1949-02-02 The Plainsman

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Vol. LXXV ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1949
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Finals For Intramural
Debate To Be Monday
Forty-nine Teams Engaged In Tournament;
Fraternities, Sororities And AIO Debate
'*• The intra-mural debate tournament started last Monday
as 32 teams representing 11 fraternities, four sororities, and
two independent organizations began preliminary rounds.
The subject for debate is, Resolved: That better student gov­ernment
would result if the election regulations were revised
to permit' candidates greater free
dom in campaigning for office.
The finals in the contest will be
held in Langdon Hall Monday
night, February 7, at 8 o'clock.
Trophies will be awarded to the j
winners in each of the group di­visions
at the completion of Mon­day's
program.
Those who are entered in the
tournament and the organization
which they represent are:
Fraternities
Lambda Chi * Alpha: Wofford
Smith, Birmingham; Ted Phillips,
Tallahassee, Fla.; Kobert Burns,
Ridgewood, New Jersey; John
Mattmuller,'Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.;
Billy Taber, Fayette; Leslie Long-crier,
Birmingham; Floyd Savage,
Suffolk, Va.; Carl Morrissett,
Hornesville, Va.; Kenneth Davis,
Parrish; Edward McGarity, Bir­mingham;
James Leo, Birming­ham;
James Bobbins, Birming­ham;
John Lee, Mobile, and Tho­mas
Christie, Montgomery, Ala.
Phi Delta Theta: Curtis Presley,
Clarksdale, Miss.; and A. J. Cole­man,
Decatur.
Alpha Tau Omega: Edwin Bar­ker,
Birmingham; Cliff Jenkins,
Birmingham; Mike Pinney, Bir­mingham;
Dick Allison, Birming­ham;
Claude J. Kendrick, Ft. Wal­ton,
Fla.; Alfred K. Fraser, Bir­mingham;
Jack Prigmore, Birm­ingham,
and Raeford Liles, Bir­mingham.
Kappa Sigma: Roy Russell, En­terprise;
Donald Grimes, Colum­bus,
Ga.; James Duke, Birming­ham;
Henry Heflin, Clanton; Hugh
Gaston, Lebanon, Tenn.; and E. B.
Miles, Birmingham.
Pi Kappa Alpha: Willis P. Stur-divant,
Hattiesburg, Miss.; John
Robert Shewell, Baytown, Texas;
James H. Johnson, Bessemer; and
David D. Sanderson, Birmingham.
Theta Chi: William O. Overton,
Montgomery, and Donald Hall­mark,
Birmingham.
Tau Kappa Epsilon: Boyd H"i-ton,
Columbus, Ga., and Bruce
Fowler, Union, S. C.
Sigma Nu: Russell Burson, Sel-ma,
and Arthur Goreman, Hunts-ville.
Alpha Gamma Rho: Morton
Bryant, Foley, and Gene Allred,
Lincoln.
Sigma Pi Epsilon: Alfred Dur-rance",
Miami, Fla.; and John Par­ker,
Birmingham.
Pi Kappa Phi: Lewis Johnson,
Phil Campbell; Frank Robinson,
Birmingham; J o'h h Hembree,
Bridgeport; Jerry Farmer, Auburn;
Theron O. McDowell, Selma; and
Greg Mitchell, Riverside, Calif.
Sororities
Kappa Delta: Mary Hunta Pon­der,
Opelika, and Kathryn Doug-
Birmingham, Ala.
Chi Omega: Pat Prizer, Chicago,
and Aimee McCormick, Mobile.
Alpha Gamma Delta: Louise
Bethea, Atmore; Dorry Ann Hayes,
Birmingham; Joan Cosart, Birm­ingham;
Catherine Wellbaum, Tal­ladega;
Jeanette Gore, Birming­ham,
and Mary Ann Turner, Ope­lika.
Phi Mu: Virginia Brown, Birm­ingham,
and Sudie Wilson, Birm­ingham.
Independents
Auburn Independents Organiza­tions:
Glover Pugh, Coffeville,
and John Oerting, Pensacola, Fla.
Alpha Phi Omega: Joseph
Gwyn, Birmingham, and James
C. Lyle, Memphis, Tenn.
Permission Denied
Student To Build
Roller Rink Here
In a session sometimes marked
by a heated exchange of words,
the City Commission virtually re­jected
the bid of C. G. Reynolds,
Auburn student, for permission to
erect a roller-skating rink on S.
College St. between Vandemark
Music Co. and the Whatley Build­ing.
Action on the matter had been
postponed from last meeting.
Reynolds had stated that the
rink would be housed in a fire-proofed
tent with false front - if
requested, adding that he believed
he complied with the building
code and zoning ordinances. Rey­nolds
also stated business men he
had contacted, adjoining property
owners, and occupants of a col­lege
dormitory in the same block
had indicated they had no ob­jection
to his proposed activity,
Commissioner Wright told Rey­nolds
that the commissioners' did
not consider.it very desirable, that
college officials and citizens ob­jected,
and that the planning com­mission
w o u l d disapprove. He
added that the commission could
classify it as ''undesirable" under
zoning "brdinaftces as were-*tock-yards,
and certain other indus­tries
close : in to the downtown
district.
Commissioner Sims, in reply to
Reynolds question as to which
college officials opposed it, said
President Draughon, among oth­ers,
t
Name Band To Play
For (FC Dances
The Interfraternity C o u n c il
dances this year will feature the
music of Sonny Dunham and his
orchestra. The Dunham group is
one of the nation's outstanding
dance bands. Their music has
been featured on four national
radio networks. They have made
outstand personal appearances at
Hotel Pennsylvania in1New York,
Hollywood's Palladium Ballroom,
Chicago's Hotel Sherman, and the
Mililon Dollar Prer in Atlantic
City, N.J.
The first dance will be Friday
night, February 4, starting at 8:30
o'clock and continuing until 12:30
a.m. The Dean of Women's of­fice
has' granted all girls 1 a.m.
permission for this dance. .'
Saturday afternoon, a two-hour
concert will begin at 2 o'clock and
will last until 4 o'clock. Pete Han-ley
will be featured on the vocals.
The final dance will run from
8:30 to 12:30 o'clock Saturday
night. All,girls will have 1 a.m.
permission on this occasion.
Miss Sally Holt, Birmingham,
escorted by John Jennings, presi­dent
of the Interfraternity Coun­cil,
will be presented flowers just
before the intermission.
Journalism Club Formed
By Group Of Students
\A new organization, the Au­burn
Journalism Club, was for­med
last week by a group of stu­dents
majoring or minoring in
English-journalism.
The club was formed to pro­mote
interest in journalism
among students and to work to­ward
the establishment of a
journalism major at Auburn.
Election of officers will be held
at an early meeting of the club.
Alumni Association
Begins Fund Drive
Contributions are now being
accepted by the Auburn Alumni
Association for the Second Great­er
Auburn Fund, according to
Happy Davis, Executive Secretary
of the Auburn Alumni Association.
The fund is dedicated to the
further development and expan­sion
of Auburn, t h e money goes
to such college undertakings as
scholarships, engineering research,
argicultural research, chemistry
experimentation, veterinary medi­cine
research, and pharmaceutical
study. It may also be used by the
college, in the event of an emer­gency.
Draughon To Request Big Boost
In Appropriations For Auburn
Miss Ampora I t u rM
Miss Ampora Iturbi Will Appear Here
In Concert At 8:15 Tomorrow Night
Miss Ampora Iturbi, noted pianist, will present a concert
under the auspices of the Auburn Concert and Lecture Com­mittee
in the student activities building at 8:15 o'clock to­morrow
night. Students will be admitted to the event by pre­senting
their student activities books at the door. Tickets are
on sale to faculty members and townspeople at the student
affairs office in Samford Hall.
Some of the well known com­positions
that Miss. Iturbi will
play are Sonata Number 7 by Mo­zart,
Rondo Capriccioso by Men­delssohn,
Hungarian Rhapsody
Number 12 by Liszt, Ritual Fire
Dance by Manuel De Falla, and
Derceuse and Polonaise In A Flat
by Chopin.
A: product of Valencia, iSpain,
Miss Iturbi grew up in a family
where music was considered an
integral part of the cultural aspect
of daily life. Like her famous
brother, Jose, she^ showed signs
early of a musical genius which
was carefully nurtured by loving
parents..
Studying with Maria Jordan,
she gave her first concert in Va­lencia,
moved on to Barcelona for
study with Chavarri who intro­duced
her to Granados. The great
Spanish musician was enthusiasti­cally
impressed with her musical
artistry and' Ampora Iturbi soon
joined her brother in Paris.
Successful appearances w i th
many of the leading orchestras of
Europe Jed to a concert career in
America where she. has been-heard
with the New York Phil­harmonic,
the New York Sym­phony,
the Rochester Philharmon-
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Committee Appointed
To Form NROTC Frat
Plans for the establishment of a
Naval Honor Fraternity here were
formulated Thursday by a steer­ing
committee, appointed by Capt.
Li M. Markham, Jr.
The steering committee is com­posed
of Lacy Thomas, chairman;
Glen Beagles,- Dick Hutchinson,
Harold Goyette, George Peake,
Bill McCarley, Bill Fleming, Bob
Bryson, Sigmund Redelsheimer
and Dick Sudhoff. Of this group
Lacy Thomas, Glen Beagles, and
Harold Goyette were appointed to
write a constitution and by-laws
for the fraternity. *
The constitution and by-laws of
the fraternity are to be modeled
after those of the Sextant Fra­ternity
at Northwestern Universi­ty
and the Quarterdeck Fraterni"
ty at the University of California.
According to Capt. Markham, it
is the ultimate goal of all NROTC
units throughout the country to
establish a Naval Honor Fraterni­ty
then organize a national fra­ternity.
Kappa Delta Pi will meet Tues­day,
February'8, at 7:30 p.m. in
the home pf Miss Carolyn Ellis,
138 W. Magnolia.
* * *
The Auburn Radio Club will
meet Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. instead
of the previously announced 7
o'clock.
* a= *
Tau Beta Pi will meet Thurs­day,
February 3, at' 7 p.m. in
Broun Hall auditorium.
i
* * *
ASME will meet Monday, Feb­ruary
7, at 7 p.m. in room 200 of
Ramsay Hall.
* * *
AIEE will meet Monday, Feb­ruary
7, at 7 p.m. in room 109 of
Ramsay Hall.
* * *
SAM will meet Monday, Febru­ary
7, at 7 p.m. in room 123 of the
new building.
* * *
AIChE will meet Monday, Ft*
ruary 7, at 7:30 p.m. in room 203
of Ross Laboratory.
* * *
APhiO will meet Tuesday, Feb­ruary
8, at 7 p.m. jn room 201 of
Broun Hall.
The 'Horticulture Forum will
meet Tuesday, February 8, at 7
p.m. in Samford Hall. .
The College 4-H Club will meet
tomorrow, February 3, at 7 p.m.
in Duncan Hall.
Auburn Engineer Holds
Contest For Subscribers
A contest is being sponsored by
the Auburn Engineer, to extend
circulation, according to Al Dur-rance,
editor. A chance to win a
portable radio or other prizes of
.corresponding value is offered
with each yearly subscription. The
publication has a rate of $1.50 for
eight issues.
At the present time, 1,000 copies
are printed each month, and as the
Engineer is entirely self-support­ing,
an increase in circulation is
needed.
In addition to students on the
campus, distribution of the maga­zine
is furnished to every county
high school in the state, leading
industries,, and to alumni. Ex­change
with other school maga­zines
is also maintained. Subscrip­tion
for the magazine is voluntary.
Pearl Buck Urges
Aid tor Chinese
Before an audience of 1,500 fa­culty,
students, and townspeople,
Pearl Buck, novelist, lecturer, and
authority on Asia, presented her
analysis of the current turmoil in
China. The Pulitzer Prize winner
was presented Wednesday night
in the student activities build­ing
as the third in the series of
attractions sponsored by the Con­cert
and Lecture committee at
Auburn.
In her interesting lecture Miss
Buck expressed the opinion that
China wants and heeds economic
aid rather than the often-pro­posed
military aid of the United
States.' Proper aid, she added,
might keep the current revolution
from being dominated by the
Communists. She pointed out the
Communists were tout a part of
the revolution now in progress.
Missionaries still have a great
opportunity to aid in the rehabili­tation
of the ancient country,
she said, and added that college
graduates in many fields could
find unusual opportunities in
China. -
Prior to her!lecture Miss Buck
was guest of honor at a dinner
at the Hotel Clement given by
Prof. O. T. Ivey's Far Eastern his­tory
class of Auburn. Other guests
included her husband, R. J.
Walsh, president of the John Day
Publishing Co., Dean and Mrs.
R. W. Allen, W. S. Farley, and
Prof, and Mrs. O. T. Ivey.
Following her lecture appear­ance,
Miss Buck entertained at a
reception in her honor given by
the Auburn chapter of Kappa
Delta sorority. Invitations were
extended Auburn and' Opelika
alumnae of Randolph-Macon from
which college Miss Buck also
graduated.
Patsy Walker Elected
WSGA Representative
Miss Patsy Walker, freshman in
home economics from Birming­ham,
was recently elected over
four other, candidates as fresh­man
representative to the Wo­men's
Student Government As­sociation.
A total of 166 votes were cast in
the election. Other candidates for
the office were Betty Tharpe, Jan
Johnson, Rebecca Fletcher and
Beverly Barnette.
CONSTRUCTION HAS FINALLY gotten under way oh the
new $480,000 addition to Hare Stadium. When the steam shovel,
above, and other workers finally leave, approximately 13,500
seats will have been added to the stadium. A new scoreboard
will be erected by the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. if the football
schedule can be arranged to include two more home games on.
the field. The total seating capacity of the stadium once the new
addition has been finished will be nearly 20,914 seats. '._
Bulk of Increase Would Go To Teaching
Division; New Buildings Also Requested
Auburn will request an additional $1,302,900.00 in state ap­propriations
for the biennium beginning Oct. 1, 1949, it was
disclosed January 25 at a meeting in Montgomery of school
leaders.
Total appropriation request Will be for $3,643,500.00. The^
present appropriation is $2,340,-
'King For A Day'
Candidates Named
Seven of the nine candidates
nominated to participate .in the
AIO "King For A Day" election
were announced Monday by Sam
Hayes; publicity chairman for the
election.
Nominated by the Alpha Delta
Pi sorority was Dick Martin, jun­ior
in building construction from
Athens. J. T. Allen, junior in agri­cultural
administration and mem­ber
of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity,
from Cromwell, was nominated by
Alpha Omicron Pi sorority.
Alpha Gamma J&MA. sorority
chose Crawford Nevins, sopho­more
in business administration
from Birmingham and a mem­ber,
of Pi Kappa Alpha frater­nity.
Russell Inman, senior in
physical education and member
of Kappa Sigma fraternity from
Birmingham, was the choice of
Chi Omega sorority.
Claude Morton, senior in busi­ness
administration and member
of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraterni­ty
from Birmingham, Was the
Kappa D e l t a sonority nominee.
Howard Whit*,.sophomairiTib.
business admiinstration and mem­ber
of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity
from Ashland, was nominated by
the students living in Alumni Hall.
The Women's Quadrangle candi­date
is Bill Letchworth, sopho­more
in business administration
from Sebastian, Fla.
Candidates from the Delta Zeta
sorority and Auburn Hali have not
been announced.
The winner of the "King For A
Day" election will be crowned at
the coronation ball in the student
activities building February 11.
The same day he will be chauf-feured
to and "from classes and he
will have two secretaries to take
notes for him. In addition, the
winning candidate will receive
prizes donated by the merchants
of Auburn and Opelika^
The election will begin Febru­ary
7 and will continue through
February 10. Votes may be cast
for a cent a vote.
Candidates .
March I has been set as the
deadline for applications from
candidates who wish to qualify
for the elective offices on either
the PLAINSMAN or GLOMER-ATA
staffs. Applications may
be submitted to T. C. Clark, di­rector
of student affairs, al his
office in room 101 of Samford
Hall. .
Military Ball Planned
By ROTC For March 12
Auburn's annual Military Ball,
featuring an "Honorary Colonel",
will be held here March 12, Col.
George M. Williamson, command­ing
officer, of the ROTC Unit, an­nounced
recently.
Scabbard and Blade, honorary
military organization, is in charge
of arrangements' for' the dance.
Basic ROTC students in uniform,
and their dates, will be admitted
free as the guests of the Ad­vanced
Course students.
Each company of the regiment
is selecting a girl to serve as an
"Honorary Captain", and the final
selection of the honorary colonel
and her staff will be made on the
evening of the dance by S com­mittee
selected from both the.fac­ulty
and student body. The an­nouncement
of the .winner, and
the lead out will climax the eve­ning's
activities.
600.00.
The meeting at which Auburn's
money needs were presented was
called by Austin. R. Meadows,
state superintendent of educa­tion.
It was attended by common
school and college leaders. Out of
the meeting cam* a unified ap­propriations
program calling for
overall increase of $40,000;O00.Q0
to education.
President Ralph Draughon pre­sented
Auburn's appropriation
needs as follows:
. (1.) Campus instruction — $2,-
327,500.00. This represented an in­crease
of $827,500.00- over the pre­sent
appropriation.
(2.) Agricultural e x p e r i ment
station—$397,524.00. This repre­sents
an increase of $197,524.00.
(3.) Agricultural extension ser-'
vice—$522,876.00, an increase of
$222,876.00.
In submitting the statement of
Auburn's biennium needs for op­erating
budget, President Draugh­on
pointed out that he was at­taching
to the request a state­ment
of capital outlay needs
which included 20-odd new build­ings*
estimated to cost $12,239,-
060.00.
. He said the list of buildings and
facilities- represents the needs of.
the college if it is properly to
accommodate a student body of
approximately 7,000 students.
"We wish to emphasize . . . that
this is not a statement of the
amount of monies needed for op­erating
budget or for capital out­lay
to give this institution an ade­quate
program in the fields of ac­tivities
represented at this land
grant college," said Mr. Draughon
in presenting Auburn's needs.
"Indeed, it will not give us the
funds to carry on an average pro­gram
in terms of the functions of
land grant colleges in the fields
of agriculture, engineering, the
pure and the applied sciences, the
professional schools and the re­lated
schools and the related arts
subjects in which we are engag­ed,"
he continued. ,
In pointing to the fact that his
budget request calls for an in­crease
of- $852,000.00 per year for
campus instruction, he said $500,-
000.00 of this amount is to replace
existing current income which
will be lpst through the decline in
veteran enrollment.
"The remaining $352,500.00,"
said Mr. Draughon, "is needed for
the improvement of existing fac­ulty
salaries which are low with­in
the several ranks in compari­son
to the salary levels of the
state universities and land, grant
colleges in the southeastern
states. Needless to say they are
much lower than the average for
vhe country." In addition, he ex­plained
that funds were needed
to fill about 85 vacancies on the
teaching staff.
The $227,524.00 increase asked
for the agricultural experiment
stations is needed, said Mr.
Draughon, due largely to two
reasons:
(1.) During the war period
when prices of farm, products
were unusually high and restric­tions
were placed on capital im­provement
and equipment pur­chases
balances accumulated. As
a result, the legislature two years
ago reduced appropriations tq the
experiment stations.
(2.) Revolutionary changes in
Alabama agriculture, the grow­ing
dairy and livestock, horticul­ture,
seafood and other programs
have brought increasing heavy de­mands,
for research in new farm­ing
practices. To meet the de­mand
additional funds are need­ed.
* , * *
The agricultuial extension ser­vice
needs the additional $222,-.-
876.00 requested in. the Auburn
(Continued on page 7)
2—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, Feb. 2,1949 AIO Members To Hear IFC DANCE LEADOUf
Buildings And Grounds Construction
Progressing On Three New Greenhouses
By J. H. Langley
Construction on t h e t h r e e greenhouses being built for t h e
department of ornamental horticulture is progressing as
scheduled, according to J . R. Bowman, construction engineer
of the buildings and grounds department. The greenhouses
will be used as r e s e a r c h and e x p e r i m e n t a l laboratories. Total
cost for i n s t a l l a t i on will be $42,000.
Located west of the FPHA bar­racks,
the greenhouses are ex­pected
to be ready for use by the
spring quarter according to Mr. J.
R. Bowman.
Pre-fabricated by Lord and
Burnham of Irvington, N.Y., the
houses w e r e manufactured in
their Des Plaines, ill., plant and
shipped here in sections.
The houses are being erected by
Winandy Company of Richmond,
Ind. This company is engaged ex­clusively
in the erection of green­houses.
Many of their patented
features are i n c l u d e d in the
structures.
The greenhouses, built in an
east - west direction, are con­structed
of concrete up to a
height of three feet. Corner posts
and intermediate supporting posts
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Let's Me-N-U Eat
Come and
DINE-A-MITE
With
Bob and Kay
7 A.M. to I A.M.
Homem'ade Pastries
Regular Dinner 55e
Choice of Meat
Located at Corner of
Magnolia and Gay
Delta Zetas Entertain
Alpha Gamma Rho Frat
mm
Beta Xi chapter of Delta Zeta
entertained the Alpha Gamma
Rho fraternity Friday night, Janu­ary
28, with a Plantation Party.
The guests were entertained
with songs by Katherine Kilgore
and Anne Bell who were dressed
as southern maidens. Other enter­tainment
Was a negro mammy skit
with Billie Owsley and Lillian
Jones taking part.
are steel. The rest of the frame­work
is wooden.
Horizontal wooden supports for
the panes are eliminated by over­lapping
the panes and fastening
them with ; aluminum strips on
the outside of the building. In ad­dition
to supporting the panes,
the strips also offer protection to
the wooden posts.
Extending across the front of
the buildings is the heater-house.
Built of masonry construction,
this house contains the boiler and
office spaces.
Built by Lord and Burnham in
Lancaster, Penn., the boiler is a
low-pressure, all-steel unit. The
boiler room will occupy approxi­mately
half of the heater-house.
Potting beds, drainage troughs
and other equipment is built-in.
According to Mr. Bowman, "Evr
erything is built-in. except the
flowers and plants."
Auburnaires Tonight
The AuburhaireS, Auburn's only
male quartet, will sihg at the AIO
meeting tonight at 7:15 o'clock in
Social Center, according to Sam
Yancey, AIO president. The quar­tet
is Composed of Donald Vahh,
tenor, Roy Johnson, tenor, Ed
Grissom, bass, Harold Goyette,
baritone, and Virginia Corby, ac­companist.
T. B. Turbyfill is di­rector
of the Auburnaires.
Yancey called attention to t he
change from student center to so­cial
center of the AIO meeting.
The AIO is considering social
center as a permanent meeting
place. Wednesday night's meet­ing
is to be a trial one. If the
meeting is a success, further steps
will be taken to continue the
meetings there.
Yancey stated the the meeting
will adjourn in time for members
to attend the March of Dimes
dance.
Formal Initiation Held
Fdr 9 Sigma Pi Pledges
Alpha Delta Chapter of Sigma
Pi fraternity held formal initia­tion
Thursday evening, January
27, for nine members of its pledge
class.
Those initiated were Eugene R.
Cox, Mobile; Howell Henderson,
Pell City; James L. Maddox, Mo­bile;
James S. Phillips, Lineville;
William D. Powell, Birmingham;
George B. Riley, Dothah; Jesse B.
Robinson, Waverly; William K.
Singleton, Pell City; and Ben A.
Wadsworth, Roanoke.
Gifts were presented to Eugene
Cox and Ben Wadsworth, who
were chosen as the outstanding
pledges of those initiated.
LOST: One celanese shirl be­tween
363 S. Gay and 120 S.
Gay, Wednesday. January 26.
If found please call Jack Bran-yon
at 642.
Attention Graduating Seniors
Invitations for Graduating Seniors and
class rings for Juniors and Seniors go on
sale on first floor of: Sarrifofd/teLdoy andtoV
morrow, Feb. 2, 3, from 9:00 until 4:66 p.m.
Invitations can be ordered these days only.
HAGEDORN'S
'The Style Center of East Alabama
FRIDAY MORNING AT 8:30
OUR SEMUMNUAL
SLIP COVER FABRICS-RAYONS
- COTTONS
At Way £e/ow Cost
HAGEDORN'S
OPELIKA, ALABAMA
RICE and OLD SHOES
SALLY HOLT. BIRMINGHAM, will lead out with John Jen­nings,
IFC president, at the Interfraterhity Council dance to be
held Saturday nigh^ in .the student.activities building. Music for
the dance will be furnished by Sonny Dunhath and his orchestra.
Girls will be given 1 a.m. permission for the dance. The hours
are from 8:30 p.m. until 12:30 a.m.
Formal Initiation Held
For Alpha Gam Pledges
Gamma Delta chapter of Al­pha
Gamma Delta sorority held
formal initiation for 16 pledges on
Sunday, January 30. The cere­mony
was followed by the tradi­tional
Feast of the Roses.
Those initiated were Jean Far-ish,
Mbiiroeville; Marilyn Busch,
Mobile; Elizabeth Liddell, Cam­den;
Minnie Watson, Opelika;
J e a n e t t e Gore, Birmingham;
Kathryn Martin, Brewton; Helen
Pappas, Eufaula; Mary Ann Turn­er,
Opelika. ; \
Dorothy Wilson, Montgomery;
Jeanne Little, Anniston; Rebecca
Fletcher, Andalusia; Ann Miller,
Mrs. H.G.Bailey Feted
By Alpha Gamma Delta
Gamma Delta chapter of Alpha
Gamma Delta sorority entertained
with a tea to its chapter room to
honor of Mrs. Hillary G. Bailey,
national inspector.
Mrs. Bailey is vice-president of
Gamma province.
In the receiving line were Car­men
Fornara, president; Mrs. Bai­ley;
and Mrs. W. D; Salmon, alum^
ni advisor to the chapter.
Lowry-Spinks
The marriage of Miss India
Pearl Lowry, daughter of Mrs.
Dory Grayson Lowry of Thomas-ville,
to Harold .Hayes Spinks, son
of Mrs. William Roscoe Spinks,
also of Thomasville, took place
December 29 at the Thomasville
Methodist Church. The Rev. Wil­liam
M. Spooles officiated at the
ceremony. The couple will be at
home in Auburn where the groom
is a freshman in college.
* * #
Shacklef ord - Peck
The marriage of Miss Virginia
White Shackleford, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lee Shackle-ford,
of Spring Hill, to William
Henry Peck, IV, son of Mrs. F.
Taylor Peck, and the late Mr.
Peck, of Spring Hill, took place'
December 29 at Government
Street Presbyterian Church. Dr.
John Chester Frist read the mar­riage
service and was assisted by
the Rev. Milton L. Wood, Jr. The
young couple are living in Au­burn
where the groom is studying
in the School of Architecture.
* :;< :;:
Dees-Sheppard
Miss Mary Ann Dees, daughter
of Mrs. A. L. Dees and the late Mr.
Dees, of Mt. Meigs, will be married
to James Hoyt Sheppard, son of
Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Sheppard of
MilsteacL The ceremony will take
place at the Mt. Meigs Methodist
Church on February 11 with the
Rey. • D. P. Slaughter officiating.
Mr. Sheppard is a graduate of Au­burn.
The couple will make their
home in Milstead.
* * *
Giles-Dennis
Mr. and Mrs. Ollie David Giles
of Montgomery announce the en­gagement
of their daughter, Olive
Claire Giles, to William Solomon
Dennis, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. S. Dennis of Thomaston, Ga.
The wedding will take place at the
First Presbyterian Church, Mont­gomery,
on March 5. The bride-elect
attended Huntingdon and
was a graduate from the Universi­ty
of Alabama. Mr. Dennis re­ceived
his degree in Industrial En­gineering
from Auburn.
* * *
McCollum-DeJarnette
The marriage of Kathryn Mc-
Collum, Daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. McCollum of Bessemer, and
Hugh M. DeJarnette, son of Mr.
and Mrs. T. L. DeJarnette of Bir­mingham,
took place January 29.
The bride attended Auburn. The
groom also attended Auburn,
where he was a member of Kappa
Sigma social fraternity.
WSGA Council Honors
Freshmen And Transfers
The Council of the Women's
Student Government Association
entertained first quarter fresh­men
girls and transfer students
at an infomal "coke party" Thurs­day
afternoon in Social Center.
Receiving the guests were Anne
Hutchinson, Tommy Barnes, and
Anna Jean Franklin.
Birmingham; Anna Jo Kirby,
Sheffield; Betty Ann McCaskili,
Wetumpka; Joan Cosart, Birming­ham,
and Catherine Welbaum,
Talladega.
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3—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, Feb. 2, 1949
A
New Terrain Board For Artillerymen
Gives Reality To ROTC Instruction
By Ed Peterson
It's here. The thing that scientists and military experts
have been talking about for a long time—the push button
warfare. A form of this remarkable development, the chemi­cal
smoke puff terrain board, has been recently received by
the Military Department according to an announcement by
Col. George M. Williamson, Jr.,
professor of military science and
tactics.
The board is 14 by 14 feet in
size, and it is mocked up to repre­sent
a section of land over which
a military engagement might be
fought. Houses, roads, streams,
bridges, hills, and vegetation are
all represented in realistic form.
It is to be used to train stu­dents
in the technique of adjust­ing
field artillery fire. Students
with field glasses, seated across a
large room from the device, com­pute
the data for firing just as
they would on a full size firing
range. After necessary compu­tations
have been made the stu­dent
informs the instructor who
calls out the readings to an assis­tant'at
the controls of the board.
When the readings have been set
on the controls and the proper
fire command has been given, the
operator pushes a button and a
puff of smoke rises in the exact
spot designated by the student.
The student, observing through
his field glasses, makes necessary
corrections to bring his fire on
the target. By such a process he
can accurately pin-point his
simulated fire on any portion of
the board.
Representing the latest in
training devices employed by the
"army for training future officers,
the puff board was obtained from
the Artillery School at Fort Sill,
Okla. The only thing lacking in
the board to make it completely
realistic is the noise of battle.
<
SAM To Hear Lecture
By Sherwood Mclntyre
Prof. Sherwood C. Mclntyre, of
the psychology department, will
be the guest speaker at the regu­lar
meeting of the Society for the
Advancement o f Management,
Monday, February 7, at 7 p.m. in
NB 123.
At the last meeting new mem­bers
Robert Baxter, Clayton; Lou­ie
Holloway, Birmingham, and
Carl Summerlin, Luverne, were
welcomed into the chapter.
Student Executive
Cabinet Minute.
Lambda Chis Entertain
Alpha Omicron Pi Girls
Omega Zeta of Lambda Chi Al­pha
social fraternity entertained
the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority
with a house dance Thursday
night.
During the d a n c e blackface
skits were presented by Paul
Owens, Carl Morrissett, and Brent
Petty. Ernest Horn was the master
of ceremonies.
After -the dance the group at­tended
a basketball game played
between Lambda Chi and Alpha
Psi.
Phi Mu Pledges
Phi Mu sorority recently an­nounced
the pledging of Frances
Sue Breck, Birmingham; Julia
Brown, Gadsden; Peggy Hassler,
Birmingham; Nancy Salvo, Bir­mingham;
Eloise Jordan, Mont­gomery
and Helen Bradford, Bir­mingham.
Meeting of January 16, 1949
The meeting was called to order
by the President Gillis Cammack.
The minutes were read and ap­proved.
The roll was called and
the .following members were ab­sent;
Jim Bob Mayfield, Tim Mil­ler,
Bobbie Maxharh, Larry Riedel.
Ted Robins reported for Tim
Miller, chairman of the special
committee to investigate the possi­bilities
of selling a Navy ring on
this campus, that the report of this
committee would have to be de­layed
pending further investiga­tion.
Carrol Keller made a motion
that a committee be formed to in­vestigate
possibilities of changing
existing election regulations. Mo­tion
was seconded, voted on and
passed.
Tim Miller, Sammy Kirklarid,
Carrol Keller, Jimmy Duke were
appointed by the president to
make up this vacancy in the Pub­lication
Board.
, A committee consisting of Jim­my
Thompson, Crawford Nevins,
Bill Billingslea was appointed to
investigate the possibilities of a
humor magazine on this campus.
Anniversary Party Held
By Friendship Circle
The twelfth anniversary of the
Baptist Friendship C i r c l e was
celebrated with a party held in the
basement of the Baptist Church
Sunday night, January 30..
Miss Lela Cooper, who started
the Friendship Circle in her home
twelve years ago, was the guest
of honor. Appreciation Was ex­pressed
by the students for. the
work Miss Cooper has done to­ward
the advancement of the pro­gram
through the years.
The party was highlighted with
the singing of hymns and the
presentation of a d e v o t i o n al
thought.
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New Radio Course
To Be Taught Here
A new non-technical five hour
course called "Fundamentals of
Radio" will be offered next quar­ter
for the first time, according to
Dr. W. R. Patrick, head of the
English department. The course
will be taught by Professor Ed­ward
Lambert, member of the
speech division of the English de­partment.
Professor Lambert expects to
cover a number of phases of radio
with accent on student activity in
actually planning different types
of shows from a brief commercial
to a full half hour variety show.
Practice in announcing, program­ing,
production, writing and tim­ing
will be the basis of study for
three of the five meetings each
week. One day will be devoted to
a lecture on the history of radio,
and the remaining day will be
spent in a group-discussion of as­sets
and defects of current radio
practices.
Professor Lambert received his
B.A. from Phillips University at
Enro, Okla., his masters from
Colorado University, and he stud­ied
for a time at Powers School of
Radio in Boston. He has worked
at radio stations WNAC and WEEI
in Boston.
A prerequisition, either English
231 or English 305, will be re­quired
for this course.
Dr. B. F. Hoerlein Talks
To Vet Medicine Meet
Dr. B. F. Hoerlein, associate
professor of small animal surgery
and medicine, was guest speaker
at the Tennessee Veterinary Medi­cal
Association meeting in Nash­ville,
January 17-18.
Movies on canine surgery with
informal talks and a paper on
"Ventricular Dropsy" were topics
presented. Ventricular dropsy is a
brain condition characterized by
an a b n o r m a l accumulation of
cerebrospinal fluid in the ventri­cles
of the brain.
Kappa Delta Sorority
Honors Mrs. Pearl Buck
The Sigma Lambda chapter of
Kappa Delta sorority honored Mrs.
Pearl Buck with a reception at
social center immediately follow­ing
her lecture on January; 26.
Mrs. Buck attended Randolph
Macon College where she was a
-member of Kappa Delta.
*• ""Receiving the guests were Mar-jorie
Hester, president; Mrs. Mabel
Y. Lawson, alumnae advisor, Mrs.
Pearl Buck, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Draughon, and Dean Katharine
Cater.
Mrs. Ruth Meadows, a former
classmate of Mrs. Buck's at Ran­dolph
Macon and Mrs. S. L. Toom-er
assisted in serving.
Members of the faculty, Kappa
Delta alumnae and representa­tives
from student" organizations
attended.
Auburn Student Wins
$50 Prize In Contest
Howard Syler, Auburn architec­tural
student, has been named as
winner of a $50 honorable
mention prize in the $10,000 Ken-tile-
Architectural Forum design
contest.
Syler's winning design was en­tered
in living and dining room
competition.
Delta Zeta Initiates
Honor Other Members
Recent initiates of the Delta
Zeta sorority entertained other
members January 29, with a
Backwards Party in the chapter
room. Dates of the members were
presented with vegetable cor­sages.
The girls took the role of males
during the party and acted as if
they were men.
GEORGE HILL
Auburn,
Harry W. Farris Named
Honor NROTC Student
Midshipman Harry William
Farris, Montgomery, has been
chosen as the outstanding fresh­man
in the NROTC unit here and
will transfer to regular status
January 26.
Under regular status, the cost
of Farris' tuition, books and fees
will be assumed by the Navy,
Capt. L. M. Markham, Jr., an­nounced.
Farris took the oath of
allegiance as Midshipman, USNR,
today.
Columbia Professor
Visits PE Department
Dr. Harry A. Scott, professor of
teacher training in physical educa­tion
at Columbia University, visit­ed
Auburn January 21 with Mrs.
Jessie G. Mehling for conferences
and discussions with the education
facilities and major and minor
students in physical education.
A general convocation was held
at noon for the students, and in
the afternoon Dr. Scott addressed
the entire faculty of the School of
Education. Interviews with the
physical education students were
also conducted.
Dr. D. W. Mullins Talks
To Teachers Meeting
Dr. David W. Mullins, director
of instruction, appeared at a
county wide teachers meeting at
Monroeville, January 25.
Dr. Mullins addressed the group
on the s u b j e c t , "Community
School Improves Living".
He pointed out that favorable
results could be obtained by stim­ulating
teachers to think and do
more about raising standards of
living and youth guidance.
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Two Programs Set
By Debate Council
The Auburn Debate Council
will present two programs for
nearby civic clubs soon, it has
been announced by Prof. Joseph
H. Mahaffey, Auburn's director of
debate.
Friday, February 4, five mem­bers
of the council will give a de­bate
at a joint meeting of the Val­ley
Junior Chamber of Commerce
and the West Point Joint Junior
Chamber of Commerce. The joint
meeting is for the purpose of an­nouncing
the outstanding "Young
Man of the Year" in the valley.
The one hour debate wil be broad­cast
over the local station.
Those participating are:
Billy Walton, Lafayette; Jesse
Keller, Abbeville; George Kelley,
Fredricksburg, Va., and Lee Tay­lor,
Birmingham.
Charles Reynolds, West Point,
will act as chairman of the de­bates.
The subject for the debate
will be Federal Aid to Education.
The Opelika Rotary Club has
invited two members of the coun­cil
to speak at their weekly lunch­eon
Tuesday in Hotel Clements.
Professor Mahaffey has announced
that Billy Walton and Lee Taylor
will present the program.
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Staff members—Gussie Arnett, Tom
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Greenhill, Boyd Hintori, Sue Hunter, Sara
Jane Kent, Ronald Kuerner, Joe Pitcher*
Irv Steinberg, Phyllis Stough, Lee Taylor,
Jim Watson, Spud Wright.
Each week the Plainsman will reprint
an editorial from some other college or
university newspaper in an effort to show
opinions and trends on other campuses.
The editorial may or may not have a di­rect
bearing Oft problems or viewpoints of
students at Auburn.
Sorority Houses Here
Last week this fiewsbaper ran a short
editorial on the fieed Of sorority hduses at
Auburfi. As a follow-up, the Plainsman
submits thjs article;
Certainly a great need on our campus,
if this institution is to continue to grow, is
the sorority house.
Time and again girls have gone to ether
schools siiripiy because Auburn did not
have the spade to accomodate them. One
of the best ways to alleviate this situation
would be to allow sororities on this campus
to build chapter houses. Yet, in times past
suggestions of this type have been made
and little or no formal action has been
taken.
It is the general concensus Of opinion
-smong- students .here that the presen^ |ijd-f
ministration of the school would be^op--
posed to any such iiiove. This is merely an
opinion. No one has submitted a request
for permission to build a sorority house at
Auburn since Dr. Draughon became the
administrative head of the school a year
and a half ago.
Many of the leading land grant schools
have given sororities permission to build
houses, and some of the more wealthy
schools have even helped finance the pro­grams
through loans. The Universities Of
California, Georgia, Nebraska, and Oregon
State are a few examples of good schools
where sorority houses exist.
There are now more than 1100 active
sorority chapters with national recognition
on American college campuses today. A
few over 600 own their own chapter houses
and approximately 90 per cent received
financial aid from their national offices to
construct these homes. It is only logical to
assume that the chapters on this campus
could also get the aid of their national
headquarters in such a project.
The chief objections to building soro­rity
houses on the campus at this time are
the high cost involved and the difficulty
in locating a place to build a "sorority
row."
A second objection might be that living
in the dormitories cuts down on the ex­pense
of a sorority and minimizes the com­plex
financial arrangements that would
be necessary to maintain a house. Living
in the dormitories is in a sense more demo^
cratic and allows the girls to meet and
associate with more people.
And lastly, but not least is the fact that
field representatives of the various sorori­ties
on this campus have expressed the
opinion that the setup here was one of the
most ideal anywhere.
On the other hand it will greatly bene­fit
the school for approximately 500 girls
and houses will most certainly be a wel­come
addition to the campus and town as
far as beauty is concerned!
It will instill a sense of greater respon­sibility
in the sororities and give them
experience in management. Too, at the
present time all sororities have certain
areas set aside for them in the dormitories
and it I s safe to assume that the situation
would not be too different if they lived
in houses.
The whole trouble seems to be this: the
college has not come out with a definite
stand on the issue and the Pan Hellenic
Council has made ho effort whatsoever to
place a formal request before the present
administration.
Class Offices—A Joke
The topic chosen for this year's intra­mural
debate tournament, Resolved: That
better student government would result
from a revision of election regulations to
permit candidates greater freedorfi in cam­paigning
for office, has been of great in­terest
to the student body as a whole; In
some quarters there has been a surprising
attitude bf alarm over the possible action
the debate might instigate, while in others
there has been joyous ahticipatiori of the
possible action;
The chosen topic, when isolated; is a Con­troversial
one, but when the political pic­ture
at Auburn and all phases influenced
by and Connected With existing election
regulations are studied, there can be ho
doubt that a change is sorely needed. A
complete change is heeded, hot only ih
election regulations* but aiso in the num­ber
of campbs offices that are now consid­ered
necessary.
There are several reasons for the lack
of interest in ouf student elections. Orie
may be attributed to class officer elections.
The Plainsman believes that the election
of class officers should be discontinued;
There is not one case on record of a worth­while
project having been undertaken by
any class since 1940, and class officers
have been that in name only for ah equal
number of years. The majority of the stu­dents
take the election of class officers as
a joke because they know that those elect­ed
can and will have no responsibilities.
The one function of the class office is to
create a greater opportunity for the stu­dent
who desires to become a "wheel".
Class offices serve as stepping stones for
promising freshmen, sophomores and jun­iors
Who have set their sights on reaching
one of the two national honor fraternities
that are active on our campus.
There are a few students elected to of­fices
who really believe that they have
been selected for that position for a pur­pose.
Some may have even considered call­ing
a class meeting, which is a constitu­tional
regulation. However, as previously
mentioned, no class meetings have beett
held for several years. If a class meeting
were held, what possible questions Or prob­lems
could be solved which don't Cohie un­der
the jurisdiction of the student execu­tive
cabinet? A class might hold a dance
or give a commemorative statue to the
school. That's all.
Since nothing of any value has been pro­duced
through class elective offices fbt
several years, the Plainsman suggests that
such clauses in the constitution that per­tain
to class offices be deleted and forgot­ten.
tut coMMum • w iTP w • ••••ii a
The Lineup In Florida
The formulatibn of ideas and the right
to speak of them are fundamentals of good
democratic government. Volumes have
been written arid controversies have raged
on these items. Fair representation is,
however, more important than either of
these and in a large body politic, more
necessary. - •
v •[
The student body at the University of
Miami has been so remiss in matter politi­cal-
that it amounts to a disgrace. The old
question of "why bother, what am I going
to get out of it?" is a bit like asking what
one will get out'bf one's academic courses.
Campus politics are as important to a well
rounded education as are one's subjects.
Their vitality lies in the fact that the stu­dent
government represents you arid as
your representative it very definitely in­fluences
your social life and your pocket-book.
The Student Association has the
poWer to disburse $8,000 every year. This
amounts to $1,000 a month a lot of
money and it is all yours, brother.
If the student is willing to sit in a cata­tonic
state of hibernation while the ap­pointed
delegates of a fixed group of fra­ternities
act as his representatives, he
gives a good indication of his future dis­interest
in national politics, and the long­evity
of machine tactics. /
If one is under the misapprehension that
campus politics arid elections are silly, he
has been misled. These elections and the
manipulation of pressure groups are mini­ature
replicas of local and national elec­tions.
They are fought just as fiercely and
with just as dirty rhetnods. Regardless of
the mariner in which they are fought they
are continually Won by the same fraterni­ty
bloc.
This parasitic bloc will continue to nour­ish
on the disinterest of the student body
until the students become incensed and
interested enough to slough off this group.
It is our intent to hold reveille.
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Students at City College of New
York Gity are allowed two hours
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in order that group discussion
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with the student government
members presiding.
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A student from State College in
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weighed 175 pounds, too. Trouble
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Use that charrning army adjective—shafted by the faculty dis­ciplinary
committee last quarter; A gdbd many people have
suggested that the disciplinary dommittee should have some
students on it. r
On the surface, a student disci­plinary
committee sounds like a
good thing; But after a little
thought I have decided that the
results would not be worth the
trouble it wouid take to get them
On it. Because I have an idea of
.; what type stU-
(dents would be
i placed on it . . .
I the sycophantic,
fk e y - l a d e n ,
"wheel" type.
I'm afraid that
fa board so com­posed
would be
inclined to work
after the fashion
of a general
Sharpe courts martial in
the old, circa
1939-1945, army when it came to
determining guilt. More often
thaft not* the courts martial held
the vieW rthat the accused- was
guilty Until it could get around to
finding him guilty. A student dis­ciplinary
committee composed
partly of servile students would
be worse than one containing
no students at all;
I think that the answer to the
disciplinary problem could be
most equitably solved by having
a dean of men both in name and
office—a man who is trained in
such a field. Most other colleges
and universities of Auburn's size
do have such an official. 1 would
like to see a dean of men selected
who has had experience on cam­puses
other than Auburn.
If we could find such a man
who would establish himself as a
stern but fair disciplinarian) the
school WOuld be immeasurably
improved in a Weak spot: Such a
man, too, could function in the
_ i i i -| 11 -|* • • "— •' HfcihMh
capacity of an advisor to men stu­dents
. . . . something which a
single bodied, three-headed board
could ngyer do. An affable and
sincere man with no responsibili­ties
other than the welfare of the
students, arid With the title and
office Hi dean of men, would go
a long Way jri making students
_ think twice before committing
such trarisgressiofts as are con­sidered
by the pOWers-that-be
Worthy of disciplinary action;
* * *
When someone apprdaches me
With a subscription to a magazine,
I invariably go deaf ih both ears
and walk off. But the other day
a high-pressure salesman for a
magazine tb be printed right here
ih AubUrh button hdled hie.
The price was so low, 50 cents,
that I took a subscription.
The magazine, The Auburn, Re­view,
will be published about the
beginning bf March and Will be
the voice of AubUrri's creative
Writing class. Mrs. Virginia Sd-rensbh
of the English department
wiil serve as faculty advisor. It
Will appear quarterly and reserii-ble
the Reader's Digest ih for­mat.
Very few people krioW that real
writing talerit exists on the cam­pus,
it wiil be a chance for those
students poetically or otherwise
iiterarily inclined to express
themselves and Will offer the stu­dent
body a cnaftee to read the
products of local talent.
There are several people now
iakirig subscriptions far The Au­burn
Rivliw's first issue. AhyOrie
wanting to subscribe to it can
contact Jritt Hearn or Tex She-well.
It wili be weli worth the
50 cent investment.
Auburn S t u d e n t addressing
Pearl BUck: "Do you Write?"
Miss Buck: "Why, yes, of
course."
Auburtt Student: "Well what a
coiricidehee, I tead!"
* * *
Kappa Sigrita fraternity at In­diana
University has a heW mascot
Which was ordered sight unsefen
by mail. The boys harried her
Chanel No. 5. Chanel is a so-eallfed
"deskunked" pet skunk. Despite
the fact that Chanel is qUaranteea
safe, she HaS created several dis­turbances
by making an Unex­pected
appearance with her tail
raised on high.
* * *
Sign ih a chemical iab reads:
"This is a LABQRatory and not a
labORATORY."
—Boston Heights
* * »
The University of Miama does
riot have a compulsory atHletic
program.
* * *
Seidori: "Do yoti kftbW that they
don't hang men with woodeh legs
ill this state?"
Kaplah: "is that so? Why?"
Seidori: "They use ropes."
—Coffee Hi
* * *
Overheard on Ag hill:
"I do not expect ahy strident to
fall asleep during class lectures.
We have labs for that;"
* * *
Questioh Of the week: "What is
a metalist?"
* * *
At the beginning Of a philo­sophy
lab at Syracuse University,
Eittsteift's theory of relativity Was
discussed and the professor gave
brie bf the shortest definitions oft
record which Was as follows:
"When you sit on a Hot stove fbr
three minutes, it seems like three
hours; arid when you sit with your
girl for three hours, it seems like
three minutes. That's relativity!"
A Dash of Bitjters * *-*«*«
BURP By Boyd Hinion
According to a regent issue of
firtfie magazine, the president' of
the United States earns a take
home pay bf about $80 per week.
With a wife and daughter to sup­port
there probably isn't very
much left at the end of the week
to sock away in a savings aeeount;
This job df bemg president deesn't
shape up as exactly the easiest
employment the country afters,
either. Still preud parents are
wont td pat jamer 6n the head
and remark, "YeSSir, he'll gWW
up to be president softie day;'* if
Junior is Ss Smart as they think
he is, he'll gut
a stop to that
sbft ef taik
right away be­fore
people -get
to believing it.
There's na re­cord
df a presi=
dent bf this'
country starving
te death, but eft
the ether hand)
the job deesn't
affer much se-c
u r i t y either;
Then there's the matter of person­al
reputatibft. Gftee. they're dead
and buried, presidents §eem te ac­quire
faults and weaknesses that
somehow weren't evident while
they were alive. The more popu­lar
they were 'while alive, the more
shady rumors you hear about
them when they're dead. Pleasant
thought. How do they ever lure
anybody into running for the of­fice?
There's an awful lot of expense
• • • •
Forrester
involved in getting to be presi­dent,
too. Just going out for the
team takes quite a roll. Then if
you've got enough cash, arid if
you don't mind spending it in the
right places, maybe you'ii get the
nomination. Then the expenses
really start piling up. Finally, if
you're reaiiy determined ana can
take care of the biiisj you get
elected ana theft everything is
fine: pretty seen that $96 a week
starts railing in aftd theft you're
en easy street:
Maybe, thaugh, yeu'a rather
start eut with the eeenafnidai
family size campaign where it
deesu't cast tee much: gfter'ifl
Georgia they have a ruiittg that
iiffiits the ameunt af meney can­didates
far gevernar are aiiawed
te spend ana this iittie rule wer ks
wanaers; The limit is $29,000: That
may sound at first like quite a
stake, but think it. aver. A cam­paign
lasts several months and
cavers a great deal at ground.
Last year the two leading can­didates
started early and worked
until eieetian day stepped them,
¥hej> taured the state iram ene
end ta the other ana back again,
not just arice but several times;
They spake aver every rietwerk
aftd everjr raaie statian in the
state. ¥ here wasn't a single issue
of any paper during the campaign
that didn't carry their advertise­ments.
After the thing was all over
and all the Candidates turhea ih
their expense accounts it turned
oUt that none of them, had spent
over $25,000, which shows what
Cart be done With a little niortey if
it's managed right.
DEAD END By Joe PUeher
Hihtoh turned his Burp over to
Kitty Bartee this week ahd this
is what she came up with:
A great ftiahy persons Only see
the inside of a church when they
are christened, married or dead.
And between these times, they re*
serve God-talk, exCept of a de­rogatory
nature, to wars and inau­gural
addresses. When they're not
blowing off and not shaking in
their boots, they sit complacent,
sufficient, passive.
Let's narrow the universality of
'they' to 'we'—the young adults in
this cross-section called Auburn.
We are people with a purpose,
professions all picked out. We are
mature enough to meet a situation
and determine a persbrtai policy of
acceptance or rejection. Yet we
remain luke-warm toward the ac­ceptance
of God.
"Do you believe in God?" I ask­ed
potential farmers, architects,
engineers, actors, journalists, eco­nomists,
ahd educators. Thunder^
Struck at this simple question, the
answers ran something like this:
"Well in my own Way, but I
don't go to church. The place is
crawling with guys that I know
raise hell—hypoCriteS.
The church is not full of 'good'
people, but bad people who are
aware of their status and ready" ta
temedy the situatibn.
Another said, "This ethereal
being, called God, isn't real to me.
Dp 1 put ail my faith and hope on
tomorrow sixty years from now?
I live pretty good and do the best
I Can: if there's a God, I haven't
been too bad, and if there isn't I
have nothing to lose."
If you believe in a God, there
is a God. No two ways about it.
If you are egotistical, complacent
or two lazy to search out a logi­cal
conclusion and take a defi­nite
stand, then God remains ab­stract.
A vet student replied, "I guess
you think that with this overload
I have time to chase up to a
church eVery day they beat the
bells, and the doors open. God will
still be here when things slack up
ahd there's time to doze in the
sun, stroke you beard, and think
about stuff like that."
A three legged stool would iook
pretty silly trying to stand on just
two. And the mind, body and soul
are closely correlated as a three
iegged stool. When one is em­phasized,
the other tWo suffer.
When two are ldoked after, the
third suffers. You become as was­ted
as eroded land, you gain the
liSt of a Ship too Idftg ih p6ft-
Warped. it wouia take quite a few,
man hours to correct the erosion
or make the ship sea-worthy. This
last minute praying can't reach a
thwartea soul through a warped
mind.
Do you remember the Dixiecrat
Party? There were indications this
week that it might not be dead
after all. Five southern senators,
including Byrd of Virginia and
Russell of Georgia, crossed party
lines last Wednesday and voted
With the Republicans to kill a bill
that woijld have made inaugural
tickets tax f r e e . This action
proved conclusively that Truman,
despite statements to the Contrary,
cannot afford to ignore the power­ful
bloc of southern senators who
must pass judgment upon his pro­posals.
There is an interesting story be-
Hind this somewhat pathetic Dem­ocratic
defeat. The Committee
Which was in charge bf planning
"fruman's inauguration did a won­derful
job of providing a circus­like
atmosphere for the occasion,
and consequently they sold in ad­vance
thousands of tickets to the
parade, the ball, and the inaugu­ration
gala. In their enthusiasm,
however, the committee became
guilty Of a small oversight—they
forgot to cbllect the twenty per
cent federal tax whieh is required
by law. The tax must be paid,
however, so as the matter then
stood the members of the commit­tee
would have been held person­ally
responsible for the money
which was short..
This waS the Situation that pre­vailed
when the Democrats intro­duced
a bill into both houses of
Congress which would have made
the inaugural tickets exempt from
excise tax. The bill passed in the
House With almost no opposition,
but it was when it reached the
floor of the Senate that fireworks
reaiiy started popping. Several
Republicans, using smart tactics
and a gObd sense bf humor, im­mediately
proposed riders that
would exempt not only inaugura­tion
tickets, but alsb baby Oil,
cook stbVes, ahd tickets tb all
state and county fairs. They ex­pounded
at length upon the merits
of each rider Until many Sehatars
became convinced the riders were
more necessary than the original
bail.
The Climax c a m e , however,
when the bill was put to a vote.
It was at this point that the Dixie-crats
bolted for the second time,
but this time their maneuver met
with greater success. They dis­covered,
possibly for the first
time, that the South now holds the
balance Of power in the Senate.
Translated into ha.ra political
facts, this meahs that rtoW both
the Democrats ahd RepUbliCafts
wilL cater to the wishes of the
South. No longer will the South
be ignored or taken for granted
by either party. Perhaps this new
Dixiecrat movement might even
foretell the birth of a Southern
Republican Party. If so, it Will be
the best thing that has hit Dixie
in years.
S i li •••• i
ear Editor:
I think it's about time some­body
did something about chang­ing
election rules. Please give us
Some editorials on this subject.. I
think that our government must
be Very cdrrUpt when it won't
allow a little more freedom to
people running for office.
Thanks,
Patsy Wilson
Dear Editor: . ,
A bbriquet Of otchids to the
people WHo are trying to change
the election rules so that a man
catt campaign for office in the
student body government.
I personally do not care who
gets elected as rnatters stand now.
t only feel that I am voting for
some one who will attend a
wheels' banquet and will get to
wear two more keys on his chain.
In other words, a student govern-riTent
office merely creates a false
hdnor for the people who wear
equally false faces On election
day. Stir up a little interest in the
elections, and you can stir up of­ficers
that will do something for
all of the students they are sup­posed
to be representing.
. I am for getting away from
childish ideas in politics and for
starting to have our elections like
adults.
Sincerely,
J. C. Powell
Dear Editor:
I was astounded by the stupid­ity
bf an article today concern­ing
the changing of election rules.
The person defending the regime
now in power said that if free
campaigning were permitted, the
man with the most money would
win the elections:
I cah't help but think of a very
great mail Who was elected presi­dent
of The United States, knd
Who Was poverty stricken most
of His life. Abraham Lincoln pro­ved
that if the public knows the
candidates, they will elect the
most outstanding man, regardless
of financial backing.
And sinee when did the student
affigers start trying to do some­thing
that was beneficial to the
Student body? I think that they
are agamst making changes in
campaign rules because they are
afraid the^ Will get their own
rear-end kicked out of office.
Truly yoUrs,
"Babe" Wiliiaftis
& * *
Bear Miter;
T%ree cheers far the guy that
finally started the bail roiling to­wards
Changing the outlandish,
eut madea, outhousea, election
ruies which prevail on the Au­burn
campus.
I am ofie gUy that likCs to know
Samethittf about the person run­ning
far bffiee. if potential office
holders had the chance to pub­licly
declare their platforms and
policies, mere votmg and bettei
student government WoUld result.
Sincerely,
Wiham T. Ashe
Dear Editor:
With the increased interest
arousing in the Auburn student
government, I would like to get
my few cents in. The student
government, as it now stands, is
nbthing more thari a figurehead.
They do not represent the masses.
Most of them have inherited their
positioris from their fraternity
brothers or either it is their fra­ternity's
term to supply a man for
the cabinet.
The cabinet is of very little use
to the students. The members of
the cabinet pass only issues that
appeal to themselves as individ­uals,
rather than as a representa­tive
group.
How many students do you
thirik there are on the campus
who know who their class presi­dent
is? Do you? At the present
time the student cares little about
who his class president is. He
seems to feel that he doesn't haVe
a voice in the voting. He feels
that this is just an honorary posi­tion
bestowed Upon some politi­cal
figurehead.
The cabinet member who wants
to make a nice showing always
carries oUt his Outdated executive
cabinet Constitution around, ahd
if he is in doubt about an issUe,
he then confers with his fore­fathers
for a few moments ahd
then comes up with the familiar
quotations that are used to dis­approve
of an issue: "except in
unavoidable cases" or "when
deemed desirable and necessary"
or even Worse . . . "as interpreted
by the Cabinet."
With the low percentage of vot­ing
bn the Campus, something
needs to be done to increase the
students' interest. Why can we not
have open and free elections?
Why can't we be represented by
schools rather than classes—a
school with an enrollment with
lesS than 500 have one representa-
(Continued on page 8)
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5*-THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, Feb. 2, 1949
Tiger Basketball Team Drops Thriller
To 'Bama In Game At Tuscaloosa 39-37
By Bob Ingram
Alabama won its third victory in a row over the luckless
Auburn basketball team Thursday night as they came from be­hind
in the dying minutes of the game to squeeze by the
Plainsman, 39-37. The game was played in Foster Auditorium,
Tuscaloosa, before a partisan Alabama crowd.
It was a rough and tumble affair all the way with fouls
being committed by all hands.
After 12 minutes of play the game
was all tied up at 8-8, then Au­burn
forged to the front with
William Lynn and Glen Nixon
leading the way. At halftime Au­burn
led 19-17.
Both teams came out shooting
in the second half, and the score
skyrocketed. After Lynn had add­ed
a field goal for Auburn, the
Alabama five countered with two
successive baskets to pull within
two points of the lead.
Mac McAfee gave Auburn's
hopes a big boost with two bask­ets
from the field, and the Tigers
led 25-19. But Alabama again hit
for two goals to make the game
close again. Roy Brawner came
through with an Auburn two-pointer,
and c o u p l e d with Mc­Afee's
free throw, Auburn again
had a 29-23 advantage.
Alabama cashed in on five suc­cessive
free throws while holding
Auburn to one point, and the
score stood 30-28, Auburn's favor.
At this stage, the old Auburn
nemisis, Pete Mangina, entered
the fray and quickly tied the
game up with a field goal.
Glen Nixon put Auburn back
out in front with three points on
a basket and a foul shot. Mangina
came back with his second con-
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nullified that one with a two-pointer
of his own to make it
35-32. Pridgeon a d d e d a free
throw, and with six minutes to go
Auburn led by four points.
Alabama players continued to
make their free throws good as
McKenzie added a single point
from the foul line, and that
coupled with Mangina's third suc­cessive
basket and Steiner's two-pointer,
put the Tide out in front.
Bill Lynn tied it back up with a
free throw, but 'Bama's Shaeffer
and Palmer added foul tosses to
give Alabama their 39-37 advan­tage.
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Leading the scoring for the
night was Auburn's Mac McAfee,
with 12 points. Along with those
points McAfee also played a tre­mendous
defensive game for the
Tigers. Nixon of Auburn and
Steiner of Alabama were next in
the scoring race with 9 points
each.
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News and Shorts
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Short Subject
~to*-v-.- DAN PRIDGEN A u b um
Auburn Swimmers
Win One, Lose One
In Georgia Trip
The Auburn swimmers were
idle this week after splitting a
pair of tough meets, beating the
Atlanta YMCA and losing to the
powerful Georgia Bulldogs.
The Tigers trailed the Y-men
all through t h e meet. Auburn
showed strength in the distance
event as Yarbrough and Pierce
placed first and third. Bob Gaith-er,
star sprinter, put Auburn
ahead as he copped the 100-yard
dash, but Atlanta again took the
lead after the next event.
The running score was Atlanta,
30; Auburn, 24. To win,_ Auburn
had to win the last two events.
The trio of Yarbrough, Fisher
and Escobar came through to win
the medley relay with ease. The
meeting was then in the hands of
Auburn's freestylers. This team of
Coffee, Pierce, Gordon, and Gaith-er,
trimmed the Y-men by a half
length of the pool to give Auburn
the points needed for victory.
The win over the Y-men made
Auburn's record three victories
and no defeats, but the Georgia'
Bulldogs s t o p p e d the Tiger's
streak by trouncing Auburn in
Athens, 63-12.- Georgia won first
place in every event. Pierce and
Whittlesey, Tiger distance men,
placed second and third in the
220 yard freestyle.
Gaither of Auburn led the field
in the 100-yard free style only to
miss a turn and place second in
the event. The free style relay
team composed of Escobar, Coffee,
Gordon, and Gaither gave the
Bulldogs a scare in the last event,
but lost by a small margin.
The Tigers, who have shown
much improvement s i n c e the
Georgia meet, will oppose the
Georgia Military Academy in At­lanta
on February fourth and face
Emory University the following
day in Atlanta. On February 10 at
4 p.m. the Tiger Tankmen will
play host to Georgia in Alumni
Gym.
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Teams Battle For Playoff Positions
In Interfraternity Basketball League
By Bruce Greenhill '
There has been plenty of action in interfraternity basket­ball
circles the past two weeks as the teams settled down to
the fight for the individual league titles. The competition is
tighter than a matron's corset in two leagues, I and II, as five
evenly matched teams vie for the right to enter the playoffs.
These teams, Sigma Chi and Theta
Chi in League I and Alpha Gam­ma
Rho, _Alpha Psi, and Lambda
Chi in League II, all appear to be
worthy of a playoff bracket. In
Leagues III and IV, undefeated
Phi Delta Theta and once-beaten
SAE seem to have a lead on the
inside track for their respective
league crowns.
LEAGUE I
Only three games were played
in this l e a g u e . TEP forfeited
games to Theta Chi and Sigma
Chi. Sigma Chi and Theta Chi are
on top, tied with three wins and
one loss apiece. The Magnolia
Street men hold the edge how­ever,
by virtue of their 28-7 de­feat
of TC.
In the feature g a m e of the
week, the Pikes won a 36-34 vic­tory
over a good Sigma Pi quintet.
It was a rough game, thirty fouls
being called in the forty minutes
of play. In the second tilt played,
Sigma Chi handed Theta Chi a
28-7 drubbing. Sullivan sacked up
14 points to top the scorers. In the
last game, PiKA went down under
a 25-17 onslaught put forth by
Theta Chi. Crawson led the scor­ing
with eight points for Theta
Chi.
LEAGUE II
A three-way tie for first place
heads the League II standings.
Three evenly matched teams are
locked in a struggle for top laurels.
Each team has a three and' one
record, in each case, the loss was.
to one of the other leaders. Alpha
Psi led off the week by defeating
Alpha Gamma Rho, then Alpha
Gamma Rho bounced back to
whip Lambda Chi who in turn de­feated
Alpha Psi and threw the
race into a state of confusion.
In the first game of the week,
Alpha Psi beat Alpha Gamma
Rho, 28-15. Moree scored ten, and
Miller six points for AP. Dupree
was high for AGR with four
points. Alpha Gamma Rho re­bounded
in the next tilt to swamp
a hapless Kappa Sig five, 33-13.
Friday scored twelve points to be
high man for AGR. Russell's five
were Kappa Sig's best. Jameson,
Moree, and Miller scored 14, 18,
and 10 points respectively in Al­pha
Psi's overwhelming 44-11 win
over SPE. Tljis game was never
even close as the vets took a com­manding
lead at the start.
Alpha Gamma Rho continued
to win in the next week with a
34-25 win over Lambda Chi. Bud­dy
Northcutt, high-scoring LCA
center was held to three points as
AGR throttled the Lambda Chi
attack. Baker, AGR forward, led
the scoring with 15 points. In the
crucial game of the week, Lamb­da
Chi eeked out a win over Al­pha
Psi. Moree, vet forward, left
the game injured early in the
night and took with him a goodly
portion of the AP offensive.
Northcutt led the s c o r i n g for'
Lambda Chi by contributing eight
points to the 26-25 win. Willis was
tops for the vets with nine. In the
last game, the two cellar-dwellers,
SPE and Kappa Sig, went into
overtime to decide who the sole
occupant of last place would be.
The Sig Eps won a 21-20 decision.
LEAGUE III
Unbeaten Phi D e l t a Theta
seems to be the team to beat in
League III. The question here is,
"Who's gonna whip 'em?" Runner-up
Phi Kappa Tau had little
trouble doing-away with the other
three teams but lost when the
game with the Phis came up. PDT
appears to be headed for a play­off
berth.
Phi Delta Theta led off things
by snowing TKE under, 35-18.
Thrasher hit six times froth the
field to lead the scoring. Allen led
the Tekes with seven. Lawley's
nine points was high for Phi Kap­pa
Tau in their 27-19 win over
KA. Granaghan, with six led the
KAs. In the third game, Sigma Nu
swamped the Tekes, 27-14. Vandi-ver
was high point man for the
Snakes with ten points.
Phi Delta cleaned up the title
picture for the time being in the
fourth game by doubling Phi Kap­pa
Tau 20-10. Sellers led the Phi
scorers with eight points. Phi Del­ta
Theta continued its winning
ways the next night by dropping
KA 28-17. Thrasher took over the
scoring lead by virtue of his 16
point effort in this game. Reed
with nine was high point man for
the KAs. Ill the iast game, Phi
Kappa Tau humbled Sigma Nu
with a 31-9 defeat. Lawley con­tinued
to lead PKT scorers with
11 points.
LEAGUE IV
• SAE appears to be the class of
League IV. Although only a half
game ahead of Delta Sigma Phi in
the standings, SAE led off the
play with a cinvincing 29-12 win
over the Delta Sigs and is favored
to win a playoff berth.
Fred Johnson led SAE with 12
points. In the second game, ATO
edged Pi Kappa Phi 27-25. Joe
Horseley led the ATO point-makers
with eight" points. Cappell
topped PKP s h o o t i n g with 11
points. ATO won again in the next
game by squeezing by OTS, 24-22.
This time, Murray was ATO high-point
man with seven.
OTS got back on the victory
track in the f o u r t h game by
swamping thrice-beaten Pi Kappa
Sigma Nu Fraternity
Pledges Two Students
Beta Theta chapter of Sigma
Nu fraternity held formal initia­tion
for fourteen new members on
January 23. The men initiated
into the chapter were:
Russell Burson, Selma; Charlie
Cox, Clanton; Arthur Gorran,
Huntsville; Floyd Jernigan, Brew-ton;
Billy Lane, Dothan; Bobby
Hall, Dothan; Lile Smith, Leigh-ton;
Roddis Jones, Madison, Wis.;
J i m m y Thornton, Huntsville;
Frank McCorkle, Montgomery;
John Martin, Sylacauga; Charles
Vahdiver and Ray Vandiver of
New Market, and Dotl Vann,
Trussvillp.
Phi, 23-12. Harris contributed id
points to the vet total. Delta Sig­ma
Phi continued in the runner-up
spot with a 30.-27 win over
ATO. Howell led the DSP shot-makers
with 13 .points. In the final
tilt, SAE decisioned ATO 33-22.
Ai-thur Phillips led the SAE scor­ing
with 13 points.
TOP SCORERS
Name Team Total
Thrasher—PDT 49
Northcutt—LCA 44
Moree—AP 41
Johnson—SAE 40
Harris—OTS 33
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Auburn Wrestlers Top Vandy And Tech;
Chattanooga And Maryville Next Foes
By Bob Ingram
The winningest team on the Plains, Auburn's Wrestling
squad, move into the state of Tennessee this week end to
grapple with the wrestling teams of the University of Chat­tanooga
and Maryville College. The Tige~rs will meet Chat­tanooga
on Friday night, and Saturday night they will tangle
with the strong Maryville outfit.
^1 I
i Last week Auburn swept to
two one-sided victories over
Southeastern Conference foes. On
Monday night, January 24, Au­burn
crushed Vanderbilt 30-4, and
on Friday night, in Atlanta, the
Tigers defeated S strong Georgia
Tech outfit, 19-9.
In the Vandy meet it was just
a case of too much Aybirrh power.
Vanderbilt failed to win a match,
but made their four points .by
holding two Auburnites to dra\ys.
In the 121 pound class Jack
Gray started things off right by
winning his match by a fall. Sdh-
$¥ Dragoin added five rhore'
points to the Auburn total by
jwinning his 128 pound match by
forfeit.
In the 136 pound bracket,
.-"Spider" McKenzie won _his
match by fall, as did Captain Car­roll
Keller in the 145 pound divi­sion.
Vanderbilt finally broke into
the scoring column by holding Au­burn's
Robert Baker to a draw in
the 155 pound division. Phil
Smith of Auburn won his 165
fcound match by decision, as did
Jeb Whitespunner in the 175
pound bracket. ,
Vanderbilt scored their final
two points in the final match of
the meet, when the Vandy heavy­weight
held Auburn's John Brni-iovich
to a draw. The final score,
_ Auburn 30, Vanderbilt 4.
Against an improved Georgia
Tech team, the going was a little
rougher. The Tiger matmen start­ed
things off right by winning
the first two matches by deci­sion.
In the 121 pound match,
Jack Gray of Auburn won over
Tech's Jimmy Hayes by decision,
and Sonny Dragoin followed suit
by decisioning Tech's Bob Scott
in the 128 pound class.
'.;. The first fail of the evening
came in the next match When
Auburn's "Spider" M c K e n z ie
(made quick work of Tech's Bill
""Mazzant, pinning him in less thatt
two minutes. In the 145 jjound
match, Captain Keller added
more to the Auburn total by de­cisioning
the Yellow Jacket's
Oglesby, outpointing him 7-0.
Georgia Tech finally chalked
up three points when the Tech's
Basler decisioned Auburn's Rob­ert
Baker in the 155 pound
class.
Auburn's unbeaten Phil Smith
.added another victim to his long
list by pinning Tech's Gen Frank­lin
in the third period of theif
- match. Smith had come very
close to pinning Franklin hi the
opening period before finally do­ing
away with him in the filial
frame.
Tech added their f i n a l six
points in the last two matches of
the evening. In the 175 pound
bracket, the Engineer's Rhodes
outpointed Auburn's Whitespun­ner
for a decision, and in the
heavyweight divisidn Jdhn Brrii-lovich
lost his first match of tfi'e
season, losing a close decision,to
Tech's football star, Slay Mat­thews.
Final score, Auburn 18,
Georgia Tech 9.
Baptist Student Union
Elects 65 To C&ancil
Freshman Week, an annual ac­tivity;
; of the Baptist Student
Union; opened Monday with the
election of 65 freshmen to office
for a week.
Officers" elected to the Executive
Council were:
Reginald Hinds; president; Ca­therine
Wellborn, Vice-president;
Ralph Mints") Sunda^ school su­perintendent;
David Cdftley.train-ing
Union director, and Peggy Spi-vey,
secretary.
Mtes Helen Finth ttih%
TQ Home Ec Cfab
Miss Helen Finch'was the ma'ift
speaker at a meeting of the Dana
King Gatchell Home Economics
Club Thursday night, January 18:
Miss Finch, n u r s e r y school
teacher of the home economics
staff, spoke on her Work in the
United Nations Nursery School at
Lake Success, N. V., during the
past summer.
Dr. Irrna Frazier carried the
club on an inspection tour of the
new h o m e economics research
laboratory located directly behind'
Smith Hall where she described
several new experiments she is
launching in the field of nutri­tion.
Dr. Frazier served refreshments
at the conclusion of the program.
Stiettce Finds Answer
In Strangest Places
Scientists don't always find
their answers in test tubes—some­times
they find them in the trash
can. •
At least Dr. W. H. Greenleaf,
associate professor of horticul­ture,
found one answer there. Af­ter
having innoculated the tops
of several pepper plants with a
plant virus, iie noticed that they
were dying, so he cut the tops off
of some of them and threw them
into the trash can.
The next morning, Dr. Green-leaf
found that the tops of the
pepper plants had revived. Cutt­ings
were made from these tops
and kept for observation.
From this seemingly unimpor­tant
discovery, Dr. Greenleaf was
able to prove that the virus en­ters
the plant through the leaves
and travels down the stem to the
roots. Death starts at the bottom
and works its way back up, he
surmised.
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Engineer Hound-Up Set
For Thursday Hi$hi
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The Engineers Council is spon­soring
an Engineers round-up
program 6ft' Thursday, February
10, at 7 b;rri. ift Laftgddft Hall. The
meeting is Opefi to ail engineering
students.
George Hamner, president Of
the Engineers Council, Will giVe
an introductory speech about the
round-tip, Snd' Cecil King will
give the purpose of the program.
Th.e program also" includes two
movies.
The movies t8 be shown are'
"The Valley of the Tennessee", a
dramatic Sfar"y of the development
of the TVftnesseie Valley aftd "Sto­ry
of Gasoline"; This picture,
filmed iif technicolor, gives the
story of gasdlifie" from crude 6x1 to
consumer.
Dfaughon
S. American Students
Address Language Meet
Three Auburn students from
Colombia, South America, partici­pated
in the program of the Ala­bama
Association of Teachers of
Spanish aftd Portuguese whd met
J a n u a r y 22 at Birmiftgham-
Southern College.
Francisco Paille, of Gurainaftga,
spoke on Education ift Cdlombitt)
aftd Dbnaldo Frazier, of Begota,
discussed poetry.' Umber"to $filsoh,
of Bogota, discussed native rftusic
and demonstrated with records.
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; budget fotthese: reasons,' explain­ed
Mr. EJfaughott:
(1.) $fSffiertBiOh workers must
purchase fiteir adtbftlobiles out 6f
tvalariei; .whifeh are on k cofh-moft
s&4ie:Witn teachers and re­search
Workers" at the college. The
pric& of cats" has more thaii' doub­led;
and this has had the effect
of sharply reducing the real sal­ary
of extension workers. Cost of
gasoline, maintenance and repair
also has gone up:
(2.) The service, due to salary
competition from other agricul­tural
agencies, is losiftg sorfte of
its better and more experienced
personnel.
(3.) Even more important is the
demand for more agricultural
services frt the many specialized
fields now represented in the
state's agricultural econoniy.
(4.) The demand for an expan-sioft
Of the Staff and personnel
of Negro agricultural extension
and home agents.
Listed separately, and not as a
part df the regular budget re-qUesti
were 23 building projects;
Included aritong others were a
library building, $l,0flD,O00.00;
auditorium, $1,150,000.00; admin­istration
bttiKling* $485,000.00;
women's ddrfhitory quadrangle,
$4,031,184.00; student Union build-i
n g , $1,000,000.00; agricultural
teaching affd research building,
$L200,000.00, Others wire for
pharmacy, education, architec­ture
dnd arts; hbnie etJonnrnieS,
industrial engineef ing, dairy hus­bandry,
veterinary, gymnasium,
military science and tactics, and
several others.
Spring Training Progresses; Tigers
Learning T Formation Offense
By Edwin Crawford
Spring football practice has been in full swing on Drake
field for the past week as Coach Earl Brown and his staff pre­pared
for plenty of rough work during the next five weeks of
training. Seventy-seven boys have been working in the drills
during the past week, and plenty of spirit and hustle is being
shown by the prospective grid-ders
as they fight for a place on
the 1949 team.
One of the highlights of the
work thus far has been the intro­duction
of the "T" formation as
an offensive formation for the
Tigers. Coach Brown plans to run
his team out of the "T" entirely
next fall and he is wasting no
time in shifting his players to
new positions on the team. -.
•In recent drills Coach Brown
has' had halfback Travis Tidwell
and freshman fullback Bill Tuck­er
running at quarterback. Both
boys were switched td the quar­terback
spot Because of their pas­sing
ability. Tidwell, who is ofte
Of the most accurate passers in
the South, was used at quarter­back
in 1947 under Coach Carl
VoyleSj but_ his injured' leg pre­vented
him from seeing much ser­vice.
The fullback spot has also seen
a nuinber of changes as ends Bill
Waddail and Erskine Russell are
now working there as fullbacks.
Freshmert blocking backs, John
-C"rdile and Elmer Jahrt, are also
running at the line pluftging post.
A newcomer, Jim McGowah, is
also wdrking at fullback and has
received a great deal of attention
with his fine punting.
In recent drills Coach Brown
has worked Tidwell at quarter­back;
Jocko Norton at lefthalf
back, Johnny Wallis at right half,
and Jim McGowan at full. An­other
quartet had Tucker at
quarterback, Dwighf Hitt at left
halfback, Dick Fldurndy at right
halfback, and Crolla at fullback.
In the line Cdach Brown has
Jieeft running several different
cdmbifiatidns in the spring drills.
One team was composed of Arn­old
Fageft and Bob Weaver at
ends; Max Autrey and John Ad-edek
at tackles; Dan Mantrone
dftd Jim Brdoks at guards, and
Tom McKmney at center. In an­other
group he was using Fred
DUatrt and Tommy Edwards at
the ends; Jim Burns and Homer
Wesley at the tackles; Ray Moore
aftd Chester Cline at the 'guards,
and Coker Barton at Center.
Coach BroWft plans plenty of
rough work for this week' and
the\ sqUad Will be sent through se­veral
scrimmage sessions.
Lambda Chi Alpha
Conclave Planned
Omega Zeta of Lambda Chi Al­pha
social fraternity will be host
to delegates for eight Southern
states when the Lambda Chi Dixie
Conclave is held at Auburn on
February 18 and 19.
According to Maurice Northcutt,
Vice-president of the local fra­ternity
chapter, the conclave is to
be a "big event for Auburn." Elles
Derby, president of the national
fraternity, wiil speak to local fra­ternity
members, delegates, and
visitihg dignitatries on Saturday,
February 19.
Other national officers of Lamb­da
Chi Alpha will attend the
Weekend's ceremonies and social
activities.
kadio Club Hears Talk
By S. W. De Bardelaben
S. W. DeBardelaben, instructor
in the electrical engineering de­partment,
gave a lecture on R. F.
power supplies at the business
meeting of the Auburn Radio
Club Tuesday night, January 25.
He pointed out some of the major
difficulties encountered in con-struetioft
of these power units.
Radio Club meetings are held
each Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. on the
secortd floor of the A.C. lab. These
meetings are open to all students
John H. Conway Attends
Meeting In Montgomery
John H. Conway, chief and vo­cational
adviser of the Auburn
Veteran's Administration attend­ed
a meeting, January 25 and 26,
in Montgomery.
All chiefs and managers of the
Alabama Veteran's Administration
attended. The purpose of the
meeting was to study and discuss
vocational advertisement to vete-
Sigma Nu Fraternity
Initiates 14 Pledges
Joe Caraway aftd Thomas Dor-man,
Clayton, were pledged to the
Beta Theta chapter of Sigma Nu
fraternity during the rush week
held recently.
Warren White, who transferred
froiti Mercer University, and Bill.
Bentley, a transfer from Howard
College, have also affiliated with
the Beta Theta chapter.
Bishop's Youth Fund
Mas $45,000 Pledged
Early returns in the $260,000
Bishop's Youth Fund campaign
for the Episcopal Diocese of Ala­bama
show total pledges of $45,-
200, it was announced today by
the Rt. Rev. C. C. J. Carpenter,
bishop of Alabama.
Projects and fund allocations
included in the Bishop's Youth
Fund are the student center and
chapel at the University of Ala­bama,
$155,000; chapel, Alabama
College for Women, $40,000; cha­pel,
Tuskegee Institute, $35,000;
interested in radio, or those de- Camp McDowell, $20,000; addition
siring to become members of the
organization.
Blue Key Honor Society
Honors New Members
The Blue Key honor society
held its semi-annual banquet last
night ift the Mid-Way Tavern.
The banquet Was in hdftor of the
new men tapped during the win­ter
quarter. Hoftored guest Was
the fteverend James Stirling of
the AubUrri Episcopal Church.
Following a steak. dinner, the'
members entertained themselves
with singing and dancing.
'M student center, Alabama Poly­technic
Institute, $10,000.
In addition to allocations from
the Bishop's Youth Fund, $15,000
is on hand to help build a chapel
at Montevallo. These funds in­clude
gifts made over a period of
years by church groups and indi­viduals,
notably the Women's
Auxiliary. •
Pledges include reports by 19
church committees, it was pointed
out by Warren E. Dent, Mont­gomery,
treasurer for the Bis­hop's
Youth Fund. Of the total
amount -pledged to date, "$22,062
was pledged by Montgomery
committees, Mr. Dent said.
Vandy And Auburn
To Meet Saturday
The Auburn basketball team
goes to Nashville, Tennessee, this
Saturday night whfere they will
battle the Vanderbilt University
quintet -in a return engagement.
In their first meeting with the
Commodores, Auburn came out
.on top by a 48-46 margin, but
playing on the Vandy homecourt
the Tigers may find things a bit
more difficult.
In its appearance on the Plains
several weel^s ago, the Vandy
team displayed a smooth-working
attack, and an airtight defense.
Against Alabama several nights
after losing, to Auburn, the Van­derbilt
team turned in their bast
performance of the season as they
defeated the Tide, 36-31, a trick
which Auburn failed to do' in
three attempts.
While the Vandy attack is built
around the deadly shooting of
Billy Joe Adcock, he is by no
means the only pointmaker on
the team. In fact it was not Ad­cock
who gave Auburn or Ala­bama
trouble, but big Pete Ro­binson.
The tall center'led the
Commodores in scoring in both
games, and -he was ably supported
by" Craig, Duvier and Kelley.
Coach Doyle will probably
throw against the Commodores
the same lineup which proved
successful against, them in the
previous engagement. That will
include Nixon at center, Lynn and
Moberly or Lanford at forwards,
and Brawner and McAfee at
guards.
Intramural Debate
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ic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic
and others. With her brother, she
helped to; d e v e -1 p p the famous
"Iturbi Technique," and their two-piano-
recitals are major musical
events.
During the war, Miss Iturbi
flew nearly 59,000 miles, from the
Caribbean to the Persian Gulf,
playing for the men "and women of
the Armed Forces. In addition to
her concert work, she has been
featured on the radio and in the
movies and with her brother has
made numerous brilliant "Two-
Piano" -recordings.
Father Harry P. Harris
Father Harry P. Harris
To Open Mission Feb. 9
in Sacred Heart Church
Superior of the Southern Viri-centian
Mission Band, Father
Harry P. Harris C. M. will open a
mission at the Sacred Heart
Church, Auburn at 7 pjn. Wed­nesday,
February 9.
- Father Harris will use the
"Little Method" in bringing faith,
sorrow for sin, a n d future
amendments into the souls of stu­dents.
He brings to the campus
years of missionary experience.
For. the past, two years, Father
Harris has been giving missions
in the Southern states.
Previous to joining the South­ern
Missions, he, as a member of
the Columbus Mission Band, with
headquarters in Groveport, Ohio,
preached up and down the Ohio
Valley for years. During these
missions, Father Harris mingled
with the cross-section of Ameri­can
l i f e , farmers, merchants,
coal miners college women and
college men. At Niagara Univer­sity,
where he served as Prefect
of Discipline, Father Harris is
still remembered. His special de­tail
was the disciplfciary of the
football squad.
The order of the day during the
mission will be mass and instruc­tion
at 6:30 a.m. and 8 a.m. In the
evening at 7 o'clock rosary, in­struction,
sermon and benedic­tion
will be held. Father Harris
has accepted an invitation to give
a special talk on the campus i to
Catholic students.
High On A Breezy Hill Sits Ed Ruff,
Auburn's Version Of Old MacDonald
By Fran R. Harper
Twelve miles from Auburn on route 14 is the Breezy Hill
Dairy Farm owned and operated single-handed by Ed Ruff,
Jr., a dairy husbandry major.
Twenty-three-year-old Ruff hitch-hikes into Auburn five
mornings a week for his eight o'clock class, but his day begins
three hours before this. He gets
Architecture Letter
Ready For Distribution
The 1949 edition of the Archi­tecture
School Newsletter will
soon be ready for distribution, ac­cording
to Prof. S. P Snow of the
landscape department. Professor
Snow is editing the publication.
The Newsletter is published an­nually
for the benefit Of the
alumni, faculty and students of
the School of Architecture. It in­cludes
the outstanding happen­ings
of the year, changes in cur­riculum
arid staff rnembers, de­partmental
news, a section' of
alumni news, and an up-to-date
directory of alumni, faculty and
students of the School of Archi­tecture.
The 1940 Newsletter will be
bound in a photostatic copy of the
future Architecture Building.
Dairy Science Club
Edits Alabama Farmer
Duties for publication of the
February issue of the Alabama
Farmer have been assumed by
the Dairy Science Club, accord­ing
to an announcement by John
Hetftbree, editor. Articles of gen­eral
and specific information
dealing with the most recent and
modern dairying methods will be
featured.
Two articles of particular in­terest
have been prepared: a de­tailed
report oft winter grazing,
and an infomative story concern­ing
dairy production.
The staff of the Alabama Farm­er
has offered to each of the
seven clubs on Ag Hill the chance
to edit at least one issue. Such a
program would foCus attention on
the activities of the organization
and provide closer relationship
among the clubs themselves.
UNDER THE SPIRES
By Phyllis Stough and Virginia Barnes
JOE STERLING (above), is
one of the three juniors' on
Coach Danny Doyle's'- basket­ball
team. ,Joe is working to­ward
his third letter ;,award as
an Auburn basketball player.
DON LANFORD (above), is
one of Auburn's outstanding
basketball players. Don is ex­pected
to see action when the
Tigers battle with the Vander­bilt
Commodores in Nashville
Saturday.
Baptist Church
The Co-Wed (married students)
Training Union divided last Sun­day
into two unions. Meetings
are held every Sunday at 6:30
p.m. on the first floor of the
church. Married students are in­vited
to join one of the two
groups.*
The Rev. Monroe F. Swilley, Jr.,
from the Second Ponce De Leon
Baptist Church in Atlanta, will be
here for the campus-wide Religi­ous
Focus Week. His first message
will be given on the evening of
February 14 at the First Baptist
Church.
* * *
Catholic Church
The traditional B l e s s i n g of
Throats will be held on St. Blaise
Day, February S, after the 6:30
a.m. mass. An afternoon service
will be held at 5:15 o'clock.
The Rev. Jarhes Wholey, from
St. Thomas Church in Alexander
City, spoke on "Marriage from
the Catholic Point of View" at the
Newman , Club meeting Monday
night, January 24. A group discus­sion
which followed the speech
was led by #!m B. Ellison of Abbe­ville.
The Rev. Harry P. Harris, CM.,
the Superior of the Vincentian
Southern Mission Band, will give
the mission from February 9-16 as
part of Religious Emphasis Week.
* * *
Church of Christ
The schedule of services for the
Church of Christ includes Bible
Class at 10 a.m., morning worship
at 11 o'clock, young people's meet­ing
at 6:45 p.m., and evening wor­ship
at 7:30 o'clock.
There is also a Bible Class
Thursday night at 7:30 o'clock.
Sunday night, the young people
will continue a discussion on "The
Church" being led by Dr. Gordon
Fuller.
Episcopal Church
The Rev. Colon R. Campbell,
rector of T r i n i t y Episcopal
Church, Columbus, Ga., will lead
the last in a series of discussions
on Christian marriage at the Can­terbury
Club Sunday at 6:30 p.m.
Rev. Campbell has been a popular
speaker with the group previous­ly.
His subject Sunday night will
be "How the Church Helps the
Christian Family".
Canterbury Coffee hours are
from 3:30 to 5:30 o'clock Thurs­day
afternoon.
* * *
Lutheran Church
Sunday School at 10 a.m. and
worship service at 11 a.m. will be
held at the War Eagle Theater.
"How to Meet Attacks on Your
Faith", with emphasis oft Luther,
will be the subject of discussion at
the Lutheran Club Sunday night.
The club Will meet at the home of
Dr. and Mrs. Arnold Schaefer,
310 Bowden Drive, at 6 p.m.
Transportation from the Episco­pal
Parish House will be furnish­ed
at 5:45 p.m.
Methodist Church
Dr. • John A. Needy, associate
professor of mechanical engineer­ing,
will speak at the Sunday
evening worship service at 7:30
o'clock. His subject will be "The
Minor Becomes the Major".
The Yo-Ma-Co Sunday School
class for young married couples
and two other classes for college
students begin at 9:45 a.m. in the
Hammil Memorial Building next
door to the church.
The Wesley Foundation pro­gram
Sunday night includes sup­per
at 6 o'clock folldwed by 40-
minute discussion greups in the
different phases df Wesley Fdund-atidn
activity. .
The Wesley Fduridatidn sent 11
delegates to the state conference
for college students held at Mon­tevallo
last week end.
Presbyterian Church
A hayride will be given for
members of the Sunday School
classes at 7 o'clock Saturday
night, February 5. The losers in a
membership drive which was con­cluded
Sunday will entertain the
winning group.
The hayride will start at West­minster
House. Chaperons will
be the Rev. and Mrs. Eugene Poe
and Mr. and. Mrs. Burt Vardernan.
Evensong is held at the Presby­terian
Church each Thursday eve­ning
at 7 o'clock.
up at five every morning and
milks his 10 registered Jersey
cows before breakfast. He gets
approximately 14 gallons of
Grade "B" milk every day which
he seljs to the Carnation milk
plant in Dadeville.
The student-dairyman has six
heifers coming along, and next
month he's going to start build­ing
a new barn for them; Theri,
when they're ready for milking,
he'll have a Grade "A" unit and
will be able to sell the milk to
nearby dairies. /
After the milking and other
chores are done, Ed, who batches
for himself, prepares a hearty
breakfast and gets' ready for
school. He lives in the big old
house on his 100-acre farm, but
someday hopes to replace it with
a modern home. The house, built
before 1830, is put together en­tirely
with pegs.
"The house is fine for me," Ed
says, "because right now' I'm
mainly interested in developing
the farm. However, if I ever find
time to get me a girl and get
married, I'll have to have a nicer
house for a wife."
A veteran with two years of
Navy patrol duty in the Atlantic,
Ed is going to school under the
GI Bill, so the profit he makes
from his milk sales is put back
into the farm.
Three days a week he finishes
classes at Auburn at noon and
heads directly back to Breezy Hill
to cultivate his 60 acres in feed
crops. He raises principally corn,
oats, alfalfa and kudzu. On the
days he doesn't finish at the col­lege
until 5 p.m., he goes home
and often works until midnight,
cultivating his crops by the lights
from his new tractor.
Ed more or less inherited the
farm from his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Ruff, Sr., of Selma. The
Ruff family lived on the farm se­veral
years ago and during that
time Ed became a 4-H club mem­ber.
He says all his inspiration came
from his 4-H leader, Andy fcur-lee,
former Auburn basketball
vand baseball star, who was killed
during World War II.
"Mr. Curlee used to tell me I'd
have a fine dairy farm some day,"
Ed said, "and I guess I'm just
trying to live up to the expecta­tions
he had for me. My younger
brother Bob started out with me
toward the same goal, but now
he's majoring in mechanical en­gineering
and working at a gas
station."
The Ruffs are mighty proud of
Ed and his initiative and quite
frequently Mrs. Ruff comes over
to primp up the house and cook
some of Ed's favorite foods. She
always comes at the beginning-and
end of a quarter, sort of to
get him started and to help him
out when he's studying for finals.
But no matter how busy he is,
Ed doesn't neglect his studies.
"I'm what you call putting
theory into practice, and the two
in beautifully together," Ed says.
"What I learn in class helps on the
frrm, and visa-versa."
He still finds time for extra­curricular
activities, and is a
member of Lambda Chi Alpha,
Scabbard and Blade and the
Dairy Science Club.
Joint Social Planned
By Ag, Home Ec Club
A joint social sponsored by the
Ag and Home Ec clubs will be
held Monday night from 7 until
9 o'clock in the student center.
The party will be for all ag and
home ec students.
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for those you like
—that "only one".,
and those with whom
you'd have some fun
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8—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, Feb.'2, 1949
Independent Court Action Continues;
A Club Eagles Score Impressive Wins
By Edward Spencer
Rough and tumble play was featured in the Independent
Basketball league this past week. In the highest scoring con­test
of the season the Eagles completely swamped the Fumb­les
67 to 15. The Eagles were never behind and there was no
doubt what the outcome ,of the game would be. Owens with
16 noints, Cornelison with 14, and
Tally with 12 led the Eagle scor-ers,
Jarvis paced the Fumbles
, with 6 points.
In their second game of the
week the Eagles, humbled the
, FFA 46 to 14. Owens was again
high-scorer for the Eagles with
16 points. Granger dropped in
7 points to lead the FFA.
The A Club continued in their
winning ways by defeating the
AROTC 31 to 15. The A Club has
completely dominated League I
play so far this season. Weaver
and Norton again led the A Club
scoring with 10 and 8 points re~-
spectively. Castleman, stellar cen­ter
for the AROTC, led their
point-makers with 2 field goals
and a free shot-
In a very tight contest the Re­bels
outlasted the" Navy to win
30 to 28. Sanders sparked the Re­bels
by hitting the hoop for 13
points. Kempson with 8 and Cook;
with 6 were leading point makers;
for the Navy.
The AIO eeked out a thrilling.
. 24 to 22 victory over the Boys.
The game was a see-saw battle
ajl the way and the outcome was
not decided until th& final min-sute.
Bush with 8 points and
Helms with 6 points led the AIO
attack while Clay and Young led
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Basketball Season
Will Close Friday
For Frosh Squad
• Coach John Williamson's fresh­man
basketball team will close out
its home season Friday night in
the sports arena when they meet
Ensley High School of Birming­ham.
Game time is 7:30 o'clock.
The frosh will meet Maxwell Field
the following night in Montgom­ery.
Their last game is with Ensley
in Birmingham on February 14. '
The freshmen were downed by
the Alabama frosh for the second
time this "season, 64 to 43, Satur­day
night in the sports arena. In
their first game with Alabama,
the Baby Tigers were beaten 56 to
38 in Tuscaloosa.
The Auburn frosh got off to a
good start with a five point lead
and kept that lead until the clos­ing
minutes of the first half when
the Tiders went ahead at half-time,
22 to 19. The 'Bama frosh
came back strong in the second
half to increase their lead to 64 to
the Boys with 6 points each.
The Ringers doubled the- score
on the Forestry to win a 27 to 13
engagement from them. McClana-han
with 11 points was the lead­ing
scorer for the Ringers. Carl­son
dropped in 2 field goals to
pace the Forestry,
The Raiders defeated the No­mads
in a slow moving engage­ment
23 to 13. Smith led the"
Raider attack by scoring 8 points.
Lovelas garnered 6 points for the
Nomads. .>,
In. the final tut of the week the
Dragons blasted the War Eagles
36 to 6. Leading point makers for
the Dragons were Lanier with 13
and Trotter with 9. Bearden domi­nated
the. War Eagle's scoring by
sinking- 2 field goals. . .
Vet Students Hear
Talks By BAI Chief
Dr. T. B. Simms, Chief of the
Bureau of Animal Industry, a
division of the United States De­partment
of Agriculture, was a
visitor at Auburn's Veterinary
School January 14 and 15,
During his visit, Dr. Simms
made talks to the senior class of
the', school and to the Junior
American Veterinary Medical As­sociation.
His' talk to the seniors
was concerned with future em­ployment
with the Bureau of Ani­mal
Industry, and he spoke to the
Jr. AVMA on "Foot and'Mouth
Disease in Mexico."
According to Dr. Simms, his bu­reau
will employ a great number
of the 1949 graduates in veteri-rinary
medicine if they wish to
work for the government. He
pointed out that there are openings
in practically every area in the
United States and several' men
are needed for work in Mexico.
In his talk on foot and mouth
disease, Dr. Simms explained hu­man
reaction to the disease by
classifying it in three general sta­ges.
He said that a state of hys­teria
at the discovery of the dis­ease,
the time when some confi­dence
is gained because of im­provement,
and complacency or
over-confidence that the disease
has b e e n destroyed show the
trend of each outbreak.
Dr. Simms received his D. V. M.
degree at Auburn in 1911. He was
on the staff at Oregon State Col­lege
for several years and was
director of the Regional Research
Laboratory here from 1938 until
he was promoted to his present
position in 1944.
43 at the final whistle. Moore
with 22 points and Ivey with 14
points led the Alabama freshmen
while Gene Hoehle with 12 points
and Roger Weldon and Dwight
Hitt with 8 points each led the
Tiger frosh.
On Friday night in Montgom­ery,
Auburn downed Sidney La­nier
High School, 3,8 to 31 after
getting off .to a slew start. Gene
Hoehle paced the Auburn attack
with 15 points while Joiner, Fran­co,
and Brown led the losers with
6 points each.
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CHIEF'S
Is Proud
To Salute
Sue
Miller
As An Outstanding
Member of the
Auburn Student
Body
Sue is a senior in
education from Birm­ingham.
A past vice-president
and repre­sentative,
to the Pan
Hellenic s o c i e t y of
Kappa Delta social so- \
rority, Sue was also
tapped by C a r d i n a l
Key, ' national honor
society for junior and
senior coeds.
ROTC Unit Holds
Special Parade
In a special ceremony last week,
Auburn's ROTC Regiment passed •
in review in honor of Col. John
O. Lawrence, commanding offi­cer
of the Alabama Military Dis­trict.
The review highlighted a period
during which Col. Lawrence in­spected
all phases of training and
facilities available to the ROTC
unit. At the-same time, Howard
W. Nunez, senior in engineering,"
was presented a gold medaj of
the Society of American Military
Engineers, as the outstanding sen­ior
student enrolled in the advan­ced
Engineer Reserve Officers
Training Corps at Auburn. Nun­ez
is from Natchez, Miss.
The ROTC unit at Auburn now
consists of 1,300 students. Bran­ches
of the service represented
here are the Air Force, Field
Artillery, Armored Cavalry, Corps,
of Engineers, and Signal Corps.,
Letters
(Continued from page 4) '. .•
tive, a school with enrollment
between 500 and 1000, two repre­sentatives,
and a school with an
enrollment with more than 1000
have three representatives. You^
will then get more representation"
to cope with problems in various
departments..
Here is something else that
should be changed when the con­stitution
is revised. Why does
every student on the campus have;
to pay some political "wheel" $J
to order his rings for him? These
so-called "wheels" have to attend
too many meetings and engage­ments
so you can't find one. at
home when you want hip. If
every student was going to give
some student $3 to order his class
ring for him, why couldn't poor
scholarship students be on the
ring committee. I'm sure the Col­lege
book store would be willing
to handle the selling of the rings
Campus Fire Escapes
Soon To Be Completed
The construction of fire escapes
for three buildings will soon reach
completion according to J. R.
Bowman, construction engineer of
buildings and grounds.
The outside work was completed
recently when the escapes were
painted. The entire project will be
finished when exit lights are in­stalled
in all of the buildings and
short. steps are built in Samford
Hall.
The installation of the -lights
was delayed when the manufac­turer
originally sent over-head
light fixtures when wall lights
Were needed. Scarcity of structu­ral
steel was given as the delaying
factor in the construction, of the
steps.
and do it at about half the present
price or lower, and use what
profit they make for a- scholar­ship
fund.
Why not open this whole thing
up to the public and let the stu­dents
who keep this college in
business know what is going on
around here.
Yours truly,
Glover Pugh
* » *
Dear Editor:
Restrictions on elections here
at Auburn should go, and must
go. A candidate should be allow­ed
to spend as much money as. he
sees fit. He should be allowed to
buy radio time,, rent an audito­rium
for his campaign speeches
or use the soap box. He should be
allowed to use all the tactics,
tricks and traps in order to put
his opponent on \he spot, or in
an embarrassing position; in
other words,' pull the bridle off,
hit them in the rear with the
reins, and watch them go! If the
elections were'carried on in this
way, no scum, riff-raff or hood­lums
would care about running
for an office on the campus be­cause
before they chose to run
they would think twice,' knowing
that if their past record wasn't
clean or that they were not ca­pable,
they would be put behind
the eight-ball if they did run.
All this mush about the elec­tion
rules being made so that we
"po-boys" would have a chance
to enter as a candidate is indeed
amusing. It is time that the rule
committee and the school of Au­burn
wake up to the fact that we
are living in a nation that be­lieves
in paying as you go. j
By removing the restrictions
on the elections here WJC '.'po-boys"
would be benefited. What
better prapaganda could one of
us "po-boys" use in a campaign
speech than to say that our op­ponent
was buying his way? For
proof of this, how do you think
the long nosed, insolent ass with
a face like a melancholy horse
won the governor's office of Ala­bama
that he is sitting in today?
Voting is a privilege, so what­ever
the rules may be, we should
all go to the polls and vote in all
the elections. •
Yours very truly,
Rob Andress
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