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VOLUME LXVIII ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1944 NUMBER '24
VET ASTP UNIT
IS DISBANDED
11 Seniors Stay;
14 Decide To Go
To Ground Forces
The Veterinary-ASTP unit
which was established at Auburn
in the summer of 1943 has been
ordered discontinued according to
instructions received between the
spring and summer quarters by
Col. John J. Waterman, Com­mandant
of the unit.
The unit, located on Mell Street
in two barracks, former Theta Chi
and Sigma No fraternity houses,
was included under the SCU 3419,
and was, after discontinuance of
Engineering ASTP composed en­tirely
of veterinary medical stu­dents.
Nine seniors, who are sched­uled
to graduate with the termina­tion
of the present quarter, and
two first quarter seniors, are to
be retained as they are until they
received their degrees. "The re­mainder
of the unit have their
choice of being transferred to the
Army Ground Forces in the grade
of privates first class or accept­ing
a discharge from the army and
being referred to their local draft
boards for classification. Four­teen
have elected to enter the
ground forces.
The 88 men taking a discharge
will be released Saturday to re­turn
to civilian status and con­tinue
study of Veterinary Medi­cine
under local draft board rul­ings
Under a new ruling handed
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LT. HIXON
GOES DOWN
IN 6ULF
A message last Thursday after­noon
announcing that Lt. Charles
R. Hixon, Jr., was missing after
his plane had crashed in the
Gulf of Mexico near Sarasota,
Fla., brought with it genuine sor­row
to Auburn's entire citizen­ship.
No trace of the young flier
or his plane has been found to
date, and due to the nature of the
crash practically no hopes remain
for his survival.
Lt. Hixon, age 21, is the son
of Prof. Charles R. Hixon, Sr.,
head of the Mechanical Engin­eering
Department of the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute, and of
the late Mrs. Hassie Terrell Hixon
of Auburn. Born and educated in
Auburn, his character and per­sonality
were the embodiment of
a noble family lineage and of the
cultured community which he
represented.
During his high school days,
young Hixon was a member of
the National Honor Society whose
members are selected because of
scholarship, leadership, and good
citizenship. In addition to his su­perior
intellect and wide range of
unusual talents, he was endowed
with a magnetic personality, a
sweetness of nature, and a con­sideration
of others rarely found
in one so young.
He was affiliated with the Au­burn
Methodist Church and was
a member of the Kappa Sigma
Social Fraternity.
Close relatives of Lt. Hixon be­sides
his father and stepmother
include a sister Mrs. Paul D.
Sturkie (Emil Hixon), his grand­mother,
Mrs. L. A. Terrell, an
uncle and aunt, Prof, and Mrs.
C. A. Basore of Auburn, two step­brothers,
Dallas Mitchell of Au­burn
and Alfred Holly Mitchell,
a member of the Air Forces Sig­nal
Corps at Boca Raton, Fla., and
an uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs.
P. A. Terrell of Pittsburgh, Pa.
Bowling Record Tied
Dr. H. L. Smoke, Auburn den­tist,
recently tied unofficially the
national 'bowling record with 22
consecutive strikes at the Auburn
Bowling Alley.
A perfect game score of 300 was
recorded last week by Dr. Smoke,
his second in the past eight
months.
Vet Building
Christened
Cary Hall
Dr. C. A. Cary,
Vet School's First
Dean, Recognized
At the annual meeting of the
Board of Trustees on June 5, a
resolution which provided for the
roaming of the new veterinary
classroom building was' unani­mously
adopted.
The following resolution was
approved upon motion by S. L.
Toomer, seconded by V. H. Han­son.
"Whereas, Dr. C. A. Cary,
dean of the School of Veterinary
Medicine of the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute from the date of
founding of said school until his
death in 1935, worked untiringly
far the advancement of the School,
The veterinary profession and the
livestock industry of Alabama,
and whereas, he deserved
and held the respect and
loyalty of all those engaged
in his profession in the state of
Alabama and, whereas in recog­nition
of his service the Alabama
Veterinary Medical Association
and the alumni of the School of
Veterinary Medicine of the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute have
petitioned that in recognition of
his great contributions to the ad­vancement
of the science of vet­erinary
medicine, the new veter­inary
building be named for him,
be it resolved by the Board of
Trustees of the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute that:
1. It recognizes the long and
useful services of Dean Cary and
his great contributions to the pro­fession
of veterinary medicine.
2. In recognition thereof the
official name of the new veterin­ary
building shall be Cary Hall.
3. The president of the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute is
hereby authorized and instructed
to have a suitable marker pre­pared
designating the building as
Cary Hall.
Dr. George Blue,
Ex-Alumni Head,
Dies At Home
Dr. George Blue, one of two
brothers outstanding in the medi­cal
history of Alabama died at his
home in Montgomery on May 27
after an illness of five weeks. Dr.
Blue was well known for his un­tiring
devotion and service to
API. He was graduated at Au­burn
in 1910.
He, with his brother, Dr. John
Blue, was famous throughout the
nation for his surgical skill.
The surgeon made it a yearly
practice to pay the tuition and
living expenses at Auburn for
some boy whom he considered
deserving and ambitious to con­tinue
his education. He was also
known in Montgomery for his
quiet gifts to many whom he had
seen in need.
Dr. Blue was born in Montgom­ery
on Dec. 4, 1890, the son of
Dr. John M. and Mary Wood Blue.
He received his medical degree
in 1916 from Columbia University
and graduated the following year
from the Army Medical School.
Except for a period of Army ser­vice
during the first World War,
he has practiced medicine in
Montgomery since 1916.
He was a past president of the
Montgomery County Medical So­ciety,
the Society of Alabama
Power Company Association of
Surgeons and of the American
Association of Industrial Surge­ons.
Surviving are his brother, Dr.
John Blue; four sisters, Mrs. Ran­dolph
Moore, Mrs. Kate Blue
Moore, and Mrs. Wiley Hill, Sr.,
all of Montgomery, and Mrs. An­nie
Howard Adams, of Cleveland,
Ohio.
The funeral was held on the
afternoon of May 28.
D-Day Landings
Greatest World
Has Ever Known
By Van Hemeit
To the accompaniment of the
roar of thousands of airplane mo­tors
and the pounding crash of
one of the heaviest naval bom­bardments
ever directed against
shore positions, United Nations
troops surged ashore upon the
Normandy coast of France early
Tuesday morning.
This was D-Day—the day the
oppressed multitudes of Europe
had been anxiously looking for­ward
to since the dark days which
saw the ascendency of the Swas­tika
across the flaming skys and
shaking earth of a continent sud­denly
awakened to the horror of
Blitzkreig.
This was the day that would
open the battle of Europe. The
day that would put Johnny
Doughboy face to face with Jerry
Hun. This was the test the Allies
had been preparing for for almost
four years.
Three Year Wait
The world had speculated on
D-Day for almost three of these
years of preparation. For the past
six months there had been specu­lation
on little else but D-Day.
That specific speculation is now
past, but speculation itself has not
died with D-Day. Rather, it has
grown apace. For where specula­tors
formerly concerned them­selves
with when and where of
D-Day, there Has now arisen, a
host of baffling questions' to
plague the erstwhile armchair
strategist.
False Alarm
The first of these new questions
is, of course: Is this actually D-Day,
or is it merely one of those
"feints" that Churchill promised
the Germans? Some of the com­mentators
on the radio would
have it that the present opera­tions
around Cherbourg and
LeHawe are not the main inva­sion
thrusts, that as soon as the
Germans have committed a good­ly
portion of their reserves to the
Norman coast the Allies will
strike elsewhere. Others will tell
you that this is the main thrust
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Auburn opened its summer
quarter this week with an enroll­ment
far exceeding expectations.
At the end of the period of reg­istration,
the total enrollment, in­cluding
regular students and
teachers here for the six-week
training periods, was equal to
that of last quarter, which is
considered by college officials a
most gratifying roster under pres­ent
conditions.
Enrollment of women students
reached a high point this quarter,
but a large portion of the present
freshman class is expected to be
composed of 17-year-old high
school graduates who enrolled in
college in June in order to com­plete
as much study as possible
before reaching 18 years of age.
After a three-day orientation
period, the freshman class, which
'is 33% larger than the last sum­mer's
freshman enrollment, be­gan
regular school work on
Thursday, as did the returning
upperclass students and transfers.
Complete information as to the
enrollment will be released at a
later date.
RIDING CLASSES
SCHEDULED FOR
AUBURN COEDS
It was announced last night by
Clifton McLean, one of the super­visors
of the Auburn Riding
Academy, that riding could be
definitely be scheduled by coeds
in place of the girls' regular phy­sical
education.
The course will be offered three
times a day at 8 a.m., 3 p.m., and
5 p.m., five days a week for two
six-week periods during the cur­rent
quarter. Fees are $2.00 per
week or $12.00 per course of six
weeks.
Mrs. John Morgan will serve as
instructor for the Academy. Those
interested in enrolling in the
class are urged to see Mrs. J. E.
Land in the girls' PE department
and sign up immediately.
D. W. Irwin Judged
Best-Drilled Cadet
In ROTC Unit
Dee Wees Irwin, Birmingham,
has been awarded a leather wallet
as the best drilled cadet in the
ROTC at the Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute.
"B" Battery was designated as
the best drilled battery, and its
commanding officer, Cadet Capt.
A. H. Edelman, Montgomery, was
also presented with a wallet.
The best drilled squad- was that
headed by Cadet Cpl. H. E. Meeks,
Eufaula, a sophomore in civil en­gineering.
Meeks and all mem­bers
of the squad (received wal­lets.
The squad members are
Cadet Privates L. A. Sanderson,
Montgomery; W. L. Ivey, Auburn;
Marion H. Cox, Cades, S. C , G. T.
Faulkner, Moreland, Ga.; John H.
Smith, Dozier; Hatrold Penley, La-
Grange, Ga.; A. W. Gaskin, Flor-ala;
and Archie Ray, Florala.
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'Bama Refuses To Play Auburn
Frosh Push Up Enrollment
To Equal Spring Mark
Auburn Churches
Combine For
Summer Services
Auburn churches will go to­gether
this summer to sponsor a
series of union services to be held
under the pines of the amphi­theater
each Sunday evening at
7 p.m. throughout the summer.
The services were held in the
grove behind the library last sum­mer,
but due to popular demand
they have been moved to the
more spacious amphitheater.
The series began last Sunday
evening when Dir. George Petrie,
retired dean of the graduate
school, addressed the first gather­ing
on "Christ, The Great Teach­er".
Next Sunday night Dr. Donald
C. MacGuire, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church in Montgom.
try will lead in a discussion on
"Planning Tomorrow's World".
Features of the service will be
singing and special music.
The services will be dismissed
promptly at 8 p.m. each Sunday
evening, and all students are cor­dially
invoted to be present. •
STAFF MEMBERS
COVER CASES
IN CITY COURT
By Dottie Woodall
Warning! Disregard anything
you may have heard to the con­trary—
there is justice in Auburn.
Monday afternoon two members
of the Plainsman staff got their
first glimpse of its administra­tion
when they attended the reg­ular
Monday afternoon session of
the city police court.
This court is held in the City
Hall which is located in the same
building as the Auburn Fire Dept.
With Judge George M. Baynes,
known to most API students but
not as "Judge", presiding ten
cases were heard and disposed of.
On this particular afternoon all
those called before the court were
Negro.
Butler Young was fined $50
and costs for wife beating. It was
disclosed to the court that his
former record of law infractions
included petty larceny, vagrancy
and assault.
Jim Spinks was fined $100 for
violation of the prohibition law.
Gustin Ann Joiner was fined $10
for drunkenness; James Moore re­ceived
the same penalty for this
offense. Robert King was assessed
a fine of $15 on charge of being
drunk and disorderly.
Major Thomas was fined $15
plus $5 costs for being drunk and
disorderly. Brown Carlisle paid
$10 when found guilty of the
charge of drunkeness. Roger Fraz.
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INDUSTRIAL
RECREATIONAL
CLINIC HERE
Addressing representatives from
27 huge industrial organizations
at a recreational clinic held here
last week, K. Mark Cowen, sup­erintendent
of the Birmingham
Park and Recreation Board said,
"Money spent on recreation for
our youth today is as valuable an
investment in the future as money
spent for War Bonds".
Citing the Birmingham coor­dinating
council which is com­posed
of the city recreation board
and professional recreation work­ers
Mr. Cowen explained that
through this agency overlapping
of recreational programs in his
city is straightened out.
"A planning body composed of
the young people themselves is a
definite need of the future," he
asserted. "By explaining what
kind of recreation they want and
from whom they want it, young
people will bring emphasis to the
phases of recreation in which they
themselves are most interested."
"Every city dweller needs com­munity
recreational f a c i l i t i es
within half a mile of hi® home,"
Birmingham's park superintend­ent
continued. "Swimming pools,
parks, and tennis courts should
be strategically located through­out
the city."
"Our (recreational programs are
fundamentally democratic," said
Mr. William R. Battle, Jr., direc­tor
of athletics at Birmingham-
Southern College. "Only in a
country such as ours could ath­letics,
which encourages both in­dividual
thinking and team-work
be so closely tied to recreation.
In Germany mass drills and en­tertainment
that discourage indi­vidual
thought are substituted.
"Bosses seem to become human
when they swim or bowl in con­tests
against employees. Through
all types of recreation, whether
to build up body, mind or better
social contact, skills are devel­oped
and friendships established,"
he continued.
"An indication of this is the
popularity of team sports," Mr.
Battle concluded.
DAR URGES
COOPERATION
ON FLAG DAY
The Light Horse Harry Lee
Chapter, Daughters of te Ameri­can
Revolution, invites every man,
woman and child in Auburn to
join in its annual observance of
Flag Day, on Wednesday, June 14,
on this, the one hundred and six­ty-
seventh anniversary of its adop­tion
by the Congress of the United
States. The invitation has been
extended to the Martha Wayles
Jefferson Chapter, D.A.R., and to
every citizen of Opelika to share
this observance by the display of
the Stars and Stripes at his home
oir place of business.
Small flags may be bought in
Auburn from Burton's, Hubbard's
and Loftin's and are no doubt
available in Opelika. Some large
sized ones are in stock. With the
hope that every one will partici­pate
who appreciates the protec­tion
he himself enjoys or who has
interest in any one of the mil­lions
of American men and wom­en
who are serving under the flag
at home or abroad, a response of
one hundred per cent does not
seem too much to anticipate.
An especial appeal for co-opeire-tion
is made to the school chil­dren
who already have flags and
to the students in Auburn that all
the homes in which they live may
be decorated. Wednesday evening
at 9:15, through the courtesy of
Station WJHO, a brief Flag Day
program will be broadcast which
will include appropriate patriotic
music.
University Trustees Give Reasons
For Nonresumption Of Varsity Athletics
By DOYLE BUCKLES
University News Bureau
University, Ala.—Members of the Committee on Physical
Education and Athletics of the University of Alabama recom­mended
Saturday that "athletic relations between the Uni­versity
and Auburn not be resumed," in a six page l e t t e r to
President Raymond R. Paty who
presented it to the Board of Trus­tees
for action at their annual
meeting.
The trustees adopted the follow­ing
resolution: "Be it Resolved
by the Board of Trustees of the
University of Alabama that it is
the opinion of the Board that all
intercollegiate athletic arrange­ments
should be made by the ad­ministration
authorities as a mat­ter
of internal administration and
that the Board does concur in the
recommendation of the Athletic
Committee as offered to the Board
in its statement dated May 3,
1944."
The athletic committee reported
that it had made a conscientious
study of Governor Chauncey
Sparks' recommendation, con­veyed
through the medium of an
open letter February 12 to the
presidents of the University of
Alabama and the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute, that these in­stitutions
resume athletic rela­tions.
For Best Interests of All
"It is to be presumed," the com­mittee
pointed out, "that those
who are eager to see the Univer­sity
and Auburn play football
with each other and those who
are opposed are prompted by a
desire to promote the best inter­ests
of these two great institu­tions
and of the state at large."
"There are students, alumni,
and other friends of Auburn and
the University who believe that
athletic contests between these
two institutions would promote
(Continued on Page 6)
API Trustees
Commend
Sparks' Stand
The following resolution com­mending
Governor Sparks and
President L. N. Duncan for their
efforts for the renewal of athletic
relationships between Auburn and
the University of Alabama was
adopted by the Auburn board of
trustees in annual session here
Monday. •
"Whereas, on Feb. 11, 1944,
Gov. Chauncey Sparks wrote
identical letters to the presidents
of the Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute
and the University of Ala­bama
urging the resumption of
athletic relations between these
two great publicly-owned insti­tutions.
"Whereas, President Duncan
promptly replied, favoring not on­ly
this important step, but also
cooperation between the institu­tions
in ironing out, and mutual­ly
attacking the problems of ade­quate
support for Alabama stu­dents,
the elimination of unneces­sary
duplication, and a more en­lightened
method of soliciting stu­dents.
Therefore be it resolved by
the board of trustee of the Alaba­ma
Polytechnic Institute, (1)
That Governor Sparks be congrat­ulated
for the lofty position he
has taken on this matter, and com­mended
for his laudable efforts
to restore athletic relationships on
the high plane of good sports­manship
between Auburn and the
University, and (2) That President
Duncan be commended for the
high ground that he has taken,
both on this occasion and in the
past, in his efforts to bring about
a new era of good will and co-op-,
eration between the two institu­tions;
and (3) That the 'board of
trustees is in full and complete
accord with the statement of Gov­ernor
Sparks in .the letter herein
above referred to that "Alabama
and Auburn are serving the peo­ple
of the state. Their welfare is
the concern of the people. There
should be no unfriendliness, no
jealousy and no ill will whatso­ever
in either institution as
against the other;" and (4) That
this lofty principle of mutual co­operation
and agreement, so ad­mirably
stated by the governor
of the State of Alabama, offers the
only true means whereby these
two great institutions may render
to the fullness of their capacities
real and lasting services to the
people of Alabama. The resolution
was introduced by Walker Rey­nolds,
Anniston, and the question
was put by Paul S. Haley, Jasper,
other board members present at
the meeting were Governor
Sparks, S. L. Thomas, Auburn,
Victor H. Hanson, Birmingham;
Judge Francis W. Hare, Monroe-ville;
W. B. Bowling, Lafayette,
and State Superintendent of Ed­ucation
E. B. Norton.
About The Glomerata
Fred Duggar, Glomerata editor,
announced that due to unavoid­able
circumstances, the '44 Glom­erata
will not be delivered to the
students until some time in the
summer quarter. He hopes that it
will be in the near future. Details
will be announced later.-
THE TIGER NOSE
Two soldiers sleeping in pup
tent erected in the middle of the
quadrangle with sign outside
"Fort Benning Extension".
* * •
New freshman girls staring
with mouths partially open as
Auburn boys greet them with
"Hey there".
ON THE CAMPUS
Softball
Council Sapp, Intramural Man­ager,
has announced that fraterni­ties
may merge to form joint in­tramural
softball teams. The num­ber
of fraternities merging, how­ever,
is limited to two, and entries
for the playoffs for the champion­ship
this sumer must be submitted
not later than noon Wednesday
to either the Intramural Office
located in the Field house or to
Council Sapp.
Interfraternity Council
Interfratemity Council w i ll
meet Monday night in Samford
Hall, room 301 at 7 o'clock.
AIChE
The first meeting of AIChE for
the new quarter will be held in
Ross Chemical Laboratory Mon­day
night, June 12 at 7:30. All
freshmen enrolled in Chemical
Engineering, new and old mem­bers
are urged to attend.
Sabers
Sabers will meet Tuesday, June
13 at 7:30 in the basement of Sam-ford
Hall. All members are urged
to atend this meeting.
IAeS
IAeS will met in Ramsay at
7:15 Monday night. 'A sound film,
"Conquest of the Air" will be
shown. All students interested
in aeronautics are cordially in-'
vited.
Registration
Change-in-course and registra­tion
period closes Thursday, June
15, at 5 p.m. Students should be
advised to make all changes nec­essary
in registration prior to that
time.
Geometry
Classes in Plane and Solid Ge­ometry
will meet for organization
on Monday, June 19, at 5 o'clock
in Broun 304.
Try-Outs
The Auburn. Players will hold
try-outs Monday night at 7:30 in
the Y-Hut to select the cast of
their forthcoming p r o d u c t i o n ,
'Dangerous Corner".
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Auburn—Open City To Frosh
Each quarter we see a new group of
young men and women arrive who have
chosen Auburn for theirs. Some of these
will remain with us and become part of the
Auburn tradition, others will not.
To you who have come this quarter,
we'd like to say "Hello", and we'd like
you to say it right back to us. That's part
of being an Auburn student. Maybe you
still feel like a stranger, maybe you think
you'll never know everyone here—you
won't. But you will know most of them
sooner than you think if you enter into
activities and classes with the spirit of
friendliness which has always character­ized
API.
It would be futile to try to tell you all
the little things that mean Auburn to us.
You'll find them out for yourself in no
time. You'll get that "WAR EAGLE"
feeling in your blood and you'll never be
the same again—you'll be an Auburn man
or woman wherever you go. Just wait
and see if you don't.
We hope you like it; we know you'll
like it here if you give yourself a fair
chance. And remember, everyone you
see on the campus will be glad to meet
you, glad to help you in any way he can.
And don't come in out of the rain—nobody
does!
Campus Cross-Country
By SUSAN BROWN
You And You And You!
We, like Uncle Sam, want you. You
and you and you. For the football team,
of course.
Now, wait a minute. So you can't play
football. So what! Just exactly who told
you you couldn't play? Well, now. Then
you're just the man he needs for guard or
center or even quarterback.
If you'll look around you, you'll see
that Auburn doesn't have the type of
players it had four years ago. In fact,
those players aren't to be found anywhere
except in the armed forces. But just the
same, Auburn is going to have a football
team. And that will take some material.
Some material in this case means every
piece of manhood with two legs that walks
on this campus. Maybe you students can't
give Coach Voyles the best in quality; but
you can give him quantity. In fact, you
can give him every male on this campus.
And that's what he's asking for.
If, and only if, Coach Voyles gets the
unlimited cooperation of every student, he
has promised us a team that we'll be
proud to field. Not a team that will win
any bowl games. Not a team that will
have three Ail-American players. But a
team that will show our opponents that
the Auburn Spirit still has a lot of kick
in it.
Your best method of cooperating will
be to go down to the field house today.
Don't put it off till Monday or Tuesday.
The coaches are working now, and the
- sooner you go down, the sooner we'll have
a tentative team lined up. You don't have
to make the first string. In fact, Coach
Voyles says you don't have to have had any
previous experience.
Just show them that you've got the will
to work, and to keep on working. And
follow instructions. They will do their
best, and out of it we'll get our team.
With the whole campus pulling to­gether
for the team, the. Auburn Spirit
will again be something for us to brag
about. And by the very tail of that Au­burn
Tiger, if you pull and we pull, we'll
send out a team that we can be proud of.
It's Your Tradition Now
That "Auburn Spirit," far-famed and
traditional, is partially composed of
customs and traditions. Around dormi­tories,
fraternity houses, street corners,
cafes, anywhere that students gather,
these customs and traditions are common
knowledge.
Most of them hinge around the fresh­men.
Most of them are modern survivors
of the days when "rats were men," and
if they weren't didn't last long.
They used to shave the heads of all
freshmen around Auburn. They used to
make them climb the water-tower in the
middle of town, and write their names
among the thousands there. They used to
hold public "rat courts" and chastise the
freshmen for any disobedience to rules.
Those things just aren't any more.
In their places, more civilized and hu­man
customs have arisen. Instead of the
old feeling of upperclassmen versus fresh­men,
there is now a spirit of cooperation
between the first-year men and their
scholastic elders.
Surviving the renaissance of Auburn
customs is that of the prevention of fresh­man
from walking through the main gate
of the campus. That rule is perhaps bet­ter
enforced than any other. Freshman
just don't walk through that gate. And
that goes for coed frosh as well.
Perhaps the best of Auburn traditions
is one that covers a lot of territory—that
of friendliness to everyone, on the campus,
in classrooms, in town. Some colleges
have special "Hello" or "Hey" days set
aside during the year, when everyone
speaks to everyone else when they pass.
Every day is a "Hey" day in Auburn.
Those who are so selfcentered that they
cannot speak to people in Auburn, whether
they know them or not, are just social out­casts!
The Auburn freshman of 1944 will
consider himself, before the year is over,
as a veritable stooge. He will find himself
shining shoes, carrying mail to the post
office, shining brass on uniforms, sabers,
belts, and all for some upperclassmen, very
rarely for himself.
He may even find himself on the re­ceiving
end of a paddle or two, or perhaps
a coathanger or belt, for disobedience of
the "orders" of an upperclassman.
Upperclassmen at Auburn reserve the
right to punish freshmen who haven't
thoroughly memorized the Alma Mater, as
well as a bit of prose called, "The Rat's
Excuse For Living." Get some of your
sophomore friends to tell you the words
to that one, fellows.
Six Dollar Donations
Caps and gowns graced the graduates
again last quarter after several graduations
without them. We are proud of the seniors
who revived the old tradition.
One thorn presented itself in the other­wise
rosy ceremony. The faculty didn't
wear caps and gowns. Consequently, they
lacked the dignity they should have pos­sessed.
Most of them slouched in. They
looked like new recruits who didn't know
how to march and didn't care anyway.
By investigation we found that caps
and gowns cost a dollar and a half. To
rent these four times a year would cost
the faculty six dollars. Yet a faculty
spokesman informed us the faculty doesn't
wear them because they cost too much.
We don't think so.
Around The Editor's Desk
The day is cold and dark and dreary—it rains and the wind
is never weary—the vines still cling to the moulding wall—
and at each gust the dead leaves fall—and the day is cold and
dark and dreary.
A little out of season perhaps, but fitting the mood—the
mood being that of anyone returning a few days early to the
Loveliest Village. It's more like the Deserted Village.
Things happened over the holidays. The University of
Alabama flatly turned down the proposal of a football game
between Auburn and the Tide. Our regret over the outcome of
the proposal is deep; we're still stunned that it "was turned
down for we can see no reason for not playing. We still feel
rather-strongly about the situation and believe that someday,
somehow,, the right thing will be done and Alabama will play
Auburn. That is how we feel. Perhaps people will say we are
biased in our opinions. That being the case let us present
what Mr. Danforth, one of the most widely-read sports writer's
in the South and who certainly should have an objective view­point
on the question, had to say. We quote his column which
appeared recently in the Atlanta Journal:
Those who hold cordial regard for the University of Ala­bama
and Auburn, who hoped for a long time the two schools
would end the outmoded severance of athletic relations that
was conceived in the primitive days of 1907 are disappointed.
This time, the University of Alabama is guilty of preserv­ing
the break. Governor Sparks the presidents of the two
state schools to resume relations in sports. Auburn promptly
answered ready. Alabama backed down.
The Alabama athletic committee went back to 1923, an­other
age so fast and so far have we progressed, and brought
up a bill of objections to an Auburn-Alabama football game
uttered by Dr. Spright Dowell, then president of Auburn. The
Alabama committee 21 years later throws Dr. Dowell's object­ions
to a renewal of the Auburn-Alabama football game right
back in Auburn's face.
If the friends of Alabama sense in that action the spirit of
revenge—plain old muleheadedness, to be more explicit—
Alabama cannot take exception. Because digging up Dr.
Dowell's rebuff of 21 years ago and handing it right back to
Auburn, word for word, surely does not suggest good will.
Dr. Dowell's objections were a bit out of line then. Now, as
endorsed by the Alabama athletic committee, they seem as out­moded
as a turtle-neck sweater.
Alabama endorsed these statements: "All other games,
contests and activities would be made subservient to the one
supreme event of the year. It would result in an accelerated
overemphasis of football in the state—The quest for players
would be intensified—The intense rivalry will make it ex­ceedingly
difficult to attract or hold outstanding coaches—
would inevitably sharpen the spirit of rivalry between them
in all phases of their life and relationships."
Alabama's committee added this idea to Dr. Dowell's
ancient presentations: "The two institutions would put too
much into this one game with the result that they most like­ly
would not have as high a national rating as they had in the
past." That statement could not be mistaken for the opening
gun in a campaign for deemphasizing football at Alabama.
What burns us up over here in the state of Georgia is that
Alabama has paid us no attention, evidently.
Our two state-owned colleges—Georgia Tech and Georgia
—resumed athletic relations, including their annual football
game, some 20 years ago, after a break similar to that between
Auburn and Alabama, and had managed to do so without
bloodshed or the disruption of life-long friendships. The
football teams of Tech and Georgia have had outstanding
coaches and have attained national recognition. The games
annually are enjoyed by thousands of the people who pay the
taxes to support the institutions.
We Georgians long since had ceased to regard our colleges
as having done a wonderful thing in resuming athletic re­lations.
We just charged off the period of their "divorce" to
childishness.
Alabama has hurt our feelings by paying no attention at
all to how Tech and Georgia have prospered in friendly
rivalry . . . . well, fairly friendly, anyhow.
Auburn has grown up, and we refuse to thing all hope is
lost for Alabama to become of age one of these days.
Editor'* note: The opinions expressed
in this column are those of the writer
and are not to be constrned as the edi­torial
policies of this paper.
"Education", it says in the
book, "is a slow and painful
process." It is—even to those of
us who are no longer freshmen.
The college part of education,
though, is in many ways the
least painful and certainly the
most pleasant of all our years of
education. So— welcome fresh­men!
* * *
Three University of Alabama
co-eds have been soaking in
Florida sunshine this vacation be­cause
they worked 4or it. At the
end of last quarter the girls
operated a laundry business on
the second floor of one of the
dorms—object, a vacation in
Florida.
* * *
"V IS I T I N G SERVICEMEN
ASK TO REGISTER"—headline
in Akron Buchlelile
Now what could that mean?
* * *
" 'Honesty is that quality of
man that shows him fair and
truthful in speech, above cheat­ing,
stealing, misrepresentation,
or any other fraudulent action.'
Honesty does not deviate from
this definition.
Students who do not practice
honesty, either Purdue honesty
or any other variety, harm other
students who come in contact
with them. And they hurt them­selves.
It is because of this that dis­honest
students must either be­come
honest by their own volition
or through the efforts of others."
—from an editorial in the Pur­due
Exponent.
* * *
One of the best test questions
posed before students at the
University of Kentucky, accord­ing
to the Kentucky Kernel, was
"What was the nationality of
Mrs. X, born in Paris in 1935 of
American parents?" "And they
talk about Kentucky's child
bridles" commented the Kernel.
* * *
Emory University's interfra-ternity
dance will feature the
music of Les Brown's band. War­time
resolution is that no one
wearing flowers or corsages will
be admitted.
* * *
An editorial in Georgia Tech's
Technique points out to the stu­dents
that some of Georgia Tech's
younger teachers are leaving
Tech for other, better-paying
jobs. The editorial speaks for
keeping the standard of instruc­tion
and the high entrance re­quirements
along with the post­war
plans for new buildings and
new equipment.
* * *
Wimpy Cuddlepet is the crea­tion
of Woman's College, Uni­versity
of North Carolina stu­dents,
and typical Woman's Col­lege
student. Recently, the Car­olinian
ran a full page of Wimpy
cartoons. One of the best was
of Wimpy, in conference with a
thoughtful professor, saying "But
honestly, sir—it's not that I'm
not interested in Peruvian phil­osophy;
its just that this course
teaches more about Peruvian
philosophy than I'm interested in
learning."
The other item in the "bright
remarks to teachers department"
is the story of the University of
Akron co-ed who was asked
"Miss Hargrove, are you listening
to this lecture?" Miss Hargrove,
who was picking up the, pieces
of her camera and screwing them
together, answered, "I've heard
it before."
* * *
A few Purdue University stu­dents
made a slick profit from
Tommy Dorsey's appearance
there by buying up tickets before
all students were given a chance
at buying them and then selling
the 1800 tickets for whatever they
could get.
* * *
The new edition of the Buch­lelile
style sheet, which gives the
rules for typographical style,
has added several important do's
and don't's. It is now the style to
"call students men and women,
and women, not boys and girls
and never to refer to the univer­sity
as a school". The war has
knocked the L out of enrollment
—now it's enrolment, enrol, etc.,
and in the society column faculty
members are to be referred to
simply as "Mr." and on the sports
page as "Coach".
WAR EAGLE!
EDITOR'S NOTE?
Thus begins a new column,
WAR EAGLE, to be written
each week by Howard Fulen-wider,
a junior in Veterinary
Medicine, member of the Pub­lications
Board and several
o t h e r campus organisations.
This column is to take the place
of WE-THEY, column, formerly
written by Shirley Smith who
graduated last quarter.
Tucked away in the west wing
of the library is an odd little cub­byhole
in which are stored away
the periodicals which have seen
their birth in Auburn at various
times throughout the past half
century. Glancing through the
copies of the Glomerata and the
Plainsman it is interesting to note
the sections in each devoted to
"humor". The general strain in
each of these publications seems
now to be a shift from the bois­terous
to a more sophisticated
farm of wit. To give you a hazy
idea of what we mean, we quote
the following:
» * *
From the Glomerata of 1922. . .
Cal Q: I flunked that exam.
Lus: I passed by flipping a
coin.
Cal Q: How do you figure that?
Lus: Simple—if it was heads I
copied Bonner's paper, if it was
tails I copied Star's.
* • *
"You'sh schmoke too .much."
"They're ruinin me."
"Ssschwear off; and lesh take
'nozzer drink."
* * »
From the Glomerata of 1926 , . .
Alabama student: "Good morn­ing,
good morning, good morn­ing."
Auburn student: "Howdy, by
Gawd."
Once there was a little girl out
playing in the yard and as her
mother noticed some soldiers
coming down the street, she cal­led
to the little girl to come in­to
the house. The girl replied:
"Mother, those are not soldiers,
those are Auburn boys." "Come
in this house at once, daughter,
and bring the cow with you." the
mother cried.
* * *
From the Glomerata of 1928. . .
Ragman: "Any old clothes: any
old shoes?"
S. A.: "No Gel away from here,
this is a fraternity house.'
Ragman: "Any old bottles?"
* * *
"How did the Smith wedding
come off?"
"Fine until the preacher ask­ed
the bride if she would obey
her husband."
"What happened then?"
"She replied, 'Do you think I'm
an ass?' and the groom, who was
in a sort of a daze, replied, 'I
do."
* * *
Sidney calls " his girl Infinity,
because you can always ap­proach
her, but you never get
there.
"Allow me to present my wife
to you.'
"Many thanks, but I have one."
* * *
From the Plainsman of 1929. . .
A modern girl is one who can
meet the wolf at the door and
come out with a fur coat.
* * *
From the Plainsman of 1931. . .
Father: "Lucille, this disap­points
me dreadfully, seeing you
smoke. You're no daughter of
mine."
Lucille: "Cheer up, Dad, I
won't tell a soul."
* * *
And from the Glomerata of
1932 . . .
She: "You remind me of Nero."
He: "Why?"
She: "Here I am burning down
and you're just fiddling around."
* * *
"Mother, will college boys go
to heaven?"
"Yes, but they won't like it."
Farmer (at fair): "I've got
about twenty children out here as
would like to see the prize bull.
Kaint you make me a special
rate?
Show Man: "All your kids?"
Farmer: "Shore."
Show Man: "Now wait here,
I'll bring the bull right out."
June 9, 1944 T H E P L A I N S M AN Page Thr.ee
WEDDINGS ANNOUNCED
Sahag-AUan
The marriage of Miss Orion
Elizabeth Sahag, only daughter of
Professor and Mrs. L. N. Sahag, to
Lt. Robert Bruce Allan, U. S. Ar­my
Air Corps, son of Mr. end Mrs.
David Bruce Allan, of Albany and
Columbus, Ga., took place last
Saturday afternoon at four o'clock
at the Presbyterian Church.
Dr. Samuel Bumey Hay, pastor,
performed the double ring cere­mony.
Mrs. E. S. Winters render­ed
the nuptial music.
Mrs. Edmond Rhea Sahag, sis­ter-
in-law of the bride was ma­tron
of honor, and the bridesmaids
were Miss Melissa Winters, Mrs.
Whitefield Brooke, Mrs. Otis
Pruitt, and Mrs. Wiley Fancher.
Miss Mary Beth Robinson lighted
the candles.
David Bruce Allan was his son's
best man, and the groomsmen
were Clifton McLean, Lee Rod-gers,
Burke Jefferson, and Har­old
Tucker.
Mrs. Allan has completed her
junior year at API in the School
of Home Economics.
Lt. Allan graduated from the
School of Aeronautical Engineer­ing
at API with the class of 1942.
* * *
Thrasher-Allen
The marriage of Miss Annie
Catherine Thrasher to William
Wallace Allen, Jr., of Jackson­ville,
Florida took place Saturday
afternoon May 27, at the Metho­dist
Church, with Reverend Fa-gan
Thompson performing the
ceremony.
Miss Katherine Wright was the
bride's maid-of-honor, and Miss
Frances Gilbert was flower girl.
She was given in marriage by her
brother, L. Z. Thrasher.
Ushers were Bob Svenson, Foy
Campbell, Carter Denson, and Jay
Greene, members of Theta Chi
fraternity, of which the groom is
also a member. William Wallace
Allen, Sr., served as his son's best
man. • -
The bride is the daughter of
Mrs. L. Z. Thrasher of Auburn
and is president of the senior
class. She is president of Cardinal
Key and a member of Kappa Del­ta
sorority.
The groom is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. W. Allen, Jackson­ville,
Florida, and an alumnus of
API.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen will live in
Washington, D. C, where Mr. Al­len
is connected with the Naval
Research Laboratories.
* * *
DuBose-Miichell
Miss Margaret DuBose became
the bride of Edward William
Mitchell recently at the Trinity
Methodist Church in Opelika,
with the Rev. W. H. Venters offi­ciating.
The bride is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Thomas
DuBose of Troy. She is a student
at Alabama Polytechnic Institute
where she is a member of the
junior class.
The groom is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. William Claud Mitchell, of
Columbus, and was a senior at
Alabama Polytechnic Institute be­fore
entering the armed forces.
He is a member of the Alpha
Lambda Tau fraternity.
* * *
Hackney-Crook
Of interest to their many
friends is the announcement of
the marriage of Miss Dorothy
Hackney and Robert Louis Crook,
United States Army Air Forces,
LOST: One pair of glasses, last
quarter. If found please return
to Dixie Hall. Dormitory IV.
FOR RENT: A nice room with
private bath and private en­trance.
Two closets, phone 539-
W.
of Keesler Field, Miss., and Bir­mingham,
which took place at 3
o'clock Friday afternoon, May 19,
1944, in the First Methodist
Church at Birmingham.
Dr Raleigh Greene, assistant
pastor of the church and cousin
of the bride, performed the im­pressive
ring ceremony.
The bride was given in marriage
by her mother, Mrs. Susie Ingram
"Hackney. Louis Vernon Crook,
father of the groom, was best
man.
Mrs. Allen Lumpkin of Mont­gomery,
only sister of the bride,
was matron of honor and only at­tendant.
The bride graduated from the
Opelika High Schol and iater at­tended
Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute
during hen freshman year.
She has held a position with the
Engineering, Science, and Man­agement
War Training program at
Auburn.
Mr. Crook graduated from
Woodlawn High School, and was
in his senior year at Auburn when
he entered the armed forces. He
was a member, and past president
of Delta Sigma Phi Social Fra­ternity.
* * *
Sconyers-Scovrlle
The marriage of Miss Betty Lou
Sconyers, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. S. Sconyers, of Headland,
to Lt. Shedon Scoville of Nutley,
New Jersey and Wright Field,
Texas, took place on June 6 in
Headland.
The bride is a senior in Educa­tion
with a major in math. The
groom graduated from API in
November. He was a student in
the School of Veterinary Medicine
and a member of Alpha Psi frater­nity.
* * »
Harmon-Harris
The marirage of Miss Sara Har­mon,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
E. E. Harmon, to Lt. E. Neal Har­ris,
Jr., son of Mrs. E. N. Harris,
of Auburn, took place recently at
the Post Chapel, Marianna, Flor­ida.
The bride, a sophomore in the
School of Arichitecture and Allied
Arts, is a member of Alpha Gam­ma
Delta sorority, Owls, and for­mer
member of Oracles.
The groom, former student of
pharmacy at API, had as his best
man Lt. John Guy.
Mrs. C. C. Markle, sister of the
groom, was Miss Harmon's only
attendant.
* * *
Tucker-Biddle
The marriage of Miss Gwendo­lyn
Tucker, daughter of Mrs. Cal-lie
Mae Hancock Tucker of Au­burn
and Arlie D. Tucker of At­lanta,
to Lt. George L. Biddle, of
Bunnell, Florida, took place at
eight o'clock, Wednesday night,
May 24 at the First Baptist
Church of Auburn.
Miss Tucker is a junior in the
burn where she is president of
Pan-Hellenic Council, member of
Delta Zeta sorority, WSGA, Theta
Epsilon, and former member of
Oracles. She is a graduate of Girl's
High School, Atlanta, where she
was president of the student gov­ernment
her senior year,.
Lt. Biddle graduated from Flori­da
Southern College, Lakeland,
Florida in 1941, where he was a
member of Alpha Sigma fraterni­ty.
He served in the Tunisian cam­paign
and is now stationed at
Love Field, Dallas, Texas, with the
Fifth Ferrying group of A.T.C.
Mrs. W. W. Tucker, sister-in-law
of the bride-elect was the ma­tron
of honor. Bridesmaids were
Betty Jane Williams, Sis Williams,
Lora Pritchett, Bonnie Walker,
and Ann DuBose, from Auburn,
and Lucille Long, Nashville,
Georgia. Mary Dill, cousin of the
bride-elect lighted the candles.
Delta Sig Entertains
With Hayride, Picnic
At Chewacla State Park
Members and pledges of Delta
Sig fraternity left Auburn in the
late afternoon Saturday on a hay-ride
and picnic at Chewacla State
Park. (
Swimming, bowling, and dan­cing
were followed by refresh­ments
— hamburgers and cold
drinks.
Mrs. Prowell, housemother at
the Phi Delta Theta girls' dorm,
acted as chaperon.
Members, pledges, and guests
were Clarence M. Jones, Rustie
Duncan; Herman Smith, Mary
Nell Betts, Birmingham; Jack Rol­lins,
Jackie Swann, Moss Point,
Mississippi; Merrill Horton, Kitty
Finegan, Talladega; James White­side,
Dot Colvin;'Arthur Mitchell,
Julia Dykes; and Dan Loposer,
Bobbie Sullivan. •
Harold Falkenberry, Rose Ann
Hardy, Birmingham; Buddy Irwin,
Janet Blake, Demopolis; Phillip
Raymond, Alia Holmes, Sylacau-ga;
Charles Wood, Alma Homes,
Sylaoauga; Robert Scogin, Sara
Lou Connell, Birmingham, and
Charles Baish, June Black, Ath­ens,
Alabama.
Ted Hopton-Jones, Virginia
Grayson, - Birmingham; Buck
Strickland, Lora Pritchett, Au­burn;
Steve Roden, Irene Long,
Birmingham; Archie Ray, Emily
Lindsay; and Bob Dean, Martha
Grace, Tuscaloosa.
Bill Montgomery; Harold
Meeks; Bill Colbert, Don Hopton-
Jones; Wayne Peake; Carl Hicks;
and Bob Smith.
Sigma Chi Initiates
And Elects Officers
Sigma Chi fraternity recently
initiated four new members, Star
Prolsdorfer, Hardy Clark, Lester
Long, and J. D. Rambo.
Election of officers was also
held, and Charles Peacock was
chosen president. Fielding Lind-sey
was elected vice president;
Greg Herring, secretary; and
Clark Holloway, treasurer.
Sidney Little Receives
Promotion To Major
Captain Sidney W. Little, for­mer
professor of architecture at
A.P.I., and now on military leave,
has been promoted to the rank of
major.
Upon entering the army in 1942,
Major Little was stationed in Bir­mingham
with the Officer Pro­curement
Service. Later he at­tended
the Command and Gen­eral
Staff School at Ft. Leaven­worth
and upon completion of the
course in January was ordered
to Washington, D.C., where he has
since been assigned to War De­partment
Headquarters.
Mrs. Little is working at the
national headquarters of the
American Red Cross.
M. J. FORTNER
MADE A MAJOR
Captain Marion Jake Fortner,
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Fort­ner,
this city, has been promoted
to a majorship in the U. S. Army,
according to word received here
this week. \
Major _ Fortner graduated at
API with high scholastic honors,
and during his senior year he was
assistant professor of aeronauti­cal
engineering. He erved as
president of the old Auburn Aero
Club and became a member of
the American Institute of Aero­nautical
Sciences.
He is stationed at the Fort Sill,
Okla., Air School of Field Ar­tillery.
RENT A BIKE
AT
CHIEF'S
(ACROSS FROM CHIEF'S U-DRIVE-IT)
ADPi Entertains
Seniors A t Coffee
The graduating seniors of API
were entertained by Beta Omega
chapter of Alpha Delta Pi at an
after dinner coffee in Social Cen­ter
just before the end of last
quarter.
It is planned to make this a
quarterly tradition on the Auburn
campus.
Guests included graduating
seniors, housemothers, deans of
the various schools on the cam­pus,
Mrs. Marion Spidle, and Mrs.
Bertha B. Hull.
Card And Game Party
Entertains Members
Of Phi KapDa Tau
The Phi Kappa Tau's entertain­ed
members, pledges and friends
at a card and game party last Sat­urday
night. Bridge, ping pong
and dancing were among the high­lights
of a colorful evening. Re­freshments
were served later in
the evening by the members and
Mrs. Sarver, the Phi Tau's new
housemother.
Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Bittner and
Mrs. John V. Wegener, Sr., were
guests of the fraternity during the
day and evening.
Members and dates attending
were: Oliver Sanford, Margaret
Black; Julius Hagerty, Jr., Mary
Frances Jemison; Melvin Snow,
Marjorie Scarborough; Allen
Hain, Jean Mason; Phil Lewis,
Lucia Andrews; Allen Callan,
Elizabeth Cochran; Jack White,
Janet Blake; Bill Bittner, Ann
Tredwell; Edwin Tomlin, Thelma
Meherg; Paul Watkins, Martha
Hay; Johnny Wegener, Sara
Thorpe.
Girls Leaving API
Honored At Meal
By Phi Omega Pi
Phi Omega Pi entertained the
members of the chapter who are
not returning for the summer
quarter with a farewell break­fast
in the sorority's room in Dorm
II, at the end of last quarter.
Members, - pledges, and several
guests were included. The hon-orees
were Mary Bowen, Nelle
Payne, Bettye Pruitt, Harriet Mc-
Guire, and Virginia Collins.
Invasion Is
Costly fighting
Your Boy Gives
100 per cent;
How about your
bond buying?
YOU'LL ALWAYS
BE PLEASED WITH
The Food
Served
AT THE
GRILLE
The Grille is Auburn's
finest and most modern
restaurant
The Grille invites the
students to come in of-
• ten for "the best food
in town."
THE AUBURN
GRILLE
JOHN GAZES, Mgr.
SERVICE PERSONALS
Staff Sgt. Ed K. Sahag, naviga­tor
in the U. S. Marine Corps, left
last Monday, flying to San Diego
to be re-assigned, after a visit
here to his parents.
« * *
Leon Marr Sahag left last Sat­urday
after spending a week with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leon
Marr Sahag, Sr.
* * »
Herbert Drake, Montgomery,
former student of Civil Engineer­ing
and member of Sigma Chi fra­ternity
at API, has recently .been
promoted from First Lieutenant
to rank of Captain at Hunter
Field, Georgia.
* • *
Russell Lee iBeutell, Atlanta,
Georgia, graduate of API, was
commissioned second lieutenant
in the U. S. Marine Corps at Cor­pus
Christi, Texas, recently.
* * •
William Bob Creel, former stu­dent
at Auburn, has completed
advance flight training at Pensa-cola,
Florida, and received his
commission as second lieutenant
in the U. S. Marine Corps.
* * *
The promotion of Lt. Lewis
Woodard, Amerious, Georgia, to
the rank of lieutenant commander
was announced recently. A grad­uate
of API, where he received
his'degree in Aero Administra­tion,
he is a member of Delta Sig
fraternity and the National Socie­ty
of Spiked Shoe.
* * «
Wallace Wood, former Auburn
student from Greenville, graduat­ed
this past week from the Naval
Air Training Center, Corpus
Christi, Texas, and was commis­sioned
a lieutenant in the U. S.
Marine Corps Reserve.
* * * •'
Lt. Billy Coats, former student
at API, who has recently grad­uated
from OCS at Fort Sill, vis­ited
the campus last week.
* » *
Lt. Cecil Lamar Champion, API
graduate and member of Sigma
Nu fraternity from Montgomery,
recently received his commission
in .the U. S. Marine Corps at Pen-sacola,
Florida.
* * *
Ed Cadenhead, former student
in the School of Science and Lit­erature
at API, member of Sigma
Nu fraternity, Executive Cabinet,
and Squires, and John P. Shaffer,
Sigma Nu, former student of
architecture comunications at
Yale University.
* * *
Barton Thigpen, former student
of Electrical Engineering at Au­burn,
has entered aviation cadet
training in Armament at Yale
University. While at API, Barton
was vice-president of BSU and
member of AIEE.
* « *
Roysce Smith, former member
of the student body at Auburn,
and of .the Plainsman staff, visited
API recently. Roysce is a member
of Kappa Sigma fraternity.
» * *
Lt. E. T. York of Fort Bragg,
N. C, recently spent several days
with friends here. Lt. York grad­uated
from API in 1943 in Agri­cultural
Education and is a mem­ber
of Alpha Gamma Rho frater­nity.
* * *
Lt. James A. Robinson, recent
visitor to the campus, graduated
from the Parachute School, Fort
Benning after completing four
weeks of jump training. Lt. Rob­inson
wa sa member of the "A"
Club and a student in the School
of Agriculture while at Auburn.
* * *
Jim Pritchett, former Auburn
student and son of Mrs. Lora C.
Pritchett, Auburn, recently re­ceived
his commission and wings
at the Stuttgart Army Air Field,
Arkansas. lit. Pritchett was a
member of Pi Kappa Phi frater­nity
and a student in the School
of Engineering.
* * «
James P. Irvine, former stu­dent
of mechanical engineering
and member of ASME, the Au­burn
Band, Alpha Phi Omega, and
Theta Chi fraternity, has entered
aviation cadet training in engi­neering
at Yale University Tech­nical
School.
* * *
Clyde Norton, Clayton, former
student of agriculture here, and
member of Alpha Gamma Rho
fraternity, has graduated from the
Reserve Officers Class, Marine
Corps School at Quantico, Vir­ginia.
Lt. Norton is a former mem­ber
of the track team at Auburn.
* * •
Major James Harkins, graduate
of API, from Aliceville, is serving
with the Eighth Air Force Service
Command in England. Major Har­kins
graduated with a B.S. de­gree
in busines sadministration in
1941.
* * *
Forrest Stanley Jenkins, Mont­gomery,
was recently commission­ed
a Second Lieutenant in the
Army Air Forces at Turner Field,
Albany, Georgia.
* * *
Marine Second L i e u t e n a nt
James Richard Wilkinson, Atlanta,
has reported to Quantico, Vir­ginia,
where he will undergo the
eleven weeks training course of
the Aviation Ground Officers
School there.
Lieutenant Wilkinson is a grad­uate
of the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute in Auburn, Alabama,
and holds a B.S. degree in archi­tecture.
* * *
Dean Sessamen, Birmingham,
has received an appointment as
Flight Officer in the Army Air
Forces after graduation from the
Columbus, Miss., air field.
* * *
Hillary A. Taff, Cordova, was
commissioned as second lieuten­ant
in the Army Air Forces fol­lowing
his graduation from the
Columbus, Miss., air field.
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ALAYAM PRODUCTS ON MARKET
RAW POTATOES
New Sweet Potato Foodstuff Developed At Auburn Goes
On Sale In Auburn And Opelika For Consumer Test
ALAYAM, the new food product made from the common sweet potato and perfected for
commercial use by one of Auburn's Professors, L. M. Ware and two associates, went on
sale to the public today in Auburn and Opelika to test consumer preference for a limited
period.
Assisting Prof. Ware in his efforts to discover ways of expanding the use of the south­ern
yam and increasing its importance as a cash crop for the farmer are Professor Fred A.
Kummer, associate agricultural engineer, and Professor Hubert Harris, assistant horticul­turist.
ALAYAM products include 12 new and different foods—all made from the sweet potato,
and developed by the Alabama Agricultural Experimental Station of Auburn. They have
never been prepared before either
in the laboratory or on a com­mercial
scale. The products are
natural foods; they are crisp,
crunchy, and delicious, getting
their sweetness and interesting
flavor from the common sweet
potato. About 45 per cent of the
dry weight of the products is
made up of sugars. Thus, they
require little or no additional su­gar
when served. ALAYAM pro­ducts
are high "energy' foods,
and contain large amounts of
provitamine A (carotene) and
moderate amounts of Vitamin C
and minerals.
Not Dehydrated
The new products are not to be
confused with dehydrated sweet
potatoes. They are fully prepared
and are ready to serve as you buy
them from the gorcery—no soak­ing,
no cooking. ALAYAM pro­ducts
furnish foods in at least
seven different classes. These
classes include breakfast foods
similar to prepared cereals; nat­ural
taffes and combinations with
pecans, peanuts, orange peel, and
cocoanut; candies; specialty pro­ducts;
and a malt powder.
These are the first and only
fully prepared breakfast foods
not made from some grain or
cereal. They are sweetened by the
natural sugars of the sweet pota­to,
and are served with cream.
No Sugar Needed
While sugar may be added,
ALAYAM breakfast foods are
swet enough to satisfy most peo­ple's
testes. The taffe and combi­nation
confections may be used at
teas, bridge parties, dinners, or
used as snacks. Included in the
package group is a variety box
similar to fancy candies, which
would be very: suitable as a gift,
or as a sample box of ALAYAM
products for friends who might be
interested in Alabama's new food
product. The powder, ALAMALT,
comes in glass jars. It is used for
malted milk shake drinks and for
hot drinks at soda fountains or at
home.
Glass, Celophane, Boxes
The products come in several
FINISHED PRODUCT
The first step in the process is washing the graded sweet pota­toes,
which is followed by baking in a gas-fired oven.
IN THE PROCESS
Golden Curl, one of the several breakfast foods made from sweet
potatoes. Lord Halifax enjoyed ALAYAM breakfast foods when he
visited the API campus here last year.
Prof. L. M. Ware (right) and Professor Hubert Harris (left) in­spect
ALAYAM products at the extruder.
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different types of containers, such
as cartons, celophane bags, glass
jars, and boxes.
Professor Harris has been re­sponsible
for setting up the ex­perimental
pilot plant and has de­signed
and built pieces of me­chanical
equipment not in exist­ence
on the market. The basic
designs for the packages were pre­pared
by Prof. Maltby Sykes of
the Alabama Polytechnic Insti­tute's
art department.
The manufacture of the prod­ucts
in the Station's experimental
pilot plant involves six steps;
namely, washing and baking,
peeling, pulping and mixing, ex­truding,
toasting, and packaging.
Washed
The graded, cured potatoes are
machine washed, emptying onto
perforated metal trays on a trav­eling
belt. The trays of washed
potatoes are then loaded into roll­ing
racks, which go into a large
gas-fired, forced-air baking oven.
The baking process is rather ex­acting,
the object being to convert
a large portion of the starch to
sugars, and to ease peeling and
time. Over-baking results in
burned outer surfaces of the po­tatoes
and loss of material, and
under-baking results in lower con­version
of starch to sugars.
Easy to Peel
Conditions under which the po­tatoes
are baked also affect the
ease of peeling. When properly
baked the skins separate from the
potatoes and may be readily re­moved.
Improper baking makes
skin removal difficult and in­creases
the labor cost and peel­ing
losses.
While hand peeling is used at
present in the experimental plant,
Professor Ware is at work on a
steam-pressure process for peel­ing
to eliminate much of this hand
work.
Pulped
After peeling, the potatoes are
put through a mechanical pulper.
In the case where combination
confections are to be made, such
ingredients as peanuts, pecans,
ground orange peel, and finely
choped cocoanut are added and
the puree mixture is then beaten
to an even consistency im a pow­der-
mixing machine.
The well mixed, thick puree is
put in the extruder hopper, and
the pulp is forced out through
small pencil-size holes onto en­amel
baking trays moving under
the extruder nozzle on a traveling
belt. The multiple-hole nozzle is
similar in principe to a cake dec­orator,
but multiplied many times.
Several nozzles are used, each
having different shaded holes to
produce certain types of the prod­ucts.
Roasted and Toasted
The trays of extruded puree are
then placed in racks, which are
rolled into a large gas-fired toast­ing
oven. The heat is maintained
at a specified temperature, and
it is circulated by a large blower
fanw hich alternately reverses the
direction of the hot air. The time
of toasting varies with the type of
products being toasted. For in­stance,
over-toasting produces a
caramel-like flavor for the ALA-MALT
product.
Is HE Sweetpotato makes its
debut into fashionable society. It is now
a "bon-ton", a "blue blood", an aristo­crat.
Yon MUST meet this new member
of America's food family.
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Pen Points
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Board, 18x24
2H and 4H Pencils 6 Sheets Drawing Paper
Now on the Auburn market
for the first time. Try them
at your favorite fountain.
Everything from breakfast foods to confections and nour­ishing
drinks, full of energy and vitamins. 2500 people
and many of America's best food authorities have
sampled and pronounced them GOOD.
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June 9, 1944 THE P L A I N S M AN Page Five
Rat ^JIRJE- PJbxbruMinruMT p age
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Prexy Issues Rat Rules
In Letter To Freshmen
Auburn Friendliest
College In US,
Ashley Maintains
It is indeed a pleasure and a
privilege to welcome you to our
campus and to our student body.
We are here to help you become
a part of the school and all its
activities. After a few weeks
at Auburn you will find your
love for the school growing, and
you will probably miss Auburn
even on your first trip home.
We are proud of our title of
"the friendliest college in Ame­rica"
and want you to help us
keep it for Auburn.
"Let us remind you, however,
that becoming a member of the
Auburn student body carries cer­tain
obligations. These are sum­marized
in the Rat Rules prepar­ed
by the student executive
cabinet of 1940.
The Rat Rules are enforced by
upperclassmen who know you
best. Abiding by them is an in­dication
that you believe in that
ol' Auburn Spirit, and every
freshman should be proud to oar-ry
them out.
Here are the rules that you
should know as well as you know
your name.
1. Do not walk through the
main gate under any dircum-stances.
Walks around the Gate
have been constructed for your
use.
2. Always carry matches for
use of upperclassmen.
3. Obtain and learn thoroughly
the "Rat's Excuse For Living,"
so that you may repeat it with
proper expression upon the re­quest
of any upperclassman.
Inasmuch as any living crea­ture,
no matter how small or in­significant,
has a right to strive
for its existence. I, a lowly rat
of Auburn, lowest scum of the
earth except those of Georgia
for mine. Thank you very kind­ly,
sir!
4. Speak to absolutely every­one
you meet on street or cam­pus.
5. Leave the local stuff alone
—you've got three more years for
that.
6. All freshmen will be pre­sent
at all mass meetings.
7. Learn and be able to sing
both verses of Auburns Alma
Mater.
8. Know the location of certain
'familiar landmarks Which you
may be asked to direct one to—
landmarks as familiar as the pet-
ONCE WORE RAT CAP
Prexy Gibbs Ashley, Apopka,
Fla., who once wore a rat cap
himself, now wields the gavel
for the Student Executive Cab­inet.
Which only goes to prove
what a rat can do if he sets his
mind to it! Gibbs welcomes the
new students on behalf of the
entire Auburn student body.
rified stump, the stadium, and
Zoo number such and such. (Ed.'s
note. Iii the good ol' days, the
Quadrangle was referred to as
the Zoo.)
And here are the rules which
were compiled for Ratettes—
freshmen co-eds.
1. Don't hang around the
necks or the key chains of the
BMOGs.
2. Don't walk across the grass.
3. Obey all the general rules
except possibly number 8..
Both rats and ratettes will be
required to wear rat caps. Since
they have not arrived yet, how­ever,
it will be impossible to en­force
this rule until later this
quarter. «
The Student Executive Cabinet
is your representative and the
mouthpiece of the student body.
Should any issue arise that you
do not think is for the best in­terest
of the school, it is your
privilege and duty to contact
your representative on the Cabi­net.
Again we upperclassmen wel­come
you to Auburn. When we
can help you, give that War
Eagle cry for help.
Sincerely yours,
Gibbs Ashley.
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Burton's
Bookstore
Extends the same cordial welcome to the
new students of 1944 that it gave to the "rats"
of 1878.
When we can help you in any way please
call on us in our new store across the street
from the main gate.
ALMA MATER
On the rolling plains of Dixie
'Neath it's sun-kissed sky,
Proudly stand, O Alma Mater,
A. P. I.
To thy name we'll sing thy praise,
Flnom hearts that love so true,
And pledge to thee our loyalty
The ages through.
Chorus:
Hail thy colors, Orange and Blue,
Unfurled unto the sky,
To thee, our Alma Mater, we'll be true,
O, A. P. I.
Hear thy student voices swelling, v
Echoes strong and clear,
Adding laurels to thy fame
Enshrined so dear.
From thy hallowed walls we'll part
And bid thee sad adieu,
Thy sacred trust we'll bear with us
The ages through.
Chorus:
God, our Father, hear ouir prayer,
May Auburn never die!
To thee, our Alma Mater, we'll be true,
Our A. P. I.
By Bill Wood, '25
Dr. Duncan Hopes New Students Find
True Auburn Spirit Of Friendliness
Ratettes To Cover Their Empty Meads
With Orange And Blue Rat Caps
Hey, Rat. Don't you know bet­ter
than to walk through that
Main Gate?" Sonnds like the old
days, doesn't it, back when men
were men and freshmen were the
lowest form of life?
Lately it has been an occasion
for surprise to see an orange rat
cap. They just haven't been
worn, that's all, Jackson! But
there is always someone around
to revive a good ol' tradition,
and this is no exception. Now
the girls are going to wear them!
Fill a rat cap and release a
man for active duty, girls! There
has been a little doubt in some
quarters as to just how this in­novation
will be received. So far
the reaction has been more in
the nature of surprise than ob­jection.
The girls' rat caps will differ
only slightly from those usually
worn by freshman boys. They
will be orange beanies with blue
A's on the front.
2>C. L. A/. Q)UNCAhl
Dr. Luther N. Duncan, president of API, extends his most sin­cere
welcome to each of the incoming freshmen. It is his wish that
these newcomers will soon find a place for themselves at Auburn.
API President
Nods Approval
Of New Students
Dr. Luther Noble Duncan,
president of Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute, extended his wel­come
to all new students in a
letter sent to The Plainsman
this week.
The text of Dr. Duncan's let­ter
follows.
My dear Young Friends:
Welcome to Auburn. We are
indeed happy that so many of
you have chosen Auburn for your
education and that as freshmen
you are today beginning your
college life here. It is our hope
that each freshman will become
steeped in the Auburn Spirit and
assume the responsibility upon
his part to maintain the friend­liness
and good sportsmanship
which is traditional in Auburn,
We are especially delighted
that so many upperclassmen have
returned for the Summer Quarter.
Although the demands of war
have materially reduced our
student body, Auburn will carry
on in .the same spirit and tradi­tion
as in the past. We hope that
each student will assume his
duties with seriousness and rea­lize
the responsibilities that rest
upon him.
With kindest regards to each of
you, I am
Sincerely yours,
L. N. Duncan,
President '<
June 9, 1944.
HAGEDORN'S THE STYLE CENTER EAST ALABAMA
In The Good Old Summer Time
YES, YOU WILL WANT TO GO SWIMMING
SUN BATHS IN YOUR OWN BACK YARD.
PICNICKING . . . GOLFING FISHING . . . TAKING
A COMPLETE STOCK OF:
PLAY SUITS
SLACKS
SLACK SUITS
SHORTS
BLOUSES
PINAFORES
COTTON DRESSES
in
SHEERS
SEERSUCKERS
CHAMBRAYS
EYELETS
BATHING SUITS
By Jantzen and Lee
EITHER ONE-PIECE OR TWO-PIECE
HAGEDORN'S
1 WELCOME BACK TO AUBURN
I MAKE OUR THREE STORES THE HEADQUARTERS FOR YOUR NEEDS
8 GRADY LOFTIN 8
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T H E P L A I N S M AN J u n e 9, 1944
Six Opponents Scheduled By Voyles For Tiger Team
Spring Practice Begins With Fifty Men
Reporting; Only One Letterman Returns
Something of a m y s t e r y surrounded the announcement by
Coach Voyles of Auburn's tentative football schedule when
he withheld the name of t h e ' o p p o n e n t for t h e homecoming
game to be played October 28. "It will be announced" was t he
only comment Coach V o y l es
would make concerning the game.
Fifty some odd men reported
for informal practice last Monday
afternoon braving the rain and
muddy practice field. Coach
Voyles said "Most of .the fellows
are young and inexperienced. It
is too early to tell how the team
will shape up". Curtis Kuyken-dall
is the only returning varsity softball, golf, tennis, and probab-man.
ly swimming will get underway
"Shorty" Propst will look after as soon as possible, acoording to
the line while Coach Umbach Coach Evans oi the intramural
works the ends. A backfield coach department.
will be announced later. A new ruling of the department
__ , , , , * _ will permit two fraternities to
The schedule announced so far w~x *"=" •
. , . . . „„„„„ „ „ J enter a team composed of mem-eonsists
of two night games and K _ ^ ^ „ . J S u * . nnd
is Saesp tf.o l2lo9w, sH: oward, Montgomery * ° a ruhng « * e n t * approved
(night game); Oct. 7, to be an
nounced; Oct. 14, Georgia Tech,
Atlanta; Oct. 28, Homecoming
game, to be announced; Nov. 4,
open date; Nov. 11, Miss. State,
Birmingham; Nov. 18, Georgia,
Columbus; Nov. 24, Miami Uni­versity,
Miami (night game).
'BAMA REFUSES
(Continued from Page 1)
friendly and sportsmanlike rela­tions
between .them; on the other
hand, there are those in all these
groups who are just as certain
that athletic contests, and especi­ally
football, would have the op­posite
effect."
An intensive survey of condi­tions
in neighboring states where
such inter-institutional football
games are scheduled, the com­mittee
reports, "show conclusive­ly
that football contests between
rival institutions in a state do not
promote desirable relationships."
"Back in 1923," the committee
recalls, "the governor and the
legislature requested the Univer­sity
and Auburn to play a post­season
game of football, the pro­ceeds
to be used for erecting a
memorial stadium on the campus
of each institution to those men
who sacrificed their lives in the
World War.
Cites Auburn Objections
"In response to this request Dr.
Spright Dowell, then president
of Auburn, pointed out objec­tions
to playing a game for the
purpose stipulated and set out the
following reasons why, in his judg­ment,
it would be unwise for
Auburn and the University to re­sume
athetic relations:
1. "It is our calm conviction
that if relations in football were
renewed, although we might not
return to the old bitterness and
practices, we would encounter a
more subtle but equally damaging
situation in that football would
tend to become the all-the-year
topic at both institutions and all
other games, contests, and activi­ties
would be made subservient
to the one supreme event of the
year.
2. "In practice the effect on the
students and on the general pub­lic
would be unduly prejudicial to
the institution that lost and un­duly
favorable to the institution
that won.
3. "In the interest of fairness
and good sportsmanship it would
seem highly desirable to cherish
the growing spirit of good will on
the part of Auburn for the Uni­versity
and on the part of the
University for Auburn in the hope
that all friends of both institu­tions
will desire each to win every
game it plays and that the stu­dent
bodies may invariably 'pull'
for each other.
4. "The only perceptible trace
of the once strained relations
Which have been steadily im­proving
since the institutions dis­continued
playing each other,
grows out of the cold fact that
both are undernourished financi­ally.
Certainly not until both are
cared for in such a way as to
enable them to do their work
properly should they be subject­ed,
even out of deference to the
wishes of our law-making body,
to the intense and compelling ri­valry
of the gridiron."
Would Over-Emphasize Football
The members of the University
committee believe "that Presi­dent
Do well's objections were
sound then, and that they are
just as sound and pertinent to­day.
As Dr. Dowell so well stated,
the two institutions would put
too much into one game, with the
result that they most likely would
not have as high national rating
New Rulings
Revise Frat
Softball
Intramural sports consisting of
SICK BAY
Patients at Drake Infirmary in
the week of June 5-9 were as
follows:
Students: James R. Harper
(out).
Naval Radio Trainees: Waller
Mikrui, James Sullivan, Charles
Hansen, James Gingrey (out),
Thomas J. McAndrews (out).
Naval Cadets: P. M. Ware (out),
R. G. Wooiton (out), John H. War-lich
(out).
bers of both organizations, and
permits one fraternity to enter
two or more teams if they so de­sire.
Any group of independent stu­dents
may form a team but must
contact Coach Evans as soon as
possible. A trophy will be award­ed
to the winning team.
Intramural sports other than
softball will get underway later
this month.
as they have had in the past.
There would be a tendency to
regard other games on their sched­ules
as incidental."
The University committee adds
the following objections to Dr.
Do well's list:
1. "It would result in an ac­celerated
over-emphasis of foot­ball
in the state.
2. "The quest for players would
be intensified, and already en­tirely
enough pressure is being
put on high school athletes. Al­most
inevitably unwholesome ru­mors
and stories would be re­tailed
about concerning how the
one or the other institution pro­cured
this or that player in the
state. This would lead to sus­picion
and rancor.
3. "The intense rivalry that
would develop between the two
institutions if the proposed game
is scheduled and the importance
that will attach to -winning this
annual contest, will make it ex­ceedingly
difficult for either in­stitution
to attract or to hold out­standing
coaches of high char­acter
and proven ability. Such
men will seek to avoid a situation
where a demand is likely to be
made for the removal of the coach
whose team should chance to lose
several games to the other.
4. "Strenuous football contests
between the two institutions
would inevitably sharpen the
spirit of rivalry between them in
all phases of their life and re­lationships."
Exaggerate Rivalry
"We see no valid reasons," the
committee continues, "to be ad­vanced
for the University and Au­burn
to resume football with each
other, except that, as some have
said, the games would be thrill­ing
and the financial returns
would probably be large. As im­portant
as these things may be,
they are not nearly as important
as good will and cooperation be­tween
these institutions for their
mutual well-being and the up
building of the state. Our deep
concern is, as indeed it must be
of all Alabamians, that nothing
shall happen that is likely to pro­duce
an exaggerated rivalry be­tween
the two institutions.
"In the judgment of this com­mittee
more importance is being
attached to football games be­tween
Auburn and the University
than is justified. The success of
football and other sports at neith­er
of these institutions is in any
way dependent on their playing
each other. Neither one has had
any trouble arranging desirable
schedules under present condi­tions.
"Moreover, these institutions
are, after all, educational insti­tutions
and all policies respecting
them should be shaped with a
view of promoting high educa­tional
achievement for the cul­tural
and material advancement
of the state. Considered from
this broad and proper standpiont,
it is not necessary, or even de­sirable,
that these institutions
should annually contest each oth­er's
athletic prowess. There is
already entirely enough emphasis
on football in Alabama. We shall
act wisely if we constantly put
first things first in our approach
to these institutions and their
relations with and to each other.
Jeopardize Team-work
"The athletic committee of the
University of Alabama heartily
agrees with Governor Sparks that
there should be no unfriendli­ness,
no jealousy and no ill will
whatsoever in either institution
as against Hhe other.' Precisely
for this reason it is our considered
opinion that nothing should be
hazarded that might disturb the
increasingly friendly relations and
the growing habit of team-work
between the University and Au­burn.
We profoundly believe
that the inevitable stress and
strain of football games between
them would jeopardize these de­sirable
relationships and in other
ways would not redound to the
best interests of either of their
institutions or of the state. We,
therefore, recommend and urge
that athletic relations between
the University and Auburn not
be resumed."
The letter was signed by A. B.
Moore, chairman, Ralph E. Adams,
Shaler C. Houser, N. B. Hendrix,
Charles A. Bernier, Gordon D.
Palmer, V. Hugo Friedman and
Coach Frank Thomas.
r--——
WELCOME
TO
AUBURN
J o i n t h e F r a t e r n i t y of your choice. Meet
your friends here, and cue a game of
Snooker or Billiards on pre-war tables.
By all means, when you cue, cue with
Mr. Mac.
MCMILLAN'S
BILLIARD PARLOR
D-DAY
(Continued from Page 1)
and that the Germans will refuse
to commit their reserves to the
battle until it is too late because
they too may consider this land­ing
to be only a thrust in force.
Secondly: Where is the Luft­waffe?
And not only where is
the Luftwaffe, but how strong is
the Luftwaffe? Allied military
observers place the number of
first line airplanes available to
the Germans at from 1500 to 1800
planes. (Presumably fighter
planes since there is no reliable
estimate of the number of heavy
bombers in the German Air
Force.) This estimate is regarded
by some as extremely conserva­tive,
that the Germans have con­siderably
more than this number
of first line planes. Yet, the Luft­waffe
did not come out to oppose
the Allied landings. Why?
Question With Many Answer
There are several possible an­swers
to this question. The Ger­mans
may merely be pursuing
their policy of saving their air
force for the defense of Germany
itself and letting the territories
they have conquered receive the
full power of Allied air blows
without benefit of any aerial de­fense
against them. Or, the Luft­waffe
may be strapped, so to speak,
for gas and is pursuing a policy
of saving what fuel reserves it has
for the final defense of the home­land.
More likely still, the Luft­waffe
may be playing the same
game the German strategic re­serves
are playing, that is, the
German Air Force won't come out
until the German High Command
is certain that the main invasion
is actually taking place.
Third great question is: Where
(and what) are the secret weapons
of the Allies? We promised the
Registrar Gives
Re-exam Rules
Re-examinations in subjects
conditioned during the past quar­ter
are scheduled to be taken as
outlined by the Registrar. If the
re-examination is passed, a grade
of D" will be assigned.
A fee of $2.00 will be charged
for each re-exam. Before report­ing
to the instructor for the ex­am,
the student will get a re-ex­amination
card at the Registrar's
office and pay the fee to the Col­lege
Cashier. Absences from phy­sical
training on account of re­examinations
taken at the sched­uled
hours are excused.
Three Make Dean's List
In Arch-Art School
E. B. Lancaster, acting dean of
the School of Architecture and
Applied Arts recently announced
the dean's list for the spring quar­ter.
Those listed were Jack Ro­land
Gregory, senior in Applied
Art, Dorothy Jean Nichols, junior
in Applied Art, and Frances E.
Wilmare, senior in Applied 'Art.
All three of these students had a
grade average of 4.0.
Germans a host of surprises when
we invaded the continent of Eu­rope.
So far neither the Allies
nor the Germans have mentioned
the use of any spectacular new
devices. In view of this threat on
our part, can we conclude that
the main invasion has yet to take
plae because of the fact that no
secret weapons have appeared, or
can we assume that these weapons
will be saved until the going gets
tough?
Questions, speculations, and
calculations—but no answers.
Blouses In Profusion
Charming and Use­ful,
and Just The
Thing
For College
Misses
And they are i n a wide
rage of materials a nd
colors . . .
Batiste Celenese
Printed Rayon
Jersey and Others
HAND BAGS
A n ew shipment of t h e v e r y latest in all-white. Other
bags to match any attire, and all reasonably priced.
PANTIES WITH ELASTIC
Sizes 5 to 7
These are hard to get, but we were fortunate in
finding a few for those who shop for t h em NOW.
WELCOME, STUDENTS!
Our dress and accessory store and our Bonnet Box
up the street welcome you to A u b u r n and to our stores.
Come in, use t h e phones and rest awhile.
MILDRED LIPPITT'S
TOWN & COUNTRY
Exclusive But Inexpensive
STAFF MEMBERS
(Continued from page 1)
ier, found guilty of assault, was
fined $50 and costs.
Mamie Strand and Lulu Mor­gan
were fined $25 and costs each
for violation of the prohibition
law. The latter explained to the
court that she only had a "little
to cool off with after work". She
bad been found in possession of
12 quarts of illegal liquor.
Auburn policemen have that
old "Spirit", too. They make some
of the best friends an. Auburn
student can have. They have kept
many "just-got-back-from-O p e -
lika-students" out of serious trou­ble
by showing them the way to
go home. And as good citizens it
doesn't do any harm for the stu­dents
to take an interest in civic
affairs.
VET-ASTP
(Continued from Page 1)
down from Washington, students
enrolled in Veterinary Medicine,
(excluding Pre-Vets) will be de­ferred
until such time as they
graduate. Should any Veterinary
student be put in 1-A classifica­tion
by his local boaird, he should
immediately appeal to his state
board for a recommendation to be
FRIDAY
FA YE EMERSON
JEROME COWAN
in
FIND THE
BLACKMAILER
Funny Color Cartoon
"He Dood It Again"
Comedy and Serial
"The Batman"
SATURDAY
JEAN PARKER
ROBERT LOWERY
THE NAVY WAY
Band Novelty
"All American Band"
Laugh Riot Comedy
"Not On My Account"
OWL SHOW SAT. 11 P.M.
The picture the whole family
should see
THE
SULLIVAN'S
SUNDAY AND MONDAY
•QS"'-4
Walt Disney Cartoon
"Sky Trooper"
Latest War News
Showing special scenes of "D'
Day preparations by
the Allies
TUESDAY
BETTY RHODES
JOHNNIE JOHNSON
in
YOU CAN'T
RATION LOVE
Technicolor Sport
"Neptune's Daughters"
Band novelty
"Yours Truly"
made to his local boardV.calling
their attention to the new ruling
allowing deferment for regularly',
enrolled veterinary students. It
is advised by Colonel Waterman
that should this occur to any stu­dent,
he should promptly call by
the Military Office for proper in­structions
regarding the appeal.
MARTIN
"THE PLACE TO GO"
Friday, J u n e 9
BRIDGE OF SAN
LUIS REY
With
LYNN BARI
AKIM TAMIROFF
FRANCIS LEDERER
Also
Latest War News
Cartoon: "Zoot Cat"
Saturday, J u n e 10
Double Feature
No. 1
RAIDERS OF
SUNSET PASS
with
EDDIE DEW
SMILEY BURNETTE
No. 2
THE GHOST THAT
WALKS ALONE
With
ARTHUR LAKE
JANIS CARTER
LYNNE ROBERTS
Also
Chapter 2
"Masked Marvel"
Cartoon:
"Herring Murder Mystery"
Sunday and Monday
J u n e 11-12
COBRA WOMAN
With
MARIA MONTEZ
JOHN HALL
SABU
EDGAR BARRIER
LON CHENEY
Also
Latest War News
Cartoon:
"Tale of a Dog"
Tuesday, J u n e 13
Double Feature
No. 1
THE CITY THAT
STOPPED HITLER
Featuring Katus'ha, Russia's
amazing secret weapon
No. 2
BLACK HILLS
EXPRESS
With
WALLY VERNON
ARIEL HEATH
DON "RED" BARRY
Also
Special:
"No Alternative"
Wednesday, J u n e 14
FRISCO KID
With
JAMES CAGNEY
Jimmy's at it again—rough-tough,
terrific.
Also
Sport:
"Farmer Gene Sarazan"
Novelty:
"Salt Lake Diversions"
Thursday, J u ne 15
RATIONING
With
WALLACE BEERY
MARJORIE MAIN
DONALD MEEK
DOROTHY MORRIS
Also
"March of Time"