1948-08-11 The Auburn Plainsman

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VOL. LXXIV ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1948 Number 17
More Graduate
Work Offered
In Administration
Thesis Is Required
For Work Leading
To Master's Degree
The Department of Economics
and Business Administration ,in
the School of Science and Liter­ature
will resume its graduate
work this fall.
This work which had been
suspended during the war will
be based on a program of gradu­ate
studies leading toward the
Master's Degree.
Prerequisites for admission to
graduate work in the depart­ment
and major and minor re­quirements
will be in line with
those maintained by other depart­ments
on the campus as outlined
by , the graduate school, Dr.
Charles P. Anson, head professor
of economics, said. All candidates
for the Master's Degree will be
required to submit a thesis re­flecting
an adequate standard of
research and advanced academic
work.
A number of teaching fellow­ships
will be offered along with
the graduate program, Dr. Anson
said. These will be available to
highly qualified graduates of Au­burn
and other accredited insti­tutions.
Graduate level concentrations
of work' essentially will be in
three field in the coming year.
They will be Accounting, Market­ing
and in Personnel and Idus-trial
Relations. Subsequent major
areas will include fields as fi­nance,
statistics, and economic
theory.
The new graduate program will
complement the undergraduate
program which is currently being
administered to 900 students. Ap­plications
for admission should
be directed to the Dean of the
Graduate School.
AUBURN'S NEW ASSISTANT DEAN: Miss Ruth B. Wilson, right, new assistant Dean of
wo*ien, discusses her new duties with Miss Kat harihe C. Cater, present dean, in Social Center. A
native of Winnipeg, Canada, Miss Wilson' has just completed work on her master's degree at Syra­cuse
University. She will be in charge of wome n students in residence at Auburn.
Dean Cater Is Aiding
In Peabody Workshop
Miss Katharine C. Cater, dean
of women, is serving as a consul­tant
at a workshop being held at
George Peabody College for
teachers in Nashville, Tenn. Aug­ust
9-14.
The workshop will be on per­sonnel
and guidance.
Deadline Announced
For Scholarships
Louise Wright, president"©?
Cardinal Key, announces that
August 14, 1948 vSl bk last
day to make appffication/ifioro
the thfee $100.00 LholarsflipS3
offered. Application\bJ®nks are
still available at the^ggap At/
Woman's Office, Social e&gg§lfyy§.,
Students May Present
Complaints At Meeting
of Relations Committee
The Student Relations Commit­tee
of the Executive Cabinet will
meet in New Building, room 222,
tomorrow at 5 p.m., it'was an­nounced
yesterday by Guy Co-field,
chairman. *
All students who have com­plaints
or grievances against the
administration or your fellow
students may present them to
the committee. All hearings are
confidential.
Schedule of Courses
Fall Quarter, 1948
STUDENT LOAD REGULATIONS: The normal load for students
is three five-credit courses plus physical conditioning and military
training, or a general elective of three hours in lieu of miliary
training. With the dean's approval, students who pais all subjects in
the preceding quarter with an average grade of 2.0 or higher, may be
permitted to schedule an additional five-quarter hour subject, An
additional fee of $2 is assessed for each credit hour in excess of the
normal load.
Students in Engineering Curricula, in. which the load is heavier,
making a grade point average of 2-5 may, with'the dean's approval
take three additional quarter hours; or a 3.5 average, five additional
quarter hours.
' IMPORTANT: STUDENTS SHOULD NOT REGISTER FOR
OVER'-LOAD UNLESS ELIGIBLE. COLLEGE REGULATIONS RE­QUIRE
THE REGISTRAR TO STRIKE FROM THE STUDENT'S
RECORD ANY EXCESS CREDIT TAKEN.
REGISTRATION PROCEDURE
* (jaiJBnQ .lauiums ut pan°J U 3 s;uapnjs)
NOTE: Students changing curricula will report to the Registrar's
Office for a Change-In-Course Permit. Veterans attending under
provisions of Public Law 16 must clear through Veterans' Guidance
Center for approval of curriculum change before reporting to the
Registrar's Office.
In classifying a, student who transfers from one curriculum to
another requiring fewer hours, a year of credit in the former will
not carry more than a year of credit in the latter.
PRE-REGISTRATION
(All Students) V
1. Preparation of Time Schedule and filling in of• registration
cards will be completed with the Dean or his representative, students
reporting for registration in alphabetical order as announced by the
Dean, within the following dates:
Seniors—
, _ (A-L) (yesterday)
(M-Z) Wednesday, August 11
Juniors—
(A-L) Thursday, August 12
(M-Z) Friday, August 13
Sophomores—
(A-Z) Monday, August 16
Freshmen—
(A-Z) Tuesday, August 17
2. Military Training: It will be the student's responsibility to
register for the course as announced by his instructor. After re­gistration
cards have been approved by the Dean, report to Military
Office, Samford Basement, for assignment to section. This must be
done before reporting for assignment in Physical Education.
• 3. Naval Training: Naval ROTC students will schedule NROTC
subjects by arrangement at the NROTC Office, Broun Hall.
4. Physical Education: If required, report to Alumni Gymnasium
for assignment.
5. Final Disposition of Registration Cards: After schedules are
approved by the Dean and necessary sections in Military and/or
Naval ROTC plus Physical Education have been assigned by the de­partments
concerned, registration cards should be deposited in the
Registrar's Office, Samford Hall, Room 100.
The Inspector General'
Opens Tomorrow Night
The Inspector General has ar­rived.
The Auburn Player's sum-jner
production; of this celebrated
Russian 'corned^ will open Thurs­day
night at the amphitheatre at
WR> and bejpepeated Friday. Col-fits
are admitted free;
for all others the admission is 25
cents.
A story of small-town politi­cians,
The Inspector General gives
a series of full-length satiric por­traits
which make up a classic
rogue's gallery. From the mayor
to the lowly constable the charac­ters
compete, in fabulous and in­genious
kinds of crookedness.
is
scene
Through a mistake in identity the
degree of their dishonesty
brought out in hilarious
after scene, till finally the full­ness
of their stupidity is made
clear. Certainly the play script
is one of the funniest-the Players
have ever attempted.
The staging, with its two levels
and the costumes designed by
Ramond Sovey for a v recent
Broadway revival of the play will
combine to give pace and color.
E. B Miles as the mayor, and
Dick MacKoy as a young govern­ment
official have the major roles.
Seniors' Invitations
Are In Samford
Graduating seniors may get
their invitations and calling cards
on the first floor of Samford
next Monday and Tuesday, Au­gust
16 and 17. Invitations not
called for on these two days will
be left in the office of the Direc­tor
of Student Affairs, announces
Ted Robbins, chairman of the
Invitations Committee.
Approximately 200 extra invi­tations
will be available for the
benefit of those students who did
not place their orders during the
prescribed time.
LANDSCAPE GROUP
ELECTS OFFICERS
Members of the Landscape
Architecture Club elected officers
at their August 5 meeting. The
new officers are Robert Walker,
president, Calvin Bishop, vice-president,
and Robert Fleming,
secretary-treasurer. Those men
replace John Kirk, president,
Byron Waites, vice-president, and
D. C. Smith, secretary-treasurer.
The club made plans for an At­lanta
field trip on August 14.
Montevallo Woman
Will Speak At YWA
Luncheon Saturday
Mrs. Malcolm Fuller, Monte­vallo,
will be the featured spea­ker
when the Baptist coeds hold
their summer YWA luncheon Sat­urday,
August 14, in the Green
Room of the Pitts Hotel. The
luncheon will be ^ a • mother-daughter
affair, with each girl
bringing her college mother as
her guest. Mrs. Fuller will use as
her subject, "Launch Out Into the
Deep."
Mrs. Fuller will be remembered
by many of her friends on the'
campus as Jenny Lind Gatlin,
former associate in the Southwide
Baptist Student department. She
is a graduate of Montevallo.
Dr. Irvine Addresses
University Conference
Dr. Paul Irvine, director of the
Auburn Research Interpretation
Council, will address the confe­rence
of School Office,Personnel
at the University of Alabama
Tuesday.
His subject will be "Plain Talk:
Its Value in Official Publica­tions".
Election For'Miss Homecoming'
Will Be Held Thursday, Aug. 19
Graduating Seniors
Because commencement ex­ercises
will be held Saturday
night, Aug. 28, an administra­tive
committee has decided to
provide lodging in college
buildings for guests of gradua­ting
seniors.
Women guests of graduates
desiring to spend the night in
Auburn may be housed in wo­men's
dormitories. Men guests
will be housed in Alumni Hall.
A lodging fee of $1 per person
will be charged.
Students desiring, this service
must report to' the Housing Of­fice
in Samford Hall the num­ber
of guests they will have.
The Housing Office must have
this information not later than
Wednesday, Aug. 25.
Speech Students Vie
In TKA Competition
Preliminary matches for EH
231 students in Tau Kappa Al­pha's
quarterly speech contest
were held yesterday afternoon in
Broun Auditorium. EH 305 speak­ers
will compete in matches to
be held this afternoon at 4:30 in
Broun. The finals for the seeded
contestants will be held Thurs­day
afternoon at 4:30.
Tau Kappa Alpha presents its
speech contest each quarter to
stimulate interest in public speak­ing.
The contestants are drawn
from the speech classes on the
campus.
Everyone is invited to attend
the preliminary and final matches
in Broun Auditorium. The name
of the first place winner will be
engraved on the Tau Kappa Al­pha
plaque which hangs on the
bulletin board of Samford's first
floor.
Payment Of Fee
Schedule Given
Late Fee Deadline
Is August 24
As announced by the Regist­rar's
Office, all students will re­port
to Student Center alphabe­tically
in accordance with the fol­lowing
schedule:-'
Late fee is char gable beginning
Tuesday,, August 24th.
Thursday, August 19 •, *
P.M.
AA-Bak
Bal-Bla
Blb-Bro
Brp-Car
1:30-2:00
2:00-2:30
2:30-3:00
3:00-3:30
Students failing to
register as scheduled ...3:30-4:00
above
' . Friday, August 20
A.M,
8:30-9:00
i 9:00-9:30
9:30-10:00
Cas-Con
Coo-Dav
Daw-Dz
E.-For ....
Fos-Goz
Gra-Har
Has-Jac
Jad-Lz _.
Ma-Mor
Mos-Ols
Olt-Pfa _
10:00-10:30
: 10:30-11:00
_j 11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00
Friday, August 20
P.M.
1:30-2:00
2:00-2:30
2:30-3:00
3:00-3:30
3:30-4:00
Chemical Engineering
Equipment Is Added
N,ew equipment has been ad­ded
to the chemical engineering
laboratories in preparation for
the opening of the fall quarter,
Dr. C. A. Basore, head of the de­partment,
said. s
Among the new items are var­ious
automatic control instru­ments,
a shelf drier with accessor­ies,
infrared drier, modern equip­ment
for' the study of mixing,
two heat exchangers of modern
design and improved facilities for
the study of friction losses in pipe
lines. " .
A small pilot plant for the pro­duction
of one or more chemicals
on an experimental scale is avail­able
alio.
The completion of the new Wil-more
Engineering Laboratory,
now under construction, will
greatly improve facilities for both
graduate and undergraduate in­struction,
Dr. Basore said. He ad­ded
that the new chemical en­gineering
laboratories will be mo­dern
in every respect and will
compare favorably with those of
other institutions of the country.
Students failing
to register as
scheduled above
Monday, August 23 A.M.
Pfb-Rea _ 8:30-9:00
Reb-Roy 1 9:00-9:30
Roz-Sim 9:30-10:00
Sin-Sz '_ 10:00-10:30
T.-Tea . 10:30-11:00
11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00
Teb-Uts
Utt-Wha
Monday, August 23 p.m.
Whb-Z i . 1:30-2:00
Students failing
to register as
scheduled above
2:00-4:00
Beauty Will Have To Be Chosen This Quarter;
Early Homecoming Date In Fall Term Is Reason
The annual selection of the campus beauty, Miss Home­coming,
has been set for Thursday, August 19 says Charlie
Jones, summer president of Blue Key honorary society.
Blue Key sponsors tne traditional affair, which is held in
honor of Auburn alumni and includes a football game, a prize
for the outstanding fraternity de­coration,
and a dance.
The election must be held dur­ing
the summer quarter since the
Homecoming Day football game
is scheduled at the beginning of
the fall quarter.
Letters have been mailed; to all
sororities, fraternities, dormi­tories,
and AIO requesting names
of candidates for Miss Homecom­ing
to be submitted as soon as
possible. Jones urges any organi­zation
wishing to sponsor a can­didate
to submit the name of
their candidate to him at the
PiKA house not later than Sun­day,
August 15. According to re­gulations
in the student constitu­tion,
the candidate 'cannot be a
freshman, and the winner, of Miss
Homecoming last year cannot be
selected. It is not necessary that
the candidates be in school this
summer.
Homecoming this year will be
October 2, and there is a game
scheduled with Louisana Tech to
be played at the Auburn Stadium.
The present titleholder of Miss
Homecoming is lovely Evelyn
Kidd, titian-haifed senior in com­mercial
art. Miss Kidd recently
returned from Hollywood where
she spent a week being color-photographed
as "Miss South"
for the forthcoming Dr. Pepper
calendar which annually features
a beauty from each section of the
SUMMER SOFTBALL ACTIVITY
IS SLOWED BY AUGUST RAINS
By Bob Ingram
Auburn's weather m a n , a
screwball pitcher if there ever
was one, decided last week that
entirely too much Softball was
being played on Bullard Field, so
he made himself very unpopular
by ordering rain. When he got
through, Bullard Field was more
suited for water polo than for
Softball. Anyway, the outcome of
it all was that all of last week's
games, excepting Thursday's, were
washed down the drain. This,
coupled with the fact that week
before last only two days of play
were possible, means that this
second half of the softball sche­dule
is going to be incomplete.
In Thursday afternoon action,
the hitters, for a change, took
the limelight. High altitude scores
were run up in three of the four
games played.
In League II, the unbeaten Phi
Kappa Tau's continued their
winning ways, taking an easy one
by way of forfeit over the Vets.
In League III, the SPE's moved
into the league lead by rolling
over the Delta Sigs, 13-10. The
.Delta Sigs, who won the cam­pus
championship last summer,
have yet to win a game in the
second half of the schedule.
In League IV, the Lambda Chi
hitters had a great time running
up a 23-1 victory over the FFA.
The winning pitcher, Red Holley,
kept the Farmers well in check
all the way.
The Alpha Tau Omega nine
moved into first place in League
V by virtue of their thrilling 8-
inning 2-1 victory over Faculty.
The ATO's ace pitcher, Jim
Woodson, held the Teachers to
3 hits. Leading the winners at
the plate was Reid, who slammed
out three hits In three times at
bat.
In a League V night game, the
Sigma Pi's reminded us that
football season is just around the
corner by trouncing _the Phi Delts
with a footballish score of 21-7.
Charlie Jones
Popular Novelist
To Join Teaching
Staff This Fall
Virginia Sorensen, ' popular
young American novelist and
short story writer, wiil join the
teaching staff here in September
as a lecturer in creative writing.
The author of three successful
novels, "The Neighbors", "On
This.Star," and "A Little Lower
Than The Angels," Mrs. Soren­sen
. has also published a great
dear of verse.
She is married to Frederick
Sorensoh who will become pro­fessor:
of English at Auburn this
fall, and she is the mother of two
children, ages 12 and 14.
Currently. Mrs. Sorensen is
writing short stories on Mexico
using material she gathered while
on a Guggenheim fellowship..
She was born in Provo, Utah,-
.and was graduated from Brigham.
Young University in 1934 with an
A:B. degree. She has studied at
the University of Missouri and at
Leland Stanford. . -,
S Her creative writing course will
be offered here two afternoons a
week from 3-5:30 p.m.
S.A.M. Round-Table Discussion Will Be Held In Broun Auditorium Monday; Begins 7:00 p.m.
Professors Anson, Buell, Crawford, Riggs,
And Spann Will Discuss "Wage Incentives'
As part of its program of pro­moting
sound, scientific manage­ment,
the Auburn chapter of
S.A.M. is sponsoring a round-table
discussion on "Wage Incen­tives"
Monday at 7 p.m. in Broun
Auditorium.
Six well-informed speakers
have been obtained to serve on
the panel. They are experts from
the fields of engineering, psych­ology,
and industry. Serving on
the panel will be Prof. R. D.
Spann of the engineering depart­ment;
Dr. Charles D. Anson,
economics; Dr. R. R. Buell, North­ern
Illinois State Teachers Col­lege
who is visiting professor in
the school of education; Dr. M.
G. Riggs, visiting psychology pro­fessor
from Oklahoma A & M;
Mr. Ben Crawford of the West
Point Manufacturing Co.; and a
representative of the steel indus­try
in Birmingham.
Everyone is invited to attend
this meeting. Questions from the
audience will be answered.
The program is one of the acti­vities
of S.A.M. to work for the
advancement of scientific man­agement.
Other activities include
field trips to industrial plants in
this area, furnishing, members
with the latest developments in
management through professional
magazines, and speakers :at regu­lar
meetings. These meetings are
held the first and third Mondays
of each month in New Building
123.
Membership in S.A.M. is open
to all industrial management
students.
New Yorker To Teach
Play Writing Course
A new course in play writing
will-be offered in the fall quar­ter
under the direction of Robert
C. Eberle of New York City.
Mr. Eberle is joining the Au­burn
staff as drama instructor in
the Department of Dramatic Arts,
and is replacing Winford Logan
who has resigned to continue his
graduate work.
' A graduate of Princeton Uni­versity
in 1941, Mr. Eberle served
in the Army during World War
II. He is completing work on his
Master's Degree at the University
of North Carolina this summer.
He will assist Telfair Peet, direc­tor
of the department, in produc­ing
college plays here next win­ter.
Shown above are three of the six speakers who will appear on the S.A.M. Round-Table Dis­cussion
Monday night. They are, left lo right. Dr. Melvin G. Riggs, Prof. Ransom D. Spann, and
Dr. R. R. Buell. '
Softball Standings
League II
W
PKT 2
Vets 1
Rinks 0
SC 0
Zips 0
TKE 0
League IV
W
KA 1
SAE. 1
LCA 1
FFA 0
SN: 0
PKA ; 0
League III
L W
0 SPE 2
1 BSU 1
1 AGR 1
1 DSP 0
0 TC 0
0 AIO 0
League V
L W
0 ATO 2
0 Play Boys 1
1 Sigma Pi 1
1 PDT 0
1 Faculty 0
0 PKP 0
Church League
W L
Canterbury 1 0
Wesley
Co-Weds
Newman
1 0
0 1
0 1
Westminster 0 0
L
0
0
0
3
0
0
L
0
0
1
1
2
0
""Auburn Plainsman
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Deadlines: Organizational news, want ads, etc.,
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Entered as second-class matter at the post-office
at Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates
by mail: $1.00 for 3 months, $3.00 for 12 months.
JIMMY COLEMAN
Graham McTeer
Tom Sellers
Leonard Hooper
Editor-in-Chief
Managing Editor
Associate Editor
Associate Editor
- Business Manager
Advertising Mgr.
Circulation Manager
Staff Members: Jack Simms, Jim Forrester,
Al Steinberg, Bob Ingram, Elwood Burkhardt,
[Jlover Pugh, Lelias Pair, and Marie English.
BILL ANDERSON
Charlie Jones
John Lanier
The Plainsman stands for.". I
An efficient educator and admin­istrator
to serve as Auburn's new
president.
Adoption of the name Auburn Uni­versity
in place of Alabama Poly­technic
Institute.
Institution of a cut system based
on scholastic averages.
An enlarged stadium with a mini­mum
of 30,000 seats.
Campus Libraries Deserve
More Student Cooperation
Director of Libraries Clyde H. Cantrell
and his, campus-wide organization of li­brarians
and clerks are to be commended
for performing a vital and intricate job
under difficult conditions. The library of
any school is of top-rank importance in
the list of qualities which characterize the
school to other schools and to associations
of schools.
Dr. Cantrell skillfully manages to make
a limited budget pay the salaries of his
corps of clerical assistants and cover the
costs of new books, subscriptions to peri­odicals,
and library supplies. A recent
rainstorm penetrated the roof of the Main
Library building and ruined several vol­umes
on shelves below. These books will
be replaced at the cost of a handicap to
the budget of new material to be bought.
Auburn's current growing-pains period
includes our library buildings. The size of
the collections in all the branch libraries
has reached the saturation point-^many
volumes have been returned to the Main
Library because there was no room for
them elsewhere. The main Library has
solved temporarily its hou'sing problem by
storing the books in wooden crates in the
Reserve Reading Room, because shelf
space is also at a premium.
Cooperate with our library staff by re­turning
books before the two-week circu­lation
period is over, by filling out call
cards completely and correctly, by hand­ling
books and periodicals carefully, and
by learning to use the library to an ad­vantage.
By helping the library staff,
you'll be helping yourself get ahead.
About Those Cartoons . . .
The response to the Plainsman's call for
cartoons was indeed gratifying—we now
have cartoons on subjects from the fickle
Auburn weather to the fickle Auburn
coed. But listen, you promising Picassos
and miniature Michelangelos, some of you
failed to notice the few simple require­ments
we listed. Mechanical reproduction
for the printing process dictates that the
cartoons must be in black ink and must
measure five inches square. For this reason
many of the cartoons cannot be used in
their present forms. .
- We are still in the market for good car­toons,
and these, like the ones just sub­mitted,
will be usad-in~-issues of The
Plainsman, beginning*m the fall quarter.
The Plainsman Foresees Whitey
Overton |n Next Olympic Games
Auburn has every reason to be proud of
vits 19-year-old Olympic distance runner,
Whitey Overton, who goes on record as the
third Auburn athlete to participate in the
ancient world event.
Although he failed to qualify in the
3000 steeplechase event in which he was
entered, we are sure that Whitey is not
totally disappointed. He is probably al­ready
looking forward to the next Olym­piad.
It was in 1944, just after his first high
school track victory while motoring home,
that he prophesied he would take part in
the next Olympic games. It was a dream,
of course, but Whitey was serious.
He worked hard on the cinder path. The
next two years at Sidney Lanier High
in Montgomery, he won the state high
school mile championship and set a record
in that event of 4:32.4 in 1946 that still
stands. In the fall of that year he entered
Auburn, and under Coach Wilbur Hut-sell's
adroit training, grabbed off first-place
honors in the two-mile run and
placed third in the mile as a freshman.
This year he repeated in the two-mile
and placed second in the mile run.
Whitey loves hs running, and works re­ligiously
with his coaches on his training
chores. On these principles, The Plains­man
forecasts that he will be on hand
when the, Olympic games are staged four
years hence.
Presented to The Plainsman
by an unknown donor
/
Prot Applebee
The Exchange Post By w steinbK9 CHIPS
By Leonard Hooper
Redrawn from a cartoon
by Virgil Partch in Colliery
INSPECTION OF PAINTINGS OBTAINED BY AUBtJJEtN FRO.M
TH& STATE DEPARTMENT COLLECTION
The Common Man * Tom Sellen
On weekends nearly eyerybody at my house goes home,
including Willoughby, an educated cockroach who is working
on his master's degree. Saturday afternoon I was alone and
seated before my typewriter when who should walk in but
Boyd Hinton, fresh from the bush country of Columbus, Ga.
Pretty soon we had opened up a bottle'of glue and were bat­ting
the breeze in that fashion
Thought for women who wear
slacks: does your end justify your
jeans?
* * *
Local temperance worker: Stop!
Do you think a glass of that vile
stuff will quench your thirst?
Sinner: No, sir. I'm gonna drink
the whole bottle.
—Illinois Tech.
* * *
Father: What do you mean
bringing my daughter home at
this hour!
Date: We have to be in class
by eight, sir.
* * *
Voice over phone: This is the
Hooper rating radio survey. Did
you have your radio on last night?
Housewife: Yes, I did.
Joker: Well how did it fit?
—Bama Beam
* * *
Well, little man, do you have a
fairy godmother?"
"No, but I've an uncle we're a
little suspicious of."
Georgia Tech Technique
Vacationist: Any big men born
here?
Native: Nope. Not very progres­sive
around here. Best we can
do is babies. Different in the city,
I s'pose.
* * »
And there's the story of the
two maggots who were necking
in dead Ernest.
* * *
—Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket
Want ad: Secretary wants
position. No had habits. Willing
lo learn. '
* * *
Girl: I'm getting so thin you
can count my ribs.
Date: Gee, thanks.
—Power Pax
* * *
Perplexed oriental: Our child­ren
velly white. It is velly
strange.
Wife: Well, Occidents will hap­pen.
—Akron Buchelite
A Dash of Bitters &frmm
The tRoad Near Airport Hangars
Is In Immediate Need of Repair
Those who have visited the Auburnr
Opelika Airport recently are immediately
aware of one thing—the dire need for road
improvement—especially within the.-,-air­port
boundary where the road leads
around the two hangars to the main of­fice.
*
Nature's old meanie, erosion, and an ap­parent
lack of, mechanical maintenance,
have practically wrecked the once-smooth
driveway.
In dry weather the road resembles a
training area for aerial bombing practice.
During the monsoon, it might be mistaken
for a group of Dr. Swingle's experimental
fish ponds.
But all jesting aside—the road should be
repaired.
Education Should Work to Turn
Out More Individual Thinkers
What this country needs is sound indi­vidual
thinking. '
^ this runs counter to human nature
then it is high time human nature does an
about face. For centuries man has done
his legislation, voting and thinking on the
mass plan. Let one gifted speaker arise and
whole populations are swayed, inspired
and led to destruction or -poverty with
thefr eyes riveted on the back of the man
ahead, not the chasm at their feet.
Th "follow-the-leader" characteristic is
not the exclusive property pf the unedu­cated,
but they do have the priority. Ger­many,
culturally one of the most advanced
nations of our time, has twice proven that
economic necessity can override educated
thought.
Certainly education is the ONLY solu­tion.
However, most of our education is
dedicated NOT to the individual's thought
processes, but rather to large-scale trade
school preparation. Realists argue that the
world cannot exist without these tech­nologists,
they give* no alternate argu­ments
why these scientifically advanced
men cannot be exposed to a study of rea­son
as a side-line to their daily bread
habits. \
Proponents of the present educational
system are satisfied that it is the best way.
Men are born either as leaders or follow­ers.
It's as simple as that. The fallacy that
follows their line of reasoning lies in the
non-recognition of the followers, right of,
expression. In short, the "superior" being
is aware of his superiority.
i ,
It is easier to follow than to think. It is
safer to follow than to think. It is some­times
more profitable to follow than to
think.
These are the lethargies which must be
overcome before we can achieve a healthy
population mentally. These must be over­come
before we can evaluate our politi­cians.
They must be overcome, too, before
we, as a nation, can earn our place as
world leader morally as well as materially.
And they must be overcome by educa­tion.—
LSU Summer Revielle.
peculiar to people who think they
are writers.
It seems that
Boyd has a top
position with the
[Coca Cola Comp-jany
this summer;
I think it has
[something to do
J with putting tops
| on bottles. He
| | a l s o performs
ilsuch tasks as fil­ling
cartons with
Sellers six cokes. I be­lieve
he will go
a long way with the Coca-Cola
people—already he has figured
out an ingenious scheme where­by
a large bottle containing 36
ounces would replace the old car­ton
of six six-ounce bottles.
Boyd says he is switching from
electrical engineering to English-journalism
in the fall, because he
wants to be a writer. That deci­sion
must have been a toughie.
It is like giving up a chance to
marry an heiress in favor of a
penniless girl you are crazy about.
Journalism is one of the lowest
paid and most overcrowded of the
professions, probably because a
lot of people think it is easy, and
away back in their minds is the
idea of writing a novel, or a few
short stories and poems someday.
I took up journalism because I
love to write, and I don't believe
my1 heart would be in engineer­ing,
or any other job where I
couldn't piddle around with a
sheet of paper and a typewriter.
Many of my friends are on the op­posite
side and thrill to the en­chantment
of stress and strain,
power plants, cantilever bridges,
and all the other mysterious
things that gladden the hearts of
engineers.
If you are studying something
that doesn't bring out the best
work that is in you, it is very
possible you are in the wrong
course. There is no greater satis­faction
in the world than that of
doing a job you love, and doing it
well. It is time now, while you are
in school, to take a bearing on
yourself and your course. If you
suffer.ennui in all your essential
classes you should study some­thing
else. To be happy is life's
supreme achievement, and high
salaries and bonuses cannot
soothe the misery of being untrue
to that little voice speaking to
you from the inside.
* * *
For some time now a serious
agrarian problem has been sitting
on my mind. Whether the campus
likes to admit it or not an appre­ciable
part of Auburn is contained
in the buildings on Ag Hill, and
there are a number. of students
who spend • most, of their class
hours over there. Most of us are
prone to look on Ag Hill as a hell
of a place to have an eight o'clock
class and let it go at that. But to
the students who spend most of
their class hours there, a problem
arises. Where to go between clas­ses?
It's neither practical nor pro­fitable
to travel all the way back
to the main campus or town on an
hour off. Students on the main
campus can resort to the Student
Center for a few hands of bridge
or a cup of coffee. Not so on Ag
(Continued on Page 3)
During the past year or so many
of the Hollywood columnists and
not a few people actually con­nected
with the movies have been
screaming about the gangster
sources of entertainment for the
public, and especially for the
small fry of the country. Pictures
gltirifying the lives of killers were
condemned as detrimental to the
morals of the young. The movie
built around the life of John Dil-linger
and bearing his name was
pointed out as one example of the
kind of thing which not only
hurt the industry, but which also
was harmful to the minds of
growing children. There was a
movement to stop movies of this
nature from being made and dis­tributed,
and it was a good idea.
After all, from a propaganda
point of view, such films cannot
possibly be termed constructive.
All well and good. Here is the
thing that I am getting around to.
In the newsreel last week there
was an interview with the young
killer recently captured in the mid
west. You will remember that he
and his partner terrorized the
people of several' stStes,"kiIleid six
peoplej and were the objects of a
nation" wide police alarm before
they were taken. The newsreel in­terview
had the youthful hood­lum
being questioned by one of
the law officers who helped bring
him'to justice. Why the confess
sed killer of three innocent peo­ple
merits an interview in the
newsreels is not clear. What pur­pose
did the pictures serve, other
than perhaps luring more custo­mers
into the theaters and bring­ing
more money to the company
owning the films? Are thesl'the
only considerations in the matter?
The whole thing was in terrible
taste. There was absolutely no ex­cuse
for such an exhibition. Mov­ies
having criminals for their he­roes
are hard enough to stomach,
but when an actual interview
with a murderer is released for
naion wide distribution in which
the killer smirkingly admits that
of the six who were killed he
personally shot three of them ("I
got my share. . . "with a grin
and a wink at the camera) that
is going too far.
If the newsreel companies and
their distributing agencies have
no better sense than.to foist such
garbage upony the public then
they canno.t any longer justify
their existence. There must be
someone in Hollywood or-fwij^e-'
ever it is that newsreels'ltre .put
.together who has enough brains to
realize that scenes of this sort
are not the kind of thing that cre­ates
good will for the industry.
Throughout the y e a r s The
Plainsman's editorial -page has
carried some good, bad, and in­different
thought under many
different signatures. It's funny
how an otherwise - intelligent
columnist will select a ridiculous
title for his output and stick to it
for sentimentals reasons or for
the purpose of identification.
Let's look at some of these titles,
gleaned from random issues of
The Plainsman.
April 27, 1932 — the editorial
page had four columns of opin­ion
— Idle Ems, Auburn Foot­prints,
and Insights, none signed,
and Prexy's Paragraphs, by the
president of the college, Bradford
Knapp—the rest of the page was
letters to the editor, editorials,
and generous quotes from other
papers, collegiate and profes­sional,
including editorials and
variety material.
December 15, 1937 — Sixteen
Ems (no longer Idle?), signed
The Spacer Outer (probably the
editor), News and Views—L. E.
Foster, and Talk About The
Town—Jack Steppe. Still lots of
borrowed material elsewhere on
the page.
November 1, 1938—Punchboard
— Gibbons and Strong, Gift of
Grab — Bob Anderson, Co-Op
News — Fred Henning, Before
Tomorrow—John Godbold, and
She Snoops To Conquer, a gossip
column. ' ' '«»liSf.t|
October 29, 1940 — Keyhole
Kapers — Bob Chisolm, Plains
Talk — Herbert Martin, and Gen­eral
Delivery—Redding Sugg.
June 16, 1942 — Column Left-
Bruce Martin, What Do You
Think — David Allen, Weekly
Views — Leon Marsh, and Navy
Blues — Navy trainees.
March 23, 1943—Up and Down
the Campus — C. W. Horton,
Tiger Spirit — Earl Cleghorn,
and Crossed Cannon—(ROTC).
July 16, 1943 — Random Har­vest
— Robert Hart, Prof Wash
— Bob Sharman, and Nuthin'
Doin' — Leroy Spearman.
October 3, 1944 — En Passant
—Dottie Woodall, Campus Cross­country
— Susan Brown, and
Jaywalking — Jack Thornton and
Bill Laney.
Just Thinking
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By Jack Simms
Nothing Here By Graham McTeer
FILE THIRTEEN By The
Editor
File 13—an old army ierm for 'Waslebasket'
Intolerance—North! ^
This perhaps isn't the place to mention
it but the thought just came to us that
the NortheEn Democrats were up in arms
against the South because of racial intol­erance,
but wouldn't let Senator Q'Mahon-ey
be the vice presidential candidate be­cause
he was a Catholic.
—Chilton County News
Alabamians To Get Last Laugh
Georgians who've been having a good
laugh at Alabamians' expense since Big
Jim's election may expect to have th6
tables reversed. Hummon Talmadge, Ola-
Gene's son, is running for governor across
the Chattahoochee and indications are he
will be elected. Misery loves comfort, so
many Alabamians are eagerly anticipating
Georgia's deletion/of Mr. Talmadge.—
Lee County Bulletin
Some folks get so mad at their politi­cians
that they sometimes threaten to vote.
Consider the kettle, folks. When it's up
to its neck in hot water, it continues to
sing.
If I knew the address of John
Nesbitt, the man who is respon­sible
for the screen production
"The Passing Parade," I would
write him a letter suggesting a
title for his next release;
Mr. Nesbitt, I believe, would do
an admirable job in extolment
of the land-grant college; for the
evolution of the land-grant col­lege
is the most thrilling and the
most profound development in
modern education.
It was in 1862 that old Yankee
Senator Justin S. Morrill of Ver-f
mont sponsored
r - - - ; a bill giving Fed-
§ eral support in
| the form of land-i
| grants for the
p u r p o s e of
founding institu­tions
f o r t he
study of agricul­ture
and mecha­nic
arts in each
state of the
» Union.
Coleman The date of the
passage of the land-grant bill is
just as important to higher edu­cation
as 1776 is to birthday of
American political democracy. It
is important because the way was
opened for the extension of high­er
education to the followers of
all occupations.
Before the time of land-grant
colleges the conception was gen­erally
that culture belonged only
to the professions—and a very
limited number of professions. At
commencement it was either the
ministry, education, or law for
the graduate. But today, thanks to
Senator Morrill and the Congress
of 1862, there ars several thou­sand
occupations open^o college
graduates.
Surely, the evolution of land-grant
colleges such as Auburn
must be gratifying to old timers
who Temember back when the
big oak in front of Samford was
a slender sapling, for they can
well see that the oak tree has
grown—and that the college has
kept pace. As the tree added
branches—the college a d d ed
schools. Today there are nine: ag­riculture,,
architecture, chemistry
and pharmacy, education, engin­eering,
home economics, science
and literature, veterinary medi­cine,
and of course, the graduate
school.
In recognition of the fact that
culture is vital to the engineer,
homemaker, doctor, and farmer
alike, land-grant colleges have
taken steps toward the improve­ment
of personality and of the
general broadening of culture for
its students.
In this respect Auburn has its
rapidly-growing music and dra­matics
departments, its art de­partment,
its Concert and Lec­ture
Series, symphony orchestra,
glee clubs, debating teams, social
functions, athletics, publications,
honor societies, and many others.
The great strength of the land-grant
colleges is that they offer
such cultural oportunities^in ad­dition
to specialized training for
a particular career. This is es­sential
in our time.
Auburn's own steady growth, in
that we have now actually reach­ed
university status, and the
growth of other land-grant col­leges
is proof that the people of
the United States approve the
educational opportunities offered
. by land-grant colleges.
No rest for the weary, they
say, and most of the approximate­ly
200 undergraduate non-vete­rans
enrolled in ROTC believe it.
After a late Monday or Wednes­day
night at the books, a card
game, beer party, or heavy date,
it's an almost unbearable task to
"rise the next morning, dress, and
be ready to fall in at the 7 p.m.
command. Of course, you have to
pick up your rifle and make some
attempt at cleaning "the piece",
as the Gl-hot students lingoize
it. If you're running late, a smart
sergeant reminds you that the
armory has been open since 6 a.m.
Eyeing daggers at said sergeant,
you rush to your squads fall in
at your usual place, and get a
quick reminder that he who is
late falls in at the end of the
squad.
During the course of the period,
(when you're either getting your
feet wet in the long grass which
somehow managed to retain the
rain water that fell during the
night, sweating a few gallons of
salt water, or so sleepy you don't
know or care what is going on,
you are "requested" to straigh­ten
your rifle, keep your eyes
off the ground, or remember to
get a haircut, shave, brown socks,
or button-sewed-oh. before the
next drill period.
When enough commands have
been given and carried out to
take up the hour, you make a
mad rush to trample or be tramp­led
in the effort to rid yourself
temporarily of "the piece". You
then have a choice of grabbing a
quick breakfast, rushing home to
change from you sweat-soaked
clothes, or taking it easy, cut a
couple of classes, and catch up on
lost sleep. All too often, the last
is the choice.
So, altogether, drill serves seve­ral
malign purposes: (1) carrying
out of the desire to remain in
bed for one more wee hour of the
morn, thus overstepping the al­lowed
cuts and receiving a slight­ly-
docked grade; (2) cutting one
or two classes following drill to
make up for the sleep lost in the
wee hour, and accepting a lower
grade in those courses; (3) fore­going
studying on pre-drill nights
to prepare for rising at same wee
(Continued on page 3)
HUSH PUPPIES By Burk
A Tune-in from the Super-market
"Give me a pound of those
plums. My husband is fond of
them. Do you know if they have
been sprayed with any kind of
poison?"
"No, ma'am; you'll have to get
that at the drug counter."
* * *
"Like the cigar? Now, for 500
coupons of this brand, you get a
banjo. How about taking a 500
lot?"
"If I smoke 500 of those cigars,
I'll need a harp!"
* * *
"Say, Mister Meatman! My ma
says she could have soled her
shoes with this steak I brought
back."
"Why didn't she?"
" 'Cause she couldn't get the
nails thru it."
* * *
"Have you a hair restorer that
really restores?"
"Yes, suh! This preparation is •
sure to do the trick."
"Okay, good enuf. Wrap m* up
a brush and comb with it."
* * *
"This fine face powder will
catch you a husband with no
running; however, we advise you
to visit the baking powder shelf if
you wish to keep him.
* * *
"How much are potatoes worth
now?" .
"No mo\e than they were, lady,
but they're costing about six
times too much."
* * *
"The sausages you sold me are
meat at one end and bread crumbs
at the other. Explain them,
please?"
"Well ,lady, quite so. In these
hard times it is very difficult to
make both ends meat." j
* * *
"Hello, Mamie. Glad to see 'ya.
Whatuhavin' for supper?"
"It's the end of the month. Our
next six meals will be rationed to
six peanuts and six glasses of
water. God help us if our checks
aren't here Monday."
Who are you. going to vote for
in November? This question was
bothering me until I read the
following item in one of the state
papers last week. If you vote for
Dewey, you are betraying your
grandfather; if you vote for Tru­man,
you are betraying the
South; if you vote for Thurmond,
you are betraying the national
Democratic Party; if you vote for
the Vegetarian Party candidate,
it nfeans that you don't like steak;
and if you vote for Wallace, you
are betraying your country. On
top of that, if you don't vote you
are neglecting jrour duty as an
American citizen. Now I'm more
confused than ever. What the
hell are we supposed to do? If
you've got the answer, how about
letting me in on it.
* * *
After reading about the recent
Senate communist probe, the
question of what
lis the difference
between a com­munist,
a radical,
a progressive, a
c o n s e r v ative,
a n d a liberal
comes to mind.
The radical, pro­gressive
,and li­beral
of yester­day
falls into the
category of a
communist t o-day.
I've discussed this phase of
politics with several of the more
astute members of our faculty and
have drawn the following conclu­sions:
According to present day mean­ing,
a communist is one who fa­vors
a violent overthrow of our
present government. A radical is
against everything and for noth­ing.
The progressive favors many <
changes of our present form of
government but he would make
these changes through voting.
A conservative is one who may
not like the present form of gov­ernment
but he still wants things
to remain as they are because
changes are not always for the
better. The liberal is the individ­ual
who agrees with the govern­ing
at least in part but wishes to
see certain changes made in co­operation
with and in working
for the government.
How many thousands of Ameri­cans
have been unjustly called
communist? If we accept the
above definition, the Americans
who have unjustly been tagged
communist greatly outnumbers
those who are communists. Be
careful when you insult people in
this manner. They too might be
good Americans like yourself.
I
Simms
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3—THE PLAINSMAN
AUBURN HORTICULTURAL FORUM
PLANS PROGRESSIVE PROGRAM
Wednesday, August U, 1948 Pepinsky and Staff
Attend Harvard Meet
At a meeting of the Auburn
Horticultural Forum August 3,
Prof, Henry Orr discussed plans
with the forum for future devel­opment
of ornamental horticul­ture
at Auburn. Foremost of
these plans were three new 20th
century greenhouses to replace
the ones built in the late 1800s
still in use on the campus.
The greenhouses are to be com­pleted
this fall, sometime around
October 1, availability of supplies
and weather permitting. They are
to be supplied by Lord and Burn-ham
of irvington, New York, at a
cost of approximately $20,000' in­cluding
the heating system. The
selection of the firm to supply the
new- greenhouses was made by
the department on a competitive
basis. These houses will be mo­dern
in every respect. They are
20 feet wide and one 100 feet
long, with facilities for consid­erable
plant experimentation.
The greenhouses are to be lo­cated
in the work area of the
proposed arboretum, and they
will be erected by the Winandy
Greenhouse Construction Com­pany
of Richmond, Indiana. New
greenhouses have been needed for
some time, and it is felt that the
erection of these houses will fur­ther
the rating of Auburn horti­culture
department. One half of
these new houses will be devoted
to teaching in order that the new
curriculum in commercial orna­mental
horticulture can be more
effectively carried out. The other
half of the new greenhouses will
be used for much needed research
to meet the needs of a rapidly
expanding ornamental horticul­ture
industry in Alabama.
The forum announces that as
a special project ,they have inau­gurated
a soil testing service, de­signed
to aid not only the com­mercial
grower in Alabama, but
also the amateur. For more de­tailed
information on the soil
testing service, address all mail
to: Secretary, Auburn Horticul­tural
Forum, Department of
Horticulture, Auburn.
It was also announced Tuesday
night that the forum will meet
again August 17, 7:30 p.m., in the
temporary building across, from
Susan Smith Cottage and to the
rear of the present greenhouses.
All horticulture students are ur­ged
to be present at this meeting
as there will be election of of­ficers
to fill the offices of the
forum for the next two quarters.
At this meeting there will also be
plans made-, for an outing and
picnic at a local lake, Saturday
afternoon, August 21.
H. G. Pitchford Gets
Library 'Cadetship'
At Syracuse University
A two-year "cadetship" in li­brary
science at Syracuse Uni­versity
has been awarded to H.
G. Pitchford, June 1948 graduate
of Auburn.
A native of Logan, Alabama,
Pitchford came to Auburn as a
freshman, and worked all four
years' here as a student assistant
in Main Library, Dr. Clyde H.
Cantrell, director, said.
The cadetship awarded the for­mer
student is one of the eight
such awards offered annually by
Syracuse. University.
Dr. Cantrell said that the
avO^ird is the first of its kind made
to an Auburn graduate since
early 1944.
Dr. Ray Pepinsky, research
professor of physics, and. members
of the crystallography staff at
Auburn attended the Interna­tional
Congress of OrystaUpgra-phy
at Harvard University last
week.
Dr. Pepinsky appeared, on the
program and spojie on the new
developments in "Structural De­termination."
Others attending from Auburn
were Dr. A. L. Patterson, T>x. J.
D. H. Donnay, Dr. G. Hamburger,
Chalmers Frazier, Frank Eiland,
Dave Sayre, and Hugh Long.
IRE Will Choose Two
Officers Monday
" Members of the Institute of Ra­dio
Engineers will meet Monday,
Aug. 16, at 7 p.m. in A.C. Lab II
and will elect two chapter offi­cers.
Positions to be filled are Re­presentative
to the Engineers'
Council, and sergeant-at-arms.
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Alpha-Delta chapter of Sigma
Pi fraternity held formal initia­tion
ceremonies last Thursday
evening for Bob Adams, Bill
Cummings, Dewey Dunlap, Owen
Posey, and Francis Ray. The five
new members were honored with
a house dance on Saturday even­ing.
Theme of the dance was. "A
Dogpatch Party", and at inter­mission
time ten members parti­cipated
in a Yokum skit. Bill
Cummings and Owen Posey were
recognized as the outstanding
pledges of their pledge class, and
they were presented with gifts.
At a special meeting Thursday
night members of Sigma Pi elec­ted
Dewitt Robinson president
and Charlie Allen Interfraternity
Council representative to serve
from now until the end of the
fall quarter. Robinson replaces
Frasier Galloway, who graduates
at the end of the summer quar­ter,
and Allen replaces Robinson,
former Council representative.
Three new Kappa Alpha pled­ges
are Joe Baldwin, Demopolis,
John Golden, Notasulga,' and
Allen Wade, Jasper
Upsilon Chapter of Pi Kappa
Alpha held a weekend rush func­tion
last Friday, Saturday, and
Sunday. Entertainment for Friday
included a hayride to Chewacla,
with a barbecue supper at the
lake, followed by a dance at the
house. Saturday morning a soft-ball
game between the boys and
the girls ended without an of­ficial
score. A buffet luncheon
was served at the house, and dur­ing
the ' afternoon a swimming
party was held at the lake. Satur­day
night members and their
guests enjoyed a steak dinner at
the Casino. Sunday morning the
brothers and guests attended
church in a body.
The .week end closed with a
'buffet luncheon at the house.
Members and dates were Char­lie
Jones, Cecelia McGowin; Ber­nard-
Blake, Jane Pope; Ralph
Jennings, Mary Lee; Dyke Mc-
Cullock, Beverly Risher; Bill
Walton, Frances Martin; ,Jim
Forrester, Martha Rush; Philip
Boss, Barbara Sue McCollough;
Charles Torbert, Susan Bowling;
Don Henderson, Margy Baughn;
Chet Stocks, June Miller; Flash
Riley, Fran Carter; Don Marett,
Catherine Hoffman; Bill Ander­son,
Joy Anderson; Felix Mc-
Kinney, Mildred Lamar; Don
Jackson, Louise Landham; Art
Heuer, Mary Ford; Bob Windham,
June Shaw; David Sanderson,
Frances Pendleton; Willis Mc-
Arthur, Tootie Bruce; Ralph
White, Frances Slabler; Joe Bur­nett,
Erwin Jones; John Goodloe,
Rosemary Watters; Percy Rogers,
Doris Riggan; Jim Ingram, Sue
Lawson; Paul Sturdivant, Marga-.
ret Buzbee; John Norton, Betty
Smith; Joe Moore, Ann Swift.
Freshman bob-whites at Pi
Kappa Phi saw that everything
went all right last weekend, when
they gave a fling for the upper-class
partridges and their quails.
It must have been a quail party
because several coveys were seen
flushed from the brush.
The fun got underway at 2 p.m.
in the local park, where every­body
went in swimming except
Mother Whitley, who watched
little Bruce Carrol while he
played in the wading pool.
Mother Whitley and Johnny the
houseboy spread a fine lunch for
the hungry waterbirds.
The Chewacla session was call­ed
to a screeching halt at 7 p.m.
and the troops journeyed to the
downtown mansion. At 7:30 mus­ter
was called and those answer­ing
turned to and enjoyed danc­ing.
The report is that they were
a flock of tired birds by the time
curfew rolled around.
Meeting of August 9. 1948
The meeting was called to
order by Dick O'Cain, president.
Minutes were read and approved.
The roll was called and follow­ing
members were absent: James
Kendrick and Chris DuBose.
Guy Cofield reported the fol­lowing
names for the Student
Relations Committee: Ted Rob-bins,
Jimmie Floyd, John L.
Cates, Mary Pepper, Bill Vann,
Paul Sarvis, Jim Forrester, El-wood
Burkhardt, Donald Cul­berson,
Tom Sellers, Rufus Berry,
Paul Brown, Jack Coursey, Vir­ginia
Morton, and Buck Byrd.
The committee was approved as
presented.
Sammy Kirkland, chairman of
the Ring Committee, reported
the sale of 183 rings during July.
Paul Sarvis stated that an elec­tion
committee would have to be
established for the summer quar­ter
because of the election of
Miss Homecoming.
Paul Sarvis and Frasier Gallo­way
were nominated for chair­man
of the Elections Committee.
Frazier Galloway was elected.
A motion was made by Guy
Cofield and seconded by Frazier
Galloway that the election of
Miss Homecoming be held in the
summer quarter instead of the
fall quarter for this year, 1948,
only due to the officially sche­duled
homecoming date set by
the college. Motion passed.
Paul Sarvis presented the ques­tion:
"If a candidate is not offi­cially
in school this summer,
would she be eligible to run for
Miss Homecoming?"
President O'Cain said he could
see no objection to a girl running
who was not in school this sum­mer
provided she presented a
written statement to the Elections
Committee saying she would be
enrolled this fall.
Frazier Galloway submitted the
following names for the Elec­tions
Committee: Jim Forrester,
Glover Pugh, Guy Cofield, Mary
Pepper, John L. Cates, Lynn
Hawkins, Buck Byrd, Ted Rob-bins,
John Lanier, Ralph Jack­son,
• Dick Humphrey, Gilmer
Blackburn, Paul Sarvis, Doug
Ellis, Leonard Hooper. The com­mittee
was approved as present­ed.
The meeting was closed in
form.
Respectfully submitted (
Gilmer Blackburn
Approved: Dick O'Cain, Presi­dent,
Student Executive Cabinet.
The Common Man
- (Continued from page 2)
Hill—there just isn't any place tc
go.
I wonder why some enterpris­ing
college organization doesn't
offer, if the college won't agree
to maintain one, to establish a
canteen in a centrally located po­sition?
It seems there is a veri­table
wilderness of army barracks
in that neighborhood—maybe B
&G would donate one of them for
this cause. The canteen could be
either non-profit as a campus ser­vice
or profitable for some worthy
cause. As an afterthought, how
about the local FFA? Would you
fellows be willing if you could get
the college nod and support?
Nothing Here
(Continued from Page 2)
hour, and flunking everything,
and (4) keeping wet shoes and
socks on for remainder of day,
catching horrible, cold and miss­ing
classes the next few days be­cause
of that. (Well, exaggerated
a little, maybe,)
Nevertheless, it may be worth
it to stick to it here for four
years to avoid a. 21-months' hitch
in the real thing.
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4—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, August 11, 1948
Another War Eagle Story. . . . By Leonard Hooper
Loche Appoca Chewac sat un­der
a tree before the Main Build­ing
(Samford Hall) and thought
about the different racial strains
which had merged to produce
him. In 1819 his father, Ladislaus,
was born in Lisbon, the son of a
Polish shoemaker and-an obscure
Hungarian baroness who had left
home seeking thrills, and Loche's
mother, from a humble Tidewater
family, was of French and Scotch
descent. They had married in
Charleston and moved with their
small son to Auburn, a village on
the lower edge of the Alabama
Piedmont region, where Ladislaus
Grysbaldi Chewac had done well
with his livery tetabte and harness
shop. '<•>.'; v
• By today's standards Loche
would be called an unusual blend
of Shelley, Poe, and Wilde—a
.dreamer, a mystic, a lonely man.
Naturally secretive, he was con­sidered
to be so shy that his par­ents
had sent him to college in
his- own home town—the obscure
little East Alabama Male Col­lege.
His poems and literary ef­forts
occupied the time he should
have spent on history, calculus,
and other school subjects.
The October wind blew a scrap
of newspaper against his trouser
leg, and he picked it up idly. The
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War Department was at it again—
some genius born two centuries
too soon was giving away 1861's
equivalent of the loot from a
radio quiz program for ideas
about how to dramatize the role
of the bald eagle, newly selected
in a similar contest as the em­blem
of these proud United
States of America. Loche Chewac
read the details of the drive to
glamorize this American bird as
the invincible symbol of Ameri­ca's
greatness.
Loche mulled ideas for weeks
in his agile, escapist brain, and
finally' submitted a suggestion
which he dared not hope was
great. Strangely enough the.wild-eyed
contest managers of the War
Department,agreed with him and
although the text of his entry is
lost. today, it went something
like this:
"There's nothing higher than
the American flag except the
American eagle, so let's put a
small gold eagle at the head of
every flag staff to remind us of
the greatness of the American
eagle and the American flag."
Loche won first prize in the
contest, an appointment to West
Point, and the Auburn boys gave
him a new nickname, "Eagle". As
he rode to New York he heard
other passengers on the train
discussing the looming conflict
between the states of the North
and the South, but his mind was
full of half-formed plots and
other literary knick-knacks.
When the war erupted, Loche,
who had no mind of his own,
stayed on at West Point, while
his father marched away with the
Alabama troops. West Point
crowded its four-year course into
two and a half years: Loche
caught some of the drama of the
hectic period, diverted his at-
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. and graduated with
honors. His unusual position had
attracted/attention in Washington:
he was assigned to the Civil War
equivalent of OSS work, under a
branch of the Plans and Train­ing
Division.
At first he traveled around
Union Army Camps, giving indoc­trination
talks about the Ameri­can
way of life .for which the men
were supposed to be fighting, but
his real mission was to learn what
they actually were fighting for.
Then he was sent on hush-hush
missions to high Southern gene­rals,
seeking a reconciliation of
the rift between the two groups
of states. He became the brainy
confidante of hundreds of top
commanders on both sides of the
war, but the strain began to tell
.on his poor tired mind. He was
discharged as a combat fatigue
case, and he returned to his wid­owed
mother's house in Auburn
to think things over and try to*
rehabilitate himself to a changed
South.
A thin grey stream of Auburn
boys returned to start school
again, and they organized some­thing
' like today's VFW and
American Legion, a social club
for veterans. The club met in the
woods just^south of town—their
favorite spot was a rocky hill
that rose above the junction of
two creeks which ran away to­ward
central Alabama.
One chilly April evening the
boys sat around a campfire
drinking beer and telling combat
;stories. Loche Chewac, sitting by
himself, drank two or three beers,
then went the see that the hprses
returned to the campfire circle
lost in thought, a loutish slot
shouted,
"What did you do in the war,
"Eagle"?"
Loche stared through the yel­low
flames of the campfire at the
bloated face of the ex-cavalry
sergeant—his lips moved toneless-ly
in the syllables—"War—eagle
—war eagle—" Then he grabbed
up an old Army blaket on which
the beer was sitting, and ran with
it to the bluff's edge. As the ser­geant
told it later, Loche held the
blanket before his face antl leaped
off the cliff, shouting for one last
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"Whitey" Overton became the
third man in Auburn track his­tory
to compete in the World
Olympics recently when he was
one of three men selected to rep­resent
the United States in the
3000 meter steeplechase. Although
he failed to qualify for the finals
in that event, his very presence
on the U. S. team is reason enough
for Auburn to be proud of this
young athlete.
The first Auburn man to com­pete
in the Olympics was Euil
"Snitz" Snider, who competed in
the 1928 Olympiad held i t^Copen-hagen.
"Snitz" failed to place in
the finals of his specialty, the 400
meter dash, but as a member of
the relay team he brought home
points for the U. S. continent. At
one time Snitz held the N.A.A.U.
record for the 400 meter run, a
time of 48 seconds. He is now
athletic director at Bessemer High
School, and head of the Park and
Recreation Board.
In 1932, Auburn was again re-
•presented in the Olympics. Percy
Beard placed second in the finals
of the 110-yard high hurdles
against the toughest opposition
the world had to offer.
During his brilliant career,
Percy won 7 national champion­ships,
and held the world's re­cord
for the high hurdles with a
of today's aerial stunters— on the
loud time "War Eagle!" The
blanket acted as the batman suit
blanket, Loche soared and swoop­ed
on a thermal updraft from the
rocks, which were losing their
last calories of heat in the darken­ing
evening. Then Loche whipped
the blanket out from under him­self,
and his emaciated body
plummeted to the sharp rocks.
The sobered young men told
this story as true for so long that
Loche's true story came out in
bits and pieces' from the War De­partment
files. Administrations
later, the Alabama Park Service
named a state park for Chewac,
L. A., which through a clerical
error became Chewacla. His two
first names were corrupted into
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time of 14.2 seconds. Beard, who
is a brother to athletic business
manager and Coach Jeff Beard of
Auburn, is now track coach and
assistant director of athletics at
the University of Florida.
In dealing, out the praise, a
goodly portion of it must be di­rected
toward Auburn's great
track coach and director of ath­letics,
Coach Wilbur Hutsell. In
his 27 years on the Plains he
coached all three of Auburn's
Olympic stars, and if any one
man can be given credit for their
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Sylacauga Tryouts
Mignon Field, Sylacauga, will
be the scene of a baseball tryout
camp Monday, Tuesday, and
Wednesday, August 23, 24, and
25, which will be conducted by
the St. Louis Cardinals. This
camp is made possible through
the cooperation of two Sylacauga
citizens. It will t>e open free to
all boys 17 to 23 of age who as­pire
to careers in professional
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Auburn Graduate Gets
Executive Promotion
L. E. Foster, Jr., Auburn gra­duate
of 1939 with a B. S. Degree
in Economics, has been named
Assistant Manager of the Bureau
of Merchandising of the Arm­strong
Cork Company:
Mr. Foster joined the Arm­strong
organization immediately
after his "graduation in 1939 and
served as a member of the com­pany's
Atlanta District Office un­til
entering military service in
1941. After his discharge, Mr.
Loachapoka, the name of a nearby
town, and the awed young cadets
carried over the "War Eagle" cry
into Auburn tradition.
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Sigma Pi.
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