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ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1948 NUMBER t U
Emily Cammack Elected
'Miss Auburn' Thursday
Miss Emily Cammack was elected "Miss A u b u r n " of 1948
from among a field of five candidates in Thursday's election.
Miss Cammack is a junior in home economics from Selma.
Over thirty-one per cent of the student body voted; 2452
ballots were cast. The other "Miss Auburn"-candidates were
Joy Thigpen, Polly Eller, Iris , -
SUCCUMBS
Furgerson and Elizabeth Ard.
Miss Eller is Auburn's Ag Queen
this year.
Results of the freshman class
officers balloting were as follows:
President, Jimmy Dukes, who
got 170 votes to beat six oppon­ents;
vice-president, Bob Hicks,
whose 364 votes placed him above
one opponent; representative to
executive cabinet, Bobby Max-ham,
who b e s t e d three other
candidates with a vote of 169;
secretary-treasurer, Madge Hol-lingsworth,
who beat four oppon­ents
with 213 votes, and historian,
Thomas Randall, who ran for of­fice
unopposed.
Total votes for the "Miss Au­burn"
candidates were:
Cammack, 748; Thigpen, 632;
Eller, 479; Furgerson, 436, and
Ard, 157.
Ruth D. Morley Attends
Teachers Conference
Mrs. Ruth D. Morley, head of
the department of nursery edu­cation
here, will represent the
School of Home Economics at a
conference for teachers of family
relations in departments of home
economics in colleges and univer­sities
in the southern region to be
held at Gatlinburg, Tennessee,
Npvember 8-10.
The conference was called by
Miss Muriel W. Brown, consultant
in family life education, U.S. of­fice
of education, Washington, D.
C. The purpose of the conference
is to give the teachers an oppor­tunity
to work together on prob­lems
that concern them. Special
consultants will be available to
help the teachers.
Brham Parade
Set For Saturday
A parade led by the Auburn
band and the Auburn cheerleaders
will be held in Birmingham Sat­urday,
announced Head Cheer­leader
Jimmy Kendrick.
The parade.will leave Woodrow
Wilson Park at 10:30 a.m. and
move down Twentieth St. to Se­cond
Ave. There it will turn right
to Nineteenth St. and then pro­ceed
to Woodrow Wilson Park
where it will disband.
All organizations are entitled to
enter two or more decorated cars.
Mississippi State students have
been invited to participate.
"Santa Claus has been-asked to
ride in the Auburn-State parade.
Be, sure to be on hand and ask
him for a victory over State and
'Bama", said Kendrick.
Bruner Joins Staff
At Veterans Center
Audley Bruner, former teacher
at DeKalb High School, Fort
Payne, has joined the staff of the
veterans advisory center here as
psychometrist and appraiser.
A graduate of State Teachers
College, Jacksonville, Bruner has
done graduate work at Peabody
College.
Applied Art Department
Now Department Of Art
By action of President Ralph
B. Draughon and members of the
Board of Trustees, Auburn's de­partment
of applied art has been
officially changed to "department
of art."
Frank W. Applebee, head of
the department, said, "The form­er
term was outmoded and car­ried
undesirable connotations. Our
faculty and .students are pleased
with the new designation."
Auburn Faculty Member
Wins Art Contest Prize
Rob(ert Broner, instructor in
Auburn's art department, has
been awarded third prize in oil
painting in the Fourth Annual
Los Angeles Art Week Exhibit.
Mr. Broner's painting is entitled
"Portrait of Aaron."
The painting show is the largest
and one of the most important in
that area. This year the show
exhibited 350 works chosen from
3500 entries.
Dean C. L Hare
Passes Wednesday
Dean Clifford LeRoy Hare, 79,
I dean of the School of Chemistry
I at Auburn, died early Wednesday
following a long illness at his
home on South Gay Street.
Funeral services were held in
the Methodist Church Thursday
afternoon. The Rev. T. P. Chalk-er,
pastor of the Methodist Church
officiated, and burial was in Au­burn
Cemetery.
Auburn's president, Ralph B.
Draughon, spoke briefly in tribute
to Dean Hare, terming him "a
man of courage, culture, and great
spirit."
Born at Chewacla, .Ala., March
19, 1869, Dean Hare was the son
of the late Joseph S. and Susan
Bullard Hare. He received his
B.S. degree from Auburn in 1891,
and an M.S. degree in 1892. In
1903 he received an M.A. degree
from the University of Michigan
and married Miss Dabney Bon-durant.
Mrs. Hare died a number
of years ago.
A member of the college staff
for 56 years, Mr. Hare rose to the
deanship from positions as an in­structor,
assistant professor, asso­ciate
professor and professor. In
1932, the same year he became
dean, he was appointed state
chemist for Alabama.
In 1940 he went on inactive sta­tus
due to ill health and was
succeeded by H. M. Martin, who
has served as acting dean since
that time.
'MISS AUBURN' 1948-'49
Thirty-Two Tapped
For Pi Tail Sigma
Pi Tau Sigma, honorary, me­chanical
engineering fraternity,
announces the tapping of 32 new
members. The selection of stu­dents
to.Pi Tau Sigma is based on
scholarship, extra-curricular ac­tivities,
character,' and potentiali­ties
as a leader.
The object of this organization
is to foster the high ideals of the
engineering profession, to stimu­late
interest in coordinate depart­mental
activities, and to promote
the mutual professional welfare
of its members.
The new men are:
Robert B. Adams, Atlanta, Ga.;
Henry E. Addison, Tarrant; Archie
H. Winter, Hueytown; Thomas F.
Furlong, Montgomery; James P.
Wooten, Cullman; Cecil N. King,
Auburn; Wm. A. Bush, Dbthan;
Robert N. Parker, Newport News,
Va.; Chas. F. Lipsey, Anniston;
Robert E. Lyman, Montevallo;
John O. Watz, Plateau.
Wm. J. Hawk, Tampa, Fla.;
Charles Stringfellow, Greenville;
Emory K. Johnson and John C.
Merritt, Camp Hill; Fred A.
Laney, Fairfield; Joseph G. Bet-beze,
Ralph Farnell, Jr., and
James R. Havron, Mobile.
Ed M. Brummal, Elmer C. Hill,
James O. Thomas, Carl E. Canon,
Richard O. Hutto, Chas. H. Isbell,
Clarence E. Jones, Dwight E. Lit­tle,
Thomas H. Barker, James C.
Lowery, H e r m a n J. Striplin,
James H. Richardson, and Ben J.
Moore, Birmingham.
NBC's Bottcher Is Master Of Ceremonies
At Ag Fair Today; Miss Polly Eller is Queen
AG FAIR POTENTATE
Eta Kappa Nu Taps
36 New Members
36 students from the junior and
senior classes of the electrical
enginering department were re­cently
elected too membership in
the Xi chapter of Eta Kappa Nu,
national honorary fraternity
The initiation of these members
began Monday and will end
Tuesday with a banquet at which
Professor R. D. Spann will be the
principal- speaker.
Election to Eta Kappa Nu is
based on scholastic achievement,
personality, participation in cam­pus
activities, arid the coopera­tion
shown to classmates and pro­fessors
while in college.
Students elected from the sen­ior
class were: Gregory Brown,
Lewis H. Burdette, A. A. Cald­well,
Robert E. Caldwell, William
H. Cole, William M. Davis, Rich­ard
P. Dodd, Robert E. Dreher,
James D. Duren, David' T. Ed­wards.
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H. K. Glisson, E. L. Goyette,
Robert N. Heath, Stephen V.
Hogg, John F. Howell, Walter E.
Jones, Walter G. Jones, Lester
Long, Henry L. Moncrief, Jr.,
Ernest E. Newman, Joe Rollins,
Robert C. Sheehan, and Jackson
E. Winter.
Students elected from the jun­ior
class were: Harry H. Bell, Har-lin
A. Bunn, Fred A. Duran,
Richard T. Galloway, Edward L.
Gilder, Carrol R. Keller, James
L. LQVvorn, Charles S. Moody,
Samuel D. Moorer, Joseph M.
Nelson, Thomas C.'Slawson, Lacy
G. Thomas, and Harold P. Ward.
QUEEN POLLY ELLER (above) reigns today over the festi­vities
of the Ag Fair. Polly, a junior in the School of Education,
is a transfer student from Troy State Teachers College. Her home
is in Hayden. She will be crowned queen at the Farmer's Ball
tonight in the student ac building by Buck Byrd, president of
' t h e Ag Council. (Photo by James Studio.)
Auburn ASCE Will Sponsor Meeting
Of Three Alabama Chapters Friday
The Auburn student chapter of the American Society of
Civil Engineers is sponsoring a j o i n t meeting of t h e Universi­t
y of Alabama, Auburn, and State chapters here Friday.
I t is anticipated that approximately 75 civil engineering
students from the University of Alabama and a number of
professional civil engineers from
Tomorrow's Pep Rally
Features Skit By PKT
The "Beat State" pep rally-dance
will begin at 7 o'clock to­morrow
night, in the student acti­vities
building. A special feature
this week is a half-hour show
from 8:30 to 9, which will bs stag­ed
by Phi Kappa Tau, winner of
last year's Skit Night cup.
The dance will last from 7 to 10,
or thereabouts, and freshman
girls will have 9:15 permission.
Music will be furnished by the
Auburn Plainsmen.
over the state will attend.
Registration for the meeting
will begin at 9:30 a.m. at Ramsay
Hall. After registration is com­pleted,
inspection trips will be
conducted to points of interest
near Auburn.
In the afternoon there will be a
technical session from'2:30 p.m.
until 4:30 p.m., which will in­clude
speeches by prominent pro­fessional
civil engineers and by
civil engineering faculty mem­bers
and students from the Uni­versity
and Auburn.
A banquet will be given at
Club Lantern at 6:30 p.m. which
will be followed by a dance from
9 p.m. until 12 p.m.
During the banquet an award
will be presented to the outstand­ing
freshman civil engineering
student enrolled at Auburn. This
presentation will be made by the
president of Chi Epsilon, honor­ary
civil engineering fraternity.
Featured speaker at the ban­quet
will be Mr. S. R. Young,
president and general manager of
the Atlanta and West Point Rail­road
Company, the Western Rail­way
of Alabama Company, and
the Georgia Railway Company.
MISS EMILY CAMMACK
J. H. Johnson To Get
Ph. D. In Sociology
Professor J. Herman Johnson
has returned to the Auburn cam­pus
this fall after corrrjSleting his
examinations for the Ph.D.'in So­ciology
at the University of North
Carolina.
Professor Johnson successfully
defended his dissertation before
the faculty at the University of
North Carolina in September. He
will be granted the Doctorate de­gree
at the graduation exercises
to be held in June 1949.
Two Faculty Members
Attend Fish Conference
H. S. Swingle, fish. culturist,
and E. E. Prather, assistant fish
culturist, Auburn Agricultural
Experiment Station, returned to­day
from Frankfort, Ky.,v where
they attended the annual South­eastern
Fisheries Conference, Oct­ober
31 to November 2.
Mr. Swingle, who is in charge
of the farm fish pond research of
the Alabama Experiment Station,
spoke at the conference on pond
research. He and Mr. Prather as­sisted
in conducting a training
tour of nearby Kentucky ponds to
demonstrate methods developed
at Auburn for determining why
ponds fail to provide good fish­ing.
'Melody Madness'
Set To Open Soon
"Melody Madness", a musical
variety show written and pro­duced
by Jim Watson and Earl
Andrews, will be presented at
Langdon Hall 7:30 p.m. November
17 and 18. Proceeds will be for
charity?
Music for the show will be by
the Auburn Plainsmen orchestra
under the direction of Jimmy
Newberne.- Martha Lambert will
be the featured blues singer.
Two different songs written by
local talent "will be introduced.
"Haunting Melody", by Phil Tur-by,
an Auburn instructor, will be
sung by Jim Cranford. Bob Gor-rie
will sing "As Now" by Earl
Andrews, an Auburn student.
Other acts will feature dance
numbers, comedy skits, and im­personations.
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This Year's Fair Sponsored By Ag Council;
Auburn Band To Lead Parade At 4:30 P. M.
A u b u r n alumnus Ed Bottcher, announcer for NBC's farm
p r o g r am "R.F.D. America", will act as master of ceremonies'
for the annual Ag F a i r to be held this afternoon at t h e sports
arena building. Sharing the spotlight with him will be the
fair's queen, Polly Eller. \
The fair is being sponsored by the Ag Council headed by
I.'B. "Buck" Byrd. Glover Pugh
is the fair manager.
Exhibits of the various clubs
and departments will be arranged
in the sports arena and a mid­way
will be erected outside. The
midway will contain all of the tra­ditional
games of chance and
amusement. Refreshment stands
will also be available.
A parade from the campus
through town and to ag hill will
begin at 4:30 p.m. Auburn's new
marching band will lead the. way
for floats bearing Queen' Polly
and her court of six campus fa­vorites.
The Queen's court consists of
Merle Godwin, Frisco City; Mar­tha
Owen, Joy Thigpen, Auburn;
Jane Wilcox, Bolinger; Betty Ro­berts,
Hartselle; and Lovie Kil-gore,
Union Springs.
Music for the program will be
by the Auburn Plainsmen. The
program will consist of a harmon­ica
trio, a hog calling contest, a
pie eating contest, and a descrip­tion
of the different exhibits.
Portions of the program will be
broadcast by Ed Bottcher at. 7:30
p.m. over stations WAUD and
WJHO.
Climax of the day's activities
will come with the Farmer's Ball
at which time Queen Polly will be
crowned. Special guests at the
ball will be the Alabama Flying
Farmers who will arrive at the
Auburn-Opelika airport in time
to take part in the parade.
Holiday For Fair
Given To Students
The Council of Deans voted last
Tuesday to give all agricultural
. engineering and agricultural edu­cation
students a half holiday to­day,
the day of the annual Ag
Fair.
A program is now being plan­ned
by a committee of Ag Coun­cil
for the half-day holiday
Tentative plans have been made
for a tour of the experimental
station and forums led by out­standing
research professors of the
agricultural department.
Exhibits of the various depart­ments
of ag hill will be on dis­play
in the student activities
building from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30
p.m. During this time a program
will be presented by agricultural
students. '~^
The Auburn band will lead the
Ag Fair in full dress uniform.
To climax the day's activities
there will be the Farmer's Ball
with music by the Auburn Plains­men.
The chief dress for the
dance will be blue jeans and loud
plaid shirts. Tickets for the dance
are priced at $1.25 and may be
obtained from ag students or at
the door that night.
Chief Ellis Requests
Student Cooperation
Auburn Chief of Police Clyde
Ellis requests that students ob­serve
the law requiring all ve­hicles
to have a muffler and for­bidding
straight exhausts.
Chief Ellis states that as yet no
tickets have been given and that
the Police Department hopes the
students will cooperate in this re­spect.
Plainsman Staff
There will be a meeting of
Plainsman staff members in
th% Plainsman office tomorrow
at 3:45 p.m.
'Candida' Tryouts
Set For Nov. 15
Tryouts for the Auburn Play­ers
presentation of Shaw's Can-date
will be held at 7:30 p.m., No­vember
15 at the Y Hut.
The play was read at Sunday's
weekly meeting of the Players at
Professor -Telfair B. Peet's home.
It will be directed by Robert
Eberle, assistant professor of dra­matic
arts.
Students desiring to try-out for
any of the parts are invited to at­tend,,
the tryouts.
The play is a well known
comedy of George Bernard Shaw's
and has been produced many
times on Broadway.
Vet Students Attend
South Carolina Meeting
Two Auburn students recently
attended the Southern Veterinary
Medical Association meeting in
Greenville, South Carolina. Bill
Mosher and Chuck Williams, rep­resenting
Auburn, were the only
Jr. AVMA members or veterinary
students among those attending.
Dr. I. S. McAdory represented
4he faculty at the meeting and
Dean R. S. Sugg of the Auburn
Veterinary School was elected
president for the coming year.
Armenf, Glyde
Dual Concert
To Be Monday ,
A varied musical program will
be presented by Hollace Arment,
tenor, and Edgar Glyde, violinist,
Monday night at 8:15 in Langdon
Hall. Mr. Arment and Mr. Glyde
will be assisted by Miss Norma
Lee Spence and Mr. S. Turner
Jones.
. Mr. Arment's selections will in­clude
songs by such noted com­posers
as Dowland, Morley, Pur-cell,
Wolf and Reger. He will
sing, in addition, a number from
Iolanthe by Gilbert and Sullivan
and an old English folk song ar­ranged
by composer Benjamin
Britten.
Numbers by Vivaldi, Schubert,
Debussey, and Wieniawski will be
played by Mr. Glyde. He will also
offer a number, Romance, .by Au­burn
Professor Hubert Liverman.
Both Mr. Arment and Mr;
Glyde will present Kramer's well
known number The Last Hour.
NROTC Now Publishing
Bi-Monthly Newspaper
"The Helm," a bi-monthly
newspaper, was organized on
Tuesday, October 26 by members
of the NROTC unit of Auburn.
The paper will be, written, pub­lished,
and distributed by mid­shipmen
enrolled in the NROTC
with the help of their, advisor,
Lieutenant Robert Adrian, USN. .
The first edition of the publica­tion
was turned out on Saturday,
October 30, in the NROTC office,
and has been distributed to naval
science students.
The staff of "The Helm" in­cludes:
Bill Fleming, editor; Dick
Hutchinson, associate e d it o r;
Bruce Greenhill, sports editor; Ro­ger
Howell, cartoonist; R. P.
Thompson, H. A. Feuerlicht, J.
Jennings, R. S. Jones, feature
writers; R. P. Thompson, mimeo-grapher;
B. J. Cox, G. Downs, Eu­gene
Moore, reporters; J.. Jen­nings,
H. A. Feuerlicht, E. Moore,
typists; Lt. Robert Adrian, ad­visor.
Mr. Edgar Glyde
NOTICES
Student tickets to the Au-burn-
Mississippi State football
game are on sale at the field
house today and tomorrow.
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The Quarterback Club will
meet in Langdon Hall at 8:30
o'clock tonight.
* * *
The AIO Meeting scheduled
for tonight has been cancelled.
' The next meeting will be held
November 10.
* * *
The Dairy Science Club will
meet in the Animal Husbandry
Building tomorrow at 7 p.m.
* * *
The Jr. AVMA Auxiliary will
meet in Social Center tomorrow
at 7:30 p.m.
* * *
Decor will meet in Broun 101
at 7:30 p.m. Monday.
* * *
The Dolphin Club will meet
in Alumni Gym at 7 p.m. Mon­day.
* * *
Air Reserve will meet tomor­row
at 7:30 p.m. in Broun Audi­torium.
A film will be shown by
an Eastern Airlines representa- si
tive as a demonstration of re­serve
power. The meeting is open
to the public.
Students, Read Your Constitution
And Take Part In Your Government
the A uburn * . Keep A Copy Of Your Constitution
It Will Be Handy As A Reference
Constitution Of Associated Undergraduate Students Of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama
CONSTITUTION OF
Associated Undergraduate Stu­dents
of the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute
Whereas, it seems wise that all
activities among the students of
the Alabama Polytechnic Insti­tute
should be so organized and
conducted as to work for the bet­terment
of the student body; it is
fitting that some central organi­zation,
chosen by the - student
body, have and exercise general
powers of supervision over all in­dividual
activities insofar as they
affect the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute.
In so doing, we, the students of
Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
propose to be governed by the
constitution and laws of the fed­eral
government and the State of
Alabama as to the right of our
student citizenship and to recog­nize
the authority of the admin­i
s t r a t i o n ' s superior to our own.
To this end it is necessary that
the entire body of undergraduates
be brought together as a unit in
order that the legislature and
executive powers may 'be con­ferred
upon such a central organi­zation.
It is, therefore, enacted
by the undergraduate students at­tending
Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute
that such an organization
be effected and to this end the
following constitution is ordained
and adopted.
CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE I
Name of Organization
The name of this organization
shall be "The Asociated Under­graduate
Students of the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute." ,
ARTICLE II
Purposes
The purposes of this organiza­tion
are to deal effectively with
matters of student affairs, to per­petuate
the best traditions of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, to
promote the best of good under­standing
between faculty and stu­dents
to the end that the work of
the college may be made of high
value to the students, to control
all matters which are delegated to
the student association by the
administration, to work with the
administration in all matters af­fecting
the welfare of thjsstudent
body, to control and direct stu­dent
activities in order that they
may be conducted for the best
interest of the student body as a
whole and to the credit of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute.
ARTICLE III
Membership
All registered undergraduate
students at the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute are, by virtue of
such registration, members of the
organization, such membership to
be subject to all rules and regu­lations
as may be herein or here­after
enacted by this organiza­tion.
ARTICLE IV \
Executive Cabinet
Section 1. All the legislative
and executive powers of this as­sociation
are hereby invested in
a representative body to be cho­sen
as hereinafter provided. This
body shall be known as the "Ex­ecutive
Cabinet of the Associated
Undergraduate Students of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute."
Section 2. Acts and Decisions
of the cabinet.—All acts and de­cisions
of the Executive Cabinet
shall be considered decisions 'of
the Association except that on
petition presented in writing to
the President of the Cabinet,
carrying the signatures of 8 per­cent
of the registered undergrad­uate
students within ten days of
the enactment of such acts and
decisions of the Executive Cabi­net,
they shall be presented to
the Association for ratification or
rejection, as provided in Section
3.
All acts and decisions of the
Cabinet shall be published in the
official student newspaper of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute in
the issue next following the
meeting. A report of each meet­ing,
certified by the President
and Secretary of the Cabinet,
shall be published in the official
student newspaper of the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute in the
next issue following the meet­ing.
Section 3. On receipt of a pe­tition
as provided in Section 2,
the Executive Cabinet shall,
within four days, issue a call for
a general vote on the matter in
question, the same being taken
by written ballot within fourteen
days but not earlier than seven
days after the issue of such call.
A negative vote of two-thirds of
the ballots cast shall be necessary
to annul any act or decision of
the Executive Cabinet.
Section 4. Membership of the
Cabinet.—Membership in the Ex­ecutive
Cabinet shall consist of
an indefinite number of ex-officio
members as designated in Sec­tion
5, five special members and
12 regular members. The special
members, who shall have all the
rights and duties of regular mem­bers
except the right to hold 'of­fice
in the Cabinet, shall be the
regularly elected presidents! of
the four classes and the regular­ly
elected President of the Wo­men's
Student Government Asso­ciation.
The twelve regular mem­bers
shall be elected from the
four classes of the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute as follows: Three
members of the senior class, two
members of the junior class, one
member of the sophomore class,
one member of the freshman
class, one co-ed elected by the
women students, and one repre­sentative
elected by the fifth year
students.
Each class shall elect by popu­lar
vote its representatives as de­signated
febove and a class presi­dent,
a vice-president, a secretary
and treasurer, and a historian.
The election shall be held in ac­cordance
with the qualifications
and regulations set forth in the
By-Laws. ,
Section 5. An ex-offiejo member
that has been duly elected by the
organization he or she represents
is entitled by the approval of two-thirds
of the elected cabinet to
all rights and privileges of the
cabinet except that of voting.
ARTICLE V
Section 1, Organization of the
Executive Cabinet.—Officers of
the Executive Cabinet shall be
as follows: (a) president, (b) vice-president,
(c) secretary, (d) treas­urer.
'
All officers except the treasurer
shall be elected in acordance
with the qualifications and regu­lations
set forth in the By-Laws.
The treasurer shall be elected
from within the Cabinet by the
members of the Cabinet.
Section 2. Succession of Offi­cers.—
Any vacancies in a class's
representatives on the cabinet
(namely president and represen­tative)
shall be filled by others
elected at the same time in order
of succession herein provided in
Section 3, Article V. A leave of
absence of any cabinet member
may be had without replacement
up to 1 month by two-thirds
vote of the Cabinet.
Section 3. Order of Succession
—The Vice-President shall re­place
either office vacated by the
President or Representative; if
both offices are vacated, the Sec­retary-
Treasurer and Historian of
the class will replace the vacancy
other than that replaced by the
not be filled by class officers,
the cabinet shall elect members
of the class to fill the vacancies
until the next election.
Section 4, The following shall
be the permanent committees of
the Executive Cabinet: Drives,
Elections, Finance, Invitations,
Pep. Publications, Rat Cap. Ring,
and Student Relations Committee.
ARTICLE VI
Section 1. The name of this
committee shall be the Social
Committee,
Section 2. The Social Commit­tee
shall be a body separate and
apart from the Executive Cabi­net.
Section 3. This committee shall
consist of a chairman and as
many associate members as he
desires. The chairman shall ap­point
his committee with the ap­proval
of the Executive Cabinet,
Section 4. The chairman of the
Social Committee shall be elected
by popular vote in accordance
with the qualifications and regula­tions
set forth in the By-Laws.
Section 5. The chairman and his
committee shall assume office at
the beginning of the Fall Quarter
and hold such office through the
following Summer Quarter.
Section 6. In the event that a
vacancy occurs in the chairman­ship
of this committee, the Stu­dent
Executive Cabinet shall
elect a temporary chairman to
serve until the next regular elec­tion.
Section 7. The duties of this
committee shall be as follows:
1. To engage name bands for
the student body entertainment
at the discretion of the commit­tee
and the Administration. -
2. Members of the Social Com­mittee
attending social func­tions
shall set an example by
upholding regulations pertain­ing
to such.
3. The Social Committee will be
available to render service to
organizations and groups pro­moting
such activities.
4. For these duties the chair­man
shall receive a commission
as specified by the College Busi­ness
Manager and approved by
the president of the College.
ARTICLE VII
Section 1. Members of the stu­dent
body may propose amend­ments
to the Constitution by pe­tition
presented in writing to the
President of the Executive Cabi­net
carrying the signatures of 8
per cent of the registered under-graudate
students, or members
of the Executive Cabinet may
propose amendments from the
floor.
Section 2. It shall be necessary
to publish in the-official student
newspaper of the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute a proposed
amendment to this Constitution
in the two issues next preceding
the date on which a vote is taken
in the Cabinet.
Section 3. Proposed amend­ments
shall be adopted by a two-thirds
vote of approval by the
Executive Cabinet.
BY-LAWS
ARTICLE 1
Every registered undergraduate
student of the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute is subject to the
following rules and regulations.
ARTICLE II
Section 1. The membership of
the • Executive Cabinet shall con­sist
of duly elected representatives
chosen in acocrdance with Article
IV, Section 4, of the Constitution,
under supervision of the "Elec­tion
Committee." *
Section 2. All representatives
elected to the Executive Cabinet,
shall be inaugurated at a banquet
with two weeks after the regular
election. The following pledge
shall be taken by all the members
of the Executive Cabinet at this
inauguration: "I do solemnly pro­mise
to support the Constitution,
By-Laws, and Rules of Permanent
Committees of the Associated
Undergraduate Students of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
and to perform the duties of my
office to the best of my know­ledge
and ability. So help me
God." Thi% oath shall be admis-tered
by the President of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute.
Section 3. The newly elected
representatives and class officers
beginning of the Fall Quarter and
shall hold such offices through
the following Summer Quarter.
Section 2 and Section 3 under
Ariicle V of the Constitution shall
govern the replacement of any
vacancies that occur in the Cabi­net
between regular elections.
t ARTICLE HI
Section 1. The treasurer of the
Executive Cabinet, as provided
for in Article V, Section 1, of the
Constitution, shall be elected by
written ballot at the first meet­ing
of the Executive Cabinet.
Section 2. Chairman of Com­mittees,
expect where otherwise
provided by the Constitution or
By-Laws, shall be elected by writ­ten
ballot at the second meeting
of the Executive Cabinet.
" ARTICLE IV
Section 1. (a) It shall be the
duty of the president of the Exe­cutive
Cabinet to preside at all
meetings of the Cabinet and the
student body; to call meetings of
either body upon written request
of five members of the Executive
Cabinet, or at his own discretion;
to vote in case of a tie in Cabinet
proceedings, to sign with the
treasurer all vouchers and requi­sitions
drawn of funds of the
Executive Cabinet; to see that
all elections are announced in due
time; to call and preside over all
freshmen meetings until the elec­tion
of regular freshmen class
officers; and to serve i n every
other capacity of an executive to
the Cabinet and student body.
(b) For his duties, the Presi­dent
of the Cabinet shall receive
a monthly salary determined by
the Administration.
Section 2. The vice-president
shall assume the duties of the
president in case, of the absence
of the latter.
Section 3. The secretary shall
keep all records of the Executive
Cabinet and shall send notices
of all meeting to members of the
Cabinet.
Section 4. The treasurer shall
receive and disburse all monies
of the Executive Cabinet and of
all committees in accordance with
the regulations governing The
Finance Committee.
ARTICLE V
Section 1. The Executive Cabi­net
shall hold meetings every
two weeks through the school
year.
Section 2. Special meetings may
be called at any time by the
president. Within three days af­ter
having received the written
request of five members of the
cabinet or a written request
signed by 8 per cent of the Stu­dent
Body, the President shall
call a meeting of the Executive
Cabinet to be convened within
two days of the date of such call.
Section 3. The order of busi­ness
for the Executive Cabinet
shall be as follows:
1. Roll Call
2. Reading of minutes of pre­vious
meeting.
3. Reports of standing commit­tees.
4. Special business
5. Report of other committees
6. Old Business
7. New Business
Section 4. Robert's Rules of
Order shall cover all procedures
of this Cabinet, except those
covered by the Constitution and
By-Laws.
ARTICLE VI
No meetings shall begin or con­tinue
unless at least a quorum—
two-thirds of total membership—
is present.
ARTICLE VII
Attendance at meetings of the
Executive Cabinet is required of
all representatives. Absence or
excessive tardiness is punishable
,by a fine of seventy-five cents.
Ajnember of the Cabinet may
be suspended or permanently re­moved
for flagrant or continued
neglect of his duties, by a two-thirds
vote of the Cabinet.
ARTICLE VIII
Any organization or publica­tion,
except social fraternities, ex­isting
as an undergraduate organi­zation
or publication must first
be granted the privilege of estab­lishment
on the campus by a
two-thirds vote of the Executive
Cabinet, and the approval of the
College Administration. This pri­vilege
may be withdrawn at any
time by a similar procedure pro­viding
the matter has been duly
investigated and due notice given
to the organization concerned,
The current constitution and By­laws
of all such organizations
shall be kept by the Executive
Cabinet.
Any organization failing to
comply will not be recognized
by college authorities, Student
Executive Cabinet or college pub­lications.
ARTICLE IX
Section 1. The committees as
provided for in Article V, Section
4, of the Constitution shall sub­mit
formal reports to the Cabi­net
once a month, with the ex­ception
on the Invitation Com­mittee,
which shall submit a
quarterly report.
Section 2. Temporary Commit­tees,
which are apointed from
time to time, perform such duties
as the Executive Cabinet shall
specify.
ARTICLE X
Proposal to change these By-
Laws except where otherwise
provided (Paragraph 2, Section 5.
Article IV, Regulations of Per­manent
Committees of the Stu­dent
Executive Cabinet) must be
made by members of the Cabinet
or the students at large, but in
either event, the proposal must
be presented to the Cabinet and
made a part of the record thereof
and must be submitted in writ­ing
to the president of the Exe­cutive
Cabinet and must be pub­lished
in the official student news­paper
of the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute in the issue next pre­ceding
the meeting at which the
Cabinet acts on the proposed
changes. This meeting shall be a
public one and all who desire
to be heard on the proposed
change shall be given opportunity
to speak. A two-thirds vote of the
members of the Executive Cabi­net
shall be required to change
these By-Laws.
ARTICLE XI
All matters of interpretation of
the Constitution, the By-Laws, the
Regulations of Permanent Com­mittees,
and the Qualifications of
Candidates and Election Regula­tions
shall be decided by the
Executive Cabinet. .
ARTICLE XII
A written report of the Cabi­net's
activities during the pre­ceding
year shall be written and
signed by the President of the
Cabinet, and after a two-thirds
approval of the Cabinet be sub­mitted
to the permanent records
of the Cabinet and published in
the Plainsman written in the
style approved by the editor.
REGULATIONS OF PERMA­NENT
COMMITTEES OF THE
EXECUTIVE CABINET
Permanent Committees
Permanent committees func­tion
throughout the entire year
and carry out routine duties of
the Executive Cabinet. The Per­manent
Committees are: Drives
Committee, Election Committee,
Finance Committee, Invitations
Committee, Pep Committee, Pub­lications
Committee, Rat Cap
Committee, Ring Committee, and
Student Relations Committee.
ARTICLE I
' Drives Committee
Section 1. The name of this
committee shall be the Drives
Committee.
Section 2. The Junior Class re­presentative
shall serve as co-­chairman
of this committee.
Section 3. All campus drives
must be approved by the Cabinet.
Section 4. Dates for all drives
must be approved by the commit­tee.
. Section 5. Drives sponsored by
the cabinet and other campus
organizations must be checked for
legality.
Section 6. The cabinet shall pay
the drives committee $2.00 a day
during Cabinet sponsored drives,
or some other amount to be de­cided
upon by the Executive
Cabinet and the College Busi­ness
Manager with the approval
of the President of the College.
ARTICLE II
Election Committee
Section 1. The name of this
committee shall be the Elections
Committee.
Section 2. The purpose of this
committee shall be to conduct
a l l . campus elections as herein
provided.
Section 3. This committee shall
consist of a chairman and five
associate members. The chairman
shall be a senior elected from the
Executive Cabinet as provided for
in Article III, Section 2 of the
By-Laws. The associate members
shall be appointed by the chair­man
subject to the approval of the
Executive Cabinet. The chairman
shall announce his committee
within two weeks after his elec­tion.
Section 4. The duties of the
Election Committee shall be to
conduct elections in accordance
with the qualifications and regu­lations
set forth in the By-Laws,
ARTICLE III
Finance Committee
Section 1. The name of the com­mittee
shall be the Finance Com­mittee.
Section 2. The chairman of this
committee shall be the duly elec­ted
Treasurer of the Executive
Cabinet. . .„j<- . .
Section 3. The purpose of the
committee shall be to handle all
finances of the Executive Cabinet
and make monthly reports to this
body. ' •
ARTICLE IV
Invitations Committee
Section 1. The name of this
committee' shall be the Invitations
Committee
Section 2. The purpose of this
committee shall be to sell the
graduation invitations of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute.
Section 3. The chairman of this
committee shall be elected from
among the Senior Representatives
by the Cabinet at its second
meeting.
Section 4. The chairman shall
appoint his committee from the
Senior Class, subject to the ap­proval
of the Cabinet.
Section 5. The duties of the
chairman-of this committee shall
be -to keep a record of all the in­vitations
sold, to make a quarterly
report to the Cabinet, and to
carry on all correspondence with
the printer of the invitations. For
these duties he- shall receive a
commission as specified by the
Executive Cabinet and the Col­lege
Business Manager with the
approval of the President of the
College.
ARTICLE V
Section 1. The name of this
committee shall be the Pep Com­mittee.
Section 2. The purpose of this
committee shall be to foster the
Auburn Spirit on the campus, and
elsewhere, to cooperate with the
Head Cheerleader in planning for
Pep Meetings in Auburn and in
cities where- Auburn is playing
football.
Section 3. The chairman shall
be the 5th Year Representative to
the Cabinet. He will appoint as
many on this committee as he
thinks advisable with the Cabi­net's
approval.
Section 4. All expenses of the
Pep Chairman and a commission
for his services shall be paid by
the cabinet with the approval of
the Administration.
ARTICLE VI
Publications Committee
Section 1. The- name of the
committee shall be the Board of
Student Publications.
Section 2. The purpose of this
Board shall be the general con­trol
of all student publications
supported by the student activity
fees.
Section 3. The membership of
this Board shall consist of four
faculty members and four mem­bers
of the senior class in good
standing selected from a list of
at least eight students compiled
by faculty members of the Board
of Student Publications, subject
to the final selection by the Stu­dent
Executive Cabinet. The fac­ulty
members shall be as follows:
(a) Director'bf Student Affairs
(b) The President or a faculty
representative appointed by him.
(c) The Business Manager of
the college.
(d) The instructor" in journal­ism.
(e) Ex-officio members are Presi­dent
of the Executive Cabinet.
Editor and Business Manager of
the Glomerata and the Editor
and Business Manager of the
Plainsman.
Section 4. Meetings of the Board
of Student Publications shall be
held on the first or second Thurs­day
of each month. Due notice
of all mettings shall be given by
the Chairman 48 hours before the
time of the meeting. The pre­sence
of six members shall consti­tute
a quorum.
A meeting of the Publications
Board may be called by the Exe­cutive
Cabinet or the Chairman
of the Board.
Vacancies that occur will be
filled from the remaining list of
candidates (presented at the first
of the year) by vote of the Cabi­net.
Section 5. The duties shall be
as follows:
a. To exercise general super­vision'over
the business and edi­torial
management of student
publications receiving monies col­lected
by the college. .
b. It shall receive sealed bids
for all publication expenses, to
be opened before the Board. It
\ shall award contracts necessary
for publications heads and their
staffs.
c. To pass upon tentative bud­gets
of student publications sub­mitted
by business managers at
the beginning of the college year.
d. To declare and fill all vancan-cies
in the offices of editor-in-chief
and business managers or
their staffs and members of the
Board of Student Publications for
good and sufficient reasons.
e. To fix the salaries of the Edi­tor
and Business Manager of stu­dent
publications coming under
the supervision of the Publications
Board.
f. The eligibility and require­ments
of candidates for elective
positions on any student publica­tion
coming under the supervision
of the Publication Board shall be
established by the Publication
Board.
1; To be eligible for editor-in-chief
or business manager of any
student publication under the
supervision of the Publication
Board, the candidate must have
served on the editorial or busi­ness
staff, respectively, of that
publication for one full year in
addition to the semester in which
the election is held.
2. He must submit an applica­tion
in writing to the Publication
Board at least two weeks before
the Board to be examined oral­ly.
3. In the event that no applicant
for such editorial and business
staffs meet the qualifications as
established by the Publications
Board, the Board shall have the
power to nominate candidates for
the elective position or positions
to be filled.
4. The Publication Board shall
investigate each quarter the
existing staffs of the Plainsman
and Glomerata, as well as other
publications which it may later
supervise, in order to insure
eligibility of future candidates
for the elective positions of those
staffs.
g. To submit to the elections
committee a list of qualified
candidates for the elective posi­tions
of the student publications
coming under the supervision of
the Publications Board. The
election shall be held in accord­ance
with the qualifications and
regulations set forth in the By-
Laws.
ARTICLE VII
Rat Cap Committee
Section 1. The name of this
committee shall be the Rat Cap
Committee.
> Section 2. The committee shall
consist of a chairman and as many
committeemen as he deems neces­sary.
The chairman shall be a
senidr representative elected from
the Executive Cabinet at its sec­ond
regular meeting. The chair­man
shall announce his associates
within two weeks. .
Section 3. The duties of the
committee will be to sell the
men rat caps. During registra­t
i o n week the rat caps will be
sold by the committee. For these
duties the chairman shall re­ceive
a commission as specified
I by the Executive Cabinet, the
College Business Manager, and
approved by the President of the
College.
ARTICLE VIII
Ring Committee
.Section 1. The name of this
committee shall be the Ring Com­mittee.
Section 2. The purpose Qf this
committee shall be to sell the
standard class ring of the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute.
, Section 3. The committee shall
consist of the Vice-President of
the Executive- Cabinet who shall
be chairman of said committee,
and five associate members, who
shall be members of the senior
class to be chosen by the, chair­man
with the approval of the
Executive Cabinet.
Section 4. The duties of the
chairman of this committee shall
be to keep a record of all the
rings sold, to make a monthly
report to the Cabinet, and to
carry on all correspondence with
the manufacturer of the rings.
For these duties, he shall receive
a commission on each ring sold
as specified by the Executive
Cabinet, the college Business
Manager, and approved by the
President of the College.
' Section 5. The duty of the
members of this committee shall
be to sell rings and turn all or­ders
over to the chairman of the
committee. A commission shall
be paid to the members for each
ring they sell as specified by the
Executive Cabinet, the College
Buisness Manager, and approved
by the President of the College.
ARTICLE IX
Student Relations Committee
Section 1. The name of this
committee shall be the Student
Relations Committee.
Section 2. The committee shall
be headed by a chairman selec­ted
by the Cabinet.
Section 3. The purpose of the
committee shall be. to hear, in­vestigate,
and work out a plan
of settlement of all or any grie­vances
submitted by any student
or groups of students.
Section 4. All facts in any case
shall be kept confidential at the
discretion of the complaining
party.
Section 5. The committee shall
have the authority to act on be­half
o,f all the undergraduate
students of API. When any
, changes or adjustments are to be
made, the committee shall refer
the case to either the Council of
Deans, Director of Student Af­fairs,
President of the College,
Board of Trustees, or Governor of
the State of Alabama.
Section 6. No publicity will be
given any case except with the
c o n s e n t of the complaining
party, and with the approval of
the cabinet; the committee can
make public the facts when
authflrized by means of trie
Plainsman, or any newspaper in
the state.
Section 7. The committee shall
act for the betterment of the
students in any way possible
provided the action is approved
by the cabinet.
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QUALIFICATIONS OF CAN­DIDATES
AND ELECTION RE­GULATIONS
ARTICLE I
Qualifications
Section 1. The qualifications of
candidates for the Student Exe­cutive
Cabinet, the Class Offi­cers,
and the Chairman of the
Social Committee shall be as
follows:
a. Nominations shall be sub­mitted
in the following form,
"We the undersigned, mem­bers
of the class of
do hereby nominate
for. ; "
(Signatures of Sponsors)
I hereby accept nomination.
(Signature of Nominee).
For all class elections there
shall be on the nomination the
signature of 4 per cent of the
students registered in the nomi­nee's
class.
For all o t h e r nominations
there shall be on the nomination
the signature of 4 per cent of
the total number of undergradu­ate
students registered at Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute.
8. The qualification Board
shall consist of all senior mem­bers
of the Executive Cabinet.
c. Before a nominee may be­come
a candidate for election he
or she must be interviewed by
the Qualification Board and
pass that body by a simple ma­jority
vote subject to the follow­ing
regulations:
1. A person is elibgible to hold
an office in the class in which
he or she is a voter.
2. The nominee for President
of the Executive Cabinet shall
be a member of the senior class
and must have served one term
on the Cabinet in order to qualify
for a candidate.
3. The chairman of the Social
-Committee shall be a member
of the senior class.
4. The Vice-President of the;.
Executive Cabinet shall be a
member of the Junior class.
5. The secretary of the Execu­tive
Cabinet shall be a member of
the Sophomore class. '
6. An overall average of 2.0 or
a 2.5 average for the immediately
preceeding quarter is required of
all candidates.
7. Every candidate with the ex­ception
of first quarter freshman
must be an active participant in
some extra-curricular activity,
and must be here in school the
following 3 quarters except in
unavoidable cases.
Section,2. No student may be
a candidate for an elective posi­tion
on any student Publication
coming under the supervision of
the Publication Board except t,
with the recommendation of the
Board of Publications. The qua-lificatons
on such candidates shall
be governed by Article IV, Sec­tion
5, Paragraph f. Regulations
of Permanent Committees of the
Student Executive Cabinet in the
By-Laws.
Section 3. The title of Miss
Auburn and Miss Homecoming.
a. Any undergraduate woman
student may qualify if she is not
a member of the freshman class
or a first quarter transfer, or the
holder of the Miss Homecoming
title the same year.
b. Each college operated wo­men's
dormitory, each college op­erated
men's dormitory, each so­cial
fraternity, and each social
sorority, and each organization
recognized by the Executive Cabi­net
shall be entitled to nominate
one candidate for the title.
c. The nominations shall be in
the following form:
We,-.. (Nominating Body) ,
do hereby nominate __ (Nomi­nees
Name) for the title of
Miss Auburn (or Miss Homecom­ing.)
,c, .., .,- (Signed by President of
nominating body)
I hereby accept the nomination.
(Signature of nominee)
d. If at least five girls are not
nominated for the title, the
Election Committee shall itself
nominate the required number
of girls to bring the total num­ber
of candidates to five.
e. After all nominations are
in, the Election Committee shall
appoint a Qualification Board J.
consisting of f i v e members, i
Students shall not be appointed
to this Board.
f. The Qualification Board shall
select from the nominees the five
final candidates and their names
shall be listed on the ballots and
the election conducted as provid­ed
in Article II, Elections Regu­lations
in the By-Laws.
ARTICLE II
Election Regulations
Section 1. All members of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute un­dergraduate
student body are eli­gible
to vote subject to the fol­lowing
regulations:
a. All students above and in­cluding
the sophomore class shall
vote in the election of the Presi­dent
of the Executive Cabinet, -
the Vice-President of the Execu­tive
C a b i n e t , the Secretary
of the Executive Cabinet, the
Chairman of the Social Commit­tee,
and the Editor and Business
Manager of student publications
coming under the supervision of
the Publication Board.
b. The Class Officers and re­presentatives
to the Student Exe­cutive
Cabinet shall be elected
by members of their respective
classes only.
c. All students are eligible to
vote in the election of Miss Au­burn
and Miss Homecoming.
Section 2. Elections shall be
held as follows:
a. The election of all freshman
officers shall be held in the Fall
Quarter.
b. The election of all other
Class Officers, the Student Exe­cutive
Cabinet, and the Chair­man
of the Social Committee shall
be held during the Spring Quar­ter.
c. The election of the Editor
and Business Manager of stu­dent
publications coming under
the supervision of the Publica­tion
Board shall be held during
the Spring Quarter or at such
other time as is recommended by
the Publication Board.
d. The election of Miss Auburn
and Miss Homecoming shall be
held during the Fall Quarter.
Section 3. Elections shall be
(continued on page 3)
Alpha Zeta Taps
28 Upperclassmen
Twenty eight upper classmen,
one graduate student, and one
associate member, were tapped by
the local chapter of Alpha Zeta
last week. Alpha Zeta is a nation­al
honorary agricultural frater­nity;
membership being based on
character, leadership, and scho­larship.
Upper classmen tapped were:
William Bradley, Auburn; John B.
Watson, Reform; Harold D. Bow­man,
Dutton; Robert M. Carlisle,
Notasulga; William W. Carnes, Al-bertville;
Hollis C. Smith, Hollis;
Frances T. Hixon, Union Springs;
Donald C. Parker, Union Springs.
Walter Bullock, Birmingham; R.
C. Ellison, Montgomery; Charles
W. Brown, Montgomery; Lus R.
Blankenship, Montgomery; Wal­ter
L. Culberson, Tuscaloosa, Her­bert
Kohn, Columbus, Ga.; Tal-mage
R. Meadows, Ashford;.
George B. Meadows, Salem.
Victor Griswold, Fitzpatrick;
Marvin E. Richardson, Midway;
Herbert Eagerton, Montgomery;
Claude R. Saidla, Auburn; Robert
C. Farquhar, Geiger; William M.
Gary, Eufaula; Williard E. Mar­tin,
Elba; Luther Cox, Montgo­mery;
James M. Brown, Clay­ton;
Fred Moultrie, Albertville;
and Merrill D. Bond, Clayton.
The graduate student tapped
was O. M. Hale, Frisco City. Dr.-E.
V. Smith, assistant dean of the
School of Agriculture, was selec­ted
as an associate member.
Constitution
(continued from page 2)
governed by the following regu­lations:
a. Nominations must be turned
in at the time and place directed
by the chairman of the Election
Committee.
b. The dale at which nomina­tions
are due shall be published
in the two issues of the Plains­man
preceding this date.
c. The chairman of the Elec­tion
Committee shall call a meet­ing
of the Qualification Board and
shall notify all nominees in writ­ing
as to the time and place at
which he or she must appear be­fore
the Qualification Board.
d. The date of the election and
the list of qualified candidates
shall be published in at least two
successive issues of the Plains­man
prior to the election date. ,
e. The ballots shall be secured
by the Chairman of the Election
Committee. All ballots shall be
in his possession at least twenty-four
/hours before the election.
The ballot shall contain a com­plete
list of the candidates, and
arranged in alphabetical order. •
f. The ballots of each class shall
be of a different color.
g. There shall be a minimum of
three ballot boxes to be furnish­ed
by the Elections Committee for
the convenience of student vot­ing,
and additional boxes will be
furnished when deemed desirable
and necessary. .
h. There shall be no voting by
proxy.
i. All ballot boxes shall be
sealed before the voting begins
and opened only to count the
ballots.
j . The voter shall receive his
ballot, fill it out at the place de­signated
and drop his own ballot
in the ballot box. No ballots shall
be carried away from the election
booths.
k. Ballots must be counted
within 6 hours after close of the
polls and complete returns given.
1. All candidatse or their sup­porters
must remain at least 50
feet from the polls, except that
they may approach to vote.
m. Anyone found guilty of un-
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ODK-GLOMERATA BEAUTY BALL CONTESTANTS AIO Meeting Cancelled; 3-THE PLAINSMAN
Election Of Officers
Will Be November 10
THESE 32 GIRLS HAVE BEEN NOMINATED for the annual ODK Glomerata Beauty Ball Contest which is to be held
Friday, November 12. Tickets for the beauty ball will be sold by m embers of ODK and members of the Glomerata staff. Tickets will
cost $1.50 per couple and $1.00 per stag. (Phorf> by Gresham). , , »
The Auburn Independent Or­ganization
will not hold its regu­lar
meeting this week because of
the Ag Fair. The next meeting
will be held on November 10 at
which time officers will be elected
for the winter and spring quart -
ters.
Officers to be elected and their
duties are as follows; president,
1st vice-president, AIO represen­tative
to the Student Executive
Cabinet; 2nd vice-presidents, one
in charge of social activities and
one in charge of programs; 3rd
vice-president, in charge of athle­tic
activities; secretary, treasurer,
and publicity director.
Candidates for office must have
their membership .dues for the
current' quarter paid in full and
candidate for president must have
a 2.0 or better scholastic average.
Torchlight Parade
Held Last Thursday
A torchlight parade was held
Thursday night in connection
with the "Vanquish Vandy" pep
•
the tourists saw an International
Harvester cotton picker in opera­tion
on the McLemore plantation.
Wednesday, Nov. 3, 1948
rally. The parade started in front
of Ross at 7 o'clock and ended at
the stadium.
A big "A" was outlined on the
field in candles and the stadium
lights were t u r n e d out. The
torchbearers formed a flaming
circle outside of the "A" and the
cheerleaders performed from the
inside. y
During the singing of the Alma
Mater, many students lit candles,
cigarette lighters, or matches.
The rally broke up about 7:40
It was followed by a dance in the
student activities building.
Newman Club Has
Election Of Officers
The Newman Club has announ­ced
that officers for the fall quar­ter
will be: ,
J. E. McHugh, Mobile, president;
Pete Napolitano, Ozone Park, N.
Y., vice-president; Nadine Mac
Namee, Prospect Park, Pa., secre­tary,
and Betty Gunthrope, Mobile,
treasurer.
A party was held recently for
all freshmen students and old
members of the club. Approxi­mately
forty members were pre­sent.
.
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fair practices at the polls shall
have his voting privilege remov­ed
by the Chairman of the Elec­tion
Committee. After a Cabinet
hearing on the offense, the name
of the offender, the offense and
his fraternity or organization af­filiation
shall be published in the
official newspaper of the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute.
n. All candidates may use the
local radio stations to address
the members of their respective
classes as to their intended, poli­cies
and procedures subject to
the following regulations:
1. All candidates must appear
on the same program in alpha­betical
order.
2. The time shall be distribu­ted
equally among the candi­dates.
3. The script of such programs
must be approved by the Election
Committee.
o. All candidates may make a
statement not to exceed 100
words, for publication in the
official newspaper of the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute. Such
statement may give his or her
policy, and any improvements he
or she would like to make within
the office for which he or she is
running. Such a statement is to be
published gratis by the official
newspaper.
p. The Chairman of the Elec­tion
Committee shall designate
two nights in the week preced­ing
the election for mass meeting.
On the first night all candidates
for sophomore and junior officers
and on the second night all can­didates
for senior and 5th year
officers may address their classes
as to their intended policies and
procedures. The chairman shall
designate one night, in the Fall
Quarter for a similar meeting for
freshman candidates.
q. Any means of campaigning
by a candidate or his supporters
other than by the heretofore men­tioned
methods or by personal
approach shall render the candi­date
ineligible. No candidate or
his supporters may distribute free
merchandise or have circulars,
cards, or other advertisements
printed or circulated in his or her
behalf, of otherwise spend any
monies jn behalf of his campaign.
The Election Committee,shall de­cide
cases under these provisions
subject to the approval by the
Executive Cabinet.
Twelve Ag Students
Tour Modern Farms
Twelve agricultural engineering
students made a tour of Macon
County farms October 23 under
the auspieces of the local chapter
American Society of Agricultural
Engineers. The trip was planned
by M. F. Whatley, Macon County
agent, and was a survey of some
modern agriculture procedures
and techniques.
The students who made the trip
were:
John Spence, Jim Spence, Joe
Hartman, Billy Sneed, Elonza
Ward, Carl Reeves.
A. L. Whitfield, Allen Vinson,
Aaron Cook, Ralph Brown, J. D.
Morris, C. W. Williams.
Among the features of the trip
were these: v
A tandem dairy owned and op­erated
by J. P. Whittaker, a suc­cessful
negro farmer; Mrs. H. A.
Torbert and Sons' new $60,000
cotton gin with cotton dryer at­tachment;
the new seed dryer at
Swearingens' farm; the 500-acre
Segrest farm, with its saw mill,
syrup mill, and fish pond; and a
Montgomery County stop where
Heme's how YOU
can w in the Gold Bars
of an Army Officer
TWO NEW WAYSfTdr ^b*(N THE RANKS
OF AMERICA'S YOUNG LEADERS
DIRECT COMMISSION
A commission as second lieutenant in the
Officers' Reserve Corps with a 2-year
initial tour of active duty is ready for
you if you meet these requirements: one
year of honorable service in any of the
Armed Forces between 7 December 1941
and 30 June 1947; have completed two
years at an accredited college or univer­sity;
U. S. citizenship; AGCT score of
110 or better; not more than 32 yeara
old; physically fit. Once commissioned;
you'll be assigned to a 3-month officers'
training school, and, on successful com­pletion,
you'll be free to compete for a
Regular Army Commission if you meet
the competitive tour age requirements;
Go to your nearest U. S. Army and
U. S. Air Force Recruiting Station for
complete details at once.
OCS FOR HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES
If you've graduated from high school or
can pass a n equiva^nt examination, are
between 19 and 28 years old, are a U. S:
citizen, and have necessary physical
qualifications, apply now for enlistment
for Army/OCS. After your application
is approved, you'll be enlisted as a
Sergeant and given basic training if you
have not had i t already, then sent direct
to Officer Candidate School, subject to
quotas, of course. Upon graduation;
you'll be commissioned a Second Lieu­tenant
in the Reserve, and placed on
two years of active duty. Top OCS
graduates are commissioned in the Regu­lar
Army—all others may compete for a
Regular Army Commission. Get all the
facts about applying for OCS entrance
at your nearest U. S. Army and U. S. Air
Force Recruiting Station without delay!
NEW ACTJVE-DUTY
OPPORTUNITIES FOR OFFICERS;
See Reserve or.National Guard instructor',.;
' or local recruiting station. , '•
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Auburn Plainsman
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Ala. Editorial and business office on Tiehenor
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JACK SIMMS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Mitch Sharpe Managing Editor
Jim Forrester — Associate Editor
Leonard Hooper Associate Editor
Bob Ingram - Sports Editor
Ronald Kuerner Asst. Sports Editor
Joyce Avery — Society Editor
HAL BREEDLOVE __ Business Manager
John Lanier .. Circulation Manager
Gene Byrd Advertising Manager
Crawford Nevins, Ass't Business Manager
Staff Members — Bob Newton, Margy
Baughn, Edwin Crawford, Marie English,
Bruce Greenhill, Boyd Hinton, Eugene
Moore, Joe Pilcher, Glover Pugh, Irv
Steinberg, Phyllis Stough, Spud Wright,
Jim Watson, John Herring, Jim Jennings.
Photos By Leonard Whitten and Alexis
Gresham.
A Cut Systen
Campus Elections
At Thursday's campus elections, over
thirty per cent of the student body voted
for their favorite candidates, a number of
voters which was the largest election day
turnout in the history of undergraduate
consitutional government at Auburn. It's
a healthy sign when more and more peo­ple
become interested in exercising the
democratic privilege of the ballot, but thir­ty
per cent is quite a bit fewer than half.
It's just possible that the choices of the
enfranchised thirty per cent do not coin­cide
with the choices of the hundred per
cent, or even the fifty-five per cent, but
these are the results on which the Elec­tions
Committee must announce the deci­sions
of the student body. Under the cir­cumstances,
no one has the right to com­plain
about campus elective offices which
are filled by incompetent people until a
more sizable fraction of the total enroll­ment
turn their hands to helping out with
i this job of electing their leaders.
Today's campus election is the training-ground
for tomorrow's local, county, state
and national primaries. Now .is* the-best
time to learn to select your candldfl&J-isup-
• port his cause among your friends, and
turn out at the polls.
This Is No Fairy Tale
1 . Once upon a time there was a college
: named Dartmouth (and still is). It is in a
. little town named Hanover. Hanover isn't
. much bigger than Auburn. Hano.ver, at
I this time, had a bunch of city commission-
I ers just like Auburn does now. The two
I towns have a lot in common.
Well, one day the city commissioners
' of Hanover decided to make a little easy
'; money all legally. They levied a two dollar
' poll tax on all students eligible to vote.
Then they sat back waiting for the golden
goose to start paying off.
At the first town meeting after school
' had resumed, the student body appeared
• practically en masse. They proposed and
• passed an eight mile sidewalk to the near-
. est town selling beer . . .all legally. They
: threatened to erect a new city hall 75 feet
high and two feet square at the next meet-
. ing. "S
[* The city commissioners finally suc­ceeded
in getting the students to take back
their two dollars and behaved themselves
from then on. Everybody lived happily for
ever after. . .
The re-establishment of an official, well-defined
cut system at Auburn would bene-fit
instructors, students, and officials of
the college administration. Since the last
cut system was abolished, back in the early
'40's, various instructors have instituted
their own private cut systems, and, while
some of these systems have been generous
arid equitable, there are flaws in the set-,
up.
Several years ago a definite and work­able
cut system was a part of the under­graduate
regulations which governed the
general everyday conduct of Auburn stu­dents.
Here's how that system worked: -
The number of cuts allowed for' any
course coincided With the number of grade
points which the course carried. Thus a
student was allowed five unexcused ab­sences
in a five-hour course, or three cuts
for any three-hour course. If his absences
exceeded this number, the student had to
work things out satisfactorily with the in­structor.
With the belt-tightening which accom­panied
World War II, Auburn and other
colleges tightened up on all the leeways
which were allowed in their scholastic
regulations, and Auburn's cut system went
by the board. Various instructors began
then to allow reasonable numbers of un­excused
absences in their classes, and the
movement gained impetus with the arrival
of the veterans on the campus. The un-„
written sentiment seemed to be that seri­ous
students would see the value of regu­lar
and consistent attendance at classes,
and that these students would be able to
judge when the situation would call for an
occasional judicious cut.
' But the classes got larger within the last
couple of years. In many instances the per­sonal
relationships between instructor and
individual students were lost, and the pri­vate
cut systems began to break down.'
Students abused their unofficial cut privi­lege,
and some instructors began to clamp
down' on the students with whom they had
been lenient. Some cases of excessive ab­sences
which- could not be adjusted be­tween
instructor and student had to be
settled by disciplinary action..
The time has come for a cut system
to be set up as a part of the current scho-
• lastic regulations. The burden of responsi­bility
will no longer be on the instructor,
burdened as he is with over-sized classes
and overloads of classes to teach. Mem­bers
of the administration will have a rule
to go by, which will clarify their position
with the student. The student will be re­sponsible
for his absences, but he will have
a certain freedom which allows for any
emergencies or other undefinable unex-cusable
absences. If anyone will profit, it
seems that the adoption of a cut system
might be a good move at this time.
Sportsmanship
When the Vanderbilt team came out on
the field before Friday night's game, Au­burn
students booed in a manner un­becoming
not only to Auburn students but
to college students in general.
In spite of the fact that we were the
, underdog and have been plagued with offi­cials
of questionable ability, the Plains-
.man believes that the demonstration was
entirely unwarranted.
Vanderbilt was the visitor and should
have been respected as such. Sportsman-
; ship in the stands is as important as sports­manship
on the field.
Tax Action Postponed
The Auburn City Commission has post­poned
action on the proposed bowling al­ley
and pool room tax. A study of the
' situation is being made. Students may rest
assured that the Plainsman will keep them
I informed on all new-developments.
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The Exchange Post By Irv Steinberg
The Common Man &£$&$»•
Dear Sir:
In reply to a portion of your last letter, wherein you wanted
to ask point blank if Mitch Sharpe was an atheist, I have
only-one thing to say: You disappointed me terribly.
I had hopes for you when I read your first letter referring
to myself and three others as Communists. I said to myself
there's a lad who is going far in
the world of vituperative letters.
All The World's A Stage
The Auburn Players are now rehearsing
their first play in the hall on the third
floor of Samford Hall. Although they were
promised the use of Langdon Hall, re­hearsals
are impossible there because of
concerts, meetings and quizzes.
The portable stage must be set up in the
hall every night before rehearsal. And
even in Samford rehearsals are interrupted
by people getting out from, departmental
quizzes.
Now if the Players are going to present
two or three plays a quarter they must
have adequate space in which to rehearse.
The Y Hut is entirely too small to serve
as storage room, work shop and rehearsal
hall for the new Players. The Players
have grown since the days when the Y Hut
was first given to them.
Plans have been included in the pro­posed
new architecture building for a
regular theatre for the Players. But the
new architecture building is a long, long
way off.
Can't Buildings and Grounds spare one
of their jerry-built temporary buildings?
There must be something available.
He has already found (or been
taught) that the first accusation to
level against the liberal is the
good, old Communist label. As
you know, that one word can
plant more doubt or fear in people
than word that a bubonic plague
is on the. way.
But in your second letter you
let me down. Here you ask if I
am an atheist. From whom did
you learn your demagoguery any­way?
Evidently he was one of
the old school. Why, calling some­one
an atheist or asking Mm if
fee is one is definitely passe today.
# I think it went -out just about the
time rural preachers s t o p p ed
warning their congregations to be­ware
of Robert Ingersoll a nd
Charles Darwin. I am practically
sure It was dead by\ the Scopes
trial in Dayton, Tennessee.
No, no, if you want to be a first
rate Southern firebrand and dema­gogue,
you must learn to be more
insidious and subtle. You don't
want to call me an atheist. That
just doesn't go over any more in
the South. Here's what you want
to do: Let it get out that I am a
Jew or a Roman Catholic.
Now with these helpful pointers,
and if you really work hard at
your contumely, someday, perhaps
you can hope to be as great a man
in your field as the late Senator
Bilbo, Governor Talmadge, Sena­tor
Long, or the unfortunately-still-
amongst-us Representative
Rankin.
*.* # *
Religion today is a very peculiar
thing. People use it for every­thing
but worship. Some use
it to impress those whom they
think they should. Some use it as
a social meeting ground. And some
wocldly souls merely use it for
a Sunday fashion center. It pro­vides
a very good vehicle for
keeping up with the Joneses for
others.
But for a thing which was for­ged
as man's greatest shield, it
often becomes the weakest link
in' his armour. In any fight to­day,
the most heinous blow struck
is that one which falls on a man's
religion. It is never a heavy,
crushing right cross; it is always
a little knife thrust through the
back and into the heart.
In the army, I used to go often
to Mass. I had been reared in a
Presbyterian home, but I went to
mass because I had a silly idea
that spiritual comfort didn't come
in little packages marked Protes­tant,
Catholic or Jewish. And even
though the service was an alien
one, I still felt some extra-precep­tive
influence which gave me a
great deal of peace and inward
rest. Often I would go to the
general Protestant service and
feel the same thing. Isn't that
funny a Protestant finding Christ
in a datholic church?
When I was discharged from
the army I went home with a
friend of mine for three weeks.
His name was Milton Baker. He
was a Jew. In that home, I learn­ed
humility and saw r eli g i o n
working as a vital part in the
lives of three people.
Yes, religion is the one thing a
lot of Christians can't understand.
But still people are quick to call
an outwardly good man a Christ­ian
as they are to call an outward­ly
different man a Communist.
Why Christians, good Christians,
once kept a man out of the White
House because he had the audac­ity
to be a Catholic.
When a fool asks a man who
has learned three great Christian
precepts—humility from a Jew,
peace of mind from a Catholic,
and fellowship from a Protestant,
—if he is an atheist, it is better for
the man not to answer at all.
* * *
Professional atheists are going
out of style all over the world.
Not long ago England's famed
atheist philosopher, C. E. M. Joad,
accepted Christianity. He said that
the war, throughout which he
dogmatically m a i n t a i n e d his
atheism, had convinced him that
there was a God. Perhaps it did.
Or perhaps, Philosopher Joad
merely found out what another
English philosopher had written
almost four hundred years ago
was true. Perspicasious Francis
Bacon wrote, "It is true, that a
little philosophy inclineth man's
mind to atheism; but depth in
philosophy bringeth men's mind
about to religion."
BURP By Boyd Hinton
Price For Alabama Game
To put an end to all of the rumors fly­ing
about the campus as to the price of
student tickets to the Auburn-Alabama
game, The Plainsman states positively that
the price for enrolled students will be
$1.25.
However, wives of students holding stu?
dent wives' activity books will be charged
$5 for this particular game.
These figures have been issued by Jeff
Beard, business manager of the Auburn
Athletic Association, and are official.
Last Wednesday was Navy Day,
and the Men's Dormitory (new)
came through in grand style by
serving sauer kraut and weiners.
Whether or not it was just a ges­ture
to make us old seadogs feel
at home or another episode in the
current series of bad chow, we
have no way, of telling.
While it isn't considered kosher
to critize the hand that feeds you,
I do feel justified in raising a
slight howl when
said hand con­tains
such uned-i
b 1 e monstrosi­ties
as rutabagas
^brocoli, asparar-gus,
baked ap­ples
for break­fast,
beans, spam,
grits, beets, cau­liflower,
a c r on
coffee, figs, stew­ed
tomatoes with
odd bits of stale
cracker thrown in, and French
toast.
Be it admitted that once in a
while they come with something
that is good but these instances
are getting fewer and fewer. Some
of the stuff looks like what a
Hinion
brood sow might find in the slop
bucket. /
Whenever you come out and
say something against the food,
the dietitions come right back at
you with a song and dance about
vitamins and calories, but when
these alleged health giving gizmos
are buried down deep in spinach,
or .some other billious looking
vegetable they find little chance
in ever reaching my gullet.
Just to show you what we are
up against, that Navy Day meal
we had consisted not only of
weiners but cold sauer kraut and
hot potato salade. According to the
way I was brought up, they heated
the wrong thing. Another big gripe
is that for breakfast, when they
do have eggs and bacon, you get
your choice, not 'both. Now I ask
you like a friend, who ever
in hell ever heard of bacon and
bacon and baked apples for break­fast?
The night after the weiner meal,
a would-be comedian put up a
sign that read thusly:
Through these portals pass the
hungriest men in the world.
Everyone stood around and
cheered as a few brave souls pen­ciled
in, "Amen".
Disgusted Student: "I feel like
telling that Professor where to go
again."
Second Student :"What do you
mean again?"
Disgusted Student: "I felt like
it yesterday too."
—Illinois Slipstick
* * *
The Notre Dame professor who
comes in late is rare; in fact, he's
in a class by himself. -
. * * *
A movie, "Psychiatry in Ac­tion,"
the second in a series of
talks and films being presented by
the psychology department at the
U. of Florida was recently shown.
Visual education of this sort in
the study of psychology would
probably help a lot of confused
Auburn students.
* * *
Student: "Is that ice cream
pure?"
Waitress: "As pure as the girl
in your dreams."
Student^'Givc me a ham sand­wich."
—Florida Alligator
* * *
Howard College in Birmingham
has planned a Cake Race for No­vember
18, very similar to Au­burn's
big annual event. The race
is to cover a two mile course and
is open to everyone on the cam­pus.
Auburn's event is a 2.7 mile
course and is open only to fresh­men.
Daddy: "Yes, Snooks, a bride
wears white as a symbol of hap­piness,
for her wedding day is the
happiest day of her life.
Snooks: (Slyly) "And men wear
black?"
—Baby Snooks Show via U. of
Chattanooga.
New mechanical book-charging
machines have just been installed
in the Illinois Tech Library to sim­plify
the issuing and returning of
books. The machine' stamps the
students' identification numbers
and a card in the book will indi­cate
when the book is due. ,.
The tragedy of the flea is that
he knows for certain that all of
his children will go to the dogs.
—Phoenix College
* % *
Booze Bum: "I wish I had my
wife back."
Friend: "Where is she?"
B.B.: "I swapped her for a bottle
of whiskey."
Friend: "And now I suppose you
realize how much you loved her."
B.B.: "Nope Thirsty again."
—Florida Alligator
/ * * *
Direct quotation from Hunting­don
College paper: "Initiation of
Alpha Psi pledges was held on
Wednesday of last week. They
are Betty Kimforough, Alice Kni­ght,
etc. (The catch to this is that
Alpha Psi is a Veternary Frater­nity
not quite suitable for female
membership).
* * *
A cancer diagonsis laboratory
has been set up by the LSU Medi­cal.
School in New Orleans. It is
designed to make a new method of
cancer diagnosis, recently discov­ered
at the LSU school, available
through!".the state.
* * *
Pants are made for men not for
women. Women are made for men
and not for pants. When a man
pants for a woman and a woman
pants for a man, they are a pair
"of pants. Such pants do not always
last and then they are called brea­ches
of promise. This often turns
into a suit. When two couples are
mixed up in the suit, all panting,
it is a suit with two pair of pants.
—Illinois Tech
* * * *
It happened in Auburn:
P.E. Instructor: "There will be
no profanity on the athletic field."
Student: "Why is that?"
P.E. Instructor: "Because it
sounds like Hell!"
* * *
Male students are not allowed
to wear "polo" or "T" shirts at
any time anywhere on the campus
of New Orleans' Loyola university.
* * *
The question has been asked,
"Why is there a strap on an even­ing
gown?" The answer is obvious­ly
to keep an attraction from be­coming
a sensation.
A Dash of Bitters f ~ ~
The dance held after last week's
torch light parade pointed out one
fault of Auburn's two step and
jitterbug crowd. There wasn't a
good attendance. The floor wasn't
packed full, but it wasn't so empty
that it resembled a couple of acres
of wide open spaces. There was
room enough for
:—rail. There"" was
. ;3ven room for
|:|the multitude of
- stags who lined
III both sides of the
f floor.
As the even-
| n g progressed,
laowever, the stag
ll i n e s somehow
ibonverged upon
the center of the
Forrester floor. By 8:45 the
area in front of the band, which
is acoustically the best portion of
the building, was pammed full of
stags with a few courageous coup­les
braving the mob. Over around
the edges of the dance floor there
was plenty of room. The National
Guard could have held manuevers
there without being crowded.
Them's the conditions what pre­vailed.
One of the best cartoons that
has' ever been run in the Plains­man
was done by Jimmy Cole­man
a couple of years ago. You
may remember it. It had a hand
holding a pen poised over a sheet
identified the writer as "GI Joe"
and upon the paper was written
the salutation "Dear Senator." The
cartoon was run here on the edi­torial
page immediately after the
ruckus in Montgomery about the
board of trustees.
Another cartoon that sticks in
my mind is one from the New
Yorker magazine. In it a woman
of matronly mien is sitting at an
expensive, antique secretary writ­ing.
The letter begins "Dear Edi­tor,"
and the cartoon is titled "The
Great Letter Writing American
Public".
There is a poem by Oliver Wen­dell
Holmes which is more or less
along the same lines. It is entitled
"Cacoethes Scribendi" and it goes
like this.
If all the trees in all the woods
were men,
And each and every blade of
of grass a pen:
If every leaf on every shrub
and tree
Turned to a sheet of foolscap;
every sea
Were changed to ink, and all
earth's living-tribes-
Had nothing else to do but act
as scribes,
And for ten thousand ages, day
and night,
The human race should write,
and write, and write,
Till all the pens and paper
were used up,
And the huge inkstand was an
empty cup,
Still would the scribblers clus­tered
round its brink
Call for more pens, more
paper, and more ink.
Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor:
. . . Being a veteran's wife, I
feel qualified to voice my com­plaint
here as I am at Student
status as far as my voting right
and government subsistence go.
We ^all know that it is not and
easy thing to live on government
subsistence and more than a few
of us, married and single, account
for every penny spent. Regardless
of that fact, even if I didn't live
on a budget, the very idea of the
situation that follows would re­pulse
me.
Every month when our govern­ment
check is cashed in a certain
local bank we are charged forty
cents for cashing it. The amount
forty cents is arrived at because
that is the amount of change over
the even dollars that we receive
from the government. This is not
one of those incidents that pops
up once in awhile.
I have been in Auburn two
years and this practice has exis­ted
the entire time. You can be
sure I do not stand alone in my
complaint. The idea of having
forty cents taken out of my pock­et,
and I do mean taken, every
month has irritated me to the
point of discussing the pro and
con of the matter with everyone I
know and time and time again
my complaint has been echoed.
So far as I know no one has sat
down and voiced this in the
Plainsman, so after carrying it
around with me for two years I
have taken it upon myself to do
so.
Now I ask you, if this practice
is common, why can you go to
any drugstore or other business
establishment in Auburn that has
enough cash on hand and get that
same check cashed free? The odd
part of this is that there is no set
amount for cashing that check. It
is different for everyone, and
mind you, it is not a tax going
for the benefit of "a better Au-
(Continued on page 8)
Dead End
By Joe Pilcher
If Rip Van Winkle had lived
in Auburn, he could never have
slept for twenty years. Somebody
would have been waking him up
every few hours to pay taxes.
Auburns new parking meters
have raised a point of law which
could prove to be very embarris-sing
to our (?) City Fathers. Sup- i
pose a citizen who is very much ;,
under the alfluence of incohol
should drop a nickel into the un­just
and ungodly meter, drap him­self
about the post, and then pass
out of this world for a tax-free
hour of bliss. Could the alert and
watchful police force legally ar­rest
him?
Then, too, consider the case of
the drunk who might forget to
pick-pocket. Would he (or she-we
musn't slight the ladies) be
charged with drunkeness, improp­er
parking, - or both?
The problem is too deep for me.
It is undoubtedly a task for some­one
possessing the wisdom, fore­sight,
and deeply intrenched (tho­ugh
badly scarred) sense of fair
play with which our (?) City Com-mision
is reeking, (where I come I,
from, the word is stinko). .I
i
He who is taught the way that's
right,
And lives that way
Will find his pathway clear and
bright
Let come what may!
But he who's shown the way
that's right,
And will not go,
Wilt soon find life as dark as
night
And rightly so!
Raymond Orner.
* * *
This election year has found Ala­bama
closer to a two party system
than it has been since before the
Civil War. A great many people
have finally come to their senses
and realized, probably for the first
time in their lives, that the Demo­cratic
party is not the sole savior of
the Southland. Once this state as
a whole breaks away from the
tradition of the one party system
and allows some other party (be
it States Rights or Republican)
to gain a foothold, we will find that
both our opinions and our votes
will carry much more influence
than they ever did under the
domination of the Democrats.
I
CHIPS
By Leonard Hooper
Last week's Chips were thrown
at doughty young-old Elliott
Springs, the ad-writing president
of Springs Cotton Mills, but not at
the long-stemmed A m e r i c an
Beauties (human, female) which i'
he populates his eye-appealing
ads. Because of lack of space and
by choice I decided not to men-tioi/
a certain ad in this campaign.
This one had all the standard
features and this addition, in a
small box of type:
'Elliot Springs, president of the
Springs Cotton Mills, says he is
prepared to make anything shown
in this picture."
That's where he stepped over
the good-taste boundary, in my
opinion, so I didn't mention it last
week.
Bill Tyler, of Advertising &
Selling Magazine's Copy Clinic
department, concurred, as did
several others, but Tyler used ^
fighting words to do it. In the
October issue of A & S he writes,
to lead into his slam at Springs:
"We weren't so annoyed as
some others when Mr. Springs
started thumbing through his
Webster's unabridged for abstruce
synonyms for certain Anglo-Sax-onisms
on which the Post Office
frowns. That sort of verbal clown­ing
may still be considered fun­ny
down where Branch Cabell
flowered. It's about 20 years be­hind
the times in these parts, how­ever,
and it just looked sopho-moric
and smutty to us."
All right Jeeter, Ellie Mae, and
Sister Bessie, I see the hair brist­ling
on the backs of your necks,
and your suspicions are right—
when Tyler mentions the Branch
Cabell country he is spitting in
this general direction. Tyler must
be one of those insular New
Yorkers who think Pittsburgh is
"West"—must have formed his
idea of a Southerner from a com­pound
of Faulkner's and Cald--
wells,, worst scum—like the Time
Magazine staffers who compiled
the recent Thurmond feature from
half-truths and popular supposi­tions.
Yes, in spite of the fact that I
agree with Tyler that Springs is
in bad taste, I'll lump him with
Springs because of the way he
.says it. In fact, either one of
those two steatopygic gentlemen is
all pygidium.
t
Auburn Dairy Team
Competes In Iowa
A dairy cattle judging team re­cently
represented Auburn and
the state of Alabama at the inter­national
intercollegiate judging
contest at Waterloo, Iowa, and
competed with judging teams
from 21 other states and Canada.
The team members were Corne­lius
Jacobs, Herbert Eagerton,
Bill Page, Herbert Kohn, and the
coach was Dr. K. M. Autrey, head
J ^ o f the Auburn Dairy Department.
Before entering the contest the
t?am took an extensive trip
through the Middle West, visiting
many dairy cattle breeding estab­lishments
and other outstanding
farm enterprises. The team travel­ed
for 10 days and- visited the
states of Tennessee, Kentucky, In­diana,
Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa,
Missouri, Missippi, and Georgia.
This is the first time a team
from Alabama had entered this
national contest. The Dairy
Science Club of Auburn, a student
affiliate of the American Dairy
Science Association, sponsored
this dairy cattle judging team.
This organization has sponsored
many projects to foster dairying
in the state of Alabama. Among
the activities it has planned for
next year is the sponsoring of
another dairy cattle judging team
which is to compete at the Na­tional
Dairy Cattle Congress in
the fall of 1949.
THESE STUDENTS WON THE ELECTIONS THURSDAY AND ARE NOW FRESHMAN CLASS OFFICERS 5—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, Nov. 3, 1948
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. President
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Vice-president
Bobby Maxham
Representative
Madge Hollingsworlh
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Tommy Randell
Historian
FRATERNITY SOCIAL SEASON IS OPENED
WITH OMEGA TAU SIGMA CARNATION BALL
Kappa Delta Sorority
Initiates Four Girls
Four girls were initiated into
Sigma Lambda chapter of Kappa
Delta sorority in formal oeff-e-monies
held in the chapter rooms
on Tuesday, October 19. The four
new members are: Seale Lee,
Union Springs; Anna Mary Cov­ington,
Quina, Fla.; Beverly
Risher, Selma; and Jane Waits,
Andalusia.
The chapter held formal pledg­ing
ceremonies for its'' 20 new
pledges October 21.
The local chapter observed
Kappa Delta Founders' Day Octo­ber
23, with a short progrlm in
the chapter rooms. The sorority
was founded 51 years ago in
Farmville, Virginia, by four girls.
At the local Founders' Day ob­servance,
President Virginia Mor­ton
read about the history and
the founding of Kappa Delta. The
sorority would like to become
known for its work with crippled
children.
The Omega :T&u Sigma . fra­ternity
presented its annual Car­nation
Ball at the student activi­ties
building last week end. This
was the first formal dance of
the fall season.
The week end was started with
a trip to the Auburn-Vanderbilt
football game for seventy mem­bers,
pledges and dates. The GTS
group bought a block of tickets
and sat together at the game.
After the game, the group re­turned
to the fraternity house
where' sandwiches a n d coffee
were served.
Saturday's f e s t i v i t i e s were
started with.a breakfast at the
house. :^
A buffet supper was given be­fore
the dance which started at 9
p.m.
The decorations. for the dance
featured red carnations and the
OTS crest. Music was furnished
by the Auburn Plainsman Orch-estar.
•'
The grand march was led by
Miss Carolyn Flora <8f Gulfport,
Miss., and she was escorted by
Chapter President Walter Ander­son.
Mrs. Ethel Weaver, OTS
housemother, escorted by Dr. W.
J. Gibbons, presented Miss Flora
with a bouquet of white carna­tions.
A breakfast was served at
the fraternity house after the
dance.
Sunday m o r n i n g, fraternity
members and their dates attend­ed
church services at the Presby­terian
Church. A Sunday dinner
concluded the week end.
AOPi Elects Officers
The fall pledge class of the Al­pha
Omicron Pi sorority recent­ly
held election of officers. Those
elected were Dorothy Dean, presi­dent;
Woodie Tate, vice-president;
Jean Duffey, secretary; and Joyce
Avery, reporter.
LOST: New plastic rainhal in
Burtons' Book Store, week of
October 4 . . . Please turn in to
College Lost and Found De­partment'or
call Joe Brooks at
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Sigma Pi Fraternity
Sends Four Members
To Install New Chapter
Four members of the local chap­ter
of Sigma Pi fraternity, Alpha-
Delta chapter, participated in the
installation ceremonies of Sigma
Pi's forty-fourth chapter, the Al­pha-
Phi chapter at the Universi­ty
of Georgia.
The four Auburn men, Charley
Brooks, John Cates, L e o n a rd
Hooper and Jim Thomas, drove
tp Athens on, Sunday, October 24,
and took part in the new chapter's
installation banquet at the Georg­ian
Hotel.
Other guests for the week end's
activities included Sigma Pi Ex­ecutive
Secretary Harold "Jake"
Jacobson, Traveling S e c r e t a r y
George Garvey, three past officers
of the national fraternity, alumni
from the Emory and Mercer chap­ters,
and a deleagation from the
Emory chapter.
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Alpha Gamma Deltas
Entertained By ATOs
The ATO fraternity recently
entertained the members and
pledges of Alpha Gamma Delta
sorority with a house party, buf­fet
supper, and dance at the ATO
house.
The pledges of the sorority
were guests of the fraternity
pledges during the evening. Mrs.
C. E. Lowe served the buffet sup­per.
Following the supper was a!'
dance. Ann Miller and Mike Pen­ney
won a dancing contest and
were presented prizes.
During the intermission of the
dance, Bob Hurston, Tommy Tarir-ner,
Zeke Scott, and Jack Stanley
presented a musical program.
The house party was brought to
a close with a group sing consist­ing
of campus, sorority, and fra­ternity
songs.
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6—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, Nov. 3, 1948 TIDWELL CARRIES THE MAIL
All Seeded Teams Win Football Games
To Stay In Running For Frat Playoffs
By Bruce Greenhill
Seven thrill-packed battles made up the interfraternity
football slate last week along with a forfeit of one scheduled
game. All of the seeded teams won t h e i r second victories and
continued in the race for the championship, along with some
s t r o n g unseeded squads that threaten to upset the dope
bucket. OTS, TKE, Kappa Sig, PKT, SAE, PiKA, SPE, and
Alpha Psi were the winners.
OTS 19. Delta Sig 14
This game developed into an
individual duel between the two
offensive stars, Bill Williams,
OTS, and Bill Logan, Delta Sig,
each being responsible for all of
his team's scoring. OTS received
the opening kickoff and moved
straight down to score on a pass
from Williams to John Harris.
Williams later passed to Harris
for the second marker and then
connected with Grady Wheeler
for the third score. Williams fol­lowed
the last touchdown with a
pass to Bob Sheehy for the extra
point. Logan began his DSP fire-pass
from Rollins to Biggers again.
To complete his day, Rollins kick­ed
an extra point, Bubba Wig-ginton
led the ATO defense, while
Fred Johnson, Jimmy Green, and
0*tis Gillani sparked the winners'
defense.
PiKA 7, KA 0
A bad punt gave the Pikes a
scoring chance which they didn't
muff, and proved to be the mar­gin
of victory in their close game.
Jim Dow passed to Bill Walker
for the winning touchdown and
then pitched to Flash Riley for
the extra point. Bobby Joe Adams
and Bill Byrd, two fine guards,
works with a short pass to Taylor
Littleton for the first marker and ? T ^ ^ ^ ^ J L * ^ & £
then intercepted a vet aerial and
raced sixty yards with it to a
touchdown. Logan also converted
after both touchdowns.
Kappa Sig 7. Sigma Nu 6
Kappa Sigma struck hard to
outgain the snakes in a "sudden
death" playoff and gain a one
.point victory. This makes the
third straight win for the boys
"from the white house on the cor­ner."
Red Thomas passed to Dick
Hann for the Kappa Sig score.
Frank McCorkle passed to Renis
Jones for the Sigma lS[u touch­down,
the only score made on
Kappa Sig this year. Joe Bush and
Bobby Hicks, two fine ends, led
the KS line, and Joe Thrash and
Buddy Brown sparked the snake
defense.
PKT 6, Sigma Nu 0
A pass from Dalton Pierson to
Bill Fredland decided the margin
of victory for Phi Kappa Tau in a
close game with Sigma Chi. This
score came late in the fourth per­iod,
and was "the only difference
between the two teams, who were
very well matched. Jerry Sulli­van
led the Sigma .Chi defense,
and George Combs, Ed Silver,
and Tom Parks bulwarked the
PKT forward wall.
SAE 19, ATO 0
Joe Rollins continued to hold
"pass mastery" over this oppon­ents,
as he pitched SAE to a three
touchdown win over ATO. Joe
pitched the first one to Jimmy
Biggers on the fifty, and Biggers
.carried it all the way down there.
Versatile Joe ran the second one
over from the ATO five yard line.
The third score came on a long
vote
lot of praise for sparking a good
Kappa Alpha defense. Charlie
Jones and Dub Ellis were the
PiKA defensive stalwarts.
SPE 19, AGR 0
Bill Fleming's strong right flip­per
was the winning weapon for
the Sig Eps along with three sets
of glue-tipped fingers belonging
to Wiggonton, Fields and Hender­son.
Fleming passed to each of
these three fine pass-receivers for
the SPE touchdowns and then
completed a good day by booting
an extra point, James Maddox,
Olen Wood, and Jackie Davis
charged hard for AGR while
"Psychopathic" W a r d b r o ke
through continually for SPE.
Alpha Psi 1, Phi Dell 0
A long pass caught by Howard
Acree gave the vets enough yard­age
for a "sudden death" playoff
victory over Phi Delta Theta. The
game was close all the way, with
neither team able to muster
enough punch to push across a
score in the regular game-time
and the contest went into over­time.
Buck Marsh led the Phi of­fense
and Joe Meade sparked the
defense. Lamar Moree and Claude
Jameson furnished the defensive
power for Alpha Psi.
TRAVIS TIDWELL (25) is shown heading for a 12 yard gain as
three Vanderbilt tacklers close in on him. This run was the
longest of the night for Auburn Friday. (Photo by Whitten).
Second Week Of Independent Football
Finds Four Teams Without A Defeat
By Bob Newton
The second lap in the independent football race began
Monday with games being played in all t h r e e leagues.
The most important game, as far as standings are con­cerned,
was between the Zippers and the Mountaineers of
League II. The Mountaineers lost which dropped them into
second place behind last week's
Ever&Meinber Canvass
Net Figures Released
Jan Drake, chairman of this
year's Every Member Canvass of
single Episcopal students, an­nounced
Monday that $935 has
been pledged by 91 students.
Miss Drake urges all students
who have not been contacted and
any student who has not been
canvassed to go by the church and
get a copy of the budget from
Jean Haden, student worker.
Final figures for the canvass
will be announced next week.
second place Zippers.
In the other two games, AIO
beat Navy, 6 to 0, and the un­beaten,
unscored-on Boys beat the
Panthers 7 to 0.
Folowing is the breakdown by
leagues.
League 1
The Hellcats, current front run­ning
team, are undefeated and un-scored
on in two games. A BSU
team that has won its only con­test,
a game with Division C, this
season by a score of 28 to 0 is in
second place. "
Monday's game was a battle of
breaks between the Navy and the
AIO. AIO had two tough breaks,
one would-be touchdown pass
was caught out of bounds and an­other
one was called back be­cause
of an offside end. The Navy
had one tough break that cost
them the game. They fumbled be­hind
their goal line on the fourth
down which automatically result­ed
in an AIO touchdown.
The individual team records are
as follows with the wins first and
the losses second: Hellcats, 2-0;
BSlJ«* 1-0; AIO, 1-1; Division C,
1-2; Navy, 0-2.
League II
The Zippers, the only undefeat­ed
team in League II, eked out
a 6-0 victory over a hard charg­ing
Mountaineer team Monday
Ollie Thompson caught {he win­ning
touchdown pass.
League U record: Zippers, 2-0;
Mountaineers, 2-1"; West End
Kids, 1-1; War Eagles, 1-2; Danes,
0-2.
League III
League Ill's Monday game was
between the only two unbeaten
teams in the loop, the Panthers
and the Boys. The Boys won this
Church League Play
Features Close Game
The latest game played in the
Church League was a close one
between BSU and the Canterbury
club, with Canterbury winning
6-0' on, a pass rrom Gordon Hill
to Walter Jones. %
The Newman club is tied for
first place with the Westminster
team—both have two victories
and no losses. Third is Canter­bury
with a one-and-one record.
The Wesleyan team has lost two
out of three and the BSU team
has lost three out of three, which
rounds oui me league.
Delta Zeta Pledges
Elect Class Officers
The fall pledge class of Delta
Zeta sorority held election of of­ficers
at their first meeting Oc­tober
25. Those elected were:
Katherine Kilgore, Birmingham,
president; Peggy Nunn, Loacha-poka,
vice-president; Betty Stur-kie,
Auburn, secretary; Martha
Hayes, H u n t s v i l l e , treasurer;
Tootsie Hoffman, Tuskegee, his­torian;
and Ann Bell, Birmingr
ham, publicity chairman.
one 7 to 0 which clinched them at
least a tie berth for first.
League III records: Boys, 3-0;
Panthers, 1-1; Torpedoes, 1-1;
Wildcats, 1-1; Beetlebums, 0-3.
Vet Seniors Relate
Intern Experiences
A program was conducted by
Tom Bullington at Jr. American
Veterinary Medical Association's
meeting of October 19.
The program consisted of short
talks from the seniors who re­lated
their experiences of intern­ship
this sumer while working
for various veterinarians in the
South. The interneship of the
veterinarian student is arranged
between the junior and senior
year to last for a period of four
months.
The following seniors made
short talks:
John Harris, Howard Johns,,
George Kenmore, Wayne Har­ris,
Ben Wallis, Maurice Tipton,
and Tom Bullington. ,
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chairman r i n g com­mittee;
member A Phi
O; A Ph A; ODK;
Spades; and president
of senior class.
$£«•*
To hold down costs, and speed the
extension of telephone service.
High-strength wire whose use allows
the span between poles to be in­creased
from 150 feet to more than
300. One pole now does the work
of two.
The problem, of course, is a continuing one
for telephone people. High-strength wire
with required electrical qualities is only one
of many things they have developed to help
solve the problem in these days of high con­struction
costs.
In total, their developments are the reason
why telephone service here is the best in
the world—the reason why a telephone call
costs only a few pennies.
BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM
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^THEATRE*
COMING SOON!
"Blood and Sand"
"Sorry Wrong Number"
"Duel in the Sun"
"Robin Hood"
"Melody Time"
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
Smile when you say it,
Podner . . . 'cause you'll
roar when you see it!
Dangerous Dude
DONALD O'CONNOR
FEUDIN'FUSSIN'
and
A-FIGHTIN'
MARJORIE MAIN
PERCY KILBRIDE
And
Bugs Bunny Cartoon
World News
FRIDAY ONLY
Three exciting Stars . . .
in a picture that has the
whole screen sizzling
BETTY GRABLE
• VICTOR MATURE
CAROL LANDIS'
,1 WAKE UP
SCREAMING
Sport Scope (
Technicolor Cartoon
SATURDAY ONLY
Rough . . . Ready
Reckless!
The New Falcon
JOHN CALVERT
DEVIL'S CARGO
Day Whitley Musical
and
Technicolor Cartoon
LATE SHOW PREVUE
SAT. NIGHT 11:00
and .
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VERONICA LAKE
BILLY DeWOLFE
MARY HATCHER
SUNDAY. MONDAY &
TUESDAY
Blazing in it's Action—
Thundering in it's Drama
JOHN WAYNE
MONTGOMERY CLIFT
WALTER BRENNAN
RIVE R
7—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesd.y, Nov. 3, 1948 NEEDLE NOSE
Tigers To Battle Mississippi State
At Legion Field Saturday Afternoon
* * By Bob Ingram
The Auburn Tigers get their first look at Birmingham's
Legion Field at 2 p.m. Saturday when they meet.the Maroons
of Mississippi State in a feature SEC football game.
While Auburn leads in games won in the series with State
by a 14-9 margin, they will be seeking their first win over the
Maroons since 1939. The defeatist
complex of the Tigers has been
particularly s e v e r e in recent
years, Auburn having been held
scoreless in the last three en^
counters with the State eleven.
Coach A l l e n McKeen's lads
have been a hot and cold team all
year. They looked very s.trong in
their 21-6 win over Tennessee,
but two weeks ago they appeared
rather impotent as they were up­set
by Alahama, 10-7.
Auburn will go into the game-in
probably its best physical
shape of the season, and with
this encouraging note, Auburn
fans by the thousands will trek
to Legion Field in hopes of see­ing
a Tiger victory.
Last year the Tigers gave a
heavily favored Mississippi State
team a terrific battle before fall­ing
14-0. In this game the Plains­men
completely bottled up the
great Shorty McWilliams, but on
two occasions Harper Davis slip­ped
through the Auburn defenses
for touchdown runs.
Both Davis and McWilliams are
back this year, the latter gunning
for his fourth All-SEC halfback
position. He made the mythical
team in 1944, 1946, and 1947: In
1945 he occupied his time playing
plenty of football for the Na­tional
Champion Black Knights
of Army, in a backfield with
Tucker, Davis and Blanchard.
Auburn, shooting for their first
SEC win of the season after four
setbacks, will probably field a I
team composed of Russell and
Waddail at ends, Adcock and Au-trey
at tackles, Cannon and
Moore at guards, Herring at cen­ter,
McDaniel at quarterback,
Pelfrey and Norton a t ' t h e half­backs,
and Capt. Inman at full­back.
Women's Volleyball
Tournament Begins
Playoffs in the women's intra­mural
volleyball tournament be­gan
last night, with fourteen teams,
competing. Round one of the con­test
will be completed tonight,
with games beginning at seven
o'clock.
In the games last night, Kappa
Delta vied with Susan Smith Cot­tage,
Alpha Gamma Delta with
Alpha Delta Pi, and Phi Mu with
Theta Upsilon.
Tonight at 7 o'clock Dorm 1 will
meet Dorm IV, at 8 o'clock Dorm
11 will play Alumni Hall, and at
9 Auburn Hall will play Delta
Zeta.
Chi Omega and AO Pi teams
were given byes in the first go-round.
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Commodores Crush
Weak Tigers 47-0
Coach Red Sanders' Vanderbilt
Commodores, shooting for a pos­sible
bowl bid, all but chased the
Auburn Tigers out of Cramton
Bowl Friday night, crushing the
Plainsmen 47-0.
Taking advantage of- numerous
Auburn miscues, and playing
heads-up football themselves, the
Commodores handed Auburn their
worst collegiate football defeat
in 31 years.
It took Vandy only 7 minutes
to score their first touchdown,
and from that point they contin­ued
to spore with discouraging re­gularity.
They added another
touchdown .in the first quarter,
two in the second, two in the
third, then tapered off to 7 points
in the final period.
Auburn fought gamely, they
never gave up, but it was just
a case of too much Vanderbilt.
Vandy got the breaks, but they
got them because they worked for
them. Auburn fumbled twice,
Vandy recovered twice, Vandy
scored twice. On pass defense the
Commodores were superb, inter­cepting
six' Auburn aerials, three
of them leading directly to touch­downs.
For Auburn, the brightest spot
in an otherwise very dark even­ing
was the kicking of Bobby
Weaver. Twice he kicked out of
bounds inside Vandy's 7, and an­other
of his punts rolled dead on
the 2. Other than the punting de­partment,
Auburn was completely
outclassed.
LOST: One pair of pink-shell
rimmed glasses in red plastic
case Saturday night, October
23, between Auburn Hall and
War Eagle Theatre. Finder
please.call Betty Lane at Au­burn
Hall.
LOST: Last week, a ladies
ring with large opal center
stone circled with white zir­cons.
Finder please notify Be­verly
Benson, Dormitory 4. Re­ward
offered.
Triple-thick and terrific!
Jarman
told. Soles
_»s ADvmmo
And the "tie-up" with Hall­mark
Christmas Wrappings
will make her gifts look abso­lutely
thrilling!. Let us show
you papers and ribbons that
ore so beautiful . . . so unique
. . . that it's tasy to wrap dis­tinctive
packages. Come in
today.
James Card Shop
Magnolia Ave.
i
Genuine
Crepe Rubber Soles
Slip into a pair of "Bold Soles"
—that day you are a MAN.
On the campus and about town
you're styled right in
these crepe sole beauties!
$995 to $1395
Somt SUltt Hlghti
Ward & Hyde
Joe Ward Walton Hyde
Hal Herring
AUBURN
Annual Cake Race
For Auburn Frosh
To Be December 8
The Nineteenth Annual ODK-Wilbur
Hutsell Cake Race date
has been set for December 8, ac­cording
to an announcement
from Buris Boshell, chairman of
the cake race publicity commit­tee.
The cake race is a 2.7 mile run
that is a requirement for all phy­sically
fit freshman. The first 25
men to cross the finish line re­ceive
cakes and the winner, in
addition to getting a cake, re­ceives
a kiss from Miss Auburn,
the first f r e s h m a n numeral
sweater of the year, and several
prizes donated by the merchants
of Auburn.
A fraternity cup is awarded to
the fraternity which accumulates
the most points. Points are given
on the basis of the positfon in
which fraternity men finish the
run. I
Several outstanding figures in
SEC athletic circles have been in­vited
as honorary judges for the
race this year. Invitations have
also been sent to several national
magazines with the hope that
they will be interested in covering
the race.
The course for the'race follows:
Start on Rat Field, turn half
left and run up Thach Avenue to
the stop light at the College Street
intersection, turn north and follow
College Street to the intersection,
of College and Glenn Street, turn
east and follow Glenn to Ross,
turn South on Ross Street and
run one block to the intersection
of Ross and Magnolia Avenue.-
Turn west and follow Magnolia
to Gay Street, turn South on Gay
and run to intersection of Gay
and Samford Ave, tuim west on
Samf ord and go one 'block, turn
north at stop light and follow
College Street to ag bottom, turn
west and follow road leading be­hind
quadrangle to finish line at
the practice football field.
The Auburn Athletic depart­ment
offers its facilities and ad­vice
to any freshman for training.
Freshman Gridders
Meet Georgia Rats
Here November 11
By John Herring
The Auburn freshmen will be
out to bring th^'r football season
to a successful conclusion when
they meet Ga. Tech here Novem­ber
11. This should prove to be.
one of the hardest fought games
of the season. The baby Tigers
have a record of one win and one
loss, edging Georgia 14 to 13 and
loosing to Alabama 14 to 9.
The outstanding performance of
Tommy Edwards, 185 pound right
end from Birmingham, was re­cently
something to watch in the
Georgia game. Edwards caught a
long pass from Tucker which set
up Auburn's first touchdown.
Brooks, Auburn's right guard,
blocked a Georgia punt which
set up the Tigers second touch­down,
and Tucker was good for
both placements.
The Auburn-Alabama game
was another thriller; Auburn was
predominate on the ground mak­ing
10 first downs to Alabama's
7, but 'Bamas suberb execution
of plays and a few breaks they
got were the determining factors
of the game. Every man was out­standing,
giving all he had to win.
Two of the right halfbacks, Wil­liams
and Jeffers, were both out
of the Alabama game due to in­juries,
but should be in good con­dition
for the Ga. Tech game.
The baby Tigers should be in
the best shape .of the year when
they meet Ga. Tech November 11.
Coach Williamson expects the
team to play its usual hard game
and he expects his boys to win.
TIGER GUARD
FOR SALE: 1942 Harley-
Davis '45 motor; has just been
overhauled. Call Henry Win-gate
880-W or see at 147 W.
Glenn, r ' ;*," V* j
LOST: One pair of reading
glasses in brown case. Joe La
Flam, FPHA Dorm. 9, Room
918.
Hallowe'en Celebrated
By PiKA's Saturday
A Hallowe'en costume party
and dance was given Saturday
night by PiKA fraternity.
The living room was decorated
with orange and black crepe pap­er
cornstalks, pumpkins, and other
Hallowe'en decorations. A prize
was given to the couple in the best
costume and to the winners of
the various games played during
the party. Before the party was
over, nearly everyone had A
chance to "bob" for apples. Danc­ing
was done in the living room.
' Jim Raulston, social chairman,
was in charge.
FOR SALE: House trailer
room attached. Equipped with
bathroom, gas range, refrigera­tor
and telephone on private
lot. Call 287-M.
£aif-(rfwaij $$w... $o& a vOMj/, my, Jtmy Cfaffa**--^
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Ware's Jewelry Telephone 796
RAY MOORE (above) should
get the nod from Coach Brown
to start against Mississippi State
Saturday. Ray has been one of
Auburn's outstanding defensive
linemen this year. He is a
junior, weighs 195, and is from
Memphis, Tenn.
TOURNAMENT OPENS
FOR FRATERNITY j
HORSESHOE TOSSERS
The interfraternity horseshoe
tournament started Monday and
remaining games will be played
today and on Monday and Wed­nesday
of next week. Games will
begin at 4:15 p.m. ,
All first round matches were
played Monday and the eight
winners have entered the semi­finals
which will be played this
afternoon.
Each of the 20 fraternities will
be represented by three teams of |
two men each. All matches are
determined • on the winner of a
two out of three game basis.
Courts and shoes are available
for practice each afternoon from
4 to 6 o'clock.
LOST: Kappa Delta sorority
pen, engraved with initials V.
M„ between Wrights' Drug
Store and Dormitory 3. Call
Virginia Morton at Dormitory 3.
YE OLD LIBRARY BOOK SALE.
When: November 10th.
Time: 8 A. M.
Where: Burton's Bookstore >
What: Books from our rental library
which we are retiring in order
that we may replace them with'
more recent publications.
Fiction—Mysteries—Historical
BURTON'S BOOKSTORE
Something New Every Day
MARTIN
Phone 439
OPELIKA, ALA.
"Where happiness costs so
l i t t l e"
THURSDAY & FRIDAY
NOVEMBER 4 & 5
.Hard.Living/.
Warm Loving!-
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APACHE 5
JOHN 1|
WAYNE I
HENRY 9
FONDA I
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SHIRLEY 5
TEMPLE S
JOHN
AGAR
PEDRO *
ARMENDARIZ
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GEORGE j
O'BRIEN 1
AM BSO-SAOO PICTURE
Added
Fox News
Unusual Occupations
Budget Priced Suits
With that Custom
made look
"Botany 500"
»
Suits and Topcoats
* Priced $60.00
Many others from $42.75
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 6
DOUBLE FEATURE
NO. 1
//B RANDED LINES //
In Everything
Complete Men's Furnishings
In all Styles and Colors
OLIN L. HILL
"The Man With the Tape"
^ i
Auburn — Opelika
SAVED
S-.tv-i Russell
Added
Serial: Sea Hound No. 5
Cartoon: Dough Ray Me-ow
SUNDAY & MONDAY
NOVEMBER 7 & 8
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ABBOTT
with
CATHY DOWNS
LEON
ERKOL
Added
Fox News
•Community Sing
TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
NOVEMBER 9 & 10
CAUGHT IN THE
BLACK SPELL of
TERROR!
Added
Sport: Big Game Angling
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8—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, Nov. 3, 1948 TOUCHDOWN BOUND
Auburn Band Undergoes Many Changes
As Prelude To More Important Role
Three governing committees and a reporter for the Au­burn
Band were appointed recently by band director Dave
Herbert. The committees will govern the selection of band
officers, draw up band bylaws, and investigate the selection
of sweaters and numerals to be awarded to "varsity" band
members.
• The band executive committee
includes:
Dean Mann, captain;' Sidney
Lock, drum major; John Seeger,
Paul Tindall and Gerald Wasley,
first lieutenants; Harry Hansen,
Wiley Bunn, Joseph Jones, Jack
David, Thomas Perry and Harold
Falkenberry, second lieutenants.
The committee appointed to
draw up the bylaws comprises:
Dean Mann, chairman, Wiley
Bunn, John Seeger, Albert Kaiser
and Teddy Parker.
The band jacket and sweater
committee will investigate the
selection of letter-sweaters which
will be awarded to band mem­bers
meeting certain qualifica­tions.
Members of this committee
are:
Joseph Jones, chairman, Gerald
Wasley, Jack David, Tom Cun­ningham
and Dean Bray.
Director Herbert ^appointed Irv
Steinberg to be news reporter for
the band.
The band now has a practice
room all its own. In past years
Langdon Hall has been used for
practice sessions, but, because of
the other activities held in that
building, regular rehearsals were
difficult to schedule.
The new band hall at Bibb
Graves Center is used for practice
HERB RICH (47) is shown as he starts his 15 yard touchdown
run to give Vandy its first score of the evening Friday. Would be
Auburn tacklers Coker Barton (50) and John Adcock (70) are
being blocked out of the play. (Photo by Whitten).
JACK POT
$150
You must be here to win
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WALGREEN AGENCY
Be Sure To Have Your New Cash
Register Receipt
THERE WILL BE * WINNER
Kirkpatrick Is Prexy
Of Lambda Chi Pledges
Roy Kirkpatrick, Parrish, was
elected Lambda Chi Alpha pledge
president at the lecent election of
i officers. Other pledge officers
chosen were: Clark Yarbrough,
vice-president; Bill Cutrer, Baton
Rouge, La., secretary; Ed Key,
Parrish, treasurer.
Sigma Pi House Scene
Of Hallowe'en Party
' About forty costumed couples
attended a Hallowe'en party at
the Sigma Pi house Saturday even­ing.
The chapterhouse was deco­rated
with autum leaves, fall flow­ers,
and cutout Hallowe'en figures.
Four prizes were awarded to
the couples and the individual boy
and girl with the best costumes.
T h e housemother, Mrs.. C. M
Tucker, supervised the serving of
"witches brew," nuts and cookies.
periods and as a storage place for
Band instruments, uniforms and
music. The building also contains
the band director's office.
The halftime show at the Van-derbilt
game, which was the
band's third football field appear­ance
this year, was prepared in
one week of drills and rehearsals.
These same circumstances will
hold for the Mississippi State
game Saturday.
-^According to Irv Steinberg,
band reporter, ^ i e game to which
the band is looking forward most
eagerly is the University of Ala­bama
game. At that time the new
band uniforms, now being made,
will be worn for the first time.
"MEET ME AT
THRASHER-WRIGHT"
J
FOR GENTLEMEN:
Complete selection on all types of Slacks,,
Shirts, Ties, and other
Sportswear
J ^m r §
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FOR LADIES:
Large Variety of Suits, Coats,
Dresses and Blouses. Most any­thing
the well dressed Coed
will want.
THRASHER-WRIGHT, INC
Auburn's Largest Department Store
130 S. Gay Street
HOMER WRIGHT
'43
L. Z. THRASHER
'42
Economics Instructor
Will Get CPA Degree
Louis B. Jordan, instructor in
the economics department at Au­burn,
is one of the 138 successful
candidates who will be awarded
the degree of certified public ac­countant
by the University of
Illinois on November 2.
The presentation w i l l take
place at a dinner meeting of the
Illinois Society of Certified Pub­lic
Accountants to' be held in the
Grand Ballroom of the Palmer
House, Chicago, Illinois, which
will be addressed by William A.
Paton, Professor of Accounting of
the University of Michigan. Pres­entation
of the certificates will be
made by Lloyd Morey of the Uni­versity
of Illinois.
The successful w i n n e r s are
those surviving out of approxi­mately
500 candidates at a three-day
written examination held last
May.
Letters
(Continued from page 4)
burn" as we are told these new
taxes are, this money is going
into an individual's pocket and
after you multiply our dimes,
quarters, forty cents, and even a
few I have talked to as high as
sixty cents by several thousand
students checks and that makes
enough lining to break the kicks
somebody is due.
Now, I wish to state here for
the information of all, students
the legality of this practice. This
issue has interested me so much
that I have made it a point to find
out more about it and this comes
on authority from a man high in
with a buffet supper and dance
at the chapter house. More than
200 pledges attended.
Supper consisted of chicken
salad, creamed asparagus, cheese
biscuit, potato chips, spiced apri­cots,
fruit salad, and coffee. x -
Slumber Party Given
By Theta U Members
Theta Upsilon sorority gave a
slumber party for its new pledges
and guests Friday night in the
chapter room. Pajamas were worn
by the members.
The programs consisted of a
group sing and a breakfast.
the legal profession—"There can
be no exchange charged on a gov­ernment
check, not even so much
as a nickel. If a charge is made,
steps can be taken legally to rec­tify
this mistake."-1 state this so
that all of us will know what
ground we stand on if we do not
choose to pay. Several people
have told me that an investigation
was made a while back and that
the bank claims the charge is
made to cover the cost of handling
the checks. Whatever the force of
the -investigation nothing was
done, probably for obvious rea­sons.
Again 1 say, under no cir­cumstances
do you 'have to pay
this charge. Handling cost is the
banks responsibility. Come to
think of it, if there were no API
and no students, would there be a
bank?
I doubt that any of us will be
ambitious enough to take legal
steps to get our money back. I for
one will be leaving the "loveliest
village" very soon, but I feel bet­ter
having said this before I go.
To some this lias meant impor­tant
things, perhaps an extra bot­tle
of milk for a baby that al­ready
has far too few- To me it has
meant an extra show a month
(3 cents tax included) or a maga­zine.
Those things seem important
now, but someday they won't and
even when they are plentiful I
don't think I shall forget this.
As for the man who reaps this entirely alone though for we will
harvest all I can do is sympathize,
it is a sad thing to stand alone in
a field of plenty. He will not be
all remember him, but none of us