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» • WAR DECLARED! (ON EXAMS) Thz PLundmatv ANNUAL HANGOVER ISSUE 'TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRITa VOLUME LXV "ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1942 NUMBER 28 REGISTRATION FOR SECONDTERMOPENS Upperclassmen To Register Monday, Freshmen Jan. 19 Students may begin next Monday morning to register and pay their fees for the new semester. These fees may be paid in the cashier's office on the first floor Samford. All upperclassmen (Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors, and Fifth-Year Students) will begin next Monday registering and paying their fees and must have completed this part of it by noon of the 17th of January. Freshmen will begin their registration on the 19th of January and continue until noon on the 24th of January. Mr. Charles Edwards urged that all students make the necessary arrangements for the payment of their fees during the prescribed dates shown above. Exceptions to these rules will be made by the Deans of the particular schools where the occasion arises. Mr. Edwards also said the students would report to their classes at 8:00 a. m., Monday, Jan. 26. Absences will count from the first class meeting. For registration after Jan. 24 (noon), a surcharge of $3.00 will be made for the first day and an additional $1.00 per day to a maximum of $5.00. Deferred Duty For Students in Navy New Ruling Makes Allowance For Course Completion The Plainsman has received the following letter from the registrar's office concerning new requirements for enlistment in the United States Navy which make it possible for college students to enlist in the navy without being called for immediate duty: "Editor of the Plainsman: "We shall appreciate your bringing to the attention of the student body the following paragraphs from a letter which we have received from the United States Navy Recruiting Station at Birmingham, Alabama. " 'By recent ruling of the Navy Department those students of the senior and junior classes in college may enlist in the Navy in Class V-7 (which requires a college degree) and will not be called for training as deck officers until after graduation. " 'Likewise, those students in the junior and senior classes who enlist in Class V-5 (which requires two years of college) may have their calls to training as aviation cadets deferred until the end of the current scholastic term. Sophomores may also enlist in V-5 and be deferred until the end of the current term provided the Registrar states in writing that their marks show every reasonable expectancy that they will have the required credits at the end of such term.' Sincerely yours, Chas. W. Edwards Registrar" Semester Examinations Begin Jan. 15 Last Tests Scheduled For Thursday, Jan. 22 1942 Pays Call to Plainsman Office Last Week . . . in Person Lee County Tops Red Cross Quota; Students Praised Lee County's Emergency Red Cross Drive, in which Auburn students took a major part, was successful to the extent of raising $5,000, which was $750 over its quota. Auburn students, according to the last report, raised $1,026, which was $26 over the quota of $1,000 which they voluntarily set for themselves. "In announcing the results" of the drive, stated the Lee County Bulletin last week, "Prof. Burke, Mr. Lee, and Prof. Eaton praised especially the Auburn students." The Red Cross Drive, which was instituted as an emergency war measure to raise $50,000,000 by President Roosevelt, came shortly after the annual Red Cross Roll Call this fall. Dr. L. N. Duncan, in lauding the response of the people of Lee County toward the drive, stated: "The excellent response of the people of Lee County to the appeal of President Roosevelt through the American Red Cross for war funds has been unusually satisfactory. Almost everywhere people volunteered their contributions without solicitation. Especially were we happy with the contribution of our fine student body which over-subscribed its quota of $1,000." The student fund of $1,026 was raised in a two-day whirlwind campaign. Student representatives from various organizations met on Sunday afternoon of the week of the drive^ and set the quota. The next day a special edition of The Plainsman announced plans for the drive. By Wednesday of that week, the quota had been raised and Warns He Won't Be a Pleasant Twelve Months By HERBERT MARTIN No cherub with an angelic smile, but a fearsome midget with an unpleasant scowl, young 1942, in person, dropped by the Plainsman office last week after a brief stop at the editorial desk of the Montgomery Advertiser. He was dressed in faded khaki diapers, with a two-fer cigar drooping from the corner of his Ned Sparks mouth, and he had a sawed-off shotgun slung across his back. He stated that he had a few words for publication, and perched on the corner of the desk in the place usually reserved for the editor's feet. "I ain't goin' to be no cherful year," he warned. "I'm goin' to be a year of toimerl an' strife." He expectorated, knocking a hole in the cement floor inches beyond the overflowing waste-basket. "I'm goin' to be ruff an' tuff, an' youse guys ain't goin' to like me none atall. I'm goin' to decrease the poperlashun, an' kill off a lotta good fellas, but I got a job to do, an' I'm goin' to^do it." "It's goin' to be bad, an' I didn't have no room to bring along any fun, but I've got what I need." "I'm goin' to be bad ever'whar, but worse over there than over here. I'm on yore side, on the side of the folks over here. I'm with you an' I'm goin' to do a lot for you, but youse guys has got to do a lot for yoreselfs." He swaggered to the door, turned, and, surprisingly, winked. "An' some day you are goin' to say I wasn't such a bad guy after all!" surpassed. Student leaders in charge of the drive expressed their appreciation for the enthusiasm shown by the contributors. EXAMINATION SCHEDULE NOTE: Examinations in subjects which meet only once a week and laboratory classes which cannot reasonably conform to the following schedule will be held at the last period scheduled for the section prior to January 15, unless the examination is officially scheduled. A.M. Examinations Begin 8:30 P.M. Examinations Begin 1:30 Thursday, January 15, A.M. 4th Hour classes, scheduled 11-12 Tuesday-Thursday, 4 p.m. 7th Hour classes, scheduled 3-4 MTWThF, MWF, or MF Thursday, January 15, P.M. 7th Hour classes, scheduled 3-4 TTh Also all sections of Economics 251, 151, and 255 Chemistry 101-3 (4:30 P.M.) Friday, January 16, A.M. 1st Hour classes, scheduled 8-9 MWF, MW, MTWThF, or MF Friday, January 16, P.M. 1st Hour classes, scheduled 8-9 TThS, TTh, ThS, or TThF Saturday, January 17, A.M. 2nd Hour classes, scheduled 9-10 MWF, MW, MTWThF, or MF Saturday, January 17, P.M. 2nd Hour classes, scheduled 9-10 TThS, ThS, TTh, or TThF Monday, January 19, A.M. 3rd Hour classes, scheduled 10-11 MWF, MW, MTWThF, or MF Monday, January 19, P.M. 3rd Hour classes, scheduled 10-11 TThS, ThS, TTh, or TThF Tuesday, January 20, A.M. 4th Hour classes, scheduled 11-12 MWF, MW, MTWThF, or MF Tuesday, January 20, P.M. All 6th Hour classes, scheduled 2-3 Wednesday, January 21, A.M. 5th Hour classes, scheduled 1-2, MWF, MW, MTWThF, or MF Wednesday, January 21, P.M. 5th Hour classes, scheduled 1-2, TThS, ThS, TTh, or TThF Thursday, January 8, and Tuesday, January 13 7 p. m., Current Events Saturday, January 10, 1:30 P.M. Physics Laboratory 207 Wednesday, January 14, 4 P.M. English A, 101, 101S, and 102 Thursday, January 22, 8 A.M. Classes which meet 4-5 MWF, TTh, and MF Thursday, January 22, 1:30 P.M. Conflicts and subjects not scheduled elsewhere. Laboratory, One Hour Courses' Exams Are Scheduled for Last Meeting of Class Final examinations for the semester will officially begin Thursday of next week, January 15, according to an announcement made yesterday by Mr. Charles Edwards, Registrar. Examinations in one hour courses, and in laboratory sections which cannot reasonably conform to the exam schedule will be held at the last meeting of the class or lab section before January 15. Staff of "Alabama Farmer" For 1941-42 isAnnouncedbyAgClub B. B. Williamson, John Reid Head Staff for Year The 1941-42 staff of the Alabama Farmer, monthly magazine published by members of the Agricultural Club of API, has been announced,, with Bryon B. Williamson, Jr., of Pine Apple, as editor-in-chief, John Alexander Reid, of Montevallo, as business manager, and Pete B. Turnham, of Abanda, as associate business manager. Managing editor of the student publication, which is one of the three on the Auburn campus, is Francis S. McCain, of Ashland, and associate editors are Horace O. White, Ashland; James E. Dukes, Atmore; Aubrey Pettis, Fayette; Charles I. Ayton, Bayou La Batre; and Sam Tisdale, Hat-tiesburg, Miss. Charles H. Johnson, of Cross-ville, is advertising manager, and Dewitt Alsobrook, of Cusseta, is his assistant. Troy O. Brumley, of Hamilton, is circulation manager, James W. Morgan, Albert-ville, local circulation manager, and Thomas H. Bullington, of Athens, is assistant business manager. The board of control for the monthly magazine includes Jack Richard Snow, Jasper; Ralph Lanier Davis, Kennedy; and Troy O. Brumley, Hamilton. Members of the news staff are Luther T. Lowery, Georgiana; James M. Barton, Ralph; Marvin M. Smith, Cullman; B. M. Mc- Kinney, Belgreen; Joseph H. Yeager, Cullman; James Dur-wood Tyler, Clio; Cecil H. Eller, Bangor; Robert C. Horn, Samson; John Thomas Cope, Inverness; E. T. York, Jr., Valley Head; Ralph L. Davis, Kennedy; Robert W. Dunaway, Orrville; John Aaron Rogers, Springville; Perry A. Dunn, Deatsville; James Miller Smith, Bay Minette; Thomas W. Underwood, Summerdale; George Page, Tanner; Alphus G. Driggers, Andalusia; Donald L. Kelley, Sylacauga; Robert Carroll Adamson, Alexander City. Assistants on the business staff are William Wayne Nordan, Abbeville; Chalmers Bryant, Dozier; John Tillman Bryant, Clayton; Harvey Simpson Gordon, Jr., Greenville; Vernon Perry, Boaz; Norris Watson, Muscadine; James A. Robinson, Veto. IMPORTANT MEETING OF "A" CLUB CALLED TONIGHT There will be a very important meeting of the "A" Club tonight at 8:00 P. M. in Ross Chemical. All members are requested by the president, Tommy Mastin, to attend. During the regularly scheduled examination period, which will last until January 22, two exams will be held each day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Morning exams will begin at 8:30 and afternoon exams at 1:30. Classes for the second semester will begin on Monday, January 26. Mr. Edwards stated that a final examination will be given in all subjects and that the official examination schedule given below will be adhered to by all instructors. Changes from this schedule will be made only with the consent of the Executive Council. Mr. Edwards also announced that seniors and juniors of draft age have an opportunity to finish their college careers, and that the sophomores will have a chance to finish two years of their work. Mr. Edwards received his information from the United States Recruiting Station in Birmingham. Juniors and seniors may enlist in the Navy in class V-7 (which requires a college degree) and will not be called until they have completed their four years of college work. Sophomo/res, juniors, and seniors may also enlist in class V-5 (which requires two years of college) and not be called before the end of the current scholastic term. Sophomores may do this only if they have a note from the Registrar stating that his grades are high enough to give him the required credits at the end of the term. The examination schedule is given below: Thursday, Jan. 8: C u r r e nt Events, 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 13: C u r r e nt Events, 7:00 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 10: Physics Lab. 207, 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 14: English A, 101, 101S, and 102, 4:00 p. m. Thursday, Jan. 15: In the morning, all 7th hour classes, scheduled 3-4 MTWThF, MWF or MF. In the afternoon, all 7th hour classes, 3-4 TTh. Also, all sections of economics 251, 151, and 255. And, Chemistry 101-3 at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 16: In the morning all 1st hour classes 8-9, scheduled MWF, MW, MTThF, or MF. In the afternoon, all 1st hour classes 8-9, scheduled TThs, Ths, or TThF. Saturday, Jan. 17: In the morning all 2nd hour classes, 9-10, scheduled MWF, MW, MTWThF, (Continued on page 4) Alabama Water Color Paintings on Exhibit Auburn Represented By Work of Staples, Marino-Merlo The School of Architecture and Allied Arts is showing paintings by outstanding Alabama water colorists during this week. Auburn is represented by the work of two members of the Applied Art faculty, Joseph Marino- Merlo, and Roy H. Staples. Karl Wolfe and Mildred Nun-gester, also included, will be remembered from previous exhibits this . semester. Dawn Kennedy and Charles Le Clair, heads respectively of the art departments of Alabama College and the University contributed to the exhibit as well as Virginia Barnes of Montevallo, Jessica Farnham, Belle Comer and Martha Henderson Goings of Birmingham. "The artists included are from all over the State and the work compares favorably with the best work from other parts of the country," states Dawn S. Kennedy, President of the Alabama Water Color Society. The paintings come to Auburn highly recommended from the Public Library in Mobile where they were shown in November under the auspices of the Art Project of the W. P. A. and from the December exhibit of the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition hall is open daily from 8-12 and 1-4; Saturdays 8-12. Everyone is cordially invited to come in and see the work of these Alabama water color painters. Auburn's Fire Chief Pfaff Volunteers For Naval Reserve Will Leave On Thursday As Petty Officer Fire and water may be classed as opposites, but they seem to be one and the same to Auburn Fire Chief Ross Pfaff, who has volunteered for active duty with the United States Naval Reserve. Chief Pfaff could not be reached to verify facts about his enlistment, but information in this article was secured from some of his assistants at the fire station. He will leave on Thursday of this week, and will be rated initially as a specialist mechanic with rank of Petty Officer, Second Class, according to this information. Pfaff has been chief of the Au- \ burn Fire Department since about 1936, and has been instrumental in building the department to its present high standing of efficiency. While in Auburn he has also been employed in the projection room at the Tiger Theater, and has acquired quite a reputation as a mechanic. Hearing of his enlistment, one Auburnite remarked, "Give him a hammer and a couple of nails and Ross Pfaff could build a battleship!" He has been active in amateur motor boat racing, and has won several trophies with boats which he built himself. It's quite a jump from fire-fighting and fresh-water boating to mingling with the salts, but his Auburn friends are confident that it will be just another successful job for Chief Pfaff. Page Two THE P L A I N S M AN January 6, 1942 Paper for the White Shed-and Defense In the middle of the College Street center section, just across from the campus, a white shed has made its appearance since school closed for the holidays. This shed was erected for the purpose of giving the citizens of Auburn an opportunity to contribute paper for National Defense purposes. Why it was located just across from the campus, we don't know. But its existence there offers a challenge for students of Auburn to help in this paper campaign. As we -^understand it, practically any kind of paper is acceptable in this collection. Old newspapers, old magazines, classroom notepaper, and dozens of other types of paper, used regularly by college students, could be given for National Defense. This paper campaign might be a good' project for one of Auburn's project»hunt-ing honor societies. And The Plainsman will be glad to contribute quite a bit of paper to any such move, so drop around, if you want to do your bit for National Defense! Toward Better Auburn-Alabama Relations In the pre-Christmas issue of The Plainsman there appeared an advertisement— a rather large one—which read "To the Students of The Alabama Polytechnic Institute. It is our most sincere wish that the holiday season be a pleasant one for you. All good wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Bright New Year from the students of The University of Alabama." Comments on this campus concerning that advertisement were many and varied. Some students wanted to know if we "faked it". Some wondered if we "swapped out" on advertisement of similar import. Some just said, "Say, that was swell of them, wasn't it?" The latter comment expressed our own feeling in the matter. The ad wasn't "faked". We didn't "swap out" with the Crimson-White in advertising. They just beat us to the draw on a good lick—and did something that Auburn might have done, had Auburn's student governing body thought of it before the University's did. — Along with the copy for that advertising, The Plainsman received a letter, written by a student government official at the University, stating a felt need for a better spirit of cooperation between the students of the two schools, and asking us to print their ad, and bill their student association "at regular rates". Which expression of good-fellowship made us feel a bit qualmish because of certain previous remarks about the students of the University, and their school. Alabama's students—or at least half of them—come from the towns and cities of this state. So do Auburn's students. Practically every Auburn student has some close friend in school at the University. So why shouldn't there be a "spirit of cooperation between the students of the two schools?" Its a Risk Not to Come Back to College! The latest issue of "The Baldwin Times", and possibly of other weekly newspapers in the state, carries a boxed notice to college students, stating that the local draft board has declared that students who return to college for the second semester of this year do so at "their own risk". We don't feel that way about it. We think the statement might have read: "Students who do not return to college for the second semester do so at their own risk". We've said before, and we'll say, over and over again, that now, if never before, college students need to continue their education—to get as much out of their classwork as they possible can. Suppose they stay at home next semester, and then aren't called into the service. They've missed a half-year of college education which they may not ever again be able to have. And that half-year of college training might make the difference between unemployment and a good job— after the war. We realize that it is the local draft boards' "duty" to warn college students that they may be called into service next semester, but perhaps the boards don't realize that a student can get quite a bit of knowledge which might be helpful in war or in peace, from even one month more of college training. We think the results are worth the risk. The Need for a Student Defense Council The latest "paper" drive in Auburn adds one more campaign to the list of "defense drives" which has been steadily growing since the outbreak of the war. These drives, and there will be more of them, ' will call for a certain definite amount of cooperation by students. If any two of them were to occur simultaneously, and involved donations of money particularly, there might result a natural confusion which would tend to cause a feeling of animosity toward their backers —even when they are so vital. Then too, Auburn's student body, although as yet it hasn't exhibited much of a mass idea of "jining up", might decide that en masse it wanted to go into Uncle Sam's service. Which would indeed be disastrous for Auburn. In view of these facts, and in view of the establishment of similar organizations on other campuses, it is our opinion that Auburn has need for a Student Defense Council, of some kind or other, to coordinate the efforts of students of Auburn so as" to best develop their usefulness. . Such a group might tie student defense efforts together, bring about a unity of action, and give students the feeling that they are doing something—right here in Auburn—for their country. This something might serve as a substitute for active participation in the war, until Uncle Sam actually calls our students. Hw PLairhimarL Published semi-weekly by the Students of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. Editorial and Business Office on Tichenor Avenue. ROBERT C. ANDERSON, Editor-in-Chief JAMES L. ROUSE, Business Manager WILLARD HAYES Managing Editor JOHN PIERCE Sports Editor HERBERT MARTIN Associate Editor GEORGE HEARD News Editor JOE C. GANDY Advertising Mgr. HAM WILSON WOODIE HUBBARD Assistant Advertising Managers ESTELLE GAINES Society Editor NEWS STAFF John Scott, Jr. David Allen Jimmy Pasteur Chalmers Bryant Milton Kay Bill Martin Beverly Kilian Buck Taylor ALBERT SCROGGINS Circulation Mgr. ALFRED GREEN Office Mgr. JIM McCRORY Collections Mgr. Advertising and Collections Assistants Fred Allison Jack Berry Reuben Burch Bobby Hails Luther Taylor John Spencer Knud Nielsen Gladys Burbage Lawrence Cottle Member ftssociciled Golle&ide Presv Distributor of Golle6iate Di6est REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative A2.0 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK, N. Y. CHICAGO ' BOSTON ' Los ANGELES - SAN FRANCISCO PI ains Talk By HERBERT MARTIN Dili tor's note: The opinions expressed in this column are those of the writer and are not to be construed as t h e editorial policies of this paper. Auburn is glad to have you back. It's been kinda lonesome. SPRIS' o&Mpr THE AVERAGE LIFE OF A FOOTBALL COACH AT ANY ONE INSTITUTION IS 5 YEARS/ AVERAGE COACHING CAREER IS 10. To the Students Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates by mail: $2.50 per year, $1.50 per semester. Back Again! So after sixteen days of wishing that school wouldn't start again, here we are back in Auburn—and as usual, glad to be here. It's always that way, though, after about the first two months of one's freshman year. When you come to Auburn, and get to know Auburn, then, although you're always ready to leave the place, you're always more than ready to come back—usually by the next day. We hang around down here and complain that there's nothing to do. Then we go home and find out what "nothing to do" really means. There's just something about this place. Our New Year's Resolutions f And we're going to keep these: To continue trying to do what we've tried to do all along— make The Plainsman your newspaper. To present, in the columns of The Plainsman some of that which you want to read, and some of that which you ought to read, and to try to present that which you ought to read in such a manner as to make' you want to read it. To publish as much as we can of the material which you bring to our office, and phone in to our office, to be published. To be fair to you, and to your viewpoint, in our editorial columns. To present the past and coming events of most importance and interest to you as students in Auburn. And to foster the Auburn Spirit. Major Uncertainties of the Coming Year . . . Whether or not, and when, you'll be in the army. Whether or not, and when, you'll pass the courses you're taking. Whether or not, and when, Auburn's varying clocks and bells will be regulated and standardized. Whether or not, and when, The Glomerata will make its vaguely annual appearance on the campus. Whether or not, and when, our usual rainy season will begin and end. Whether or not, and when, Auburn professors will stop making huge assignments for Monday classes. Whether or not, and when, you'll get this week's laundry back. How About a Literary Magazine Auburn has a yearbook—and a good one. Auburn has an Agricultural magazine—and a good one. Auburn has a newspaper. Auburn lias a faculty magazine. Auburn has its quota of official bulletins. Auburn has all sorts of printed publications—except one. Auburn has no literary magazine. Most Auburn students may not know this, but one of the most "up and coming" young writers of the South is one of the Faculty of our English Department. He's not the only faculty member whose students turn out page after page of literary matter. There are some promising writers of fictional and cultural articles in Auburn. These writers are producing a wealth of material throughout each year, most of which goes to waste, as far as publication is concerned. Auburn students like to read. Why shouldn't they be given the opportunity of reading the literary efforts of their own fellow-students? The Essence of Patriotism Several persons, all of whom were college students during the last war, have recently expressed to us their laments about the lack of patriotism as displayed by students during this war. They suppose that we should wave flags, and shout about the glory of death for our country, and hang effigies of Hitler, Mussolini, and whoever the Japanese big boy is, from the tower of Samford and other places. They think we aren't embued with the spirit of patriotism, and the realization that our country is in war. To those persons we have said that there is no lack of patriotism, just the natural solemnity of our generation which has come from a lifetime of hearing of the evils of war, the gore, rather than the glory, of it, the seriousness rather than the excitement of it. The generation which preceded the one which fought the last war knew nothing of the horrors of the submarine, air and tank warfare, chemical warfare, and so forth. All of our lives we've heard, seen, and read about these things. Naturally we aren't as openly anxious to get into it. But as far as lacking patriotism is concerned, we don't. Two stories, reportedly true, illustrate that point. Recently an RAF cadet, from Maxwell Field, visited Auburn. While talking to a group of Auburn boys, he said that he had heard that the United States was to add another stripe to its flag . . . a yellow one. Whereupon, one of the Auburnites proceeded to knock the hell out of him. The other Auburn students formed a ring around the two, while the Auburn boy protected, perhaps in the wrong way, the honor of his country. And then, on Monday, December 8, when President Roosevelt delivered his address to Congress, asking for a declaration of a state of war on Japan, a group of boys sat around the radio in a certain Auburn frat house. While they were quietly listening, one of their brothers came into the room, talking loudly, laughing, and "cutting up". So one of the listeners, without saying a word, stood up and let the noise-maker have a haymaker on the chin, which quieted him in a hurry. Have we no patriotism? As report of the activity around here during the holidays, this column should be blank as a frosh stare in an oral quiz. * * * Karrie says she felt like a pallbearer, the place wuz so dead. You could almost sense slow music and complimentary words in the air. * * * There was one dawg fight, but none of us knew either of the dawgs. * * * Once or twice we gathered all of the younger set together for a party, and all were seated in one room without difficulty. * * * There was a high school dance which lasted until just after one o'clock, but, of course, all of the college students had to leave at twelve. We understand that someone took names of Auburnites who attended the ten 'til two affair in B'ham, and that these students will be blacklisted from Auburn social affairs. * * * The radios were functioning, and the newspapers were delivered, but any other ressemblance to a town was purely coincidental, and not to be taken as an indication of civic status. * * * Four people were counted at once on College Street just after the Sunday show. * * * Late flash: Military authorities say it will be perfectly ok for us to let you in on this defense secret . . . we had quite some rain during the holidays. We are not allowed to tell you on just what days it fell, as this might be of assistance to enemy bombers, but we had it. An enemy aviator, however, had he been flying over this place, would have probably said, "Oh, what the hell," and buried himself in the rising sun. * * * Anyone with two tires or tubes in good condition for sale, rent, or give-away, is cordially invited to drop around to The Plainsman office or drop a card, care of this station. * * * We read that around half of the country's cars, at least, will be off the highways by spring, because of worn-out tires or other infirmity. Already cars are being limited for amusement purposes. We also read (what would you have done in Auburn) that indoor and parlor games and amusements would take the place of this gadding about over the countrysides. * * * Fraternities are asked to increase den and living room seating arrangements, and to pick up a few sets of dominoes and checkers, as well as more cards for playing bridge and other less respectable games. But suppose we make these arrangements find rainfall decreases and OPM says turn out the lights. Ain't it going to be fine! * * * Karrie, the Kampus Komic, tells this story of a man who wanted to buy a horse. "It seems," says the old gal, "that this feller went to a feller to purchase a domestic animal known as a horse. The feller with the horse says he has a fine beast, a swift and enduring runner, and easy to the saddle. "Well, the feller bought the' horse and started over to saddle his purchase. Said animal broke into a run, ran into the barn, and knocked himself flat. " 'You didn't tell me', said the buyer, 'that this hoss was blind'!" '"He ain't blind', the feller said, 'he just don't give a damn'!" 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. The U. S. has this past week started its first calendar year of war since 1918. The New Year's celebrations were in many cases carried on in much the same manner as usual, complete with firecrackers, all night parties, and soon - to - be - broken resolutions. But, there were many other cases where the celebrations had a different tone. The little fellow, "1942", was ushered in wearing something more substantial than the traditional three-cornered Hart, fechaffner, and Marx. This time he wore what many of us will soon be wearing—a uniform. The Americans who think that this is going to be an easy war "are wrong. We will know that war is something other than exciting reading matter in the morning headlines; we will join the air force for another reason than driving a convertible automobile; we will join the Navy with more in store for us than a world cruise and the annual maneuvers; rationing will be as familiar as a "War Eagle" at a pep meeting; and we will all of us be on the closest of terms with taxes so high that now we have little conception of them. But, even so, adding all these things to the casualty lists that will once again contain the names of Americans like ourselves—if not our very own—we all know that as certainly as another New Year will roll around, we will prevail. This may not be a "Happy New Year", it may not be a "Prosperous New Year", but it will be a VICTORIOUS NEW YEAR. V V V V V V During the holidays, while we were relaxing from our labors, there were millions of others just getting under way at theirs. They were the American, Dutch, Indian, Australian, and British fellows that are right now in that part of the world that the little chap with the over-grown molars thinks is exclusively his. Not only does he consider that half of the globe as his own backyard, but he wants to play there entirely by himself. He had a choice to make—he could Jet us play with him and be peaceful about it, or he could try to throw us out. Our statesmen cannot point out the error in this choice to our lemon-skinned opponent. They tried, but it didn't work. It is up to our armies to convince him of it. He struck the first blow, and it was a hard one, but it landed on our gloves. All Jap blows will do that. They can strike at us again and again, but they cannot strike at the source of our strength; our factories are too far away. They cannot hope to inflict such great losses of manpower that we will succumb; we out numbered the Japs when they first began fighting the Chinese, and the Chinese have taken a terrible toll. The change won't be so sudden, but before long the much - belittled "Chinaman's chance" will be a pretty good bet. v v v v v v The German Army has much to be thankful for in beer. Last fall when the British had word that Field Marshall Goering was visiting one of the invasion ports just across the channel from Britain, they decided to make a try at bagging him. Accordingly a small force of Commandos, the super-shock f o r c e of raiders trained for such jobs, stole across the channel and landed at that port. They w a l k e d quietly through the streets, strolled up to the portly Marshall's quarters and inquired if he were in. He was not, and the British after a little fracas were forced to leave. It was revealed later that Herr Goering was attending a beer party in his honor at another camp. Last week much the same thing occurred, only with different locale and prospective guest of honor. A group of Commando troopers landed on the coast of Libya behind the fleeing Axis forces and fought their way to the headquarters of General Rommel, commander of the German Afrika Korps. They took everyone there by surprise and searched through the whole place, but with no luck—soldier Rommel was attending a party and was not at home to greet his unexpected guests. January 6, 1942 THE P L A I N S M AN Page Three Wedding Bells Ring for Students And Former Students During Holiday Season Several Weddings Take Place Here Among the Auburn alumni and students who were married over the holidays were Teresa Ann Boyd and Roy Franklin Stinson. They were married on New Year's Day in the Auburn First Baptist Church. The groom was a member of Kappa Alpha social fraternity and Alpha Epsilon Delta, honorary pre-med fraternity, of which his bride was once president. Susan Mizelle Hare was married to Lieut. William Caffey Edington Saturday evening, December twenty-seventh in the Presbyterian Church in Auburn. The bride is the daughter of Dean C. L. Hare. She was a member of Kappa Delta sorority while the groom was an A. T. O. Before the holidays on December 12, Jack Becker married Edith McLellan of Lakeland, Fla. The ceremony was performed in Opelika. The groom is the social chairman of Kappa Alpha Order, and plans to continue his studies here. ~ Three Phi Delta Thetas were married during the holidays. In Huntsville Jack Yarbrough married Ada Bell Bullock; Gilmore Clifton Colyer took Elizabeth Schell to be his wife; and Dean Hannum's son, Wallace Hannum, married Frances Folmar, an Auburn student, in Luverne, Ala. Diamonds - Watches Jewelry and Giftware Cook Jewelry Co. Eason T. Cook Class '14 115 South Eighth Street Opelika, Ala. TODAY LAUREL & HARDY in "GREAT GUNS" also "We The People" Crime Dosen't Pay series Two Auburnites Selected For Training To Attend New Officers' Candidate School Pvt. Leo K. Shwarts of Montgomery, Ala., formerly a student of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, who is a trainee in the Field A r t i l l e r y Replacement Training Center at Fort Bragg, was selected from among hundreds of applicants to attend the special officer candidate training school at Fort Bragg, N. C, in the FARC. At the school Pvt. Shwarts met further competition in that only a certain quota of those who attend the school are picked to go on for further artillery officer training at the officers training school at Fort Sill, Okla-^ homa. His excellent ability and aptitude for military science and tactics won him a place on the list of those chosen to go to Fort Sill. Pvt- Shwarts' training during the past month while he attended the school in the FARC was of an intense nature and covered all phases of the duties of a commissioned officer. When he gets to Fort Sill he will take up where he left off and go into greater detail of the numerous functions required of an artillery officer. The preliminary training school was inaugurated at Fort Bragg back in August by Brig. General Edwin P. Parker, Jr., commander of the Field Artillery Replacement Training Center of Fort Bragg and is headed by "school principal" Lt. Colonel Robert O. Montgomery who was himself in 1914 a buck private in the Army of the United States. Pvt. Horry M. Trofford, of Bowling Green, Ky., an Auburn man, was also selected for officer training. WED. & THURS. More Enjoyment Funny Color Cartoon "Inki and The Lion" Highlights of all the BOWL GAMES in the NEWS TIGER LOST at Bus Station Sunday afternoon black handbag. Reward offered. Call 811-J. Home Economics Defense Classess Now in Progress Two Hundred Are Registered For Five Courses In order to train women for their place in the national emergency, the School of Home Economics has organized special defense courses in foods and nutrition, sewing, and first aid. About 200 women students registered for the five courses which are designed to meet the requirements of the national Red Cross. In the foods and nutrition unit will be three courses, nutrition refresher, taught by Miss Beatrice Finkelstein; elementary nutrition, taught by Mrs. Inez M. Schrader; and the canteen course, taught by Miss Dana Gatchell and Mrs. Stella Montgomery. Under the supervision of Miss Florence Davis, Prof. A. D. Burke, Prof. V. W. Lapp, Dr. A. H. Graham, and G. H. Coats, a group of 84 women will learn First Aid techniques. The Red Cross sewing is under the direction of Mrs. Dorothy Arnold,- Miss Lilly Spencer, and Miss Wathena Temple. The assignment, which calls for 955 yards of material, will include the following garments: 40 Toddlers packs, 1 woolen suit, 2 pairs of rompers, 2 woolen shirts, 2 sleepers, 1 sweater, 1 pair of mittens, 10 diapers. For children four, six, and 12 years of age the following clothing will be made: 100 girls woolen skirts, 50 girls wool dresses, and 100 boys outing shirts. Civil Service Examinations For Personnel Jobs Announced The United States Civil Service Commission has just announced examinations for two types of positions in the personnel field. The first' is for Junior Occupational Analyst, $2,000 a year, for the Federal Security Agency, and the second for Personnel Assistant, $2,600 to $3,800 a year, and Principal Personnel Clerk at $2,- 300 a year, for various Government agencies. Qualified people are urgently needed to fill Personnel Assistant jobs. Separate lists of eligibles will be set up for each grade of positions and in appropriate fields of experience. Eligibles are particularly needed in the fields of position classification and placement. Applicants must have had responsible experience in a regularly c o n s t i t u t e d personnel agency such as a government agency or personnel office of a large commercial or industrial firm. Provision is made for the utilization of college study for part of the experience and for the acceptance of applications from senior students who will finish the appropriate - college work prior to July 1, 1942. No written test will be given for these positions. Occupational Analysts observe jobs and identify them by U. S. Employment Service code structure. They prepare job analysis schedules and job order specifications. Three years of responsible experience in an employment office doing interviewing, placement, or job analysis is required of all applicants except those who have appropriate college study which they may substitute for two years of the experience. Applicants will be required to take a written test, part of which will be designed to test their knowledge of occupational fields. Persons trained in the field of personnel who are interested in Government service are urged to get copies of these announcements from the Commission's local representative at any first- or second-class post office or from the central office in Washington, D. C. All applications must be filed with the Washington office not later than January 15, 1942. Tiger Offers Passes in Contest Just Straighten Out the Mixed Legs Below Hey movie fans! Here is your chance to win twenty free passes to the Tiger Theatre and have a little fun besides. Cut-up Bob Hope, in the ad below, has mixed up the incomparable legs of some of those gorgeous Louisiana Lovelies who appear with him in the "Louisiana Purchase", the Paramount music, comedy, girl spectacle in Technicolor, which makes its bow at the Tiger Theatre, on Sunday and Monday. All you have to do to be one of the twenty prize winners is to cut out the pictures below. Cut the bodies as they appear above the panel and place them above the correct pair of legs. Paste them down when you have solved this problem and send your contest entry to Gus Coats, manager of the Tiger Theatre, by 10 a. m. Thursday morning. The first twenty fans whose entries are correct will be awarded passes for the Sunday and Monday showing of the picture. "Louisiana Purchase", which was produced by Buddy De Sylva and which has music by Irving Berlin played on Broadway for 58 weeks an.d is one of the big hits of the New York stage. The movie is said to be even funnier so, prize winner or not, you can't lose by seeing "Louisiana Purchase." In addition to Bob Hope and the Louisiana Lovelies, Vera Zo-rina, Victor Moore, Irene Bor-doni and a host of others share CM-M-M! TWSF LOUISIANA L0VM&1... PUT W£ \ RIG14T PAIR OF LiGSONWF RIGHT dFAUTYANV WIN TICH&TS [TO S££PARAMOUNTS TECMICOLOkED lOUWANA PURCHASE*/ honors in Paramount's brilliant comedy. Zorina, Moore, and Bor-doni also appeared in the stage production. "WEEK-END IN HAVANA" IS TIGER MID-WEEK FEATURE Tropical magic, catchy Cuban rhythms, warm blooded senori-tas, dark eyed romeos, are neatly combined in the story of the sing-sational" musical "Weekend in Havana" which will be shown Wednesday and Thursday at the Tiger Theatre. With Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, John Payne and Cesar Romero in the starring roles, the film is set in the capital city of our Latin-American neighbor and shows Havana with all its beauty in the naturalness of Technicolor. Alice portrays a New York salesgirl who has carefully budgeted herself for several years in order to treat herself to a Havana vacation. When her ship is caught on a reef, she refuses to sign a release to the shipping company until she has had—and enjoyed— pany's representative, JohnPaney her Havafta v a c a t i o n . The company's representative, John Payne, postpones his wedding to make sure she has a grand time. In a magnificent Havana night club, the exotic Carmen Miranda, who has captured the admiration of American film audiences in her previous screen appearances with her unusual songs and dances, does a spectacular new number with 200 feminine dancers—" The Nango." A funny color cartoon "Inki and The Lion" and the highlights of all the 3owl Games that were played New Year's Day are shown in the latest Paramount News, which rounds out this Wednesday and Thursday program at the Tiger. Coast of 8th Naval District Area Now Better Protected Five Bases Are Completed Since First of War The dawning new year of 1942 finds the great coastal area bordering the Eighth Naval District from the Florida Apalachicola to the Mexican line better prdtected from hostile attack than at any time in its history, records at Headquarters show today. "Beginning from scratch" on December 15, 1940, Captain T. A. Thomson, Jr., U.S.N., Acting District Commandant, and his staff of officers, have built up Naval activities and personnel until the Eighth District comprising the states of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, and Western Florida occupies a foremost place in national defense. Five formidable Naval Section Bases at Burrwood, Louisiana, Mobile, Alabama, Corpus Christi, Galveston and Sabine Pass, Texas, were rushed to completion since the declaration of war. Built at a cost of approximately $3,000,000, these bases are now fully manned and armed to supply and service the fleet of patrol vessels and district craft constituting the Eighth Naval District's Inshore Patrol. The Naval Air Station at Corpus Christi, acknowledged to be the world's largest, was commissioned last March, and is now graduating hundreds of finished Naval fliers every month. The sister Naval Aviation Training Station at Pensacola has been more than doubled in size during the past twelve months and also is turning out finished fliers in large numbers. As receiving depots for Corpus Christi and Pensacola, there are two Naval Reserve Aviation bases—one on Lake Pontchar-train in New Orleans and another near Dallas, Texas. Here young college men enlisting for commissions in the air wing of the Navy's forces are indoctrinated and receive preliminary training up to ten hours of solo flight. Of importance to the entire Mississippi Valley area is the rehabilitation of the New Orleans Naval Station at Algiers, which in recent months has become the training station for the Coast Guard and apprentice seamen enlisting in the Naval service. Upon completion, the New Orleans Naval Station will again assume its place among the foremost s h o r e establishments of the United States which it occupied during World War days. During the twelve months of 1941, several large shipyards along the Gulf Coast were reopened or constructed in New Orleans— Pensacola—Nashville, Mobile and Chickasaw, Ala., Biloxi and Pascagoula, Miss., and at Houston, Galveston, Seabrook, Rockport, Beaumont, Orange, Port Arthur, and Brownsville, all in Texas. In addition to the construction program, the Eighth Naval District Recruiting Services consist- FOR GOOD COAL PHONE 11 CONSUMERS COAL & FEED CO. ently have broken records for recruiting men in both the regular service and the Naval Reserve, with a total of approximately 4,533 in the entire district. Since the-war began Dec. 7, nearly 800 men joined the Navy for regular duties. At one time during the summer, four of the five cities in the country which topped all others for the largest number of recruits were within the Eighth District. A survey by the Bureau of Navigation in Washington in the late Fall showed that Birmingham, Alabama, was first of all the cities in the country in recruiting during the first nine months of 1941. The Eighth Naval District also topped all other districts in the United States in enlistments of college graduates in Class V-7 of the United States Naval Reserve which leads to a commission as Ensign with duties as deck or engineering officers in the fleet. Since last May, 1051 college graduates within the District have enlisted in Class V-7 of which 772 were for deck duties and 229 for commissions as engineers. Procurement of young college men as Naval aviation cadets has increased more than 100 per cent during the last six months of the year with New Orleans consistently supplying a large number of candidates for flying wings of gold. With the dawn of the new year, recruiting activities in the District are primarily aimed towards the procurement of thousands of men for the fleet and air, as well as hundreds of college men and college graduates for enlistment in V-5 and V-7 classes which lead to commissions. In an effort to obtain youths for these all-important deck and engineering duties, the limitations recently were lowered to permit the enlistment of men still in their sophomore, junior or senior years Former Auburn Students At Maxwell Field Four Birmingham Boys Now Enrolled At Training Center Four Birminghamians are enrolled as aviation cadets in the Air Corps Replacement Training Center at Maxwell Field, Ala., headquarters of the Southeast Air Corps Training Center. They are Charles Edwin King of 1407 33rd Street North; Donald Lewis McCullough of 4045 Mon-tevallo Road; Sell Wade South of 1724 33rd Street North, and Joseph David Turner of 637 Princeton Avenue. These men will soon be sent to primary schools in the southeast for the initial phase of their flight training. Upon the completion of courses in primary, basic and advanced schools, they will be awarded commissions as second lieutenants in the Army Air Forces. Cadet King, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alta Lamar King, attended the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. He is a member of Alpha Tau Omega. Cadet McCullough, son of Mr. and Mrs. George C. McCullough, attended the Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn. He was owner and operator of the Alabama Mineral Wool Company before he entered the Army. Cadet South, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. South, also attended Auburn where he was an advertising salesman for The Plainsman, college paper. Cadet Turner, also a former student at Auburn, was a teacher before he entered the service. of college. All men enlisted while yet in college will not be called to active duty until the completion of their regular courses of study. . - - - — -t <£&& BONING? THEN DROP BY BURTON'S FOR . . A Complete College Outline Series For Your Course. Prices From 75c to 1.25 You'll Be Straight With Your Work With This Guide. BURTON'S "Something New Every Day" WE USE SANITONE V. . 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Players picked by both clubs, in order of choosing, were: CHICAGO CARDINALS—Lach Duke, back; Cheatham, Auburn, back; Schwenk, Washington, back; Banonis, Detroit, center; Reinhard, California, tackle; Daniel, Texas, guard; Thornton, Santa Clara, guard; Renzel, Marquette, back; Wetterlund, Illinois Wesleyan, back; Ringer, Minnesota, end; Brycre, Marquette, tackle; Givler, Wake Forest, guard; Swink, Okla. A & M, tackle; Harshman, Pacific Lutheran, back; Arabian, St. Mary's (California), back; Crain, Texas, back; Suntheimer, North Carolina, center; Nelson, Alabama, back; Wallich, Missouri, tackle. WASHINGTON REDSKINS— Sanders, Texas, back; Deal, Auburn, back; Zeno, Holy Cross, guard; McCollum, Tulane, tackle; Fitch, Minnesota, end; Peters, Oregon State, back; Swiger, Duke, back; Goodyear, Marquette, back; De Mao, Duquesne, center; Ah-weesh, Duquesne, back; Kovatch, Notre Dame, end; DeCorrevont, Northwestern, back; Whited, Oklahoma? back; Chipman, Brigham Young, back; Watts, Appalachian St.," tackle; Stewart, Williamette, back; Timmons, Clemson, back; Croft, Ripon, tackle; Juzwik, Notre Dame, back; Coupee, Iowa, back. Auburn Rates Thirty-Three In Nation Final ratings for the 1941 football season place Auburn in position number 33 as adjudged by Paul B. Williamson, nationally known rating expert. Staying in the high forties during the majority of the season, the Plainsmen came fast in the three final games to finish comparatively high among the nation's elevens. Number one eleven is Texas University because of its impressive showings against some of the country's top teams. The tie of the Longhorns by Baylor and the defeat by TCU is ascribed to the injuries which kept five first string players out of the lineup on those two week-ends. Minnesota ranks second and Notre Dame third. First ranking teams, in order, are 1. Texas; 2. Minnesota; 3. Notre Dame; 4. Fordham; 5. Navy; 6. Missouri; 7. Michigan; 8. Pennsylvania; 9. Duquesne; 10 Mississippi State; 11. Oregon State; 12. Alabama; 13. Duke; 14. Texas A. & M; 15. Tennessee; 16. Vander-bilt; 17. Georgia; 18. Northwestern; 19. TCU; 20. Ohio State; 21. Ole Miss; 22. Cornell; 23. Harvard; 24. Washington State; 25. Oklahoma; 26. L.S.U.; 27 .Rice; 28. Stanford; 29. Tulane; 30. S.M.U.; 31. Oregon; 32. Santa Clara; 33. Auburn; 34. Washington U.; 35. Army. Rifle Team R. O. T. C. students interested in membership on the Rifle Team are requested to contact either Lt. Panell or Lt. Shumaker immediately, as record five begins this week. Six Montgomerians, Including Four Auburnites, at Maxwell Jones, Lapsley, Stewart, and Walker Enrolled Six Montgomerians, including the son of Governor Frank M. Dixon, are now enrolled as aviation cadets in the Air Corps Replacement Training Center at Maxwell Field, Ala. They are A'Dalbert Bowen of 23 Longview Street, Sam Perry Dixon of 702 South Perry Street, Julian Harris Jones of 1259 South Court Street, George Waring Huston Lapsley of 14 Wilson Street, William Craig Stewart of 102 Madison Terrace and Hal Tabb Walker. They will soon be sent to primary schools for the first phase of their flight training. Upon the completion of courses in primary, basic and advanced schools, they will be awarded commissions as second Lieutenants in the Army Air Forces. Cadet Bowen, son of Mrs. Gertrude W. Bowen, attended the State Teachers College at Florence. He was at Gunter Field before he was accepted as a cadet. Cadet Dixon, son of the governor, attended the University of Alabama. He was connected with the Goodyear Tire Company at Gadsden before he entered the service. Cadet Jones, son of Mrs. Lucy Hinds Jones, attended Auburn and the University of Alabama. He formerly was a draftsman with the state highway department. Cadet Lapsley, son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Lapsley, also attended Auburn where he received his B. S. degree last June. Cadet Stewart, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Andrew Stewart, also an Auburn man, was a wholesale parts clerk in an automobile concern before he came into the Army. Cadet Walker, son of Mrs. Corrine L. Walker, was a tire salesman formerly, and he also is an Auburn man. YARDSTICK By JOHN PIERCE gssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss SEND THE PLAINSMAN TO THE FOLKS BACK HOME We stepped into the teeth of Dallas' 15 degree temperature to watch.Alabama and Texas A&M fight it out in the Cotton Bowl, and a fairly interesting spectacle of football and color it turned out to be. For the Tide it was strictly smart, heads up football, the kind that wins more games than you can keep track of these days, the kind that makes the team wait for the breaks and then—socko and 29 points. Statistics, hashed and rehashed by this time, showed one thing—that the Aggies had it but didn't quite do the right thing with it against Texas or Alabama. We hadn't seen Jimmy Nelson before Thursday, but that afternoon was sufficient to show him off to anybody as a fast, shifty, versatile and quick thinking back. His 72 yard run-back for one touchdown was no surprise at the time it came. He had been leading up to it all along. One look at A&M's ends will show one why that team has been so successful in the passing department. There were eleven of 'em and not one stood under six feet, two inches. Homer Norton kept switching his flankers regularly and the Tide performed creditably in making #ie famed Daniels to Sterling and Henderson aerial show backfire as it did (12 completions, seven interceptions in 42 tries.) Jitterbug Henderson, one of the Southwest's great ends, took a plane as soon as the game ended to join the Aggie basketball team in Illinois. So it was 'Bama's day in the football end of it, but it remained for the Aggie hooters to provide the day's peak in color. It is a custom for the whole A&M student body (7,000 cadets) to stand during the entire two hours of the game. And not only does Joe Aggie stand, but if he has a date with him she stands, if his mother came along she stands, or if he dragged grandpa out, he does the same. At the halftime the Aggie band—made up of 216 pieces paraded while the Texans roared, and gave the best all around demonstration we've ever seen anywhere by a college band. Approximately 38,000 attended the classic. Bruce Layer of the Houston Post now talks of tentative plans to enlarge the Cotton Bowl to a capacity of 85,000. Which is all right if you can do those things, and we've seen nothing about the way Texas does things up to indicate that the enlargement won't take place. -- * * * * * jjj Coach Del Morgan, formerly Auburn's line coach, rounded out his first year at Texas Tech by sending his once-beaten Red Raiders to the Sun Bowl where they dropped a close decision to Tulsa. The new Tech schedule indicates a rapid toughening of the class of opposition. Texas A&M, Baylor, Rice and TCU all will be met by Morgan's boys in 1942. . . . All Southwest schedules are out—unless some changes are made Auburn will not meet a Texas team during the coming season. . . .Joe Sprague, senior manager of the footballers, has seen every Auburn football game during his four years in school. . ..^ Lloyd Cheatham was a co-captain of the South football squad which took the North into camp by a 16-0 count. . . . Rufe Deal is among the eight married footballers recently drafted by the Washington Redskins. The draft isn't run, by any means, on the same line with another draft we've all been hearing of. It's simply a method of dividing the cream of the college talent among the ten pro grid teams. The Washington Times Herald gave an amusing picture of the enthusiasm registered over players with infirmities or dependents picked by coaches or owners. Vincent X. Flaherty tells it as follows: In running over his list, Steve Owen, coach of the Giants, was enthused over the acquisition of one particular player. "This guy," said Steve excitedly, "has got flat feet and hasn't got a tooth in his head!" "That's nothing," put in Ray Flaherty (Redskin Coach). I've got a boy who is married and has two kids, and, besides, his mother is dependent upon him." * * * * * And, though a little belatedly, we offer our congratulations to Vic Costellos and Tex Williams, captain and alt.-capt, respectively, of the 1942 Plainsmen. The squadmen made a fine choice. Probably the best thing we could say of the outcome was—both Vic and Tex deserved what they got— and that can cover a lot of territory. * * * * * Forward Frank Manci, who's stood high in conference scoring parades since his sophomore year when he made his first Auburn cage team, has gotten off to a whirlwind start to take over the Conference lead before the race has gotten well started. Against Mississippi State he accounted for 16 points, and against Ole Miss he racked up 19, a total of 35, almost half of the entire team total of 73. We hadn't expected such a fast start with Tommy Mastin, Fred Williams and Marvin Motley, all among the missing, but that always seems to be what comes of thinking. The Spring Hill bill should offer some fine basketball despite the fact that Shag Hawkins will be on the sidelines. AUBURN CAGERS OPEN HOME SCHEDULE AGAINST BADGERS 'The War? Pooh!" Says H awanan The Entire Family Will Enjoy Reading The Latest News Of "The Loveliest Village". Keep 'Em Posted $1.50 PER SEMESTER Thumbing Reporter Lands Ride With Visiting Motorist By JIMMY PASTEUR The big '42 maroon Buick captured my attention the moment it rounded the corner, and I immediately made ready to use my best hitch-hiking technique. As the automobile drew closer, I put out my thumb and in my politest manner inquired, "Montgomery?" The driver pulled over to the curb just a little ahead of me and motioned for me to get in. I opened the door and asked, "Going to Montgomery?" He merely nodded his head and immediately opened the conversation with, "I'm from Hawaii," or so I interpreted the statement. He spoke with such a dialect that I was forced to use my imagination most of the time. It was perfectly obvious from the outset that the man's chief interests were of a foreign nature — information of which I realized I was sadly lacking in. This, I thought, was going to be a most interesting trip. The preliminaries over, I subjected myself to being a pupil of foreign Geography. I very quickly learned that his country was an ideal place in which to live, that the scenery was wonderful, the climate delightful, the people the best on this turbulent planet, the soil most fertile, the roads extremely good, the economic conditions perfect, and the topography unexcelled. In addition, discovered that the U.S. was a "Ver' nice Countree," but was in no way comparable to his own native land. With very little effort, I also learned that he had been in America only five months, most of which he had spent touring the country, that he didn't like the South, that Baltimore was an undesirable place in which to live, that Washington was our most beautiful city, and that he liked New York best of all. I tried, with no appreciable amount of success, to steer the conversation into other channels, attempted to call his attention to some of the points of interest along the way, to which he responded by grunting, "Uh, huh," nodding his head indifferently... Persistently, I tried another method of approach and asked, "What do you think of the war situation?" to which query he replied/ The war? Pooh!" making a gesture of indifference as he did so, which neccessitated taking both hands from the wheel. My pulse rate increased considerably, as we were doing somewhat better than seventy when he executed this maneuver. I solemnly vowed not to make another such hazardous move, and resigned myself to a verbal tour of his country for the remainder of the journey. Navy Launches New Drive For Combat Flyers Launching a drive to procure 2,500 aviation pilots each month for combat fliers in the aviation wing of the U. S. Navy, the Navy Department today extended enlistments in the Naval Reserve Aviation class to include soph-mores in college and announced that all men enlisting as volunteers in Class V-5 will be eligible for active duty at the end of their current school year. The enrollment of sophomores in college as potential candidates for commissions in the Naval Reserve Aviation is the result of an effort by the Navy Department to build up the pool of able-bodied young men to take the place of the thousands of young Naval pilots now passing through Naval Air Training Stations for duty with the fleet. Candidates for appointment as Aviation Cadets must: (a) Be a male citizen of the United States for a period of at least ten years. (b) Be not less than twenty years of age, and have not reached his twenty-seventh birthday at the time of enlistment as seaman, second class. (c) Agree to remain on active duty four years, including period undergoing training as aviation cadet, unless sooner released by the Navy Department. (d) Be unmarried, must not previously have been married, and must agree to remain unmarried until the expiration of two years from the date of entering upon active duty. (e) Be educationally, morally, Meet Spring Hill This Week-end In Alumni Gym Winners over Mississippi and Mississippi State, Coach Ralph Jordan's Auburn c a g e r s this week-end open their home schedule with a pair of games against the Spring Hill Badgers in Alumni Gym. Two games featuring the freshman team will precede the varsity- Spring Hill games with the rats entertaining Columbus Manufacturing on Friday and Chad-wick Gassers Saturday. The Plainsmen opened Conference play strongly with their first two victories. Despite the absence of veteran guard Marvin Motley from the lineup they dropped Mississippi State by 39- 29 and Mississippi by 34-31. Frank Manci stood out in both engagements, sinking a total of 35 points during the bill.. Absence of Shag Hawkins, SEC high scorer in 1941, from his center position this week-end is a certainty. A neck operation in Birmingham during the holidays is the cause, and it is yet unknown just how long it will be before he will return to the lineup. To fill the vacancy Coach Jordan has experimented with an altered lineup which moves Manci, regularly a forward, into the center spot, Fagan Canzoneri, a guard, to the forward position, and Jack Tanner in as a guard. This would have the starting lineup showing guards Tanner and Park, forwards Burton and Canzoneri, and center Manci. Motley, out because of scholastic ineligibility, is expected to return to active duty with the squad before the next conference battles. physically and psychologically qualified. College juniors and seniors, after enlistment in Class V-5, may be deferred from call to active duty until completion of - their current college year, if they so request. Thereafter they will be assigned to active training duty in the earliest class in which they can be accomodated. Part of the rhythm of action the pause that refreshes EXAMINATIONS (Continued from Page 1) or MF. In the afternoon, all 2nd hour classes, 9-10, scheduled TThS, ThS, TTh, or TThF. Monday, Jan. 19: In the morning all 3rd hour classes, 10-11, scheduled TThS, ThS, TTh, or TThF. In the afternoon all 3rd hour classes scheduled, TThS, ThS, TTh, or TThF. SSSS3SSSSSSS8SSSS£SSSSSS3SS£SSSSSSSSSS8SSS8SSSSSSSS8:$ LOANS Short Term Loan* on Most Anything of Value Opelika Pawn Shop Clement Hotel Corner Opelika, Ala. Tuesday, Jan. 20: In the morning all 4th hour classes 11-12, scheduled MWF, MW, MTWThF, or MF. In the afternoon all 6th hour classes scheduled 2-3. Wednesday, Jan. 21: In the morning all 5th hour classes, 1-2 scheduled MWF, MW, MTWThF, or MF. In the afternoon all 5th hour classes, 1-2 scheduled TThS, ThS, TTh, or TThF. Also at this time will come the 4th hour classes, 11-12, TTh. Instead of beginning at 1:30 as the others will, this one will begin at 4:00. Thursday, Jan. 22: In the morning at 8:00, classes which meet at 4-5 MWF, TTh, and MF. In the afternoon at 1:30 all subjects which have a conflict with this schedule or which are not scheduled elsewhere. H. H. SIMMS, FORMER AUBURN MAN, IS MAXWELL CADET Henry Holland Simms of 102 South Morgan Street, Dothan, is enrolled as an aviation cadet in the Air Corps Replacement Training Center at Maxwell Field, Ala. Cadet Simms, who attended the Alabama Polytechnic Institute and the State Teachers College at Troy, was a salesman before he entered the Army! He is a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. He will soon be sent to one of the numerous primary schools in the southeast for his initial flight training. Upon the completion of training at primary, basic and advanced schools, he will be commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army Air Forces. ALL KINDS OF FEED CONSUMERS COAL & FEED CO. Auburn It's the refreshing thing to do lav Opelika Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Phone 70 M-39-4
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Title | 1942-01-06 The Plainsman |
Creator | Alabama Polytechnic Institute |
Date Issued | 1942-01-06 |
Document Description | This is the volume LXV, issue 28, January 6, 1942 issue of The Plainsman, the student newspaper of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, now known as Auburn University. Digitized from microfilm. |
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OCR Transcript | » • WAR DECLARED! (ON EXAMS) Thz PLundmatv ANNUAL HANGOVER ISSUE 'TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRITa VOLUME LXV "ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1942 NUMBER 28 REGISTRATION FOR SECONDTERMOPENS Upperclassmen To Register Monday, Freshmen Jan. 19 Students may begin next Monday morning to register and pay their fees for the new semester. These fees may be paid in the cashier's office on the first floor Samford. All upperclassmen (Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors, and Fifth-Year Students) will begin next Monday registering and paying their fees and must have completed this part of it by noon of the 17th of January. Freshmen will begin their registration on the 19th of January and continue until noon on the 24th of January. Mr. Charles Edwards urged that all students make the necessary arrangements for the payment of their fees during the prescribed dates shown above. Exceptions to these rules will be made by the Deans of the particular schools where the occasion arises. Mr. Edwards also said the students would report to their classes at 8:00 a. m., Monday, Jan. 26. Absences will count from the first class meeting. For registration after Jan. 24 (noon), a surcharge of $3.00 will be made for the first day and an additional $1.00 per day to a maximum of $5.00. Deferred Duty For Students in Navy New Ruling Makes Allowance For Course Completion The Plainsman has received the following letter from the registrar's office concerning new requirements for enlistment in the United States Navy which make it possible for college students to enlist in the navy without being called for immediate duty: "Editor of the Plainsman: "We shall appreciate your bringing to the attention of the student body the following paragraphs from a letter which we have received from the United States Navy Recruiting Station at Birmingham, Alabama. " 'By recent ruling of the Navy Department those students of the senior and junior classes in college may enlist in the Navy in Class V-7 (which requires a college degree) and will not be called for training as deck officers until after graduation. " 'Likewise, those students in the junior and senior classes who enlist in Class V-5 (which requires two years of college) may have their calls to training as aviation cadets deferred until the end of the current scholastic term. Sophomores may also enlist in V-5 and be deferred until the end of the current term provided the Registrar states in writing that their marks show every reasonable expectancy that they will have the required credits at the end of such term.' Sincerely yours, Chas. W. Edwards Registrar" Semester Examinations Begin Jan. 15 Last Tests Scheduled For Thursday, Jan. 22 1942 Pays Call to Plainsman Office Last Week . . . in Person Lee County Tops Red Cross Quota; Students Praised Lee County's Emergency Red Cross Drive, in which Auburn students took a major part, was successful to the extent of raising $5,000, which was $750 over its quota. Auburn students, according to the last report, raised $1,026, which was $26 over the quota of $1,000 which they voluntarily set for themselves. "In announcing the results" of the drive, stated the Lee County Bulletin last week, "Prof. Burke, Mr. Lee, and Prof. Eaton praised especially the Auburn students." The Red Cross Drive, which was instituted as an emergency war measure to raise $50,000,000 by President Roosevelt, came shortly after the annual Red Cross Roll Call this fall. Dr. L. N. Duncan, in lauding the response of the people of Lee County toward the drive, stated: "The excellent response of the people of Lee County to the appeal of President Roosevelt through the American Red Cross for war funds has been unusually satisfactory. Almost everywhere people volunteered their contributions without solicitation. Especially were we happy with the contribution of our fine student body which over-subscribed its quota of $1,000." The student fund of $1,026 was raised in a two-day whirlwind campaign. Student representatives from various organizations met on Sunday afternoon of the week of the drive^ and set the quota. The next day a special edition of The Plainsman announced plans for the drive. By Wednesday of that week, the quota had been raised and Warns He Won't Be a Pleasant Twelve Months By HERBERT MARTIN No cherub with an angelic smile, but a fearsome midget with an unpleasant scowl, young 1942, in person, dropped by the Plainsman office last week after a brief stop at the editorial desk of the Montgomery Advertiser. He was dressed in faded khaki diapers, with a two-fer cigar drooping from the corner of his Ned Sparks mouth, and he had a sawed-off shotgun slung across his back. He stated that he had a few words for publication, and perched on the corner of the desk in the place usually reserved for the editor's feet. "I ain't goin' to be no cherful year," he warned. "I'm goin' to be a year of toimerl an' strife." He expectorated, knocking a hole in the cement floor inches beyond the overflowing waste-basket. "I'm goin' to be ruff an' tuff, an' youse guys ain't goin' to like me none atall. I'm goin' to decrease the poperlashun, an' kill off a lotta good fellas, but I got a job to do, an' I'm goin' to^do it." "It's goin' to be bad, an' I didn't have no room to bring along any fun, but I've got what I need." "I'm goin' to be bad ever'whar, but worse over there than over here. I'm on yore side, on the side of the folks over here. I'm with you an' I'm goin' to do a lot for you, but youse guys has got to do a lot for yoreselfs." He swaggered to the door, turned, and, surprisingly, winked. "An' some day you are goin' to say I wasn't such a bad guy after all!" surpassed. Student leaders in charge of the drive expressed their appreciation for the enthusiasm shown by the contributors. EXAMINATION SCHEDULE NOTE: Examinations in subjects which meet only once a week and laboratory classes which cannot reasonably conform to the following schedule will be held at the last period scheduled for the section prior to January 15, unless the examination is officially scheduled. A.M. Examinations Begin 8:30 P.M. Examinations Begin 1:30 Thursday, January 15, A.M. 4th Hour classes, scheduled 11-12 Tuesday-Thursday, 4 p.m. 7th Hour classes, scheduled 3-4 MTWThF, MWF, or MF Thursday, January 15, P.M. 7th Hour classes, scheduled 3-4 TTh Also all sections of Economics 251, 151, and 255 Chemistry 101-3 (4:30 P.M.) Friday, January 16, A.M. 1st Hour classes, scheduled 8-9 MWF, MW, MTWThF, or MF Friday, January 16, P.M. 1st Hour classes, scheduled 8-9 TThS, TTh, ThS, or TThF Saturday, January 17, A.M. 2nd Hour classes, scheduled 9-10 MWF, MW, MTWThF, or MF Saturday, January 17, P.M. 2nd Hour classes, scheduled 9-10 TThS, ThS, TTh, or TThF Monday, January 19, A.M. 3rd Hour classes, scheduled 10-11 MWF, MW, MTWThF, or MF Monday, January 19, P.M. 3rd Hour classes, scheduled 10-11 TThS, ThS, TTh, or TThF Tuesday, January 20, A.M. 4th Hour classes, scheduled 11-12 MWF, MW, MTWThF, or MF Tuesday, January 20, P.M. All 6th Hour classes, scheduled 2-3 Wednesday, January 21, A.M. 5th Hour classes, scheduled 1-2, MWF, MW, MTWThF, or MF Wednesday, January 21, P.M. 5th Hour classes, scheduled 1-2, TThS, ThS, TTh, or TThF Thursday, January 8, and Tuesday, January 13 7 p. m., Current Events Saturday, January 10, 1:30 P.M. Physics Laboratory 207 Wednesday, January 14, 4 P.M. English A, 101, 101S, and 102 Thursday, January 22, 8 A.M. Classes which meet 4-5 MWF, TTh, and MF Thursday, January 22, 1:30 P.M. Conflicts and subjects not scheduled elsewhere. Laboratory, One Hour Courses' Exams Are Scheduled for Last Meeting of Class Final examinations for the semester will officially begin Thursday of next week, January 15, according to an announcement made yesterday by Mr. Charles Edwards, Registrar. Examinations in one hour courses, and in laboratory sections which cannot reasonably conform to the exam schedule will be held at the last meeting of the class or lab section before January 15. Staff of "Alabama Farmer" For 1941-42 isAnnouncedbyAgClub B. B. Williamson, John Reid Head Staff for Year The 1941-42 staff of the Alabama Farmer, monthly magazine published by members of the Agricultural Club of API, has been announced,, with Bryon B. Williamson, Jr., of Pine Apple, as editor-in-chief, John Alexander Reid, of Montevallo, as business manager, and Pete B. Turnham, of Abanda, as associate business manager. Managing editor of the student publication, which is one of the three on the Auburn campus, is Francis S. McCain, of Ashland, and associate editors are Horace O. White, Ashland; James E. Dukes, Atmore; Aubrey Pettis, Fayette; Charles I. Ayton, Bayou La Batre; and Sam Tisdale, Hat-tiesburg, Miss. Charles H. Johnson, of Cross-ville, is advertising manager, and Dewitt Alsobrook, of Cusseta, is his assistant. Troy O. Brumley, of Hamilton, is circulation manager, James W. Morgan, Albert-ville, local circulation manager, and Thomas H. Bullington, of Athens, is assistant business manager. The board of control for the monthly magazine includes Jack Richard Snow, Jasper; Ralph Lanier Davis, Kennedy; and Troy O. Brumley, Hamilton. Members of the news staff are Luther T. Lowery, Georgiana; James M. Barton, Ralph; Marvin M. Smith, Cullman; B. M. Mc- Kinney, Belgreen; Joseph H. Yeager, Cullman; James Dur-wood Tyler, Clio; Cecil H. Eller, Bangor; Robert C. Horn, Samson; John Thomas Cope, Inverness; E. T. York, Jr., Valley Head; Ralph L. Davis, Kennedy; Robert W. Dunaway, Orrville; John Aaron Rogers, Springville; Perry A. Dunn, Deatsville; James Miller Smith, Bay Minette; Thomas W. Underwood, Summerdale; George Page, Tanner; Alphus G. Driggers, Andalusia; Donald L. Kelley, Sylacauga; Robert Carroll Adamson, Alexander City. Assistants on the business staff are William Wayne Nordan, Abbeville; Chalmers Bryant, Dozier; John Tillman Bryant, Clayton; Harvey Simpson Gordon, Jr., Greenville; Vernon Perry, Boaz; Norris Watson, Muscadine; James A. Robinson, Veto. IMPORTANT MEETING OF "A" CLUB CALLED TONIGHT There will be a very important meeting of the "A" Club tonight at 8:00 P. M. in Ross Chemical. All members are requested by the president, Tommy Mastin, to attend. During the regularly scheduled examination period, which will last until January 22, two exams will be held each day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Morning exams will begin at 8:30 and afternoon exams at 1:30. Classes for the second semester will begin on Monday, January 26. Mr. Edwards stated that a final examination will be given in all subjects and that the official examination schedule given below will be adhered to by all instructors. Changes from this schedule will be made only with the consent of the Executive Council. Mr. Edwards also announced that seniors and juniors of draft age have an opportunity to finish their college careers, and that the sophomores will have a chance to finish two years of their work. Mr. Edwards received his information from the United States Recruiting Station in Birmingham. Juniors and seniors may enlist in the Navy in class V-7 (which requires a college degree) and will not be called until they have completed their four years of college work. Sophomo/res, juniors, and seniors may also enlist in class V-5 (which requires two years of college) and not be called before the end of the current scholastic term. Sophomores may do this only if they have a note from the Registrar stating that his grades are high enough to give him the required credits at the end of the term. The examination schedule is given below: Thursday, Jan. 8: C u r r e nt Events, 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 13: C u r r e nt Events, 7:00 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 10: Physics Lab. 207, 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 14: English A, 101, 101S, and 102, 4:00 p. m. Thursday, Jan. 15: In the morning, all 7th hour classes, scheduled 3-4 MTWThF, MWF or MF. In the afternoon, all 7th hour classes, 3-4 TTh. Also, all sections of economics 251, 151, and 255. And, Chemistry 101-3 at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 16: In the morning all 1st hour classes 8-9, scheduled MWF, MW, MTThF, or MF. In the afternoon, all 1st hour classes 8-9, scheduled TThs, Ths, or TThF. Saturday, Jan. 17: In the morning all 2nd hour classes, 9-10, scheduled MWF, MW, MTWThF, (Continued on page 4) Alabama Water Color Paintings on Exhibit Auburn Represented By Work of Staples, Marino-Merlo The School of Architecture and Allied Arts is showing paintings by outstanding Alabama water colorists during this week. Auburn is represented by the work of two members of the Applied Art faculty, Joseph Marino- Merlo, and Roy H. Staples. Karl Wolfe and Mildred Nun-gester, also included, will be remembered from previous exhibits this . semester. Dawn Kennedy and Charles Le Clair, heads respectively of the art departments of Alabama College and the University contributed to the exhibit as well as Virginia Barnes of Montevallo, Jessica Farnham, Belle Comer and Martha Henderson Goings of Birmingham. "The artists included are from all over the State and the work compares favorably with the best work from other parts of the country," states Dawn S. Kennedy, President of the Alabama Water Color Society. The paintings come to Auburn highly recommended from the Public Library in Mobile where they were shown in November under the auspices of the Art Project of the W. P. A. and from the December exhibit of the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition hall is open daily from 8-12 and 1-4; Saturdays 8-12. Everyone is cordially invited to come in and see the work of these Alabama water color painters. Auburn's Fire Chief Pfaff Volunteers For Naval Reserve Will Leave On Thursday As Petty Officer Fire and water may be classed as opposites, but they seem to be one and the same to Auburn Fire Chief Ross Pfaff, who has volunteered for active duty with the United States Naval Reserve. Chief Pfaff could not be reached to verify facts about his enlistment, but information in this article was secured from some of his assistants at the fire station. He will leave on Thursday of this week, and will be rated initially as a specialist mechanic with rank of Petty Officer, Second Class, according to this information. Pfaff has been chief of the Au- \ burn Fire Department since about 1936, and has been instrumental in building the department to its present high standing of efficiency. While in Auburn he has also been employed in the projection room at the Tiger Theater, and has acquired quite a reputation as a mechanic. Hearing of his enlistment, one Auburnite remarked, "Give him a hammer and a couple of nails and Ross Pfaff could build a battleship!" He has been active in amateur motor boat racing, and has won several trophies with boats which he built himself. It's quite a jump from fire-fighting and fresh-water boating to mingling with the salts, but his Auburn friends are confident that it will be just another successful job for Chief Pfaff. Page Two THE P L A I N S M AN January 6, 1942 Paper for the White Shed-and Defense In the middle of the College Street center section, just across from the campus, a white shed has made its appearance since school closed for the holidays. This shed was erected for the purpose of giving the citizens of Auburn an opportunity to contribute paper for National Defense purposes. Why it was located just across from the campus, we don't know. But its existence there offers a challenge for students of Auburn to help in this paper campaign. As we -^understand it, practically any kind of paper is acceptable in this collection. Old newspapers, old magazines, classroom notepaper, and dozens of other types of paper, used regularly by college students, could be given for National Defense. This paper campaign might be a good' project for one of Auburn's project»hunt-ing honor societies. And The Plainsman will be glad to contribute quite a bit of paper to any such move, so drop around, if you want to do your bit for National Defense! Toward Better Auburn-Alabama Relations In the pre-Christmas issue of The Plainsman there appeared an advertisement— a rather large one—which read "To the Students of The Alabama Polytechnic Institute. It is our most sincere wish that the holiday season be a pleasant one for you. All good wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Bright New Year from the students of The University of Alabama." Comments on this campus concerning that advertisement were many and varied. Some students wanted to know if we "faked it". Some wondered if we "swapped out" on advertisement of similar import. Some just said, "Say, that was swell of them, wasn't it?" The latter comment expressed our own feeling in the matter. The ad wasn't "faked". We didn't "swap out" with the Crimson-White in advertising. They just beat us to the draw on a good lick—and did something that Auburn might have done, had Auburn's student governing body thought of it before the University's did. — Along with the copy for that advertising, The Plainsman received a letter, written by a student government official at the University, stating a felt need for a better spirit of cooperation between the students of the two schools, and asking us to print their ad, and bill their student association "at regular rates". Which expression of good-fellowship made us feel a bit qualmish because of certain previous remarks about the students of the University, and their school. Alabama's students—or at least half of them—come from the towns and cities of this state. So do Auburn's students. Practically every Auburn student has some close friend in school at the University. So why shouldn't there be a "spirit of cooperation between the students of the two schools?" Its a Risk Not to Come Back to College! The latest issue of "The Baldwin Times", and possibly of other weekly newspapers in the state, carries a boxed notice to college students, stating that the local draft board has declared that students who return to college for the second semester of this year do so at "their own risk". We don't feel that way about it. We think the statement might have read: "Students who do not return to college for the second semester do so at their own risk". We've said before, and we'll say, over and over again, that now, if never before, college students need to continue their education—to get as much out of their classwork as they possible can. Suppose they stay at home next semester, and then aren't called into the service. They've missed a half-year of college education which they may not ever again be able to have. And that half-year of college training might make the difference between unemployment and a good job— after the war. We realize that it is the local draft boards' "duty" to warn college students that they may be called into service next semester, but perhaps the boards don't realize that a student can get quite a bit of knowledge which might be helpful in war or in peace, from even one month more of college training. We think the results are worth the risk. The Need for a Student Defense Council The latest "paper" drive in Auburn adds one more campaign to the list of "defense drives" which has been steadily growing since the outbreak of the war. These drives, and there will be more of them, ' will call for a certain definite amount of cooperation by students. If any two of them were to occur simultaneously, and involved donations of money particularly, there might result a natural confusion which would tend to cause a feeling of animosity toward their backers —even when they are so vital. Then too, Auburn's student body, although as yet it hasn't exhibited much of a mass idea of "jining up", might decide that en masse it wanted to go into Uncle Sam's service. Which would indeed be disastrous for Auburn. In view of these facts, and in view of the establishment of similar organizations on other campuses, it is our opinion that Auburn has need for a Student Defense Council, of some kind or other, to coordinate the efforts of students of Auburn so as" to best develop their usefulness. . Such a group might tie student defense efforts together, bring about a unity of action, and give students the feeling that they are doing something—right here in Auburn—for their country. This something might serve as a substitute for active participation in the war, until Uncle Sam actually calls our students. Hw PLairhimarL Published semi-weekly by the Students of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. Editorial and Business Office on Tichenor Avenue. ROBERT C. ANDERSON, Editor-in-Chief JAMES L. ROUSE, Business Manager WILLARD HAYES Managing Editor JOHN PIERCE Sports Editor HERBERT MARTIN Associate Editor GEORGE HEARD News Editor JOE C. GANDY Advertising Mgr. HAM WILSON WOODIE HUBBARD Assistant Advertising Managers ESTELLE GAINES Society Editor NEWS STAFF John Scott, Jr. David Allen Jimmy Pasteur Chalmers Bryant Milton Kay Bill Martin Beverly Kilian Buck Taylor ALBERT SCROGGINS Circulation Mgr. ALFRED GREEN Office Mgr. JIM McCRORY Collections Mgr. Advertising and Collections Assistants Fred Allison Jack Berry Reuben Burch Bobby Hails Luther Taylor John Spencer Knud Nielsen Gladys Burbage Lawrence Cottle Member ftssociciled Golle&ide Presv Distributor of Golle6iate Di6est REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative A2.0 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK, N. Y. CHICAGO ' BOSTON ' Los ANGELES - SAN FRANCISCO PI ains Talk By HERBERT MARTIN Dili tor's note: The opinions expressed in this column are those of the writer and are not to be construed as t h e editorial policies of this paper. Auburn is glad to have you back. It's been kinda lonesome. SPRIS' o&Mpr THE AVERAGE LIFE OF A FOOTBALL COACH AT ANY ONE INSTITUTION IS 5 YEARS/ AVERAGE COACHING CAREER IS 10. To the Students Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates by mail: $2.50 per year, $1.50 per semester. Back Again! So after sixteen days of wishing that school wouldn't start again, here we are back in Auburn—and as usual, glad to be here. It's always that way, though, after about the first two months of one's freshman year. When you come to Auburn, and get to know Auburn, then, although you're always ready to leave the place, you're always more than ready to come back—usually by the next day. We hang around down here and complain that there's nothing to do. Then we go home and find out what "nothing to do" really means. There's just something about this place. Our New Year's Resolutions f And we're going to keep these: To continue trying to do what we've tried to do all along— make The Plainsman your newspaper. To present, in the columns of The Plainsman some of that which you want to read, and some of that which you ought to read, and to try to present that which you ought to read in such a manner as to make' you want to read it. To publish as much as we can of the material which you bring to our office, and phone in to our office, to be published. To be fair to you, and to your viewpoint, in our editorial columns. To present the past and coming events of most importance and interest to you as students in Auburn. And to foster the Auburn Spirit. Major Uncertainties of the Coming Year . . . Whether or not, and when, you'll be in the army. Whether or not, and when, you'll pass the courses you're taking. Whether or not, and when, Auburn's varying clocks and bells will be regulated and standardized. Whether or not, and when, The Glomerata will make its vaguely annual appearance on the campus. Whether or not, and when, our usual rainy season will begin and end. Whether or not, and when, Auburn professors will stop making huge assignments for Monday classes. Whether or not, and when, you'll get this week's laundry back. How About a Literary Magazine Auburn has a yearbook—and a good one. Auburn has an Agricultural magazine—and a good one. Auburn has a newspaper. Auburn lias a faculty magazine. Auburn has its quota of official bulletins. Auburn has all sorts of printed publications—except one. Auburn has no literary magazine. Most Auburn students may not know this, but one of the most "up and coming" young writers of the South is one of the Faculty of our English Department. He's not the only faculty member whose students turn out page after page of literary matter. There are some promising writers of fictional and cultural articles in Auburn. These writers are producing a wealth of material throughout each year, most of which goes to waste, as far as publication is concerned. Auburn students like to read. Why shouldn't they be given the opportunity of reading the literary efforts of their own fellow-students? The Essence of Patriotism Several persons, all of whom were college students during the last war, have recently expressed to us their laments about the lack of patriotism as displayed by students during this war. They suppose that we should wave flags, and shout about the glory of death for our country, and hang effigies of Hitler, Mussolini, and whoever the Japanese big boy is, from the tower of Samford and other places. They think we aren't embued with the spirit of patriotism, and the realization that our country is in war. To those persons we have said that there is no lack of patriotism, just the natural solemnity of our generation which has come from a lifetime of hearing of the evils of war, the gore, rather than the glory, of it, the seriousness rather than the excitement of it. The generation which preceded the one which fought the last war knew nothing of the horrors of the submarine, air and tank warfare, chemical warfare, and so forth. All of our lives we've heard, seen, and read about these things. Naturally we aren't as openly anxious to get into it. But as far as lacking patriotism is concerned, we don't. Two stories, reportedly true, illustrate that point. Recently an RAF cadet, from Maxwell Field, visited Auburn. While talking to a group of Auburn boys, he said that he had heard that the United States was to add another stripe to its flag . . . a yellow one. Whereupon, one of the Auburnites proceeded to knock the hell out of him. The other Auburn students formed a ring around the two, while the Auburn boy protected, perhaps in the wrong way, the honor of his country. And then, on Monday, December 8, when President Roosevelt delivered his address to Congress, asking for a declaration of a state of war on Japan, a group of boys sat around the radio in a certain Auburn frat house. While they were quietly listening, one of their brothers came into the room, talking loudly, laughing, and "cutting up". So one of the listeners, without saying a word, stood up and let the noise-maker have a haymaker on the chin, which quieted him in a hurry. Have we no patriotism? As report of the activity around here during the holidays, this column should be blank as a frosh stare in an oral quiz. * * * Karrie says she felt like a pallbearer, the place wuz so dead. You could almost sense slow music and complimentary words in the air. * * * There was one dawg fight, but none of us knew either of the dawgs. * * * Once or twice we gathered all of the younger set together for a party, and all were seated in one room without difficulty. * * * There was a high school dance which lasted until just after one o'clock, but, of course, all of the college students had to leave at twelve. We understand that someone took names of Auburnites who attended the ten 'til two affair in B'ham, and that these students will be blacklisted from Auburn social affairs. * * * The radios were functioning, and the newspapers were delivered, but any other ressemblance to a town was purely coincidental, and not to be taken as an indication of civic status. * * * Four people were counted at once on College Street just after the Sunday show. * * * Late flash: Military authorities say it will be perfectly ok for us to let you in on this defense secret . . . we had quite some rain during the holidays. We are not allowed to tell you on just what days it fell, as this might be of assistance to enemy bombers, but we had it. An enemy aviator, however, had he been flying over this place, would have probably said, "Oh, what the hell," and buried himself in the rising sun. * * * Anyone with two tires or tubes in good condition for sale, rent, or give-away, is cordially invited to drop around to The Plainsman office or drop a card, care of this station. * * * We read that around half of the country's cars, at least, will be off the highways by spring, because of worn-out tires or other infirmity. Already cars are being limited for amusement purposes. We also read (what would you have done in Auburn) that indoor and parlor games and amusements would take the place of this gadding about over the countrysides. * * * Fraternities are asked to increase den and living room seating arrangements, and to pick up a few sets of dominoes and checkers, as well as more cards for playing bridge and other less respectable games. But suppose we make these arrangements find rainfall decreases and OPM says turn out the lights. Ain't it going to be fine! * * * Karrie, the Kampus Komic, tells this story of a man who wanted to buy a horse. "It seems," says the old gal, "that this feller went to a feller to purchase a domestic animal known as a horse. The feller with the horse says he has a fine beast, a swift and enduring runner, and easy to the saddle. "Well, the feller bought the' horse and started over to saddle his purchase. Said animal broke into a run, ran into the barn, and knocked himself flat. " 'You didn't tell me', said the buyer, 'that this hoss was blind'!" '"He ain't blind', the feller said, 'he just don't give a damn'!" 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. The U. S. has this past week started its first calendar year of war since 1918. The New Year's celebrations were in many cases carried on in much the same manner as usual, complete with firecrackers, all night parties, and soon - to - be - broken resolutions. But, there were many other cases where the celebrations had a different tone. The little fellow, "1942", was ushered in wearing something more substantial than the traditional three-cornered Hart, fechaffner, and Marx. This time he wore what many of us will soon be wearing—a uniform. The Americans who think that this is going to be an easy war "are wrong. We will know that war is something other than exciting reading matter in the morning headlines; we will join the air force for another reason than driving a convertible automobile; we will join the Navy with more in store for us than a world cruise and the annual maneuvers; rationing will be as familiar as a "War Eagle" at a pep meeting; and we will all of us be on the closest of terms with taxes so high that now we have little conception of them. But, even so, adding all these things to the casualty lists that will once again contain the names of Americans like ourselves—if not our very own—we all know that as certainly as another New Year will roll around, we will prevail. This may not be a "Happy New Year", it may not be a "Prosperous New Year", but it will be a VICTORIOUS NEW YEAR. V V V V V V During the holidays, while we were relaxing from our labors, there were millions of others just getting under way at theirs. They were the American, Dutch, Indian, Australian, and British fellows that are right now in that part of the world that the little chap with the over-grown molars thinks is exclusively his. Not only does he consider that half of the globe as his own backyard, but he wants to play there entirely by himself. He had a choice to make—he could Jet us play with him and be peaceful about it, or he could try to throw us out. Our statesmen cannot point out the error in this choice to our lemon-skinned opponent. They tried, but it didn't work. It is up to our armies to convince him of it. He struck the first blow, and it was a hard one, but it landed on our gloves. All Jap blows will do that. They can strike at us again and again, but they cannot strike at the source of our strength; our factories are too far away. They cannot hope to inflict such great losses of manpower that we will succumb; we out numbered the Japs when they first began fighting the Chinese, and the Chinese have taken a terrible toll. The change won't be so sudden, but before long the much - belittled "Chinaman's chance" will be a pretty good bet. v v v v v v The German Army has much to be thankful for in beer. Last fall when the British had word that Field Marshall Goering was visiting one of the invasion ports just across the channel from Britain, they decided to make a try at bagging him. Accordingly a small force of Commandos, the super-shock f o r c e of raiders trained for such jobs, stole across the channel and landed at that port. They w a l k e d quietly through the streets, strolled up to the portly Marshall's quarters and inquired if he were in. He was not, and the British after a little fracas were forced to leave. It was revealed later that Herr Goering was attending a beer party in his honor at another camp. Last week much the same thing occurred, only with different locale and prospective guest of honor. A group of Commando troopers landed on the coast of Libya behind the fleeing Axis forces and fought their way to the headquarters of General Rommel, commander of the German Afrika Korps. They took everyone there by surprise and searched through the whole place, but with no luck—soldier Rommel was attending a party and was not at home to greet his unexpected guests. January 6, 1942 THE P L A I N S M AN Page Three Wedding Bells Ring for Students And Former Students During Holiday Season Several Weddings Take Place Here Among the Auburn alumni and students who were married over the holidays were Teresa Ann Boyd and Roy Franklin Stinson. They were married on New Year's Day in the Auburn First Baptist Church. The groom was a member of Kappa Alpha social fraternity and Alpha Epsilon Delta, honorary pre-med fraternity, of which his bride was once president. Susan Mizelle Hare was married to Lieut. William Caffey Edington Saturday evening, December twenty-seventh in the Presbyterian Church in Auburn. The bride is the daughter of Dean C. L. Hare. She was a member of Kappa Delta sorority while the groom was an A. T. O. Before the holidays on December 12, Jack Becker married Edith McLellan of Lakeland, Fla. The ceremony was performed in Opelika. The groom is the social chairman of Kappa Alpha Order, and plans to continue his studies here. ~ Three Phi Delta Thetas were married during the holidays. In Huntsville Jack Yarbrough married Ada Bell Bullock; Gilmore Clifton Colyer took Elizabeth Schell to be his wife; and Dean Hannum's son, Wallace Hannum, married Frances Folmar, an Auburn student, in Luverne, Ala. Diamonds - Watches Jewelry and Giftware Cook Jewelry Co. Eason T. Cook Class '14 115 South Eighth Street Opelika, Ala. TODAY LAUREL & HARDY in "GREAT GUNS" also "We The People" Crime Dosen't Pay series Two Auburnites Selected For Training To Attend New Officers' Candidate School Pvt. Leo K. Shwarts of Montgomery, Ala., formerly a student of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, who is a trainee in the Field A r t i l l e r y Replacement Training Center at Fort Bragg, was selected from among hundreds of applicants to attend the special officer candidate training school at Fort Bragg, N. C, in the FARC. At the school Pvt. Shwarts met further competition in that only a certain quota of those who attend the school are picked to go on for further artillery officer training at the officers training school at Fort Sill, Okla-^ homa. His excellent ability and aptitude for military science and tactics won him a place on the list of those chosen to go to Fort Sill. Pvt- Shwarts' training during the past month while he attended the school in the FARC was of an intense nature and covered all phases of the duties of a commissioned officer. When he gets to Fort Sill he will take up where he left off and go into greater detail of the numerous functions required of an artillery officer. The preliminary training school was inaugurated at Fort Bragg back in August by Brig. General Edwin P. Parker, Jr., commander of the Field Artillery Replacement Training Center of Fort Bragg and is headed by "school principal" Lt. Colonel Robert O. Montgomery who was himself in 1914 a buck private in the Army of the United States. Pvt. Horry M. Trofford, of Bowling Green, Ky., an Auburn man, was also selected for officer training. WED. & THURS. More Enjoyment Funny Color Cartoon "Inki and The Lion" Highlights of all the BOWL GAMES in the NEWS TIGER LOST at Bus Station Sunday afternoon black handbag. Reward offered. Call 811-J. Home Economics Defense Classess Now in Progress Two Hundred Are Registered For Five Courses In order to train women for their place in the national emergency, the School of Home Economics has organized special defense courses in foods and nutrition, sewing, and first aid. About 200 women students registered for the five courses which are designed to meet the requirements of the national Red Cross. In the foods and nutrition unit will be three courses, nutrition refresher, taught by Miss Beatrice Finkelstein; elementary nutrition, taught by Mrs. Inez M. Schrader; and the canteen course, taught by Miss Dana Gatchell and Mrs. Stella Montgomery. Under the supervision of Miss Florence Davis, Prof. A. D. Burke, Prof. V. W. Lapp, Dr. A. H. Graham, and G. H. Coats, a group of 84 women will learn First Aid techniques. The Red Cross sewing is under the direction of Mrs. Dorothy Arnold,- Miss Lilly Spencer, and Miss Wathena Temple. The assignment, which calls for 955 yards of material, will include the following garments: 40 Toddlers packs, 1 woolen suit, 2 pairs of rompers, 2 woolen shirts, 2 sleepers, 1 sweater, 1 pair of mittens, 10 diapers. For children four, six, and 12 years of age the following clothing will be made: 100 girls woolen skirts, 50 girls wool dresses, and 100 boys outing shirts. Civil Service Examinations For Personnel Jobs Announced The United States Civil Service Commission has just announced examinations for two types of positions in the personnel field. The first' is for Junior Occupational Analyst, $2,000 a year, for the Federal Security Agency, and the second for Personnel Assistant, $2,600 to $3,800 a year, and Principal Personnel Clerk at $2,- 300 a year, for various Government agencies. Qualified people are urgently needed to fill Personnel Assistant jobs. Separate lists of eligibles will be set up for each grade of positions and in appropriate fields of experience. Eligibles are particularly needed in the fields of position classification and placement. Applicants must have had responsible experience in a regularly c o n s t i t u t e d personnel agency such as a government agency or personnel office of a large commercial or industrial firm. Provision is made for the utilization of college study for part of the experience and for the acceptance of applications from senior students who will finish the appropriate - college work prior to July 1, 1942. No written test will be given for these positions. Occupational Analysts observe jobs and identify them by U. S. Employment Service code structure. They prepare job analysis schedules and job order specifications. Three years of responsible experience in an employment office doing interviewing, placement, or job analysis is required of all applicants except those who have appropriate college study which they may substitute for two years of the experience. Applicants will be required to take a written test, part of which will be designed to test their knowledge of occupational fields. Persons trained in the field of personnel who are interested in Government service are urged to get copies of these announcements from the Commission's local representative at any first- or second-class post office or from the central office in Washington, D. C. All applications must be filed with the Washington office not later than January 15, 1942. Tiger Offers Passes in Contest Just Straighten Out the Mixed Legs Below Hey movie fans! Here is your chance to win twenty free passes to the Tiger Theatre and have a little fun besides. Cut-up Bob Hope, in the ad below, has mixed up the incomparable legs of some of those gorgeous Louisiana Lovelies who appear with him in the "Louisiana Purchase", the Paramount music, comedy, girl spectacle in Technicolor, which makes its bow at the Tiger Theatre, on Sunday and Monday. All you have to do to be one of the twenty prize winners is to cut out the pictures below. Cut the bodies as they appear above the panel and place them above the correct pair of legs. Paste them down when you have solved this problem and send your contest entry to Gus Coats, manager of the Tiger Theatre, by 10 a. m. Thursday morning. The first twenty fans whose entries are correct will be awarded passes for the Sunday and Monday showing of the picture. "Louisiana Purchase", which was produced by Buddy De Sylva and which has music by Irving Berlin played on Broadway for 58 weeks an.d is one of the big hits of the New York stage. The movie is said to be even funnier so, prize winner or not, you can't lose by seeing "Louisiana Purchase." In addition to Bob Hope and the Louisiana Lovelies, Vera Zo-rina, Victor Moore, Irene Bor-doni and a host of others share CM-M-M! TWSF LOUISIANA L0VM&1... PUT W£ \ RIG14T PAIR OF LiGSONWF RIGHT dFAUTYANV WIN TICH&TS [TO S££PARAMOUNTS TECMICOLOkED lOUWANA PURCHASE*/ honors in Paramount's brilliant comedy. Zorina, Moore, and Bor-doni also appeared in the stage production. "WEEK-END IN HAVANA" IS TIGER MID-WEEK FEATURE Tropical magic, catchy Cuban rhythms, warm blooded senori-tas, dark eyed romeos, are neatly combined in the story of the sing-sational" musical "Weekend in Havana" which will be shown Wednesday and Thursday at the Tiger Theatre. With Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, John Payne and Cesar Romero in the starring roles, the film is set in the capital city of our Latin-American neighbor and shows Havana with all its beauty in the naturalness of Technicolor. Alice portrays a New York salesgirl who has carefully budgeted herself for several years in order to treat herself to a Havana vacation. When her ship is caught on a reef, she refuses to sign a release to the shipping company until she has had—and enjoyed— pany's representative, JohnPaney her Havafta v a c a t i o n . The company's representative, John Payne, postpones his wedding to make sure she has a grand time. In a magnificent Havana night club, the exotic Carmen Miranda, who has captured the admiration of American film audiences in her previous screen appearances with her unusual songs and dances, does a spectacular new number with 200 feminine dancers—" The Nango." A funny color cartoon "Inki and The Lion" and the highlights of all the 3owl Games that were played New Year's Day are shown in the latest Paramount News, which rounds out this Wednesday and Thursday program at the Tiger. Coast of 8th Naval District Area Now Better Protected Five Bases Are Completed Since First of War The dawning new year of 1942 finds the great coastal area bordering the Eighth Naval District from the Florida Apalachicola to the Mexican line better prdtected from hostile attack than at any time in its history, records at Headquarters show today. "Beginning from scratch" on December 15, 1940, Captain T. A. Thomson, Jr., U.S.N., Acting District Commandant, and his staff of officers, have built up Naval activities and personnel until the Eighth District comprising the states of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, and Western Florida occupies a foremost place in national defense. Five formidable Naval Section Bases at Burrwood, Louisiana, Mobile, Alabama, Corpus Christi, Galveston and Sabine Pass, Texas, were rushed to completion since the declaration of war. Built at a cost of approximately $3,000,000, these bases are now fully manned and armed to supply and service the fleet of patrol vessels and district craft constituting the Eighth Naval District's Inshore Patrol. The Naval Air Station at Corpus Christi, acknowledged to be the world's largest, was commissioned last March, and is now graduating hundreds of finished Naval fliers every month. The sister Naval Aviation Training Station at Pensacola has been more than doubled in size during the past twelve months and also is turning out finished fliers in large numbers. As receiving depots for Corpus Christi and Pensacola, there are two Naval Reserve Aviation bases—one on Lake Pontchar-train in New Orleans and another near Dallas, Texas. Here young college men enlisting for commissions in the air wing of the Navy's forces are indoctrinated and receive preliminary training up to ten hours of solo flight. Of importance to the entire Mississippi Valley area is the rehabilitation of the New Orleans Naval Station at Algiers, which in recent months has become the training station for the Coast Guard and apprentice seamen enlisting in the Naval service. Upon completion, the New Orleans Naval Station will again assume its place among the foremost s h o r e establishments of the United States which it occupied during World War days. During the twelve months of 1941, several large shipyards along the Gulf Coast were reopened or constructed in New Orleans— Pensacola—Nashville, Mobile and Chickasaw, Ala., Biloxi and Pascagoula, Miss., and at Houston, Galveston, Seabrook, Rockport, Beaumont, Orange, Port Arthur, and Brownsville, all in Texas. In addition to the construction program, the Eighth Naval District Recruiting Services consist- FOR GOOD COAL PHONE 11 CONSUMERS COAL & FEED CO. ently have broken records for recruiting men in both the regular service and the Naval Reserve, with a total of approximately 4,533 in the entire district. Since the-war began Dec. 7, nearly 800 men joined the Navy for regular duties. At one time during the summer, four of the five cities in the country which topped all others for the largest number of recruits were within the Eighth District. A survey by the Bureau of Navigation in Washington in the late Fall showed that Birmingham, Alabama, was first of all the cities in the country in recruiting during the first nine months of 1941. The Eighth Naval District also topped all other districts in the United States in enlistments of college graduates in Class V-7 of the United States Naval Reserve which leads to a commission as Ensign with duties as deck or engineering officers in the fleet. Since last May, 1051 college graduates within the District have enlisted in Class V-7 of which 772 were for deck duties and 229 for commissions as engineers. Procurement of young college men as Naval aviation cadets has increased more than 100 per cent during the last six months of the year with New Orleans consistently supplying a large number of candidates for flying wings of gold. With the dawn of the new year, recruiting activities in the District are primarily aimed towards the procurement of thousands of men for the fleet and air, as well as hundreds of college men and college graduates for enlistment in V-5 and V-7 classes which lead to commissions. In an effort to obtain youths for these all-important deck and engineering duties, the limitations recently were lowered to permit the enlistment of men still in their sophomore, junior or senior years Former Auburn Students At Maxwell Field Four Birmingham Boys Now Enrolled At Training Center Four Birminghamians are enrolled as aviation cadets in the Air Corps Replacement Training Center at Maxwell Field, Ala., headquarters of the Southeast Air Corps Training Center. They are Charles Edwin King of 1407 33rd Street North; Donald Lewis McCullough of 4045 Mon-tevallo Road; Sell Wade South of 1724 33rd Street North, and Joseph David Turner of 637 Princeton Avenue. These men will soon be sent to primary schools in the southeast for the initial phase of their flight training. Upon the completion of courses in primary, basic and advanced schools, they will be awarded commissions as second lieutenants in the Army Air Forces. Cadet King, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alta Lamar King, attended the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. He is a member of Alpha Tau Omega. Cadet McCullough, son of Mr. and Mrs. George C. McCullough, attended the Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn. He was owner and operator of the Alabama Mineral Wool Company before he entered the Army. Cadet South, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. South, also attended Auburn where he was an advertising salesman for The Plainsman, college paper. Cadet Turner, also a former student at Auburn, was a teacher before he entered the service. of college. All men enlisted while yet in college will not be called to active duty until the completion of their regular courses of study. . - - - — -t <£&& BONING? THEN DROP BY BURTON'S FOR . . A Complete College Outline Series For Your Course. Prices From 75c to 1.25 You'll Be Straight With Your Work With This Guide. BURTON'S "Something New Every Day" WE USE SANITONE V. . 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Players picked by both clubs, in order of choosing, were: CHICAGO CARDINALS—Lach Duke, back; Cheatham, Auburn, back; Schwenk, Washington, back; Banonis, Detroit, center; Reinhard, California, tackle; Daniel, Texas, guard; Thornton, Santa Clara, guard; Renzel, Marquette, back; Wetterlund, Illinois Wesleyan, back; Ringer, Minnesota, end; Brycre, Marquette, tackle; Givler, Wake Forest, guard; Swink, Okla. A & M, tackle; Harshman, Pacific Lutheran, back; Arabian, St. Mary's (California), back; Crain, Texas, back; Suntheimer, North Carolina, center; Nelson, Alabama, back; Wallich, Missouri, tackle. WASHINGTON REDSKINS— Sanders, Texas, back; Deal, Auburn, back; Zeno, Holy Cross, guard; McCollum, Tulane, tackle; Fitch, Minnesota, end; Peters, Oregon State, back; Swiger, Duke, back; Goodyear, Marquette, back; De Mao, Duquesne, center; Ah-weesh, Duquesne, back; Kovatch, Notre Dame, end; DeCorrevont, Northwestern, back; Whited, Oklahoma? back; Chipman, Brigham Young, back; Watts, Appalachian St.," tackle; Stewart, Williamette, back; Timmons, Clemson, back; Croft, Ripon, tackle; Juzwik, Notre Dame, back; Coupee, Iowa, back. Auburn Rates Thirty-Three In Nation Final ratings for the 1941 football season place Auburn in position number 33 as adjudged by Paul B. Williamson, nationally known rating expert. Staying in the high forties during the majority of the season, the Plainsmen came fast in the three final games to finish comparatively high among the nation's elevens. Number one eleven is Texas University because of its impressive showings against some of the country's top teams. The tie of the Longhorns by Baylor and the defeat by TCU is ascribed to the injuries which kept five first string players out of the lineup on those two week-ends. Minnesota ranks second and Notre Dame third. First ranking teams, in order, are 1. Texas; 2. Minnesota; 3. Notre Dame; 4. Fordham; 5. Navy; 6. Missouri; 7. Michigan; 8. Pennsylvania; 9. Duquesne; 10 Mississippi State; 11. Oregon State; 12. Alabama; 13. Duke; 14. Texas A. & M; 15. Tennessee; 16. Vander-bilt; 17. Georgia; 18. Northwestern; 19. TCU; 20. Ohio State; 21. Ole Miss; 22. Cornell; 23. Harvard; 24. Washington State; 25. Oklahoma; 26. L.S.U.; 27 .Rice; 28. Stanford; 29. Tulane; 30. S.M.U.; 31. Oregon; 32. Santa Clara; 33. Auburn; 34. Washington U.; 35. Army. Rifle Team R. O. T. C. students interested in membership on the Rifle Team are requested to contact either Lt. Panell or Lt. Shumaker immediately, as record five begins this week. Six Montgomerians, Including Four Auburnites, at Maxwell Jones, Lapsley, Stewart, and Walker Enrolled Six Montgomerians, including the son of Governor Frank M. Dixon, are now enrolled as aviation cadets in the Air Corps Replacement Training Center at Maxwell Field, Ala. They are A'Dalbert Bowen of 23 Longview Street, Sam Perry Dixon of 702 South Perry Street, Julian Harris Jones of 1259 South Court Street, George Waring Huston Lapsley of 14 Wilson Street, William Craig Stewart of 102 Madison Terrace and Hal Tabb Walker. They will soon be sent to primary schools for the first phase of their flight training. Upon the completion of courses in primary, basic and advanced schools, they will be awarded commissions as second Lieutenants in the Army Air Forces. Cadet Bowen, son of Mrs. Gertrude W. Bowen, attended the State Teachers College at Florence. He was at Gunter Field before he was accepted as a cadet. Cadet Dixon, son of the governor, attended the University of Alabama. He was connected with the Goodyear Tire Company at Gadsden before he entered the service. Cadet Jones, son of Mrs. Lucy Hinds Jones, attended Auburn and the University of Alabama. He formerly was a draftsman with the state highway department. Cadet Lapsley, son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Lapsley, also attended Auburn where he received his B. S. degree last June. Cadet Stewart, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Andrew Stewart, also an Auburn man, was a wholesale parts clerk in an automobile concern before he came into the Army. Cadet Walker, son of Mrs. Corrine L. Walker, was a tire salesman formerly, and he also is an Auburn man. YARDSTICK By JOHN PIERCE gssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss SEND THE PLAINSMAN TO THE FOLKS BACK HOME We stepped into the teeth of Dallas' 15 degree temperature to watch.Alabama and Texas A&M fight it out in the Cotton Bowl, and a fairly interesting spectacle of football and color it turned out to be. For the Tide it was strictly smart, heads up football, the kind that wins more games than you can keep track of these days, the kind that makes the team wait for the breaks and then—socko and 29 points. Statistics, hashed and rehashed by this time, showed one thing—that the Aggies had it but didn't quite do the right thing with it against Texas or Alabama. We hadn't seen Jimmy Nelson before Thursday, but that afternoon was sufficient to show him off to anybody as a fast, shifty, versatile and quick thinking back. His 72 yard run-back for one touchdown was no surprise at the time it came. He had been leading up to it all along. One look at A&M's ends will show one why that team has been so successful in the passing department. There were eleven of 'em and not one stood under six feet, two inches. Homer Norton kept switching his flankers regularly and the Tide performed creditably in making #ie famed Daniels to Sterling and Henderson aerial show backfire as it did (12 completions, seven interceptions in 42 tries.) Jitterbug Henderson, one of the Southwest's great ends, took a plane as soon as the game ended to join the Aggie basketball team in Illinois. So it was 'Bama's day in the football end of it, but it remained for the Aggie hooters to provide the day's peak in color. It is a custom for the whole A&M student body (7,000 cadets) to stand during the entire two hours of the game. And not only does Joe Aggie stand, but if he has a date with him she stands, if his mother came along she stands, or if he dragged grandpa out, he does the same. At the halftime the Aggie band—made up of 216 pieces paraded while the Texans roared, and gave the best all around demonstration we've ever seen anywhere by a college band. Approximately 38,000 attended the classic. Bruce Layer of the Houston Post now talks of tentative plans to enlarge the Cotton Bowl to a capacity of 85,000. Which is all right if you can do those things, and we've seen nothing about the way Texas does things up to indicate that the enlargement won't take place. -- * * * * * jjj Coach Del Morgan, formerly Auburn's line coach, rounded out his first year at Texas Tech by sending his once-beaten Red Raiders to the Sun Bowl where they dropped a close decision to Tulsa. The new Tech schedule indicates a rapid toughening of the class of opposition. Texas A&M, Baylor, Rice and TCU all will be met by Morgan's boys in 1942. . . . All Southwest schedules are out—unless some changes are made Auburn will not meet a Texas team during the coming season. . . .Joe Sprague, senior manager of the footballers, has seen every Auburn football game during his four years in school. . ..^ Lloyd Cheatham was a co-captain of the South football squad which took the North into camp by a 16-0 count. . . . Rufe Deal is among the eight married footballers recently drafted by the Washington Redskins. The draft isn't run, by any means, on the same line with another draft we've all been hearing of. It's simply a method of dividing the cream of the college talent among the ten pro grid teams. The Washington Times Herald gave an amusing picture of the enthusiasm registered over players with infirmities or dependents picked by coaches or owners. Vincent X. Flaherty tells it as follows: In running over his list, Steve Owen, coach of the Giants, was enthused over the acquisition of one particular player. "This guy," said Steve excitedly, "has got flat feet and hasn't got a tooth in his head!" "That's nothing," put in Ray Flaherty (Redskin Coach). I've got a boy who is married and has two kids, and, besides, his mother is dependent upon him." * * * * * And, though a little belatedly, we offer our congratulations to Vic Costellos and Tex Williams, captain and alt.-capt, respectively, of the 1942 Plainsmen. The squadmen made a fine choice. Probably the best thing we could say of the outcome was—both Vic and Tex deserved what they got— and that can cover a lot of territory. * * * * * Forward Frank Manci, who's stood high in conference scoring parades since his sophomore year when he made his first Auburn cage team, has gotten off to a whirlwind start to take over the Conference lead before the race has gotten well started. Against Mississippi State he accounted for 16 points, and against Ole Miss he racked up 19, a total of 35, almost half of the entire team total of 73. We hadn't expected such a fast start with Tommy Mastin, Fred Williams and Marvin Motley, all among the missing, but that always seems to be what comes of thinking. The Spring Hill bill should offer some fine basketball despite the fact that Shag Hawkins will be on the sidelines. AUBURN CAGERS OPEN HOME SCHEDULE AGAINST BADGERS 'The War? Pooh!" Says H awanan The Entire Family Will Enjoy Reading The Latest News Of "The Loveliest Village". Keep 'Em Posted $1.50 PER SEMESTER Thumbing Reporter Lands Ride With Visiting Motorist By JIMMY PASTEUR The big '42 maroon Buick captured my attention the moment it rounded the corner, and I immediately made ready to use my best hitch-hiking technique. As the automobile drew closer, I put out my thumb and in my politest manner inquired, "Montgomery?" The driver pulled over to the curb just a little ahead of me and motioned for me to get in. I opened the door and asked, "Going to Montgomery?" He merely nodded his head and immediately opened the conversation with, "I'm from Hawaii," or so I interpreted the statement. He spoke with such a dialect that I was forced to use my imagination most of the time. It was perfectly obvious from the outset that the man's chief interests were of a foreign nature — information of which I realized I was sadly lacking in. This, I thought, was going to be a most interesting trip. The preliminaries over, I subjected myself to being a pupil of foreign Geography. I very quickly learned that his country was an ideal place in which to live, that the scenery was wonderful, the climate delightful, the people the best on this turbulent planet, the soil most fertile, the roads extremely good, the economic conditions perfect, and the topography unexcelled. In addition, discovered that the U.S. was a "Ver' nice Countree," but was in no way comparable to his own native land. With very little effort, I also learned that he had been in America only five months, most of which he had spent touring the country, that he didn't like the South, that Baltimore was an undesirable place in which to live, that Washington was our most beautiful city, and that he liked New York best of all. I tried, with no appreciable amount of success, to steer the conversation into other channels, attempted to call his attention to some of the points of interest along the way, to which he responded by grunting, "Uh, huh," nodding his head indifferently... Persistently, I tried another method of approach and asked, "What do you think of the war situation?" to which query he replied/ The war? Pooh!" making a gesture of indifference as he did so, which neccessitated taking both hands from the wheel. My pulse rate increased considerably, as we were doing somewhat better than seventy when he executed this maneuver. I solemnly vowed not to make another such hazardous move, and resigned myself to a verbal tour of his country for the remainder of the journey. Navy Launches New Drive For Combat Flyers Launching a drive to procure 2,500 aviation pilots each month for combat fliers in the aviation wing of the U. S. Navy, the Navy Department today extended enlistments in the Naval Reserve Aviation class to include soph-mores in college and announced that all men enlisting as volunteers in Class V-5 will be eligible for active duty at the end of their current school year. The enrollment of sophomores in college as potential candidates for commissions in the Naval Reserve Aviation is the result of an effort by the Navy Department to build up the pool of able-bodied young men to take the place of the thousands of young Naval pilots now passing through Naval Air Training Stations for duty with the fleet. Candidates for appointment as Aviation Cadets must: (a) Be a male citizen of the United States for a period of at least ten years. (b) Be not less than twenty years of age, and have not reached his twenty-seventh birthday at the time of enlistment as seaman, second class. (c) Agree to remain on active duty four years, including period undergoing training as aviation cadet, unless sooner released by the Navy Department. (d) Be unmarried, must not previously have been married, and must agree to remain unmarried until the expiration of two years from the date of entering upon active duty. (e) Be educationally, morally, Meet Spring Hill This Week-end In Alumni Gym Winners over Mississippi and Mississippi State, Coach Ralph Jordan's Auburn c a g e r s this week-end open their home schedule with a pair of games against the Spring Hill Badgers in Alumni Gym. Two games featuring the freshman team will precede the varsity- Spring Hill games with the rats entertaining Columbus Manufacturing on Friday and Chad-wick Gassers Saturday. The Plainsmen opened Conference play strongly with their first two victories. Despite the absence of veteran guard Marvin Motley from the lineup they dropped Mississippi State by 39- 29 and Mississippi by 34-31. Frank Manci stood out in both engagements, sinking a total of 35 points during the bill.. Absence of Shag Hawkins, SEC high scorer in 1941, from his center position this week-end is a certainty. A neck operation in Birmingham during the holidays is the cause, and it is yet unknown just how long it will be before he will return to the lineup. To fill the vacancy Coach Jordan has experimented with an altered lineup which moves Manci, regularly a forward, into the center spot, Fagan Canzoneri, a guard, to the forward position, and Jack Tanner in as a guard. This would have the starting lineup showing guards Tanner and Park, forwards Burton and Canzoneri, and center Manci. Motley, out because of scholastic ineligibility, is expected to return to active duty with the squad before the next conference battles. physically and psychologically qualified. College juniors and seniors, after enlistment in Class V-5, may be deferred from call to active duty until completion of - their current college year, if they so request. Thereafter they will be assigned to active training duty in the earliest class in which they can be accomodated. Part of the rhythm of action the pause that refreshes EXAMINATIONS (Continued from Page 1) or MF. In the afternoon, all 2nd hour classes, 9-10, scheduled TThS, ThS, TTh, or TThF. Monday, Jan. 19: In the morning all 3rd hour classes, 10-11, scheduled TThS, ThS, TTh, or TThF. In the afternoon all 3rd hour classes scheduled, TThS, ThS, TTh, or TThF. SSSS3SSSSSSS8SSSS£SSSSSS3SS£SSSSSSSSSS8SSS8SSSSSSSS8:$ LOANS Short Term Loan* on Most Anything of Value Opelika Pawn Shop Clement Hotel Corner Opelika, Ala. Tuesday, Jan. 20: In the morning all 4th hour classes 11-12, scheduled MWF, MW, MTWThF, or MF. In the afternoon all 6th hour classes scheduled 2-3. Wednesday, Jan. 21: In the morning all 5th hour classes, 1-2 scheduled MWF, MW, MTWThF, or MF. In the afternoon all 5th hour classes, 1-2 scheduled TThS, ThS, TTh, or TThF. Also at this time will come the 4th hour classes, 11-12, TTh. Instead of beginning at 1:30 as the others will, this one will begin at 4:00. Thursday, Jan. 22: In the morning at 8:00, classes which meet at 4-5 MWF, TTh, and MF. In the afternoon at 1:30 all subjects which have a conflict with this schedule or which are not scheduled elsewhere. H. H. SIMMS, FORMER AUBURN MAN, IS MAXWELL CADET Henry Holland Simms of 102 South Morgan Street, Dothan, is enrolled as an aviation cadet in the Air Corps Replacement Training Center at Maxwell Field, Ala. Cadet Simms, who attended the Alabama Polytechnic Institute and the State Teachers College at Troy, was a salesman before he entered the Army! He is a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. He will soon be sent to one of the numerous primary schools in the southeast for his initial flight training. Upon the completion of training at primary, basic and advanced schools, he will be commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army Air Forces. ALL KINDS OF FEED CONSUMERS COAL & FEED CO. Auburn It's the refreshing thing to do lav Opelika Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Phone 70 M-39-4 |
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