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Watch The 4 nswer T This Spring Questionnaire University of South Carolina VOL. XXI FRIDAY,,NIARCII 9, 1928.No1. I A ItF UKATUK X PRELIMINA RIES COMING THURS. Carolina Will Select Her Repre sentative in Chapel at Eight O'clock JOINT SESSION TUESDAY Societies Will Elect Presiding Officer and Chief Marshall For Contest According to an announcement made by Raymond Hildebrand, ienber of the executive committee of the State Oratorical association, Carolina will choose her representative the coming Thursday night at 8 o'clock in the chapel. Next Tuesday night, a joint session of the two literary societies will be held to select a presiding officer and a chief marshal for the contest. Fach society sends three speakers in the finals to compete for the right of represent ng Carolina in the South Carolina intercollegiate oratorical con test to be held at a place to be an nounced by the association, on April 20. WVith tile announceient that Sylvan Bros. of Columbia are to award a handsome silver loving Cup to t II school of the winner, the contest has taken on much added interest. Besides the cup, the winner will he the recipi ent of a handsome inedal, upon which is engraved the seals of the institutions participating. The winner of the sec ond place will also receive a medal of handsome design. Since 1921 when Ellison Smith cap tured first place, Carolina has not won, though in 1924 John Erskine Hankins was the winner of second place. Erskine College boasts of the proud record of having captured first place in three out of the past four years. Avcording to the ruling of the as sociation. manuscripts of the success ful representatives must be in the hands of the corresponding secretary thirty days before the final contest. This ruling explains the reason for the holding of the contest at such an early date. The members of the association in clude: Erskine College, Presbyterian College, The Citadel, Furipan, Wof ford, College of Charleston, Newberry, Clemson and Carolina. USC Sigma Nu Fraternity Grants Delta Chapter Not a Single Negative Vote In United States- 93 Chapters Sigma Delta Nu, local group pe ition ing Sigma Nu, has received word from F. l~. Williams, national secretary of Indlianapolis, that aal records had been broken an~d niever in the history of the fraternity had a petition receivedl no negative votes. There are 93 collegia e chapters mn the United States and the Carolina chap ter will lbe a revival of the Delta chapter wich wvas at Carolina many years ago. Notice lFinals of the state oratorical cont test will be held in thle chapel the night of March i 5 beginning at 8 o'clock. All men who dlesire to come out for the contest are requested to turn their name in to the president of their society at once. Song-Yell Contest Sponsored By O.D.K. Judges Will Be Maurice Matte son, William Laval and Dean Baker A contest for the purpose of bringing niew songs an(I yelIs into the reportoire of the cheering staff is being sponlsoret by the Omicron Delta Kappa fraternity Several prizes are offered. The contest will c;()se on March 23rd. it is openl to all students. For the two best songs, a first prize of $17.50 is offered., and $7.50 for the second best. The songs shali be of four lines with a chorus of eight lines. The judges on lie verse selection are Maurice Motteson, William L. Laval, and Dean L. T. Baker. There will be givei two prizes of $12.50 each for the two best tunes which wi-l suit the selected songs. Peppy tunes and wor(ling are wanted. For the best yell subiitted. five dollars wi,l be given. The second prize is $3.00 and two one dollar prizes wili be given for the two next best spicy vells. The judges for the yells are Thomas F. Bail, Dr. Havilah Babcock. and Dean J. Rion McKissick. T,he ten best songs, tunes and yells will be se;ec ed by the judges and will be tried out in chapel at a pep meeting. Curtis Brock will assist in leading the cheers and the judges will make their fina, choices accordiing to the manner in which they are rendered by the students. Selections should be submitted before March 23. Give them to the university post idfice. care 0. D. K. _USC DOUGLAS TALKS AT UP-STATE ALUMNI MEET University President Makes Plea For S. C. to Have More Research LAVAL ALSO SPEAKS Alumni of Five Counties Gather at Call of Spartanburg Chapter Dr. ). M. Douglas. speaking Mon day night at a Spartanburg meeting of alunini from Spartanburg. Chero kee, Union. Greenville and Laurens counties. said that the state of South Carolina, through the state inst,tu tion, the state university, which should predoinlat e in the e(lucational line, should enter 'nto a great period of research. This tesearch. Dr. Douglas sai(, is what has made most big states. California. he declared. inade an ap propriation of $163,000 for the work, while Sith Carolina has no researcli at all. The Un'versity president went oil to ex)lail soie of the rumored )olicies which lie was warned against. but oi entering the p)residenicy, D)r. D)ouglas says lie found t hem to l)e utittrue. The same is true of any school. Also lie repud(iatedl ruimors of some alleged rul nig p)ower Cohunbia ha~d about run i niing the University. D)r. D)ouglas miiade iani earnest p)lea to the aluimni for the ir supplort,. in closing. Billy Laval stated that lie was coni tident that lie could putt the Uiiivers'tyv on the athletic map or lie wvould have never accep)tedl the position of super visor of coaching here. Coach I.av;.l It dthe aluiiini should back him, the teami anid the school, so that they miiihlt putt omit thle winning teams that 'hbe University of South Carolina should have. He spoke of the new sp)irit that seems to prevail on the Carol'na campuis and of the earnest co op)eration that he was having from (Continued on Page Eighm The above is a picture of Card Ias.II been m.ade possible thllgh a gif of tile class of '87. Mr. Seibles is a prinineit insurane newspaper man of Co*,umnia as "the h WI'' A 11o able fact concerning \M deal of his business has been done in a ters have always been kept inl Columbi Pi Kappa Phi Honors Pledges With Affair First Entertainment Of Its Kind Given By The Chapter At Carolina The Sigma Chapter of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternit is entertaining withI a reception from 8:30 to 10 o'clock Fri day eveiing at the Green Parrot Tea roomI1, to be givenl ill honor of the iew imeimbers and (pledges. A numlber of stidints have been invited to this affair, tile first of its kind to be given by a fraternity (il the capus. it is under s 00d that a iiumber of the faculty aid parents of th members and pledges will be present. The new members of the Sigma chi ter are: Montgomery Morrow, C. Fletch er watson, AIwin 1, Green, Jr. Ray .dwards. Robert F. Gressette. Robert P. Matheny and Jolln W. Hunt, and the pledges are Dr. Vernon Cook, Roher 1-1. Sparks and James K. Thompson. C. 1). Danie; is archon of the chapter, Fred SwafTield is treasurer, and ). F.. milling is .secretary. aid the members are 1-1. ,. Shaw, Jr. Ralph Bowden. crank Gary, Jill Houser, Swaffield CoWan. .James Fowles, Jr. Charles Fish birie, Jr., Prof. B. ). Hodges. Huger King, Bob Jones awd Raymond li,de )rard. Prof. J. K. Roberts TFalks to Geologists Prof. Joseph K. Roberts, pIrofessor of Geology at tihe University of Vir giniia dleliveredI an1 addlress before the I listor:cal Geology class W'ednlesdaiy mlornling. A hi1ghly) tehnlical add(ress was dliivered in an1 initerest ing man(11 necr in which tile nlomlenlature (of the se:eece was( expiainled, history of the termis were tracedl. anid somie leadling geologists were dlisculssedI. D)r. Roberts exp)lainied how tile U. S. Geologic sur vey is seeking to have tile tenrms Ozarkian and( Canadian incorporated unto tile termiiology of geology inl rec ognition of tile work of American geologists. ,a's new astronomical observatory which Sfrom Edwin G. Seibles an alunusnw; man and has been characterized hv the ggest figure in marine insurance in the ri. eibles' work is that while a great ther parts of ile country, his headquar a, his starting point. DR. KILPATRICK TELLS STOR Y OF LIFE IN RUSSIA Relates Experience In Russian Prison-Mentions Classes of People DEFINES BOLSHEVISM Teachings of Karl Marx An nounced as Cause of Rus sian Revolution "Nothing is more delightful or en tertiing than to watch a battle at .1 distaice, and the greater the distance and the greater the magi'fying power of your glasses. the more interesting the battle," said Prof. Emmett Kilpat rick. professor of romance languages and former captive of the Russian Bolsheviks, in speaking before a group of students on the subjec; of "Russia" at the "Y" meeting held in ehapei Sunday night. Speaking very rapidly btit with a toile that could be heard easily in the mllost distant part of the chapel, tie speaker related how le and two friends ole of whom was a woman, were cal) tnred while watelng a battle. Seeing lie condition of the I.ihuanian Rus sians. lie explaiied that he had joined their forces ito help theni gain their independ(enie, but fuirt her stated t ha' lie fouiid hiimiself only a imeire advein turer. "Whlat were the causes of thle revo lit ion ?The iininediate cause," lie conitinued." was the teachings of Karl Marx" and further stated that. "it wvas the re volutioinary sp)irit that had been prevai['ng in lEurope, as represented by3 the French Revolti on and the rev ohut ioiis of 1830) aind 1848." 'l'he greater part of tIhe sp)(eech was takeni up with personal exp)eriences in Redl Russia, ini which T)r. Kilpatrick related mainy of his exp)eriencees dur ing 18 months spent there, eleven of whIich were in p)risoni. He presenited v'ividlly a picture of the dlisorder ini which this great country wvas thirowni, the famines and the conditions of its CO-EDS ESCAPE SERIOUS INJU RY IN PLANE CRASH Misses Stackhouse and Stevens Suffer From Wounds Re ceived in Fall AEROPLANE STRIKES TREE Miss Stevens Has Broken Leg -Miss Stackhouse Cut On Head In an airplane crash Wednesday after iown, three miles from Columbia on the Two No ch road. two University co-eds Miisses -lizabeth Stackhouse of Mullins and illen Stevens of Younges Isla-.d liarrowly escaped death, when the plane it, which they were riding plunged 50 feet to the earth. Neither of the girls were dangerously injured though both were badly shaken up and briiised. Miss Stevens suffered the most severe hurts when one of her wrists and her left shin hone was brm ken. MIiss Stackhouse suffered a cut onl tile leiad. The girls had gone up with Charlk Smile. a comnimercial aviator of Ne-v Yo)rk. whi) has been in the Capito, City for s(ime tine doing commercial flyin \Ir. Soile was slightly cut and bruised but otherwise, lie stffered no outstandin! injuries. All three occupants of the plan were rushed to the Columbia lospital and were resting weil at the latest reporl The plane was a Pitcairn Cro-wi,. with a 90 horse power, Ox 5 Cur:is m(r411 )f eiglit cylinders. The plane was practically a total wreck. It secims that tile plane had taken (!T iver ie higway an( was rishig as usual when1 4inte wing oi the plane tipped slightly on the til) of a pine !ree. 45 or 50 feet tall and about 600 yards from the, take t)ff. The plane veered to the right and crashed to the ground. The account of one who reached tl: spo' of the accident soon after it ic ctirred had the fi,lowing to say: "tcki 'y when the machine dived to the groitil it didf s, in I sort of side-slip and ilh brunt (of the fall was borne by the riglit wing. As this side crumpled when the IColthit-d onl Page Eight) USC Richard Dix Selects Beauties For Annual Unable To Narrow His Choice So Selects Ten For Section The photographs which will compose the beauty section of the Garnet and Black have already been selected by Richard Dix. screen star, and have been forwarded to the printing company which is doing the work th's year. The editor of the Garnet and Black had planned to have only eight pict t,res in the beauty section, but out of the more than fifty pictures submitted, Mr. D'x was timable to narrow his choice dlown to less than ten, so thle beauty s4ection will contain ten beauti fiul faces inisteadl of eight as originally plann iedl. Ini his letter to the ed'tor of the Garnet andI( Black Mr. Dix stated that the job of selecting thle b)eauttie had bleeni a hard one and that in thie ftutre lhe "wouild not choose to choose." Notice All stumdent s who desire a cop. of this year's Garn.et and Black aim nil are retpuested to place the:r e-- 0 r with Blood0( H-ildebrandl now at th Campus Book Store. It is imp >: ant that all orders be turned in at once that the staff may know how many annuals to have printed.