1943-09-10 The Plainsman

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Stay Outra That
Main Gate Tlu Plaindmath We're Out
Again
For Blood
'TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT".
VOLUME LXVIII ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1943 NUMBER 23
ENROLLMENT EXCEEDS EARLY EXPECTATIONS
Must Plan Peace
Now, Senator Says
Crowd Votes Resolution Approving Stand
In Senate Of Hill, Hatch, Burton, And Ball
Because the downfall of Italy "speeds the day of complete
victory for our armed forces" it becomes "all the more im­pressive
that we take steps now to formulate a just and en­during
peace," declared Senator Lister Hill to a crowd of
several thousand east Alabamians gathered for a "win-the-peace"
rally in the API stadium Thursday night.
"If we wait until peace comes
to plan for peace, our plans will
be found wanting," asserted the
senator, who is one of the four
sponsors of the resolution intro­duced
in the senate which ad­vises
the president to take the
initiative in summoning repre­sentatives
of the United Nations
to form an organization for plan­ning
and preserving the peace.
"If we take no forward step un­til
we have a perfect plan, we
shall make no move at all. The
rush of events will over whelm
us. We must plan and build the
machinery and organization for
peace now or peace will catch us
unprepared."
Crowd Supports Resolution
A resolution expressing their
support of the Hill-Hatch-Bur­ton-
Bell Senate Kesolution was
voted by the crowd.
"Freedom-loving peoples ev­erywhere
look to the United
States for leadership," the reso­lution
voted read in part. "Even
the national self-interest requires
that we assume the leadership in
seeking to prevent wat with
economic and human waste.
"This nation should take the
necessary steps now to set in
motion that concerted action
which will assure a just and last­ing
peace.
"Therefore, we hereby endorse
Resolution No. 114, introduced
into the United States Senate by
Senators Ball, Burton, Hatch, and
Hill, and do urge its immediate
adoption."
Dr. Duncan Introduces
The meeting was under the au­spices
of the Auburn Council of
Churches. Prof. Randall Jones of
API faculty, president of the
council, presided. Dr. L. N. Dun­can,
Auburn's president, intro­duced
Senator Hill. Before the
speaking a musical program was
presented by the 313th Air Force
Band from the Tuskegee Army
Air Field. Soldiers, sailors, and
naval aviation cadets from the
API campus contingents marched
to the stadium in formation and
were seated in reserved sections.
Senator Hill came out strongly
for an International police force
to "preserve the order and peace
of the world and prevent war."
"There must be power to use
force immediately to suppress
any aggressor nation," he main­tained.
"If Japan had been
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ROTC Program
Prepares Boys
For Army Life
Drill To Be Twice
A Week With Sophs
As Cadet Officers
With an enrollment of 400 or
more expected in the basic ROTC
course at API this fall, the corps
will be increased to four batter­ies,
it was announced today.
The military training, which is
compulsory for all able-bodied
freshman and sophomore men,
will not be divided into courses
in Field Artillery and Engineer­ing,
as in former years, but will
be similar to the basic training
received by all Army inductees.
For that reason, says the com­mander,
boys who attend Auburn
for even one quarter before going
l t S i i n to the Army, will have a dis­tinct
advantage over g r e en
"rookies." The academic*- work
done here will also prove a val­uable
asset on the men's Army
records, he said.
Cadet gray was abandoned this
summer for the duration, and
this fall ROTC cadets will con­tinue
to wear regular Army
khaki uniforms, distinguishable
only by the insignia on the shirt
collars. Uniforms will be issued
by the Army and returned by the
students when they complete
their training. Cadet officers will
wear the same insignia as form­erly,
but on the collars when the
summer uniform is worn.
All cadet officers and non-comissioned
officers will be soph­omores,
as advanced military is
"out" for the duration. Thus stu­dents
will have practice in com-
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Geometry Classes Meet
In Broun To Organize
The Registrar's Office an­nounces
that a solid geometry
class will meet for organization
at 5 p. m. Monday, Sept. 13, in
Broun 304.
A plane geometry class will
meet for organization at 5 p. m.
Tuesday, Sept. 14, in Broun 209.
WE DID HAVE A WAC ONCE
Third Officer Margaret Martin, WAC, is shown returning Ihe
military salute of Master Sergeant Spillman Fitzpatrick, of the
API military staff. Third Officer Martin was assigned here for a
short period of time as assistant personnel technician.
Naval School Gets
Nationwide Salute
On Lopez Program
At 12:30 p. m. every day ex­cept
Sunday, WJHO and the
Mutual Broadcasting System
present "Luncheon with Lo­pez"—
Vincent Lopez playing
in the Grille Room of the Hotel
Taft in New York. Every day
"Mr. L." dedicates his program
to one of the many service
camps throughout the country.
Thursday afternoon his per­formance—
and a very good
one, too—was dedicated to the
Naval Radio School at Auburn.
By special request of the Naval
students, Bruce Hayes, baritone
with the band, sang "You'll
Never Know." The program
also featured vocals by Carol
Singer and a piano solo by Lo­pez
himself.
Five Enlisted
Men Of ROTC
Leave Auburn
All Have Served
At Least Eleven
Years At API
Five enlisted men of the ROTC
detachment on the Auburn cam­pus
have been relieved and sent
to other duty in the Army after
long and faithful service at Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute. They
are Staff Sgt. Roe Foust, Sgt.
Rex V. Ditto, Pfc. James V. Clay­ton,
Technical Sgt. Chester Col.
lum, and Technical Sgt. Dovard
R. Collum.
The success of the ROTC and
the fact that the unit at Auburn
has had the highest rating every
year is largely due to the quiet
and efficient performance of duty
by the^e soldiers. For many years,
there have been 28 soldiers on
duty with the ROTC and they
have always been willing to help
the student and to make military
instruction more pleasant and
more satisfactory to the cadet.
The use of horses for voluntary
equitation classes, for privilege
riding on Saturday and Sunday
afternoons, and the special rides
scheduled by Scabbard and
Blade, have meant extra work
for these men and they have giv­en
their time gladly and without
complaint.
Each of the men who has left
spent at least 11 years in Auburn,
some as long as 16 years. Sgt.
Foust has been in the Auburn
ROTC Unit for 16 years; for five
years he was stable sergeant.
Sgt. Ditto also had Ween in Au­burn
16 years, acting as saddler
for most of these years.
Private First Class Clayton
during his 12 years service in
Auburn has groomed and exer­cised
horses and has kept equip­ment
in order.
Technical Sgt. Chester Collum
and his brother, Teh. Sgt. Dovard
Collum originally enlisted at Au­burn
and have served only at
this station, changing now for the
first time after 12 and 11 years
respectively.
Dr. Sparks To Serve
As Physics Instructor,
Texas A And M College
Dr. Frank Milton Sparks, na­tive
of Cullman, and 1926 elec­trical
engineering graduate of
the Alabama Polytechnic Insti­tute,
has been appointed a mem­ber
of the faculty of the depart­ment
of physics at the Agricul­tural
and Mechanical College of
Texas at College Park.
Dr. Sparks, who was a member
of the Auburn faculty, received
his M. S. and Ph. D. degrees
from the University of Illinois,
Urbana.
Mrs. Sparks, the former Miss
Edith Ingram, who accompanied
her husband to Texas, has been
associated with the API News
Bureau since 1937. She is the
daughter of Mrs. W. C. Ingram.
Will You Give
Blood To Save
Another Life?
Red Cross Service ?
To Again Be Here
For Contributions
By Annette Cheney
Which shall it be? . . . A pa­rade
of blood donors for the blood
bank, orKa parade of soldiers'
white crosses . . . Our boys are
dying every hour for us. Many of
them need not die. It is going to
take blood from our hearts—a gi­gantic
amount — to reach the
number of wounded men needing
it throughout this fighting world.
We may be far removed from
the fighting line, but it is our
duty as well as a privilege to
send our blood to war. If you are
a veteran donor, give it again. If
you are one of those who can't
spare it, make up for this unfor­tunate
lack by "asking friends
who don't know about it, or
haven't thought about it, to go by
the main gate and sign their lit­tle
appointment slip.
*The Red Cross Blood Donor
Service from Atlanta is return­ing
to Lee County September 21,
22, 23. The unit will have head­quarters
in the basement of the
Baptist Church at Auburn and
will be at work from 7:00 until
11:00 a. m. each of these three
days.
Kay Hall, president of Chi
Omega Sorority, is in charge of
the student drive, and Margaret
roomer is- chairman of the Atr-burn
city drive. Bob Smith is
chairman of the Lee County
Blood Donations.
The goal this time is 700 peo­ple.
All of the 354 units, (about
45 gallons) sent from Lee County
to Atlanta from the June drive
were useable. If 700 pints of
blood are given this time think
how much that would be with
a 100% ratio of useable blood.
It is a very minor part to play
in this great war, yet if you
knew that your own blood was
the very means of keeping some
boy alive—that he continues to
live and laugh and fight, "because
of you—you wouldn't hesitate to
make arrangements now to join
the parade of the blood donors
for the blood bank and save some
soldier from a white cross.
U. S. Navy Seeks
Construction Men
For "Seabees"
Lt. J. W. Briggs will be at
the U. S. Navy Recruiting Sub­station
at the Post Office Build­ing,
Opelika, Ala., from 9:00 to
12:00, noon, on Friday, Sept. 17,
1943, to interview interested
skilled mechanics and other
construction men who desire
to continue their profession and
at the same time serve their
country with the "Seabees."
Construction men are also eli­gible
for Army Engineers.
Dr. Beck Is Named
Outstanding Author
By Honorary Society
In recognition of "his outstand­ing
contribution to the contem­porary
literature," Dr. Martin
Luther Beck, Professor of Edu­cation,
API, has been elected to
an honorary membership in the
Eugene Field Society, an organ­ization
sponsored by the National
Association of Authors and
Journalists, according to infor­mation
received here today.
In a letter to Dr. Beck from
John George Hartwig, president
of the society, it was stated that
the Auburn author's "literary
skill and craftsmanship of your
published works entitle you to
an honorary membership in the
society," and that the board of
governors had selected him as
the outstanding author for the
high honor.
It is understood that an hon­orary
membership in the organ­ization
is regarded as one of the
highest honors that can be con­ferred
on an American author.
Only 46 authors and journalist
preceded Dr. Beck to the roster
of honorary members.
Accompanist Needed
An accompanist is needed for
the Girls' Glee Club. Applicants,
girl or boy, may try out on any
day next week from 5 to 6 in
the music room over Toomer's
Drug Store.
Street Dances
To Continue
During Fall
Frolics Will Be Held
Each Saturday Night
From 8:30 Until 11
Due to popular demand the
street dances which were held
this summer will be continued
and will add much to the campus
social activities this fall.
iThe first dance will be held on
the terrace back of Samford Hall
Saturday, September 11. The
dance will begin at 8:30 and last
until 11:00. At the Library Grove
movies will be shown beginning
at 9:00. This is to be a very in­formal
affair, and girls will be
welcomed if they go in groups
too.
Many of the service men on
the campus don't know many of
the girls, but they should feel
free to go up and ask a girl to
dance, or to "tag" her partner on
the shoulder if she is already
dancing, and don't forget, fel­lows,
that the girls are just as
anxious to meet and dance with
you as you probably are to meet
them. Any real Auburn girl is
friendly and would be only to
glad to dance, or see the movies
at the library.
Service Center
Plans To Move
To New Site
Having outgrown its quarters,
and in order to receive financial
aid from the national USO, the
Auburn Service Center, which
for the past year had occupied
the quarters over the Benson
Drug Store and the Mildred Lip-pitt
shop, was closed last.Sun­day
and will reopen just as soon
as negotiations now ending are
completed for ground floor space
in another building. This an­nouncement
was made recently
by Don C. Kyle, president of the
Junior Chamber of Commerce,
sponsor of the service center.
"It was through the generosity
and patriotic spirit of Prof. A. L.
Thomas, member of the API fa­culty,
and the Thomas estate,
owners of the building, that the
original center was opened," Mr.
Kyle stated. "Free rental for one
year made it possible for the
Junior Chamber to provide this
very essential service for the
men in uniform, and our entire
organization is grateful to Prof.
Thomas and other members of
the family for the free use of the
building."
It is understood that a deal is
pending for the lease of the
building formerly occupied by
College Inn, next door to the
Bank of Auburn. This location
would afford ample ground floor
quarters for the extended activi­ties
of the center, and would
meet onev of the stipulations of
the national organization for fi­nancial
assistance, which has
been greatly needed, Mr. Kyle
stated.
The new quarters, according to
plan already drawn up, will be
equipped with modern furniture
and fixtures and will be one of
the most attractive service cen­ters
in the state.
Number Of Men And
Women Students Equal
Civilian And Military Entrees
Pass 3 , 0 0 0 Mark This Quarter
The Alabama Polytechnic I n s t i t u t e opened its fall session
this week with an enrollment far exceeding expectations,
with the student body about equally divided between boys
and girls, it was officially announced yesterday.
When the period of registration ends today, the total en­rollment,
including civilian and
military entrees, will exceed
3,000 which is "considered by col­lege
officials as a most gratifying
roster under present conditions.
President L. N. Duncan said
that additional dormitory facili­ties
have been arranged to meet
the increased demand by new
women students who have al­ready
reserved rooms.
Instruction To Continue
Although a portion of the col­lege
facilities and faculty is be­ing
used for instruction in tech­nical
fields for the Army and
Navy, instruction for civilian
men and women is being contin­ued
in all divisions of the college.
For the most part women stu­dents
at Auburn are enrolled in
science and literature, home eco­nomics,
education, laboratory
technique, secretarial science,
and applied art.
A large percentage of the pres­ent
freshman class is composed
of 17-year-old high school grad­uates
who entered college in
June in order to complete as
much study as possible before
reaching 18 years of age, when
they will be subject to Selective
Service. Even a single quarter of
college mathematics, science and
English, together with intensive
physical and military training,
will be of great advantage to
these young men when they en­ter
the Armed Forces, college of­ficials
said. It will aid them in
qualifying for the Army or Navy
College Training Programs, and
practically all of them are plan­ning
to take the qualifying exam­ination
to be given throughout
the country in November by the
Army and Navy. j
Duncans Entertain
President and Mrs. L. N. Dun­can
entertained the freshmen
and other new students Tuesday
night with a reception on the
lawn of the president's mansion.
The freshmen were welcomed
to Auburn by college officials,
deans of the schools, and com­manders
of the armed forces
groups on the campus. Those in
the receiving line were: Dr. and
Mrs. Duncan, Mr. and Mrs. S. L.
Toomer, Colonel J. J. Waterman,
Lt. H. H. Orr, Lt. Commander
Edwin Phillips, Dean Roger Al­len,
Prof. E. B. Lancaster, Dean
L. S. Blake, Dean M. J. Funchess,
Dean C. L. Hare, Dean Zebulon
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Army Chow With Hannum.
ASTs At Mess Hall
Auburn coeds will soon know
how to eat "army style." Miss
Sara Moore, dietitian, and the ad­ministration
staff of the dining
hall have proposed that the
ASTP trainees invite 400 woman
students for dinner Sunday, Sep­tember
12.
These guests will be selected
from the nineteen dormitories
according to the number of girls
living at each dormitory, and they
will go in groups to the AST
Dining Hall. After their arrival
the girls will be in one line and
the ASTs in another. As they go
in the dining hall the two lines
will move up until they meet at
the door thus giving everyone a
dinner partner.
The dinner will be served in
the regular style, but such a
large number will make it nec­essary
to have two shifts of 400
persons each with four couples
seated at each table.
Like To Sing?
Then Try Out
For Glee Club
Director Barnett
Plans To Include
Army Camps In Tour
By Mimi Simms
Auburn's Girls' Glee Club is
literally "going places" this year,
says Director Lawrence Barnett.
Plans are already underway for
the usual trips to surrounding
college campuses. For the first
time the Glee Club's tour will in­clude
nearby army camps be­cause
of a definite demand for
the better type of music by serv­icemen.
All girls—especially first and
second quarter freshmen — are
asked to come to the try-outs.
These will be held each day,
Monday through Friday, of next
week from 5 to 6 p. m. in the mu­sic
rooms located above Toom­er's.
The Glee Club requires no
previous experience. Special at­tention
will be given those girls
with little training and good
voices. In fact, a little talent
plus the will to sing is the main
factor in producing a highly-rated
glee club.
As soon as possible after the
members are chosen, the Girls'
Glee Club will reorganize and
elect new officers. Meetings will
be held twice a week, on each
Monday and Thursday night at
7 p. m. in the music room over
Toomer's. Attendance is import­ant
for, as soon as it is practical,
the Club will begin its travels.
The accompanist has not yet
been named, but Director Barnett
is sure that an excellent one will
be obtained.
More accent than ever will be
placed upon the Glee Club's
activities; therefore, it is most
important that the Glee Club's
members are the best singers on
the campus. With this in mind,
Mr. Barnett urges all girls to try
out--and help make this the most
successful year in the history of
the Auburn's Girls' Glee Club.
Articles Written On
Past Commandant
Of Auburn ROTC
Brig. General John T. Ken­nedy,
former commandant of the
Field Artillery, ROTC, at API,
has had a full-page article writ­ten
about him in The State,
prominent magazine published in
Raleigh, N. C. A complete biog­raphical
sketch of the disting­uished
soldier is included.
General Kennedy is a grand­son
of the Old North State, and
Gertrude Carraway, author of
the article, points out the special
significance of the former Au­burn
commandant now being in
command of Fort Bragg, Fayette-ville,
N. C, the- largest army
training post in the world. It is
also significant, the article states,
that Col. Landon C. Rosser, a
native North Carolinian, is second
in command at Fort Bragg.
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We're Sticking Out Our Necks
In the first place we get tired of writing
the same stuff over and over at the begin­ning
of each quarter, warning you fresh­men
what to expect of college, and laying
down the law as to what is expected of
you.
It's depressing and boring, and besides
who are we to preach about what should
or should not be done. We have reached
the conclusion that we have been over­estimating
our intelligence and under­estimating
your intelligence.
For we believe, because of your very
presence here, that you know what the
score is. We think that you realize fully
the importance of your opportunity to
come to college — realize that college
means more than ever to each of you, not
only professionally but personally.
We have confidence that you will be
able to make a super-adjustment to your
new environment. We say super-adjust­ment
because becoming part of the campus
and of Auburn will be harder than in the
past, before war became the theme of
everything.
Not only must you absorb what is here
already but you must exert energy to ac­quire
new experience and knowledge. And
it will be with this output of energy that
you will make your contribution—a con­tribution
which will become a part of the
college from which not only ,your class
but future classes will benefit.
Under the accelerated program many
changes are taking place. It is necessary
that you be able to decide which of the
things of "old Auburn" can be laid aside
for the duration and which things must be
kept and included in the "new Auburn" to
be encouraged and fostered as never be­fore.
We believe that you are capable of
such judgment.
You are conscious of the fact, we think,
that the most precious thing about your
lives at Auburn will be your contact with
that Auburn spirit—r-that democratic' at­mosphere
which will influence your whole
life. And we are counting on your whole­hearted
support of that spirit.
Some say we are being too optimistic—
that it take four years to learn these
things. We're going to stick out our necks
and say we believe you know them al­ready.
We expect you to prove that we are
right.
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uBeen working much overtime lately, Mr. Schuster?'
Confidentally
By A. D. BROOKS
And We Speculate From Our Arm Chair
The announcement by General Dwight
D. Eisenhower on Wednesday to the effect
that the Italians have unconditionally sur­rendered
to the United Nations can be re­garded
as the culmination of one of the
most successful military campaigns of all
time.
The significance of the defeat of this
Axis partner cannot be over-estimated.
Presumably, however, such a sudden sur­render
on the part of the Italians was not
anticipated by our High Command, as evi­denced
by the force of the landings on the
Italian mainland.
Following the defeat of the Axis forces
on Sicily the Fascism political machine
underwent a swift revision which we had
not anticipated and which we were un­prepared
to take advantage of at the time.
It was believed at first that the overthrow
of the Fascist regime was a.preliminary to
an Italian bid for peace. Whether or not
such a bid was received by our leaders is
open to question in the light of present
developments.
However, openly the new Italian gov­ernment
professed a desire to continue the
fight and obstensibly Eisenhower pre­pared
to take them at their word. That thfs
fight was continued only half-heartedly
we now know to be a fact. We had to learn
this the hard way by making a large scale
landing on the Italian mainland. The Al­lies
most certainly still believed the Ital­ians
would put up fierce resistence despite
the removal of the outward perpetrator of
war against the United Nations and also
despite the lesson of Sicily, since the land­ings
on the Italian "boot" were made in
considerable force.
A swift capitulation on the part of Italy
was a development we had already antici­pated
once and it had not materialized. We
were prepared to subject Italy to the full
fury of our might.
Because of the sudden surrender we now
are faced prematurely with several com­plex
problems, the most obvious of these
being—What about the Germans? Accord­ing
to the supposedly reliable reports from
neutral observers in Switzerland the Ger­mans
have concentrated close to 300,000
troops in the region of the Po Valley in
nothern Italy. Will they stand and fight
or will they retire to Brenner Pass, Alpine
gateway to central Germany?
Possibly the next in importance on the
list is—What are we going to do about
Italy? Are we going to allow them to de­mobilize
their armies and assume the role
of disinterested observer, or are we going
to force the Italians to fight with us
against the Germans? Are we going to get
the Italian fleet, or will. Hitler attempt to
get to it before we do. At the time of this
writing the Italian fleet is reported to
have been ordered, by Bagdolio, to sail
for Allied ports in North Africa.)
The last problem which we call to your
attention seems insignificant now but may
assume gigantic proportions in the future.
Bluntly, what are we going to do about
Russia? The Russians evidently feel they
must be consulted on any political or mili­tary
developments in Europe. Will they re­ciprocate
by allowing us to feel we must
also be consulted in European affairs? In
the event the Russian armies preceed us
through the streets of Berlin this ques­tion
has possibilities of becoming the most
important problem before the govern­ments
of Great Britain and the United
States.
Editor's note: The opinions expressed In this colnmn are those of the writer and
are not to be construed as the editorial policies of this paper.
You freshmen have been welcomed by everyone else, and
who are we to break precedence? Welcome! Ditto to the up-perclassmen
whom we have seen around here in past quarters.
Speaking of freshmen, aren't they colorful this year? There
are green ones, blush-pink ones, pale-blue-white ones, and soon
there will probably be black- and-blue ones. We like the green
ones, because they don't know their way around and frankly
admit it, or they don't know their way around and don't real­ize
it; they're cute because we see our freshmen-selves re­flected
in them. Those pink ones we mentioned are a variety
of green freshmen; they get embarrased and blush when they
find out they are doing something wrong, and they almost
twist their hands off. The pale ones don't make much impres­sion
because they're so shy they practically aren't here. You
: boys—if there are any—who join fraternities—if there are
any—may soon be black-and-blue at the hands of the upper-classmen—
if there are arty.
* * *
Don't think that the Freshman Class is the only hetero­geneous
(you'll know what that is when you are a senior,
maybe) mob on the campus. What's left of the upperclassmen
may appear to be similar but they aren't! The main types are
dragons, flying fish, book-worms, and tigers. Dragons are the
bad little boys who scare freshmen. Flying fish are the girls
that aren't at home when you call them because some other
joe beat you to them. Bookworms are what you thought all
college students were when you were in the sixth grade. And
Tigers are what you oughta be if you're a patriotic Auburnite.
Yep, to be a real Auburn student you have to be a good-sized
orange and blue tiger with a dash of a "War Eagle" and a gen­erous
serving of the "Auburn Spirit."
. * * *
Katie, the Karicature Kopied from past Kolumns, worked
out a Kode of Korrect Manners for new freshmen.
Doncha dare walk through Main Gate.
Learn early the meaning of "A nose in the brown is worth
two in the book."
Doncha wait till next quarter to learn the "Alma Mater."
Get that Auburn Spirit and say "Hello," "Hey," or "Hi"
to the people you pass on the campus and in. town. That's only
a tiny part of our Auburn Spirit, but you'll catch on to it.
Editor's note: The opinions expressed
In this colnmn are those of the writer
and are not to be construed as the edi­torial
policies of this paper.
At the first drill period of the
fall quarter on Saturday, Septem­ber
11, all students who were
present during the summer quar­ter
will form with the same bat­tery
to which they were as­signed.
All new students will
form in the northeast corner of
Bullard Field for assignment.
• * * *
Sound trainng, efficient leader­ship,
good morale and adequate
equipment are the four funda­mentals
of success in war. Pond­er
the possibilities you have to
contribute to the present effort.
* * *
According to The American
Legion Magazine, next to mail
from home, the American forces
fighting overseas enjoy most,
cigarettes and playing cards, in
that order.
* » *
Below is question asked on
sophomore writ:
Q. When can you feed a horse
hay?
A. At meal times.
* * «
Conversation heard in mess
hall recently:
Private 1: How about some
seconds on the beef?
Private 2: Don't you know they
are saving all meat for the Army
these days?
* * *
I have seen all kinds of be-wldered
expressions on the faces
of soldiers but the one I saw the
other night tops them all. It hap­pened
when a girl called the 4th
Company and asked to speak to
her four letter man (ASTP).
* * •
The CQ being a new man told
her that he did not know where
he could find him and was sur­prised
to be directed by the lass
to the boy's room but he almost
fell off the chair when she add­ed
that she spent many nights
in the room. What the CQ does
not know yet is that she was
talking about last year when it
was a girls' dormitory.
the 3rd Company. This company
occupies Barracks A and B. Bar­racks
A was formerly occupied
by the 4th Company (STARS).
* * * /
The advanced ROTC students
have moved into the Theta Chi
house and are messing in the
Sigma Nu house. Lt. G. D.
Braunhaver commands the
ROTCs and they are now a part
of the 3rd Company.
* • *
The 5th Company (STARS)
which previously used these two
buildings has been disbanded.
The 6th Company (STARS) has
also been disbanded and their
buildings returned to college su­pervision.
* * *
The arrival and departure of
persons connected with the mili­tary
service has been so consis-tant
that it now seems part of
our ordinary routine.
» * *
But a recent arrival seems des­tined
for a rather permanent
stay, for at 1:30 a. m. August 21,
1943, there arrived at Drake In­firmary
a baby girl, Judith Ann
Bell, daughter of Lt. and Mrs.
Richard P. Bell.
• • •
In war you cannot afford the
luxury of squeamishness. In the
final analysis you will be killed
or captured. We've got to be
tough and ruthless to win—
tougher and more ruthless than
our enemies.
* * *
A colonel, noted for his ready
"wit," was conducting some vis­itors
over his post. He paused,
gestured toward an imposing
building and said, "This is our
officer's quarters." He then
looked in another directioh at a
similar building remarking, "and
this is where we keep our sec­ond
lieutenants."
* * *
AST: "Captain, I don't mind
the strenuous schedule or the
night classes or the numerous
formations but, sir, I wonder if
any time' has been set aside for
us to shave."
With the STARS goiyJ from
Auburn, the quadrangle seems-sumewhat
deserted. At present
there? are two ASTP units known
as ' the 1st and 3rd Companies.
Captain William P. Jones com­mands
the 1st Company which
now occupies Barrack C and D.
Barracks C was formerly the
location of the 2nd Company
(STARS).
* * *
Lt. Richard P. Bell commands
From ' a military courtesy lec­ture:
Instructor: "What is an En­sign?"
AST: Sir, an Ensign is a swim­ming
second lieutenant."
* * *
All cadets with the exception*
of cadet officers will wear the
API disk on the right collar and
the crossed cannons on the left.
These disks are brass and will
take a polish nicely.
Rhapsodizings
By FRANK MARSH
One More Change
You have accepted without grumbling
many changes brought about by this war
—you've cut out joy riding, and given up
dessert with every meal. Now we're ask­ing
you to accept one more of those in­evitable
changes. The Plainsman will be
published only once a week this quarter.
Katie has a headache today and can't go on, because while
she was finishing her registration, this afternoon, she passed
so many attractive newcomers in the coed contingent that she
suddenly realize she has remarkable competition. She had to
put on another inch of that upperclass-charm and wade right
through those cute little things in colorful dresses and new
faces. But Katie does want to help you freshmen in any way
she can to get you transformed from a high school senior to a
college freshman. She'd like to tell you that you'll make a
grand success of your college experience if you spread your
interests over all the things that college offers you and be
moderate in all of them. Study, because that's what you're
here for; date, because you are a normal young person and
you need boy friends as well as girl friends; play, because you
want to continue to be a normal young person; and go to
church, because there's no time like the present.
* * *
There may be some things about the Auburn Spirit you
freshmen won't understand at first. It's a contagious disease
that you're bound to catch before your first year at Auburn
is over; there isn't an anti-toxin for it. There may be things
about Auburn that you won't like—at first. You'll find,
though, that most of the cock-eyed regulations have a reason
for existing, and you'll get used to the restraint and come to
realize the wisdom of it. We'll lay you ten to one that this is
the first time lots of you have ever had to make your own
{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.
Statistics are the greatest evils
of this modern world. It's sta­tistics
on the life span and flying
speed of birds that spoils the
wonderful myth about the stork.
By this time statistics have al­ready
sent the belief in Santa
Claus away with the wind.
* * *
Still later the boy or girl comes
upon statistics about Atlas's or
Betty Grable's body measure­ments
which starts the boy or
girl to worrying about biceps
or bust developers.
* * #
Other statistics make us all
subject to halitosis, B. O., ath­lete's
foot, tattle-tale gray, dan­druff,
and dishpan hands.
• » * *
Statistics have also proven the
biggest lie in history, namely,
that the favorite food of the U. S.
Army is not steak, stuffed tur­key,
or hummingbird tongues,
but hot dogs!
a ? « ? 2 E ? ^ a f e T g e \° °bj,eC?. ° r COm" b e d s ' g e t u p y o u r l a u n d r y . a n d take charge of the spending of
as much money as there was in your billfold last week end.
But it isn't half bad; you're growing up, just like you've been
thinking you were for the past three or four years. Now, you
grab the reins and do your stuff.
* * *
College is not just preparation for life; it is life itself.
plain, stop and think, and we believe you,
too, will realize that this is just one more
of those things which we must gracefully
accept. We ask you to bear with us till that
day when your Plainsman will again
reach you twice a week.
Figures on the deadlines of too
much smoking, necking, drinking,
marrying, eating, and playing
take the fun from all the natur­ally
interesting things in life.
* * •
Statistics are what make one
nation think they are have-nots,
and cause wars because they try
to become one of the haves in an
objectionable manner.
* * *
More statistics show that your
kids aren't likely to be as bright
or talented as you are, especially
if you are unusually gifted.
* « *
And it's statistics which prove
that fifty percent of people who
get married are women.
* * *
Other statistics indicate that
you need glasses, that you do not
get enough vitamins, that you
are not likely to live more than
sixty-five years; t h a t you're
sweating the salt out of your
body, that you aren't learning
much at college, that you never
have learned very much anyway,
that you don't get justice in a
traffic court, that you're sleep­ing
away one-third of your life,
that there is going to be a short­age
of men for husband fodder.
* * *
Statistics prove that after your
death you will be remembered
no longer than your life insur­ance
lasts and that your wife is
more of a thief than you are.
« * *
And to top it all, one infidel
has worked out statistics based
on the law of probability which
reveal the fact that if four mon­keys
taken straight from the
jungle would sit before the same
number of typewriters and bang
away constantly for a million or
so years, they, according to the
law of probability, will typewrite
correctly everything that has
been written by all the people
who have ever lived on this
earth.
* * »
Now, if that last example of the
evil of statistics doesn't discour­age
and depress you to the ex­tent
that you are ready to shout,
"What's good enough for the
monkey is good enough for me,"
let me remind you that an Au-trian
jackass wrote out in long­hand
in only a few months what
is now Germany's best seller.
Haven't you heard of Mein
Kampf?
/
September 10, 1943 T H E P L A I N S M AN Page Three
Animal Regional Research Lab
Is One Of Eight In The Nation
Nine Auburn Vets
Assist Part Time
In Technical Work
Auburn was logically selected
as the ideal location for the Re­gional
Animal Reserach" Labora­tory
of the Bureau of Animal In­dustry
of the United States De­partment
of Agriculture, partly
because of its School of Veteri­nary
medicine and partly because
it is centrally located. This lab­oratory,
which began operation
in 1938, is one of the eight reg­ional
laboratories in the United
States and the only one of these
working exclusively on animal
diseases.
Dr. B. T. Simms, director, is an
Auburn graduate. Members of
the staff are outstanding men in
veterinary medicine and parasi­tology.
A foreman and enough
laborers to care for the grounds
and the animals are employed.
Nine Auburn veterinary stu­dents
now serve as part time
technical assistants. Dr. Simms
is particularly proud of the good
records made by those Auburn
graduates who served as student
helpers. Among these are Dr.
Ralph Williams, Territorial Vet­erinarian
for. the Virgin Islands;
Lt. Tom Roby, selected upon his
entrance into the army to do re­search
at Front Royal, Virginia;
Dr. Wilber Bailey, a member of
the Veterinary staff at Auburn;
and Dr. L. F. Prickett, a member
of the staff of the Poultry Labo-
Wm. McGehee
Has Been Made
Major In Army
He Is API Graduate;
Received Commisson
As Lieutenant Here
Major William Batchelor Mc­Gehee,
former Auburn student,
was wearing the two bars of ah
Army captain, when with Mrs.
McGehee, he visited his mother,
Mrs. Park Smith in Greenville
recently. Actually he was a ma­jor
and had been since August
the 13th, proving that Friday the
13th can be lucky.
Major McGehee's promotion
was dated on the 13th, but he
was not notified until the 17th,
when he returned to Eglin Field,
Fla., where he is stationed.
Major McGehee is in the ope­rations
ofice at Eglin Field. He
has been promoted three times
since entering service as a second
lieutenant. He held a reserve
commission from the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute where he
successfully completed the ROTC
course.
A graduate of Auburn in 1939,
Major McGehee received his de­gree
in business administration in
the School of Science and Litera­ture.
Outstanding in campus af­fairs
while at college, he was a
member of Pi Kappa Alpha and
Omicron Delta Kappa fraternit­ies,
Scabbard and Blade, Keys,
the Executive Cabinet, Election
Committee, Interfraternity Coun­cil,
chairman of the Athletic
Committee, "Glomerata" staff,
captain in ROTC, and winner in
the freshman debate.
Major McGehee's brother, Col.
Thomas K. McGehee, is in Eng­land
seeing active service on
missions over Germany and oc­cupied
France.
ratory at East Lansing, Michigan.
On the forty acres donated to
the government by the college,
there are a main laboratory
building, three brick experimen­tal
buildings, 17 smaller units
and a modern well-equipped
barn. Livestock includes cattle,
mules, sheep, chickens, white
rats, rabbits, and guinea pigs.
Three projects are now being
studied; each requires much ex­perimentation,
study, and actual
observation. Moving pictures of
diseased animals are a great help
to the workers.
Among the interesting develop­ments
in-the study of coccidiosis
in cattle was the discovery of
two new species of this "bug."
One was named Auburnensis and
the other is called Alabamensis.
Methods of controlling this dis­ease
are being used on dairy
farms of the southeast with
marked success.
Experiments with Johne's dis­ease
have brough an improved
method of growing organisms to
produce the disease experiment­ally.
This -discovery made possi­ble
the use of Johnin as a mater­ial
for diagonising the disease.
Shipments of this have been sent
to all parts of the United States
and even to Iceland.
The laboratory has been one of
the principal users of the new
drug, phenothiazine, in t he
treatment of internal parasites in
cattle. Remarkable results have
been obtained in the control of
this disease as well as other dis­eases
of cattle in which it has
been tried.
The work of this laboratory is
becoming more important and the
application of new methods of
prevention and control of cattle
diseases may help boost the dairy
industry in the south in the near
future.
Nelson Killed Overseas
Eler Nelson, son of Mrs. J.
M. Pruett of Auburn and Syla-cauga,
was killed while doing
ferry command duty between
Assam, India, and other war
fronts. Details of his death were
not given except that he died in
a crash.
Young Nelson was 21 and had
been in the service as a flying of-
Professor Peet Relates Tales
Of Travel In Southern Italy
Natives Of Calabria Indulge In Wine,
Superstitions, And Indifference
American bomber crews flying over the west I t a l i a n coast
from Sicily to Naples are seeing some of t h e most beautiful
scenery in t h e world, in t h e opinion of Telfair B. Peet, as­sistant
professor of English and a n d d r a m a t i c s coach at API,
who has t r a v e l e d extensively in s o u t h e r n Italy. The combi­nation
of mountains, rivers, and sea m a k e s a p i c t u r e of con­stantly
changing colors and of a
beauty beyond anything he had
ever seen elsewhere, he said.
The troops occupying the pro­vince
of Calabria, which is locat­ed
on the toe of the Italian boot,
will fnd the going exceedingly
tough, after the armistice, he be­lieves,
not only because of the
mountainous terrain but also be­cause
of the roads. "When I was
there in 1930," he said, "most of
the roads had good rock bases
but had never been surfaced. I
cycled all over Calabria, but if
it had not been for the pedes-train
footpaths along the sides of
phe roads, I could have made no
progress at all; The roads them­selves
were so full of big, sharp
rocks that no tires, bicycle or
motor car, would have lasted a
mile."
One of the things the British­ers
will find in Calabria, Prof.
Peet said, is some of the best
wine in the world. The people,
largely farmers, are very provin­cial,
highly superstitious, and
suspicious of all strangers. They
are not illiterate, because most of
them have been to school, but in
their adult life they have had so
little use for reading and writing
that many have forgotten how,
he said. He found them indiffer­ent
toward Fascism. The govern­ment
had little effect on their
lives.
Since the towns of Calabria
were built in medieval times they
are situated on the tops of high
hills, Prof. Peet pointed out.
Dees Wins Wings;
To Be Stationed
At Maxwell Field
First Lieutenant Robert W.
Dees, former Auburn student
from Greenville, who has just re­ceived
the wings of an Army Air
Forces pilot, at Columbus, Miss.,
will report- to Maxwell Field,
where he has been assigned for
special training in the four-mot­ored
airplane advanced school.
Lt. Dees received his B. S. in
civil engineering in 1940. While
at Auburn he was a member of
Pi Kappa Alpha, Tau Beta Pi,
and Chi Epsilon fraternities, and
a member of ASCE Engineering
Council.
Lt. Dees received a reserve
commission on graduation from
Auburn, and when the national
defense program was inaugurated
he entered the Army Engineer
Corps as a second lieutenant. He
served with the U. S. Engineers
in the construction of flying
fields, army camps and other de­fense
projects until last February,
when he asked for transfer to
the Air Corps. He was accepted
as a cadet and went to Maxwell
Field to begin flight training, and
completed the training at Colum­bus,
Miss.
ficer for three years. He had been
overseas since last March.
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COMEDY TEAM
Lou Coslello and Bud Abbott,
above, bring new laughs to the
screen in Universal's latest ac­tion-
comedy, "Hit The Ice."
FormerMember
Of Krupa Band
Is Cadet Here
Saunders Appeared
In "Ball Of Fire";
Toured Many States
It has been stated that the
Armed Forces of the United
States are made up of men from
all walks of life, some of them
being rather notable in character.
The Aviation Cadets of the CAA-WTS
unit stationed at Auburn
boast having in their battallion a
former member of Gene Krupa's
orchestra, Cadet K. L. Saunders,
Jr.
Cadet Saunders is a graduate of
the University of North Carolina
and has been a member of Gene
Krupa's band during the past
two years. At the time he left
the band to join Naval Aviation
he was playing first trumpet. He
has traveled throughout thirty-six
states, having played in such
noted theaters as The Palladium
in Hollywood, California and the
Paramount Theater in New York
City. He was also a member of
this band when they appeared in
the motion picture "Ball of Fire."
Upon inquiring of Cadet Saun­ders
some of his viewpoints- to­ward
other bands he stated that
he liked negro bands and their
style of music which bore the
mark of something different.
He also stated that after the
termination of the war he intend­ed
to take up his profession di­rectly
where he left off.
Crew Follows i
Comedians
On Skates
Six Cameras Used
To Record Antics
Of Comedy Team
The tactics of modern mobile
warfare were used td photograph
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello's
new niversal comedy, "Hit the
Ice," which comes Sunday to the
Tiger Theater. Many of the scenes
take place on a skating rink, sup­posed
to be at a winter resort.
The comedians cavort and cap­er
over this ice in a succession of
comedy situations. To film these
scenes, Director Charles Lamont
put his whole camera unit as
well as his stars on skates: the
camera itself, himself, his assist­ant
director, the script girl, make­up
man and gag specialist.
Hot Dogs On Ice
When shooting halted between
takes, the refreshment vendor,
with hot coffee, hot chocolate and
hot dogs, skated out to the play­ers
and technicians. The "still"
photographer, who takes station­ary
scenes of every part of the
action of every film, was on
skates as he posed the actors for
his shots. Set dresser and make­up
men likewise skated about
their manifold duties.
As Abbott and Costello per­formed
their comedy charades,
the whole production unit, cen­tered
around the camera on its
skids, skated after the players,
blitzkrieg style. This was for the
moving closeup and medium
shots. The panoramic shots of the
whole rink were filmed from a
stationary position on the side­lines.
Complex System
Half a dozen cameras of various
sizes and styles were used by
chief cinematographer Charles
Van Enger to catch the comedy
gyrations of Bud and Lou. This
is not a new departure in photo­graphing
their scenes. Early in
their film career it was discov­ered
that the physical side of
their clowning was so fast and
so varied in manner, that one
camera could not record it all.
The multiple lens technique was
then tried and found thoroughly
efective. The cameras are always
kept turning for a moment or so
after the director has ended the
scene, because the extemporan­eous
buffoonery the boys often
indulge in after the "Cut!" sig­nal,
is sometimes the funniest
part of the scene.
Re-Examinations
Held This Week
Re-examinations in subjects
upon which the "E" grade is
assigned are permitted provid­ed
they are taken during the
first week of the succeeding
quarter. If the re-examination
is passed, a grade of "D" will
be assigned. The schedule for
re-examinations, all of which
will be held at 4 p. m., is as fol­lows:
Thursday, September 9 —
Freshman English and subjects
scheduled at 8:00 a. m. and
1:00 p. m.
Friday, September 10—Sub­jects
scheduled at 3:00 a. m.,
2:00 p. m., and 3:00 p. m.
Monday, September 13—Sub­jects
scheduled at 10:00 a. m.
and 11:00 a. m.
Saturday morning, Septem­ber
11—Conflicts in the above
and subjects with quiz section
number 10.
A fee of $2.00 will be charged
for each re-examination. Before
reporting to the instructor for
the examination, the student
will get a re-examination card
at the Registrar's Office and
pay the fee to the College Cash­ier.
Students will be excused
from physical training missed
on account of re-examinations
taken September 9, 10, and 13.
(U. S. Coast Guard Magazine)
Extract from a coed's letter
home—"I am getting fat. I
weigh 128 stripped. Of course the
scales at the drugstore may not
be so accurate, but that's what
they register."
API Graduate
Is Overseas
In Air Force
Captain Dandridge
Got His Commission
At Fort Meade, Md.
Captain Jack Perkins Dan­dridge,
former Auburn student,
is serving overseas with the
Army Air Force.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. M. C.
Dandridge of Fairfield High
School, playing quarterback on
the football team.
He graduated from the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute in
1942 receiving his degree in phys­ical
education. He was a member
of the Intramural Board and of
the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.
Captain Dandridge received his
commission at Fort Meade, Md.
Before sailing he was physical
director at the New Orleans Air­port.
Mrs. Dandridge, the former
Miss Jean Hollingsworth, also
attended Auburn as a student
in physical education. She is
making her home in Los Angeles
with her father, C. W. Hollings­worth,
while completing her edu­cation
at the niversity of Cali­fornia
(UCLA).
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TOP THAT \0%^
College Essentials
1. Clipboards
2. Split head thumb tacks
3. Rubber Aprons
4. Spartan National Notebooks (Steel Rings)
5. Yellow Second sheets, 500 to pkg.
6. Complete Set Engineering Drawing Supplies
7. Sheerlite Stationery, Pink, White, Grey, Ivory
8. College Outline For Every Subject
9. Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
10. Laboratory Smocks
Burton's Bookstore
SOMETHING NEW EVERY DAY
1
Aub urn l-l as G one To
WAR
The majority of the students now on the campus are
service men. Their time is rationed and most of them have
only Saturday in which *o take care or any personal matters.
Most of you civilians are accustomed to gettng your haircut
on Saturday. The result has been inefficient service on our
part, which we regret very much. As a solution to this prob­lem
we are making the following request and appeal to you
as a patriotic American to please abide by it.
ALL CIVILIANS ALLOT YOUR TIME SO YOU CAN GET
YOUR HAIRCUT ON SOME WEEK DAY.
ALL SERVICE MEN WHO HAVE TIME OFF DURING THE
WEEK PLEASE DON'T WAIT UNTIL SATURDAY TO GET
YOUR HAIRCUT.
We trust that you will comply with this as much as possi­ble.
Thank you.
COLLEGE BARBER SHOP
PITTS HOTEL BARBER SHOP
VARSITY BARBER SHOP
CAMPUS BARBER SHOP
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Page Four T H E P L A I N S M AN September 10, 1943
Four Couples Marry
Between Quarters
place on August 29, with the Rev.
J. O. Colley of Wetumpka offi­ciating.
The bride graduated from Ala­bama
College and has been a
member of the faculty in schools
in Cullman and in Randolph
Counties.
The groom graduated from the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute.
He has since been connected with
the extension service in Auburn
and has taught in schools in Ala­bama
and the Carolinas. He is
now teaching in Florida.
Gragg-Carder Wedding
Of interest is the announce­ment
of the approaching marri­age
of two former Auburn stu­dents,
Miss Elizabeth Denby
Gragg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
C. S. Gragg of Montgomery, to
Homer Clint Carder, Jr., Bir­mingham.
The bride-elect attended the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
and Birmingham-Southern Col­lege
where she was a member of
Pi Beta Phi sorority.
The groom-elect, who also at­tended
Auburn, received his de­gree
in chemical engineering in
1943. He was a member of Sig­ma
Chi fraternity and an ROTC
honor graduate. He is now at­tending
the Officers Candidate
School at Fort Sill, Okla., and
will receive his commission this
month as a second lieutenant in
the Field Artillery.
Elizabeth Gragg To Wed Homer Carter;
Both Are Former Students Of Auburn
The marriage of Miss Eiilah Jo Cooper, daughter of Dr.
and Mrs. G. F. Cooper, Jasper, to Hugh Herndon Wilks, son
of Mrs. E. E. Wilks, and the late E. E. Wilks, of Chesapeake,
Ohio, took place on August 29, at the First Methodist Church
in Jasper, with the bride's father officiating.
Miss Frances Cooper, Jasper, was the maid-of-honor and
her sister's o n l y attendant.
Charles Pass, Auburn student
from Cleveland, Was the groom's
best man.
The bride graduated from the
Woodlawn High School (Birming­ham)
and is a senior in the School
of Home Eocnomics at the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute. She
is majoring in foods and nutri­tion
and will receive her degree
in March. She is a member of
the Women's Student Govern­ment.
Mr. Wilks graduated from
Marshall College, Huntington,
West Va., where he was a mem­ber
of Kappa Alpha fraternity.
He is a chief specialist in the
Navy serving as physical educa­tion
director at the Naval Radio
Training School at A u b u r n,
where he will remain until he
receives further orders.
Bell-Main Marriage
The marriage of Miss Betty
John Bell, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John Parker Bell, of Au­burn,
to Gordon Allen Main, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Allen Main,
of Perote, took place September
1, at the Presbyterian church in
Auburn, with the Rev. Samuel
Burney Hay officiating.
The bride will receive her de­gree
in home economics educa­tion
at the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute in November. She is a
member of the Chi Omega Soror­ity
and Kappa Delta Pi national
honor society.
The groom received his degree
at the Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute
in 1942. He is a member
of Kappa Sigma fraternity.
After a short wedding trip the
couple will be at home in Troy.
Blanche Ellis Marries
The marriage of Miss Blanche
Ellis and Lieut. Horace Morgan
Dykes is of recent interest here.
The marriage took place Sept.
5, at 6 o'clock at the Baptist
church in Centre, with the Rev.
A. R. Tuck officiating.
Mrs. E. C. Allen and Miss Mar­tha
Ellis, sisters of the bride,
were honor attendants. The
bridesmaids were Misses Winnie
Price, Kathryn Jones, Martha
Frances Kilgore, and Mrs. Joe
Laney. *
Lieut. E. C. Allen was the
groom's best man.
The bride is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Ellis, of Cen­tre.
She will return to Auburn
this week and will receive her
degree in November.
Holmes-Moffett
The marriage of Miss Tommie
Lee Holmes, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. T. J. Holmes of Good-water,
to William Moffett, form­er
Auburn student from Colum­bus,
Ga., and Pahokee, Fla., took
SERVICE PERSONALS
Ensign Kenneth Kirkwood re­cently
received his wings and
was here on leave last week.
Kenneth was a member of Sig­ma
Chi fraternity and is now sta­tioned
at Clinton, Okla.
Ensign "Nim" Denson, Opelika,
received his wings and left Mon­day
for his new station at Macon.
He was a member of SAE fra­ternity.
'Cotton' Watson, Opelika, and
former student at API was home
on furlough from camp Pas
Christiaan, Miss., last week.
Lt. John Bruce Martin and Lt.
J. C. Ball of Auburn and Opelika,
who have been stationed at Ft.
Sill, are now located at Camp
Gruber, Okla. Martin and Ball
were members of ATO fraternity
at Auburn.
George Hopkins (SAE) and
Walter Cowart (PiKA) who are
attending the V-12 naval school
at Ga. Tech., were recently on
leave and visiting in Auburn.
Joe Hunter (ATO) former stu­dent
at API, was a recent visitor
in Auburn. He is attending the
meteorology school at Vanderbilt.
Neil ,Harris and Mac Lane
former API students, are now
stationed at Maxwell Field. Har­ris
and Lane were recently sta­tioned
in Nashville.
Fred Allison (SAE) of Auburn
is on furlough from Vanderbilt
and will return to school this
week.
Jack Hans (SAE) is now an in­structor
at Pensacola with the
.Naval Air Force.
'Ike' Dorsey, Opelika, received
his wings recently and left Mon­day
for Tallahassee. He is a
former student at API and a
member of SAE.
Sailors Don't Cotton To The Back-Breaking
Voluntary Labor Of Harvesting Southern Snow
Some Yankees See
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Lt. Scott Vance
Teaching Army
Tactics In China
Procedure Slow
As Interpreters
Must Be Used
Lt. Scott Vance, son of Mrs.
Lolla Vance, Gadsden, is among
a number of American officers
in China who are giving courses
in American artillery and infan­try
practices to thousands of Chi­nese
dficers and enlisted men, ac­cording
to an Asocsiated Press
dispatch from the China front.
Lt. Vance, a graduate of Gads­den
High School, entered the
Army as soon as he received his
degree from Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute. After going over­seas
he was stationed in India,
then later was transferred to
China for the work he is doing
now.
The two centers which the
United States Army has estab­lished
in China are in the Hol-lywoodish
setting of the Himala­yan
foothills.
The centers have been operat­ing
since April 1. Scores of key
Chinese soldiers already have
completed courses ranging from
horse-shoeing to complex artil­lery
calculations and have re­turned
to their units to instruct
others. This process will continue
until the whole of the Chinese
army has been affected.
The centers are unique in
Chinese military history. They
are called centers because from
them go trained* Chinese who
establish smaller schools in all
parts of unoccupied China.
The instructors teach through
interpreters. It's a sluggish pro­cedure,
but nobody complains.
As one Chinese put it, "we're not
going to complain — especially
about inconsequentials—no mat­ter
what it takes to do the job."
Head of the infantry center is
Brigatiier General Thomas S.
Arms, 50, of Cleveland. He has
spent 27 years in the United
States Army, and his three sons
are following his footsteps.
On General Arms' staff are 80
American instructors and 62 Chi­nese
interpreters. Section heads
include Major Albert S. Riley,
Montgomery, Ala., Signal Corps.
Unpicked Fiber
For First Time
Volunteer cotton pickers from
the Naval Radio School at API
have answered the SOS sent out
by farmers of this section for aid
in picking this year's cotton crop.
The work is entirely voluntary,
done in leisure time, and does
not interfere with the Navy's
war training program.
Lieutenant Commander Edwin
hllips, commandant, said he ap­proved
the action because the
farmers needed help and the ex­perience
would give the boys a
better appreciation of the prob­lems
of the man on the home
front. Most of them had never
seen cotton before. The few who
had farmed before entering the
service came from New Jersey,
where diversified crops a re
grown in large quantities on
small plots of ground. "Walking
a mile to pick a row of cotton
seemed to them to be fruitless ef­fort,"
Lt. Comm. Phillips ex­plained.
Asked if they would like to
pick cotton all day, the boys of
Company D, second level, an­swered
with an emphatic, "No!"
They had hiked five miles to the
field where they picked approx­imately
1,500 pounds in two
hours, It was fun, they said, un­til
the novelty wore off. They
preferred their jobs in the Navy
to farming.
The bolls of cotton were called
"pods." Some of the "pods" were
not "ripe." Friends back home
will be getting samples of"*raw
cotton labeled, "I picked it with
my own hands." One fellow saw
a well for the first time and
learned how to get water from
it.
"I can appreciate a mattress,
now that I know how much work
is required to furnish the cotton,"
one of the men commented.
The farmers were said to have
been well pleased with the clean
sweep—typical Navy style—made
of the fields coveted. More calls
have come in for help, and Lt.
Open Rushing
Begins Sunday
For Sororities
"Black Diamond Tea"
To Highlight Series
Of Several Parties
Highlighting the series of par­ties
to be given during the soror­ity
rush week will be the tradi­tional
Pan-Hellenic "Black Dia­mond
Tea" at which members,
rushees, and alumnae of each so­rority
will be entertained from
3 till 6 Friday afternoon, Sept.
12, in Smith Hall.
Open rushing will consist of
four parties to be given by each
sorority during the following
scheduled hours:
Sunday tea, 3 p. m. to 6 p. m.;
Monday party, 7 p. m. to 9 p. m.;
Friday party, 7 p. m. to 9 p. m.;
and Saturday party 7 p. m. to
9 p. m.
The following sororities will
participate during rush week:
Kappa Delta, Miss Nell Mose-ley,
Uniontown, president; Al­pha
Delta Pi, Miss Annie Dent,
Eufaula, president; Chi Omega,
Miss Kay Hall, Atlanta, Ga.,
president; Delta Zeta, Miss
Jane Sheffield, Pine Hill, presi­dent;
Phi Omega Pi, Miss Mar-jorie
Prince, Greenville, Fla.,
president; and Theta Upsilon,
Miss Jean Black, Montgomery,
president.
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Comm. Phillips said he expected
to give other groups the oppor­tunity
to pick cotton in the near
future.
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Page five
Auburn Pre-Radar School
To Discontinue Training
Graduates From This Service Command
Have Made Top Honors In Advanced Schools
The Signal Corps Pre-Radar School which has been in
operation on the Auburn campus since J u n e 22, 1942, will be
discontinued on September 11, 1943, upon completing the
t r a i n i n g of the last class now in session, according to official
notification received from Colonel A. G. Conoley, command­ant
of the Signal Corps Training Schools of t h e F o u r t h Serv­ice
Command, Fort McPherson;
Ga.
Due to the fact that the Exec-
«
utive Order of December 5, 1942,
stopped all voluntary enlistments
in the Signal Corps Reserve, a
point has been reached where
the supply of students has been
exhausted.
Fourth Service Stars
Col. Conoley expressed his ap­preciation
for the thorough and
efficient training which was giv­en
by the School of Engineering
faculty. He s a i d , "Students
trained for the Fourth Service
Command at the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute and o t h er
schools in the Service Command
have repeatedly walked away
with the highest honors in the
advanced schools being conduct­ed
in Philadelphia and New York.
In one instance students from
this Service Command took four
out of eight top honors and in
another three out of eight top
honors. Since there are nine
Service Commands, you can see
that the Fourth Service Com­mand,
has won more than its
share of honors."
Auburn Selected
Because of the nature of Au­burn's
instruction in technical
fields, Auburn .was selected to
train men for pre-radar after they
had completed a three-month
mechanic learner course and a
three-month junior - repairmen
course. According to J. E. Han-num,
dean of the School of Engi­neering,
Auburn has trained a
total assignment of 269 trainees
in the pre-radar course.
The term radar means radio-detecting
and ranging. Radars are
devices which the Allies use to
detect the approach of enemy air­craft
and ships, and to determine
the distance to the enemies'
forces. The new science has
played a vital part in helping
first to stem and then turn the
tide of conquest.
KEEP •EM FLYING \
Quti. * Wa/i * £tatn<p<i
Contractors
Study Base*
API Unit
i
Represented By
Local CAA Men
During the week of August 24,
S. A. Frame, flight contractor for
the CAA-WTS -unit stationed
here, was a guest of Commander
S. M. Nordhouse at the Memphis
Naval Air Station. Mr. Frame
was accompanied by Mr. W. B.
Buchanan, Flight officer and Mr.
Devendorf, local CAA inspector.
This trip was made as a result
of an invitation from Command­er
Nordhouse to all of the flight
contractors under the supervision
of the Atlanta Naval Aviation
Selection Board, for the purpose
of familiarizing those concerned
with the operation and functions
of the bases to which their pres­ent
students will be later ordered.
The main purpose of the CAA-WTS
units located at different
colleges is to enable the student
and the Navy to ascertain whe­ther
he has the aptitude and the
ability to fly Later at the 'ZE"
bases the student will receive
more extensive ground school in­cluding
aerology, navigation and
aircraft structure. During that
period his time in the air shall
be devoted to flight fundament­als,
acrobatics, arid night-flying.
Mr. Frame said that he was
impressed with the efficiency
with which the station was ope­rated.
He noticed that the sta­tion
used course flags to control
traffic, and absolutely no tower
controlled traffic light; there­fore,
it is up to the cadets to be
on the alert in order to keep the
triffic flowing around the field
in an orderly and safe manner.
Mr. Frame stated also that there
would be no direct change in the
procedure at the airport concern­ing
CAA-WTS students, as a re­sult
of his trip.
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It's The Simple
Things In Life
That Mean Most
Most newspapers in t he
United States carried under a
St. Louis dateline the follow­ing
dispatch: "Ernest A. Ham-wi,
59, inventor of the ice
cream cone, died here today."
That was all, a n d maybe
enough, but after all, here was
a man who was responsible for
all sorts of adjustments in
American life.
Millions of miles have been
driven by parents merely be­cause
the children wanted
cones. The laundry work done
because of ice cream which
escaped from the cone and
down the front - of Junior's
shirt is literally incalculable.
The seat covers bought to cover
up splotches on automobile up­holstery
caused by cones be­ing
dropped add up to a tre­mendous
number, and so it
goes.
The foregoing was not all
though, for this same inventor
was likewise t h e agency
through which joy unspeakable
came beaming forth on the fac­es
of numerous children, not to
mention their elders. No con­tortion
of the human counten­ance
is quite so satisfying as
that of the childish face as the
tip of the curling tongue first
touches the gob of ice cream
that projects above the cone's
rim. May there be more cones
"and better as soon as the war
allows, and double-dippers, at
that!
Lt. Dowdell Rescued
After Sub-Chaser
Is Sent To Bottom
Mrs. B. B. Ross has received
word that her grand-nephew, Lt.
James Dowdell, former Auburn
student, and skipper of the ill-fated
U. S. S. Sub-Chaser 496
which was recently sent to the
bottom by the enemy/ was res­cued
and that he Is now some­where
in North Africa.
Lt. Dowdell is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. T. J. Dowdell of Miami.
Mr. Dowdell, Sr., graduated from
the Alabama Polytechnic Insti­tute
in 1904 and" taught if istbry
at Auburn.
Lt. Dowdell attended Auburn
from 1931 to 1933 where he was
a student in Pre-Medicine. He
began his naval training in Bos­ton,
and later was assigned to the
sub-chaser school at Miami. Af­ter
a few convoy trips, he was
placed in command of the chaser
and immediately started on con­voys
to the Mediterranean:
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hood memories, life a t , t h e old
home, which is a summer resort
hotel, and the grandchildren, of
which there are eight. But there
are also reminiscences of Auburn
and there is talk of Auburn tra­dition,
Auburn football teams,
and the Auburn of today.' The
"goat" of this year's reunion was
Mrs. Morgan Jackson, who is a
graduate of the . University of
Georgia. She wasn't allowed to
forget that football game in Co­lumbus,
Ga., last November,
when Auburn soundly drubbed
the Rose Bowl-bound Georgia
Bulldogs.
THE WAR EAGLE FLIES
OVER THE JACKSONS
Four Brothers Attended API At Same Time;
Family Reunion Is Alumni Meeting As Well
When the Jackson family has a reunion it is also an Au­b
u r n alumni meeting. The seven children of Mrs. J . W. Jack­son
of Clairmont Springs all went to Auburn—five boys and
two girls. In. addition, one son m a r r i e d an Auburn, girl and
one daughter m a r r i e d an A u b u r n man.
The Jacksons do not know whether nine Auburnites in
one family is a record or not. But
one record they are sure of. Four
of the Jackson boys were in
school at the same time. All five
of the boys were members of
Lambda Chi Alpha. The girls
were both Kappa Deltas.
Reunion in Honor of Lieutenant
The reunion this summer was
in honor of Dwight Jackson; who
was given a furlough before go­ing
overseas. Lt. Jackson, who
received his commission in the
Field Artillery upon graduation
from Auburn in 1929, was trans­ferred
to the Quartermaster
Corps and is now in charge of a
sterilization unit. He is the only
child unmarried.
The other Jackson children, all
of whom were present:
Dr. Hubert Jackson, who grad­uated
from Auburn in 1925, now
is a dentist in San Antonio, Tex.
J. Borden Jackson, '26 " is with
the United States Rubber Co. in
Birmingham. His wife is .the
former Margaret Lane, who re­ceived
a B. S. degree in 1927.
Her mother ran a boarding house
in Auburn at one time.
Dr. Vance Jackson, who at­tended
Auburn from 1924 to
1927, is now a dentist in La-
Grange, Ga. Morgan Jackson, '34,
who received a degree in textile
engineering, is superintendent of
the Callaway Mills,, also in La-
Grange.
Two Girls Attend
The two girls came last. Geor­gia
Lee Jackson, now Mrs.
Joseph Brittain, graduated in
1935. She taught two years in
the Roanoke high school and is
now married to the postmaster
at Roanoke. The youngest, Mary
Frances Jackson, attended Au­burn
in '41-'42. She was married
Sept. 11, 1942, to Lt. William
Moore, '42, whose home was in
Selma. He is now stationed at
Ft. Sill, Okla., where she has
joined him.
Talk at the reunion is of child-
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RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING KEEP GENERAL ELECTRIC YEARS AHEAD
SNATCHED from lowly KP duty, plastics
handles for kitchen knives are flying
high in American bombers. They form part
of the bomb-indicator lamps, which were
tailor-made by General Electric for the
Army.
Less than thimble-size, of a distinguishing
amber color, the model lamp was a G-E
engineer's home work. Pondering its prob­lem
in his attic workshop, he noticed the
translucent plastics handle of a kitchen
OVER THE
SOVHVIHG MAIN
THE newest version of Mohammed and
the Mountain is the floating drydock
that goes to crippled ships at sea.
With the new drydocks the ships can be
repaired almost while they wait. Made up
of identical sections, each one a self-con­tained
ship hull in itself, the drydocks are
towed by a cargo ship to their destination.
BOMBS AWAY
as
paring knife on a bench. He cut off the
handle's tip, fashioned a dome-shaped
colored cap which he fitted over the tiny
grain-of-wheat bulb G.E. had developed for
surgical instruments.
Now at one glance the pilot can tell how
many bombs have been dropped and how
many still remain. The lamp's latest use is
on transport planes, signaling paratroopers
when to jump.
Once there, submersion machinery "sinks"
the docks beneath the surface. The crippled
ship floats in, the water is pumped out of
the docks' ballast chambers, and the resulting
buoyancy of the sections raises the ship out
of the water. Electric equipment made by
General Electric is being used in the docks.
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restaurant.
The Grille invites the
students to come in of­ten
for "the best food
in town."
THE AUBURN
GRILLE
JOHN GAZES, Mgr.
Maybe He's Got
Something There
A war department "immed­iate
action" letter requested in­formation
as to why Pvt. Amos
Jones had not taken out an
allotment from his pay for his
poor starving wife. A check-up
on his service record revealed
that Pvt. Jones, a Negro sol­dier,
had taken out an allot­ment
for his wife but not the
one-named in the letter.
When questioned, Pvt. Jones
admitted that he had two
wives, one recently acquired
whom he had favored with an
allotment. The situation was
normal as far as he was con­cerned
though he was, some­what
puzzled as to how to .take
care of two wives on a priv­ate's
pay.
Upon being asked whether
he knew that the law allowed
but one wife at a time and
that the ordinary procedure
was to divorce one woman be­fore
marying another, he re­plied,
"Sir, I knows de law but
I wants to' be sure dat I gets
along wid de second wife befo
I deevorces de first,"
Army Promotes
Auburn Grads
Lt. Perkins Becomes
Captain; Hostetter
Is Now Lieutenant
Two former Auburn students
were included in the War TDe-partment's
recent announcement
of temporary promotions of of­ficers.
Joseph Kyle Perkins, of Lang-dale,
who received his B. S. de­gree
in Chemieal Engineering
from the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute May 27, 1940, was pro­moted
from first lieutenant to
captain.
Thomas Spencer Hostetter, of
Birmingham, was promoted from
second lieutenant to first lieuten­ant.
Lt. Hostetter attended API
from 1938 to 1940 where he ma­jored
in Chemical Engineering.
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THE IDEAL LAUNDRY
AUBURN, ALABAMA
Observance of the following suggestions will aid in handling your laundry in
the shortest time and most satisfactory way to you.
1. Use the laundry bag as furnished by the laundry with your number on it. Us­ing
your roommate's or friend's will cause unnecessary delay on account of
your package having lo come back unlaundered. Tie your laundry bag.
2. Write your name and street address plainly on your laundry ticket and make
out an accurate list of garments you place in the bag. Responsible white ladies
check the contents of each bag. A difference in your count and ours is recount­ed
by two ladies and error noted on ticket.
3. Be sure that you put only your own laundry in your bag. Articles bearing
another number will be returned unlaundered.
4. Do not attempt to erase or change numbers on garments
as it will delay the laundering of the garments. If marks
are to be changed get an order from the office directing
the marker to make the change. >
5. The $12.00 optional laundry fee allows you $3.00 of laundry, cleaning, and
pressing each week and includes wash suits and wash trousers, also heavy
sweaters 50c, sleeveless sweaters 35c, double wool blankets 75c, single wool
blankets 50c, double cotton blankets 50c, single cotton blankets 35c, quilts 35c,
overcoats and top coats, $1.00, coveralls 40c, polo shirts 25c, sweat shirts 25c,
bathrobes wash 50c. DC 75c, Trench coats $1.00, comforts $1.00, Jackets 75c—
last three articles done at owner's risk only. Government rulings prohibit
laundering of curtains. Socks and hankerchiefs are done at owner's risk be­cause
of Government ruling.
All over $3.00 will be charged list price less 25%.
6. Claims will not be honored without laundry ticket, and presented within 24
hours from date of delivery.
7. We handle rayon fabrics according to National Association formula, but do
not guarantee colors nor shrinkage.
COLLECTION SCHEDULE
Those rooming in private homes should have their laundry made up and bring
lo plant Monday.
Those rooming in Garden Court should have their laundry made up and should
bring it to plant Tuesday.
Those rooming in Women's Dormitories should have their laundry made up
so that it can be picked Saturday afternoon.
Failure to bring your laundry in at time specified will delay completion at least
48 hours.
If you have not received your laundry back with regular bag, put in pillow
case and bring it in on time.
All laundry, except from Women's Dormitories, will have to be called for at
office.
Laundry begins week of September 6.
Bring hanger with laundry.
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Auburn Hall Is New
Women s Dormitory
Is Completely And Modernly Redecorated;
Additional Fraternity House Also Opened
Auburn Hall, a new dormitory for women students at the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, will be open for the begin­ning
of the fall qtfarter, Sept. 6. The building, at 214 East
Thach avenue, has been completely remodeled, redecorated,
and refurnished.
With authorities expecting the largest coed enrollment
in the history of the college, the
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present housing facilities were
found to be insufficient to han­dle
the increase. The new dorm­itory,
and one fraternity house
not used formerly, will take care
of the overflow. All former fra­ternity
chapter houses now are
in use as college dormitories
with the exception of those of
the two veterinary fraternities.
Each house has a housemother
employed by the college, all are
under college regulations, and in
ich the meals are planned, pre-ed,
and served under super-on
of the college dietitian.
decoration Of Dormitory
All the rooms in Auburn Hall
have been repainted, equipped
with Spool twin beds, and fur­nished
with furniture from the
Quadrangle, former women's res­idence
quarters now occupied by
soldiers of the ASTP units on
the campus. Residents of the new
dormitory will be given their
choice of single rooms or double
rooms with roommates. The head
of Auburn Hall will be Miss
Ruth Parkman.
Other heads of hall and house­mothers
include Kappa Alpha
house, Dr. Leila Doman; Sigma
Phi Epsilon house, Mrs. Lena
Gough; Delta Sigma Phi house,
Miss Marie Sewell; Smith Hall,
Miss Frances Schoonmaker; Pi
Kappa Alpha house, Miss Sarah
Tomlinson; Sigma Alpha Epsilon
house, Mrs, Ruby Hart; Lambda
Chi Alpha house, Mrs. Lessie
Gewin; Kappa Sigma house, Mrs.
Gulley Simpson; Phi Kappa Tau
house, Mrs. Grace Walker; Pi
Kappa Phi house, Mrs. W. H.
Gregory; Alpha Lambda Tau
house, Mrs. E. M. Langford; Su­san
Smith Cottage, Miss Audrey
Wilson, student supervisor.
Meals At ALT House
Women students living at Au­burn
Hall will have their meals
directly across the street, at the
former Alpha Lambda T au
house, now a college girls' dorm­itory.
Mrs. E. M. Langford will
be the resident dietitian.
From 9:15 to 11 p. m. on week-nights
will be enforced quiet
period for. studying in all hous­es.
All freshmen and sophomore
women must be in their houses
by 9:15, with the exceptions that
freshmen women may stay out
until 11 p. m. on Saturday and
Sunday nights, and sophomore
women may stay out until 11 on
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
nights. Those new regulations
have been in effect during the
summer quarter and have proved
very satisfactory, according to
Mrs. Marion W. Spidle, Dean of
Women.
Entertainment As Usual
Fraternity, sorority, and cam­pus-
wide dances will be held as
in other years, under the direc­tion
of the Interfrat'ernity Coun­cil
and Social Life Committee.
Saturday night dances of students
and servicemen will be held on
the street area back of Samford
Hall as long as weather permits
and after that in Alumni Gymna­sium.
Among other regular social
events will be the "step sings"
in Library Grove on Wednesday
night. The Student Center, with
Mrs. Rena H. Jolly as hostess,
will be open every evening from
7 to 10. There students and serv­ice
men get together, for dancing
games, and music. A canteen
serving light, home-made re­freshments,
will be opened there
soon after school starts by the in­stitutional
management class of
the School of Home Economics.
Social Center
At Smith Hall
Is Open To All
Has Lounging Rooms,
Offices Of Staff,
Home Ec. Laboratory
Because of the great increase
in the enrollment of women stu­dents
at Alabama Polytechnic
Institute this fall, Smith Hall has
been converted into a women's
social center. The attractive new
center will serve the same pur­pose
as the former, one in the
Quadrangle which is now head­quarters
for the AST units at
Auburn. The lounge and officers
in Smith Hall are open to all
women students, their relatives,
and friends. It is headquarters
for group teas and club meetings.
Mrs. Marion Spidle, Dean of
Women, has offices at the south
entrance of the first floor.
Mrs. Bertha B. Hull, hostess
and secretary, whose office is
also located at the south en­trance,
is in charge of room as­signment.
The director of resident halls,
Miss Frances Schoonmaker, is on
the second floor. She helps stu­dents
with their housekeeping
problems.
A new home economics labo­ratory
has been furnished on the
second floor of Smith Hall. Wom­en
students will find there staff
offices, reference rooms, and a
laboratory which has been new­ly
decorated, with floors sanded
and finished.
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Freshmen During Orientation Week
Bicycling Is One Solution
For"WhatToDo" Problem
Mother Necessity's Brainchild Produces
War-Time Means For Using Excess Energy
By Kitty Finegan
What to do on a date in Auburn? This is one question
everyone faces each week end, quiz or no quiz. Taking into
consideration that you have already seen the local movie,
had a coke at the drug store, danced to the rockola at Student
Center, there is nothing else to do with the one or two hours
before the eleven o'clock cur-
Tryouts For Play
Try-outs for "Penny Wise," the
fall production of the Auburn
Players, will be held at 7:30
p. m., Tuesday, September 14. All
students who are interested are
urged to try out. Those who
would like to do stage work are
also invited to come to the Y
Hut Tuesday night.
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stopped by organized force when
she moved into Manchuria, if
Italy had been repelled by
organized force when she start­ed
"to invade Ethopia, if Germany
had been turned back in the be­ginning
of her aggression by a
well-organized force, the whole
world would not now be engulfed
in war."
War Machine Can Be Stalled
But there are also other means,
besides the use of military force,
for forestalling aggression, the
senator pointed out. "We know
now there are many things that
can be done to prevent an ag­gressor
nation from making war,"
he said. "Deny such a nation
steel, aluminum, and oil and you
will stall its war machine."
The senator was pessimistic as
to the alternative to Internation­al
organization and a planned
peace. "If the United States does
not meet its responsibilities and
play its part in the building of
an orderly world," he declared,
"our sons will again fight and
die in the welter and blood of
other fields."
BUY WAR BONDS
AND STAMPS
Freshmen at Auburn were di-videde
into 14 groups for the
three-day orientation p e r i od
which began September 6.
The first group was in the
School of Agriculture for students
taking agriculture, agricultural
administration, agricultural en­gineering,
and ornamental horti­culture.
Prof. F. E. Guyton, was
faculty advisor and Clark M.
Hereford, Gurley, was student as­sistant
in orientation.
All students in the School of
Architecture and Allied Arts
were in group 2 with Prof. Al­fred
Edwards, adviser, and Pvt.
Harry Lowe, Opelika, assistant.
Students in the School of
Chemistry, Chemical Engineer­ing,
and Laboratory Technique
were in group 3 with Prof. Glenn
Schrader, advisor, and John Eliot
Brish, Birmingham, assistant.
Group 4 was made up of all
students registering in the School
of Pharmacy. Prof. George Har-greaves
was advisor and Cecil
Price, Louisville, served as assis­tant.
All students in education were
in group 5. Included in this group
are those taking courses in agri­cultural
education, education, and
home economics education with
Prof. Rebecca Pate, advisor, and
Durwood Tyler, Clio, assistant.
Students taking any engineer­ing
course except agricultural
engineering were in groups 6 to
9. Those students in civil engi­neering,
industrial engineering,
and textile engineering, were in
group 6. Prof. W. M. Honour
served as advisor, and James
Kelly, Monroeville, was assis­tant.
Students in electrical engi­neering
were in group 7 with
Prof. G. H. Carlovitz, advisor,
and Harry Binford, Birmingham,
assistant.
Students in mechanical engi­neering
were in group 8. Prof.
R. C. Snook was advisor, and
William Maples, Huntsville, as­sistant.
Group 9 was* composed of
students in aeronautical engi­neering
and aeronautical admin­istration
with Prof. James D. Mc-
Clung, advisor, and C. Brown,
Flomaton, assistant.
In the School of Home Econom-ics
and Nursing Science, stu­dents
were in group 10. Prof.
Thelma Graves was advisor, and
Marjorie Prince, Greenville, Fla.,
assistant.
In the School of Science and
Literature, students in business
administration, industrial man­agement,
science and literature,
physics, agriculture and banking,
were in group 11 with Prof. I. B.
Gritz, advisor and Henry Green.
Atlanta, and Pvt. William Buck
Taylor, Mobile, as assistants.
Students in pre-dentistry, pre-medicine,
and pre-law were in
group 12. Prof. John W. Roe was
advisor.
Students in secretarial train­ing
were in group 13. Prof. Sarah
Frances Blackmon served as ad­visor,
and Mildred Hansford, Sy­camore,
Ga., as assistint.
Pre-veterinary medicine stu­dents
were in group 14. Prof.
Richard Bjurberg was advisor
and Pvt. Carl Sellars, Mebane,
N. C, was assistant.
WELCOME TO AUBURN AND API
The House of Burton wishes to extend a cordial
welcome to both New and Regular Students. We are
aware that War Time educations must be streamlined
and we have done and are doing everything to keep in
step with such a program for your convenience.
It has been our pleasure to serve students since 1878
and we are here to serve you. We wish to be friends
and this is our special invitation to you to come in and
make yourself known. Your problems are our problems
and we wish to share them with you.
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ROTC
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mand much sooner than they did
under peacetime organization.
ROTC members will drill twice
a week, on Monday - afternoons
and Saturday mornings. They
will have two class hours weekly
in military science and tactics,
and will have four hours a week
of physical education. For their
military training they receive
two credit hours per quarter.
Maj. J. M. Sparks, Jr., is the
new senior instructor for the
ROTC, replacing Col. O. I. Gates,
now commandant at Georgia
Tech. x
Growing of drug plants has be­come
highly important since war
has cut off many former sources
of supply. Belladonna, henbane,
stramonium, digitalis, and ergot
are among the more important
home-grown drug plants.
V J Edney Assumes
Duties As Instructor
In Physical Training
V J Edney will take over his
duties as instructor in the de­partment
of physical education
next week with the beginning of
the new Fall term, API officials
announced.
Edney comes to Auburn from
Georgetown, Ky., where he was
athletic director and basketball
coach. His basketball team last
season was a strong contender in
the Kentucky intercollegiate ath­letic
conference, it is said.
A native of Hendersonville,
Ky., he received his AB degree
from the Georgetown University
and his M. A. degree from the
University of Kentucky. He was
director of physical education at
the Newport High School for one
year and director of athletics and
physical education at the Simon
Kenton School, Independence,
Ky., for three years.
At Auburn, Edney will take
part in the army training pro­gram
in a civilian capacity. He is
the second athletic director and
coach Georgetown lost to Auburn
in the past year. Robert K. Evans
came to Auburn from George­town
as a member of the physi­cal
education department anfi
since has become head basket­ball
coach.
few.
Plenty of blame has always
been placed on old Mother Ne­cessity
so her child, Invention,
comes to the rescue of the be­wildered
college student. Since
metal, rubber and certain forms
of energy have been rationed,
Necessity produces the bicycle,
long before used to make that 8
o'clock class by 8:30.
Since we have taken into con­sideration
that you have a bi­cycle—
or better still two bicycles
so that she can get her share of
the work—the next thing is to
to find an appropriate road on
which to ride.
Long rumored to be "uncer­tain"
drivers in no uncertain
terms it would be advisable to
select a long, wide road, prefer­ably
with no bumps, for your
date to peddle on. In this way
you will give her plenty of time
to change her mind as to which
way she wants to go, and then
change it back again and still be
on the reasonably safe side.
By this time your two hours
should have been used up and it
will be time to go home. If you
were in unusually good spirits
before you took up cycling you
probably aren't by now and if
you attended 4 o'clock PE you
are probably in lower spirits
than ever. Still it's a good habit
to form and after all everyone is
doing it so why be a drip?
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Navy Cadet Dining Hall
Gets Perfect Rating
On Recent Inspection
Miss Margaret Dykes, dietitian
of the naval cadet's dining hall,
was recently given a 4.0 rating
for cleanliness and efficiency
when Lt. Comm. Harris, senior
medical officer from Atlanta
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dining hall. Miss Dykes graduat­ed
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Male and female models are
neded for classes in figure
drawing in the School of Ar­chitecture
and Applied Art.
Any normal healthy person
will make a good model. Pos­ing
is done in bathing suits
and street clothes.
The person applying should
have two free consecutive
hours between nine and twelve
a. m. The pay is 40c an hour.
Those interested call by the Ap­plied
Art Office, 205 Archiiec-tecture
Building. Anyone is
eligible whether student or not.
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'BATAAN'
One of Robert Taylor's Best
Pictures.
Also
Latest War News and
Superman in "Jungle Drums'
Saturday, Sept. 11
Double Feature Program
No. 1
'CALLING WILD
BILL ELLIOTT'
starring
BILL ELLIOTT
and strong supporting cast
No. 2
'BOSS OF BIG
TOWN'
An expose of shameless racket
starring
JOHN LITEL
FLORENCE RICE
Also
"Serial. "Secret Code" No. 5
Cartoon. "Corney Concerto"
Sunday and Monday
Sept. 12 and 13
'CLAUDIA'
with
DOROTHY McGUIRE
ROBERT YOUNG
JEAN HOWARD
Also
Latest War News
Cartoon, "The Boy and the
Wolf"
Tuesday, Sept. 14
Double Feature Program
No. 1
'ALL BY
MYSELF'
with
ROSEMARY LANE
PATRIC KNOWLES
EVELYN ANKERS
No. 2
'THE KID RIDES
AGAIN'
with
BUSTER CRABBE
Added
Pete Smith's "Dog House"
Wed., Sept. 15
'PRESENTING
LILY MARS'
with
JUDY GARLAND
VAN HEFLIN
A Bundle of Screen Joy for
You and Your Gal.
Also
Travel, "Mighty Niagara"
and Popeye