Junior-Senior Tonight;
SAE'S Celebrate Return High Fo aers
With Banquet Tomorrow P U Field House
((Story on page 5)
University of South Carolina
Z676 Volume XXXIV, No. 1 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH 7 19411908
Lead Palmetto Press Editors
Sec. Frank Wardlaw Pres. W. W. Smoak
Retires From Active Duty
LIBRARY HISTORY
Built-May, 1841.
Designed after plans of
faculty.
Plans show influence of K
Robert Mills.
Senate met there, 196.
Faculty met there until
1927.
Fireproof wings added,
1927.
Board of Trustees meets
there.
Ivy at rear said to have
come from Kenilworth
Castle, England.
Old Library
Friendly Political Enemies
Student President, Sol Blatt, Jr., and Willis Beall. Gamecock boxer,
are at political outs over the question of Beall's eligibility to offer for
student president for next year.
I Campus National Defenders I
......0..
O~. . F. Crow is doing his share of the national defense as Captain. J.
N. Frierson. Is on pro-Allied Committees.
BEAL
Committee of Worl
Fund Starts Drive C
Breakfast Will Inaugur
All Organizations To
With a goal of $500, the Uni
Student Service Fund, will beg
a special committee breakfast, I
general chairman of the drive
dents representing all religioi
contact people for contribution
Tuesday night.
Dan Hollis made a speech in,
chapel this morning to present the
plan. Each person, upon making a
contribution, will receive a tag in
recognition of his cooperating.
The campaign is being sponsored
by the four religious groups, the
YMCA, YWCA, the Newman club,
and the Hillel club. The presidents
of these organizations elected Ann
Heath to be the director. Last year
in a similar drive, Carolina collected
$400 for the Chinese relief.
Raise $100,000
The money raised for this fund is
used specially for students in prisons
and concentration camps. It is spon
sored by the National Inter-col
legiate Christian Council and the
Inter-national Student Service and
has the purpose of raising $100,000
net for students in China and
Europe who have been stricken by
the war. Young people of all coun
tries benefit equally.
The purpose and function of the
WSSF was explained to the Caro
lina student body last Friday morn
ing in chapel by Doctor Edwin
Espy.
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PALME
Clarence Poe MakE
To Convention; Ac
Meeting On "Better C
At Sims Hall This Mo
The Palmetto Weekly Press
institute at the University of
editors from all over the state
cussions and festivity.
Big feature of the day will be a
luncheon with Clarence Poe,
Raleigh, N. C., giving the principal
address, Frank H. Wardlaw, press
secretary, said yesterday. Pres. J.
Rion McKissick, will introduce the
speaker.
"Mr. Poe is one of the widely
known men in his field in the na
tion," WVardIawv said. "His ability
and personality have madec him
thousands of friends. He's in con
stant dlemand as a speaker."
W. WV. Snmoak, editor of the Wal
terboro Press and Standard and
president of the association, will
preside at the institute.
The program consists of a morn
ing meeting beginning at 10:45, at
Sims College. This session will be
featured by a series of discussions
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Activities Fee Coil
From 1609 Students
Total student activity fees for sec
W. Frank Taylor, assistant business
student activities, announced yester
students at $9.20 per student.
The allocation of the student acti
Account Rate
Athletic Association........$4.90
Band .......................30
Clariosophic Society......... .10
Co-ed Association ........... .10
Debating Council ........... .20
Euphrosynean Society ....... .10
Euphradian Society ......... .10
Gamecorck ..................75
Garnet and Black ............75
Hypatian Society ............ .10
Reserve Fund .............. .05
Sinking Fund.............. .25
Seldon Society .............. .10
Social Cabinet .............. .10
Telephone Exchange......... .50
Y. M.C. A. ................ 60
Y. W. C. A. ................60
Student Union Building .......0
L M
d Student Relief
)n Campus Monday
ate Move; Heath Asks
Solicit Contributions
versity committee of the World
,in its formal campaign during
donday at 7 a. m. Ann Heath,
on this campus, has asked stu
is and other organizations to
s. The drive will last through
Largest Carolina
Graduating Class
Will Get Degrees
351 Make Application
April First Is Final
. Date To Apply--Chase
The largest graduating class in
the history of the institution will re
ceive degrees from the University
of South Carolina in June, John A.
Chase, Jr., dean of administration,
announced yesterday.
The distribution of degree appli
cations are: bachelor of arts, 125;
bachelor of arts in education, 20;
bachelor of arts in journalism, 14;
bachelor of science, 36 bachelor of
science in commerce, 56; bachelor
of science in education, two; bach
elor of science in chemical engineer
ing, four; bachelor of science in civil
engineering, eight; bachelor of sci
ence in electrical engineering, five;
bachelor of science in pharmacy, 12;
bachelor of laws, 40; and two year
certificates in secretarial science, 29.
TTO P
4
is Principal Address
Ivertising Discussed
>mmunity Service" Held
rning To Open Activity
issociation is holding its annual
South Carolina today. Weekly
ire here to take part in the dis
Twenty New Bells
To Call Students
Twenty new electric bells to call
students to classes will arrive at the
University of South Carolina within
the next twvo weeks, John A. Chase,
Jr., dean of administration, said
this wveek.
The bells wvill be installed at stra
tegic spots over the campus so that
all students may hear them in time
to get to classes.
Until the bells are installed, the
old college bell will continue to be
rung with the electric bells already
in operation, Dean Chase said.
ection Is $14,833
, Taylor Announces
>nd semester amounted to $14,883.25,
manager and temporary director of
day. Tris was collected from 1609
rity fee is as follows:
Men Women Total
$5,218.50 $2,665.60 $7,884.10
319.50 183.20 482.70
106.50 . ... 108.50
108.50 54.40 180.90
213.00 - 108.80 321.80
.... 54.40 54.40
106.50 .... 106.50
798.75 408.00 1,208.75
798.75 408.00 1,206.75
.... 54.40 54.40
53.25 27.20 80.45
288.25 136.00 402.25
106.40 54.40 160.90
106.50 54.40 160.90
532.50 272.00 804.50
639.00 .... 639.00
..... 326.40 326.40
532.50 272.00 804.5n
ADE
Gasper Gobblers
Decrease In Half
Because Of Lent
Weed Salesmen Are
Worried For Daily
Dozen Consumption
"Where there's smoke there's
fire."
Then this is one hot campus. Be
cause employees in the canteen esti
mate that they sell two hundred and
fifty cartons of cagarettes weekly.
This mounts up to a lot of profit
for American, Liggett and Mayers,
P. Lorrilard, and all the other guys
who manufacture the wicked weed.
Figured,at ten packs in a carton,
and'twenty cigarettes in a pack, this
amounts to fifty thousand cigarettes
consumed by canteen patrons a
week.
Lent may be influencing the con
sumption of the consumption sticks.
Many students on the campus pick
cigarettes to give up in observance
of the religious custom practiced in
some churches. But enough Presby
terians and dissenters on the campus
are still puffing away to keep the
canteen from utter wrack and ruin.
4n estimate would place the
amount of cigarettes used by each
student at two hundred and fifty per
week.
There must be something about
the academic life that inspires one
to "let up, light up a Camel", be
come "toasted" with Luckics, get
"satisfied" about Chesterfields, and
otherwise satisfy their nico-fiendish
desires.
'R ESS
One Mad Night
Appears 18 -19
Despite Fates
Melodrama Mystery Is
Harbinger Of Respite
Before Mid-Semesters
Finally the date for the next
University Players epic, "One
Mad Night", has been definitely
set. Come what may, the play in
question will go on the boards
in Drayton Hall, Tuesday and
Wednesday, March 18 and 19,
at 8:00 p. m. All prospective
members of the audience should
come around with a season
ticket, a ticket for that one play
only or twenty-five cents in
cash.
Despite the various difficulties
which have hounded it, "One
Mad Night" has shaped up into
a play with real audience appeal.
It is a melodrama, among which
class of plays have been found
some of the most successful
productions of our time.
Liquor Sleuths
And Wilson; Hik
By Al Eggerton
What the police force needs
is a couple of bootlegger hunt
ers like Mac Beers and Reggie
Wilson. While others search in
vain for these elusive forms of
animal life, Mac and Reggie are
practically swamped with them.
On a cloudy Saturday after
noon not long ago, these two
stood at the side of the state
highway to Charleston.
As Wilson and Beers stood
there, Indolently waving their
thumbs toward the city-by-the
sea, a car pulled up and the
driver asked them to get in.
Mac eased his six-foot-two
into the front seat while Reggie
clambered Into the back and
dropped on the seat, or rather
on what he thought was a seat.
ELIGIBLE
Student Body Decides Issue
After Council Refuses To Renig
Large Number Of Students Vote On Boxer's
Eligibility At Meeting In Chapel Yesterday
BY FRANK SLOAN
By a vote of 238 to 73, Willis Beall was voted eligible to run
for the office of President of the Student Body yesterday after
noon at a stormy meeting of the student body in the Chapel.
This decision overrides the contrary ruling of Student Council
made on Feb. 21. Proceedings of the meeting were constantly
interrupted by the heated shouts and discussion on the floor.
Gets Large Majority
Student body president Sol Blatt, Jr. announced upon the
completion of the ballot Beall's name is eligible to be placed
on the official ballot to run for the office of president of the
student body. The final count gave Beall a 76.5% majority of
the voters present, a total of 66.6% being necessary to overrule
the decision of the council.
A movement by ex-president George Coleman to reconsider
the matter provoked a storm of dissent that delayed the actions
of the meeting for over fifteen minutes. An adjournment move
ment by George Wellman was passed unanimously as ooon as
order was restored.
BeaZ Expects To Rub
Beall announced after the adjournment that he expected to
run for the office and that whoever did run lie wished "May the
best man win." The obvious support of the large majority of
students behind Beall at the meeting virtually assures his can
didacy for the office.
Discussion on the eligibility of Beall was carried on by rep
resentatives of both sides of the question before a formal motion
was made. Frequent interruptions of speakers by questions and
disorder on the floor delayed action until 6:14 P. M. At this time
a motion for previous question (the eligibility of Mr. Beall)
was passed unanimously by oral vote.
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HERE TODAY
United States Marine Corps Officers
Interview Eligible Carolina Students
Physical Examinations Will Be Given Candidates
On March 26-27 On The Campus At South Carolina
United States Marine Corps Lieutenants Waters and Taylor
visited the campus Monday and Tuesday to interview candi
dates for the Marine Reserve Officers training at Quantico,
Va. this summer.
- To be eligible students must be
New Student Union seniors in either law or academic
Free Dance Affair and meet Marine Corps phy
sica reqireentsforreserve of
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free housewarming dance in its new Three months' intensive training
lounge Saturday at 8:30 p. i., Prof. will be given to all accepted candi
A. S. Hodge, announced yesterday. (lates at the Marine base in Quan
Th'le lounge is locatedl in the base-tc,V.ti umr e h
ment of Hampton College--the 0(old eetetriigcure~ilb
co-edI canteen. Professor H-odge cmisoe sscn iueat
asks all students to use the Pickens i h aieCrsRsre
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