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TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT
VOL. LXXVII ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1951 Number 12
Balloting Underway
For 'King For A Day
Scholarship Financed By Penny Votes Cast;
Auburn Merchant* Donate Prizes For Winner
By J im Jennings
Balloting for the annual King For A Day contest, spon­sored
by the Auburn Independent Organization, began yes­t
e r d a y and will be continued on a penny-a-vote basis on
candidates nominated by sororities and dormitories.
The funds received from the King For A Day contest
will be used by A.I.O. for a scho­larship
fund to aid some student
with his or her college education.
The "king" will be crowned at
a Coronation Ball at the student
activities building, Friday, Janu­ary
12. Music will be furnished by
the Auburn Knights orchestra.
Admission is $1.00 stag or drag
and dress is semi-formal.
The candidate chosen as king
will receive gifts donated by mer­chants
of Opelika and Auburn. In
addition he will be supplied with
two secretaries to take his notes
in class for him Friday and with
a limousine with a chauffer and
doorman to ride him anywhere
on the campus.
The "king" will have lunch at
the main dining hall where the
guests will include Dr. R. B.
Draughon, Dr. David Mullins, Miss
Katharine Cater, dean of women;
Miss Ruth Wilson, assistant dean
of women; T. C. Clark, director of
student affairs; James E. Foy, as­sistant
director of student affairs;
Prof. James Reagan; Madge Hol-lingsworth,
president of WSGA;
Joe Pilcher, president of the Stu­dent
Executive Cabinet, Buster
McLain, president of A.I.O. and
Milton Blount, president of the
Interfraternity Council.
Gifts for the "king" will In­clude:
'"
An album of records (choice)
up to $5.00, Vandemark Music;
cuff links, Hagedorn's; $2.00 belt,
Olin L. Hill's; choice of any four
pocket books, The Closet; cor­sage
for Royal Lady, Flower-smith's;
carton of cigarettes, Mc­Millan
Billard Parlor; key chair,
Jockisch Jewelry; watch band,
Ware's Jewelry; six passes to mo­vies,
War Eagle; mid-morning cof­fee
for "king" and Miss Auburn,
Athey's; carton of cigarettes
(choice), S&S Grocery; cake, Au­burn
Bakery; carton of cigarettes,
The Cub; carton of cigarettes, Cen­tral
Market; $2.50 in cleaning, De­luxe
Cleaner's; Parker 21 fountain
pen, Hawkins Book Store; box of
stationery, Burton's Book Store;
five free games, Tiger Bowling
Alley; can of peanuts, Hudson
Grocery; pocket knife, Hudson
Hardware Co.; razor, Toomer's
Drug Store; sun visor, Humphries
Home & Auto Store; billfold,
Stienbach's; five free passes, Ritz
Theatre; five free passes, Auburn-
Opelika Drive-In; shaving bowl,
Ward's Mens Wear; five gallons
of gas, Ingram's. Gulf Service Sta­tion,
and one record (choice) Au­burn
Music Company.
Charles Hamby, chairman of the
A.I.O- King For a Day committee
stated, "This is one of the most
outstanding weeks of the school
year. To put it in show business
talk "Everybody gets into the act."
So, you see, you can make or
break it. We're going to really
give you the opportunity to show
how good you are at vote-getting.
The balloting is handled on a
penny-a-vote basis. One penny for
each .vote for your choice for
"king."
"Another big thing about this
contest is the use of the proceeds.
This money from the votes goes to
make up a scholarship fund which
aids some worthy student on the
campus to pay for his or her col­lege
education. The A.I.O. is
proud to say that in the past this
occasion has had very good sup­port
from everyone and this year
it is shaping up to be the biggest
and best of all."
The candidates that have been
nominated and sponsoring sorori­ties
or dormitories are Herman
Blagg, Chi Omega; Bobby Hand,
Alpha Delta Pi; Sig Redelsheimer,
Delta Zeta; C h a u n c e y Wood,
Alumni Hall; Robert Lisenby, Su­san
Smith Cottage; Evans Dorsey,
Auburn Hall; Bob Johnson, Alpha
Omicron Pi; Harry Knowles, Phi
Mu; Crawford Nevins, Alpha
Gamma Delta; Bobo Blackerby,
Theta Upsilon, and Ellry Barton,
Quadrangle. ,
Dick Wade was elected as King
For a Day last year.
THESE PRINCES ASPIRE TO BE 'KINGS'
Soph Sweater Stomp
Slated For Saturday
The second a n n u a l Soph
Sweater Stomp will be held Sat­urday
night from 9 until 11 fol­lowing
the Auburn-Georgia bas­ketball
game. Scheduled to be in
the student activities building, the
dance is open to all students on
campus. Music will be furnished
by the Auburn Knights.
According to Vann Owens,
sophomore class president, 75
cents admission will be charged
to cover expenses of the dance.
Owens urges all students to wear
sweaters and announced that girls
will have 11:30 p.m. permission.
The dance is. sponsored by the
Sophomore Council.
Enrollment Decrease
Less Than Expected
m m m m
Drop Little Different From Last Year;
Mobilization Effect To Be Felt After June
By Bruce Greenhill
The expected sharp drop in enrollment this q u a r t e r failed
to materialize last week as incomplete figures revealed that
winter quarter registration totaled 5929. This represents an
approximate decrease of 700 from fall q u a r t e r registration. A
check of the normal decrease of enrollment from the fall to
Crawford Nevins
Col. John D. Craig
Next On API Series
Notice
Students who have not obtained
student activity books can "get
them at the field house upon pre­sentation
of the winter quarter re­gistration
card. All students must
have ac books for the Georgia-Au­burn
basketball game Saturday
night. Advance tickets are now on
sale at the field house.
Firms To Continue ---
Student Employment
Most large firms are planning
through 1951 to recruit students
from the,large colleges and to
make job offers regardless pf
military status, according to Scott
Farley, manager 6f the graduate
placement office. •
The policy was decided at a re­cent
conference of the South­ern
Association of School and Col­lege
Placement Directors held in
Miami and attended by repre­sentatives
from the major busi­ness
and industrial concerns
throughout the country.
The exception to the policy may
be students who have already re­ceived
orders to report for, active
duty. .The large number of non-veterans
enrolled, in many uni­versities
as well as the number of
students who are taking advanced
air, army and navy ROTC who
will receive commissions upon
graduation are responsible for the
action taken by the convention.
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Top Volunteers
In SEC Victory
JJ2 Bzma Students
Send Apologies
To API Cabinet
Taking the lead after five min­utes,
Coach Joel Eaves' Auburn
cagers took a surprising 63-59
win over the Tennessee Volun­teers
at Knoxville Monday night.
It was the first conference win
FROM THE PRESIDENT
Dear Friends:
The current world situation has forced our country into a pro­gram
of mobilization which will seriously affect each of you, and
will materially change the plans and programs of our institution. I
wish to remind each of you that in times of national emergency our
first duty is to serve the country. The question is not whether we will
serve, but rather, how we may better serve the national need.
I know that each of you that is eligible for military duty is dis­turbed
as to what course you should pursue. 1 know that many of
you feel that it is better to enlist now in the branch of your choice,
than to wait for a call through Selective Service. I think I can
understand all of the uncertainties you face because I went through
the same experiences in 1917-18, and I observed the students here
at the beginning of World War II.
On the- basis of my own experiences, I would, therefore, advise
you as follows:
1. Remember first that the more education and training you
are able to complete before entering the service, the better
prepared you will be to serve the country.
2. Remember that there is a tremendous demand for technically
trained and alert minds to man all the many branches of
scientific warfare. There is a serious shortage of men with
sufficient education to serve these needs. Therefore, the more
college work you are able to complete before entering service,
the better opportunities you will have to fill these places.
3. I believe very sincerely that if you will concentrate on your
studies, devoting your time to mastery of the course work,
you will be making a genuine and worthwhile contribution to
your country's need. I think the best investment of your
time and energy for the present would be to stay in college.
I think the armed forces and the related defense services
need people with more education as officers and technical.
specialists. I think the experiences gained in World War 11
will justify this viewpoint.
4; Finally, I urge you not to jump to conclusions. Do not act
hastily. Do not act on rumor. If you are disturbed, seek ad­vice
before taking action. Talk it over with college officials
and your friends on the faculty: Discuss your problems with
your parents. Keep a level head. There will be more oppor­tunities
for you if you have more training. ¥ou owe it to
yourself and to the country to serve where your ability can
be used to the maximum.
Most sincerely
Ralph B. Draughon, President
A'letter of apology was received
this week by Cabinet President
Joe Pilcher from 12 of the Ala­bama
students who made a raid
on the Auburn campus before the
Tiger-Tide grid clash.
Signed by the participants, the
_. . letter wound up disciplinary ac-m
five starts for the Tigers and .. . . ,, „„ „, • „„„,„„ ,„„„
marked the first time an A. u.b urn tion m the case. The group was
team had defeated another SEC
team since the Plainsmen base-ballers
turned the trick last June.
The Tigers were never headed
after going in front and had a 35-
30 halftime advantage. Forward
George Hill topped the Auburn
scoring with 14: points but his
work was overshadowed by Ten­nessee's
Bartlett who racked 19
points.
Bubber Farish and Don Lanford
each had 12 markers for Auburn.
Eight men fouled out in the fast
moving fray. Lanford, Roger
Weldon, Farish, Bill Walter and
Roy Brawner fouled out for Au­burn
while Kenan, Bowers and
Garrison did likewise for the
Vols.
previously reprimanded by the
student court and college officials
at Alabama for the pre-game ex­cursion.
Following a 'Bama pep rally on
November 28, 13 students came to
Auburn to distribute red and
white stickers on the campus.
They were apprehended by the
Auburn police who . turned the
case over to Capstone administra­tors.
One of the students arrested
was called into service before ac-'
tion was taken on the case.
Auburn's next game is with
Georgia here Saturday night at
the sports arena.
AUBURN
Hill, f
Weldon, f
Glasgow, f
Farish, f
Dawson, c
Lanford, g
Walter, g
Brawner, g
Hitt, g
Total
(63)
fg. ft. pf. tp.
5 4 3 14
4 1 5 9
1 2 2 4
5 2 5 12
0 0 0 0
5 2 5 12
4 0 5 8
2 0 5 4
0 0 0 0
26 11 30 63
TENNESSEE (59)
Kenan, f
Gentry, f
Bowers, f
Kinzel, f ,
Flynn, f
Hipsher, f
Bertelkamp,
Neff, ,c
Atkins, c
Bartlett, g
Garrison, g
Little, g
Totals
Halftime
Auburn 35.
f
*
Score:
fg. ft. pf. tp.
2 2 5 6
1 2 1 4
4 0 5 8
1 0 1 2
0 0 1 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
2 0 2 4
0 2 1 2
3 13 4 19
6 2 5 14
0 0 0 0
10 21 27 59
Tennessee 30;
Notice
The student directory, compiled
and edited by the News Bureau
for the 1950-51 school year, may
now be obtained from the News
Bureau offices on the second floor
of Samford Hall. Each student is
entitled to one directory.
John D. Craig, famous film-lec­turer,
will appear in a program at
A.P.I. at 8:15 p.m., Tuesday, Jan.
16 at the student activities build­ing.
• As a producer of thrilling ad­venture
films, Craig has won bat­tles
with death in such varied
fields as the atom-bomb tests at
Bikini; photographing the volcano
Mauno Loa while it was in erup­tion;
tiger-hunting; and making
films on the floor of the ocean for
which he devised special cameras
and diving equipment. He is ac­knowledged
by Hollywood to be
the first man to make natural
color under-water moving pic­tures.
Other Hollywood honors in­clude
the winning of the Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences Award,
and his film on Hawaii was selec­ted'by
Warner Brothers as one of
their "20th Anniversary of Sound"
presentations.
Craig's responsibilities as AAF
officer in charge of motion picture
activities at the Bikini Atom
Bomb tests included the assemb­ling
of competent men, training
and coordinating their activities,
and the installation of the neces­sary
gear in suitable aircraft. He
has seen action in North Africa,
Sicily, Italy, Belgium, France and
Germany as head of a combat
camera unit of the AAF. He was
wounded in action at Remagen
Bridge and was accorded the hon­ors
of the Legion of Merit, the
Distinguished Flying Cross, the
Air Medal with four Oak Leaf
Clusters, the Purple Heart and the
Distinguished Unit Citation with
three Clusters.
'LOVELIEST OF THE PLAINS'
Free Throws Missed: Tennessee
—Neff, Bartlett 3, Garrison 5,
Flynn, Atkins 2. Auburn—Glas­gow,
Brawner 2, Farish 4, Paw-son
2.
winter quarters in recent years
revealed that the drop normally
ranges from 600-800.
Fall quarter final registration
figures numbered 6645 as com­pared
with a winter enrollment
of 5929. This constitutes a drop of
716 as compared to a fall-winter
drop of 720 last year.
An analysis of the current de­crease
in enrollment reveals that
defense mobilization in the form
of Selective Service calls and ac­tivation
of reserve and national
guarcl units has not caused as big
a decrease in male enrollment as
was expected. At press time, 108
pre-registered students had re­signed
due to call to military ser­vice.
The cause of the de­crease
in enrollment can be at­tributed
to the fact that 340 stu-r
dents were graduated last quart­er,
over 100 were dropped for
scholastic reasons, and a number
of students withdrew for personal
reasons other than military ser­vice.
Administration officials stated
that male enrollment will con­tinue
to drop during the present
emergency but that the drop will
be more noticeable at the end of
the present school year due to the
expiration of present postpone­ments
of inductions, deferments
and reserve activations at that
time.
According to bulletins received
by the president's office pertain­ing
to the status of full-time stu­dents,
those falling under Selec­tive
Service automatically receive
a mandatory postponement of in­duction
(not a deferment) until
completion of the current aca­demic
year. Students who »are
members of activated reserve
units may request delay in acti­vation
upon having received no­tice
of call to duty.
Students enrolled in the Naval
ROTC, freshmen through seniors,
contract and regular students,
are classified as ID under Selec­tive
Service and are draft exempt
unless disenrolled due to failure
to meet requirements of the pro­gram.
Upon successful completion
of curriculum, the midshipmen
receive commissions in the navy
or marine corps.
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LOVELY June and Jo An Bottcher, freshmen in Education from
Hanceville, gives double grace to the first "Loveliest" picture of
the winter series. June and Jo Ann are pledges of Kappa Delta
Sorority. (A.P.I, photo by Barton Perry)
Speaking for both the army
and air force, Col. George P.
Privett, professor of military
science and tactics, stated, "Basic
ROTC students selected for de­ferment
remain in a deferred
status until completion of the
course, unless dropped for un­satisfactory
work, and upon en­rollment
in the advanced ROTC
course, continue in a deferred sta­tus
unless dropped because of un­satisfactory
work or other failure
to meet requirements." Upon
completion of t h e advanced
army and air force ROTC cour­ses,
students receive reserve com­missions
in t h e i r respective
branches of service.
At the present time, veterans
of World War II are not being
called up through Selective Ser­vice.
As a student service, The
Plainsman is presenting, in con­cise
form, the latest available in­formation
pertaining to the mili­tary
status of students included
in the following categories, those
subject to induction through Sel­ective
Service, and students who
are members of reserve' units.
For further information, as well
as counselling, students are urg­ed
to see Capt. Lewis M. Mark-ham,
Jr., Naval ROTC, room 103,
Broun Hall; Col. George P. Pri­vett,
Army ROTC, 2nd floor,
ROTC Building; Lt. Col. George
T. Taaffe, Air Force ROTC, 2nd
floor, ROTC Building, and P. M.
Norton, room 101, Samford Hall.
Sefective Service
The Selective Service Act of
1948 states:
"Any person who, while satis­factorily
pursuing a full-time
course of instruction at a college,
university, or similar institution of
learning, is ordered to report for
induction under this title, shall,
upon the facts being presented to
the local board, have his induc­tion
under this title postponed (A)
until the end of such academic
years or (B) until he ceases satis­factorily
to pursue such course of.
instruction whichever is earlier."
Only one postponement of in­duction
will be made and his in­duction
becomes imminent upon
the expiration of the postpone­mentr-
without a second physical
examination.
,. Local draft boards, at their dis­cretion,
may consider students for
further occupational deferment
provided that the student has
completed at least one academic
year (nine months) and has
maintained a scholastic standing
in the upper half of his class.
Veterinary students enrolled in
the professional School of Veter­inary
_ Medicine (the last four
years of the six-year course) are
recommended for consideration
for an occupational deferment
provided they give reasonable as­surance
to the local board that .
they intend to practice veterinary
medicine on animals producing •
food within the State of Alabama
or in some other state where an
acute shortage of veterinarians
exists.
Reserve Units
Reservists must actually have
received notice of call to active'
duty before making application
for delay. Those engaged in es-s
e n t i a 1 activities (educational
services are listed as essential) .
may be considered for delay in
call.
Requests for delay by naval
reservists m u s t be submitted
either by the institution or the r e ­servist
within 48 hours after re­ceipt
of orders and should be sub­mitted
to the cognizant Naval
District commandant or to the
Chief of Naval Air Reserve
Training, if original orders were
issued by that command.
Requests for delay should be
accompanied by statements testi­fying
as to the scholastic status
of students; for faculty and re­search
workers supporting state­ments
and requests for delay by
the institution are important. De­lays,
if granted, for students will
normally be until the end of the
term; for faculty and research
workers the initial delay may not
exceed six months, but further
delay may be granted after this
time.
Members of Organized Marine
Corps Reserve units must submit ,
request for delay to the Marine
Corps Inspector-Instructor of the
unit involved.
• Air force personnel should\ for­ward
requests for delay to the
headquarters of the numbered
air force issuing the orders. Re­quests
for delay should be ac­companied
by documentary evi­dence
supporting the request. This
request may be submitted by the
reservist or the institution. Nor­mal
delay should be for six
months.
Army reservists who apply for
delay w i l l forward requests
through the unit instructor for
the organizations. All requests for
delay should be supported by
written evidence showing the in­dividual's
student or faculty sta­tus..
2—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, Jan. 10, 1951 REVIEW ROTC PARADE
1
UNDER THE SPIRES
By Leta Ann Casey
Methodist
Methodist students are invited
to become acquainted with their
Wesley Foundation and its pro­gram.
The director, Walter Boze-man,
states that the lounge is open
to Methodist students at all times.
A party has been planned for
January 13 at 7:30 p.m. Recreation,
fellowship, and food will be pro­vided
and students are urged to
attend.
The annual training school will
be held January 21-25 with Beth
Bell and J. B. Nichols as guest
speakers. These workshops are
provided to train students for
Christian leadership in their stu­dent
organization.
The regular Sunday schedules:
Sunday school at 9:45, church at
11 a.m. Each Sunday night supper
is served at 6 in the Wesley
Foundation building. This is fol­lowed
by fellowship hour and the
evening worship service at 7:30.
Midweek prayer service is Thurs­day
at 7 p.m.
Catholic
The Newman Club will meet
Monday at 7:30 p.m. immediately
following the Miraculous Medal
Novena at 7 p.m. The Legend of
Mary meets tonight at 7 p.m. and
Thursday it will hold another
meeting at 7:15. The Junior Prae-sidius
will have their meeting on
Friday at 6:30 p.m. Mass is held
daily at 6:30 a.m. and on Sunday
at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. Instructions
will be held at 7 p.m.
Baptist
The B.S.U. is observing from
January 7 through January 14 a
"Dedicated Vocation Week." Dr.
Courts Redford of the Baptist
Home Mission Board will preach (
the climactic sermon on Sunday
morning, January 14. Dr. Redford
will hold conferences concerning
dedicated vocations on Saturday
afternoon, January 13. Students
desiring conferences are asked to
make appointments through the
student secretary. There is a ser­vice
planned for Saturday even­ing
and all students are urged to
attend.
A study course will be taught
January 15 through January 18 by
Dr. Olive, pastor. The book which
he will use is entitled The Bible
and Prayer by A. G. Lee. The
course will be held in the student
department of the church and the
time set is 7:15.
The greater B.S.U. council held
a winter retreat on January 2 to
plan B.S.U. events for the follow­ing
quarter. Dr. Frank Woods,
pastor of Woodlawn Baptist
Church in Birmingham, led the
conference.
Noonday Meditation
Noonday meditation is held each
day following lunch. This brief
period of meditation is held in
Social Center and is sponsored by
the B.S.U., which urges students
of all denominations to attend.
Church of Christ
The services scheduled for Sun­day
are: Sunday school at 10 a.m.
followed by morning worship at
11. Evening service will be at 7:30.
Presbyterian
Eleanor Chisolm, John Mea­dows,
Mickey Durant, and Ann
Hopwood have recently been ap­pointed
to fill unexpired terms of
office at Westminster Fellowship.
Eleanor replaces Graham McTeer
as chairman of the Publicity and
Enlistment Commission, John re­places
Kirby Malone as chairman
of the Commission on Service, and
Mickey and Ann will serve as co-editors
of the "Echo" replacing
Walter Jackson.
Members of Auburn's West­minster
Fellowship who attended
the Presbyterian Youth Conven­tion
and worked on the various
committees were Henry Tyree,
Eleanor Chisolm, Mary Ann Peake,
Sara Reaves, Margaret Wade,'Ar-leta
Campbell, Ann Hopwood,
Jerry Little,' Helen Hightower,
Ann Collins, Eva Knighten, Cecil
Moore, Kennard Howell, Ben
Cobb, Murray Peake, Russell Bur-son,
Charles Hudson, Graham Mc­Teer,
Burham Cooper, Mahla Hag­gard,
Margaret Bryan, Marcia
Bowers, Gloria Martin, Ace Mar­tin,
Robert Long, Hugh Dillon,
Marianne Jackson, Ed Lee Spen­cer
and Billie Dewberry.
Dick Bunce has charge of Even­song
to-morrow night. Evensong
meets at 7 p.m. each Thursday.
The Westminster Bible Class
will study the Gospel of Mark this
Sunday. The sermon topic for
Sunday morning is "But" and the
topic for the evening service is
"The Place of Miracles in New
Testament Faith."
The program for Westminster
Fellowship Sunday night is "This
Is Your Church At Work in the
World Community Through Its
Foreign Mission Program." The
supper committee' for Sunday
night is Eleanor Chisolm, Burn-ham
Cooper, Arleta Campbell, and
Jim Johnston.
The book of Revelations is being
studied at Bible Study. Bible
Study meets at 6:45 p.m. each
Tuesday.
Lutheran
Gamma Delta will meet Sunday
night at the home of Dr. and Mrs.
A. L. Smith. A continuation of the
Augsburg Confession will again
be the topic. Transportation will
leave from the War Eagle Theatre
at 5:45.
Sunday worship services are
held at the War Eagle Theatre.
Bible* class and Sunday school are
at 10 a.m. and the divine service
is at 11 a.m.
Episcopal
New officers of the Canterbury
Foundation were elected at a din­ner
meeting of the Canterbury
Vestry at the end of the fall quar­ter.
Dick Bradshaw, Birmingham,
will serve as senior warden for the
next three quarters. Jim Smith,
Jackson, was elected junior war­den
in charge of worship and
Jeanne Johnson, Haradway, secre-taryvJbtoBjreggar,
Belle Glade,
Florida, was-reelected treasurer.
Standing Committee appoint­ments
will be made by the senior
warden at the first meeting of
the Vestry this quarter.
Jim Alves, Huntsville, repre­sented
the Auburn Canterbury
Foundation at the Christmas
Conference of the Provincial Can­terbury
Organization. At the
meeting Alves was elected treasu­rer
of the group for the year. The
Provincial Organization includes
all the states in Southeastern
United States. Reports oh this
conference and the national con­ference
attended by Jack Cornish
will be given in Canterbury Club
in the near future.
Afiyone knowing a Canterburian
who has entered the armed ser­vices
is requested to. notify Col­lege
Worker Jan Drake at 1091.
Students are urged to visit the
student lounge.
SHOWN IN THE REVIEWING STAND during the ROTC special President's Review just prior
to the Christmas holidays are, right to left, Dr. M. C. Huntley, dean of faculties; Lt. Col. G. T. Taaffe,
commanding officer of the Air ROTC; Dr. *D. W. Mullins, executive vice-president; Col. G. P. Pri-vett,
commanding officer of the Army ROTC, and Dr. R. B. Draughon, president.
1700 Presbyterian Young People
Assemble Here During Holidays
Beaux Arts Planner Gives Info;
Annual Event To Be Held Feb. 23
By Ray Cumrine
It's coming again, bigger and better than ever before.
More fun than a barrel of monkeys—if you don't want a
barrel of monkeys. What is it? Why, the Beaux Arts Ball, of
course!
Yes, children, the Beaux Arts Ball is rolling around again
this February 23rd. For the benefit
Decor Honor Society
Elects New Officers
New officers of Decor for the
winter and spring quarters are
Edgar Heibel, Auburn, president;
Sara Krour, Haleyville, vice-president;
Julia May, Opelika,
treasurer and Katherine Dean,
Alexander City, secretary.
Decor is an honor society for
students in interior decoration.
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DAIRYLAND DRIVE-IN
FOR
SANDWICHES
QUICK LUNCHES
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of those for whom this Ball is
the first, the Beaux Arts Ball is
the craziest thing that has ever hit
Auburn. It is a costume Ball spon­sored
by the Scarab Fraternity—
that is -the Khufu Chapter of the
national architecture honor fra­ternity.
They are ably assisted by
Decor, the interior decorator's or­ganization.
This combination of
screwy talent always turns out a
shindig to really write home
about.
The affair this year will select
as its theme the Mardi Gras (with
apologies to the New Orleans edi­tion).
The settings, scenes, and
ornaments will be as authentic
(and crazy) as the original New
Orleans. The King and Queen'of
the Ball, will reign in all their
splendor. The guests (who are
y'all) will be costumed according
to their wildest imagination and
pocketbook. The sponsors will
wear suit cases in the accustomed
place (under the eyes, dopes).
The King of the Ball will be
Lawrence A. Alexander of Geor-giana,
Alabama. He is one of the
outstanding members of the Scar­ab
Fraternity and was chosen by
that body to be the Big Wheel.
The queen of the Ball willbe one
of the loveliest coeds on the cam­pus.
She will be selected by popu­lar
vote of the guests at the Ball
from candidates submitted by the
sororities on the campus. You
know she will be beautiful. Ah
yes.
It is high time you all started
thinking about your costumes for
the ball. Remember that prizes
will be given for the most original
costumes and who knows, maybe
there will be a prize for you. There
will be a couple of door prizes for
the unlucky people who didn't
get a wild enough idea for their
costume, too.
, Tickets will be on sale very
shortly at a, dollar and a quarter
each, alone or together with. Don't
worry about knowing who to see
for them—wily people—you will
see them all over the place.
See you then—look for me—
come in and c-a-1-1- f-o-r—
h-e-l-p.
Prof. McMillan Attends
Chicago History Meet
Malcolm C. McMillan, of the
Auburn history department, at­tended
the annual meeting of the
American Historical Association
in Chicago on December 28. Mc­Millan
and Robert G. Dunbar of
Montana State University were
discussants of a paper read by
Everett E. Edwards of the United
States Department of Agriculture
entitled "The Need for Agricultur,-
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In Appreciation
The Students
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Auburn, Alabama
Dear Friends:
I want to take this opportunity
to express our appreciation for
your cooperation in helping us to
hold the Youth Convention here
during the Christmas holidays. We
are especially grateful to those
who live in Magnolia Hall, the
women's dormitories and the fra­ternities
which housed the dele­gates.
Your contribution was an
indispensable factor in the suc­cess
of the convention.
Your cooperation was not only a
contribution to the church and to
the convention but also to Auburn.
The college students who were
delegates to the convention were
very much impressed by Auburn
and the friendliness of the campus.
Around 1700 college students from
seventeen southern states attended
the convention and went away
thinking that Auburn is a very
fine place.
Sincerely yours,
John H. Leith
By Jim Jennings
More than 1,700 Presbyterian
young people from schools and
colleges in 17 Southern states at­tended
the Fourth Quadrennial
Youth Convention of the Presby­terian
Church held at Auburn
from Thursday, December 28,
through Sunday, December 31.
The Auburn Presbyterian Church
acted as host for the convention
delegates.
The theme of the convention,
which presented interdenomina­tional
speakers of national and
international renown, was "World
Mission of the Church." Station
WAUD broadcasted several of the
major addresses which were made
at general sessions to which the
public was invited.
In addition to general sessions
held at the student activities
building, delegates attended a
series of discussion groups which
met at various college buildings
and several of the city's churches
and theaters. Friday afternoon a
series of forums entitled "The
Church Faces the Need" were held
and a Saturdays series was titled
"How Best Can I Serve?".
William M. Elliott, pastor of
Highland P a r k Presbyterian
Church, Dallas, Tex. was the first
general session speaker. "Our
Christian Faith" was the topic of
his address.
Friday morning Francis Pickens
Miller, Charlottesville, Va., former
chairman of the World Student
Christian Federation, a member of
Eisenhower's G-2 staff, in World
War II, former Y.M.C.A. executive,
and an organizer and officer of
several national policy and public
affairs committees, spoke on "The
Need of the World."
"The Need of the South" was
the tneme of an address on Friday
afternoon by Vernon S. Broyles,
Atlanta, executive secretary of the
Board of Church extension, Pres­byterian
Church in the United
States.
At the Saturday morning gene­ral
session, Charles W. Ranson,
New York, general secretary of the
International Missionary Council
spoke on "The Church and Her
Mission." - .
Saturday afternoon "The Church
in Which1 We Serve" was the topic
of an address by J. G. Patton, Jr.,
Atlanta, executive secretary of the
General Council of the Presby­terian
Church in the United
States.
Friday night and Saturday
morning Julian Price Love, Louis­ville,
Ky., professor of Biblical
Theology at Louisville Theological
Seminary, led Bible Study on
"Acts of the Apostles."
Sunday morning the host Au-
API Pond Researcher
Attends Midwestern
Fisheries Meeting
H. S. Swingle, fish culturist in
charge of farm pond research at
the A.P.I. Agricultural Experi­ment
Station, attended a Mid­western
Fisheries Meeting at Co­lumbus,
Ohio, Dec. 14-15. He was
chairman of a discussion group on
pond management.
burn Presbyterian Church joined
delegates in worship. "What's In
It for Me?" was the sermon topic
of C. Darby Fulton, Atlanta, ex­ecutive
secretary of the Board of
World Missions of the Presby­terian
Church in the United States.
"My Christian Vocation" was
the topic of an address by Charles
T. Leber, New York executive
secretary of the Board of Foreign
Missions of the Presbyterian
Church, U.S.A., at the concluding
general session Sunday afternoon.
John G. Goodman, elder in the
local church, was co-ordinator of
convention committees and Henry
W. Tyree, president of Westmins­ter
Fellowship, was director of
student committees.
Officials of A.P.I, and frater­nities
made available their facili­ties
to house and feed the dele­gates
during the four-day con­vention.
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W Commencement Speaker Makes Case
I For Individualism In Present Society
V The 340 students who were | the individual under the necessity
• awarded degrees at the A.P.I, of either completely informing
H commencement exercises Decern- himself if he is to form independ-
V ber 16 heard Dean Whatley W. ent opinions, or being forced to
• Pierson, of the University of North rely upon the specialized know-
• Carolina Graduate School, make a ledge of other free men.
case for "individualism in present 3. The problems arising from the
day society." fact that politics and government
Dean Pierson, a distinguished tend to enlarge their spheres of in-native
Alabamian, stated his belief j fluence, action, and control,
that it is not the purpose of edu- 4. The problem of specialization,
cation in a society of free men "to particularly in research, upon
turn out people devoted to con- which progress in society is de­formity
and predisposed to like- pendent but which makes for more
mindedness and regimentation." difficulty in understanding be-
This would be to produce the tween groups and individuals,
"mass-man" described by Ortega | 5. The problem inherent in the
Gasset 20 years ago as the "most | growth of man's awareness of the
Wednesday, Jan. 10, 1951 ALPHA GAMS DONATE WHEELCHAIR
formidable development of the
Twentieth' Century," he said.
Dr. Pierson expressed the be­lief
that the rights of the individ­ual
and those of organized society
are out of balance today. He
warned the graduates of the need
for balance by pointing out that
when the rights of the individual
are completely surrendered to the
interests and rights of society, the
product of that society becomes
a "mass-man" so limited in char­acter,
and so standardized in views
as to have little need for creative
and reflective thinking. This
makes him satisfied with himself,
and leads him to shut himself off
from any external court of appeal,
declared Pierson. Man becomes
blind to the existence and rights
of others, and intervenes in all
matters, he continued, adding that
man will therefore move in a sys­tem
of "direct action" which has
little regard for any value other
than force.
Continuing his theme, the speak­er
stated that for the past 23 cen­turies
the balance between the
rights of the individual and the
interests of society has shifted
from the extreme of anarchy on
the one side and that of dictator­ship
on the other. He said, "It is
my contention that these interests
of society and the individual might
be adjusted so that there can be a
reconciliation of government and
liberty."
The speaker urged that we r e ­examine
our thoughts about lib­erty,
and expressed the belief
that it would result in a greater
love of freedom and "a firmer
will to defend it.," He then spoke of
the problems involved in the
maintenance of freedom:
1. Respect for and maintenance
of a system of free enterprise,
which involves more economic
considerations, and includes values
in the realm of the mind and spirit
of men, and not only rights but
also responsibilities.
2. The impact of modern means
of communication which places
DISC DATA
By Godfrey Bennett
Freddy Gardner continues to
wow masses with his saxophone
solos. This time on a Columbia la­bel,
the plays "Body and Soul" and
"Valse Vinite". "Body" is a new
rendition of a favorite that is sure
to be a hit. However, non-saxo­phone
lovers stay away.
By now Patti Page's recording of
"Tennessee Waltz" has become the
favorite of practically everybody.
But we have to add our little bit
—that we think it is strictly good
and we do mean good. Flipover:
"Boogie Woogie Santa Calus."
(Mercury 78-45)
That man with the horn, Ray
Anthony, continues to put out hits
like hotcakes. This time it's "Har­bor
Lights" and "Nevertehless."
Anthony, former trumpet player in
the Glenn Miller Orchastra, has
patterned his music like that of
the great Miller. He says the way
he does it is the clarinet sound of
the saxophone. (Capital 78-45)
T. Dorsey brings a duo of re­cordings
to the front that sound to
us to be very good. "Indian Love
Call" and "My Moonlight Ma­donna"
pair up as do "Strangers"
and "Music Maestro Please." "The
Love i Call reminds up of Dor-sey's
great hit "Song of India"
very much. "Srtnagers" seems
destined to be a great hit. Time
will tell. (Decca 78-45)
Pete Daily's up and coming Chi-cagoans
ride the crest of the suc­cess
wave of "South" with "Basin
St. Boogie" and "Daily Double."
These Dixieland boys are really
on the ball with these two num­bers.
(Capital 78-45)
An old favorite, "Lover," gets
a new look from Oscar Peterson
whole world, and the fact that all
of the world is daily impinging
into the life of the individual.
6. The problem arising from the
necessity of surrendering much of
freedom in the growing struggles
to protect our system of liberty
and justice in the world.
"I have recognized," the dean
said, "that there are many prob­lems
of liberty, but problems of
such kind have always been with
humanity. Some of the highest
achievements and most rewarding
satisfactions of human experience,
however, relate to the attainment
and enjoyment of freedom."
and his piano. Backed by "Little
White Lies," both of these are
great. We predict Oscar Peterson
will add to his reputation with
these two.
Tony Martin, in our opinion,
falls far below his usual standard
with "Johannesburg" and "Fasci­nation."
After his wonderful ren­dition
of "Music Maestro Please,"
we were disappointed with his of­ferings
this time. (RCA Victor
78-45)
A beautiful song, "I'll Always
Love You," is poorly sung by Ei­leen
Wilson and Don Cherry. A
song with a lot of potentialities is
treated very badly by these two
songbirds. Flipover: "It May Be
On Sunday." The same goes for
this one also. (Decca)
Album of the week: "Barber
Shop Harmony" by the Sportsmen
Quartet. And this is harmony of
the best. Six of your favorites (and
ours too) put together in a great
album. Records in the album in­clude:
"In The Shade Of The Old
Appje; .Tree," "Meet Me Tonight
In'ISreamland," "Down In Jungle
Town," "Red Rose Rag," "Down
By The Old Mill Stream," and
"When You Wore A Tulip." To
our way of thinking, "Red Rose
Rag" and "Down In Jungle Town"
stand head and shoulders above
the rest. (Capital 78-45)
Record of the week: In a week
of lackluster recordings, we'll pull
one out of the file, one that is a
favorite of ours—"Remember" by
Tony Martin and Fran Warren.
Probably one of the best record­ings
that we've ever heard. This
should be everybody's favorite.
(RCA Victor)
Montgomerian, Gen. Wilton Persons,
Is Alumnews Alumnus Of The Month
A native Montgomerian is honored by The Auburn Alum-news
as Alumnus of the Month in its January issue. He is
Major General Wilton Burton Persons (ret.) who is now
superintendent of the Staunton Military Academy in Virginia.
The Alumnews, the official publication of the Auburn
Alumni Association, is distributed
to 20,000 alumni and friends of
NOTICE
Any Pentecostal students who
wish to contact others of the
same faith please leave name
and address at student affairs
office.
INSTEAD OF PRESENTING gifts to members this Christmas, the
Alpha Gamma Delta sorority purchased a wheelchair for a spastic
child in Lee County. Shown inspecting the wheelchair are, left to
right, Carolyn Cosby, pledge class president; Catherine Bailey, a l ­truistic
chairman; Beverly Benson, sorority president; Miss Mary
Wilson, director of welfare for Lee County, and Mrs. Edward Faddis,
also of the welfare department.
Atomic Energy Commission Gives API
Grant For Stable Isotope Research
The Atomic Energy Commission has made a grant to the
A.P.I, physics department for use in stable isotope research.
A part of the grant provides for two graduate students to
work on isotope problems under the direction of Dr. Howard
Carr, associate professor of physics.
One of the problems to be stu-the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
each month. It reaches alumni in
every state and in many foreign
countries.
General Persons, who was born
in Montgomery, graduated from
Auburn with a degree in electri­cal
engineering in 1916. His fath­er,
a native of Auburn, attended
A.P.I. as did three of his brothers,
one of whom is Governor-elect
Gordon Persons, a member of the
class of 1925.
The Auburn that General Per­sons
remembers is "a small
friendly town, whose unpaved
streets were shaded by beautiful
trees and whose whole life cen­tered
around the college."
Following his graduation, Gen­eral
Persons received his commis­sion
in the regular army.'m which
died under the grant is the break­ing
up of large organic phosphor,
ous molecules into smaller frag­ments
when bombarded with high
energy electrons. The bombard­ment
of the molecules \ a k e s place
in the ion source of an instrument
called a mass spectrometer, and
the resulting fragments are ac­celerated
with a high voltage
through an intense magnetic
field. The magnetic field separ­ates
the fragments so that they
are easily identified by means of
a sensitive electronic amplifier.
"Such a study will enable
scientists to learn more about the
breaking up of complex molecules
and the forces binding these
molecules together," says Dr.
Carr.
Another problem to be attack-
School Of Home Ec
Gives Dean's List
The School of Home Economics
recently announced the dean's list
for the fall quarter.
Listed were Billie Johnson
P u c k e t t , Hollywood; Margaret
Wade, Prattville; Ima Jean Dunn,
Brantley; Mary A. Layfield, Au­burn.
Receiving honorable mention
were Jeannine Till, Birmingham;
Mary Ruth Nixon, Auburn; An­nette
Bailey, Bessemer; Martha
Dean, Alexandria, Va.
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ed is a study of chemical reac­tions
of substances that require
the presence of another substance
called a catalyst. The catalyst
does not enter the chemical r e ­action
but serves only to control
the rate of the process.
Winter Rush Opens;
51 Girls Participate
Fifty-one girls have signed up
to participate in the winter rush
season which began on Thursday,
January 4. At a Pan-hellenic con­vocation
on January 3 at the So­cial
Center rush rules and pro­cedures
were discussed with the
group by Miss Ruth B. Wilson,
Pan-hellenic advisor.
Rush parties began on Monday
night, January 8, with parties in
the Theta Upsilon a n d Alpha
Gamma Delta sorority rooms. The
Theta U's entertained the rushees
with a "Rose Garden" party from
7 until 8 and the Alpha Gam's
provided entertainment for the
rushees with a "Barn Party" from
8:15 until 9:15. On Tuesday night
the Delta Zeta's had the girls over
for a "Ranch Party" from 7 until
8 and the Alpha Delta Pi's enter­tained
with a "Slumber Party"
until 9:15. Tonight the Chi Ome­ga's
will entertain with a "Slum­ber
Party" and the Kappa Delta's
will have the girls come to a
"County Fair" party. Tomorrow
night, January 11, the Phi Mu's
will honor the rushees with a
"Cocktail" party from 7 until 8
and the Alpha Omicron Pi's will
close the round of parties with a
"Soda Pop" party until 9:15.
Following this last party there
will be an enforced silence period
until 6 p.m. on Friday, January
12. On Friday morning the. rush­ees
will sign their preferential bids
in Social Center from 9 until 12:15.
In the afternoon from 3 until 5:30
the rushees will pick up their in­vitations
to join the sororities and
will receive their pledge ribbons
Friday evening immediately after
supper.
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he served continuously until his
retirement in July, 1949. He was
promoted to the rank of brigadier
general in June, 1942, and to ma­jor
general in January, 1948. He
held this rank at the time of his
retirement.
During World War II General
Persons acted as liason man be­tween
the Pentagon and Congress
as Director of the Office of Legis­lative
Liason. His value to the
Army in that capacity is illustrat­ed
by a remark once made by
General George C. Marshall, then
chief of staff. In replying to a re­quest
from Gen. Dwight Eisen­hower
for General Persons, Mar­shall
said, "There are few men in
the Army whom I consider ir­replaceable,
and Persons is one of
them."
At the time of his retirement,
fellow officers and political lead­ers
from all parts of the nation
paid tribute to his service. Said
Sen. Styles Bridges (Rep., N.H.)
. . . "This devotion to duty and
country is an inspiring example
of ability, f orthrightness a n d
courage." General Omar Bradley,
chief of staff, wrote General Per­sons,
"I consider the Army and
myself extremely fortunate to
have had an officer of your back­ground
and experience in this and
other responsible positions you
have filled so capably."
Gen. Persons, who retired for
physical disability, spent his last
month in the Army as a patient
at Walter Reed Hospital, leaving
occasionally over the protests of
his doctor to help the House pass
a new military pay bill.
In his retirement, General Per­sons
directs the activities of the
Staunton Military Academy in
Staunton, Va. He serves as presi­dent
of the Washington, D.C.,
Alumni Chapter of Phi Delta
Theta social fraternity and is vice
president of the Virginia Associa­tion
of Preparatory Schools. His
wife is the former Alice Alida
Minnick, of Washington, D.C.
Adding to his collection of
swords and pistols and cultivating
his rose gardens claim much of
his spare time. His favorite r e -
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Drill Night
From a point high on the campus, a radar beam searches
the sky. Lights burn in classrooms. Khaki replaces tweed and
covert for the night as college men assigned to Reserve units
study the machines and methods of defense.
Preparedness is the order of the day.
And the Bell System stands prepared. In five busy years,
we have added more than 12,500,000 telephones. Many improve­ments
have been made in the quality and speed of service. Ovur
force of highly skilled, experienced men and women has been
greatly enlarged —and now numbers more than 600,000.
A nation in a hurry goes by telephone. This country has
the best telephone service in the world.
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What's In A Name?
Watching buildings being constructed
is always a gratifying sight and it is a
particularly beautifuj one here on the Au­burn
campus, Where additional classroom,
housing, and athletic facilities are such a
dire need. Therefore, it would seem that
cine would feel nothing but pleasure when
he sees any sort of construction underway
6n the campus. However, we must admit
that although we are glad to see the added
facilities in the making, we somehow can't
Help viewing them with tongue-in-cheek—
We keep wondering what they are going
to be called.
We have always been somewhat du­bious
as to the judgement used in naming,
or' not naming, various campus buildings
and other facilities. Now, we are no little
worried about the future names of the
two biggest building projects on tap at
present; the new men's and the new wo­men's
dormitories^
We have finally come to accept the
"New Building" as the name of the at­tractive
building situated on West Thach.
In fact, we have invented a-story about a
Polish philanthropist named New so that
we may explain the origin of the build­ing's
name to visitors. But not actually
having fooled ourselves, we' sometimes
pause to wonder if a few more years of
service won't make the word "New" a
rather ridiculous misnomer.
_______•—
However, our primary concern at this
time is what are to be the names of these
new housing units. In view of the present
name situation on campus, we think this
anxiety is warranted.
As a corollary to Magnolia Hall, the
recently constructed men's dorm, we con­fess
that we're no little afraid that the
new unit will become Camellia Hall. After
all, there really isn't much difference
between Magnolia and Camellia from the
standpoint of masculinity.
As for the proposed women's dorms, we
have more "name" worries than ever be­fore.
The present women's housing unit
consists of four buildings, characteristically
named dorms I, II,-III, and IV, and has
been strikingly named The Quadrangle.
What's bothering us is the name of the
proposed women's housing area—it's to
have six buildings. Is it to be called The
Sexangle?
There are a number of persons, living
and dead, who have performed enough
service for Auburn to deserve to have their
names perpetuated by having a campus
building named after them. It is our be­lief
that doing so would be a step in the
right direction.
But then, maybe we're all wrong,
what's in a name? We guess Sexangle
wouldn't be too bad.
Probably Intending To Discuss Sex,
Columnist Sidetracked By Woman
Cannon Report
By Tom Cannon
The College Student's Place
As we return to school, the world out­look
is no brighter. Indeed, the lack of
peace on Earth has become more pronounc­ed
and the situation from our point of
view, is less cheering than before as U.N.
troops continue the withdrawal in Korea
ahd the nearby lake appears to be the only
success seen by the United Nations body
in recent months.
Certainly, we of the younger generation
are not alone when we continue to wonder
if we haven't reached Armageddon. If the
experiences 6f our generation and the one
before it are any criteria, it appears that
the German militarist, Bismark, was right
when he said, "The great questions of the
day are not decided by speeches and ma­jority
votes, but by blood and iron."
Since we'll be manning attd meeting
that iron and since it is our blood that is
to be shed, We might wonder just where
that leaves us—obviously in the same boat
as the youth of many other times in the
past: in the last war (or is that Still this
war?) and in World War I. Each time, the
youth of the day has been called upon and
has met the challenge of defending a coun­try
and a way of life which, tho' by no
means ideal, is still the best available on
Earth. If the creating of war is not youth's
job, the fighting of it is.
With the mobilization of various reserve
units and the 31st division, some students
have already swapped the textbook for the
field manual and obviously all able bodied
men will serve. It is their duty and obliga­tion.
Our point is, "what's the hurry?" There
will be plenty of war to go around before
the battle of ideologies is over and there is
Advertising Doldrums?
An edition of The Plainsman was sche­duled
to roll from the press last Friday.
The editorial staff returned to the cam­pus
after the holidays and found many
columns of information ready for student
consumption. However, the business staff
mired in a bog of after-Christmas indif­ference
when advertisers were appro-ached
for the necessary 400 column inches of ad­vertising
for a six-page edition. Printing of
the Friday edition was cancelled due to in­sufficient
advertising.
Again, there was difficulty in obtaining
advertising for this issue.
Although advertising is essential to the
no need for rushing things. Right now,
the best place for a college student, from
a federal, as well as a personal standpoint,
is in college, increasing his knowledge and
skill.
From a purely personal standpoint, one
must realize that fighting a war takes a lot
of time and it isn't easy to come back to
college after it's all over. The more educa­tion
a man completes prior to going into
the service, the less he will have to do
when he returns and desires to enter the
professional world as soon as possible. Also
from the personal point of view, 4he op­portunities
for trained, technical men in
the various services are broad and also,
officer candidate opportunities are more
readily available to those with the more
education.
That the federal government is placing
quite a high value upon college training
is evidenced by the facts that members of
reserve units are allowed to finish at least
the term in which they are enrolled be­fore
being assigned to duty with their acti­vated
units, a mandatory postponement of
induction until completion of the current
academic year is extended to those who
are eligible for selective service, and the
fact that the government is currently en­larging
the R.O.T.C. units in the various
schools. These things show that tlje govern­ment
places a high premium of value on
the knowledge and technical skill which
can be garnered while in college.
Until his postponement of induction is
lifted or his deferment due to military
training comes to an end upon completion
of the military and College curricula, the
place for the college man is in college.
financial well-being of The Plainsman, we
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Rather, we believe it an - opportunity for
local merchants to display their wares.
The Plainsman has a weekly circulation
of over 5700 and is probably read by many
more. It is a good medium for reaching
students.
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mind when advertising—to attract student
trade. And we feel that students, in doing
their local shopping, would benefit from
reading the advertising columns in The
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STAFF
Walter Allbritton, Billy Anderson, Leta Ann Casey Valerie Dobson, Tom Duke, Gordon
Higgins, Sonny Hollingsworth, Bunny Honnicker, Jim Kitchens, Kate Lee, Joan Lucci, Martin
Mednick, Mike Pinney, John Schemmer, Alva Stewart.
By Jimmy Everett
E v e r e t t
The Grille was crowded as it usually is at the beginning of
the quarter and a place was vacant in the two-man booth. All I
wanted was to eat my lunch in peace.
Between bites of mackerel I glanced up and saw a woman
approaching, evidently intent on claiming the remaining seat
in my booth. Her dress was as colorful as a
male pheasant, obviously a Christmas present,
. and she had daubed lipstick from the nose to
an arbitrary region on the chin. Two ostrich
feathers imbedded in a wad of felt drooped
over the left ear.
"Hey kid," she said, "kid mind if I sit
down wow never saw a place so crowded like
this before in all my life is it this bad every
day just like I was telling Beatrice Beatrice is
my sister that it was so damn crewded in most
eating joints these days that you can hardly
get a seat and much less eat a meal in peace and enjoy the
vittles and I'm telling you this life on the road I'm a book sales­man
for Peerless Book Inc. and Work out of Birmingham this
life on the road is for the birds and honey you know the per­fectly
horrible jokes people make of salesmen and if all this
trouble keeps up I don't think I'm going to keep this job any
longer it's just like I told my brother Hiram he's 11 Hiram I
said Hiram when you grow up I want you to do anything but
be a traveling salesman be a politician or a farmer or a
preacher or run a whiskey store but for God's sake honey don't
get a job like this it's perfectly horrible and I know you think
so too honey sometimes I wish I was back in school again I
went to Atlanta Business College so I'd have nothing to do but
have a big time and lot of parties and a little bit of studying
and sleep you go to school here I kinda like Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute myself do a lot of business here but back at ABC
we didrft have as much campus life we didn't have a football
team either honey but we won the North Georgia debate
championship two years straight why if we even lost a point
the coach thought it was perfectly horrible and don't guess I
can blame him made the team myself one year honey that
fish you're eating looks pretty good wish they'd bring my
lunch on you know I gotta make two more stops and get on
down to Huntington before dark reminds me of what my father
told me he didn't have a perfectly horrible job like this he
made shine up in Clay County and lived to be 87 and never
even left the county but he said to me daughter he said
daughter just the other day I was reading in the paper about
another murder cause some fellow picked up a hitchiker now
honey I want you to me mighty careful running all over the
country and you'd better not do much traveling after dark
cause you know how it would hurt your mother since your
sister is married and you're the only one left well honey this
New Year's day I made a resolution to quit driving after dark
did you make any resolutions me I resolved to quit drinking
and slapping Hiram but you know how aggravating kids can
be sometimes and I know you think so too do you have any
brothers why back home there was a brat that lived on the
farm he was perfectly horrible and always shot the mules
with his B-B gun and pulled my pigtails I was just a kid
then and always threw dead frogs in the well and smoked in the
barn why one time he set the hayloft on fire and suffocated
Pa's best brood sow before the hired hands got it put out."
The waitress brought her lunch. She paused. "Yeah lady,"
I said, "sit down."
IS IT 'SO WILD A DREAM'?
'DREAMING OF PEACE,' J. J. BEGINS
By Jim Jennings
It is with a large degree of pride that I begin my efforts as
a columnist. However, pride is overshadowed by responsibility.
Responsibility to the editor, to the paper, to the school, and
greatest of all, responsibility to the students and members of
the faculty whom I hope will comprise my reading audience.
In asking for and receiving a p e a c e Qn E a r t h .g e v e f tQ b e c o m e
a reality instead of a dream and
prayer. - If permanent peace is
achieved these ideals must be­come
firmly established in the
thinking of all people and must
become the final goal of each na­tion
on the Earth in their r e l ­ations
with other nations.
Peace will never come through
ideals alone however, even though
ideals must be the foundation of
peace. Neither can peace without
slavery be achieved by weakness
or appeasement. Munich is per­haps
the most recent and bitter
proof of this fact.
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 month*
column in The Plainsman I as­sumed
the responsibility of writ­ing
an article each week worth
the efforts of reading.
Writing a column is not easy.
Writing a column worth reading
is much harder. It requires a
fresh, distinctive approach, in­sight,
and ability of expression
as well as a thorough knowledge
of the subject whether the column
is designed for straight comment,
criticism, humor or any other
purpose desired.
I hope I shall be able to fulfill
my responsibility successfully.
Any comments or criticisms on
my efforts will be appreciated.
* * *
At the beginning of each year it
is a common practice for most
people to pause a few moments to
review the past and to try to see
a vision of events to come through
the cloud hiding the future.
No one is able to see a vision of
the future with absolute certain­ty.
Yet one fact of the future
seems to stand out with grim cer­tainty.
War. If not a full scale military
showdown between the two most
powerful nations on Earth, cer­tainly
a continuation of the pat­tern
set in Korea, Indo-China,
and Tibet combined with the ten­sions
and fears of the "cold war"
waged between conflicting politi­cal,
economic and religious ideo­logies
and aspirations.
Yet in the face of the suffering,
distraction, and misery that are
component parts of war, the ideals
of peace must not be forgotten if
Permanent peace must be a-chieved
through progressive, con­structive
action in dealing with
the realities which provide the
root causes of war. If it is done
it will be a long and difficult task
with many setbacks along the
way.
My ideas of the most funda­mental
Steps of progressive action
that should be taken by the non-communist
world under present
world conditions toward achiev­ing
the ideals of peace fall into
three groups.
I can not claim these ideas as
either original or new; neverthe­less
I should like to state them in
greatly summarized form.
First, every attempt short of di­rect
appeasement should be made
to contain military action be­tween
the Communist and non-
Communist world to the smallest
scale possible, leaving the battles
to be decided in a "cold war."
Paradoxical as it may seem, the
(Continued on page 5)
Last quarter there was a tre­mendous
increase in the number
of departmental quizzes given on
the campus. Schools and depart­ments
that previously had per­mitted
their instructors to pre-p
a r e individual examinations
were caught in the growing web.
Like a number of other stu­dents
with whom I have talked,
I can think of a number of rea­sons
for dropping departmental
exams, but no valid ones for re­taining
or adopting them.
In the first place, it seems that
i t should b e
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Cannon
e a c h teacher's
p r i v i l e g e
to write h is
o w n quizzes.
Assuming that
each instructor
has h i s own
m e t h o d of
teaching, we
must also pre­sume
that he
has certain fix­ed
ideas as to
what should be included in an
examination!. There is no way
that a school of department-wide
test can include all of these ideas.
As a result, some man's teaching
efforts will suffer.
Obviously, no two instructors
will stress the same points in a
course and the poor student is left
holding the proverbial bag. He
must take an examination devised
by a man or group of men with
whom he has had no classroom
contact. He will be lucky on some
points, unlucky on others, but the
overall results wil probably be
lower than they would have been
had his own instructor prepared
the quiz.
Freshmen suffer more than
anyone else from this type of ex­amination.
It seems that the sev­eral
departments that" use this
examining device h a v e been
prone to use it largely on fresh­man
courses. Many freshmen find
college tests extremely difficult,
and this type is particularly hard
because most have never had
anything like it before.
Another complaint frequently
registered a b o u t departmental
exams is that they are usually
given at night. Of course, the
Class is given a beat to make up
for it, but most of us have some­thing
planned for each evening
in the week. Granted that we
came to college to get an educa­tion,
all of the education we're
seeking cannot be found in books
and classrooms.
There may be some good rea­sons
for the use of departmental
examinations, but I have not been
able to find them. Perhaps some­one
will point them out to me if
they exist.
Of All Things
By Tom Duke
During my recent two-week
road tour with a traveling thea­trical
company (I played Harvey"
in the play of the same name), I
heard a couple of choice, humor­ous
chestnuts which I'd like to
pass on.
It seems that the first one con­cerned
a halfback on a prominent
Southern college football squad.
His team was scheduled to jour­ney
to Illinois to play a Big Ten
squad. Included upon the North­ern
squad's roster were a number
of Negro boys. Now this was in
the days when the color line was
just as pronounced as the goal line
in Southern intercollegiate foot­ball,
sectional and intersectional.
However, the Southern poach and
his team had decided to be noble
and waive the color line "just this
once" (thus establishing an un­heard
of precedent in Southern
"liberalism"), and had agreed to
play the Northern squad as is.
On the first play from scrim­mage
the aforesaid halfback took
the direct snap from center and
started on a wide end sweep. How­ever,
just as he reached the scrim­mage
line he was literally "clob­bered'
and was lucky to keep from
fumbling. The Negro end for the
opposition had plastered him with
a smashing, take-out tackle. Re­taining
his composure the half­back,
got up, dusted himself off
arid trotted back to the huddle.
The next play was an off-tackle
slash with the said halfback carry­ing.
This time he was met head on
by the Negro defensive tackle and
knocked back about five yards.
The third play in the sequence
was a line buck with the half­back
again carrying. This time he
was met by the whole left side of
the opposing line and was smoth­ered.
Looking up, he saw that he
had been met by an ebony wall—
the linebacker, guard, and tackle
were all Negroes. The final play
was a gamble, one of those once-
(Continued on page 5)
w i ^ "And what did you do during the holidays?"
Characteristically Collegiate
By Martin Mednick
Did you hear the one about the
street cleaner that was fired for
day-dreaming? He couldn't keep
his mind in the gutter.
1st Moron: "What do they call a
one-legged virgin?"
2nd Moron: "I dunno."
1st Moron: "Hopalong Chastity."
* * *
The minister's wife had just
died, and wishing a week's leave
from his pulpit he wrote his bish­op:.
"I reget to inform you my wife
has died. Please send a substiute
for the week-end."
$ $ 4
She used to be the bell of the
town till somebody tolled on her.
"What is your occupation?" said
the magistrate.
"I'm a locksmith, sir," replied
the prisoner.
"Then what were you doing in
that gambling house when the po­lice
raided it?" asked the magis­trate.
"I was making a bolt for the
door," answered the prisoner.
* * *
Drama Major: "I feel that I'm
destined for the theater."" -r"
Gloomy Friend: "Yeah, the Far
Eastern Theater."
First Young Matron: "When I
got married I wore blue to show
my faithfulness."
Second Young Matron: "When
I got married I wore white to show
my purity."
Third Young Matron: "When I
got married I wore a business
suit."
:J: £ ?.
Little Girl: "The stork came to
our house yesterday and left a
baby."
Little Boy: "That's nothing,
Crane came to ours and left a
bathtub."
A professor was trying to illus­trate
a point of logic to his class—
"If the U.S. is bounded on the
east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the
west by the Pacific, on the north
by Canada, and on the south by
Mexico, how old am I?"
To his surprise, the dumbest
student in the class spoke up,
"You're 44, sir."
"That's right, young man, but
how did you.know?"
"Easy. I have a brother who is
22 and he's only half nuts."
* * #
(Sleepy voice answering the
telephone): "Hello."
Voice: "Is this Dr. Wasser-man?"
. Doctor: "Yes, it is."
Voice: "Are you POSITIVE?"
* * *
Lady Motorist: "I want a glass
of water in the radiator, a teacup
of oil for the crankcase, and a
pint of gasoline. I think that will
be all."
Station Attendant: "Couldn't I
cough in your tires once, ma'am?"
M ore an dM ore By Gene Moore
One morning a couple of days
before Christmas my father came
stomping into the kitchen wearing
hobnailed boots and the practiced
leathery mien of a Manitoban In­dian
guide. In his hands he car­ried
a double-bladed axe.
"Hi ho, Mother," he boomed,
clapping her on the back. "Fetch
some vittles! I've got work to do
today."
My mother, who had been going
through this same thing every
Christmas since 1919, qua­vered,
"Dear, don't you think this
year we might buy . . . "
"Yes, yes," roared Father,
knocking over a lamp. "This year
I'm going to get the best little old
Christmas tree that ever shed
needles on the living room rug.
Why, I recollect as a boy I used to
be the best Christmas tree cutter
in three counties. Folks'd always
call for me when they needed a
good sturdy tree to hang their
candles and popcorn balls on." A
dreamy look came into his eyes.
"By George," he murmured, "I
think every growing boy should
know how to select his own
Christmas trees. Whar's my son?"
He pounded on the table.
"Here, Father," I whooped,
deftly tripping over the piano
stool in my eagerness to reach his
side. •
I was groping for my coonskin
cap when my father laid his hand
on my shoulder and said, "Boy, as
soon as you're a little older you're
going to have to learn to cut
Christmas trees. Right now, go
fetch my rifle. In a few years
maybe you can go with me, but
today you're the man of the house.
You must stay home to protect
your mother."
Sobbing bitterly to hide my dis­appointment,
I pulled the heavy
weapon from its niche above the
mantel. Father took it from me
and, repeating such phrases as
"Yessir, Ole Bluebarrel" and
"Shoot a mile," waved it about
affectionately. My mother had
long ago removed the firing
mechanism but so lacked confi­dence
in the success of her dis­armament
efforts as to shriek,
"He's going to kill us all," until
he put the gun down.
"There are some perfectly love­ly
trees for just a dollar and a half
over on Highland avenue," she.
said. "Why don't we just . . . "
"No!" bellowed Father. "No!
No! I can get a better tree my­self."
Scowling, he strapped on a
pair of snowshoes. The nearest
snow was 574 miles to the north-northwest,
but Father believed in
being ready for anything.
With Mother wringing her
hands nervously, he seized his axe
and his rifle and headed for the
Glorious Outdoors.
The seconds lapsed into minutes,
the minutes into hours, the hours
into days, the days into weeks, the
weeks into fortnights, the fort­nights
into months, the months
into years, the years into decades,
the decades into centuries. Mean­while,
about dark, Father came in.
He looked tired. Apparently some­one
had been playing tennis with
his snowshoes.
He had a wild tale to tell, a
tale of being lost in the woods; of
being pursued by a porcupine; of
being caught, and of consequently
being on pins and needles until he
took refuge in a hollow tree; of
being further pursued by a swarm
of bees; of plunging into a lake
in his haste to escape, and of los­ing
treasured Ole Bluebarrel.
"But I got the finest tree you've
ever seen," he concluded, beam­ing.
We all went out to look at the
tree, afterward referred to aS
"Father's Folly." Our next-door
neighbor was already standing be­side
the tree. When he saw Father
he cackled, "Is this the Christmas
tree you cut, you simpering nin­compoop?
Did you know it has
poison ivy running all over it? I
thought you could recognize it."
My father took one look at the
clusters of triplet leaves and be­gan
to scratch vigorously. Then,
declaring he'd "show that totter­ing
old fool who's a woodsman and
who isn't," he swung his axe up
and howled, "Watch, you old goat,
and I'll show you how to do a
woodsman's backhand kiss!"
As Mother stopped the flow of
blood from Father's face, I left
for Highland avenue.
5—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, Jan. 10, 1951
New Dorm Construction Bids Let;
Extensive Building Program Underway
By Gene Moore
With the recent letting of bids for the construction of a
new men's dormitory on the campus, the department of build­ings
and grounds has taken another step toward the com­pletion
of Auburn's massive building program. t
This building program, which also calls for the construc­tion
of an architecture building, an
education building, six women's
dormitories, a pharmacy building,
a student union building, a food
service building and a creamery
building, is expected to expend
more than four million dollars.
Construction will begin about
January 22 on the 500-capaeity
men's dormitory, to be erected
immediately to the south of Mag­nolia
Hall by the J. C. Curry
Company, Albany, Ga., whose bid
was accepted just before the
Christmas holidays. It is expect­ed
to be completed in 14-15
months, at a cost of about $870,-
000, unfurnished. The building
will be almost a duplicate of Mag­nolia
Hall, but will contain no
dining room or kitchen.
The Army ROTC and Air ROTC
have moved their headquarters
into the building formerly occu­pied
by the B & G department.
This building has been renovated
and finished for its new occu­pants.
The spaces in the basement of
Samford Hall, which last year
housed the military headquarters,
are being readied for college bus­iness
offices and the offices of the
Glomerata, Interfraternity Coun­cil
and Student Executive Cabi­net.
To be completed the latter part
of March, the first unit of the
building to house all departments
of the School of Architecture and
the Arts is being erected just with­in
Main Gate. A. C. Samford,
Inc., Albany, Ga. contractors, are
in charge of constructing the
$437,685 structure.
At the corner of Thach and
Thomas streets, the general edu­cation
building i s nearing comple­tion.
According to Jones and
Hardy, Montevallo contractors un­dertaking
the construction, -the
building should be ready for oc­cupancy
sometime in late April.
Behind the $385,682 structure will
be surfaced a parking lot with
a capacity of 75 automobiles.
Bids will be taken January 30
for the construction of six wo­men's
dormitories on Bullard
Field, for which $1,525,000 has
been allotted. Warren, Knight
and Davis, Birmingham archi­tects,
drafted the plans for the
new dormitories similar to the
quadrangle in design and con­struction.
When building com­mences,
the fields adjoining the
ROTC hangar will be used for
drill by the military department.
Early in February construction
Of All Things
(Continued from page 4)
a-season tries for a touchdown
with a specially devised play.
The overworked halfback, obvi­ously
the kingpin of his team's of­fense,
took the ball on a pitchout
from the punter and began a trek
down the sidelines. He crossed the
scrimmage line and moved into the
enemy secondary, gathering up
steam. He was out in the open and
headed goalward when he was hit
from the rear with a tackle that
was harder than any he had ever
been subjected to in his whole
career. Certain that he had again
been victimized by his Negro nem-eses,
he~5pened his eyes, only to
find that the opposing safety man,
a white boy, had been responsible
for the crushing blow. The half­back's
one comment was, "Dr.
Livingston, I presume?"
Then there was the time a doc­tor
was examining a female pa-
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bids will be let on the pharmacy
building to' be erected east of
Cary Hall and facing Thach
Street. Shaw and Renneker, Bir­mingham,
drew the plans for the
$300,000 structure.
Plans for the million-dollar stu­dent
union building, to be lo­cated
in the area east of Alumni
Gym, 'are well under way, accord­ing
to Pearson, Tittle and Nar­rows,
Montgomery architects.
The modern, refrigerated food
service building, to contain stor­age
space for all college dining
hall food, is expected to be com­pleted
in the spring. A. Berney
Jones, Montgomery, is in charge
of constructing the $75,000 build­ing
north of Cary Hall.
The B & G department will r e -
advertise for bids on the con­struction
of a proposed creamery
building, as the bids received to
date exceed the funds available.
Sherlock, Smith and Adams,
Montgomery, drew the plans for
the building, designed to contain
the dairy facilities now located
in the animal husbandry and dai­ry
building. The new creamery
will be constructed on the land
formerly occupied by the deck
houses.
tient who had reported a stomach
ailment. After a thorough exami­nation,
the doctor said, "Mrs.
Smith, I have a wonderful sur­prise
for your husband."
"But I'm not married," the lady
answered.
"Well, I have a nice surprise
fqr your fiance."
"But doctor, I'm not engaged,"
the woman answered.
"Well, I have a surprise for a
man you dated not too long ago."
"But doctor, I haven't had a date
in over a year," the patient ans­wered.
The doctor then went over to
the window and began searching
the heavens with a roving gaze.
The;patient .asked him, "Doctor,
what in the world are you doing?"
The doctor answered, "I'm jurt
looking around. The last time this
happened a star rose in the East."
#So Wild A Dreartl'
(Continued from page 4)
best insurance for limited mili­tary
action will come through
having enough combined military
strength in the non-Communist
world to match the forces of the
Kremlin if a military showdown
is forced.
Second, every attempt should
be made on the part of the non-
Communist world to prevent the
further spread of Communism
and Russian power by taking
steps to eliminate the poverty,
ignorance, racial inequality and
related conditions that provide
the best breeding grounds for the
growth of Communistic theories.
This will r e q u i r e * economic
strength, political unity and re­forms
where needed within each
nation and close cooperation and
unity of purpose between the na­tions
of t h e non-Communist
world.
The final steps are those of
making every attempt to settle
disputes between non-Communist
nations by peaceful means and a
continued search for agreement
and common interests to narrow
the chasm separating the Com­munistic
block of nations from
the remainder of the world.
As many of these problems as
possible should be solved in the
United Nations; however, the na­tions
of the world should not
hesitate to cooperate for peaceful
ends outside of the U.N.
A large scale war, especially if
won by Russia, would be very
likely to destroy all of these basic
steps toward permanent peace,
but any steps taken toward peace
are steps tatfen in the right <li-rection.
Riggs Promoted
To Lt. Colonel
Colonel George P. Privett has
announced the promotion of Ma­jor
Dan E. Riggs to the temporary
rank of lieutenant colonel, oh the
A.P.I. ROTC staff.
Col. Riggs holds the position of
adjutant, and is the co-ordinator
of instruction for the freshman
classes. He received his education
at Georgia Teachers College and
the Advanced Officers Course at
Fort Sill, Okla.
Lost: Brown leather billfold.
Reward for return of valuable
papers. William H. Keown, 136
South Gay. Phone 9106.
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Carpenter, Dr. Koo
To Revisit Campus
For REW Program
Dr. T. Z. Koo and Major General
Charles Carpenter, two of the
speakers who participated in the
1949-50 Religious Emphasis Week,
will return to the campus Febru­ary
4-8 to take part in this year's
program. Each was well-received
during his last visit here and was
invited to return by the REW pro -
grani committee.
Dr. Koo has traveled throughout
the world as an officer of the
World Student Christian Fedsra-tion
with headquarters in Geneva,
Switzerland. He has been a leader
at several international gatherings,
including Oxford Conference, Am­sterdam
Conference of Christian
Youth, and the Madras Conference
on the World Mission of the
Church.
in 1924, Dr. Koo was chosen a
member of the Second World
Opium Conference of the League
of Nations. He has been a Chinese
delegate to four of the meetings
of the Institute of Pacific Rela­tions.
China.sent him as advisor to
the Chinese Delegation to the San
Francisco Conference.
Dr. Koo graduated from St.
John's University in Shanghai and
has a degree from the Chinese
government. For nine years he
was an official in the Administra­tive
Department of 'the Chinese
Railway Service. During 12 years
as Associate General Secretary
and Student Executive Secretary,
of the National Committee of
Young Men's Christian Association
in China, he became known as a
foremost advocate of Christian
principles as applied to interna­tional
relations.
During the last few years Dr.
Koo has taught at the University
of Iowa as a professor of Oriental
studies. He has been teaching this
year at the University of Florida.
General Carpenter, presently
attached to headquarters of the
United States Air Force in Wash­ington,
D. C, has served as chap­lain
in the Army since 1936, when
he left the Union Methodist
Church in Federalsburg, Md. His
first assignment kept him at Fort
H. G. Wright in New York until
1937, when he was re-assigned to
Dr. Russell S. Pdbr
Presents Lecture
Dr. Russell S. Poor, chairman
of, the University Relations Di­vision
of the Oak Ridge Institute
of Nuclear Studies, spoke at Au­burn
on Dec. 11 at 7:30 p.m. in the
physics lecture room.
Dr. Poor, former dean of the
Graduate School and director of
the Auburn Research Foundation,
spoke on opportunities open
at Oak Ridge to faculty members
and graduate students.
Auburn is one of the 26 col­leges
and universities sponsoring
the Oak Ridge Institute of Nu­clear
Studies.
in Him i i i ii
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duty at the Panama Canal Zone.
General Carpenter returned to
the States in 1939 and held duty
at Langley Field, Va., and'later at
Headquarters, U. S. Air Forces,
Washington, D. C, until 1944.
In January, 1944, General Car­penter
began a two-year tour of
duty as staff chaplain of the U. S.
Air Forces headquarters in Eu­rope.
He returned to Washington,
D. C, in December, 1945, to re­sume
his duties as Air Chaplain at
Headquarters there.
Awarded the Legion of Merit in
December, 1944, for accomplish­ments
performed as Staff Chap­lain
of the Air Forces in Europe,
the officer holds the American De­fense
Ribbon, American Theater
Ribbon, Victory Ribbon, and the
Occupational Ribbon - European
Theater of Operations.
' General Carpenter attended
Bucknell University, Lewisburg,
Pa., receiving his A.B. degree
there in 1927. His Bachelor of Di­vinity
degree was received in 1931
at Drew University, Madison, N. J.
Pastorates held by him include
those at Methodist churches at
Johnson City, Pa.; Montadon, Pa.;
Fort Lee, N.J.; Rehobeth Beach,
Del., and Federalsburg, Md.
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6—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, Jan. 10, 1951
Kokomo's Korner By Bill McArdle
Auburn 45 Points Better Than Nation's Best
All Auburn fans should become ardent supporters of the
comparative scoring method in determining the strength of
the nation's grid powers. It is shown by comparative scores
that Auburn (though their football season was picked the
18th most disappointing performance of the 1950 national
sports scene by the Associated Press) was superior to the
Sugar Bowl champions and that the Tigers were 45 points
better than AP's number one football team, the Oklahoma
Sooners.
Watch closely and you shall be shown how the Tigers
are the rightful holders of the 1950 national football title. It
all started when Mississippi State knocked off Tennessee,
7-0. Then Georgia dumped State, 27-0, making the Bulldogs
34 points better than the Volunteers. Georgia beat Auburn,
12-10, which made Auburn 32 points better than Tennessee.
Tennessee stopped Kentucky's SEC champs, 7-0; so Auburn
was 39 points superior to the conference leader. Kentucky
bounced Oklahoma, 13-7, and halted a 31-game winning
streak. Therefore Auburn, already proven beyond a shadow
of a doubt 39 points better than Kentucky, must certainly be
45 points in front of the national champion Sooners. Tough
luck, Coach Wilkinson of the Sooners. Maybe you can come
up with another oil well and will be able to hold the score
down next year.
104 Scholarships Latest Auburn Report
Auburn reported the signing of grant-in-aids by 104 boys
in a release shortly before the Christmas holidays and the
number has probably increased since that time. No figures
have been given this month. Among the group signed are
many All-State preppers from both Alabama and Georgia.
Junior College transfers make up a portion of ,the recruits
and will become immediately eligible for Southeastern Con­ference
play.
• The SEC failed to change the rule prohibiting the fresh­men
from entering into varsity competition; so most of the
new men will not see service until 1952. The Selective Service
will no doubt take its toll leaving the pigskin picture at the
Plains one of uncertainty. Because of complications arising
from the threat of General Hershey and his Selective Service,
Auburn's spring training has been set back until the first
bf March. Coach Brown and his staff need time to find out
exactly what they will be working with this spring.
Beckwith Replaces Coleman
Jimmy Coleman is out and Bill Beckwith is in as the Au­burn
Sports Publicity Director. Coleman held the post for
the last two years after two successful years as editor of The
Plainsman. Athletic Director Wilbur Hutsell said that it was
with regret that he accepted Coleman's resignation. The form­er
publicist has entered the cattle business with his brother-in-
law. Jimmy won many friends for_Auburn in his tenure
at the Field House and has been credited by many of the big
city scribes as one of the most efficient men in his field.
Beckwith has been appointed temporary sports publicity
director until a permanent one is selected. Beckwith served
as an assistant to Coleman for the last four months and has
done a fine job of reporting Auburn sports as a correspondent
for the Atlanta Constitution.
Banks Awarded Football At Senior Bowl
Tom Banks, Auburn's outstanding defensive guard, added
another honor to his list Saturday when he was presented
with the football used in the second annual Senior Bowl game
at Mobile's Ladd Stadium. Kentucky's Bob Gain captained
the Southern squad, in the game and was entitled to have the
football, but the massive Wildcat All-America tackle was so
impressed with Banks' showing that he insisted the Auburn
guard take the pigskin as a reward.
Gordon McClendon, The Old Scotchman, who carried the
contest over a national hook-up said that Banks was a parti­cipant
in three of every five tackles. He went on to say that
Terrible Tom would have been on many All-America'teams
if his team had had anything close to a successful season.
McKlveen Resigns,
Takes Texas Post
* John R. McKlveen, assistant
professor in chemical engineering
resigned from Auburn January
1. He has accepted a position as
chemical engineer in the develop­ment
section of the Chemicals Di­vision
of the Celanese Corpora­tion
of America. He will be work­ing
at Clarkwood and living at
Corpus Christi, Tex.
McKlveen joined the A.P.I, fa­culty
in September, 1946.
Miss Pate Gets
Ph.D. At Ohio St.
Evelyn Rebecca Pate of Au­burn
was one of 850 in an autumn
quarter class of graduates at the
Ohio State University who re­ceived
diplomas Friday, Dec. 22.
Mark C. Schinnerer, Cleveland
superintendent of schools, deliv­ered
the address.
Miss Pate, on leave of absence
from the A.P.I. School of Home
Economics, received the doctor of
philosophy degree.
Plainsmen Trample Generals, 77-0
Old W & L Paper Narrates Tiger Win;
By Jim Jennings
Auburn 77-Opponents 0. An impossible score for an Au­burn
football team? Not at all. Auburn defeated Washington
and Lee University by exactly that score in a game played
in Birmingham, Saturday, Nov. 13, 1920.
An article about the massacre appeared in The Bing-tum
Phi, Washington and Lee school
"Eaves surely knows how to build basketball players"
Privett, Taaffe
List Commissions
Col. George P. Privett, profes­sor
of military science and tactics,
and Lt. Col. George T. Taaffe,
professor of air science and tact­ics,
released today the names of
39 second lieutenant appointees
in the U.S. Army and the U.S. Air
Force Reserve in the following
brapches.
Corps of Engineers: C. A. Bates,
Macon, Ga.; E. W. Bullock, Bir­mingham;
M. T. Dawson, Mont­gomery;
J. M. Goss, Auburn; Ro­bert
C. Hester, Memphis, Tenn.;
Howard Hicks, Grove Oak; Bryan
K. Polk, Sheffield; Herschel E.
Quarles, Mobile; Hubert O. Rey­nolds,
Andalusia; Shellie O. Wil­liamson,
Wedowee; Vachel H.
Wilson, Birmingham.
Signal Corps: James C. Cole,
Florence; Charles A. Henry,.Bir­mingham;
Lina L. Koon, Bayce,
La.; Robert K. Landrum, War­rington,
Fla.; Claude D. Lucas,
Jr., Birmingham; Preston E. Wil­liamson,
Wedowee.
Field Artillery: James A. Beaty,
Auburn; Charles B. Bottoms, Jr.,
Chamblee; James B. Hill, Line-ville;
Douglas L. Hutchens, Tal-lassee;
John C. McGill, Mobile;
Eddie L. Ruddick, Stanton; Ro­bert
D. Thompson, Troy; Marion
J. Smith, Jr., Birmingham; Gene
S. Logan, Fayette.
- Armor: Dean A. Bray, Chick-shaw;
C. R. Everett, Anniston; R.
L. Fowler, Oneonta; Byron C.
Goolsby, Brewton; A. L. Hayes,
Notasulga; L. T. McMillon, Mon-roeville;
Aden A. Wingard, Wet-umpka.
The following students have
completed the Air ROTC advan­ced
course at Auburn and have
been appointed second lieutenants
in the U.S. Air Force Reserve:
Charles N. Dudley, Birming­ham;
Milton P. Fortenberry, Bir­mingham;
Lee P. Oliver, Macon,
Ga.; Edward G. Lathum, Jr.,
Birmingham; Harold M. Spivey,
Jr., Rpanoke; Terry E. Thames,
Jr., Opelika.
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Vet School Releases
Names On Dean's List
The School of Veterinary Mede-cine
announced the dean's list for
the fall quarter today.
Listed were Thomas Abner
Hawkins, Livingston; Gerald Ber­nard
Fievet, Bessemer; Albert B.
Pittman, Quincy, Fla.; Bobby J.
Alexander, Dundee, Miss.; Uncas
T. Crocker, Trenton, Fla.; Curtis
R. Fincher, Matthews, N. C; M.
D. Harris, Jr., Opelika; and James
E. Neal, Auburn.
paper, on Nov. 16, 1920. The paper
containing the article was sent to
The Plainsman by a son-in-law of
Paul Sanford, a tackle on the W
and L squad.
The article continued, "The
Plainsmen administered the most
telling defeat ever received by a
Washington and Lee eleven last
Saturday, when they rolled up the
enormous sum of 77 points to 0,
on the Generals in Birmingham."
The article s t a t e d , "The
game was as easy as the score in­dicates,
and was an example of
brute strength and brawn not giv­ing
skill a chance. The lighter
White and Blue team, hopelessly
outweighed, was unable to cope
with the heavy line and powerful
mass formations of Auburn. The
200 pound backs- tore through the
crippled defense of Washington
and Lee like it was paper for gain
after gain and were halted with
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difficulty by the secondary de
fense. Whether Auburn has an ex
tensive repertoire of plays or just
the three she used at Birmingham
was not revealed to any hostile
scout Saturday, as straight bucks
and off-tackle plays varied by an
occasional end run proved the
order of the day."
After these words of bitter
truth, the article compared the
Washington and Lee defeat to one
received by Center at the hands
of Georgia Tech a short time be­fore.
The article finally concluded,
"The comparison between the two
teams is best conveyed to the
"boys who stayed at home" by
Fats Barrow's philosophical sum­mary,
that he was willing to play
football, an' liked the game an'
all, but when the quarterback on
the other side was a bigger man
than he was, well he was just
ready to withdraw."
The summary of the game shows
that Auburn scored three touch­downs
plus three extra points in
each of the first three quarters and
two touchdowns plus the extra
points in the last quarter.
Five players scored touchdowns
for the Auburn cause. Shirling
scored four times, Brown twice,
Shirey twice, Bullock twice, and
Case once. Warren kicked seven
points-after-touchdowns a nd
Stubbs kicked four which should
set some sort of a record.
A Washington and Lee editorial
stated that "It takes more than
Auburn to down that old fight­ing
spirit. How about it, Fresh­men,
Sophomores, Junior, Seniors
and P. G.'s!" A headline concluded
"Forget Auburn—Get George­town."
API Math Professors
Speak At Florida Meet
Two members of Auburn's
mathematics faculty gave ad­dresses
at the annual meeting of
the American Mathematical So­ciety
at the University of Florida
on Dec. 27-29.
Prof. W. A. Rutledge spoke on
"The Hurwitz Integral Quater­nions
as a Principal Ideal Do­main,"
and Prof. J. C. Eaves lec­tured
on "A Set of Matrices Pos­sessing
the 'P' Property."
Several other members of the
Mathematics Department attend­ed
the meeting.
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An active student in
undergraduate affairs,
he is President of the
student body, and a
member of Spades,
ODK, Pi Kappa Phi,
TKA, A Phi O., Who's
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and has received many
other honors.
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7—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, Jan. 10, 1951
Year-Round Intramural Sports Program
Offers Participation To All Students
By Bob Swift
A u b u r n is supplying its s t u d e n t s with an important edu­cational
phase through its i n t r a m u r a l sports program. Stu­dents
are presented an all-year program of competitive
sports in which they may participate to t h e extent that in­t
e r e s t s , abilities, and time permits.
The intramural sports program
has three main objectives:
To provide healthful recreation
through games for the students;
To develop good sportsman­ship
and character through com­petitive
sports;
To encourage the widest pos­sible
participation upon the part
of the students in order to de­velop
healthful recreational ha­bits
that will carry over into life
after college.
Any student who is not affil­iated
'at present or in the past
with varsity sports or profession­alism
is eligible to participate in
the program. Each student must
show by physical examination
that he is physically fit to take
part in the strenuous sports in the
program.
Programs are divided into fra­ternity,
independent and church
divisions. Sports included are
touch football, basketball, soft-ball,
and track (major sports),
and volley ball, wrestling, swim­ming,
tennis, golf, horseshoes and
table tennis (minor).
The intramural department is­sues
special rules in some sports
which fit local situations, such as
in touch football. When no spe­cial
rules are issued, games and
contests are played under offi­cial
national rules.
Cups and awards' are made to
the winners in all sports.
Football and basketball fra­ternity
winners at Auburn play
fraternity winners from the Uni­versity
of Alabama each year.
All-Star team selections are
made in the fraternity and inde­pendent
divisions of touch foot­ball,
basketball, and softball by
the officials of the games and
the intramural department. When
possible and desirable, champions
from the independent and fra­ternity
divisions are brought to­gether
for a play-off, at the end
of the season.
Each fraternity, independent,
and faculty team elects an ath­letic
manager. He serves as "con­tact
man" between the team and
the intramural department. Mat­ers
affecting his team are refer­red
to him and he is responsible
for passing the information on to
members of his team.
The intramural board has an
executive committee, which is
composed of five students. Two
are elected by the fraternity
managers, two by the independ­ent
managers and one is appoint-
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GRAPPLER Sonny Dragoin,
last year's captain, is expected
to furnish stiff competition in the
128 pound class when the Au­burn
wrestlers meet Memphis
Navy in the Sports Arena Mon­day
night. Dragoin won the
1949-50 SEAAU title in his
class when Southeastern wrest­lers
came to Auburn for the
championship matches l a s t
spring.
Tiger Frosh Tangle
With Bernard Friday
Auburn's high-flying freshman
basketball team will continue
its 15-game schedule against St.
Bernard Junior College here on
January 12..
Victorious in their first -two
games over Jordan High, of Co­lumbus,
Ga., 89-26, and Valley
High, 70-35, the Tiger Frosh are
coached by Bill Lynn, last win­ter's
scoring leader of the varsity
basketball team.
Auburn Freshman
Basketball Schedule
Jan. 12—St. Bernard JC-^Here
Jan. 13—Snead JC—Here
Jan. 16—Jordan High—Columbus
Jan. 19—Alex City High—There
Jan. 22—Ala. Frosh—Tuscaloosa
Jan. 27—St. Bernard—Cullman
Jan. 31—Ga. Tech Frosh—Atlanta
Feb.JS—Marion Institute—Here
Feb. "8—Ga. Frosh—LaGrange
Feb. 10—Marion Institute—There
Feb. 14—Ga. Tech Frosh—Here
Feb. 17—Alabama Frosh—Here
Feb. 23—Walker Co. High—Here
ed from the intramural board of
officers by the director of intra­mural
sports. Present student
members of the board are:
James Young, intramural board
representative; Burt Stanford and
John Turner, fraternity division;
Clarence Roy, independent divi­sion,
and James Beatty, church
division.
1950 Sports Winners
Touch Football, Delta Sigma
Phi.
Basketball, Theta Chi.
Softball, Theta Chi.
Volleyball, Phi Kappa Phi
Wrestling, Sigma Chi.
Track, Theta Chi.
Swimming, Theta Chi.
Tucky, Vanderbilt
Top Tiger Cagers
In Road Battles
By Kokomo McArdle
The Kentucky Wildcats and the
Vanderbilt Commodores, playing
on home grounds, saw that the
Auburn Cagers didn't start off the
new year with a bang as they
handed the Tiger hard woodmen
their third and fourth conference
setbacks. The Eavesmen now have
a 0-4 conference record.
Tucky Titan Bill Spivey showed
the way for the blue grass boys,
sinking 18 points in the 79-35 rout.
Butch Ramsey and Shelby Line-ville
aided in the attack with 18
and 16 points respectively. Don
Lanford was tops for the out­classed
Auburns with seven mark­ers.
Adolph Rupp's crew held a 41-
13 halftime lead.
Auburn appeared vastly im­proved
in their Saturday night
showing against the Commodores
at Nashville. The Plainsmen fin­ished
fast in bowing to an early-scoring
Vandy five, 61-51. After
trailing 34-17 at the half, Auburn,
moved within nine points of the
winners near the end of the game.
Bob Smith and Al Weiss led Van­derbilt
with 16 and 15 points. Lan­ford
and Bubber Farrish shared
the Auburn high scoring honors
with 13 points each. Center Dan
Pridgen netted 10 points.
DSP Wins Grid Title;
Cage Leages Set
By Bunny Honicker
Delta Sigma Phi won the fall
touch football play-off, while Sig­ma
Phi Epsilon, last year's cham­pions,
finished in the number 2
slot. Pi Kappa Alpha and Sigma
Alpha Epsilon finished third and
fourth, respectively.
The Delta Sig's then journeyed
to the University of Alabama cam­pus
and were defeated, 19-15, by
Bama's Sigma Chi Chapter.
Sigma Chi copped the fall horse­shoe
tournament championship,
followed by Alpha Psi, Phi Kappa
Tau, and Lambda Chi Alpha.
Coach Bob Evans, head of in­tramural
sports, has divided the
fraternities into four basketball
leagues of five teams each. The
winners of each of these leagues
will meet at the end of the quar­ter
to determine the champion.
The leagues follow.
I
Theta Chi
Tau Kappa Epsilon
Alpha Gamma Rho
Omega Tau Sigma
Kappa Alpha
II
Alpha Psi
Pi Kappa Alpha
Sigma Nu
Sigma Chi
Delta Sigma Phi
Tennis, Alpha Tau Omega.
Golf, Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Horshoes, Sigma Chi.
Table Tennis, Kappa Alpha.
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Five Tigers Lost
From Grid Squad
Auburn is already feeling the
bite of Uncle Sam in regard to its
athletic program. Two sophomores,
Tackle Breece Barley and Full­back
Bobo' Blackerby, have join­ed
the Navy and will leave for
boot "camp about the middle of
January. Both were lettermen.
Barley had 152 minutes playing
time and Blackerby had 121.
Blackerby's absence will leave the
Tigers without an experienced
fullback.
Junior Guard Danny Stewart is
a member of the Dixie Division
national guard group and will also
leave sometime this month. Ste­wart
played 111 minutes last sea­son
as he earned his second let­ter.
Fullback Jim Jeffers has for­saken
school for the matrimonial
ranks, and freshman End Ken
Gray is another new enlistee in
the U. S. Navy.
End Charlie Justo and Guard
Bobby Rhed both had operations
on their right knees December 27.
The operations took place within
an hour of each other at a Birm-
Auburn Wrestlers Open 1951 Season
Against Memphis Navy Squad Monday
By Bill Beckwith
Coach Swede Umbach's wrestling t e am opens its 1951 sea­son
Monday, Jan. 15, against Memphis Navy in Auburn.
Auburn, winner of four consecutive SEAAU Champion­ships,
has five r e t u r n i n g lettermen. Sonny Dragoin, Troy, and
Robin Baker, Enterprise, won the » 4 9 and 1950 SEAAU
crowns in the 128 and 155-pound
classes, respectively. Dragoin also
served as last year's captain.
Robert Long, Decatur, began
his first year with the 165-pound
SEAAU Championship, defeating
Hershel Merriman, of Maryville,
Tenn., by the referee's decision
after the bout ended in a 6-6
deadlock.
John McGill, Mobile, finished
second in the 115-pound class
while the fifth Ietterman, Richard
Belfonti, Carmel, Pa., ranked
third in the 136-pounders.
Coach Umbach would not an­nounce
his starters for the Mem­phis
Navy match, because as he
said, "We have several boys on
the roster that might beat out
some of the lettermen in the
ranking matches to be held this
Wednesday and Thursday."
Other members of the team
are: 123-pound, Eddie Cresaps,
New Orleans; 130-pounds, James
Carpenter, Auburn; 137-pounds,
James J o h n s , Decatur; 157-
pounds, Howard Wilcox, Grand
Cane, La.; Charlie Borum, sec­ond-
place winner of the SSAAU
in 1950, Birmingham; John Hud­son;
Lineville; 167-pounds, Wil­liam
Crosby, Bay Minette; 177-
pounds, Bobby Drake, Montgom­ery;
John Glenn, Pelham, Ga.;
heavyweights D a n i e l McNair,
New Orleans, La., and Fred
Duart, Jamica, N.Y.
ingham hospital. Though the pair
are still on crutches, they are ex­pected
to be ready for spring
training the first of March.
1951 Auburn Wrestling Schedules
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18—Appalachian State Teachers—Boone, N.C.
Jan. 27—Georgia Tech—Auburn
Jan. 29—Maryville College—Maryville (Tentative)
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12—Vanderbilt—Nashville
17—Vanderbilt—Auburn
24—Georgia Tech—Atlanta
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8—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, Jan. 10, 1951
Auburn Has Had Eight Presidents
During Its 77 Years Of Existence
By Sonny Hollingsworth
In t h e 77 y e a r s of i t s life, A u b u r n has h a d only eight presi­dents:
Dr. I. T. Tichenor, Col. David F r e n c h Boyd, Dr. W i l l i am
Leroy Broun, Dr. Charles Coleman Thach, Dr. S p r i g h t Dowell,
Dr. Bradford Knapp, Dr. L u t h e r Noble Duncan, and Dr. Ralph
Brown Draughon. Dr. O. D. S m i t h served as acting president
in 1902, and Dr. B. B. Ross in 1919
1920, and 1928. From 1932 to 1935,
Auburn was headed by an admin­istrative
committee, members of
which were Doctors J. J. Wil-more,
B. H. Crenshaw, and L. N.
Duncan.
Under these leaders Auburn
has served Alabama and the na­tion
through three-quarters of a
century. Through its three divi­sions,
'instruction, research, and
extension, A.P.I, has trained lead­ers
for improving economic and
social life, has found solutions to
difficult p r o b l e m s confronting
four generations, and has taken
the results of research to the peo­ple
themselves, thus getting suc­cessful
results.
Reverend Issac Taylor Tiche­nor,
D.D., was president during
1872-1882. He was professor of
moral pholosophy. Also Reverend
Tichenor was a pastor of several
large Baptist churches and an im­portant
home mission worker.
After his election to the presiden­cy
of the A. and M. College of
Alabama (Auburn) immediately
after its establishment, he had
two important tasks: securing
funds and equipment, and chang­ing
the attitude of Alabamians
about "book farming." Although
he resigned in 1882 to become
corresponding secretary of the
Home Mission Board, he remain­ed
devoted to Auburn. In fact, the
last words spoken before dying
were about Auburn. Dr. Tichenor
died on December 2, 1902.
Dr. William Leroy Broun, M.A.,
L.L.D., w a s president during
1882-1883, 1884-1902. He was also
professor of physics and astrono­my.
Auburn achieved a national
standing in technical and scien­tific
education during the 20 years
of his administration. A native of
Virginia, Dr. Broun served as a
Confederate officer during the
. Civil War. It was during the war
period that he first realized the
deficiency of Southern youth in
technical training. After the war,
he was appointed ' president of
Georgia A. and M. College, and
he held high positions at both the
University of Georgia and Van-derbilt
before .coming to Auburn
as president. He died while presi­dent
in 1902.
David French Boyd, M.A., L.L.
D., was president during 1883-
1884. Dr. Boyd earned the com­mission
of colonel during the
Civil War, and was known as
Colonel Boyd to many of
his intimate friends. Be­fore
1861 he studied at
the University of Virginia, ob­taining
his degree there. He was
active in educational^ work, es­pecially
in Louisiana, and return­ed
to that state after the war. He
did much to establish Louisiana
State University and was the first
president of that institution. At
one time, Col. Boyd was offered
the superintendency of the Egyp­tian
Military College by the Khe­dive
of Egypt. He maintained or­der,
says one writer, "by culti­vating
the selfrjespect of his stu­dents."
Charles Coleman Thach, M.A.,
LL.D., was president from 1902 to
1920. He was president emeritus
from 1920 to death, 1921. Dr.
Thach was a member of the class
of '77 and returned to Auburn to
teach in 1882. Before his election
to the presidency in 1902, he ser­ved
in the departments of English,
modern languages, Latin, and po­litical
economy. Great building
expansion took place at A.P.I,
while Dr. Thach held the presi­dency,
and the scope of the cur­ricula
was enlarged.
Spright Dowell,' A.M., LL.D.,
was president from 1920 to 1928.
Dr. Dowell is now president of
Mercer University in Georgia. An
important figure in southern edu­cation,
he has been principal of
several Alabama schools and su­perintendent
of the state school
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Applications Open
For Highway Jobs
The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced an
examination for Highway Engi­neer
(Trainee) to fill positions
paying $2,875 and $3,100 a year in
various federal agencies in Wash­ington,
D. C, and throughout the
United States. A few positions lo­cated
in the territories and pos­sessions
of the United States and
in foreign countries may also be
filled. Most of the vacancies are in
the Bureau of Public Roads of the
Department of Commerce.
To qualify, applicants must pass
a written test and, in addition,
must have had college study in
civil engineering. For the $3,100
positions, appropriate civil engi­neering
experience or a combina­tion
of such experience and edu­cation
will be accepted as quali­fying.
Applications will be accept­ed
from students who expect to
complete the required courses not
later than June 30, 1951.
The age limits, 18 to 35 years,
will be waived for persons en­titled
to veteran preference.
Full information and application
forms may be obtained at most
first and second-class post offices,
from civil service regional offices,
or from the U.' S. Civil Service
Commission, Washington 25, D. C.
Applications must be oh file with
the Commission's Washington of­fice
not later than February 6,
1951.
D. E. Davis To Get
Oak Ridge Study
Dr. Donald E. Davis, associate
professor of botany, will receive
a year's leave of absence from the
A.P.I. School of Agriculture to
participate in the Oak Ridge re­search
program this year at Oak
Ridge, Term.
Beginning January 1, 1951, Da­vis
starts research in the biologi­cal
division of the Oak Ridge In­stitute
of Nuclear Studies. His
work will deal partly with the
mineral nutrition of plants.
system. In 1913, Dr. Dowell went
with the Alabama Department of
Education and was at one time
director of teaching training and
conductor of institutes. In 1917, he
was appointed state superintend-en
of education and in 1919, was
elected to that office. He was ap­pointed
president of Auburn on
June 7, 1920, and accepted the
presidency of Mercer in 1928.
Bradford Knapp, B.S., L.L.B.,
D. Agr., was president during
1928-1932. Dr. Knapp studied at
Vanderbilt, the University of
Michigan, and Maryland Agricul­tural
College. Before coming to
Auburn in 1928, he had served for
five years as president of Okla­homa
A. and M. In 1913, he trav­eled
extensively hi Europe, in­vestigating
cooperative market­ing
for the U.S. Department of
Agriculture. After leaving A.P.I,
in 1928, Dr. Knapp accepted the
presidency of the Texas Techno­logical
College, a position which
he held until his death in 1938.
Dr. Knapp was a member of
Kappa Alpha social fraternity,
Alpha Zeta, Phi Kappa Phi, and
ODK.
Luther Noble Duncan, B.S., M.
S., LL.D., was president from
1935 to 1947. Dr. Duncan was a
member of the class of '00 at Au­burn.
He supervised agronomy
research at the Alabama Experi­ment
Station and taught agricul­ture
at A.P.I. from 1905-1909. Dr.
Duncan took an active part in the
organization of boys' and girls'
4-H clubs, and in home economics
extension work. He was director
of the A.P.I. Extension Service
for 12 years before being appoints
ed president. From 1932 until 1935
he served on a three-man admin­istrative
committee which hand­led
the affairs of the college in
the absence of a president. Dr.
Duncan was a member of Kappa
Sigma, Gamma Sigma Delta, Phi
Kappa Phi, and the Kiwanis Club.
He contributed many scholarly
articles to scientific agricultural
publications.
Present president Ralph Brown
Draughon, B.S., M.S., LL.D., was
acting president during 1947-1948,
and was -permanently appointed
in 1948. Dr. Draughon is 50 years
old and a native of Alabama. He
obtained a B.S. degree from A.P.I,
in 1922, and later, an M.S. in his­tory,
a subject which he taught
at Auburn for six years before his
appointment as executive secre­tary
of the college in 1937. He be­came
director of instruction when
that post was created in 1944. Dr.
Draughon served as director of
the Governor's Committee on
Higher Education, under Govern­or
Chauncey Sparks. He is • a
member of the NEA, the AEA,
Tau Kappa Alpha, ODK, Kappa
Delta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, the
Masons, and the Kiwanis Club.
Atomic Energy Commission Offers
Numerous Predoctoral Fellowships
Approximately 250 Atomic Energy Commission sponsored
predoctoral fellowships in the physical and biological sciences
are available for the 1951-52 fiscal year through the Oak Ridge
Institute of Nuclear Studies, which is administering the pro­gram
for the AEC.
T h e predoctoral fellowships
provide a basic stipend of $1600,
with increments of $500 if mar­ried
and $250 per child, not ex­ceeding
two in number. Addition­al
allowances will be made for
travel to the place of study and
for college or university tuition.
Appointments will be for one
year beginning Sept. 1, 1951, and
it is expected that renewals may
be made where appropriate.
Students who have had one
year of graduate study at the time
of entering upon the fellowship
are eligible for the fellowships in
the physical sciences, while an
applicant for a fellowship in a
biological science must have re­ceived
his bachelor's degree.
To qualify for a fellowship, a
candidate must plan research, so
related to atomic energy as to
justify a presumption that upon
completion of his studies, he will
be especially suited for employ­ment
by the AEC or one of its
contractors.
In addition to the predoctoral
•fellowships, the Institute will ap­point
up to 75 AEC postdoctoral
fellows in the physical, medical,
and biological, including agricul­tural,
sciences. The basic stipend
is $3000 with other allowances
identical to those provided for
predoctoral fellows.
The Institute will also award
40 radiological physics fellowships
for study at Vanderbilt Univer­sity
and the University of Ro­chester,
with field training at a
national laboratory of the AEC.
Applicants must have received
bachelor's degrees before begin­ning
the fellowships.
All fellows must receive secur­ity
clearance in accordance with
existing regulations and must be
citizens of the United States.
Application forms and other in­formation
may be obtained from
deans of medical and graduate
schools and heads of university
science departments or may be
obtained directly from the Oak
Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies
at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Samuel T. Coker
To Head Rho Chi
The Zeta chapter of Rho Chi,
national pharmaceutical honor
society, recently announced the
election of officers for the winter
quarter.
Samuel T. Coker, Evergreen,
was elected president; Tom Blake,
Eutaw, vice-president; Huston W.
Kitchen, Auburn, secretary-trea­surer
and James H. Brannen, Jr.,
Montgomery, publicity chairman.
Bailey, McBee Attend
National Convention
Dr. Wilford S. Bailey, head pro­fessor
of pathology and parasito­logy
at A.P.I, attended the an­nual
meeting of the American
Society of Parasitologists in Cle­veland,
Ohio, Dec. 26.
Attending the annual confer­ence
for veterinarians at Cornell
University, Ithaca, N.Y., Jan. 2,
was Dr. John A. McBee, assis­tant
professor of. small animal
surgery and medicine.
7 From A.P.I. Attend
Mathematical Meeting
A.P.I, was represented by seven
professors at the joint meeting
Dec. 27-30 in Gainesville, Fla., of
the Mathematical Association of
America a n d t h e American
Mathematical Society.
Attending the meetings from
Auburn, were Dr. W. V. Parker,
Mr. Verne Dietrich, Dr. J. C.
Eaves, Dr. Ernest Ikenberry, Dr.
H- A. Owens, Dr. W. A. Rutledge,
and Mr. S. L. Thompson.
Civil Service Jobs
Open To Engineers
The U. S. Civil Service Com­mission
has announced an engi­neer
examination for .filling posi­tions
in all branches of engineering
at salaries ranging from $4,600 to
$6,400 a year. The positions to be
filled are located in various fede­ral
agencies in Washington, D. C,
and vicinity. Sanitary Engineer
positions in the U. S. Public Health
Service located throughout the
country will also be filled.
To qualify for these positions,
applicationss must meet a basic
requirement of appropriate college
education, experience in technical
engineering, or both. In addition,
they must have had professional
engineering experience. Graduate
study in engineering may be sub­stituted
for all or part of this pro­fessional
experience, depending
upon the grade of the position. No
written test will be given.
. Information and application
forms may be obtained at most
first- and second-class post of­fices,
from Civil Service regional
offices, or from the U. S. Civil
Service Commission, Washington
25, D. C. Appplications will be
accepted until further notice by
the Commission's Washington of­fice;
however, persons who wish to
receive early consideration should
have their applications on file not
later than January 19, 1951.
Alumnus Gives
API Ag Volumes
Edgar A. Hodson of Little Rock,
Ark., state conservationist for the
federal Soil Conservation Service
in Arkansas, has donated a most
valuable collection of historical
books on agriculture to the lib­rary
of A.P.I.
He began this collection in 1911
at the close of his college days at
Auburn. Many of the books are
from England, source of a num­ber
of landmarks in the agricul­tural
world.
The collection Hodson has do­nated
to A.P.I, contains a large
number of books important in the
development of American agri­culture.
The works cover two
main fields, a description of
plants and a general discussion of
all phases of farm problems.
Origin Of 'War Eagle' Indistinct;
Live Eagle Was Former API Mascot
By Bruce Greenhill
The origin of A u b u r n ' s inspiring "War Eagle" cry is an
indistinct one, as is its meaning. No one knows just exactly
w h e r e t h e cry came from or w h a t it means—it's just an in­tangible,
y e t strong, contributor to t h a t s t a t e of mind known
as t h e A u b u r n Spirit.
One little-known fact about
the yell is that there actually was
a "War Eagle" in the Loveliest
Village at one time.
The battle cry itself is reputed
to be one uttered by Saxon war­riors
during a bloody battle. It
was pagan to the large buzzards,
which flew over the scene of
battle waiting to devour the dead,
and consequently came to be
known as "war eagles." When the
real eagle became the Plains­men's
mascot, the Saxon battle-cry
was used with reference to
,him and was incorporated into
student body yells.
The real "Wai* Eagle" came
into prominence in November,
1930, approximately 20 years ago
today. Hoping for a kill, the huge
eagle swooped down on a flock
of turkeys feeding in a pea patch.
However, he became entangled
in the dense thicket of pea vines.
He remained there until found by
a farmer.
The eagle, normally an inhabi­tant
of the Western United States,
had been blown to Alabama by
prevailing winds of several days'
duration. -His wingspan measured
six feet, four inches.
Upon seeing the eagle, which
the farmer had brought to town,
a group of students purchased
him for $10. The eagle was pre­sented
to the "A" Club at a mass
meeting preceding the Auburn-
South Carolina game.
That day, Auburn went on the
field in a definite role of under­dog;
the Plainsmen hadn't won a
conference game in three years
and the Gamecock battle wasn't
supposed to be a reversal of
form.
However, the Plainsmen hadn't
read the news reports and ran
wild that day. Two backs, Lind-ley
Hatfield,'and Jimmy Hitch­cock,
who was destined to attain
All-America honors two years
later, romped all over the Game­cocks.
The day ended with Au-
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