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THE GAMECOCi FOR A POU Poultry Club in Pennsylvania Wishes to Subscribe, Likes University Chickens--Gets Address From Police Gazette Wishing to subscribe to a good poul try magazine, a poultry club in Harbor creek, Pennsylvania, sent a letter to the Editor of The Gamecock the other day asking for the subscription rate. on The Gamecock. The author of the letter stated that the members of his club were interested in the. breeding and exhibiting of game chickens and therefore. wanted to read the Univer sity of South Carolina Gamecock pub lication. The letter also mentioned that it was with difficulty that the club obtained the. address of The Gamecock. But that it was finally obtained through the Police Gazette of New York City. A United States postage stamp was inclosed in the letter for the conven ience of the Editor's reply. There are twenty-six members of the poultry club, and all wish to sub scribe to The Gamecock. An element of haste characterized the letter, which was hand-written, and it is inferred that the club desires to read The Gamecock immediately. The letter is as follows: Harborcreek, Pa., February 21, 1929. To Editor Gamecock. Dear Sir: .o Some time ago I wrote you for a copy of Gamecock, by request from i the members of our poultry club, on breeding and exhibiting of your game chickens publication. It was with great difficulty that we ob tained your name and address . through the Police Gazette of New : York City. And as yet we have re ceived no reply. I am writing again to ask you to kindly send us a copy and price of the subscription, as there are twen ty-six of us that wish to subscribe. We. will appreciate it very much. In the event that you do not send sample copies, I am sending a stamp for reply stating your sub scription price. As soon as I learn the price, I will forward the amount to you at once. Trusting to hear from you at your earliest convenience, and thanking you in advance for a reply, I remain, Very Sincerely yours, Walter C. McNally, Box 33, Erie County, Harborcreek, Penna. (Editor's Note: An issue of this week's Gamecock is being sent to the above party, trusting that the club will be benefitted by the exhibition of game chicks bred at the University of South Carolina.) -U.s.c. KEITH TO HEAD FOREIGN TOUR University Professor Will Con duct Travellers Through All Parts of Europe Professor Oscar 1L. Keith, professor of Romance Languages at the Uni versity of South Carolina, will conduct a tour through E.urope during the conm ing summer. The tour will be under the business management of Temple Tours, incorporated. The tour will leave from New York on June 15th, and wvill return on Aug ust 26th. The itinerary will include travels in Germany., Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Switzerland, France and England. Among other places, all the capitols of central Europe as 'well' as Paris and London, will be visited. Many of the scenic wonders of the world will also he included in the route. Ifjb'ssor Keith has conducted Eur opean tours for about 10 years and has traveled on the continent for fully a quarter of a century. For the past several years he hsa been located at Carona. 'r MISTAKEN ITRY MAGAZINE Sport Tea Dance At "La Boheme" The Alpha Delta Pi sorority enter tained with a delightful sport tea dance Thursday afternoon in the Bohemian club house on the University campus. 'Ihe rooms were decorated in sport effect, with boxing gloves, tennis rackets, and go>lf clubs. The guests were sport costumes. A mssical program made up' largely of fraternity songs was rendered by the Collegiate orchestra. The soro rity colors, blue and white, were effec tively carried out in the decorations, blue and white streamers and blue and white silk roses being used. Punch and sandwiches were served and little golf bags filled with candy were given as favors.. Each guest was presented with a corsage of roses. The dance was given in honor of freshman girls. About 125 invitations were issued and among the guests were representatives . from every fraternity and members of the Ftrman University basketball team. Usc Pajama Party On Third Floor Dorm. A pajama party was given Saturday night, February 16, fr.>r.a 9 until 12, on the third floor of the girls' do'-nutory, by the residents of the floor. Four tables of brilge were prepared. Vanilla ice cream,'cakes and mints were served. 'The talley cards were suggestive of Valentine's Day. Miss Ruth Decamp bumped in on the party. She was the only one present who did not reside on the third floor. All the new girls who came in the sec ond semester had to perform stunts .nd go through a very crucial initiation ceremony. Music and dancing were en joyed. -U.S.C. Scientific Club Holds Meeting W. P. Waner . New Head of Scientists CATHODE RAY DISCUSSED Morriso 1, Griffith And Shuler Reti.ed From Office Carolina Scientific Society held a regular meeting in Le Conte College Tuesday night at 7:30. The follow ing officers were elected for the en suing terni: W. P. Wamner, president; A. Q. Clement, vice-president; an,l Roberta Lovelace, secretary and treas urer. The retiring officers are R. W. Morrison, president; Leroy Griffith, vice-president; P. T. Shuler, secretary and treasurer. The program was in charge of the p)hysics department and a paper on "The Nature of the Cathode Ray as; Determined by Study of Syllogram," was presented b)y William Taylor; andl a paper on "Magnetism" by P. T. Shuler. The Carolina Scientific Society is an honorary club composed of four memn b)ers from each of the five dlepart ments : Mathematics, Biology, Phiysics, Chemistry andl Geology. --U.s.C. STUDENTS WORK ON POSTERS The students of the art department are at work on the posters to be used in advertising the annual exhibit given by the department which will be held at the end of the term. The exhibit is held to allow the work of the depart ment to be seen by the Carolina faculty and students and the general public. Miss Mary Cuttino and Wilson Taylor have created and executed two of the most clever and enthusiastic of the de signs. -U.S.C. Among the numerous advantages of the $75,000,000 bond issue is that the bootlegger will have, a better chance to escape from the would-be revenue in spector and sheriff. Fraternity News Bid Day for fraternities has be.en set for Monday, February 25th. This ruling was changed by the Pan-Hel lenic Council as a substitute for the old two months rushing season. All bids from the various frats were filed with Jack Chase, the registrar, before ten o'clock on Saturday morning. Si lence period, during which no frate nity man can talk to a freshman, be gan at twelve o'clock Saturday night. -U.S.C. On Friday the Pi Kappa Phi frater nity held their spring convention of the 4th district. The. object of the con vention was to discuss plans for the national convention to be held 'n Charleston, S. C., the birthplace. of the fraternity, during the Christmas holi days of 1929. On Friday night they held a ban quet at the Jefferson Hotel and the Co-ed Follies entertained. Among the high officials of the. fraternity present were: John D. Carroll, past archon, from Lexington, S. C. Howard D. Leake, executive secre tary. Richard L. Young, supreme editor. Simon Fogarty and L. Harry Mix son, two living founders. -U.S.C. The initiation of the eligible pledges of the Sigma Nu fraternity has been set for Wednesday and Thursday nights of this week. The following pledges are expected to be initiated: James McLeod, of Florence. J. C. DuPre of Columbia. Eugene C. Cathcart of Columbia. William Alfred Thompson of Annis ton, Ala. -U.S.C. On Friday afternoon of last week, the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity initiate-l James Dusenberry and Marion Hol man into their order. -U.S.C. Some of the pledges of the. S. A. E. fraternity were formally received into the. order last week. Those initiated were Jack Bell, Horace McGee, Hen ry Forbes, James Brailsford, Purl Pow ell, Buddy Pope and DeVaughn. This Smoke Aids Artist To Nab Ideas Independence, Mo. June 24, 1928. Larus & Brother Co., Richmond, Va. Dear Sirs: Perhaps you would like to know in just a word or so how I am in partners with Edgeworth in a business way. By profession I am a cartoonist, who you probably know is called upon to create new ideas. While this is ranked as the hardest p art of the pro fession, I have proved it may easily be mastered, if a person will but recline in any easy chair, light a pipe, and live with imaginative persons in the aromatic smoke clouds that will soon fill the room. 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Cut out the blank and hand to a member of the staff or mail to The Gamecock SUBSCRIPTION BLANK J. C. Hiott, Bus. Mgr. The Gamecock, University of South Carolina Subscription Rate----$1.50 per year Name------__ Street or Box City State