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lock "C" Club German Club To eor nizedDance Tonight Pinhead" Henson Gymnasium (Story on Page 6') (Story on Page 5) University of South Carolina K676 Volume XXXII, No. 18 COLUMBIA,S. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1940 Fudd10 NORI Blatt Committee To Overhaul New Constitution Special Faculty Group Will Assist In Drafting Government Document The new Student Body Constitu tion, adopted the Monday before spring holidays, will be overhauled by the student committee which drafted it, with the advice of a spe cial faculty committee, George Cole man, president of the student body announced this week. The new constitution, as adopted, provided for an active student gov ernment with control centralized in a student council of 15 an'd a num ber of special committees, as a So cial committee, Student Finance committee, Attivities committee, and others. * Faculty Meets In a faculty meeting Wednesday the following resolution was adopt cd, "Thai a faculiy committee be appointed to confer with and assist the president of the student body and other student committee mem bers, as a committee on revision and style in preparing a draft constitu tion prior to its submission to the proper administrative authority of the University." (Who is the chair man of the Board of Trustees?). Objections Raised On this committee are Dean Orin Crow, R. L. Wienefeld, W. S. Woods, and George R. Sherrill. Serious objections to the consti tution as passed are its inconsis tencies and vagueness. For ex ample, Coleman pointed out, it takes a meeting of 200 students to recall an officer, 100 to override the stu dent council, but only 25 to hold a student body meeting at which (CONTINUED ON PAGE 6) Washington-Lee Prexy To Speak At Meeting Of Caroliniana Society Annual Gathering Will Celebrate Centennial Of Old Library Building , . 1'. Gaines, president of Wash ington and Lee University. will be the speaker at the annual meeting of the University South Caroliniana So Ciety, April 17. This dlinner will Celebrate the centennial of the otd librarv. A feature of the fourth meeting of the society will be the exhibit, on the thlirdl floor of the library, of book., maps, manuscripts, and news papers of the South Carolina collec tion. The Caroliniana society wvas or ganized in 1937 for the purpose of Collecting old and newv books, and Other material pertaining to South Carolina. The collection includes Over 1,000 bound books andl pam phlets, 500 volumes of newspapers, and about 230,250 manuscripts. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8) Inside Thue Gamecock THIRTY-ONE INITIATED Itto Phi Beta Kappa-Page 2 BlASEBALL TEAM GOES TO eIwberry Today-Page 7. TRACK TEAM GOES TO Greenville Today-Page 7. 8MITH SPEAKS IN CHAPEL ERtWekAge CLB.CET NE H Elect The Winnah!] Sol 1latt, Jr. Lieut. Meng, United States Army Flier, Interviews USC Men Air Corps Officers To Arrive In Columbia Sunday For Recruiting During the past week 1st Lieuten ant Meng of the United States Army Air Corps has been interviewing men here at the University who intend to apply for admission into the Cadet Corps of the U. S. Army Air Corps. Examiners Arrive Lieutenant Meng has announced that a Board of Examiners will arrive in Columbia at 11:30 o'clock Sunday morning on the Army Bomber, B-18. This board consists of four Air Corps officers who will take care of all the necessary proceedings that ap plicants have to go through. Officers making up the group are: Lieuten ants Carlmark and Lewis, and Majors Lawton and Anmnions of the Medical Corps. Applicants will be examined in linn I lall next week from 8 till 12 o'clock in the morning and I till 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Appointments Made Said Lieutenant Meng, "It will be a good idea for all applicants to dIrop in Flinn H all early and make ap p)ointmnents for interviews andl exams with the Board of Examiners so as to avoidl conflict later in the week." The course of instruction requires nine months and covers all phases of military aviation. Upon success ful completion of the course of instruc tion, a flying cadlet is commissioned as a ,secondl lieutenant in the Air Corps Reserve, receives his wings and the rating of a pilot. Freshman Mary Of 24 Entrahlts Winners From 48 States To Compete In Finals Mary Daly, freshman at the Uni versity of South Carolina, was chosen this week by the judges of the Gamecock beauty contest to represent the university in the Para mount picture contest. Miss Daly, chosen from a group of twenty- four Carolina beauties, wvill compete with the winners of the other co-ed schools of the state for the title of Miss South Caro lina. The pictures of all the state contestants have been sent to New York where they will compete with the picttures of girls from the other 47 states. Placing second in the Gamecock contest was Mary Lowry, of Co lumbia, while Julia Ann Connelly, also of Columbia. placed third. UEY'A ed Sl Takes Margin Over McCrady In Final Race David Murray Elected Sec.-Treas. By 38 Votes Over Margaret Haskell Sol Blatt, Jr., University of South Carolina junior from Bartwell rolled up 744 votes in the final election Wednesday to defeat Bob McCrady, junior from Columbia, for president of the Carolina student body for the session 1940-41. McCrady polled 660 votes. David Murray was elected to the position of student body secretary treasurer over Margaret Haskell by a vote of 717 to 679. Blatt and McCrady were chosen in a first race Monday in which Rod Turnbull, Rion Scott and Bill Dorsey were eliminated. In the secretary treasurer race, Eston Marchant was dropped in the first race. Possibly the largest number of University students ever to vote in the campus elections 1,404 turned out Wednesday to choose their leaders for the coming school year. Blatt was president of the sopho more class during the year 1938-1939. He also won the southern conference championship title in the 135 pound weight in the Southern Conference Tournament held here this year. He was also secretary-treasurer of the Euphradian Literary society this past (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8) USC To Have Weekly Show Over WCOS Songs, Skits And Jokes Will Be Heard On Air A University of South Carolina weekly varsity show, following the trend of network variety broadcasts, will be aired through the microphones of station WCOS as soon as talent can he assembled. Coit Ilendley, campus news commentator, will be in charge of the program. According to Roy Powell, manager of WVCOS, the show will be of the modern variety type--an interspe,rsion of songs, skits, jokes, and humorous stories. Each broadcast will be re hearsed andl scrip)ts providled. This is the first time an attempt has beeni made to present the lighter vein of campus life and is being looked forward to with much inter est. No (definite date has been set for the commencement of the show. Anyone who can dance, sing. (do imitations, tell jokes, (do team skits, or offer suggestions to aid the pro gram is requested to contact Coit I lendley as soon as possible. Daly Chosen In Pararnount E Mary Daly VOTE :ud ent Faculty Committee Gets Fraternity Petition Concerning the petition which was sent to the faculty committee on Fraternities by 'the Inter-Fra ternity Council, the administration yesterday made this statement. "Copies of the petition were sent to the members of the Faculty Com mittee on Fraternities and Student Organization which will consider it." The petition made no mention of the suspension of the S.A.E. fra ternity, but consisted of the list of grievances. Chair Tosses Journalist In Class Fracas Guys In The Know Say Wardlaw Took A Dive; Hot Denials Journalism instructor Frank Wardlaw has turned wrestler. He staged his first match the day be fore spring holidays for the ben efit of his feature writing class when he was defeated by his classroom chair. But the journalism students think the grappling setto was fixed, because they have an idea that Wardlaw took a dive. As the journalism teacher took his. seat at the beginning of class, the chair folded up under him. Wardlaw immediately went down for the count, his legs twining like twin serpents around the desk. "That must have been a plant," he growled, looking over his class with - an alert eye, hoping to catch some betraying sign from the culprit. But he looked in the wrong direction. Instead of surveying the young ladies at the front of the room, his gaze wondered quite naturally to the far corner, where sat the usual collection of trouble-making males. But this' time the boys were innocent. A dame had done the devlish work-and a cherubic, roly-poly dame it was. When Wardlaw regained com plete composure, and had ex hausted his impromptu detective powers, he sighed. "Well, I'm glad I'd read Mr. McCants' article on falling grace fully," he mused. (A few days before, Elliott "Slugger" McCants had turned in a 1500 word feature on how the well-tutored boxer goes about hitting the canvas.) Incidentally, McCants is ex pecting an "A" on the course. USC's Prettiest eauty Contest LoWry An~d Connelly Are Second And Third Both Miss Lowry and Miss Con nelly were members of the Kappa Delta sorority while Miss Daly, the winner, was non-sorority. Miss Daly entered the University from Columbia high school. When asked to what she attrib uted her success she replied that it was due to diligent training and eating ice cream. She was surprised to learn that all judges thought her photo looked remarkably like Deanna Durbin as she thinks that she is' definitely another type. Acting appeals to her very much and if she gets the final screen test from Paramount she would be more than pleased. (OnNTNUED N PAGE 6) 'DMA 1Body May Queen *torine Huey Runner-Up Rannah Heyward Committee Appointed To Discuss Debating Council Resolutions Petition To Faculty Recommends Lawyers' Reinstatement To Team A special committee was appointed at the faculty meeting WVednesday to considler recommiendtations of the dlebating council in a petition intro dluced by Judge M. S. Whaley. T1his petiation containis the deblate council plan offered as an alterna tive to the recent faculty action ex cludling law and graduate students from University debating and ora torical competition. Varsity Team Suggested Thle petition recomimendls that ev ery University studlent shouldl be eli gible for the varsity debating team for three years. All law stud(ents wvho wvish to dlebate must have a "B" average for the precedling semester. A separate freshman dlebating team is providledl for which will be coached a by the instructor in public speaking, s aided by the varsity debators. No C freshmen will be eligible for the varsity team. Girls Have Team 11 A separate girls' team is provided v for, for which all girls, including / freshmen, will be eligible. The petition was drawn up by I. D. \ Karesh, member of the debating coun cil, aided by Dave Baker, Charles b Gibbes, and Deward Brittain, other y, council members. The faculty committee will study ti the resolutions, confer with the de- e bating council, and submit its report It at the next faculty meeting. 6 LY I Pre. Heyward, HI Chosen Froi Henry Westbrook Plays For Dance Following i Norine Iuey of Colunia y< fay Queen for 1940. She defe olinubia. by a margin of 62 vot hat Miss Huey had 600 votes to Hot House To Invite'Oomph' Sheridan Here Representatives Are Influenced By USC Students' Demand All the masculine hearts of Carolina and vicinity will soon have cause to beat faster other than just the fact that it's spring. Ann Sheridan may come to Co lumbia in person. The same gal, in fact, that George Coleman, president of the student body, talked to over long-distance phone in the fall just after Carolina males had voted her their "oomph" girl. The house of representatives of South Carolina Wednesday adopt ed a resolution by the Richland delegation inviting Ann Sheridan, star of "It All Came True", to become the guest of the state and Columbia when her picture is shown here. The resolution was as follows: Whereas, Miss Ann Sheridan, who reaches real stardom in her new picture, "It All Came True," and has by her beauty, wonderful personality and outstanding abil ity as an actress, attained nation wide recognition as the "oomph girl"; Whereas, the student body of the University of South Carolina has requested the personal ap pearance of Miss Ann Sheridan, now, therefore, Be it resolved by the general assembly of the state of South Carolina: That Miss Ann Sheridan be, and she is hereby invited to be come the guest of the state of South Carolina, and the city of Columbia, when her picture is shown in Columbia. llSC Glee Club Gives Concert Wednesday Student Singers Please Many State Audiences Fresh from a tour that covered the tate of South Carolina, the Uniiver ity Mens Glee Club settles again his week in preparation for their an ual concert in conjunction withI the comen's glee club to be held next Vednesday, April 10, in chapel at :30. Under the dlirection of Professor Tugh Williamson the organization ppearedl in a number of thc state's maller cities wvhere they were re eived with much enthusiasm and eir musical ability highly praised. Prior to spring holidays the club iurneyed to Bamberg, Orangeburg, ummerville and Charleston. Dur ig the holiday period appearances rere made in Wathalla, Clemson and Lnderson, over radio station WCSC Charleston and twice over station VAIM in Anderson. Several of the club's crooners will e heard over the Red network of the lational Broadcasting Company hen the State College Chorus takes te air in a coast-to-coast hookup in inection with the annual Columbia fusic Festival on Saturday, April EEN sident Ley, Walker in Pageant For Pageant And Also knnual Beauty Parade isterdav wits elected Carolina's ated Rannal Heyward, also of es. The final tabulation showed 538 for Miss Heyward. The new queen was chosen from a field of three candidates, namely No rine luey, Rannah Heyward and Helen Walker. These three were chosen at the annual May Queen Beauty Pageant, held Monday night in Drayton Hall. K. S. K. Sponsors Pageant The Pageant was sponsored by K. S. K., and Paul Sansbury was in charge. Twenty-two campus beau ties appeared, including two from each sorority and six non-sorority girls. Henry Westbrook played dur ing the parade of the beautiful, and the Allen University quartet also ap peared on the program. After the pageant, a free dance was given in the Field House. West brook also played for the dance. Representing A. D. Pi in the con test were Grace Kilgore and Ade lyn Lipscomb. Edyth Ford and Mary Dixon were the Chi Omegas appear ing; Miss Heyward and Pat Jeter were Tri Deltas. For Delta Zeta were Nell Berry and Martha Smith, and for the Pi Phis were Mickey Harris and Elizabeth Hughes. Lyles Arranges Program Kappa Delta sent Miss Huey and Paulette West; and Sigma Delta rep resentatives were Ruby Ravdin and Natalie Lifchez. The six non-soror ity girls were Miss Walker, Molly leath, Sophie May Peterson, Eliza beth Bird, Elizabeth Watson, and Carol Reid. In charge of the program was A. C. Lvles. and Stage Manager was Marion Davis. The pageant was very (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8) Dr. T. Z. Koo Speaks On Chinese Disaster In Chapel Wednesday Famous YMCA Worker Tells Of Education Conditions In China I brough all the hardThips of war, m'y people have the ability to look thsasterC in the face and still have the hu ~rt to laugh ab out it," Dr. T. Z. lKoo, Y. M. C.. A. worker from Chlina, told the University studlent bo dy in chapel Wednesday morning. D)octor Koo spoke to the student body and publ ic WVednesday night on the ouitlooik of Chinese studlents to ward the present war in the Orient. Chinese Need Help Doctor Koo, who was a represen tative at the Second Opium Confer ence in Switzerland in 1925 dhe scrihed life in Chinese refugee uni versities, lie saidl that 25,000 stu (ents andl professors are nowv in makeshift universities in western China. "When the war startedl," saidl Doctor Koo, "the Chinese govern ment set asidle the western part of the country for students whose univer sities were destroyedl, and gave mil lions of dollars to the refugee insti tutions." Conditions Are Bad According to the lecturer 35 refu gee universities have been established in the last 18 months. And many more are now rising up in western China. Conditions in these institutions are very crowded, said Doctor K(oo. In one town three universities are crowded together on one campus, 2,500 miles from where they were at the start of the war.