The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, April 30, 1937, Page Page Five, Image 6

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Social H BY BETTY May Queen Coronation Tuesday night, May 4, Edith Wright will be crowned May Queen of the University at the Field House. Ac. cording to the information given us by r Bill Bochman, chairman of the social 6 cabinet, it promises to be one of the 4 most colorful coronations we've had, Margaret Farrell will be maid of hono: and the attendants, in order of their appearance, are Lu Godfrey, Mary Sut ton, Maxine Scarborough, Helen Re beske, Dorothy Platt, Helen Town send, Frances Smith, Ruth Bell, Fran ces Dibble, Edna Hunter, Rosa Wilder Harriet Boyd, Margaret Carey, Ruth Barber, Janet Bailey, Mary Culbert son, Carolyn Gunter, Beulah Des. Champs, Martha Newman, Marjorie Collins, Agnes Lee, Harriet Cockfield, Judy Greenburg, Jean Berman, Sara Harrison, and Nell Etchison. They will wear gowns of green, pink, yel low, acquamarine, and blue. Before each girl, on the ramp that ascends to the throne, *ill be a light reflect ing the color of her dress. Amelia Arthur and Dorothy Sea brook will be pages; Rudy Ruff, crown bearer; and Robert Bass, one of the icrnard James, if ............ 25 2 200 kon Klambach, rf .......... 17 3 176 .uek Tabor, p .................. 0 0 000 Sis Vfh'i ,. of .-.- y a l>ouquet of white roses and' sweet peas, Margarei Farrell will have painted daisies, and attendants will carry dutch iris and sweet peas. According to Bill Bocl.man there will be no admission fee. After the coronation, the coronation dance will be held in the University gym and this will also be free to students. The grand march will be led by Sis Wright with her escort and the attendants with their escorts. Henry Westbouk will play for this, too. - Flash Claude Hopkins and his famous negro orchestra will lay for the June ball, according to Dicky Palmer, treas urer of the German Club. This has been approved by the University au thorities and it looks as if the ball this June will be just as colorful and colossal as ever. Interfraternity Council Dance The Interfraternity Council dance will be held June 1, according to Larry Cusick, chairman of the dance com mittee. The scene of the affair wil be the University gymnasium and i will be one of the most brilliant events of the June week series of dances. Music will be furnished by Buster Spann and his Gamecocks and prior to the main dance, a tea dance wil be given somewhere, although the place hasn't been decided, as yet. Stanley Siessinger is president of ths~ Interfraternity Council; G. B. Bun dlrick, vice-president; Osborne Rhodes secretary and treasurer; and Larry Cusick, chairman of the dance comn mIit tee. Parties Phli Kappa Sigma will have a part) before the dance tonight and a steal supp)er next Saturday at Lake Mlur ray. The boys wvill leave for the lak< about 3 o'clock and return at 8, ir time for the Sigma Nu dance, which is to be that night. Delta Sigma Pi The regular spring formal of Delta Sigma Pi will take place tonight ir the University gym, which wvill h< decorated with Old Gold and Royal Purple. The dance wvill be from i till 2 and will be preceded by a formal dinner at Scarborough's, for alumni actives and dates. Sp)onsoring for the officers are Ell Morrall of G. W. C. for John Turn. bull; Charlotte Clack of Columbia for C. Melvin Ellison, Azile Chastain ol *Greenville for Paul Smith, Kathleer1 Blyers of the University for J. M. Smith, Myrtle Cuthbertson of Colum. bia for E. E. Richardson, Mildred Doc of the University for Henry Clerici, Margaret Garrison of Queens-Chicora for J. W. Ellison, and Carolina Hutta of Winthrop for Hugh Brunson. Bluster Spann and his Gamecocks Will play. Prominent Visitors Last week, two prominent visitors Were entertained at the Sigma Nu house. They are Dr. John M. Mc~ Brydle, dean of the graduate school at Tulane, and Dr. Charles N. McBlryde, *bacterilogist of Ames, Iowa. They are the sons of Dr. John M. McBryde, Who was president of the University ii the 1880's. They were members of the Delta chapter of Sigma Nu at the University in 1891. The Sigma Nu spring banquet and Ilance will take place the night of May 8, at the ,Columbia Hotel. ingovers COMBTOCK All dressed up in white and blue, the girls of Alpha Kappa Gamma took the spotlight at Wednesday morning chapel exercises and tapped seven new members. Following Dr. Daniel's talk, Jennie Clarkson, president, gave a summary of the aims and ideals of the organization. Then, on the arm of an O. D. K. mem ber, each girl received her ribbons, also of blue and white. Girls tapped were Mar tha Mauncy, Jane Williamson, Ida M1or r:s, Frances Hart, Margaret Farrell, Nell Etchison, and Dot Plat. Not to be outdone by the girls, the boys grabbed their share of the lime light, too. Rex Williams, president of lampad, tapped about a dozen of our leading athletes and ribbons were pinned on them in the approved manner. Martha Newman, Genie Mitchell, Har riet Cockfield and Jean Campbell went to Clemson last Saturday for the dances, which were presided over by Glen Gray and his famous Casa Loma orchestra. Florence Simpson is going to the dances at the University of Georgia this week-end and Frances Butler will go to Charleston. Next Wednesday night Clii Omegas will initiate three girls into the chapter -Norma Foley, Margaret White, and Valerie La Vergne. , House Party Taking advantage of the warm weather, a group of A. D. Pi's are planning a house party this week-end. They will go to Sis Johnson's place at Myrtle Beach Saturday after classes and return Sunday night. Making up the party will be Hasel Hopkins, Sarah Perkins, Mary Belle Higgins, Louise MacDonald, and Eleanor Sale. Several other girls will probably go, too. Steve Baker is going to visit Betsy Sparrow in Florence this week-end and Dot Scott and. Frances McLeod will go to Camden. Phi Kappa Sigma Osborne Rhodes was elected president of Phi Kappa Sigma at a meeting held Monday night. Other officers are Bill Brooker, vice-president; St. Clair Muck enfuss, secretary; T. H. Rawl, Jr., treasurer; Rupert Rhodes, corresponding secretary. Kappa Sigma Elections Also electing officers for the first se mester of next year were the Kappa Sigs, and it looks as if they did a "grand" job. Louis Bryant is Grand Master; Ray Riddle, Grand Procurator; Archie Petty, Grand Master of Cere monies; Albert Douglas, Grand Scribe; Louis Gilland, Grand Treasurer; John Williams and David Traylor, guards. To Clemson Everybody who didn't go home for the week-end must have gone to Clemson Saturday last for the Glen Gray dances. Anyway the following went and proba bly a wvhole lot more that we haven't heard about :Carolyn Williams, Cather ine Narey, Edna IHinter, Martha Newv man, Jane Crout, Amelia Arthur, Anne Donny, Genie Mitchell, Hlarriet Cock field, Leila Mayes, Frances Dutton, Ar chie Watson, Pete Parker, Bill Bochman, Bob Hayes, Billy Brooker, Bill Norton, Bobby Bruner, James Cothran, John Weldlon, Frank Barron, Charlie Murtia shaw, Billy McNulty, John Ellen, Carey Kilgore, Pete Smith, and F'razer Dial. Zeta Tau Alpha Mary Sutton, Marion& Coleman, Frances Smith, and Catherine Webster attended the annual spring retreat of the State Y. W. C. A. and Y. M. C. A. at Camp J. 0. last weekend. Margarita Baldwvin spent the wveek end in Lake City. "Dink" Gaines visited the chapter last wveek. The chapter has planned a dutch sup per Tuesday night before .the corona tion. Many alumnae will be here for the occasion. Marion Coleman spent the day in Charleston recently. Frances Smith visited the Azalea fes tival. Frances Smith has been elected offi cial delegate to the Zeta convention at Swyampcott, Mass. to be held June 26 throughout July 1. Mary Sutton will act as alternate. More Officers Newly elected officers of Sigma Alpha Epsilon for next semester are John Nich olson, President; George Brunson, vice president; H-arry Mims, secretary; Charles Manning, treasurer. The picnic at Jack Crawford's Lake Murray home last Saturday afternoon was attended by about 60 people. P1 Beta Phi About eighteen of the girls will go to Duke at Durham, N. C., for the Pi Beta Phi convention which is being held there this week-end. In addition to this, sev eral will be going to Clemson for the Taps Ball. Campus Pe BY LEOLA Stokes Davis Stokes Davis, president-elect of Carolina's student body, is a man of few bad habits. He neither smokes, drinks, nor plays cards. When the cam pus grows quiet in mid-afternoon, he takes his daily "afternoon siesta." And we'll have you understand that few, very few, things can interfere with this siesta! In spite of such regular and model habits, this rising 'senior from Sum merton admits a few hobbies which reveal, we believe, some of his char acteristically human traits. The first of these hobbies, Stokes' favorite, is dealing in "syntactical tortuosities." (Paging Dutch Wagener). In case you're without your dictionary, we mean that he likes talking to people. Next on the list is politics, that most popular pastime on our campus. Stokes enjoys i. Likea Dancing Possibly the fact that he is an ex cellent dancer and a delightful conver sationalist may account for his avowed preference for dahces as recreation, in stead of sports and movies, in which he is not particularly interested. Being a charter member of the newly formed Student League, the president-elect is anxious to see this organization become a success. He urges student cooperation and support of it. He is active in regard to work on the annual, at present holding the position of business manager of The Garnet and Black. He serves, also, as an advisor of the Hi-Y Club at Colum bia High School. Afternoon Siestas Not to be radical, not to be dif erent, but just to be frank, Stokes likes red. Yes, vivid scarlets tend to soothe his nerves after hectic mornings spent strolling to classes and strenuous afternoons spent in siestas. His friends bewail his persistent hab it o,f admionishin~g th em for too-fre qluent "Quaffing at the festive board." He reports n6 spectacular success in his endeavors along this line. Davis Proposes Plan We come nowv to a proposedl plan which we predict will become the most talked-of topic of heated conversation in the future. This plan is that of hav ing twvo student body vice-presidents, one a girl whose duties it shall be to A Possible Answer A Short Short Story By CHARLIE AKIN "What have they done, my son?"1 softly queried the old man. He fin gered the tiny cross at his throat and looked at the swarthy lieutenant with childlike incredulity. "They are a danger to the cause, little father, and must be removed," replied the young officer, indicating a huddled group of wretched beings who formed a blot against the sun-baked wall of a corral and stared at the grim muzzle of a machine gun that menaced them. It swayed its ugly head from side to side like a snake with a rabbit at its mercy. "These poor people, my son? They] can hurt no one. Look, they are old men and boys." The aged friar placed< a gnarled hand on the officer's shoul der. "Be off, little father. They shall die. The orders have come from El Gen eral. Away with you and say your ~beads to these sheep." With a shrug the lieutenant shook off the hand and strutted about with grim pomposity. At his shouted orders the mass against the wall straightened. A small moan ran through it. The men quieted the whimpering boys. Overhead a brazen sun sent its rays to distort the scene. -The gunner squinted down his wea pon at the dancing target, cursed the heat, and squeezed the trigger viciously. The gun burst into fiend ish mirth. It cackled briefly and stopped. They were all dead, rsonalilies GARETY Margaret Farrell Meet a lover of hot-fudge sundaes, an ardent Hit Parade fan, a girl who has attained the honor of being presi dent of the Co-ed Association: Colum bia's Margaret Farrell. Red roses fascinate this senior on the school of arts and science. She likes to swim and play tennis. In fact tennis is her hobby, and she plans to "brush up" even more in the near fu ture on her form, which we understand is already excellent. She is a member of' the Woman's Athletic Association. An Avid Reader When life becomes drab and she has a leisure moment, Margaret reads. As far as food is concerned, she is re markably easy to please, her only dis like being that universally hated dish, spinach. Though she is found of trav eling, her only trip of length was to New York City. White is Margaret Farrell's fav orite color. We are informed that she wears it often at dances. Member of A. K. G. She has been recently elected a member of Alpha Kappa Gamma, hon >rary girls' society. She was formerly a secretary of the Co-ed association. Comments follows: Jane Crout: Margaret has a rare quality; she's unaffected! Coit Hendley: She's a true Irish type (you know-black hair and blue eyes.) Joe Campbell: She's tops for me anytime, anywhere. George Zuckerman: She has dis played remarkable executive ability. Harold Prince: Margaret's a good sport! In that recent pageant, the inaugu ration of President J. Rion McKissick, Margaret played a leading role. As president of the Co-ed association she, with Sammy Cartledge, led the stu dent procession to the field house for the ceremonies. -T. U. 0. act as official hostess to the student body. After this revolutionary idea we pause only to remind you that the author of it plans to enter law school iext year. During his second year here he was president of the Sophomore :lass. His literary Society is the Eu phradian rand his fraternity is the Kappa Sigma. The silence was not broken but for he droning prayer sent upward by he friar who stood by through it all. ['hen, as in embarrassment, the brown oldiers scurried about removing the >odies. The street was suddenly mpty but for the tall, slight figure vhich gazed into the unchanged blue ~ky and talked to God. The revolution had started with the ush and bloodiness of all such cata :lysms. This had been different hough. It had flared and j spread. ['he usual class hatred had nurtured t but something outside gave it sus enance. Nowv it was the worst kind >f war. Civil war. Now brother fought brother; no ge nor sex escaped; the church was lone. Father Gonzalez did not flee. -Ie could not believe the whole sordid hing. He stayed to help. It wvas the mnly thing to do. The war would not ~nd until this madness left his people. ['here were no sides for him. His was the task of caring for the poor, :razed creatures in their pain. Now this last. Father Gonzalez had een wars. Those where men fought Lnd died, but never were there whole ale murders of the aged and young. -lere the horrors of the blood purge ad seeped in from lands across the ieas. The elimination of the enemy vas now including all, under the ruidance of an unseen red hand. Where could it end? Father Gon r.alez asked God. He did not answer, io the good friar went about his task f mercy and questioned no more, His village had been fought over nanny times nnd the seeln had give him much work to do. Now it seemed that the army in possession gave him but one side to tend. A shift in the game and the enemy annihilated the wounded of the opposition. More and more did Father Gonzalez chant the requiem and less often practice f his healing skill. The town became f a cemetery rather than a hospital. Then one day into the midst of a Loyalist defence came the incredable word that in the north, where the fighting was heaviest, even the clergy suffered in the face of the rebel ad vance. At Rosalia a priest had been burned; near Santa Teresa seven had been shot. More were missing. The octopus at Moscow stretched its ten tacles for more blood, and even the holy of holies gave its share. It could nqt be true but Father Gonzalez crossed himself and looked up to the sky with his blue eyes. For three days the battle raged in a desultory but fierce manner. Snip ing took a fearful toll and high ex plosives threw the defense and the panic-stricken populace into spasms of nervous tension. The rebels gained ground. Before, one could see only the white, harmless-looking puffs from their field batteries. Now, often a glimpse was caught of brown forms among the oak trees a quarter of a mile distant. In the woods now and then flashed a bayonet and the sharp crack of rifles could be distinguished. To a shattered 'chapel each evening Father Gonzalez led his flock of frightened noncombatants. There he prayed for them and for the salvation of all his people. He gazed upon up turned faces streaked with tears, lined with hunger, fear and fatigue. "It cannot be," thought Father Gonzalez. "They will be safe, I know. He cannot let them die." He choked back a sob as he hurried from the altar between thin rows of faithful - women and their babes. The following day typhoid broke out, and very quickly the defenders thinned. Father- Gonzalez, exhausted but active, saw his charges dropping no less rapidly from bullets than from disease. He, too, fell victim to a fever which left .him half mad at times. He became an automaton, unfeeling and driven by something stronger than his wracked body. Firing from the barricades, melted away before an increasing hail of steel from the surrounding woods and plain. It was apparent that the enemy was being strengthened. A plane ap peared and swooped down to loose its destruction upon the pice of crumbled masonry from which came no effective blast. El Captain Moreno was gone and the defense was leaderless, al though'individually spirited. The end was imminent, however, and it came swiftly. At dawn on the fourteenth day a wave poured from the woods and surged down unquenchably upon the barricades. It swirled over them in red eddies and broke in an over whelming flood in' the central plaza. A short, wvell groomed lieutenant of infantry ordered a cleanup, in efficient and smiling confidence. The soldiery searched and drove out the living rabbits from their warrens. Marshalled into the gquare they bunched, a hand ful of defiant wounded, wvide-eyed mothers, blubbering and silent boys, and Father Gonzalez who stood sway ing from his weakness but with a light in his face. "Where is your commandant?" barked the officious little lieutenant. "Dead," Father Gonzalez replied. "They are all dead, my son." "Ayl We have done well, old one, eh?" The officer smoothed his mus tache and leered at the cleric. 'They should have known better! The cause will win!" SENIOF GENUINE ENGRAV PRICE EVER 100 Engraved' With Plate, DON'T MISS OUR SAMP 'DELIGHTED AT THlE Q1 OF LETTERING TO SELEC' UNIFORM PRICE OF $] STATE CO. B Pag live "And now," he lowered his voice nd said with a mock pained expres ion, "I have but one sad duty to per orm." He paused and looked over ather Gonzalez' shoulder at the piti ul group behind him. "These poor eople must be taken care of. They re the enemy." Horror cloaked Father Gonzalez' ace for a moment. 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