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VOL. 78 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1952 ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA Number 18
FOUR MAD HATTERS AT TEA PARTY
THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT, portrayed by Ellen Ward, pours tea for Josephine (Jane-
Chilton Phillips) as her mad friends Gabrielle (Amelia Murray) and Constance (Nancy Entrekin)
plan their lawsuit against all the well-to-do people in the world, in this cellar scene from "The
Madwoman of Chaillot," Players' comedy which opens tonight at 8:15 in the Y-Hut. (A.P.I. photo­graph
by Barton Perry.) * -^ »
^Madwoman Of Chaillot' Opens
10-Day Run In Y-Hut Tonight
Jean Giradoux's Satirical Comedy Featured
By Auburn Players As Winter Attraction
By Charles Sullivan
"The Madwoman of Chaillot," Auburn Players' produc­t
i on for the winter quarter, opens tonight at 8:15 in the Y-Hut.
Telfair B. Peet, associate professor of dramatic a r t s and
director of the play, states t h a t it will r u n for 10 successive
nights with the exception of Sunday, Feb. 24.
Students will be admitted free
•upon presentation of their student
activities cards. .The price of ad­mission
for townspeople is 25
cents.
The Drama Critics Circle, com­posed
of New York drama re­viewers,
selected "T h e Mad­woman
of Chaillot" as the best
foreign play of the 1948-49 sea­son.
Jean Giradoux, French play­wright,
wrote the satiric comedy
during World War II, but did not
live to see his play become a
Broadway success.
KNOWN IN America as a poet,
novelist, and philosopher, Girad-pux
is recognized as author of the
plays "Siegfried-" and "Amphy-trion
38."
In the colorful production, the
light touch of comedy rakes over
greed, selfishness, and the mod­ern
business world to spotlight
the humorous faults of mankind.
As might be suspected, the plot
centers around The Madwoman,
portrayed by Ellen Ward, who
solves all the world's problems
during a single afternoon. Ellen
has 22 other characters who eith­er
help or hinder her as she ob­tains
a solution for the difficul­ties
of the world.
The part of The Ragpicker,
male lead, is played by William
Chavers. When the satire opened
in Paris in 1945, the part was
acted by Louis Jouvet, famous
French actor-producer; J o hn
Carradine played The Ragpicker
on Broadway.
Other members of the cast and
parts portrayed are Nancy En­trekin,
Constane; Amelia Murray,
Gabrielle; Jane-Chilton Phillips,
Josephine; Don Cain, The Presi­dent;
Cody Edwards, The Baron;
Billy Manly, The Broker, and
JVlartin Osterman, The Prospec­tor.
Emory, Auburn Vie
In Blood Campaign
The Student Council at Emory
University has agreed to try to
top Auburn's blood donation^, ac­cording
to a recent announcement
in the Emory Wheel. With 3,442
students, the. Atlanta school will
have to contribute 475 pints to
pass the Auburn mark.
A.P.I, recently challenged Geor­gia
Tech and the University of
Georgia, and Emory has jumped
into the race. Auburn, with 6,000
students, recently donated 883
pints, representing contributions
from about 14 per cent of the stu­dents
enrolled.
The article in the Wheel went on
to say that the United States De­fense
Department estimates that
Korean forces would need 2,700,-
000 pints between July, 1951, and
i
July, 1952, and that'by January
of this year only 25 per cent of
this amount had been donated.
Mile. Helene Terre
Winter Presentation
In Herzfeld Series
Mile. Helene M. Terre, famous
Paris lecturer, will be the principal
speaker. Tuesday night at 7:30,
when the School of Home Eco­nomics
presents the winter quarter
Herzfeld Lecture in Bangdon Hall.
Subject of Mile. Terre's lecture
will be "Culture—Background or
Smoke Screen."
Widely known as a writer and
lecturer, Mile. Terre has been em­ployed
in a variety of professions,
from a violinist to a Commando
serving behind enemy lines in the
last war.
FOR'WORK as World War II
commanding officer of a French
Red Cross ambulance unit in Bel­gium,
Mile. Terre received many
of France's highest decorations.
She also received citation for am­bulance
driving in Belgium, under­ground
liason work in Paris, Bou­logne
and Dunkerque, Commando
missions behind enemy lines and
service as officer of the United
States Legion of Merit.
Publisher of several French
works. Mile. Terre is noted for
haying initiated the creation of
social legislation for F r e n ch
women, their rights ta vote and of
equal pay.
Auburn Meets Rama Saturday
Seeking Revenge In Final Game
Hot, Cold Tide Rated Over Plainsmen
As State Rivals Battle In Tuscaloosa
By dave Laney
Plainsman Sports Editor (
Auburn and Alabama meet in Tuscaloosa Saturday night
to renew an intense basketball rivalry and close out the 1952
regular season, campaign. Tip-off time for the SEC clash is
7:30 p.m. in Alabama's Foster Auditorium.
The Tigers will seek revenge for the 62-60 loss dealt them
by the Tide earlier in the season
in an Auburn Sports Arena thriller,
which saw Bama's Bob Schneider
dump in a one-hand push shot
with eight seconds remaining to
bre.ak a 60-60 deadlock, and give
the Crimsons a winning edge. That
was the first of a two game, home-and-
home series between the two
schools for this winter.
'LOVELIEST OF THE PLAINS'
ALABAMA WILL enter the con­test
a definite favorite. The Cap-stoners,
who were rated high as a
SEC championship contender in
pre-season polls by virtue of a
senior-infested, well-rounded ag­gregation,'
have been hot and cold
this season, winning seven of 12
conference games.
Inconsistency in the Tides' play
v/as evidenced by the difference in
their performance when they met
Kentucky and Georgia. Playing on
even terms with the mighty Wild­cats
most of the game, the Tide
finally went down 71-67. Two
weeks later Georgia, probably the
worst team in the conference,
downed the Crimsons 53-51.
IN GENERAL, Auburn's play for
the current campaign has been up
to expectation. The Plainsman
squad, dominated by sophomores,
has emerged victorious in six of
13 conference games. Four of
Auburn's SEC wins have been up­sets,
those being over Mississippi
State, Florida, Tulane, and Ten-nesee.
A total of seven players, six of
Alabama and one from Auburn,
will complete their collegiate bas­ketball
play in the ado. Capt.
Roger Weldon, the only senior on
the Plainsman squad, will be the
only man missing from Coach Joel
Eaves' charges next year.
Paul Sullivan, who holds Ala­bama's
total scoring records over
three seasons with more than 700
points, will see his eligibility de-.
pleted along with Sammy Moore,
Bob Schneider, Bryant Ivey, Paul
Riddle, and Jerry Pannell. Five of
these men are Coach Floyd Bur-dette's
starters.
Nine Coeds Named
ROTC Military Ball
Battalion Finalists
Final selection for Honorary
Lieutenant Colonel and the Navy
ROTC "Color Girl" to reign over
the joint Military Ball were made
Friday, Feb. 15, by committees
composed of representatives from
each of the military units at Au­burn.
Selected to represent the var­ious
units were Carolyn Freeman,
Troy, sponsored by Jack Middle-ton,
Squadron F, Group A, Air
ROTC; Ellen - Witson, Auburn,
sponsored by Robert Wilson,
Squadron A, Group B, Air ROTC;
Catherine Bailey, Anniston, spon­sored
by Jim Lineberger, Squad­ron
C, Group A, Air ROTC; Leta
Ann Casey, Anniston, sponsored
by Louie Pilcher, Squadron 'H,
Group B, Air ROTC.
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Patsy Fuller, Gulfport, Miss.,
sponsored by Dick Reed, 1st Co.,
NROTC; Janot Smith, Decatur,
Ga., sponsored by Jim Stokes,
artillery; Ann Hamilton, Jasper,
sponsored by Billy Hecht, armor­ed
cavalry; Dot Stafford, Mobile,
sponsored by Carver Kennedy,
signal corps; Gladys Blackburn,
Birmingham, sponsored by Fred
Hallmark, engineer batallion.
TAKING TIME OUT from a shorthand lesson to tempt local
Adams with an enticing apple is Ddt Pedersen, sophomore in
secretarial training from Mobile, seventh in the winter 'Loveliest"
series. (A.P.I, photograph by Barton Perry.)
Lineberger, Johnson Appointed Heads
Of Political Affairs, Public Relations
By Les Ford
Appointment of Jim Lineberger and Don Johnson to the
executive cabinet as superintendent of political affairs and
superintendent of,public relations, respectively, was announ­ced
last week by student body president Bill Brooks.
These positions; became vacant as a result of the graduation
of T. O. McDowell, former super­intendent
of political affairs, and
the resignation of Superintendent
of Public Relations Bruce Welch.
The appointments were made by
President Brooks and approved
by the student senate.
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LINEBERGER, a junior from
Fitzgerald, Ga., is president of
the junior class, vice-president
of Sigma Chi social fraternity and
a member of the Student Union
Committee.
As superintendent of political
affairs, Lineberger's duties will
THE COMEDY features a scene
in which The Ragpicker, repre­senting
all the wealthy people in
the world, stands a mock trial to
determine the answer to the
question "Is it right to destroy all
the evil in the world if given the
opportunity?" The Madwoman of. De m a n y , with the spring elec
Chailott serves as prosecutor | t i o n s approaching: He is now re-while
other madwomen become sponsible for conducting all stu-the
judge and defense attorney | dent body elections in accordance
"This play is definitely ahead, with the provisions of the student
of its time," states Peet, "for the body constitution and laws. This
action occurs in the spring of next will include the qualification of
year in Paris." Sidewalk cafes candidates, supervising c a inl­and
ghostly cellars provide the paigns, conducting election day
settings and moods for the come- balloting and supervising the
dy. counting of the votes.
JOHNSON, a sophomore from
Dothan, is president of Squires
sophomore honorary, a member
of Phi Mu Alpha music honorary*
treasurer of Sigma Nu social frat­ernity,
a member of the Interfrat-ernity
Council, a member of the
Auburn Band and a member of
Delta Sigma Pi business honor­ary.
.
Under the executive cabinet
law, Johnson will be in charge
of handling publicity for the stuT
dent body. This in itself is a ma­jor
operation and will require
working through the A.P.I. News
Bureau. As superintendent of
public relations Johnson will
serve as li^on officer between
the^ City of Auburn and the stu­dent
body. His duties also include
acting as a; public relations agent
in all student body affairs and
publishing the War Eagle Bulletin.
Jim Lineberger
Don Johnson
THE NINE finalists will be
honored by a review of the Army
and Air Force ROTC units on the
drill field Tuesday, Feb. 26. At
that time they will be presented
honorary commissions as lieuten­ant
colonels.
Final selection of the Military
Ball Honorary Colonel will be made
at a tea given by Mrs. George T.
Taaffe, wife of the professor of
air science and tactics, at the Soc­ial
Center preceeding the dance
March 1. Judges will be Mrs.
Dorothy Arnold, home economics
department; Mrs. Olga Bibza,
physical education department;
Coach Shug Jordan, head football
coach; James Foy, director of
student affairs, and Scott Farley,
Graduate Placement "Bureau.
API Debaters Enter
Mobile Tournament
The Auburn Debate Council will
make its second trip of the winter
quarter when it travels to Mobile
tomorrow for Springhill College's
Azalea Trail Debate Tournament,
to be held February 22-23.
The affirmative team will con­sist
of Herbert Nelson, Mobile, and
Denison Ray, Anniston. Negative
debaters are Bettie Jones, Au­burn,
and Tom Radney, Wadley.
Dr. Joseph H. Mahaffey, faculty
advisor for the debate council,
will accompany the group.
Noted for being one of the
'fastest-paced tournaments In the
South, it will have representative
teams from such colleges as Notre
Dame, Georgetown University, and
the University of Wichita. Each
team will debate a set side of the
question, which is a departure
from last year's tournament pro­cedure
of teams' alternating sides
every round.
A*n added attraction of the tour­nament
is the fact that it is being
held at the height of the Mqrdi
Gras season in Mobile, and at­tendance
at several parades is
planned fol the debaters.
Slide Rules, Drawing Boards Emerge;
Engineers Make Open House Plans
By Max Hall
AJP.I.'s slide rule and drawing board boys are planning
big doings for the spring Open House celebration, according to
Bob Boerner, chairman of the Engineering School Open
House Committee.
Both professional and honorary groups in each division
of the school are preparing dis
Intramural Debaters
To Discuss Athletics
In Tourney Monday
Twenty-three teams have been-listed
for the annual intramural
debate tournament which will be­gin
on the campus Monday, Feb.
25, according to Herb Nelson, de­bate
tournament director. -First
two rounds will be Monday and
Tuesday.
The question for the 1952 debate
is "Resolved: That intercollegiate
athletics throughout the nation,
should be de-emphasized." Eligi­bility,
rules for the tourney specify
that no person who has competed
in intercollegiate discussion or de­bate
while at Auburn will be al­lowed
to enter.
CHANGES
this year ha
divisions for
ties and inde
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tournament rules
abolished separate
raternities, sorori-fndent
groups. This
plays, and all engineering labor­atories
and equipment will be
thrown open to public inspection.
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PHI PS I, textile engineering
honorary, is planning an exhibi­tion
of the processes which
change a bale of cotton to finished
cloth. The demonstration will in­clude
cleaning, spinning, bleach­ing,
weaving and dyeing appara­tus,
and the finished cloth samp­les
will be distributed to visitors
as souvenirs.
The chemical engineering de
partment, under the direction of
American Chemical Society and
American Institute of Chemical
Engineers members, is planning a
comparative displays of soap-making
methods in 1850 and at
the present. The exhibit will be
in front of Wilmore Lab.
The Institute of Radio Engi­neering,
American Institute of
Electrical Engineers a n d Eta
Kappa Nu will direct the activi­ties
of electrical engineering stu­dents.
The electrical exhibits,
centered around Ross Square,
will present working demonstra­tions
of radar and television,
along with a oscillograph demon­stration,
and an example of sound
conduction with no connection
other than a beam of light. The
well-known "Jacob's Ladder" ef­fect
will be demonstrated, along
with several other spectacular
electrical phenomena.
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THE AERONAUTICAL engi­neering
department will throw
open the doors of its labs in Wil­more,
under the direction of In­stitute
of Aeronautical Science
members. The labs contain mock-ups
and cutaway models of var­ious
types of aircraft engines and
hydraulic and electrical systems.
Mechanical engineers are plan­ning
a booth with a display of
technical equipment in Ross
Square, and exhibits of the steam,
diesel, and automobile engines
and other equipment in their labs.
Combined projects of the en­gineers
will include several ex­hibits
on opportunities available
to young men in the engineering
field. These exhibits will be scat­tered
throughout Ramsay Hall
and other buildings of the school.
Several prominent industries,
including Allis-Chalmers and
General Electric, have promised
to bring exhibits to the Plains.
year's tourney will have only one
division, with ajl teams competing
in the same g^up.
Each team will debate two times,-
taking both sides of the question
once. Every speaker will have
eight minutes for a constructive
speech and four minutes for a re­buttal.
The affirmative will open '
and close the debate, but the order
in which negative speakers talk
will be optional. A team- losing
both debates will automatically be >
eliminated.
First and second place winners
will be awarded trophies, which
will remain in permanent posses­sion
of the group. All speakers
reaching the semi-finals will re­ceive
keys as individual awards.
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IN LAST YEAR'S competion
Lambda Chi Alpha nosed out
Theta Chi in the finals. Phi Kappa
Tau ran third in the 1951 tourney.
"We have very good material
this year and we feel that this
year's tournament will be one of
the best that has ever been held
in Auburn," says JJelson.
Judges for the tourney will come
from the English and speech de­partments.
Absolute Security Not In Existence,
Hanson Baldwin Tells API Audience
By Walter Albritton
Lecturing on "Security in the Atomic Age" before an
audience of about 200, Hanson Baldwin last week told his
listeners in Langdon Hall, "There is no such thing as absolute
or complete security."
Military editor of the New York Times, Baldwin appeared
as one of two attractions of the
A.P.I, concert and lecture series.
Known as one of the foremost
military analysts of the nation, the
famed newsman in emphasizing
that there was no absolute security
in the world, said "We can hope
only for relative security."
"In order to provide relative
security," Baldwin stated, "we
need to enlarge and better the
military power of our nation. How­ever,
we must not become too
strong. Too much control in the
hands of the military world en­danger
our basic freedoms."
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BALDWIN SAID that push
button war is not here, but that "it
is coming, probably in our life­time."
Speaking further on atomic war­fare,
Baldwin said that 'atomic
weapon limitations in quantity
and quality arc being removed by
time," and that America now has
a family of deadly weapons, such
as an atomic bomb six times more
powerful than the World War II
type, and guided missiles.
In three or four years, Baldwin
said, "We will have atomic-power­ed
submarines cruising the seas."
"The United States has detonat­ed
24 A-bombs," Baldwin pointed
out, "wHile Russian has detonated
but three. Since such explosions
cannot be hidden, we can safely
conclude that the U. S. has a size­able
lead in A-bomb production."
WITH THE GREAT advances
being made in our time, the "map
of the world has grown smaller,"
the military authority stated. He
added, "the offense in war today,
has big advantage over defense.
How could you defend against sud­den
attack by rockets, missiles,
modern gases and A-bombs?
''Protected by geography before,
the U.S. is now vulnerable to long
range bombers, guided missiles
and snorkle submarines," Baldwin
said, "and because of this fact, we
must be prepared to strike back if
attacked."
Baldwin outlined two principles
that he believed the U. S. should
follow: ''We must emphasize readi»
ness potential. Prepared force is
an absolutely indispensable factor
of the Atomic Age," he said. "And
we must provide an integrated,
united economical program for de­fense
general to our strategy."
The odds are against World War
111 coming in 1952 but not in too
great amount, in Baldwin's opinion.
"A quick cease-fire in Korea is not
likely, but I believe that we should
issue an ultimatum of 45 to 90
days for a decision to be reached."
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BALDWIN SAID that he felt the
draft is definitely necessary, for an
indefinite period, in order to pro­vide
men for • relative > security.
"However, as it is presently pro­posed,
I do not believe that Uni-
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Chi Omega, Tau Kappa Epsilon Annual Formate Scheduled For This Week End
Miss Ann Perry, Chapter President, LEADING LADIES FOR WEEK END'S 'MAKE BWEVEf 'CARNATION' DANCES
To Lead Dance With Peyton Burford
Miss Ann Perry, Alpha Beta chapter president, will lead
Chi Omega.'s "Make Believe Formal" with Peyton Burford,
Camden, Saturday night. The Auburn Knights will play for
the dance from 9 until 12 in the student activities building.
During the leadout, Nell Scarborough, Eufaula, past presi­dent
of the sorcrity, will present
the leading lady with a bouquet
of white carnations.
Immediately following the dance,
a breakfast for members and their
dates will be served at the Kappa
Sigma fraternity house.
MEMBERS AND dates include
Barbara Bugg, Buck Compton,
Nanafalia; C a r o l y n Freeman,
Charles Jones, Greenville; Nancy
Martin, Hagedorn Jenson, Sup-choppy,
Fla.; Nancy Grey, Zeb
Roberts, Birmingham; Nell Scar­borough,
Bob Scarborough, Eu­faula;
Melissa Wolfe, James Wade,
Auburn; Ann Alvord, Robert Ful­ton,
Talledega.
Mary Ann Deramus, David.
Baker, Wildwood, Fla.; Alice Park,
Clyde Meagher, Auburn; Pud Hin-kle,
Tom Caldwell, Washington,
D. C; Billie Lou Cooper, Sam
Hanks, Garland; Ann Nunn, Car­roll
Berry, Ringgold, Ga.; Jane
French, Joel Murphree, Elba; Elea­nor
Allen, Joe Stegall, Emelle; Dee
Calhoun, Daly Stanford, Roanoke,
Va.
Beverly Ritchie, Dick Burns,
Ridgewood, N. J;; Mary Jean
Smith, Earl Conley, Mobile; Carrie
Jean Bryars, Bobby Hand, Opelika;
Frances Pearson, Tyson Lewis,
Gadsden; Betsy Berckbickler, Gene
Hughes, Hartford; Ann Rose, Bob
Humphrey^, Birminghjam; Jane
Webb, Joe Rao, New York City;
Mary Lou Champion, Julian Mob-ley,
Birmingham; Betty Harris,
Buddy Royal, Gadsden.
RUTH ANN NUNN, Bob Sal­mon,
Auburn; Mary Ann Peak,
Rufus Lee, Eufaula; Patricia Rich­ardson,
Jim Landers, West Palm
Beach, Fla.; Mary Ann Springer,
Bill Falkenberry, Selma; Gail Gre­gory,
Bruce Shelly, Headland;
-Harriet Whipple, Muse Mann, Co­lumbus,
Ga.; Nancy Patillo, Jasper
Reaves, Eufaula; Jean Hawkins,
Bubba Harding, Mobile.
Car.olyn Gleaves, Andy Thomas,
Alexander City; Martha Ann
''Lewis, Walter Brand, Birmingham;
Betty Patrick, Graham Dosier,
Albany, Ga.; Mary Barnes, Don
Johnson, Dothan; Joan Calhoun,
Jerry Little, Anderson, S. C; Har­riet
Childs, Ray Anderson, West
Point, Ga.; Martha Ann Eddins,
Bob Kelly, Wolcott, Ind.; Patsy
Fuller, Dick Reed, Winston-Salem,
N. C.
Gay Phillips, Bob Donahue,
Montgomery; Beth Thompson, Bill
Meador, Faunsdale; Martha Wilson,
Jimmy Wright, Mobile; Julia Ward,
Gorman Houston, Eufaula; Carolyn
DeRamus, Edwin Cumbie, Dothan;
Jane Garrett, Gifford Garner,
Ozark. Carolyn Standridge, Gene
Bearden, Wilton; Betty Eubanks,
Travis Lindsay, Birmingham,
Betty Capel Named
'Queen Of Hearts'
Betty Capel, freshman from
Griffin, Ga., was crowned Sigma
Phi ERsilon fraternity's "Queen of
Hearts" at a ball held at the Hotel
Clement in Opelika Friday, Feb. 15.
The. Skylarks, Columbus, Ga.,
orchestra, played for the dance,
at which she was presented a lov­ing
cup by the fraternity.
A member of Alpha Delta Pi
sorority, Betty
w a s selected
f r o m e i g ht
,,... nominees, b y
i t h e SPE's. Al­pha
Delta Pi
also received a
loving cup for
nominating her.
Betty Capel Mrs. J a m e s
Wallace, SPE housemother, was
presented a jeweled SPE "Sweet­heart
Pin" at the Opelika dance.
Festivities of the week end in­cluded
a breakfast at the frater­nity
house following the dance, a
party at Chewacla Saturday, and
a house dance Saturday night.
FOR SALE-rl940 4-Door Dodge
good condition. Call 869. Gene
Byrd.
M I S S ANN
PERRY, Camden,
Chi Omega presi-
\ dent, will lead
sorority's annual
"Make Believe
Formal" on Sat­urday
night. She
will be escorted
by Payton Bur­ford,
a l s o of
Camden.
MISS A L I C E
PARK, Atlanta,
will lead the an­nual
"Carnation
Formal" of Tau
Kappa Epsilon
Fraternity o n
Friday night. She
will be escorted
,by C l y d e . R.
JVTeagher, Au-b
u r n, chapter
president.
Miss Alice Park, Clyde R. Meagher
To Head 'Carnation Formal' Leadout
Beta Lambda chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity
will present its annual "Carnation Formal" Friday, Feb. 22,
from 9-12 p.m. in the student activities building. The South­ern
Cavaliers.will play.
Miss Alice Park, Atlanta, will lead the dance with chapter
president Clyde R. Meagtoer, Au- .
burn.' Mrs. Hazel Mundhenk, TKE1 Adelaide Henderson, Birming-
Greek's Social Affairs Feature...
ing Arrows, Heart Parties
By Tommie Duke.. '•
Eros twanged arrows right and
left last week as Valentine parties
took the spotlight in the Auburn
social activities theater.
Games and food were featured
as the Delta Zeta's entertained the
Pi Kappa Alpha's with a prema­ture
Valentine get-together Tues­day
night at the Pike house.
Magnolia Hall was the scene of
a heart-theme party and dance
Friday night. Refreshments, were
served to residents and their dates
by. Mrs. J. D. Thomas, house­mother.
Plans are made for a
dormitory hayride to Lake Che-r
wacla next Saturday night.
Alpha Gamma1 Rho entertained
members of Alpha Delta Pi sorority
with a house dance Tuesday, Feb.
12. Miss Mittie Gates, house­mother,
chaperoned.
New AGR. members include
Charles Brown, Double Springs;
Charles Bennett, Andalusia; Jerry
Bouler, Demopolis; Napp Granade,
Leroy; Charles Gilmer, Sulligent;
Sam Jones, Roswell, Ga.; John Lee,
Dancy; Cecil Moore, Marion Junc­tion;
Merrell Northcutt, Roberts-dale;
Walt Phillips, Ashland; James
Pugh, Grove Hill; Gilbert Sellers,
Ramar; George Sanders, Ashland;
Hcmer stoker, Chatom, and Wil­liam
Tuck. Birmingham.
James E.Foy, acting director of
student affairs, was guest speaker
at a banquet held in Pitts. Hotel
recently to honor these six new
members of the Cresent Club of
Delta Tau Delta fraternity: Donald
Mayne, Pensacola, Fla.; Jimmy
Morton, Gray, Ga.; Webster Posey,
Auburn; Warren Ritchie, Memphis,
Tenn.; Eddie. Farm, Mobile, and
EJd Vaughan, Livingston.
New Theta Chi pins are being
worn by Jim. Spikes, Mobile; Julian
Burgess, Waycross, Ga.; Leon
Smith, Mobile? Milo Howard,
Montgomery; Arthur Smith, Mo­bile,
and*Tony Carter, Gatesville,
N. C.
President of the Theta Chi
pledge class is Nelson Weller, Pen­sacola,
Fla. Other officers elected
recently are Dick Fullerton, West
Palm Beach, Fla., vice-president,
and Bill Horn, Mobile, secretary-treasurer.
Charles Moore, Florence, was
recently recognized as the 1,000th
man,to be initiated by Phi Delta
Theta fraternity since the local
chapter was founded in 1879.
Moore also received honors as out­standing
pledge'of his fall quarter
class.
Other new Phi Delts are Joe
Arbuthnot, Montgomery; Hunter
Bell, Atlanta; John Bratfy, Mobile;
Jimmy Cannon, Montgomery; Don­ald
Dennison, Macon, Ga.; Ray
Downey, Birmingham, f
Bob French, Atlanta; Chuck
Hughes, Jacksonville, Fla.; Henry
Ivy, West Point, Miss.; Barry
Marsh, Huntsville; Beth Minter,
Selma; Marvin Mostellar, Jr., Mo­bile;
Riley Taylor, Andalusia, and
Tommy Taylor, Mobile.
Bob Sharman, Beulah is a new
PDT pledge.
Alton Dauphin, Montgomery,
was presented a jeweled Pi Kappa
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Alpha pin Sunday as outstanding
pledge, at a 'banquet held to honor
new members of the fraternity.
Other initiates include Ray Fer-werda,
Cleveland, Ohio; Richard
Bite, Birmingham; John Ellis, Cen­tre;
George Hartselle, Birmingham;
Mark Shipman, Birmingham.
Hamp Royston, LaFayette; Bill
Whitaker, Childersburg; John Sel­lers,
Montgomery; Glynn Bryan,
Warrington, Fla.; Charlie Arm­strong,
Chattanooga, Tenn.; Bobby
Adams, Huntsville; Ralph Clark,
Huntsville, and Charlie Bottcher,
Hanceville.
Beta Xi chapter of Delta Zela
sorority held formal initiation
ceremonies recently for 15 pledges.
New members are Marcia Buck,
Chelsea;. Rosalynn Fillmer, Bir­mingham;
Floy Ann Gary, Morris,
Ga.; Hilda Hargrove, Mobile; Ruby
Dell Long, Mobile; Sylvia McCalla,
Centreville; Marilynne P a l e r,
Gadsden; Jean T. Pettyjohn, Bir­mingham.
Joanne Powell, Birmingham;
Sharlene Sharpe, Piedmont; Nancy
Smith, Birmingham; Janet Taylor,
Fort Payne; Rebecca Thompson,
Auburn; Betty Vice, Sweetwater,
and Jacqueline Waller, Birming­ham.
Delia Chi- recently initiated
WRA'Hatchet Hop''Set
Friday In Alumni Gym
A. "Hatchet Hop" will be held in
Alumni Gym Friday, Feb. 22, from
7:30, until 10. p.m. Sponsored by
the Women's Recreational Asso-r
ciatipn, the dance is., designed to
give students a chance to "bury
the hatchet."
All1 students are invited to the
hop.
Alpha Gam Presented
Eighth Scholarship Cup
Gamma Delta chapter of Alpha
Gamma Delta sorority was recently
awarded the Pan-Hellenic Scholar­ship
Cup for the eighth consecu­tive
year.
Presented by Rita Kelly, Mobile,
president of the Pan-Hellenic
Council, the cup is given to the
sorority with the highest overall
average.
Charles Houser, Scott, Ga.; John
Yarborough, Auburn; Joe Poch,
Auburn; George Morrow, Birming­ham;
Gene Kennedy, Eclectic;
Charles Spencer, Auburn; Prue
Wilson, Auburn; Louis Cryar,
Albertville; Allison Christopher,
Gadsden; Billy Morgan, Auburn,
and Henry Hartsfield, Birming­ham.
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housemother, will present the
leading lady with a bouquet of
•flowers during t.h e leadout.
Breakfast will be served at the
fraternity house after the dance.
Saturday afternoon,a party will
be. held, followed by a buffet
supper and a house dance Satur­day.
* # *.
MEMBERS, PLEDGES,and their
dates, are:
Donald Morris, Sara Warren,
Montgomery; V i r g i l Vickroy,
Beth Carlovitz, Auburn; Arthur
Barnette, Barry Lynn, Montgom­ery;
Pete Adams, Barbara Smith,
Columbus, Ga.; Brian Polk, Emily
Nichols, Huntsville; Bill Whatley,
ham; Johnny Stansell, Martha
Williams, Columbus, Ga.
Jim Brock, Grace Brock, Mo­bile;
Jim Minto, Catherine Pip­kin,
Atm'ore; Norman Whitman,
Farnel Barnes, Montevallo; Cor­ky
Wilkinson, Martha Orr.^Au-burn_
i Melvin Hall, Kathryn Dean,
Alexander City; Dick Meagher,
Jackie Plant, Tallassee; Mr. and
Mrs. I Tom Smith, Birmingham;
Earl Pennington, Nina Hestes,
Russellville; James Hutchinson,
Ann Parker, Auburn.
* * * ,
HENRI LORDANS, Betty Jean
Norwood, Decatur; Mr. and Mrs.
Haywood Mayfield, Opelika; Guy
(Continued on page 3)
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By Max Hall
During t h e y e a r s immediately following the close of World
War II, research—one of A u b u r n ' s t h r e e fields of service—was
seriously limited. Stringent restrictions, caused by lack of
staff, facilities and funds, were imposed on t h e research in
A.P.I.'s 10 schools.
Several steps have been taken
to relieve the situation in recent
months, and the central measure
for improvement of research was
the appointment of Dr. R. G.
Sturm as head of the Auburn Re­search
Foundation and the En­gineering
Experiment Station. ,
Since Dr. Sturm's advent to the
Plains in the late summer, the r e ­search
program has grown rapid­ly,
and projects are now either
under way or in the planning
stage for nine schools. Participat-i
ing in the program at present are
/ t h e Schools o f Engineering,
Chemistry, Science and Litera­ture,,
and Home Economics. Fu­ture
plans call for including the
schools of Pharmacy, Education,
Veterinary Medicine, and Archi­tecture.
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RESEARCH PROJECTS in the
new program are divided into
four categories. T'hey are fellow­ship
type, contract type, co'opera-
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tive projects, and foundation-sponsored
projects.
The fellowship type project
consists of a grant directly to an
A.P.I. graduate student, whose
work is directed by his major
professor and administered by
the Research Foundation. An ex­ample
of this type is a fellowship
for study of the evaporation of
petroleum products, made pos­sible
by the Graver Tank and
Manufacturing Company.
Typical of cooperative type re­search
is the project recently
undertakert by the Foundation-in
conjunction with the Alabama
State Highway, department. The
work is under the direction of a
joint advisory board, composed of
Auburn faculty members, High­way
Department officials, arid a
member of the American Society
of Civil Engineers. Joint' super­vision
is the distinguishing char-acterstic
of the cooperative ex­periments.
Contract 'projects are those
items of specific research under­taken
under the sponsorship j>f
the Federal Government, of a
similar interested organization.
Present contract jobs include one
in the physics department and
one in the School of Engineering.
The foundation-sponsored type
includes projects undertaken en­tirely
with funds from the local
research group. These projects
are begun with the intention of
shifting them to one of the other
types if they prove .worthwhile.
* * *
FUTURE PLANS call for pro-
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jects under the sponsorship of
such well-known firms as Ten­nessee
Coal, Iron and Railroad
Co., Shell Oil Co., and others.
Transportation will probably be
one of the most popular fields for
research work.
One of the greatest advantages
of the accelerated program will
probably be the possibility for r e ­search
fellows to work on their
Ph.D. degrees while engaged with
projects. Dr. Sturm stated, "More
than one contracting agency con­cerned
with graduate work at
Auburn has indicated that if we
do not provide such advanced
training, they will not consider
continued placement of their con­tracts
here." This warning indi­cates
that something may soon
be done to set up the advanced
program of study.
* * * ,
DR. STURM, a former profes­sor
at Purdue University, stresses
a "five-point policy" which gives
the purpose for the program of
sponsored research. The five key
reasons emphasize that educa­tional
research:
1. Provides an opportunity for
a student, who might otherwise
'be prevented from doing so, to,
carry on a program of graduate
study.
2. Points graduate training to­ward
a definite goal, so that ad­vanced
study is more realistic and
more organized.*
3. Makes information available
to the sponsor in much the same
form as research done by com­mercial
laboratories.'
4. Through the requirement for
a graduate thesis, increases the
quantity of scientific literature
produced.
5. Makes students available af­ter
graduation as specialized em­ployees
to the sponsors or other
interested organizations.
'Carnation Formal'
(Continued from page 2)
Epperson, Babs Tittle, Montgom­ery;
Bobby Barrett, Marion La­mar,
Auburn; Bill Epperson,
Betty Sue Johnson, Montgomery;
Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Ham, Ope­lika;
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Kroner,
Atlanta, Ga.; Lindy Mann, Jean
Butlar, Tallassee; Beryl Toler,
Millie King, Mobile.
Payment Of Fees
Begins March 3
All students will clear fees in
Samford basement in accordance
with the following schedule:
UPPERCLASSMEN
Monday, March 3
8:30-10:30 a.m. Aa-Cl
10:30^12 a.m. Cl-Da
1-3 p.m. Da-Gre
3-4:30 p.m. Gre-Hess
Tuesday, March-4
8-10:30 a.m. Hest-Leg ?
10:30-12 a.m. " Leg-Mill
1-3 p.m. Mill-Pra
3-4:30 p.m. Pra-Sey
Wednesday, March 5
8-10:30 a.m. Sha-Watt
10:30-12 a.m. . Watt-Zy
All upperclassmen who cannot
pay fees according to above sched­ule
may clear with freshmen as
scheduled below:
FRESHMEN
Wednesday, March g
1-3 p.m. Aa-Gu
3-4:30 p.m. Gu-Ju
Thursday, March 6
8-10:30 a.m. Ka-Sey
•10:30-12 a.m. Sey-Zy
1-4:30 p.m. All students un­able
to clear as
scheduled.
Late registration fee is charge­able
beginning Friday, March 7.
Hanson Baldwin
(Continued from page 1)
versaL Military Training is at. all
necessary," Baldwin said. "UMT
would only provide a mass of half-trained
men. 'We need well-trained
men and less waste by the mili­tary,
and we need the military to
be freed of state politics."
Because he feels that they will
someday emerge as great powers
again, Baldwin feels that the U. S.
should rearm Germany and Japan
and help them rebuild. "There (is
little doubt but that they will rise
again, and we should by all means
help and not- hamper them," he
pointed out. \^
According to Baldwin, America
needs a sound home front able to
take care of itself in an emergency.
"We also need bases overseas as
v/ell 'as in this country; bases,
friends and allies are most impor­tant,,"
the Pulitzer prize winner
stated. ,
Calendar Of Events
SPECIAL EVENTS
February 20-23r-"The Madwom­an
of Chaillof'-Auburn Players-
Y-Hut-8:15 p.m.
February 25-March 1—"The
Madwoman of Chaillof'-Auburn
Players-Y-Hut-8:18 p.m.
February 22—Tau Kappa Epsilon
formal-student activities building
9-12 p.m.
February 23—Chi Omega for­mal-
student ' activities building-9
-12 p.m.
February 23 — Basketball - Au­burn
vs. Alabama-TuscaloosaT
0 February 25—Annual Intramural
Debate Tournament.
CLUB MEETINGS
February 21—Cardinal Key-So­cial
Center-5 p.m.—Dance Club-
Alumni Gym-Open to all students-
5 p.m.—Rotary Club-ladies night
-7:30 p.m.
February 25 — Dolphin Club -
Alumni Gym-6:45 p.m.—WSGA-Social
Center-6:45 p.m.^-Ag C<&m-cil-
Comer 108-7 p.m.—AICE-Wil-more
Lab-7 p.m.—ASME-Ramsay
200-7 p.m.
February 26 — Sphinx - Social
Center-5 p.m.—Dance Club-Alum­ni
Gym-open to all students-5 p.m.
—Women's Recreation Association
-Alumni Gym-5 p.m.—Alpha Phi
Omega-Wilmore 234-7 p.m.—Phi
Lambda' Upsilon-Ross 216-7 p.m.
—Block & Bridle Club-AH 206-
7 p.m.—Horticulture Forum-TB
14B-7:30 p.m.
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available March 15. Near down­town
area. Phone 462.
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Register Next Week
Registrar Charles Edwards an­nounced
today that freshmen and
sophomores are scheduled to reg­ister
next week. Sophomores (A-L)
will register Monday, Feb. 25, and
the remainder (M-Z) will schedule
courses Tuesday, Feb. 26.
Freshmen will report to regis­tration
centers on Wednesday,
Feb.~27, (students A-L) and Thurs­day,
Feb. 28, (M-Z).
All students will report to their
dean's office to secure trial sched­ules.
Punched class cards will be
distributed at the office of de­partment
heads. /
After securing class cards stu­dents
are reminded to return them
to their dean or dean's representa­tive.
Each sophomore and fresh­man
must report to the registration
official in Air, Army or Naval
ROTC offices for assignment to
military classes. If physical edu­cation
subjects are required, stu­dents
must report to Alumni Gym
for assignment.
1
3—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, Feb. 20, 1952
Calhoun Urges Coeds
To Offer For Yell Post
Coeds interested in becoming
cheerleaders are urged to con­tact
Dennis Calhoun at the Kappa
Alpha fraternity house. One coed
cheerleader will be selected to
replace Key Phillips, Ashland,
who is leaving.school.
Calhoun states that practice
will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Alumni
Gym on Monday, Feb. 25. Final
NOTICE
PJay for the championship
in the fraternity, independent,
and church basketball divisions
will begin Monday, March 3, and
will- continue until completed.
In the fraternity and church
divisions, the top teams of each
four leagues will play double
elimination tournaments and in
the independent division the first
and second place winners of the
three leagues will compete in
double elimination matches.
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OPELIKA
Hanson Baldwin Speaks.
When Hanson Baldwin finished his lec­ture
last Thursday night, less than 20 stu­dents
walked out of Langdon Hall. We
counted them in disgust. More than 5,000
Auburn students had rejected the oppor­tunity
to hear one of the nation's top mili­tary
analysts discuss events that should
be vitally important to college men in par­ticular.
And Baldwin did an excellent job in
stimulating thought and concern about af­fairs
military, political, and economic in
the United States in a manner that was
far from boring. This was evidenced in
the dozens of questions received from the
audience after the lecture. He discussed
new developments in weapons of war—
atomic adaptations, biological agents, and
guided missiles. He pointed out the disad­vantages
of Universal Military Training.
He spoke of foreign policy and military
rJolicy. But his remarks were heard pri­marily
by faculty listeners.
The lack of interest on the part of stu­dents,
we believe, stems from their desire
to be entertained, not informed. They re­veled
in the enchantment of the Singing
Boys of Norway, but shied away from the
realistic and cold truths of Hanson Bald­win's
speech. It is this attitude of escap­ism
that is sending Auburn students into
mental fantasies. It is this attitude that
accounted for only 15 students at the Bald, grams.
Auburn Research Program...
. . . A New Era For Auburn
. . . To A Mere Handful
win lecture.
Our concerruis not that Auburn students
aren't opinionated. Many will hastily re­spond
to any popular topic of debate, rend­ering
judgments on anything from Taft to
the Taft-Hartley Act. They will argue
loudly for hours. But too frequently the
opinion evolves through an osmotic pro­cess
from a good friend, a favorite pro­fessor,
or preferred magazine without any
stimulation of thought on the part of the
person in debate. The student, circled
with a halo of intelligence, has broken into
the ranks of the cultured, the informed.
Our real concern, however, is that only
a handful of students turned out to hear
Hanson Baldwin, who is recognized as one
of the most outstanding military analysts
in the nation. And he had a speech that
merited the attention of the whole student
body, and offered a wholesome way for
Auburnites to hear an objective discussion
concerning the problems facing today's
youth.
The lecture and concert series is de­signed
to bring both entertaining and in­formative
programs to the campus.
Speakers and concert groups are carefully
screened by a faculty and student com­mittee
to bring the best in each branch.
But at the present time, we are reaping
only half of the benefits from the pro-
The Plainsman has watched with grow-ving
pride during the past few months the
Expansion of research. work at Auburn
which began last July with the appoint­ment
of Dr. R.' G. Sturm as director of the
Aublujn Research Foundation.
Shouldering the direction of one of Au­burn's
three branches, Dr. Sturm has made
far-reachVig plans for the eventual deve­lopment
of research work in all of the 10
schools—plans t h a t have educational-minded-
alumni, students, and administra­tors
extremely enthusiastic over the pos­sible
contributions of the institution to the
South and the nation.
Of the three branches of the institution
—research, education, and extension—th<<
first has frequently been completely un­noticed
by students who were unaware of
their part in the research program. After
the war the Research Foundation was lim­ited
in funds, facilities and staffers, and
graduate students did little research work
in cooperation with the Foundation. Au­burn
administrators, including dean of the
Graduate School Dr. Fred Allison, realized
the need for an expanded research pro­gram,
and Dr. Sturm was employed to
head the program. /
We believe the revitalized research pro­gram
is the beginning of another stanza
in a new era for Auburn. In the past four
years we have, already witnessed the birth
of an extensive building program, a re­juvenated
athletic program and a great
increase in experienced faculty members.
And the research program comes as a
timely Counterbalance to the physical and
athletic expansion. It will place the em-
A Shroud Of Smoke...
Recently the Faculty Council of the Uni­versity
of Texas passed a ban on smoking
and soft drinks in classrooms, teaching
laboratories,, and libraries.
The Daily Texan reported that student
complaints have been long and loud, but
that classes have strictly observed the rul­ing.
Students against the ban gave the
following as their reasons:
1. The ban is unnecessary. Smoking has
caused no major fires nor in itself been re­sponsible
for refinishing floors.
phasis on training, research, and graduate
studies.
As Dr. Sturm points out, the educational
research program will provide an oppor­tunity
for worthy students to carry on
graduate work at Auburn, whereas other­wise
they might not be able to do so; and
it will point graduate studies toward a
definite goal so that the purpose of stu­dents'
advanced training will be more real­istic
and more effectively organized.
Already an impressive list of industries
has called upon the Research Foundation
for scientific aid. Such companies as
Loewy Construction Company of New
York City, Tennessee Coal and Iron Divi­sion
of the United States Steel Corpora­tion,
and the Shell Oil Company have
sponsored fellowships or contracts for ex­perimental
work. Governmental agencies
including the Atomic Energy Commission,
United States'Army Ordnance and the
Alabama State Highway Department have
sponsored educational research projects.
The biggest single project the Foundation
is administering at the present time is the
United States Air Force contract being
conducted, by the physics department
which amounts to approximately $75,000
for the current year.
Such work will soon give added luster
to Auburn as an educational institution.
It will come slowly at first. Research
facilities must be expanded ai(id qualified
students must be enlisted to contribute to
the projects through graduate study. But
the long range plans of Dr. Sturm clearly
point the way to a full-scale program at
Auburn.
1 . . . On Texas Campus
2. It is a trivial rule, one . . . that pro­jects
unnecessary restrictions on student
freedom.
3. The rule will work an unnecessary
hardship on habitual smokers. It's hard to
go without a cigarette for 50 minutes, and
harder still to abstain all morning.
Those favoring the ruling had two prin­cipal
arguments:
1. Smoking effaces floors.
2. Smoking is irritable to non-smokers.
We're glad we don't have smoking prob­lems
at Auburn, (Muffled laughter.)
Auburn Plainsman
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Illiterate Illiterate, Illiterate Professor
—Scholars Are Trained, Not Educated
By Bruce Welch, Guest Columnist
We are a practical and progressive people. Our American
educational system is the best in the world. The masses are
literate. Every child and backwoods farmers knows of the
atom and of Hedy Lamar. And as a result of our extensive
educational and research program, we are blessed with faster
travel, greater comforts, greater
mechanical efficiency, and longer
lives than any people in the his­tory
of the world.
Every year thousands receive de­grees
from our institutions of
higher learning and take their
places as spokes in-our great wheel
of progress. These are the engi­neers,
doctors, architects, farmers,
administrators, a n d scientists.
These are the specialists and tech­nicians.
But where are the men?
Our "scholars" are trained, not
educated. A dog or an elephant
can be trained.
*
We are among the thousands of
illiterate literates that annually
receives BS, MS, and Ph.D. de­grees.
We learn to memorize and
occasionally to "reason"; but we
do not learn to think. We may at­tain
an immense storehouse of
knowledge; but we do not attain
understanding or wisdom. We
learn a trade so we can earn a
living; but we do not learn of our­selves
so we can live. We spend
years learning to run a machine
or make diphenyl chloroprene; but
we learn less about running our
lives and being happy than was
learned 2,500 years ago.
We must not drift without pur­pose,
nor must we accept the first'
doctrine of life that comes our way
just because it happens to be con­venient.
But we must cease being
afraid to think of the implications
of moral truth, for these things
and our understanding of them will
determine whether we are made or
broken by our machines.
We must be doctors and engi­neers,
but we cannot be doctors and
engineers alone. We need far
worse to be full men and women.
The yardstick of civilization has
never been speed, mechanical ef­ficiency,
or even health. It is
rather the concept and truth set
forth by or through a few men
that have guided the masses to
be present degree of "civility."
We are scientific giants, but in­tellectual
midgets whose reading
interest seldom go further thajf
the columns of the daily paper or
the latest dime store novel. We
learn to read usually for no other
purpose than to learn what Mrs.
Flipperflapper wore at the pah-te,
to devour the 10,000th version of
Mary and Jack's complicated ille­gal
love affair, and, because we
must earn a living, to learn how
to integrate and compute pH so
we get a better job. We should not
forever repeat the -a-b-c's and
monosyllabic words of the second
grade'but, having learned the al­phabet,
we should seek to read and
understand the best that is in
literature.
There is in the final analysis
little difference between the illit­erate
illiterate and the illiterate
professor. Few college graduates
can express their thoughts clearly
in writing. Most receive their de­grees
without having gained even
a passing acquaintanqe with the
fundamental concept of English
literature and elementary phil­osophy.
As long as we neglect the
Studies that make us think and
give us understanding, we will
never comprehend the moral and
spiritual truths that we must have
if we are to live happily in the
scientific wolrld' that we have
created. While we are being
trained let's get a little education
too. Let's take advantage of the
opportunity to study a little litera­ture
and philosophy even if it isn't
required. Our country was found­ed
for the freedom of thought, not
for an extra slice of apple pie or
a new hat. Let's not be so busy
eating apple pie and wearing new
hats we forget the freedom and
let it fade away.
As long as science serves no
other purpose than to give us a
full stomach and satisfy our sen­sual
desires something is missing.
A man is not a doctor, a lawyer,
a merchant,'. or a carpenter—we ;
have enough of these. The noblest
calling is to be a man: to-encom­pass
the world and universe, in
thought and potentiality.' Would
we restrict our thoughts merely
to atoms and the next meal? Must
the man be sacrificed for the sci­entist?
Will we be the slaves of
our machine in order to eat so we
can live to invent more machines?
Is this the price we must pay for
specialization?
•Let's not be so busy running
through the forest looking for the
way out that we fail to see the
trail when we cross it, and be­come
hopelessly lost.
Letters To
The Editor
Dear Sir:
She doesn't blush,
She doesn't smile; '
She doesn't listen to dirty jokes
to pass the Nvhile.
She doesn't smooch,
She doesn't pet; ^
She doesn't partake of alcohol
yet.
She doesn't do the things she
thinks aren't "right"—
She sits at home on Saturday
night.
Disgusted male student of
the Auburn monastery
(name withheld)
Dear Editor:
Where'sa da jokes?! Last week's
Plainsman was the first edition,
to my knowledge, which did not
have the "Characteristically Col­legiate"
column in it. I missed
Viese bits of humor very much.
I do not believe that these,jokes
are a reflection on the Auburn
coeds, any more than I believe the
moron jokes are a reflection on the
people in mental institutions.
It is my impression that I should
not like to date one of the "dis­gusted
group of Auburn coeds"
who neither smile nor laugh on
dates.
Note—these girls don't et cetera
either.
Jim Evans
"This is a country club?" asks my good friend Gay Talese,
popular sports editors of Bama's Crimson-White.
He tells the following tale, printed in. plasma, lachrymal
fluid, and perspiration:
"Footballer Ken MacAfee flunked out of school this semes­ter
and the question now is 'Are hardly believe it! I can hardly
Dixie football colleges getting TOO believe it!
respectable?' . . . The departure of Crowd (sympathetically):
the big, swift offensive end, who
finished the semester in the red
with quality points, came as a sur­prise.
It was once taken for grant­ed
that young1 men with football
ability just did not flunk out of
college. . . But the fact that the
likeable MacAfee would have been
Red Drew's No. 1 pass-catcher in
'52 did not budge the Alabama
hierarchy in the Administration
Building one iota. . . Rumor this
week has it that MacAfee may try
it again in summer school. . . Once
upon a time there was a beefy
'Alabama guard who, upon receiv­ing
his college diploma, boasted, 'I
not only never went to the library
during my four years of college,
but I don't even know where the
library is!' . . . But who will now
call Bama a country club?"
Me.
A PLAY
(Stage 1. is flooded with a soft
red glow. Mounted on a heap of
well-thumbed textbooks is be­spectacled
Ken "Cow-Crusher"
Blackeyepea, dressed in black. He
is beefy. His brow is furrowed,
and he makes occasional ^gestures
of sorrow. A crowd of muscular
. well-wishers kneel around him,
dousing him frequently with cas­cades
of confetti,' serpentine, and
football cleats. Their arms are
raised in mute worship.)
Ken: I can hardly believe it! I can
According To Hall
He can
hardly believe it.
Ken: I have football ability. I'm
likeable. I'm a big and offen­sive
end. Ain't I?
Crowd (surges forward, careful
not to trample on books): Yay!
Ken: Then why am I treated this-away?
(Tear rolls down beefy
cheek.) I took it for granted that
I, as a young man with football
ability, just wouldn't flunk out
of college. But look at me now.
(Crowd looks at him.) And I've
always worked hard. I've been
to the library loads of times, and
I can point it out on the campus
any day of the week, almost.
See, there it is over there. (Crowd
follows his gaze, then runs over
en masse to the library and be­gins
drawing books. Some get
novels, but most get technical
volumes printed in small type.)
So what if I did fail a course or
two? Plenty of people have
bilged advanced hair-brushing;
and that course in bottle-open-ain't
no crip neither.
Crowd: Hear, hear.
Ken: I'm not only in the red—I've
got 'em. (Smites brow:-)
(Two brawny men in the front
row of the crowd, wearing sneak­ers,
lift Ken to their shoulders and
carry hyfri through the audience.
Remainder of company follow,
shouting "Glory," "Praise," "Laud"
and "Renown" at frequent inter­vals.
Several strong "Huzzahs"
are heard. The Moon, portrayed
by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., rises on
stage r., revealing a cutaway sec­tion
of the Administration Build­ing,
in which Alabama hierarchy,
in cutaway coats, are seen to be
holding an election. A man with
a beard and spats presides. He is
not beefy.)
Chairman: Well, then, gentlemans,
I reckon we're ready to vote. It
has been moved and seconded
that we'll budge as many iotas
as necessary to get young Black­eyepea
back in school. Now, gen­tlemen:
aye . . . nay. (The ayes
have it.) The ayes have it. (A
whey-faced, callow youth, ob­viously
a junior hierarchist,
dashes in bearing a copy of the
Birmingham Tribune - News -
Sun-Time-Herald-Gazette-Post-
Age-Ledger.)
Youth (panting): Just looka trris,
just looka this!
Chairman (unmoved): Yes, boy,
what is it? (Takes paper and
reads aloud.) ''Student trans­ferring
from Auburn to Bama
wishes to trade study lamp for
chaise lounge." (Closes eyes.)
So this, gentlemans, is what they
think of us. (Dies.)
(Remainder of hierarchy bury
chairman, then vote again on iota
issue. The nays have it.)
Hierarchy (chanting solemnly):
The nays have it. (They tear
down Country Club signs and
erect educational monuments.
Most produce monocles and/or
powdered wigs. As the curtain
fails the population of the world
enters at stage r., proclaiming
Bama as the new Universal
seat of learnings Ken, carrying
a shovel and leading a cow, wan­ders
aimlessly through the audi­ence
selling old football blad­ders.
The cow is beefy.)
Can Honor Survive Thousands Hear Baldwin Lecture;
Dear Editor:
My suggestion to The Plainsman
would be to omit Walter "Parson"
Albritton's column and give his
space to Martin Mednick. Even if
Mednick does include in his col­umn
some jokes we have heard
before, they are at least enjoyable
reading, which is more than can be
said for Albritton's column.
/ Sincerely yours.
Buddy Patton
On Auburn Campus?
\
By Max Hall
According to the newspapers, an
investigation of cribbing, reported
to involve about 250 students, is
now under way at the University
of Florida.
Since Florida is an honor system
school, the scandal revives the
question of whether honor is suf­ficient
to enforce student honesty
on exams.
The Florida problem is unfor­tunate,
and we fear that it presents
an additional obstacle to the estab­lishment
of an honor system at
Auburn. Regardless of the out­come
of the Gainesville probe, the
problem of importance to local
students is "would an honor sys­tem
work here?" ^
The advantages of a workable
plan of student enforced honesty
arc undeniable. If the system
was in force here, students would
find it possible* to break the long
periods of final exams with cokes,
cigarettes, and other self-regulated
intermission. And there is certainly
something to be said for the end
to constant and nerve-wracking
proctoring which would be brought
about by the system.
The important question then is
whether or not Auburn students
have the personal integrity neces­sary
to maintain an honor system.
There is some cheating on quizzes
and exams here, regardless of the
best proctoring efforts of instruc­tors.
In spite of this, we believe
Auburn students are basically
honest enough to make the system
work.
This opinion is partially con­firmed
by the manager of a local
eatery who caters almost entirely
to students. The gentleman de­pends
entirely on the word of his
customers in collecting for his
wares, and he informs us that, "At
least D9 per cent of my customers
are absolutely straight."
There are some who will argue
that this percentage of honesty
does not extend to the realm of
quizzes. We don't know, but we
see no reason why a person honest
enough to play square with a res­taurant
owner who trusts him,
should cheat on an instructor who
places an equal value on his in­tegrity.
As usual the problem resolves
itself back £o the individual stu­dent.
Would an honor system work
at Auburn?
A word of commendation goes
this week to the Alabama Motor­ists'
Association for finally break­ing
up the "speed trap" at Harpers-villc,
a wide place in the Florida
short route between Auburn and
Birmingham.
For weeks, students who live in
the Magic City and point* north
have passed through, the hamlet
with fear and'trembling. Maybe
the action by the AMA will make
the trips home more pleasant for
students and less profitably';; for
local officials. ,&.
%Coed Gives Info On Auburn Girls
By Walter "Parson" Albritton
Thousands of students thronged into Langdon Hall Thurs­day
night to hear lecturer Hanson Baldwin. The place was
packed.
- Students sat in the aisles. They climbed up on the rafters.
They sat on each other. They sat outside on the ground. They
even crowded onto the platfornrwith the speaker.
Several were trampled in the mad rush to obtain seats in
the auditorium and college physician M. V. Krown reported
the infirmary to be chock-full Friday morning of students suf­fering
from "mob" injuries.
It was a phenomenon. Never has Langdon been filled to
such capacity. College officials are still
wondering what caused the sudden huge
turnout.
It was great to see so many students take
advantage of their opportunity to hear the
noted military authority, Baldwin; it proved
that today's youth are ever anxious to ac­quire
a better understanding of that which is
of such vital concern to them—security in the
Albritton atomic age.
The lecture was only sparsely attended by faculty members.
In fact, so few professors were present that their absence
prompted the following conversation between two students:
"You know, only about 15 professors came to hear Baldwin.
It's a shame that more of them don't take advantage of this
fine opportunity to hear a man who's on the "inside track"
insofar as military is concerned."
"Shame nothing! All those instructors think they know
everything tliere is to know; so if they don't want to come and
hear an authority, let 'em stay ignorant!"
That's the spirit. Yessir, that's it.
In answer to my request of statistics on nighties and teddy
bears, I received three letters from coeds who seemed to think
that most Auburn girls do sleep in pajamas rather than in
nighties and that many of them sleep with teddy bears or
pandas. The best of the three letters:
Dear Walter,
After reading that portion of your column titled "Nighties
and Teddy Bears," I decided to help you out by conducting a
survey of our dorm. However, I didn't ask all the girls; I just
went around to their rooms, talked to them for a few minutes
and nonchalantly found out the information I was looking for.
My survey included 20 girls and of these only four sleep
in nighties. Fourteen sleep in pajamas, mostly red and yellow
ones. One sleeps in her "birthday suit," as you called it, and
one, being rather inconsistent, said that she sometimes sleeps
in pajamas, sometimes in a nightie, but never in her birthday
suit.
Concerning the teddy bears and, pandas, I found that only
11 of the girls sleep with them here at school, but that all but
five of them have one either at school or at home. By the
way, you might be interested to know that so far as I can tell,
Auburn girls prefer pandas to teddy bears. In our dorrn, only
one girl sleeps with a teddy bear.
I don't know what help this survey'will be to you, but you
asked for some statistics, so here they are. I'm not signing
my name for several reasons I don't need to mention, but that's
not necessary anyway. All you wanted was the statistics.
Sincerely,
An interested reader
P.S. I felt very neglected that you didn't mention in your
column my sleeping attire. Although I used to sleep in paja­mas,
I now had rather not sleep in anything! It gives me a
sense of freedom.
My dear, yours is not an attire.
-THE- PLAINSMAN; Wednesday, Feb. 20, 1952
iger Trainer Named
>n '52 Olympic Team
By Walter Albritton
Adhesive tape-wrapping Kenny "Doc" Howard, head
t r a i n e r for Auburn athletic teams since 1948, was recently
lamed one of eight t r a i n e r s on t h e 1952 United States Olym-jic
team.
Howard, who spent considerable time working with Travis
fid well's injured leg and helping
get the star Tiger back into play-
Jing condition, will be the third
lAuburn man to work in a train­ing
or coaching capacity with the
American Olympic team.
An easygoing young man of 25,
loward has a most important job,
ret one that is fulfilled quietly
paid, efficiently without e v er
Reaching the headlines and with
lonly rare mention in print.
KENNY'S APP.OINTMENT as
•head trainer came when track
[coach Wilbur Hutsell was select-led
athletic director at Auburn in
Ithe spring of 1948. Since it was
(impossible for Hutsell to continue
lwith his trainer duties, the posi-jtioh
which had been held'by him
(for a quarter of a century became
Ivacant:
Finding a competent replace-
Iment was no problem, as the ath-lletic
committee quickly selected
|Howard to fill the post.
Responsible for the physical
I well-being of the Auburn teams
I of all sports, Kenny says that he
I could not count the yards of ad-
»hesive tape he has used in hold-ling
athletes in one piece, nor
Icould he recall the number of
ibottles of alcohol and liniment he
I has applied to sore, tight muscles.
DIKE
IN A FRIENDLY
ATMOSPHERE
SEAFOOD
STEAKS CHICKEN
You'll like our courteous
-help and pleasant surround­ings.
AUBURN GRILLE
OTHERS WHO have represent­ed
Auburn on American Olympic
teams have been Bill Streit, Bir­mingham
Auburnite who was
chosen -manager of the U.S.
wrestling team in 1924, '28, '32
and '40, and dean of southern
track mentors Hutsell.
In 1924 Hutsell went to the
Olympics in Paris as trainer of
the U.S. wrestling team, in 1928
he was selected assistant track
coach for America to go to the
world-wide sports event in Am­sterdam,
and in 1932, the Olym­pics
being held in Los Angeles,
Hutsell was invited to go along
as one of this country's associate
track coaches.
Held everj^ four years, the 1952
Olympics will be played in Hel­sinki,
Finland, in mid-July.
' * * *
KENNY, WHO likes to boast of
the fact that he was trainer for
Whitey Overton, Auburn star
miler of recent years, has the
final authority in stating when
Auburn athletes are in physical
condition to play and when they
are not. On serious cases, he
works with Dr. M. W. Brown, col­lege
physician, and acts upon the
doc's advice.
Dr. Brown is also consulted
when Kenny has a tough decision
to make in regards to sending
players to a specialist for major
operations.
Work as an athletic trainer be­gins
in the fall and extends
through the spring, covering the
three quarters of the year that
Auburn has teams in sports com­petition
or training. K e n ny
spends,a great deal of his.time at
the football practice field or the
basketball court to treat at once
any minor injuries that occur.
In addition to his work as
trainer, Howard teaches courses
in. anatomjtTand the treatment of
athletic .injuries for physical edu­cation
majors.
* .* *
MAKING ALL the football,
track and basketball trips is a
must for Kenny, who feels it his
duty to be'on hand to attend to
injuries when they occur. In this
way, he Ibelieves that he can keep
the team in better all-around
condition.
"Most common injuries," states
Kenny, "are those that affect the
legs or shoulders, although bruis­ed
knees and sprained ankles are
quite frequent."
Just being able to care for* all
physical injuries is not enough,
Auburn Squeezes Out Close Victory
To Blight Mardi Gras For Greenies
By Dave Laney*
As gala Mardi Gras festivities continued nearby, t h e Au­b
u r n Plainsmen of Coach Joel Eaves upset a good* Tulane
team, 63r61, in t h e Crescent City 'Monday night. By t he
s t r e n g t h of. t h e w i n t h e P l a i n s m e n cagers moved into a t ie
with t h e Greenies for f o u r th place in conference standings.
Three men—Inman Veal and
Kenny "Doc" Howard
Fraternity Basketball Leagues Prep
For Tight Finish f U l H ^ M l K
By John Thrower' . ; ";. • .?
With only t h r e e games remaining for Sigma Alpha JEpsi-lon
a n d t h e i r u n b e a t e n cagers, t h e necessity of w i n n i n g every
game gave t h em new blood and s p u r r e d their mighty five
to victory in l a s t week's contest w i t h Sigma Chi. #,
SAE, displaying beautiful teamwork along with good, b a l l -
handling, put on quite a show for
excited Greek fans as they push­ed
Sigma Chi down the play-off
ladder, 46-29, in the Sports Arena,
Watlington and McBride chalked
up a score of 14 points each.
Roger Weldon of Auburn and
Long John Hplt-of Tulart^—shar-
' ed high scoring honors with 13
points apiece.
W.ELDON; MADE good two free
throw opportunities in the first;
minute, and Auburn was never
headed. Eaves? men moved to the
front by an 1SY1Q'. mark at the
end of the first quarter, which
was featured by Veal's ball thefts
and Weldon's set shots.
Referee Fred Walters rubbed
the partisan Tulane fans the
wrong way as' the. first period
terminated, by calling a close foul
on one of the Greenies. The spec­tators
put up a howl that:result­ed
in two technical fouls being
called against - the home team.
Weldon, shooting the technical
tries, started scoring in the sec­ond
quarter by making good one
free throw attempt, and the Tig­ers
were off to a 31-28' halftime
advantage.
* \* * \-
TULANE'S HOLT, forced to
retire from further play late in
the fourth period, tallied 11
points in the first half.
•Vince Dooley's sparkling floor
play aided Auburn greatly as the
Tigers pulled away 51-44 at the
end of the third period. Lay-ups
resulting from more ballrstealing
by Veal and Dooley highlighted
the third.
Veal and- Jack Turner moved
Auburn a bit closer to the sixth
win fin 13 conference games by
netting quick field goals to init­iate
play in period four. Turner's
goal gave an 11-point lead to the
Plainsmen, their greatest of the
evening,
W I T H ' L E S S than five minutes
remaining, Dooley sank two field
goals to renew the Plainsmen's
frontage by 62-51. Tulane's 10-
point rally in the waning mo­ments
fell short, and it was Au­burn
63-61.
Though not as rough as. in the
LSU game two nights prior, Au­burn
had two players, Veal and
"Jim Martin; and Tulane one,
Fritz Schultz, sent out due to
fouls in excess.
Other Tiger scoring was by
Dooley, 12; Martin, 10; Cochran,
seven; Bill Fickling and Jack
Turner, three, and Bubber Farish,
Uinstead, Silas Lead
Jackets Over Tigers
Georgia Tech's Ramblin' Wrecks,
fired by Teeter Umstead and Pen­cil
Pete Silas, ran down a ragged
Auburn Plainsman outfit by a 58-
50 count in the Sports Arena last
Wednesday night. .'It was the
Tiger's home finale.
The win was Tech's third over
the Plainsmen this season. As For­ward
Bubber Farish said, "Our
three worst games have all been
against Tech'." . .
After Inman Veal had. led off
with. three , quick points in the
opening minutes, the Yellow Jack­ets
held the'Macon, Ga., sopho­more's
offensiyie.efforts to nil. Au­burn,
scoring" was left mainly to
Jack Turner, who bucketed 12 to
lead the Plainsmen.'
Tech's two-man punch, Um­stead
and Silas, together netted
41 points for the evening, Silas
getting 24 of them.
Auburn jumped to an early
3-1 lead,-' but Silas nullified this
(Continued on page 6)
SIGMA PHI EPSILON had no
affection for their hosts in last
week's clashes. Omega Tau Sigma,
was first to feel their sting as
SPE's rocked them, 27-14, Tues­day.
Again on Thursday, SPE
journeyed back to the Sports
Arena to edge a determined Sig­ma
Phi Epsilon team, 19-17. So
far in league three, Sigma. Phi,
Epsilon has lost only one game.
Next week, SPE will play Alpha
Psi to decide the league title.
Phi Delta Theta narrowly es-=-
caped defeat from a powerful1
Lambda Chi Alpha five, 19-18.
This was the closest call that the
Phi Delts have had ajl season.
PI KAPPA PHI came into the
two digit scoring bracket last
week, but Theta Chi again proved
themselves too much for the P i
Kaps with a 46-22 win. Only fiye
Pi Kaps showed up for the con­test
and were forced to play the
entire game.
Kappa Alpha stomped Tau
Kappa Epsilon, 52-28, in another
contest in the Sports Arena.
SAE currently leads league one,
PDT heads league two, Alpha
Psi and SPE are tied in league
three, and in league four Theta
Chi and KA battle for supremacy.
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Campus Interviews on Cigarette Tests
No. 35,..
THE LARGEMOUTH
BASS
either, says Kenny. "A trainer
also has to be skilled in 'operating
on' athletes' imaginary aches and
pains, and in many cases, their
gripes," the Plainsman trainer
said with a grin.
Chief's U- Drive - It &
Chiefs Sinclair Station
PHONE 446
CHIEF'S
IS PROUD
TO SALUTE
Ellry
Barton
As an outstand­ing
member of
the Auburn Stu­dent
Body.
Ellry, a senior in
veterinary medicine
from Andalusia, is vice
president of Blue Key
honor society, super­intendent
of social af­fairs,
and past presi­dent
of the senior class.
A member of Phi Zeta
veterinary honorary,
Alpha Zeta agricultural
honor frat, and Alpha
Psi I social fraternity,
he was recognized by
'Who's Who among
Students in American
Universities and Col­leges."
WHERE AUBURN STUDENTS TRADE
Mt
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Ixhrays a sucker for attractive bait, our aquatic
brother went off the deep end and got caught (
on the quick-trick cigarette hook! But he wormed
his way out when he suddenly realized that
cigarette mildness can't be tossed off reel lightly.
Millions of smokers have found, too, there's only
one true test of cigarette mildness.
It's the sensible test—the 30-Day Camel
Mildness Test, which simply asks you to t ry
Camels as your steady smoke on a day-after-day,
pack-after-pack basis. No snap judgments!
Once you've tried Camels for 30 days in your
"T-Zone" <T for Throat, T for Taste),
you'll see w h y . . .
After all the Mildness Tests.
w4
ttr*i *m JS
Camel lea* a\loiherbmnds6y£////ojir
two: Schultz and Dick Brennan
followed Holt in Tulane point-making
witft nine each. ,
LSU Bengals Rally,
Trip Auburn 70-64
The Auburn Tigers, leading
Louisiana State University late
into the third period, were handed
their second straight SEC setback
as they succumbed to a late Bayou
Tiger rally in a 70-64 ball game
Saturday night in Baton Rouge,
La.
Bob Pettit, who has been at the
top of the points-per-game-aver-age
list most of the basketball sea­son,
was top man for the night;
the • six-foot, nine-inch forward
netted 18vpoints. Teammate Joe
Dean was second with 16 markers.
Vince Dooley, who along with
Jack Turner had run a high fever
until Saturday morning, paced Au­burn.;
with 15 points. Bob Fenn
trailed with-14; followed by Turner
and Inman Veal with 10 each.
THE PLAINSMEN, holding the
high scoring Pettit to a mere six
points in the first half, led at the
end of the first period 20-13, and
at: intermission 40-37. In the ini­tial
half the Plainsmen hit 16 of l
22 free throws.
Auburn continued their slim lead'
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FOOTS LAKEV SPORTS
EDITOR
Spring's Coming Brings All-SEC Lists;
Veal Only Plainsman On 12-Man Squad
As spring nears each year and basketball play draws to a
close, it is common for coaches, sports scribes, Phi Beta
Kappa sets, and others to convene in individual cliques and
select what they call All-SEC basketball teams. As a rule,
the teams these boys pick are not constituted by the same
men; neither are the combines of the same number. Usually,
their "dream teams" vary in size from five to eight people
with a number of honorable mentions thrown in; but a 12-
man squad is practically unheard of—except here.
Here is this
1952.
PLAYER
Frank Ramsey
Dave Kardokus
Pete Silas
Bob Pettit
Bobby Watson
Joe Dean
Inman Veal
Tommy Bartlett
Bob Schneider
Cliff Hagan
Coyt Vance
John Holt
desk's 12-man,
SCHOOL
Kentucky
Vanderbilt
Ga. Tech
LSU
Kentucky
LSU
Auburn
' Tennessee
Alabama
Kentucky
Miss. State
Tulane
All-SEC basketball team for
CLASS
Sr.
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So.
Jr. <
Sr.
So.
Sr.
Sr.
Jr.
Sr.
Sr.
POSITION
Forward
Forward
Forward
Forward
i Guard
Guard
Guard%
Guard
Guard
Center
Center
Center
MEMBERS OF AUBURN'S'once-defeated wrestling team "take 10" from pre-Arkansas State
workouts to flex their biceps for A.P.I. photographer Barton Perry. The Tigers groaners are defend­ing
their fifth consecutive Southeastern Amateur Athletic Union championship.
A-Day To Be Looked Forward To—March 8
Auburn's annual A-Day football game March 8 may be
the best in a decade if the Tigers continue to perform with
the spirit exposed in practice thus far. -
After watching Saturday's practice session, J. B. "Ears"
Whitworth, Oklahoma A. & M. mentor who was formerly
affiliated with Shug Jordan, Buck Bradberry, Joe Connally
and Gene Lorendo at Georgia, remarked, "They sure do hit
hard. I don't believe I've seen a more spirited practice any­where."
Auburnites, all of them pleased with progress of Jordan's
rebuilding program, have directed curious eyes to Plainsman
workouts to see some of the highly touted freshmen such as
Ray Mercer, Hoppy Middleton, Jim Pyburn, Dan Clayton,
M. L. Brackett, Ed Norton, .and Al Naughton run with their
older brothers. Apparently the onlookers are well satisfied
with the above named boys, who made all-star teams rank­ing
from all-county to All-America elevens while in high
school, because the great Auburn Spirit seems to be instilled
amongst 'em.
e To Auburn SpQrtstnen
n Debate^Council's selected subject for this
rssion—Resolved: That intercollegiate athletics
nation, should be de-emphasized presents
the sports-minded students of Auburn,
this subject is-very timely. Almost everyone
Newman to Ed Danforth, and from Groucho Marx
to Sen. Joe McCarthy has burdened his mind with the sub­ject.
Of course, the issue has many pros and cons which will
attribute to very interesting rounds in the debate tourna­ment,
provided participation is adequate.. So here's a chance
for some of you back-room bull session boys, who frequently
talk sports, to lay your debate talents on the line, and per­haps
win the Council's prize.
Tiger Topics
—Coach Dick McGowen's baseballers will help Georgia.
Tech initiate their home schedule by meeting the Tornado!
March 31 and April 1 in SEC contests.
Motley Crew, Auburn's '52 Grapplers,
Keeping Coach Swede's Chin High
By Walter Everidge
A motley crew of Auburn grapplers, built around a nu­cleus
of two lettermen, comprise Coach Arnold "Swede" Um-bach's
1952 wrestling team.
Things looked black for the Scandinavian as he entered
his seventh year as muscle mentor for the Tigers. Four of
his starters lacked mat exper­ience;
and his team, aiming to­ward
a sixth consecutive South­eastern
Amateur Athletic Union
championship, was crowded with
freshmen.
But the Plainsman groaners
hurdled these .barriers in stride
and zoomed on to their present
5-1 season recard, their only loss
to date being to non-SEAAU foe
Appalachian State Teachers Col­lege.
Nine men are chiefly respon­sible
for keeping Umbach's chin
high: /
DAN McNAIR, one-of the two
returning lettermen, fills up the
drawer marked "heavyweight"
for the squad. A junior in physi­cal
education, the gigantic New
Orleans Scot won the 1951 junior
regional AAU championship in
the Crescent City. Dangerous Dan
has won all seven of his matches
so far this season, and would be
"even better," say his teammates,
if he could find adequate compe­tition
in practice. Raised in the
Scaughmeax Swamps of Louis­iana,
big McNair spent his spare
time in boyhood catching water
moccasins for sale to zoos.
GEORGE...COOLEY, Bemiston
junior, came to the squad with no
previous mat experience but beat
out letterman John Glenn, Pel-ham,
Ga., for a""post in the 177-
pound slot. Cooley has coolly won
three of his four matches for Au­burn.
FRED SHAW, massive-armed
freshman f r o m Chattanooga,
Tenn., has won six and lost one
so far this season, as headliner
for the 167-pound weight divi­sion.
The best-built man on the
team, Shaw attended Baylor be­fore
coming to the Plains, setting
several weight-lifting r . e c o r ds
which still stand at the Tennessee
prep school.
RUSSELL BAKER, Vicksburg.
Miss., has been wrestling on Um­bach's
team for three years. He
took over the 157-pound reins
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after the season had begun, win­ning
three out of four to date.
Descended from a famous wrest­ling
family of Mississippi, Baker
practices yoga for a hobby.
JOHN HUDSON, who reaped a
.667 average in the first three
tangles of the season, is lost to the
157-pound class for the remaind­er
of the season because of a knee
injury received in'practice. Oper­ating
with an octopus-like dex­terity,
Hudson is one of the fast­est
men oh the Auburn roster.
JERRY BAINS, generally re­garded
as the most improved
wrestler on the mat squad, is un­defeated
in seven starts this year.
Also a Baylorite, the 147-pound
Oneonta sophomore boasts two
pins.
JAMES JOHNS, only senior on in four tries so far this season.
the team, has won six matches
while losing one, scoring the
Plainsmen's only pin against a
powerful Appalachian aggrega­tion
in the first meet of the sea­son.
The stocky 137-pound resi­dent
of Frisco City, a licensed pi­lot
of , single-engine aircraft,
spends his spare hours logging
flying time at the Auburn Air­port.
RAY DOWNEY, tow-headed
freshman from Birmingham, was
attracted to A.P.I, from Baylor,
where he learned of Umbach's
record on the Plains. Auburn's
representative in the 130-pound
slo,t, Downey has run up five
victories and one draw in seven
attempts.
ROBERT., DAVID, diminutive
Birmingham sophomore who ord­inarily
opens the curtain on Tiger
meets, is chief groaner for the
123-pound gang. The navy beck­oned
in early January, but he
succeeded in getting a postpone­ment
of duty until June, return­ing
to Auburn to nose out Frank
Rutledge for the lead-off slot. An
aggressive and loose wrestler,
little David has played on his
harp to the tune of three wins
Auburn Wrestlers Conquer Maryville;
Three Tiger Pins Feature 26-5
By Lee Brown
A powerful Auburn wrestling team won its sixth conse­cutive
match Saturday night at the Auburn Sports Arena
"by mauling Maryville College, 26-5. The grappling battle
was the Tigers' last of a four-meet home stand for the
1952 season.
The unimpressive- Maryville
team managed to score only one
triumph, that being when exper­ienced
Bill Morse handed Au­burn's
123-pound Robert David,
Birmingham scrapper, his first
defeat of the year.
Saturday's encounter was high­lighted
by four falls, three of
which were executed by Auburn
grapplers. Plainsmen musclemen
who fought and twisted their way
to pins were Ray Downey, 130
pounds; James Johns, 137 pounds,
and Fred Shaw, 167 pounds.
Frosh Ray Downey used his
unorthodox bar-arm hold to sub­due
his opponent from Maryville,
Jack Maxwell, in 6:30 seconds.
Downey, improved Birmingham
ace, will likely prove a great as*-
set when the Tigers meet Ar­kansas
State College February 21.
ALERT JAMES JOHNS made
short work of his match by pin­ning
Maryville's Dave Ritzman
in a quick 2:51 seconds of the
first period.
Coach Swede' Umbach's talent­ed
groaners continued their pin­ning
tactics when mighty Fred
Shaw tangled with Tennesseean
i Paul Merwin. Shaw skillfully ap­plied
the bar-arm hold to pin
Merwin in 3:43 seconds. -
Jerry Bains, Umbach's king in
the 147-pound division, subdued
Maryville's James Callaway, 7-2,
in suces'sfully completing his
seventh straight match of the sea­son
without a mishap.
Stocky 157-pound Russell Bak­er,
defeated but once since gain­ing
a varsity berth, smothered
Don Benton of Maryville, 6-0, to
add another triumph to the Tiger
win column.
PITTED AGAINST each other
in the last bout of the evening
were Auburn's George Cooley and
Maryville hustler Robert Buch­anan,
both 177-pounders. Cooley
put the match on ice by ably
defeating his opponent, 6-0.
Plainsman captain and heavy­weight
champ Dan McNair gain­ed
a win by forfeit from Dick
Patton, who because of a knee
injury sustained in Maryville's
last match, was unable to com­pete.
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advantage and sent the Golden
Tornado ahead to stay four min­utes
after the opening tip-off. The
Jackets led 13-7 after a slow first
quarter, and by halftime had built
up a 28-21 advantage.
Auburn started fast after the
respite and, although rebound man
John Cochran fouled out at 2:00
of the third, pulled to within one
point of the Jackets, 40-39, at the
termination of the stanza.
Tech again increased their lead
early in the fourth, but Vincc
Dooley, Bob Fenn, and Jim Martin
closed the gap to 50-47, with two'
minutes left. A quick scoring burst
by Silas then sent Tech to a decis­ive
58-50 victory
\
LSU Bengals Rally
(Continued from page 5)
until with the score 44-43, Pettit
made good a free throw which
tied it up. Fenn sent Auburn ahead
again with two quick goals but the*
Plainsmen's new advantage was •
brief as LSU's Bobby Yates gave'•'
the Bayou Bengals a lead which
was never relinquished. LSU led
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