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Mary B. Martin ttaitt LlTarayy Give The Red Cross Your Share ^JITLE- PJbuunjynnDuia Frosh, It's Rat Caps You've Gotta Wear \ j & Vy^£*JLK_/ mM V^OvX^^JVNJ VOL LXIV ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1945 NUMBER 21 Page And Pianist Pack In Two Bags BALLET DANCER COMES TO AUBURN APPEARS IN LANGDON MONDAY Laughing about having to pack all their clothes into two suitcases (which have on occasions served for train seats), Ruth Page, ballet dancer, and her pianist, Irene Al-brecht, accept travel conditions without complaint. "College towns are located in such out-of-the-way places," Miss Page said, "but the students make such responsive audiences that I like to dance for them. They are open to new ideas." Miss Page was n o t annoyed with the Langdon stage. "On the contrary," she remarked, "it is the lighting I have to worry about, and Mr. Peet has that worked out quite well." this statement was made before the performance, however, and it is possible that she had not anticipated the chronic curtain trouble. Yet there was no obvious sign of annoyance when the curtain failed to work. She believes in complaining about things that can be avoided, in accepting them when unavoidable. "There may •be a good excuse for not serving butter now," she said, "but there is no reason for serving lukewarm tea when one orders hot tea." Forthwith she had her cup exchanged for hot tea. "That's the trouble with Americans," she said in a continental air, "we don't complain enough to make living comfortable." Miss Page has toured South America, and her visit to the Salzburg Festival in 1932 marked the beginning of a collaboration with Harold Kreutzbert of Salzburg which led to series of duo-concerts in America, accompanied by Friedrich Wilckens, Viennese composer and pianist, and culminating in a joint tour of Japan and Delta Sigs Elect Ted Hopton-Jones As New President Kappa Chapter of Delta Sigma Phi held its semi-annual election of officers at the last meeting of last quarter. Edward Hopton - Jones, Ote, Cuba, was elected president; Herman Smith, of Birmingham was selected to serve as vice-president, Hilton Jones of Mobile, will act as secretary; while Walton Thomas will be treasurer; Lew Sanderson, Montgomery, chaplain, Jack Paine, corresponding secretary and Jack Thornton, Inter-fraternity Council representative. Mrs. T. C. Clark To Visit Baptists An informal reception will be given Saturday, March 17 from 8 to 10 honoring Mrs. T. C. Clark, Nashville, associate southwide student secretary of the BSU, in the basement of the Baptist Church. All new students, old students and townspeople are invited. China in 1934. In 1940 the Page- Stone Ballet was the first American ballet company to tour South America. Miss Page said "The Cambridge Ladies" was the number she enjoyed performing most, but the Auburn audience gave least applause to this one, possibly because of its abruptness. When she was doing her barn practice, the piano-tuner watched her for a while and said, "Don't you think you'd do better with a hoe in a field?" Dean J. E. Hannum Is Speaker Af Commencement Exercises The most effective way .for an individual to promote world peace is to practice Christianity at all times, said J. E. Hannum, of the school of engineering, in delivering the Winter Quarter baccalaureate address here last quarter in Langdon Hall. Following the address Pres. L. N. Duncan presented diplomas to 59 graduates. WACS RECRUIT FOR HOSPITAL WORKERS HERE From fronts all over the world wounded Americans are being sent back to our Army hospitals for care—at the rate of more than a thousand a day. Nurses in those hospitals are unable to treat adequately all the casualties because of this limited number. Under regular conditions each nurse cares for 20 men, but today, because of the lack of nurses, they have doubled number of patients. American girls can do something about this scarcity of nurses by enlisting in a hospital unit of the Women's Army Corps. Auburn girls have a chance to enlist this week. Lt. Alma Dobes and Cpl. Margaret Davidson, both from the Army recruiting station in Montgomery are in Student Center, today and tomorrow from 2-5 p. m. Interviews will be given to any girl, whether or not she desires to join immediately or complete her college training. To be accepted by the WAC, girls must be at least 20, have completed two years of high school, have no dependents under 14, and be in good health. After induction, the woman soldiers will be sent to Ft. Ogle-throp, Ga., for six weeks of training. Advanced training at Camp Atterbury, Ind., will come next. Then the WACs will receive the rating of T-5, which corresponds to a corporal with the pay of $66 a month plus living expenses. Members of hospitals may indicate at which one of the 60 general hospitals they prefer to serve. Among their choices may be Letterman General Hospital, San Francisco, Calif.; McCluskin General, Temple, Tex.; Baker General, West Va.; Lawson General, Atlanta, Ga.; and Augusta Hospital in Augusta, Ga. Any women enlisting in the WAC will be eligible to receive the benefits of the GI Bill of Rights—which will give education, loans, or other financial aid to veterans. "Man has been striving for the past two thousand years 'to shape his life according to the teaching of the Master. Progress has been slow, fraught with many vicissitudes and d i s c o u r a g e ments", said Dean Hannum. "But as long as right prevails over wrong we must continue to strive and to hope for a better world. "We are living in a scientific and technological age. When this war is over, there will be produced for our use many kinds of new devices, new machines, and new products, which will have profound effects upon our way of living. We must learn to use the products of scientific and technological development intelligently for the purpose for which they will be made,—for the benefit of mankind, not for the destruction of the world. "Improvements in our social, economic, and political structures, and progress in our spiritual and ethical development, have lagged far behind the rapid advancement of science and all phases of its application. We must bring these forces more nearly into proper balance. This will require an intelligent understanding of the nature of the forces, their direction and magnitude, the effects of their impacts upon our lives, their rates of change, and their complex inter-relationships. Greater attention must be given to the solution of our social, economic, political and spiritual problems, otherwise the gap between these forces and the inevitable onward sweep of technological advance will become wider,—the unbalance will become greater." The invocation was given by the Rev. William Byrd Lee, Episcopal rector, and the Rev. Sam B. Hay. Presbyterian minister, pronounced the benediction. Organ music for the exercises was played by Prof. Joseph Marion- Merlo, and P. R. Bidez led the audience in singing the National Anthem. Since the founding of Auburn in 1872, a total of 12,080 degrees have been awarded, said President Duncan. "Since December 1940 the College has cooperated fully with the Army and Navy in the use of its facilities for special war training program, while at the same time continuing regular work in all cirricula for civilian students. Since that date, the college has trained 38,506 persons in war training programs. "Now when we feel that we may look forward to an end of the great conflict in which we are engaged, the College is making preparation to take care of the many young men and women now serving their country in the Armed Forces or in war industries who would wish to continue their education. Not only are we strengthening our regular curricula but we are inaugurating a number of short curricula especially adapted for those veterans who can remain in college for only a short period. "Especially are we taking steps to provide adequate conseling facilities for our returning Veterans as well as for regular students. "As soon as we are permitted to do so, we expect to begin the construction of dormitories for both men and women in order that we may be able to properly house the thousands of students who will enter Auburn." COUNTY AGENT Robert G. Brown has been appointed assistant county agent of Lee County to succeed J. Olan Cooper who was promoted to county agent early this year. Brown attended Holmes Jr. College in Goodwin, Mississippi from 1940 to 1942 and graduated in Agricultural Science at Alabama Polytechnic Institute March 3. He left API in 1943 and served in the Army until he received an honorable discharge. While in the Army he was stationed at Camp Robinson, Ark., Springfield, Mo., and Denver, Colorado. He is the son of G. W. Brown, Fayette, Ala. Reese Screws Leads Presbyterian Service With only the light of the Cross in the auditorium, Prayer Service at the Presbyterian Church will begin at 7 p. m. Thursday. Reese Screws, Shorter, will lead the service, which will not last over half an hour. All students and townspeople are welcome to this period of quiet meditation and prayer. , OPEN LETTER TO THE NEW FRESHMEN: There are certain traditions and customs on our campus which Auburn men have always observed. They are the things which contribute to the college's uniqueness—that certain something extra which raises students above the median. All students, and particularly new freshmen should be acquainted with these traditions. Following are the rules for freshmen. Real Auburn men will follow them. Wear your rat caps. Know the Rat's Excuse for Living. Know the Alma Mater Do not walk through the Main Gate. Carry matches for Upper-classmen. Sale Of Rat Caps Goes To 'A' Club At Cabinet Meet The Executive Cabinet voted at its Monday meeting to turn the sale of rat caps over to the "A" Club, but to keep the sale under its jurisdiction. Restrictions placed upon the "A" Club include giving the present members of the rat cap committee of the Cabinet commissions on all of the caps sold this quarter, and restricting the right of the "A" Club to sell the caps whenever the Cabinets thinks such action necessary. Bill Randolph reported upon the coming Red Cross drive and upon a drive for old clothes which will be held in the near future. Opening it's meeting with a short discussion of initiations brought up at the end of last quarter, the Cabinet went on to the business of approving the ring committee appointed by Buris Boshell. Those on the committee are Bill Crum, Reuben Burch, Martha Ellis, and Dale Garber. It was brought out at this time that the ring company presents the chairman of the committee with a ring. A discussion of establishing a magazine for the campus on the order of the eight former monthly publications which have passed away at Auburn was brought up. Warrington Named As New Coach It was a hard decision to make but Tex Warrington has made it —he is passing up pro football and pro baseball to coach at Auburn. Thus Carl Voyles, head coach and athletjc director, completes his coaching staff for 1945 and is now ready for spring practice. The announcement that Tex would coach here came immediately after the announcement that C. L. (Shot) Senn of Birmingham's Woodlawn High school had been hired. Voyles has yet to make any specific assignments, but it is logical that Warrington will coach the linemen, particularly the centers. He was the best center in the land last fall, according to the All-American selectors. QUIZ SCHEDULE LISTED FOR SPRING Quiz schedule for the spring quarter has been released by the Registrar's Office. On the first Saturday (March 17, April 7, April 28 all freshmen English classes are scheduled for 9 a. m. classes for 10 a. m.; and all 2 p. m. classes for 11 a. m. Second S a t u r d a y quizzes (March 24, April 14, May 5) will be for all 8 a. m. classes at 9 a.m.; all 3 p. m. at 10 a. m.; and all 1 p. m. classes at 11 a. m. Scheduled for the third Saturday are all 11 a. m. classes at 9 a. m.; all 4 and 5 p. m. classes at 10 a. m.; and all 10 a. m. classes at 11 a. m. One Board Advocated For All Alabama Schools Survey Commission Recommends Supplanting Boards Of Trustees VETERANS TOMEET TUESDAY NIGHT A meeting of all World War II veterans on- the campus will be held Tuesday evening, March 20, 7:30 p. m. in Langdon Hall, according to announcement of P. M. Norton, Auburn co-ordin-ator of veterans affairs. Purpose of the meeting is to give the veterans full information on their rights and benefits under the G. I. Bill or the Veter-a n s Vocational Rehabilitation Act. Principal speakers will be the two ranking officials from the Veterans Administration in Montgomery, Harley A. Smith, chief of vocational rehabilitation and education division, and Colonel E. H. Jackson. Opportunity to ask any questions will be given all veterans at the close of the meeting, Mr. Norton said. PHI KAPPA PHI INITIATES 41 AT BANQUET Initiation ceremonies were held for forty-one by Phi Kappa Phi, national honorary society, on Thursday night, March 1, in Smith Hall. Prof. G. W. Hargraves, president of Phi Kappa Phi; Prof. I. B. Gritz, vice-president; Dr. Paul F. Irvine, secretary; and Miss Frances Blackmon, corresponding secretary, performed the initiation, which was followed by a banquet in the dining hall. Dinner was served under the direction of Miss Dana King Gatchell. Dr. R. S. Poor, dean of the Graduate School and Director of the Research Council at API, spoke after dinner on the subject of "The Challenge of Postwar Alabama". He brought out the more obvious problems that Alabama will have to face after the conflict is over, drawn from the fields of agriculture, industry and social welfare. "One of the critical problems of Alabama has always been cotton and in this crop she shares the vicissitures of all cotton-raising states to a certain extent," Dr. Poor.stated. The competition of synthetic fabers will probable result in research to decrease losses in cotton spinning and to give it the desirable properties of the synthetic fibre he said. Dean Poor cited information and statistics from the State Planing Board indicating that the post-war years will be favorable to Alabama due to the extensive demands of private enterprise and normal demands of the country. Dean Poor's speech was pre-ceeded by two songs by Martha Nell Simpson, Hermione and Florence Farnham. Six graduate students and one faculty member was included in the number initiated into Phi Kappa Phi. They are Solomon Baxter, Miss Joanna Boyd, Mrs. Maud M. Davis; Mrs. Laura A. Harris, Albert H. Quinn, Ben Hagler, and Dr. E. S. Winters. Undergraduates included were Josephine Bass, Gwen Tucker Biddle, Roy Brakeman, Mary Jo Bridges, Chalmers Bryant, Dot Cabiness, Norma Denham, Anne DuBose, Pat Elliot, and Esther Fuller. Ross Grey, Mary Guarisco, Parker Hatchett, Louise Jacks, Luther Johnson, Jane Martin, Harriet McGuire, Ben Moss, Carolyn Page, Lawrence Pease, Martha Rand, Gilbert Raulston, and William Rawlingson. Herbert Riddle, Tom Roberts, William Robinson, Lois Rogers, Bobelle Sconiers, Sarah Smith, Jeanelle Boone, Mary Jo Thomas, Tuttle Thrasher, Allen, Mary Lou Wall, and Audrey Wilson. Recommending that separate trustee boards be discontinued for the state colleges in Alabama, the Education Survey Commission reported the Governor that all schools in the state should be placed under supervison of a single body. The Educational Survey Commission, the third such group to study education in the history of the state, has been working at this survey since its authorization by the Legislature and formation in 1943. The Commission's recommendation provides for a state Board of Education of nine members who would be appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate. Under its jurisdiction would be the institutions of higher education in the state as well as secondary and elementary schools. Members of the Board would be appointed, four by the Gov- Glee Club Needs Twenty New Voices By Sarah Smith Can you warble a ditty that would pass on a dark night? Does your roommate really appreciate your shower soloes as she should? Take a tip from us and trip down to the next Glee Club meeting—on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays—and see ernor with Senate approval, two if your talents won't really be ap predated! . the boards of Alabama Polytech- Twenty more voices can be ^ I n s t i t u t Alabama College used in the Glee Club at once, Universitv. and yours may be just the vir tuoso they are waiting for. and the University. The proposed system would do away with overlapping and con- The Glee Club plans to present fiic t u l g authorities in the state its Easter concert two weeks from scn0ol system and eliminate over-now. The group will sing the i a p p i n g 0f educational facilities Slabat Mater. Guest soloists will highlight the program, and chorus of men's voices will accompany the club. Since graduation last quarter, approximately 20 vacancies have been left open, and all freshmen, transfers, and other students who are interested in glee club work, are urged to attend the scheduled meetings. Monday, Wednesday, and Thursdays, to try out. Red Cross Drive For $7035 Goal Opens Tuesday Red Cross volunteer solicitors for the War Fund Drive began collecting toward their goal of $7,035 for the town and campus immediately after a kick-off breakfast in the Pitt's Hotel launched the Auburn drive yesterday. Campus solicitors Vam Card-well, Jeanette Ellis, Martha Ellis, Mary Popwell, Nancy Reinsmith, Demaris Smith, Virginia Ann Strong, and Tays Tarvin will be at the Main Gate today and tomorrow. In addition, the girls' dormitories will be canvassed. Members of Cardinal Key, Sphinx, and WSGA will take up collections at the Tiger Theatre beginning Wednesday and lasting through Tuesday, when the campus drive officially closes among the colleges and univer-a sities. Fields for higher learning would be more carefully mapped out to eliminate duplication of services and partially do away with competition for students. Recruiting of students would be abolished and a state office would guide them in selecting a school. Only Auburn and the University of Alabama would be allowed degrees beyond that of bachelor. Other provisions of the 40-odd page Survey Committee recommendation dealt further with financial support, the improvement of facilities for Negroes, with units and revision of local school systems, discontinuation of the State Teachers' College at Livingston. lar or more will be given a mem bership card and a button. Convocation Set For Thursday by the present state Board of Education and one by each of Monday Noon Set As Deadline For Entering Skits Monday noon is the deadline for any campus organization to enter Skit Night which will be held on March 21 and 22 in Langdon Hall by Blue Key and Cardinal Key. All applications for presenting skits must be turned in to Jean-nette Ellis, president of Cardinal Key, at Dorm IV, with a statement that the skit will not contain any obscenity. Each group is asked to name its skit. Any campus group, organized or unorganized, may enter. There Any student contributing a dol- w i l l b e n o e n t r y fee Besides talent as featuring the plays such local may offer, Proceeds from Skit Night, to s k i t Night will present "Zom be sponsored by Cardinal Key ^ie" a n ( j the Collegiates, who are and Blue Key on March 21 and donating the music between the 22, will be added to the college s k i ts collections. No separate goal has been set will be donated to the Red Cross, for the students this year, Bill Members of Blue Key and Cardi- Randolph and Mary Popwell, nal Key will collect a quarter joint chairmen of the drive, said, from each person attending. Students are asked to give gen- Tickets are not being printed in erously because the ASTPs and order to make the contribution Navy trainees who contribute to to the Red Cross larger the college fund last year are no longer here. Cups will be awarded to both the winning men's and coed's skits. Judges will base their decision on originality and presentation of skits. POINTS WILL BE TAKEN OFF IF SKITS ARE RISQUE. Women's Convocation will be Approximately ten minutes will held Thursday afternoon at five be allowed for each skit, o'clock in Langdon Hall. The Order of appearance Physical Education Department will be announced in next week's will have charge of the program. Plainsman. Page Two THE P L A I N S M AN WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1945 ^JITLE. PlldjinMIRDUR Published weekly by the students of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. Editorial and business office on Tichenor Avenue. Phone 448. MARTHA RAND, Editor-in-Chief MIMI SIMMS, Managing Editor IRENE LONG, Associate Editor SARAH SMITH, Feature Editor MARY LEE, Society Editor JIM SMITH, Sports Editor Columnists, Susan Brown Bill Laney Jack Thornton HENRY STEINDORFF, Business Manager BOB KIRBY, Advertising Manager BILL HOWTON, Asst. Ad. Manager PAUL BECTON, Circulation Manager SAM SOCKWELL, Bookkeeper MONEY ALLEN, Collections Manager Reporters, Feature Writers Dot Hibbert Norman McLeod Bill Pierce Sue Abbott Bob Deem Martha Lee Member Associated Golle&iafe Press Distributor of Gollebiate Di6est REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVstRTISINO Rlf National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 4 2 0 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK, N. Y. CHICAGO * BOSTON * LOS ANGELES • SAN FRANCISCO Welcome, Frosh! Alabama Polytechnic. Commonly known as Auburn. It's your school now, freshmen. You may have come to Auburn because your father is an Old Auburn man. Maybe we have just the course you really wanted to take. Or maybe you are just taking "college" and really wanted to become a part of that Great Auburn Spirit. The important thing is that you are here, now, as freshmen. You are a part of Auburn and, just as naturally, Auburn is a part of you. Our school is not perfect, so don't expect the impossible. We do, however, have a great deal to offer you. Whether or not you will make the most of you opportunities is up to you; you can get all API has to offer, or you can get next to nothing. Auburn can be dull if you make it dull. It can be a mad-house if you make it that way. Groups on the campus are open for new members. If you sing, dance, act, write, or do any of numerous other things, you may join one of the college clubs. There are religious groups especially for students; intermurals are open to both eds and coeds. Social butterflies aren't all in the fraternities and sororities, though belinging to a Greek organization insures you many lasting friendships. Elections are coming up this quarter, and you may turn politician. Some — maybe many — of your classes won't challenge you. You can pass some fundamental courses by the skin of your teeth on what you learned in high school. You can be a bookworm or a never-crack-a- book-worm. It won't matter to y o ur profs. Most of them won't know you're in class until after your first Saturday quiz anyway. A very few students overload t h e ir lives with so much studying that they loose interest in other things. Limiting your activities to the classroom is foolish, but it is equally as silly to join so many organizations you never have a moment to study. It should be one of your chief aims to balance your work and play so your life will be varied and colorful. We provide you will councillors to help, though the final arrangements are up to you. You won't find the Auburn Spirit just the way you expected it to be. Except for an upperclassman occasionally growling, "Where is your rat cap?" or howling, "Don't go through that Gate, Rat!", you will see very little of it. This, which should be our greatest contribution to you, a constant experiment in democracy and a feeling of brotherhood for every other Auburn man or women, has almost died on our campus—though our men are carrying it throughout the world. You will burst with pride when something good happens to Auburn. It's up to you to see that the things that shouldn't happen to our school don't happen/ We welcome you as the campus leaders of tomorrow. Auburn can bore you or it can dare. you. Upon your decision rests the calibre of the class of '48. Victor H. Hanson Last week Auburn lost one of its best friends, a trustee and a member of its finance committee, Mr. Victor H. Hanson, chairman of the Board of The Birmingham " News" and "Age-Herald". Mr. Hanson will be missed all over the state by many, for he was prominent, not only in journalistic circles but in every field having meaning and value for Alabama. He struggled toward a g r e a t e r community, a finer city and state. He devoted time and energy in the endeavor to put truth and right above everything else. Service was the purpose of this work and of the work he asked of those associated with him. In their judgment, no higher tribute could be paid to any man. According to an editorial printed in the "Birmingham News" after his death, "Men achieve their highest meaning and dignity in good work that transcends their own personal fortune and interest." Victor H. Hanson wrought with unremitting faithfulness and constructive ability the character of one of the greatest newspapers in the state, establishing in it an organization which seeks to serve the whole state. His interests in all the aspects of humanity was great and was expressed in many ways, though personal service as well as with his means. Active in endeavors in behalf of mitigation of human suffering and want, he took very special interest in the Children's Hospital, t he Crippled Children's Clinic and the new medical centre and college in Birmingham. It is said that he was born to be a newspaper man. His home was in Georgia, where his father was editor of the "Macon Telegraph". As a boy there, Victor published a little paper, "The City Item", one page in length, written, type-set, printed and delivered by himself every Saturday?" When his father moved to Columbus to become editor of the "Enquirer - Sun", young Hanson changed the name of his publication to the "Columbus Times" and before he was fifteen years old, developed it into a business which sold for $2,500. His experience on newspapers included work on "The Atlanta Constitution" "The Montgomery Adviser"—which he owned and published for four and one-half years before selling it back to Frank P. Class, the former owner and his old "boss"—and the Birmingham papers — the "Ledger", "News" and "Age-Herald". The Montgomery Adviser carried in its editorial columns, when he left it in 1927, the statement that the public welfare had a definite hold upon the conscience of Mr. Hanson, and that he possessed a fine sense of journalistic dignity and duty. It also said that his educational philanthropies do him a great credit, but the surest qualities of the man are to be found in the history of his fight for civilization and common decency in the life of the state. 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. NOTE TO THE YOUNG MAN WHOSE FANCY IN THE SPRINGTIME LIGHTLY TURNS, etc.— CAMPUS By SUSAN BROWN Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates by mail: $1:00 for 3 months, $3.00 for 12 months. 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. "THE ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE looks forward to the day when it may welcome back to the campus many of its former students who left college m, . . ,, , , . , .. ... , , , . to serve the more immediate This is t h a t wonderful time of t h e y e a r when everybody need s of their country in the first casts off those coats and s w e a t e r s (which serve only to Armed Forces or in war industry, accentuate t h e positive) and s t r o l l s f o r t h clad i n t h e coolest and most heart-warming apparel she can muster. Can You Talk? A person is judged by the way he talks more than by almost any other way. It is through speech, as well as deeds, that other people get their opinion of your intelligence and character. Appearance, of course, goes a long way in making good first impressions, as it should. All other factors are modified, however, in the analysis others invariable make of you, by the way you talk—your voice, your vocab- Dr. Cheville points out that there are those who will go along forever, sloppily using a meager list of words with restricted shades of meaning and mood, when with a minimum of energy they can say, "It sure was swell," and let that suffice for whatever the hearer reads into it. Wide-awake people, however, are bound to get words, to add new ones to their list, and to find a joy and a pleasure in being able to express themselves clearly and efficiently. It is a prelude to that scourge of the campus, The Davenport Plague (commonly known as Spring Fever), and they have again failed to limit the normal student load to 5 hours, as previously suggested. So a word of advice to those students who have never spent a Spring at this school is in order. First, as a preliminary measure, you might reconsider your schedule for this quarter—it isn't too late to change it or drop some courses. "It is always better to make 3 D's than 3 F's and 1 D," has always been sound advice; so don't underestimate the climate by taking an overload. Also, 8 o'clock and afternoon classes are especially undesirable at this season of the year, so be certain to have classes only from 9 to 12, whether you need the courses or not. Next, you have the ordinarily preplexing problem of deciding whether to be a C.C. (Campus Casanova) "or a purblind "ball-and-chain" man. This problem has been solved recently by our roving reporter, who maintains that there is no point at all in "going steady" with a gal since his statistics show that only 1 out of every 96 Va college courtships culminate in marriage, (to be cont'd.) * * * Superlatives Most popular student is one who says, "Have a cigaret?"— most unpopular is one who say, "Gotta cigaret?"—most unusual is one who doesn't pan columnists until he's tried to pound out the stuff himself—rarest is the one who doesn't need to cram—worst introvert is the one who isn't enjoying the lovely village this week. * * * Things We Could Do Without Rush Week Alarm Clocks—In fact we do! "Cherry Pie" People who won't cooperate in taking a beat. Labs Girls who wear fraternity pins Things We Could Not Do Without The lake on weekends—and all the weak moments. Coeds. "If You Were But A Dream" and "There I've Said It Again" Coeds The first few days of the quarter Coeds * * * Warning To All Freshmen Girls Watch out for that empty whiskey bottle! Avoid it as you would an demented demoiselle! Avert your eye from that lecherous liquor ad! Never pretend to be having a good time. It is extremely perilous. You might be accused of inebriation, wildness, and such, and take no account for such loose conduct. * * * College Physician: Is there any insanity in your family? Student: Yes, I'm afraid so. They keep writing me for money. * * * A new quarter is here and here we sit a little the wiser for a few facts we learned last quarter such as: It rains a lot in Auburn. Lipstick is messy—on a boy. Human skin is waterproof Tobacco is a plant found throughout the Southeast and in a few stores. 2,000,000 pipes have been sold to women within the last three months. We go to school for nothing because we found out in Scientific Reasoning that nothing is true, and that we'll never know anything for sure. * * * College Physician: How did you break your leg? Student: I threw a cigarette butt in a manhole and then stepped on it. Every effort wil lbe made to adequately serve our War Veterans and others who have served during the war emergency." —The first paragraph of the section, "Information for War Veterans," p. 32 of the December 1944 catalogue making available e d u c a t i o n , est, if not every, effort to adequately serve our War Veterans and others lay along the line of making available and education, I read the rest of page 32 and pages 39-41, 58, 63, 81, 84, 117, 123, 128, and 129, as some War Veterans probably will hoping to run across specific information about every effort. On pages 39-41 I found that war training credit will be given on five listed basis, (work taken under the Armed Forces Institute) to applicants who have served in the Armed Forces. On pages 76, 81, 117, 128, and 137 I found listed short course curricula in the School of Architecture and the Arts, Chemistry, Engineering, Pharmacy, and Science and Literature, leading to a certificate and requiring, with one exception, five or six quarters of work. The short courses are designed primarily for veterans who can be in college for only a limited period or who wish to qualify for jobs which do not require degrees. Some of the API's former students, however, will want to qualify for jobs, which do require degrees.. Regrettable as it may be, a great many of the jobs the men of the middle class are interested in qualifying for require a degree or even two or three degrees. Some of the API's former students have been In The War for as long as Five Years Already, a period of time which represents to them an interruption in their college educations. The catalogue mentions no effort being made or to be made to adequately serve these men to the extent of altering the requirements for a degree. They will be required to take the "required" courses in order to get a degree. . The War Veteran has, then, three choices when he returns to college. He may take a short course; he may take the work he wants and buck Existing Conditions when he tries to get a job; -he may follow the prescribed course of study leading to a degree, irregardless of how futile or how foolish some of the subjects he will be required to take may seem. Educational institutions of all kinds will be flooded when demobilization becomes large-scale. The GI Bill of Rights makes no distinction as to the talent or ability of the men it is to benefit, no allocation of the amount of educational opportunity. Then whether the colleges are to educate the most capable, the men who have plans, energy, intelligence, and imagination, or whether the colleges allow "numbers" of students to determine their policy is a choice that is left up to the colleges. If the colleges are for the most capable, a high standard of instruction is infinitely more important than the maintenance of rigid curricula in the case of the War Veteran. "THE ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE looks forward to the day when it may welcome back " The least capable or the most capable? CHERRY PIE 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. In the words of that most illustrious of ancient bards, Risein-these Princees, "Ain't it Hell?", referring of course to the extra ten dollars to be levied each quarter against all furriners. In the language of "Carrie Campus": We like Auburn. We will continue to attend Auburn even if it does cost us ten dollars more. It's our school, we love it. But the prospective students, will they love Auburn? Perhaps. But will they pay one hundred and twenty dollars a year to love it? It is doubtful. » * * My sister makes a bare living a^s an artist's model. Name Bands Every week stacks of collegiate journals accumulate in the Plainsman office from throughout the country. Every week some school in the south has a big time band playing for one of their dances. Every week I wish we might have one here in the villege. Zombie and his Collegians are fine, much better than the Prison Camp aggregation from Opelika. It would be nice though to have at least one name band here per year. Georgia has had Sunny Dunham and Les Brown within the last six months. Tech and Emory have had Sammy Kaye. Tommy Tucker played in Columbus not thirty-five miles away. But we have high school bands and Prison Camp Bands and Zombie —and concert artists f o r our moral uplift. * * » One fellow in north Alabama consistently refuses to let his daughter attend Auburn because boys and girls both matriculate in the same curriculum. » * * Know someone you don't like? Want to get even for a dirty trick pulled on you? Get the guy to make a blind date for you. Then when you and the fellow show up to pick up the chick, who comes dressed in her best bib and tucker, blurt out, "Why Joe, she's not half as bad as you said." The guy can't open his mouth and you have him. * * * The Tiger Tavern is a pretty nice place. And it has the approval of the authorities too! Long way out in the country though. How about some way to get out there? •* » * Auburn, The Friendliest School Not speaking to everyone, including strangers should be made a hoss-whipping offense on the campus. The campus queens and the BWOC's—ironically named— are the ones to be first and most often condemned. They should have every reason to spread the reputation of Auburn's hospitality. Yet they speak to very few people and most of the time completely ignore some of the students unless they feel in a most benevolent mqod, and highly honor some poor rat—so they think—with a gracious and condescending smile. According to Emily Post the lady should speak first, yet how many girls do this? And if the boy speaks first he is either startled from his wits by a grouchy high-pitched "Hi", or a muttered imprecation that might well pass for a witches curse. Get them thar noses out of the air. * * * Ouole From Syracuse Daily Orange It is a sad commentary on the American Educational s y s t em when students are taught freedom of the press in theory, only to have it tossed aside in practice by a bigoted faculty. * * • Freshmen Should Wear rat caps. Be reprimanded a n d paddled often. Be allowed out after 7:30. Not drink whiskey. Not look so much like grammar school kids. Not. Do you know what good clean fun is. No, what good is it. * * * He's the kind of guy that finds two meanings to our one meaning jokes. * * * Conscience is the thing that hurts when everything else feels so good. aea " " • " • " — "" WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1945 THE P L A I N S M'A N Page Three Miss Loneta Wilson Becomes Bride Of Charles Floyd Rew Miss Sara Loneta W i l s o n, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Wilson, of Ft. Deposit, Alabama, became the bride of Charles Floyd Rew, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Rew, at five o'clock Saturday afternoon, March 3, at the Farmville Baptist church. The Reverend B. B. McGinty, assisted by Dr. Fagan Thompson, performed the impressive double ring ceremony. Preceding the ceremony Wesley Ellis played "The Rosary" and Dr. Fagan Thompson sang "O Perfect Love". Mendelssohn's Wedding March was the processional and the recessional.^ During the ceremony Mr. Ellis played "Because". The candles were lighted by Misses Nell and Ruth Priester. Ushers were Gordon Bush and Duncan Wright. Robert Sims served the groom as best man. Mrs. Fostill Dickson, sister of the bride, was matron of honor and only attendant. Her corsage was of gardenias. The bride was given in marriage by her cousin, Milligan Earnest. Following the ceremony Mrs. Elizabeth Bradley entertained with an informal reception at her home on Farmville Road. Mrs. A. C. Carter and Miss Helen Collins presided at the coffee service. Assisting in serving were Mrs. Bruce Priester, Miss Mary Clyde Carter, Miss Nell Priester and Miss Ruth Priester. Miss Vonciel Beaty and Miss Joan Priester were in charge of the display of gifts. Miss Martha Mae Priester kept the bride's book. Others assisting in entertaining were Miss Milligan Earnest, Mrs. A. M. Williams and Mrs. J. C. Jones. After a honeymoon Mr. and Mrs. Rew will occupy an apartment at 362 North College St. PURPLE HEART CAPT. LAMAR HART IS NAZI PRISONER Capt Lamar Hart is a prisoner of war in Germany his mother, Mrs. Ruby Hart, was informed this week. A telegram from the war department informed Mrs. Hart of the fact this week, saying that word had been received through the Red Cross. The telegram added that a letter followed. Captain Hart had been missing since December 20 when he was with the medical corps in Luxembourg. He is a graduate of API and of Louisville Dental College. By William J. Middlebrooks Somewhere in the Pacific (Delayed)— Marine Captain William R. Williams, 27, son of Mrs. Fannie Williams, of East Gadsden, Alabama, has been awarded the Purple Heart for wounds sustained during the Guam campaign. Williams, who as a first lieutenant took over and lead a rifle company through the 21-day engagement when his company commander became a casualty, was wounded by Japanese hand grenade fragments during fighting for recapture of the island. Following treatment aboard a hospital ship off shore, he returned to his unit. Prior to entering the Marine Corps in May, 1942, Williams was associated with the Farm Security Administration. He was graduated from Glenco High School, East Gadsden, in 1936 and from Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, in 1940. The Alabama officer, overseas two years, also saw action on Bougainville, as a rifle platoon leader. FOUND: Pair of glasses left in office of School of Architecture and the Arts. Owner may obtain by claiming and paying for this ad. Buy War Bonds and Stamps CHIO INITIATES THIRTEEN GIRLS Initiation for Chi Omega pledges was held February 17 and 18 in the chapter room in Dorm II. Those taking into active membership by Alpha Beta of Chi Omega were Janice Mann, Jud-sosia, Ark.; Jacquelyn Wahl, Mobile; A n g e l y n Hollingsworth, Montgomery; Sara Strange, Mobile; and Alice Gatewood, Richland, Ga. Martha Smith, Panama City, Fla.; Betty Morgan, Auburn; Peggy Lowery, Birmingham; Jean Strait, Montgomery; P e g gy Young, Centerville; Mary Mul-lin Love, Columbus, Ga.; Wilton Harris, Huntsville; and Sara Landman, Huntsville. Following the ceremony newly initiated members were entertained at breakfast. Harris Wins Air Medal An Eighth Air Force Fighter Station, England—2nd Lt. Elbert N. Harris, P-51 Mustang fighter pilot of Auburn, Alabama, has been awarded the Air Medal for exceptionally meritorious achievement in aerial flight over enemy o c c u p i e d Continental Europe. He flies with Col. Kyle L. Riddle's 479th Fighter Group of the 2nd Air Division. Lt. Harris is the son of Mrs. Margaret A. Harris, 219 Payne Street, Auburn. His wife, Mrs. Sara H. Harris, lives at 227 East Magnolia Avenue, in the same city. Lt. Harris attended Alabama Polytechnic College before entering the Air Forces. SERVICE PERSONALS S 2/c Jack Livingston visited here last week. Stationed at Norfolk now, he was enrolled in civil engineering here before leaving for duty with the Navy. He was a member of PiKA. Lt. Jack Brush, Birmingham, and Officer Candidate George Strother, who is now stationed at Benning visited at the PiKap-pa Alpha house last week. Ensign and Mrs. Jake Vick spent the week end in Auburn. Ensign Vick, "44, was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha. Mrs. Vick, formerly Ann Tharp, was a member of Delta Zeta. • « * OC Joseph W. "Jay" Green, Mobile, spent the week end in Auburn. He was a member of Theta Chi, Spiked Shoe, and IFC. Jay was Sports Editor of The Plainsman. Miss Jeanerte Phillips, James D. Lindsay Wed Of cordial interest is the announcement made by Lieutenant Commander and Mrs. Edwin Phillips, of Jacksonville, Fla., of the marriage of their daughter, Jeanette Frances, to James David Lindsay on Wednesday, Feb. 28, at the Church of the Redeemer at Houston, Texas. The bride is a graduate of Lee County High School and attended Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Prior to her marriage she was a senior at the University of Illinois. She is a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority, Phi Kappa Phi and Pi Mu Epsilon. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Lindsay of Boyce, Virginia. He attended Alabama Polytechnic, Georgia Tech and Rice Institute, Houston Texas. After a wedding trip, the couple will make their home in Los Angeles, Calif., where Mr. Lindsay will be stationed. U-DRIVE IT Tel. 446 BIKE SHOP Tel. 260 CHIEF (ROUND L SHINE) SINCLAIR SERVICE STATION Tel. 446 LAMBDA CHI GIVES SPRING HOUSE DANCE Omega Zeta of Lambda Chi Alpha held its annual spring house dance Saturday from 7:30 to 11 p. m. Mrs. W. C. Gewin chaperoned the affair. Members, pledges, and their dates attending were Gilbert Moody, Betty Morgan, Auburn; Joe Benchwick, Dottie McWil-liams, Birmingham; Buel Johnson, Jeannette Ellis, Jasper; Dewey Shaffer, Marion Huey, Huntingdon; Harry Wheat, Ruth Estes, Centre; Steve Stringfel-low, Margaret Snead, Opelika; Quinton Burgess, Betty Ware, Auburn; Buddy Sanders, Kathryn Ann Wright, Moultrie, Ga. Reid Trapani, Jackie Moon, Decatur, Ga.; Jim Cooke, Sarah Goodson, Bessemer; Ted Le Cran, Mary Alice Shows, Luverne. Norman Firth, E. W. Star; Edwin B. Smith, Charlie Crump, Chick Garramore; Jim Burns; Pick Tutwiler; Chick Angelus; Rick Amerson and David Simpson. Mrs. Pittman Given Son's Air Medal Tanner Elected Prexy By Kappa Sigma At their last formal meeting of the winter quarter, the members of the Beta Eta chapter of Kappa Sigma elected Lewis Tanner of Jackson, Miss., to serve as president for the coming term. Jimmy Fethe of Hickman, Ky., was elected vice-president and chairman of the social committee. Other officers elected were Bill Ivey, Auburn, secretary; James Col. R. E. L. Choate, Maxwell Field commanding officer, presented a posthumous award of the Air Medal to Mrs. Patty B. Pittman, 134 Thach Ave., Auburn, recently for the outstanding combat service of her son, S/Sgt. Holloway B. Pittman as an engineer gunner who had 38 missions overseas. Spt. Pittman was shot down on July 29, 1944 in a mission in the Southwest Pacific. The citation read by Maj. Joe D. Bell, base adjutant, cited Sgt. Pittman's "meritorious achievement while participating in sustained operational flight missions in the Southwest Pacific area from March 23, 1944 to July 1, 1944, during which hostile contact was probable and expected. These operations consisted of bombing missions against enemy airdromes and installations." Sgt. Pittman, was 28 years old at the time of his death. He entered the service of his country on Oct. 16, 1942. A brother, Cpl. James M. Pittman, is on duty with the armed forces in England. Spotlights On Auburmtes By Mary Lee "Lets go pal, let's go"—with a slap on the back and a hearty smile "Mr. George" (or Dr. George if you happen to recognize the PhD bestowed upon him by the SAE's) encourages his students as they weave themselves in and out of their respective booths—to and from classes—before and after quizzes—breakfast, lunch, supper, but mostly during "coffee-time," ranging from the time the Auburn Grille opens til closing time (and as nickels grow scarcer, just "sitting" time.) * * * If perhaps last week lacked a definite tinge of local color, it is because the student's best friend, Mr. George was sick at home with flu. Sympathetic with every student's "tyrant-like" instructors and "skin off yer teeth grades" he displays the most lovable "hope you pass" indication along with his "if you don't thats OK". .The "coffee lab" is the one lab most students like to attend because they know their Mr. George is pulling for them. * * * He knows about the student, their names, their problems, their sweethearts, their friends, and usually whether it's tea or commee. How many students know his last name? * * * Mr. George Booras, his wife and two daughters live on North Gay Street. Having come from Greece, Mr. George lived in Mylon, Florida, then in Montgomery. For the past [five years, Mr. George has worked with "Mr. Lukas" and "Mr. John" at the Grille. He doesn't drink or chew—and quoting Mr. Lukas, "doesn't use bad language like I do." FOR S A L E : Dachshound puppies, 10 weeks old. De-wormed. Registered with American Kennel Club. May be seen at OTS house, 138 Toomer St. Call Bill Coppage, 324. Thomas, Birmingham, treasurer; and Bill Randolph, Ellisville, Miss., pledge master. Kieffer Hobby and Robert Warner were elected guards. CHICKEN & STEAKS COLD DRINKS OPEN: 10 A. M. TO 12 P. M. Sandwiches of all kinds //•W here Friends Meet w .At... ROY'S CAFE 3 Miles South of Auburn ...ON... Montgomery Highway PROPRIETORS H. C. LASSITER - - D. B. BLACK . • » SWIM THE... "LEE WAY" TWO PIECE STYLES IN — • PIQUE • JERSEY • BROCADE RAYONS 0O0 ONE PIECE STYLES IN— • JERSEY • SHARKSKIN • RAYON • PIQUE All Sizes and Colors $3.98 $8.98 WEEK END SPECIAL One and Two Piece Jersey Bathing Suits $8.98 and $7.98 Values THREE DAYS ONLY (Friday, Saturday and Monday) mORALE mOULDERS THEd£/ADIES AID BY LOOKING LOVELY IN $6.98 I I (pjiJi/wbOb- JUlft U.S. PAT. NO. 2,258,277 1 BRASSIERES V STYLED BY HICKORY "THE LIFT THAT NEVER LETS YOU DOWN" Polly-Tek Shop Phone 562 Pitts Hotel Bldg. LIMITED MONTHLY ALLOTMENT "Auburn Fashion Center" Page Four T H E P L A I N S M AN WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1945 USO Facilities Incorporated By Student Center In Langdon ROOM TO BE OPENED TO PUBLIC ON SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS By Irene Long Date of the formal opening of the student-serviceman recreational center in the basement of Langdon will be announced in the near future. Operation of the Center on the combination basis began last week after the installation of furniture formerly used by the downtown USO. Both students and servicemen will use the Student Center, which will now be open seven days instead of six with additional facilities and more hostesses. The regular hours will be continued, and in addition the room will be open on Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a. m. until 11 p. m. A pay-station telephone, number 9115, has been installed. Refreshments will not be served as they were at the USO but the coke machine and candy canteens will continue to be serviced. On Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, institutional cookery class will operate a can- •teen, serving cakes, cookies, pies and fruit juices. The furniture, including several pieces of natural oak from the USO and others of chrome retained from the Center's furnishings, has been arranged into five living-room groups with card tables, lounging chairs and lamps at convenient places. The room is complete with piano, radio, juke-box, and magazine racks. The USO was dissolved because there are no servicemen stationed at Auburn, but it was decided by the Inter-club Council that some provision should be made for the ASTRP students and visiting servicemen. The joint arrangement for students and servicemen was the answer. AST Qualifying Tests Slated For April 12 An Army College Qualifying Test will be given seventeen-year- old applicants for the Army Specialized Training R e s e r ve Program at 9 a. m., Thursday, April 12, in room 116 of the New Classroom Building on the API campus. The test is to be administered only to boys whose seventeenth birthday falls between October 1, 1944 and August 31, 1945 and who will have graduated from high school by July 1, 1945 or will have completed one term or one semester of college by July 1, 1945. Students who will graduate from high school or will complete one term or semester of college during July or August are also eligible if they are not older than 17 years 9 months on the first of the following month. Since August 1943, the Army has provided college training for young men of seventeen in anticipation of their active duty. This training is given in the Army Specialized Training R e s e r ve Program. Its purpose is to' enhance the student's fitness for military service. This training is given in accredited colleges and No name has been given the | universities, new organization yet. Should permission be obtained from national USO headquarters, however, the old name will be retained through there will be no affiliation with the national organization. Mrs. Rena Jolly, who has been hostess since the opening of Student Center several years ago, will continue as official hostess. •Mrs. Mary Drake Askew is chairman of the committee in charge of the new service organization. Other members are Mrs. W. D. Salmon, treasurer; Mrs. P. O. Davis; Mrs. R. P. Bidez; Miss Mary George Lamar; Mrs. O. P. South; and Mrs. Kirtley Brown. The furniture was arranged by Miss Frances Schoonmaker, Prof. Joseph Marino-Merlo, and Mrs. Rena Jolly. MISS ALICE HALEY DELIVERS LECTURE ON CELANESE FABRIC Miss Alice Haley of the Cel-anese Corporation gave lectures to Home Economics students last Wednesday and Thursday on fabrics. The lectures were particularly timely, not only in that they presented to the classes the story of man-made fabrics from the standpoint of wearing qualities and care, but also because they pre-ceeded the post-war period which will find so many fabrics made from synthetic fabrics on the market. Miss Haley told something of the manufacture and characteristics of Celanese fabrics. She stressed the factors to consider in choosing fabrics and methods of handling to insure maximum consumer satisfaction. During the lectures students were allowed to ask questions about their own problems in choosing and caring for such fabrics. A home economist, Miss Haley has been associated with schools and colleges all over the country. Theta Upsilon Elects Seven New Officers Formal installation was held Wednesday for the newly elected officers of Theta Upsilon. Margaret Wyatt, Vincent, is new president. Other officers are Margaret Bedsole, Defuniak Springs, Fla., vice-president; Sue Hamilton, Birmingham, secretary; Jean- Vne Wildeman, Atlanta, Ga., treas- \urer; Myrtis Ferguson, Weogulf- [ta, ex-collegio; Gerry Drake, iliddletown, Ohio, editor; Doro- Gre Ji, Cullman, chaplain. r A. The next group of young men who desire to enter the Army Specialized Training Reserve Program will be given an opportunity in April to qualify for assignment to the program in July, August, or September, 1945. Applicants for this training must achieve a satisfactory score an the Army College Qualifying Test which will be administered in the high schools and colleges of the country on April 12, 1945. In addition to passing the Army College Qualifying Test, an applicant must meet certain requirements of age, citizenship, high school graduation, and must enlist in the Enlisted Reserve Corps. Depending upon his age when he begins his training, a qualified applicant will be enrolled for two, three, or four twelve-week terms. The amount of academic credit he receives for this training will be determied by the institution to which he is assigned. Gamaliel5 Green Gets Commission In Army At Fort Benning Commissioned a second lieutenant in the army the first of February was Gamaliel Perry Green, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Green of Troy. Upon successful completion of OCS at the Infantry School at Ft. Benning, Ga., Lt. Green was transferred to Ft. McClellan, Ala. Before going to officer candidate school four months ago, he held the rank of corporal with the 342 Armored Field Artillery Battalion. He entered the army in January, 1942. Lt. Green is a graduate of Troy High School and API, where he studied pharmacy and was vice-president of APA. He was a member of Kappa Sigma. LOST: Man's Bulova watch with black band and radium dial on black background in gold case. Lost near 205 West Glenn. Reward. Call Milton Warren, phone 200 (Tiger Drug Store.) _ While in training the student is not subject to military law, but he must conform to the rules and regulations of the college or university to which he is assigned. The government pays the cost of tuition, room, board, textbooks, medical care, and library and athletic privileges. The government also issues, without change or deposit, complete regular army uniforms. An ASTRP student is not on active duty and does not receive pay. Students in the ASTRP are called to active duty at the end of the term in which they reach their eighteenth birthday. They are then assigned to a training center for regular basic training. Those who qualify for and are selected for the Army Specialized Training Advocated Program for soldiers on active duty will be returned to college upon completion of basic training for additional instruction in an engineer-ng or foreign area and language curriculum. Those desiring to apply- for the Army Specialized Training Reserve Program may secure information about the Army College Qualifying Test from their high school principals, their college deans, or from the nearest Army Recruiting Station, or the commanding general of the service command in which they reside. For additional information see Kirtley Brown, Samford Hall, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Ala. Gazis Investigates At Scotland Yard While In England Who in England ever heard of API? Why, Scotland Yard! Sgt. Manuel V. Gazis, former pharmacy student from Houston, Tex., now serving with Gen. George S. Patton's Third Army, wrote the following in a letter to Prof. C. W. Hargreaves of the pharmacy department: "While in England I visited Scotland Yard and batted the breeze with one of their men. Scotland Yard can't be beat—unless, of course, by the Alabama State Department of Toxicolgy and Criminal Investigation. When I mentioned it, this fellow walks over to a file, looks under the A's and returns with a card that had all of the low-down on our Tox lab: How they got all of that information is beyond me, but here's one thing for sure:. I'll never underestimate those Limey investigators." Sgt. Gazis said that he was dis-sappointed to find 211 B Baker Street empty and to find that Sherlock Holmes was merely a fictional character. "I had intended to give him a few pointers," he wrote. The letter was written in a Belgian farmer's home where, Sgt. Gazis said, "with the aid of my ever-faithful G. I. dictionary, I finally convinced him to let me rest my weary bones in his living room, defrost my hands by his fireplace, borrow his pin, ink, and stationery and write a few letters back home. It was quite a job, believe me, but with a few waving motions, grunts, etc., I succeeded in making him understand. These Belgians are strictly O. K." Quite often, Sgt. Gazis wrote, when his outfit would pass by a knocked-out Nazi tank or conquered village they would find "War Eagle" painted everywhere. Sgt. Gazis, who was enrolled in 1942, wrote that he was looking forward to returning to API's School of Pharmacy. . - Major McCollum's Military Police Just Aren't The Chairborne Type With The 82nd Airborne Division in Belgium—There's nothing "chairborne" about the Military Police of Major Frederick G. Collum's 82nd Airborne Division. These front-line MP's—veterans of campaigning in Sicily, Italy, Normandy, and Holand—are taking part in their fifth campaign, "Somewhere in Belgium", where the 82nd has beaten off Von Runstedt's thrust and launched a vigorous J. 0. Davis Opens Furniture Store The newly opened furniture on north College Street, is managed by Mr. J. O. Davis, father of Madred Davis and J. O. Davis, Jr., both alumni. Mr. Davis states that he has had a good many years' experience in the furniture business, having been connected with one of the other local furniture stores for some time, and invites the public to visit his store. SABERS TAP FOUR FOR MEMBERSHIP Four new tappees were added to the ranks of Sabers, honorary military society for outstanding ROTC students, last week. Donald Clay, Birmingham, is a member of Pi Kappa Phi and a sophomore in chemical engineering. Bill Cole, Birmingham, is a member of Sigma Chi and vocalist with Zombie and the Auburn Collegiates. He is a sophomore in aero engineering. Roy Edwards, Robjohn, is a member of ASME. He is a sophomore in aero engineering. Herbert Fuller. Columbus, Ga., is a member of SPE. He is a sophomore in aero engineering. Officers of Sabers will be elected at the beginning of next quarter. attack of its own. One of the 82nd Division MP platoon's biggest jobs recently has been handling Jerry prisoners who found the sky troopers' push too much for them. The- MP's have processed and evacuated more than 2,000 "prisoners since the division went into the lines December 18. In three days, one small group of 20 MP's, working on a 24-hour basis, handled more than 1,500 prisoners. They Direct Traffic In addition to caring for prisoners, it has done a man's size job in directing traffic and displayed civilians (refugees) along the crowded, winding roads of the snow-clad Ardennes foot-hills. The MP's, like the rest of the 82nd, were alerted Sunday, December 17, for a move to the front. When alerted, they were busy on town patrol in cities near the division's camps in France. Immediately after being relieved of its town patrol mission, the platoon set out to mark the route to Bastogne, the original 82nd Division sector. When the division's first units reached Bastogne, orders were changed, and it was directed to the Werbomont area, then threatened by a strong German force. MP's separated 82nd and 101st Airborne Division convoys and directed t h e 82nd Division to its new sector. As They Direct Germans Convoys were almost continuous along the narrow Belgian roads, which also had to carry the traffic of forces falling back before the first German thrust. Despite cold weather, snow, mud, and blanketing fog, the MP's routed the division efficiently and speedily into positions from which it was able to halt the Germans and begin pushing them back. By noon of December 19, the entire division had been moved to the battle area and all trucks evacuated. When civilians evacuated their farms in the Chevron area, the MP's took over a dairy farm, milked, fed and watered the stock during the owner's absence. The 82nd's MP's are accustomed to working under difficulties. Usually they go into combat airborne, and figure on operating while completely surrounded in the early part of a campaign, so they were not dismayed at the size of the task ahead of them in the present operation, despite the short notice. Mrs. McCollum, wife of the group's commander lives on Virginia Avenue in Auburn. Dr. N. A. McCollum, father of the former API coach, lives on West Magnolia Avenue. You Give to the Worthiest of Causes when You Give to Your Red Cross IC«0»0»C«0«: Without your generous contributions the Red Cross could not carry on its magnificent and humanitarian work. Your son# husband, brother or sweetheart would be without the plasma needed to save his life . . . without the recreation that keeps up his morale . . . without those important little things bring a semblance of home into the horrors of battle. Give it a little thought, Mr. Smith—and let your heart write your check. 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One student, Mark Matthews, Vidalia, Ga., hit the seventh donation mark during the visit. Donor drive chairman Mary Nell Chiles, WAA president, released the names of the students this week. They are: Charles Spivey; G. S. Killian; Louellen Hovey; James T. Mc- Rae; S. J. Parker; Frank Wheeler; Sibyl Wright; Bob Dean; and William Alston. Bob Sharman; Jack Knight; J. D. Little; James Acree; J. A. Smith; Carl B. Harman; Bruce Pass, Jr.; Robert Gentry, and C. W. Graefe. S. A. Belgan; Starr Prolsdorfer; Billy Austin; Janis Mann; Milton Jordan; Harold Reaux; Margaret Cole; Dorothy Hibbert; J. J. Cal-lis; Pat Elliott; Ray Russell. J. R. Broussard; Richard Powers; Dea Sherrill; Anne H. Kel-ley; Barbara Buckley; John Bowling; Mildred Linn; G. M. Dykes; and Kathleen Scrivner. James Woodham; Maria Duc-hac; Charles Pigott; Harold Claudle; Damaris Smith; Bill Ginter; Evelyn Corcoran; W. S. Brooks; and Helen Tripp. Julia Holmes; June Killian; Frances Rorke; Julius Hagerty; Bill Hayman; Lallah Perry; Beu-lah Skelton; Jean Hubbard; Marion Gay; Sarah Glenn; Bobby Reid, and Eleanor Hannum. Mac Rumbley; Billy Lakeman; Allen Price; W. W. Drennow; James B. Razar; May Olive Moody; Ardelle T h o m p s o n; Emory T. Adams; and Mark Mathews. Camille Langston; Imogene Mc- Crary; Mary Kate Reeves; Clovis Green; Julia Le Sueur; Lorene Smith; Martha Ann Sprague; Roy Peters ;Martha Ann Lacey; and Pat Rainer. Evelyn Davis; Virginia Strong; Max Mutchnick; Betty Heaslett; Harris Nader, Jr.; Elizabeth Wal-don; Ruth Tipton; Julia Wood-roof; Ann Cagle; Mary Jane Mullen; and Edwin D. Davis. Marilyn Prince; Alice Hard-wick; Dot Smith; Arnold Silver-berg; Arthur Coker; Bryson Hatfield; Anne Mitchell; Edward Carlson; Peggy Reynolds; and James R. Smith. Louise Morici; Juanita Stringer; Jasper Needham, Jr.; Gerry Drake; Carmelita Slaton; Nancy Black; Margaret Norton; and Betty Ruth Chambers. Eleanor Plisko; Thad McSwain; James Thomas; Becky Fraser; Ann Treadwell; Mary Cabaniss; H. M. Dobb; Glenda Bennett; Opal Lee Ruple; Clytee Johnson; A. G. Robinson; and Dorothy Green. Emma Jean Maddox; A. G. Williams; Ina Wallace; Barbara Harrison; Walter Hammer; Stel-i la Rigas; Ruth Estes; Evelyn Gibbons; Mary Largent Davis; Mar-gelene Bain; and Hazel Edwards. Martha Horn; George F. Mc- Carty, Jr.; Lois Fleming; Doris Brown; Ashby Foote; Connie : Graves; Mildred Chambliss; Tilda i Jean Brewton; and Marjorie Harris. Thelma Meherg; Guy Folmar, Jr.; Donald Villa; Mary Ella Allen; R u t h Glover; Patricia Crowe; N. Faye Campbell; Tom Raines; Chalmers Bryant; and Ralph Hartzog. Fay McLain; Frances Baker; Sam Hicks; Buris Boshell; Frances Taylor; Kitty Finegan; Martha Ellis; Margaret Maxwell; Jean Ardis; and Albert Cochran. Herbert Hoik; Amy Williams; Elizabeth Deese; Adele Bloch; Jane Southerland; Dorothy Mc- Williams; and Carolyn Lee. Sarah Nell Paschal; Dora Ann Wallace; Mary Thomas; Elizabeth Clinkscales; Toni Crosby; Betty Stewart; Evelyn Beall; Philip Boss; Barbara Frick; and Bob Carter. MissKaf hryn Gunfer Weds E. McKinney Miss Kathryn Gunter, daughter of Mrs. Leila Gunter of Auburn, was married to Yeoman First Class Emory Maurice McKinney, UCNR, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. McKinney, last Monday at 7 p. m. in the local Church of Christ. R. W. Turner, pastor, performed the double ring ceremony in the presence of the immediate family and close friends. The candles were lighted by Mrs. Joe M. Breedlove of Opelika, and Miss Betty Morgan, cousin of the bride. Samuel R. Morgan, of Opelika, gave his niece in marriage. Miss Ralphine Gunter, sister of the bride, was maid of honor, and A/C William H. McKinney, Gunter Field, served as his brother's bestman. Following the ceremony about thirty friends were entertained at a reception at the home of Mrs. Leila Gunter, mother of the bride. Kay Hall Marries Lf. Commander Miss Katherine Hall, daughter of Mrs. Roland B. Hall of Atlanta, became the bride of Lieutenant Commander Robert Plage, USNR, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Plage, at a ceremony in the Chapel of All Saints Episcopal church in Atlanta, performed by Rev. Samuel Charles Fleming. Miss Susan Anderson was maid of honor; Mrs. Avery Hall and Mrs. Andrew Colyer were bridesmaids. The bride was given in marriage by her brother, R. Avery Hall. She is a former student at API, having received her degree here in '44 in* business administration. She was a member of Chi Omega, Sphinx, WWA, and the May Queen's Court while at Auburn. Lt. Commander and Mrs. Plage are now living in Mobile, where he is stationed. Delta Zeta's quintet broke through Pi Kappa Phi defenses to capture the WAA basketball championship by a 13-10 score the last Monday night of the winter quarter after the girls from Pi Kappa Phi led the scoring 6-1 at the half. Last week's game between the two teams resulted in a 12-12 tie. Both teams beat the Alpha Gamma Deltas and the Chi Omegas in the league playoffs last week and stood undefeated at the beginning of the game. Immediately following t he game, each member of the DZ team was presented a basketball award by WAA vice-president Martha Ellis. Pi Kappa Phis set a fast pace in the first quarter, though the score was only 2-1 in their favor when the whistle blew. "Wiggles" Hill, high scorer for the Pi Kappa Phi girls, took the initiative in the second quarter, running the score up to six while her teammates held the DZs scoreless. The Delta Zetas finally found their range, and were able to bring their score up to 7 points. The Pi Kappa Phis were still ahead, 8-7, at the end of the third quarter. Then the DZ combination of Oswalt-Maddox - Reynolds broke loose, and rang up 6 points before the Pi Kappa Phi girls were Delta Zefas COD Engineering Curricula Improved WAA Basketball Championship (Con't from last Issue) Practical shop training forms a basis for later courses in the curriculum in Industrial Engineering. The curriculum in Industrial Management is offered as a program of professional education in preparation for administrative and managerial positions in manufacturing, communications, and transportation industries. Emphasis is placed upon courses dealing with the operational, production, p,e r s o n n e 1 financial, and managerial phases of these industries rather than upon the technical and engineering phases. Such a program of studies is frequently, and quite appropriately, and quite appropriately, referred to as "Human Engineering". This curriculum should especially appeal to a large number of students who desire to prepare themselves for positions in industry but who may not have the special aptitudes in the mathematical and physical sciences required for an engineering education. The former engineering physics option of the Electrical Engineering curriculum has been expanded into a full four-year curriculum leading to the degree of Bachelor of Engineering Physics. The curriculum is especially designed to prapare young men and women for industrial and engineering research work. A rigid undergraduate discipline is provided in (a) mathematics through the calculus, differential equations, and vector analysis; (b) FOR RENT: Nice room with private bath and private entrance. Two closets. Telephone 539-W. able to stop them. At the end of chemistry through qualitative the game the score stood 13-10 and quantitative analysis and for the Delta Zetas. physical chemistry; and (c) gen- Individual high scorer for the eral physics followed by advanced game was Sarah Lane Oswalt, courses in electricity, magnetism, DZ forward, whose, tallies equal- electronics, X-rays, dynamics, ed 11 points. Peggy Reynolds elasticity, wave motion, and made one basket for 2 points for sound;'and (d) the fundamentals the Delta Zs. Wyleen "Wiggles" °f electrical and mechanical en- Hill took top scoring honors for B w i n m £7 b a s k e t b a ll the Pi Kappa Phis with 6 points c h a m p i o n s h i p ; D e l t a Z e t a has to her credit. Mary Frances Kil-patrick scored 4 points for the girls from new fraternity row. Members of the Delta Z team to win awards were Sue Carder, guard; Wynn Hall, guard; "Tee" Hug, guard; "Jenky" Maddox, forward; Sarah Lane Oswalt, forward; and Peggy Reynolds, forward. a total of 325 points toward the WAA athletic cup. Alpha Gamma Delta is second with 275 and Delta Sigma Phi rates third with 200. gineering. The choice of technical electives in the senior year enables the student to specialize, to a limited extent, in any one of several engineering an dscien-tific fields. Inquisitive young men and young women with exceptional abilities in mathematics and the physical sciences and with special aptitudes for research will find in the Engineering Physics curriculum a challenging inducement to test their competance and to strive for high goals of attainment. The establishment of the School of Textile Technology is, also, announced in the new college catalog. The School of Textile Technology will offer a broader program of textile education than is now offered by the Department of Textile Engineering to enable Auburn to be of greater service to the textile industry of Alabama and the South. In addition to the two curricula in Textile Chemistry and Textile Engineering, which have been offered in the past, the School of Technology will offer a variety of special courses as technical electives for senior students in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, Engineering P h y s i c s , Industrial Management, and Mechanical Engineering who are preparing for positions in the textile industry. The special courses will deal with the technological aspects of textile manufacturing. The new programs of the Schools of Agriculture, Chemistry, and Engineering will become effective at the beginning of the Summer Quarter 1945. Students now enrolled in engineering curricula will find that their schedules can be easily adjusted to the new program. During the period of adjustment, acceptable substitutions will be granted. The normal quarterly load in each engineering curriculum will be 20 quarter credit hours thus equalizing the load throughout the four years. Even though the normal quarterly load has been slightly increased, it should be (Continued on back page) Buy War Bonds and Stamps f\efiectina the Sm.artn.e66 of a lovelu. u this American Railroads are theGREATEST... • Transportation agency in times of war. • Carriers of commerce in times of peace. • Employers of labor. • Originators of pay rolls that foster industrial and social welfare. • Purchasers of materials and supplies. • Payers of taxes that support Government and schools. • Promoters of the Country's development. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad—"The Old Reliable,"— for 95 years has shared importantly in all these activities. It is a half-billion dollar corporation—spending millions of dollars every year and quickening the South's agricultural and industrial life all along its nearly 5,000 miles of steel highways. It is a regulated free enterprise—performing a tremendous and useful private and public service. When the people of the South appraise the value of a large and essential industry, the L & N asks that its contribution be appropriately measured. President LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD The Railroads—furnishing a vital service and aiding the growth of agriculture, commerce, and industry... help all Americans to EARN MORE... BUY MORE... HAVE MORE. BUY WAR BONDS FOR VICTORY! t * f t l n i»*fflr— The Old Reliable. ".'.Yesterday...Today...Tomorrow MARTIN "The Place To Go" TUESDAY. MARCH 13 NIGHTCLUB GIRL with VIVIAN AUSTIN BILLY DUNN JUDY CLARK and Traveltalk and Featurette WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14 JOAN DAVIS in SHE GETS HER MAN with WILLIAM GARGAN LEON ERROL Also Special Featurette A Night In Mexico City THURSDAY, MARCH 15 FRIDAY. MARCH 16 M.G.M.'S great picture THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO with VAN JOHNSON ROBERT WALKER SPENCER TRACY Added Cartoon Latest War News Lfnlform of in home front Makes no difference how you look at it, this two-piece Gay Gibson Butcher Linen is uniform in smartness, youth and flattery, too. Russet Earth, Red. Maize, or Kelly Green. Sizes 9 to 17. MILDRED LIPPITT'S Town and Country SATURDAY, MARCH 17 Double Feature No. 1 SAN ANTONIO KID with WILD BILL ELLIOTT No. 2 THE MUMMY'S CURSE with LON CHANEY Added Serial "Haunted Harbor" No. 15 Cartoon "A Day In June" SUNDAY. MARCH 18 Continuous Sunday 1:30 to 7:00 P. M. Late Show 9:00 P. M. OBJECTIVE BURMA with ERROL FLYNN HENRY HULL Added News Cartoon "Jasper's Paradise" MONDAY. MARCH 19 MURDER MY SWEET with DICK POWELL CLAIRE TREROR Added "Flicker Flashbacks" News Page Six T H E P L A I N S M AN WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1945 COVERING SPORTS With Jimmy Smith Officially, the basketball season is over here at Auburn, but the post-season activities of Alpha Psi, interfrat champs, are just beginning. The Alpha Psis will be host to the University of Georgia interfrat champions in Auburn Tuesday, March 13. On March 24, the Psis will go to Tuscaloosa to tangle with the Alabama champs, as a follow-up to the Omega Tau Sigma-Pi Kappa Phi clash last year. TEX CAN PLAY BASKETBALL, TOO The Yankees, the Braves, the Baltimore Orioles, and the Birmingham Barons have spent quite a sum of money trying to sign up Tex Warrington—since the big Auburn center made the 1944 All-American and his baseball exploits were included in his sketch. Tex was quite a pitcher up at William and Mary when he fanned 18 or 19 a game, but according to Voyles, he was a wee bit wild. Tex is determined to get his degree in business administration and baseball would interrupt that. PLUCKINGS Pro football is also giving Tex a chase. The Miami club is reported to have offered him $10,000 to sign up Fred Turbyville is trying to clear up the origin of "War Eagle". He's poundered about a dozen different versions already, but most of them have been pretty vauge Bob Voyles, son of Coach Voyles, is a part time student here now while he finishes up at Lee County High. He was fullback on the Episcopal High School team at Alexandria, Va. Will Bob be on his father's squad this fall? Pop sure needs all the help he can get Wrestling may be one of the big winter sports at Auburn in the postwar years. Auburn is planning a gym or an auditorium to seat 10,000 or more As long as Carl Voyles is head of athletics at Auburn, the Tigers will not compete in intercollegiate boxing. But he has put his O.K. on intramural boxing with heavy gloves and with proper supervision Voyles, when at Oklahoma A&M was a light heavyweight wrestling star. One year he went to the finals in the national meet before he met defeat. The Auburn wrestling coach, Swede Umbach, also is a product of A&M Turbyville's diggings into the origin of the "War Eagle" have revealed that Auburn's famous cry has been painted on several bombers, and the name has been splashed on jeeps here and there. When an Auburn man, in a foxhole or pub, gets lonely, he just crawls out and yells "War Eagle", and a reunion is in order. WSSF BOOK DRIVE FOR PRISONERS MEETS SUCCESS . Books for "distribution among allied prisoners of war are still being brought to Student Center although the World Student Service Fund Book Drive officially closed with the end of the winter quarter. Max Mutchnick, chairman of the drive, urges all students who did not participate last quarter or who have found more books which may be used to bring them to Student Center this week. Many books were obtained through the courtesy of the Coop book store in the basement of Samford, where a collections table was set up. The books included everything from a third-grade reader to hymn books. Gladys Bentley, chairman of the screening and cleaning committee, said that her committee would begin next week the task of sorting the books and checking the acceptable ones for marks that may be mistaken for code by foreign censors. All in all, the drive was considered a success although the exact number of books donated is not yet available. It is believed, however, that there are many who still have old textbooks or novels which could be used. & wmwBu&m Kelley Watercolors At Montgomery Exhibit A group of water colors, pen and ink and pencil sketches by Lieut. Charles M. Kelley, USNR, of Eutaw, is now showing in the downstairs picture gallery at the Montgomery Museum. Lieut. Kelley graduated from Auburn in 1941 and in October 1942 was commissioned in the Navy. For the past two years, he has been on sea duty in the Pacific. The sketches comprise a portion of his impression of New Britain and New Guinea. He is now stationed in Miami, Fla. Grid Schedule Near Completion Clemson Listed By Fred Turbyville The 1945 Auburn football schedule still is a matter of unfinished business, but Carl Voyles, head coach and athletic director, today announced a home-and-home series with Clemson, starting next year and ending in 1949. This means t h a t Auburn's homecoming days are all set for the next four years—Florida this year, Clemson in 1946, Florida in 1947 and Clemson in 1948. The Auburn-Clemson rivalry dates back to 1899. Auburn has won 20 of the 27 games played. Another was a tie. Auburn won the last three games—in 1940, 1941, and 1942. Clemson won the three games previous to that—in 1927, 1928 and 1929. The rivalry lapsed for eleven years, after Clemson's 26-7 win in 1929. In the early years of the rivalry it was nip-and tuck, but from 1907 to 1926 it was all Auburn. The Tigers of Auburn have scored 380 points, while the Tigers of Clemson have scored only 102. From 1907 to 1926 the Clemson Cats scored only twice. The 1923 game was a scoreless tie. Auburn—both town and school —plans to put on a real home-comping show annually. And Coach Voyles is looking ahead to a postwar enlargement of t he stadium to take care of a big crowd. Tigers Eye Another Beard P'eff Beard is an 'inside' man at Auburn, watching over the business end of Tiger Athletics, but he's sorely tempted to do an 'outside' stint and hie himself off to his native Kentucky and have home talk with his young cousin, Ralph Beard of Louisville Male High. Jeff would like to convince the youngster, a star in baseball, football, track, and basketball, that a school that was good enough for Cousin Percy, a champion hurdler, and Cousin Jeff, would be good enough for him. Percy probably won't have anything to do with that particular slant. Percy is athletic at the University of Florida. Percy likes his alma mater, but he's also got to like his employer. Jeff Beard doesn't want the Beard boys going here and there and getting the Beards in a tangle—athletically speaking. He wants Cousin Ralph here at Auburn where he can personally look after the' youth's possible shortcomings in track and field. TIGER THEATRE WED. & THURS. MURDER MY SWEET with DICK POWELL CLAIRE TREVOR ANNE SHIRLEY* DOUGLAS WALTON Also SATURDAY CASANOVA IN BURLESQUE with JOE E. BROWN DALE EVANS Also Technicolor Special SUN., MON. & TUES. FOR WHOM THE William B. Collins, electrical engineering graduate of '35, was recently promoted to rank of lieutenant colonel and awarded the Bronze Star and an Oak Leaf Cluster while serving with Gen. Patton's Third Army in the Field Artillery. William H. Dickey, graduate of '44 from Chatom, was also given wings and bars at Spence Field, Moultrie, Ga. last Sunday. News and Cartoon FRIDAY WARNER BAXTER in SHADOWS IN THE NIGHT Added Color Cartoon Also Community Sing Plus "Desert Hawk" BELLS TOLL with GARY COOPER INGRID BERGMAN Plus Latest News DINE +N A FRIENDLY ATMOSPHERE You'll like our courteous help and pleasant surroundings. STEAKS CHICKEN SEAFOOD Auburn Grille r (Continued from page five) pointed out that a superior student will not be debarred from scheduling an overload. An engineering student with a grade point average of 2.5 for the preceding quarter may, with the permission of a Dean, take an overload of three quarter credit hours; a student with a grade point average of 3.5 may be allowed to schedule an overload of five quarter credit hours. It will be understood, of course, that students will not be required to schedule new subjects in former quarters of the curriculum already passed. Thus, the additional requirement for a student entering the first quarter of the senior year in the next summer quarter will be only 6 quarter credit hours. Here's the winning bid.. • Have a Coca-Cola ... a way to keep the game going refreshed Have a Coke can be your invitation on any occasion, if you remember to have a supply of Coca-Cola in your refrigerator. In homes everywhere, Coca-Cola has made the pause that refreshes a family custom... a happy interlude for friendly refreshment. BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY OPELIKA COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO., Inc. You naturally hear Coca-Cola 1 called by its friendly abbreviation A "Coke". Both mean the quality prod- I uc t of The Coca-Cola Company. HESEASCH AND ENGINEERING KEEP GENERAL ELECTRIC YEARS AHEAD REMOTE CONTROL H Spickness and spanness were de rigueur in the colleges of the 1840s. This portrait depicts a member of the Class of 1845 attired for the Junior Prom. Observe the height of his stock and the costly ruffles on his shirt. In that same year, 1845, the Mexican War was imminent. Railway Express service was 6 years old. The colleges were few. Now, a century later, America is fighting a global war, the colleges are counted by thousands, and our service is nation-wide. Today, the colleges are training students for the armed services; and the rail and air facilities of Railway Express are being largely utilized for the speeding of war-goods shipments. So, to help all concerned, please do three simple things with your 1945 home packages and baggage: Pack them securely— address clearly and adequately—avoid abbreviating state names. NATION-WIDE 'iW.., f RAIL-AIR SERVICE E'S a gunner on a Boeing Superfortress. And there's a J a p plane framed in his sight. As he swings around, tracking the J a p , t h e l ow steel-lidded turret—which may be yards away—also turns. It follows his movements, and the guns raise and lower. And by pressing a button under his thumb, he can fire a fatal barrage. But those guns don't point where he's aiming. For tied in between h im and the guns is the G-E electronic-mechanical computer. It makes corrections for lead, windage, distance, parallax. By flicking a switch, he can take over the control of up to three turrets. That leaves the B-29 protected on all sides—no blind spots for enemy attack! Superforts can fly without fighter escort, hold their own in a scrap over J a p territory. And almost any day's headlines will give the top-heavy score of J a p planes downed—largely because of a winning combination of planes, men, guns. Hoar )h« G-E radio program: "Th« G-E All-girl Orchntra" Sunday 10 p.m. EWT, NBC—"The World Today" new«, Monday through Friday, 6:45 p.m. EWT, CBS—'The G-E Houn Party," Monday fhrough Friday, 4:00 p.m. EWT, CBS. The bMl Invotrmont In Hi* world It In this country's furvro. (Coop all rho Bondi you Buy. GENERAL « ELECTRIC 'What if we don't get picked up before our Sir Walter Raleigh runs out?" FRBBS 24-page illustrated booklet tells how to select and break in o new pipe/ rules far pipa cleaning, etc. Write today. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, Louisville 1, Kentucky^ Fighting moisture and fungus-communication's jungle enemies Ever-present dangers to military communications are the twin enemies of the jungle—moisture and fungus. By impairing the efficient working of telephones and radios, they can halt vital messages as effectively as cutting the wires. The long experience of Bell Laboratories engineers in designing telephone equipment for use under all climatic conditions has helped the Signal Corps in counter-attacking these enemies of the jungle. Lessons learned in this wartime emergency will aid in building better communications equipment for war and peace. ft- BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM "Service to the Nation in Peace and War"
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Title | 1945-03-14 The Plainsman |
Creator | Alabama Polytechnic Institute |
Date Issued | 1945-03-14 |
Document Description | This is the volume LXIV, issue 21, March 14, 1945 issue of The Plainsman, the student newspaper of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, now known as Auburn University. Digitized from microfilm. |
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OCR Transcript | Mary B. Martin ttaitt LlTarayy Give The Red Cross Your Share ^JITLE- PJbuunjynnDuia Frosh, It's Rat Caps You've Gotta Wear \ j & Vy^£*JLK_/ mM V^OvX^^JVNJ VOL LXIV ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1945 NUMBER 21 Page And Pianist Pack In Two Bags BALLET DANCER COMES TO AUBURN APPEARS IN LANGDON MONDAY Laughing about having to pack all their clothes into two suitcases (which have on occasions served for train seats), Ruth Page, ballet dancer, and her pianist, Irene Al-brecht, accept travel conditions without complaint. "College towns are located in such out-of-the-way places," Miss Page said, "but the students make such responsive audiences that I like to dance for them. They are open to new ideas." Miss Page was n o t annoyed with the Langdon stage. "On the contrary," she remarked, "it is the lighting I have to worry about, and Mr. Peet has that worked out quite well." this statement was made before the performance, however, and it is possible that she had not anticipated the chronic curtain trouble. Yet there was no obvious sign of annoyance when the curtain failed to work. She believes in complaining about things that can be avoided, in accepting them when unavoidable. "There may •be a good excuse for not serving butter now," she said, "but there is no reason for serving lukewarm tea when one orders hot tea." Forthwith she had her cup exchanged for hot tea. "That's the trouble with Americans," she said in a continental air, "we don't complain enough to make living comfortable." Miss Page has toured South America, and her visit to the Salzburg Festival in 1932 marked the beginning of a collaboration with Harold Kreutzbert of Salzburg which led to series of duo-concerts in America, accompanied by Friedrich Wilckens, Viennese composer and pianist, and culminating in a joint tour of Japan and Delta Sigs Elect Ted Hopton-Jones As New President Kappa Chapter of Delta Sigma Phi held its semi-annual election of officers at the last meeting of last quarter. Edward Hopton - Jones, Ote, Cuba, was elected president; Herman Smith, of Birmingham was selected to serve as vice-president, Hilton Jones of Mobile, will act as secretary; while Walton Thomas will be treasurer; Lew Sanderson, Montgomery, chaplain, Jack Paine, corresponding secretary and Jack Thornton, Inter-fraternity Council representative. Mrs. T. C. Clark To Visit Baptists An informal reception will be given Saturday, March 17 from 8 to 10 honoring Mrs. T. C. Clark, Nashville, associate southwide student secretary of the BSU, in the basement of the Baptist Church. All new students, old students and townspeople are invited. China in 1934. In 1940 the Page- Stone Ballet was the first American ballet company to tour South America. Miss Page said "The Cambridge Ladies" was the number she enjoyed performing most, but the Auburn audience gave least applause to this one, possibly because of its abruptness. When she was doing her barn practice, the piano-tuner watched her for a while and said, "Don't you think you'd do better with a hoe in a field?" Dean J. E. Hannum Is Speaker Af Commencement Exercises The most effective way .for an individual to promote world peace is to practice Christianity at all times, said J. E. Hannum, of the school of engineering, in delivering the Winter Quarter baccalaureate address here last quarter in Langdon Hall. Following the address Pres. L. N. Duncan presented diplomas to 59 graduates. WACS RECRUIT FOR HOSPITAL WORKERS HERE From fronts all over the world wounded Americans are being sent back to our Army hospitals for care—at the rate of more than a thousand a day. Nurses in those hospitals are unable to treat adequately all the casualties because of this limited number. Under regular conditions each nurse cares for 20 men, but today, because of the lack of nurses, they have doubled number of patients. American girls can do something about this scarcity of nurses by enlisting in a hospital unit of the Women's Army Corps. Auburn girls have a chance to enlist this week. Lt. Alma Dobes and Cpl. Margaret Davidson, both from the Army recruiting station in Montgomery are in Student Center, today and tomorrow from 2-5 p. m. Interviews will be given to any girl, whether or not she desires to join immediately or complete her college training. To be accepted by the WAC, girls must be at least 20, have completed two years of high school, have no dependents under 14, and be in good health. After induction, the woman soldiers will be sent to Ft. Ogle-throp, Ga., for six weeks of training. Advanced training at Camp Atterbury, Ind., will come next. Then the WACs will receive the rating of T-5, which corresponds to a corporal with the pay of $66 a month plus living expenses. Members of hospitals may indicate at which one of the 60 general hospitals they prefer to serve. Among their choices may be Letterman General Hospital, San Francisco, Calif.; McCluskin General, Temple, Tex.; Baker General, West Va.; Lawson General, Atlanta, Ga.; and Augusta Hospital in Augusta, Ga. Any women enlisting in the WAC will be eligible to receive the benefits of the GI Bill of Rights—which will give education, loans, or other financial aid to veterans. "Man has been striving for the past two thousand years 'to shape his life according to the teaching of the Master. Progress has been slow, fraught with many vicissitudes and d i s c o u r a g e ments", said Dean Hannum. "But as long as right prevails over wrong we must continue to strive and to hope for a better world. "We are living in a scientific and technological age. When this war is over, there will be produced for our use many kinds of new devices, new machines, and new products, which will have profound effects upon our way of living. We must learn to use the products of scientific and technological development intelligently for the purpose for which they will be made,—for the benefit of mankind, not for the destruction of the world. "Improvements in our social, economic, and political structures, and progress in our spiritual and ethical development, have lagged far behind the rapid advancement of science and all phases of its application. We must bring these forces more nearly into proper balance. This will require an intelligent understanding of the nature of the forces, their direction and magnitude, the effects of their impacts upon our lives, their rates of change, and their complex inter-relationships. Greater attention must be given to the solution of our social, economic, political and spiritual problems, otherwise the gap between these forces and the inevitable onward sweep of technological advance will become wider,—the unbalance will become greater." The invocation was given by the Rev. William Byrd Lee, Episcopal rector, and the Rev. Sam B. Hay. Presbyterian minister, pronounced the benediction. Organ music for the exercises was played by Prof. Joseph Marion- Merlo, and P. R. Bidez led the audience in singing the National Anthem. Since the founding of Auburn in 1872, a total of 12,080 degrees have been awarded, said President Duncan. "Since December 1940 the College has cooperated fully with the Army and Navy in the use of its facilities for special war training program, while at the same time continuing regular work in all cirricula for civilian students. Since that date, the college has trained 38,506 persons in war training programs. "Now when we feel that we may look forward to an end of the great conflict in which we are engaged, the College is making preparation to take care of the many young men and women now serving their country in the Armed Forces or in war industries who would wish to continue their education. Not only are we strengthening our regular curricula but we are inaugurating a number of short curricula especially adapted for those veterans who can remain in college for only a short period. "Especially are we taking steps to provide adequate conseling facilities for our returning Veterans as well as for regular students. "As soon as we are permitted to do so, we expect to begin the construction of dormitories for both men and women in order that we may be able to properly house the thousands of students who will enter Auburn." COUNTY AGENT Robert G. Brown has been appointed assistant county agent of Lee County to succeed J. Olan Cooper who was promoted to county agent early this year. Brown attended Holmes Jr. College in Goodwin, Mississippi from 1940 to 1942 and graduated in Agricultural Science at Alabama Polytechnic Institute March 3. He left API in 1943 and served in the Army until he received an honorable discharge. While in the Army he was stationed at Camp Robinson, Ark., Springfield, Mo., and Denver, Colorado. He is the son of G. W. Brown, Fayette, Ala. Reese Screws Leads Presbyterian Service With only the light of the Cross in the auditorium, Prayer Service at the Presbyterian Church will begin at 7 p. m. Thursday. Reese Screws, Shorter, will lead the service, which will not last over half an hour. All students and townspeople are welcome to this period of quiet meditation and prayer. , OPEN LETTER TO THE NEW FRESHMEN: There are certain traditions and customs on our campus which Auburn men have always observed. They are the things which contribute to the college's uniqueness—that certain something extra which raises students above the median. All students, and particularly new freshmen should be acquainted with these traditions. Following are the rules for freshmen. Real Auburn men will follow them. Wear your rat caps. Know the Rat's Excuse for Living. Know the Alma Mater Do not walk through the Main Gate. Carry matches for Upper-classmen. Sale Of Rat Caps Goes To 'A' Club At Cabinet Meet The Executive Cabinet voted at its Monday meeting to turn the sale of rat caps over to the "A" Club, but to keep the sale under its jurisdiction. Restrictions placed upon the "A" Club include giving the present members of the rat cap committee of the Cabinet commissions on all of the caps sold this quarter, and restricting the right of the "A" Club to sell the caps whenever the Cabinets thinks such action necessary. Bill Randolph reported upon the coming Red Cross drive and upon a drive for old clothes which will be held in the near future. Opening it's meeting with a short discussion of initiations brought up at the end of last quarter, the Cabinet went on to the business of approving the ring committee appointed by Buris Boshell. Those on the committee are Bill Crum, Reuben Burch, Martha Ellis, and Dale Garber. It was brought out at this time that the ring company presents the chairman of the committee with a ring. A discussion of establishing a magazine for the campus on the order of the eight former monthly publications which have passed away at Auburn was brought up. Warrington Named As New Coach It was a hard decision to make but Tex Warrington has made it —he is passing up pro football and pro baseball to coach at Auburn. Thus Carl Voyles, head coach and athletjc director, completes his coaching staff for 1945 and is now ready for spring practice. The announcement that Tex would coach here came immediately after the announcement that C. L. (Shot) Senn of Birmingham's Woodlawn High school had been hired. Voyles has yet to make any specific assignments, but it is logical that Warrington will coach the linemen, particularly the centers. He was the best center in the land last fall, according to the All-American selectors. QUIZ SCHEDULE LISTED FOR SPRING Quiz schedule for the spring quarter has been released by the Registrar's Office. On the first Saturday (March 17, April 7, April 28 all freshmen English classes are scheduled for 9 a. m. classes for 10 a. m.; and all 2 p. m. classes for 11 a. m. Second S a t u r d a y quizzes (March 24, April 14, May 5) will be for all 8 a. m. classes at 9 a.m.; all 3 p. m. at 10 a. m.; and all 1 p. m. classes at 11 a. m. Scheduled for the third Saturday are all 11 a. m. classes at 9 a. m.; all 4 and 5 p. m. classes at 10 a. m.; and all 10 a. m. classes at 11 a. m. One Board Advocated For All Alabama Schools Survey Commission Recommends Supplanting Boards Of Trustees VETERANS TOMEET TUESDAY NIGHT A meeting of all World War II veterans on- the campus will be held Tuesday evening, March 20, 7:30 p. m. in Langdon Hall, according to announcement of P. M. Norton, Auburn co-ordin-ator of veterans affairs. Purpose of the meeting is to give the veterans full information on their rights and benefits under the G. I. Bill or the Veter-a n s Vocational Rehabilitation Act. Principal speakers will be the two ranking officials from the Veterans Administration in Montgomery, Harley A. Smith, chief of vocational rehabilitation and education division, and Colonel E. H. Jackson. Opportunity to ask any questions will be given all veterans at the close of the meeting, Mr. Norton said. PHI KAPPA PHI INITIATES 41 AT BANQUET Initiation ceremonies were held for forty-one by Phi Kappa Phi, national honorary society, on Thursday night, March 1, in Smith Hall. Prof. G. W. Hargraves, president of Phi Kappa Phi; Prof. I. B. Gritz, vice-president; Dr. Paul F. Irvine, secretary; and Miss Frances Blackmon, corresponding secretary, performed the initiation, which was followed by a banquet in the dining hall. Dinner was served under the direction of Miss Dana King Gatchell. Dr. R. S. Poor, dean of the Graduate School and Director of the Research Council at API, spoke after dinner on the subject of "The Challenge of Postwar Alabama". He brought out the more obvious problems that Alabama will have to face after the conflict is over, drawn from the fields of agriculture, industry and social welfare. "One of the critical problems of Alabama has always been cotton and in this crop she shares the vicissitures of all cotton-raising states to a certain extent," Dr. Poor.stated. The competition of synthetic fabers will probable result in research to decrease losses in cotton spinning and to give it the desirable properties of the synthetic fibre he said. Dean Poor cited information and statistics from the State Planing Board indicating that the post-war years will be favorable to Alabama due to the extensive demands of private enterprise and normal demands of the country. Dean Poor's speech was pre-ceeded by two songs by Martha Nell Simpson, Hermione and Florence Farnham. Six graduate students and one faculty member was included in the number initiated into Phi Kappa Phi. They are Solomon Baxter, Miss Joanna Boyd, Mrs. Maud M. Davis; Mrs. Laura A. Harris, Albert H. Quinn, Ben Hagler, and Dr. E. S. Winters. Undergraduates included were Josephine Bass, Gwen Tucker Biddle, Roy Brakeman, Mary Jo Bridges, Chalmers Bryant, Dot Cabiness, Norma Denham, Anne DuBose, Pat Elliot, and Esther Fuller. Ross Grey, Mary Guarisco, Parker Hatchett, Louise Jacks, Luther Johnson, Jane Martin, Harriet McGuire, Ben Moss, Carolyn Page, Lawrence Pease, Martha Rand, Gilbert Raulston, and William Rawlingson. Herbert Riddle, Tom Roberts, William Robinson, Lois Rogers, Bobelle Sconiers, Sarah Smith, Jeanelle Boone, Mary Jo Thomas, Tuttle Thrasher, Allen, Mary Lou Wall, and Audrey Wilson. Recommending that separate trustee boards be discontinued for the state colleges in Alabama, the Education Survey Commission reported the Governor that all schools in the state should be placed under supervison of a single body. The Educational Survey Commission, the third such group to study education in the history of the state, has been working at this survey since its authorization by the Legislature and formation in 1943. The Commission's recommendation provides for a state Board of Education of nine members who would be appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate. Under its jurisdiction would be the institutions of higher education in the state as well as secondary and elementary schools. Members of the Board would be appointed, four by the Gov- Glee Club Needs Twenty New Voices By Sarah Smith Can you warble a ditty that would pass on a dark night? Does your roommate really appreciate your shower soloes as she should? Take a tip from us and trip down to the next Glee Club meeting—on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays—and see ernor with Senate approval, two if your talents won't really be ap predated! . the boards of Alabama Polytech- Twenty more voices can be ^ I n s t i t u t Alabama College used in the Glee Club at once, Universitv. and yours may be just the vir tuoso they are waiting for. and the University. The proposed system would do away with overlapping and con- The Glee Club plans to present fiic t u l g authorities in the state its Easter concert two weeks from scn0ol system and eliminate over-now. The group will sing the i a p p i n g 0f educational facilities Slabat Mater. Guest soloists will highlight the program, and chorus of men's voices will accompany the club. Since graduation last quarter, approximately 20 vacancies have been left open, and all freshmen, transfers, and other students who are interested in glee club work, are urged to attend the scheduled meetings. Monday, Wednesday, and Thursdays, to try out. Red Cross Drive For $7035 Goal Opens Tuesday Red Cross volunteer solicitors for the War Fund Drive began collecting toward their goal of $7,035 for the town and campus immediately after a kick-off breakfast in the Pitt's Hotel launched the Auburn drive yesterday. Campus solicitors Vam Card-well, Jeanette Ellis, Martha Ellis, Mary Popwell, Nancy Reinsmith, Demaris Smith, Virginia Ann Strong, and Tays Tarvin will be at the Main Gate today and tomorrow. In addition, the girls' dormitories will be canvassed. Members of Cardinal Key, Sphinx, and WSGA will take up collections at the Tiger Theatre beginning Wednesday and lasting through Tuesday, when the campus drive officially closes among the colleges and univer-a sities. Fields for higher learning would be more carefully mapped out to eliminate duplication of services and partially do away with competition for students. Recruiting of students would be abolished and a state office would guide them in selecting a school. Only Auburn and the University of Alabama would be allowed degrees beyond that of bachelor. Other provisions of the 40-odd page Survey Committee recommendation dealt further with financial support, the improvement of facilities for Negroes, with units and revision of local school systems, discontinuation of the State Teachers' College at Livingston. lar or more will be given a mem bership card and a button. Convocation Set For Thursday by the present state Board of Education and one by each of Monday Noon Set As Deadline For Entering Skits Monday noon is the deadline for any campus organization to enter Skit Night which will be held on March 21 and 22 in Langdon Hall by Blue Key and Cardinal Key. All applications for presenting skits must be turned in to Jean-nette Ellis, president of Cardinal Key, at Dorm IV, with a statement that the skit will not contain any obscenity. Each group is asked to name its skit. Any campus group, organized or unorganized, may enter. There Any student contributing a dol- w i l l b e n o e n t r y fee Besides talent as featuring the plays such local may offer, Proceeds from Skit Night, to s k i t Night will present "Zom be sponsored by Cardinal Key ^ie" a n ( j the Collegiates, who are and Blue Key on March 21 and donating the music between the 22, will be added to the college s k i ts collections. No separate goal has been set will be donated to the Red Cross, for the students this year, Bill Members of Blue Key and Cardi- Randolph and Mary Popwell, nal Key will collect a quarter joint chairmen of the drive, said, from each person attending. Students are asked to give gen- Tickets are not being printed in erously because the ASTPs and order to make the contribution Navy trainees who contribute to to the Red Cross larger the college fund last year are no longer here. Cups will be awarded to both the winning men's and coed's skits. Judges will base their decision on originality and presentation of skits. POINTS WILL BE TAKEN OFF IF SKITS ARE RISQUE. Women's Convocation will be Approximately ten minutes will held Thursday afternoon at five be allowed for each skit, o'clock in Langdon Hall. The Order of appearance Physical Education Department will be announced in next week's will have charge of the program. Plainsman. Page Two THE P L A I N S M AN WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1945 ^JITLE. PlldjinMIRDUR Published weekly by the students of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. Editorial and business office on Tichenor Avenue. Phone 448. MARTHA RAND, Editor-in-Chief MIMI SIMMS, Managing Editor IRENE LONG, Associate Editor SARAH SMITH, Feature Editor MARY LEE, Society Editor JIM SMITH, Sports Editor Columnists, Susan Brown Bill Laney Jack Thornton HENRY STEINDORFF, Business Manager BOB KIRBY, Advertising Manager BILL HOWTON, Asst. Ad. Manager PAUL BECTON, Circulation Manager SAM SOCKWELL, Bookkeeper MONEY ALLEN, Collections Manager Reporters, Feature Writers Dot Hibbert Norman McLeod Bill Pierce Sue Abbott Bob Deem Martha Lee Member Associated Golle&iafe Press Distributor of Gollebiate Di6est REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVstRTISINO Rlf National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 4 2 0 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK, N. Y. CHICAGO * BOSTON * LOS ANGELES • SAN FRANCISCO Welcome, Frosh! Alabama Polytechnic. Commonly known as Auburn. It's your school now, freshmen. You may have come to Auburn because your father is an Old Auburn man. Maybe we have just the course you really wanted to take. Or maybe you are just taking "college" and really wanted to become a part of that Great Auburn Spirit. The important thing is that you are here, now, as freshmen. You are a part of Auburn and, just as naturally, Auburn is a part of you. Our school is not perfect, so don't expect the impossible. We do, however, have a great deal to offer you. Whether or not you will make the most of you opportunities is up to you; you can get all API has to offer, or you can get next to nothing. Auburn can be dull if you make it dull. It can be a mad-house if you make it that way. Groups on the campus are open for new members. If you sing, dance, act, write, or do any of numerous other things, you may join one of the college clubs. There are religious groups especially for students; intermurals are open to both eds and coeds. Social butterflies aren't all in the fraternities and sororities, though belinging to a Greek organization insures you many lasting friendships. Elections are coming up this quarter, and you may turn politician. Some — maybe many — of your classes won't challenge you. You can pass some fundamental courses by the skin of your teeth on what you learned in high school. You can be a bookworm or a never-crack-a- book-worm. It won't matter to y o ur profs. Most of them won't know you're in class until after your first Saturday quiz anyway. A very few students overload t h e ir lives with so much studying that they loose interest in other things. Limiting your activities to the classroom is foolish, but it is equally as silly to join so many organizations you never have a moment to study. It should be one of your chief aims to balance your work and play so your life will be varied and colorful. We provide you will councillors to help, though the final arrangements are up to you. You won't find the Auburn Spirit just the way you expected it to be. Except for an upperclassman occasionally growling, "Where is your rat cap?" or howling, "Don't go through that Gate, Rat!", you will see very little of it. This, which should be our greatest contribution to you, a constant experiment in democracy and a feeling of brotherhood for every other Auburn man or women, has almost died on our campus—though our men are carrying it throughout the world. You will burst with pride when something good happens to Auburn. It's up to you to see that the things that shouldn't happen to our school don't happen/ We welcome you as the campus leaders of tomorrow. Auburn can bore you or it can dare. you. Upon your decision rests the calibre of the class of '48. Victor H. Hanson Last week Auburn lost one of its best friends, a trustee and a member of its finance committee, Mr. Victor H. Hanson, chairman of the Board of The Birmingham " News" and "Age-Herald". Mr. Hanson will be missed all over the state by many, for he was prominent, not only in journalistic circles but in every field having meaning and value for Alabama. He struggled toward a g r e a t e r community, a finer city and state. He devoted time and energy in the endeavor to put truth and right above everything else. Service was the purpose of this work and of the work he asked of those associated with him. In their judgment, no higher tribute could be paid to any man. According to an editorial printed in the "Birmingham News" after his death, "Men achieve their highest meaning and dignity in good work that transcends their own personal fortune and interest." Victor H. Hanson wrought with unremitting faithfulness and constructive ability the character of one of the greatest newspapers in the state, establishing in it an organization which seeks to serve the whole state. His interests in all the aspects of humanity was great and was expressed in many ways, though personal service as well as with his means. Active in endeavors in behalf of mitigation of human suffering and want, he took very special interest in the Children's Hospital, t he Crippled Children's Clinic and the new medical centre and college in Birmingham. It is said that he was born to be a newspaper man. His home was in Georgia, where his father was editor of the "Macon Telegraph". As a boy there, Victor published a little paper, "The City Item", one page in length, written, type-set, printed and delivered by himself every Saturday?" When his father moved to Columbus to become editor of the "Enquirer - Sun", young Hanson changed the name of his publication to the "Columbus Times" and before he was fifteen years old, developed it into a business which sold for $2,500. His experience on newspapers included work on "The Atlanta Constitution" "The Montgomery Adviser"—which he owned and published for four and one-half years before selling it back to Frank P. Class, the former owner and his old "boss"—and the Birmingham papers — the "Ledger", "News" and "Age-Herald". The Montgomery Adviser carried in its editorial columns, when he left it in 1927, the statement that the public welfare had a definite hold upon the conscience of Mr. Hanson, and that he possessed a fine sense of journalistic dignity and duty. It also said that his educational philanthropies do him a great credit, but the surest qualities of the man are to be found in the history of his fight for civilization and common decency in the life of the state. 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. NOTE TO THE YOUNG MAN WHOSE FANCY IN THE SPRINGTIME LIGHTLY TURNS, etc.— CAMPUS By SUSAN BROWN Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates by mail: $1:00 for 3 months, $3.00 for 12 months. 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. "THE ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE looks forward to the day when it may welcome back to the campus many of its former students who left college m, . . ,, , , . , .. ... , , , . to serve the more immediate This is t h a t wonderful time of t h e y e a r when everybody need s of their country in the first casts off those coats and s w e a t e r s (which serve only to Armed Forces or in war industry, accentuate t h e positive) and s t r o l l s f o r t h clad i n t h e coolest and most heart-warming apparel she can muster. Can You Talk? A person is judged by the way he talks more than by almost any other way. It is through speech, as well as deeds, that other people get their opinion of your intelligence and character. Appearance, of course, goes a long way in making good first impressions, as it should. All other factors are modified, however, in the analysis others invariable make of you, by the way you talk—your voice, your vocab- Dr. Cheville points out that there are those who will go along forever, sloppily using a meager list of words with restricted shades of meaning and mood, when with a minimum of energy they can say, "It sure was swell," and let that suffice for whatever the hearer reads into it. Wide-awake people, however, are bound to get words, to add new ones to their list, and to find a joy and a pleasure in being able to express themselves clearly and efficiently. It is a prelude to that scourge of the campus, The Davenport Plague (commonly known as Spring Fever), and they have again failed to limit the normal student load to 5 hours, as previously suggested. So a word of advice to those students who have never spent a Spring at this school is in order. First, as a preliminary measure, you might reconsider your schedule for this quarter—it isn't too late to change it or drop some courses. "It is always better to make 3 D's than 3 F's and 1 D," has always been sound advice; so don't underestimate the climate by taking an overload. Also, 8 o'clock and afternoon classes are especially undesirable at this season of the year, so be certain to have classes only from 9 to 12, whether you need the courses or not. Next, you have the ordinarily preplexing problem of deciding whether to be a C.C. (Campus Casanova) "or a purblind "ball-and-chain" man. This problem has been solved recently by our roving reporter, who maintains that there is no point at all in "going steady" with a gal since his statistics show that only 1 out of every 96 Va college courtships culminate in marriage, (to be cont'd.) * * * Superlatives Most popular student is one who says, "Have a cigaret?"— most unpopular is one who say, "Gotta cigaret?"—most unusual is one who doesn't pan columnists until he's tried to pound out the stuff himself—rarest is the one who doesn't need to cram—worst introvert is the one who isn't enjoying the lovely village this week. * * * Things We Could Do Without Rush Week Alarm Clocks—In fact we do! "Cherry Pie" People who won't cooperate in taking a beat. Labs Girls who wear fraternity pins Things We Could Not Do Without The lake on weekends—and all the weak moments. Coeds. "If You Were But A Dream" and "There I've Said It Again" Coeds The first few days of the quarter Coeds * * * Warning To All Freshmen Girls Watch out for that empty whiskey bottle! Avoid it as you would an demented demoiselle! Avert your eye from that lecherous liquor ad! Never pretend to be having a good time. It is extremely perilous. You might be accused of inebriation, wildness, and such, and take no account for such loose conduct. * * * College Physician: Is there any insanity in your family? Student: Yes, I'm afraid so. They keep writing me for money. * * * A new quarter is here and here we sit a little the wiser for a few facts we learned last quarter such as: It rains a lot in Auburn. Lipstick is messy—on a boy. Human skin is waterproof Tobacco is a plant found throughout the Southeast and in a few stores. 2,000,000 pipes have been sold to women within the last three months. We go to school for nothing because we found out in Scientific Reasoning that nothing is true, and that we'll never know anything for sure. * * * College Physician: How did you break your leg? Student: I threw a cigarette butt in a manhole and then stepped on it. Every effort wil lbe made to adequately serve our War Veterans and others who have served during the war emergency." —The first paragraph of the section, "Information for War Veterans," p. 32 of the December 1944 catalogue making available e d u c a t i o n , est, if not every, effort to adequately serve our War Veterans and others lay along the line of making available and education, I read the rest of page 32 and pages 39-41, 58, 63, 81, 84, 117, 123, 128, and 129, as some War Veterans probably will hoping to run across specific information about every effort. On pages 39-41 I found that war training credit will be given on five listed basis, (work taken under the Armed Forces Institute) to applicants who have served in the Armed Forces. On pages 76, 81, 117, 128, and 137 I found listed short course curricula in the School of Architecture and the Arts, Chemistry, Engineering, Pharmacy, and Science and Literature, leading to a certificate and requiring, with one exception, five or six quarters of work. The short courses are designed primarily for veterans who can be in college for only a limited period or who wish to qualify for jobs which do not require degrees. Some of the API's former students, however, will want to qualify for jobs, which do require degrees.. Regrettable as it may be, a great many of the jobs the men of the middle class are interested in qualifying for require a degree or even two or three degrees. Some of the API's former students have been In The War for as long as Five Years Already, a period of time which represents to them an interruption in their college educations. The catalogue mentions no effort being made or to be made to adequately serve these men to the extent of altering the requirements for a degree. They will be required to take the "required" courses in order to get a degree. . The War Veteran has, then, three choices when he returns to college. He may take a short course; he may take the work he wants and buck Existing Conditions when he tries to get a job; -he may follow the prescribed course of study leading to a degree, irregardless of how futile or how foolish some of the subjects he will be required to take may seem. Educational institutions of all kinds will be flooded when demobilization becomes large-scale. The GI Bill of Rights makes no distinction as to the talent or ability of the men it is to benefit, no allocation of the amount of educational opportunity. Then whether the colleges are to educate the most capable, the men who have plans, energy, intelligence, and imagination, or whether the colleges allow "numbers" of students to determine their policy is a choice that is left up to the colleges. If the colleges are for the most capable, a high standard of instruction is infinitely more important than the maintenance of rigid curricula in the case of the War Veteran. "THE ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE looks forward to the day when it may welcome back " The least capable or the most capable? CHERRY PIE 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. In the words of that most illustrious of ancient bards, Risein-these Princees, "Ain't it Hell?", referring of course to the extra ten dollars to be levied each quarter against all furriners. In the language of "Carrie Campus": We like Auburn. We will continue to attend Auburn even if it does cost us ten dollars more. It's our school, we love it. But the prospective students, will they love Auburn? Perhaps. But will they pay one hundred and twenty dollars a year to love it? It is doubtful. » * * My sister makes a bare living a^s an artist's model. Name Bands Every week stacks of collegiate journals accumulate in the Plainsman office from throughout the country. Every week some school in the south has a big time band playing for one of their dances. Every week I wish we might have one here in the villege. Zombie and his Collegians are fine, much better than the Prison Camp aggregation from Opelika. It would be nice though to have at least one name band here per year. Georgia has had Sunny Dunham and Les Brown within the last six months. Tech and Emory have had Sammy Kaye. Tommy Tucker played in Columbus not thirty-five miles away. But we have high school bands and Prison Camp Bands and Zombie —and concert artists f o r our moral uplift. * * » One fellow in north Alabama consistently refuses to let his daughter attend Auburn because boys and girls both matriculate in the same curriculum. » * * Know someone you don't like? Want to get even for a dirty trick pulled on you? Get the guy to make a blind date for you. Then when you and the fellow show up to pick up the chick, who comes dressed in her best bib and tucker, blurt out, "Why Joe, she's not half as bad as you said." The guy can't open his mouth and you have him. * * * The Tiger Tavern is a pretty nice place. And it has the approval of the authorities too! Long way out in the country though. How about some way to get out there? •* » * Auburn, The Friendliest School Not speaking to everyone, including strangers should be made a hoss-whipping offense on the campus. The campus queens and the BWOC's—ironically named— are the ones to be first and most often condemned. They should have every reason to spread the reputation of Auburn's hospitality. Yet they speak to very few people and most of the time completely ignore some of the students unless they feel in a most benevolent mqod, and highly honor some poor rat—so they think—with a gracious and condescending smile. According to Emily Post the lady should speak first, yet how many girls do this? And if the boy speaks first he is either startled from his wits by a grouchy high-pitched "Hi", or a muttered imprecation that might well pass for a witches curse. Get them thar noses out of the air. * * * Ouole From Syracuse Daily Orange It is a sad commentary on the American Educational s y s t em when students are taught freedom of the press in theory, only to have it tossed aside in practice by a bigoted faculty. * * • Freshmen Should Wear rat caps. Be reprimanded a n d paddled often. Be allowed out after 7:30. Not drink whiskey. Not look so much like grammar school kids. Not. Do you know what good clean fun is. No, what good is it. * * * He's the kind of guy that finds two meanings to our one meaning jokes. * * * Conscience is the thing that hurts when everything else feels so good. aea " " • " • " — "" WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1945 THE P L A I N S M'A N Page Three Miss Loneta Wilson Becomes Bride Of Charles Floyd Rew Miss Sara Loneta W i l s o n, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Wilson, of Ft. Deposit, Alabama, became the bride of Charles Floyd Rew, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Rew, at five o'clock Saturday afternoon, March 3, at the Farmville Baptist church. The Reverend B. B. McGinty, assisted by Dr. Fagan Thompson, performed the impressive double ring ceremony. Preceding the ceremony Wesley Ellis played "The Rosary" and Dr. Fagan Thompson sang "O Perfect Love". Mendelssohn's Wedding March was the processional and the recessional.^ During the ceremony Mr. Ellis played "Because". The candles were lighted by Misses Nell and Ruth Priester. Ushers were Gordon Bush and Duncan Wright. Robert Sims served the groom as best man. Mrs. Fostill Dickson, sister of the bride, was matron of honor and only attendant. Her corsage was of gardenias. The bride was given in marriage by her cousin, Milligan Earnest. Following the ceremony Mrs. Elizabeth Bradley entertained with an informal reception at her home on Farmville Road. Mrs. A. C. Carter and Miss Helen Collins presided at the coffee service. Assisting in serving were Mrs. Bruce Priester, Miss Mary Clyde Carter, Miss Nell Priester and Miss Ruth Priester. Miss Vonciel Beaty and Miss Joan Priester were in charge of the display of gifts. Miss Martha Mae Priester kept the bride's book. Others assisting in entertaining were Miss Milligan Earnest, Mrs. A. M. Williams and Mrs. J. C. Jones. After a honeymoon Mr. and Mrs. Rew will occupy an apartment at 362 North College St. PURPLE HEART CAPT. LAMAR HART IS NAZI PRISONER Capt Lamar Hart is a prisoner of war in Germany his mother, Mrs. Ruby Hart, was informed this week. A telegram from the war department informed Mrs. Hart of the fact this week, saying that word had been received through the Red Cross. The telegram added that a letter followed. Captain Hart had been missing since December 20 when he was with the medical corps in Luxembourg. He is a graduate of API and of Louisville Dental College. By William J. Middlebrooks Somewhere in the Pacific (Delayed)— Marine Captain William R. Williams, 27, son of Mrs. Fannie Williams, of East Gadsden, Alabama, has been awarded the Purple Heart for wounds sustained during the Guam campaign. Williams, who as a first lieutenant took over and lead a rifle company through the 21-day engagement when his company commander became a casualty, was wounded by Japanese hand grenade fragments during fighting for recapture of the island. Following treatment aboard a hospital ship off shore, he returned to his unit. Prior to entering the Marine Corps in May, 1942, Williams was associated with the Farm Security Administration. He was graduated from Glenco High School, East Gadsden, in 1936 and from Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, in 1940. The Alabama officer, overseas two years, also saw action on Bougainville, as a rifle platoon leader. FOUND: Pair of glasses left in office of School of Architecture and the Arts. Owner may obtain by claiming and paying for this ad. Buy War Bonds and Stamps CHIO INITIATES THIRTEEN GIRLS Initiation for Chi Omega pledges was held February 17 and 18 in the chapter room in Dorm II. Those taking into active membership by Alpha Beta of Chi Omega were Janice Mann, Jud-sosia, Ark.; Jacquelyn Wahl, Mobile; A n g e l y n Hollingsworth, Montgomery; Sara Strange, Mobile; and Alice Gatewood, Richland, Ga. Martha Smith, Panama City, Fla.; Betty Morgan, Auburn; Peggy Lowery, Birmingham; Jean Strait, Montgomery; P e g gy Young, Centerville; Mary Mul-lin Love, Columbus, Ga.; Wilton Harris, Huntsville; and Sara Landman, Huntsville. Following the ceremony newly initiated members were entertained at breakfast. Harris Wins Air Medal An Eighth Air Force Fighter Station, England—2nd Lt. Elbert N. Harris, P-51 Mustang fighter pilot of Auburn, Alabama, has been awarded the Air Medal for exceptionally meritorious achievement in aerial flight over enemy o c c u p i e d Continental Europe. He flies with Col. Kyle L. Riddle's 479th Fighter Group of the 2nd Air Division. Lt. Harris is the son of Mrs. Margaret A. Harris, 219 Payne Street, Auburn. His wife, Mrs. Sara H. Harris, lives at 227 East Magnolia Avenue, in the same city. Lt. Harris attended Alabama Polytechnic College before entering the Air Forces. SERVICE PERSONALS S 2/c Jack Livingston visited here last week. Stationed at Norfolk now, he was enrolled in civil engineering here before leaving for duty with the Navy. He was a member of PiKA. Lt. Jack Brush, Birmingham, and Officer Candidate George Strother, who is now stationed at Benning visited at the PiKap-pa Alpha house last week. Ensign and Mrs. Jake Vick spent the week end in Auburn. Ensign Vick, "44, was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha. Mrs. Vick, formerly Ann Tharp, was a member of Delta Zeta. • « * OC Joseph W. "Jay" Green, Mobile, spent the week end in Auburn. He was a member of Theta Chi, Spiked Shoe, and IFC. Jay was Sports Editor of The Plainsman. Miss Jeanerte Phillips, James D. Lindsay Wed Of cordial interest is the announcement made by Lieutenant Commander and Mrs. Edwin Phillips, of Jacksonville, Fla., of the marriage of their daughter, Jeanette Frances, to James David Lindsay on Wednesday, Feb. 28, at the Church of the Redeemer at Houston, Texas. The bride is a graduate of Lee County High School and attended Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Prior to her marriage she was a senior at the University of Illinois. She is a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority, Phi Kappa Phi and Pi Mu Epsilon. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Lindsay of Boyce, Virginia. He attended Alabama Polytechnic, Georgia Tech and Rice Institute, Houston Texas. After a wedding trip, the couple will make their home in Los Angeles, Calif., where Mr. Lindsay will be stationed. U-DRIVE IT Tel. 446 BIKE SHOP Tel. 260 CHIEF (ROUND L SHINE) SINCLAIR SERVICE STATION Tel. 446 LAMBDA CHI GIVES SPRING HOUSE DANCE Omega Zeta of Lambda Chi Alpha held its annual spring house dance Saturday from 7:30 to 11 p. m. Mrs. W. C. Gewin chaperoned the affair. Members, pledges, and their dates attending were Gilbert Moody, Betty Morgan, Auburn; Joe Benchwick, Dottie McWil-liams, Birmingham; Buel Johnson, Jeannette Ellis, Jasper; Dewey Shaffer, Marion Huey, Huntingdon; Harry Wheat, Ruth Estes, Centre; Steve Stringfel-low, Margaret Snead, Opelika; Quinton Burgess, Betty Ware, Auburn; Buddy Sanders, Kathryn Ann Wright, Moultrie, Ga. Reid Trapani, Jackie Moon, Decatur, Ga.; Jim Cooke, Sarah Goodson, Bessemer; Ted Le Cran, Mary Alice Shows, Luverne. Norman Firth, E. W. Star; Edwin B. Smith, Charlie Crump, Chick Garramore; Jim Burns; Pick Tutwiler; Chick Angelus; Rick Amerson and David Simpson. Mrs. Pittman Given Son's Air Medal Tanner Elected Prexy By Kappa Sigma At their last formal meeting of the winter quarter, the members of the Beta Eta chapter of Kappa Sigma elected Lewis Tanner of Jackson, Miss., to serve as president for the coming term. Jimmy Fethe of Hickman, Ky., was elected vice-president and chairman of the social committee. Other officers elected were Bill Ivey, Auburn, secretary; James Col. R. E. L. Choate, Maxwell Field commanding officer, presented a posthumous award of the Air Medal to Mrs. Patty B. Pittman, 134 Thach Ave., Auburn, recently for the outstanding combat service of her son, S/Sgt. Holloway B. Pittman as an engineer gunner who had 38 missions overseas. Spt. Pittman was shot down on July 29, 1944 in a mission in the Southwest Pacific. The citation read by Maj. Joe D. Bell, base adjutant, cited Sgt. Pittman's "meritorious achievement while participating in sustained operational flight missions in the Southwest Pacific area from March 23, 1944 to July 1, 1944, during which hostile contact was probable and expected. These operations consisted of bombing missions against enemy airdromes and installations." Sgt. Pittman, was 28 years old at the time of his death. He entered the service of his country on Oct. 16, 1942. A brother, Cpl. James M. Pittman, is on duty with the armed forces in England. Spotlights On Auburmtes By Mary Lee "Lets go pal, let's go"—with a slap on the back and a hearty smile "Mr. George" (or Dr. George if you happen to recognize the PhD bestowed upon him by the SAE's) encourages his students as they weave themselves in and out of their respective booths—to and from classes—before and after quizzes—breakfast, lunch, supper, but mostly during "coffee-time," ranging from the time the Auburn Grille opens til closing time (and as nickels grow scarcer, just "sitting" time.) * * * If perhaps last week lacked a definite tinge of local color, it is because the student's best friend, Mr. George was sick at home with flu. Sympathetic with every student's "tyrant-like" instructors and "skin off yer teeth grades" he displays the most lovable "hope you pass" indication along with his "if you don't thats OK". .The "coffee lab" is the one lab most students like to attend because they know their Mr. George is pulling for them. * * * He knows about the student, their names, their problems, their sweethearts, their friends, and usually whether it's tea or commee. How many students know his last name? * * * Mr. George Booras, his wife and two daughters live on North Gay Street. Having come from Greece, Mr. George lived in Mylon, Florida, then in Montgomery. For the past [five years, Mr. George has worked with "Mr. Lukas" and "Mr. John" at the Grille. He doesn't drink or chew—and quoting Mr. Lukas, "doesn't use bad language like I do." FOR S A L E : Dachshound puppies, 10 weeks old. De-wormed. Registered with American Kennel Club. May be seen at OTS house, 138 Toomer St. Call Bill Coppage, 324. 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LIMITED MONTHLY ALLOTMENT "Auburn Fashion Center" Page Four T H E P L A I N S M AN WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1945 USO Facilities Incorporated By Student Center In Langdon ROOM TO BE OPENED TO PUBLIC ON SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS By Irene Long Date of the formal opening of the student-serviceman recreational center in the basement of Langdon will be announced in the near future. Operation of the Center on the combination basis began last week after the installation of furniture formerly used by the downtown USO. Both students and servicemen will use the Student Center, which will now be open seven days instead of six with additional facilities and more hostesses. The regular hours will be continued, and in addition the room will be open on Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a. m. until 11 p. m. A pay-station telephone, number 9115, has been installed. Refreshments will not be served as they were at the USO but the coke machine and candy canteens will continue to be serviced. On Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, institutional cookery class will operate a can- •teen, serving cakes, cookies, pies and fruit juices. The furniture, including several pieces of natural oak from the USO and others of chrome retained from the Center's furnishings, has been arranged into five living-room groups with card tables, lounging chairs and lamps at convenient places. The room is complete with piano, radio, juke-box, and magazine racks. The USO was dissolved because there are no servicemen stationed at Auburn, but it was decided by the Inter-club Council that some provision should be made for the ASTRP students and visiting servicemen. The joint arrangement for students and servicemen was the answer. AST Qualifying Tests Slated For April 12 An Army College Qualifying Test will be given seventeen-year- old applicants for the Army Specialized Training R e s e r ve Program at 9 a. m., Thursday, April 12, in room 116 of the New Classroom Building on the API campus. The test is to be administered only to boys whose seventeenth birthday falls between October 1, 1944 and August 31, 1945 and who will have graduated from high school by July 1, 1945 or will have completed one term or one semester of college by July 1, 1945. Students who will graduate from high school or will complete one term or semester of college during July or August are also eligible if they are not older than 17 years 9 months on the first of the following month. Since August 1943, the Army has provided college training for young men of seventeen in anticipation of their active duty. This training is given in the Army Specialized Training R e s e r ve Program. Its purpose is to' enhance the student's fitness for military service. This training is given in accredited colleges and No name has been given the | universities, new organization yet. Should permission be obtained from national USO headquarters, however, the old name will be retained through there will be no affiliation with the national organization. Mrs. Rena Jolly, who has been hostess since the opening of Student Center several years ago, will continue as official hostess. •Mrs. Mary Drake Askew is chairman of the committee in charge of the new service organization. Other members are Mrs. W. D. Salmon, treasurer; Mrs. P. O. Davis; Mrs. R. P. Bidez; Miss Mary George Lamar; Mrs. O. P. South; and Mrs. Kirtley Brown. The furniture was arranged by Miss Frances Schoonmaker, Prof. Joseph Marino-Merlo, and Mrs. Rena Jolly. MISS ALICE HALEY DELIVERS LECTURE ON CELANESE FABRIC Miss Alice Haley of the Cel-anese Corporation gave lectures to Home Economics students last Wednesday and Thursday on fabrics. The lectures were particularly timely, not only in that they presented to the classes the story of man-made fabrics from the standpoint of wearing qualities and care, but also because they pre-ceeded the post-war period which will find so many fabrics made from synthetic fabrics on the market. Miss Haley told something of the manufacture and characteristics of Celanese fabrics. She stressed the factors to consider in choosing fabrics and methods of handling to insure maximum consumer satisfaction. During the lectures students were allowed to ask questions about their own problems in choosing and caring for such fabrics. A home economist, Miss Haley has been associated with schools and colleges all over the country. Theta Upsilon Elects Seven New Officers Formal installation was held Wednesday for the newly elected officers of Theta Upsilon. Margaret Wyatt, Vincent, is new president. Other officers are Margaret Bedsole, Defuniak Springs, Fla., vice-president; Sue Hamilton, Birmingham, secretary; Jean- Vne Wildeman, Atlanta, Ga., treas- \urer; Myrtis Ferguson, Weogulf- [ta, ex-collegio; Gerry Drake, iliddletown, Ohio, editor; Doro- Gre Ji, Cullman, chaplain. r A. The next group of young men who desire to enter the Army Specialized Training Reserve Program will be given an opportunity in April to qualify for assignment to the program in July, August, or September, 1945. Applicants for this training must achieve a satisfactory score an the Army College Qualifying Test which will be administered in the high schools and colleges of the country on April 12, 1945. In addition to passing the Army College Qualifying Test, an applicant must meet certain requirements of age, citizenship, high school graduation, and must enlist in the Enlisted Reserve Corps. Depending upon his age when he begins his training, a qualified applicant will be enrolled for two, three, or four twelve-week terms. The amount of academic credit he receives for this training will be determied by the institution to which he is assigned. Gamaliel5 Green Gets Commission In Army At Fort Benning Commissioned a second lieutenant in the army the first of February was Gamaliel Perry Green, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Green of Troy. Upon successful completion of OCS at the Infantry School at Ft. Benning, Ga., Lt. Green was transferred to Ft. McClellan, Ala. Before going to officer candidate school four months ago, he held the rank of corporal with the 342 Armored Field Artillery Battalion. He entered the army in January, 1942. Lt. Green is a graduate of Troy High School and API, where he studied pharmacy and was vice-president of APA. He was a member of Kappa Sigma. LOST: Man's Bulova watch with black band and radium dial on black background in gold case. Lost near 205 West Glenn. Reward. Call Milton Warren, phone 200 (Tiger Drug Store.) _ While in training the student is not subject to military law, but he must conform to the rules and regulations of the college or university to which he is assigned. The government pays the cost of tuition, room, board, textbooks, medical care, and library and athletic privileges. The government also issues, without change or deposit, complete regular army uniforms. An ASTRP student is not on active duty and does not receive pay. Students in the ASTRP are called to active duty at the end of the term in which they reach their eighteenth birthday. They are then assigned to a training center for regular basic training. Those who qualify for and are selected for the Army Specialized Training Advocated Program for soldiers on active duty will be returned to college upon completion of basic training for additional instruction in an engineer-ng or foreign area and language curriculum. Those desiring to apply- for the Army Specialized Training Reserve Program may secure information about the Army College Qualifying Test from their high school principals, their college deans, or from the nearest Army Recruiting Station, or the commanding general of the service command in which they reside. For additional information see Kirtley Brown, Samford Hall, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Ala. Gazis Investigates At Scotland Yard While In England Who in England ever heard of API? Why, Scotland Yard! Sgt. Manuel V. Gazis, former pharmacy student from Houston, Tex., now serving with Gen. George S. Patton's Third Army, wrote the following in a letter to Prof. C. W. Hargreaves of the pharmacy department: "While in England I visited Scotland Yard and batted the breeze with one of their men. Scotland Yard can't be beat—unless, of course, by the Alabama State Department of Toxicolgy and Criminal Investigation. When I mentioned it, this fellow walks over to a file, looks under the A's and returns with a card that had all of the low-down on our Tox lab: How they got all of that information is beyond me, but here's one thing for sure:. I'll never underestimate those Limey investigators." Sgt. Gazis said that he was dis-sappointed to find 211 B Baker Street empty and to find that Sherlock Holmes was merely a fictional character. "I had intended to give him a few pointers," he wrote. The letter was written in a Belgian farmer's home where, Sgt. Gazis said, "with the aid of my ever-faithful G. I. dictionary, I finally convinced him to let me rest my weary bones in his living room, defrost my hands by his fireplace, borrow his pin, ink, and stationery and write a few letters back home. It was quite a job, believe me, but with a few waving motions, grunts, etc., I succeeded in making him understand. These Belgians are strictly O. K." Quite often, Sgt. Gazis wrote, when his outfit would pass by a knocked-out Nazi tank or conquered village they would find "War Eagle" painted everywhere. Sgt. Gazis, who was enrolled in 1942, wrote that he was looking forward to returning to API's School of Pharmacy. . - Major McCollum's Military Police Just Aren't The Chairborne Type With The 82nd Airborne Division in Belgium—There's nothing "chairborne" about the Military Police of Major Frederick G. Collum's 82nd Airborne Division. These front-line MP's—veterans of campaigning in Sicily, Italy, Normandy, and Holand—are taking part in their fifth campaign, "Somewhere in Belgium", where the 82nd has beaten off Von Runstedt's thrust and launched a vigorous J. 0. Davis Opens Furniture Store The newly opened furniture on north College Street, is managed by Mr. J. O. Davis, father of Madred Davis and J. O. Davis, Jr., both alumni. Mr. Davis states that he has had a good many years' experience in the furniture business, having been connected with one of the other local furniture stores for some time, and invites the public to visit his store. SABERS TAP FOUR FOR MEMBERSHIP Four new tappees were added to the ranks of Sabers, honorary military society for outstanding ROTC students, last week. Donald Clay, Birmingham, is a member of Pi Kappa Phi and a sophomore in chemical engineering. Bill Cole, Birmingham, is a member of Sigma Chi and vocalist with Zombie and the Auburn Collegiates. He is a sophomore in aero engineering. Roy Edwards, Robjohn, is a member of ASME. He is a sophomore in aero engineering. Herbert Fuller. Columbus, Ga., is a member of SPE. He is a sophomore in aero engineering. Officers of Sabers will be elected at the beginning of next quarter. attack of its own. One of the 82nd Division MP platoon's biggest jobs recently has been handling Jerry prisoners who found the sky troopers' push too much for them. The- MP's have processed and evacuated more than 2,000 "prisoners since the division went into the lines December 18. In three days, one small group of 20 MP's, working on a 24-hour basis, handled more than 1,500 prisoners. They Direct Traffic In addition to caring for prisoners, it has done a man's size job in directing traffic and displayed civilians (refugees) along the crowded, winding roads of the snow-clad Ardennes foot-hills. The MP's, like the rest of the 82nd, were alerted Sunday, December 17, for a move to the front. When alerted, they were busy on town patrol in cities near the division's camps in France. Immediately after being relieved of its town patrol mission, the platoon set out to mark the route to Bastogne, the original 82nd Division sector. When the division's first units reached Bastogne, orders were changed, and it was directed to the Werbomont area, then threatened by a strong German force. MP's separated 82nd and 101st Airborne Division convoys and directed t h e 82nd Division to its new sector. As They Direct Germans Convoys were almost continuous along the narrow Belgian roads, which also had to carry the traffic of forces falling back before the first German thrust. Despite cold weather, snow, mud, and blanketing fog, the MP's routed the division efficiently and speedily into positions from which it was able to halt the Germans and begin pushing them back. By noon of December 19, the entire division had been moved to the battle area and all trucks evacuated. When civilians evacuated their farms in the Chevron area, the MP's took over a dairy farm, milked, fed and watered the stock during the owner's absence. The 82nd's MP's are accustomed to working under difficulties. Usually they go into combat airborne, and figure on operating while completely surrounded in the early part of a campaign, so they were not dismayed at the size of the task ahead of them in the present operation, despite the short notice. Mrs. McCollum, wife of the group's commander lives on Virginia Avenue in Auburn. Dr. N. A. McCollum, father of the former API coach, lives on West Magnolia Avenue. You Give to the Worthiest of Causes when You Give to Your Red Cross IC«0»0»C«0«: Without your generous contributions the Red Cross could not carry on its magnificent and humanitarian work. Your son# husband, brother or sweetheart would be without the plasma needed to save his life . . . without the recreation that keeps up his morale . . . without those important little things bring a semblance of home into the horrors of battle. Give it a little thought, Mr. Smith—and let your heart write your check. 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One student, Mark Matthews, Vidalia, Ga., hit the seventh donation mark during the visit. Donor drive chairman Mary Nell Chiles, WAA president, released the names of the students this week. They are: Charles Spivey; G. S. Killian; Louellen Hovey; James T. Mc- Rae; S. J. Parker; Frank Wheeler; Sibyl Wright; Bob Dean; and William Alston. Bob Sharman; Jack Knight; J. D. Little; James Acree; J. A. Smith; Carl B. Harman; Bruce Pass, Jr.; Robert Gentry, and C. W. Graefe. S. A. Belgan; Starr Prolsdorfer; Billy Austin; Janis Mann; Milton Jordan; Harold Reaux; Margaret Cole; Dorothy Hibbert; J. J. Cal-lis; Pat Elliott; Ray Russell. J. R. Broussard; Richard Powers; Dea Sherrill; Anne H. Kel-ley; Barbara Buckley; John Bowling; Mildred Linn; G. M. Dykes; and Kathleen Scrivner. James Woodham; Maria Duc-hac; Charles Pigott; Harold Claudle; Damaris Smith; Bill Ginter; Evelyn Corcoran; W. S. Brooks; and Helen Tripp. Julia Holmes; June Killian; Frances Rorke; Julius Hagerty; Bill Hayman; Lallah Perry; Beu-lah Skelton; Jean Hubbard; Marion Gay; Sarah Glenn; Bobby Reid, and Eleanor Hannum. Mac Rumbley; Billy Lakeman; Allen Price; W. W. Drennow; James B. Razar; May Olive Moody; Ardelle T h o m p s o n; Emory T. Adams; and Mark Mathews. Camille Langston; Imogene Mc- Crary; Mary Kate Reeves; Clovis Green; Julia Le Sueur; Lorene Smith; Martha Ann Sprague; Roy Peters ;Martha Ann Lacey; and Pat Rainer. Evelyn Davis; Virginia Strong; Max Mutchnick; Betty Heaslett; Harris Nader, Jr.; Elizabeth Wal-don; Ruth Tipton; Julia Wood-roof; Ann Cagle; Mary Jane Mullen; and Edwin D. Davis. Marilyn Prince; Alice Hard-wick; Dot Smith; Arnold Silver-berg; Arthur Coker; Bryson Hatfield; Anne Mitchell; Edward Carlson; Peggy Reynolds; and James R. Smith. Louise Morici; Juanita Stringer; Jasper Needham, Jr.; Gerry Drake; Carmelita Slaton; Nancy Black; Margaret Norton; and Betty Ruth Chambers. Eleanor Plisko; Thad McSwain; James Thomas; Becky Fraser; Ann Treadwell; Mary Cabaniss; H. M. Dobb; Glenda Bennett; Opal Lee Ruple; Clytee Johnson; A. G. Robinson; and Dorothy Green. Emma Jean Maddox; A. G. Williams; Ina Wallace; Barbara Harrison; Walter Hammer; Stel-i la Rigas; Ruth Estes; Evelyn Gibbons; Mary Largent Davis; Mar-gelene Bain; and Hazel Edwards. Martha Horn; George F. Mc- Carty, Jr.; Lois Fleming; Doris Brown; Ashby Foote; Connie : Graves; Mildred Chambliss; Tilda i Jean Brewton; and Marjorie Harris. Thelma Meherg; Guy Folmar, Jr.; Donald Villa; Mary Ella Allen; R u t h Glover; Patricia Crowe; N. Faye Campbell; Tom Raines; Chalmers Bryant; and Ralph Hartzog. Fay McLain; Frances Baker; Sam Hicks; Buris Boshell; Frances Taylor; Kitty Finegan; Martha Ellis; Margaret Maxwell; Jean Ardis; and Albert Cochran. Herbert Hoik; Amy Williams; Elizabeth Deese; Adele Bloch; Jane Southerland; Dorothy Mc- Williams; and Carolyn Lee. Sarah Nell Paschal; Dora Ann Wallace; Mary Thomas; Elizabeth Clinkscales; Toni Crosby; Betty Stewart; Evelyn Beall; Philip Boss; Barbara Frick; and Bob Carter. MissKaf hryn Gunfer Weds E. McKinney Miss Kathryn Gunter, daughter of Mrs. Leila Gunter of Auburn, was married to Yeoman First Class Emory Maurice McKinney, UCNR, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. McKinney, last Monday at 7 p. m. in the local Church of Christ. R. W. Turner, pastor, performed the double ring ceremony in the presence of the immediate family and close friends. The candles were lighted by Mrs. Joe M. Breedlove of Opelika, and Miss Betty Morgan, cousin of the bride. Samuel R. Morgan, of Opelika, gave his niece in marriage. Miss Ralphine Gunter, sister of the bride, was maid of honor, and A/C William H. McKinney, Gunter Field, served as his brother's bestman. Following the ceremony about thirty friends were entertained at a reception at the home of Mrs. Leila Gunter, mother of the bride. Kay Hall Marries Lf. Commander Miss Katherine Hall, daughter of Mrs. Roland B. Hall of Atlanta, became the bride of Lieutenant Commander Robert Plage, USNR, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Plage, at a ceremony in the Chapel of All Saints Episcopal church in Atlanta, performed by Rev. Samuel Charles Fleming. Miss Susan Anderson was maid of honor; Mrs. Avery Hall and Mrs. Andrew Colyer were bridesmaids. The bride was given in marriage by her brother, R. Avery Hall. She is a former student at API, having received her degree here in '44 in* business administration. She was a member of Chi Omega, Sphinx, WWA, and the May Queen's Court while at Auburn. Lt. Commander and Mrs. Plage are now living in Mobile, where he is stationed. Delta Zeta's quintet broke through Pi Kappa Phi defenses to capture the WAA basketball championship by a 13-10 score the last Monday night of the winter quarter after the girls from Pi Kappa Phi led the scoring 6-1 at the half. Last week's game between the two teams resulted in a 12-12 tie. Both teams beat the Alpha Gamma Deltas and the Chi Omegas in the league playoffs last week and stood undefeated at the beginning of the game. Immediately following t he game, each member of the DZ team was presented a basketball award by WAA vice-president Martha Ellis. Pi Kappa Phis set a fast pace in the first quarter, though the score was only 2-1 in their favor when the whistle blew. "Wiggles" Hill, high scorer for the Pi Kappa Phi girls, took the initiative in the second quarter, running the score up to six while her teammates held the DZs scoreless. The Delta Zetas finally found their range, and were able to bring their score up to 7 points. The Pi Kappa Phis were still ahead, 8-7, at the end of the third quarter. Then the DZ combination of Oswalt-Maddox - Reynolds broke loose, and rang up 6 points before the Pi Kappa Phi girls were Delta Zefas COD Engineering Curricula Improved WAA Basketball Championship (Con't from last Issue) Practical shop training forms a basis for later courses in the curriculum in Industrial Engineering. The curriculum in Industrial Management is offered as a program of professional education in preparation for administrative and managerial positions in manufacturing, communications, and transportation industries. Emphasis is placed upon courses dealing with the operational, production, p,e r s o n n e 1 financial, and managerial phases of these industries rather than upon the technical and engineering phases. Such a program of studies is frequently, and quite appropriately, and quite appropriately, referred to as "Human Engineering". This curriculum should especially appeal to a large number of students who desire to prepare themselves for positions in industry but who may not have the special aptitudes in the mathematical and physical sciences required for an engineering education. The former engineering physics option of the Electrical Engineering curriculum has been expanded into a full four-year curriculum leading to the degree of Bachelor of Engineering Physics. The curriculum is especially designed to prapare young men and women for industrial and engineering research work. A rigid undergraduate discipline is provided in (a) mathematics through the calculus, differential equations, and vector analysis; (b) FOR RENT: Nice room with private bath and private entrance. Two closets. Telephone 539-W. able to stop them. At the end of chemistry through qualitative the game the score stood 13-10 and quantitative analysis and for the Delta Zetas. physical chemistry; and (c) gen- Individual high scorer for the eral physics followed by advanced game was Sarah Lane Oswalt, courses in electricity, magnetism, DZ forward, whose, tallies equal- electronics, X-rays, dynamics, ed 11 points. Peggy Reynolds elasticity, wave motion, and made one basket for 2 points for sound;'and (d) the fundamentals the Delta Zs. Wyleen "Wiggles" °f electrical and mechanical en- Hill took top scoring honors for B w i n m £7 b a s k e t b a ll the Pi Kappa Phis with 6 points c h a m p i o n s h i p ; D e l t a Z e t a has to her credit. Mary Frances Kil-patrick scored 4 points for the girls from new fraternity row. Members of the Delta Z team to win awards were Sue Carder, guard; Wynn Hall, guard; "Tee" Hug, guard; "Jenky" Maddox, forward; Sarah Lane Oswalt, forward; and Peggy Reynolds, forward. a total of 325 points toward the WAA athletic cup. Alpha Gamma Delta is second with 275 and Delta Sigma Phi rates third with 200. gineering. The choice of technical electives in the senior year enables the student to specialize, to a limited extent, in any one of several engineering an dscien-tific fields. Inquisitive young men and young women with exceptional abilities in mathematics and the physical sciences and with special aptitudes for research will find in the Engineering Physics curriculum a challenging inducement to test their competance and to strive for high goals of attainment. The establishment of the School of Textile Technology is, also, announced in the new college catalog. The School of Textile Technology will offer a broader program of textile education than is now offered by the Department of Textile Engineering to enable Auburn to be of greater service to the textile industry of Alabama and the South. In addition to the two curricula in Textile Chemistry and Textile Engineering, which have been offered in the past, the School of Technology will offer a variety of special courses as technical electives for senior students in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, Engineering P h y s i c s , Industrial Management, and Mechanical Engineering who are preparing for positions in the textile industry. The special courses will deal with the technological aspects of textile manufacturing. The new programs of the Schools of Agriculture, Chemistry, and Engineering will become effective at the beginning of the Summer Quarter 1945. Students now enrolled in engineering curricula will find that their schedules can be easily adjusted to the new program. During the period of adjustment, acceptable substitutions will be granted. The normal quarterly load in each engineering curriculum will be 20 quarter credit hours thus equalizing the load throughout the four years. Even though the normal quarterly load has been slightly increased, it should be (Continued on back page) Buy War Bonds and Stamps f\efiectina the Sm.artn.e66 of a lovelu. u this American Railroads are theGREATEST... • Transportation agency in times of war. • Carriers of commerce in times of peace. • Employers of labor. • Originators of pay rolls that foster industrial and social welfare. • Purchasers of materials and supplies. • Payers of taxes that support Government and schools. • Promoters of the Country's development. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad—"The Old Reliable,"— for 95 years has shared importantly in all these activities. It is a half-billion dollar corporation—spending millions of dollars every year and quickening the South's agricultural and industrial life all along its nearly 5,000 miles of steel highways. It is a regulated free enterprise—performing a tremendous and useful private and public service. When the people of the South appraise the value of a large and essential industry, the L & N asks that its contribution be appropriately measured. President LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD The Railroads—furnishing a vital service and aiding the growth of agriculture, commerce, and industry... help all Americans to EARN MORE... BUY MORE... HAVE MORE. BUY WAR BONDS FOR VICTORY! t * f t l n i»*fflr— The Old Reliable. ".'.Yesterday...Today...Tomorrow MARTIN "The Place To Go" TUESDAY. MARCH 13 NIGHTCLUB GIRL with VIVIAN AUSTIN BILLY DUNN JUDY CLARK and Traveltalk and Featurette WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14 JOAN DAVIS in SHE GETS HER MAN with WILLIAM GARGAN LEON ERROL Also Special Featurette A Night In Mexico City THURSDAY, MARCH 15 FRIDAY. MARCH 16 M.G.M.'S great picture THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO with VAN JOHNSON ROBERT WALKER SPENCER TRACY Added Cartoon Latest War News Lfnlform of in home front Makes no difference how you look at it, this two-piece Gay Gibson Butcher Linen is uniform in smartness, youth and flattery, too. Russet Earth, Red. Maize, or Kelly Green. Sizes 9 to 17. MILDRED LIPPITT'S Town and Country SATURDAY, MARCH 17 Double Feature No. 1 SAN ANTONIO KID with WILD BILL ELLIOTT No. 2 THE MUMMY'S CURSE with LON CHANEY Added Serial "Haunted Harbor" No. 15 Cartoon "A Day In June" SUNDAY. MARCH 18 Continuous Sunday 1:30 to 7:00 P. M. Late Show 9:00 P. M. OBJECTIVE BURMA with ERROL FLYNN HENRY HULL Added News Cartoon "Jasper's Paradise" MONDAY. MARCH 19 MURDER MY SWEET with DICK POWELL CLAIRE TREROR Added "Flicker Flashbacks" News Page Six T H E P L A I N S M AN WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1945 COVERING SPORTS With Jimmy Smith Officially, the basketball season is over here at Auburn, but the post-season activities of Alpha Psi, interfrat champs, are just beginning. The Alpha Psis will be host to the University of Georgia interfrat champions in Auburn Tuesday, March 13. On March 24, the Psis will go to Tuscaloosa to tangle with the Alabama champs, as a follow-up to the Omega Tau Sigma-Pi Kappa Phi clash last year. TEX CAN PLAY BASKETBALL, TOO The Yankees, the Braves, the Baltimore Orioles, and the Birmingham Barons have spent quite a sum of money trying to sign up Tex Warrington—since the big Auburn center made the 1944 All-American and his baseball exploits were included in his sketch. Tex was quite a pitcher up at William and Mary when he fanned 18 or 19 a game, but according to Voyles, he was a wee bit wild. Tex is determined to get his degree in business administration and baseball would interrupt that. PLUCKINGS Pro football is also giving Tex a chase. The Miami club is reported to have offered him $10,000 to sign up Fred Turbyville is trying to clear up the origin of "War Eagle". He's poundered about a dozen different versions already, but most of them have been pretty vauge Bob Voyles, son of Coach Voyles, is a part time student here now while he finishes up at Lee County High. He was fullback on the Episcopal High School team at Alexandria, Va. Will Bob be on his father's squad this fall? Pop sure needs all the help he can get Wrestling may be one of the big winter sports at Auburn in the postwar years. Auburn is planning a gym or an auditorium to seat 10,000 or more As long as Carl Voyles is head of athletics at Auburn, the Tigers will not compete in intercollegiate boxing. But he has put his O.K. on intramural boxing with heavy gloves and with proper supervision Voyles, when at Oklahoma A&M was a light heavyweight wrestling star. One year he went to the finals in the national meet before he met defeat. The Auburn wrestling coach, Swede Umbach, also is a product of A&M Turbyville's diggings into the origin of the "War Eagle" have revealed that Auburn's famous cry has been painted on several bombers, and the name has been splashed on jeeps here and there. When an Auburn man, in a foxhole or pub, gets lonely, he just crawls out and yells "War Eagle", and a reunion is in order. WSSF BOOK DRIVE FOR PRISONERS MEETS SUCCESS . Books for "distribution among allied prisoners of war are still being brought to Student Center although the World Student Service Fund Book Drive officially closed with the end of the winter quarter. Max Mutchnick, chairman of the drive, urges all students who did not participate last quarter or who have found more books which may be used to bring them to Student Center this week. Many books were obtained through the courtesy of the Coop book store in the basement of Samford, where a collections table was set up. The books included everything from a third-grade reader to hymn books. Gladys Bentley, chairman of the screening and cleaning committee, said that her committee would begin next week the task of sorting the books and checking the acceptable ones for marks that may be mistaken for code by foreign censors. All in all, the drive was considered a success although the exact number of books donated is not yet available. It is believed, however, that there are many who still have old textbooks or novels which could be used. & wmwBu&m Kelley Watercolors At Montgomery Exhibit A group of water colors, pen and ink and pencil sketches by Lieut. Charles M. Kelley, USNR, of Eutaw, is now showing in the downstairs picture gallery at the Montgomery Museum. Lieut. Kelley graduated from Auburn in 1941 and in October 1942 was commissioned in the Navy. For the past two years, he has been on sea duty in the Pacific. The sketches comprise a portion of his impression of New Britain and New Guinea. He is now stationed in Miami, Fla. Grid Schedule Near Completion Clemson Listed By Fred Turbyville The 1945 Auburn football schedule still is a matter of unfinished business, but Carl Voyles, head coach and athletic director, today announced a home-and-home series with Clemson, starting next year and ending in 1949. This means t h a t Auburn's homecoming days are all set for the next four years—Florida this year, Clemson in 1946, Florida in 1947 and Clemson in 1948. The Auburn-Clemson rivalry dates back to 1899. Auburn has won 20 of the 27 games played. Another was a tie. Auburn won the last three games—in 1940, 1941, and 1942. Clemson won the three games previous to that—in 1927, 1928 and 1929. The rivalry lapsed for eleven years, after Clemson's 26-7 win in 1929. In the early years of the rivalry it was nip-and tuck, but from 1907 to 1926 it was all Auburn. The Tigers of Auburn have scored 380 points, while the Tigers of Clemson have scored only 102. From 1907 to 1926 the Clemson Cats scored only twice. The 1923 game was a scoreless tie. Auburn—both town and school —plans to put on a real home-comping show annually. And Coach Voyles is looking ahead to a postwar enlargement of t he stadium to take care of a big crowd. Tigers Eye Another Beard P'eff Beard is an 'inside' man at Auburn, watching over the business end of Tiger Athletics, but he's sorely tempted to do an 'outside' stint and hie himself off to his native Kentucky and have home talk with his young cousin, Ralph Beard of Louisville Male High. Jeff would like to convince the youngster, a star in baseball, football, track, and basketball, that a school that was good enough for Cousin Percy, a champion hurdler, and Cousin Jeff, would be good enough for him. Percy probably won't have anything to do with that particular slant. Percy is athletic at the University of Florida. Percy likes his alma mater, but he's also got to like his employer. Jeff Beard doesn't want the Beard boys going here and there and getting the Beards in a tangle—athletically speaking. He wants Cousin Ralph here at Auburn where he can personally look after the' youth's possible shortcomings in track and field. TIGER THEATRE WED. & THURS. MURDER MY SWEET with DICK POWELL CLAIRE TREVOR ANNE SHIRLEY* DOUGLAS WALTON Also SATURDAY CASANOVA IN BURLESQUE with JOE E. BROWN DALE EVANS Also Technicolor Special SUN., MON. & TUES. FOR WHOM THE William B. Collins, electrical engineering graduate of '35, was recently promoted to rank of lieutenant colonel and awarded the Bronze Star and an Oak Leaf Cluster while serving with Gen. Patton's Third Army in the Field Artillery. William H. Dickey, graduate of '44 from Chatom, was also given wings and bars at Spence Field, Moultrie, Ga. last Sunday. News and Cartoon FRIDAY WARNER BAXTER in SHADOWS IN THE NIGHT Added Color Cartoon Also Community Sing Plus "Desert Hawk" BELLS TOLL with GARY COOPER INGRID BERGMAN Plus Latest News DINE +N A FRIENDLY ATMOSPHERE You'll like our courteous help and pleasant surroundings. STEAKS CHICKEN SEAFOOD Auburn Grille r (Continued from page five) pointed out that a superior student will not be debarred from scheduling an overload. An engineering student with a grade point average of 2.5 for the preceding quarter may, with the permission of a Dean, take an overload of three quarter credit hours; a student with a grade point average of 3.5 may be allowed to schedule an overload of five quarter credit hours. It will be understood, of course, that students will not be required to schedule new subjects in former quarters of the curriculum already passed. Thus, the additional requirement for a student entering the first quarter of the senior year in the next summer quarter will be only 6 quarter credit hours. Here's the winning bid.. • Have a Coca-Cola ... a way to keep the game going refreshed Have a Coke can be your invitation on any occasion, if you remember to have a supply of Coca-Cola in your refrigerator. In homes everywhere, Coca-Cola has made the pause that refreshes a family custom... a happy interlude for friendly refreshment. BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY OPELIKA COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO., Inc. You naturally hear Coca-Cola 1 called by its friendly abbreviation A "Coke". Both mean the quality prod- I uc t of The Coca-Cola Company. HESEASCH AND ENGINEERING KEEP GENERAL ELECTRIC YEARS AHEAD REMOTE CONTROL H Spickness and spanness were de rigueur in the colleges of the 1840s. This portrait depicts a member of the Class of 1845 attired for the Junior Prom. Observe the height of his stock and the costly ruffles on his shirt. In that same year, 1845, the Mexican War was imminent. Railway Express service was 6 years old. The colleges were few. Now, a century later, America is fighting a global war, the colleges are counted by thousands, and our service is nation-wide. Today, the colleges are training students for the armed services; and the rail and air facilities of Railway Express are being largely utilized for the speeding of war-goods shipments. So, to help all concerned, please do three simple things with your 1945 home packages and baggage: Pack them securely— address clearly and adequately—avoid abbreviating state names. NATION-WIDE 'iW.., f RAIL-AIR SERVICE E'S a gunner on a Boeing Superfortress. And there's a J a p plane framed in his sight. As he swings around, tracking the J a p , t h e l ow steel-lidded turret—which may be yards away—also turns. It follows his movements, and the guns raise and lower. And by pressing a button under his thumb, he can fire a fatal barrage. But those guns don't point where he's aiming. For tied in between h im and the guns is the G-E electronic-mechanical computer. It makes corrections for lead, windage, distance, parallax. By flicking a switch, he can take over the control of up to three turrets. That leaves the B-29 protected on all sides—no blind spots for enemy attack! Superforts can fly without fighter escort, hold their own in a scrap over J a p territory. And almost any day's headlines will give the top-heavy score of J a p planes downed—largely because of a winning combination of planes, men, guns. Hoar )h« G-E radio program: "Th« G-E All-girl Orchntra" Sunday 10 p.m. EWT, NBC—"The World Today" new«, Monday through Friday, 6:45 p.m. EWT, CBS—'The G-E Houn Party," Monday fhrough Friday, 4:00 p.m. EWT, CBS. The bMl Invotrmont In Hi* world It In this country's furvro. (Coop all rho Bondi you Buy. GENERAL « ELECTRIC 'What if we don't get picked up before our Sir Walter Raleigh runs out?" FRBBS 24-page illustrated booklet tells how to select and break in o new pipe/ rules far pipa cleaning, etc. Write today. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, Louisville 1, Kentucky^ Fighting moisture and fungus-communication's jungle enemies Ever-present dangers to military communications are the twin enemies of the jungle—moisture and fungus. By impairing the efficient working of telephones and radios, they can halt vital messages as effectively as cutting the wires. The long experience of Bell Laboratories engineers in designing telephone equipment for use under all climatic conditions has helped the Signal Corps in counter-attacking these enemies of the jungle. Lessons learned in this wartime emergency will aid in building better communications equipment for war and peace. ft- BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM "Service to the Nation in Peace and War" |
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