1943-01-29 The Auburn Plainsman

              mm 'TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT'
-VOLUME LXVI ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1943 NUMBER 58
Paralysis Drive Nets
Half Goes to Warm Springs;
Balance To Be Used Here
Over $350.00
WSGA MEMBERS TO
TAKE OVER OFFICES
Results of One-day Campaign Announced
By Omicron Delta Kappa and Lions Club
Over three hundred and fifty dollars has already been of­ficially
received as a result of the one-day, campus-wide in­fantile
paralysis drive held in Auburn on Wednesday. Pete
King, president of Omicron Delta Kappa, .in announcing
these figures, stated that it was probable that the final tab­ulation
of donations would place the amount collected well
above the four hundred dollar
mark.
The Omega chapter of Omicron
Delta Kappa sponsored the stu­dent
drive in cooperation with
the Auburn Lions Club, which
was in general charge of the city-campaign.
ODK enlisted the aid
of Blue Kay, Executive Cabinet,
the Women's Student Govern­ment
Association, and other cam­pus
organizations in their student
appeal.
Classes were not canvassed this
year. Instead tables were placed
at the Main Gate, in the General
Classroom Building, Samford
Hall, Ross Chemical Laboratory,
and on Ag and Vet Hills. Despite
the bad weather many contribu-1
tors stopped at these tables to i
make donations and to sign their I
names at the end of a
birthday letter to be sent to
President Roosevelt.
Scarab Selects
Three NewMen;
Elect Officers
At the last regular meeting of
the Khufu Temple of Scarab, na­tional
honorary architectural fra­ternity,
new officers were elected.
These new men who were chosen
to serve the local Chapter were:
S. D. Collier, pres., Montgomery;
Fred Duggar, vice-pres., Mont­gomery;
Z. A. Snipes, sec.-treas.,
Atlanta, Ga.; Albert Williams,
Sergeant-at-arms, Montgomery.
Scarab recently tapped and
initiated three outstanding mem-y.
r . ,bers of Botegga, a local honorary
gigantic | F r a t e r n j t y £or architectural stu-dents
before it merged with
Scarab National: Raymond Carl
Fraternities on the campus each j s i z e m o r e i -Montgomery, formerly
gave ten dollars, and all other
organizations were asked for five
dollar gifts.
It is hoped that it will be pos­sible
to hold a Birthday Ball at
Alumni Gym tomorrow night. An
announcement concerning this
will be made either today during
the physical training period, or
tomorrow during drill period.
Fifty per cent of the total funds
received during the paralysis
drive is to go to the Lee County
state president of American Insti­tute
of Architects; Clyde Collins
Pearson, the president of the
state A.I.A.; and Edwin Bragg
Lancaster, for twenty years a
practicing architect in this state
and now a Professor in the Con­struction
Dept of the Architectur­al
school.
Navy Opens Enlistment
For Cadet Training
The Navy has opened up the
enlistment of 17-year-old high
school seniors and graduates, in­cluding
college students, for Avi­ation
Cadet training, an official
announcement from the Naval
Aviation Cadet Selection Board,
in Atlanta, said today.
Under the new program, 17-
year-old high school seniors and
graduates will be enlisted as Ap­prentice
Seamen in the Navy's
V-5 classification. Upon their
graduation from high school and
on attaining the age of 18, the
Apprentice Seamen, V-5, USNR,
will then be transferred to the
status of Aviation Cadets, V-5,
USNR.
To be eligible for enlistment,
students must be enrolled in an
accredited high school or second­ary
school with a reasonable ex­pectation
of graduation by June
30 of the fiscal year in which
they enlisted. They must have a
scholastic standing in the upper
half of their class. An applicant
must be enrolled in courses which
will, upon completion, meet ac­credited
college entrance require­ments,
and each applicant must
be recommended by a faculty
board.
Physical requirements remain
the same except that the mini­mum
weight has been reduced to
115 pounds, provided weight is
in proportion to height.
All enlistments in the South­east
will be handled through the
Naval Aviation Cadet Selection
Board, but Lieutenant Command­er
S. M. Nordhouse, USNR,. Of-ficer-
in-Charge of that Board,
said Navy Recruiting Stations and
Sub-stations are assisting in the
processing of applications.
Auburn students who are in­terested
in s u c h enlistments
should see Kirtley Brown.
Crippled Children's Clinic, while
the other half will go to the
Warm Springs Foundation.
Pi Tau Sigma Selects l6 Men
In Mechanical Engineering
New Men Selected from Junior Class
Because of Scholarship and Achievement
Chi Chapter of Pi Tau Sigma,
national honorary mechanical
engineering fraternity, tapped 16
Auburn juniors in their selections
for the winter quarter. Pi Tau
Sigma, one of the newest honor
groups on the campus, honors
outstanding student work in the
field of mechanical engineering,
in respect both to scholarship and
campus achievement.
The new tappees are:
Paul G. Barksdale, A l p ha
Lambda Tau from 'Huntsville.
Barksdale is a member of ASME
and SAME.
William V. Bishop, Sigma Chi
pledge from Birmingham,
William C. Brady, Jr., of Grove
Hill. Brady is a member of Kap­pa
Sigma social fraternity and
of ASME and SAME.
Frank Bridgers, Sigma Chi
from Birmingham.
James L. Flinn, of Centerville,
Tennessee.
Asa B. Fulled, ASME member
from Cullman.
Homer B. Hudson, Jr., Lambda
Chi Alpha from Birmingham.
Warren G. Johnston, of Owassa.
Philip Lett, of Midland City.
Lett is a member of Lambda Chi
Alpha social fraternity and of
SAME.
Sam L. Patton, Sigma Alpha
Epsilon from Montgomery.
Richard K. Peck, Jr., Sigma
Alpha Epsilon from Jacksonville,
Florida.
Howard J. Powell, SAME mem­ber
from Mobile.
Edward J. Richburg, of Opp.
Charles B. Spiess, ASME and
'SAME member from Clarksville,
Tennessee.
Robert H. Svenson, ..Jr., of
Florence. He is a member of Al­pha
Phi Omega, and of Theta
Chi social fraternity.
There will be a meeting of all
initiates on Monday afternoon at
5 o'clock in Ramsey 202B.
Phi Kappa Phi Fetes
Initiates of Society
Dunaway New
Alpha Zeta Head
The Alabama Chapter of Alpha
Zeta, national agricultural ser­vice
fraternity, elected officers
for the coming quarter at the reg­ular
meeting Monday night. The
ones chosen are as follows: Bob
Dunaway, Chancellor; Durwood
Tyler, Censor; Clark Hereford,
Scribe; Vernon Perry, Treasurer;
and Emerson Evans, Chronicler.
These officers will be installed at
the regular meeting next Tues­day
night at 8 p. m.
Three years ago under the in­fluence
and guidance of a group
of alumni Alpha Zeta men at Au­burn,
an Alpha Zeta Club was
organized. Then on April 5, 1941,
with installation ceremonies and
instructive talks made by the
High Council members and two
founders, Dr. C. W. Burkett and
Dean John F. Cunningham, the
A.P.I, chapter became a part of
the national fraternity.
Selection of members for this
fraternity is made from students
of agriculture and agricultural
education who have proven them­selves
in scholarship, service,
leadership, and character. Very
carefully consideration is given
each prospective member before
selection is made; thus one should
indeed consider it an honor to be
a member of Alpha Zeta.
New Members Include
Recently Elected
Dormitory Presidents
The Phi Kappa Phi, national
honor society, initiates were the
guests of honor at the Faculty
Forum Monday night when Dr.
Raymond G. Paty spoke.
Dr. Paty, who is President of the
University of Alabama, directed
his remarks to the new members
of the society. Occupying reserved
seats, they were introduced by the
President, P r o f e s s o r L i l ly
Spencer.
Phi Kappa Phi was organized
for the purpose of encouraging
scholarship and original study
among professors, graduates and
undergraduates, students. It is
composed of high ranking stu­dents
from Auburn's ten schools.
The new pledges include the
following:
School of Agriculture: Thomas
Edward Cor ley, Kelly ton; Ralph
L. Davis, Kennedy; Perry Adol-phus
Dunn, Deatsville; Joseph
Henry Yeager, Cullman.
School of Architecture: Annis
Watkins, Birmingham.
School of Chemistry and Chem­ical
Engineering: Margaret Kil-burn,
Florence; John Bruce Mar­tin,
Auburn; Ralph E. Styring, Jr.,
Birmingham.
School of Pharmacy: Stanley
Warren Phv.i, Tallassee.
Schoo' 'dt Education: Lea Brac-kin,
Headland; Benjamin Willis
Dickey, Calhoun; Attie Anderson
Fleming, Bear Creek; Dorothy
Francis Floyd, Opelika; William
Frank Jenkins, Bangor; Lucretia
Helen Perry, Auburn.
School of Engineering: Ray­mond
A. Azbell, Sheffield; Mal­colm
Cade Cook, Union Springs;
William Joseph Duncan, Deca­tur;
George Carrington Garden,
Birmingham; Victor Carl Hicks,
Eutaw; Robert Palfrey Kloeti,
Havana, Cuba; Ross Martin, Jr.,
Birmingham; Sanford M. Martin;
Eliah Pincus Perlman, Pensacola;
William Cooper Richter, Savan­nah;
Perry Alexander S e a y ,
Brundidge; P. McCall Smith,
Birmingham.
School of Home Economics:
Dorothy Fenn, Union Springs;
Marilyn Ann Meagher, Auburn;
Nancy Jane Webster, St. Peters­burg,
Fla.
(Continued on Page 6)
Cabinet Will
Sponsor War
Bond Drive
Henry Park, president-elect of
the Executive Cabinet stated that
the Executive Cabinet would lay
the plans and sponsor the War
Bond campaign for the school.
Members of the Morale Com­mittee
of the faculty and the
president-elect of the Executive
Cabinet met in conference with
Mr. Charles K. Morse, a repre­sentative
of the War Savings De­partment,
yesterday afternoon in
Samford Hall. The purpose of the
meeting was to discuss ways and
means of selling War Bonds and
Stamps on the campus at Au­burn.
Mr. Morse told the group of the
many plans followed in the dif­ferent
schools. He pointed out
that there are many reasons why
a person should purchase War
Bonds and Stamps. First of all,
by so doing, a person helps to buy
the tanks, guns, ammunition, and
planes that are so badly needed
by our armed forces today. Sec­ondly,
there is the advantage of
having a savings account with
the government, a n d thirdly,
these purchases help remove the
serious threat of inflation.
Raise $17,000
Mr. Morse said that students at
Northwestern ..University raised
$17,000 in one day from the sale
of bonds and stamps.
In discussing the War Bond
campaign with a boy in an East­ern
college who was preparing to
go into the Army, Mr. Morse was
told, "I'm not worried so much
about what's going to happen to
me from here on out as I am
about some of the things I've
done back down the line that
may come back to haunt me." In
other words, the young man was
sorry he hadn't done as much as
he could.
Those attending the meeting
were: Henry Park, president­elect
of the Executive Cabinet;
R. B. Draughon, Executive Sec­retary;
A. J. Robinson; Dr. B. F.
Cox; Paul Irvine; and Arthur
Harris, Plainsman representative.
New Members Are
Guests or Honor At
Faculty Forum
Twenty-two newly e 1 e ct e d
members of the Women's Student
Government were installed at the
regular meeting of the Women's
Convocation yesterday. Seven­teen
students of this number
were presidents and vice presi­dents
of the dormitories who
were elected Wednesday and an­nounced
yesterday. The other
five were regular WSGA offic­ers
who were elected last week.
Mildred Brown Davis, retiring
president, led Blanche Ellis in the
oath of office of WSGA presi­dent.
Miss Ellis then led the re­maining
21 officers in the pledge
and as the new council filed on
the stage, the retiring officers,
led by Miss Davis, marched off.
House Presidents
House presidents and vice-presidents
installed were: dormi­tory
1, Emogene Vick, president,
Margaret Gilbreath, vice-presi­dent;
dormitory 2, Eula Jo Coop­er,
president, Sarah Kirkwood,
vice-president; dormitory 3, Dot-tie
Norman, president, Margaret
Tucker, vice-president; dormitory
4, Betty Wilmore, president, Edith
Anderson, vice-president; Smith
Hall, Bobelle Sconiers, president,
vice-president to be elected;
Alumni, Helen Leahman, presi­dent,
Joan Cousins, vice-presi­dent;
Mell St. House, Mary Pop-well,
president, Ray Chapman,
vice-president; Susan Smith, Au­drey
Wilson, president, Katherine
Houston, vice-president. Tempo­rary
officers for the Diamond
Apartments are Margaret Adams,
president, and Brownie Ann
Holmberg, vice president.
Officers
Regular WSGA officers in­stalled
were :Blanche Ellis, presi­dent;
Bettye Mason, vice-presi­dent;
Tays Tarvin, secretary;
Marjorie McKinnon, town repre­sentative,
and Marjorie Prince,
representative to the executive
cabinet.
Engineers Will Pick
Queen on February 3
Rew, Glenn, Toomer, Anderson Selected
To Be on Ballot by Engineer's Council
The Engineer's queen, who will rule over the Engineer's
Ball, will be elected from four girls selected by the Engineer's
Council Wednesday afternoon. The election will be held on
February 3.
The co-eds selected were:
Margaret Rew. Auburn, a fresh­man
in education and a member
of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority.
Sara Glenn, Opelika, a sopho­more
in the school of science and
literature and a member of Alpha
Delta Pi sorority.
Margaret Toomer, Auburn, a
freshman in the school of science
and literature and a member of
Kappa Delta sorority.
R e i d Anderson, Greenville,
S. C, who is a senior in commer­cial
art.
The Queen will be elected by
the members of the Engineering
school. Ballot boxes will be open
in Ramsey Hall throughout the
day.
The Engineer's Ball will be
held at nine o'clock Wednesday
night, February 10, in Girl's Gym
on Opelika Road. A script dance,
the admission price will be $0.50
for stag or date tickets.
Through Mrs. Spidle's permis­sion,
sophomore and freshman
girls may count the night as one
of their week-end dates: -The
dance will be over at 12:00, and
the girls must be in at the usual
time as on dance nights.
In order to prevent overcrowd­ing
the hall, only a limited num­ber
of tickets will be sold by the
members of the Engineer's Coun­cil.
The Auburn Knights will
furnish music for the dancing.
Theta Epsilon
Taps 15 New
Members
Fifteen juniors majoring in
home economics were tapped for
membership in Theta Epsilon
honor society yesterday. They
were selected for their scholastic
records, their leadership, and
their interest in home economics
activities.
Those selected were: Mary Lou
Thompson, Dorothy Palmer, Hilda
Fredrick, Mildred Hatchett, Mary
Loranz, Dorothy Norman, Johnnie
Hovey, Nell Moseley, Jane Ann
McCall, Helen Lehman, Mary
Will Creel, Blanche Ellis, Kathryn
Gunter, Edith Hunt, and Martha
Blake.
THIS ISSUE
. This issue of The Auburn
Plainsman was under the whole
and direct supervision of Wil­liam
Buck Taylor and Jack
Berry, editor-elect and business
manager-elect of the paper. The
ads and the copy were drawn
up entirely by them with the
capable assistance of the under­graduate
staff.
Friendship Between API
And Bama Impresses Paty
Exchange of Telegrams between Schools
Exemplifies Relationship of Students
Wesley Foundation Will
Give Musical Program
Sunday Night, Jan. 31
The Mission's Commission of
the Wesley Foundation is pre­senting
a special musical program
at the evening services this Sun­day,
January 31, at 6:45 p. m. The
program, under the direction of
Norman Clendinen, Chairman,
will include numbers by W.
Charles Fennicks, baritone, of the
Lee County Training School at
Auburn. He is to be accompanied
by W. Lamar Player.
Recently, a program was pre­sented
by them in New York
City, and was well received. An
invitation is given to all to at­tend
this program.
Any Girls Have
A New Name ? ? ?
Because of the added number
of dormitories for the girls this
year, the women student's hand­book
will no longer be called the
"Quadrangle". At present, no
name has been selected and the
woman student who can suggest
the most appropriate name be­fore
Saturday night will receive
five dollars in war stamps.
The name must have no less
than twelve letters and no more
than eighteen letters. Boxes will
be placed in the dining halls at
Alumni and the Quadrangle for
suggestion. Mrs. Goff, Mr. Mar-ino-
Merlo, and Blanche Ellis will
act as judges. Winners will be an­nounced
next week.
Dr. Raymond Paty, president of
the University of Alabama, was
very much impressed by the-ex-change
of telegrams between the
students of Auburn and the Uni­versity
during the football sea­son,
he said in an interview in
Samford Hall Tuesday morning.
"The fine spirit of friendship dis­played
by the mutual exchange of
telegrams is a good example of
the relationship between the two
colleges, he declared. Dr. Paty
was referring to the telegram
sent by the University student
body on the defeat of Georgia by
Auburn in November and the one
sent by the Auburn students
when the University defeated
Boston College in the Orange
Bowl.
When asked about the future
relationship of Auburn and Ala­bama
in regard to athletics,, the
genial president replied, "that is
in the hands of the athletic de­partments.
The major problem at
hand is the war," he said. "When
the war is over there will be time
to discuss other question."
Dr. Paty came to Auburn to
address the Faculty Forum on
Monday night. The meeting of
the Forum was in honor of the
Phi Kappa Phi initiates.
Second Appearance
This was not the first appear­ance
of Dr. Paty on the Auburn
campus, as he spoke before the
Forum in 1938, when he was the
president of Birmingham-South­ern
College. He has always been
most cordial and cooperative in
his attitude toward this school
and his appearance" here augurs
well for future relations.
Dr. Paty, in the interview,
went into a discussion of the fu­ture
of athletics in the South­eastern
Conference for the dura­tion
of the war. It was his opin­ion
that the question of each sport
will have to be worked out as
the season for that particular
sport approaches.
He stated further that the fu­ture
of athletics for the duration
would depend upon both the war
and the students. If there are
enough students who wish to
compete in sports, there might be
a s p o r t s program sponsored
through the military authorities.
Dr. Paty thinks one solution
for the transportation problem in
intercollegate sports might be
the scheduling of games closer to
the home college. This might
mean playing one college more
than once.
(Continued on Page 6)
Col. Ingram To
Leave Auburn
For Fort Sill
Lt. Col. Forney H. Ingram has
been ordered to report to . the
Field Artillery School at Fort
Sill, Okla., where he is to be en­rolled
in the field officers course.
He will leave Auburn this Sun­day;
his wife and three sons plan
to remain here.
Col. Ingram attended college at
Auburn, graduating here in 1927.
He was a member of Spades,
ODK, Blue Key, Phi Kappa Phi,
the Executive Cabinet, the In-terfraternity
Council, A S C E,
Scabbard and Blade, Tau Beta
Pi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon social
fraternity, and was Cadet Colonel
of the ROTC brigade.
Prior to the beginning of his
tour of duty at API, Col. Ingram
was with the State Highway De­partment.
He completed the Field
Artillery battery officers course
in 1937, and was assigned to the
staff of the Military Department
at Auburn on September 1, 1940,
at which time he held the rank
of captain.
Tau Epsilon Phi
Elects Officers
Tau Omicron of Tau Epsilon
Phi fraternity announces the elec­tion
of officers for the Spring
term. They are as follows:
Chancellor, Morton Novick,
Birmingham; Vice-Chancellor, J.
M. Silverstein, Birmingham;
Scribe, Alvin Steinberg, Tusca­loosa;
Bursar, Merwyn Mendel­sohn,
Birmingham; Warden, Don
Rozenberg, Belleville, 111.; Chap-
Ian, Lee- Schiffman, Huntsville;
Historian, Morris Lande, Birm­ingham;
Alumni Scribe, Norman
Cohen, Birmingham; I. F. C, J.
M. Silverstein, Birmingham.
Girl-Break Dance Is
Sponsored by Owls
Owl, honorary freshman organ­ization,
will sponsor a girl-break
dance Saturday afternoon in Stu­dent
Center. The dance will begin
at 4 p. m., and tickets a r e on sale
for 25c to students with or with­out
a date. All members of Owls
have tickets to sell.
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Why Not Blame the Weather on Them, Too
January 29, 1943
Elsewhere in this paper is a feature
story on Auburn weather and the futility
of predicting it. It seems that every time
we have warm weather, it is followed by
rain and with the rain comes all those dis­agreeable
things such as no drill, beats in
other classes, and water.
Someone is to blame for this discom­fort
and inconvenience. The blame could
not be on the fair students or the honor­able
faculty, so the fault must lie with the
Administration.
Administration, this is the last straw.
Don't you know June is supposed to come
after October, not December? Can't you
tend to your simple duty of running the
school and leave Nature alone? It's time
you realized that nothing should be done
which might put us in a bad mood—don't
we pay our fees and go to. classes?
We trust this short notice will prove to
be sufficient warning and that we will
have no further occasion to discuss the
weather with you. S.S.
Auburn Has Something Other Schools Lack
Oftentimes in our years at Auburn we
come into contact with students and even
professors who continually fret that our
school is not as efficient as the larger
schools in the East. These people feel dis­couraged
because the men graduated from
the Northern and Eastern schools are bet­ter
trained than they, and these unthink­ing
students are afraid that because of
this training the Northern graduates will
more easily obtain a good position. They
point to the extremely difficult courses
offered and state . . . "but we haven't even
had any of these courses . . ." They tell
how their friend at MIT spends thirty
hours a week on outside reading alone for
his courses and how he must be so much
more efficiently trained than we. These
people complain that at Auburn a student
wastes half his time in the fraternity
house or at the drug store. They must be
terribly dissatisfied with Auburn and
themselves.
However they stay right on at Auburn.
Why? It is because of this very fundamen­tal
reason: students at Auburn are happy.
The hours of leisure which we enjoy
and which are denied to the seholars of
the more difficult schools have taught us
to respect, to work with, and to live with
our fellows. We learn his opinions in all-night
"bull sessions," and we have time to
learn to know him and how to work with
him. It is easy to see that the scholar who
must of necessity stay shut away in his
room forever searching books will have
neither the time, ability, nor inclination
to learn of his fellow men. He thinks only
of himself and his science and the other
people with whom he attends classes can
be of no importance.
It is this factor that makes an Auburn
graduate a more valuable man than the
better-trained machine that is put out in
some other schools. It is easy for us to
understand why a man who recognizes
his fellows and knows how to work with
them is of- more value to a concern than
the well-trained machine who neither
knows nor cares how to get cooperation.
We can see that Auburn with it democratic
friendliness and invigorating spirit is the
ideal place to develop this interest and
understanding of human nature. You fel­lows
who feel that you are not so well-trained,
look at the records and see how
much farther a man who can live with his
fellow gets; do this and be thankful that
you attend Auburn, where you learn above
all to work with other people. J.M.S.
Column Left
By BRUCE MARTIN
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Drawn for toe Office of War Information
Coed Personalities
Allied Meeting Holds Great Implications
One of the most dramatic and unprece­dented
announcements since Pearl Harbor
came "last Tuesday night, telling the world
of the meeting in Casablanca, French Mo­rocco,
of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
and Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
They met with General Charles de Gaulle,
fighting French leader, and Gen. Henri
Giraud, head of French North African op­erations,
to map Allied war strategy for
1943.
The whole thing may be summed in the
statement coming from the meeting, "We
have met, we have talked, and have agreed
on the liberation of France and the Uncon­ditional
surrender of the Axis."
It was a disappointment to most Ameri­cans
and Englishmen to learn that Joseph
Stalin of Russia, and Chiang Kai-shek of
Chma, were unable to attend because of
"pressing matters at home." They were,
however, kept well informed of events at
the meeting.
President Roosevelt threw tradition to
the winds by taking a clipper 5000 miles
to North Africa. By so doing he became
the first president to fly while in office,
the first president to fly across the Atlan­tic,
and the first president to leave the
country in time of war. He is also the first
president since Lincoln to visit an actual
war-front.
Other Americans taking part in the his­toric
conference were Lt. Gen. H. H. Arn­old,
Gen. George C. Marshall, Admiral
Ernest J. King, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhow­er,
and Harry Hopkins.
Practically the entire British staff was
on hand for the event.
As to what Was actually decided during
the ten-day conference, which began Jan.
14, very little is yet known. It must be re­membered,
though, the last time Roosevelt
and Churchill met they laid plans for the
North African invasion. We may be sure
that something big will take place in the
near future as a result of this conference.
We do know, however, that the two
great leaders agreed to send all possible
aid to Russia and China. They also agreed
that they had no intentions of harming.
the Axis people, but they did intend to
fully prosecute the leaders and to stamp
out forever the fanatical ideas of a "mas­ter
Race."
To all the freedom-loving world the
statement on the "unconditional surrender
of the Axis" comes as the answer to many
prayers. It means there will-be no repeti­tion
of the last'war.'For that we are thank­ful.
We like to know that the things for
which we are fighting will be accom­plished
this time.
The amusing part of the situation is that
the Axis radios told their people that
Churchill was in Washington. They knew
of his absence, but not of Roosevelt's. As
usual, they were wrong. They will soon
realize a lot of things, but it will be too
late.
By SHIRLEY SMITH
Minnie Tippins, Auburn
A blue-print sticking out of her jacket pocket and a pair of pruning
shears in her hand, Minnie Tippins, senior in landscape architecture,
looked like an experienced landscape gardener. With allowances for
an occasional branch sticking in an eye, her use of the shears was
even more convincing.
"No, heavens, I didn't landscape the quadrangle. That was done by
a Birmingham firm." She moved toward a shrub, judging to see if
it needed trimming. "I guess I'm at the very bottom of the list of
supervisors out here," she grinned.
Minnie's audience watched closely—Mr. Alfred Edwards, professor
of landscape architecture, more critically than I, who was fascinated
at the idea of a college girl knowing just what part of a shrub to
amputate. Poking her head down in the middle of a big bush and after
apparently struggling for dear life, Minnie came up gasping, but with
a dead limb as her prize.
While our stout-hearted performer went down again, Professor Ed­wards
explained that there were just six LA students, Minnie beingv
the whole senior~dass. Like many otht-i' iiiiaenfs,' she is getting valu­able
experience in her field while still in school, and her work with
the Buildings and Grounds Department should prove helpful to her.
"Auburn," Mr. Edwards said, "is the only school in the South giv­ing
a professional course in landscape architecture. We have an
excellent set-up for it here because the students can work with the
agricultural department and experimental station. "And, if we get the
arboretum," he added, "we'll be all set." Not knowing whether "arbore­tum"
was an honorary landscaping club or the name of a tree, I just
beamed and said yes, wouldn't that be nice. (Later Minnie informed
me that this arboretum which the school hopes to get is a place where
different varities of trees and shrubs are cultivated for scientific
observation.)
Minnie is little and wiry with an engaging grin. She looks the part
of an outdoor girl.
In answer to my last question she laughed. "When I graduate? Oh,
I'll probably end up working in an office!"
Editor's note: The opinions expressed
In this column are those of the writer
and are not to be construed as t h e edi­torial
policies of this paper.
A casual visitor to our cam­pus,
overhearing student conver­sations,
might easily think that-the
average male student has def­inite
communistic tendencies.
That would seem to be the reas­onable
assumption based upon
the wild delight among said group
upon seeing the "red flag" flying
from the mast.
* * *
But, then, such a visitor may
never have been on a road march
or run the obstacle course.
* * *
All year we have observed
with wonder the common, ordi­nary
chair which proudly rests
upon the filing cabinet in the of­fice.
We have made this chair
the subject of many wild specu­lations,
but we have never found
the true reason for its position.
For the benefit of anyone who
might be puzzled by the same
object, we present our specula­tions
as a basis for further con­sideration.
* * •
Perhaps some editor or busi­ness
manager has a monarchial
complex and has established this
as a substitute for a throne from
-which to issue his orders.
* * *
Or, perhaps someone had the
idea that a high chair would add
a homey atmosphere to the place.
But surely that idea would have
been given up by now.
* * *
'Tis said that there are rodents
at large in the office. One was
trapped in the wastebasket 'toth-er
night. Could some timid fe­male
member of the staff have
needed a refuge once and there­fore
be keeping prepared for fu­ture
emergencies in this manner?
* * *
Surely, if the object just hap­pened
to land there when thrown
in a moment of anger, it would
have been taken down by now.
not bad enough already, now
there are now two of 'em. We
give up on that.
* * *
Tho' we are not campaigning
for male suffrage, or anything
like that, we do feel that in some
things men should be allowed to
have equal rights with women.
We feel that the male student at
Auburn is being deprived of the
right to be written up as a Cam­pus
Personality. For one male, at
least, we are correcting that situ­ation.
# * *
When we went to interview Mr.
Elmer G. Philstrom, we found
his room just full of boys. Elmer
and some of his friends were busi­ly
engaged in a game of Black
Jack, while two more were hid­ing
behind the door. They immed-iateliy
pounced upon us, "Gotta
cig?"
* * *
Don't form your opinion of El­mer
too hastily. He is really very
pleasant and cooperative, but he
just happened to be busy at the
moment, as he was trying for five
under twenty-one.
* * *
The folks back home are all
proud of Elmer, for he is the first
male ever elected to a post on
WSGA. Elmer is the new house
president for the next dormitory
to be built under the Master Plan.
Our conversation ran something
like this:
"Elmer, how old are you?"
"Hit me easy."
"What's your favorite subject?"
"I said easy! Oh well, hit me
again."
"How did you happen to get
into politics?"
"I'm busted."
* * *
Phil, the Problem Poet, is here
again:
There was a young student
named Joe,
Who said, "It's undoubtedly so,
That if we would read
As much as we feed,
We'd certainly be in the know."
And, as -though matters were HAL,T
Quad ratios
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Auburn students will give their attention quite readily to a dis­cussion
of sex or, strangely enough, to the matter of liberal arts
versus technical courses. There are psychologically sound reasons why
we discuss the first subject. But it seems to me that most disagree­ments
over the second matter arise from a misunderstanding of the
terms liberal and technical. We intend to offer definitions which may
help dispose of this second topic and thereby allow for more con­centration
on subject A.
When we consider a job we decide two things: why the job should
be done and how it should be done. College students who are in school
to prepare themselves for holding jobs need to know both the why's
and how's of their work. Courses which help us to evaluate the im­portance
of our particular bit of work may be considered liberal
arts courses. Those which demonstrate how to do a job may be con­sidered
the technical courses.
Scientists and engineers, if they have the ethics of an earthworm,
are vitally interested in the results their discoveries or creations will
have on society—the whyfore of their work. Your boredom and my
laziness make it unnecessary that we try to demonstrate how each
person on this campus needs to consider the whyfore of his work.
This old argument has not been settled temporarily just because
many people feel that the one big job before us is winning the war.
As a matter of fact, the job has two parts. We must win the peace as
well as the war. And history teaches that it is much easier to win a
war than to establish a just and durable peace. There is always a
shortage of capable men, backed by the right kind of public opinion,
to make such a peace possible.
It is for these reasons that men like Mr. Willkie have made state­ments
such as, "The destruction of the tradition of the liberal arts at
this crisis in our history . . . would be a crime comparable, in my
opinion, with the burning of the books by the Nazis." It is for these
reasons, also, that many people in Auburn are not in sympathy with
the administration at Auburn when it lessens the stress on liberal
arts courses.
And now back to topic A . . .
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and are not to be construed sx the edi­torial
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Everybody likes to joke about
the absent-minded professor, al­ways
with the attitude that he's a
nice old goat, but queer. And we
assume usually that every pro­fessor
is abesnt-minded.
* * * \
Hades and I would like to cor­rect
that fond notion. Every time
we take a cut (we're talking about
the dim past) we meet our pro­fessor.
He is not absent-minded.
He always knows we weren't
there.
* * *
His lack of absent-mindedness
is accompanied by an unusual
lack of tact. He always asks us
why we weren't there. His lack
of tact is accompanied by a pierc­ing
eye and a third-degree man­ner.
So we tell the truth.
* * *
All of which gets the nose a
very light tan, practically cream.
And of all the fatal diseases un-der-
pigmentation of said protu­berance
is the fatalest,
* » *
Hades and I have often won­dered
who it is that thinks up all
the ideas for the different lead-outs.
Some of the ones we have
seen take all the concentration
and co-ordination of a crack drill
platoon.
* * *
The most effective lead-out
we've seen came off about five
years ago. The fraternity respon­sible
had acquired some tiny flash
lights. They formed their Greek
letters in complete darkness, and
at a given signal turned their
flashlights on the faces of their
dates.
* * «
The dates, who had not been
let in on the secret were a sight
to behold when the lights sud­denly
flashed into their ' eyes.
Each girl looked like a startled
aborigine.
» * *
Of course, in the darkness,
some of the boys had a little
trouble getting the light in the
right place at the right time.
* * * M
A couple of them even had to
send out a posse for their girls.
By ALLEN ODOM
But those affairs where the
girls are required to come through
paper-covered hoops are the best.
If you've ever seen a young lady
coming through a paper-covered
hoop clad in a voluminous skirt
and high heels you know exactly
what we mean.
• * * *
Next best is when the boys are
placed at strategic points on the
floor, the girls come out and
make their bow in a bright spot­light,
and then try to find the
right man. After gazing straight
into a bright light for several
seconds you wouldn't even know
your own mother at twenty paces.
Neither do they. It's amazing the
nice men you meet that way.
* * *
The best method in the coming-out
type of leadout is to have the
boy placed conveniently directly
in front of the coming out place,
so that when the girl has smiled
sweetly at the voice which calls
out her name she can simply keep
on going until she hits something
solid. If it's not her date, she
must have taken a wrong turn,
and the management is not re­sponsible.
* * »
The grand march has become
passe since the new physical
educational program has been in
effect. Who wants to go on a
road march after PE 100?
* * »
The very best kind of leadout,
from the stand-point of the wom­en,-
is the one where all of a sud­den
your date comes and gets you,
hangs on to you for one whole
dance, and then the lights get
just low enough to permit recog­nition,
and the orchestra plays
something sweet like "Serenade
to a Savage." Boy, that knocks
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Delta Zeta Gives Annual Formal Tonight at Nine
STUDENTS DISAGREE
ON AUBURN SPIRIT
January 26, 1943
Editor, The Auburn Plainsman
Auburn, Alabama
Dear Sir:
We have just read what we
consider the silliest bit of drivel
ever to find its way onto the edi­torial
page of any newspaper,
and we are prompted thereby to
write our first and most probably
our only letter to The Auburn
Plainsman. We refer to Tuesday's
article titled "Noisy Students
Just Full of Auburn Spirit" and
written by some Plainsman ed­itorialist
for the editorial page of
the Plainsman. The new meaning
given to the term, "Auburn Spir­it,"
in the editorial mentioned
was really so surprising to us that
we hardly know what to say.
Spirit?
We are told by our editorial
writer that the highly entertain­ing
whistle, guffawing, he-haw­ing,
and inane comment indulged
in by some Auburn students dur­ing
movies at the local theater
are just an expression of "one of
the beautiful characteristics of
our student body," this especially
beautiful characteristic being
"the spirit and enthusiasm with
which it enters into everything
it does." We agree that "enthu-iasm
and spirit" are admirable in
a student body; we believe that
Auburn students generally pos­sess
these qualities and they may
well be proud of them. But we
. do not believe that discourteous-ness,
rudeness, in fact just com­mon
crudity and ill-bredness, are
indicative of beautiful spirit and
enthusiasm. If we understand
what we read correctly, the
Plainsman editorialist says that
they are. We feel that the label­ing
of such things as qualities
characteristic of Auburn students
and of the Auburn Spirit consti­tutes
an insult to the Auburn stu­dent
body and to Auburn itself.
Movie Behavior
We go to the movies to enjoy
the movie; if we did not go for
that reason, we would not pay
thirty cents to get into the the­ater.
We can scream, throw pop­corn
about, whistle, and otherwise
express our ebullient spirits and
our "vigorous youth" on the
streets, about the campus, or in
our rooms as much as we please
without paying for the privilege.
People might stop and stare, were
we to do this, but we are sure
they would not really object. Ac­cording
to our editorialist, when
we do these things at the movie
those people who do not feel as
we do should not even notice us.
They not only should, but they
"must", "keep their complaining
remarks to themselves."
"Boisterous Response"
We are told by our editorialist
that thrilling, sensational, or hum­orous
scenes in movies are meant
to stimulate audiences to a bois­terous
response and that the
producer of the picture is care­ful
to see that action following
such scenes is "completely in­consequential"
so that the thea­ter-
goer will miss nothing during
the time that the audience is ex­pressing
its reaction vocally,
verbally, physically, or in what-way-
have-you. We wonder. Per­haps
this is true of farcical pic­tures
and of those which have
nothing to recommend them be­yond
Betty Grable in a revealing
evening gown or Hedy Lamarr in
as little of anything as is per­missible
by stretching convention­al
standards to the utmost. If an
Auburn audience wants to howl
at a funny scene, we say by all
means let them; if they want to
whistle at the sight of Hedy La­marr,
they have our permission.
But we do resent not being able
to hear what is said during, or
immediately after, movie love
scenes, because of Auburn's
youthful enthusiasm. We do not
see that the reception of a draft
notice by one of the characters
in the recent movie "For Me and
My Gal," called for the shouts,
yells, and moronic advice as to
what the character should do
which greeted this scene and con­tinued
after it for several min­utes
to such an extent that we
were barely able to gather the
drift of the story at one of its
most important moments.
Student Liberty
We are told by our editorialist
that those who complain against
movie-audience rowdiness are
making remarks "harmful to the
very thing for which we are
fighting a war—the spirit of
America." We must allow the au­dience
to exercise its liberty. Just
think how much nicer we a re
here than the students at certain
other colleges; in some of those
places the students demolish the
theaters. We wonder where the
barbaric institutions which the
editorialist speaks of are. Also,
we wonder whether the demolish­ing
students are jailed, as they
should be, for their conduct or are
simply forgiven and ignored be­cause
of their irrepressible youth.
We have been taught that men
have a right to their liberties just
so long as the exercise of their
liberties does not interfere with
the rights and happiness of oth­ers.
We wonder whether the edi-
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Once again the week end rolls around, and once again the fra­ternity
houses clean out the halls and roll up the rugs. It seems that
the brains of our boys are finding many variations for enticing the
ladies in to the "deris," and the parties roll merrily oh.
Kappa Alpha
Kappa Alpha fraternity will commemorate the birthday of Rob­ert
E. Lee with a formal banquet at the Pitts Hotel Saturday night
at eight o'clock. '.
Faculty advisers, old alumni, members, and dates are invited as
the affair is also a farewell" party for the departing KA seniors. Mrs.
Driskall, housemother, will chaperone the evening's fun.
ASME
The ASME dance has been postponed until February 5th.
Sigma Nu
The Sigma Nu boys are planning a unique sort of party for Sat­urday
night. As the members and dates enter the house, which is to
be decorated as a 'Gambling Den', they will buy paper money. With
the paper money the partiers will play roulette, and other games,
and the couple having won the most lucre will be given a prize.
After the dinner, the gamblers will go to the chapter room for
dancing.
Note: Sigma Nu chapter will turn over money paid for the paper
money to defense.
Owls
The girls will have a chance to do the courting this week end
when the Owls, national honor society for sophomore girls, is spon­soring
a girl-break dance.
The dance, which will be informal, is to be held Saturday after­noon,
January 30, at the Student Center, from 4-6 o'clock. Stag or
drag tickets will be 25 cents and can be bought from Tutter Thrash­er,
Doris Ruth Bedingfield, or Dale Wilson.
Omega Tau Sigma
OTS fraternity will have a house dance Saturday night with the
members, pledges, and faculty members from Vet Hill invited.
Harold McGee is social chairman and has had charge of the prep­arations
and Mrs. Fountain, housemother, will serve delicious re­freshments
during the evening.
Lambda Chi
The Lambda Chis entertained Saturday night, 23rd January, with
a formal house dance. Decorations were those of a night club, and
a gambling room and bar added to the gaiety. Palm trees set off
the dancing area from the rest of the attractions.
Mrs. W. C. Gewin, Lambda Chi housemother, chaperoned the
party, and the date list is as follows:
Clayton Daniel, Ruth Strain; Bill. Barham, Rosemary Bruns; Jack
Skewes, Martha Young; Walter Milner, Pauline Cotney; Lilbern
Stevens, Ann McClurkin; Mac Johnson, Martha Ellis; Bill Ward,
Margaret Douglas; Albert Williams, Anne Rutherford, Montgomery;
Tommy Wood, Jean Williamson; Jackie Vick, Mary Ann Vick, Pen-sacola,
Fla.; Johnny Sanders, Mary Wilson; Searcy Penuel, Betty
Ellis, Birmingham; Ralph Adams, Alice Brummel, Anniston; Arthur
Romanos, Margaret Hodge.
Gene McClendon, Lillian Brazell; Carl Benson, Mrs. Carl Ben­son;
Buddy Waldrop, Jean Penuel, Birmingham; Bill Ingalls, Rose
Diamond; Ray Ellis, Mary Tinsley; Homer Hudson, Pat Kansinger;
Bob Ledyard, Pat Prigmore; Nat Hughes, Hulsa Kyser; Dennis Neal;
Patrick Michael O'Brien, Kathleen Emmons; Bobby Hoskins, Nellie
May Pike; Phil Morgan, Dot Irish.
torialist has ever had such an
idea presented to him.
Rowdiness at the movies in­terferes
with the rights and hap­piness
of others. Others go to
the movies to relax, watch, listen,
enjoy. We do not know what in
the infantile intellects of the
whistlers, et cetera, prompts
them to go to the movies. If they
cannot work off their youthful
ebullience on the obstacle course
or the road march, we suggest
that the college authorities ar­range
for them to meet, say in
the stadium, several times a week
and scream and howl to their
hearts' content about anything or
nothing without paying for their
pleasant recreation and without
disturbing those movie-goers who
like to hear, as well as see, their
movies. Or perhaps, to keep from
restraining happy youth, we
might have silent movies in Au­burn,
so that the movie audience
would not need to hear dialogue
and those relatively few college
children who cannot sit quietly
and courteously in a theater
would have no reason to control
(Continued on Page 4)
This Weather
Is Mystery To
Frosh Prophet
By ARTHUR HARRIS
Upon entering Auburn, the first
thing a freshman hears is that
there are only two people who
will try to predict Auburn weath­er—
a freshman and a fool.
On several occasions this writer
has •attempted to do the impos­sible,
and failed. I must confess
that I am a freshman. There will
be no discussion of the other
trait, please. After giving it a try
I admit it's tougher than guess­ing
how many miles Rommel
will cover in a day, and that's
plenty tough!
When a fellow is feeling low
and thinks the world is on top of
him, there is nothing more invig­orating
than to see that beauti­ful
red flag flying at Samford
Hall. For that flag means no PE
or drill, as the case may be. Late­ly,
due to Auburn weather, which
is mostly wet, the red flag has
been almost as common as Old
Glory.
The first of last week was cold
as blue blazes, and fur coats and
overcoats were quite popular on
the campus. During the past
week end students enjoyed roll­ing
up their sleeves and playing
baseball. Sunday evening was like
any night in May.
If there are any complaints
registered from any source over
our summer weather, they will
more than likely come from the
gas company. Believe me, it's
quite a relief not to have to roll
out of bed at seven o'clock and
freeze to death trying to light the
gas heater. Maybe the gas com­pany
will bear with us and en­joy
this pleasant weather while
it's here. After all, it can't last
long, because this is Auburn
weather.
I ran up against a tough prop­osition
last week. Maybe you
readers can help me decide. Any­way,
a certain sophomore here
started the winter q u a r t er
equipped with a football, a base­ball
and bat, a tennis racquet,
overshoes, and a swimming suit.
My problem has been in trying
to decide whether this boy is an
optimist, a pessimist, or just a
plain old realist. At any rate,
come rain or shine, sleet or snow,
he'll be prepared.
After drilling in Corps Day yes­terday
a few thousand boys are
ready to swear that they were in
turkish baths. Perspiration was
flowing freely as we stood out
under that terribly hot sun.
To cite one of my experiences
at this weather prophet business,
I started to class Monday of last
week with only a thin jacket over
Miss Lucinda Laseter*
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"Little Sisters" Will Present Recognition
Pins: Will Serve Breakfast After Dance
Miss Lucinda Laseter, president of Delta Zeta sorority,
will lead the annual formal with Curtis Adams, Sigma Pi of
"Clayton. The dance is to be Saturday night, January 30, in
Girl's Gym with the Auburn Knights furnishing the music.
The members will wear the traditional white formals.
The backdrop is to be dark with a large moon and cluster­ing
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backdrop in silver.
During the leadout, the mem­bers
and dates will enter the hall
through a blue curtain and silver
star, while the sorority song,
"Dream Girl of Delta Zeta" will
be sung.
The Delta Zeta "little sisters"
will present recognition pins to
the senior members at the close
of the leadout.
There will be a Delta Zeta
breakfast at the Grille after the
dance, for the members and their
dates.
The date list is as follows:
Georgette Davies, Carl Pace;
Barbara Shippey, C. G. Crenshaw;
Theresa Hug, Harry Merriwether;
Marion Hayes, Herndon Wilkes;
Annette Jones, Lindley Flinn;
Margaret Kilburn, Albert Coch­ran;
Lucinda Laseter, Curtis
Adams; Annie Lee Jones, Davis
Gantt; Jane Jansen, Henry Green;
Jane Sheffield, Jimmy West; Jane
Hasson, Joe Jausto; Marion
Tompkins, Bill Trammell; Allen
Odom, David Allen; Catherine
Owens, Ralph Jennings.
Kathleen Newton, Leroy Law­rence;
Gwendolyn Owen, Fred
my clothes for protection against
the weather. Needless to say, I
didn't think it would rain. No
sooner had I sat down in Sam-ford
Hall than it began pouring
down. I swam to my other class­es,
and when I went to lunch I
used a couple of towels to dry off
before eating.
After that experience I resolved
to give this business of predicting
back to the weather experts, the
ducks. Unless I'm a fool I'll quit.
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A Club Feted With Banquet
Affair Pays Tribute
To Season, New Men
"Chief" Shine Sponsors Banquet, Acts as
Toastmaster; Coaching Staff Is Present
Wednesday night, at the Thomas Hotel, the members of
the Auburn A Club were entertained at a banquet, sponsored
by Roland L. "Chief" Shine of this city. The banquet, begin­ning
at 6 p. m., was both to honor the new members of the
organization and to pay tribute to the fine record made by
the football Tigers in 1942.
Master of ceremonies Shine 'in­troduced
many prominent Au­burn
sports figures after the meal.
Dr. L. N. Duncan was present to
represent the administration, and
Coaches Meagher, Hutsell, and
Beard, as well as the members of
the A Club represented Auburn
athletics. Among the other guests
were Kirtley Brown, of the col­lege
news bureau, Sgt. George
Moxham, long an ardent support­er
of the team, Sam Adams, sports
editor of The Alabama Journal,
and Buck Taylor, from The Au­burn
Plainsman.
In his brief speech, President
Duncan voiced his hope that
sports could be continued in Au­burn,
even under the present
conditions. Dr. Duncan stated the
possibility that Auburn might
continue athletics, using both the
students enrolled in school and roic crew. Taylor plays a young
those attending in uniform. Presi- lieutenant and Donlevy his supe-dent
Duncan made it clear that' rior officer. With their men they
nothing was definite, but ex- [ fight off Jap aircraft, stage a suc-pressed
his sincere desire that j cessful attack on a battleship,
sports be continued on the Plains, under a smoke screen, and bring
Coach Jack Meagher, speaking I a convoy safely into port. Charles
'Stand By For
Action9 Coming
To Tiger Sunday
Linking three brilliant Holly-w
o o d stars, Robert Taylor,
Charles Laughton a n d Brian
Donlevy, M-G-M's "Stand By For
Action," which comes Sunday
and Monday to the Tiger Theatre,
brings to the screen the most
spectacular and exciting drama
of the sea since "Mutiny on the
Bounty."
The picture tells the story of a
gallant old destroyer, recommis-sioned
and assigned to convoy
duty on the Pacific, and its he-
Glomerata Prophecy Fulfilled;
Dumas Fills Important Post
Auburn Becomes
Head of Southern
Bell Telephone
to the gathering, stated that the
1942 Tigers was the finest foot­ball
team that he had ever
coached. The fact that they
reached their peak only at the
close of the season was noted,
and Coach Meagher expressed
his regret that it had not been
possible to play all their games
while they were playing the type
of ball with which the team fin­ished
the season against LSU,
Georgia, and Clemson.
Each of the members of the
team in turn said a few words
reviewing the past season's ac­tivities
in sports. The meeting
closed with a showing of a movie
of the Auburn - Georgia game,
which the Tigers won, 27-13, in
the greatest upset of the year.
STUDENTS DISAGREE
(Continued from Page 3)
their playful high spirits.
False Auburn Spirit
The .'Auburn- Spirit! The spirit
of America! The thing for which
we are fighting a war! Indeed!
If the actions of the audience at
the last midnight show we attend­ed
in Auburn are expressive of the
Auburn Spirit, please let's keep
the fact out of the newspapers.
If they are expressive of the spirit
of America and of the thing for
which we are fighting a war, then
there is indeed reason for the
most ardent patriot to doubt the
worth of our national cause. Do
as you please, and let oth-
Laughton, as an American ad­miral,
has an address that for
patriotism and inspiration recalls
his famous reading of Lincoln's
Gettysburg address.
Action at Sea
Its action laid almost entirely at
sea on the destroyer, the picture
provides many amazing and excit­ing
episodes, m a d e possible
through cooperation of the United
States Navy. Robert Z. Leonard,
usually associated with pictures
like "The Great Ziegfield," di­rected
with deft skill, and photo­graphy
by Charles Rosher was
graphic and, in romantic mo­ments,
of great beauty.
Comedy is contributed by Wal­ter
Brennan as a veteran yeoman
and Chill Wills as a petty officer.
Richard Quine, Douglas Fowley,
Marta Linden, Marilyn Maxwell
and Iinez Cooper are among the
principals.
Especially exciting is the head-on
attack of the destroyer, hid­den
behind a smoke screen, that
sinks a large battleship in the
dramatic termination of a sea
attack.
e r s ' g o hang! If they complain,
tsll them that they do not under­stand
the Auburn Spirit and the
spirit of America. This is not the
spirit of America. It is not the
Auburn Spirit.
Yours for common courtesy,
B. W. Dickey—'43
C. B. Layfield—'44
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A thirty-one year old prophecy
has been partially fulfilled with
the recent election of Mr. Hal S.
Dumas, Atlanta, Ga., to the presi­dency
of the Southern Bell Tele­phone
and Telegraph Co. by the
Board of Directors of the Com­pany.
Mr. Dumas is a graduate of the
class of 1911 at API. The editor of
"The Glomerata" made the pre­diction
in the annual that, quote.
"It he doesn't raise peaches, he
bids fair to be president of the
American Telephone and Tele­graph
Co." Mr. Dumas did not
raise peaches . . . he became as­sociated
with the company upon
graduation.
Mr. Dumas has been operating
vice-president since 1938. He
served with notable success in the
traffic department for twenty
years. He was assistant to the op­erating
vice-president and assis­tant
to the president in succession.
In 1936 he became general plant
manager and in 1938 was elected
operating vice-president. Hi s
Drill Platoon Members Receive
Awards for Outstanding Work
election to the" presidency of the
Company is a recognition of his
qualities of leadership and his
personal popularity.
It was Mr. Dumas' ambition to
become associated with the Bell
Telephone Company and his am­bition
has been realized in a re­markable
manner. The story of
his success reads like a fairy, tale.
Mr. Dumas was known as "Hal"
on the campus of Auburn. He was
the president of the Blue Book
Club, and because of his wide
reading his words lent force to
any argument he was involved in.
The year book further stated
that "Hal has won his spurs at
Auburn through his ability as a
mathematician." His ability as a
mathematician has stood him in
good stead since leaving the
"loveliest village of the plains" in
his many positions with the
Southern Bell.
Mr. Dumas was widely known
and well liked as a student in
Auburn in the "good old days."
There are many old "profs" who
remember the math "wizard."
Mr. Dumas' talents did not lie
in the class room alone. A poem
under his picture in the annual
best explains his well rounded
Year of Sterling Performances Climaxed
When Billfolds Are Presented at Drill
On Monday, Jan. 25, 37 members of the A.P.I. Crack Drill
Platoon were awarded special bill folds for their outstanding
performances as members of this unit in 1942.
The Platoon was established in the Fall of 1941 under the
sponsorship of the Scabbard and
Blade. Competition was held, with
more than two hundred freshman
boys participating, for the pur­pose,
of selecting the best drilled
rrfembers of the Freshman class.
In January, 1942, after many long
hours of stiff competition, 36
names were announced, with the
addition of several alternates, as
members of Auburn's first drill
platoon.
During the winter and spring
of 1942, the Platoon made rapid
and steady progress under the
able direction on Brigade Colonel
George Austin. They made their
first public shewing to a crowd
of joyous students on the day the
Senior War students were pre­sented
their Commissions, in May,
1942.
In June, Cadet Major Goree
Johnson took charge, with Cadet
Captain Alfred Green as assistant
activities. The poem is as follows;
When I was a little boy
I was so fine and gay,
I had to take the dogs along
to keep the girls away.
Drill-master. Though deprived
of the rifles, which added a great
deal to their appearance, the Pla­toon
made rapid progress through
the summer toward becoming one
of the top Drill Platoons in the
country.
The first showing of the Pla­toon,
under the direction of Ca­det
Major Johnson, was at the
Villanova football game in Mont­gomery.
Here the students and
public alike were dazzled and
thrilled by a superb showing of
precision and color.
The Drill Platoon made appear­ances
after this in Columbus, at
the Ga. Naval Aviators and the
Georgia games; in Birmingham, at
the L.S.U. game; and in Auburn
at Homecoming. On all these oc­casions
the Platoon amazed the
public with the precision and
coordination of their trick drill
and were received with great en­thusiasm
and praise at the show­ings.
The Platoon disbanded for the
Christmas holidays with the in­tent
of reorganizing after the
holidays; however, the E.R.C. re­ceived
its orders to report to the
Army in March and the school
found that there would be no
more R.O.T.C. after June This
resulted in the Drill Platoon be­ing
disbanded for the duration
of the War after one year of
sterling preformances.
The members of Platoon who
were awarded bill folds are as
follows: Cadet Major, J. G. John­son;
Cadet Captain, A. F. Green;
Cadet Sergeant and Right Guide,
C. A. Betbeze; Cadet Corporals,
Knud Nielsen, I. E. Cadenhead,
R. L. White and R. W. Benton.
Cadets, E. A. Cobb, A. G. Lowe,
H. C. Conn, L. Mitchell, H. R.
Darden, M. E. Moore, J. O. Davis,
A. S. Noble, H. E. Dean, A. J.
Peacock, A. J. Ellner, W. C. Pear­son,
W. G. French, W. B. Per­sons,
R. F. Gilman, L. C. Pharo,
R. E. Hails, J. W. Rice, S. D.
Hodges, J. C. Skewes, M. B. Hor-rell,
C. S. Skipworth, T. E. Lovell,
A. K. Loeb, J. G. Hunter, O. M.
Wilson, N. B. Hughes, P. C. Hud­son,
and John C. Spencer.
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to win! That is why the man behind the man behind the gun—the
war production soldier—must keep on the job, turning out the ma­chines
of war unstintingly until this nation is ready to meet and
beat any challenger! There is yet a third man backing up both the
war front and home front soldier: and he is the American farmer,
dedicated to '43 for Victory through his all-out effort in behalf of
the nation's Food for Freedom program. He will produce the live­stock,
the poultry, the eggs and milk, the fruit and vegetables—
which will invigorate the worker, that he may be able to produce
the guns and tanks, ships and planes, which will equip our armed forces so that they can
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January 2g, 1943 THE AUBURN P L A I N S M AN Page Five
Crazy Show Will Be Given Tonight at Langdon
Knickerbocker Will Speak In
Alumni Gym Tuesday Night
Noted Correspondent Recently
Returns from North African Area
H. R. Knickerbocker, famous war correspondent who re­turned
to the United States this week from North Africa, will
lecture in Alumni Gymnasium here at 8:15 p. m. Tuesday,
February 2, under the auspices of the Auburn Concert and
Lecture Series.
S i n c e Mr. Knickerbocker's
agent phoned from New York
Wednesday morning that he is
now en route to Chicago from
North Africa, it is believed possi­ble
that he attended the mo­mentous
"unconditional surrend­er"
conference held recently at
Casablanca by President Roose­velt,
Winston Churchill, and oth­er
representatives of Allied Na­tions.
Special provisions will be made
at the Gymnasium to accommo­date
all of those who wish to hear
the lecture. Tickets for this single
attraction will sell at 55c to col­lege
students holding an athletic
ticket book and at $1.10 to others,
including high school students.
Tickets are now on sale at the
News Bureau and at Loftin Music
Co.
Immediately after the bombing
of Pearl Harbor last year, Mr.
Knickerbocker flew to the Far
East as a representative for the
Chicago Sun. As a result, his
lecture scheduled here for Dec­ember
9, 1942, was canceled. He
covered the War in the Pacific
for several weeks, spending part
of his time in New Guinea and
Australia. During the past sum­mer
he was in England and for
the last two months has been a
firsthand observer of activities in
North Africa.
Capt. Martin
Is Promoted To
Rank of Major
Captain Merlin A. Martin, Q.
M. C, Mobile, has been promoted
to the rank of Major it was an­nounced
this week by Colonel Ot­to
Wagner, camp commander at
Camp Polk, La.
Major Martin, formerly with
the U. S. Customs Service at Mo­bile,
was commissioned a second
lieutenant in 1919 upon comple­tion
of the ROTC course at Au­burn.
He also received his B. S.
degree at API.
In March Martin was called to
active,duty by the Eighth Service
Command, and assigned here as
Camp Supply officer. He was pro­moted
to Captain on April 3.
Martin is married to the former
Eva Crane, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. P. J. Crane, 1465 St. Steph­ens
road, Mobile. They have a
son Merlin, Jr., and a daughter,
Mary.
Draftees Educationally
Better Off Now Than
Those of Last War
Draftees in the present war are
educationally head and should­ers
above their counterparts in
the last war, recently compiled
figures show. Of the present draf­tees,
12% of the men have a col­lege
education as against 5% of
college trained men in the 1918
army. While only about 17% of
the draftees in the last war had
a high school education, over 55%
have the same amount of school­ing
now. The remaining 78% of
the draftees in 1917-1918 had only
been to grade school or had no
education whatever, while at
present only 33% of the men who
have been drafted fall into this
low education group.
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"Neal." Phone Hughes, 445. Re­ward.
Part of the
rhythm of action
the pause
that refreshes
Mr. Kirtley Brown, API Pub-,
lications Editor, is chairman of
the Auburn Concert and Lecture
Committee, which is bringing
the noted war correspondent H.
R. Knickerbocker to Auburn on
February 2.
Players Answer
Editorial About
Student Taste
Friday
Editor, The Auburn Plainsman
Auburn, Alabama
Dear Editor:
Our taste here in Auburn ap­parently
is in for a thorough con­demnation
according to Mr. Low­ell
Edwards in his letter to the
editor January 19. It's quite his
privilege to swing an axe if he
wants te,.butJieJ should be ease­ful
where the chips fly. Though
we, too, agree that the Interfra-ternity
Skit Nights and "A" Club
show were very unfortunate, we
flatly disagree when Edwards
says ". . . such productions are
the only kind Auburn is capable
of . . ."
The Auburn Players have even
been charged with being high­brow.
Perhaps it's because they
have given Ibsen, Shaw, Gals­worthy
and even Will Shakes­peare.
In practice, though, their
prime concern is to produce plays
that will be entertaining in the
full and intelligent sense —cer­tainly
their current production
"Petticoat Fever" makes no claim
to the highbrow and although it
is broad we hope it is in good
taste.
Perhaps Mr. Edwards also for­gets
the Glee Club. Both the
Players and the Glee Club are
most emphatically student organi­zations.
Please be a little less whole­sale,
Mr. Edwards.
Sincerely yours,
The Auburn Players
„ . Marjorie McKinnon,
President
Mrs. Masters
Is the WAAC
Of the Week
Birmingham Native
Is Selected From
WAAC at McClellan
WAAC of the Week at Fort
McClellan is Mrs. Martha Masters,
of Birmingham, whose intense
patriotism stems from a family
tradition for uniformed service to
the nation. She was inducted into
the Women's Army Auxiliary
Corps at Fort McClellan last
week.
She is a graduate of Ward Bel­mont
in Nashville, Tenn., and has
also had a year at Howard Col­lege
in Birmingham.
Her father was commissioned a
second lieutenant at 19 during the
last war and is now an expeditor
for Army Ordnance. He was re­cently
commended for outstand­ing
work speeding up vital arma­ments.
Mrs. Masters is fanatically
proud of her husband, Pvt. Rid-dley
E. Masters, who is serving in
the Army Medical Corps. She de­clared
that, ". . . his job mending
the wounded is one of the war's
most heroic and unsung tasks."
Two first cousins are also in the
army—one in the ferry command,
the other, an expert trench mor­tar
marksman.
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Colleges Are Helping
To Supply Volumes
In Victory. Campaign
Colleges are actively coopera­ting
in the 1943 Victory Book
Campaign to supply more and
better books to the men in the
armed services. College stores
and campus committees through­out
the country have enlisted in
the drive, and machinery is be­ing
set in motion for a record-breaking
collection of good books
from the shelves of faculties and
This year's campaign is being
sponsored by the American Lib­rary
Association, American Red
Cross and the U. S. O. Co-Chair­men
Franklin P. Adams, Edward
L. Bernays, and Norman Cousins
have received pledges of coopera­tion
from the National Associa­tion
of College Stores. Each col­lege
book store will act as the
official campus collection center.
The accent is being placed on
the giving of books which are in
good physical condition and
which are interesting and read­able.
College men particularly are
likely to own plenty of volumes
that would be welcome at camps
and naval bases. This includes
best sellers, both fiction and non-fiction,
recently published text­books,
stories of action, humorous
books and small reprints of pop-'
ular titles.
Mrs. Martha Masters, of Birm­ingham,
who was inducted into
the Women's Army Auxiliary
Corps last week, has been chos­en
WAAC of the Week at Fort
McClellan. Her husband is on ac­tive
duty with the Army at the
present time.
Auburn Alumnus Is
Reported Killed
In Action in Asia
Capt. Curtis E. Caton, an
alumnus of Auburn and well-known
peace-time flyer, has been
reported killed in action in
Asiatic waters.
While at Auburn, Caton was a
member of Kappa Sigma fratern­ity
and of Scabbard and Blade.
He later did postgraduate work
at the University of Alabama.
He entered the Army in 1936 as
a lieutenant in the Coast Artillery
and transferred to the Army Air
Force. Graduated at Kelly Field,
San Antonio, he spent a year at
Langley Field, Va., in the bomber
group before becoming connected
with Eastern Air Lines. He later
flew the Tampa-to-Chicago route.
Called to the Army in March,
he has been since that time in the
Ferry Command Service over In­dia
and China, and for a time was
a pilot for Gen. Claire Chennault.
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Judge Jones Speaks At
Banquet of Sigma Alpha
Epsilon Fraternity
Judge Walter B. Jones of Mont­gomery
was the main speaker at
the formal initiation banquet of
the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fra­ternity
held Sunday, Jan. 24.
Former national president of
the Fraternity, and member of
the Auburn chapter thirty-six
years ago, Judge Jones used as
his topic "Fraternity Life In Re­lation
To The War". He stressed
the importance of fraternities,
adjusting themselves to the war
program.
"In March fraternities will
come to a climax." said Judge
Jones, "for things are bound to
happen to fraternity life when so
many of the boys leave."
Other alumni who were guests
at the banquet were Colonel O. I.
Gates, Capt. L. W. James, Prof.
W. W. Hill and Mr. Morey Hart.
USO Gives One
Night Stand for Sailors
Comediennes, Dancers, Singers, And
Gag-men Make up the Sparkling Cast
Crazy Show, a unit of the traveling USO shows, will be
presented in Langdon Hall tonight at seven o'clock. Primarily
for the entertainment of the sailors, outsiders are invited
to use the remaining seats.
Anything can happen in a show which was designed with
all the emphasis on zaniness—and in this one anything, and
everything, goes. A man makes music on a bicycle pump. Per­formers
walk on and off the stage at will, heckling, ribbing
each other. The complete good
nature of the fast-paced, slap­stick
brand of humor which runs
through the whole revue bounces
right over the footlights.
Patronise Our Advertisers!
January 25, 1943
Memorandum: Mr. Kirtley
Brown
On Friday evening, January
29, 1943, at 7:00 p. m„ another
USO show will be held in Lang­don
Hall.
The sailors will be marched
in formation to Langdon Hall
to arrive there at about 6:55
p. m. As soon as the sailors are
seated, the hall will be thrown
open to anyone who wishes to
attend.
The sailors will occupy about
350 seats.
Edwin Phillips
Lt. Coram., USNR.
Commanding Officer
Emceeing all these crazy goings-on
and adding his particular
brand of humor is Ben McAtee,
who is definitely of the Milton
Berle school of comedians. His de­livery
is smooth and glib and he
keeps the show moving right in
an effortless style.
Wilbur Hall, Ronie, Eddie Han-ley
also double in brass in the
laugh section of the Crazy Show.
Hall and Ronie, headline comedy
duo who sing, play a variety of
musical instruments, and make
with the gags, are a miniature
musical comedy show in them­selves.
The rest of the cast is also big-time.
Arken and Roberts, the boy
and girl jitterbug team, are really
in the groove; "Vivian Frances, the
attractive acrotapster, stops the
show with her flash routines and
Lee Bartell, a real belle of the
blues, is an exotic young thrush
who sells her songs like a veteran,
particularly her arrangements of
St. Louis Blues and Joseph,
Joseph.
Auburn Graduate
Returns to School
Lt. Clarence Scarsbrook, class
of 42, spent the week end in Au­burn
with his old friends and
classmates. Lt. Scarsbrooks was
en route to a new army assign­ment,
having just finished a
training school at one of the army
bases.
Lt. Scarsbrook, a graduate in
the school of agriculture, was
very active in college associations
and organizations. He was a
member of the Ag Club, Alpha
Zeta, and numerous other societ­ies.
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Tiger Varsity Meets Vanderbilt Tonight
In Knoxville; Ten Men Make tmh. Trip
fied with the team as a whole,
even though the breaks seem to
have gone against the cagers.
Coach Evans makes no excuses
for the streak of games lost. The
cagers have dropped eight. There
are only six men making the trip
who were out for basketball at
Auburn last year. The rest of the
team is made up of recruits from
the freshman team and "red
shirts." The war has caused a
shortage of basketball material at
all the colleges and Auburn is no
exception to the rest.
Charley Rew, the manager will
make the Knoxville trip.
Plainsmen to Challenge Yellow Jackets
In Comeback Game Saturday Night
By EARL CLEGHORN
Coach Bob Evans took 10 men from his varsity squad of
basketballers to make the trip to Knoxville, Tenn., where the
Auburn Tigers are scheduled to meet the Volunteers of the
hills of Tennessee in a Southeastern Conference basketball
game Friday night that will mean a great deal to the
team that wins. Auburn, who showed the sports fans of the
South that she has at least one
good game of ball in her boys
when she played a top team of
players from Vanderbilt here in
Auburn last Saturday night, is
hoping to hit the hoops enough
Friday night to be counted in the
Conference as one of the chal­lengers.
The Commodores had a
hard fight on their hand in the
game last week, for the Auburn
lads just would not admit they
were whipped until the last whis­tle
had blown.
Tennessee has one of the top
ranking teams in the Conference
and will be out on the court Fri­day
night trying to uphold her
reputation. The game should be
fast and close, with the smoother
-team winning.
Leaving Knoxville, the Plains­men
will. travel overland to At­lanta,
where they will challenge
the Tech men Saturday night.
This game will be a comeback
game for the Tigers as the Yellow
Jackets defeated them on their
home court last week. The score
was a little bit on the heart break­er
side, so the Auburn boys want
to redeem their standing. Tech,
who has lost only to the Kentucky
Colonels and to an improved Ala­bama
squad, should have a team
that will bear watching. The court
encounter will be by no means on
the dull side.
Heading the squad from Au­burn
are such outstanding per­formers
as Frank Williams, crack-shot
forward and high score man
for the team; Wadsworth, guard;
Fagan Canzoneri, guard; Young,
guard; Burton, forward, and a
newcomer to the best player
squad, Champion, forward.
The rest of the squad who are
counted on heavily to put in a
good amount of playing time are:
Johnson, forward; Hudson, for­ward;
Charley Finney, guard, and
Dick Wade, the freshman for­ward.
Coach Evans has been coaching
the boys on fundamentals in the
past few practices. The genial
mentor seems to think that is the
one great weakness that has kept
the quintet from clicking the way
it should. Coach Evans is satis-
PATY
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Sports Are Beneficial
"The beneficial effect of inter­collegiate
sports on the general
health of those participating in
them has been proven in numer­ous
cases in the present war,"
Dr. Paty pointed out.
The physical condition program
at the University is not compul­sory,
but Dr. Paty seems to think
that it will be in the near future.
He stated the reason that it had
not been compulsory in the,past
was because the institution was
waiting to see what type of pro­gram
would best fit in with the
body-conditioning programs of
the armed services.
Petrie Gives Reactions To
Momentous News Broadcast
PHI KAPPA PHI
(Continued from Page 1)
School of Science and Litera­ture:
Frances Evelyn Ellis, Cen­tre;
Jim Henry "MacNaughton,
Auburn; M. Marjorie Perry, Au­burn;
John Winfield Scott, Au­burn;
Niel G l e n Wilcoxson,
Florence.
School of Veterinary Medicine:
George Darby Coffee, Decatur;
Nelen Dunan Connor, Auburn;
Billie Underwood Flynn, Birm­ingham;
John Thad Riddle, Pied­mont.
School of Graduates Studies:
Lucile David, Columbus; E. T.
York, Jr., Valley Head.
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The
Auburn Plainsman
Retired Dean Is
Disappointed
With Announcement
Auburn's journalism class has
been conducting a symposium on
the reaction to the recent meet­ing
of President Roosevelt and
Prime Minister Winston Church­ill,
in Casablanca.
Dr. George Petrie, retired dean
of the Graduate school of Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute and
former head of the history de­partment,
is called the sage of
Auburn due to his wide under­standing
of history and current
events. Dr. Petrie was inter­viewed
today in regard to what
he thought was the most signifi­cant
event attached to the now
famous meeting of the two great
leaders and their chiefs-of-staff.
Dr. Petrie stated t h a t he
thought the most important sig­nificant
things that happened at
the meeting have not been told as
yet.
Disappointed
Dr. Petrie was asked how he
felt when he heard the big piece
of world rocking news. He said
he was disappointed, but not the
way one would think. It was a
wonderful piece of planning, but
he thought from the tremendous
build-up given the news story
that it would be something more
startling than a meeting between
the two leaders.
Jokingly, Dr. Petrie remarked,
"I thought from the big build-up
that the Allies had dug a tunnel
under the English channel!"
Dr. Petrie did not think the
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DR. GEORGE PETRIE
trip to African soil was as dan­gerous
as some people believe.
The trip across the Atlantic from
South America is not as danger­ous
as the one from New York
Dr. Petrie continued, saying,
"The meeting on t h e battle
ground of one of the largest en­gagements
in history should
serve as a great shock to the
Axis forces. It should serve as a
great stimulant to the Allies."
The sage of history continued
in his discussion by saying that
there may be a possibility that
the "unconditional surrender"
talk mayjiave been for the pur­pose
of offsetting any movement
toward peace by members of the
Axis.
Dr. Petrie pointed out that
there were many people in our
country definitely opposed to war
before the sneak raid on Pearl
Harbor. If the Nazis should at­tempt
peace negotiations they
would find some backing among
the "isolationists" in our midst.
This in turn would tend to slow
down our all-out war effort.
The two leaders more than
likely talked rather confidentially
the people in their respective
countries, Dean Petrie believes.
The meeting of the leader of
the Free French, De Gaulle, and
General Girard, the man who has
twice escaped from German pris­ons
in two world wars, should go
far toward unifying the people
of France under one leadership.
A Main Reason
Qne of the main reasons for
Intramural Basketball
Moves Rapidly to a Close
Five Intrafraternity Games Played
In Three Nights; Independents Play
Five Intrafraternity basketball games have taken place on
the last three nights. Tuesday night the TEPs forfeited their
scheduled game to OTS; Wednesday night the Sigma Nus
had little trouble overcoming the Delta Sigs 39 to 10; later
that same night Pi Kappa Phi
chalked up a 32 to 11 victory over
the ALTs.
Last night, however, basket­ball
took a turn for the better
when SAE played Alpha Gamma
about the attitude and spirit of Rho. SAE scored the first goal
in the game, but the score at the
end of the first quarter read 5 to
5. Alpha Gamma Rho was the
only team to score in the second
quarter so the score read 7 to 5.
The game moved faster in the
third quarter which ended with
the Alpha Gamma Rhos leading
12 to 10. Again in the final quar­ter
the game continued at the
same tempo. Final score, Alpha
the meeting was to discuss battle ! Gamma Rho 19, SAE 17.
plans of the present campaign
and future campaigns, was just a
suggestion of Dr. Petrie.
Dr. Petrie says he was left "up
in the air" by the first announce­ment
of the meeting. The next
thing he thought of was the
question that has been in the
minds of many, where is Roose­velt
now? How did he make the
trip and what route did he use
and where is he now, were three
more important questions in his
mind.
Dr. Petrie seems to think the
trip was worthwhile from the
standpoint of risk involved as
compared to what was accom­plished.
Phi Delta Theta put one of the
best teams of the campus on the
floor last night as they handed
Phi Kappa Tau the second defeat
by the score of 34 to 16. Goyer,
Seawell, and Manly turned in
b r i l l i a n t performances and
seemed to be able to score when
they so desired. Goyer and Man­ly
would take the ball from the
backboard and return it within
scoring distance, where t h ey
would either sink a short shot or
allow Seawell to drop in a long
one.
In the Independent leagues the
A Club overcame by the score of
13 to 12, a team representing East
Thach. Battery G-l edged out
Battery B-l by a scant 24 to 23
margin. FFA forfeited to Co. F
when an insufficient number of
men showed up. The Vultures
won over the Hardies in a like
manner.
Kappa Alpha won a slashing
victory over Pi Kappa Alpha
Tuesday night. From the tip off
until the final whistle the game
was decidedly a KA victory, the
first tally being after two sec­onds
of play, and from there on
it was "a freely scoring game.
The main-stays of the KA blitz
were Andrews, Gardner, and
Cammack, these three scoring
thirty-four of the forty points
made by the KAs.
High scorer for the game was
Gardner with six field goals and
two free throws totaling fourteen
points. Stahnke was high scorer
for the PiKAs with two field
goals. The remainder of the KA's
points were scored by Andrews,
Cammack, Logan, Sapp, and Guy-ton.
Homer Urquart played a
splendid defensive game and must
be given his share of the credit.
This victory gives the KAs
three straight and puts them in
fine shape for the league cham­pionship.
The f i n a l obstacle
which the KAs have to surmount
will be Phi Delta Theta.
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TUESDAY
'THE BIG STREET'
with
HENRY FONDA
LUCILLE BALL
A Damon Runyan Story
WED. — THUR.
'NIGHTMARE'
starring
DIANA BARRYMORE
BRIAN DONLEVY
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