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Y. M. C. A. NEWS SOUTH CAROLINA STU 1 DENTS ATTEND STUDENT ,'VOLUNTEER CONVENTION The following students if the .i i s versity of South Carolina attended the h,Ninth Quadrenmial International Stu let Volunteer Convention held 1ec. 28th to Jan. Ist at Indiaapolis, Indiana: Gordon May. Frank Meeks. Nelcride Dabs, I larry Davis, A. EI. I lane. J. 11. Gmtitrv. The faculty of the Unliver sity was represenited by ro fessor I)abbs, who was in charge of the party. North and South Carolina delegates left Thmrsday. the 27th. A special train, consisting of seven Pullmans was run from Asheville to leidianapolis to Iccomliodate the delegates. At the convention spea-kers 'of tihe type of John R. Mlott, Canon Woods, Sherw,m l.ddy, Robert F. Speer were heard. The nber of delegates was het ween six. and seven thousand and stueents representing nearly all the im pirtait couintries of the world were present. The convention ended on fie first of January and the Carlina delegates left the city early on the mor.ning of the Second. The day was spenlt ill Cin cinnati, Ohio. The University of South Carolina delegates returned on the Car Olilla Special Thursday evening. -- Y.M.C.A. Rev. Lapsley Speaks Rev. R. A.. I,apsley, Jr., paster- 11f tile First P'resby-terian churclh of the city, was the speaker at the first Wednesday night meeting 4f the Y. .\. C. A. after the lholidays. lie spoke 41 ' N. )w \'ear's Resolutions." Ir. Olin Johviston, tlie president of the "", presi(lel over the imecting. The .service were beg1i with several s ngs and tile responl1sivo, reading of the first Psaln. Nliss Brock of the city san1pr a solo whih was very Imuch ounjloyed. NIiss Gayle accompanied her on the piallo. Ir. ILapsley began his ta:k by. aing'441. how interested he was ill tile studlenlts at the University and the activitie of4 tie institutitio . I ll e stated that the sub ject ;ssigned to him. "Ncw Year Re''.. 1ltion1s" was a little it 44f date, how ever, it wmilhl not i >44 iluch utl4 41f Pl ce to) clM ;ider it ; . .1w. "!. x th e olto s are brflkenl. yct ItheIy help yu b ica ll e yo will try to) keep thim," said th1e i)astor. The folhmwing are a "set" f reslu tiis which .\Mr. l.aph-y presented fo4r the students consideratioIn: 1. / -will li;e one. (14 1 al o lim'-. lhe average mim cruicities t4day between lie two thieves of yeste'rday ;WId timrro.. 'e illist 1It he " verT0i1 by the m.ag litlde (of r task ;14 what we ha.Lve 14 do I4w and we w xiIll bt' ;III-tII-ised l1(>xw S4o4 w,' gect d11e a task we I had thIlght was So4 stupend(Ills. 2. 1 will be hap/y. MIr I1ap- ey stat - cd that the matt0e1r if happin-'ss die pended n re ( ln tle insi<el t.hall 40n tIle Y. M. C. A. CHRI 1r sevra years4 3(.4 tIhe "Y" ha.s had4 a Chr 4istmas? for about lifty' of1 the clii (Irell of i olUtnbii whol w l d 14 1 >1 to tlier' wise have had any (Christmilas. Tlhe t ree is givenl i.n the chiavel at h'iinn I fall a fexw days befr 14 th4 4le 1 ihldays begin. TIhe mos lt initeresting part o4f t whre 4 prgram is the giving of presents to) a felw of4th faculty. A fter every child hasx his st)ck ing the t'remiingh4 pr4esenlts, if there hlappen to he alny. ar ie Ile .en4ted to the h)r'ofessors. TIhis na'5l ('hrist.. outside. Abraham Lincolnt said that people just m;i(le up their minds wheth er they would be happy Or .nlot. Steven sol sail: "Two men looked out of prison bars, ( )le saw ntld, the other stars." 3. / 7vill />e (1yee4T4blt. No matter h14)w we ICel let Its always be Jledsalt. It will help to Iiake some ole else hap py. 4. 1 7ill be square. le square with classmates. teachers, frieids, and self. 5. / have a pro ,r1am. The aver age persi just drifts tlui life without anly pjrpose tr aim. doii. wiat's es iest to <14). Mr. I'apsley cited several examples showing how a prograin helps to get things <lone. A program for every (lay is a gool plan. 6. 1 -kill keep in boly fi 1. Hhere lie emphasized the importance of keeping in ggood health, taking exercise, keeping pure. Ile body was compared to a machilie, which will wear out quickly if it is nwt taken care oI; h iwever. with priper care it will last in<lefiMitely. 7. / -will impro;v my* mind/. There is a lot of miental laziness. To make our tinds <levelop we imust work thetim jist as we exercise outr muscles. 8. I -will (yive mY sol a chance. NI r. I,:'psiey statel that the majority of pe Ifle spend I tite 4.:1 their soiuls. Just as anti athlete has to give tile if) exet cise, anl a man wht wishes to improve his mind ttu1st stivlv. so i f we want to get aytlii.n.g out of the spiritual life We mu1tst spenld time i'n "Iur Soulls. Give a certain 1i;It of Lvery day to talk to Go<d anti let IHim talk tii vou. NIr. I.apslcy stated at the C'nclision of his talk that whether these resollu ltiIs or sImle others were ised thiev wi111 help very much10i. lIe cloed with wishes to the stilents for a successfuil year. Ir. Ulmer close<l the services with prayer. -- -.M.c.A. "Y" Secretary Sick Ir. R. Glenn Bell. the Y. NI. C. A. Seecretary if the tUniversityv, sIlent the h1i,idays it, tle hspital at Selma, Ala halma. his wife's h4,im1e. Ir. Be 1I had is t4Iinsils reliove<l a,il Ie has not vet !e:1verel e(Iugh tI retunii ti) Columbia. f ic is cxpectril hak inl a few days. IMon<day n1ig"ht the "Y" cOuIcil sent a Ieegrall) to Ir. -Bvll wishlig him ;a -'e,tl recovery and assuringt him that y werkl ;irrvfil ol the wirk il his ab;elee. Si ver;l (if the flliiws hay receive< Icttcrs frim tle secretar v alI lie ends hi re kid to all. .\Mr. B-l is misi:,sedI very mu1i1ch i.,I the capuis and the students will be glad to see himi ap-aill. Y.M. C. A. LETTER HOME FROM IN DIANAPOLIS ID.r Ilome lilks: I told y'ilu tlhat We WI 1u 1 hiie a sper ial tiai..! All the w'yt friiim Asheville t4i Iidiaiiaplis-seven I P1ihn1anis. \\? ha-I a tiic cimiing out of Aslheville, n-:hody knew where lie was siljuposed to stay and there was :ich it a jaml no body iubIl get anyinlil!g. ()ne of oul. STMAS TREE mans IDrt. .\ lhoni received a mu thI or gaii. Ile pl;y-i a few uebords on it bit <1id noi t pilayv tii.e. problabily oni acciitlmt oif his bi:hfiiunes. ..\Ir. Ilanikiitis It is wi nderiiful wh at similes ciomie an~i thle faces iif thi chiildrienu whieni theuy see the tree amid Santa ('laius (ih liulpe was Sanita ( 'mnis this last t ime(') anld get theuir presems; lint thle clildreti arie noit tIle on,ly im'es whoii enijoy it, fur the stutdeiits seem to have as fine a I time' as i hr-v fellows lost his suitcase and walked the entire length of the train four or five timies before he found it. At last we wont to bed but not to sleep. \\'hen we go) up iext morning we were about fifty miles this side of Daiville. \Ve got to Cincinnati about weleven-thirty and to Indianapolis at three ten. It is cold as the mischief. The first thing we did was to go up town and climb the monument in the conter of town. It is 228 feet high and we most gave out. Then we found our boardin g places: Prof. Dabbs, Gentry Id lac Dabbs were on the same block .s the tabernacle. The rest of us were five and six miles out in the city. There sure is plenty to this city. We are going to meetings up here all the time: Three hours in the morning two in the afternomn, and two at night. Sherwood lIddy, who spoke at the Uni versity once, delivered a wonderful message about the industrial and social unrest in the world today. He told us tlat we tel to put all the evil and sin in )ther countries, but that we have a bot if wrong things here in this c(Ili try and with our own lives. Paul lar rison, returned missionary from Arabia, told of his experiences with the Mo hammedans. The missionaries to do any good muse he one of the pcople. They must eat what the natives eat, and do what they do. lie said that when they travel and stop for the night the conk takes off the saddle cloth and lays it on the ground with the side which was next to the camel up. Then oI this he makes the dough for the bread. This bl-cad is Nery. very m1uch like the kind which a bride i's supp-Ised to make, oily iore so. We had a Discussion Group Saturday. 'Ilere were fifty groups and something like one hundred and fifty persons inl lmy group. 'eple from all over the contry and a sprinkling of Japanese. Chinese, Indians and several other races. 'I'lie group reminded me of any group of fellows oi the campus at home-for Ihey didn't mind to talk. We exchanged 1ur views on dilJerent 4luestions and became more open minded to other viewpomiits. We are hearing a lot of fine speakers C anill rils from Eiiglanid, wh., is de livering a series of lectures ; John R. \Itt spoke to -Is about the commitment I Ilife. lIt' said that there were ho pe ill s igS in this gencerait ili as we have itici.,d. which is much better thanm the inertia f the Ist gelerati*ns; we .Hre im;uirinl. are p /'-ful. and are ready to go to the. extre.me. Yohali asilh, of India, gave a very in forming lecture oi 11 (1dia. He said that there was a Hin <ll India, a NloIhamuledan India, a Chris tian I India, a highly educated India, a po-ly educated India, a high class and a lw class India, and several other thin,,gs which I can't remember. There arc 147 different languages ill the coun Iry. There is great un1rest inl every liinc anid tilie pe1pile are especially seekiug light i-n tie matter of religioll. There are olly 17 Christiall liissiOUllaries to earil mlliioIl lmilians. \Wc havel't had any spare tilie. since We hLave IbCI here and haIln't st'elI ally thing of the city except a visit to Gar tihcl I 'rk. Accodi,ing to thle in fiorma tim on board in the staticon Inldianlapollis ill 192t) had a puipulatiion of 314,176 a,nd was the 21st city in tIhe U. S. I guess the popuiilat iln has juist abiout increased 7,000tf si nce V'riday, when thle dlhgates to the co invention camne in. As I sa;id, \\e hiaven't anuy extra timie aind the only thing wec dlo is to attenid the meietinigs, eat and sleep. I h ave tiold( abiout thec meicetinigs. I will icow tell abiout the cat ini; which ai ccord ing ti Al ac I )abbls, sh ouii- I ha;ve bc-en to ldc first. That fel - low, I )abbsi has gn'ice razy i n the sub1 ject of eatinig. I Ic made a resoluitioni wvhen lie cameli lhere that lhe wouildi't eat twice ini the s;unie place. so we wal k all oiver towni tryinig to select a place to eat. Thlere are sio mnany t hat we get cionlfits WI NGF Southe Columbia, S. C. Book - Station 1440 Main Steet, ed. One cafeteria has a very unique Y W. C. A. way of advertising: the hot air from Mrs Atre L... er Montgomery the kitchen is blown out on the side- spke to the Y. W. c A Monday after walk; people conie along, sniff., Yok n t "Problens in China." Her around to find out where that good smell talk was enj yed by all that attonded is coming from,. w tle cafeteria and the lvv''Aog ;11(1 many stayed on after walk in. That hits anything I ever the inecting was dismissed to ask ques saw. And thc:i tere is the Peacock tiols and to hear more. Mrs. Mont lin which Gordon May can tell you goiery*s 6ttle daughter, Sophie Earle about. Every place has a different sys- san* a song in Chinese, wearing a quaint ten but we are living aind learning. We little Chiliese costume. get our breakfast at the home where we are staying and we get take for break- Earle Black Sick fast. But I guess. you are about tired Nfr. -trl 1lack, senior law student of hearing me talk about eating. at the University, had an operation per We expect to leave here at 4:00 A. formed (il his hack this morning. Ie NI. Wednesday. ' The last meeting is is at the Columbia Hospital. Last Sat Tuesday night and we will get on the urday morning in-the Gymnasium he train and sleep. We are going to spend slipped and fell heavily on his knee. the (lay seeing Cincinatti, leaving there His knee was badly skidied and it be about six in the evening and getting came very painful. On Monday his home Thursday evening. Another meet- back began to hurt. Dr. Watson exam ing is coming on so I will have to stop ied him and found a minor operation now. Tell everybody hello for me. was necessary. The students hope that Love, John. he xvill soon he well again. 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