1948-07-07 The Auburn Plainsman

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VOL. LXXIV ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1948 Number 12
John Jacob Niles
Will Perform Were
He Will Present Concert In Ampthitheater
Tuesday Night; Students Admitted Free
John Jacob Niles, the Kentuckian who makes rare music
from songs and ballads, will appear here next Tuesday on
the Concert and Lecture Series.
Mr. Niles will be in Auburn for three days. On Monday
he will meet with several English Classes; Tuesday he will
present his campus-wide concert honest and beautiful things."
at the Graves Amphitheater be
ginning at 8:15 p.m. The follow­ing
day he will be guest lecturer
for the music department.
Students will be admitted to
the Wednesday concert free of
charge by showing either their
blue veterans card, or their regis­tration
card.
A resident of Lexington, Ky.,
Mr. Niles has traveled all over
about black-haired m a i d e n s,
lonely mountain valleys, rebel
soldiers, the miracle birth of the
Christ child and "many other
Mr. Niles has sung for the late
President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
He has sung in Paris, London,
and the Hague; at Harvard and at
Oxford. He has been featured in
night clubs from New York to
Naples.
He is 56 years old. He studied
at the Cincinati Conservatory.
His wife is a writer who heard
him sing at a concert. They were
married in 1936.
Mr. Niles was received enthu­siastically
when he played in Au­burn
two years ago.
Grill Partner Returns From Homealnd;
Says Ameican Aid Has Helped Greece
By Irene Long
"Greece is in bad shape," said
Lucas Gazes, one of the partners
of the Auburn Grille who w re­turned
this week after 17 months
in his native country. "American
aid has saved the country. Com­munists
are trying to destroy it
now."
Mr. Gazes had intended staying
9nly a year, but he was delayed
with the red tape of getting out
of the country. It took longer to
get his own papers filled out
than it did for his bride's.
Athens Miserable
Mr. Gazes spent seven months
on the Isle of Patmos with his
mother, whose age he has never
managed to find out/He enjoyed
his stay on the island, he said,
fishing and hunting. "But there
was so much misery in Athens, I
Couldn't have a good time there,"
he added.
Inflation Abounds
Farmers and residents of small
mountain villages have crowded
into larger villages where there
is protection from guerillas. In­flation
is much worse than in
the U. S., and there is an im­mense
.shortage of food, clothing,
and housing.
"Wealthy people have nothing
now, and men who were once
beggars are rich," said Mr. Gazes.
"Nobody knows how they got
their money."
Communists Active'
Communist-supported guerillas
are active along the borders of
Albania, Yugoslavia, and Bul­garia
as well as in central and
southern Greece. Farmers are
afraid to till their land, roads are
unsafe for passage. Bridges and
crops are destroyed. The moun­tains
make -it difficult for the
Greek army to eliminate this
threat to security and independ­ence.
"There is a lack of confidence
in the future," Mr. Gazes said.
"People just can't keep losing
everything and pay the high
prices. We think we have infla­tion
here, but, it's nothing com­pared
to Greece. Nylon stockings
are $6 a pair.
Tax Problem
Mr. Gazes blames part of the
economic condition in Greece on
the civil service. "Nearly every­body
who is employed works for
the government," he explained.
"And there's the army to keep
up. The few people who are left
just can't pay."
Taxes are high. "Owners of
small cats pay $60* a month just
to owh them. They can use them
only a few days a week because
of the gas shortage. And gas is
taxed highly, too."
Refrigerator Trouble
When he was trying to get his
permit to leave the country, Mr.
Gazes said he wasted a lot of
time going from one official to
another just because they had to
have something to do. He had
carried a refrigerator over and
had channeled it through the
customs house and had paid im­port
duties. Before he could leave
the country, however, he had to
pay a huge property tax.
Brings Back Cross
Mr. Gazes brought with him a
crucifix carved by Christ Math­ews
of the Isle of Patmos for the
new' Greek Orthodox Church in
Montgomery. He will deliver it to
Bill Miaulus of Montgomery.
And Mrs. Gazes
Mrs. Gazes likes America. She
was particularly thrilled with a
visit to Radio City during her
stay in New York. She speaks
Greek and French, and is learn­ing
to speak English.
Mr. and Mrs. Gazes are living
temporarily at the Pitts Hotel.
Transmitter Nearing Completion Will
Join API and Other College Stations
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By Fran R. Harper
The new 450-watt transmitter
under construction by the Radio
Club in the Comunications Labo-rotary
is going to equip this city
with communication facilities in
case of a tornado or other emer­gency.
William J. Robinson, Jr., elec­trical
engineering student from
Mobile^ is largely responsible for
the new transmitter and thus has
won for himself the title of Stu­dent
of the Week.
A radio amateur with more
than 10 years experience in the
hobby, Robinson was the first
president of the Auburn Radio
Club. The club was started here
two years ago with Prof. Grady
Saunders as advisor.
On completion, the new trans­mitter
will be part of a network
of college radio stations set up
for the benefit of non-technical
students, Robinson explained.
Students will converse on pre­arranged
schedules, and the
whole purpose of the network is
to promote a closer fraternal
spirit between the various schools.
"In times of emergency and
power failure, The Auburn Radio
Club's transmitter will render
comunication with key points in
the state to fill in for police and
radio messages, telephone and
telegraph and other agencies
whose services have been inter­rupted,"
he said.
There are 20 members in the
Radio Club at present and a cam­paign
is under way to recruit
more members to take the place
of those who, like Robinson, will
graduate in August.
Approximately 90 per cent of
the club members are going to
enter some phase of communica­tions
work when they finish here.
Robinson will join the Tennessee
Valley Authority in Chattanooga.
Bill got his license as an ama­teur
operator several years ago
after passing the Federal Com­munications
Commision's' code
written examination.
He said his first set cost him
about $5 to construct and that he
had lots of fun with it as a boy
on his home near Mobile. Now a
set may be built from $5 to $100
depending upon the number of
surplus materials used. "It's cer­tainly
an inexpesive hobby," he
confided. "You can talk around
the world for practically no
money at all."
JOHN JACOB NILES, famous for his ballads and folk songs,
will appear on the Concert and Lecture Series at Graves Amphi­theater
next Tuesday at 8:15 p.m. Student* will be admitted
free. " ' <;
AG CONFERENCE
WILL CONTINUE
Mr. O. C. Medlock, state co­ordinator
of the State Conserva­tion
Service, will speak in Comer
Hall Thursday night. One of a
series of conference speakers, Mr.
Medlock will speak on federal job
opportunities.
Also addressing the group will
be Mr. Julian Brown, regional
director of FHA and an Auburn
graduate. His subject will.be fed­eral
opportunities.
Professor Ben Alvord,. head of
the department of Ag Economics,
will speak on the marketing act
and the many jobs open in the
marketing field.'
The conferences are being spon­sored
by the Ag School, especially
in the interest of seniors. All in­terested
are invited to attend.
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The Dairy Science Club will
meet Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the
Animal Husbandry Building.
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Ag Council will meet Monday
at 8 p.m. in Cpmer Hall. . .
* * *
Bill Kennedy has been named
assistant editor of the Extension
Service, Director P. O. Davis an­nounced.
John H. Thomas
Will Preach Sunday
John Harvey Thomas, Jr., Au­burn
student who has just re­turned
from Southwestern Theo­logical
Seminary at Fort Worth,
Texas, will preach in a special
Youth Night service Sunday
night.
John Harvey served as BSU
president in Auburn during 1946-
47. He is a member of Spades
ahd Sigma Chi fraternity. He
and his wife, the former Helen
Williamson, are volunteers for
missionary work in Japan where
John served as a captain during
the early occupation. They intend
to leave for Japan upon comple­tion
of their seminary work.
The service will begin at 7
p.m. at the First Baptist Church.
Featured will be a student choir
and a junior choir. It will close
at 8 p.m. in time for the union
services in the amphitheater.
John Harvey Thomas
3 'BETTER ROOMS'
CONTEST AWARDS
GO TO AUBURNITES
In the Chicago Tribune's Better
Rooms Competition held recently,
two': Auburn students and one
faculty member were successful
in carrying off $100 prizes. Al­though
the Tribune has sponsored
this contest for _ the past two
years, this is "the first time entries
have been sent from Auburn.' In
the national competition, 161 pri­zes
were awarded.
Entries are entered in the form
of renderings of rooms. Mrs. Mit-tie
Simms' winning entry was of
'a dining room-living room com­bination.
Mfs. Simms is the sole
faculty member in the interior
design department here.
The student winners w e re
Johnny Walker, interior design
student from Columbus, Ga., and
John Fondren, design student
from Fort Deposit..Walker's entry
was of a one-room apartment, and
Fondren's of a single room.
PLANS FOR DISTRIBUTION OF %8
GLOMERATA ARE ANNOUNCED
SOLONS SEND CONGRATULATIONS
TO APPLIED ART DEPARTMENT
Auburn's Art Department has
received congratulations f r om
Alabama's two Senators and from
the Third District's Congressman.
"I am delighted that Auburn
was the successful bidder on
36 of the State Department
paintings. I know that these
paintings will mean much to
Auburn and people in that re­gion".—
John Sparkman
"I share y o u r gratification
that Auburn has been able
to acquire a number of the
paintings."—Lister Hill
"I am delighted that Auburn
was the successful bidder on 36
of the State Department paint­ings."—
George Andrews, M. C.
Senators Sparkman and Hill
and Congresman Andrews did
much to help Auburn in the ac­quiring
of the famed State Dept.
paintings. They kept Auburn of­ficials
informed in regard to the
general situation and the neces­sary
procedures to be followed."
said Prof. Frank W. Applebee,
head of the applied art depart­ment.
Baseball Players Scatter To Play
Professionally; Nixon at Scranton
OVERTON WILL RACE
FOR OLYMPIC BERTH
Whitey Overton, Auburn's SEC
two-mile track champion, will
race for a berth on the American
Olympic Team at Evanston, 111.
Saturday. In the last ten days,
Whitey has run in national com­petition
twice. He ran second in
the National Intercollegiate 3000
meter steeplechase at Indianapo­lis
ahd competed in the National
AAU Meet. Ross« of Villanova
beat Overton at Indianapolis by
three tenths of a second.
• By placing second at the Inter-collegiates,
Overton became qua­lified
as one of the twelve men
in the nation eligible to compete
in the 3000 meter steeplechase
event of the Olympic Tryouts at
Evanston.
By Jack Simms
Sixteen members of Coach
Danny Doyle's 1948 baseball
squad are active with amateur,
semi-pro, Or professional teams
this summer. The team, which
finished the season in the con­ference
runnerup position, was
hailed as one of the best in the
history of the school.
Willard Nixon, considered by
many as the best pitcher ever to
don an Auburn uniform, is now
a smarting pitcher for the Scran­ton,
Pa., Eastern League team.
Willard has a record of two wins
against two losses in the hot Class
A league. He signed a contract
with the Boston Red So* and is
on option to the Pennsylvania
team.
Ray Williams and Pete Diffly
have also entered the profession­al
ranks. Ray signed with Atlanta
and is playing under option with
Burlington in the Class C Caro­lina
State League. Pete is at­tending
Auburn and is playing
with the Opelika Owls.
Lyman. Woodfin, who worked
around second base for Doyle
last spring, has been picked on
the Dixie League All-Star team.
He is playing for Tuskagee and
is batting well over .600.
Hubert Stepp, Charles Gilbert,
and "Red" Thomas are playing in
•the Ogeechee semi-pro league in
South Georgia along with Auburn
freshmen George McAfee, Dick
Webb, and Jack Maxwell.
Pitchers George Hill and John
Francis are both winning games
for semi-pro outfits. George in is
Portsmouth, Ohio, and John is in
Whales, Tennessee. Joe Sterling
is playing the outfield for a Cov­ington,
Ky., amateur team and
Dan Gilmore is hitting home runs
fqr Acpico in Birmingham.
Fireball Dennis Kinlaw is pit­ching
for a Jacksonville Beach,
Fla. team. Don Brause and Er-skine
Russell . are inactive this
summer. Don played a few games
for Tuskegee but has quit to de­vote
his time to his school work.
Russell, at the' latest report, is
loafing in Birmingham and Flo­rida.
MATH CLUB TO HEAR
DR. RAY PEPINSKY
TOMORROW NIGHT
^Speaker at a meeting of the
Math Club tomorrow will be Dr,
Ray Pepinsky, research profes­sor
of physics. He will talk on
"Synthesis and Analysis of Four­ier
Series by Electronic Methods"
and will show slides to" illustrate
his address. The meeting is set
for Broun Hall 209, at 7:15 p.m.
Subject of the talk, the Four­ier
Series, involves analysis of
solids by X-Ray crystallography.
The meeting will be open to all
interested students.
WAA Plans Program
Of Recreation At Gym
The Women's Athletic Associa­tion
in a co-recreation program
is sponsoring tournaments in
I ping pbng, badminton, tennis,
bridge, and swimming for the
summer months. These activities
will be carried on in Alum'ni Gym
on Tuesday and Thursday nights.
All students are invited to at­tend.
Caisson Club Meet
Set For Tomorrow
There will be a meeting of
the Caisson Club Thursday at
7 p.m. in TB-5B. All members
and reserve artillery officers are
urged to attend.
It Is Already Being Acclaimed The Best
In Auburn History; Cover Named Year's Best
The long-awaited .'48 Glomerata has arrived and students
are already calling it the best in Auburn's history.
Five-hundred have already been distributed to students,
and approximately 4000 will be given out here beginning
tomorrow. About 1,600 will he mailed from the printer's in
Nashville to students who are not
John Shaffer
'Bugs' Mimms
Weekly. Street Dance
Set For Friday Night
The weekly street dance will
be held behind Samford Friday
night from 8 p.m. to 10:45 p.m.
The sextet from the Auburn
Knights will play for the dance.
There is no admission fee and
all students are invited to attend.
Resource-Use Education Workshop
Features Outstanding Speakers
Dr. Gordon W. Blackwell, di­rector
of the * Institute for Re­search
and Social Science, Uni­versity
of North Carolina, arrived
here Thursday to lecture to the
Resource-Use Education Work­shop.
During his visit to Auburn Dr.
Blackwell will discuss methods
by which the school can effective­ly
develop an educational pro-pram
around the problems of a
local community.
W. M. Landess, Chief, Program
Exposition Service, Director of
Agricultural Relations, Tennessee
Engineering Faculty Members Increase Their Teaching
Qualifications By Attending Other Graduate Institutions
Several members of the faculty
of the school of engineering at
Auburn are increasing their
teaching qualifications through
graduate work at other institu­tions
this summer, Dean J. E.
Hannum announced today.
Two members of the engineer-in
faculty have resumed their
teaching duties here this summer
after • completion requirements
for master's degrees during lea­ves
of absence. They are Richard
M. Steere, assistant professor of
electrical engineering and Wil­liam
L. Samuel, instructor in
civil engineering. .
Professor Steere received his
master's degree at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in June
as did Mr. Samuel. Both men are
Auburn graduates and have re­cently
been elected members of
the honorary society of Sigma Xi.
Wilmont G. ^Rhodes, assistant
professor of aeronautical adminis­tration,
has returned from the
University of Denver after com­pleting
one quarter of graduate
work. In addition to his teaching
duties he is manager of the Au­burn
Opelika airport.
Now on leave of absence for
graduate work are John D. Hal-tiwanger,
civil engineering in­structor;
Kenneth G. Wells, assis­tant"
professor of engineering
drawing arid design; James Lay,
III, instructor; Marvin O. Wil­liams,
aeronautical engineering
Haltiwanger is studying at the
University of Illinois; Wells at
the University of Washington;
Little at Georgia Tech; Lay at
the University of Denver; and
Smith and Williams at Auburn.
Lionel L. Levy and Y. J. Elizon»
do are teaching in the engineering
school temporarily during the
summer quarter.
Levy was graduated from here
last month with a B.S. in aero­nautical
engineering. He will en­ter
the graduate school at Cali­fornia
Institute of Technology in
the fall. Mr. Elizondo is a stu­dent
in the graduate school at
Iowa State College. He will re­turn
there in the fall.
Meanwhile William Sherling,
instructor in engineering drawing
and design, is spending the sum­mer
with the National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics at
Langley Field, Va.<
To be granted leaves of ab­sence
at the end of the summer
quarter are Edward O. Jones Jr.,
mechanical engineering instruc­tor,
and Robert C. Haraway, elec­trical
engineering instructor. Both
will study at the University of
Illinois next fall.
Valley Authority arrived here
yesterday. He will give two il­lustrative
lectures on .the inter­relationship
of the human, natural
and social resources.
On July 13, J. A. Burdette,
Head, Section of Education, Re­gional
Information Division, U. S.
Department of Agriculture, will
arrive to spend three days at the
workshop to aid in the produc­tion
and use of instructional ma­terials,
Otto Holloway, director,
announced. •
Last week, the 18 members of
the workshop, namely .principals
and teachers in Alabama schools,
went on a field trip to the Avoft-dale
Mills in Sylacauga. Hugh
Comer, mill official, spoke to the
group.
The Resource-Use program is
one of the latest programs in the
field of education. Approximately
27 schools are cooperating with
it.
Enrolled in the Auburn Work­shop
for the summer quarter are
S. W. Ray burn, Slocumb; Noel
Hand, Heflin; T. R. McDurmqnt,
Dothan; Annie Lee Pritchett, De­catur;
Frank R. Stewart, Centre;
Lother B. Sibert, Cedar Bluff;
Maude Simpson, Cesseta; H. Cole­man
Sikes, Wedowee; Clara
Gibbs Daly,» Bessie Tift College,
Forsythe, Ga.; James F. Clements,
Brewton; Fred G. Youn?, York;
Kemon E. Welford, Excel; Lula
T. Kilpatrick, Atmore; Mrs. D.
P. Moore, Flomaton; Robert T.
Leigh, Auburn; Claude Hardee,
Beatrice; Thurston T. Nelson,
Ashland; and Fay Kirkland, Mon-roeville.
Miss Kirkland, who is
instructional supervisor of the
Monroe County schools, is assis­tant
to Mr. Holloway in the work­shop.
enrolled in school this summer.
How To Get Youis
The Glomeiata will be distri­buted
on a first-come-first-served
basis. Students who have been1
here three of the past four quar­ters
beginning with the summer
of 1947 are entitled to the year­book
without further charge. (It'
is paid for by student activity
fees). Distribution will take place
at the Glomerata office.
Students who have been here
for two of the past four quarters
pay $1.40; those who have been
here, one of the past four quar­ters
pay $2.80. To buy a Glome­rata
outright, if available, will
cost $4.50.
If the eligibility list being used
by the ' Glomerata is incorrect,
students may get a signed state­ment
from the Cashier's Office
certifying their attendance re­cord.
Cost and Cover
At a cost of approximately $38,-
000 the Glomerata is literally the
most colorful ever printed. It has
more square inches of color re­production
than any of its pre­decessors.
The cover was original­ly
done in water colors by Editor
John Shaffer. It was hailed by
Kingsport Press, nationally-fam­ous
cover manufacturers, as "Cov­er
of the Year." The company
will use it in their advertising as
the best of the year..
Students Do It
"Probably no other Glomerata
has been so nearly the work of
students alone," said John Shaf­fer,
editor.
Unlike many Glomeratas of the
past, not one cent was spent for
professional art work. The book
was designed from cover to cover
by the editor, an architecture
student. All art work was done by
Shaffer and students of the
school of architecture and the
arts.
All clerical work was done by
volunteers from sororities, frater­nities,
and dormitories. One of the
outstanding features of the book
is the "Time, Life, and Fortune"
style or writing which was done
by writers from The Plainsman
staff.
Good Business Management
Notwithstanding the prevail­ing
high costs of printing, en­graving,
materials, and photo­graphy,
the '48 book cost about
the same as last year's. With the
added expense of color reproduc­tion
and these high costs, the
handling of the '48 budget is a
tribute to Business Manager
"Bugs" Mimms. Fact is, the re­cords
show a profit! This fund
will be turned back into activity
fees for redistribution to other
student activities.
Why It Was Late
Distribution of the Glomerata
was scheduled for the latter part
of the spring quarter. All dead­lines
by staff members were met,
but - printing difficulties caused
late delivery.
Will Be Rated
The Glomerata is being enter­ed
in the National Scholastic
Press Association's annual com­petition.
Results will be announ­ced
in the fall.
Step Sing To Be Held
At Langdon Tomorrow
Step Sing, the regular summer
feature of the Auburn campus, is
being held each Thursday night.
Tomorow night's sing is set for
8 p.m. on the steps of Langdon
Hall. Dr. Hollace E. Arment will
lead the singing and will be as­sisted
by Billy Tamblyn at the
organ and Dilson Petrey at: the
piano.
Alpha Phi Omega service fra­ternity
sponsors the sings and as­sists
with arrangements.
A special soloist will be featur­ed
each week.
Auburn Plainsman
Published weekly by students of API, Auburn,
Ala. Editorial and business office on Tichenor
Ave., phone 448.
Deadlines: Organizational news,'want ads, etc.,
Saturday noon. Front or back page, Monday,
5 p.m.
Entered as second-class matter at the post-office
at Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates
by mail: $1.00 for 3 months, $3.00 for 12 months.
JIMMY COLEMAN
Graham McTeer
Tom Sellers :
Editor-in-Chief
Managing Editor
:_ Associate Editor
Business Manager
Advertising Mgr.
. Circulation Manager
Staff Members: Jack Simmsi Jim Forrester,
Al Steinberg, Leonard Hooper.
BILL ANDERSON
Charlie Jones
John Lanier
The Plainsman stands for. I'
An efficient educator and admin­istrator
to serve as Auburn's new
president.
Adoption of the name Auburn Uni­versity
in place of Alabama Poly­technic
Institute.
Institution of a cut system based
on scholastic averages.
An enlarged stadium with a mini­mum
of 30,000 seats.
The 1948 Glomerata Is The Best
We Have Even Seen; You'll Agree!
We are not sticking our necks out when
we say that the 1948 Glomerata is the
best we have ever seen.
Because we know you will agree.
John Shaffer and his editorial staff
have done an excellent job. The attrac­tive
layout and content throughout the
book can be attributed to Shaffer himself,
not to mention the colorful cover which
he.originally created in water color.
We believe, too, that you'ill notice with­out
our reminding you, the unique method
of advertising layout in the book. "Bugs"
Mimms and his business staff are respon­sible
for this.
Yes the book was late; but it's worth
the wait. It's the best.
'Alabama Polytechnic Institute'
Is Cumbersome; Let's Be Rid of It!
. Each week on this page a box is run
stating several things this publication
stands for. Up until May 12, one of the
planks was "Resumption of full athletic
relations between Auburn and the Uni­versity
of Alabama". When this became a
reality, naturally the plank was dropped.
Until a recent issue, another plank was "A
colorful, modern band, with a bandmaster
who can devote all his energies toward its
development." With the announcement
that funds for new uniforms and addition­al
equipment had been granted and that
an assistant leader and drillmaster had
been appointed, this plank was removed.
Another important p l a n k remains:
"Adoption of the name Auburn Universi­ty
in place of Alabama Polytechnic Insti­tute".
There has been a good bit said
about this resolution, but no action has
been taken. Most comments heard on the
subject are favorable, for there seem to
be few important obstacles blocking the
change. If there be any dissension over
the definition of "university," there is no
basis. According to an authoritative dic­tionary,
a university, especially in the
United States, is a college and one or more
graduate or professional schools. Nothing
could apply to Auburn more aptly.
There are several reasons for a change.
One is the general acceptance of the short
Auburn in place of the cumbersome Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute. Many people
in other parts of the country are baffled
when A.P.I, is mentioned, but the word
"Auburn" usually brings instant recog­nition.
In many notices given Auburn in
papers throughout the country, Auburn
University is actually used.
As Auburn's achievements steadily in­crease,
the term "University" becomes
more significant. The purchase of the
$18,000 art collection and the addition of
the Permanent Print Collection are steps
forward. Construction of the new engi­neering
lab is another. Athletic resumption
with the University and improving records
in all phases of athletics lend impetus to
the change of name.
The title of this institution has changed
from the original East Alabama Male Col­lege
to Alabama Agricultural and Me­chanical
College to the present name. Each
has been an advance. It is time to move
forward once more —and adopt "Auburn
University."
Survey Shows Job Prospects
Dwindle As Grads Flood Market
Since the class of 1948 has been delivered
into the open arms Of waiting employers,
now is a good time to take a look into
the future and speculate on job opportuni­ties
for those of us who are still strolling
along the educational path with our noses
in the air sniffing for4he odor of imprinted
sheepskin, i
A recent article in the U. S. News and
World Report gives some figures on em­ployment
prospects that cast a dark sha-down
over present students' hopes for
picking up that $100-a-week job.
According to the figures, there is going
to be a surplus of college graduates in the
near future. The class of 1948 is a jump
ahead of the crowd even though it num­bered
some 290,000. Next year, as the real
flood of graduates mounts the stage to re­ceive
diplomas, over 400,000 will be leav­ing
their respective alma maters. In 1950
no less than 500,000 more grads will be
looking for jobs.
With the swarm of 1949 graduates .flood­ing
the employment market, there will be'
only two or three fields still short of rheh-r-school-
teaching, medicine and specialized
S C i e n C e S ' ' • . k . t l * l : * i jj
Briefly, here is the picture.
Engineers—Prospects fair but will get
worse as 110,000 graduating student engi­neers
descend on the market within the
next three years.
Architects—Jobs are fairly plentiful, es­pecially
on the West Coast and in Texas.
However, 10,000 students are studying
this subject and there are but 14,000 licen­sed
architects now in the business.
Chemistry—Available positions filling up
rapidly but' vacancies will exist for those
taking specialized work for several years
at least. Also, with increased developments
in all fields the prospects in this field are
fairly good.
Lawyers—Even now graduating law­yers
are having a difficult time getting
positions and there are 50,000 more oh the
way. i
Journalism—We hate to admit it but
prospects are worse here than in any other
major field.
Business-Administration—Still a good
demand for these majors, but the future
will depend upon the trend of business in
general. Incidentally, this field has more
trainees than any other, no less than 311,-
000 veterans alone. t . , .
....Pharmacy—Prospects good but field may
fill up in the future.
Turning to the brighter side of the pic­ture,
the need for doctors, nurses, dentists
and teachers, especially at college level, is
still great and expected to remain that
way for quite a while.
Winding up the job forecast, the article
states that employers are more selective
in hiring new men, some companies con­sidering
only the upper 10 to 30 per cent of
a graduating class.
Average pay for the student just out of
college runs around $240 a month how,
but with the influx of thousands of hew
men and women, the salary rate will
probably be pushed down.
'v-
That about covers the picture for future
job opportunities. Confirming reports that
have been circulating among the classes
due to graduate within the next few years.
It also serves to emphasize that the better
work done now, the better chance you will
have to make the grade when the time
comes to look for that job.—The Texas A.
& M. Battalion.
He Who Studies Daily Need Not
Worry About Those Final Exams
Now is the time for all good men to
come to the aid of their studies.
Because this quarter ends August fi8
and the first thing we know, mid-quarter
deficiencies will be rolling in—then come
the final• exams.
Admittedly, examinations at Auburn
can be pretty rough. But any student who
finds examinations too much for him is
generally suffering not from overwork,
but from lack of mental exercise for the
several weeks previous to the examina­tion
period.
Speaking from experience, which has
been bitter at times, we have learned that
he who conscientiously keeps up with his
work from day to day need ever fear
examinations. If he has assimilated bit
by bit the teachings of his professors, all
that is necessary before the "dreaded
sessions" is a rather general review and a
good night's sleep.
Do-Nuts and Coffee By Bobs CHIPS
mJEFmF
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"Please! I insist that I was Ae first
to say 'Oh, well-if ypu insist'!"
**• *mm#-i**mm-
The Common Man By Tom Sellers
I was at the home of Mrs. G. recently and talked to her
oldest daughter, who is at home during the summer vacation
at Auburn. The girl has changed a great deal since she finished
high school. Her speech is affected,, she smokes cigarettes in­cessantly,
and her pretty face is painted with glaring shades
of red. She seemed bored at my questions, and wanted to talk
about her crowd at school.
Setters
Mrs. G. told me later that
Katherine had joined a sorority
and had met, to use her' own
Words, :"the most sophisticated
people on the campue." The dear
lady'was worried that her daugh­ter
Was smoking
and drinking too
[much. I tried to
comfort her as
b e s t I could,
[pointing out that
JKatherine's pet-jty
affections are
| part of a stage
J that most college
f l g i r l s pass
; through.
Wherever peo­ple
gather for in­tellectual
con­versation
pretenders to sophisti­cation
are to be found. Not only
college girls, but men and women
in all walks of life try to mimic
a movie star %: a character in a
novel. They sneer at naive stran­gers
unlucky enough to be caught
in their midst, swap subtle bits
of repartee that usually have a
faint odOr of sex, and wear wit­ty
phrases like gaudy baubles
pinned to their clothing. They af­fect
blase expressions, pojse their
cigarettes in the ait at a jaunty
angle, and read sophisticated
magazines in search of barbed'in­nuendoes
they can present as
their own. The Kinsey report sti­mulates
them for hours of banter
over stale coffee, but few have
the stamina to read it.
For the lazy individual, pseudo-
Sophistication is a substitute for
study and experience. He solves
abstract problems of science much
easier over hot coffee than over
hot chemicals. How s i m p le
he finds it to quote Time on the
qualities of a boote or a painting,
and how tedious it is for him to
formulate his own ideas. Reading
and research are weary tasks he
refrains from. His real battle of
Wits begins at a restaurant table,
where he cah make profound
statements and cut the world up
into neat segments for pigeonhol­ing.
True sophistication is a finished
product of the mind and heart.
It is like rare, old wine mellowed
in the cask of experience. There
is an intangible bouquet about it
that smacks of fine living among
fine people. The quality of it is
not sprained, and it fits the un­skilled
person like a bow tie
would fit sm oyster. *
I am inclined to believe that
simplicity and naturalness are
still virtues greatly to be desired
in anyone. In a society where
only a few are blessed with so­phistication,
most of us can only
hope to be ourselves. A blunt
pithy speech makes more sense
than a witty evasion, in any com­pany.
I am not trying to-say that
sophistication is wrong, but I do
believe that pretension to sophis­tication
is a petty vice that every
person should try to get rid of, if
he has it.
* * *
Seven hundred years ago a sad,
debt-ridden scholar at the Uni­versity
of Orleans in France wrote
his father for money. Except for
the style of lauguage, it might•
have been written today:
"Well-beloved father, I have
not a penny, nor can I get my
any save through you, for all •
things at the University are so '
dear: nor can I study my code or
my Digest, for they.are all tatt­ered.
Moreover, I owe ten crowns
in dues to the Provost, and can
find h o man to lend theni to me;
I send you word of greetings and
of money.
"The Student hath need of
many things if he will profit here;
his father" and his kin must needs
supply him freely, that he be not
compelled to pawn his books,
but have ready money in his purse
with gowns and furs and de­cent
clothing, 6r he will be dam­ned
for abeggar; wherefore, that
men may not take me for a beast,
I send you word of greetings and
of money.
"L'Envoy: Well-beloved father,
to ease my debts contracted at
the tavern, at. the banker's, with
the doctor and the bedells, and to
pay my subscriptions to the
laundress and the barber, I send
you word of greetings and of
money." ,
(The above letter comes from
"Life in the Middle Ages" by G.
G. Coultoh. Dr. Reynolds read it
to his History of England class
last week.)
FILE THIRTEEN By The
Editor
File 13—an old army term for 'Wailebasket*
Drunk: "Gimme a shinnariium
bum and a cupacawfee."
Waiter: "Sorry, sir, but we have
no cinnamon buns."
Stiff: "Then gimme a shinna-mum
bum and a glashamilk."
Waiter: "But I tell you we have
no cinnamon buns!" ,
>
Unbendable: "O.K., just gimme
a shinnamum bum."
* * *
Auburn is noted for its friend­liness
and above all for the hon­esty
and integ-
|§ rigty of its stu-
| dents. A profes-fj
sor was illus­trating
this point
to a group of
I visiting notables
' r e c e n t l y and
s a i d, "I was
walking across
our campus last
Wednesday and
I saw a five
Coleman dollar bill lying
in front of Langdon Hall. An
hour later I passed again and
someone had put a pebble on top
of it tff keep the wind from blow­ing
it away."
Vet Student's love song
Though you may have hygro-nosia
And arteriosclerosis,
Microphaly, paronoia, phobias
too,
Yet you cause me anesthesia,
Anorexia, paraesthesia.
'Cause you're my sugarcookie,
duckywucky you!
» • *
"There's no question on earth
that can't be answered with a di­rect
'yes' or 'no,' declared the
lawyer.
"You take the stand for a
moment and I'll show you," said
Lincoln. The lawyer took the
stand and Lincoln asked him—
" H a v e you q u i t beating
your wife?" The lawyer was in­dignant,
and Lincoln repeated his
question. The judge, laughing
heartily, insisteck-the lawyer must
answer, —from Life of Lincoln.
* * *
Customer: "You've charged me
80 cents and my check was for
only 75."
Cafe Cashier: "But you took
Ja»o tbbthfJieks."
Seed World: A recession is a
period in which you tighten your
belt. In a depression you have no
belt to tighten—and when you
have no pants to hold up, it's
a panic.
* * *
Suggestive Sue: "They say a
kiss shortens one's life three min­utes."
Follow Flip: "That so? Let's
kill off a few days."
* * *
Bright Boy: "What is the nobl­est
kind of dog?"
Slow Poke: "I give up."
Bright Boy: "The hot dog. It
not only doesn't bite the hand
that feeds it; it feeds the hand
that bites it."
* * *
"I'm forgetting women."
- "Same here. I'm for getting a
couple right away."
* * *
He knew he Wasn't particu­larly
popular with his father, but
he was a trifle startled when he
received a postcard from his
Europe-touring parent with this
message: "Dear Son: On the other
side of this card you will see a
picture of the rock from which
the Spartans used to throw their
defective children. Wish you were
here. Dad."
* * *
The roadster skidded around
the cornei-, jumped in the air,
knocked down a lamp post,
smacked three cars, ran against
a stone fence, and stopped. A girl
climbed out of the wreck. "Dar­ling,"
she exclaimed. "That's
what I call a kiss."—West Pointer.
* * *
Young co-ecf: "Oh, Dad, I've
just discovered that the girl who
sits next to me in Biology, has a
hat like mine."
Father: "Uh, huh. Now you
want a new hat, eh?"
Young co-ed: "Really, Dad,
even you should see it would be
cheaper than changing schools."
* * *
Teacher: "Give me a sentence
with the word antagonize."
Tough Kid: "Go*out antagonize
walk."
A Dash of Bitters By 3im ForrMtw
The army propaganda that is
put out to lure recruits into the
ranks has never been famed for
putting the facts right on the
line. The attitude has been much
like that of the famed Canadian
Royal Mounted Police (courtesy
of C. B. DeMille), altered just
a bit to make it "We get our man,
one way or another." If a private
concern were to stretch the truth
in its advertisements the way the
army does it would probably lay
itself open to the death penalty.
For example, there is a recruit­ing
poster out in front of the post
office. On it are depicted a tech
sergeant and a civilian. The
discharge button in the lapel of
the civilian labels him as a vete­ran.
Both men are obviously well-satisfied
with their lot. The sol­dier
is clad in crisp, well fitting
o.d.'s. The civilian is wearing a
beautiful gabadine top coat, pre­sumably
over a line, tailor made
suit. His tie is neat. He gives
every indication of being well-fixed.
The two men are beaming
with happiness. Their hands are
clasped in a comradely display of
good fellowship. Above them is
the caption, "Your friends are
coming back in". The inference
to be drawn, I suppose, is that
the army is being swamped with
applicants, the majority of whom
have served before and have de­cided
that there's just nothing
out in the world of civilians that
compares with the glories of army
life. Further, all your friends are
re-enlisting and unless you hur­ry
you'll be left out.
For some reason, that just
doesn't sound right. Seems like
they could think up a more plaus­ible
come-on than that. My
friends aren't going back in. Not
unless someone comes after them.
They had a taste of that good
old army, and didn't care too
much for it. In fact, they were
mighty glad to get out. Going
back in? Ha!
Nothing Here By Graham Mc*Mr
Consider the position the
country's voters would be in if
the highly improbable happened
—the nomination of Truman and
Roosevelt (Eleanor) at the-Demo­cratic
Convention, which has
been advocated by several pro­minent
persons.
Truman, the agitator for civil
rights, and Eleanor, whose hos­tility
to segregation is well
known. Earl Warren, Dewey's
running mate, as governor of
•California, has twice proposed
civil rights programs, only to be
defeated by statewide votes.
Dewey himself, as New York's
chief executive, was successful in
having the state legislature enact
a civil rights program.
On the third party ticket is
Henry Wallace, who won't even
address a segregated audience.
And Wallace's running mate,
Senator Glenn Taylor, was ar­rested
in Birmingham for enter­ing
the colored section of a segre­gated
audience.
Even as Truman admitted that
Mrs. Roosevelt would be accept­able
to him in the number two
position, she flatly refused to
take any interest in "any politi­cal
post." That eliminates one
civil rights advocate, but a con­vention
that would choose Tru­man
could easily find another for
the secondary post.
Truman, who laughed at the
idea of his withdrawing from the
race, is practically assured of the
nomination, with Eisenhower
continually repeating that he is
not great enough to defeat him,
and Republican Stassen, who has
been suggested by some, would
stand little chance of being selec­ted
by a convention of Democrats.
It's going to be difficult to cast
a ballot for a presidential candi­date
in November without voting
for a civil rights backer.
* ». *
Here's an interesting news item
of last week: Negro Girl Scouts of
Jefferson County, whose regular
camp near Bessemer was .visited
last month by a band of hooded,
white-robed men, will go to an
Atlanta camp, formerly used only
by white Girl Scouts, for a 10-day
camping period.
Georgia, of all places, to be re­moved
from the eiutch*es of the
Ku Klux.Klan.
The Exchange Post B*A1 s w i n b"«
He: "Drinking makes you
beautiful."
She: "But I don't drink."
He: "But I do."
—Boston College
* * *
The Navy ROTC Unit at Georgia
Tech is planning to sponsor a new
publication for students. The pa­per
is to be of primary interest
only to the NROTC Students, and
for their benefit.
* * *
Prof: "Didn't you have a bro­ther
in this course last year?"
Student: "No, sir, it was I. I'm
taking it over again."
Prof: "Extraordinary resem- '
blance, though—extraordinary."
—Miami Hurricane '
* * »
A Scot was engaged in an ar­gument
with a conductor as to
whether the fare was- 25 or 30
cents. Finally, the disgusted con­ductor
picked up the Scot's suit­case
and tosed it off the train
just as they passed over a bridge.
"Mon!" screamed trie Scot, "It
isn't enough to try to overcharge
me, but now you try to drown my
little boy!"
—Illinois tech
Given the unpleasant task of
breaking the news to a woman
that her husband had committed
suicide, a neighbor went to the
widow's house. "I bring you bad
news," he said. "Your. husband
just jumped into the river."
"Oh," sighed the woman, "him
and his new fountain pen."
—St. John's University
* * * *
Bridget, the maid, had just been
discharged. Extracting a $5 bill
from her roll, she threw it to
Fido.
Then the startled mistress
heard her say:
"Sur'n I niver fergit a friend.
That's for helpin' me wash the
dishes."
—Draper Inmate
* * *
Her lips quivered as they ap­proached
mine. My whole frame
shook as I looked into her blue
eyes. Her body trembled as our
lips met and I could feel my chest
heaving, my chin vibrating and
my body shuddering as I held
her to me.
Moral—Never kiss your girl in
a second hand car with the motor
running. —Miami Hurricane
By Leonard Hooper
"Po'kchop" Tolliver said, "This
coke reminds me of one I had
this morning between classes. I
looked around and saw three or
four of these schoolrmarms en­joying
their break too. One of
them had just lighted up a ciga-ret,
and she sure seemed to be
having a big time. That's a good
thing about the summer school—
the school-marms get to come
back here and wear saddle shoes,
smoke cigarets, and be coeds
again.
"You know, it's a crime that
back home, so many times, the
board of deacons and the board
of education are the same folks.
They expect their school teachers
to take over completely the train­ing
of their kid's minds, but they
don't let them enjoy normal hu­man
privileges.- The school board
members sit there chewing to­bacco
and smoking cigars while
they talk about firing a school­teacher
because she didn't want
to dodge around like a criminal
just to smoke a cigaret.
"I remember once when a
teacher got a tongue wagging at a
faculty picnic because she wore
a two-piece suit. She had a good
figure, too—nothing outrageous
about it except the way every­body
acted. It's a funny situation
in a way because schoolteachers
are supposed to carry civilization
and the latest ideas out to the
small towns. So when they try to
introduce some of these ideas,-
they get frowned on, at the least,
and kicked out of town some­times."
* * A
"Po'kchop," I asked, "did you
read about the bristle-thighed
curlew's nest being found?"
"Yes, I read that article in
Time," he said. "Did I ever tell
you about the time back in the
thirties when I was on Henry
Luce's Find the Man Who's Not
Interested in "Time" Expedition?"
"No," I said, "what was Henry's
idea this time?"
"He wanted to prove that prac­tically
everybody could find
something of interest in Time.
The bureau chiefs all over the
country ran preliminary surveys
to find totaly indifferent people,
and I was on a research team
which gave them a special test
by Alvin Eurich and Elmo Wil­son—
we had thousands of false
leads. At last we got hold of a
Montana sheepherder who had
answered "Duh-h-h" to every
question so far. He grabbed the
current issue from somebody's
pocket and started looking
through it. No reaction. Then he
saw a picture of Rita Hayworth.
He was alive all right."
WOMAN
She's an angel in truth, a demon
in fiction.
A woman's the greatest of all
contradiction.
She's afraid of a cockroach, she'll '
scream at a mouse,
But she'll tackle a husband as
big as a house.
She'll take him for better, she'll
take him for worse.
She'll split his head open, and
then be his nurse.
And when he is well and can get
out of bed,
She'll pick up a teapot and throw
at his head.
She's faithful, deceitful, keen- .
sighted and blind,
She's crafty, she's simple, she's
cruel, she's kind.
She'll lift a man up, she'll cast
a man down.
She'll make him her hero, her
ruler, her clown.
You fancy she's this, but you
find that she's that,
For she'll play like a kitten and
bite like a cat.
In the morning she will, in the
evening she won't
And you are always expecting
she does, but she don't.
* • *
Modern woman wants the
floor, but she doesn't want to
scrub it.
» - . * . . . • • • » *
A young lady cried piteously
after her young man proposed to
her.
"Why are you crying, dear?" he ,''J
asked. "Have I offended you?"
"No," she replied. "That's not
it. I am crying for joy. Mother
always said that I was such an
idiot that not even a donkey
would propose to me and now
one has."
* # »
When a woman finds out that
she's not the, only pebble on the
beach, she gets a little boulder.
Definition of a woman: some­thing
you can't live with and /£
something you can't live without.
*
3—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, July 7, 1D18
Rolls Up Shirtsleeves
NILES MAKES HIS OWN DULCIMERS
AND SINGS COMPOSERLESS SONGS
John Jacob Niles, specialist in
American folk songs who will
appear in concert here Tuesday,
makes his own dulcimers and
sings songs that have no known
composers.
His version of a dulcimer is a
flat wooden case shaped some­thing
like an oversized guitar,
with four to eight strings across
it. eH is shown with one of his
favorites on page one. Nile lets
all his new dulcimers age from
two to three years before using
them.
The songs he sings scarcely
have any known beginning. They
have simply been sung and han­ded
down by generations push­ing
on across the mountains and
through the forests, building the
towns and farms of early Ameri­ca.
They are songs of the out-of-doors,
and war, and love, religion
—the things that were most im­portant
to pioneers.
Niles wears bright-colored
shirts and usually takes off his
coat ant] rolls up his sleeves
wheh he performs. Actually he is
the only folk singer who is listed
along with Heifetz, Toscanmi, and
other musical immortals as a
Red Seal recording artist for the
RCA Victor Company.
He feels that Americans do not
realize and feel the 'importance'
of their own folk music and be­lieves
that some day it will be­come
a gold mine of musical ma­terial
for a whole school of
American composers, just as the
folk music of Central Europe
served Brahms, Beethoven, Mo­zart
and the rest. His job, in the
20th century, is to write it down
and keep it singing in the hearts
of the people so that it will never
be lost or forgotten.
CORRECTION
Joe Hafford is president of the
Auburn Math'Club—not Dick In-low
as stated in the Plainsman
recently. ,
; 3.
"*T"
FOR REAL SHOE VALUES
VISIT THE
V A R S I T Y
During our Clearance Sale Prices start at $5.95
Remembers the Name—I t will Save you Money
FISHING is the favorite past-time
of Dr. Ralph Draughon.
After a hard day at the office,
A u b u r n ' s Acting-President
spends, when possible, the re­maining
hour or two of daylight
fishing. He is shown here hold­ing
"the catch" during a fish­ing
trip between quarters.
STUDY WIDOWS PLAN
TUESDAY MEETING
The Study Widows Club will
meet in Social Center at 7:30
p.m. Tuesday, July 13. Hostesses
will be Mesdames Elouise Harris,
Ruth Hall, and Kate McGrady.
All veterans' wives are invited
to attend.
DEAN POOR NAMED
TO DIRECTORS OF
OAK RIDGE STUDIES _.
Dr. Russell S. Poor, dean of
the graduate school and director
of the Auburn Research Founda­tion,
has been named to the board
of directors of the Oak Ridge In­stitute
of Nuclear Studies.
Dean Poor returned this week
from a meeting of the board. Five
additional southern universities
have been named to the Institute.
They are the universities of Ark­ansas,
Florida, Georgia, Missis­sippi,
and Louisville, bringing
southern representation to a total
of 19 universities.
Under The Spires
Appliance Industry Looks To Colleyi
Grails To Carry Forth Sales Colors
v~~~~. h fc^fc» • • m^-mm mimm^n
One-third of the nation's 1947
automobile fatalities occurred on
the open highway. Heed speed
limits!
MALONE'S
Will buy ALL your Books of value
even though no longer used at
MALONE'S STUDENT BOOK EXCHANGE
Evening Altars Advance
The latest report on Evening
Altars comes from the Garden
Courts area (260 South Gay). It
all started last Wednesday even­ing
at 6:30 in room 2-L. A small
group of boys assembled in Bil­ly
Seale's room for the purpose
of starting a Bible study class.
For some time now these boys
have felt a definite need for such
a program in their area.
The boys chose the book of
Romans for their study this quar­ter.
Billy Seale is leading the
study, using an outline made up
by Dr. Charles R. Erdman as a
guide.
The meeting lasted 45 minutes,
during which the first chapter of
Romans was read and discussed.
This program will continue
throughout the summer quarter.
Any and all male students are
invited to attend.
PHI KAPPA TAU
REPORTS'TWELVE
MEN ARE PLEDGED
Alpha Lambda Chapter of Phi
Kappa Tau fraternity, has form­ally
plegded 12 new men.^They
are Edward J. Hugensmith, Jr.,
Jack C. Durant, William C. Fred-lund,
and J. Brown Cooper, Jr.,
Birmingham; Gerald C. Kincaid,
Jr., and Raymond L. Rowan,
Leeds; Robert H. Forbus, Alex­ander
City; Richard E. Powell,
Selma; William M. Falkenberry,
Uniontown; Ralph T. Davis, En­terprise;
and Donald L. McKes­son,
Miami, Fla. These men com­prise
the second class to start un­der
Phi "Tau's hew two quarter
pledgeship ruling.
With the seturn of the buyer's
market, the major appliance in­dustry
is looking to the nation's
campuses for bright young men
to carry forth its sales colors.
One, Thor Coi-poration, of Chi­cago,
a leading manufacturer < of
home '.appliances, admits frankly
it wants 10,000 college men to
join its dealer sales force.
"The old order-taking days are
over," Jason Hurley, Thor vice-president
declared, "and Thor is
intensifying its effort to rebuild a
fast-moving, hard-hitting dealer
sales organization.
• "The new crop of graduates—
85 per cent of them war veterans
—fills the bill as a nucleus for
such an organization."
The sales job is a lucrative one,
Mr. Hurley said, explaining that
in many section of the country,
new salesmen are reported re­ceiving
commissions ranging from
$40 to $125 each week.
The sales opportunities are not
limited to university graduates,
but also are available to under­graduates,
who can find in them
the chance to combine summer-earning
with invaluable sales
training under the guidance of
keen, experiencdti dealers.
Mr. Hurley, himself a World
War II veteran, said he was im­pressed
by the "seriousness" of the
present crop of predominantly
veteran graduates and students,
stating "these men are mindful
they must dig in and learn the
business from the ground up."
The appliance executive stress­ed
that, in addition to forming
Westminster House
To Hold "Beach Party"
Westminster F e l l o w s h i p is
honoring all new students with a
"Beach Party" Saturday, July 10,
at 7:30 p.m. The party will be held
at Westminster House on 148 S.
Gay. All who come are asked to
wear informal beach clothing.
All Auburn students are invited.
the nucleus of a rebuilt dealer
sales organization, the new stu­dent
or graduate-salesman w i ll
form the group from which the
corporation ultimately will draw
its sales executives.
Another advantage, he said, is
that the new salesmen can be
employed in his hometown, where
he has established housing. He
therefore does not have to move
to a new city and begin the dis­appointing
hunt for new quarters.
Mr. Hurley said that Thor:
manufacturer of ironers and
and clothes and dishwashing
machines, is instructing its dis­tributors
and dealers to screen
any such applicants that are
available.
FOR MEN ONLY /?? Lon Dree
Scales Radio Co.
135 No. College St.
PHONE 762
'Service is Our
Specialty"
SAWING A WOMAN IN HALF
An old practice, spectacular but harmless, which left no
ill affects on the lady involved. Slaving over a back-breaking
wash tub, although an old practice, is on the contrary, quite
harmful and tiring. Relieve your wife of any "wash-day blues".
Encourage her to bring the laundry to HIGGINS' SELF-SERVICE
AUTOMATIC LAUNDRY . . . Bendix machine
method.
Located in alley-way directy in rear of Lipscomb's Drug
Store. Drive between bus station and Auburn Cab Co. straight
ahead until new white concrete laundry house may be seen
near water tank. i
SELF SERVICE LAUNDR
Skop -CUMe vou -Wask" -
AUBURN. A L A . ' PHONE 118^
CLEARANCE SALE CONTINUES
BIO REDUCTION
ON ALL MEN'S SLACKS
' At the last meeting the follow­ing
pledge officers were elected:
William Falkenberry, president;
Dick Powell, vice-president; Bob
Forbus, secretary-treasurer; and
Bob McKesson, chaplain.
The chapter will honor the new
pledges with a party this week­end.
There will be a house dance
Saturday night following the out­ing.
L
STUDENT SUPPLIES
School books and supplies are available at
reasonable prices
' N^xt to Main Library
Phone 960-Extension 347
COLLEGE SUPPLY STORE
5.95 —- .Down to
6.95
795
8.95 :
10.95- -, I - , - : -—
12.95 i
15.95 —i- - --
WHILE THEY LAST!
4.50
5.10
5.95
6.75
8.75
10.00
11.95
Dresses
and
Blouses
V3&V4
Drastic Reduction
on
White & Fancy Shirts
Sport Shirts and T-Shirts
Beautiful
Luggage
Reduced
1/3
THRASHER-WRIGWT, Inc.
HOMER "JUG" WRIGHT
Class of '43
L. Z. THRASHER
Class of '42
m + *>i*mm+-m'm*b + m*nmmi+~~* *.—4 I l «~
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3
on your 61 omera
Picture Appointment
s KEEP IT!
All students are eligible . . . students from any class, any school can make ap­pointments.
Pictures are paid for through student activities fund allotment to
the Glomerata, so be sure to have your picture made in order to have a good
representation for your class in the 1949 yearbook. Appointments can be sched­uled
at the Glomerata office between 1-5 p.m. or at Broun 104 between 8-12 a.m.
The only requirements for dress are that boys wear light coats, dark ties, and
white shirts; and girls wear white blouses.
IMEJR
* THEATRE*
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
JULY 7-8
NAKED CITY
With
BARRY FITZGERALD
HOWARD DUFF
Also: Inki at the Circus
(Cartoon)
News No. 90
FRIDAY JULY 9
LAST OF THE
MOHICIANS
•With, *
RANDOLPH SCOTT
BINNIE BARNES
Also: Hounding the Hares
(Cartoon)
Land of Romance
SATURDAY JULY 10
NEWS HOUNDS
With
v EASTSIDE KIDS
Also: Flat Feat
There's Good Boo's Tonight
SUNDAY, MONDAY
& TUESDAY JULY 11. 12, 13
HOMECOMING
With
CLARK GABLE
LANA TURNER
. ANNA BAXTER
JOHN HODIAK
Also: News No. 91
4—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, J u l y 7, 1948
Minister To Students Is New Post
To Westminster And To Eugene Poe
The position of Minister to Stu­dents
at Westminster House is a
new one for that organization and
for its holder, Eugene P. Poe.
"Gene" was ordained as Student
Minister the latter part of last
quarter, and is now only begin­ning
his work here.
Gene is a native of Rocking­ham,
N.C. He received his A.B.
Degree from Elon College at Elon,
N.C. His Bachelor of Divinity is
from Columbia Seminar, Decatur,
Ga. At Elon College, he was a
member of Delta Psi Omega dra­matic
fraternity, vice-president of
the student body during his senior
year, and. president of his fresh­man
and sophomore classes.
Before taking the position here,
Gene served as assistant pastor
in Miami, Fla. and in LaFayette,
Ala. Upon his arrival here, he was
in charge of services at the Pres­byterian
Church for two Sundays,
filling in until the arrival of Dr.
Leith, recently appointed pastor.
Gene has been particularly im­pressed
with the interest of stu­dents
in religious affairs and with
the cooperation of different re­ligious
groups on the campus.
With all of his .experience be­hind
him, Gene is only 24. His
youth and unassuming manner
attract him to Presbyterian stu­dents
here, with whom the ma­jority
of his work is. One of his
main jobs is as counsel to stu­dents
in religious, social, and
other matters. He has just return­ed
from a 10-day leaders' con­ference
at Montreat, N.C, where
the major discussions dealt with
personal counsel. Gene welcomes
any student to consult him in re­ligious
problems.-
WSGA Entertains New
Students With Novel
'Red Sock' Party
New freshmen women and
transfer students were entertain­ed
at a "red sock" party presen­ted
by WSGA in Student Center
last week. All who attended wore
red socks and checked their shoes
at the door. A big red "welcome"
sock was at the entrance and
smaller socks decorated the walls.
After a period for becoming
aquainted, a program of games
was held. Winners were awarded
huge red baloons.
Dean Katharine Cater and Miss
Jane Walden were special guests.
Gene" Poe
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Telephone 193 Auburn
Our exclusive Sanitone Service offers you
the finest dry cleaning you can buy. Your
clothes receive special'attention—are pressed
and reshaped by experts.
TAU BETA PHI MEETS;
APPOINTS MEMBERS
TO COMMITTEES
At a recent meeting of the Au­burn
chapter of Tau Beta Pi,
engineering fraternity, new mem­bers
were welcomed and new of­ficers
were introduced by John
Eddins, president.
Members appointed to commit­tees
for the summer are: L. L.
Levy, Judson Hawthorne, W. C.
Clark, Gordon Loftin, J. E. Co­ward,
James A. Steele, John H.
Eastman, Hugh M. DeJarne*tte,
George Elias, Ray Donaldson, S.
M. Bostick, Joseph Hafford, T. H.
Whitfield, W. A. Edwards, Clive
Luke, J. H. Whitt, and Claude
King.
Summer projects outlined were:
formal presentation of a request
for more fountains in Ramsay
Hall, research on the present
status of almni and scholistic
achievement of the chapter, and
a social affair.
ALPtfA DELTA PI'S
GET RECOGNITION
Miss Mildred Pruitt, president
of Alpha Delta Pi sorority, who
is attending the national conven­tion
in Jersey City, N. J., has wir­ed
the local alumnae association
that the Auburn chapter has been
awarded two beautiful silver ttays
in recognition of achievement and
magazine subscriptions.
Miss Pruitt is now attending a
post convention house-party in
New York City as guest of the
Alpha Delta Pi chapters of that
state,. She expects to return via
Wesleyan College in Macon, Ga.,
the site of the first ADPi chapter.
PiKA PLEDGES
ELECT OFFICERS
Members of the Pi Kappa Al­pha
pladge class held an election
of officers at their regular meet­ing
Thursday night.
The new officers are William
O. Walton, Jr., president; Thomas
N. Kennedy, first vice-president;
Arthur T. Heuer, Jr., second vice-president;
Walter J. Weatherly,
secretary; James M. Wefcer, trea­surer;
E. J. Mc Arthur, social
chairman; David Sanderson, re­porter;
and Charles Brunson, ser-geant-
at-arms.
Correction!
James O. Harbin was acci­dentally
omitted from the
school of education dean's List
for last quarter. He is a junior
in ag education from Grant,
Ala., and had, an average of
3.83.
FOR SALE: Booktase .seven
shelves, • holds approximately
120 books. May be seen any­time
during day at 220^ S.
Gay, Apt. B.
RHYTHM STYLE DANCE
STUDIO located temporarily at
281 E. Thach. Open Daily from
4 to 6 p.m. and 3 to 9 p.m. and
on Saturday from 9 to 12 a.m.
Call 926-A for appointments.
"For tops in
smoking pleasure
you can't find
a better cigarette
than Chesterfield."
VARSITY
D/STIUCTIVELY STYLED
MO PER A TEL Y PR/CED
SHOESy^MEN
mm THE MILLIONS of COLLEGE STUDENTS
WHO SMOKE CHESTERFIELDS
Cabinet Minutes
Meeting of June 29, 1948
The meeting was called to or­der
by Pres.ident Dick O'Cain.
The minutes were read and ap­proved
with corrections. The roll
was called and the following
member was absent: Forrest
Peterman.
Sammy Kirkland, chairman of
the Ring Committee, reported the
sale of 204 rings during the spring
quarter. He stated that a new
method of selling rings would be
used. The rings would be sold
Thursday and Friday of this week
at Main Gate. "Buck" Byrd was
elected to serve on the Ring Com­mittee
for the Summer.
Donnie Grimes was elected to
serve on the Rat Cap Committee
for the summer quarter.
Paul Sarvis, Jim Forrester,
DiGk O'Cain were elected to ser­ve
on the Invitation Committee
for the summer. ' -
Guy Coffeld was elected chair­man
of the Student Relation's
Committee.
Glover Pugh's name was sub­mitted
as ex-officio representa­tive
from Ag. Council.
Respectfully submitted:
Gilmer Blackburn
Secretary
Approved;
Dick O'Cain, President
Student Executive Cabinet
CLASSIFIED ADS
FOR SALE: New 5-room
brick house. Call 1059-XJ.
MODERN TWO-ROOM House
located three blocks from Au­burn
High School. Can be, fi­nanced
at low rate of interest,
up to 75% of cost. Write P.- O.
Box 242 or phone 515-W, Au­burn.
ATTENTION! Children cared
ior from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. six
days a week. Entire house for
nursery only. BIDE WEE
HOURS NURSERY, 314i/2 N.
Gay Street, phone 1001.
FOR SALE: Jeep in good con­dition.
Has leather seat covers,
radio, and heater. See Ronnie
Butler, Phi Delta Theta House.
The Puzzle Corner
IN A FRIENDLY
ATMOSPHERE
You'll like our- courteous
help and pleasant surround­ings.
STEAKS CHICKEN
SEAFOOD
AUBURN GRILLE
Sponsored by the Auburn Math Club
Here's a new way to go nuts, if that 10 o'clock class hasn't al­ready
driven you there. You intellectuals, you guys that can solve
anything, anywhere, anytime, here's something to challenge your
record. Every we"ek there will appear in this space two or three
mathematical puzzles of fairly simple types. You can use them dur­ing
a pleasant English class.
Here's how they work: In the first puzzle below every letter
should be replaced with a numeral so that the result will give you
a correct problem in multiplication. Every time the same letter ap­pears
the same should be placed. . ,
The second problem is of the same type only it is division (and"
I might add that it's the hardest of the three, I haven't solved
the blasted thing yet myself).
The third is very simple. The problem is to find "n", or the
power that the first number must be raised to in order to give he
second.
All right, go to it. The answers will be published with next,,
weeks puzzle. Good Luck!
(1) MA
. AN
m t
PA
AR
SMA
(2) BY GOSH
GUS
(I wonder if that means that Ma and Pa
are small or smart?)
NO (Which might be translated to
read: By gosh No, Gus. Neh!
Gee, Me? UH!)
NEH'
GME
UH
(3)(??7)n = 3?????3
HURRY! HURRY!
BIG SUMMER CLEARANCE
SALE CONTINUES
Hundreds of Items including Suits,
Shoes, Shirts, Sportswear, Slacks,
Underwear and Jackets
Reduced 20% fi 50%
WARD & HYDE
Joe Ward Walton Hyde
•• i
The t
SMARTEST
BOYS
GIRLS
AT AUBURN
BUY THEIR CLOTHES
at
LOVEMAN'S
MARTIN
Phone 439
OPELIKA, ALA.
"Where happiness costs so
little"
TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
JULY 6-7
Added
Comedy: Sing A Song of
Six Pants
Sport: Rodeo Thrills and
Spills.
THURSDAY & FRIDAY
JULY 8-9
Added
Fox News
Henry Busse & Orchestra
SATURDAY JULY 10
Double Feature Program
NUMBER 1
THE DURANGO KID
TO THE
RESCUE!
NUMBER 2
Added
Serial: 1st Chapter Jesse
James Rides Again.
Cartoon: Walt Disney's
Chip'n Dale
SUNDAY & MONDAY
JULY 11-12
Edward C.
ROBINSON
, Butt
LANCASTER
ML MY
SONS"
_ w i*
Mady CHRISTIANS
Howard DUFF
~> I touiia HORTON.
BIRMINGHAM
Added
Fox News
Cartoon: Curious Puppy
TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
JULY 13-14
TbOHdhi
O'Connor
\ouja San Juan
i ARE YOU
WW IT?
Sport: Ride Ranchero Ride
Screen Snapshots.