1950-08-02 The Auburn Plainsman

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VOL. LXXVI ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBUKtf, ALABAMA WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1950 Number 38
'LOVELIEST OF THE^ PLAINS'—NO. 5
CAROLYN PRICE, junior in secretarial training'from Syla-cauga,
is the fifth in the summer series of Plainsman coeds to be
featured in the "Loveliest of The Plains" group. She is a member
of Phi Mu sorority.
All-Star Quartet To Present Concert
Tuesday; Public Invited To Attend
The All-Star Quartet, sixth program in the summer series
of concerts and lectures, will be presented in Langdon Hall
Tuesday, Aug. 8, at 8:15 pjn. This concert replaces the Man­hattan
String Quartet whose appearance on campus was can­celled'.
*The programs in this series ate
sponsored by the Concert and
Lecture Committee and are free
tc-fthe public.
Members of the ensemble are
Emilie Spivey, director and ac­companist;
Frances Hughes'-sop­rano;
Alice Tomlinson, contralto;
Lem Edmonson, tenor, and Wal­ter
Herbert, baritone^
The group's repertory consists
of a wide range of music includ­ing
grand opera, musical comedy,
1 spirituals and folk songs.
Featured on the program will
be such selections as "On Wings
of Song" by Mendelssohn. "Ave
Maria" by Bach-Gounod, Von
Flotow's "The Last Rose of Sum­mer"
from "Martha," "Gwine to
Hebb'n" by Wolfe, Herbert's "Ah,
Sweet Mystery of Life," and sel­ections
from Verdi's "Rigoletto"
and "Carousel" and "Oklahoma"
.by'Richard Rodgers. -
No Dance Scheduled
For.This Week End
No street dance will be held
this week end, according to the
office of the Dean of Women.
•Two more dances are planned for
the quarter, however.
The Balladiers combo, directed
T by David Irvine, will play for
dances Wednesday, Aug. 9, and
Friday, Aug. 18. Both dances will
be held on Samford Terrace and
no admission will be charged.
Coeds will be given 11 p.m.
permission for the dance August
9.. f
Registration Set
For August 8-10 -
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Pre-fegistration for the fall
quarter will start Tuesday, Au­gust
8, Registrar Charles W. Ed­wards
reminded students- today.
Seniors and juniors will report
to their deans August 8-9, and
sophomores and freshmen will
complete their registration Au­gust
10.
Edwards stated that students
should plan their schedule and
fill in their registration cards
with the dean or his representa­tive
in alphabetical orders as an­nounced
by the deans. Schools
who wish to complete registra­tion
on August 8 may do so.
Punched cards must be secur­ed
by students after a schedule
has been planned. These cards are
available at the office of dean or
department head as indicated on
the front of the registration enve-
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lope.
Edwards added that when the
student has secured a class card
for each subject listed, he will
complete all registration card
forms and leave them with the
dean or his representative. This
must be done no later than noon
of the day following the last day
of registration for that particular
class.
Schedule for payment of feet '
and student load regulations may
be found elsewhere In this issue.
Students' Draft Status
Clarified By Qffici
Induction Postponements Are Available;
Information For Others Released
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College officials this week issued information concerning
the draft and its relation to Auburn students, The release is
based on Selective Service regulations governing induction.
Regulations provide that a college student may have his
induction date postponed until the end of an academic year,
or nine ccaalleennddaarr mmoonntthhss on a
quarter system, as long as a stu­dent,
satisfactorily pursues his
course of instruction.
In addition to postponement un­der
Selective Service, students
enrolled in the ROTC advanced
course, including Naval and Air
ROTC, will be placed in Class
1-D and be entitled to deferment
until t h e conclusion of their
training, if they sign deferment
agreements. Students enrolled in
the first or second year basic
course who are selected for fur­ther
training and sign a defer­ment
agreement are also entitled
to deferment until completion of
training.
Postponement of induction un­der
Selective Service- will take
place only after an order to re­port
for induction is issued. This
provision makes it necessary for
a student to be given a preinduc.
tion physical examination. Draft
officials feel that this procedure
will enable students who are Te-jectedfor
physical reasons to be­come
more stable in their college
careers.
All students who have been
placed in Class 1-A will be order­ed
for preinduction examinations
when their names are reached in
proper age sequence. Only after
the examination will postpone­ment
be granted.
College o f f i c i a l s announced
that students will be granted ex­cused
absences without penalty
when 'they are summoned for
physical examination.
Enlisted personnel of the En­listed
Reserve Corps or the Na­tional
Guard concurrently enroll­ed
in the ROTC advanced course
and under a valid deferment
agreement will receive » delay in
call to active duty until receipt of
a commission or cancellation of
the agreement. -
Such individuals should make
application for deferment in call
to active duty to the cnief.of the
appropriate military district.
Information regarding mem­bers
of the National Guard or the
Reserve Corps who are not'en­rolled
in the advanced ROTC
course has not been released.
Deferment in Class II-A will
be considered for students in vet­erinary
medicine when the-fol­lowing
conditions are met:
1. Registrant is satisfactorily
Sample Glom Portraits
Sample 8 by'10 portraits of 1951
Glomerata pictures will be on
display this week in Samford
Hall. Glomerata' officials stated
that these pictures are being used
to show students the type port­raits
that can be made from their
proofs,* which should arrive this
week.
Glomerata officials also asked
for volunteers to help make por­trait
appointments during pre-registration,
August 8-10.
pursuing a full-time course of in­struction
as a junior or senior in
a recognized school of veterinary
medicine.
2. Registrant gives reasonable
assurance that he intends to prac­tice
on animals which supply food
within Alabama or another state
where a shortage of veterinarians
exists.
Along with the above informa­tion,
the central office of the
Veterans Administration concern­ing
students enrolled under the
Servicemen's Readjustment Act.
This release makes provisions for
veterans who are reinducted to
continue their course of instruc­tion
following discharge.
Although termination dates for
veteran training has been set at
July 21, 1951, re-entrance~in the
armed forces will be judged satis­factory
reason for extension of
this date. Howeyer, voluntary re-enlistment
will not be deemed
reason for. extension.
TNT Head Office
Moved To Auburn;
Oppen Named Prexy
: National headquarters of Tau
Nu Tau fraternity, national mili­tary
engineering society, has been
transferred from the University_of
Illinois to Auburn. Annpuncement
of the change was made by Brian
K. Polk, president of the Auburn
chapter.
Five Auburn students Were elec­ted
! to fill national offices with
David Oppen of Auburn being
elected national president Other
national officers are Frank Mc-
Corkle, vice-president; E. L. Dor-ster,
secretary; H. W. Tyree, trea­surer,
Jack Severin, vice-president
in charge of Southern expansion.
The transfer of the national
headquarters took place at the an­nual
convention of the chapters
at Fort Belvoir, Va., during the
regular summer Reserved Officers
Training Corps encampment. The
University of Illinois had held the
national headquarters since the
founding of the fraternity in 1980.
The Auburn chapter, of Tau Nu
Tau was established- two years
ago. During the past two years the
local chapter. has initiated 37
members into its membership.
-ELECTRONIC SALE
The Auburn Research Foun­dation
will have an Open sale
of surplus electronic parts, ac­cumulated
from research con­tracts
now terminated, in the
"L" Building Thursday, Aug. 3.
Sales will be on a, cash basis
and will be final. Equipment to
be sold includes army-navy
type power supplies, receivers,
transmitters, dynamotors and
associated equipment
COMMUNITY SPEAKER
Rev. Thomas Thrasher
Episcopal Minister
To Speak Sunday
The Rev. Thomas Thrasher will
be guest speaker at the Commun­ity
Service in Graves Amphi­theater
Sunday, Aug. 6. Sponsor­ed
by the Auburn Episcopal
Church, Mr. Thrasher is rector of
the Church of the Ascension,
Montgomery.
After receiving a degree from
the University of Tennessee, Mr*
Thrasher attended the University
of the South..He has served as
rector of the Church of the Ad*
vent, Indianapolis, Ind., and is
presently director of the House
of Young Churchmen and a
member of the department of
Christian Education of the Dio*
cese of Alabama.
Beginning at 7:45 p.m., a musi­cal
prologue under the direction
of Dr. Hollace Arment, head of
the department of music, will ba
presented.
In the event of inclement
weather, services will be held in
Langdon Hall. - —'' '
Band Concert Set \
For Tomorrow Kight
The Summer Concert Band will
present its second program of the
quarter on Thursday, Aug. 3. The
concert will be held in Langdon
Hall at 8 p.m.
Featured on the program will
be the Spanish rhapsody, "Mala-quena"
by Ernesto Lecueno, and
"Syncopated Clock," a novelty -
tune in the jazz idiom by Leroy
Anderson.
Other selections included on the
program are:
"A Walking Tune" by the con­temporary
composer Clare E.
Grundman; various Seventeenth
Century compositions arranged by
James R. Gillette and including
"Trumpet Tune" by Henry.PurcelL
"Sarabande" by J. S. Bach and
"Gavotte" by George F. Handel.
David Bennet's "Scenes from the
Sierras," including "Gray Dawn,'*
"Sunrise," "Through the Desert,"
"A Mountain Stream," "A Water­fall,"
Majestic," "Sunset," and "To
ihe Mighty Sierras."
In addition a series of popular
marches will be played.
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2—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, Aug. 2, 1950
Report Indicates Journalists Face
Stiff Competition For Jobs In 1950
P r e p a r e d By U.S. Department Of Labor
New graduates who seek to enter newspaper reporting
a r e likely to face stiff competition for jobs in t h e e a r l y 1950's,
according to a study by the U.S. Department of Labor's Bu­r
e a u of Labor Statistics. - •
The reporting <ield, always highly competitive, is likely
to become more -overcrowded jn
the next year or two- There were
nearly three times as many jour­nalism
graduates in June 1949 as
in any of the last few years before
the war; the number will probab.
ly be still higher at the end of
. 1950 and then drop somewhat.
In contrast, openings on daily, perienced reporters each year^
ed with the labor press, religious
press,. foreign language papers,
trade association papers, and
country papers.,
Fields related to newspaper
work will continue to take on
some new journalism graduates
and also absorb a number of ex-
On Ike Campus
papers have, been declining. Ex­perienced
reporters have shown
iess tendency to leave their jobs
for other employment, thus limit-uig
the number of new entrants
needed as replacements. Fields
:t elated to newspaper work, such
os advertising, radio, and special
publication, have been able to
absorb" a good many people witrf
journalism training or exper­ience.
Even so, some new graduates,
aod perhaps even some exper­ienced
reporters, will be unable
-to find jobs with newspapers or
iii related fields during the next
few years. Opportunities with
country papers, trade papers, and
house organs are expected to be
better than with the dailies.
Employment of reporters and
editors of daily newspapers will
probably not increase much in the
long run, though there will al­ways
be some openings owing to
turn-over. The use of syndicated,
material and the increasing pro*-
portion of space devoted to ad­vertising
may reduce the need for
reporters on dailies.
On the other hand, jsome ex­pansion
in employment is expect-t
h u s increasing replacement
needs,on newspapers. There are
indications that the advertising,
public relations, radio, and book-publishing
fields will use greater
numbers with journalism train­ing
and experience in years to
come.
Competition for reporting jobs
will probably continue to be keen,
since many young people are at­tracted
by the reputed glamour
of the work. Nevertheless, talent­ed
people, including those with
little formal training, will always
have some chance of breaking
into this profession.
People usually get into the oc­cupation
by starting as a "cub"
reporter on a small newspaper br^
a trade-association paper or by
working up from the job of copy
boy (where they begin as mes­sengers
and advance to. routine
reporting assignments).
Small country and suburban
papers prefer^ local men who
know the community and have
related skills, such as photo­graphy
or printing. Trade asso­ciations
prefer people with a
knowledge of their particular
field. Many large papers and syn-
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Special fevents
August 2—CONFERENCE: Head
Veteran Teachers^Graves Cen­tre—
Old Vet Building Auditorium.
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August 3—CONCERT:" Starlight
Concert—8 p.m.—Langdon Hall—
will be presented by the j, API
Summer Band.
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August 8—CONFERENCE: Ala­bama
Poultry Asociation—Poultry
Farm. .
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August 9—EXHIBIT: Venicfcr-
Life photographic .exhibit)-^Pre­sented
in the Art Annex of the
Architecture Building through
August 17.
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Club Meetings
August 2—Dames—8 pvm.—So­cial
center.
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August 3—Landscape ArchilecT
ture Club—7:15 p.m.—Broun,
Room 111. \
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August 7—Owls—5 pan.—Social
Center. •-. •
Phi Psi—.7 p.m.—Textile Build­ing.
Institute of Radio Engineers—7
p.m.—Ramsay,- R o o m 109—For
students studying communications
in EE and Physics.
American Society of Civil En­gineers—
7 p.m.—Broun' Audito­rium.
Alpha Zeta—8 p.m.—Ross Chem­istry
Laboratory.
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August 8—Institute of Aeronau­tical
Sciences—7 p.m.—Wilmore,
Room 155.
Alpha Epsilon Delta—7 p.m.—
Samford.
-Future Farmers of America—-7
p.m.—Broun ^Auditorium.
Tau Nu Tau—1 P-m.— Tempo­rary
Building 5-A.
Block and Bridle—7 P-m-—Ani­mal
Husbandry Building.
Call the Office of Student Af­fairs,
Extension/ 357, if your or­ganization
would like to have an
event or meeting placed on the"
calendar of events. Deadline for
getting material printed is Monday
noon.
\
dicates hire college students as
copy boys and give them a chance
at reporting after several months.
Reporters may advance to posi­tions
as copy readers or to editor,
ships, get reporting jobs on larg­er
papers or with syndicates, or
transfer to a variety of better
paying jobs. They may also do
free-lance reporting for more
than one newspaper or magazine.
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Wednesday, Aug. 2,1950 Six Students Granted
Graduate Fellowships
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METHODIST
Bobby Kennemer has charge of
Midweek Meditations tonight at
7 p.m. There will be a council
meeting following the meditation^.
There will be open house at
"Wesley Foundation Saturday night
from 7:30 to 11 p.m. The re­creation
will be on the side lawn
of the church if weather permits.
T h e r e will be a fellowship
breakfast at Wesley Foundation
Sunday morning at 8:30 a.m. Pro­fessor
J.* \ Needy will have
charge of the program. Bradford
Minton has charge of the morning
opening exercises at 9:45 a.m. The
sermon topic for the evening ves­pers
is "How Christianity* Can
Overcome Communism."
The executive cabinet will meet
Monday at 7:15 p.m.
PRESBYTERIAN
Evensong will be held in the
church sanctuary Thursday at 7 j
pan.
Auburn's Westminster Fellow­ship
will meet the University of
Alabama Westminster group at
Oak Park in Moritgortepy Satur­day*
afternoon for a picnic and
worship service. Transportation,
will be provided.
Hugh Dillon will preside at
Westminster Sunday School at
9:45 a.m. Sunday.
Bible Study will be held' at t7
p.m. at Westminster House. The
Book Of Mark is being studied.
EPISCOPAL
The Rev. Thomas Thrasher,
Community Service guest speak­er
from the Church of Ascension,
Montgomery, will speak to mem­bers
Of the Canterbury Club at
the regular meeting Sunday, Aug.
6, at 5:30 p.m.
There will be a student vestry
meeting Monday, Aug. 7, at 6:45
p.m..
Members of the Canterbury
Club are making plans to attend
the joint picnic to be held with
Westminster Fellowship Aug. 13.
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BAPtlST
A. B. Parsons, Jr., Of Sumter,-
S.C., assumes duties this week as
the new student secretary to Bap­tist
students. Parsons is a graduate
of the Southern Baptist Theologi­cal
Seminary, Louisville, Ky.
A study course is being held
each riight this week at 7 o'clock
at the church. The topic of study
is "Deepening the Spiritual Life,"
by Dobbins. A.. B. Parsbns is
teaching the course. ''
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Veteran book bills for the
current quarter will be closed
with the close of business Sat­urday,
Aug. 5.
Veterans should make re­quired
purchases before this
deadline.
SOCIETY
TKE .'Jiitiates One
Beta Lambda chapter of Tau
Kappa Epsilon fraternity held
formal initiation for Thomas B.
Cunningham, Columbus, Ga., Sun­d
a y , July 30. A "Hobo Party" hon­oring
him was given at the chap­ter
house July 29'. Refreshments
were served by Mrs. Hazel Mund-henk,
housemother.
KAPPA SIGMA INITIATES
Kappa Sigma fraternity initiat­ed
three members Thursday, July
27. They are:
Hugh Jones, Shawmut; Joe
Browp, Birmingham, and Thack-er
Cargile, Columbus, Ga.
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KAPPA SIGS RUSH
Kappa S i g m a entertained
members, rushees, and dates last
week end with its annual sum­mer
rush party. Activities includ­ed
a house dance and supper on
the new patio Friday night, a
barbecue picnic at Lake Chewacla I
Saturday and a television party
at the house Saturday night. The
program ended with a buffet din­gier
Sunday.
Hostesses were Mrs. J. P. Mc­Laughlin
and Mrs. J. Peavy.
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KA ENTERTAINS
Nu chapter of Kappa Alpha
honored rushees July 28, 29 and
30 with a week end of activities.
Entertainment included a stag
party at the chapter house Fri-.
day night, a Lake Chewacla out­ing
Saturday afternoon, and a
"South Sea Island" party Satur­day
night.
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PHI'S TO ENTERTAIN
Phi Del,ta Tiieta will present a
week end of entertainment for
alumni, rushees, and dates August
4, 5 and 6. Activities will include
an informal house dance Friday
night, a tea dance Saturday after­noon
at the Casino, and a buffet
supper at the fraternity house on
^ Saturday night.
PIKA FLORIDA PARTY
Dates and members of Upsilon
chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha held
a house party at Long Beach,
Fla., last week end. The Pike
housemother, Mrs. L. C. Steed,
chaperoned the group.
, Six training fellowships have
been granted to persons who will
work toward masters degree in
economics and business admini­stration
at Auburn during 1950-51.
Students and the institutions
from which they received their
Undergraduate degrees are:
' Albert W. Charles, Jr., Shreve-pbrt,
La., Centenary College; Wil­liam
Jv Cottey, Prattville, Hunt­ingdon
College; Wiliam D. Henley,
Birmingham, and James C. Home,
Columbus,- Ga.,- A.P.-L; Charles C..
Richardson, Alexander City, Uni­versity
of Minnesota, and S. Eu­gene
frOtter, Mobile, A.P.I.
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Proposed Swimming FooT—An Election Issue? *•. • kr>A , f i r ' „ -.
On several occasions The Plainsman has
tried to inform and comment on the city
of Auburn's amusement program which is
financed by the student-supported amuse­ment
tax. We have been opposed to the tax
from the beginning, but since -there was
very little Auburn students could do to
fight it, we have been forced merely to
report periodically on the progress of the
original program.
At the beginning of the summer, we
carried an editorial seeking information in
regards to the proposed city swimming
pool which was to be built from the tax.
This same swimming pool had been used
as means of consoling the strong, but vain,
protests of Auburn students in 1948.
We have not been alone in our concern
over the swimming pool question. We have
heard many students and townspeople in­quiring
about the possibilities of obtaining
Phony Peace Petitions
Although we have not heard of the cir­culation
of "peace petitions" in Auburn,
according to the nation's press reports, it
is stated that over a million Americans al­ready
signed their names to a world-peace
petition aimed at outlawing atomic wea­pons.
Probably no more than a few thousand
of the signers realized that the campaign is
being run by the U.S. Communist Party
and is Moscow-inspired.
The peace proposal was adopted last
spring in Stockholm at a meeting of the
Partisian of Peace, a Communist-sponsored
international group. Since then it has been
circulated widely, in America, Europe and
Asia, and has received millions of signa­tures.
Secretary of State Acheson properly
branded the whole effort as "fraudulent
and cynical." He showed how the North
Koreans reportedly signed the treaty in
great numbers before they attacked South
Korea.
This proposal is still making the rounds
in America. The hollowness of the docu­ment
is best shown by its demand for strict
the pool. In fact, the-Lee County Bulletin
has written at length in an effort to get
the swimming pool project underway.
Of course, it is too late for the pool to
be of service this year. However, it is hot
too late for the city fathers, who face re­election
in September, to make a definite
statement about their plans for the swim­ming
pool. Students and townspeople
would -also be glad to hear complete plans
for the future spending of the amusemenj,
cigarette, parking meter and other taxes of
the city.
With students now considered citizens
of Auburn (according to recent census) and
election coming up within the n e x-t six
weeks, the City Commission would prob­ably
find it beneficial to announce their
plans for the swimming pool. It would also
be an ideal time for all candidates to ex­press
their opinions on Auburn's over­bearing
tax program.
international control to enforce outlawing
atomic weapons. This is a very strange
demand from Communist sources, since the
American proposal by Baruch, Acheson,
and Lillienthal is the only one made thus"
far which really does provide for stritt
international control. And the Communists
have blocked adoption of that plan.
It is also noteworthy that the petitions
make no mention of the quickest way to
achieve peace—by N o r t h Korean Reds
complying with the U.N. cease fire order
and going back above the 38 degree line.
The whole purpose of the petition is to
paint the U.S. and the West in general as
"imperialistic aggressors" and the Rus­sians
and their allies as peace loving na­tions.
No doubt this propaganda will be
used by the Soviets when they return to
the United Nations this week.
Whoever signs the document is helping
Communist imperialism. Any person who
signs the petition is also approving the
Communist definition of. war criminal, a
definition which Korea has proved to be
as phony as the Communist definition eft
democracy and free people.
The Elusive Butterfly • f * * » r * " " f f rT*J*~*>1 , . J»
Present Draft Status Of Students
A good bit of talk about students being
called to the armed forces in the middle of
the quarter has been heard lajely. To our
knowledge, no one has actually been draft­ed
or summoned for duty with National
Guard or reserve units.
Rumors are easily started in periods
such as this when newspapers are filled
with talk of mobilization. A few students
may get notices to report for physical ex­aminations
or may go home to check on
their status, and when the' story is circu­lated,
it may be believed that extensive
draft action has affected many students.
It will be noticed in a story in today's
Plainsman that all students not in the re­serve
or the National Guard will be post­poned
from induction for at least an aca­demic
year. In other words, if a student is
due to be drafted in August, he will not be
inducted, under present regulations, until
March at the earliest.
However, he will be ordered-to take a
physical examination as soon as his name
is reached. Herein lies the possible fear
of leaving school. Postponement will be
granted after the examination, so the ini­tial
order for induction becomes mere rou­tine,
and nothing to base the contemplation
of resignation from school on.
We wish that information regarding
postponement of National Guard and re­serve
units students were available. Noth­ing
can be assured, but it does not seem
feasible that students in these categories
would be ordered out of school under pre­sent
conditions.
We hope that this information will ease -
the minds of those who may be worrying
about having to leave Auburn. Surely no
rash actions such as leaving school abruptly
without definite cause is warranted. Unless
grave developments in the present world
condition occur, it is doubtful that stu­dents
will be greatly affected immediate­ly.
Auburn Plainsman
Published weekly by the students of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama,
auditorial and business office on Tichenor Avenue, Phone 443.
Deadline for social and organizational news is Saturday noon. -
Tommy Burton
Jim Everett _._
Raymond Cooper
Bob Swift
__ Business Mgr.
Advertising Mgr.
Circulation Mgr.
:. News Editor
Ed Crawford _ . Editor
Graham McTeer .: __. Mng. Editor
Tom Cannon Associate Editor
Jim Everett Associate Editor
Joan Cosart Society Editor
STAFF
Tom Duke, Sonny Hollingsworth, Bunny Honicker, Bettie Jones, Irv Steinberg -and Libby Strick­land.
Guest Editorial
Why Do We Seek
Human Scapegoats?
0. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Auburn, Alabama
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By Joseph C. Harsch
Christian Science Monitor
According to"" Webster's diction­ary,
"scapegoat" was, in Jewish
antiquity, "a goat upon whose
head were symbolically placed the
sins of the people, after which he
was suffered to escape into the
wilderness. . . ."
In modern s o c i e t y , when
something goes wrong, we still
practice the ancient Hebraic rit­ual,
although in less orderly and
.formalized fashion. We are also
humane. We seek a huma*n vic­tim
rather than being satisfied
wjth an impersonal goat.
Right now there is a great rush­ing
about in Washington trying to
assign to some one person or group
of persons the blame for the sur­prise
which befell us in. Korea and
our insufficient preparedness for
it. Partly, this is healthy and in­herent
in a democracy. To us,
no one is sacrosanct and above re­proach.
The right of criticism is
the right which more than any
one other distinguishes a democ­racy
from a tyranny. Those who
are responsible for mistakes of the
past should rightly be discovered
and required to atone.
* * *.
But it also should be remem­bered
that the scapegoat bears
upon its head "the sins of the
community," for seldom is there
any one single culprit.
It would suit some if all the
blame could be placed upon Sec­retary
of State Acheson, or Sec­retary
of Defense Johnson, or
President Truman, or the Con­gress
in general, or Republican
opposition in particular. The truth
of the matter is that the blame can­not
be assigned rightly or fairly to
any one person or group of per­sons
in Washington, nor can it be
assigned exclusively to Washing­ton.
There are few in this coun­try
who are not guilty in some
part of contributing to this mis­fortune.
President Truman can be
blamed for not asking larger
"defense- appropriations from .
Congress. But Congress was
condemning him daily as a
spendthrift and demanding
economy above all. The Congress
cut the military budget he did
send up. *
Secretary Acheson can be blam­ed
for not making a louder public
plea for "military forces sufficient
to balance our national political
commitments. But for more than
six months Mr. Acheson has been
pleading in every public speech
for "strength." And when the re­cord
is printed it will show that
ever since 1946, and particularly
since early 1949, the State Depart­ment
has recommended repeatedly
a larger and readier military es­tablishment.
Early in this year—
incidentally, "before McCarthy','—
Mr. Acheson made a particularly
strong and urgent appeal to the
President in writing.
Secretary Johnson can be
blamed for emphasizing "econ-omy"
when we now can see that
he should have had his eye on
"efficiency." But his economy
drive was undertaken on orders
' from.the White House, under the
goad of public opinion, and part­ly
in response to an earnest plea
from former President Hoover.
* .* *
Also, by March of this year he
had shifted his emphasis from
economy to efficiency and had be­gun
expanding the combat forces.
A very strong case can be made
for the contention that our armed
forces were, in fact, readier -for
combat when the Korean affair
broke than they were at any time
since demobilization in 1946. They
desirably could have been readier
than they were, but they were
readier than they had been.
Mr. Johnson deserves great
credit for the courage he showed
in abolishing the old Indian posts
and many an obsolete naval es­tablishment.
Every such action
was taken at extreme political
peril. No previous administra­tors
of our armed forces ever
dared to do it.
' Congress can be blamed for be­ing
blinder to defense needs than
was the administration. Congress
also can be blamed for contribut­ing
to unbalancing the military
establishment. Congressional Re­publicans—
in particular have de­manded
economy one moment and.
urged in the next a Chinese in­volvement
that would have cost
enormously more than the Korean
campaign.
i; But behind all members of Con­gress
has been the driving of pub­lic
demand for lower taxes and
lower government costs.
* • •
In truth and fairness, it was .
the public pressuring Congress,
which in turn pressured the ad­ministration,
which reduced the
defense establishment to what
we know now was a dangerous
low. I myself never raised a
shrill voice in this column for a
larger military establishment,
nor eHd I foresee Korea. For
that, I must shoulder my share
of the blame for unprepared'
When the official record is pub­lished,
it probably will show the
State Department and Gen. Omar.
Bradley as' more farsighted and
aware than most.
But there is blame for every­one.
11
ad Hbbing
••/=• 'V- : *':>>-•
Where Does General Ike Stand?
fcv Graham McTeer
One of the most discussed
Cance of the past few years is
candidate for the presidential
as '52.) And brought on by this
politically?"
The university president wasn't
'forced to reveal the answer to the
second q u e s ­tion
in 1948, but
many seem to
believe that the
R e p u b l i c an
Party could do
a lot w o r se
than attach his
n a m e to the
GOP ticket in
1952, if his mi-l
i t a r y , a rm
could be twist-e
d—f o r c i n g
him to take stands on the multi­fold
issues of the time.
In an effort to bring to its read­ers
Eisenhower's true outlook,
Pageant magazine, a publication
hardly distinguishable from Coro­net,
recently collected and stud­ied
Ike's every speech and pub­lished
word, gleaning from them
phrases applicable to today's
problems.
From this Pageant claims to
present "a complete, uncolored
and accurate summary of the
General's views . . ." Agreed, the
article is helpful in gathering
pithy, pertinent paragraphs from
Eisenhower's many words, but it
doesn't quite fulfill its stated pur-
McTeer
questions of national signifi-
"Will Dwight Eisenhower be a
nomination?" (In 1948 as well
query is: "How does Ike stand,
pose. Although certain generali­ties
are revealed, specificity is
avoided to a large degree. Such
issues as the- Taft-Hartley Act,
civil rights legislation, the Bar-den
Bill, extension of Social Se­curity
benefits, and Truman's
Health Insurance Program are not
brought into light. .
Much of value can be drawn
from the summary, however. It
appears obvious that the potential
candidate could conceivably pull
the labor vote, but this is based on
a speech to the 1946 CIO conven­tion,
which may have influenced
his wording somewhat.
Ike could,'with a little effort,
attract Southern voters. He belie­ves
that racial prejudice cannot
be broken ~down by legislation.
Does this haVe a familiar ring?
Outspoken opponents to the
"encircling arm of socialism" will
welcome Eisenhower's views on
federal aid to education and hos­pitals.
He doesn't believe that the
government should contribute to
institutions of the public without
being able to supervise those in­stitutions,
and he will have no
form of federal control; therefore,
governmental aid is out.
Eisenhower says America's path
today lies down the "middle of
the road between the unfettered
power of concentrated wealth on
one flank, and the unbridled pow­er
of statism or partisan interests
on the other." He rather drama­tically
proclaims that the system
of free enterprise is the economic
base for' all our other freedoms,
and if it is abolished, the other
American freedoms will follow in
its path.
Can a platform be built around
this? If so, what about partisan­ship?
H. V, Kaltenborn, an Eisen­hower
bootser, though passive,
thinks he is definitely of Republi­can
make-up, because of his aver­sion
to" statism, to growing bure­aucracy
and to intervention of
the federal government in health
and education. Too, he has spoken
out against some of the proposals
of the Fair Deal.'
Dorothy Thompson comments
that Dwight just isn't a party
man, but a professional soldier.
She is by, principle against a pro­fessional
officer serving as presi­dent.
She doesn't believe that he
has ever had any considerable in­terest
in political questions, but
that he is by nature a political
neutral.
Elmer Davis summed up my
feeling with this: "K General
Eisenhower himself does not
know where he- stands, as it
would appear from the excerpts
in this article that he does not,
how should I?"
McCarthy's 'Fraud' Deserves A Place
j In History—The Garbage Heap
t By Ed Crawford '/.'
The McCarthy ballyhoo in Washington has ended just as
i t began—in the vile and unscrupulous arena of politics. It is
t o be hoped that it may be placed once and for all in the gar­bage
heap of history, where it belongs.
However, that is probably a vain hope. Despite the vary­ing
degrees of interest, the Re­publicans
in the Senate are on re­cord
as a party in defense of Mc-
Carthyism. This will enable the
Wherrys, Jenners, Tafts, etc., to
campaign on the lowest levels of
sex perversion and communism
with the sanction of a leading j j F a r E a st
political party.
The Lattimore case illustrates
the essential unreality of the Mc­Carthy
affair insofar as any of the
vital American interest is con­cerned.
McCarthy charged that
Lattimore was the "architect" of
American foreign policy in the
The Tydings sub-committee in
calling the McCarthy charges "a
fraud and hoax" labeled Mc-
Carthyism to the very letter. The
Stand which the sub-committee
took has already been used as
political propaganda by some Re­publicans.
Yet these same Re­publicans
fail to remember that
the controversy was not started
by the Tydings committee.
The sqb-committee was created
to investigate the charges of the
Wisconsin senator and what he
promised to prove. He was given
every opportunity to submit evi­dence,
witnesses, and proof of his' spending all of his time trying to
charges. He was unable to pro- i convince the American people that
duce anything but a cloud of un- . he is not a Communist. His chances
-certainty which was no doubt the | of ever assuming a responsible po
purpose of his campaign.
Events have helped to prove
this statement falser Lattimore
was never in favor of commit-ing
American strength behind
the government of South Korea.
In his book, "Situation In Asia,"
published over a year ago, he
tells of the* weakness of South
Korea and of the great military
might of the North Koreans.
Without a doubt, if Lattimore
had been the "architect" of Far
Eastern policy* the course fol­lowed
in Korea would have
been^different.
According to reports about the
brilliant Lattimore, he is now
Exchange Post
By Irv Steinberg
All the Tydings committee did
in the end was to call a fraud a
fraud. To say that the commit­tee's
-report was incomplete is
absurd. After six month's of in­vestigating
ridiculous charges it
was unable to label McCarthy -
' h im anything other than a
"fraud." Even Republican Sena­tor
Lodge would not go along
with his GOP brothers in stand­ing
up for McCarthy.
(He was on the Tydings sub­committee
and approved of its
report.)
Senator Lodge also concedes
that in the case of Owen Lattimore",
on which McCarthy declared all
his charges would stand or fall,
nothing was proved.
sition and of being called upon
for using his badly needed advice
in foreign affairs are slim.
As a guard to the future, the
Senate should set up a commission
of eminent American citizens to
deal with all loyalty-security is­sues.
This commission must be
non-partisan and must make sure
that the issues involved are not
mere political moves.
Although it proves nothing,
the great danger of McCarthy -
ism is that it creates within the
minds of many Americans dis­trust
and doubt at a time when
we need unity. Many Americans
fail to realize that McCarthy.
was making a desperate attempt
to strengthen the faltering Re-
Mary had a little skirt,
She stood against the light;
Who gives a damn
For Mary's lamb
With Mary's calves in sight.
—Caveman
* * * ._
A great big Lincoln-Continenr
tal drove up to the curb where
Xhe Auburn co-ed was waiting
for a bus. A man stuck his head
out and said:
"Hello, gorgeous, I'm going
west."
"How wonderful; bring me
back an orange," she replied.
. —Tech Yellow Jacket
College Supply Store clerk:
"Hei-e's a book that'll do half
your work for you."
Auburn Frosh: "Swell. Give me
two of them."
—F.S.T.C. Flor-Ala
An enemy, I know, to all
Is wicked, wicked alcohol. _
The good book, though, com­manded
me
To learn to love mine enemy.
—Caveman
* » »
Visitor (at asylum): "Do you
have to separate the women in­mates
from the men inmates?"
Attendant: "Sure, the people
here ain't as crazy as you think."
—Cavemen
* * *
Martin: But darling, why aren't
^you wearing my fraternity pin?
Doris: All the other fellows say
that it scratches.
—North Carolina Tarnation
PPWftttgiotiTr&sTp
In Search Of TV Debut Gown
By Jimmy Everett
Podine has gone to Paris!
Now I had hoped that Miss Puffington wouldn't be classi­fied
as another American diplomat, but that will probably
be her fate. You see she has a wooden head.
This little oak mate .for Charlie McCarthy (both were ori­ginated
by character actor Edgar Bergen) is now in Paris
having an evening gown designed for her TV
| debut. With_a wee bit of paint on the lips, a
dash of termite repellent under the arms, and
| the able voice of manipulator Bergen, Podine
| should give even Margaret Truman compe­tition.
While in the city of repulsive and over-publicized
lovers, Podine possibly will pick
up a French accent but she will still lack the
advantages of a real in-the-flesh French cutie
like Corinne Calvet who was raised in the
Everett fashionable atmosphere.
Bergen should take advantage of the many educational
opportunities for Podine while in Paris. A review of several
of the hot spots, interviews with prominent society figures
and lovers, joining raids on local dens of evil with Parisian
police, and several other tours of the more swinish and de­cayed
institutions of Paris should well adapt Podine for a
life in Hollywood amid the actors. There the morals are even-lower
than those of "dirty niggers" and "Tobacco Road South­erners."
-
Podine's dress is printed with a stomach turning mixture
of watermelons, peaches, and wisteria blossoms. The only
i t em missing is the ever-present glass of Sweet Dental Snuff.
When Mortimer Snerd sees the jumble of Dogpatchish items,
he'll be happier than the winner of the standing broad-jump
competition of the Autaugaville Y.M.C.A. '
When Podine returns—complete with watermelons, peach­es,
and wisteria blossoms—she will charm kiddies with a
simple line of homespun philosophy—a moral with every
stony. She will entertain Papa after a strenous day at the
office. The voice of the animated log will entrance drunkards,
hanging over the local bar.
But the best thing yet about Podine is that she'll be good
for a couple of hours in the pot-bellied stove, should Bergen
suffer-financial reverses. •«
Ca nnon Report By Tom Cannon
Amid the new buildings under
construction, landscaping, sodding
of barren areas on campus, and
numerous other improvements, two
particularly bad spots remain.
The 'parking
a r e a s behind
Dormitories II
a n d IV and
Mell S t r e et
cafeteria are
nothing but se­ries
of ruts. Bad
enough in good
weather, in the
i n c l e m e n t
w e a t h e r so
c o m m o n to
Cannon Auburn t h e y
become impassable.
With all the money being spent
to improve the campus, it seems
that it would be possible to pave
these areas, or at least to gravel
them.
While I am on the subject of
campus improvements, I would
like to point out that the stone
balustrade behind the Social Cen­ter
has still not been repaired. The
pool and steps add much to the
attractiveness of the Quadrangle.
More than a year has elapsed
since the railing was broken. At
first I thought the delay was due
to the difficulty of getting replace--
ments, but in this time it would'
have been possible to have had
some made, if necessary.
I hope that steps will soon be
taken to correct this eyesore.
* * *
In answer to the frequently-voiced
complaint that American
universities are diploma mills
which do little or nothing to adi-vance
the cause of true education}
Washington and Lee University is
offering a one-year program of
advanced undergraduate work.
In commenting on the new pro­gram,
Dean James G. Leyburn said'
that "many students discover the
pleasures of the intellectual life
only in their senior year. A pro­gram
is needed to enable them to
continue to broaden their hori­zons."
Work in the fifth year will be
along undergraduate lines since
most.graduate work requires spe­cialization
rather than expansion.
While graduate degrees are usual­ly
designed for teachers and re­search
people, this type of course
will be useful to men who wish a
broad general education.
publican party's position for the
fall, elections.
The whole affair makes one
wonder when we" wiH learn that
to quarrel among ourselves over
the mistakes and blunders of the
past is the surest way to guarantee
that we will lose the future.
What America Should Be
In these days of crisis when the world is looking to the
United States for leadership, we might well pause a moment
to consider what type of nation we Want. Last spring in a
speech in a crowded North Carolina courtroom, Dr. Frank*
Graham ably outlined what America should be, when he said:
"May our America be a place where democracy is achiev­ed
without vulgarity, difference without hate; where the
majority is without tyranny and the minority without fear;,
where the least of these our brethren have the freedom to*
struggle for freedom; where respect for the past is not re­action,
and the hope for the future is not xevolution. This is
America."
6—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, Aug. 2, 1950
81 M.S. Degrees
To Be Given
At Graduation
^Che largest class in the history
of Auburp Graduate School will
' receive master's degrees at com­mencement
exercises here August
26> Dr. Fred Allison, dean of the
school, stated recently that 81
IjI.S. degrees would be conferred.
He said that the £>ost-war years
have shown a great increase in
the number of college graduates
•wh* have pursued graduate work.
Teh yeaTS ago, the August class
of the Graduate School included
47 master's graduates. Only 13 of
this number received their mast­er's
degrees in fields other than
education. This year's class of 81
has only 15 receiving graduate
degrees in fields other than edu­cation.
Candidates for master's degrees
include:
Master of S c i e n c e—Julius
^ Grady Cox, Tallassee; William
Howard, Columbus, Ga.; Nell
Har.t Orr, LaFayette; William D.
Ray, Jr., Haieyville; William C.
Romberg, Glencoe, and John H.
Webb, Jr., Montgomery.
M. S. Agronomy—Oliver Reu­ben
Carter, Goshen.
ft S. Agricultural Engineering
—Lee Cornelius Bowdeh, Athens,
Ga.
• M. S. Animal Husbaridry-MD'tho
Marion Hale, Frisco City, and
Delphin Ralph Strength, Brew-ton.
M. S. Applied Art—Philip Mar­shall
Andrews; Montgomery.
M. S. Chemistry—William Ed-w
a r d Blankenstein, Natchez,
Miss., and Joseph Stephen Powell,
Auburn.
M. S. Education—Margaret Su­sie
Alexander, Decatur; William
^Sidney Ball, Norton, Va.; James
Graves Ballard, Auburn; Herbert
Barnes, Atmore; Charles Napo­leon
Boozer, Jacksonville; Ed­ward
Lee Brantley, Headland;
Wilmont H. Brown, Fairfax; Leo­nard
C. Caldwell, Kellyton.
John Ed Christian, Flomaton;
• Wallace E. Clements, East Gads­den;
Susan Douglas Colquitt, Co­lumbus,
Ga.; Margaret M. Dil-worth,
Auburn; Minnie F. Dudley,
Hurtsboro; Sarah Smith Ellison,
Auburn; Theron Etheridge, Town
Creek.
Hollis C. Fenn, Montgomery;
Ralph L. Frazier, Pifteview; O. D.
Gissendanner, P i n c k a r d ; Osie
• Saxon Hagerman, Decatur; Wini­fred
Jean Hall, Titus; Murray S.
Hammond, Anderson; Vashti K.
Johnson, Columbus, Ga.; James B.
Lawless, Virginia S. Lawless,
Bessemer.
Marie Etheridge Lawrence, Au­burn;
John Lewis Maley, Opelika;
James E. McDaniel, Birmingham;
Willie Jiles M c L a i n, Coffee
Springs; Henry Hudson Mont­gomery,
Columbia; Laurie I.
Mullins, Ocala, Fla.; Sara Ruth
Neel, Columbus, Ga.; Viola C-B
r y a n t , Cloverdale; Benton
Odom, Citronelle.
Rebeckah Patrick, Columbus,
Ga.7 Francis M. Ray, Fort Wayne,
fctifford Sanford
Ind.; Robert L. Saunders, East
Tallassee; Jesse W. Shaddix, La-nett;
Nell S. Smith, Lumpkin,
Ga.; Herbert T. Stevens, Auburn.
Opal Green Taylor, Wadley;
Erwihg W. Wadsworih, Tuske-gee;
Walton O'Neal Walker, Gun-tersville;
Lucille W. White, Phe-nix
City; Marion L.. Williams,
Sam Howard Williams, Colum­bus,
Ga.,, and Clarence Wilson,
Ohatchee.
M. S. Agricultural Education—
Samuel G. Black, Coliinsville;
Aubrey A. Clements, Rqckfdrd;
George Estes, Evergreen; Thomas
Garidy; Opelika; Dee F. Holcorhb*,
Millerville; Orris Lee Hurt, Mill­port;
John J. Lewis, Blountsville;
Hiram Htortori Martin, Gadsden.
John R. Nutt, Centre; Samuel
Pate, Leesburg; Henry Pentbh,
Vernon; Roy Lee Richards,
Moundville;, Hulbert B. White,
Carbon Hill; David Whitten, Cen­tre;
Jessie Dewitt Wigley, Hunts-
•vrlle, and Preston, Wilder, Spring
Garden:
M. S. Fish Management—James
Russell Fielding, Baldwin, Fla.;
Malcolm C. Johnson, Opelika.
M. S. Home Economics—Eliza­beth
S. Gaines, Columbus, Ga.
M. S. Zoology—Faye Buttram
Lawrence, Cottondale, Fla., and
Henry Ford Turner, Andalusia.
WANTED: Riders to Ames, Iowa,
at the end of the summer quar­ter.
Interested person's contact
David A. Herbert at college ex­tension
373 or 1389-R.
SWIMMING
DANCING
Free Picnic
Grounds
(No Beer Allowed)
LAKE CONDY
(Just off LaFayette Hwy.)
Opelika ,
EATING OUT IS FUN
WARM WEAfHEft SPECIALS
Choice of
Noonday luncheons and dinners at prices yon cannot
be&t.
Luncheons and dinners 40c, 50c, 65c, 75c, $1.00
No Waiting—Self Service on Hot Coffee and Donuts
' ATHEY'S CAFE
Sdnford to Lead
'50 Marching Band
• Clifford Sanford, junior from
Tuscaloosa, has been named drum
major of Auburn's marching band
for the 1950 football-season, Dave"
Herbert, assistant bandmaster,
announced today.
: He said that only three of last
year's majorettes would be with
the band again thjs year. They
are. J o y Irwin; Birmingham;
Jeannie Stokes, Gadsden; and
Gracelyn Reid, Plymouth, N.C.
The marching band this fall
will be limited to approximately
100 pieces, Herbert Said. Plans are
already underway for the half-time
programs which the band
will present this year at games
with Southeast Louisiana College
at Auburn October 7; Georgia
Tech in Atlanta, October 21; Tu-lane
at Auburn, October 28; Uni­versity
of Georgia in Columbus,
November 18; Clemson, (Home­coming
game) Auburn, November
25, and University of Alabama,
Birmingham, TJecember 2.
and literature from Radford, Va. -
Renfrow's story was titled "The
Magic Tree," and Webb's was "The
Birdcage."
*
Judges' were Mrs. Virginia Sor-ensen,
Milton' Briet?ke, and J,, P.
McPherson, who selected the win­ners
from a group of anonymous,
fcttnrtribirtietis.
The winning stbries will be fea­tured
in the "fall quarter of tire
Auburn Review. - "
FOtft SALE: two bedroom house,
gas floor furnace, gas hot water
heater, lot 60x20. 935 E. Glenn,
call, 57-7-W after 6:30 p.m. If
interested contact Harold Dal-toh
immediately.
\
John Renfrew Wins
Short Story Contest
John S.- Renfrow, sophomore in
applied art from Meridian, Miss.,
has been awarded a $25 first prize
in the Auburn Review Club's short
story contest held last spring, club
officials announced this week. The
stlcond prize 6f $10 went to John
Webb, graduate student in science
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7—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, Aug. 2, 1950
Wallis, Briggs Lead Right Halfbacks;
Injuries Plague Candidates For Post
By Jimmy Coleman
If Lady Luck ever frowned she certainly saved her choic­est
for Auburn's right halfbacks. Since the Mississippi State
game here last November when Bobby Briggs was^ carried 6ff
the field with a broken collarbone, there has been defter.
The Briggs injury apparently set off a chain, jreaction.
During spring drills Sophomore
Herman Howard, a gangling 185-
pound blond from LaGrange, Ga.,
-was led off the practice field with
a painfully broken nose.
Langford Falls
Shortly thereafter a n o t h er
Georgia boy—promising J a ck
Langford of Griffin—dropped to
his knees and grabbed his should­er.
He had suffered a broken col­larbone.
Jack had fractured his
left one several times in high
school but this was the first time
misfortune had struck at the right
side.
. A few days later in a freak acci­dent
Percy Alford, long-legged
exrRamsay star from Birmingham
who had just been shifted from
end to halfback, inj.ured his ankle.
Bobby Briggs
The swelling persisted and he was
lost for practically the entire
spring period.
Help Summoned
Eight halfbacks were beginning
to get scarce so Jim McGowen
and Jim Jeffers were called in to
run some of Hhe offensive plays.
Although listed as fullbacks both
were familiar with the position
from the season just ended. \
Suddenly in a scrimmage pile
up young Freddie Halbig, a cut
down 165 pound speedster from
Baldwin, N.Y., failed to get up
with the usual hustle. Minutes
later at the. infirmary officials
gave the verdict—another broken
collarbone—the second of the six-mrjuu-
j-uj
D I N E
IN A FRIENDLY
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You'll like our courteous
help and pleasant surround­ings.
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weeks spring training period and
the third among the right half­backs.
•
Wail is Works Hard
The only experienced right
halfback left on hand was Johnny
Wallis, the ex-Ensley wheejhorse.
He wag being worked overtime
on offense since he spent a great
deal of time as a defensive expert.
Sophomore Don Phillips, Buf­falo,
N.Y., was available but be­cause
he had just moved from
quarterback, was unfamiliar with
the intricate offensive patterns of
his new posil^on. As a result he
worked chiefly* as a defensive
safetyman where, incidentally, he
showed real promise; J"
Recently tragedy struck Wallis.
In ,an informal, basketball game
at the Sports Arena he took an
impact on his heel and his entire
leg was so numbed that he had to
be carried from the floor. X-Rays
showed he had a cracked heel
bone.
Prior to this accident a team-­mate's
finger jabbed Wallis in the
eye. Blood ran freely and for a
moment it was feared that serious
trouble might develop, but luck­ily
the injury wasn't serious.
Practice Opens Sept. 1
None of the seven candidates
for the rigfit halfback position is
expected to be missing when fall
practice begins less than a month
from today. Wallis, a senior who
has lettered two years, wiM >rate
the No. 1 spot while Briggs, who
earned his first monogram last
season as a sophomore, is next in
line.
Of course, if expected emergen*
cies occur, MpGowen and Jeff ers
may be pulled from fullback to
bolster *he position this fall.
From there on out, it's five so­phomores
pitted against each oth­er
and? brother—they're rugged.
In the next thr.ee years the names
Langford, Howard, Alford, Hair
big, and Phillips will he familiar
names to followers of the Tigers.
EXPECTED TO SEE much
action at the right halfback slot
this season is Johnny Wallis. He
is a senior who has lettered
twice. -
Chi Alpha, 11-6. Burke hurled 'em
i n f o r Lambda Chi; Landrum
toiled for the losers. LCA's Askew
had a perfect day at' the plate,
collecting two hits and two walks
•in four times <at Bat.' /
• Lipscomb's Johnson sjuit out
Wesjtey' Foundation w h i l e his
mates were pushing across 14 runs
to give them a 14-0 victory. Stair
was again the losing hurler for the
Iiflethpdists.
The Baptists also had a bad
day, losing to the Mags, 16-4.
Spence held BSU batters virtually
at bay with his fast ball, while the
pitches of Moore and Anderson
presented no problem to Mag slug­gers.
,
A f t e r a one-game winning
Streak,.the Stags were stopped, 3-1,
by Pi Kappa Phi. White hurled a
one-hitter for the winners, while
Sullivan yielded 'five hits for the
losers.
Zippers showed that they were
going to be the team to beat tRis
second half by roiling over Alpha
Tau Omega, 12r2. Levi gave up
five hits and four walks in win­ning;
Bridges, the loser, allowed
eight men to hit safely and gave
six others free passes. - i
Delta Sigma Phi won the easy
way this time, a forfeit, over the-
Big A's.
The Mags continued their march
.down the victory road, by downing
Lambda Chi, 9-3. Spence was
again the winning hurler for thej
Mags as Burgess toiled for the
losers.
Pi Kappa Alpha got into the vicjl
tory groove, bouncing IDF, 9-41'
Landrum won this one for the
Pjkes; Reynolds pitched for the)
losers. ;4
Lipscombs caught TKE nappinft
and pulled a 11-5 upset over them.
Johnson wait all the way1 in win­ning
for the Lipscombers.
TEACHERS WANTED
for
Mich., Calif., Others
. i Rural
Kindergarten
Elementary •
Special Education
Elementary Principals
and Supervisors
Home Economics
Many openings in Single Salary
Schedules Ranging from $2700-
$4400. With large credits for.
experience.
College-University
ALL FIELDS
P e r m i t s granted elementary
teachers without but near de­grees
in Education. Give photo,
phone, qualifications.
CLINE TEACHERS AGENCY
East Lansing, Mich.
Sigma Pi Props
2 Close Games
By Bunny Honicker
Top-place Sigma Pi had a re­latively
ipugh week, playing two
games and losing both of them by
close scores. Delta Sigma Phi's
Bigham and Sigma Pi's Cranford
tied up in a pitchers' duel that
saw Delta SJgma Phi come out on
the long end. of a 2-1 score. Os­borne
scored the winning run for
Delta Sig after Edge had gone in
before "him; Lagrone scored the
only Sigma Pi run. \
Tau Kappa Epsilon's R. Allen
was the other hurler who bested
Cranford, this time by a 5-3 mar-gi
». Pate led the TKE attack with
jfour hits.
Culls blasted a luckless IDF
team, 16-8. The Culls needed only
10 hits and one error to produce
their runs. Wasdi coasted in with;
the Victory; Garrett was the often-hit
industrial design jraternity
hurler.
Ui Kappa Alpha took another
journey down the defeat route,
this time at the hands of Lambda
W ! mm
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August 4th is final dote for, your Cap and
„Gown measurements for graduation. •
If you are a likely applicant for degree
in thjs graduation (August 26) by all means
come in for measurements. -
^Our contract allows for a small overage
and it is better to be measured and have the
gown here than to come in late-when we
cannot supply your need.
BURTON'S BOOK STORE
Something New Every Day
Martin Theatre
Phone 439
Qpelika, Alabama
Thursday-Friday
August 3-4
Added:
News and Musical
Saturday, August £
Double Feature
No. 1
No. 2
"7&
Starring BO MBA the jungle boy
- Johnny Sheffield
Serial: "Wild Bill
Hitchcock No. 9"
Cartoon: "Booby
Hatched"
Sunday-Monday
• August 6-7
THOSE FUN BOYS ARE
BACK IN THEIR NEW­EST
PICTURE!
(so new that we have
no pictures of it)
''Abbot & Costelb
in the
Foreign Legion
News dhd Cartoon
UJIU.1JI.,, WWSfS'MBHSS'W' '
Tuesday-Wednesday
August 8-9
SPECIAC ADDED
ATTRACTION
Pictures of Local Child­ren
Taken Recently by
Hollywood Studios!
Prizes will be awarded ^
to Winners
Added:
Corrtedyond Cartoon
t—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, Aug. 2, 1959
lead Veterans' Vocational Ag Teachers
Open Annual Conference Here Today
Alabama's On-The-Farm Training P r o g r am for 20,195 vet-
-erans will have the spotlight at Auburn^ today through Fri­day,
August 2-4, when head veterans' vocational agriculture
t e a c h e r s of t h e p r o g r am in each of t h e s t a t e ' s counties meet
for their t h i r d annual conference.
The first session will get under­way
at 9 a.m. today with an ad­dress
by J. C. Cannon, state su­pervisor
of vocational agriculture,
who'll review work of last year
and outline future plans for the
on-the-farm program.
Other speakers and their topics
Wednesday will be: E. L. Mc
Craw, Auburn, "Use of Visual
Aids"; L. L. Sellers, Auburn, "Im
proving Personnel"; J. T. Hall,
Haleyville, " W e e k l y Teachers'
Meetings"; J. L. Dailey, Auburn,
"Records and Reports," and E. D.
Whitmire, DeKalb Cqunty, "Su­pervision
by Head Teacher."
Livestock disease control dis­cussion
and a tour of the U.S.
Animal Disease Laboratory have
been planned for this afternoon.
"Improving Instruction" will be
the general discussion t o p ic
•Thursday morning with L. L. Set­ters
in charge. Speakers will be:
>H. F. Gibson, Auburn, "Proper
Use of Reference Material and
'Notebooks"; J. B. Neighbors, Au-ftauga
' County, "Classroom Per­iod";
W. C. Taylor, Tuscaloosa
County, "Field Trips and Demon-
PHONE AUBURN 988
Wednesday - Thursday
August 2-3
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August 4-5
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August 6
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Monday-Tuesday
August 7-8
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Enjoy this, Stan
Under the Stars
strations"; L. C. McCall, Barbour
County, "Individual Farm Visit
and Use of Written Reports of
Individual Visits"; M. F. Trapp,
Cullman County, "How. To Pur­chase
and Use Consumable Sup­plies
as an Aid to Teaching."
J. R. Robertson, Lauderdale,
"Making Arrangements and Us­ing
V o c a t i o n a 1 Agriculture
Shops"; P. I. Washington, Lee
County, "Shop Work in Areas
Where Vocational Building is Not
Available"; S. R. Fountain, Mon-roeville,
"Common Errors in Farm
Production Plan a n d Record
Book"; H. W. Green, Auburn,
."100-Bushel Corn Club"; H. R.
Culver, Auburn, "Dairy Shows,"
and J. C. Lowery, Auburn, "New
Crops and Varieties."
H. F. Gibson,' Auburn, will
serve as chairman of the altera
noon session which will feature a
panel oh "Arranging and" Con­ducting
Our Best Achievement
Days." Participating will be W.
C. Hearn, Pike County; M. D.
Tingle, Chilton County; D. Barn-hill,
Baldwin County; Ered Wel-born,
Jackson County, and J. C.
Davis, Lamar County.
Other discussions w i l l be:
"Public Relations," E. L. Mc-
Graw; "Radio Programs," A.~ L.
Smith, Dallas County; ^'Exhibits
and-Displays," H. Register, Gene­va,
and "Office Records," C. W.
Goolsby, Auburn.
The concluding session Friday
will be directed by H. R. Culver,
Auburn, J. C. Cannon will dis­cuss
problems and policies of the
teachers, and H. W. Green will
speak on Food Preservation and
Canning Plants. S. R. Fountain
will review the training program
and annual reviews will be made
by T. M. Green, Scottsboro.
WRITES HANDBOOK PAYMENT OF FEES
LATE REGISTRATION
FRIDAY, AUG. 18.
FEE IS CHARGEABLE BEGINNING
• STUDENT LOAD REGULATION: The normal load-for students
is three five-credit courses plus physical conditioning and military
training, or a general elective of three hours in lieu of military train­ing.
With the dean's approval, students who pass all subjects in the
preceding quarter with an average grade of 2.0 or higher, may be
permitted to schedule an additional five-quarter hours subject. Aa-additional
fee of $2.00 is assessed l o r each credit hour in excess of the
normal load. / —
Students in engineering curricula, in which the load is heavier, -
making a grade point average of 2.5 may, with the dean's approval,
take three additional quarter hours; or with a 3.5 average, five ad­ditional
quarter hours.
Students should not register for overload unless eligible. College
regulations require the registrar to strike from the student's record
any excess credit taken*..^' .
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Wednesday-, August 16
Vet School Accepts
75 Students ~
Seventy-five students have been
accepted into the Auburn School of
Veterinary Medicine for the fall
quarter, it was announced recent­ly.
These students were selected
under the Regional Education Pro­gram
for veterinary training in the
Southeast.
Thirty-five students were ac­cepted
from Alabama while Lou­isiana
has six, Mississippi, eight,
South Carolina, seven, Florida
nine, and Tennessee, 10.
Dr. R. S. Sugg, dean of the
school,, said that the applicants
applying this year were unusually
well qualified, all of them having
at least two years or more of gen­eral
college work. Of the group
selected, 35 have B.S. degrees and
one in the group has a master's
degree. Fifty-two are veterans and
23 are non-veterans. ..
Over 700 inquiries were made
to the Veterinary Medicine School
during the year, Dean Sugg said,
pointing out that inquiries came
from 45 states, Hawaii, Cuba,
France, Czechoslovakia, I n d i a ,
Guatemala, Brazil, Yugoslavia, and
New Guiana.
FOR 8ALE: RCA Victor radio-phonograph
in -excellent condi­tion.
Originally priced at $95,
now $45. Also for sale, bicycle
with new tires and tubes, new
fender, new chain guard. New
parts alone worth over $10.
Priced at $20. Contact Charley
Stanley at PHA Dorm I, Room
122, or telephone 9172.
HERBERT WRITES
BAND HANDBOOK
David A-. Herbert, assistant
bandmaster at Auburn, has re­cently
published a "Handbook For
•Marching Bandsmen." . It is de­signed
to'teach the fundamentals
of marching band playing simply.
August 10-12 Herbert will at­tend
a Bandmaster's Clinic at.the
University of Mississippi where
he has been asked to preside'at
several panel discussions and de­monstrate
the theories incorpor­ated
in his new handbook.
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scheduled abov"e — 4-4:30
Thursday, August 17 - *;
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Lee-Ols r0-ll
Olt-Rea I 11-12
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Co-Recreation Program
Sponsored By WAA ,
A co-recreation program, spon-s
o r e d by" the Women's' Ath­letic
Association, is being con­ducted
during the summer quar­ter.
- For students and faculty mem­bers,
the activities are held on
Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3
to 5 p.m. in Alumni Gym. Swim*
ming, badmmton, ping-pong,
shuffleboard and bridge are of­fered.
Mrs. Stuart Fowler is. in
charge of equipment and Mrs.
Roland Elison is lifeguard.
"The co-recreational program to
date has been a tremendous suc­cess,"
said Miss Martha Walton,
director, "and we urge other stu­dents
and faculty members to par­ticipate
in the activities offered."
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