1941-12-19 The Plainsman

              Merry
Christmas ThB Vlairidmarv And A
Happy New Year
'TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT'
VOLUME LXV ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1941 NUMBER 27
Costellos, Williams
To Lead %2 Tigers
Senior Gridmen Presented With Watches
At Banquet Last Night in Birmingham
By JOHN PIERCE
Vic Costellos was last night elected to captain the 1942
Auburn football te.am and Tex Williams was chosen as Alter­nate-
Captain at a banquet given the Plainsmen footballers in
Birmingham by the Birmingham Alumni Club.
Costellos, a junior letterman, is a guard. His home is in
Birmingham, where he led the Ramsay High School team
in 1937 and was chosen on the All-State team of that year.
Weighing only 165 pounds he's ranked as Coach Meagher's
fieriest performer during his three
years of college football.
Tex Williams, regular center for
the past two years, is from Llan-erch,
Pa. Playing his prep school
ball at Monroe A. & M., he was
an All-Georgia selection. He
weighs 187 pounds, has been one
of the Tiger line's main cogs
through his sophomore and jun­ior
vears. In '40 he was an All-
Southeastern Sophomore per­former
and was this year a close
contender for All-SEC honors.
Auburn senior gridmen were
presented with watches at the
banquet, which featured speeches
by Coach Jimmy Conzelman of
the professional Chicago Cardi­nals
and Coach Meagher of
Auburn.
Twenty-Two Awarded
Varsity "A" Numerals
Five Seniors,
Ten Juniors, And
Seven Sophs Listed
Twenty-two members of Au­burn's
1941 football squad have
been awarded letters upon recom­mendation
of Head Coach Jack
Meagher, it was announced Wed­nesday.
Of the lettermen 17 are tenta­tively
scheduled to return in
1942. Numeral winning seniors
who wound up their football ca­reers
this season were Capt.
Lloyd Cheatham, Alt.- Capt.
Francis Crimmins, Jim Samford,
Johnny Chalkley and Nick" Ar-dillo.
The rest of the list is made
up of ten juniors and seven
sophomores.
Also awarded numerals were
senior co-managers Virgil Rice
and Joe Sprague and headcheer-leader
Joe Gandy.
The football lettermen:
Seniors — L l o y d Cheatham,
quarterback; Francis Crimmins
and Johnny Chalkley, tackles;
Nick Ardillo, guard; and Jim
Samford, end.
Juniors—Clarence Harkins and
Monk Gafford, halfbacks; Ty Irby
and Jim Reynolds, fullbacks; Vic
Costellos and Max Morris, guards;
Tex Williams, center; Joe Eddins
and Jim McClurkin, tackles; and
Clarence Grimimett, end.
Sophomores—Billy Barton and
Fagan Canzoneri, ends; Rick Fer-reU
and Jack Cornelius, guards; |.riouK
Bill Schuler, tackle; Aubrey
Clayton, quarterback; and Char­lie
Finney, halfback.
Corps Day
The monthly Corps Day, regu­larly
scheduled for the first Tues­day
in the month, has been post­poned
until the first Thursday
after the holidays. This announce­ment
was made yesterday by
Colonel Watts.
The Corps Day will be held on
Jan. 8 instead of Jan. 6.
RAF Cadets Sing In
Jaycees Xmas Series
Baptist Church
Program to Be
Broadcast, WJHO
Thirty-five RAF cadets will
arrive in Auburn Saturday after­noon
to present a program of
Christmas music at the Baptist
Church Saturday night at 7:15.
This program will mark the con­clusions
of the series of programs
which are being held this week
and which are sponsored by the
Auburn Junior Chamber of Com­merce.
This program will be
broadcast over station WJHO
from 7:15 until 8 o'clock.
Tonight's program will also be
presented at the Baptist Church
and will feature numbers by the
Baptist choir. This program will
start at 8:15 and will be broad­cast.
Tuesday night, a community
sing was held in Langdon Hall,
and was led by the Auburn Glee
Club, under the direction of Mr.
Lawrence Barnett.
The Jaycees are also sponsor­ing
the display of the nativity
scene on the campus which at­tracted
so much attention last
year. This diorama was erected
this week by the Buildings and
Grounds Department and is light­ed
at night. From seven until
eleven o'clock at night, Christ­mas
music can be heard from the
loudspeakers on the sides.
Members of the Junior Cham­ber
of Commerce undertook this
Christmas program project with
the full cooperation of college
officials.
Work to Begin
On Airport
Former Professor
Major Alex Taylor
To Direct Project
Work is scheduled to begin Dec.
26 on a $226,759.24 expansion
project at the Auburn-Opelika
Airport following approval of a
joint contract to two low bidders
Tuesday.
Calling for completion of con­struction
work by April 1, the
contract provides for the clear­ing,
grubbing, grading, and pav­ing
of two runways. Each of the
runways is to be 500 feet wide
and 4,200 feet long, with paving
extending 150 feet in width and
4,000 feet in length.
A paved taxiway 50 feet wide
leading from the hangar to the
runways is also covered by the
contract. Lighting and sodding of
the field will be provided for in
a later contract.
Smith Construction Co. and
Noona Construction Co. of Pensa-cola
were named low bidders and
received joint contract for the
work when 23 bids were opened
at the U. S. Engineers office in
Mobile Tuesday.
Major Alex Taylor, U. S. Engi­neer
who recently completed a
similar project near Atlanta, has
been appointed to be in charge
of construction here.
Students Top Goal in Red Cross Drive
Whirlwind Campaign
Raises $l,006 Fund
Collections Made at Picture Show,
In Classrooms, and by Organizations
By GEORGE HEARD
The Auburn student body showed its willingness to do its
part-in this time of national emergency yesterday when they
contributed enough money in a whirlwind campaign to go
over the top in the student drive for funds.
The exact amount Was $1,006. This figure was released
yesterday by Dr. Roger Allen who was in charge of the drive
in Auburn.
The student drive, which ended yesterday, was a part of
the nation-wide drive to raise an
Rumors of Christmas
Holiday Changes
False—Draughon
In spite of all rumors to the
contrary, Auburn's Christmas hol­idays
will begin and end on sche­dule
this semester, according to a
statement made Tuesday night by
Ralph B. Draughon, Executive
Secretary.
Students' holidays begin after
classes Saturday, and continue
through Jan. 4, as stated in the
1941-42 catalog.
Classes will begin at 8 a. m. on
the morning of Jan. 5, 1942, which
is Monday.
Reassurance on the holiday
schedule was. given by Mr.
Draughon in a statement to a
Plainsman staff member when
questioned about the truth of va-rumors.
circulated on the,
campus recently of a reduction in
the number of days of Christmas
vacation.
"BATTLE CRY"
Editor Bill Lynn, of "The Au­burn
Battle Cry", announced to­day
that a few copies of the pub­lication
were still available, and
would be on sale in the Student
Center until the beginning of
Christmas holidays.
additional $50,000,000 for the Red
Cross. This amount was requested
by the President last week.
The students' part in the drive
was carried on by a group of
about fifty, representing most of
the organizations on the campus.
At a meeting held last Sunday
afternoon the students were de­bating
the exact amount to be set
up as a goal. Several were of the
opinion that $500 would be suf­ficient
and others thought that it
would be better to have it at a
thousand dollars and not reach it
than have it at five hundred and
go over the quota.
The sum of one thousand dol­lars
was finally agreed upon as
being the better goal. The stu­dents
showed their cooperation
when they not only passed the
$500 mark but went over the
$1,000 figure.
Dean Allen expressed his opin­ion
yesterday when he stated that
it was the "finest cjppggrationthat
he had ever seen among the
students on this campus".
The quota for Lee County was
$4,250 and the students asked to
be allowed to try to raise $1,000
of this amount.
Collections were made in the
various classrooms throughout
Tuesday. A collection was also
made at the Tiger Theatre with
the members of the Women's
Student Government Association
taking up the contributions.
INTERFRAT PLEDGE DANCE IS
TONIGHT IN GRAVES' CENTER
LEADS PLEDGE DANCE TONIGHT
Miss Betty Jane Harwell, above, will lead, tonight's Interf rater-nity
Pledge Dance with Jade Manning. SPE, Chairman of the
Dance Committee.
Auburn Knights
To Furnish
Music for Hop
By LAWRENCE TOLLISON
The 1941 Inter - Fraternity
Pledge Dance will be held tonight
starting at 9 o'clock at Graves
Center, with music to be furnish­ed
by Bobby Adair and the Au­burn
Knights. Over 300 pledges,
from twenty fraternities, and
their dates are expected to attend.
For several weeks a pledge
dance council, headed by Jack
Manning, SPE pledge, has been
formulating plans for the event,
and representatives from various
fraternity pledge classes have
been assigned to committees.
The dance, which is the third
of its type, will feature four no-breaks
and lead-outs for presi­dents
of the twenty fraternity
pledge classes. Pledges attending
the dance have been asked to
sign their name and the name of
their date in the guest book at
the door.
Each fraternity will have their
pledge button displayed on the
columns in the auditorium, and
the general theme of the main
decorations will be in red.
Funds for this dance were ob­tained
by assessing each frater­nity
according to the number of
its pledges, and these funds are to
be used for pay for the orchestra
and general decorations, while
each fraternity will furnish their
own pledge button and other post
decorations.
Representatives to the pledge
dance committee have voted that
the dance be formal. However
this will not exclude those who
wish to come informal.
A thermometer was placed at
the main gate where each hour
the rise of the money collected
was shown. At noon Monday
there was a mock accident in the
downtown area of Auburn put on
by the Red Cross.
JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE
Only Fifteen Students Leave
Auburn for Military Reasons
Majority of 15
Leave Before
War Declared
—Plainsman Staff Photo—Leroy Spearman
Bob Carstens, second from left, and Gray Carter, extreme right, prepare Cake Race tags for two
freshmen just before Monday's annual race. That's a lemon the third freshman is viciously chewing.
Bob Ortagus Wins Cake Race
Pi Kappa Alpha
Frosh Take ODK
Fraternity Cup
Bob Ortagus, Theta Chi fresh­man
from Neptune Beach, Flori­da,
led five hundred and ninety-three
struggling freshmen across
the finish line of the annual
Wilbur Hutsell-O.D.K. Cake Race
Monday afternoon. Ortagus was
followed closely, but not pushed,
by Kenneth Kirkwood and Joe
Lawless, pledges of Sigma Chi
and S.P.E. respectively.
The O.D.K. Cake Race cup was
won by Pi Kappa Alpha. This cup
is given to that fraternity whose
first four places total to the small­est
number. The PiKA men, with
7th, 9th, 15th, and 35th, had the
lowest total, 66.
The winning time, a relatively
slow 15:09, was faster than that
of last year's winner but was far
from the record time of 14:05.6
set by John Ball in the 1939 race.
The majority of the freshmen
that finished this year were,
however, noticeably faster.
After the usual false start
brought about by a neatly-timed
firecracker, the freshmen were
finally checked and tagged and
ready to go. The second start was
made and the pack soon thinned
as the leaders passed Toomer's
corner, and from then on there
was little doubt as to who would
take home the cakes.
The cakes and the various
prizes were awarded to the first
twenty-five at the theater Mon­day
night, and the winner claim­ed
his kiss from "Miss Auburn".
By JIMMY PASTEUR
Statistics released by the Reg­istrar's
office this week, revealed
that only 15 students have left
school this semester as a result
of the war situation. It is interest­ing
to note that only seven of
this number volunteered for ac­tive,
service.
Surprisingly enough, the pres­ent
international crisis has not
caused a mad rush among API
students for the recruiting station,
as was feared at the outset. Over
half of the seven that enlisted
went into service before Nov. 24,
while only two have donned the
khaki during the month of
December.
Of those who resigned from
school to take part in the hostili­ties,
eight were drafted, two vol­unteered,
two went to enlist in
the Royal Canadian* Air Force,
one enlisted in the U. S. Army
Air Corps, one joined the RAF,
and one left, "On account of the
war".
The ex-students and the reasons
for their withdrawal are: A. G.
Roberts, Royal Canadian Air
Force; W. E. Banks, draft; C. V.
Beck, draft; S. N. Morris, draft;
J. G. Wright, draft; E. L. Boze-man,
draft; J. A. Payne, draft;
R. G. Wynn, volunteer; J. J.
Nichols, draft; Martin Dillon,
Canadian Air Force; Jim Barga-nier,
draft; J. E. Mills, RAF; E.
E. O'Reilly, enlisted; S. W. Smith,
Air Corps; and E. J. Bermingham,
"On account of the war".
The general attitude of the stu­dents
seems to be one of grim
determination to go steadily
ahead with the job at hand until
called upon by their country. One
student very appropriately ex­pressed
the popular sentiment
with the statement: "When the
time comes that I'm needed over
there more than I am here, then
I'm ready to go, but until that
time, I'm perfectly content to re­main
right here!"
In view of the present state if
affairs, if is gratifying to note
that such a small number of API
students have given up their col­lege
careers for military service.
Promotions,
Assignments
Made in Corps
Dubberly Promoted
To Captain; Kulp
To 1st Lieutenant
Two promotions and transfers
of assignments in Auburn's ROTC
Cadet Corps were anonunced this
week by order of Lt. Colonel
Watts, with the approval of Presi­dent
Duncan.
Cadet 1st Lt. Charles A. Dub­berly
was promoted to the rank
of Captain, and relieved from as­signment
with Battery "A" of the
First Field Artillery, to be as­signed
to the Regiment Staff of
the First Field Artillery.
Cadet 2nd Lieutenant Russell
P. Kulp was promoted to the rank
of 1st Lt., and relieved from as­signment
with Battery "E" of the
Second Field Artillery, to be as­signed
to Battery "A" of the First
Field Artillery.
Cadet Captain Dubberly was
recently chosen by Scabbard and
Blade as assistant drill master
for the new Freshman Drill Pla­toon,
and will work with the
platoon at its regular drill hours.
Thanks, Students
The Rev. William Byrd Lee, of
the Episcopal Church, yesterday
extended his thanks to Auburn
students for their cooperation in
the Red Cross drive Tuesday.
Page Two THE P L A I N S M AN December 19, 1941
WSGA Presents Formal Christmas Dinner
Party for
Held After Banquet
Executive Cabinet Guests at Monday
Night Quadrangle Social Events
As guests of the Women's Student Government Association
the Executive Cabinet attended a formal Christmas dinner in
the Women's Dining Hall Monday night. The banquet was
presided over by Nelle Gilchrist, president of WSGA and in­cluded
such distinguished guests as Dr. and Mrs. Duncan,
Mrs. Duncan's mother, Mrs. Smith, and Miss Wellborn, adviser
to the Student Government. Seated at Dr. Walston's table
were Dr. and Mrs. Allison, Miss Emory, Mrs. McGee, Dr. and
Mrs. Greene, and Mrs. Clark.
Heads-of-halls served as hostesses
ALPHA DELTA GROUP
at student tables.
The dining hall was impressive­ly
decorated in holiday colors,
with pine needles, pine cones, and
mistletoe. Candles furnished the
only light. After the meal Christ­mas
songs led by members of the
Glee Club were sung.
At eight o'clock the guests and
the women students went to the
Social Center. At a Christmas
party there gifts were given to the
Quadrangle servants. An appro­priate
jingle was attached to each
present. The cooks from the din­ing
hall entertained with a pro­gram
of spirituals.
The social committee of the
Women's Student Government,
headed by Mary Loranz and as­sisted
by Sarah Culpepper, execu­tive
secretary, planned the party
and also had charge of all the
decorations used. S o c i a l chair­men
of each dormitory who help­ed
were: Ellen Breedlove, Dormi­tory
One, who had charge of the
selection and wrapping of the
gifts; Frances Baldwin and Doro­thy
Norman, Dormitories Two
and Three respectively, who
worked out a Christmas program;
Margaret Tucker and Erin Bat-son,
Dormitory Four and Smith
Hall, who decorated the tree in
Social Cente". Eleanor Bell was in
charge of decorations in the Din­ing
Hall. Martha Gerhardt and
Jeanne Goodin made the place
cards for the banquet.
Mrs. Ibbie Jones, the dietetian
in the Dining Hall, had as her
special guests: Mrs. Kingsberry
and Mrs. Gaines, house mothers of
co-op houses; Mrs. Keebel; Mr.
C. T. Clark; the Secretary of the
Methodist Student Union; the
state BSU secretary and four co­op
seniors who will soon be in
the army.
Georgians To
Aid Student
Victims of War
Subscribe To
World-wide
Movement
Student leaders at the Univer­sity
of Georgia have subscribed
to the world wide movement to
assist students who are victims
of the war in China, Europe,
prison camps, and in exile. ,
Claude D. Nelson, of New York,
executive director of the world
student service organization, re­cently
spoke at the University
urging assistance for the students
in war stricken countries.
Among those present were Al
Fowler, Douglasville, president
of the Voluntary Religious Asso­ciation
and campus leader; Eliza­beth
.Ann Hosch, Gainesville,
president of the Voluntary Reli­gious
Association and pioneer
club; Verner Chaff in, Toccoa,
president interfraternity council
and ODK; Marianna Adair,
Comer, president women's pan-hellenic
council; Lee Secrest,
Athens, president Blue Key honor
fraternity; Julia Farmer, New Or-
The seventeen members of Alpha Delta, newest sorority on the
campus of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, are pictured above.
Organized only this year, this group constitutes a colonizing chap­ter
for Alpha Delta Pi national sorority, and will join the national
sorority next fall. The forming of this new sorority makes it the
seventh on the Auburn campus.
Saturday afternoon these members entertained with a tea to
formally introduce their chapter to various campus leaders, and
over 200 fraternity members and campus officials attended.
Members pictured above, first row, left to right, Marjorie Smith,
Slocomb; Virginia Elaine Reddoch, president, Luverne; Mildred
McGough, Fayette. Second row, Mary Ann Webb, secretary,
Birmingham; Helen Perkins, chaplain, Birmingham; Jean Gittings,
vice-president, Anniston; Dorris Odom, pledge chairman, Leeds;
Sarah Smith, Slocomb; Vernelle Fordham, Anniston. Third row,
Barbara Edith Simmons, Columbus, Ga.; Alice Elizabeth Sheffield,
Cedartown, Ga.; Elizabeth Thompson, treasurer. Piedmont. Fourth
row. Charlotte Mallory, Anniston; Marguerite Haisten, Selma;
Virginia Haggard, reporter, Ft. Benning. Ga. Fifth row. Nancy
Merrill, Andalusia; Betty Jane Wilson, Columbus, Ga. Not shown
in the picture is Frances Stanley, Montgomery.
leans, president Mortar Board;
Raymond Lesser, Athens, presi­dent
international relations club;
Bernard Se'ckinger, Springfield,
chancellor of Alpha Zeta; Adin
Steenland, New Jersey, president
of the ag h i l l council; Curtis
Avery, West Point, president of
the Aghon Club; Jack Royall, De­catur,
president of the "X" club,
and Morris Macey, Camilla, pres­ident
of the biftad club.
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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
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Duncan Urges
Coeds to Stay
In College
Emergency Defense
Classes In Home
Economics Begin
At a meeting of all majors in
Home Economics Saturday morn­ing,
Dr. Duncan charged all Au­burn
women students with the re­sponsibility
for continuing in col­lege,
and made a positive state­ment
that Auburn would carry
on, in spite of any war-time con­ditions.
Mrs. Marion Spidle, Head of the
School of Home Economics, urg­ed
that all students attend all
classes, and work toward higher
scholastic achievement, to pre­pare
themselves to serve their
country when called to. She re­quested
them to challenge all
propaganda rumors, consistently
refusing to spread such rumors.
The Department of Home
Economics is cooperating in emer­gency
defense by offering special
courses throughout the s c h o ol
year for any woman student in­terested.
Women students, irrespective
of their majors, can attend classes
in First Aid and other defense
work, Red Cross Sewing, Nutri­tion
and Canteen S e r v i c e for
Volunteer Workers, and Elemen­tary
Nutrition.
Instructing in these courses are
the following members of the
Home Economics faculty: Miss
Davis, Miss Spencer, Mrs. Arnold,
Miss Temple and Miss Finkel-stein.
Mrs. Spidle yesterday express­ed
her gratitude for the enthusi­asm
and interest shown by Au­burn's
women students who, in
large numbers, attended a meet­ing
to organize these defense
classes Monday night.
Society
By E. GAINES
Kappa Sigma
The Kappa Sigs entertained Friday night with a buffet supper
and house dance. The date list was: Bobby Goodin, Becky Gunn;
George Chipman, Amy Jackson; Pete Main, Betty Bell; Cliff Wallis,
Caroline Fundeburk; Bob Morton, Mary Jane Phillips; Fred Arnold,
Kathryn Jones; Bill Mosher, Judy Wynn; Ed Rice, Maxine Downey;
Mao Hunter, Doris Ruth Bedingfield; Banks Griffith, Charlie Faye
Nixon; Dewitt Shirer, Mary Elizabeth Springfield; H. M. Dykes,
Blanche Ellis; Seddon Lee, Mardel Conger; Bill Brady, Dixie Hall;
Jim Ratcliffe, Hazel Mae Pow; Bill Holloway, Betty Simpson; Mal­colm
Richards, Peyton Thrasher, Mrs. Helen Williams, house mother,
chaperoned.
Christmas wreathes, mistletoe, and candles were used to deco­rate
the house in the holiday tradition. Presents were given to Mrs.
Williams and Jeanne Goodin in appreciation for service to Kappa
Sigma.
Beta Kappa
The Sigma chapter of Beta Kappa acted as hosts to the founders
of the Sigma chapter at the annual Christmas banquet and dance
Saturday.
Sigma chapter became affiliated with the national organization
in 1927 when the local fraternity, Kappa Phi, was inducted into
Beta Kappa. The honor guests were the men who were members
of Kappa Phi when it became Sigma of Beta Kappa.
The banquet was presided over by Thomas W. Allen of Mont­gomery
who is the oldest member in seniority of the chapter, bear­ing
the number one. The other alumni guests were T. H. Pearce,
R. A. Sansing, Cameron White, Roy H. Staples, W. C. Reagan, J. K.
Livingston, and F. C. McCullom ah of Sigma chapter; Jake Jones
of Alpha Gamma chapter located at Georgia Tech, and William
Martin of Psi chapter located at Birmingham-Southern.
After the banquet the members and pledges entertained the
guests at a house dance. Mrs. Roy H. Staples and Mrs. Reba Tarver
acted as chaperons.
Kappa Delta
The KDs are planning to do their utmost for our country by
sewing and knitting. Already they have turned some of their handi­work
over to the Red Cross.
Pi Kappa Alpha
The PiKAs gave a Christmas party for about thirty under­privileged
children Tuesday night. Each child received a gift from
the Santa Claus, Bill Gordon. The gifts consisted of practical items,
such as shirts, hats, socks, and ties.
The fraternity started this practice last year and since then
several other of the Greek organizations on the campus have taken
up the custom.
Alpha Tau Omega
Alpha Tau Omega presented its annual Christmas Party last night
at the chapter house. ,
Presents were distributed among members, pledges, and dates
by "Santa Claus" Joe Dean.
Those present were served refreshments later in the evening by
Mrs. Rebecca Henry, housemother of the chapter.
As in past years, the toys and trinkets given as presents at the
party will be turned over to welfare workers for underprivileged
children.
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May we have the pleasure of extending to you, one and all, our sincere
desire for all the good things that you may wish for... . Our ever increasing
circle of friends has made this Christmas a very happy one for us. . . . and
we only hope that you will receive your share of happiness.
For your fine patronage we are thankful and ask that we may continue
to serve you in the years to come.
O F F I C E R S
W. W. HILL—President R. E .HUDSON—Vice-President
A. L. THOMAS—Chairman Board G. H. WRIGHT—Cashier
ROBERT H. INGRAM—Asst. Cashier
The First National Bank of Auburn
MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
MEMBER OF F.D.I.C.
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December 19, 1941 THE P L A I N S M AN Page Three
May Your 1942 Cake
Be Full of Plums
8S
6? The Opelika Merchants Listed on This
Page Have Again Cooperated as Al­ways.
They Extend Greetings to You
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Page Four T H E P L A I N S M AN December 19,1941
Professors, We're Asking Your Help, Too!
Since time has been recorded, every
generation has had to fight a war. From
the look of things ours will be no excep­tion.
Though other men and other in­fluences
have precipitated this war it re­mains
ours to fight and it will remain our
lot to rebuild civilization after we have
won.
The war, therefore, is our common in-terest^-
an interest because within each of
us, as Americans, lies a sense of duty. Duty
to each other, to our country, and to our
heritages.
Since Sunday, Dec. 7, this interest has
been uppermost in our minds, and rightly
it should. All other things have been sec­ondary,
even to the studies which are to
prepare us to take our place in the world.
As matters stand today this world we
planned to enter has been thrown out of
joint. In the midst of these uncertanties
and disappointments we have been asked
by our school to throw ourselves whole­heartedly
into our work and look ahead
to time when the knowledge we are ac­cumulating
now will fit us for the great
reconstruction which will follow final vic­tory.
The school is, of course, right. We
should, all of us, have the long view, but
for most of us that is a Herculean task.
Even though the request made will be
hard for most of us to comply with, there
is nothing to be gained by taking the atti­tude
of the defeatist. Let us, at least,
pledge ourselves to do the best we can.
But let us in turn make a request of our
professors. Let us say to them: In this
time of emergency, when the students'
attentions are necessarily divided, a goodly
share focused upon the progress of our
fighting forces and upon his own relation
to the crisis and its outcome, it is a chal­lenge
to each instructor to utilize all his
powers of ingenuousness, patience, and
humaness to make the job before the stu­dent
one of interest, pleasure, and freedom
from anxiety.
If our professors will meet us half-way
according to these requirements we may
feel certain that our gaining of knowledge
will continue and that the good name of
our school will not have cause to suffer.
H.H.
On Making the Best of the Army Situation
Recently we heard a soldier, who is
about to become an officer in the army, say
something which has been in "our minds
ever since.
He said that lots of the men drafted or
recalled into the army went in with the
idea that this was something they didn't
want to do, but were being forced to, and
that they were just going to do what they
had to do, and nothing else—except wait
until they could get out again.
Contrary to that, this soldier said that
he had gone into the army with this atti­tude:
He had to go in and he didn't particular­ly
want to, at the time. But since he had
to, he was going to do his best, and to get
the most out of his period of-training that
he could.
That soldier had the right idea. He knew
that his country needed men who would
do their best, and do more than just what
they had to.
He knew that he himself could get more
out of the army by making it something
worth doing, and that the army would get
more out of his service if he did do his
best.
It's an old Plainsman custom to ask our
friend Mr. Claus of the North Pole for some
things for different people in Auburn about
this time every year, and we can't get away
from it.
There are always just certain things
that you can't requisition from the college
for Christmas presents—and it's awful easy
to just put those things off until we can ask
the bewhiskered old man in red and white
to handle for us.
So here goes, Santa our friend.
How about bringing Columnist Martin
a beard. We don't mean the kind that goes
on his jokes, but a real, live, genuine one
that he can grow every day and make him
feel like a man.
And how about bringing Sports Editor
Pierce a salary. He's spent all of his money
—and all of his father's—chasing around
to football games this year, and unless he
gets some recompense, he'll have to start
working somewhere else or either playing
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How Can I Help?
In time, chances are that most of the
men students of Auburn will be going into
the army. Some of them will go in, as that
man did, as privates.
But if they go in with his attitude on
the matter, they may soon be. officers,
just as he will be before long. >*
If there hadn't been a war, most of us
would be getting out of college after four
years to go into private business. We might
have been unable to get the kind of job
we wanted, at first. But we would have
taken another job, and worked on it with
all we had, until we could have what we
wanted .
Why shouldn't we do that in the army?
There's just as much—or more—chance for
promotion there as there is in private
business.
Our own Colonel Waterman went into
the last war as a Lieutenant. At the end
of the war he was a Lt. Colonel.
And that in a few short years.
Tnat soldier we refer to went into the
army just six months ago as a private. In
two more months he'll be a Second
Lieutenant.
And all because he had the will to make
the most of his army life, and did.
Question of the hour—every hour—on the hour, since America's
declaration of war, on this campus has been, "How Can I Help?"
That is, that has been the question of the hour, unless you consider,
"What's going to happen to us?" as more universal.
Faculty members, deans, student leaders, even the President of
our country, have answered that question for you. *
You, and all of us, can best help our nation by doing exactly what
we've been doing. Exactly what we were doing before the war,
except more of it, and better.
Just keep your feet on the ground, stick to your books and lectures,
and study like heck. You can't tell when you'll need these things
that you can learn in "the. last minute."
Those who know say that the army, and your country, will let
you know when it needs you. They're right. In the meantime, as
we've said before, stay in school and study! The very future of
America may depend on that.
Speedy Business In The Army
And How About Victory for Us, Mr. Santa?
football, and then he couldn't turn out
those welcome pages and pages of copy.
And that's all we want for our staff—
except maybe a big batch of advertising
for Gandy and Rouse—and a book entitled
"How to meet deadlines and make editors
happy."
But for all Auburn, we've a lot to ask.
How about some chimes for our clock
on Samford Tower? And some new
mechanism?
And could you furnish some shrubbery
for those little corners where the new
walks and roads meet on the campus? That
should keep people from cutting across the
grass there.
And what about arranging to have all
fraternity houses on the campus install
an entirely separate telephone from the
one each of them already has? It's getting
so that it takes an hour or two to get some­body
off of those phones to call one of the
houses.
Sunday four students from the Officers Candidate School at Fort
-Benning visited Auburn. They were originally from three more
northern states, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana.
Those four men finished college only a few years ago. Since
then, until they were called into the army, they have held various
jobs. One was personnel manager for a large manufacturing concern
in the North. -
Six months ago those men were drafted. They entered the army
as buck privates. Within three weeks they were all acting corporals.
A month ago they were sent to Fort Benning as members of the fifth
class of the Officers Candidate School. In two more months, they
hope to be commissioned as Second Lieutenants in Uncle Sam's army.
Which is all pretty speedy business. From civilian to army private
to Second Lieutenant in eight months.
And which is all typical of promotion and movement for college-trained
men in the army. Those four men let it be known that they
were college men. They let their officers know what they had done
since they left college. They showed them, through conversation and
action, their abilities and qualifications. Now they're ~to be officers.
One of them came from Camp Wolters, where there were over
17,000 men. Of that number, only-about thirty were given the op­portunity
to become officers.
They said that their chances came because of their education.
There's another argument for staying in school just as long as you
can.
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Seen on the Auburn campus in small groups since the Home­coming
game have been several RAF Cadets from Maxwell Field, in
Montgomery.
Auburn students have enjoyed talking to those cadets—and trying
to get them to talk.
One point at least has been proven. And that's the old one about
the lack of sense of humor among our English relatives.
For instance, two Auburn students recently stood on a corner in
Birmingham. An RAF cadet passed by, and they began talking to him.
They asked where he was from. "London", he said.
"London?", one of the Auburnites asked, winking at the other,
"where's that?"
The Britisher didn't crack a smile. He didn't even flick an eye­lash.
He just looked at the American boy, as if to say, "I say, old Chap,
you're quite ignorant, don't you think?" _
Student Leader Of The Week ... Jim Morgan
Chairman of Auburn's Social Committee, and responsible for the
appearance on the campus of the orchestras of Francis Craig and Tony
Pastor this year, is Jim Morgan, of Albertville.
Jim's quite a lad—all six feet
something-or-other of him. In ad­dition
to being Chairman of the
Social Committee—which is really
a hot-spot job, he's President of
his fraternity, Pi Kappa Phi.
Enrolled in Agriculture, yet
having daily contacts with students
in every school on the campus, Jim
is well known in Auburn. Proof
that he is well-liked too may be
seen by the large majority of votes
with which he won his Social Com­mittee
job and also a post on last
year's Executive Cabinet.
On the Cabinet, Jim didn't
just sit and swing his keys. He had
things to say, and he said them.
And he got things done.
In recognition of that, Blue Key
this year chose Jim for member­ship.
But first and foremost of Jim's
accomplishments in Auburn has
been that of revitalizing the Social Committee position that he holds.
Remember last year when everybody was saying, "There isn't
any need for a Social Committee any more? we won't have any dances
next year?"
Nobody's saying that any more. And all because Jim Morgan set
to work to make them eat those words. And last month he came
through with one of the most successful, socially and financially, set
of dances Auburn's ever seen.
PI ains Talk
By HERBERT MARTIN
Editor's note: The opinions expressed
In this column are those of the writer
and are not to be construed as the edi­torial
policies of this paper.
We feel like the feller who
made the winning touchdown, ex­cept
that he didn't have the ball.
We've been getting a lot of nice
things said to us and they were
as undeserved as a Jap naval
victory.
* * *
We said a bunch of stuff in
Friday's column that was true
enough, and a pretty sensible way
of looking at this war situation,
but which reflected no credit on
us for writing it down.
* * *
You see, this idea of looking at
the war as something we'll prob­able
have to get into, but at col­lege
as an opportunity while
we're here isn't anything new.
Now only have speakers told us
this, but everybody feels pretty
much the same way about it. -
* * *
. Auburn students are fairly solid
folks. Most of us may have gotten
a bit up in the air last Monday
morning as we listened to the
radio, but we were headed for the
solid ground by nightfall, and
were about settled by Tuesday
morning.
* * «
It takes no great wisdom or
foresight to say what everybody
is doing, and to say that they
should do it. You don't have to
tell Auburn students, most of
them, that they should get down
to work and make the most of this
college while they have the
chance. Most of them are already
doing it.
* * *
We aren't worried about the ef­fect
of "war hysteria" on students
here. This bunch has what it
takes to look ahead and use a lit­tle
common sense. They'll work
while they're here, and when
they're called, they'll do the job
there.
* * *
And, as one of our most-quoted
faculty members s a y s often,
"Whenever there is anything im­portant
happening anywhere, you
can bet your boots there's an Au­burn
man in it somewhere!"
* * *
And, with the fervent plea for
peace on the home front, asking
for no trouble, and purely in the
nature of a nonpartisan reporter,
we pass on this comment of a stu­dent
who has journeyed to Judson
of late.
"You don't have any trouble
finding a bench to sit on at night
for dates," he says, "because
there's a light over every one of
"em!"
* * *
Beauty in brass . . . that trum­pet
chorus by Bobby Hill on
Stardust with the Knights.
* » *
Relevant resolution . . . speak­ing
of school supplies, (we were,
weren't we?) the Mikado makes
a dern sight better pencil than
he does a ruler.
* * *
And now, our annual message
to that ole gent with the whiskers
and reindeer, and we don't mean
the weather man.
* * *
Dear Santa, you cute ole Santa,
you,
We've been awful good down
here this year and thought we'd
tell you, as of course you can't
keep up with the conduct of each
and every one of us . . . we hope.
* * *
We want to ask a lot of you
this time, and anything you can't
manage, just substitute something
of your own choice.
* • *
First, and we'll lay off national
issues, we'd like to ask you to in­sure
the merriest Christmas ever
to anybody who reads this col­umn,
with a card signed Plains
Talk.
* * *
Please bring cute boys and
girls to all the girls and boys,
and make them according to per­sonal
specifications.
* * *
Please bring Hugh Maddox a
fish pool.
* » *
Please bring this office some
new typewriters, and please take
these dern things to the Glome-rata
office.
* * *
- Please bring the Squires some
electrical equipment.
* * •
Please bring the Knights' voca­list
one sweet letter from you, old
boy.
* * *
And please bring us a ghost­writer.
* * »
And Karrie, the Kampus Kandy
Klaws, adds the P.S.
"Just add my name to those
wishing the best of everything to
everybody," says the lass, "and
see to it that the new year turns
out a little better than it looks
from here!"
Therell Be a Santa Claus
Everybody around The Plains­man
office has been listening to
the radio, and reading the dailies,
and in general sniffing around
for war news so much that they
had almost forgotten something
which it just wouldn't do to for­get.
Do you realize that it's qnly
one more week until Christmas?
We didn't, until just now. And
when we did, we just couldn't
realize that tomorrow we'll be
getting out of school for two
whole weeks!
People are saying that Christ­mas
won't be what it has been,
this year. They're saying that
Santa Claus has donned his uni­form
and gone to help fight a war
or two.
We can remember when they
told us that back in the early
"thirties"—not that he'd donned a
uniform, but that he was too
broke to be coming down the
chimney.
We didn't believe them then,
and we won't believe them now.
We've got a lot of faith in that
old man with whiskers, and in
what he stands for.
He stands for what we're fight­ing
this war about. If he didn't,
then he wouldn' thave existed in
America for all these years.
He stands for all of our beliefs
and customs, for all of our hopes
and aspirations, for all of our
ideals, for our dreams, for our
faith.
We know him as the spirit of
giving. Right now we ought to be
doing more giving than we've
done in quite a while.
We'd hate to think that a little
guy with a black Hollywood mus­tache,
no conscience, and a crazed,
swastika-shaped mind could drive
Santa Claus out of the world.
We'd hate to think that just
because one guy believes in tak­ing
all instead of giving, that our
Santa Claus would run for his
hiding place.
His gifts may be smaller this
year. They may be fewer, too.
Some of the money he'd spend on
them may be going for income
taxes, and for the Red Cross. But
he'll still be giving. He'll still be
coming down all the chimneys in
the nation, and warming all the
hearts in the land.
Then too, don't forget the real
origin of this spirit of giving.
Don't forget why we have Christ­mas,
and why we give nice things
to our friends.
If you remember that, then you
can't believe that there won't be
any Santa Claus this year.
All of the unholy power in the
world, all of the. murder and
fighting in the world, all of this
mad thing which has descended
on us, couldn't stop our Santa
Claus.
So we're betting that he'll be
right there in your home. That
he'll be coming right down your
chimney, and filling your stock­ing
and your heart.
And we're hoping that you'll
have the merriest, the best, the
most joyous Christmas you've
ever had.
Next issue
The next scheduled issue of
The Plainsman is to be published
on Tuesday, January 6.
There'll be lots of things hap­pening
between now and then—
but there won't be much of it
happening in Auburn.
It's an accepted fact that Au­burn
is the deadest little town
north of the border, during the
Christmas holidays.
One of the members of our staff
who usually spends most of his
holidays right here in the village,
promises a complete report (one
paragraph) on what's happened
while you were gone—when you
get back. So see you in 1942!
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Don Cossack Chorus Next Attraction
Concert Series Event
Booked for January 26
Program of Chorus of Russian Riders
To Feature Folk Songs and Dances
In spite of a minor setback by the failure of appearance
of the Chicago Little Philharmonic Orchestra, which became
a success when master violinist Ruggiero Ricci substituted to
perfection, and the sudden departure of H. R. Knickerbocker
to Honolulu the day before his scheduled lecture here, the
Auburn Concert Series will continue as planned after the
Christmas Holidays.
The far-famed General Platoff Don Cossack Chorus will
make its appearance in Alumni
THREE DON COSSACKS
Gymnasium here on January 26.
This colorful group of singing
horsemen come to Auburn in the
midst of its first transcontinental
tour.
The world-renowned company
of 27 singers and dancers, direct­ed
by Nicholas Kostrukoff, will
offer an exciting program com­prising
the best of the traditional
old Cossack songs, stately chor­ales,
wild songs of the steppes,
tender lullabies, songs which imi­tate
musical instruments—and, as
a special feature, the song of the
Volga Boatmen in its original
setting.
In addition the company will
introduce a group of authentic
Cossack dances, including the
legendary C a u c a s i a n Sword
dance.
The General Platoff Chorus
was founded in Prague in 1927 by
Russian exiles who had escaped
to Czecho-Slovakia after the rev­olution.
The group took its name
from the famed Cossack soldier
and musician of a century ago
and had, as its first sponsors, the
late Thomas G. Masaryk and Ed­ward
Benes, who was the Czech
Minister of Foreign Affairs.
For the last decade the chorus
has been singing its way around
the world, and has given more
than 4,000 concerts on six conti­nents.
In recent years its head­quarters
have been in Paris, but
for the greater part of the time
the singing Cossacks have been
on the move. This is their first
major tour of the United States
and they will sing in 40 states
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this season. Warmly acclaimed at
the San Francisco Fair last year,
they made a preliminary tq_ur in
the winter which won them tre­mendous
interest and enthusiasm
and resulted in a widely booked
tour this year.
The reputation of this band of
27 Russians, who are sometimes
picturesquely known as the
twenty seven singing horsemen
of the Steppes", has preceded
them wherever they have travell­ed,
a fame which is due not only
to their brilliant phonograph re­cordings
and sound films, but to
their remarkable stage successes.
These perfectly matched solo
voices cover the range from high
soprano to the lowest bass, sing­ing
vivid homespun ballads, opera
choruses and soldier songs, with
a gladness and grandeur that is
characteristic of their race.
The choir is really like one
great organ, and the conductor,
M. Nicholas Kostrukoff, is, as
you might say, the organist. With
his magnetic personality he con­trols
the voices as one would the
organ stops, bringing out quick
changes in emotion and strength
and hushing the music to almost
a whisper.
Under his tuition the choir has
built up a repertoire of songs, in­cluding
old Cossack melodies,
legends of folklore, battle songs
and beautiful lullabies. The musi­cal
sense of these twenty-seven
singers is so keen and the pre­cision
of choir singing so clever,
that they can produce the most
delicate tone colours with as
much ease as they can obtain
their battle song effects.
And in addition to their bril­liant
singing, the Platoff Chorus
will give a display of Cossack
dancing that will add to their
astonishing artistic repertoire.
An outstanding feature of the
Pictured above are three members of the Don Cossack Chorus,
famous group of Russian Singers. They will appear as the next
attraction of the Auburn Concert Series for 1941-42 at Alumni
Gymnasium on January 26.
Three Auburn Men to Begin
Four Months' Naval Training
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Broadway at 10th St. Broadway at 13th St.
entertainment is the knife dancer,
who performs the spirited move­ments
of the Caucasian Cossacks,
carrying twelve knives in his
mouth and hands, on his chin,
his lips, and his shoulders. This
is an art that few dancers can
learn. It is a family accomplish­ment,
handed down from father
to son in Caucasia, from one gen­eration
to another. Another at­tractive
feature of the .perform­ance
is the marvelous whirlwind
dancing of the singers.
Four Auburn
Men Enrolled
At Maxwell
Four Auburn men are now en­rolled
as aviation cadets in the
replacement center at Maxwell
Field, Ala., headquarters of the
Southeast Air Corps Training
Center.
They are Howard Molton Baze-more
of Talladega, Ala., B.S.,
1941; Andrew D. Cur lee, Jr., of
Wetumpka, Ala., B.S., 1939; Wil­liam
Earle Pledger of Samson,
Ala., and Charles Howard Thorn-burg
of Shelby, Ala. They are
scheduled to leave soon for pri­mary
schools where they will re­ceive
the first phase of their
flight training u n d e r skilled
civilians.
Upon the completion of 30
weeks in the flight training
course, they will be awarded com­missions
as second lieutenants in
the United States Army Air
Corps.
Recently Enlisted
In Naval Reserve,
Class V-7
Three young Auburn men are
among 67 Alabamians who will
be called by the Navy in January
to begin a four months' officers
training school.
Thomas Zachry Tatum, of 512
Wright's Mill Road, will be order­ed
to report January 22 at North­western
University.
The school aboard the training
ship Prairie State in New York
harbor will be attended by Ivan
Roger Martin, 616 Wright's Mill
Road, and Loy Hinton Little, 427
Magnolia.
All three boys recently enlisted
in the United States Naval Re­serve,
Class V-7, under the Navy's
program for training young col­lege
graduates to be junior of­ficers.
After a month of basic, training
they will be appointed midship­men,
then after three more
months, if qualified, they will re­ceive
their commissions and join
other officers of the Navy in the
fleet or at one of many shore es­tablishments.
There still are a number of
openings in Alabama's" V-7 quota.
Candidates must be graduates of
an accredited college or univer­sity,
unmarried, between the ages
of 20 and 28, in good physical
condition, of good character, and
must possess qualities of leader­ship.
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Auburn Club
Gives Party
For Team
Honors Coaches,
Players, And
Prep Teams
The Auburn Club of Jefferson
County last night entertained and
honored members of Auburn's
football team, coaching staff, and
several Southeastern Conference
sports writers.
The honorees were featured at
a banquet at the Tutwiler Hotel,
in Birmingham, at 6:30 last night.
Program for the affair included
brief talks by Dr. Duncan, Coach
Jack Meagher, Judge Thomas W.
Wert, and Jim Conselman, the
Quarterback Club's 1941 guest
speaker.
Watches and other awards were
made by Alumni Tom Bragg, who
spoke on Homecoming Day to the
Alumni Association.,
Among the guests, in addition
to Auburn's staff and team, were
several Montgomery alumni,
headed by Dr. Donald Cathcart.
Following the banquet, the
Club entertained with a Ball.
Approximately one hundred
senior lettermen from Alabama
high schools were present, and
the lettermen of Jefferson Coun­ty
high school football teams and
their coaches.
Furnishing music for the affair
was Bill Nappi's orchestra.
Among the sports writers who
were invited to attend the ban­quet
were Morgan Blake, Ed
Danforth, Jack Troy, O. B.
Keeler, "Pat" Moulton, Max Mos-ely,
and Birmingham writers.
List of New Library Books Is
Continued From Last Issue
YOUNG PEOPLE
GIVEN PHYSICAL
EXAMS BY NYA
More than 200,000 young people
have been given complete health
examinations since the National
Youth Administration started its
health program in September,
1941, it was announced today by
Smither, Gregg medical short­hand
manual; Gregg, Gregg short­hand
phrase book; Conklin,
Guideposts of the sea; the modern
aids to navigation and how they
are cared for; Masters, When
ships go down; more wonders of
salvage; Coppock, Government
agencies of consumer instalment
credit; Barber, Tulip ware of the
Pennsylvania - German potters;
Henri, Broderies Chinoises; Tunis,
Democracy and sport; Jacobs,
Tennis; Berg, Golf.
McBurney, The principles and
methods of discussion; Light,
Focus on Africa; Huxley, Africa
view; Daniels, Tar heels; Long,
Pinion country; Simone, Men of
Europe; Friedell, A cultural his­tory
of the modern age; the crisis
of the European soul from the
black death to the world war;
Ferrero, The reconstruction of
Europe: Talleyrand and the Con­gress
of Vienna; Maugham, Strict­ly
personal; Strachey, Digging for
Mrs. Miller; some experiences of
an air raid warden.
Van Passen, That day alone;
Van Doren, Secret history of the
American revolution; Van de
Water, The reluctant republic;
Vermont; Smith, The annexation
of Texas; Gunther, Inside Latin
America.
Agriculture
Fitzpatrick, The lower fungi
Phycomycetes; Tauber, Enzyme
chemistry; Smith, The virus, life's
enemy; Westveld, Forestry in
farm management; Chester Coun­ty
Mushroom Laboratories, West
Chester, Penn, Manual of mush­room
culture; Balthis, Plants in
the home; Bowers, Rhododen­drons
and azaleas; Fink, The
NYA Administrator Aubrey Wil­liams.
While the primary objective of
the health program of the Na­tional
Youth Administration is to
determine the fitness of young
people to do various kinds of
work, many incidental bentefits
have accrued to youth as a result.
Through the utilization of com­munity
resources and through the
cooperation of private medical
practitioners many young people
have been given the opportunity
to correct the health defects from
which they were suffering. For a
high percentage of the young
people the examination under the
NYA program is the first they
have received. -
lichen flora of the United States.
Architecture
Robinson, Tabular keys for the
identification of the woody
plants; Lohmann, Landscape ar­chitecture
in the modern world;
Goldsmith, Designs for outdoor
living; Bonarroti, (Drawings);
Laver, Adventures in mono­chrome;
Leonardo da Vinci,
(Drawings); Rembrandt, (Draw­ings);
Rubens, (Drawings); Nich-olls,
Painting in oils; Adams,
Making a photograph; Nurnberg,
The science and technique of ad­vertising
photography.
General
DuMaurier, The progress of
Julius; Sholokhov, The Don flows
home to the sea; Huxley, Grey
eminence; Lewis, Myths after
Lincoln; Overstreet, A guide to
civilized leisure; Sorokin, Social
and cultural dynamics; Gallup,
The pulse of democracy: the pub­lic
opinion poll and how it works;
Lasswell, Politics; who gets what,
when, how; Schmidt, American
farmers in the world crisis;
Brodie, Sea power in the machine
age; Cranwell, Spoilers of the sea,
wartime raiders in the age of
steam; Stevens, A history of sea
power; Mursell, The phychology
of secondary-school teaching.
Pressey, Casebook of research
in educational psychology; Or-mond,
Laugh and learn; Byers,
Help wanted—female: careers in
the field of fashion; Oglesby,
Fashion careers, American style;
Cutts, Practical school discipline
and mental hygiene; Baehne,.
Practical applications of the
punched card method in colleges
and universities; Yearbook of
school law, American council on
education; Reigner, College spell­ing
studies.
Hart, "The Oxford companion to
American literature; Brooks,
Opinions of Oliver Allston;
Hughes, The making of today's
world.
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December 19, 1941 THE P L A I N S M AN Page Seven
Campus Track Winners Listed
Bob Ortagus
Wins Mile
Run, 5:04
Fraternity Men
Take Most
Wins in Meet
In the recent all-campus track
meet, Bob Ortagus, Theta Chi,
came out first in the mile run
With a time of 5 minutes 4
seconds. Ortagus also won Mon­day's
Cake Race. Marion Wake­field
was second and Harold
Blackburn, Sigma Nu, third.
Jack Hans, SAE, was first in the
440 yard run with a time of 59.2
seconds. Billy Voight was second
and Dean, third.
In the shot-put Raymond Ed­wards,
Delta Sig, was first with
37 ft. 6% in., and Max Jackson
took second place with 37 ft. Vz
in.
Jimmy Lewallen, in 11.3 sec­onds
took first place in the 100
yard dash. Wilton Persons was
second and L. Jackson, third.
Robert Perry, jumping 9 ft. 6
in., won the pole vault.
In the 60 yard high hurdles
Andy Lamar, SPE, made the dis­tance
in 8.5 seconds to win first
place. Dick Commander came in
second and Joe Lawless, SPE,
third.
Broad jumping winner was
Clyde Norton with a leap of 19
ft. 4% in. Jimmy Lewallen jump­ed
18 ft. 10% in., and Joe Lawless,
SPE, jumped 18 ft. 8% in to take
third place.
Andy Lamar, SPE, jumped 5
ft. 6% in. to win high jumping.
Tied for second place were Rob­ert
Perry, Jimmy Lewallen, Joe
Lawless, SPE, and Dick Com­mander.
In the 110 yard low hurdles the
three top winners were Andy
Lamar, SPE, first; Joe Lawless,
SPE, second; and Dick Com­mander,
third.
Bob Ortagus, Theta Chi, came
in first in the 880 yard dash,
making it in 2 minutes 13.5
seconds. Clyde Terrell was second.
Charles Herring, winner of the
220 yard dash, made the dis­tance
in 24.5 seconds. In second
place was Charles Word, and in
EGLIN FIELD AIR CORPS BOARD
Three Auburn graduates are members of the Army Air Corps
Board at Eglin Field. Florida. The members of the Board are
pictured above. Auburn men in the picture are Lt. Henry Britt,
extreme left, and Lts. Frank Kabase and Charlie Ham, last two
men on the right of the line.
Auburn Coed's Father Writes
On Thoughts of War Crisis
Excerpts From
Letter Of
Army Officer
An Auburn coed, Vesta Stovall
of Fort Knox, Kentucky, recently
received a letter from her father,
Lt. Col. A. S. J. Stovall, who is
stationed at Fort Knox. The let­ter,
while written to one student
alone, develops a theme that is
of peculiar interest to every
young person who is concerned
with the conditions and events
which have thrust themselves up­on
us in the past two weeks.
The letter, that part of it which
might, in thought, be addressed
to any of us is printed here.
"War has come to us. Though to
many it seems to have been un­expected
I think I knew within
hours of when it would come. I
had stayed up until 1 A. M. Sat­urday
night awaiting the flash,
but it came not and your mammy
thought I was nuts.
"We have suffered heavy de­feat.
We will suffer more. But let
third place, Jimmy Lewallen.
Ribbons are to be awarded to
all winners.
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Today and every day, we greet you with all
the sincerity that is in our hearts, and thank each
and every one of you for your past patronage.
And during 1942 Our Best Wishes go with
you for one of peace, happiness and a most suc­cessful
year.
Tiger Theatre
that please you rather than hurt
you. It is the price of being a
democracy. I think so highly of
democracy, as I hope do you, that I
find this price we have paid and
are paying, not too great. This
in balance against us should not
be long-lived—perhaps it shall be
as short-lived as to last only an­other
48 hours.
"To draw a parallel—we are
sane—we are glad we are sane—
as a result of our sanity, sudden­ly
developed homicidal insanity
on the part of one individual
more frequently than otherwise
costs not one but several sane
lives. This is a small price to
pay for our sanity.
"This war shall cost us some
of Mr. Churchill's blood, sweat,
and tears. But if there be among
us any unwilling to pay that price
he is unworthy. I am sure you
shall, when war's collector calls
on you, if ever, pay blythely.
"Already we must presume some
if not many of our friends have
perished. We had friends on those
transports. I do not know just
who but there must have been
some. You have spent, perhaps
you don't remember, very de­lightful,
if very young days on
Hickam Field in Hickam Field in
Hawaii. You have known the
beauty of Honolulu and Pearl
Harbor. You lived two years at
Stokenburg which while you
slept last night was bombed six
hours. Hong Kong, which y ou
have visited, and liked is, as I
write, under attack. They a re
Former Auburn
Students
Receive Wings
Fred Speake And
John Kelso In
Army Air Corps
As a fitting climax to t h e i r
seven and one-half months' ad­venture
as Aviation Cadets in
the Army Air Corps, Fred M.
Speake, Jr., and John M. Kelso
of Hartselle and Montgomery,
former Auburn students, were
presented with the coveted silver
wings and gold bars of Lieuten­ants
at their graduation from the
Air Corps Advanced Flying
School, Brooks Field, Texas, this
week.
Speake and Kelso have com­pleted
what has been termed a
"25,000 scholarship in the world's
finest flying school". The final
phase of the Air Corps training
program, accomplished at Brooks
Field under the direction of Lt.
Col. Stanton T. Smith, gives the
flyers a thorough training in the
art of formation flying, instru­ment
flying, interception prob­lems,
and day and night cross­country
flights besides an inten­sive
ground school program.
IN ONE OF THESE THERE'S AN AUBURN MAN!
Basketball For
Intramural Teams
To Begin Jan. 27
The intramural basketball
season will begin Jan. 27. All
entries are due by Jan. 13;
anyone desiring to enter in
any team should call the intra­mural
office before, that date.
Professor J. H. Raport states
that about 50 teams axe ex­pected
to compete in the
basketball program; included
in these will be 20 fraternity
teams, approximately 27 ROTC
teams, and various other in­dependent
teams.
striking close to us, as you better
than most of your classmates,
should know. You should then
know on the day of the victory
which will come an exhilaration
beyond their comprehension.
Count yourself lucky, not unfor­tunate
therefore for in the end
present loads will be balanced by
future happiness."
Pi Kappa Alphas Play Santa
To Underprivileged Children
The local chapter of Pi Kappa
Alpha fraternity again this year
dedicated its annual Christmas
Party to underprivileged children
of this vicinity, Tuesday night.
Auburn churches made up a
list of fifty pr more of these
children, all of whom were "un­likely
to have much Christmas
at home," and the Pi K A's en­tertained
them with presents,
songs, fruit, punch and cookies at
the fraternity house.
Bill Gordon, one of the mem­bers
of Pi K A, dressed as Santa
Claus to hand out the gifts to the
children.
The presents were wrapped and
tagged before the party, a nd
placed under a Christmas tree.
Hanging on the mantle in the
living room of the house were
baskets of fruit, which were tak­en
down after the presents were
distributed, and given to the
children.
After entertainment in the form
of songs by a chorus of the Pi
K A's, the young guests were
served punch and cake in the
chapter dining room.
The entertainment ended about
8:30, when the children left the
house to sing Christmas Carols
in town.
Twenty-one Bucks
A Day, Once A
Month—Co-op
Any male student interested in
living in a co-op house the second
semester at a maximum cost of
$21 per month for three meals
and board, please contact Pete
Turnham at 207 N. Gay, phone
205-K, or any member of the
Sears Club, AT ONCE.
The house is located at 329 W.
Magnolia, and is the house for­merly
occupied by Alpha Psi fra­ternity.
To the Students of Auburn
As the year draws to a close, we extend to you our
grateful appreciation for your fine patronage.
May each of you have a festive holiday season, and we
look forward to seeing you again in 1942.
CHRIST ITIRS
HILL'S BOOTERY 'J^lO you
Row on row in -their basic training planes at Randolph Field, these flying cadets—many of them
former Auburn students—are beginning intensive training in the nation's preparation to wipe out
the Berlin, Rome, Tokyo axis. This field, the "West Point of the Air," will train thirty thousand mili­tary
pilots each year. A class of 264 students completed the secondary phase of the thirty week
course there last week.
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Page Eight THE P L A I N S M AN December 19,1941
Plainsmen Meet Miss. State Tonight
TenfBasketballers
Makes First Trip
Hawkins, Manci, Canzoneri, Burton,
And Park Expected to Start in Game
Coach Ralph Jordan and his squad of ten Auburn basket-bailers
today arrived in Starkville, Miss., where they meet
Mississippi State tonight in the first of two games which
make up the pre-holiday Plainsmen schedule.
Departing by automobile following a practice session yes­terday
afternoon, the squad spent the night in Birmingham
and continued on to Mississippi this morning. After tonight's
game with the Maroons they will move to Oxford to take on
the University of Mississippi Fri­day
night. Next game on the '42
slate is scheduled with Spring
Hill in Alumni Gym on Jan. 9.
Motley, Williams Ineligible
Two of Auburn's top squadmen
were left behind, temporary in­eligibility
making them unavail­able
for play at present. Marvin
Motley, senior letterman and reg­ular
guard on the '41 team, will
not be eligible until Jnauary,
while Frank Williams, sophomore
standout, is to be held out of
varsity competition until the new
semester as SEC rules make it
necessary that a player be enroll­ed
for a full year before claiming
sophomore athletic status.
Herbert Burton, junior for­ward,
and Ben Park, junior guard,
were expected to become the new
additions to the Tiger lineup for
the games of today and tomorrow,
taking their places with the vete­ran
contingent of Shag Hawkins,
Frank Manci and Fagan Canzo-neri.
Canzoneri, a guard, may see
action also as a forward, due to a
lack of trained performers at that
position. Practice during the past
week has dealt largely with play
against the zone defense used by
Mississippi State. Any guess at a
starting lineup for the Plainsmen
would be hazardous at this early
stage, but in line with previous
showings would be an outfit con­sisting
of forwards Manci and
Burton, center Shag Hawkins and
guards Canzoneri and Park.
Squadmen who made the trip
were: forwards Frank Manci,
Charlie Finney, Herbert Burton;
centers Shag Hawkins and Bruce
Allan; guards Ben Park, Jack
Tanner, Fagan Canzoneri, Ed
Young, and Gleeson Cornell.'
AP Picture Display
A display of pictures made by
photographers of newspapers be­longing
to the Alabama-Georgia
section of the Associated Press are
on exhibit in the architectural li­brary.
This display, sponsored by
the Opelika Daily News, which is
a member of the AP, includes
some 40 pictures which were en­tered
in a recent contest held by
the Associated Press.
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By JOHN PIERCE
FROSH TIGERS LOSE FIRST
BASKETBALL GAME 19 TO 18
Lanett Team
Downs Rats In
Alumni Gym
By BILL MARTIN
Playing their first game of the
1941-42 season with only five
days' practice under their belts,
the Auburn freshman basketeers
fell before a hustling Lanett High
team Tuesday night in Alumni
Gym by the close score of 19-18.
The winning point came on a free
throw in the last 15 seconds of
play after the game had been tied
at 18 all during the last part of
the fourth quarter.
The game was slow in getting
started and the frosh looked rag­ged
trailing 2-7 at half time. The
Auburn boys failed to tally a
field goal during the half and
couldn't seen to get near the
basket due to the tight defense
set up by the High school team.
The score was exactly the same
as last years' opener with these
same two teams but the scores
were reversed with Auburn hav­ing
the 19.
After the shaky first half the
boys from the Plains must have
had quite a pep talk by Coach
Elmer Salter during intermission,
for they opened up and began to
find the range with Shy leading
the attack. They trailed most of
the way but matched goal for
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goal with Lanett and pulled up
even with about two minutes to
go.
The Baby Tigers showed a defi­nite
lack of teamwork during
the early stages of the contest
and this proved disastrous for the
opponents exhibited a well bal­anced
quintet and worked well in
taking the ball off the backboard
and rushing it down court.
Webb, Lanett center, was the
high point man for the night
racking up four field goals and
two free throws for a total of ten
points. Next in line for scoring
honors was Shy, hard working
Auburn forward, who threw two
field goals and three foul shots
through the hoops.
Despite the loss, the future is
far from black for the games to
come. Coach Salter used 15 men
during the contest in an effort to
uncover a smooth working combi­nation,
and now seems to have
a little better idea about his
charges than he had before the
start. The prospects seem fairly
bright and a number of good ball
players were turned up.
The boys who will be counted
on a great deal during the rest of
the season and who played a
major portion of the initial cage
setto were Shy, Roy Crenshaw,
an ex-Lanett athlete who played
a bang up game all the way
through; Zac Jenkins, the West
Point lad who has been noted
earlier this season on the grid­iron
and who is a "tall man"
when it comes to backboard re­bounds
despite his 5 ft 9 in. in
height; R. L. Summers, another
football player who swapped his
moleskins and cleats for shorts
and basketball shoes and has a
fine deceptive manner of hand­ling
himself on the floor; and
Wadsworth, a big hustling guard
who was the second highest man
in scoring for the Plebes with six
points.
Beginning in a sluggish man­ner,
the game speeded up stead­ily
until it reached the exciting
tempo when the score was tied
at 18-18 with but 30 seconds re­maining
and the play was swap-ing
hands so fast that one could
hardly keep track of the Ball.
The next freshman game will
be played here on Jan. 9 as a
preliminary to the first varsity
home game, the opposition being
furnished by the Columbus Man­ufacturing
Co. team. Last season
saw this aggregation fall before
the freshmen on two occasions.
Phi's Win Cup
In Intramural
Volleyball
Phi Delta Theta's volleyball
team yesterday defeated the
Theta Chi team to win the inter-fraternity
volleyball finals, and
the championship cup.
The Phis took three straight
games yesterday afternoon.
Theta Chi fraternity's team was
runner-up in the volleyball tour­nament.
Starring for Phi Delta Theta in
the tournament was Ben Craig.
Members of the Phi first team
included:
Craig, Dan Cheatwood, Dick
Harris, Rusty Seawell, Bob Var-ner,
and Geechie Allen.
Taking the top space on many a Southern sports page during the
past two or three weeks has been a general roundhouse discussion on
the whys and why-nots of a possible tie-up involving the South­eastern
Conference and Miami's Orange Bowl.
Now, it seems, the problem has been done away with by sheer
dismissal of the plan. The only thing we've wondered about during
the proceedings has been why it was all taking so long. In fact we
still can't figure out why the thing came up in the first place.
What would such a tie-up do?
Well, the main specification calls for the conference champion
to play in the Orange Bowl year in, year out, regardless of whether
the boys on the team want to play somewhere else, regardless of
whether there are two teams from other sections which are more
deserving of bids. Contract of that nature, we think, is the only
weakness of the Rose Bowl, America's number one New Year's Day
extravaganza. Time after time such independent teams as Santa
Clara or St. Mary's have come up with great records only to be left
out because of non-conference standing.
Apparently a great deal of the sudden attention given to the
Orange Bowl since announcement of 1942 selections cropped up
because of a dislike of the teams picked by New Orleans for the
Sugar Bowl. In an article last week Romney Wheeler of Associated
Press stated that "Some members of the conference indicated
private dissatisfaction at the cold-shoulder given its teams this
year by the New Orleans Sugar Bowl.
Which is another thing we can't quite see—why anyone would
be dissatisfied at the good fortune of a pair of teams as deserving
as Fordham and Missouri.
The Missourians, showing possibly the greatest team in the
school's history, finished the season with a rushing average of
307.7 per game, which ranked as tops for the nation. They ran up
226 points against only 37 in winning eight games and the Big Six
title. Only loss was a 7-12 edging by Ohio State. Victims of the
Bengals were Colorado, Kansas State, Iowa State, Nebraska,
Michigan State, NYU. Oklahoma and Kansas.
And Fordham, always an Eastern power, went through a bruising
schedule with the usual Ram success, defeating Southern Methodist,
North Carolina, West Virginia, TCU, Purdue, St. Mary's and NYU.
Pittsburgh handed the New Yorkers their only setback in one of
those totally unexpected upsets which have knocked over many
a team during this 1941 season.
Can any Southeastern Conference power match either of those
records? It is doubtful. The Sugar Bowl didn't let anybody down.
It just picked the two teams that the Rose Bowl was trying hard to
get at the time of selection, and it got 'em.
Columnist Hugh Fullerton relates one of the best football stories
of the year, as follows:
Popular story on the Rubber Chicken Circuit tells how Bernie
Bierman discovered one night that the hotel where his athletes
were staying was on fire. He ran into the lobby and shouted:
"Regulars take the fire escapes. Reserves jump".
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