer came to Auburn.
He was lecturing on the evils of alcohol and in the course of
the evening he asked his audience, "Suppose I place a bucket
of water here and a bucket of beer over there and then brought
out a healthy donkey. Which do you suppose he would drink?"
"The water," someone is the crowd said. "Why, yes. Now can
anyone tell me why?" "Cause he's a jackass," cried the voice.
* * *
Oh darling, everything I do seems to be wrong!".
"H'mm, what'cha doing tonight?"
* * *
"Root-i-ti-toot, root-i-ti-toot. ^
We are the boys from the institute, etc."
That are other popular refrains will be heard about town
more and more frequently—horribly more, in fact—now that
Sphinx (commonly mispronounced around heah) has an­nounced
that it will give a lovin' cup to the best—least bad,
rather—groupe of warblers come February 15th. Seems that
they will award a cup to the thug-group and the bag-group,
so that makes everybody eligible but you and men. According
to Med. (Medical) Science, who lives somewhere between the
Windmill and Roy's Place, the best tonic for your voice is the
following: into a delmonico squeeze the juice of one egg, add
three jiggers of Purple Label (151 Proof), a dash of orange
bitters and a small portion of grenadine. With a bit of this
solution brush your teeth, then swallow the remainder. The
grenadine will make your teeth red, but you can explain that
away simply by saying that you have bleeding gums, or
something. By this time your breath should have a thoroughly
nauseating fragrance, and you will immediately brust into
song. What'cha waiting on? Start practicing now.—adv.
* * *
The Theta Chis really torn down the Girl's Gym at their
musical wrestling match. Swell dance! As usual we overheard
a guy telling his drag, "You may have a pretty mouth, my
dear, but I'll put mine up against it any time."
* * *
She was only a moonshiner's daughter, but I loved her still.
* * *
Sum uv de guys what imphest dis heah place wants to no
how cum dem hed men over to de collitch don't bring er Name
Band down to pleez everbody insted uv havin a consut star
around what nobody but kultured folks likes—and most all
thim being townspeople at that. Yealvwe uns will even pay
a coupla bucks outside de Activity fee fer sumpin like dat,
cause dat is 100% stoodent activity but concerts ain't. Also, did-ja
know thet Harry James is travlin in dese parts nowadays?
—so's Sammy Kaye and some more. Sumbody's got der kruds.
* * *
Professor—What's the shape of the earth?
Stude—It's in a helluva shape, sir.
* * *
"Are you familiar with Henrietta?"
* "No^ not since she slapped me."
* * *
I know this part of the column isn't worth a—(cut out by
editor). But it isn't my fault. All my good jokes are censored,
while Laney can get away with anything just cause he buys
the editor ice cream cones. Then too I think the editor put
that thing in big black type up at the top of the column saying,
"The opinions, tec." just for my benefit in case something
slips by. Thornton speaking, by the way. How he gets away
with all that corn—Laney—I don't know. Pulling a handker­chief
through clenched teeth—phooey.
* * *
"I can tell you drive a car by the way you tighten down on
the clutch every time you come to a curve."
Editor's note: The opinions expressed
in this column are those of the writer
and are not to be construed as the edi­torial
policies of this paper.
By MIMI SIMMS
What is the use of voting in a
campus election anyway? Your
one little vote can't possible make
any difference. Especially when
the BMOCs have gotten all the
Greens in a mass of entangling
line-ups.
But that is only what you
think, sophomore!
If you and nine others in your
class who didn't bother to go to
the polls last Tuesday had voted
for the defeated candidate, the
election results would have told
a different story.
As it was, less than one-third
of you sophomores, and less than
one-third of the freshmen, too,
bothered to cast a ballot. The
exact percentages were 29 per
cent of the sophomore class and
32 per cent of the freshman class.
Members of the junior class
did a little better—over half of
the actually got to the polls. In
fact, it was exactly 55 per cent,
more politicking, more lining-up,
more poljticing, more lining-up,
or just more interest in the elec­tion,
no one could say. Maybe
because the class is smaller, it
was easier for the candidates to
contact a larger number of the
individual members.
About 22 per cent of the aver­age
school enrollment is affiliated
with a fraternity or a sorority.
The figure has risen slightly since
the war began This would seem
to tie in quite well with the fact
that the number of freshmen and
sophomores voting was only ten
per cent higher than the average
number of Greeks in each class.
Most of these fraternities and
sororities were in line-ups, and
consequently their members were
made to "get out and vote."
The vote was small so that the
students who "forgot" to vote
could have swung the election
the other way. This is true of the
junior class, as well as the fresh­man
and sophomore classes, in
spite of the fact that about the
average number of voters for any
class election turned out to vote
for the vice-president. .
It has been proved again and
again in that a strong independ­ent
can beat any line-up. When
the line-ups first were used, they
were a guarantee that a candidate
would get a certain amount of
votes, but not that he would win.
Now, because of the decreased
interest in elections, the strong­est
line-up is the surest way to
get elected.
This is definitely the fault of
the 70 per cent of the sophomore
class who won't take the trouble
to go to the polls. It is equally
the fault of the almost 70 per
cent of the freshmen and the 45
per cent juniors who aren't in­terested.
It is equally the fault of the
Executive Cabinet for not adver­tising
the elections enough. Back
in pre-war days, the elections in­volved
handbills, U-Drive-Its all
painted up, and any other means
of publicity the candidates could
devise. While abolishing this took
all the cash output out of campus
elections, it also took most of the
glamor.
A general rally before the
elections would probably be the
easiest way of getting acquainted
with the candidates. Each quali­fied
aspirant to an office could
be introduced —silly campaign
promises wouldn't be necessary.
What ever the solution might
be, the whole student body should
get in back of the non-voters and
get some action.
Back in "the good ole days" as some
says, Auburn had the best football team,
baseball, basketball, and track team. Not
only that — Auburn had a cracker-jack
tennis team. Why can't this year be the
revival (do we sound too much like a
preacher?) of those times. We have an
up and coming football team, a promising
basketball team, and maybe a baseball
team. Our track record speaks for itself.
Last year a group of boys, furnishing
their own equipment and transportation,
represented Auburn at Howard and Geor­gia
Tech. Though they made a good show­ing
for a start, beating Howard but los­ing
to Tech, these boys did not represent
Auburn officially.
Minor sports draw schools closer to­gether,
create congenial ties between col­leges
who do not have the chance to play
major sports.
Coach Voyles has granted permission to
several interested boys to organize a ten­nis
team and represent API officially. We
can all remember when our coach arrived
on the plains told us in so many words
that the football team was not his team
alone, but our team and that to make it
click, we would have to stand behind it
tooth and toe-nail. We did, and it did.
Already plans have been launched to
play such schools as Georgia, Tech, How:
ard, Birmingham - Southern, A l a b a m a ,
Emory, and several service tennis teams.
If you are interested in trying out for a
position on Auburn's tennis team, by all
means don't let this opportunity slip. And
if you are a tennis fan, support the team,
for it is representing you.
Shuffle, Rustle/ Slam!
LETTERTORIAL
ByBENNINGandDUGGAR
We were recently acused of
being too critical of things in
general so we shall hereby re­form.
In the future we shall
spread only sweetness and light.
Just call us Polly Anna!
* * *
For instance, concerning fresh­men,
we are much pleased to
find that very few of them are
suffering from an inferiority
complex.
(At this point the co-authors f
this thing fell into a terrific argu­ment
as to how to punctuate the
sentence. We won't say who won.)
However, we want to say of
the rats that we find them to
be of a very rugged variety with
wee minds of their own. The
typical rat is above all menial
tasks such as shoe-polishing, er­rand-
running, and so forth. If
you dare to ask him to do such
a thing for you, he brushes you
off in his best Continental man­ner
with a perfectly enunciated
"C'est la guerre, you know!"
Editor's Note:
Recent issues of the Plainsman
have cussed and re-cussed the
line-up question. The student
body at API is not the only
group concerned with such prob­lems,
as can be testified by this
editorial in the Howard Crimson.
* * *
"Since the annual student body
election was held in October, and
more recently since the Entre
Nous Who's Who election, quite
a bit of discussion has been raised
on the issue of "political line
ups." To the mind of any clear
thinking person and conscientious
citizen, line ups are not only un­fair,
but they are utterly disgust­ing.
While some persons insist
that such political scheming is a
necessary evil, we feel that, as
an instrument of democracy, The
Crimson must take a vigorous
stand against this,or any other
practice so deliberately and flag­rantly
undemocratic.
"We all know that one of the
primary purposes of college is to
train good citizens—citizens who,
because of a genuine interest in
upholding democratic ideals, will
vote intelligently and conscien­tiously
for the good of the nation.
Voting for the most highly-quali­fied
is just as important in our
college community as it is in
our nation—not because of the
immediate effects, of course, but
because students in college will
form the influential group among
voters of tomorrow.
"It stands to reason that what
students uphold in college, they
will uphold in the future. Do we
want our nation to be further cor­rupted
by political graft? Aren't
we told repeatedly by those who
KNOW that one of the greatest
dangers to democracy is a people
not capable of choosing the most
efficient leaders to conduct the
affairs of the country?
"During the preliminary Who's
Who election when students
were asked to cast their votes on
a ballot printed in The Crimson,
many persons were shocked by
the evidence of so many line-ups.
"What was even worse, a few
(and we do. hope we're right
when we say only a few) persons
were known to have cast as
many as a dozen ballots apiece.
Obviously, such tactics are un­becoming
to an American citizen.
"It will be a great triumph for
democracy when all candidates
can win on their own merits and
not because certain groups are
backing them. Howard's campus
should be a reflector of Christian
democracy. There is simply no
room on such a campus for politi­cal
line ups. The only kind of line
ups we want around here are the
kind that will abolish such prac­tices
forever."
If you were among those who w e re
guilty of shuffling feet, rustling programs,
slamming the door, opening and closing
the door, walking out for air and then
back again, or any one of the other dis­turbing
crudities which could be heard
at the Kipnis concert last week, then
please for the sake of those who go be­cause
they want to listen, please, stay at
home next time. Obviously there were
those present who were not enjoying the
music. If such was the case with you, why
did you go? Or why didn't you display re­spect
'enough for the artist and for the
rest of the audience to behave courteously
once you were there?
The great, great majority of those at­tending
got a great deal of pleasure from
it. This is not a rebuke to Auburn audi­ences
in general, but only a plea to that
minority who presistently from beginning
to end succeeded in annoying eyeryone
sitting around them and in trying the re­markable
patience of the singer.
And his patience was remarkable. Dur­ing
the first part of the concert there were
several waves of late-comers, and several
times when, there was a prolonged sound
as of half the audience pulling off their
shoes and dropping them one by one under
the seats. Mr. Kipnis endured this—there
can be no doubt that he noticed it. But he
had a right to expect that at least after
intermission that element of his audience
would be gone. But, oh, no! Not between
numbers, but while one is going on, up
the aisle strides—not a boy of grammar-school
age, who could possibly be execused
for being restless—but a full-sized college
student. Was he leaving? No, just open­ing
the back door to look out—he didn't
expect the door to crash against the wall
with such a loud noise, it just did.
We've seen some good frater­nity
games this season. Come on
down to the gym "of a night" and
watch the doings.
• * •
Speaking of basketball, did
you see the five men football
game with Gawja last Thursday?
• * *
We would like to recommend
the letter by Al Lowe in this
same issue. In the words of a
philosopher—he said a mouf-full.
Seriously, though, we think that
it is a helluva note the way the
prisoners are mullycoddled. We
aren't vendicitive but we do feel
that such treatment is a perfect
fellow — through on what their
propaganda has taught them to
expect of us.
• • •
But we aren't going to criticize.
• • •
Pome:
Every day we learn more and
more,
How dumb we were the day
before.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
What The Other Fellows Are Talking About
Auburn, Alabama
January 17, 1945
Dear Editor;
For sometime now it has been my mis­fortune
in not having the opportunity to
write little bits of what you might call
nothing in that column formerly known
as THE TIGER NOSE, if you remember.
For the past few months there have been
from time to time several items concern­ing
campus activities and interests which
I think should have been brought before
the student body as a whole. There seems
to be one in particular that is echoed
somewhat louder each day, that being the
situation resulting from friendly waving
and rather friendly gestures to the prison­ers
of war as they pass through Auburn
each afternoon around five o'clock.
Just what would be the reaction to this
type of patriotism, call "it what you wish,
if Judson Murphy, Mr. Hutto's son, or any
number of other Auburn men who have
given their lives for this country could
witness these friendly gestures coming
from undoubtedly few of the Auburn
coeds? Not only has it been seen along
College street out from town but in the
downtown district as well. The whole
business is certainly a disgrace to t he
school, the town, and should be especially
to those individuals that participate in the
same.
Well, maybe it is only a few of the
freshmen that are doing such. I hope so.
Of course they aren't supposed to know
much better, but I do think that it is high
time that someone informed those per­sons,
whoever they m a y be, whether
freshman or senior, as to how they should
act.
Personally, I'm a strong believer in
America for America and damned any­thing
concerning any group of Nazis.
American boys right now in Europe
are cold, hungry, and probably without
cigarettes due to what is claimed a short­age.
Yet the same bunch of rats we are
fighting are doing our b e s t to kill in
Europe who are in our prison camps have
all the cigarettes they want, plenty of
food, and as good a grade of clothing as
American soldiers have anywhere. I think
it all comes under the title of International
Law, whatever that may be.
Perhaps someone will become interested
enough to write an editorial about the sit­uation.
You don't have to take my word
for the different incidents as I can give
you the names of several persons, and not
only students, who have seen the same
things which occur, as I have been told,
every day. Surely something ought to be
done an the Plainsman would be the like­ly
media. Several of our college officials
might like to know something of this, but
usually one is required to put everything
in black and white before any action is
taken on the matter.
Just though you might like to know a
little something about this, for it should
be of interest to every student here and
elsewhere—that is if you do not already
know. .,
Sincerely,
(Signed) Al Lowe
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1945 T H E P L A I N S M AN Page Three
Spotlights On Auburnites
JACK RILEY
And on hearing the blithe phrase "my friend", we turn
our ankles on a 180 degree pivot to be greeted by—no, not
FDR—but Jack Riley. This week our spotlight points with
pride to him. A second quarter freshman in pre-law, from
Geneva and Miami, Fla., to conclude his "vital statistics" ac­cording
to the student directory. Looking beyond there's a
possibility of discovering that Jack is president of the fresh­man
class.
* * *
A dern good president too! By bringing back the tradition
of the class meeting, the freshman class really felt that Jack
was in there pitching. Probably more than any other fresh­man
on our campus he has helped do away with political
lineups — by spreading among classmates his democratic
views.
* * *
Jack is right in line with the other potential political
factors of the day. Like Roosevelt and "Adolf", he collects
stamps. (Just ask Modesta Bidez where her Honduras stamps
are going.)
* * *
To our amazement, Jack's 2-8 average last quarter, his
student affairs—(extra-curricular activities involving "wim-men"
and bull sessions, etc.) did not interfere with his in­creasing
skill as a lab technician—snooker lab—proof that
it can be done.
* * He
Averaging around one date a week, Jack thinks the Au­burn
females are a good looking bunch. Quote: "The more
the merrier". Unquote. (At this rate he won't have to worry
about feminine support in future elections.)
* * *
The Auburn campus is not the first to benefit from Jack's
versatile qualities. He not only excelled in football, baseball,
boxing, and basketball, but also was president of his senior
high school class in Miami. (Even Jack doesn't know where
that information was procured).
Incidentally this is not a paid political advertisement.
Jack admits reading "How to Win Friends and Influence
People" but nothing more, nothing more. Oh yes, Jack did
say to "thank the freshman class as a whole for being so
grand."
* * *
P. S. He is practically the only Freshman that still wears
a ratcap, bless his heart.
'Thirty Seconds
Over Tokyo' Comes
To Tiger Theatre
One of the great romantic-stor-of
the war, related as it is to the
American bombing mission that
eluectrified free peoples every­where,
has been vividly brought
to the screen by Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer in "Thirty Seconds Over
Tokyo," which will be at the
Tiger Theatre Sunday, Monday,
and next Tuesday.
Based on the best-seller by
Captain (now Major) Ted Lawson
and Robert Considine, this out­standing
motion picture combines
the historic raid on Tokyo with
the American bombing mission
that electrified free peoples every-ies
of the war, related as it is to
of Ted and Ellen Lawson.
I t is the story of women who
wait for their men to return from
the most daring adventures of all
times, told in moving terms of
humanity. We see the history of
the mission re-enacted, and we
take to our hearts the personal
relationships of everyone in­volved.
M-G-M has cast "Thirty Sec­onds
Over Tokyo" to perfection,
and everyone turns in a most
praiseworthy performance. There
is Van Johnson as Lawson; Rob­ert
Walker (of "Hargrove" frame)
as Corporal (now Staff Sergeant)
Thatcher; Spencer Tracy as Lieu­tenant
Colonel (now Lieutenant
General) James H. Doolittle, who,
as no one ever 'will forget, led
the famous mission. And there is
a brilliant young newcomer, Phil-lis
Thaxter, who plays Ellen Law-son
in a fashion deserving of all
the laudatory adjectives review­ers
have at their command. Here
is a new, fresh personality for
whom stardom seems assured.
There are many others who
should be singled out for laurels;
newcomers like Tim Murdock,
Scott McKay, Don DeFore, Horace
McNally, Gordon McDonald, and
veteran actors like Louis Jean
Heydt and Leon Ames. ^
Dalton Trumbo's screen play is
quite perfect, and the direction
by Mervyn LeRoy superlative, as
is, indeed the entire production
supervised by Sam Zimbalist.
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Lambda Chi Alpha
Has Housedance
Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity
entertained with a candlelight
dance Saturday night. Members,
pledges and dates were Harry
Wheat, Clem Martin; Arnold
Thomas, Martee McReynolds, Joe
Benchwich, Betty Jo Dobbs, Buel
Johnson, Waunetta Gillespie; Bill
Martin, Betty Hanly; Vernon
Smith, Dot McWilliams; .Munro
Jones, Emma Lee Eversole.
Dewey Shaffer, Jean Clark;
Leonard Deprimer, Margaret Bed-sole;
Steve Stringfellow, Mar­garet
Snead; Rick Amerson,
Jenelle Pierson; Lilbern Stevens,
Elizabeth Mackie; Snooks Chap-pell,
James Cook, Reid Trapani,
Gilbert Moody, and James Mc-
Rae.
Other guests were O. B. Thom-ason,
James Bush, James Patrick,
Columbus, Ga.; John R. Brans-sard,
Baldwin Ga.; Charles Webb,
Charles Barr, Columbus, Ga.;
Floyd Medlin, Mary Ella Allen;
Charles Crump; a n d Curtis
Kukendall, Jean Campbell.
SORORITIES FETE
PLEDGES, ELECT
PLEDGE OFFICERS
Kappa Delta
The pledges of Kappa Delta
sorority elected their new officers
Monday night. They are Ada
Wright, president; Emalyn Jones,
vice president; Bargara Frick,
secretary; Betty Jo Dobbs, treas­urer.
Chi Omega
Chi Omega sorority recently
pined the cardinal-and-straw rib­bons
on Mary Mullins Love from
Columbus, Ga.
Alpha Delta Pi
Alpha Delta Pi pledges elected
their pledges officers for the win­ter
quarter at a pledge meeting,
Jan. 8, in the chapter room.
They are J e a n Campbell,
Hunts ville, president; Martha
Harrell, Selma, vice president;
Craig Green, Montgomery, secre­tary;
Janet Hall, Montgomery,
treasurer, Gere Rinnert, Ragland,
reporter; and Betty Adair, Gene­va,
social chairman.
Alpha Delta Pi pledges who
were initiated Monday entertain­ed
the active members, alumni,
and patronesses of the sorority
Thursday night in the chapter
room.
Decorations carried out the
sorority colors of blue and white,
and refreshments were coffee and
cakes.
Mabel Barker
Marries In Atlanta
Mr. and Mrs. James Samuel
Washington Barker, of Athens,
announce the marriage of their
daughter, Miss Mable Elizabeth
Barker, to Mr. Thomas Norman
PRESIDES AT BANQUET THETA U's BANQUET
GIVEN SAT. NIGHT
Miss Mary Popwell, president of Theta Upsilon and a senior
in the School of Home Economics, from Birmingham, presided
at their annual Founder's Day Banquet last Saturday night.
Theta Upsilon sorority present­ed
its annual Founders Day Ban­quet
last Saturday, in the Green
Room of the Pitts Hotel.
The table was decorated with
Rainbow Colors and pastel flow­ers.
The placecards were mina-ture
rainbows centered with pas­tel
candles.
Those in charge of the program
were Mrs. R. S. Poor, presiding
officer; Mrs. R. M. Steere, repre­sentative
of the past; and Mary
Popwell, chapter president, rep­resentative
of the present.
Each told of the founding of
Theta Upsilon and history to date.
Following the program Gerry
Drake sang traditional sorority
songs.
Members, pledges and ex-col-legio
present were Mrs. R. S.
Poor, Mrs. W. W. Hill, Miss
Lucille Mallette, Mrs. R. M.
Steere, Mrs. J. M. Rash, Miss
Jewell Davis, Dixie Hall, Sue
Hamilton, Margaret Bedsole, Kit­ty
Finegan, Ethel Cook, Sara
Ford, Gerry Drake, Margaret
Wyatt, Frances Baker, Mrs. Vir­gil
Searcy, Jeanne Wildeman,
Caroline Melton, Myrtis Ferger-son,
Dot Green, Doris Dismukes,
Vivienne Duncan, Opal Smith,
Betty Hudson, Pat Crowe, and:
Mary Popwell.
OTS Initiates
Twelve New Men
Into Fraternity
Twelve new men were formal­ly
initiated into Zeta chapter of
Omega Tau Sigma last Sunday
afternoon in the chapter house.
Those entering into active
membership at this time were
Jack Callis, Sasser, Ga.; James
E. Williams, Jackson, Tenn.;
Harold A. Reaux, New Iberia, La.;
Eugene Richardson, Smithville,
Ga.; Hewlett Hendricks, Wood­land,
Ga.; and Rod Smith, White-ville,
N. C.
Tom Shore, Baldwin, Ga.; Joe
L. Soler, Puerto Rica; Walter D.
Hammer, Arlington, Va.; Harold
D. Tinsley, Danville, Va.; Harold
W. Boozei*, Jacksonville, Ala.;
and James A. Smith, Springfield,
S. C.
* * * * * * * * * ^ J ^ - * * *
Those Boys N e e d f ^ f
WmBMS!
Kirk of the United States Navy,
son of Mrs. Hannah Kirk and the
late Mr. Kirk of Pittsburg, Pen­nsylvania.
The double ring cere­mony
was performed Wednesday
evening December 27, at the
Glenshaw Presbyterian Church,
Glenshaw, Pennsylvania, with
the Reverent Merle Reade Swi-hart
officiating.
The bride wore a wool flannel
aqua tailored suit with a black
hat and veil and white gloves.
Her flowers were a shoulder cor­sage
of purple orchids.
The bride's only attendant was
her sister, Miss Mary Barker.
The best man was Mr. Ronald
States, of Pittsburg, an uncle of
the groom.
The bride is a graduate of
Athens High School and now a
student at Alabama Polytechnic
Institute.
The groom is a graduate of
Central High School, Pittsburg,
and since shortly after gradua­tion
has been in the United
States Navy. He is now a radio­man
second class stationed on
board ship.
Attending the wedding were
the groom's mother, Mrs. Hannah
Kirk, and Mrs. Ronald States,
aunt of the groom, both from
Pittsburg.
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Page Four T H E P L A I N S M AN WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1945
Boshell, Youman, Ball Win
Cabinet Positions Tuesday
Vice-Prexy, Secretary, Frosh Rep
filled In Special Campus Election
Buris Boshell, Bronze Youmans, and Billy Ball w e re
named by the student body in.Tuesday's special election to
fill the vacancies on the Executive Cabinet.
Vice-president Boshell, Secretary Youmans, and French­man
Representative Ball will take office immediately and
serve until the end of the spring quarter.
Boshell defeated his only op
ponent for vice-president, Os­good
Bateman, by a vote of 83 to
51. He is a member of Alpha
Gamma Rho, president of t he
Ag Club, and a member of the
Auburn Debate Council.
Polling only nine more votes
than his opponent, Bronze You­mans
took the position of secre­tary
over Lewie Tanner in the
only close race. The vote stood
64 to 55 for Youmans. The new
secretary is a member of Alpha
Psi, AVMA, and is enrolled in
veterinary medicine.
Freshman representative Billy
Ball won his position from Bill
Newman, receiving 188 votes to
his oppenent's 65. Ball is a mem­ber
of Pi Kappa Alpha, a pledge
of Alpha Psi, a member of the
football team, and a member of
the "A" Club.
Although a larger percentage
of the junior voted, the actual
number of ballots cast- by fresh­man
was greater. About 55 per
cent, or 134 out of 243 juniors,
voted. Only 29 per cent, or 119
out of 407 sophomores, bothered
to go to the polls. Freshmen
votes numbered 253, or 32 per
cent of their class of 781.
The reason for this special
election was the resignation from
school of Jim Whiteside, Bobby
Humphries, and Ed Garrett, who
held the junior, sophomore, and
freshman offices. All three are
now in the services.
All the candidates in this elec­tion
were qualified before the
Qualifications Board last Mon­day
night. Bill Crum, elections
committee chairman, said that
only two students petitioned for
each office.
Campus Dance Held
In Student Center
The juke box will be making
music, the floor will be ready
for dancing and the crowd will
be waiting for you.
Whether you come with a
group or with a date or even
alone, you'll be welcome at the
Campus Hop n e x t Saturday
night in Student Center.
The music will start at 8 p. m.
STUDENT WRITES
To the Editor of the Plainsman,
We have a gripe to make and
we would appreciate it very much
if you would publish this letter
in the Plainsman. Please with­hold
our names from publication
as the contents could prove to be
embarrassing.
The boys around this campus
certainly know their ettiquette—
that is the .Jaywalkers version,
not Emily Post's.
At the Kappa Sig dance, the
majority of the boys certainly
followed "Proper Ettiquette" at a
"Formal" to the letter. And we're
getting tired of it. Especially are
we tired of the boys who are sup­posed
to be our friends, boys
whom we have dated and talked
to on the campus. We admit they
are pretty swell guys—ordinarily.
But at a dance, everything is
totally different. They walk up
to you, slap you heartily on the
back, and say, "Hi'ya babe, glad
to see you, save me a dance will
you?" And disappear for the re­mainder
of the evening.
It's bad enough when your ac­quaintances
won't dance with
you, but when your friends also
renig, it becomes downright dis­gusting.
We'd like to make one point
clear however. We're not com­plaining
of the rush we received,
it was fine—but the majority of
our partners were strangers. Per­haps
our friends were dancing
with strangers too. We don't
know—but we'd like to.
At the very least we think that
the men on the campus could
do the polite thing at the formals.
Yet some boys don't even bother
to dance a courtesy dance with
the dates of their own fraternity
brothers.
And yet they wonder why we
prefer soldiers.
Sincerely,
(Signed)
BC, AW, RT, and OE
and the dance will last until
10:45.
Plans are now underway to
stage a Campus Hop—known
last summer as a Samford Hop
—each S a t u r d a y night if
enough students turn out.
Helen DeShazo Marries
Robert Cleve Miller
The marriage of Miss Laura
Helen DeHhazo, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Manon DeShazo, Sr., of
Leeds, to Robert Cleveland Mil­ler,
Jr., took place Sunday at 2:30
p. m. at the Second Presbyterian
Church. The Rev. Bernard Sykes
officiated.
Miss Mary Sue Neeley and Miss
Evelyn Beasley, soloist, and Mrs.
Roy Goodson, organist, presented
a program of nuptial music.
Miss DeShazo, who was given
in marriage by her father, wore
a- beige dressmaker suit with
London tan accessories. She will
carry a white prayer book mark­ed
with an orchid and showered
with sweetpeas.
Mrs. Frank B. Wilkinson, sister
of the bride, of Richmond, Va.,
was matron of honor. Miss Jean
McDaniel, cousin of the bride,
was maid of honor. R. Alderson
Miller, brother of the bridegroom,
was best man. Col. Robert V.
DeShazo, Morris Field, N. C;
Capt. Frank B. Wilkinson, Rich­mond,
Va.; Ira and Manon De­Shazo,
Jr., served as ushers.
The bride attended San Fran­cisco
State College and Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, receiving
her B. S. degree from the latter.
She is a graduate of St. Vincent
School of Nursing. After gradua­tion
she was instructor of nursing
arts at South Highland Infirmary.
The bridegroom is the son of
Mrs. Robert Cleveland Miller, Sr.,
and the late Mr. Miller, of Min>
freesboro, Tenn. After receiving
his B. S. degree in chemistry
from Tennessee State College he
has been employed as chemist for
Tennessee Coal & Iron Company.
Dorothy Woodall Weds
Sgt. George Hibbert
In Huntsville Ceremony
On Dec. 31st, the marriage of
Dorothy Woodall, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Woodall of
Huntsville, to Sgt. George Wil­frid
Hibbert, Jr., son of Lt. Col.
and Mrs. G. W. Hibbert, Sr., of
Toledo, Ohio, took place at the
First Baptist Church in Hunts­ville,
Ala. The ceremony was per­formed
by Dr. John'J. Milford,
pastor of that church.
The bride was given in mar­riage
by her father. Her only at­tendant
was her sister, Lillian
Woodall, of Huntsville, who acted
as maid-of-honor .Frederick Hib­bert,
of Toledo, served his broth­er
as best man. Virginia White,
junior in home economics at Au-
(Continued on back page)
Col. Oscar Gates Takes Over New Job As Commandant
Replacing Col. John J. Waterman As PMS And T
Gates Arrives
To Head Military
Department Here
Col. Oscar I. Gates, new com­mandant
of Auburn's ROTC unit,
comes to the Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute from the Fourth
Service Command Headquarters
in Atlanta, where he has been
directing the Army Specialized
Training division. He succeeds
Col. John J. Waterman, whc re­tired
Jan. 1 after five years at
Auburn.
A native of Mississippi and a
graduate of Virginia Military
Academy, Col. Gates received
his commission in the Field Ar­tillery
in 1916. He completed the
Field Artillery School Battery
Commanders course in 1920 and
went to the Phillipines, where he
served from 1921 to 1924. Follow­ing
ROTC duty at Yale, 1924-29,
Col. Gates did National Guard
duty in Cleveland, O., and was
stationed at Ft. Ethan Allen until
1939.
During World War I, he parti­cipated
in the campaigns of
Marse, Coutigny, Meuse, and the
Argonne. He was awarded the
Purple Heart for wounds received
in action.
As commander of the First Bat­talion
of the 76th Field Artillery
during World War I, Col. J. J.
Waterman participated in the
battles at Marne, San Mihiel, and
the Argonne. After the signing of
the Armistice, he marched his
regiment, as part of the Army of
Occupation, to Coblenz, Germany,
where he remained until his
regiment returned to the United
States in September, 1919.
Since that time Col. Waterman
has been on routine duty con-
WATERMAN
nected with re-organization of
the Army and Training troops,
perfecting equipment, and taking
school work for higher military
education. He has completed all
the courses at the service schools.
Col. Waterman has completed
38 years of a highly successful
career as an Army officer. Dur­ing
World War I he was awarded
the Silver Star for gallantry in
action and the Purple Heart with
Oak Leaf Cluster. His citation
was signed by Gen. John J.
Pershing, Commander of the
American Evpeditionary Forces
in France.
Regarding the retirement of
Col. Waterman, President L. N.
Duncan said, "We deeply regret
that Colonel Waterman is retir­ing,
but we are fortunate in the
fact that he and Mrs. Waterman
GATES
will continue to live in Auburn.
Also, we are delighted that he is
being succeeded by Colonel Oscar
I. Gates who has previously
served with distinction on the
ROTC staff at Auburn and who
is highly respected by all of us
here.
"Under Colonel Waterman's
leadership our ROTC unit has
maintained a high degree of ef­ficiency.
We are indebted to him
for the fine supervision of the
unit and for the excellent success
with which he has commanded
the STAR and ASTP units and
more recently the ASTP Reserve
unit. The cooperation of Colonel
Waterman and his wise guidance
went a long way in aiding the
college to attain the high rating
received from the War Depart­ment
on the wartime units."
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Clint Adams Comes Thru Tunisian,
Silician and French Campaigns
Wearer Of Silver Star And Purple Heart
Now Recuperating at Northington General
If the colonel who wrote that "Stonewall" Jackson rode
"along the line of battle with as much composure as if the
hail of bullets was no more than summer rain" were alive
today he'd undoubtedly pay the same tribute to Lt. Colonel
Clinton L. Adams, of Montgomery, who has been decorated
with the Silver Star and the Legion of Merit for soldiering
in a Jackson-like manner.
Colonel Adams, quiet a boyish
looking despite his leathery skin
which has withstood nearly two
years of intensive action against
the enemy in North Africa, Sici­ly,
and France, is at the North­ington
General Hospital, Tus­caloosa,
recovering from severe
wounds sustained near Colombe,
France when a German land
mine demolished his "peep" and
killed two others riding with
him at the time.
He wears the Purple Heart for
those battle wounds but he pre­fers
to talk about his men in a
certain field artillery battalion
which he commended in that
heroic" 9th Infantry Division.
"Those officers and men I
came to know like my own
brothers and sons were courage­ous
a n d posessed boundless
energy from the outset. They had
an unwritten motto. A motto
which runs through my mind
every day I am separated from
them."
They Want Ten
"They weren't satisfied to
shoot the enemy man for man or
tank for tank. No sir! They want­ed
five men for one man: ten men
for one man. They wanted five,
six, seven and as much as ten
tanks for every tank. That was
their way of pushing the enemy
back since our first day in com­bat."
He'd talk on and on about his
"men" and how he longs to get
out of the hospital so he can re­turn
to them, because "there are
lots of Alabama men in the out­fit
and I want to be with them
when this war ends", He tries to
brush aside his own personal
deeds and heroic leadership
which gained him those two high
awards from the War depart­ment.
The first he received was the
Legion of Merit for "exception­ally
meritorious conduct in the
performance of outstanding serv­ice
during operations in France
Morocco, Tunisia and Sicily from
November 8, 1942 to August 17,
1943. His determined leadership
and o u t s t a n d i n g professional
ability enabled the field artillery
battalion he commanded to ac­complish
numerous difficult mis­sions.
At a critical period of the cam­paign
in Tunisia, he led his troops
in a sustained march in four days
from French Morocco to the Tu­nisian
battle front arriving with
his command in such excellent
condition that it was able im­mediately
to assist in stopping
an enemy advance. Personally
performing dangerous r e c o n ­naissance
in forward areas, he
was a constant inspiration to his
men."
Across Tunisian Terrain
What the citation fails to men­tion
was that during those "four
days" the Colonel moved his men
and guns across S50 miles of hel­lish
terrain, arriving to find
themselves facing a superior
force of Germans. His guns were
protected by a mere company of
scrappy Bratishers, enforced by a
battery of British 25 pounders
and a detachment of British en­gineers
plus 14 tanks.
The enemy had a regiment of
infantrymen, 80 tanks and 60
artillery pieces including 105s and
88s scattered between five bat­talions.
That was at Kassarine Pass
when the Field Marshall Rommel
had smashed his way through
and was headed for Thala. When
Colonel Adams' guns were set
for action, the enemy was but
3000 yards away, charging reck­lessly
and after 17 hours of in­cessant
artillery fire this force
was halted—1800 yards from the
gun position and the Nazi threat
ended.
From the North African victor­ies
the 9th moved into Sicily on
the heels of the fast moving
American forces and thence to
England where they rehearsed
and made ready for the invasion
of France.
To Normandy Next
It was on June 9th, D-Day plus
3, that the 9th Division moved
into the Western mid-section of
Normandy peninsula to blast the
Germans into history's pages.
Correspondents everywhere have
reported in detail how the 9th
split the Germans on that strong­ly
held neck of land and then
their artillery battalions trained
their big guns on the Cherboug
fortress, where, the Colonel re­calls,
"we poured 49,000 rounds
on the big port city."
Nine days after he had gone
into action in France, Colonel
Adams, in Jackson-like manner,
had been awarded the Silver Star
"for gallantry in action against
the enemy on June 18, in the
vicinity of St. Jacques deNehou,
France. Assisting the repelling of
an enemy counter attack, Col.
Adams displaced his battalion in
order to more effectively drop
artillery fire on the enemy. With
complete disregard for his per­sonal
safety and in the face of
enemy small arms force, he per­sonally
saw that all personnel
and equipment were out of dan­ger
of capture, and the citation
continues: *
"It was due to the calm and
courageous leadership of Col.
Adams that the heavy artillery
was placed on the enemy with
such rapidity that it permitted
them no time to advance."
Eight Decorated On Field
For this display, mentioned so
coldly in Army terminology, the
Colonel and seven of his officers
and men were decorated on the
PROP WASH
with the
API School Of Aviation
A number of Auburn girls are
learning to fly. Some of them
hope to occupy a niche in post­war
commercial aviation; others
have taken up flying as a hobby
and plan to gain much pleasure
and convenience from the air­plane
which they plan to pur­chase
after the war.
Elizabeth Clinkscales, mechani­cal
engineering, is one of those
who would like to own her own
plane. She is currently taking
lessons at the Auburn-Opelika
Airport and made her first cross­country
flight to Anniston last
Thursday returning via Alexan­der
City.
Jeanelle Boon, secretarial train­ing,
another aviation enthusiast,
thinks that learning to fly is a
good idea if you want to be in the
swim after the war. Doris Brown,
pharmacy, is taking lessons just
because it's fun and that holds
true for Bess Price, science and
literature.
Another real aviation zealot is
Margaret. M a y h a 11, education,
who has logged more than ten
hours dual instruction, but for
some unknown reason, Margaret
has deserted the little Cubs late­ly.
Hats off to Cecil Ward and
Bobby Crumpt who made their
first cross-country flight to Bir­mingham
last week. Cecil is do­ing
a little corresponding with
Uncle Sam and . . .before we
know it, he'll be marching with
the Navy Blues."
Latest additions to our list of
new students are: Mr. and Mrs.
Forman Smith of Montgomery,
Ellis Jenkins and Burton Neigh­bors
of Pepperell.
Lieut. N. D. Denson of Opelika,
stationed at Robins Field, Macon,
Georgia made a short visit with
his parents Sunday. He was fly­ing
a B-25. "The Desert Warrior"
Germany, and Denson was credi­ted
with having shot down three
German planes, dropped 90 tons
of bombs. He has a total of 191
combat hours.
Since Robert Dewey now has
his private pilot certificate, many
of his friends are enjoying rides
with him.
Service Personals
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Reprinted from the December issue of Esquire.
"Going down?"
Lt. Jim (Niggerhead) Kelly,
formerly BMOC, now stationed at
Ft. Benning, was in town over
the weekend.
• » *
Lt. Gam Green, former en­gineering
student a n d member
of Kappa Sigma, was in Auburn
Saturday and Sunday.
• * •
A/S Bobby Humphrey USNR
was in town last week. '44 cheer­leader,
member of SPE, vice-president
of the executive cabi­net,
he is from Columbus, Ga.
• • *
Jay Green, former sports editor
of the Plainsman and member of
Theta Chi from Mobile, was in
Auburn last weekend to attend
the formal. He is now stationed at
Fort Benning in Officer Candi­date
School.
• * •
Lt. Billy Hill, SPE from Ope­lika,
was in Auburn last week.
• * •
Major Marshall Reynolds, '41
grad was here over the weekend.
He was a member of Kappa Al­pha.
battlefield during a lull in the
shelling.
Colonel Adams, a graduate of
Auburn, was commissioned in
the Artillery upon completion of
his ROTC in 1931. He was called
to active duty in 1939 and studied
advance t e c h n i q u e and new
weapons at Fort Sill, Oklahoma
before going overseas with the
AEF which landed at Casablanca,
November 8, 1942.
His wife, Sara McCord Adams
lives with their two children at
12 College Court, Montgomery.
The Colonel's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. L. F. Adams live in Bir­mingham.
Two brothers, Col Paul
D. and Major Eugene Adams are
serving overseas. Paul, a West
Pointer has battled in all theatres
of war at present is with General
Patch's 7th Army in France. "
Better Run, Professor,
The Track Coaches
Might Get You!
Two - thirty i s Grill - t i m e .
Time to knock-off from lab or
whatever and rest a few minu­tes—
time to enjoy a cup of cof­fee
with friends.
Daily a crowd of people from
one department drop w h at
they're d o i n g and step up­town
for a little refreshment
and relaxation. Recently t he
group has been increasing. At
first two or three would go;
then things got so four or may­be
five would trek up together
. . . usually four, because the
fifth has to sit in the aisle and
get stumbled over, or e l se
crowd the four, a n d when
every body isn't thin, that's
tough.
But last Thursday such a host
of people started out that one
almost-dignified professor, to­ward
the last of the line going
townwards, began to run for
dear life. He passed the others
shouting over his shoulder, as
he trotted by, "Scared I won't
get a seat!" .
Miss Mae Cureton Named '44 Woman
Of Year By "Progressive Farmer"
Miss Mae Cureton
Claxton Kept In Tuskegee Hospital,
College Misses Its Main Carrier
Motor Scooter
Messenger
Misses Month
By IRENE LONG
"Where's Claxton?" That's a
question that has been bother­ing
faculty and staff members in
Samford, whose mail service has
been carried on with confusion
since Christmas.
Claxton Boyd, colored em­ployee
who has been working in
the mailing room for over 17
years, has been in John A. An­drews
Hospital in Tuskegee for
almost a month, each week sup­posedly
the last one. Patient, ef­ficient,
respectful—he's the kind
of employee who is truly missed
when he is gone.
For years he rode a red and
white bicycle on his rounds to
the post office and other build­ings,
but last year he began using
a motor scooter, which he calls
his "put-put". Last-minute mail­ers
never found him too busy to
include a few more letters in let­ters
in his stack.
A graduate of Tuskegee In­stitute,
Claxton is married to the
head cook at the Infirmary. He
has a good voice and used to
sing in a quartet which frequent­ly
gave performances for civic
organizations in Langdon Hall.
He now sings in his church choir.
In a letter last week he sent
his best regards to Dr. L. N.
Duncan and expressed his re­grets
that he had to be away from
his job. He is expected back soon.
Dennis Barton Dies
In Texas Plane Crash
Robert Dennis Barton, former
Auburn student from Sipsey, was
killed Dec. 14 in a plane crash
while on a routine flight 22 miles
from Foster Field, Texas., where
he was stationed. He was killed
a week prior to his scheduled
graduation from A/c School.
He entered the Army in May,
1942, while still a student at Au­burn.
The American Legion held mil­itary
services at the cemetery at
Union Chapel, Jasper.
DELTA SIGMA PHI
PLEDGES FIVE MEN
Kappa chapter of Delta Sigma
Phi has five new pledges. Those
pledging are Dick Pharr Monroe,
junionin veterinary medicine, Au-ing,
Martin; Edward G r a h am
freshman, electrical engineering,
Birmingham; Andrew Newton
Ingram, freshman, civil engineer­ing
Martin; Edward G r a h am
Whitby, junior, chemical engi­neering,
Georgiana; and Kenneth
Murphy, freshman, aeronautical
engineering, Decatur.
CHURCH BULLETINS
METHODIST
Closing the series of talks on
marriage, Dr. FagSn Thompson,
pastor of the Methodist church,
will speak on "The Marriage
Ceremony" at the meeting of the
Foundation Forum Sunday even­ing
at 6:30 in the Wesley Foun­dation
auditorium. Everyone is
invited.
Fellowship hour follows church
services in the lounge of the
Foundation.
• • •
EPISCOPALIAN
Canterbery Club meets at 6
p. m. Discussion of the Honor
System in Schools will be con­tinued
next Sunday.
Avast, Ye Swabs
And
Shiver Me Timbers
Anchors - aweigh, and away
went Humphrey, quicker'n that!
Bobby Humphrey, who you re-rember
was almost yesterday a
cheerleader for the Tiger team
and vice-president of the Evecu-tive
Cabinet, left quite a vacant
spot on the campus when he de­parted
. . . being v-p. of the cab­inet
automatically entails chair­manship
of the notorious ring
committee.
Anyhow, they got 'im, as they
get—or rather will get—most of
us. Now it's "gob" Humphrey. He
was in town last week, in navy
blue, for the first time since the
between-quarter holidays when
he hied gaily home to Columbus,
Ga., for a few days of rest, leav­ing
behind him at Auburn all
his clothes, personal belongings,
and a heavy date for the formal
the following weekend.
All was sweetness and light, he
thought. Until that phone call in
the middle (well, practically) of
the night, when the officer at the
Navy recruiting office informed
him to report, signed, sealed, and
ready to be delivered at two a. m.
that very night.
Bobby had barely finished
leading War Eagles during foot
ball season when he enlisted in
the Navy as a prospective gun­ner,
expecting a couple of weeks
before leaving. His shoes still sat
in the closet down at the Sig Ep
house in Auburn, along with all
his other stuff.
Orders is orders, though, and
even if the Navy had managed to
get along without him all these
years it didn't look like they were
going to do it any longer. They
didn't.
If you hear of any "boots" at
his navy training station peeling
potatoes or shelling navy beans
to the tune of "Glory, Glory to
Ole Auburn", it might be Hum­phrey
on the job.
Auburnites Active
As Dairymen Plan
Meeting Next Week
"Make Alabama A D a i ry
State" will be the,theme of the
13th Annual Business Meeting of
the Alabama Dairy Products As­sociation
to be held at the Thom­as
Jefferson Hotel in Birming­ham,
January 23-24.
This meeting is a wartime con­ference
that will deal with milk
production and manufacturing
problems facing the industry at
present and in the near future,
states James G. Fletcher, Manag­er
of Barbour Pure Milk Com­pany,
Birmingham, president,
and A. D. Burke, Dairy Husband­man,
Auburn, secretary, of the
association.
Among the highly qualified
speakers on the program will be
Charles Fisters, Executive Se&.
retary, Dairy Industry Commit^
tee, Washington, D. C ; Laurancel
Gardiner, Fieldman for Ameri­can
Jersey Cattle Club; P. O.
Davis, Director, Alabama Ex­tension
Service; and Jerry Rod-en,
owner of Boaz Creamery,
Boaz. Several members of the
Association also will appear on
the program.
—Buy War Bonds—
District Home Demonstration Agent
Honored For Service To Rural Alabama
One of Alabama's four district home demonstration agents
with headquarters at Auburn, Miss Mae I. Cureton, is written
up in the current issue of "The Progressive Farmer" as the
1944 Woman of the Year in Service to A l a b a m a Rural
Progress.
Miss Cureton was chosen .parti­ally
because of her outstanding
contribution to home economics
in her twenty-nine years of con­tinuous
and unselfish service.
She helped to organize the Ala­bama
Home Economics Associa­tion
in 1920. Her message of
modern equipment and methods
of cooking has been good news
to the housewife since 1916.
In her present position as dis­trict
home demonstration agent
for District I she employs over 150
other home demonstration agents
in the sixteen countries, Blount,
Cherokee, Colbert, Cullman, De­kalb,
Etowah, Franklin, Jackson,
Lauderdale, Lawrence, Lime­stone,
Madison, Marion, Marshall,
Morgan, and Winston.
She has toured Alabama, dem­onstrating
her own homemade
version of the fireless cooker for
rural homemakers.
"Tomato Clubs" for g i r ls
around Florence were early her
audience for instruction in the
rules of scientific canning. She
later went to Jacksonville and
then came to Auburn.
The other three district agents
are Miss Olivia Barnes, District
II; Miss Cindy Lester, District
III; and Miss Lucille Mallett,
District IV.
Mrs. Lawson To Explain
Alabama Marriage Laws
The legal angle of marriage,
annulment, and divorce in Ala­bama
will be discussed for soc­iology
classes by Mrs: James
Lawson next Monday and Tues­day.
Mrs. Lawson is qualified to
speak on status of each member
of the family under Alabama's
laws, having received a LLB de­gree
from the University of Ala­bama.
She has practiced law in
this state for several years.
Other problems of the legality
of family affairs and the laws of
adoption and inheritance will
also be explained by Mrs. Law-son.
She will speak to the 8. a. m.
sociology class, the 10 a. m. class
in marriage and family relations
for men, and the 2 p. m. class in
marriage and family relations for
women. All visitors will be wel­come.
LOST—A black and white Parker
fountain pen. If found please
notify Joyce Slaughter. Dorm.
3.
FOR RENT—Apartment for cou­ple
without children. Students
preferred. Available February
1st. 242 East Thach Ave. Phone
FIFTEEN STUDENTS FROM API
TO ATTEND HUNTINGTON MEET
Approximately fifteen Auburn
students 11 attend the annual
conference of the Alabama Meth­odist
Student Movement this
week-end at Huntingdon College,
Montgomery. Three outstanding
speakers will lead the seminar
periods, discussing phases of the
theme, "Christian Students Face
Social Reconstruction."
The speakers are Dr. James
Chubb, Nashville, a member of
the Board of Evangelism; Dr.
W. G. Henry, pastor of the First
Methodist Church in Anniston;
and the Rev. Dan C. Whitsett,
president of the Alabama area of
the Southern Conference for
Human Welfare.
Participating colleges include
Alabama College, Auburn, Ath­ens,
Birmingham-Southern, Flor­ence,
Howard, Huntingdon, Jack­sonville,
Judson, L i v i n g s t o n ,
Snead Troy, and the University.
The program begins with reg-isteration
Friday afternoon, fol­lowed
by dinner in the college
dining room. Friday evening a
worship service will be held be­fore
the keynote address by Dr.
C h u b b . Rev. Whitsett's talk
"Methodist History Gives Impet­us
to Social Reconstruction" will
be followed by "Methodist Phil­osophy
of Life Gives Impetus to
Social Reconstruction," by Dr.
Henry. Dr. Chubb will close the
seminar period with "Methodism
Organizes for Social Reconstruc­tion."
Saturday's program includes
two seminar periods, committee
meetings, and discussion groups.
The "Hayseed Party" -will climax
the Saturday evening program.
Delegates will go as a body to
Sunday morning church services
at First Methodist in Montgom­ery.
Miss Mary Moling Kirkman, di­rector
of the Wesley Foundation
will go with the Auburn students
attending the conference. They
are Vernon Smith, Boaz; Martha
Nell Simpson, Anburn; Martha
Lee, Geiger; Gladys Bentley, No-tasulga;
Humberto de Arce, Ha*,
vana, Cuba; Hazel.Edwards, En­terprise;
Ben Richardson, Jasper;
Bob Scogin, Dora; Ann Hughen,
Blubb Springs, Fla.; Alice Hard-wick,
Auburn; Jean Wilson, Au­burn;
and Aylene Hurst, Summit,
Miss.
LOST — Mexican silver bracelet.
Wide, delicate band, lost dur­ing
Kipnis intermission Janu­ary
18 between Langdon Hall
and Benson's Drug Store. If
found call Dot Nixon, 9109,
Alumni Hall.
942-W.
MIDWAY TAVERN
...GOOD...
Steaks and Chicken
WHERE FRIENDS MEET
Located midway between
Auburn, Opelika
MIDWAY TAVERN
Prop., R. |B. WELLS
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PAGE SIX THE P L A I N S M AN WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1945
Tigers Take To Road This Week To Face
Maxwell And Gunter In Montgomery
Local Cagers Bow To Georgia And Tech
As Burgess And Lancaster Top Scorers
The Georgia Bulldogs kept Auburn on the losing side of
the ledger here last Thursday night as their sharpshooters,
sparked by Maddox, who hit the net for 19 points, rang up
59 points to the Tigers' 50.
The Bulldogs jumped to an early lead when Hamby, Mad­dox,
and Wells each rang up a goal to make it 6 to 0 in the
visitors' favor, But the Tigers
were not to be counted out as
Burgess and Waites rang up
goals for Auburn. The Plainsmen
were about on an even keel with
the visitors for the remainder of
the first half as intermission
found them on the short end of
a 27 to 22 score.
The third quarter saw Georgia
go to a lead of 14 points. Mad­dox
and Wells, who were sore-spots
for Auburn the entire night,
continually found the range as
they tallied again and again for
the visitors. The Tigers whittled
the lead down somewhat as
Burgess and Herring showed the
way, but they never found the
spark needed to overcome the 14
point deficit. The final whistle
found Auburn trailing the Bull­dogs
on the tailend of 5* to 50
count.
The Plainsmen used ten men
in an effort to best the Bulldogs,
as their opponents found time
for only three substitutes. Au
burn rang 10 out of 23 foul shots
while Georgia made 14 out of 26
good.
Burgess, who has lead the
Tigers scorers in every game
thus far, racked up 15 points to
take scoring honors for the home
team. Maddox tallied 19 times to
pile up the biggest score made in
Alumni Gym this year.
Tech Tops Tigers
The Georgia Tech Yellow Jac
kets handed the Auburn Tigers
their first conference setback in
Atlanta last Saturday by a score
of 52 to 39.
The Engineers got an early
lead that was never threatened
during the first half. Auburn
played a loose game to give the
Techmen a commanding lead of
28 to 14 by halftime.
Auburn came back strong after
intermission' to present an of­fence
that completely baffled the
Jackets, as they scored 9 points
before Tech registered a single
tally to make it 28 to 23 in Tech's
favor. Several times, the Plains
men nearly tied the score, only
to have the Engineers pull away
again.
Auburn's chances seemed best
when with only four minutes to
^go, Tech had a lead of only four
points. But Jhe Tellow Jackets,
sensing that defeat was ominous,
spurted on to score 10 points to
cop the game 52 to 39. Burgess
and Lancaster with 9 points each
sparked the Tiger attack.
_ Auburn wil play Maxwell in
Montgomery Tuesday and Gunter
there Friday.
Junior Class Votes
(Continued from page one)
ditionally sponsored by t he
School of Engineering. Because
of such a decreased student body,
the engineers did not give the
carnival last year and could not
undertake the project this year.
Jack Thornton was appointed
chairman of the funds committee
to distribute the funds realized
from the carnival to some worthy
cause. Other members of the
committee are Van Cardwell,
Buris Boshell, Doris Karcher, and
Osgood Bateman. Betty Grimes
said she would appoint other
committees to work on the car
nival later.
Music was furnished for the
meeting by "Zombie" Lauderdale
and t h e Auburn Collegiates.
"Zombie" introduced Bill Cole,
new male vocalist for the Col­legiates,
who sang "Star Dust."
WOODALL WEDS
(Continued from Page 4)
burn, and a pledge of Phi Omega
Pi sorority, sang "Because" and
"Always" before the ceremony.
The bride is a senior at API,
taking science and literature. She
has served as feature writer,
feature editor, managing editor,
and columnist for the Plainsman,
and is a member of Sphinx, sen­ior
honor society for women. She
t is president of Phi Omega Pi
'"sorority.
/ Sgt. Hibbert. received his BA
degree from Harvard University
in '42. He is now stationed at
Fort Benning, Ga., in the para­chute
school.
Light Bulbs Were
Just Out When
Burton's Opened
Br SARAH SMITH
Burton's Book Store, old Au­burn
institution w h i c h has
weathered decades of perennial
unpredictability in the form of
the API student, will celebrate
its 67th anniversary this week.
The Book Store moved here
from Opelika in 1878—back in
the days when young ladies stay­ed
at home and tended to their
knitting or got themselves prop­erly
married.
Probably the first introduction
any green freshman gets to Au­burn's
"downtown Broadway" is
his visit, after registration, to the
little shop with the book-lined
walls. Here he crawls over the
shoulders of the throng ahead of
him, or calls to pay his respects
every day for the next two weeks,
after which he may get a chance
to request his number.
All Owners Named Burton
Facing Main Gate, Burton's
was founded by the two brothers,
Robert Wilton Burton and Cap­tain
Joseph Quarterman Burton.
It has remained in the hands of
the Burton family since that
time, now being owned by Miss
Lucille Burton and Mrs. Miriam
Burton Langston, both daughters
of Robert Wilton Burton.
The Book Store is going
through its second war with Au­burn—
first a war of meatless,
heatless, and sweetless days, and
now a war of rationing and price
ceilings. It has managed to weath­er
the old banking holidays back
in the thirties, when, unable to
get currency with the- banks
closed, it issued its own scrip
which was honored from West
Point to Montgomery. When it
was returned to Burton's it had
been used to buy groceries, pay
rents, and used in trade of all
kinds. These old scirp notes are
still being kept at Burton's as
souvenirs.
The Burton brothers opened
their doors to their first Auburn
customers in the same year Edi­son
brought out Jiis new tangled
incandescent light bulb. Some six
years later the Brooklyn Bridge
was opened up in New York, and
three years after that the Statue
of Liberty was unveiled in New
York harbor.
X-Ray
In 1893, they heard of some
strange new invention called a
motion picture machine, in '95
the X-ray, and in '96 the wire­less
telegraph.
In 1903 they celebrated their
twenty - fifth anniversary, and
heard that somewhere up in
North Carolina two other broth­ers—
the Wright brothers—had ac­tually
flown in the air in some
sort of flying, machine.
In 1911, business was thriving,
and news came from Paris that
the Mona Lisa had been stolen
from its place in the Louvre
Gallery. News from Europe be­came
increasingly disturbing. In
'13 the Peace Palace was dedi­cated,
but in the very next year
all Europe went to war.
We Go To War
In '17, America went in, and
Burton's saw war take its~toll
from the Auburn campus. Then
in '18 came the armistice, and
more and ever more students
poured into Auburn. Through
the years that followed it watch­ed
us grow, and grew with us.
It saw the coeds flock in by the
hundreds, and the building of a
new Quadrangle to house them.
It saw war strike America
again when the Rising Sun struck
Pearl Harbor, and it watched
War Eagles march away again to
putN into grim practice those
ROTC tactics. And when the
peace is won and they come
back to Auburn and march
through that Main Gate again—
well, Burton's will be right
across the way giving 'em a big
open hand! •
COVERING SPORTS
With Jimmy Smith
The interfrat cage teams continued at fast pace this past
week, with Sigma Chi, Omega Tau Sigma, Alpha Psi, Kappa
Sigma, and Alpha Gamma Rho still leading t h e various
leagues.
Stevens, Sigma Chi ace, has taken, over the lead in the
scoring department with 49 points. He is followed by Hendrix,
OTS center with 38 points, and Moree, AP, with 28 points.
PLUCKINGS FORM THE GRAPEVINES
Rabbit Smith, Georgia forward who scored 8 points
against Auburn here the other night, played with a broken
bone in his forearm—Denvard Snell, 270 pound tackle for
the Tigers last year, is quite a basketball player, too. He
has lead the Lamda Chi scorers in several games. By the
way, the big fellow has only one lung—Jack Meagher, coach
of the famed Tiger grid team of '42, has signed a contract to
tutor professional football in Miami after the war. He is very
popular down Florida way, having produced two Orange
Bowl winners.—Spring practice is slated to begin here about
February 6—Coach Evans and his crew travelled to Atlanta
Saturday in U-Drive-It's—Speaking of doing crazy things,
Bob Sharman and Donald Goodwin have been subsisting on
nothing but buttermilk now for a week. They plan to carry
it on 'til Wednesday in order to win eleven and 40 bucks,
respectively—Kappa Sigma and Alpha Gamma Rho meet
tonight in a contest that will determine the winner of
League IV.
SC, OTS, AP, KS, AGR Continue To Set
Torrid Pace In Interfrat Basketball
The interfraternity cage teams continued their fast ac­tivity
with OTS, SC, AP, AGR, and KS still leading their
respective leagues.
The opening tilt of the week saw Sigma Chi vanquish
Sigma Alpha Epsilonby a score of 24 to 21. Stevens headed
the SC attack with 16 points, as Shelby rang up 10 for SAE.
The closing game Monday
night, Alpha Gamma Rho bested
Sigma Nu to the tune of 47 to
13. Childers hit the net for 16
points for AGR as Cunningham
led SN.
Sigma Phi Epsilon topped Phi
Delta Theta by a score of 16 to
8. Edgar led SPE with 7 points
while Wood topped the PDT
scorers with 6.
Theta Chi downed Lamda Chi
Alpha by a 32 to 18 count. Lowe
and Huey led TC with 7 tallies
as Courson headed the LCA at­tack
with 9 points.
Pi Kappa Alpha outfought Phi
Kappa Tau to win 23 to 21. Clay
scored 10 for PKA while Wold
found the rang for 14 points for
PKT.
Kappa Sigma beat Kappa Al­pha
in the closest game of the
year by a score of 16 to 15. Tan­ner
led KS with 9 points while
Ashley headed KA with 13.
Omega Tau Sigma outclassed
Phi Delta Theta to win 40 to 13.
Hendrix and Meredith with 16
and 14 points, respectively, led
OTS as Wood headed PDT with
6 tallies.
Alpha Psi toppled Lamda Chi
Alpha by a count of 49 to 24.
Acree, with 12 points, and Moree
with 8 sparked AP with Snell
and Courson with 8 each leading
LCA.
The schedule for the coming
week is League I, DSP-SPE Tues­day
at seven, OTS-SPE Wednes­day
at nine, DSP-PDT Thursday
an nine. League II, ATO-TC
Tuesday at eight, AP-TC Wednes­day
at ten, ATO-LCA Thursday
at ten. League HI. SC-PKT Mon­day
at nine, SAE-PKA Tuesday
at nine SC-PKA Thursday at
seven. League IV, KA-AP (2)
Monday at ten, AGR-KS Tuesday
at ten, SN-KS Thursday at eight.
Mayton Named Head
Experiment Station
KEEP FAITH
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.*&**4WAR BONDS
The appointment of E. L. May-ton,
associate agronomist and
graduate of Alabama Polytechnic
Institute, as superintendent of
the new Piedmont Substation
near Camp Hill was announced
here today by M. J. Funchess,
director of the Agricultural Ex­periment
Station.
Mr. Mayton has been associat­ed
with the Station's department
of agronomy and soils since his
graduation in 1929, when he was
appointed assistant. He did grad­uate
work at the University of
Vermont, receiving his master's
degree in 1936. For the last 10
years Mr. Mayton has been in
charge of the field experimental
work of the department at the
Main Station. He was born and
reared in Aimwell community,
Marengo county, and is the son
of the late S. J. Mayton, and Mrs.
Mayton now of Selma.
The new substation is one of
two authorized by the 1943 State
Legislature, and completes the
series of substations on the major
soil regions of Alabama. Work on
the new Piedmont Substation
will be started as soon as mater­ials,
equipment, and labor can be
obtained.
DZ, DS Girls Lead
In Bowling Tourney
The girls' bowling tournament
is on its last lap . today. The
twelve teams have struck the
pins for the past several weeks
under the eyes of Ann Grant,
bowing director.
The tournament consists of
three leagues. The Delta Zeta
girls won League I. High scorers
for DZ" were Jenky Maddox,
131.5; Evelyn Kidd, 130, and Poo
Allen with 126.7.
The Delta Sig girls carried
their league in fast style with
the highest averages of the tourn-nament.
Eloise Robinson won top
scoring honors with 161.3. She
is followed by Winky Bridges
with 142.3 and Ginn McConn with
135.
The fight for top honors in
league II continues this week as
Pi Kappa Phi meets Susan Smith
and 220 West Mag plays Phi
Omega Pi Tuesday. Wednesday
will see Pi Kappa Phi pitted
against Phi Omega Pi, and 220
West Mag against Susan Smith.
Intersorority basketball is to
begin this week. The games will
be played on Monday through
Wednesdays at seven and eight
o'clock.
Teams in four leagues will vie
for the championship. League I
consists of Alpha Gamma Delta,
Kappa Delta, and Phi Omega Pi.
League II, 220 West Mag, Pi
Kappa Phi, and Susan Smith,
League III, Delta Zeta, Alumni
Hall, Phi Delta Theta, and Dom-itory
H. League IV, Alpha Delta
Pi, Chi Omega, Delta Sigma, and
Theta U.
SERVICE PERSONALS
Sonny Conner, former student
of agriculture from Eufaula was
in town this week. He is now a
radioman in the navy and will
return to Oceanside, California,
Thursday. He was a member of
Sigma Nu while in school here.
Ed Nail, Flomaton, pilot of a
B-24 Liberator bomber, has been
promoted to rank of first lieu­tenant,
according to an announce­ment
received from a 15th AAF
communique. Nail went over­seas
in August and has taken
part in 23 combat missions since.
He holds the Air Medal with an
oak leaf cluster.
Need More Nurses
Because of the size of the na­tion's
armed forces in this war,
the Nurse Corps of the two serv­ices
must be increased ever fur­ther.
The Army Nurse Corps has
about 40,000 nurses, more than
half serving overseas. The Navy
has 8,684 nurses now. The peak
for World War I was 1,500.
Kit bags packed by Red Cross
production volunteers for serv­icemen
embarking for foreign
duty contain razor blades, writ­ing
paper, pencils, cigarettes,
sewing kits, shoe laces, soap,
playing cards, pocket novel and
candy.
Spencer Tracy
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The Place To Go"
TUESDAY. JAN. 23
DOUBLE FEATURE
No. 1
TIM McCOY
in
TEXAS
REHEGADE
No. 2
THREE LITTLE
SISTERS
with
MARY LEE
RUTH TERRY
CHERY WALTER
Added
Flicker Flashbacks
WEDNESDAY. JAN. 24
JEANETTE MacDONALD
NELSON EDDY
in
HAUGHTY
MARIETTA
Sports Topic and Cartoon
THURSDAY. JAN. 25
JOHN WAYNE
ELLA RAINES
TAU IH THE
SADDLE
Added
Popular Science and Cartoon
FRIDAY. JAN. 26
SING NEIGHBOR
SONG
with
ROY ACUFF
LULUBFLLE AND
SCOTTY
BRAD TAYLOR
RUTH TERRY
Added
Late Import News Items
"Screen Snapshots"
SATURDAY. JAN. 27
DOUBLE FEATURE
No. 1
CODE OF THE
PRAIRIE
with
SMILEY BURNETTE
SUNSET CARSON
PEGGY STEWART
No 2
THE FALCON IN
MEXICO
with
TOM CONWAY
MONA MARIS
Added
Chapter 8 "Haunter Harbor"
Cartoon
. "Wreck of the Hesperus"
SUNDAY, JAN. 28
ABROAD WITH
2 YANKS
with
WILLIAM BENDIX
HELEN WALKER
PENNIS O'KEEFE
Also
Late News and Cartoon
MONDAY, JAN. 29
NATIONAL
BARN DANCE
with
JEAN HEATHER
CHARLES QUIGLEY
Also
News and Featurette
SactWdtirc/t/
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WED. 8c THURS.
MARIA MONTEZ
JON HALL
in
GPYSY WILDCAT
In Technicolor
Special Attraction
"Brought To Action" U. S.
Navy in actual combat with
the Jap Fleet.
Latest War News
FRIDAY
ROGER TOUHY
GANGSTER
with
PRESTON FOSTER
LOIS ANDREWS
Color Cartoon
"Tangled Travels"
Sport Reel
"Nymphs of Lake"
Serial "Desert Hawk"
SATURDAY
MARK OF THE
WHISTLER
with
RICHARD DIX
All Star Comedy
'Crazy Like A Fox"
Cartune
"Painter 8c Pointer"
Owl Show Sat. 11 P. M.
GARY GRANT
RAYMOND MASSEY
in
ARSENIC AND
OLD LACE
SUN. - Mon. - TUES.
The love story behind
the thrill story!
M-G-M's great motion
picture of the
authentic book...
THIRTY
OVERTOKYO
A MERVYN UROY PRODUCTION
WITH VAN JOHNSON
ROBERT WALKER
PHYLLIS THAXTER
SCOTT McKAY
AND
SPENCER TRACY
AS LIEUTENANT COLONEL JAMES H.
DOOLITTLE • Directed by M.rvyn
LtRoy • Produced by Sam Zlmballtt
Band en th* Book and Colll«r'» Story
by Captain Ted W. Lawian and
Robert Conildln*