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Will You Be at Blue Ridge .UBuyJutnque This Summer? SemcrtBanqe _______ ______T ickets N o w University of South Carolina VOL. XX COLUMBIA, S. C., FRIDAY. APRIL 22, 1927 OMICRC RESOLUTIONS A BY PRESS CLL TO BE SENT President of Organization Ap points Men to Express Esteem for Dean NEW CHARLESTON EDITOR George Wittkowsky and Profes sor Davis Discuss Journalis tic Topics at Meeting Whereas, the Press Club, learning with regret of the departure of Dr. William Watts Ball, founder of the Club and Dean of the School cf Journalism, and realizing the great loss to the University and the Pret:s Club. Be it Resolved, that a copy ot resolutions be sent Dr i Ball ac quainting him of our appreciation of his work as an instructor, and his high ideals of scholarship. And, furthermore, wishing him success and happiness in his work, though it takes him from our midst. W. L. T. Crocker, J. V. Nielsen, Committee on Resolutions. The foregoing resolutions were drawn up by a committee appointed by W. J. Thomas, president of the Press club, and they express in a very small way the high esteem in which Dr. William Watts Ball, dean of the school of Journalism, is held by the members of his "Child," as Prof. Yates Snowden has termed the University Press club. Dr. Ball severs his pro fessional connect'on with the Univer sity at the end of the present session when he goes to Charleston as editor in-chief of "The News and Courier." George Wittkowsky, Columbia at torney and instructor in the English De partment, spoke oi "Freedom of thc Press, and Its Limitations or the Law of Libel and Slander" at the meeting of the Press club at the home of Xliss Elizabeth Lindsay, \Vednesday night. Mr. V'ttkowsky divided slanderous and libelous words into several cate gories and then explained how a news paper might be guilty of libel by their use. He gave a short discussoii of privileged statements explaining the right to reproduce in a newspaper the remarks of lawyers and judges talking to juries :n the performance of their offices. He pointer out where the dis tinction should be made in privilege and qual'fied privilege telling wherein the newspaper had the right to critize and how far it could go in its criticism. At the conclus'on cf Mr. Wittkow sky's talk, Wilbur Zeigler gave a nuni ber of selections on the piano. Fol lowing this, Prof. Henry C. Davis. of the English dlepartment, talked ont "Drifts in Our Speech." Prof. D)avis traced the history of the English language from the highly in flectedl Greek through the less inflected Anglo-Saxon and middle English to the ahnost unflected English of to dlay. He declared that language is to society, what speech is to the individual. andl pointed out that as clearness deC mandls that we hav'e definite words, variety demands that they change. Go'ng further into his subject lhe saidl that as journalists (chanige type', capitallizatlion and puinct-.at ion. pub mha . ers, linguists and journal'sts may get I together and properly change the Eng lish language. He gave a number o~f 1 examp)les of the use of the gerundl in English as the subject of a verb, where formerly, it was the verb itself., IN.DELI RE DRA WN UP 'B COMMITTEE TO W. W. BALL JUNIOR-SENIOR BANQUET PLANS NOW COMPLETE Junior Class Decides to Make Reception at Jefferson Hotel a Formal Affair TICKETS BEING SOLD NOW Governor Richards Has Not Yet Decided Whether He Will Speak At a meeting of the junior class Thursday morning it was decided that the Junior-Senior banquet will be a formal affair. This settles a question wh'ch has been discussed for several days. After much argument the Juniors agreed to let each junior and senior bring as many as Iwo guests and no more. Tickets went on sale last Tuesday, and will be sold until next Monday night. They can be bought from any one of the following: Lawrence Mur den. Tom Craig, Raymond Hildebrand, Eirene Mayers, Harriet Scarborough, or Burton Shook. There are two kinds of tickets, white ones which are for un:ors and <:ell for $2.50 and red tick .ts which are given to seniors and sold for the guests of the juniors and sen iors for $2.00. Plans for the banquet are almost :ompleted. The orchestra has not been :hosen, several being under considera tion. As usual the banquet will be riven at the Jefferson hotel. Juniors and seniors are urged to get 'ckets by next Monday night, as they vill not be sold after that time. Mon lay has been set as the last (lay for >uying tickets in order that the finan ial committee will know definitely how nuch money will be ava'lable. If there s a sutTicient amount of money on land the co1immittee plans to buy fav >rs, which will be given to those at ending. Governor Richards has been asked to ;peak, but has not yet made h's deci - u.s.c. - Co-ed Debaters to Go to Tuscalloosa Misses McLure, Goff, Jones, and New to Represent Carolina Against Alabama M isses Arthl Arn McLure of Che.s er, Carrie Nell Goff, l,illiai Jones, and \nne New of Columbia, were choseii Wedlnesdlay afternoon to represent the Jniversity i a debate wvith the Univer ity oIf Alabama. The -subject for the lebate is: "Resolved, That the United tates should enact a uniform marriagt Lusi divorce law.". Misses McL.ure and Goff wvill uphold he affirmative and( Misses Jones and 9Jew wvi.l deblate the negative. The af irmiative team wvill go to Tuscaloosa vhere it wvill opW)se the University of \labamia's negative anid their aflirmative vill come to Columbia to meet the Uni - rersity's negative. Miss Goff is a junior; Miss Jones a er-ior; Miss New is a freshman wi dliss McLuire, wvho is a member of the '',uphrosynieani literary solciety, all thme le'>aters are members of the Hypatian~ terary society. Judges for the coni erts were Professors Norwvood andh Vahsh, and Miss Jlohnston, all membiers ,f the Ih- iversity facutyi. A KAPP. Ask These Men About Blue Ridge and the Life There If you want to know about Blue Ridge ask any of the men below. They have been there. Bill Boyd, Cecil Scott, John R. Pate, C. C. Cuttino, Bus Wise, Ed. Massie, Jim Hearon, Jim Hicks, R. M. Smith, Lee Crocker, Leroy Griffith, Sam Ready, W. J. Thonas. Hoye Eargle, Sewell Hawkins, W. C. Nolan, H. B. Sfevenson, T. 4,. Ulmer, H. H. Foy, Jaspcr Derrick. -U.S.C. Melton Gate To Be Erected By June First Memorial Will Be Placed at Main Gate of Athletic Field -Contract Let SOCIAL CABINET WORKING $1233.29 Has Been Raised-Other Contributions May Come in Soon Faculty .................... $23.50 Students ..... . ........-.. 254.29 Orga--.tions ............. 493.30 Officials and Employees .... 149.51) Miscellaneous .............. 23.00 Graduates .................. 10.00 Colored Employees ......... 9.70 Total .............. 1233.29 Sponsored by the Social cabinet. the 4 memorial to the late president of the I University. Dr. V. D. Melton, w'*I be completed by conuencement. This I memorial will be in the form of two ornamental posts on either side of the main gate of the athletic field. These two posts will be of br'ck. sur mounted by large urns and each bear ing a bronze tablet, one bearing this in scription: "Dedicated to William Dovis s Melton-Pres'dent of the University I 1921-26." The other tablet will bear t ihis acknowledgment: "Erected by the fficers, faculty, student body, organi- t rations, and employees of the Univer- v ity of South Carolina, sponsored by the a ;ocial cabinet, 1927." An iron arch will span the gateway a vh'ch is to bear the words "Melton Field" in bronze letters. The gates 1hemselves will be of wrought iron. Plans for the memorial were drawn >y Carroll Johoson, architect, and the vork will be done by the Crary Con ;truction company. The original plans, as sketched by the r social cabuinet, composed of Ethel Annu c 0 MAcLure, S' Siedeman, Tom Craig andl )rofessors Bruce Coleman and Mat-. -olmi McCrae, called for a brick wall ti -xtendinig on either side of the two >osts for some (distance. Howvever. the ack of funds prevented the carrying. iut of this plan. It is still possibule to" to this, though, and 'f any other con ributions come in this will be (lone. t Follow'ng is a list of those on theb .niversity facult andl others who have ontrib)utedl andl their contribution. The ~amuecock will p)rint the names of at thers who have contributed in succeed-u ng ~SSues. W. Tr. Aycock, $10.00; IL. T. Baker, tI 5.00; W. W. Ball. $5.00: F. W. Brad- "~ ey, $500; W. B. Burney, $25.00; W. H. ~ 'allcott, $4.00; A. I.. Campbell, $5.00; ' L. C. Carson, $5.00; J. A. Chase, $2.00; i" surton Clark. $2.50; E. C. Coker, $5.00: Q .B. Coleman, $5.00: Vernon Cook, ' (Continued on nage eIght) (.f L COME LEADERSHIP FR TAKE ITS PL BETA KAPP DEBATERS FOR GA.-ALA. MEET ARE SELECTED Simpson, Karesh, Tyler and Fun derburke Compose Carolina's Teams in Triangle FIRST MEETING OF THREE Pate, Euphradian, Presides in Affirmative Preliminary Garrett, in Negative W. D. Siipson and Joseph Karesh, both of Columbia, Guy Tyler, of Nor ivay, and Harolk Funderburke, of Can - len, were last week chosen in prelimi iaries held in the Clariosophic and Kuphradiain halls to represent the Uni mersity in the first triangular debate >etween the University of South Caro ina, Alabama, and Georgia. Simpson and Karesh, on the affirma ive of the query: "Resolved: That .omipulsory Military Training in Col eges and Universities in the United states Should he Abolished," will trav Il to Tuscaloosa, Alabama. there to op )ose the negative team of the Univer ;ity of Georgia. Tyler and Funder >urke. defending the negative, will go o Athens, Georgia, there to engage in. "erbal confl:ct with the affirmative cam of the University of Alabama. The ilirmative team of Uiiversity of Geor.. tia and the megative team of University >f Alabama will clash inl Columbia. The late for the contests is May 2. Both eorgi.a and Alabama boast of stront, cams. Georgia. debating in the tri ngle with Carolina and Virgin'a :i 925. was successful. with the exception of Funderburke, -ho is a newcomer in intercolleg'atc lebating at the University, all the neinbers have represented Carolina in latform tilts on former occas:ons. )nly recently did Karesh and Simp on. paired with each other, defeat 'resb%tcrian College in one corner of lhe annual "Little Triangle" debate. S'iipson an(l Tyle are mcmibers of lie Clariosophic literary society, (4 :hich Simpson is the vice presideutm nd Tyler 's president and senior vale ictorian. Karesh and Fuiderburke re sophomores. -USc Vlay Queen Will Be Coronated on May 4 Miss virg'nia Utsey. of St. George. -centlv elected May Queen. will be rownedl in~ the new Field House att 9 :00 1 clock, on the night of May 4th. Immediat ely following the cemena - on there will be a soc'al cabinet dlance sting tintil two o'cmock: A.'\ision will by athletic ticketi only. I'li cor''.dt ion i '- 'tw yt . a t n r in the Academic sce'.eal, prom'ses be a gala occaslin. The usual in rest in May queen coronations will ~ addedc( to by the p)opularityv of thle lay Quecen-elect. The e,ectiomi of it May Queen is an te-old custom at Carolina buit for somre ,I ikr.own reasoin, this practice wvas dIrop -d for some time and was revived with e election of Miss Franices Wanna- d aker. of Columbia, as Queen in 1923.C 'iss Thelma Penland of Coltimbia wvas ected Queen in 1924, Miss Caroline ms. also of Columbia wvas elected as neen in 1925. andl last year Miss F.iiza 'h Tlhompson. of Laurens, wvas Queen the May. S HERE A TERNITY TO ICE WITH PHI 4 AT CAROLINA Election to New Organization Is Confined to the Junior and Senior Classes FIVE FACULTY MEMBERS Only Leaders in Campus Life and Activities Have Been Se lected as Members Omicron Delta Kappa, national hon orary leadership fraternity, will take its place with P1hi Beta Kappa, nat-on al scholarship fraternity, when a chap ter is established on the campus of the University of South Carolina within the next two weeks. Election to this fraternity is confined to members of the junior and senior classes. Twenty men, ten juniors an; ten seniors, have been elected to Omi cron Delta Kappa by the men on the faculty who are members of the frater nity.' These twenty men will be noti fled of their election within the next few days. At present thcre are five men on the faculty who are members of Omicron Delta Kappa. William Spenser Cur rell, Washington and Lee chapter; James Glenn Driver, William and Mary chapter; Joseph Means McFadden, Davidson chapter; Henry L. Shaw, Davidson chapter; and Havilah Bab cock, William and Mary chapter. Dr. Reed Smith was elected to the frater nty last year and will go to David son College next week for his initia Iion. Dr. Henry Louis Smith, presi dent of Washington and Lee Univer sty, will make the address at the in itiation of Dr. Smith. Five iembers Of th1e fatulty have been chosen as hionorary iiembers of the new chapter of the fraternity that will be establish Pd here. Their mnes w'1l not oe known until the day of the installation rerenionies. Omicron Delta Kappa is rated with Pii Beta Kappa and tlie charter :s be ng secured for the University, it is >resuned. under the same conditions is, the Plhi Beta Kappa charter. Be'ng in ionorarY fraternity, it is not nec .ssary for the trustees of the Univer ity to approve the action of the legis atuire and governor in repeal:ng the tti-fraternity law before the chapte n1av be established here. Nlembership in Oimicron Delta Kappa will not af cet the elig,bility of any of its mei ers who may receive invitations to he 'mie affiliated with i any social frater ity that may be established here pro -ided the Board of Trustees sees fit t,,, llow the re-establishment of frater lities at the Universitv. L.eaders in at hletics, in forens'c acti -ities, in V.Mi.C.A-. work. in the literary ociet'es, in the social life of the Uni ersity--leaders will niake up the mnem ership of the Omicron Delta Kappa raternity. lEvery aspect, every group. f University life wvI1llie represented y its leaders. The men who are most oinspicuous in camuts life and its etiv'ties have been selected as memi ers of the new fraternity and( men of heir calibre will be the ones elected >membership in the years to comte. 'he fraternity is 'ntended as a rende ouis for leaders in all camipus groups nd( as a clearing house for discussion f University problems. Unlike Ph' eta Kappa, Omicron D)elta Kappa is ot based on mere scholarship. Meni must prove their ability as leaders and niless th's ability is p)roven in sonme >rm of University life a man is not igible for miembership in the new (('ontlinued on pasre elsrht)