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Yearbook - Honors Elected Coker Trustee University of South Carolina X-676 Volume XXXI No.11 COLUMBIA, S. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1939 Founded 1908 Knigh D..R. Goker Is Honored ByYearbook Garnet And Black Dedicated To Late Trustee Commemorating the services of one whose life was given to the service of South Carolina, the staff of the 1939 Garnet and Black has dedicated Volume 41 to David Robert Coker, Carolina trustee who died at his home in Hartsville recently. A portion of the dedication which will appear in the yearbook reads as follows: In commemoration of his service to his state and to his Alma Mater, the student body of South Carolina dedicates the 1939 Garnet and Black to David R. Coker, illustrious citizen and loyal Carolinian. McKissick Approves President J. Rion McKissick ex pressed satisfaction at the choice of the staff in a statement Wednesday night. "I think that it is a highly appro priate dedication because Mr. Coker was one of our most loyal and help ful alumni as well as the second trustee in point of service in the long history of the University. He is one of the greatest men and most useful South Carolinians that the Univer sity has ever produced," he said. Commenting on the choice of Mr. Coker, Currie MacArthur, editor of the Garnet and Black said, "It is (Continued on Page Eight) -U.U. 0. 'Y' Organizes Discussions Westmoreland, Jolly, Chairmen The first meeting of the spring dis cussion groups will be held on Tues day, Feb. 14, for the purpose of or ganization, it was announced by R. G. Bell, secretary of the University YMCA. Co-chairmen of the committee which handles the organization of the dis cussion groups are: Tom Jolly and D. A. Westmoreland. At this first organzation meeting, each group will elect officers for the coming semester. The faculty leaders will also be selected. Mr. Bell an nounced that the first meeting would not count on the attendance record. Various subjects will be discussed and a schedule of the best drawn up. Supper for Winner The discussion period will run for six weeks this semester and will be followed by an ice cream supper for the winning group and all others who have perfect. attendance for the series. Mr. Bell said that over 300 boys were enrolled in discussion groups during the past semester. Tenement 25, the winner, was awarded a turkey supper at a joint banquet with the winners of the girl's discussion group. About 120 students were present at the supper. Inside The Gamecock H S T OR IAN C. A. BEARID to speak to Carolini ana society, Page 2. LE CONTE SCIENTIFIC society hears Dr. A. K. Lobeck lecture on Russia. Page 8. GIRL-BREAK D A N C E given by Co-ed Association scheduled for tomorrow night. Page 5. PARADE OF OPINION a new Gamecock feature ap pears on Page 4. SWIMMING POOL BUD GET, as estimated by pool comn mittee, is outlined. Page 2. HARRY HOPKINS DED ICATES Carolina's new $108, 000 swimming pool. Page 2. ARMY OFFICERS IN TERVIEW Carolina students about service jobs. Page 2. BIRD BOXERS BATTLE Tiger pugilists at Clemson Sat urday night. Page 6. SPRING F OO T BAL L PRACTICE to begin Monday under Coach Enright's direc tin. 'ap 7. t Ele< Comedy vied with diving grace i their new $108,000 swimming pool 1 so that all who wished might see i Robert Kurz, Freeport, N. Y., off 1 Knight, lovely co-ed from Jackson Pool Commiti Semester Swi Classes Held For Beginners Final' arrangements for governing the use of the-'new University swim ming pool were drawn up by the pool committee last week, in a meeting held in the Student Union building. , A te,ntative budget, outlining esti mated expenses on a 9-month basis, was also drawn up and approved by the committee. The rules for the use of the pool were made only after a careful study of the methods used by other insti tutions. Several colleges were con sulted, including the University of Alabama, University of N. C., and University of Tennessee. The following set of rules was adopted: 1. Use of the pool is prohibited to anyone with cuts, skin infection, respiratory troubles, infectious eye or ear disorders, or infectious or com municable diseases of any kind. 2. All persons who use the pool must take a soap bath under showers before entering the water. Bathing suit must be removed for bath. 3. All women must wear swim ming caps. (This rule is to prevent hair from clogging the drains. Clean ing the drains incurs considerable ex pense.) 4. Pushing others into the pool is absolutely prohibited. 5. Diving is permitted at deep end of pool only. 6. All persons are expected to re frain from screaming and making other unnecessary noises, except in case of distress. 7. Bathers must keep out of spec tators gallery, and spectators must keep out of run-way around pool. 8. No smoking in pool room or dressing rooms. 9. Persons caught spitting in water will be denied use of pool. 10. Bathers are warned not to go in pool within an hour after eating. 11. A cold shower is suggested af ter swimming. These rules were not orginated by the pool committee, but compiled from rules used by other institutions. A schedule, which was drawn up after consultation with the heads of men's an'd women's physical educa tion departments, and made subject to change after it has been fully tried out, was also drawn up by the com mittee. (Continued on Page Eight) 87 Studes Enroll For 2nd Semester Eighty-seven new students had registered at the University of South Carolina when the registrar's office closed on Wednesday afternoon, fig ures released by the office of Dean of Administration John A. Chase re vealed. Registration will proceed until Feb. 14. A considerable number of trans fer students and others are expected to place their names on roll by that date, Mr. Chase said. Mr. Chase said that the faculty committee on readmissions was still hearing petitions of students whose scholastic standing did not measure up to University standards for the first semester of this session. Final enrollment figures will not be available until after the close of regisatnion on Feb. 14. :tedf ind skill for attention as University his week with an acquatic show. 'I t. In the left picture above, Fritz 'I he high diving bo ard, as the cros ville, Fla., leaves the board in a sli ee Announces rn Schedule Trials Held For Debaters Competition Starts Monday Tryouts for the University debat ing team will be held Monday, Feb. 6, and Monday, Feb. 13, it was an nounced by Johfi Norris this week. The affirmative tryouts will be held at the Euphradian Hall next Monday night at 8 o'clock, and the negative tryouts the following Monday night at the Clariosophian Hall. Four de baters and an alternate will be chosen for each team. The query for this year is: "Re solved, that the federal government should cease to use public funds for the stimulation of private business." This is the query selected by Pi Kap pa Delta, national honorary forensic fraternity. John Norris, chairman of the de bating council, especially urges all freshmen and newcomers to come out since many of last year's veterans are not in school. Norris has asked that all interested in debating please (Continued on Page Eight) Woman's Ph Be It_Park Mrs. Johnson Is Interviewed By Deward Brittain Mrs. Martin Johnson, who has spent 27 of the past 30 years in the jungles of Africa and Borneo, be lieves that the place for the woman is in the home-be that home on Park Avenue or a tent on the Congo river. Twenty-seven years amid the bar barities of semi-civilization have not changed this charming little lady from a typical Arnerican woman so far as clothes, speech, and culture are con cerned. Even in the jungle she dresses for dinner "in a lazy pair of lounging pajamas."~ Mrs. Johnson is thoroughly in fa vor of the new styles of women's clothes. "However," she said in an interview with local reporters last week, "the loud colors that the wom en wear today would not do for the jungle; they would attract too much attention. Noisy little monkeys will follow a red scarf for miles." Early Life Born in Chanute, Kansas, Mrs. Johnson lived the life of an ordi nary school girl until 1910, the year Martin Johnson came into her life. Having just returned from a globe trotting trip with Jack London, John son was on a lecture tour. The hand of fate, or Chanute's prospects of a good audience, dIrew him to this small mid-Western town. School children were given a special admission price to the lecture and as a result the first three rows of seats were largely taken by school girls. Among them-then a senior in high school-sat the future Mrs. Martin Johnson. After a courtship of three months they eloped. That elopment carried themi around the world several times and to yeara of hard, yet joyful, worke ['O B3o of South Carolina students opened 'he exhibition had to be repeated urner, West Columbia, kicks Clown rd roars. Right, Miss Katherine ilful backward dive. To Our New Students You are most cordially wel come to our-and your-Uni versity. The associations, friendships and opportunities which are now yours come but once in a lifetime. I hope that you will make the most of them. You now have the honor of standing at the head of the long line of Carolina men and wom en which stretches back 134 years. May you prove yourselves worthy of fellowship in this historic and glorious company ! J. Rion McKissick, President. Notice Special exemptions in English are conditional upon satisfactory work at advanced level, according to Professor McCall. ice Is In The tve Or Wild MRS. MARTIN JOHNSON in the heart of dark Africa. "Through all those thirty years we spent together," said Mrs. Johnson, "we were inseparable as comrades and sweethearts." Martin Johnson was killed in an airplane crash in California last year. Mrs. Johnson was in the plane also but escaped with minor injuries. This little lady is only slightly over five feet-tall and wears size 2'/ shoes, who probably has a speaking acquaint ance with more monkeys than any other woman living today, does not believe in evolution. Even though she says she has seen people as primi tive as animals, she cannot conceive of man as a descendant of the baboon or monkey. Her Travels In her travels with her famous hus band, Mrs. Johnson has visited near ly all the large South Sa Islantds, ard ( Phelps Talks To Assembly State Colleges To Make Plea President Shelton Phelps of Ninthrop college will present the :ase of state colleges before a spe :ial legislative committee appointed o study the financial conditions of he state, it was revealed this week )y the University's President, J. Rion McKissick. A meeting of all heads of state :olleges was held two weeks ago it President McKissick's residence :o discuss problems facing state ed icational institutions. At the meet ng it was decided that the case of ill the colleges should be presented >y President Phelps. John A. Chase, Jr., Dean of Ad ministration at the University, was chosen as secretary of the group of college officials. No definite date has been set for President Phelps to appear before the com.:-.ttee. With regard to action by stu dents on the problem of appropria tions, President McKissick suggest ed that individual effort by students would probably be most effective. Last year large delegations of stu dents from the several counties rep resented at the University went to the legislative halls and requested (Continued on Page Eight) Players Club Announces Production "There's Always Juliet" is the next play to be presented by the Univer sity Players, campus dramatic or ganization, it was revealed by Wil liam S. "Billy" Woods, adviser of the group, this week. Woods said that casting for the play would begin within the next few weeks. Revue Planned Plans are also lIeing made for the College Revue, an all-student written and produced presentation, Woods said. Last year the revue, which was the first of its kind ever to be pre sented at the University, met with autstanding success. All-student tal ent was used in writing the dialogue and music, and the play was pro duced and managed wholly by stu dents, with the advice of Professors Woods and Stephan. This year a similar production is planned. Students began work on the production early this semester. New officers of the University players recently elected are: Gladys Gaskin, president; Mamie Thomas, vice-president; Marion Zula, secre tary; Eva Wilson, treasurer; and Jac queline McCutchen, historian. It is expected that casting for the Revue, scheduled to begin shortly af ter examinations, will begin soon. Home Borneo . Airplane Crash Killed Husband overed nearly all the central part of Africa, and spent several years in Borneo. She has flown over 90,000 miles of jungles and cannibal country. The natives of the South Sea is ands are far more barbaric and say ige than the inhabitants of Africa, she says. On the island of Maluhela, ne of New Hambuedes group, there is a tribe of savages who fatten their :hildren and sell them to other head hunters for food. These innocent :hildren are usually exchanged for yrnaments or prisoners of war, ac :ording to Mrs. Johnson. "These cannibals are the kind you see in the movies; they wear bones n their hair for ribbons and it is not uncommon to see a man with a small one in his nose," said this adventurer ionchalantly. "Heads of white men," she con iinued, "are dried over a fire and pre ierved to be hung in the crude huts for decorations. The flesh of a white nan is considered a rare delicacy and feasts are held when a white person has the misfortunte to wander into their village." Later this year Mrs. Johnson is planning to return to Africa. "This trip won't be as much fun as the others," she said, "because he (speak ing of her husband) won't be along. I'm going back because its the life [ love, it's the only work I know, and nainly because it's what Martin would want me to do." "Come what may," she said with reverent solemnity, "I stand ready to face it bravely, and if necessary to die with the consolation that I have lived in the true sense of the word. That's what Martin used to say as we pitched camp at nightfall under beautiful )f Tr Member By Acel Carolina Al Vacancy Left J. Arthur Knight of Chester action of the South Carolina to succeed J. E. Leppard on th Board of Trustees. Leppard, member of the Hoi pointed by Governor Johnston the resignation of the late Davi( chairman of the Board. Leppi election. Knight's election by a joint E of the South Carolina Genera than half a minute. His nam a member of the Chesterfield c Sororities And Frats Support Caroinian Tri Kappas, Sigma Nu Head List Fraternities and sororities are sup porting the Carolinian subscription campaign more than non-fraternity and non-sorority students, according to figures compiled this week by Dan Millsaps, editor-in-chief. These figures show that 24 per cent of the members of sororities and 17 per cent of the members of fraterni ties have subscribed to the magazine this semester. Only 7.5 per cent of the students who are not members of fraternities or sororities have subscribed. At the end of the first week of the campaign, Sigma Nu is leading all the fraternities with a total subscrip tion list of 64 per cent of its mem bers. In second place is ATO with 20 per cent, followed by Kappa Sigma with 18 per cent. (KKK Leads) Kappa Kappa Kappa is leading in the sororities with 42 per cent of its members subscribing; Delta Delta Delta is second with 37 per cent, and Chi Omega is third with 27 per cent. The campaign to secure subscrip tions will be continued during the next few weeks, and figures show ing averages for other groups will be released later. No figures are available on the number of faculty members subscrib ing now, because all of them have not been contacted as yet. Any student who wishes to sub scribe to the Carolinian may give his name and address to Mrs. Moon at the post office at any time during the semester, Millsaps announced. Present plans call for a total of three issues during the semester, and the first of these is scheduled to ap pear around March 1. .Millsaps Editor The new staff of the Carolinian is composed of Dan Millsaps, editor-in chief, H-ennig Cohen, managing edi tor, John Crews, business manager, and Georgette LaSire, associate edi tor. Other fraternity averages in addi (Continued on Page Eight) Music Will Be Featured On Programs Music holds the Carolina chapel program spotlight for the next two weeks, according to an announce ment by Prof. W. S. Woods, chair man of the program committee. The Columbia College glee club has charge of the program today and al though a complete program has not been announced, Miss Marjorie Blun dell, glee club director, promises an interesting forty minutes of songs and entertainment. Next Friday will find the students themselves carrying the heavy end of the chapel prograrn. Under the di rection of H-aynie Prince, the chapel going students will take part in a community sing. Many students have enjoyed this form of singing at one of the local theatres. Printed song sheets, carrying all the old stand bys, will be given out. In addition to this, there will be several solos and special features. Stunt singing will tend to give the audience a rest from singing. A few impersonat'ons will be pres ent to, in the words of the director, "brek the monotony" of the music ustees Chosen imation umnus Fills By Leppard field was elected by unanimous General Assembly Wednesday a University of South Carolina ise of Representatives, was ap to fill the vacancy created by I R. Coker of Hartsville, former Lrd was not a candidate for re ssion of the House and Senate I Assembly took scarcely more a was placed in nomination by Dunty delegation. Commenting on Knight's election, President J. Rion McKissick of the University said: "Mr. Knight has been and is a most loyal alumnus and will make a highly faithful and useful trustee. "His fine attitude toward his alma mater was evidenced in a remark he made io me just a few minutes be fore he was elected to the Board: "'I should like to be a trustee of the University because I feel that I owe so much to her and I would like by what scryice I could render a trustee to help her, since probably I will never have anything else to give her.' "The University appreciates the brief service rendered her by Mr. Leppard who attended all meetings of the Board while he was a t:ustee and took an active and interested part in its proceedings." The new trustee is a member of the law firm of Knight and Arant at Chesterfield. An alumnus of the University, he was born near Pageland, S. C. on the family plantation, January 18, 1890. He received his preliminary education in the public schools of Chesterfield county, and after gradua tion from Jefferson high school, en tered the University, and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1912 After his graduation, he taught school until 1917. In 1917 he was chosen Superintendent of Education for Chesterfield county. The same year he received a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of S. C. law school, and was admitted to the bar in South Carolina. He held the office of Superintendent until 1921, keeping up meanwhile the practice of law. Mr. Knight also served as county attorney for two years. From 1924 to 1930 he was Demo cratic county chairman, and has served as a member of the state executive committee from his county. The newly elected trustee is a Bap tist, a member of the American Bar Association, South Carolina Bar As sociation, Chesterfield County Bar Association, and is a director in the Home Building and Loan Association. He is also president of the Chester field Auto Co., Inc. Fraternally, Mr. Knight is affili ated with Chesterfield lodge No. 220, (Continued on Page Eight) Life Guard Not Chosen Applications Are Received No student has yet been selected to serve as life guard and custodian of the swimming pool, President 3. Rion McKissick said yesterday. Several applications have been re ceived for this position by the Uni versity head, who has the power of appointing employees connected with the operation of the natatorium. "I should be pleased to receive ap plications from any men students in terested and qualified, but applica tions must reach me not later than 12 o'clock Saturday, Feb. 4, since I expect to make a selection before next week. Those interested should apply to me in person, bringing with them a letter of application contain ing a statement of their experience and qualifications as well as the names of two or three references as to their ability and good character," President McKissick said. The position will pay $30 per month and will call for service only in af ternoons. "It will be useless for anyone to apply unless he has had substantial experience and is qualified as a life guard or swimming ,instructor," the president said. "Good moral character is an ab solutely indispensable qualification for this place." The faculty-student commnittee in charge of the swImming pool has deo. cided that it is not necessay toem ploy a yngwoman as ale guard