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VOL. LXXVI ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1949 Number 4
Program Plans Given
I For Annual Beauty Ball
10 Yearbook Beauties To Be Selected
At ODK-Glomerata Dance October 28
|L The 1950 Omicron Delta Kappa—Glomerata Beauty Ball
? will be held October 28 in the student activities building, it
£ was announced by ODK and Glomerata officials this week.
I Plans have been completed for t h e selection and elimination
''• of candidates for t h e b e a u t y section of the 1950 yearbook.
There are to be 38 candidates
spfcnsored by fraternities, sorori­ties
and independent students
Fraternities will sponsor 28 of the
candidates, with sororities having
eight, Auburn Hall two, Alumni
Hall two, Susan Smith Cottage
one, and the Auburn Independent
Organization five.
There will be a meeting of all
candidates Thursday, Oct. 20, at
Social Center. At this meeting the
V girls will draw for order of ap-i
pearance and will be given final
plans for the Beauty Ball.
Preliminary judging f o r the
candidates will be made final by
five local judges at the Vander-bilt
pep rally October 27. The
names of the 18 girls selected for
final judging at this meeting will
be announced at the Beauty Ball.
All candidates will wear suits
for the preliminary judging on
Thursday, and the names of the
judges-will not be announced un-
•* til time for the preliminary elimi­nation.
The 18 girls who >are selected
by the local judges at the pep
rally will be announced at the be-
( ginning of the dance on October
28. The final ten girls who will
4 appear in the Glomerata beauty
section' will then be selected by
four judges who are beauty styl­ists
or photographers from Ala­bama
and Georgia. These four
judges will not be announced un­til
the night of the dance.
The presidents or organizations
sponsoring candidates will be held
responsible for seeing that their
candidates are p r e s e n t at all
meetings and judgings. Girls spon­sored
by sororities and dormito­ries
may be escorted by their own
dates, officials of the ball an­nounced.
Music for the Beauty Ball will
,be p r o v i d e d by the Auburn
/Knights.
FIRST CLASS EDITOR
\
Sophomore Class
To Meet Oct. 25
A meeting of the sophomore
class will be held Tuesday, Oct.
25, in Langdon Hall at 7 p.m.
Since this will be the first meet­ing
of the class, the purpose is
for organization.
• Numbered cards will be sent to
each member of the sophomore
class announcing the meeting. Ac­cording
to Gene Allred, sophomore
president, a drawing will be held
at the meeting, and students who
have winning numbers on their
cards will be awarded gifts do­nated
by Auburn merchants.
Members must be present to win.
In an effort to form a closer or­ganization,
the following will
make addresses:
T. C. Clark Jr., director of stu­dent
affairs; Joe Meade, president
of the Student Executive Cabinet;
Bob Vann, chairman of the stu­dent
relations committee, and
John Martin, sophomore class
representative to the cabinet.
Allred and other class officers
urge all sophomores to attend the
meeting and to participate in fu­ture
class activities.
Male Beauty Contest
To Be Held At Tiger
A beauty c o n t e s t between
pledges from each fraternity will
be presented on the stage of the
V Tiger Theatre Tuesday night at
nine o'clock. Participants will be
dressed up like women and will
be judged on the basis of female
resemblance and appropriate at­tire.
Prizes, including a ten dollar
cash award, will be awarded the
winner of the contest which is
'being staged in conjunction with
the movie, "I Was A Male War
I Bride."
Hugh Gaston
'49 Glomerata Gets
First Class Rating
The 1949 Glomerata received a
First Class classification in the
annual National Scholastic Press
Association yearbook ratings, ac­cording
to a letter received by
Hugh Gaston, editor of the book.
The '49 Glomerata was one of 16
college yearbooks attaining this
honor and becomes the sixth an­nual
in Auburn history to receive
this classification. Only one other
Auburn yearbook has gained a
higher classification, the 1941
Glomerata e d i t e d by William
"Trigger" McGehee.
N.S.P.A. is a judging group that
meets annually at the University
of Wisconsin to judge and rate the
various college yearbooks and to
offer criticisms designed to be of
aid to yearbook staffs in the edit­ing
and make-up of future books.
Books are judged page-by-page
with criticism and scores being
given to. each individual page.
Page scores are then compiled
and the total gives the score and
the rating of the book.
On the whole, the judges com­mented
favorably on the make­up,
photography, inside and out­side
cover, art work, and theme
of the '49 book. The judges cited
the calendar girl section as a
particularly "wonderful rest for
sore eyes" and praised the use of
100 per cent student work on the
book. The chief criticism offered
pertained to the crowding of too
much copy into too little space.
Gaston follows his two im-m
e d i a t e predecessors, S t a rr
Prollsdorfer and John Shaffer,
editors of the '47 and '48 Glom-eratas,
in achieving this honor.
Unified Drive Dates
For Campus Listed
Auburn's first unified charity
drive will be held on the campus
November 2 and 3 according to
Allen Price and Milton Blount,
junior representatives to the Exe­cutive
Cabinet and co-chairmen of
the Drives Committee. All chari­ties
which previously had individ­ual
drives will be included in this
one campaign.
Tentative allocation plans, sub­ject
to approval by the cabinet,
call for the following percentage
break-down:
Auburn Community Chest, 12%;
Cancer Fund, 16%; Crippled
Children's Fund, 12%; March of
Dimes, 11%; Student Aid Founda­tion,
16%; Red Cross, 12%, and
World Student Service Fund, 21%.
Although 12 per cent of total
contributions is to be allocated to
the Auburn Community Chest, the
campus drive will be held as a
separate campaign from the
town's drive.
4 Committee Heads
Chosen By Cabinet
At Recent Meeting
Two Committees,
Ring And Social,
Get Cabinet OK
At a meeting of the Student
Executive Cabinet on Wednesday,
Oct. 12, four permanent chair­men
were selected for the coming
year by the cabinet. The new
chairmen of their respective com­mittees
are:
Bill Fleming, Rat Cap Commit­tee;
Bob Vann, Student Relations
Committee; Gilmer Blackburn,
Invitations Committee, and Bill
Fleming, Political Activities Com­mittee.
The cabinet suggested that the
Student Relations Committee be
reduced in size. Fleming was also
authorized to select five members
for the Political Activities Com­mittee.
Two committees—the ring and
social—were approved by the
cabinet. New members of the
Ring Committee are Karon Jen­nings,
Tommy Eden, Bill Flem­ing,
Carroll Keller and Hal
Breedlove.
Matt Wiggins, Zeb Robinson,
Betty Jean Jordan, Tommy Grif­fin
and Tom Cannon were ap­proved
as members of the Social
Committee.
A financial report of the cabi­net
was given by Joy Love, trea­surer.
The present financial set­up
of the group shows a budget
of $2700.00, with) a record of e x ­penditures
totaling .$1221.99 and
a balance of $1478.01.
Other actions taken by the
cabinet included the approval of
Katherine Smith and Annette
Bailey as the secretary and repre­sentative,
respectively, of the so­phomore
class.
'LOOK SHARP, FEEL SHARP, BE SHARP1
fYOU TOUCHED ME'
CAST ANNOUNCED
Milton Brietzke, new instructor
in the department of dramatic
arts, recently announced the
selection of the cast for the Au­burn
Players' n e x t program,
"You Touched Me." The Tennes­see
Williams-Donald Windham
comedy will be presented at the
Y-Hut November 9.
The cast includes: Eleanor
Haines, Emmie; Hazel Riley,
Matilda; Leonard Hart, Captain
Rockley; Russel Wiltsie, Hadrian;
Chris Malone, Phoebe; Leonard
Harris, clergyman, and T. O.
Erhart, policeman. Patti Bees
will be prompter
THE ALPHA TAU OMEGA stunt featuring a guillotine with,
an Auburn Blue Blade wrecking the Tech Yellow Jacket took
second place honors in the Pajama Parade last, week. No picture
of the Pi Kappa Alpha's first place stunt was' available in time
for publication.
Qualification Procedure Announced
For Frosh, Miss Auburn Elections
Miss Auburn and freshman officers election date has been
set by the Executive Cabinet as Thursday, Nov. 10. All cand­idates
must qualify by October 31. •
Miss Homecoming candidates had not been determined
by the Qualifications Board when The Plainsman went to
pres; The election of Miss Home-coming
will be November 10.
Cardinal Key To Give
3 Coeds Scholarships
Cardinal Key, national junior
and senior women's honor society,
will award three $100.00 scholar­ships
to Auburn coeds, Ruth Poor,
club president, announced yester­day.
These scholarships will be
given to three coeds during the
winter and spring quarters.
Any girl who would like to ap­ply
should contact Miss Poor in
Dorm II before October 26.
Miss Poor said that money made
from the concession machines in
the women's dormitories will be
used for the scholarships. Girls
will be selected On basis of scho­lastic
achievement, character and
monetary need.
Candidates' petitions must be
turned into the Chairman of the
Political Activities Committee by
noon of the day the board meet­ing
is scheduled, according to Joe
Meade, cabinet president. Petitions
should be turned in to Bill Flem­ing
at the SPE fraternity house.
Nominations for freshman offi­cers
should be submitted in the
following form:
"We, the undersigned members
of the class of 1953, do hereby
nominate (name) >for (position)."
This should be followed by the
signatures of four per cent of the
freshman enrollment and by a
statement of acceptance by the
nominee. -,
Only members of the freshman
class are eligible to vote in the
freshman election.
Any undergraduate woman stu­dent
may qualify for Miss Au­burn
or Miss Homecoming except
first year students and first quar­ter
transfers. Each college operat­ed
dormitory (men's and wo­men's),
each social fraternity and
sorority and each organization re­cognized
by the cabinet is en­titled
to nominate one candidate
for each title.
All students are eligible to vote
in the elections of Miss Auburn
and Miss Homecoming.
ATTENTION SENIORS
Orders for graduation invi­tations
will be taken by the
Invitations Committee Novem­ber
3 and 4 in Samford Hall.
This will be the only lime or­ders
will be taken. Gilmer
Blackburn, committee chair­man,
urges all graduating sen­iors
to place their orders at this
time.
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Norton Cites New
Gl Bill Deadline
Pi M. Norton, coordinator of
veterans affairs at A.P.I, warned
the veterans who hold supple­mental
certificates of eligibility
for- education that valid enroll­ment
after Nov. 1 depends upon
meeting requirements of revised
regulations.
The n e w regulations require
that applications for supplemental
certificates after Nov. 1 must show
the name of the institution and
the course. They also limit addi­tional
education or training after
completion or discontinuance of a
course to education or training in
the same general field. This must
be approved in advance by the
VA.
A change to any other field will
be authorized only in unusual
cases where the veteran can show
the type of education or training
requested is needed in his educa­tion
or training requested is need­ed
in his educational or employ­ment
objective. The revised regu­lations
continue existing proce­dures
for "G.I. Bill" flight train­ing
applications.
Professor Haltwanger
To Attend ASCE Meet
Prof. John Haltwanger, of the
civil engineering department,
will represent Auburn at the fall
meeting of the American Society
of Civil Engineering in Washing­ton.
The meeting will begin No­vember
1 with the opening of the
student chapter. A general ses­sion
will then be held, followed
by the techanical division's dis­cussions.
• Haltwanger will serve with
faculty members from other col­leges
in an advisory capacity.
HARMONY AT ALABAMA-AUBURN PLANNING CONFERENCE
STUDENT AND FACULTY LEADERS FROM Alabama and Auburn met on this campus last
week to make plans for week end activities centered around the December 3rd football game.
About 50 representatives from the two schools discussed problems and reached agreements on
game plans. .
TO SPEAK TONIGHT
Tigers To Meet Greenies
In Sugar Bowl Saturday
Conflict Will Be Thirtieth Meeting
Of The Two Teams; Tulane Favored
By Stuart Stephenson, Jr.
New Orleans' spacious Sugar Bowl Stadium will be the
scene of the 30th Auburn-Tulane gridiron contest Saturday.
Kickoff time will be 2:15 p.m.
The Tigers are still to realize a victory from a South­eastern
Conference competitor since a 20-14 victory over the
Florida 'Gators in 1947. Barring
the victory gate this week will
be Coach Henry Frnka's powerful
Green Wave that journeyed to
South Bend, Ind., last week rank­ed
fourth in the nation, only to
become a chartreuse trickle be­fore
Leahy's powerwful legions.
Tulane lost 46-7, but this doesn't
mean they no longer are a power­house
in the South. Prior to the
South Bend game, the Greenies
threw their weight around in the
SEC by defeating Alabama's
Crimson Tide, 28-14, Georgia
Tech, 18-0, and Southwestern
Louisiana Institute, 40-0.
Last year Auburn surprised Tu­lane
by trailing only 7-6 up to the
last eight minutes of lay. Two
quick touchdawns won for the
Greenies, but Frnka was a dazed
man. After the game he said to
Auburn Coach Earl Brown: "You
almost got us this time, but we'll
really be ready for you next
year."
That's what Brown's afraid of.
He says, "I'm afraid Tulane is
going to catch us on the rebound
after the Notre Dame game.
Frnka promised me he'd be ready
for Auburn last year after the
scare we gave him and I believe
him."
The Tulane squad lost only five
lettermen from their 1948 aggre­gation.
Thirty-one lettermen are
on hand this year to keep the
Wave rolling.
3 Cheerleaders
To Be Selected
At Tulane Rally
'French Quarter' Dance
Is Also On Schedule
Of Tomorrow's Events
Tryouts for three cheerleader
positions will be held tomorrow
at 6:45 p.m. in Cliff Hare Stad­ium
in conjunction with the Tu­lane
pep rally. One boy and one
girl from the freshman class will
be chosen, and an additional girl
will be elected to replace Bar­bara
Newman, who recently re­signed.
A "French Quarter" pep rally
dance will be held from 7:30 to
9:30 p.m. in the student activi­ties
building. The A u b u rn
Knights will play at the dance,
which will feature Dixieland
numbers.
The Pep Committee urges all
students to come dressed in
French costumes. Dean Katha­rine
Cater has- announced that
girls will have 10 p.m. permis­sion
for the dance.
Immediately after the dance a
rally will be held at the train
station to see the team off. The
Auburn Marching Band will be
on hand for this final part of
the program.
PiKA Takes First
In Pajama Parade
Pi Kappa Alpha and Alpha Tau
Omega won first and second place
respectively for their stunts in
last week's "Wreck Tech Pajama
Parade." Various fraternities and
other organizations entered the
traditional . e v e n t which ended
with a pep rally at the stadium.
i The PiKA stunt featured fresh­men
wearing tiger masks. The
first group, walking under a ban­ner
which said ."Let's Do This
Thing Up Friendly Like," wore
halos and carried harps. Behind
this group were more "tigers"
with pitchforks and tail. They car­ried
a sign saying "But Ain't We
Little Devils, Auburn 50-Tech 0."
'*ATO Presents the Death Sent­ence"
was the theme of the Alpha
Tau Omega stunt. Hangmen with
axes preceded a coffin carrying a
dead alligator. On the box was
printed "Axe F l ' o r i d a , They
Know". Behind this group was a
float featuring a guillotine with a
blue razor blade. The slogan on
this part of the stunt was "Auburn
—Look Sharp, Be Sharp, Feel
Sharp—Wreck Tech."
Judges were Mrs. Ralph Carroll,
Fran Harper, Christine Hudson,
Barney Miller and Winifred Wal-drop.
Alfred Holbrook
Pilcher And Mahaffey
To Attend Conference
Joe Pilcher, president of the
Debate Council, and Prof. Joseph
Mahaffey, instructor in speech
and director of debate, will at­tend
a meeting at Spring Hill on
October 22 to complete plans for
API's entrance into the Deep
South Debate Conference.
Six colleges from Alabama and
Mississippi have been asked to
join this conference. Proposed
members are:
University of Mississippi, Mis­sissippi
Southern, Millsaps Col­lege,
University of Alabama,
Spring Hill, and Auburn.
Membership in the conference
is limited to first a n d second
year debaters only. The first
year teams will debate principal­ly
on their home campuses while
second year debaters will debate
away from home. Each school
will visit the campus of every
other school during the scholas­tic
debate season.
Alfred H. Holbrook
To Present Lecture
On Campus Tonight
•The Auburn art department
will present Alfred H. Holbrook,
retired New York lawyer a nd
collector of "A Century of
American Art," in a lecture, free
to students, faculty and the in­terested
public, tonight at 8:15 in
the Architecture a n d A r ts
Library.
An exponent of the idea that
business meii should cultivate in­terest
apart from their work, Mr.
Holbrook turned to the field of
art and began a collection which
today is valued at $175,000. He
selected the University of Geor­gia
four years ago as the place
where he would like to spend his
retired days. He is a familiar
figure on that campus, where he
is studying art. Mr. Holbrook has
given his collection- to the uni­versity,
and it is on display in
the Georgia Library.
'Review' To Pay'
For Manuscripts
It was decided at the meeting
of the Review Club recently that
contributions for the fall issue of
the Auburn Review be paid for,
O. S. Stroud, president, announced
today.
Editorial board and staff' mem"-
bers for the Review were also ap­pointed
and approved by the club.
They are as follows:
Editorial board, Jim Hearn, Tex
Shewell, and Bill Rogers, student
members; Prof. Howard Metz and
Dr. David H. Malone, faculty
members.
Business Manager, Boyd Hinton;
faculty advisor, Prof. Theodore C.
Hoepfner, and art editor, Prof.
Basil Cimino.
Material printed in the Review
this quarter will be paid for on a
per page basis upon publication
about December 1' and should be
submitted to the English Office,
Samford 315, before November 15.
Manuscripts should be sealed in
one envelope without the writer's
name and the title of story or
poem and the authors name
sealed in order to conceal identi­ty.
Each manuscript should be in
a separate envelope if one person
submits more than one article. All
manuscripts s h o u l d be typed
double space.
The Review Club meets Thurs­day
7:30 p.m. in Samford 301 and
Stroud urges anyone interested in
the work of the Review to attend.
PLAINSMAN STAFF
There will be a meeting of THE
PLAINSMAN s t a f f in THE
PLAINSMAN office at 5 p.m.
Thursday. Oct. 20. All interested
students are urged to attend this
meeting.
I •
Price Leads Wave
Fullback Eddie Price's talents
are those which the opposition
hears most about. Price wound up
last year with a net yardage of
1178 in 188 carrying attempts.
This year, he led Tulane backs
with 234 yards in 38 attempts
through the Georgia Tech game.
He was sidelined with a knee
injury in the Louisiana Tech
game and was held to 26 yards
in 10 attempts by the virtually
impenetrable Notre Dame line.
An interesting statistic from this
game is that the Greenies netted
only 23 yards from rushing at­tempts.
Against Alabama's lumbering
elephants Price accounted for 149
yards—more than three times as
much as was gained by the entire
Alabama backfield.
Svoboda Wave Star
As if Price weren't enough,
Coach Frnka has two more big
leaguers at his command in
Quarterback Joe Ernest, and
Halfback Bill Svoboda.*Svoboda,
a_ senior who packs 210 pounds
into a six-foot frame, doesn't con­tent
himself with line plunging,
but is established as one of the
nation's leading line backers.
In all positions the Green Wave
has experienced and capable re­serve
strength in addition to their
galaxy of standouts. The name of
Paul Bienz, a five-foot, seven
inch, 170 pound fullback, will
ring familiar to followers of Au­burn
track teams. This speedster
blazed down the cinder paths in
numerous SEC Track Meets last
spring to cop honors in the 100
and 200 yard dashes.
Cliff Van Meter, George Kinek,
and Jimmy Glisson are names
that have figured prominently in
Tulane victories for two seasons.
In the line the Greenies boast
two full teams of monogram
wearers. There's plenty of brawn,
too, with not a man of the eleven
man tackle group weighing under
200 pounds; and only one sopho­more
guard ( a 198-pounder) to
lower the average in that group.
In the series to date Tulane has
thirteen wins to ten for the
Plainsmen. Five games have end­ed
in deadlocks—three of these
were 0-0 draws in succession in
1936, '37, and '38.
The Tigers will go into the
New Orleans fray in good physi­cal
condition after the Tech game.
Center Coker Barton and Guard
(Continued on page 8)
• M
Auburn's Eight Sororities
Piedge 150 During Rush
According to a statement from the Office of the Dean of and Mary Jean Smith, Mobile
Women, 150 girls were pledged by the eight sororities on the
'campus this quarter. This number is only slightly larger than
last year's, when 141 girls were pledged.
Here is the complete list by sororities:
ALPHA DELTA PI
Patsy Ashcraft, Ann Bayer, An­na
Hoskins, Katharine McAllister,
Mary Elizabeth McGary, Marcia
Morgan, Sara Eegan and Ann
Stollenwerck, Birmingham; Doro­thy
Boykin, Mobile; Dora Sue
Cook, Cottonwood.
Carolyn Denson, Mary Palmer,
and Martha Rice, Opelika; Denny
Hosey, Selma; Rose Johns, Mont­gomery;
Helen Johnson, Tampa,
Fla.; Patsy Layfield, Columbus,
Ga.; Marlin Miller, Trussville; Dot
Ward, Auburn, and Marion Wat­son,
Decatur, Ga.
ALPHA GAMMA DELTA
Catherine Bailey, Joan Holland
and Neita Moore, Anniston; Jean
Buck, Columbus, Ga.; Dorothye
Grayson Comly, Mary Terrell Du­mas,
Anne Howell and Barbara
Allen Joyce, Mobile; Betty Ann
Craig, Clair Eyrich, Peggy Hines,
Mary Ann McDonald, Jeanne Oli­ver,
and Sara Salter, Birmingham.
Ann Judson Dorsey and Rebec­ca
Dorsey, Opp; Ann Gait, Selma;
Trudy Griffin, Bessemer; Jane
Motes, S y l a c a u g a ; Jacqueline
Smith, G o s h e n , and Jeanetta
Ware, Auburn.
ALPHA OMICRON PI
Jean Allen, G a d s d e n ; Millie
Barker, Marion; Nita Braly, Har-ville
Phillips a n d Ann Pope,
Huntsville; Jackie Cooley, Dothan;
Martha Dean, Jane Garrett and
Eleanor W a l k e r , Montgomery;
Jean Griffith, Birmingham; Jan
Henderson a n d Louise Manley,
Opelika; Edna Payne and Her
Payne, Selma; Mary Ann Phillips,
Auburn; Dot Prim, Mobile; Caro­lyn
Shores, Sylacauga, and Fran­ces
Stuart, Stanton.
CHI OMEQA
Shirley Ahlstrand a n d Alice
Park, Atlanta, Ga.; Shannon Alex­ander,
Bettie Elliott and Betty
Monroe, Huntsville; Ann Alvord,
June Anson, Nancy Evans, Jo Ann
Nunn and Beverly Ritchie, Au­burn;
Miriam Arnold, Abbeville;
Billie Lou Cooper, New Orleans,
La.; Mary Ann Deramus, Ver­bena;
Burke Elley and Merian
Ann Hinkle, Birmingham; Nancy
Anne Grey, Albertville; Betty
Lumpkin, Headland; Celia Mullen,
Mobile; Nell Scarbrough, Eufaula,
DELTA ZETA
Pat Andress, Beatrice, Ga.; Ma­ry
Avery; Lily Jean Bowie, and
Ethel Mae Evans and Marion
Hassler, Birmingham; M a r t ha
Baxter, Ashford, Mary Dill, Ocilla,
Ga.; Barbara Farrington, Center -
ville; Edna Earl Hodge, Hunts­ville;
Rita Marie Kelly and Betty
Pollard, Mobile, and Nan Triplett,
Anniston.
KAPPA DELTA
Catherine Adams, Dothan; Mar­tha
Sue Bailey, Jean Fleming,
Joan Thrasher and Joyce Tubb,
Montgomery; Stanley Bright, Bet­ty
Jones, Auburn; Martha Buzbee,
Dadeville; P a t r i c i a Chambers,
Washington, D.C.; Martha Crabbe,
Birmingham; Katherine Dean, Al­exander
City; Helen Hightower,
Geneva; Jeanne Johnson, Hard-away;
Mary Lanier, West Point,
Ga.; Martha Ann Mardre, Opelika;
Patsy Moulton, Lindale, Ga-! Stel­la
Norton, Union Springs; Floyd
Redd, Foley; Louise Sanford,
Prattville; Mary Allen Tucker,
LaFayette; Carlin Vineyard, Jack­son,
Tenn., and Allie Carolyn
Williams, Union Springs.
PHI MU
Ann Arnett, Margaret Ann
Draper, Pat Hufham, Mary Jack­son,
Mary Lou McClendpn, Helen
Netherly, Delores Sharbel, Nona
Thaggard, Tina Whitson and Peg­gy
Williams, Birmingham; Joyce
Gentry, Gadsden; Bobbie Hicks,
Eutaw.
Gloria Lucky and Jean Waddy,
Anniston; Becky Pearce, Martha
Lou Thompson and Rose Marie
Walker, Columbus, Ga.; Carolyn
Price, Sylacauga; Betty Sue Shoe-neck,
Charlotte, N. C; Jackie
Webb, Bessemer, a n d Virginia
Corby, Talladega. 9
THETA UPSILON
Mabel Jean Adair, Mary Ellen
Allison, Jean Hudson, Katherine
Jones, Eleanor Kelley and Margie
Price, Birmingham; Bonita Aver-ett,
Daleville; Martha Lou Ben-bow,
Luverne; Mary Ruth Mc-
Clendon, Trussville; G r a c e l yn
Reid, Plymouth, N.C., and Jane
Wyatt, Vincent. ^
UNDER THE SPIRES
By Bob Swift
2—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, Oct. 19, 1949
PRESBYTERIAN
The Westminster Fellowship is
making plans to send several stu­dents
to Birmingham to attend
the Synod Conference to be held
October 28-30. All students who
plan to attend the conference are
requested to notify the secretary
at the Westminster House by
October 21.
Saturday, October «2, will be
"Clean Up and Paint" day. The
church yards will be cleaned up,
and the kitchen of the Westmin­ster
Hquse will be painted on that
day. A | lunch will be served in
coHclusion of the program.
A study of the book of Ro-
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Theta Chi Elects Officers
Lawrence A. Alexander of Georgiana has been elected
president of the local chapter of Theta Chi fraternity. Other
new officers include:
William Grice, Monroeville, vice president; Jack Kelly,
Hattiesburg, Miss., secretary; Glenn McLain, Calera, "mar-shall;
O. C. Miller, Anniston, first guard; Robert Brackney,
Anniston, second guard; Fred Kilgore, Birmingham, chap­lain.
Jimmy Neighbors, Alexander City, librarian; George
Sti&rt, Bay Minette, historian; Dick SudWf, Stuart, Fla.,
representative to Inter-Fraternity Council; James Haynes,
Decatur, house manager; and Fred Carley, Mobile, sports
manager.
Presley To Head Phi Delts
Alabama Beta chapter of Phi Delta Theta fraternity re-centy
elected new officers to serve for the next two quarters.
Curt Presley of Clarksdale, Miss., was chosen president.
Others selected were: i
Dick Martin, Athens, reporter; Forrest Peterman, Mont­gomery,
warden; Graham McTeer, Tallassee, recording sec­retary;
Lee Oliver, Macon, Ga., alumni secretary; Homer
Tillery, Macon, Ga., "chorister; Herb Uthlaut, Orlando, Fla.,
chaplain; Bill Poor, Oak Ridge, Tenn., librarian, and Bobby
Dukes, Decatur, Ga., historian. Charles Goodell, West Palm
Beach, Fla., was elected to serve as treasurer beginning next
quarter.
* * *-
Myer New Tau President
Alpha Lambda chapter of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity re­cently
elected officers. They ate:
Perry Myer, Alexander City, president; Bill Quenelle,
Anniston, vice-president; "Skeets" Forbus, Alexander City,
secrtary; Al Searcy, Enterprise, treasurer; Sig Redelshimer.
Atlanta, sergeant-at-arms; Bib Wheeler, Birmingham, pledge-master;
Jack Lawley, Good water, society chairman; Eddie
Silber, Chicago, 111., rushing chairman; Bill Avant, Dothan,
steward.
Bill Collier, Anniston, chaplain; K e n Hobbs, Ashville,
N.C., IFC representative; Harrison Reese, Birmingham, in­tramural
representative; Gene Wilson, Nankipoo, Ga.,' and
Walter Ramey, Mobile, representatives to the executive
council; Ken Luke, Birmingham, house manager; Bob Al­len,
Milton, Fla., alumni contact secretary, and Bill'Freed-lund,
Freeport, N.Y., editor.
mans is- being conducted by Dr.
Leith on Monday through Friday
nights at 7:30. All students and.
townspeople are urged to attend.
METHODIST
If you're looking around for
something to do on Friday nights,
the Wesley Foundation offers a
weekly program of recreation
every Friday at 7:30 p.m. The pro­gram
will be as varied as possible
—chess for the intellectuals,
games for the average person,
ping-pong for the indoor athlete,
singing for the musical, and a
wide range of other activities.
Everyone is invited to these re­creational
periods. They are avail­able
every day of the week as
well as on Friday.
BAPTIST
The "Greater Council" of the
BSU will entertain the deacons
and their wives with a "coffee"
immediately following prayer
meeting Thursday night. Friday
night a party will be held for all
Baptist students.
The topic for Noonday Medita­tion
this week is "Compromise
Means Spiritual Paralysis." Glenn
Marsh will have charge of the
service today, Jennieve Fuquax
will conduct it Thursday, and
Cliff . Sanford will end the ser­vices
Friday.
All students who have not
turned 4n their reservations for
the state convention, should do so
before October 24.
EPISCOPAL
Episcopal students will have
their "Every Member Canvass,"
beginning October 17 and lasting
through October 21, it was an­nounced
by Walter Jones, chair­man
of the finance committee. A
dinner meeting was held Monday
night, October 17, to start the ball
rolling. If you have not been con­tacted
by the EMC, get in touch
with Jimmy Alves, the chairman,
as soon as possible.
Confirmation classes are being
held at the church for those who
are interested in its teachings
every Sunday afternoon at 4:15.
Bishop Randolph Clairborne will
visit the Emmanuel Bishop in
Opelika for confirmations on
January 8, 1950. Bishop C. J. Car­penter
will visit the Church of
the Holy Innocents for confirma­tions
April 30, 1950.
CATHOLIC
Father Cody of Alexander City
gave a talk on Monday, October
17, to the members of the New­man
Club. His topic was with re­gard
to the life of Cardinal New­man
and the founding of the New­man
Club.
Reports on the Gulf States Pro­vince
Convention, held last week
end at .S.L.I., were given by
Father Doran, pastor and chap­lain
of the club, and Peter Doug­las,
delegate from the Auburn
group.
There will be refreshments and
dancing following every Monday
night meeting, it was announced
by the president. All members
and friends are cordially invited.
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LUTHERAN
Supper was served to the mem­bers
of Gamma Delta, the newly
organized Lutheran student or­ganization.
The supper was ser­ved
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Barringer of Loachapoka,
Sunday, Oct. 16. Following the
supper, the Rev. Boriack deliv­ered
a talk on the doctorines of
the Roman Catholic Church. His
address was the first of a series of
discussions of the doctorines of
churches in America which will
be presented throughout the re­mainder
of the quarter.
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A booth exhibit by the Auburn
Dairy Science Club was entered at
the 1949 Alabama State Fair in
Birmingham recently.
The exhibit emphasized the
high energy value of milk. Pic­tures
and diagrams comparing the
energy value of milk with that of
other common foods were on dis­play.
Charles Loyd, junior in dairy
manufacturing from Stevenson,
prepared the exhibit.
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Pledge Lists Of Six Fraternities
Boost Total To 316; More Expected
Announcement of 107 pledges by six fraternities gives
a total of 316 pledges by 19 A u b u r n fraternities during the
r e c e n t l y completed rush week. One fraternity, Delta Sigma
Phi, did not t u r n in a list to The Plainsman.
The total number of pledges is expected to reach approxi­mately
350 when the fraternities
complete t h e i r pledging. This
HIXON DEMONSTRATES INVENTION I 3—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, Oct. 19, 1949
M Class Officers Hope For Spirit Boost
"*"* Through Organization Of Four Classes
year's total is slightly below the
figures of last yean
Here are the s i x additional
fraternity lists:
TAU KAPPA EPSILON
Joe Miller, Birmingham; Wil­liam
Epperson, Montgomery; Har­old
Mann, Tallahassee, Fla.; Billy
Turner, Mobile; P e t e ' Richeson,
Auburn; James Shioli, Daytona
Beach; James Kessler, Chester,
Pa.; Reynold Morris, Mobile; Ron­ald
Tyre, Daytona Beach, Fla., and
Don Murray, Chester, Pa.
THETA CHI
George Connor, Montgomery;
Buddy Graves, Dadeville; Wallace
McNair, Gadsden; George John­son,
Gadsden; Carlos Ward, Fair-hope;
Harry Cosper, Gadsden;
Joel Murphee, Elba; Henry Shack-lett,
Decatur; Robert Schuenke,
Milwaukee, Wis.; K e n Fuller,
Gulfport, Miss.; Albert Woods, Jr.,
Gulfport.
Allan Vilece, Decatur, Ga.; Phil­lip
Foshee, Clanton; Earle Wil­liams,
Auburn; Tommy Ramey,
Tiger, Ga.; J o s e p h Gallagher,
Fairhope; Ed Williams, Caleria.
Sammie Gabriel, Decatur, 111.;
Rayburn A l e x a n d e r , Jackson,
Miss.; Joe Williams, Marietta, Ga.;
Ralph Mark, Birmingham; Ralph
Sheffield, Raleigh, Tenn.; Robert
Ruff; Milton Rowan, Attalla, and
Billy Beckwith, Americus, Ga.
KAPPA SIGMA
Kenneth Barton, Marion; James
Bowles, Jr., Shawmut; Joe Brown,
Jr., Eufaula; Herbert Bryson, En­terprise;
Eugene Hudson, Sylves­ter,
Ga.; Robert Kelly, Wolcott,
Ind.; John Kimmons, Jr., Tarrant;
Lucian Kita, Philadelphia, Pa.;
Henry A. M c C l e n d o n , Hugh
O'Neal, C h i p l e y , Ga.; William
Phelps, Troy; Robert Sollmann,
Nashville; Gerald Stephens, Birm­ingham;
J o e l Stephenson, Jr.,
Brantley; Clarence Sutton, Fort
Gaines, Ga.; James Thomas, Alex­ander
City; Mercer Threlkeld, At­lanta,
and Robert Williams, Mont­gomery.
ALPHA GAMMA RHO '
Edwin Baker, Kingston; John
French, Samson; William Golden,
Auburn; Charles Hamby, Boaz;
Claude Moore, Hieberger; James
Mpore, J J t . Davis; James Murphy,
Sulligent; T a r z a n Pitts, Clio;
James Stokes, Reform,
Thompson, Troy.
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PHI KAPPA TAU
Elvin Ricke, Selma; Lawrence
Russell, Clay Hurley, Bill Gra­ham,
Jerry Fortenberry, Birming­ham;
William Oscar Chavis, Jr.,
Pensacola, Fla.; Stanley Wilson,
Brewton; Edgar Simmons, Atlan­ta,
Ga.; Robert Barnes, Williams­burg,
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By Jimmy Everett
A move for re-creation of class spirit is underway here
at Auburn.
Plans have been m a d e to organize each of the four
classes into working groups, and varied activities have been
planned for the future. Clasps officers hope that this move
will boost individual and class spirit and will create more
interest in student government.
P r e s e n t e d to the executive cabinet, this project received
approval and the first meeting for classes has already been
announced. At these first meetings of the various classes,
committees will be appointed to
Robert Bufford, Gulfport, Miss.;
Thomas Howell, Moulton; William
Ennis, Decatur; Albert Reason-over,
Mobile; John Blue, Sylacau-ga;
Herbert M y e r s , Hartford;
Reginal McLaney, Mobile; James
Russ, Enterprise, and Julius Jones,
Talladega.
SIGMA CHI
Winston McGill, Carvel Kenne­dy,
John Parker, David Weathers,
Charles Green, Bob Thorworth,
Jim Odom, Bob Mathews, John
England, Fred Lawrence, Sid
Coan, and Jim Wright, Mobile;
NorviUe Weekly; Perdido; Billy
Reynolds, Headland; Vann Owens,
and Bill Duke, Chattanooga, Tenn. . . . a n i n s t r u n l e n t o n whicb mathe-
CHARLES R. HIXON. head professor of the department of
engineering, shows students his device for revolving the eight-foot
model slide rule at the touch of a finger in order to compute
a figure on the opposite side.
Professor Hixon Originates Device
To Aid In Teaching of Slide Rule
An Auburn professor has originated a device to m a ke
teaching of the slide rule easier.
He's Charles R. Hixon, head professor of the department
of mechanical engineering. For several years Professor
Hixon, a native of Perote, has been teaching engineering
students how to use the slide rule
Bert Stanford, Bob Jordan,
Tommy Trotter, Charley Hogue,
Sam Romano, Birmingham; Hal
Coppock, Greenwood, Miss.; O. B.
Davis, Columbus, Ga., and Calvin
McCullough, Birmingham.
Staff Members Added
To Chemistry School
H.~M. Martin, dean of the School
of Chemistry, recently announced
the appointment of new staff
members to the school.
Dr. William B. Bunger, B. S.,
M. S., Washburn College, Ph. D.,
Kansas State; J. M. Chilton, B. S.,
University of Alabama, M. S.,
University of Virginia, and Paul
F. Ziegler, B. S., Otterbein, M. S.,
University of Cincinatti have been
assigned to the chemistry depart­ment.
Justin L. Long, B. S., Purdue,
M. S., Iowa State, has been ap­pointed
to the chemical engineer­ing
department.
T h e Quarterback Sunday-
School Class meets every Sun­day
at 10 a.m. in the Tiger
Theater. Coach Shot Senn is
teacher and invites all students
to attend.
matical equations may be com­puted
quickly.
In teaching such a course an
eight - foot enlargement of the
regular slide rule is employed.
Since the heavy contraption must
be fastened to a blackboard, it is
difficult for the instructor to re­verse
it to compute a figure* on
the opposite side.
Professor Hixon originated the
idea of building a revolving rule
which can be turned at the touch
of a finger. Then he decided to
make one for his classroom. The
model worked so well that two or
three more were constructed to be
used in other A.P.I, classes.
The company has written the
professor that they regard his de­vice
as "the perfect answer" to
the .problem of the smooth opera­tion
of a Wall Model Rule.
The letter particularly com­mends
the fact that the model
works equally well mounted on
the wall or blackboard or on a
small frame with rollers. The roll­ers
allow it to be moved easily
from one classroom to another.
Two students, working as shop
mechanicians for the college, as­sisted
Hixon in working out the
details of the device. They were
R. V. Patterson, Auburn, and Ray
Helms, Huntsville.
The Auburn instructor also has
two inventions for fishermen to
his credit—a device to insure that
a fish stays on the hook when he
bites, and a mechanical fish hook
remover.
Exhibit Of Doel Reed
On Display At Gallery
An exhibit of aqua-tints and
drawings by Doel Reed, N. A.,
opens the Auburn exhibits pro­gram
for the fall quarter. Now on
display at the School of Archi­tecture
and Arts gallery, the ex­hibit
will remain open to the
public.until October 22.
"Aqua-tint is a form of etching
that depends- upon tonal value
rather than line for its effective­ness,
and Mr. Reed is largely re­sponsible
for the revival of the
aqua-tint process in this country,"
commented Professor M a 11 b y
Sykes, of the art department.
"His prints in this medium have
been exhibited in numerous mu­seums
and galleries both in the
United States and abroad, and he
has received an imposing number
of awards in national exhibits."
plan social functions and class
projects. Suggestions from the
class will be called for.
For several years organization­al
attempts Have been made for
class meetings but none has been
too successful. Feeling that class
meetings are necessary to get a
true representation of the stu­dent
body, the executive cabinet
in conjunction with the class of­ficers
is planning a variety of
activities for the class meetings.
Prizes contributed by local
merchants will be given at the
meetings and all students pre­sent
will have a chance to win.
In addition to prizes at the meet­ings,
some definite projects for
the classes a r e already under
way and each member will be
given some part in the activity.
There w i l l be competition be­tween
classes in these projects.
Getting the program underway
without any delay, the first class
meeting has been announced.
The sophomore class meets Octo­ber
25 at 7 p.m. in Langdon Hall.
Other meetings will be announc­ed
later in The Plainsman.
Every student is requested by
the Executive Cabinet to attend
these meetings and contribute his
share to the Auburn Spirit. The
purpose of these meetings is t<
create a greater unity among fel­low
students and to increasi
their interest in Auburn activi­ties.
A more unified demand for
n e e d e d programs, activities,
buildings, and college regulations
can be made if each student has
a personal interest in the prob­lem,
it is pointed out by the class
presidents.
Cards will be mailed to each
member giving the time and
place of meeting, and his proper
class status. Announcements will
also be posted on bulletin boards
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and entered in student publica­tions.
The cabinet feels that if this
program aids with the construc­tion
of a student union building
or with the addition of only one
more "War Eagle" at a football
game, it will have accomplished
its purpose.
Caisson Club Elects -
Hartwell President
The Caisson Club, an organiza­tion
made up of advanced field
artillery students, held election of
officers for the fall quarter at a
recent meeting. New officers are:
Charles H a r t w e l l , president;
Spud Wright, secretary, and Buck
Rivas, treasurer.
The next regular meeting will
be held Tuesday night, Oct. 25, at
7 in TB 6-A, and all advanced
field artillery students are in­vited
by the officers to attend.
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Strong Class Organization Needed
For the past few years, class organiza­tion,
at Auburn has been neglected. Two
main factors have probably been responsi­ble
for this lack of activity—the adoption
of the quarter system, causing many stu­dents
to wonder just which class they are
members of, and the high enrollment of
older students, admittedly in school for
nothing but an education, one that could
be attained as quickly as possible.
Auburn is still on the quarter system,
but the present student body is composed
mainly. of younger students, anxious to
return to a college l i f e comparable to
that of the pre-war years. This change
should be great enough to warrant an at­tempt
at some from of class organization.
Advantages of closly-knit classes are
many. Primarily, such a system gives each
student a chance for association with other
students at the same stage of school life,
students with whom he will be graduated
and will return to the campus at class re­unions
in years to come. Class organiza­tion
is a means of strengthening future
alumni groups. Important, too, organiza­tion
treats a feeling of competition be­tween
classes. In e a c h class' efforts to
Something In The Air
Highest praise is due the P e p Com­mittee
and others responsible for t he
"Wreck Tech" Pa jama Parade last week.
The planners of the event excelled in mak­ing
and carrying out plans for the annual
affair.
The Pajama Parade each year is one
of the most spirited affairs of itsdijpdi. on
the campus. Because of the active jjJartfci-pation
by so many groups, this year's was
one of the best.
There seems to he, however, something
in the air at "Wreck Teek" t i m e that
breeds rash acts on the participants' part.
This air was strongest two years ago after
the rally 'when the actions of the parad-ers,
and many upperclassmen, were rash
enough to receive statewide publicity and
Regional Han Threatened
For years the South has been accused
of and accursed with a problem that puts
it on the bottom of the progressive pile:
the inadequacy pi its educational system.
Whether it ranks alongside, just above
or just below the racial problem as a stig­ma
has been much discussed and hotly
argued, but nonetheless the fact remains
that both affect each other a n d will
mutually retard or advance the other.
Recently the South gave itself a boost,
though, on this question of how to edu­cate.
The solution offered by Southern
governors was the plan for regional educa­tion.
In operation for nearly a year now, the
plan provides opportunity for the sector
to. establish institutions here that rank
favorably with those in other parts of the
country on the professional and graduate
levels.
The system is unique, though simple.
Committees are set up in each state which
arrange with institutions noted in certain
fields to accept a number of out-of-state
students without the usual out-of-state
fee. The students' home states pay that
institution an amount which it is to use in
improving itself and what it has to offer.
It's too s o o n after only o n e year's
operation to, tell if the plan has been suc­cessful
or to pass judgement on it. But
it's apparent through recent discussions
A Noteworthy Act
The approval of the athletic depart­ment's
plan to charge students $1 for the
Homecoming game by the Student Execu­tive
Cabinet was a very noteworthy act.
With the pledging of all funds received
by the athletic department from student
act fees for the payment of bonds on Cliff
Hare Stadium, athletic officials found
themselves in a rather embarrassing posi­tion
in regard to funds from the Missis­sippi
State game. Unless the students had
outdo the other's, school spirit is strength-end.
With these ideas in mind, student lead­ers,
Le., the officers of various classes,
have begun to make plans to make class
organization a reality here. Chiefly be­cause
of the drop in average age of stu­dents
now enrolled, 1949-50 was thought
to be "the" year to develop a strong pro­gram.
AIT eyes will be on t h e sophomores
next week to see the response to the
scheduled meeting. Sophomore officers
have worked hard to install a program
which will interest their classmates—one
that they will be proud to participate in.
The sophomore class will no doubt be a
basis for judging; its response and action
will probably be typical of the response
and action of other classes when their
leaders attempt organization.
That k is beneficial to h a v e strong
class organization is recognized. The big
question is, "Can Auburn's student body
achieve it?" Every member of the class
of J952 is immediately responsible for
the future of this plan.
condemnation. The incident at the stadium
thij year was of the same breedings—an
impulsive act by a small group of unthink­ing
students.
Because of the minor aspect of the in­cident,
it was quickly controlled and soon
forgotten about, with little publicity re­corded.
But it is conceivable that another
equally minor incident could turn into an
uncontrollable fracas comparable to the
'47 occurence.
The rally incident should clearly dem­onstrate
to all that vigilance and alertness
throughout such gatherings is imperative.
We cannot afford to allow any future hap­penings
of this kind to develop into ac­tions
which would remind us of former
years.
that its success, actual or potential, is
threatened by the entrance on the scene
of its companion problem—race.
About half of the students taking ad­vantage
of the still-young regional edu­cation
plan are Negroes, according to an
announcement. Yet there are no stipula­tions
regarding racial participation in the
system at all and, as a result, at least one
Southern university has hesitated to join.
The advocates of the plan fear for its
life under the death-dealmg blows of the
racial squabble. They believe its goal to
be the best possible education for any stu­dent
anywhere in the South and empha­size
that it is not interested in either "re­forming''
or "segregating," but merely in
educating.
. If the racial question does kill the plan,
it will be a blow to the South. This plan
does assure students of any line of study
the best possible instruction and at t he
same time allows the institutions to direct
the energy and what money they do have
into a single avenue, strengthening it,
rather than spreading that effort and ex­pense
thinly over many phases of educa­tion.
As things stand now, few Southern
states can afford to develop top-notch
schools in all phases and subjects. And as
long as one state holds back, the whole
South is held back.—LSU BiaUy Reveille.
paid fOr their tickets to the game it would
have been very difficult to m o r e than
meet the amount promised to State.
Athletic officials were not planning to
raise the price of tickets unless the Stu­dent
Executive Cabinet unanimously ap­proved.
This fairness on the part of athle­tic
officials as well as good judgement by
the Student Executive Cabinet is a step
in the right direction towards better stu­dent-
administration relations.
3 More and More by Gene Moore Cannon Report
By Tom Cannon
Ad Libbing By Graham McTeer
Hallowe'en is just around the corner, Thanksgiving is ap­proaching,
but who has begun Ho think about Christmas?
Answer: At least one disc jockey. Yes, it's true—"White
Christmas" has begun to make its. annual bid for Yuletide
popularity.
McTeer
This writer was privileged (?)
to hear what was possibly the first
radio; transmis­sion
of the pe­rennial
for the
'49> season. Why
the record spin-ner
w a n t s to
rush the season
we don't know,
but he sent it
out,, unrequit­ed,
on Wednes­day,
Oct. 11.
This is not to
play down the
beauty of the number (though we
do think "The Christmas Song"
should replace it), but how can
you e n j o y dreaming of snow
when doughfaces and Jack O'Lan-terns
are just hitting the market?
I thought it significant, to say
the least, to find in one day's mail
to this office, two requests for
subscriptions from Auburn gradu­ates
who were gone from the
campus e v e n before the first
World War.
An. Atlanta Pharmacist, M.D^,
Class of^iNM, and a Montgomery
agronomist, Class of 1914, each
sent checks last week.
The latter wrote, "I was a sub­scriber
to the old Orange and
Blue. Whatever .the colors or title,
it's my alma mater."
Since this publication does not
include a poet's corner among its
features, I would like to devote
the rest of this column., to an
original poem by Dudley Woodf in,
Auburn student.. Admittedly no
poetry critic, I leave the judgment
of its worth to the reader.
The Thirteenth Rib
<Or Woman)
The' thirteenth rib> spawn of
Adam,
And since given the title of
Madam,
Who, with a smile and a well
turned ankle,
Has caused the ire of kings to
rankle;
Conquered by, and conqueror
of all,.
Has caused the pride of man
to fall.
The thirteenth, rib, Mother of
Cain,
Has brought forth the world,
all in pain;
And with the show of a little
affection,
Wormed her way behind the
throne,
Caused the rise of Greece, the
fall of Rome.
The thirteenth rib, beginning
with Eve,.
Has taught the world the word
deceive;
By the skillful use of powder
and paint,.
Of sex—the club, and a well-timed
faint,
Has fooled and broken better
men than I,
And. yet, I'll be a fool until
I die.
GeneraHy Speaking By Bruce Greenhill
Greenhill
I guess that many of us associa­ted
undergraduate students • of
A.P.I, have perused the amalga­mation
of words authored by one
Geoffrey Birt and appearing in the
Alabama Journal recently.
It seems that friend Birt, in
search of a good story with reader
interest, decid­ed
to enroll at
this institution
for a few days
as a member of
t h e freshman
c 1 a! s s and get
the real inside
d o p e on t he
frosh situation
h e r e on the
plains. W e l l,
Geoffrey went
at his task with
the zeal of a
t r u e reporter
and actually didn't do too badly.
In fact, as a rule, he was fairly ac­curate
with his coverage but I'd
like to take exception to one of
his conclusions.
Ole Geoff (we'd call him just
plain old Jeff up at the pool hall)
made quite a "to-do" over the
ratio of men and women here on
the campus. Well now, I'll go along
with him on the fact that there
is a ratio and that to my know­ledge,
it's between men and wo­men,
but I don't agree with his
figures of six to one in favor of
the males. According to my calcu­lations,
and they're correct to lead
pencil accuracy, the ratio read
5.00915 to 1.00000 before Brother
Birt left the hallowed halls of our
glorious alma mater and 5.00832
to 1.00000 after he betook himself
back to the capital city. Not only
that, but the gent implied that
this ratio made it next to im­possible
for a young man with an
amorous turn of mind to make an
evening appointment with one of
Auburn's dashing damsels.
Now Geoffrey, if gents didn't
have the opportunity to go out
with the ' coeds, why did your
class attend the dances given at
the first of school (during your
tenure) and why did they take up
living room residence at the vari­ous
dormitories; certainly not to
discuss. Sartre with the house­mothers.
Also Geoff ole boy,
if boy doesn't meet and date girl,
why in the world do we have
formal dances, the forestry plot,
house dances, temporary build­ings,
movie theatres and the sta­dium?
Nope, Birt ole bean, men
are men and women are women
(and what arrangement could be
nicer?) here in the L.V.O.T.P.
just as they are everywhere else.
A gent may have to work a
little harder getting his phone
number put on the wall at all the
girl's dorms but he still has a
pretty good chance to be W.W.G.-
C.W.E. (With White Girl Come
Week End). The odds are only
5.00832 to 1.00000 now that you
left and lowered the odds, Geoff.
Don't forget that Equipoise won
the Derby with the odds 20-1
against him. Of course, I don't
know whether there was a filly
waiting at the finish line, in fact
I don't know for sure that Equi­poise
wasn't a filly himself, but
you get what I mean don't you
Geoffrey?
Wnat I've been getting at, Geoff
ole chap, is that you misrepresent­ed
conditions just a wee tad. This
isn't too grievous a fault but I
think I'll come down to Mont­gomery
one of these days posing
as one-of Governor Folsom's rela­tives
and show you,just how this
"from the horse's mouth" type of
reporting is done.
Anyway, Geoff, don't you feel
ill toward us. Maybe you were
frustrated in your try to date a
queen, but you were only here
four days weren't you? You have
1.00832 days of trying left before
you can be justified in becoming
ratio-rabid.
There are few conditions in our
existence which are more uncom­fortable
than insomnia. Is there
anything worse than lying awake
for hours in your darkened room,
shifting positions frequently, lis­tening
jealously to your room­m
a t e ' s rhythmic, undisturbed
breathing, and thinking of the
quiz which will be handed to your
exhausted mind and body the fol­lowing
morning?
As you lie there in misery, it is
little consolation to realize that
for centurjes men have had in­somnia;
it is no modern disease,
caused by the subtle suggestions of
a psychiatrist. Some of the most
famous or infamous men and wo­men
of history have been afflicted
with this distressing malady.
Many of these sufferers developed
reliefs for their insomnia, and to
those readers who are troubled by
sleepy wakefulness, these reme­dies
may prove helpful.
Martha Washington, when she
was unable to sleep, would arouse
her husband and drag him out of
the sack for a rugged round of
boxing. Then she would hang up
her gloves and fall asleep in­stantly,
although according to his­torians
poor George was so bruis­ed
and battered after each bout
that he was unable to sleep for a
week.
It is said that Bill Shakespeare
recited poetry when he was in the
clutches of insomnia. The Swan of
Avon tried to make a habit of
always repeating his own poems;
but his memory was not what it
should have been, and he often
quite carelessly threw in a few
lines by Homer or by Sidney La­nier.
Julius the Caesar, who was no
mean insomniac, would fire up a
Tampa Nugget, take about six
puffs, then relax one muscle at a
time, until his entire body was as
"limp as a piece of corn bread
soaked in pot likker". On page 63
of his diary may be found proof
of the effectiveness of this plan;
in a bold, clear handwriting Cae­sar
affirm that he was always
able to fall asleep immediately, or
at least within a period of four or
five hours.
A good plan for inducing sleep
was originated by Cleopatra. This
charming young lady would arise
in the middle of the night, awaken
the whole family with her holler­ing
and tripping over cuspidors,
shout for her slaves in a hoarse
voice, then "head for the kitchen.
There she would gorge herself
upon canapes topped with hum­mingbird
tongues, ground catfish
scales, and fermented liver spread.
While downing this mixture did
not always provide Cleo with a
restful sleep, it nevertheless ser­ved
its purpose; she was often un­conscious
for days after eating it.
But if we were going to award
a prize to the champion summoner
of Morpheus, we would be forced
to throw it to Alexander the
Great, who played it smart. (For
this reason, he is known even to­day
as "Smart Alex".) Whenever
Al couldn't sleep, he wo»dd plug in
his oscillating fan; call for his
oscillating fan-dancer; turn on the
radio—which was the latest thing
in his day; sing a few choruses of
"Glory, Glory to Old Bourbon",
and then swallow three sleeping
pills. This method of inducing
sleep has rarely been known to
fail.
The Exchange Post By Irv Sternberg
"Be careful of a live wire when
you are-jn the bathtub."
"Oh, I am. I always lock the
door."
* :;: *
Classes are currently being held
at the University of Denver in
the etiquette of correctly smoking
a cigar. During class sessions stu­dents
puff contentedly away . as
they practice smoking cigars for
greatest enjoyment. According to
the professor, the pleasure lies in
slow leisurely puffing. The only
co-ed in the class reports that she
learned the technique well and
will pass on fundamentals to male
admirers.
* * *
The' latest device in communi­cations
media, Facsimile, is now
being used by the division of
journalism at Emory University.
This machine reproduces printed
matter through frequency modu­lation.
* $ *
In keeping with the beautifica-tion
and modernization program
of the City of Atlanta,' one and
one-half miles ofethe latest type of
street lighting was put into opera­tion
on the streets passing through
the campus of the Georgia Insti­tute
of Technology.
* * *
A mathematics professor at the
University of Miami was showing
his class how to use a slide rule.
As an example he solved the ele­mentary
problem of 2 times 2. The
slide rule showed the answer to
be 3.999. "I think," he mused,
"we'd be safe in calling that 4."
via Troy State Teacher's
A hillbilly brought his over­grown
son into a country school
at the beginning of the term, and
said to the teacher: "This here
boy's arter larnin'. Whut's yore
bill of fare?"
The teacher said: "I teach arith­metic,
algebra, geometry, and
trigonometry."
"That last one'll do," said the
mountaineer. "Load him down
with trigonometry. He needs it.
He's the only pore shot in the
family."
I AM AVAILABLE — Will sit
with babies, let you. beat me up,
argue with your wife, study the
subject you do not like, or do
any other disagreeable task for a
price. Address Available, in care
of Emory Wheel, Box 669.
—Classified Ad in Emory
Wheel
DAVE—I'm sorry about Mon­day
night. Please call me- at work.
Betty.
—Classified Ad in Emory
Wheel
* * *
Three R*s: At 25, Romance; at
45, Rent; at 65, Rheumatism.
Deficit: What you've got when
you haven't as much as if you had
nothing.
• * * *
She: "It will be simple for us to
get married darling. My daddy's a
minister."
He: "Okay, Baby, we'll give it
a try. Mine's a lawyer."
Letter To The Editor
Dear Editor:
I feel that this is a legitimate
gripe!!!! I purchased tickets to the
Homecoming game early on the
second morning of sale; the best
available then were seats high on
the goal line. Thursday afternoon,
the last day of sale, tickets were
available at the field house on the
50-yard line.
Why in the hell don't they put
seats on a "first-come, first-ser­ved
basis" instead of the last ones
getting the best tickets?
Sincerely,
Pat Wellington
Dear Editor,
In a letter to the Montgomery
Advertiser Sunday, I was greatly
amused by the comments an Au­burn
graduate, Mitch Sharpe, who
before his removal from office,
wag managing editor of The
Plainsman. Still displaying his
undying sujJply of bitterness and
suspicion for all in authority at
Auburn, the author continued to
pour ugly insinuations upon his
alma mater.
In referring to a recent state­ment
by President Draughon that
"one of the greatest problems at
Auburn is how to get young men
at genius in research at Auburn,"
Sharpe states that the "problem
is to keep young men of genius
in research at Auburn once they
get there." All of which is very
true. However. Sharpe goes on in
his epistle of %itterness to charge
that Dr. Raymond Pepinsky's re­signation
from Auburn was not a
departure because of a better of­fer,
but because of differences
with the administration.
However, Sharpe gees no furth­er
than his low insinuation; He of­fers
no proof for his ridiculous
comment. As. usual he merely dis­plays
his distaste for anyone in
authority and pours forth with
another of his uncalled-for insin­uations.
I do not know the reasons for
Dr. Pepinsky's departure, but
neither does Mr. Sharpe. He
merely spiels forth with such an
uncalled-for derogatory remark
as: "There are those on the cam­pus
that believe that Pepinsky,
like a number of othe,r faculty
members, left after having been
Draughon and quartered." Au­burn
has no place for alumni who
are bitter over college day errors
and who hope to carry on their
fight of martyrdom.
Sincerely,
R. H. Tanner
In the past year many improve­ments
have been made on campus.
Outstanding among these are the
stadium and the engineering labo­ratory.
In addition we've acquired
miles of paved streets and parking
areas.
But despite all these advances,
there are still three schools on
campus that do not have buildings
of their own. The Schools of Phar­macy,
Graduate Studies and Edu­cation
are housed in buildings
with some other school or depart-;
ment.
I understand that the School of
Pharmacy, which is now located
in the chemis­t
r y building, -
will be moved
to the old L-Building
next
year. This is a
far cry from
what the school
needs, but it
will be an im­provement
over
the present sit­uation.
S i n ce
the curriculum
in this school is
soon to be ex­tended,
additional classroom and
laboratory space is essential.
With one of the largest enroll­ments
on the campus, the School
of Education is forced to carry on
its activities from a few rooms in
Samford Hall. More classroom
and administrative space must be
provided if the school is to turn
out high caliber teachers.
The. Graduate School is now in
the Textile Building. The impor­tance
of the graduate course has
an important effect on the rating
that the college receives. Think of
the additional prestige that a
building for the Graduate School
would create. The increased op­portunity
for research would
prove invaluable to students seek­ing
the master's degree.
Although I realize that a num­ber
of buildings are still needed, it
seems that these three are the
most important. Perhaps funds
could be provided by the alumni
or by an appropriation by the
state legislature, but however the
money is obtained, buildings for
these schools should be the next
projects on the building program.
Cannon
Bottom Of
The Barrel
By Roger McClarty
Being a major in education, I
have been an interested observer
of t h e turnover in our faculty
membership since 1946. A con­servative
estimate would be be­tween
forty a n d fifty percent.
Many of the teachers that have
left Auburn have been young,
enthusiastic, capable instructors,
the type we could ill afford to
lose.
In all fairness, many departed
because they were offered sub­stantial
financ-
" | ial i n c r e a se
elsewhere. Au-b
u r n ' s pay
scale is rela­tively
low and
thus it is fairly
hard to h o ld
young, ambiti­ous,
and effici­ent
s c h o l a rs
, against the of­fers
of wealthi-
' er colleges and
McClarty universities.
About the only defense against
these inroads, it seems to me, is
to be the building of a high
ESPIRIT DE CORPS between
the administration and the facul­ty.
One very capable teacher
told me before he left, that the
reason he accepted a better of­fer
wasn't financial at all. He
felt that the incentive to do a
superior job of instruction was
somehow missing. The teacher
that just meets the minimum re­quirements,
that is holding his
class the full fifty minutes, gets
as much* recognition as the in­structor
who really does a job.
Auburn has enough of that inert
type, and in order to attract and
hold the younger and ambitious
profs we must create an atmos­phere
of intellectual aliveness,
reognition for merit and work
well done, and free and constant
exchange of ideas among the
faculty and the administration*
personnel.
Of course, constant pressure
should be exerted to raise the
pay scale in order to attract the
best qualified instruction, but
with a faculty working in a h a r ­monious,
stimulating, and crea­tive
atmosphere the financial dif­ferences
would become second­ary
and would cut the faculty
turnover materially.
\ "«. t\
5—-THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, Get. 19,1949
Board Of Trustees Is Governing Body
In Administrative Affairs Of Auburn
Editor's Note: The following is an article explaining the
administrational set-up of Auburn for the benefit of all new
students.
By Jimmy Everett
The governing body of Auburn and its three branches of
service is the Auburn Board of Trustees. This board is com­posed
of ten voting members and two ex-offico members,
who are appointed by the gover
nor and confirmed by the state
senate. The term of office for each
board member is 10 years.
This board is responsible for
the administration of all the af­fairs
of the Alabama Polytechnic
\ Institute and is the governing
body of the school. They must se­lect
the president of the institu­tion,
and pass on all administra­tive
action taken involving A.P.I.
Dr. Ralph B. Draughon is the
eighth president of Auburn and
was unanimously approved by the
board in September of 1948. Serv­ing
under President Draughon is
Dr. David Mullins, the newly ap­pointed
vice-president of Auburn.
Other top administrative heads
are the directors of the three
branches of the school. These
three divisions are the branches of
research, extension, and instruc­tion.
Dean M. J. Funchess, director of
the experiment s t a t i o n , is in
V charge of the research division of
4 the college, and P. O. Davis, di­rector
of the extension service, is
in charge of the extension branch
at Auburn. The dean of faculties
is Dr. Michael Huntley, who was
recently appointed to the new po­sition.
J In addition to Governor James
E. Folsom, board members con- |
sist of State Superintendent of
Education A. R. M e a d o w s, an
ex-officio member, and the dis­trict
representatives. The mem­b
e r s of the present board are:
Judge Francis Hare, Monroe-to
time by both state and federal-legislation.
Through the instruc­tional
division of the college,
A.P.I, trains leaders for improv­ing
economic and social life of the
people of Alabama.
Research division was started in
1883 with state funds and was
strengthened by the U.S. Con­gress
by passage ot the Hatch Act
in 1914. Before the passage of this
act, farm demonstration work had
been conducted here for several
years. The research branch of the
college finds solutions to many
complicated problems facing the
present generation.
The extension service had its
beginning in 1903. In 1911 it re­ceived
its first grant from the
state legislature, and in 1914 the
first federal funds were provided.
Through the extension service the
results of research are taken to
the people in an effort to assist in
getting results to be applied on
the land and in the homes.
Together with the directors of
these three divisions, the board of
trustees works with the president
and vice-presidents of the institu­tion
in order to strengthen the ad­ministration
of the institution.
NROTC's Ring Dance
Set For November 11
The first annual Ring Dance of
the NROTC unit will be held Fri­day,
Nov. 11, at the student activi-
Gov. Folsom Draughon Reynolds
Meadows Toomer Brown Haley
ville; Frank P. Samford, Birm- | ties building, Sig Redelsheimer,
ingham; Roberts H. Brown, Ope
lika; S. L. Toomer, Auburn; Walk­er
Reynolds, Anniston; Dr. Joe
y Davis, Albertville; Paul S. Haley,
Jasper; V. S. Summerlin, Luverne;
(Judge W. L. Parrish, Clanton, and
Redus Collier, Decatur. Miss Berta
Dunn is acting secretary.
:. Although Roberts Brown was
appointed to the Board of Trus­tees
by Governor Folsom in 1947,
he was not confirmed by the sen-a
t e \ Governor Folsom failed to
bring his name before the senate
during the 1949 session so there is
actually a vacancy on the board.
The board of trustees directs the
allocation of funds to Auburn's
different needs and deals with the
major problems of the school. All
minor problems and allotment of
funds to different departments is
handled by the three divisions—
research, instruction and exten­sion.
The division of instruction was
created under the Morrell Act and
has been strengthened from time
social chairman, announced today.
The dance, which will be the sec­ond
attraction on the fall social
calendar, will be featured'by the
awarding of Navy rings to seniors
during the leadout. The presenta­tion
will be made by the dates *of
those receiving rings.
The 17-piece orchestra from
NAS Pensacola will furnish the
music for the event.
Home Economics Group
Hears Station Manager
Mr. Marion Hyatt, manager of
radio station WJHO,. was guest
speaker at a meeting of the Dana
King Gatchell Club Tuesday,
Oct. 18. He talked about "The
Qualifications of a Good Radio
Program."
Sally Sallade, president of the
club, announced that an initiation
banquet for new members would
be held at Smith Hall Nov. 1.
Air Reserve Members
Will Meet Tomorrow
In Broun Auditorium
Members of the Air Reserve,
enlisted and commissioned, are
urged to attend the meeting of the
Auburn chapter tomorrow. The
meeting will be held in Broun
Hall Auditorium at 7 p.m.
A brief report will be made by
delegates who attended the Air
Reserve • Convention in California
last month. /Those interested will
initiate plans for formation of a
Volunteer Air Reserve Training
program. Under this program,
points may be earned for promo­tion
and retirement purposes.
Principal feature of the discus­sion
will be the initiation of a
"Pay For Training" plan.
standing students in pre-law.
Founded at Auburn three years
ago; its purpose is to recognize
students that have acceptable
scholastic averages and also the
wholesome characteristics of a
good lawyer and good citizen.
Monday night the first meet­ing
of the quarter was held. The
next meeting has been called
Monday, October 24, at 7 p.m.
in temporary building 11-B. At
this meeting plans will be dis­cussed
for fall tapping.
State Women Deans
To Hold Workshop
Here October 22
Auburn will be host to the first
workshop held by the Alabama
Association of Women Deans and
Advisors, October 22-23.
Miss Katharine Cater, dean of
women, is president of the asso­ciation,
which until this year has
held its meeting in conjunction
with that of the Alabama Educa­tion
Association.
Registration will get underway
at 10 a.m. Saturday, with the
first business meeting scheduled
for 11 a.m. Following luncheon in
the women's dining hall, the group
will meet in Social Center for a
panel discussion.
Later in the -afternoon the group
will form college and high school
guidance groups. Mrs. Leon Sensa-baugh,
dean of women at Birm­ingham
Southern, wiU lead the
college group, and Miss Margaret
Kornegay, dean of girls, Sidney
Lanier High School, Montgomery,
will head the high school group.
At 4:30 p.m., Mrs. Ralph
Draughon will entertain visitors at
a tea at the president's home. A
banquet Saturday evening will
feature . greetings f r o m Dr.
Draughon and a response from
Miss Beatrice Hannon, girls' adr-visor,
Woodlawn High School,
Birmingham. Principal speaker of
the evening will be Dr. Jesse B.
Rhinehart, of Auburn, speaking on
"The What and How of Counsell­ing
.and Guidance." Dr. Rhinehart
is a diplomat in clinical psychol­ogy
with the American Board of
Examiners in Professional Psy­chology.
Sunday morning, the Rev. John
Leith, pastor of the Auburn Pres­byterian
Church, will speak on
"The Advisor's Responsibility for
the Spiritual Guidance of Stu­dents."
A tour of the Auburn cam­pus
and a dinner will complete
the program.
2 Faculty Members
Attend Conference
Two members of the Auburn
faculty are attending a work con­ference
on graduate study in
Southern schools in Savannah,
Ga., this week. Dr. M. C. Huntley,
dean of faculties, and Dr. Fred
Allison, dean of the Graduate
School, are representing A.P.I, at
the meeting, which began Sunday
and is scheduled to close Friday.
Educators from 43 Southern in­stitutions
are devoting attention to
the growing number of students
wanting graduate study, the pre­sent
facilities for meeting this
need, and the methods whereby
graduate education throughout the
South can be extended and im­proved.
The conference is being
sponsored by the Board of- Control
for Southern Regional Education.
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the coming year recently.
Other officers elected were:
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vice-president; Sheldon Whittel-sey,
Opelika, secretary-treasurer,
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6—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, Oct. 19, 1949
Auburn's 7 Cheerleaders Responsible
For Promoting Campus Pep and Spirit
By Ed Lee Spencer
Directly responsible for promoting pep and spirit along
with the Pep Committee and for leading yells and songs at
football games are Auburn's seven cheerleaders—the boys
and girls who wear the orange sweaters with the big, blue
"A."
Tiger Topics By Stuart Stephenson, Jr.
This group is led by Tommy
Eden, h e a d cheerleader from
Nashville, Tenn. Tommy, a mem­ber
of Sigma Alpha Epsilon social
fraternity, is a senior in orna­mental
horticulture, president of
the senior class, and a member of
Spades honorary organization for
senior men.
Working with Eden as cheer­leaders
are.Herman Blagg of Sel-ma,
junior in industrial manage­ment
and secretary of Alpha Tau
Omega fraternity; Emaleen Stoves
of Auburn, a senior in pre-medi-cine
and president of Sphinx hon­orary
for senior women; Jack Or-cutt,
Birmingham, junior in me­chanical
engineering, a member of
SAE fraternity, Auburn's varsity
wrestling team, and a former
member of Squires, sophomore
honorary.
Others are Jim Hatch of Wil-merding,
Pa., a senior in industrial
management, member of Phi Del­ta
Theta fraternity and of Scab­bard
and Blade military honorary;
Barbara Newman, Columbus, Ga.,
a junior in secretarial training
and a member of Alpha Delta Pi
sorority, and Joy Justice of Flom-aton,
senior in pharmacy and
president of Alpha Omicron Pi
sorority.
These seven students h a v e a
great deal to do with the planning
of pre-game pep rallies at Auburn
often at the site of a game. The
cheerleaders have made plans for
special rallies before the Home­coming
and Alabama games.
RESEARCH PROFESSOR
TO ADDRESS MEETING
Dr. Knox Millsaps, recently ap­pointed
research professor at Au­burn,
will speak at the meeting of
the Math Club tomorrow at 7 p.m.
in Broun 209. The research spe­cialist,
first in a series of lecturers
to be sponsored by the club, will
speak on "One Dimensional Gas
Dynamics." According to Math
Club officers, the lecture will be
in terms which can be understood
by the layman.
Dr. Millsaps formerly served as
research scientist with the Direc­torate
of Research and Develop­ment-
of the U. S. Air Force, as
professor of aeronautical engin­eering
at Ohio State University,
and as a research fellow at Calif­ornia
Tech. He has also served
at several other colleges on a
Rockefeller Fellowship.
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When Bill Tucker gets set to .kick that important point
after touchdown, Auburn" fans are learning to relax, for he
has proven himself adept at kicking the pigskin squarely
between the uprights.
This year he has been successful in all six of his attempts.
The Florida game furnished proof that Tucker has the situ­ation
well in hand as he calmly converted when the pressure
was on. Auburn will be dangerous when inside the oppon­ent's
thirty yard line in a tie ball game. Time for one play
against Florida would have given Tucker a chance to change
a stunning upset into a deserved Tiger victory.
* * *
Coach Brown's New Bow Tie
Auburn's dapper head coach w a s the object of a wry
fashion comment before the Florida game. Harry Mehre,
former Ole Miss coach and now a sports columnist, made
the observation that C h u c k Hunsinger and his high-step­ping
Gators would make "Earl Brown's bow tie spin like the
prop on a Constellation type airplane."
Well, the Constellation failed to take off and Brown's tie
stayed put. Evidently Mehre was impressed by the showing
Brown's charges made, for he sent Brown a brand-new bow
tie appropriately colored orange and blue.
* * *
Organized Yells?
Since the earliest days of Southern football, Auburn has
been famous for its devoted and noisy cheering section.
Despite the discouraging showing of its teams in the past,
two seasons, Auburn students have been sufficiently en-'
thusiastic in their yells to keep the "War Eagle" tradition
intact.
The first quarter warm-up at Grant Field Saturday, how­ever,
was a pitiful vocal display beside the thunderous cheer
emitted by the Tech section. Organized cheers, as a whole,
just didn't seem to rate stAdent participation.
It was a spontaneous and frantic "WRECK TECH" chant
resulting from the Tiger splurge in the waning minutes of
the fourth quarter that s a v e d the day for the "Auburn
Spirit."
Now, it would be foolish indeed for anyone to attend a
football game solely for the purpose of abusing his vocal
cords every other minute, but a revival of the organized
cheer in conjunction with the cheerleaders is sorely needed
of Auburn students. The cheerleaders, too, need to content
themselves with a little more organization so that a proposed
cheer will receive support in force at the proper time.
BACK IN LINE-UP
ARNOLD FAGEN, Auburn
tackle, returned to the Tiger
grid fold last week in time to
see action against Ga. Tech. He
has been sidelined all season
with a foot injury, but is ex­pected
to see plenty of action
against Tulane Saturday.
Henry Hicks Appointed
To Magnolia Hall Post
N e w assistant manager of
Magnolia Hall is Henry Hous­ton
Hicks of West Point, Ga.
A graduate of Washington &
Lee University, where he majored
in journalism, Mr. Hicks is now
doing graduate work at Auburn
in addition to his duties at the
dormitory, where he promotes
social and recreational activities
and supervises student govern­ment.
A veteran of World War II, Mr.
Hicks served in the Navy, both in
aviation and public information.
At Washington & Lee he was a
member of Lambda Chi Alpha
social fraternity, Sigma Delta
Chi, honorary journalism fratern­ity,
the Naval Historical Founda­tion
and the National Writers
Club. He also served as corres­pondent
for both the United
Press and Associated Press news
services.
Block And Bridle Club
Is Active Campus Group
Lee Lamar, president of the
Auburn Block and Bridle Club,
has invited all students interest­ed
in animal husbandry to be­come
affiliated with the organi­zation.
The local chapter of Block and
Bridle was organized last year
by a group of animal husbandry
majors to promote close interest
among students in that depart­ment.
Activities include bi-week­ly
meetings with speakers, films,
and other planned programs,
sponsorship of an annual horse
Wrestling Tournament
Slated For Next Month
The annual intramural wrest­ling
tournament, a feature of the
fall sports program, is slated to
begin Monday night, November 7
in the sports arena.
There will be two tourneys run
on alternate- nights, the frats
grappling on Monday and Wed­nesday
and the independents on
Tuesday and Thursday.
The fraternities will enter teams
one man in each weight group,
while the independents will enter
as individuals. Any independent
student desiring' to enter the tour­nament
can contact Coach Bob
Evans at Alumni Gym and obtain
entry blanks. .
There will be eight weight
groups this year—the 121 lb.; 128
lb.; 136 lb.; 145 lb.; 155 lb.; 165
lb.; 175 lb.; and the heavyweight.
Medals will be awarded the win­ners
in each class. All contestants
will weigh in at the sports arena
November 2-3. Once a. man has
made his-weight, it will stand for
the entire tournament.
Wilmore Lab To House
Chemical Engineering
The chemical engineering de­partment
has been moved to the
Wilmore Engineering Laboratory,
Dean H. M. Martin recently 'an­nounced.
The department formerly
located in Ross Chemistry Build­ing
will occupy the southeastern
part of the building.
A new classroom was also made
show on the campus, and parti­cipation
in the Ag Fair. The club
also is sponsor of a student
scholarship by arrangement with
Sears, Roebuck and Co.
Lamar urges all students who
are interested in this phase of
agriculture to contact him at 768-
W, George Allison at 9191, or to
attend the next^ scheduled meet­ing
of the club Tuesday, Oct. 25.
ATTENTION M O T H E R S:
Tiny Tot Nursery has vacan­cies
for five children over 2
years in age. If interested call
1332.
LAST DAY
FOR GLOMERATA PORTRAITS
OCTOBER 28
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Building 2-B every night next week from
7 to 9 p.m. for the benefit of those who have
missed their appointment.
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7—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, Oct. 19, 1949
Tigers' Fourth Quarter Comeback
Thrills Fans, Scares Yellow Jackets
By S t u a r t Stephenson, J r .
The Auburn Tigers didn't win a ball game Saturday, b u t
t h e y provided some 35,000 cheering fans with a dazzling last
q u a r t e r comeback, t h e likes" of which are seldom seen.
After purring like a contented kitten for t h r e e quarters
while t h e Yellow Jackets stung repeatedly, the Tiger sud­denly
sprang to life as "Travel
ling" Travis Tidwell burst across
the goal line on a seven yard
plunge to end a drive that had
begun only a moment before on
the Auburn 29.
The score then stood Tech, 28-
Auburn, 7. It seemed the Tigers
would play their tnree-touchdown
undercat role to perfection.
But the fighting Tigers couldn't
see things that way and pro-
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"Something New Everyday"
ceeded to strike back with the
same brand of vicious footbalt
that netted them a stunning tie
with favored Florida the previous
week. This audacious Tiger upris­ing
was to throw fear into the
Yellow Jacket hive.
After Dwight Hitt returned an
intercepted Tech aerial to the Au­burn
35, Bill Tucker lobbed a
beautiful pass to halfback Bill
Davis, who grabbed the pigskin on
the dead run and promptly pour­ed
on the coals to rocket past the
Tech safety men and score stand­ing
up. .
Auburn's cheering section—out
in force for the first time this sea­son—
really went wild. A spont­aneous
"Wreck Tech" chant rolled
through the stands to send chills
up the spine of stunned and amaz­ed
Tech rooters.
The Plainsmen smothered the
Engineers' kickoff return on the
Tech 17. Two plays la,ter Capt.
Ralph Pyburn pounced on Bobby
North's fumble and bulldozing
i Charlie Langner smashed across
the goal four plays later. Tucker
made good his third conversion
and a frenzied crowd saw Tech's
once discouragingly large lead cut
to seven points in the ferocious 10
minute revolt.
Excitement reached a new peak
as the Plainsmen again fought for
possession of the ball. They suc­ceeded,
but found themselves on
their own two-yard line on fourth
down. With Bobby Weaver stand­ing
in the end zone to punt, Tid­well
threw a pass to Jgrskine Rus­sell
on the 18. Hit hard by Tech's
Johnny O'Neil, Russell fumbled
and the Jackets recovered.
Buster Humphreys then pound­ed
his way over the Auburn goal
to suppress the rampaging Tiger.
The last, desperate gamble had
failed and the game was over.
Tigers Start Late
For Auburn it was a case of
waiting too late to get up steam-.
The Tech backfield of Bobby
North, Buster Humphreys, arid"
Jimmy Jordan gattoped" up and"
down the field to net 316 yards
on the ground.
The Tiger forward wall was
TIDWELL SPARKS fOURTH QUARTER RALLY WITH TOUCHDOWN
TIGERS FIRST SCORE in thrilling fourth quarter. Travis
Tidwell. plunges across the Tech goal after an eleven yard run
to climax the Tiger drive. Tidwell sparked the Plainsmen in a
stunning 21-point rally' that left 35,000 spectators breathless.'
The Tigers came within seven points of tying the • score, in a
dramatic finish only to lose 35-21 when the Jackets capitalized
on a Tiger fumble to score the clincher.
, (Atlanta Journal Photo)
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Intramural Teams Play 15 Games
In First Week Of Touch Football
By J. C. Sellers
Touch football got off to a fast and furious beginning this
week with fifteen games being played.
The teams generally looked ragged but promising. With
more practice they should round into form and some fast
and exciting games should result.
Tuesday the frats took to the
field with ATO edging out Alpha
Gamma Rho, 13-7. On Field I
SAE showed power in trouncing
Theta Chi, 24-6; while the Delta
outcharged by a very fast Jacket
line until t h a t spine-tingling
fourth quarter when they charged,
blocked, and tackled with con­vincing
furor.
Tech completed only five of
twelve attempted passes against
an improved' Auburn pass de­fense
setup that was responsible
for a great number of tackles."
Johnny Wallis, Dwight Hitt and
Dickie Flournoy came in repeat­edly
to bring down the shifty
Jacket ball carriers.
Auburn's "three center" scheme
had its hands full. H o w e v e r,
Hayes, Crolla, Williams, and Ho­garth
at times showed a rugged
brand of line-backing that will
break up a lot of plays this sea­son.
THE YARDSTICK
Auburn
First downs 12
Yds. gain
rush. 109
For. pass. alt. 20
Passes comp. 10
Yds. For.
Pass. 183
For. int. by 3
Yds. return int.
Pass 36
Punt. av. 20.5
Total Yds. kicks
Returned 87
Opp. fumb. rec. 2
Yds. lost by
pen. 70
Ga. Tech
19
310
12
5
34
2
8
25.1
66
1
55
Tidwell Sparks Offense
When the Plainsman finally did
get started, it was Travis Tidwell
who p r o v i d e d the spark. His
passes started clicking and his
Sigs held Sigma Nu scoreless and
made 16 points themselves. In a
fierce encounter on Field III, KA
defeated the Kappa Sigs, 19-8.
Wednesday the Navy met tlje
Barracks, the Brewers faced the
Mountaineers, a n d the Wesley
Foundation met BSU. The Boys
forfeited to the Kings and New­man
to Canterbury. Navy sank
the Barracks, 6-0, in their fray,
while the Brewers were blanked
by the Mountaineers, 13-0, and
BSU rolled over Wesley Founda­tion,
18-0.
Thursday ATO upset seeded
PiKA, 19-0, for its second victory.
Alpha Psi lived up to expecta­tions
by downing Sigma Chi, 18-0.
OTS nosed out the P i Kappa Phi
in a ''sudden death" overtime, 1-0.
Phi Delta Theta overran Sigma
Pi, 21-0, a n d Phi Kappa Tau
steamrolled over TKE, 26-0.
QUARTERBACK CLUB
TO MEET TONIGHT
The Student Quarterback Club
will meet in the student activi­ties
building tonight at 7:30. Pic­tures
of the Auburn-Tech football
game played last week end in At­lanta
will be shown at- the meet­ing.
All i n t e r e s t e d in becoming
members of the club are urged to
attend the meeting by Arnold Fa-gen,
president of the "A" club.
Membership is open to all Auburn
students and faculty members.
Members of the "A" club and
the Auburn coaching staff will be
present at the meetings to give in­formation
about the Auburn grid
team. The Quarterback Club will
hold a meeting every Wednesday
at 7:30 p.m. during football sea­son.
shifty running brought back mem­ories
of the Tidwell who was the
nation's leading ground gainer in
'46. Two spectacular long-gain
sprints by Tidwell were annulled
by penalties w h e n the Tigers
threatened seriously to score.
There's no question that Tech
was the superior team. Sporting as
fast and hard-running a trio of
backs that any coach could de­sire,
plus a hefty, fast line that
makes good its blocking assign­ments,
the Jackets are destined to
go places in SEC competition this
year. J a c k e t linesmen twice
crashed through to block Weaver's
punts and account for eight Tech
points.
Yet the Tigers showed plenty.
They refused to accept defeat
when twenty-eight points behind,
and showed more fight and de­termination
in those frantic last
minutes than anyone thought pos­sible.
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Girl Volleyball Teams
Prep For Tournaments
By Marie English
Practice for the women's intra­mural
volleyball tournament be­gan
Monday, Oct. 17, with eight
sorority and t h r e e dormitory
teams reporting.
Each team is allowed three
practice games before tournament
play begins, according to Miss Ge­neva
Myrick, Women's Athletic
Association advisor.
The round-robin, or single-elimination
tournament, will be
played on outdoor courts from 4
to 6 p.m. Night games have been
ruled out because of the over­loads
of physical education in­structors
and the heavy extra-curriculum
of students.
Women's intramurals are spon­sored
by the WAA council, which
is composed of one representative
from each dormitory and sorority.
Recently elected officers are:
Florence Gothberg, president;
Pat Haden, vice-president; Jerry
Williford, secretary, and Billie
Ousley, publicity chairman.
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Auburn Archery Group
To Adopt Constitution
Final formation of the Auburn
Archery Club will take place to­morrow
at 7:30 p.m. in Alumni
Gym. At that time a constitution
and set of by-laws will be adopt­ed.
A temporary committee head­ed
by Coach C. P. Nader has
been making plans for the club's
organization this quarter. Nader
has invited any student or facul­ty
member interested in archery
to attend the meeting tomorrow
night.
Also scheduled for the meeting
is a discussion on facilities and ar­rangements
for proposed weekly
shoots. Arnold Haugen, president
of the National Archery Associa­tion,
will be present for the meet­ing.
Aquatic Prospects
For 1949-50 Season
Shine In Workouts
By Spud Wright
After one week of practice,
Coach Eugene Kruchoski states
that the Auburn swimming squad
shows promise of being one of the
best Tiger teams in many years.
Along with nearly all of last
year's squad returning, there are
several new prospects who have
shown up well in recent practices.
Most of these first-year mei have
had coaching and experience be­fore
coming to Auburn, which
should make them even more
valuable.
While last year's team was fair­ly
strong., this year's tank team
should be considerably stronger,
in every event. Coach Kruchoski
has ten men from last season's
squad with which to build
around.
Returning veterans are:
Gene Coffee, W. R. Dunlap,
Richard Fisher, Robert Gaither,
Fred Gunn, Bill Pierce, Tim Rus­sell,
Archie Stapleton, Richard
Van Dyke, and Clark Yarbrough.
Yarbrough can swim practical­ly
any event and should be one
of the SEC's outstanding swim­mers
this year. Coffee a nd
Pierce were co-captains of last
year's team.
Newcomers which will give
added depth to the team are John
C. Bregger, Mickey N. Brown,
Jack A. Dunn, Bill Eastman,
ATTENTION
Student tickets to the Au­burn-
Georgia game in Colum­bus
November 12 went on sale
yesterday and will continue
through tomorrow. Tickets for
the Clemson game will be on
sale October 25-27, and those
for the Alabama game will be
available November 1-3.
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James M. Gillespy, Vance Kane,
Jack P. Milligan, Ray M. Warren,
and Bill Wood. All of these new
men are working hard in hopes of
gaining a berth on the varsity
squad.
Pat Thigpen will serve as man­ager
of the Tiger tankmen this
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SCHEDULE
The schedule for the indep­endent
football leagues for this
week is as follows:
Oct. 24 Newman-BSU, field
I; Barracks-Brewers, field II;
Boys-Army, field III; New
Dorm-Atoms, field IV; Wesley-
Westminster, field V.
Oct. 26 Mountaineers-Bar­racks,
field I; . Kings-Atoms,
field II; Navy-Cats, field III;
Army-New Dorm, field IV;
Canterbury-Wesley, field V.
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8—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, Oct. 19, 1949 i HEADS BOARD
Student-Faculty Board Directs Work
Of Student Supported Publications
By Bruce Greenhill
A certain amount of general control of all student publi­cations
supported by the student activities fee is necessary
under any college administrative set-up. Here at Auburn
t h i s is the duty of the Board of Student Publications, which
is primarily concerned with financial reports and determ­ining
the eligibility of candidates
for the positions of editor and
business manager of campus pub­lications
rather than with the
mapping of the policies to be fol­lowed
by t h e various publica­tions.
In determining candidates' eli­gibility
for positions on publica­tions,
the board reviews all ap­plications
of students aspiring to
these positions, a n d ascertains
whether candidates are qualified
for the posts. Recommendations
pertaining to financial matters,
must be reviewed and passed on
by the board, but editorial poli­cies
and business methods are
only set by general policies and
the actual administration of the
members Joe Moore, John Hem-bree,
Tommy Eden and Hugh
Gaston.
Ed Crawford, J i m Haygood,
Harry Golemon and Dick Hutch­inson,
editors and business man­agers
of The P l a i n s m a n and
Glomerata respectively, and Joe
Meade, president of the Executive
Cabinet, serve as ex-officio mem­bers
of the board'and have de­bate
privileges but no voting
privileges.
The board meets monthly and
at any other time when called by
the c h a i r m a n , Mr. Clark, or
Meade, to perform the duties set
forth in the Constitution of the
Associated Undergraduate Stu-publications
is left up to the dis- d e n t s of t h e A l a b a m a p0lytech
cretion of the elected heads. ( j n i c I n s t i t u t e.
' T. C. Clark, Director of Stu- '
dent Affairs, is chairman of the
committee, and other voting mem­bers
are:
W. T. Ingram, business man­ager
of the college; L. O. Brac-keen,
President Draughon's repre­sentative;
Prof. Paul Burnett,
T. C. Clark. Jr.
(This is the third in a series of
articles dealing with the Student
Government Association. Subse­quent
articles will feature other
organizations and committees
which take this important part in
journalism instructor, and student campus life.)
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Machinery Installation
In Wilmore Laboratory
To Be Completed Soon
Installation of new machinery
to be completed soon will give
the API Mechanical Engineering
laboratory one of the most com­plete"
set-ups in the South, Prof.
C. R. Hixon, department head,
has announced.
Additional space made avail­able
by the new Wilmore Lab­oratory
building will allow the
installing of four new diesel en­gines;
a 55-hp. motor loaned by
International Harvestor Co..; a
150 hp. Cleveland Diesel; a Witte
Diesel of 7-hp.,_ a n d a 60 hp.
Chrysler motor. The last three
articles plus other equipment
were donated to Auburn by the
government.
Addition of a new 150-hp.
Cleaver-Brooks boiler and a
package steam power plant will
enable mechanical engineering
students to take better advantage
of new courses in steam boilers
and steam turbines now being
offered here for the first time,
Prof. Hixon pointed out.
McLelland Goes
iTo Montgomery
I Dean Zebulon Judd of the A.
P.I. school of education this week
announced the promotion of Shel-
, ton McLelland to assistant state
j supervisor of the Alabama Voca-'
, tional Rehabilitation Service. The
' promotion for Mr. McLelland, for-
; mer district supervisor here for
j six years, became effective Octo-
I ber 1.
| Succeeding McLelland in this
, district as rehabilitation counselor
is Frank Jenkins of LaFayette.
Counties of Lee, Russell, Bullock,
Barbour and Macon make up this
district.
Rehabilitation officials have
praised McLelland's outstanding
record in his six years in this dis­trict.
He has been an active par­ticipant
in the civic affairs of the
community. He has served as
president of the McGehee Bible
class, is a member of Lions, a
Mason, treasurer of the Auburn
Youth Center and president of
the Lee County Society for Crip-pledx
Children.
Mr. Jenkins is a graduate of
Emory University in business ad­ministration.
He is a member of
the Junior'Chamber of Commer­ce,
American Legion, Kiwanis
Club and is a Methodist. He and
his family are residing in Lake-view
subdivision.
Columbus Office
Now Supervising
Lee Rent Control
Federal rent control remains in
effect unchanged and service for
tenants and landlords of Opelika-
Auburn will continue to be given
by the Columbus, Ga., area rent
office through Opelika and Au­burn
rent stations, it was stated
here today by William R. Chap-pell,
area rent director.
In making the announcement,
Mr. Chappell emphasized that the
decontrol order issued by the na­tional
housing expediter on Aug.
27, 1949 applies only to ChamT
bers County, Ala.
"Federal rent control continues
in force in Lee County and ten­ants
and landlords will continue
to be served at the Lee County
court house, Opelika, from 8:15
a.m. to 10 a.m., each Thursday
and Auburn post office building,
room No. 9, from 1:15-3:15 p.m.
each Thursday," said the rent
official.
Tigers To Meet
(Continued from page 1)"
Jim Brooks received' pulled musc­les
for their efforts but should be
ready for the Greenies. It'll be a
spirited Tiger that makes the trip
to the bayou land—a Tiger tlhat
has come close to victory in suc­cessive
thrillers.
Dr. Frederick Sorensen Advocates
Visual Aids In Teaching Of English
During the recent war a y o u n g English teacher from
Utah was helping to p r e p a r e young men to fight.
The Navy was in a h u r r y . The boys must learn a lot and
l e a r n is quickly. The nation needed officers.
The teacher was Frederick Sorensen, now professor of
English at Auburn, and director
of the freshman English pro
gram.
In the V-12 program there was
no time for the old methods of
education. The Navy shot o ut
tons and tons of visual aids.
They turned out well prepared
men in record time.
Visual aids are posters, models,
charts, movies and other attrac­tive
material which catches the
eye and causes certain ideas to
stick in the mind. Ads seen in
the newspapers, magazines and
on the highways are examples of
this method.
Prof. Sorensen had l o n g ago
decided there w a s "something
rotten" in the way English was
being taught to freshman college
students. Why couldn't Army and
Navy methods be streamlined to
fit into a college curriculm?
He began to preach the idea
around. It found much opposi­tion
among established English
teachers, who called it the "Eng­lish
in cellophane" plan.
In h i s classes, though, Prof.
Sorensen noticed more and more
that English taught convention­ally
didn't m e a n much to the
students, especially those who
are, in his words, "thing mind­ed."
A puzzled G.I. came in. o n e
day to talk over his difficulties
with the Stanford-educated Ph.
D.
The professor knew this boy
could handle any type of com­plicated
machinery. He was a
"whiz" at mathematics, yet he
found himself helpless ^before
the abstractions in his English
course.
"If a fellow could only get the
'breakdown," he worried. "If I
could just see how it works, I
could get it."
The professor began to draw.
He sketched charts of the parts
of a sentence. In picture form,
. he showed the boy how all the
English speaking people pigeon­hole
the world into nouns and
verbs. T h e Navajo Indians see
things differently, he explained.
Their world is mostly made up
of verbs.
Dr. Sorensen has worked two
of the most ambitious experi­ments
in the country in the
teaching of English—the com­munication
programs at the Uni­versity
of Denver and Michigan
State — and, in addition, has
found time on the side to write
a few explosive articles on the
subject.
This man, who has dared help
"thing minded" students stop
being afraid of English, was last
year given a research grant-in-aid
by the A.P..I. graduate school
to develop a visual aid porgram
for English teaching. Prof. Sor­ensen
believes Auburn is t he
only college doing research in
the application of these tech­niques
to the field of English.
One of his vital interests now
is the setting up of a reading
clinic at A.P.I, similar to the re­nowned
one the Air University
is now conducting at MaxweJl
Air Force Base, Montgomery.
He . also is the champion of
special classes for the better pre­pared
students because he thinks
it is important to educate t he
"uncommon man," as well "as
merely to keep the cripple go­ing."
Veterans Administration Gives Rates
For Payment Of 2.8 Billions To Gl.s
The first Veterans Administration calculations on amounts pro­posed
to be paid about 3P0.000 Alabama World War II veterans in
the special National Service Life Insurance dividend have been
made public by Harley A. Smith, Alabama regional manager of the
VA.
BOBBY GOLDEN
Auburn
FOOTS BAUER
Auburn
TWO SOPHOMORE stars
who have looked very impres­sive
in recent Auburn games
are Halfback Bob Golden and
Tackle Foots Bauer. Both will
see considerable service against
Tulane Saturday.
Nearly 16,000,000 veterans in
the nation will share in the $2.8
billion dividend.
Maximum possible amount that
any veteran can receive will be
$528. Other payments, based on
age groups will run to lesser
sums. The dividend will be paid
on both term and converted in­surance
policies, and will be paid
only for the period that the pol­icy
was in force prior to the pol­icy
anniversary in 1948. No pay­ments
will be made for periods of
lapse, VA emphasized.
In computing the maximum
payment of $528, the dividend
was based on a $10,000 policy in
force for 96 months, (the longest
possible period), on a veteran
aged 40 or less at the, time the
policy was taken out. This repre­sents
a payment of 55 cents a
month per $1,000 of insurance. As
the mortality rate for the age
group of 40 and under did not
vary greatly, a single dividend
rate will apply to this whole
group.
The rates of payment will be:
Those under 40 years of age at
the rate of 55 cents per month per
$1,000 of insurance; those 41 to
45 years of age, scaling down
from 52 cents to 40 cents; those
46 to 50, 37 cents down to 25
cents; those 51 to 54, 21 cents;
those 55 and over, 20 cents per
thousand.
Smith said that the estimated
rate fcf the dividend was arrived
at after long actuarial studies, and
that the rate of payment will be
the same for both term and con­verted
policies, as the dividend
is based on mortality savings since
there are no excess interest earn­ings.
In arriviug at the dividend
scale, Smith said, standard insur­ance
practices were followed,
whereby dividends on a life in­surance
policy represent a return
to the insured of the excess of
premiums paid over the amounts
required to pay claims and set up
necessary reserves. This is not
necessarily proportional to the
premium paid.
The proposed scale does not ap­ply
to insurance on a perman­ent
plan which has been surren­dered
for a reduced paid-up
amount. These cases will be hand­led
separately.
On The Campus
The Society for the Advance­ment
of Management will meet at
7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 24, in the
new classrooms building, Room
123.
* * *
The Review Club will meet on
Thursday Oct. 20 at 7:30 in Sam-ford
301.
Day Student Organization will
meet today at noon in the Civic
Room of the Mell Street Cafe­teria.
Dean Katharine Cater will
be guest speaker.
The weekly reading hour will
be held in Samford 301, Thursday
Oct. 20. Prof. James F. Dolson
will read selections from Thomas
Wolfe.
The Ag Economics Club will
meet Monday Oct. 24 at 7 p.m. in
Comer Hall, Room 304. All agri­culture
economics students are in­vited
to attend.
Copyright 1949. b e c tn It Mnu TOMCCO Co.
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