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Foc .al BY BETTS Editor's note: This column is co: dncted this week by Catherine Narey an Leola Garety, while the society editc towrs Virginia in a debating trip. During the gallivanting of our Sc cety editor this week, we hope thi we'll be able to hang the hangovers a she would like them hung. Pi Beta Phi The Pi Beta Phi's were represent< this weed-end at Milledgeville, Ga where Maxine Scarborough attend< the Georgia Military Academy dance Dottie Smith attended the Hunter trials in Camden last Sunday. Week-ending at their home towr were: Amelia Arthur at Statesbur Elizabeth Anderson at Florence, An Cone at Brunson, and Elizabel Boyleston at Aiken. Bess Dowlin who is out of school this semeste plans to stay over to attend the K.S.] dance to-night at Ridgewood. At ti S. C. Methodist Students Conference Spartanburg last week were Lillia Brunson and Frances Dibble. Zeta Tau Alpha The Z. T. A.'s are entertaining wil a drop-in at the house before th K. S. K. dance to-night. Frances Smit attended the recent Methodist Studen Conference at Spartanburg. Margareta Baldwin transmitted Ca olina social glamor to the campus Limestone College last week and Ma garet Ilelen Payne has reappear after a Johnston sojourn to the hon of her parents. Chi Omega Frances Butler quickening the puls of would-he swains at a dance at Mi dletown, Ga., since the past issue this news. Genie Mitchell spent la week-end at her ex-Alma Mater, Cok College. Lorretta Morgan is dancing to-nig at the Furman German. Kathleen Burgess will be at home Anderson this week-end. S. A. E. The Sigma Alpha Epsilons are pu ing a party at the house this Saturda night. They are planning to hold the tenth annual banquet March 9th honor of their Founder's Day. A. T. O. The A. 'T. O.'s struck an artistic no with the decorations Wednesday nig at their house dance. Carolina BY SPRUCE WHITE It is rather unusual but we have topic which merits the entirety of tli humble space this week. "Operator." That is what she h been for the past eight years to t students of the University. Day in, d~ out, she sits there sending her ev cheerful voice over the wire. She not only an operator but she is one the best friends that anyone ever ha 'Ma" D)ugan takes the place of a rc mother in the lives of many of the st dents who register here. She has se themi come and go, some happy, sori sad, hut to all her's is the same swe cheerful voice, "Operator." During the eight years since she, the first operator, took her seat h> hind the switchboard, she has help many through trying times. She h heard each complaint with understan ing far beyond her years. Never rs tIed or cross, she keeps on pluggim along. She has seeni deaths among ti studenctts, her friends; she has seen n< students come in and 01(1 ones go o to succeed and fail, she knowvs tI school as do very few. She lives ti lives of the students themselves. Nev is her office empty 'of those who lo her and respect her judgment. Mrs. D)ugan was the first operator ever run the switchboard here. ( February 19, 1929, she openedC( the E change for the first time.. The offi Was never closed, day or night, uin the (depression came along. The servi Was then cut to 17 hours' a dlay. Whi the office first op)ened, there were fo regular op)erators and a substitui When the scrvice was cut, the for Was also cut, but through it all "M Dugan andl "her boys" have manag to render service that' could not1 equalled or surpassed by any others. Before the Telephone Exchange w Opened, there were seven telephones the campus. Two of them were op4 to the students. Calls for studeCnts am student calls went over the phones either the Canteen of Flinn Ha When somieone out in town called f a studenit his name and the telepho number was posted on a bulletin boar angovers COMSTOCK - A. D. Pi d The five new A. D. Pi initiate r Evelyn Johnson, Betty Whitesid< Frances Earle Jones, Virginia Webt and Rachael Fishburne, were guiests o - honor at a house dance last Frida it night. They were als'o honored by s supper at the Arcade Tea Shoppe. Sev eral A. D. Pi's attended the races a Camden last Monday. Kappa Alpha The K. A.'s initiated five men int d their brotherhood recently. They wert Alan Holmes, Ben Welsh, Rob Mai s thews, John Hemphill, and Dextc Wallace. John Foster was their ne' is pledge. h Delta Delta Delta The Tri Delta's entertained for thei r, new pledges with a wiener roast at th home of Mrs. Bray in Heathwoot e recently. Helen Townsend attended the swin n sessions at the University of N. C. la week, where Tommy Dorsey (lid th swinging. Dot Seabrook went home t Sumter last week-end. h e Phi Kappa Sigma h Saturday night will find the Pl ts Kappa Sigma's entertaining with house dance. Rupert and Osborn r- Rhodes journeyed to Walterboro an it "Pet" Cone returned home to Willi; r- ton. :d e K.S.K. The K. S. K. girl-break (lance wi be held to-night at Ridgewood Clu instead of at the Gym, as was formerl s announced, because of the high scho< basketball tournament which is bein held in the gym. 5t r Phi Sigma Kappa Last Monday night the Phi Signt it Kappa's initiated John Brooks an Hubert Wells. This Saturday they ai entertaining with a house dance. Pi Kappa Alpha I_ The Pi K. A.'s are having the Founder's Day banquet next Monda; ir in Sigma Chi Monty Skiles president of Sigr Chi received word this week that I had been awarded a paid-up life men te hership in the fraternity for writing tl it best chapter letter for the Sigma Cl magazine. 1 Here's How It Began Do you Rnow the origin of is cream, ice cream cones, ice creal sodas, and ice cream sundaes? a Information found in the Universil IS of South Carolina library says: * Ice creami was first made comnmere is ally by Mr. Hall of 76 Chathani S (now Pa-rk Row), New York City, wl Lr adv;ertised it on June 8, 1786. H-owev< ai recordl of a purchase for "a creal machline for ice'' is contained in Georl Wa\Vshigton's expense5 ledger dlat( u. Thle ice creami conec is suipposedl 1 ,n have originatedl at the St. Louis Exp< ie sition, in 1904. ~t, The ice cream sodla is sutpposedI 1 have been introdlucedl by Robert I as Green and( Sons, manufacturers< e.. soda fountains in Philadelphia, wI :d added ice cream to plain soda wate is The first (denionstration of the nie :1- beverage was made at the Semi-Cei t- tennial at Franklin Institute, -Philade ig phia, in the summer of 1874. ie Thle ice creami sundae is claimedi w have originated about 1897 in the RC Lit Cross Pharmacy, State Street, Ithac is N. Y., directly across the barroom< ie the Ithaca Hotel. As the barroom w: er closed on Sunday, its thirsty patrol te went to the drug store where a dIi tinctive (drinik became knowvn as a Smi odae. e- thiing wvas all right, but if lie did n< :e see it, it was just too bad. There w; til always a waiting line to use the phion :e "Yes," saidl "Ma" Dungan, with a f !I away twinkle in her eves, "when ;u ir op)eed up, we just couldl not keep t e. with the calls. A telephonec system wi :e something new andl novel. Most of tI L" students had nev'er seen otie work ani d( it was a mystery to thiem how u >e knew which hole to llg itito. The would come by the window and slyl s flirt, not knowing that I had been iial mn riedl for some timie. You see, I jut n weighed about a hundred andl teni ani d was in my early twenties. I ha n hobbed hair atid some of them too 1. tme for about 18. Soiii even begge >r Ifor dates until they found out that me ,had "Red" Dugan and "Sonny" d. home. They've always been a swe< e..- butich: I love everyone of them." Campus Personalities .f~ t r r Mary Sutton Mary Sutton is one of the most ac complished knitters of the campus in addition to being a prominent junior t in the school of education. She's treas e urer of Alpha Kappa Gamma, secretary o of Zeta Tau Alpha, member of the Student Board of Publications, mem ber of the Debating Council, junior orator of the Fuphrosynean Literary i society, former censor and critic of a that society, present member of the e debating team, member of Eta Sigma d Phi, (Latin Fraternity) member of K. S. K., Damas, and the Quintilian club. Next to her hobby of knitting, Mary likes swimming. In this sport she ex l cels, as her many swimming pals will b testify. In her earlier (and less digni fied) years at Carolina, she was famous for her rendition of readings. Since she has attained the exalted position g of junior, however, she no longer gives her time to such juvenile occupations. e a d "a lighi a1 :e y : .i Ti. y I Anno. O0 Mrrratv Arnce indepe among rotues.k theysme cis. Stpectionalof Luckie harh riants r< "ai's Toste," sc thiyotns y It dI dI When she has her diploma firmly b the ribbon, Mary plans to follow u her educational work and teach. Eve now she substitutes for absent teacl ers. Thoughts of this noble professic howeve, do not in the meantime pri vent her from passionately hating o'clock classes, exams, and a certai :ourse here which she feels it would I safer not to mention. She thoroughl hates prize fights and wrestling matcl es, too. But at last we come to som thing Mary really likes. It's the cok blue. Mary is fond of basketball and foo ball games and vows she never missi a game unless it's-well, unless mayt THE ARROW HABIT Once you've tried Arrow shirts and ties, we know you'll be an Arrow cus tomer for life. Oul selee tion this season tops any we've ever had before - Be sure and drop in today. 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