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CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA limae Made ..7/ Prince Elected fmecockEditor . mecCkkEd1or anaging Editor 'UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Largest Circulation of an Collegiate Newspaper in South Carolina i* olume XXX, No.23 COLUMBIA, 8. 0., FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1937 FuddlO Duncan Sec( John Stone Wins Contest Wise Awarded Third Carolina Student Speaks Of "Pre lude to Prosperity" In State Oratorical Contest With his talk "A Prelude to Prosperi ty" Sid Duncan placed second in the annual Intercollegiate Oratorical Con test Friday night, April 23, held in the Columbia College auditorium. John T. Stone, winner of first place, spoke on "The March of Medicine." Stone, of Greenwood, is a junior at the Citadel. Bernard Wise, of Blountville, Tenn., a senior at Newberry College, ranked third. His talk was entitled "In De fense of Dreams." This is the second consecutive year that Duncan and Wise have placed second and third respectively. "In the transition period through which the nation is passing, we of the Snuth are destined, to play an important part. It shall be ours to decide just what that part will be. The field of opportunity is in the South," declared Sidney Dun can in his speech, "Prelude to Prosperi ty.", Duncan pictured the South as the un developed field in the United States to day. lie called upon the history of the South and showed how at the close of the War between the States, courage and de termination had prevailed after the sur render of General Lee and had gone steadily forward to reconstruct a nation out of the debris of war. He traced the progress of industry and other activities in the South and cited factors which were holding back their progress. But he again sounded the dan ger that the South was not taking ad vantage of their chances, and unless they did so people from the outside would come in and seize the opportunity. South LoEing Money "The editor of a Southern newspaper makes an estimate that the South is paying out a Billion Dollars a year be yond its yearly income. Where does this money go? ly selling its property to investors in other parts of the country, by borrowing money and going bank (Turn to Page 4; Column I) -U. ". C. Alumni Hold Luncheon At Columbia Hotel Mclissick, Baker, Bradley And Chase Honor Guests At Fifth District Meeting All former students of the University of South Carolina are invited to attend an Alumni luncheon at 1:30 Wednesday afternoon in the crystal room of the Hotel Columbia. President J. Rion McKissick of the University, Dr. L. T. Baker, dean of the faculty, Dr. Francis Bradley, Dean John A. Chase and other members of the facul ty are to be the honor guests. Sponsored by the alumni of the Fifth district, composed of Richland andl Ker thaw counties, the gathering will take the form of a "dutch" luncheon to be presided over by Ashley C. Tobias. Barney A. Earley, secretary of the Alumni association, requests that the Visitors from other districts notify him before Wednesday so reservations may be made. Miarion A. Wright, president of the ssociation, and other general officers liill attend. From th:e University Ath tic association, Director William H. liarth and Coach Don McCallister will be Dresent. A short, but highly interesting pro raP*5, is planned. The members of the Pfth Alumni districts will at the meet *I Olnomite a vice-president to serve ilng the next fiscal year beginning rakes md Place Editor FRANCIS (DINKY) WILLIAMS Blue Key Holds Fete Initiates Taken In McKissick, Hammond, B 1 a t t, Gibbes, And Daniel Invited To Speak With active members, initiates, and alumni from all nver the State attend ing, the annual Blue Key initiation ban quet will be held in the crystal room of the Columbia Hotel May 8 at 8 p. m. Officers for next year will be elected next week, and these along with the re cently elected men, will be inducted into the fraternity at the banquet. Speakers prominent in South Caro lina political circles have been invited to attend the banquet to make addresses along with President J. Rion McKissick. Those invited are Senator James Ham mond, The Hon. Solomon Blatt, Dr. Heyward Gibbes, and Dr. D. V. Daniel. Committees appointed to arrange the details of the affair are Stokes Davis, James Cothran, and James Price, Jr., committee on arrangements; and Vyvyan Morse, Charles Simons, Paul Taylor, and Walter Solomon, committee on pro grain. In accordance with its policy of fur thering the University and its aims, Blue Key has recently installed a radio in the men's ward of the University infirmary to be used at the discretion of the offi cials. The chapter plans to install one in the women's ward next year. Officers for this year are Gus Pearl man, president; Charles Simons, vice president ; Jim Cothran, secretary-treas urer. Carolina Flashes Gaskin Elected Grover Gaskin, Newv Brookland, was elected president of the University sec tion of the American Institute of Elec trical Engineers April 20 to succeed Don ad Tomlin of Cottingdale, Pa. Other officers were re-elected. They are: George Shelor, Greenville, vice-president; an Melvin Levkoff, Columbia, secretary. At a meeting of the Institute April 27 three new members were initiated; John B. Dominick, Henry T. Coffee, and W. J. Cormack, all of Columbia. Hodes Rides Again Cries of "Conspiracy" echoed through the halls of the Extension building as Chicago's represz:a~tive at the Univer sity of South Carolina, Martin Hodes, discovered that someone had handed in an excuse for his absence of April 12 on a regulation blank, form 114. It is not that Mr. Hodes is devoid of gratitude; he really would appreciate anyone taking an interest in him to the extent of making out excuses for hisI Prominent S Succun flU Alfred Funderburk one of the Methodist churches. Twenty-one years of age, Fu lumbia High and resided at 171 In the passing of Alfred Funder spicuously able leader, the offic loyal friend and the Alma Matei voted son. The officers, faculty shocked at his untimely death anm to his family and innumerable I High Schools Gather At U.S.C Annual Event Closes [University Furnishes Rbom Anc Board For Participants Dur ing Three-Day Stay South Carolina' Annual High Schoo week reaches the final stages today on he University campus with one of the argest number of participants in yea: :ompeting for the many prizes anc ionors. Beginning Wesnesday, the weel ias been full of activities for the repre ;entatives of the Palmetto state higi ;chool representatives. The University furnished rooms, with )ut charge, for as many contestants a: xssible on the campus and in homes an< ;ave participants special rates at Stew trd's Hall. A number of department: )f the University offered exhibits o ducational value in campus buildings arolina's "IHouse of Wonder" in the en ineering building proved again to be onE )f the most popular exhibits. History, general scholarship, senloi Latin, junior Latin, English, debating ceometry, algebra, general science, biolo y, French, declamation and expression hort story, and commercial contests weri taged by the officials of the League rhe executive committee which has hat :hiarge of the week's program are a Follows: J. B. Jackson, director; Charle (Turn to Page 4; Column 4) University Pi By Hal Tribble With the rumble of tanks and roai if planes and chatter of machine-gun! or a funeral march, the University layers will "Bury the Dead" next weel n a series of three performances be ~inning Wednesday evening at 8 o'clocl n Drayton Hall. Dorflinger, Sossamon, Bethune, Carleo nd Vorderburg debut delightfully in thi mnti-war drama that Broadway critic tave acclaimed the most daring an< mrning indictment ever written. Stage Stand-up Strike A fast-moving fantasy spotlighting thi 'horrors of the war that will begin to norrow," "Bury the Dead" gets under' vay when six dead men pull a stand-ul trike in their shallow graves, refusing t< ec interred. Dead rats, dirt, and ditch-digginj tudent ribs Thursday Alfred Fletcher Funderburk, III, died in the Columbia Hospital at 2:10 yesterday afternoon fol lowing an operation for appendi citis. Funderburk was taken to the hospital only a few days ago and he had shown some slight im provement prior to his death. A Senior in the school of Arts and Sciences, he was a member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity, German Club, Cotillion Club and had served as a member of the Pan Hellenia Council for the past two years. Funderburk had recently been elected to represent his chapter at the Kappa Sigma National Con vention to be held in Columbus, Ohio in June. He was also an assistant football manager and was affiliated with nderburk was a graduate of Co 2 Gervais Street. burk the student body loses a con. 3rs and faculty are bereaved of a suffers the loss of a true and de. and students of t$e University are I extend deep and sincere sympathy riends. John A. Chase, Jr., Dean of Administration. Euph Society Elects Heads Ham Is Valedictorian Bratton Davis And Stanley Morse Elected To Board Of Publications Bratton Davis and Stanley Morse wer< unanimously elected to the-Student Boarc of Publications by the Euphradian Lit. erary Society at its regular meeting lasi Tuesday night. They succeed Bob Hemp hill and Tom Pope. The office of secretary was left vacant by the election of Morse who has servec in that capacity since the beginning .p1 the present term. Matthew Poliakofi 1 was elected to fill the position. Billy McDaniel was elected critic to succeed Mr. Poliakoff. Tom E. McCutchen won over fout , other contestants in the declaimers con test; he gave as his talk a revision of Earl M. Dunbar's The Supreme Men ace. Beverly Herbert won second place in the contest and Matthew Poliakofi was third. These three will represeni the society in the intersociety contests. ,It was announced at the meeting that by agreement between the two societies no inter-society medals will be giver I this year. Don Ham was named Senior Valedic torian for the 'society, after Dave Gal. (Turn to Pa.e 4; Column 5) rayers y The Dead" doughboys share the opening scene, witi honors evenly distributed, and the pla) progresses. Corpses Converse No-Man 's-Land goes Emily-Post as the women enter, pleading with th< corpses to lie down. "N, moan the corpses. "Yes I" roar the Generals. "Please. ." beg the ladies. "Has anybody gotta cigarette ?" aska Private Carleo. Scheduled for repeat performances or Thursday and Saturday nights, May and 8, "Bury the Dead" is directed by R. M. Stephan and staged by a cast o1 25 student actors. Admission prices for all performance! are 75 cents for adults, 25 cents for stu. dents. Williams, Head Managing Editor t HAROLD PRINCE I a a Societies Honor Grads Exercises Held Early Clariosophic, Euphradian, Euph rosynean, And Hypatian Groups t Hold Graduation Exercises Establishing a new precedent in liter ary society history, graduation exercises for seniors in the four societies will be held Wednesday night at 8 o'clock in the chapel. Usually held at the close of school as a part of the commencement program, the exercises have been moved to an earlier date to give students an opportunity to attend them. Senior valedictorians and junior ora tors from each society will speak, and the Clariosophic, Euphradian, Euphrosy nean, and Hypatian societies will sponsor the event. President J. Rion McKissick will be r present to address the group and to pre sent the eligible seniors with diplomas. Representatives from the societies are = as follows: Clariosophic-Senior valedic torian, John Turnbull; Junior orator, Sidney Duncan; Euphradian, Senior val edictorian, Don Ham; Junior orator, Fe lix Green; Hypatian, Senior valedictori an, Gladys Gaskin; Junior orator, Ida Morris; Euphrosynean, Senior valedic torian, Edith Wright ; . Junior orator, Mary Sutton. Students are invited to attend the ex- ] ercises. Literary e Digres BY THREE PLAGIARISTS ( Martin J. Hodes , Dinky Williams1 George Zuckerman: Corpses Come To Carolina During "the war that is to begin to-C morrow"4 six corpse-like soldiers rise from their unfilled graves and refuse to be numbered with the dead, be launched< to eternity, to go to the better land', to make that journey to the beyond, to climb the far horizon, to reside in God's acre. Their reasons are many; but from the chorus of breathless voices comes the pitiful cry that they have not lived. They have been betrayed. Sold for six] pins on the general's map. The news of this irrational action hay ing reached home, wives and mothers journey to battlefields to persuade their own to "lie down and be buried; for they were dead." But the sextet of walking dead do not yield. They have1 things to do, messages to bring. Too busy to sleep with the poppies in Flan ders Field. That is the theme of one of the greatest dramas "Bury the Dead" written by Ir win Shaw. (Turn 5a P& Ai 0atumm S) Prince 3amecock Jones Elected Business Mgr. Zuckerman, Sports Ed. .eola Garety As Society Editor, And Tom Willis As Circulation Manager Complete Staff F. F. Dinky Williams, Jr., of Easley vas elected editor of The Gamecock for he first semester of the 1937-38 scholas ic year at a meeting of the board of pub ications Wednesday night. Harold ?rince, also of Easley, was made manag ng editor and Andrew Jones of Colum iia, business manager. They succeed livien Lomas, Edward Harter, and Roy 3argerson in the respective positions. Williams, a junior in the school of ournalism, is a member of the Clario ophic Literary Society, Kappa Sigma :appa, member of the varsity tennis team nd co-holder of the state doubles cham iionship. He held the position of sports ditor for two semesters his sophomore ear and was managing editor the first emester of this school year. George Zuckerman of Brooklyn, New (ork, was elected sports cditor and Betty 'omstock of Irmo was elected co-ed edi or. Tom Willis was named circulation nanager and James Joyner, associate. Harold Prince, who was sports editor he past semester, is a member of the lariosophic Literary society, and is ice-president of the University Y. M. . A. He is also a member of the varsity ennis squad. Andrew Jones is a member of the Eu hradian Literary society and is a staff vorker for The State. Leola Garety of Columbia was elected ociety editor and St. C. Muckenfuss, Jr., nd Courtenay Carson were named as ociate managing editors. Catherine Narey, Ed Harter, Vivien .omas and Charles Lee were named as ociate editors for the coming semester. vfartin Hodes, Ray Bargeron and Leon. rd Rosen were listed as assistant busi ess managers. Staff writers for the newspaper are s follows: Max Husbands, Monty >kiles, W. A. Connolly, Jr., Barney (Turn to Pae 4; Column 4) --U. S. 0. Social Group FfoldsBanquet Williams As Chairman eils Christensen Is Chief Speaker Of Evening As 17 Initiates Are Entertained Pi Gamma Mu, national honorary so ial science fraternity at the University f South Carolina, entertained 17 ini iates Thursday evening, April 22, with he annual formal banquet of the society 'he banquet was held in the crystal room *f the Hotel Columbia. Dr. G. Croft Williams, head of the Jniversity sociology department, and di -ector of the school of social work, was oastmaster. The vocation was given y Dr. Hugh R. Murchison, University haplain. Speaker of the evening was Niels bristenseni, director of the federal so ial security board for South Carolina, nd retired legislator. Mr. Christenson, vho has long been identified with social >rogress and public welfare, spoke on 'The Place of Social Security in the American Culture Pattern." Following the speaker of the evening, ~)octor Williams gave the charge to the iew members. He emphasized the place hat youth must take in advancing the ight of social progress. During the banquet the special guests >f the evening were recognized, and a velcome was extended to the new mem ers. Musical selections were given by I'homas P. Evans. President J. Rion WefKissick and Mrs. McKissick were res'ent. The new members of Pi Gamma MLu are: Catherine Brazzel, Margaret Sooper, Mary 'Culbertson, Charlotte (Turn to Paa. 4; Column 4)