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USNR Recruiting Officer to Explain V-7 Program to College Students
Upperclassmen To
Be Given Chance
To Complete Work
Juniors and seniors of military
service age will have an oppor­tunity
to hear an explanation of
how they may complete their
college course by enlisting in the
Naval Reserve V-7 program next
week, when Ensign Joseph S.
Rose, Jr., USNR, Officer-in-charge
of the Naval Reserve Re­cruiting
Station in Birmingham,
will be on the campus two days.
Ensign Rose will speak to
sophomores, juniors, and seniors
effected on Monday night at 7:30
in Langdon Hall, and will grant
personal interviews to those in­terested
on Tuesday. These inter­views
will be held in Samford
Hall, in the office next to Dr.
Brown's.
Ensign Rose will return to Au­burn
later in the semester with
staff members, to take applica­tions
of students interested, and
give physical examinations.
Sophomores, under the Navy's
V-5 program, if they meet all
entrance requirements, will be al­lowed
to complete this year's col­lege
work, as will juniors and
seniors.
In a letter to President Duncan
explaining the situation, Ensign
Rose stated that "it is not the
intent of the Navy to interrupt
the course of study of those who
enlist for officer's training schools
or those who are appointed as
probationary ensigns. It is the
intention of the Navy to allow
all who are enlisted or appointed
to remain in school until degrees
are awarded. I want to again em­phasize
this point as I feel that
it is of utmost importance to
both the students and the Navy."
A recent Navy Department re­lease
urged universities to en­courage
their eligible students to
enlist in the V-5 and V-7 pro­grams
for duty as deck, engineer­ing,
and aviation officers, there­by
assisting the Navy in complet­ing
these programs as soon as
practicable.
It was explained that college
seniors and juniors who enlist in
the V-7 program will be per­mitted
to complete their college
course before being assigned to
training for a Naval Reserve com­mission.
Junior, *by continuing
their work throughout the sum­mer
months, and by compressing
their courses without eliminating
essential study, could be graduat­ed
and begin their regular naval
training at an earlier time than
scheduled.
Sophomores, juniors, and sen­iors,
who enlist in the V-5
program will be permitted to
complete their present college
year before beginning flight train­ing.
It is planned to 'train ap­proximately
2,500 new pilots each
month in the V-5 program.
Applicants for enlistment in
Class V-7 must qualify under the
following requirements:
The applicant must be native-born,
unmarried, male, a nited
States citizen, not less than 19
and under 28. He must meet phy­sical
requirements for the Navy,
except that minimum height for
V-7 is 65% inches. He must pos­sess
a degree from an accredited
university or college, and present
a transcript of college credits
which shows completed work in
at least two one-semester courses
in mathematics, and a course in
plane trigonometry. (Juniors and
Seniors regularly enrolled may be
enlisted prior to graduation pro­vided
they submit a certificate
from the registrar of the school
attended that upon graduation
they will have the educational
qualifications required herein.
They will be continued on inac­tive
duty until they complete the
work required for their college
degrees.)
Applicants must be "of good
repute in their community." They
must agree not to marry prior
to completion of Reserve Mid­shipman
training.
After being appointed a Re­serve
midshipman, and during
the period under instruction, each
midshipman will be entitled to
receive the same pay and al­lowance
as midshipmen of the
Regular Navy, namely $780 a year
and daily ration. From this pay,
the Naval Reserve Midshipman
will be able and required to pro­vide
articles of uniform, books,
and clothing.
ROTC Basketball
Teams to be Formed
Cage Team to Be
Organized by Each
Battery or Company
Each battery of Field Artillery
and each company of Engineers
will enter one team in the basket­ball
tournament to begin on or
about Jan. 27. Only teams affili­ated
with the ROTC corps will be
allowed to enter the tournament.
Members of the various teams
will be limited to those men who
are not members or pledges of
fraternities, other independent
teams or the varsity basketball
squads. Managers of the teams
will be selected by the battery
or company commander from
among the members of the bat­tery
or company.
Purposes of the ROTC basket­ball
tournament are two-fold, the
first of which is to provide ath­letic
competitive games for men
who are not members of other
organizations and, second, to test
the leadership of the cadet cap­tains
and then- lieutenants in
their ability to turn out a playing
team at the time and place
scheduled.
The ROTC basketball tourna­ment
was started last year and
will be conducted under similar
rules as was -used in the first
tournament. However, this year
members or pledges of fraterni­ties
can not play on the team,
while last year they were permit­ted
to do so if they were not on
a fraternity team.
Members' and the manager of
the winning ROTC team and the
runner-up will be awarded tro­phies.
The trophies will probably
be similar to those awarded last
year, which were gold and silver
basketballs for the members and
managers of the winning and
runner-up teams.
DRILL SCHEDULE
ROTC drill Tuesday will fol­low
the regular drill schedule for
that date, January 13.
High School
Tourney To
Be April 9-H
New Contests
Added to Program
Featuring 75 contests in practi­cally
every phase of high school
study, the 1942 State High School
Tournament will be held at the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
on Thursday, Friday, and Satur­day,
April 9-11.
Bulletins carrying full inform­ation
about the contests have
been sent to high schools over
the State, according to Dr. Leo
Gosser, general chairman of the
Tournament.
New contests added to the tour­nament
this year include wild­life
conservation, bookkeeping,
dictation and transcription, con­servation
of resources, economic
geography, English literature,
garden description, flower sketch­ing,
landscape sketching, out­standing
discoveries and person­ages
in modern physics j since
about 1395, pronunciation, story
telling, essays on some phase of
public safety, scrapbook dealing
with some phase of public safety,
and horsemanship and care of
horses and cattle.
The competition covers such
varied events as aeronautics, the
all-tournament quiz, art and
photography, biology, books,
chemistry, commercial training,
conservation of resources, drama,
economic geography economics,
English literature, foreign lan­guages,
history, interior decora­tion,
home economics, horticul­ture
and forestry, industrial arts
and manual training, journalism,
landscape architecture, Latin,
mathematics, mechanical draw­ing,
music, physical education,
physics, poultry, pronunciation,
TTw Plalnsrnarh
VOLUME LXV
"TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT"
ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1942 NUMBER 29
Co-op Cadet Officers Are Appointed
Colvin, Weaver, And
Morris Are Captains
AIRPORT TO HAVE FACILITIES
TO ACCOMODATE ANY PLANE
Land Planes in Civil, Commercial, Or
Military Use May Land on Paved Runways
By DAVID ALLEN
In less than three months from this date the Auburn-
Opelika Airport will have landing facilities for any airplane
now in the air. Its paved runways will be able to accomodate
any land plane in civil, commercial or military use.
Although the Auburn-OpelikaAirport is usually thought
of in connection with the CPTP training program, it is
really a municipal airport owned by the college. During
the last twelve months the need for longer runways has be­come
acute and, through funds
furnished by the government,
work has begun on the improve­ment
of this strategic airport.
The $268,000 to be spent on the
local airport is only part of a
fund allocated to the Civil Aero­nautics
Authority for the build-and
improvement of vital airports
in this country. All the prelimin-nary
work has been completed
and contracts totalling 226,000
have been let to two companies:
Noonan Construction Company
and Smith Construction Compa-public
speaking, safety, spelling,
textiles, veterinary medicine, vo­cational
agriculture, and writing.
Officers of the State High
School Tournament Association
are George Neely, Anniston, pres­ident;
Margaret Hogan, Wetum-ka,
vice-president; and Marie
Sewell, Auburn, secretary.
"A * Club Neophytes Cavort In
Costume in Three-Day Initiation
By HERBERT MARTIN
It's no occasion for alarm if
you happen to see Little Lord
Fauntleroy walking arm in arm
with Lil' Abner, and the pair ac­companied
by assorted livestock,
today or tomorrow. It's all part
of the "A" Club initiation which
began yesterday, and will con­tinue
through the "A" Club
dance tomorrow night.
Neophytes have been assigned
various characterizations for the
initiation, and all have been in­structed
to provide themselves
with designated farm animals or
fowls to keep them company in
case students decide to shun
them.
Requirements vary from the
duck waddle to a grave digging
ceremony, and the program as
listed also contains a skit at the
Tiger Theater and a comedy bas­ketball
game.
Initiates are required to duck
waddle from Toomer's Drug Store
to Lipscomb's Drug Store three
times daily, and to sign a list at
the latter establishment. Formal
assembly at the corner of College
and Magnolia was held yesterday
at 4 o'clock, and is scheduled for
today at the same time, where
the new men receive physical
chastisement.
The skit at the Tiger will be
tonight at the conclusion of the
last show, and the comedy hoop
fracas is to take place tomorrow
night between halves of the var­sity
basketball game.
The neophytes will dig their
own graves tomorrow afternoon
at a p l a c e unannounced at
present. ^
Characterizations
By vote of the "A" Club, the
following characterizations were
selected for the initiates:
Billy Barton . . . Negro, carry­ing
a goose.
Clarence Grimmett . . . Tarzan,
carrying a hep little piggy.
Bill SchUler . . . Negro, ac­companied
by goat.'
Vic Costellos . . . The Phan­tom,
with his faithful dog.
Jack Cornelius Formal at­tire,
with mule for transporta­tion.
Aubrey Clayton . . . Lil' Abner,
with the family pig.
Joe Gandy . . . Negro boy,
with goose.
Virgil Rice . . . Little Lord
Fauntleroy, carrying a duck.
Charlie Finney was also select­ed
for membership in the "A"
Club, but was unable to go
through the initiation, as he is a
member of the varsity basket­ball
squad.
Twenty Receive
Show Passes
.Twenty ~fj:ee passes to "Louisi­ana
Purchase," Tiger Theatre fea­ture
for Sunday and Monday,
were given to Auburnites this
week who turned in the first 20
correct solutions in the "Louisi­ana
Lovelies" Contest sponsored
this week by the theatre.
These winners are invited to
call at the box office of the Tiger
for their passes:
Bert Tropon, 118 W. Magnolia;
T. E. Lowell, 214 W. Magnolia;
Mary Nell Chiles, Dorm. Ill;
Julia Woodroof, Dorm. Ill; Ilva
Gail Williams, Dorm. Ill; Mrs.
Frank DuBose, 336 Payne St.;
Dorothy Irish, Dorm. Ill; Walter
Going, Jr., 158 Burton; Ben Min-shew,
334 E. Glenn.
Hendricks Woods, 215 E. Mag­nolia;
Mrs. McCormack, 237 E.
Magnolia; C. B. Lemley, 319 Arm­strong;
Mrs. Harry Buchanan, 267
S. Gay; F. C. Bunn, 235 Mill St.;
Earl Cleghorn,235 Mill St.; Bar­ney
Estes, 136 S. Gay; James
White; Mrs. R. V. Jensen, 116%
W. Glenn; Nella Mae Sexton, 200
Samford; Jean Newberry, 200
Samford.
ny. These contracts are for the
grading and paving, with the
sodding and lighting yet to be
contracted for. Although the ex­isting
hangar space falls far short
of the needs, no portion of the
present appropriation, will be
spent in the construction of build­ings.
The existing runways are un-paved,
the north-south runway
being 2500 feet in length, the east-west
runway having a length of
2300 feet. When improvements are
completed, the north-south run­way
will be 4000 feet long and the
east-west runway will be 4400
feet long. They will be paved
with asphalt.
Because of the presence of a
trunk communication-line to the
north and east of the present east-west
runway, the direction of the
new runway will be shifted to
the general direction of a little
south of east. This changing of
the east-west runway is the main
reason for having to move 700,000
yds. of soil in order to get the
ground to the proper grade.
Scheduled for completion by
April 4, the Auburn-Opelika air­port
will be the best field in East
Alabama,.
"A" Club Dance
Tomorrow Night
In Gym—Informal
The "A" Club will give an in­formal
sports dance in Alumi
Gym immediately after the bas­ketball
game tomorrow night. The
music will be furnished by a
"jook organ."
The admission price for the
dance, which will last from 9 un­til
12, is twenty-five cents either
per couple or stag.
The event was originally sched­uled
for Graves Center but due
to initiation of new members af­ter
the dance, the "A" Club de­cided
to use the gym.
Riding Class
To Be Formed
For Semester
ROTC Students And
Ladies to Enroll
Riding Classes for ROTC stu­dents
and ladies will begin on
Monday, Feb. 2, and will last dur­ing
the remainder of the second
semester.
Classes for the cadets will be
held on Mondays and Thursdays
and those for the ladies will be
on Tuesdays and Fridays. All
classes will meet from 4:00 to
5:00 p. m. Enrollment will be per­mitted
in one class only meeting
once a week. Due to the shortage
of horses, only the seniors, juniors
and sophomores in ROTC will be
the only men permitted to enroll.
The ladies' classes will be select­ed
from applicants who are API
students, college employees and
families of the faculty of API,
and residents of Auburn and
Opelika.
A fee of four dollars for the
semester will be required with
the application of the ladies. La­dies
who are not selected will be
refunded the money paid as a
deposit, and ROTC students will
not be required to pay the fee.
Applications from eligible
ROTC students and ladies may
be made at the Military Office
beginning Jan. 19 and none will
be accepted after Jan. 28. A list
of the classes by name and day
for class will be posted on the
ROTC bulletin board on Satur­day,
Jan. 31.
Three Captains, Twelve Lieutenants
To Report to Companies at Next Drill
Appointments and assignments of cadet officers in the Co­op
Battalion of the Engineer Regiment of Auburn's ROTC
were announced this week by order of Colonel John J.
Waterman, Commandant.
Three Cadet Captains were named in the orders, one for
each of the companies in the battalion. They were, Company
"G", Cadet Captain R. E. Colvin; Company "H", Cadet Captain
W. H. Weaver; Company "I", Cadet Captain E. W. Morris.
Second Lieutenants named for
Company "G" included:
R. B. Morgan, J. I. Joyner, M.
S. Park, and W. P. Johnson.
Second Lieutenants of Com­pany
"H" named were:
J. W. Coleman, C. J. Bastien,
G. C. Garden, and J. F. Gurley.
Second Lieutenants of Com­pany
"I" named included:
P. M. Smith, R. H. Robertson,
J. C. Southerland, G. M. Cook. .
These officers will report to the
companies they have been as­signed
to at the next drill period.
New Defense
Courses Begin
On Monday
Three Red Cross courses in
nutrition and c a n t e e n service,
under the sponsorship of the De­partment
of Home Economics,
will officially begin Monday, and
will meet each Monday and
Thursday night for the next 10
weeks, at 7 p. m. in Smith Hall.
The elementary course in nu­trition,
open to all women stu­dents
who have had no work in
nutrition or foods, will meet in
the Clothing Laboratory, and
will be taught by Mrs. Inez
Schrader.
The refresher course, or stand­ard
course, in nutrition, open to
women students who have had
training in nutrition and foods,
will meet in the Foods Labora­tory.
Miss Beatrice Finkelstein
will conduct this course.
The course for canteen aides,
open to all those who have had
the standard nutrition course or
its equivalent, will meet in the
House Laboratory, and will be
conducted by Mrs. Stella Mont­gomery
and Prof. Dana Gatchell.
Costa Rican Has New Grudge
Against Japs-He's Lonely
SIGMA NU GAME
Sigma Nu fraternity's basket­ball
team will play the 17th En­gineer
team from Fort Benning
Sunday afternoon in Alumni
Gymnasium at 4 o'clock.
The Engineer squad, composed
of enlisted men, is coached by
Lt. Meredyth Hazzard, an Auburn
graduate in 1941, now serving
with the 2nd Armored Division.
By JOHNNIE HOVEY
Victor Crespo has a new grudge
against the Japs for being so
troublesome. He is lonely.
Fifteen months ago he came to
the States and he was lonely. He
stayed lonely until two Costa Ri­can
friends joined him here in
September; then life was gay.
Dec. 15, his two companions were
called to Costa Rica for military
service and Vic finds college life
not so bright as before.
Alvaro Herrera, his roommate,
and George Riba, another Costa
Rican student, were called home
to serve as military instructors
because of their R. O. T. C.
training. Both had been in the
States for several years. Herrera
was a sophomore in architecture
and Riba was a sophomore in
agriculture.
The boys knew each other in
Costa Rica but they were students
of different colleges last year. By
chance, they met in New York
during the summer and Herrera
and Crespo decided to come to
Auburn and be roommates. Riba
went back to his college but 22
days later he appeared. "I de­cided
I'd come, too," he said.
Victor has been in the States
for 15 months. He is a freshman
in veterinary medicine and, un­less
he is called home for military
service, he does not plan to go
until he graduates. He's getting
awfully homesick, though.
He has almost become accus­tomed
to the food and the social
customs here. He thinks the girls
are beautiful and friendly and
much more active than the girls
of his country.
Victor likes Auburn a lot, but
he misses that 4 o'clock cup of
black coffee with "Al" and
George.
Skelton Named
For Fellowship
Robert B. Skelton, Auburn in­structor
in modern languages, has
been appointed as a Roosevelt
Fellow by the Institute of Inter­national
Education for 10-months
of study at the University of Bra­zil,
Rio De Janeiro, South Amer­ica.
The fellowship extends from
March 1 to Dec. 31 of this year
and provides round-trip transpor­tation
plus a $1,000 stipend for
other expenses.
At the University of Brazil,
where the academic year extends
from March 15 to Dec. 15, Pro­fessor
Skelton will devote most of
his time to further study of the
Portuguese language, in which
he has been vitally interested for
the past five years. A class in
Portuguese is being taught by
him this year at Auburn for the
first time. Fourteen students are
enrolled.
Professor Skelton, who has
been a member of the Auburn
faculty since 1939, holds the A. B.
degree from Michigan State Nor­mal
and the M. A. degree from
the University of Michigan.
SIX PLAYERS MAKE
ALL POINTS IN
FIRST TWO GAMES
Six players have done all of
the scoring in Auburn's first two
games of the '42 season. The
Plainsmen have defeated Miss.
State by 39-29 and Ole Miss, 34-
31.
Frank Manci is the leader with
a 35 point total. Following are
Shag Hawkins with 19, Herbert
Burton with eight, Fagan Can-zoneri
with six, Ben Park with
four and Jack Tanner with one
point.
Page Two
THE PLAINSMAN January 9,1942
Some Economic and Geographic Factors
Which Influence Japan's War Making Powers
CAMPUS CAMERA
By J. H. GOFF
Professor of Economics
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Japan proper is a small insular nation
of only 148,000 square miles, or not quite
three times as large as the State of Ala­bama.
It has something under 73,000,000
people, about one-half of whom are farm­ers.
The country, with its colonies, is not
especially well endowed with resources.
Eighty-five per cent of the area of Japan
proper consists of mountains, lakes,
streams or urban areas. Only 15 per cent
of the land is available for cultivated
crops in the American sense.
The main food crop raised is rice, al­though
not enough of it is produced to
supply the needs of the people.
Another chief foodstuff is fish, and the
world's finest fishing grounds are to be
found in Japanese waters. Japan, as a
consequence of its needs and this ad­vantage,
is the leading fishing nation.
Japan has risen to be a nation of im­portance
on the basis of an intelligent,
hardworking people trained to produce
goods for world markets. She has had an
unexcelled commercial position for this
sort of trade.
Some Economic and Geographic
Advantages Enjoyed by Japan
Japan proper enjoys an insular security
comparable to that of the British Isles. It-will
be hard to attack her from the sea.
Her people are brave, vigorous, and
intelligent. Her greatest strength lies in
her people.
She has at home supplies of rice, some
fruits, much fish, but few other foods for
such a large population. It is possible that
she can bring safely from nearby sources
soybeans, some rice, and a few other food­stuffs.
Japan's Economic and Geographic
Disadvantages
Japan gained a decided advantage in
selecting how and when this war would
start. From the geographic point of view
it is simple to point out, however, that she
has literally spread her forces over areas
thousands of miles apart and hundreds of
miles from home.
Malaya is nearly as far from Japan as
Europe is from the U. S. It was a huge
task to move large forces to that place for
fighting. It may be harder still to main­tain
them there.
In China and Manchuria alone Japan is
manning battle lines hundred of miles in
length.
Beyond all doubt British and American
military authorities know all this and will
do their best to take advantage of it.
Some of Japan's economic disadvantages
may be set forth as follows:
Her average coal production is only
35,000,000 tons a year; the U. S. average
is around 400,000,000 tons, and this year
may run to 500,000,000 tons.
Her oil production is negligible, being
around 2,500,000 barrels of natural petro­leum.
She has Used about 28,00b,00(X bar­rels
a year and probably would need more
for a war. She undoubtedly has reserves,
but American, British, and Dutch engi­neers
built many of the storage .tanks
and can tip off military authorities about
their location.
Japan only produces around 7,000,000
tons of iron and steel; we produce 90,-
000,000.
She has imported in the past around
80 per cent of her war-making materials
from the nations now her enemies or from
sources cut off from her by war. This in­cluded
oil, copper, lead, scrap iron and
steel, cotton, chemicals, aluminum (75 per
cent), wood pulp, wool, rubber, zinc, autos,
generators, machint tools, etc.
Many of her people are out of work,
especially in textise industries. Eighteen
million silk-raising farmers no longer
have foreign outlets for their product.
Reliable authorities report.the use of
gutters and manhole covers as metal
sources. This would indicate an acute
shortage of metal, without great reserve
stocks.
Statistics won't whip Japan, but they
indicate serious weaknesses. It would not
do to underestimate them, but there are
facts to tell where they will be troubled
at home in carrying on war against the
Democracies.
Japan may cut us off from Eastern sup­plies
of rubber, hemp, tungsten, tin, coco
oil, and spices, but it is a known fact that
we have stored up considerable supplies
of these things sufficient to last for some
time. There are alternative sources for
tungsten and tin, and it is believed that
we have 600,000 tons of rubber in an emer­gency
stockpile.
Physical Preparedness for the Individual
Uncle Sam's armed forces need college-trained
men. If there's anything that Uncle
Sam's armed forces need more -than col­lege-
trained men, it is physically fit men.
College trained men, of course, can be
physically fit. Not physically fit in the
sense that they can see, and that they
aren't crippled, and that their blood pres­sure
is normal, but men who are also bodi­ly
strong, men who can "take it".
College life as practiced by the majori­ty
of college men, has a deteriorating ef­fect
on bodily strength. The average col­lege
man smokes incessantly, rarely goes
to bed before the wee hours of the morn-iny,
drinks spasmodically, takes an abso­lute
minimum of exercise, gobbles coffee
and Coca-cola by the hour, stuffs sweets
between meals, and spends the majority
of his time indoors—in classrooms, eating
places, fraternity and rooming houses, or
dormitories. He gets the most of his exer­cise
at week-end dances. His diet is about
as balanced as that of a stray dog.
Naturally the average college man is
no sort of physical specimen.
Consequently, Uncle Sam has to spend
millions of dollars and hours of valuable
time toughening up the men who come
into his army forces—money and time that
might be spent for equipment and actual
military training.
We've been asking the eternal question,
"What can we do to prepare ourselves as
individuals?" We've attempted to answer
that question in dozens of ways.
Perhaps the best answer might be, pre­pare
yourself physically. Get your body
ready for work before you are called.
HW Plmndmarv
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To the Students
War's Effect on College Courses
The army and the navy need college trained men. They need them
in a hurry—much faster than the colleges of the nation can turn them
out, at present "production speeds."
An educated man is more valuable to any organization, whether
he holds an office in that organization, or whether he's the "smallest
cog" in the machinery, than an uneducated one.
Yet the necessity for more men for the army in a hurry, is cutting
short the possibilities for completion of education for thousands of
students.
Consequently something must, or should, be done to in some way
accelerate college training for men of military age.
It is our opinion that Auburn, ever progressive when faced with
such problems, will do something about this—something which will
allow its students to complete the maximum amount of their educa­tion
possible in the shortest length of time.
Perhaps the solution is in a quarter system. Perhaps it is in the
offering of short courses for those effected by the situation. Perhaps
it is in the concentration of as much subject matter as possible into
our present courses, so as to cut down on the length of time that they
will continue.
But whatever the solution is, we're looking for the administration
of API to do something. We know they will.
A Letter to the Editor
Yesterday we received the letter which appears below. In it are
expressed the opinions and case of an Auburn student. These opinions
are not necessarily to be construed as those of The Plainsman. This
student states that he has facts to back up his statements. We hope he
has. We don't know the whole story, but we'll bet there was one,
and a good one!
To the Editor:
I want to make a public protest against what amounts to discour­teous,
undemocratic, unjust, and intimidating action on the part of
both the staff members of the Martin Theatre and some of the night
policemen of Opelika.
On Dec. 17, I, along with four of my friends, all students or ex-students,
went to Opelika to see the show. I went to the back of the
lobby, to the fountain which is so inconveniently located, to get a
drink of water. On my way back I noticed some folders and leaflets
some of which I picked up. Evidently, they aren't for the public. I
was asked to put them down, and for some unexplained reason the
money was refunded for my ticket.
A big "Flat Foot" explained to me that they have had a lot of
trouble with "them Auburn boys". Who knows anything about any
trouble they have had with ANY body from Auburn?
Let's patronize our own theatre! At least, we don't have to spend
fifteen or twenty minutes waiting for advertisements to end so we
can see the show!!
Herman Harrison
Fashion Faces the Crisis
B. Lowe, uptown men's furnisher, tells us that he heard this
week a radio flash to the effect that 1942 trousers will be manu­factured
minus cuffs! Presumably that is to reduce unnecessary
uses of cloth.
Which means they'll probably leave the lapels off of all coats,
at least three pockets out of each pair of trousers, abolish the
fashion of wearing vests entirely, do away with linings in all
garments, make all socks ankle-length, institute skull-caps as the
latest style in dome-wear, and dust off all the ancient stores of
bow-ties.
So what!! Most of us will be wearing khaki anyway.
Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates by
mail: $2.50 per year, $1.50 per semester.
The Wind From Our Sails
Recently we subscribed to a three-issue critical service of­fered
by the Associated Collegiate Press. This week we received the
results of that service. ACP's Critical Service Editor lambasted us,
patted us on the back (mildly), and offered suggestions and construc­tive
criticism for the improvement of The Plainsman.
But we bowed in defeat over one comment of his. In the margin
of one issue of The Plainsman, right by the side of Herb Martin's
"Plains Talk", he wrote, "This column has it all over 'To the Stu­dents'."
Ouch!
Another Firing Demonstration
The latest flash from the military world (on this campus) is the
one about the senior ROTC student, Cadet Captain Jimmy McCauley,
who was responsible for quite a row in War Lab yesterday afternoon.
It seems that Cap McCauley had a handful of Zebra firecrackers in
his jacket pocket, along with some matches. From some cause, the
matches were ignited, and the firecrackers exploded, ripping a rather
large hole in said Captain's jacket. He was uninjured. We'll bet the
firecrackers were made in Japan. Sabotage!
The incident happened in the ten-minute interval between hours
of the two-hour lab—when most of the seniors were out in the hall by
the classroom.
But they all got back in in a hurry, in time for a laugh at Mc-
Cauley's expense.
PI ains Talk V
By HERBERT MARTIN
Editor's note:- The opinions expressed
In this column are those of the writer
and are not to be construed as the edi­torial
policies of this paper.
We can't prove it, but we think
Pierre Huss is full of prunes with
his startling exposes of inner
thoughts of high Nazi officials.
* * *
It's a little hard to see how
Huss can get so much informa­tion
(most of which he reads in
his subject's eyes, detects by the
flicker of an eyelash, or sees
clearly in the way a man plays
with a pet) without' gathering a
few actual facts to substantiate
this.
* * * ^
We don't say that he is entire­ly
wrong in his discussion of Hit­ler,
Goering, Hess, Their Plots
and Secret Desires, but we think
these articles smell more than
slightly of the lowest form of
newspaper sensationalism.
* * *
Many papers have gained read­ers
by "good news" headlines,
of playing up minor British or
Russian victories, and minimizing
more important Nazi triumphs,
but Huss seems to be making
mass use of this psychology.
* * *
His headlines scream things
like "Hitler Sees Beginning of
End", "Hitler Is Afraid of Roose­velt,"
"Hitler Fears American
People," and -so forth, and his
basis is the fact that he surprised
a look of fear in somebody's eyes
as that somebody was winding
a watch or feeding a squirrel.
* * *
But if he must go through with
this campaign to place his name
on every American tongue, he
might at least pose for another
picture. That dern thing gets old
quick.
* * *
And the funniest thing we've
read in days was Huss' statement
that Goering's wife fortunately
lead away his children, giving
him a chance to plan the work of
his Luftwaffe for the coming
spring.
,* ••* ;*-,
We tried some of Huss' tricks
talking to a stranger at dinner
this week, and uncovered the
following interesting facts, with
explanation of how we found
them.
. , * * *
"He ate with relish, talked as
if he enjoyed it, and was the pic­ture
of health, to coin a phrase,
but he was, down inside, an un­happy
man, who was at that
moment contemplating suicide.
Believing that Fate had singled
him out for much suffering in
the next twenty years, he was
prepared to cheat Fate of the en­joyment
of punishing him.
"He also, although he didn't
mention it, had a wife and three
sick children in Baltimore, two
bad tires on his auto, and some­body
had stolen his spare.
* * *
"We were talking about base­ball,
and he hid his anguish well,
so well that it was almost unde­tected,
until he dropped his fork.
Stooping over to pick it up, he
said very distinctly, "Dern!" It
was then that I realized that he
was not a happy man, and in that
instant I read in his eyes unmis­takable
pathos and suffering, as
well as the tire and wife situa­tion.
* * *
"A little later, as he bit into a
piece of wellcooked steak, I could
see plainly as in a bright light,
his thinly-veiled hatred of man­kind,
as well as his cannibalistic
tendencies. Throwing a bowl of
soup in his face, I fled the scene."
* * *
From time to time we shall
draw upon one of the finest books
of its kind we have ever run
across, the Pocket Book of
Boners, billed as an "Omnibus of
school boy howlers and uncon­scious
humor," and containing ac­tual
answers received from high
school and college students. We
quote a few below.
* * *
"A catalogue is a dialogue by
four people.
"A bust is something a lady
wears."
"A census taker is a man who
goes from house to house in­creasing
the population."
"Chivalry is the attitude of a
man towards a strange woman."
"A comma is what a medium
falls into."
* * *
And Karrie, the Kampus Kron-ic
Kontinuer, fished out this one
and warns that more will follow
in the future.
"Achilles was the boy whose
mother dipped him into the River
Stinx until he was intolerable."
Here, There, and Elsewhere
By JOHN SCOTT, JR.
Editor's note: The opinions expressed
In this column are those of the writer
and are not to be construed as the edi­torial
policies of this paper.
If a poll of American conver­sational
topics were held today,
we would probably find that the
words "war" and "rubber" were
most frequently heard. "War" we
understand readily, but "rubber"
might not seem at first glance to
merit the attention it is receiv­ing.
But when you think what
rubber means, it is well worthy
of note.
The Japanese are driving down
the Malay Peninsula toward Sing­apore,
which is still some 200
miles south of their more ad­vanced
positions. They have put
at least another 200 miles be­hind
them. They didn't choose
this long, hard route to Singapore
because they were expecting to
enjoy the walk. They chose to
cross those 400 miles of mountains
and jungles because that is the
belt that, with the Dutch Indies,
produces 95 per cent of the
world's rubber.
Japan is short of steel, and
would be shorter if we had not
sold it to them for the last ten
years; and Japan is short of oil,
now that we have at last really
stopped letting them get it from
America. But, what Japan is real­ly
short of is rubber. And, what
we really need is that same sub­stance.
These two facts explain
the Japanese drive down the Ma­lay
Peninsula. These two facts
explain why Japan is risking far
more in men and materials for the
Malay drive than she is for the
Philippine attack.
Rubber, one of the things that
we have the least of in the U. S.,
is often one of the most under­rated
of war materials. People
who wonder why the Govern­ment's
first clamping down was
done on the rubber supply will
perhaps feel less outraged when
they realize the need for rubber
in our war industries.
The United States is the great­est
user of rubber in the world,
and consequently has on hand
enough for at least a year of
fighting. But, that rubber will go
faster as production increases in
the war industries. This is why
we must do without tires as we
equip our war machines:
For every Army truck we use
four times the amount of rubber
in a whole set of tires," and we
are building 50,000 such trucks.
For ever,y light tank we use
seventy times the amount of rub­ber
in a set of tires, and we are
building 12,000 light tanks.
For every medium tank we use
124 times as much rubber as in
a set of four tires, and we are
building 8,000 such tanks.
These are just some of the
more moderate users of rubber,
too. The battle ships, freighters,
trains, submarines, airplanes, and
even shoes that we must build for
our armed forces will literally
gobble up the rubber by the
thousands and thousands of tons.
Think of those figures when
you read that the Japs have ad­vanced
another 20 miles in the
region that produces 95 per cent
of the rubber in the world, and
there will be fewer and fewer
who are little enough to complain
about the tire rationing. Until
we further develop the use of
synthetic rubber, it will be pretty
safe to predict an increase in the
sale of walking shoes and roller
skates. We may even have to
make Junior's pants of something
else.
vv vv vv
Many Americans have at last
found one point on which we are
absolutely in agreement with the
Japanese premier. A few days ago
the primly precise General Tojo
observed to the Japanese people
that they must not expect victory
too soon. He wanted them to
know that this "will most certain­ly
be a long war." The Japanese
may be wrong about some things,
but on that score even the Gen­eral
doesn't know how right he is.
• M k
January 9, 1942 THE PLAINSMAN Page Three
KD's Present Formal Tonight
Knights to Play For
Graves Center Ball
Miss Etta Claire Brackin to Lead The
Sorority Grand March With Wells Stanley
Sigma Lambda Chapter of Kappa Delta will hold its
annual formal tonight at Graves Center.
The dance will begin at 8:30 and will feature the music
of Bobby Adair and the Auburn Knights. John F a r n h am
will e n t e r t a i n during the evening with a medley of songs.
. Graves Center auditorium will be decorated in t h e sor­ority
colors, green and white, against a blue orchestra stand
background. In t h e center of t h e background will be an old-fashioned
nose gay of Kappa
Delta roses. The columns will be
similarly decorated. A lighted
Kappa Delta pin will be placed
at the opposite end of the hall.
Corinne Tatum, of Opelika, social
chairman of the sorority, is in
charge of arrangements.
Sherling; Sara Culpepper, James
Culpepper; Martha Hicks, Bever­ly
Henry; Eva McCurdy, Johnny
Milligan; Janie Strickland, Jim­my
Fitzpatrick; Dorothy Foreman,
Ed Palmer; Jean Thomas, Bob
Guillot; Dorothy Fenn, Mac All-
The dance will be led by Etta bright; Betty Pearson, Glenn
Claire Brackin, Ozark, who will Richardson; Catherine Tatum,
be escorted by Wells Stanley, of Bob Lett; Sue Dale Fleming,
Birmingham.
Kappa Delta will entertain
with a coffee in the sorority room
Bobby Dobbins.
Katherine Wright, Clark Hud­son;
Ann Sherer, Earl Jackson;
before the dance. Invited guests Betty Cosby, L. Z. Thrasher;
will i n c l u d e members and j Annie Catherine Thrasher, James
pledges of the sorority, their | Connor; Louise Simms, Frank
dates, and the mothers and fa- [Rideout; Mary Claire Burns, Sed-thers
of Kappa Deltas. Later on don Lee; Doris Ruth Bedingfield,
in the evening there will be a. Mac Hunter; Ammie Jackson,
breakfast at the Auburn Grille.
Date List
The date list for the.members
and pledges is as follows: Etta
Claire Brackin, Wells Stanley;
Corinne Tatum, Malcolm Rich-
George Chipman; Evelyn Tor-bert,
Harry Dicus; Sara Atkin­son,
Sandy Lee; Margaret Lane
Chambers, Ted Williams; Faye
Wideburg, Warren Fleming; Eve­lyn
Martin, Jack Snow; Sara
ards; Annie Lyde Lewis, Al Lu-1 Connor, Goree Johnson; Annie
cas; F l o r a Underwood, Bill Hicks, Lamar Harrison; Mary
Couch; Anita Albright, Buddy
Bradford; Margaret Lee Brad
Frances Yarbrough, Don Kyle;
Miriam Anderson, Gordon Wood;
ford, Bobby Gottlieb; Nell Lazen- Mary Virginia Bingham, Bobby
by, Joe Gandy; Peggy Page, Jer­ry
Bradden; Carolyn Hill, Ross
Foy; Margaret McCain, Billy
Duncan; Betty Jane Harwell,
Sam Fagan; Mary Davis, Walter
Pickard; Emma Nell Parrish,
Leland Starr; Carolyn Cowden,
Bill Hazenburg; Lila Mae Wat-ters,
Bobby McNight; Annice
Watkins, Mike Michaels; Marga­ret
Tucker, Tommy Kennell; Jule
Tisdale, Charles Flowers.
Laura Wallace, Z. A. Snipes;
Delphine Thomas, Max McGill;
Carrie Dent Moseley, Bill Nor-dan;
Nell Moseley, Bill Wiessin-ger;
Eleanor Hightower, J. M.
Davis; Dorothy Norman, Bill
LOANS
Short Term Loans on
Most Anything of Value
Opelika Pawn Shop
Clement Hotel Corner
Opelika, Ala.
Cawthon; Betty Britt Moore, Jim
Cooper; Mary Frances Jackson,
Bill Moore; Miss Mary George
Lamar, Dr. Dick Saunders.
Alumnae Returning
Alumnae returning for the
dance include: Mrs. William C.
Scott, Jr., Tuscaloosa; Misses Ann
Tatum, Opelika; Lillian Luke,
Eufaula; Carolyn Tatum, Opelika;
Elizabeth Wheeler, Union Springs,
and others.
Rushees, fraternity members,
housemothers, suitemates, and
roommates of Kappa Deltas, and
mothers and fathers of Kappa
Deltas have also been invited.
MONTGOMERY ALT's
ENTERTAIN ALUMNI
ON NEW YEAR'S
During the holidays the mem­bers
and pledges of A. L. T. fra­ternity
who reside in Montgomery
entertained alumni and friends of
that city with a New Year's party.
OUR PRODUCTS ARE WHOLESOME
AND DELICIOUS
• They are placed fresh daily in your favorite
grocery store
BALL'S BREAD
"The Toast of The Town"
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LEADS KD DANCE
Miss Etta Claire Brackin, Ozark, president of Kappa Delta Soror­ity,
will lead the Sorority's annual formal tonight at Graves
Center, escorted by Wells Stanley of Birmingham.
February /6, /942--
You've a Job to Do
N
By JOHN SCOTT, JR.
Feb. 16, 1942. That will be a
date to remember for years to
come in the lives of several hun­dred
Auburn boys. And they won't
be alone. There will be a little
matter of 400,0001 other 20-year
olds who will on that day register
for the third draft of the Selective
Service Act.
There are many boys who will
be turned down because of phy­sical
defects; there will be many
who will be placed in some de­ferred
classification because of
employment or course of study;
i i d there will be many who will
be able to qualify for some offi­cer's
training course. But, ac­cording
to an estimate by the Se­lective
Service officials, there
will be- some 300,000 plus who
will be inducted into the United
States Army as privates.
Being a private is, in the opin­ion
of many of the boys on the
The members, pledges, and
their dates who were present in­clude:
Ralph Stanford, Mary Vir­ginia
Perdue; B. B. Knowles,
Elaine Pope; Bill Rogers, Doris
Caton; Hollis Price, Jimmie Jean
Neeley; Tandy Little, Teenie
Blair; Felix Williams, Katie Jo
Dennis; Howard Cheek, Mary
Elizabeth Owen; Jimmie Dowdy,
Dorothy Powell; and Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Clements.
S I X - P O I N T SERVICE
(1) Grease and Oil (2) Brakes
(3) Battery (4) Radiator (5) Motor
(6) Anti-Freeze 1.00 & 2.65 per gal.
"Bet your life
shell start!"
WOU TOO can be cocksure of start­ing
your car in the coldest weather
if you've had it checked by Meadows
Garage experts and made sure that
the best of winter solutions were in­stalled.
Zero days will find you pat­ting
yourself on the back for having
brought your car in for our Six Point
Service Plan. Come in today!
A. MEADOWS GARAGE
AND SERVICE STATION PHONE 29
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Auburn campus, just one step
above being convicted of grand
larceny. The freshmen who are
drafted will complain loudly at
being taken from school after
having only one year; the sopho­mores
will feel it beneath them,
for they have two years of col­lege
education, and they will
make a louder outcry; but, the
loudest wails of all will come
from the juniors who will be
plucked out of college while
lacking only one short year of ac­quiring
the much-coveted di­ploma.
The juniors, since many of
them will probably never return
to school, probably have the most
valid complaint. They have spent
the most time and money, yet
they are placed on no higher
level than those boys who have
had no education at all. They do,
of course, have a chance to work
up to a commissioned post, but
the chances are not overly great.
They are making a great sacri­fice,
and they know it. They also
know that the life they will soon
lead is not the most pleasant one
possible, even in peace time.
It is in answer to these as yet
un-voiced complaints that I re­print
here a letter received from
a former student at Auburn.
James M. Dykes completed three
years here, and was expecting to
be graduated after one more. That
fourth year was to have been this
year, but Dykes was drafted and
is spending his senior year as a
private in the army. His letter,
written to one of his professors
whom he had known for three
years here, seems almost made-to-order
for an answer to those
who are bewailing their fate as
draftees.
With the permission of Dr. J.
W. Scott, to whom it was ad­dressed,
the letter follows:
Co. "B", 33rd Tr. Br.
Camp Croft, S. C.
Dec. 27, 1941
Dear Dean Scott<
No doubt you will be surprised
to hear from me, but it has been
so long since I have heard any­thing
from Auburn that I couldn't
resist writing you. I always en­joyed
being in your classes so
much and I know that you are
interested in all of your former
students.
I have been in the Army since
Oct. 17. I fully intended to come
back and finish school this year
but the draft got me. At first I
felt rather bitter over the fact
that I was going to have to go to
the army but later I found my­self
looking forward to being in
(Continued on Page 6)
Society • • •
By E. GAINES
SIGMA PHI EPSILON
The Sig Eps entertained with a buffet supper and house dance
Saturday, Dec. 13. They served weiners, with kraut and all the
trimmings. After supper some of the members and their dates went
up to the game room to play ping-pong and to teach the girls how
to play billiards. The girls who attended were: Martha Northcutt,
Edith Humphrey, Marie Pace, Joy Hutchings, Mildred Brown Davis,
Nell Lazenby, Elizabeth Sahag, Virginia Shoultz, Katherine Phillips,
Estelle Gaines, Mary May Insco, Margaret Hodge, Dot Zachery,
Martha Asbury, Kathleen McNamee, Susan Dick, Evelyn Thomas,
Helen Le Gendre, Lucile Glahe, Katherine Harmon, Margaret Rew,
Barbara McCamy, Mary Nelle Childs, Ruby Suba, Mary Jo Edwards,
Rita Brock, and Mary Reid from Birmingham.
* * * * *
CHI OMEGA
The Chi Omegas will entertain 250 faculty members and their
wives with a tea Sunday afternoon from 4 until 6 in the sorority
chapter room in Dormitory Two. Betty Bell, chairman of the social
committee, is in charge of the arrangements. All the ministers of
the Auburn churches and their wives have also been invited. The
sorority officers and the advisory council consisting of Mrs. John
Ivey, Mrs. S. L. Toomer, and Miss Marye Tamplin, will be in the
receiving line.
* * * * * *
KAPPA SIGMA
Wedding bells will ring within the next week for a Kappa
Sig active and an Auburn girl from Miami. The groom will be
Lloyd Vickers but his bride's name is being kept secret.
* * * * *
PI KAPPA ALPHA
Gil Abernathy and Miss Robert Dean Lightfoot were married
in Alexander City Dec. 23. The groom is the PiKA house manager
and plans to continue his studies here until his graduation in
June. He is from Fairfield.
* * * * *
KAPPA DELTA
The Kappa Delta formal tonight will be the second sorority
dance of the season and all reports state that the KD's have gone
"all out" to make it the biggest affair yet to be held. The presi­dent,
Etta Claire Brackin, will lead the dance in a blue net dress
with the top of silver lame and the skirt trimmed with silver Vs.
API Student
Is Author Of
Short Story
William Blanton Acker, junior
in Science and Literature from
Brighton, is the author of "Lil", a
short story which appeared in
Sunday's magazine section of
The Birmingham News-Age-Her­ald.
"I have always been interested
in writing", said Acker, "and
plan to accomplish something in
fiction if hard work will do the
job. My hobbies are horseback
riding and flying.
"Lil", the story of a horse in
the Auburn ROTC stables, is-
Acker's first fiction sale. He is
enrolled in the secondary pilot
training course conducted at Au­burn
under the C.A.A.
LOST—Small black bag con­taining
a portable sewing ma­chine
was taken from the train
Defense Class
Certificates
Presented Here
Two Hundred Enroll
In 14 Courses For
Next Three Months
Following the formal presenta­tion
of certificates to those com­pleting
Engineering Science and
Management Defense Training
Courses Monday evening in Mont­gomery
at the State Highway
Department building, more than
200 men and women enrolled in
the 14 courses to be taught dur­ing
the coming three months.
First classes for the new courses
will be held Wednesday evening.
Principal speaker at the pres­entation
ceremony was Senator J.
Miller Bonner, legal adviser to
Governor Dixon, who stressed the
vital importance of the engineer
in the present World War. Pre­siding
was Sam W. Harbin, engi­neer
of surveys and plans for the
State Highway Department, who
is in charge of the Engineering
Defense Training Courses in
Montgomery. W. Wilson Hill, Au­burn,
ESMDT office manager,
represented API at the ceremony
and explained the urgent need of
the Government in continuing
the courses throughout the coun­try.
The courses at Montgomery are
conducted by A. P. I. in coopera­tion
with the State Highway De­partment
under the Federal Se­curity
Administration and the U.
S. Office of Education. Similar
courses are being given by the
college at 12 other strategic de­fense
centers in the State in co­operation
with various colleges
and schools. Approximately 3,000
men and women are now enrolled
in the courses in order to fit
themselves for more responsible
jobs essential to the nation's war
effort.
station Sunday night. Any one
knowing the whereabouts of this
bag. please notify Martha Ann
Reese at Dormitory I.
SUNDAY AND MONDAY
SATURDAY
From Dark to Dawn They
Lived the World's Most
Exciting Adventure
" P A C I FIC
BLACKOUT"
With ROBERT PRESTON
TUESDAY
'THE BLONDE FROM
SINGAPORE"
with
FLORENCE RICE
LEIF ERIKSON
Funny Color Cartoon
Interesting Novelty
LATEST NEWS
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Plainsmen Meet Badgers
Freshmen to Perform
n Preliminary Game
Shag Hawkins to Miss First Home Game;
Frank Manci May Start at Center Spot
By JOHN PIERCE
Auburn's 1942 basketball team gives its first performances
on the home court tonight and tomorrow night as the Plains­men
take the floor in a pair of contests against the Spring
Hill Badgers. The starting whistle will sound at 8 o'clock
following preliminary games by Coach Elmer Salter's fresh­man
squad. Tonight at 6, the rats face Columbus Manufact­uring
and tomorrow night they meet the Chadwick Gassers.
It was still unknown this morning whether the starting
Auburn lineup for tonight's game
would include Marvin Motley,
veteran guard who has missed the
openers due to scholastic in­eligibility.
Hawkins Out
Shag Hawkins, the SEC's top
ranking center, will miss both
clashes because of a neck opera­tion
performed during the Christ­mas
holidays, and the absence of
the 1941 conference high scorer
has called for considerable shift­ing
of positions for several regu­lars.
With Shag in the lineup the
Plainsmen were able to stop
Mississippi State by a 39-29 count
and Mississippi by 34-31, but the
problem of a suitable replacement
at the center position now puts
a question mark on the scoring
picture for Coach Ralph Jordon's
team.
Featured at center during the
past week has been Frank Manci,
two-year letter man who has been
shifted from his regular forward
position to Hawkins' spot. He will
start there tonight unless Motley
returns to active duty, in which
case the starting lineup will have
Motley at center and Manci at
guard.
Almost certain to be seen as a
forward is Fagan Canzoneri, an­other
letter man who has pre­viously
played as a guard. Mov­ing
in to fill that guard spot left
open will be Jack Tanner.
Ben Park will open at the other
guard position and Herbert Bur­ton
will continue as the second
forward.
So it can be seen how Mr. Haw­kins'
absence from the lineup
has served to start Coach Jordan
on a fancy juggling act before the
season has had a good start. The
problem would be less acute ex­cept
for the fact that two addi­tional
performers, forwards
Frank Williams and Tommy
Mastin, are not available for duty
at the time. Williams will not be
eligible for varsity competition
until the new semester while
Mastin has given up basketball
in order to take a CAA course
during the afternoons.
Starters for Coach Earle
Smith's Badgers will probably
be Charley Pond, T. Drury, Jim
McDonough, M. A. Spellman and
Harry Bryan. Most impressive of
the five has been Spellman in the
Spring Hill games to date.
in Alumni Gym Tonight
Improved Frosh Basketeers
Meet Columbus and Chadwick
Acting manager of Auburn's
hardwood squad this season is
Junior Charlie Rew, a local
youngster. The hard-working
Rew also served in this capacity
last year and will receive an "A"
as a senior.
McCOLL(JM -flueofeU
Receiving all-star honors for
two years as a Plainsman tackle,
McColIum was a member of
the Auburn team which went
through the 1932 season unde­feated.
C'oflC// BUDDIE MCCOUI.UM
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A tackle coach who has work­ed
equally well with ends, with
he leaves a big vacancy in the
he leaves a big vacancy in the
Auburn coaching staff upon his
departure for Fort Bragg.
Play Second and Third Opponents In
Pre-varsity Battles This Week-end
' By BILL MARTIN
Auburn's freshman basketeers, a much improved squad over
the one which took the floor against Lanett in the season's
opener before Christmas, will meet their seeond and third
opponents of the current campaign tonight and tomorrow
night in the Columbus Millers and the Chadwick Gassers.
The squad which began the year with about 70 men on
the roster has now been narrowed to 20 and the starting team
is about set although there are several men in a hot fight for
opening positions. ;
McColIum Ordered
To Report for Duty
Player and Assistant
Coach Here Since
Freshman Year, 1930
By ELMER SALTER
Ordered by Uncle Sam -to re­port
for active duty at Fort Bragg,
N. C, Buddy McColIum, an as­sistant
coach here at Auburn
since his graduation in 1934, is
having a fine coaching career in­terrupted
while he does all in his
power to destroy the Axis powers.
Coach McColIum is a reserve first
lieutenant in the Field Artillery.
An All-State selection at Ensley
High School in 1929, Coach Mc-
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Collum, a tireless worker, en­tered
Auburn as a freshman in
1930 and immediately launched
what turned out to be a brilliant
collegiate football playing career.
As a rookie, he saw action at both
center, end and tackle, but he
finally received a permanent as­signment
in the latter division
and flashed consistently.
He was a first-string tackle on
Auburn's undefeated club of 1932
and received all-star recognition
that year and also his senior cam­paign
in 1933. A strong 195
pounder, he was a bulwark in
the Tiger forewall for three sea-jsons
and he left a major gap for
Coach Jack Meagher to fill when
jhe received his diploma and be-jcame
a member of Auburn's
'athletic staff.
! Well-qualified for the position
he was appointed to at Auburn in
1934, he has made the grade as one
of Dixie's foremost younger men­tors
and all of his experiences the
past eight years should be of much
assistance in his determined and
willing bid to make good with Un­cle
Sam's team, the no. 1 eleven at
the present time. No one wishes to
serve his country in the time of
emergency any more than Coach
McColIum and his many friends in
this section predict that he will be
as successful as an Army officer
as he has been as an Auburn coach
for the past eight seasons.
Last year's freshmen defeated Jenkins, another football stand-the
Millers on two occassions, i out, hails from West Point, Ga.
once 48-28 and again 51-32, and]Roy Crenshaw, still another grid-they
beat the Gassers 30-23. Both I der, resides in Lanett, Ala. Frank
of these teams, however, always jWadsworth comes from the Shag
turn up with a creditable ag- Hawkins territory in Alabama.
gregation and this year is no ex­ception.
The games will be played
as preliminaries to the two var­sity
games with Spring Hill and
the fans will do well by them­selves
to come out and watch the
frosh.
Wednesday night Coach Salter
ran the boys through a hard and
long scrimmage with the Sigma
Chi Frat team and his charges
showed up exceptionally well.
The team-work was greatly -im­proved
and the passing was hard
and deceptive. Working a great
deal on set formations and plays,
the plebes have been working
extra time this week to be able
to begin winning ways and to
try to uphold last year's standard.
Salter had two main quintets
working and the starting line up
should have Wadsworth and Shy
at the forwards, Crenshaw at the
center spot, and Summers and
Jenkins in the guard slots. A sec­ond
group which has been work­ing
as hard as the first has Dicus
and Beck at the forwards, Manly
at center, and Lee and Bryant at
the guards. There is likely to be
a lot of substituting from these
two quints as both groups are
fighting hard to be firsts.
The squad differs somewhat
from last year's in that it contains
a number of out of the state play­ers
and last year's was made up
entirely of Alabama boys with
only one exception. The first team
has four states represented in the
five positions. Dewitt Shy, high
scorer in the first game, lives in j
Memphis, Tenn., and prepped at
Baylor Military Academy in
Chattanooga where he was a five-letter
man, starring in basketball,
football, baseball, track, .and ten­nis.
Rudy Summers, a quarter­back
on the '41 frosh football
team, is from Ocala, Fla. Zac
He played for Shag's Alma Mater,
Corner High, last year.
FEBRUARY 16
(Continued from Page 3)
and I really am glad that I'm
here now.
Of course, I would have given
anything to have been able to
finish school this year, but I am
more than glad I have the privi­lege
of serving my country and
it is indeed a privilege. We really
have something in this country
and I know we are all united in
the determination to keep it. In
fact, we can't lose it.
Someone has got to check the
madness that is raging over the
world and the boys of the United
States are just the men for the
job. We are going to do that job
and we are going to do it well.
You may have some boys in
your classes that are discouraged
over conditions now, but there is
no need in anyone feeling that
way. I felt as if my life would be
ruined if I had to come to the
Army but I have found that the
Army is going to prove an asset
to me in later life. After this is
over we are going to need good
trained men to lift the world from
the chaos it will be in. With the
educational training I have had
and with the experience I have
gained here in the army I feel
that I will be more capable of
taking care of myself than ever
before and I also feel that I will
be able to help others at the
same time.
So just tell your boys to keep
at their studies and do a good job
of them and if they are called
into the service to do a good job
of that and they won't have a
thing to worry about. We can't
lose.
I would appreciate it if you
could find time to drop me a line
and let me know how things are
with you and Auburn.
After I have done my bit I ex­pect
to return to school and finish.
I hope that I can have classes
under you when I do get back.
Wishing you the best of every­thing
during the coming new
year I remain,
Yours very truly,
James M. Dykes
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