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Educators To 1 Read Papers Meet In Spartanburg ^ Professor Daniel And Miss Hiller Of University To Present E Papers Professor J. McT. Daniel and Miss Claribel Hiller of the faculty of the University School of Education will present papers before the South Caro- G lina Education Association which is cl meeting in Spartanburg Friday, and tr Saturday. The meeting began yester- ^ day. H Miss Hiller's subject will be "The College Appointment Service in the placement of Teachers." Miss Hiller 1,1 is secretary of the Bureau of Appoint- et ments of the School of Education. Professor Daniel, Director of Ob- p; servation and Practice Teaching will tj discuss "What Should Be Included in the Curriculum for High School a] Mathematics Through the Ninth S( Grade?" E Officers of the Association from w Carolina are Dr. Orin F. Crow, pres- w ident of the College Teachers of Education, Dr. O. L. Keith, president of -y the Modern Language Section; and J. y. M. Lescsne, graduate student, vicepresident of the History Teachers' Section. v r| Among the members of the Ed- ^ ucation faculty who arc attending the j convention is President E. T. Baker. tj flHk U. 8. O. l|Prof. Carlisle Roberts To Speak At Vespers o: h Carlisle Roberts, a professor in the I law school at the University, will r( I speak at the Vesper Services in the I Chapel Sunday night at 7 o'clock. j? B Owing to the activity of aviators, I even the ozone in the Far East be- ta I comes the war zone. I c FIVE POINTS DRUG STORE v\ Call Us? And Sec How Quickly You Get It PHONE 8-2139 le I Curb Service Motorcycle Delivery ta 1 H eve's When you see Niagara Falls j on the package, you KN O W I you have Shredded Wheat. CSSSr ' WHI ALL THE WHEAT . . THE NATURAL E MADE BY NATIONAL BISCUIT C Mack, Gaines Selected For Negative Team Sir! Debaters Chosen uphrosynean Invites Tryouta Meet In Euphradian Hall Clclia Keels Black, from the Hyltian Literary Society, and Lodema aines, from the Euphrosynean, were losen as the negative co-ed team at youts held in the Clariosophic Hall /ednesday afternoon. Virginia Stowe, iypation, was chosen as alternate, he query was "Resolved: That the terallied war debts should be can:lled by the United States." Sarah Norris, president of the Hyitian Literary Society, presided at le meeting. Josephine Griffin, memer of the debating council, extended 11 invitation from the Euphrosynean jciety to hold a joint meeting in the uphradian hall next Wednesday, hen tryouts for an affirmative team ill be held. The negative team will meet the Wnthrop affirmative team at Rock [ill on March 27, it was announced. Clclia K. Black, the first speaker, iminded the audience that cancellaon was not a political issue, since oth major political parties have delared against it. She further declared lat the United States government had o legal right to cancel the war debts. Lodema Gaines advanced the thery that France might be able to pay er debts from the money which she :ceived from Germany in the form of :parations. Virginia Stowe advised that since urope enjoyed the war, Europe lould pay for it, not the American xpayer. Judges were Professor George Mcutcheon of the economics departent, Luke Williamson, and Tom /haley. As good, light literature for a colge graduate to read after he has obined his sheepskin, we suggest the assificd page. Your SHREDDED WHEAT is all the 3 wheat. All its nourishing goodness. All the bran that Mature provides. And in a most lelightful form... ready cooked, eady-to-eat biscuits with a satisying nut-like flavor. Try some br breakfast, for a bed-time site. Easy to digest. Just ask for Shredded Wheat and a bowlful of milk or cream. A sustaining food at little cost ... At all , campus eating places. EAT . ALL THE BRAN iNERGY FOOD OMPANY Uneeda Baker* Dr. Stephen T Views On] Head Of Geology Department At Of California Earthquakes; \ 1906 And Oharte Note: Dr. Stephen Taber, head of the geology department was a field assistant to the California Earthquake commission of 1906 and charted the southern California earthquake of 1920 He has an intimate knowledge of the section and has prepared the following article on last week's disturbances. By Stephen Taber The earthquake in southern California Friday afternoon has apparently caused the greatest loss of life and destruction of property of any shock that has been recorded in the Los Angeles district. More disastrous earthquakes have occurred elsewhere in California, notably near San Francisco in 190G, and earthquakes of equal or even greater intensity have occurred previously in the Los Angeles district, but this was before the region was so densely settled as it is today. The last destructive shocks to occur in this vicinity, prior to the recent disturbance, were felt in the summer of 1920, and, as the writer was in California at the time, he had an opportunity of studying their couse and effects. The earthquakes in California, as is true of most severe earthquakes elsewhere, are due to the sudden rupturing and displacement of rocks that are under strain. Usually these displacements occur along an old fracture in the earth where repeated adjustments have taken place in the past. Such fractures are called faults by the geologists, and, since earthquakes are likely to recur along them from time to time, their location is of much importance in densely inhabited regions. The destructive Inglewood earthquake of June 21, 1920, had its origin along a fault which was mapped by the writer; and, since the recent earthquake appears to have originated along the same fault, a brief description of it should be of interest at this time. The coastal plain of southern California is located immediately southwest, south and southeast of Los Angeles. It is 15 to 25 miles in width and slopes gently southwestward from an elevation of 200 to 300 feet along its inner margin at the base of the Puenta hills and Santa Ana mountains. The regular seaward slope of the coastal plain is interrupted by a long line of low hills which extends in a southeast direction from the Beverly Hills, at the base of the Santa Monica mountains, and continues to the vicinity of Long Beach. These hills would form a continuous ridge if it were not for the valleys that have been cut by the streams that drain across the plain. The long, low ridge has been formed by the arching upward of beds of gravel, sand and clay that underlie the coastal plain; and this uplift has been accompanied by the rupturing of the beds along the southwest flank of the ridge with the formation of a fault which has been named the Inglewood fault. The arching of the beds formed a trap in which oil could accumulate, and this is the explanation of the occurrence of oil in the famous Signal Hill district near Long Beach, which was so productive about ten years ago. In places along the fault asphaltic deposits have been formed by seepage of petroleum. The Inglewood fault is ten miles southwest of the business section of L,os Angeles. Several small towns arc located close to the fault between Beverly Hills and Long Beach. These are Soldiers' Home, Sawtelle, Mesiner, Inglewood, Rosecrans, Strawberry Park and Gardena. From Long Beach southeastward past Newporl Beach, San Juan and San Onofre th( fault follows close to the straighl coast line which has probably beer determined by the displacements. The Inglewood fault approximate!} parallels the great San Andreas fauli which is located about 50 miles to th< northeast and is the most persistent fault known in North America. Th< San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was caused by a horizontal displacement along the northwestern half of th? San Andreas fault. The Inglewood earthquake of Jun< 21, 1920, was due to a small local dis placement near the northwestern en< of the Inglewood fault. Poorly con structed brick buildings in Inglewoo< were badly damaged, and chimneyi were thrown down in the southwest ern part of Los Angeles. No one wai seriously hurt because there wen practically no people on the streeti at the time of the shock. Associated Press reports of the re cent disturbance indicate that th< " I "II III I I? I I II 1 1 ' 1 I ? I I II ?M aber Gives Recent Quakes , University Is Expert On Subject Vas On Survey Commission In red Area In 1920 intensity was greatest along the coast near Long Beach and Newport Beach, and it is stated that the seismological record obtained at the Pasadena seismograph station of the Carnegie institution of Washington indicates an epicenter near Newport Beach. In the Associated Press story it is suggested that the shock was due to a great upheaval in the Pacific ocean southwest of Long Beach, but this is impossible, for a vertical displacement of the ocean floor would have caused a great sea wave, and no such wave was observed. Much of the loss of life was caused by poorly constructed buildings. Overhanging cornices and heavy parapet walls fell to the sidewalks in the business districts of Long Beach and nearby towns. Thin brick walls not properly tied to the framing toppled outward into the streets, and a few weak buildings collapsed. Wellbuilt wooden buildings were not appreciably damaged except by the fall of chimneys, and steel-frame buildings escaped with little more than a few cracks. Many fires were started by the earthquake, and, since some of the water mains were broken, it was difficult to extinguish the flames. The first shock, occurring at about 5:50 p. m., Pacific Standard time (8:50 p. m. in South Carolina), was the most severe and was recorded on seismographs all over the country. A large number of aftershocks have occurred, and to the frightened people of the district some of them have seemed to be as strong as the first shock, but seismograph records show that these later shocks were all of lower intensity. More of these aftershocks will undoubtedly occur, and they will possibly continue at intervals for several weeks, but, in general, they may be expected to decrease both in intensity and in frequency. The seismograph at the University of South Carolina obtained a good record of the main earthquake, the vibrations continuing for about an hour and a quarter, but the aftershocks were not of sufficient intensity to be recorded at this distance. The record indicates that the shock was not one of very great magnitude, for the oscillations were relatively small. They were much smaller than those obtained at the time of the recent Japanese earthquake. Many other faults have been located in the Los Angeles district, but the Inglewood fault and the San Andreas fault are the longest ones. July 16, 1920, two moderately strong shocks occurred within the city itself. They were of sufficient intensity to crack : plaster in a few buildings and throw down brick from some chimneys. The walls of the old county courthouse were slightly cracked and large ornamental stones fell from the roof to the pavement. Only a very small percentage of the buildings were in any way injured, however. These shocks were also studied by the writer, who found that they originated along faults in the northern part of Los Angeles. , Many earthquakes have been recorded in southern California since it was settled, and the geology of the region indicates that earthquakes i have been of relatively frequent oc' currence for a period of several mil: lion years. San Pedro bay on which i Long Beach is situated was known to : the early Spanish settlers as Bahia ( de los Temblores or Earthquake bay. * During a series of shocks that occurred r in 1812 the church at San Juan ; Capistrano, located not more than . three of four miles from the southt western extension of the Inglewood i fault, was destroyed with the loss of about 40 lives. ' Where earthquakes have occurred t frequently in the past and over a : long period of time, we may be cert tain that similar shocks will be re; peated in the future. They cannot ) be prevented, but, with proper care t in the construction of buildings and : in the protection of water supplies, most of the loss of life and destruc? tion of property can be prevented. v. a. a. 1 ALWAYS Although the country * Goes to smash, The boarding house 9 Will still serve hash. * " Eternal as drift, The sand-swept dunes. For health and thrift, 5 We'll still have prunes. Bank Holiday Affects Univ. 1 Students Give, Views General State Of Confused Pi v I nance Now Prevails On \ Carolina Campus University students have been vari f ously affected by the bank holiday fclS has been revealed by the various M statements of them. It 8cem8 that most of them have been embarrassed some seriously, but there have been ^ some comic notes. One co-ed was terribly perturbed ! by the fact the holiday left her with out money to take her home for the week-end to attend a banquet with her Romeo. However, she was afraid that if the banks continued closed she would have to go home for good. A student working his way through the University said that the closing of the banks had cut his business onehalf to two-thirds. He had also gotten a job to begin last Monday but it had been held up for an indefinite time, due to the banks closing. Another student working his way through school said that though his business had been cut tremendously he expected a rush of business as soon as the currency began to flow again. One co-cd complained that her mother is wasting too much postage. "Three letters in a row," she said, "Mother must be panikyl" In the first letter she asked if I needed money, in the second she said that the banks were closed, and in the third she said that she had $1.25 and would share it with me. A Canadian girl is the only one among ten in one of the sorority houses who can get a check cashed. Great confusion resulted when a certain senior law student tried to make a late application for a degree. He was unable to pay the usual diploma fee because all his money was tied up in the banks. The registrar finally compromised, however, and , took a post-dated check. Most ironical was the case of one rich-little-poor boy." Someone generously lent him a large check drawn on one of the largest banks in the country with which to discharge his college debts. At the same time his family left town leaving him a check with which to meet his current expenses. But before he cashed them the banks closed, and now he is trying to make ends meet while at the same time he carries wealth in his pocket. IT. a. c. Christian Club Makes Talk At Fort Mill High School on Friday, March 24, a program will be given by the Carolina Christian Service Club with Lucille Grant in charge of the program. About eight members will make the trip. A program was presented at Heath Springs high school Tuesday by the club. A morning and an evening program were conducted. They were as follows: Morning program: Devotional?A. D. Mann, Jr. Talk on Sportsmanship?Harry "Fuzz" Freeman. Special Music?W. J. Valentine, assisted by "Abe" Furguson. Talk, "A Planned Life"?Kenneth Prince. Fred Ellis presided. Evening program: Devotional?Fred Ellis. Talk, "The Rules of the Game"? Harry "Fuzz" Freeman. Special Music?"Abe" Furguson and W. J. Valentine. Talk, "Choosing a Coach"?A. D. Mann. Presiding officer?Kenneth Prince. Shrubs Of Last Spring Replanted In New Beds Many of the shrubs which were sent to the University last spring from the United States Department of Agriculture by the courtesy of D. C. C. Stanley of Columbia University have been transplanted to beds on the campus. These shrubs which were received by Dr. E. C. Coker, professor of astronomy and chairman of the committee on grounds and buildings at the University, last spring, have been nursed for a year in the propagations garden until they were ready to be planted on the campus. Other gifts of plants have been received recently from Dr. E. C. L. Adams from the State Forestry Department by the University, according to Dr. Coker, and will be planted soon. v. a. o. Too much time wasted In putting on silks and satins let* the fire go out in the kitchen. BP 1 1 ' ' J ' 'I- ' ' ' I I ' ".l Ll " ___ \ Centenary Of Poe Celebrated At University Was Held In 1909 Dr. Wauchope Recalls Exercises In Ohapel To Celebrated Poet's Birth Apropos of the performance of the play, "Edgar Allan Poe" by the Palmetto Players this week, Dr. George A. Wauchope, head of the English department, recalled a celebration of the centenary of the birth of the great poet and short-story writer which was given in the chapel of the University in 1909. The same night similar memorial exercises were held in London, New York, and the University of Virginia. Congratulatory telegrams were exchanged between the two universities at this time. That from the University of Virginia was as follows: "The University of Virginia congratulates the University of South Carolina on its celebration of the Poe centenary. May the land that created heroes never forget them." "In giving the world premiere of the play concerning the great American here," Dr. Wauchope declared, "the University of South Carolina is making a contribution to the fame of Poe which has never been surpassed even on the campus of his Alma Mater. We have scored one on our sister-institution." At the celebration here at the University, speeches were made by Dr. Wauchope, as presiding officer; Dr. L. T. Baker, who spoke on "Poe and the Short Story"; Professor H. C. Davis, whose subject was "Poe as a Poet; and Robert E. Gonzales, founder of The Gamccock, who read an original elegy on Poe which he had composed for the occasion. In his speech Dr. Wauchope pointed out how much the whole country owes to Poe for "our aesthetic declaration of independence." Of the poet he remarked, "He was our prophet of beauty who led us willy-nilly out of of the wilderness of philistinism, puritanism, and provincialism." Dr. Wauchope was among the twenty-one recipients of Edgar Allan Poe medals, struck my Tiffany, which were given "for literary services of various sorts connected with the fixing I and furthering the fame of Edgar Allan Poe." The medal is of bronze, bearing upon the reverse the seal of the University of Virginia, and on the obverse the profile of Poe, with the date of his birth and a reminder of his centenary. Among the famous men who spoke at the celebration held at the University of Virginia were Barrett Wendell, of Harvard. Dr. Alcee Fortier, of Tulane University, and Dr. C. Alphonso Smith, of the University of North Carolina, uncle of Dr. Reed Smith. TJ. 8. O. Honorary Frat Holds Meeting "Tannhauser" and its author Richard Wagner were studied at the meeting of Delta Chi Alpha, national honorary German fraternity. Thursday March 9. A sketch of Wagner's life was given by Albert Moser and Dr. J. E. Copenhaver, associate professor of chemis-| try. gave an outline of the opera "Tannhauser." "Evening Star" a solo from the opera was sung by William Boozer accompanied by Margaret Parks. Mrs. W. E. Rowe, professor of German at Columbia College has invited the club to a play at the cojlege Tuesday evening, April 11, at 8 o'clock. U. 8. O. Negro Boys Distrust Wade Hampton Statue If the esquestrain statue of Wade Hampton which faces the side entrance of the state Capitol had taken life, and the horse begun to run over the statehouse grounds to the excited yells of the rider, by-passers would not have shivered more than did two small negro boys, who were merely [ standing near it, too awed by the life[ like statue to move. 1 he negro boys gingerly approached the statue, after having made a careful study of the rest of the grounds. The oldest, about five years old, was having some difficulty in persuading the smaller one, about three, to continue on the intended course. "Dat hoss kint cum down off'n there an' hurt yo'," the older one was saying. But the younger one was not to be Oonvinced, 'and insisted on moving forward only when dragged.