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Freshmen Fac SOME TREMBLE, OTHERS With V (By I. "No midnight oil for me," expressed the concern, or unconcern, of one fresh man at Carolina toward the final examil nations which began today. "I mean to see a moving picture every night cf the week except Sunday and then I'm going to sleep all I want to." Br;t not all the first-year men at the University are so much at ease. Forth coming events cast their shadows and more than one "rat' is scurrying around for "light." "One exam was enough to cenvince me," said one of the "greenies" who was losing the verdant hue. "The first term I waited until the.last day or two, so I had to cram for all my exams, and , be lieve me, it was some experience. I swore off. Never again." Some say that the grasshopper is an improvident insect who starves in winter because he fail to store up a sufficient supply of food in better days. The re porter tried out the parable of the ant and the grasshopper on a freshman who announced his avowed intention of en joying himself to the last minute. BRADLEY MAKES TALK FOR POPPY DAY HERE Speaks in University Chapel Thursday Morning. PAYS TRIBUTE TO HEROES Tells of Sons of Carolina Who Went West Over There. Prof. F. W. Bradley spoke at the chapel exercises Thursday morning in commemoration of Poppy Day. which comes Saturday, May 30. Prof. Bradley explained the plan cf the German drives and the movements of the American troops in France during the war, illus trating his talk with the aid of a German map, which he took from a hotel in Spa, where Jhe kaiser had his headquarters. Prof. Bradley also paid a tribute to the fifty thousand American soldiers left on the battlefields of France, including the university students who lost their lives in the war. Trees have been planted on the campus in memory of these boys and a broze tablet has been placed in the li brary commemorating the st->rene sac rifice of the following students, John P. Anderson, Benjamin Sloan Beverley, S. Jones Colcock, Daniel Mcl,aughlil Crawford. William Bratton Del,oach James McCants Douglas, Charles Wil liam Forbes, Cannon Durniond Fenel, Eugene B. Gary, Jr., Robert Elliott Gon zales, Thomas Carlisle Herbert, Harry~ Clyde Horton, Harvey James Kizer, De Vault L4eague. IlavidE Wotith Loring, John McKenzie McIntosh, Henry Gan son Mobley, Allison Paw, R. 0. Purdy, Jr. John Schreiner Reynolds, Edward Rollins Roberts, Farrell B Sanders, Curtis Milton Simmons, L4ewis Wardlaw Smith, L. G. Sullivan, Samuel D. Twittle taub, Edmund V. Walsh. News of Sti PRESBYTERIAN E. C. Ligon, Whitner Milner, J. D. McInnis and W. L. Hpubbardl have been selected at the dleclaimers who will com pete in the annual commencement coni test. D. 0. Rhame, a rismng senior, will lead P. C.'s track team next year. Many men have been initiated into Pi Kappa Delta, Chi Beta Phi and Lamba Phi Gamma at P. C. this past week. CLEMSON COLLE4FGE Hundreds of visitors have been at. Clemson for the June Week and b,rilliant commencement features. Clemson has been inspected and found O.K. in every respect by the board of visitors of the college which made an in spection tour last week, visiting. every department of work. Carter Newman and Wallace Roy, Clemson's speed demons, will enter the 6 Exams INDIFFERENT- REPORTER zried Attitudes W:P.) "Yes." he replied, "I know that those who don't provide, pay. But take the case of the grasshopper. It seems to me that every summer I see more and more of them. And if you'll notice they enjoy life while they're living." Qcaint angles and views are revealed by men who have thought out the problem and by those who haven't given it a thought. "You can take it as part of the game," is the way one put his opinion. "The game is one when you pass your term's work. If you are contented with a tech nical decision then you try to do enough in one d.ay to make up for a season's training. Besides you may consider the waiting as an added element of risk that peps up the play. "But do you play the game so as to prepare yourself for a bigger goal then ,exams are just an opportunity to put .down what yon have learned by reading and listening. "To telt the truth, I'm hoping tc knock the prof for a couple of eggs af ter a street car pole'." P. A. WILSON IS NOW SINGLES CHAMPION Defeats Ham Beattie In Hard Fought Game. FAIR-COLEMAN DOUBLES Many Entered in Annual Campus Tournament, Large Galleries. P. A. Wilson of Columbia, a member of the Junior Academic Class won the tennis singles championship of Carolina when he defeated "Ham" Beattie in the finals 6-3, 6-3, 13-11, in one of the hard est fought matches seen on the Univer sity courts this year. Wilson was com plete master in the first two sets, play ing a brilliant, slashing game which Beat tic could not withstand. In the third set Beattie rallied and led, at several times, only to have Wilson come back after fourteen extra games had been pjayed. Other matches in the semi-fiiali preceding the championship encounter in cluded: Beattie eliminated Cain. 6-2, 6-2, only to be eliminated a few mi1iutes later by Wilsoit 6-3, 6-3. The doubles finals were played Tues day afternoon, when the Heinie Fair 1illy Coleman team defeated D. Gaston and Summers. 6-4, 7-5, 10-8. The affair was closely fought all the way through but Gaston-Snmners lacked the neces sary- punch to put over a winning mark er. Fair's playing wvas sensational, and his stroking an1d lofting was brilliant. Both teams p)lay-ed well. In the semi finals R. Gaston and Wilson lost to D. Gaston and Summers, after the latter made a remarkable comeback against a lead of one set. Coleman and Fair deC leated. Bo' Jones and "Ham" Beattie in the other bracket of the dloubles. All hail to the new crowned kings!I ete's Colleges national intercollegiate track contest at Stagg Field, Chicago in June. FURMAN UNIVERaSITY The senior class of the Uniiversity de feated the faculty 13-12 in a hot contest of baseball as one of the features of com mencement week. M. C. Collins of Lake City has been elected president of the Purple and White Glee Club for 1926. THE CITADEL The annual Citadel picnic and dance at Folly Beach is reported as being the The juniors have returned from a week's furlough granited third year men every year and it is astonishing how many rings were "lost." The "Foot-Warmers" of Atlanta will furnish music for the Junae Ball to be held Jueen 9th UNCLE SAM PERFORMS ALL VARIED SFRVICES Some of the Funiy Thinki Tht I-apimen ifi the MVails. ' IMANY. DEAD LEttERS Some Good Advice Given to Those Who are ForgetfuL (Special to The Gamecock) Washington, D. C., May 28-While it is generally accepted that this is not the age of miracles, nevertheless, there are thousands f patrons of the United Stat es mails who take it for granted that Uncle Sam has many wonder-workers on his pay roll. .The very fact that there are wizards in the employ of the Post Office Depart ment-men and women who are uncanny, to say the least, in deciphering illegible handwriting-has caused no end of trou ble and expense to the government as well as to the tax-payer, along with in convenience in the receipt and delivery of mail matter. Yet, with all this expert handling and careful study of hand-writing oil the part of the postal clerks the annual rev enue from dead mail matter received by the government amounts to approximate ly $300,000. Last year, the Dead Letter Office re ceived $120,000 from the sale of orphan ed packages which could neither be for warded to the addressee, nor returned to the senders because of inadequate ad dresses. The same office turned into the United States Treasury $55,523.96 in cash removed from misdirected letters er found loose in thl mails. Postage stamps were taken from let ters or forid loose in the mails having a value of $12,165.67, almost double the entire revenue of the postal service in 1789. Three-cent fees collected for the re turn to senders of letters which could not be deliveeed totaled $92,007.54. But this is not half the story. Checks, drafts and money orders, whose owners could not be located, and amounting to $3,546,542.54 finally fowit a resting place .in the Dead Letter Office. For want of correct or complete ad dresses 21,000,000 letters were deposited in the Dead Letter Office, not to speak of 800.000 parcels which had been improp erly addressed or wrapped. Strange to say, this depositing of let ters and packages in the mails with in complete, inadequate or i-ncorrect address !es and wrapping comes, in a large major ity of cases, from those patrons who are the most liberal contributors to this branch of the Uhited States government. It has been estimated by postal offi cials that 200,000,000 pieces of mail are given "directory service" every year. which means that employees must take time from regular handling and dispat ching of mail in the endeavor to provide correct addresses for this hoge volume of misdirected matter. In New York ICity, alone, the cost of this service ap proximates $500 every clay in the year and the total amount through the corn-. try is stupendous. While the revenue from the Dead Let ter Office is sufficient to keep that branch of the postal service functioning it is not Inearly enough to pay the annual toll for support of the "NIXIE." A "NIXIE'' is a letter or parcel so imp)roperly addressed that it can neither be delivered to the addressee nor return ed to the sendler without special treat ment. This special treatment costs the Post Office Department or the taxpayer ,in the fintal analysis, approximately $1, .740,000 every year. In order to life this tremendous burden from the shonlders of the Post Office Department and on the pocketboow of the Americani people, the first week in June has been set aside by Postmaster - General New as "Better Mailing Week." An active, nation-wide campaign will be condrected during that period for the purpose of impressing on the mailer the necessity from every viewpoint of using more care in the addressing of his mail. not only letters but parcels as well. - U.S.C. - FLIPPY FL.APPER Silly little flapper, with your pow dered nose Yeu'd be quite the berries if you didn't roll your hose, If you didn't try to vamp us as we stroll across the campus Tf you didn't smoke o.. c... o.. even. pet. 2 "4t Copelmad Gbs,, So Goes the Pasho" LEARN THE WAY CIfQTHING Stylish Cl6ihes tor College men who $2S.00 to $55.00 wint quality as well s style. . HATS Tht New Shapes and Colors ms6st de. $3.50 to $10.00 sired always in stock.' FURNISHINGS Manhattan Shirts, Van Heusen Collars Everything That's New Cheney Neekwear, Munsing Underwisr. Piu Dress Sus eland Ss Mae to Per Rent Mure Company 1t3 Maili Street Columbia, S. C. GET SMAR1T STYLE -But Get H44RT SCHAFFNER & MARX QUALITY BACK OF IT M. L. Kinard, Inc. 1523 Main Streetr Columbia, S. C. CLASS RINGS CLASS PINS - WATCH REPAIRING - Our Watch Repairing Department is well-known all over this section of the country for its efficient and accurate work. We give you the best work at very reasonable prices P. H. Lachicotte & Company - Jewelers - 1424 Main St. Columbia, S. C. COLLEGE MEDALS TROPHY CUPS When Hot and Thirsty, Come To BURNETT'S DRUG STORE W1ERE YOU WILL FIND A COOL AND REFRESHING DRINK -- We Also Handle - ALL STUDENT SUPPLIES, CAROLINA SEAL STATIONERY Cigarette Cases a Specially McMASTER, Inc. --ATHLETIC GOODS - Corner Sumter and Hampton Sts. Columbia, S. C. R. C. WILLIAMS & SONS Incorporated FURNITURE, RUGS, LINOLEUM, SHADES, PILLOWS 1638 Main Street Columbia, S. C. Phone 5815 Ratronize Our Adverte. rs.. __ The D.e.s~.r.. I