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'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
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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)