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W1$ GanettC VOL. VI. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COLUMBIA, S. C., FEBRUARY 15, 1913. No. 16. DR. S. C. MITCHELL ACCEPTS HONORS Will Deliver Address at Johns Hopkins. Also to Aid Peace Movement-Attrac tive Program Arranged-Eminent Educators Will Speak. Dr. Mitchell has accepted appoint ment on the education committee of the American Peace society for the fourth American Peace conference, which will be held at St. Louis May I to 3. This congress promises to be one of the greatest of its kind ever held in America. Noted educators from all over the United States will assemble there. President-elect Woodrow Wilson, who, after his inauguration on March 4, will become the hon orary president of the American Peace society, has expressed the hope that he will be able to attend. Dr. Mitchell's various articles and addresses on peace have attracted much attention throughout the whole country. He holds high rank among the foremost peace advoca tors of the day. An invitation was received by Dr. Mitchell from the trustees of Johns Hopkins university to speak at the annual commemoration day exer cises Feb. 22. He will also deliver an address at the annual banquet of the alumni association, which will be held in the evening. TRINITY PRELIMINARY HELD IN CHAPEL The preliminary for the debate between the university and Trinity college was held in the chapel Friday night to select three debaters and one alternate. Carolina will uphold the negative side of the query : Resolved, That the United States Should Grant Independence to the Philippines. Those contesting were: J. F. Brooks, J. 0. Allen, D. S. Jones, A. P. DuBose and J. D. Branden burg. The final debate will be held here Tuesday, March 25th, and will be looked forward to with much inter est, since the university defeated Trinity last year at Durham, N. C. Carolina's representatives were: Johnstone, Guerardi and Goggans, as debaters, and Cappelmann, as alter nate. The debate is scheduled as an event of Easter week, and a commit tee has been appointed to provide some means of entertainment in honor of the Trinity men wvhile they are in Columbia. DR. WARREN H. WILSON ADDRESSES UNIVERSITY Rural Problems Presented in Masterful Manner. Eminent Authority Tells of Existing Conditions Among the Country Institutions. Dr. Wilson, of New York, who is now superintendent of the church and country department of home missions, spoke on the subject of the "County and the Country Churches" last Friday, in chapel. He was appointed to this position about three years ago, and has thus had time to visit the different com munities of the different States, and is therefore an authority on the sub ject. He said in part that the small country churches were dying out. The first and greatest reason that he gave was the growth of poverty. The increase in the price of land has debarred the farmer from owning his land, and as a result, there are many renters. Renters, as a rule, soon become disinterested in the re ligious and social affairs of the com munity. Another reason was that too many preachers lived in towns, and the country communities were short of leaders. Thus the preacher also became disinterested and did not give enough time to his work. He stated one instance where a preacher only gave three hours a month to his work. Still another reason is that there are too many different denominations in a com munity. The community is thus disorganized and the people do not co-operate with one another in the religious affairs. He said that the two main prob lems that must be solved before the country church would make a suc cess were the abolition of poverty and individualism. EUPHRADIAN SOCIETY ELECTS NEW OFFICERS W. A. Schiffley Takes the President's Chair. The following officers have been inaugurated in the Euphradian Lit erary society: WV. A. Schifflhey, president; G. IH. Edwards, vice p)resident; L. H. Smith, literary critic; H. E. Danner, secretary; H. C. Brearly, treasurer; C. B. Ed wards, censor; G. W. Sligh, orderly critic; J. B. Mitchell, custos forum; E. S. Waring, recorder, and P. Hemphill. librarian.. PLANS BEING MATURED FOR GARNET AND BLAGK Will Be Attractive Record of College Year. Managers and Students Are Work ing for a Great Annual. Sam Latimer, Jr., business man ager of the 1913 Garnet and Black, makes announcement that pictures for the annual are being made, and that the make-up 'of the book will be pushed right through. Wm. H. Scott, editor-in-chief, has matured plans for the general scope and nature of the annual, and states that the attempt is being made to depart from the former plan of The Garnet and Black in favor of the newest styles in all particulars. The annual this year will be exceedingly attrac tive by all indications from the staff and the printers and engravers. The Garnet and Black prize of ten dollars will be awarded this year as usual. Any original contribution in prose or verse may compete, and the editor-in-chief requests that these be in his hands within two weeks for the consideration of the staff. Seniors can best co-operate with the management by seeing Mr. Lat imer or Mr. Scott immediately re garding their photographs. It 'is requested that all intending to finish college this year, either with degrees or certificates for special courses, will give a list of their honors and college activities to Alva Green or Broadus Mitchell, senidr editors, and law students to the law editor. UNIVERSITY CHOIR MAKES CHAPEL RING "Ed" Carpenter Chosen Leader for This Term. The college choir which was or ganized by Prof. Reed' Smith has added not a little to the chapel.ex ercises. All the members should be commended for their efforts put forth toward the improvement of the singing at chapel. Especial mention ought here be made of Car penter, the choir, leader, who has never failed to be present to lead the singing, also of Perkins and Welch, who, with the cornet and piano respectively, render a harmo nious accompaniment to the singing. The entire student body should ex tend thanks to these men and show them their appreciation by joining in with the choir. OLD HEADS AND NEW MATERIAL Coach Driver Has Collected Baseball Prospects. Things Are Looking Mighty Bright for a Mop-up Bunch-Practice Started. Baseball practice started last week and is now in full swing. The squad is growing every day and already between twenty-five and thirty men are trying out. The weather is still too chilly for anything but batting practice and base running, but the crack of the ash makes music for the ear of the old-heads, and everybody is plow ing up the ground and soiling uni forms trying to train that hind foot to hook the sack. Coach Driver will soon pick his regular men and tell the rest to hit the highball, then the pretty work will begin when the varsity and scrub teams start to scrimmage. There are quite a number of old heads on the field, but the new men give promise of being a most valu able asset to the team. Among the most valuable new men to report so far on the field are: S. C. Green, Avinger, Adams, Shuler and Per ritt. Others are Eden, Dan Hey ward and Stover. Those of last year's varsity who will again be on the job are: von Kolnitz, Owens, Metts, McGowan, Langston, Cap tain Watts, Gage and possibly Mc Millan and Big Mills. With these as a nucleus upon which to build it may be assumed that Carolina will put up a team that will forge to the front and be able to hold its own against the best. Death Chariot is Now in Columbia? Rumor seems well founded that the Buick automobile, in which Ien ry Clay Beatty, Jr., shot and killed his wife in the summer of 1911, has been bought by a Columbian, and is being run in this city at the p)resenlt time. It is said that no one in Rich mond, wvhere the crime was comi mitted, would have the car. This car of dleath played a most conspicuous p)art in the trial wvhich resulted in the electrocution of Beat ty, every feature of its mechanism and appearance having been review edl and investigated in careful detail.