Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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For Victory... For- Vioy...Birds To Rest For NuSTATES DEFENSEComing Clemson Game BONDS*8TAMP8IAfter Tilt Tomorrow UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA (St"' 0"P"g5) CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA Z676 Volume XXXVI, No 8 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER .9, 1942 USC Brilliant Brunette S Tally On English PI McCall Pulls Hair Tryi Machine's Trouble; Chi It's mathematically impossible for a doesn't know it and flys anyway. It's perfect on Professor W. C. McCall's co-ed didn't know it and turned in a standardized English test so construc sibility of such a thing happening. The co-ed is Miss Golda Vermelle<0 Haile of Columbia, a graduate' of Dreher High School. Her achieve rment wasn't a fluke, either. Prof. W. C. McCall, director of the University's personnel bureau which has scored tests of entering freshmen in nearly all South Caro lina colleges for many years, didn't believe it was so when the bureau's electric scoring machine indicated a perfect score for Miss Haile on tests covering applied grammar, spelling, punctuation and capitalization. He ordered an assistant to hand-score the tests, consisting of 186 items. The machine had not been in error. Professor McCall said that the tests arministered were scientifically de signed standard tests used in nearly all institutions of higher learning tnrough the nation. Not only had he never seen a perfect score on one of those tests, but he had never heard of one occurring anywherl. Knowing that skeptical professors would be inclined to consider Miss Haile's achievement a fluke, the per sonnel director requested her to take another set of tests covering the same subject matter. The results were cgn vincing. Again she turned in perfect scores on items concerning applied grammar, punctuation and capitaliza tion, missing only several spelling words out of the entire group. Since these same tests are used throughout the nation, Professor Mc Call was able to state definitely that Miss Haile's achievement places her easily within the top one per cent of all students in the nation, not merely freshmen, in the fields covered by the tests. USC Extension Is Offering Special Classes In State Dr. Fred W. Alexander, extension professor of education for the Univer sity Extension Division has begun the organization of special classes at va rious points throughout the state this week. These classes were begun in 1937 and have been offered every year since. TJiey are for teachers and students w~ho wish tp prepare them selves for various lines of school work offered on and off the campus. This service is an expansion of the University of South Carolina school of Education. Classes will be taught at Union, Spartanburg, Pickens, Anderson, Greenville, Greenwood, Gaffney, and Hattville this year, and it is possible that others may be organized in other parts of the state later on. A number of well known teachers will teach the classes and assist Dr. Alexander. They are: Prof. Ellison M. Smith, University school of edut cation; Wendell A. Norvell, director of arts and crafts, Greenville; C. N. Sisson, Coker College, Hartsville; N. P. Mitchell, Furman University, * Greenville; Ralph E. Gaskins, Cot tageville; R. 0. Nelson, Columbia; Mrs. Mattie E. Thomas, State De partment of Education, Columbia; Betty M. Horne, University instructor of psychology; and George A. Brown, Columbia. Each course consists of 30 hours of class work, 24 class meetings of one hour and fifteen minutes each, or the S equivalent. Credits count toward a college degree and also toward the extension of a state certificate. Class es will meet one afternoon each week at an established center. Not more than four semester hours work may be carried .at one time in these S courses. The fees for these extension courses are the same for all extension courses, $5.00 per semester hour credit, Salv cores Perfect acement Tests ng To Find Defective ?ck Shows All Is 0. K. 5umble bee to fly, but the bumble bee also impossible for a person to score entrance exams. But one freshman 100% correct score on a nationally ed as virtually to preclude the pos Committee Says Senior Class Rings May Be Ordered New Ruling Limits Rings To Seniors, Few Juniors In Second Semester The Senior Ring committee an nounces that class rings may be pur chased at any time this year from the canteen or from Sylvan's Jewel ers. The ring is the standard Univer sity of South Carolina ring, and has the seal imprinted on the face, with the degree attained on one side, and the year of graduation on the other. A new ruling drawn up by the ring committee is that no student other than accredited seniors, or sec o0.d seanester jinior, m.yi hy a ring. To enforce this ruling and to keep unscrupulous purchase of rings by people not connected with the Uni versity, it was declared that a signed statement from the registrar's office must be preseiated befui rings can be bought from either the canteen or Sylvan's. Early in May last year regulations concerning class rings were suggested to the committcc on student affairs of the board of trustees. The board itself had considered the problem and had referred it to that committee for action. President Mc Kissick then appointed a committee to make recommendations to the board committee. Several students, serv ing with W. Frank Taylor, director of student activities, drew up a series of recommendations submitted to the board committee. At that time -it was recommended that a permanent self-perpetuating committee of students and Mr. Tay lor be provided for. Student Body Meet Discusses Article A special student body meeting was called by petition of a number of stu dents Tuesday at 7 :30 p. m. It was not stated, but the purpose of the meeting was to discuss the editorial policy of The Gamecock. Louis Sossamon, president of the student body, called the meeting to or der, read the petition for meeting, and called for discussion. No remarks were made by some ninety students gathered, so President Sossamon ex pressed his feeling that the matter of policy should be left to the editor and that all students disagreeing should write letters. Bill Hunley spoke briefly, request ing that the editor write as factually as possible in order to give a true pic ture of all situations. Freshman Misses B Sleeps Too Long An While railway detectives last week sought all over for a lanky college boy accompanied by a good looking blonde, Freshman Dave Freeman of Pickens slept peaceful ly through Georgia, South Caro lina and North Carolina. If there was a blonde beside him, Fresh man Freeman said he didn't know It. With classes excused, Freeman set out happily last Wednesday for Atlanta where he represented three states in the Southern Regional Future Farmers of America orator ical contest. After copping second place in the contest over boys from all over the South, Future Farmer Freeman boarded a train for Liberty, (B. C.), aid to be the nearest plae a train ageE Leaves For Army | Ralph S. Beckham Carolina Students To Be Fair Guests Association Will Honor Student Athletic Cards P. V. Moore, secretary of the State Agricultural and Mechanical Fair As sociation informed President McKis sick that all Carolina wnt; weril again invited to the state fair this year on the day of the Clemson game. As in the past the student athletic ticket with a federal tax of five cents will be the price oi admission. Mr. Moore expressed to President McKissick his pleasure in having the student body as guests at the state fair. He said that their visit on Thursday has always been one of the highlights of Fair Weelck. Mr. Moore's letter said: "Dear Dr. McKissick: As you know it is almost Fair Time and one of the hi-lights is having you and your boys and girls with us on Big Thursday. It therefore gives us great'pleasure to again extend to you and your big family the same invita tion to be our guests. It has been customary for the Ath letic Book to be their card of ad mission, this will again prevail this year. The Federal Tax of Sc will have to be paid by each student and these tickets can be purchased at any of our entrances. Looking forward to having you and all your boys and girls with us, we beg to remain Yours very truly, P. V. Moore, Honor Graduate Inducted Into Army Ralph S. Beckham, 1941 summa cum laude graduate of the University, left his position as instructor of Spanish here for the army Wednes day, October 7. Beckham, who is from Winnsboro, received his degree in languages last spring. Besides being a Phi Beta Kappa graduate, he belonged to ODK and KSK honorary fraternities. Dur ing the past summer he studied Span ish in Mexico and was instructor in the subject here this semester. londe, Not Train; d Sees Two States goes to Pickens, where he hoped to spend the week-end with his folks. Awaking at S a. m. Saturday, Freeman looked out to see what was immistakably the red hills of North Carolina. The sleepy con ductors assured him that his as sumption was right and that the train was approaching Gastonla. In the meantime, the freshman's folks had met the train, saw no Dave and called the railway de tective offices. One helpful pas senger told of seeing the described person with the blonde and rumors ran rampant in Pickens county.. Milth nine cents in his pockets, Freshman Freeman hitchhiked home, travelling the last mile to Glassy Mountain by whea rive Youth Conclave Will Not Meet October 10- 11 Postponement Is Due To Transportation Problem And Closing Of Schools The second annual conference on "Youth Leadership and our Democ racy", originally scheduled to be held on the University campus October 10 and 11, has been postponed indefinite ly. According to Mrs. Louise Bailey Wykes, chairman of conference ar rangements committee, the postpone ment is due to the fact that the trans portation problem is acute at this time and also that a large number of the schools throughout the state are clos ing down at this time to aid in har vesting the crops for farmers. "It is possible that the conference may be held later in the school year, probably at the time it was held last year," Mrs. Wykes said. A complete program had been arranged for the conference, and it was only because of the fact that schools were unable to send representatives at this time that the conference was called off." The chief speaker for the confer- t ence was to have been Dr. Ambrose .. Suhic, founder ut the Eastern States Association of Professional Schools for Teachers and first editor of the "Teacher-Education Journal" Other speakers scheduled to speak were: Dr. Harry H. Clark of the I University Extension Division; D. t Leon McCormac, principal of Dreher high school, Columbia; and Rev. Ed gar D. Ziegler, of St. Paul's Lutheran church, Columbia. USC Men Serve As Army 'Guinea Pigs' C University Helps To I Perfect Mental Exams Six hundred University men stu- t< dents aided the United States Army F air corps by serving as "guinea pigs" e for a new type of qualifying examina- c tion to be used by the Air Corps this t morning. s The students were asked to render g this service so that the air corps di- f vision of the War Department might d discover the general reaction of a s :ypical cross-section of American boys t to new forms of air corps qualifying t examinations which are now being S made ready for use. Officials explained that taking thej examination will not in any way ob - ligate any student to become an air cadet. He will never know his score on the examination, because all pa pers will be sent immediately to Washington for scoring and the Uni versity will never receive individual ~ score listings. C Like all modern, scientifically con- s structed tests, the air corps examina tions range from easy to difficult ma- a terial so that everyone is able to an ;wer some of the questions and no g :e is able to make a perfect score.C The maximum time allowed is to be y three hours, but many students will probably finish in less time. Volunteers to stand these tests - were signed up during class periods I mn Wednesday and Thursda. Women were asked not to volunteer because 4 the nature of the test content is more iuitable for men than for women, and men's scores are the data needed. Ed Parler Elected Blue Key President ~ Ed Parler of Cheraw was elected a president of the Blue Key, campus ionorary fraternity, in elections held ; ast week Other officers are: Louis c Sossamon, vice-president ; Van Earl t Pillingim, secretary-treasurer. c President Parler said that the Blue ? Key student directory will be pub- 1 lished in about three weeks. Officers of Blue Key last year were: Jimmy Simpson, president; c l-a'rry M. Lof ton, vice-president; I Raymond P. Kramer, secretary-treas- c Begli Announces Drive .~X.a John A. Chose, Jr. iigns For Clemson jome Go Up Mon. Booster Club To Award Prize For Best Banner All tenements, sororities, fraterni ics, and the girls in Wade Hampton ollege are urged by booster clubbers o make and hang out their signs for he Clemson game the Monday fol owing the game with West Virginia. A meeting has already been held y the club to make plans in prepara ion for the game. The committee chairmen announce hat the Boosters hope there will be . large crowd out for the pep parade o be held the night of the Carolina lemson game to which everyone is irged to come. The five dollar prize for the Ten essee game sign was awarded in hapel to tenement 20. A similar rize will be offered for the best sign f the Clemson game. This year the Booster Club is at -mpting to keep the financing of their rogran inside the University, how ver, the Columbia Merchants' Asso iation' has already contributed $10.00 : the fund. The club will contact all arorities, fraternities and campus or anizations for contributions. Three raternities have helped out in this to ate. Students are urged to put all pare pennies, nickels, dimes, or any 'ing larger in the boxes located in be University canteen and the one at ims Hall. 3. G. Grubb Joins JSC English Staff The English Department of the Jniversity announced today the ad ition of Professor Gerald Giles 'rubb to the English dlepartment taff. Professor Grubb is well known as n authority on Charles Dickens, specially Dickens as an editor. Be re coming to Carolina, Professor rubb taught at Campbell ~College. le also has taught at the University f North Carolina, the University of Llabama, and Wake Forest. Senator Berry Is G Slariosophic Societ The Clarlosophic Literary society oeld an open meeting Tuesday Ight, inviting members of the Cuphradian society and faculty trembers of the University to the larlosophic hall to hear guest ,. or Senator Joe E. Berry. Senator Berry discussed the as ects of the war and told the part ollege students could play during he national emergency. It Is his onviction that the people are ready or all necessary measures toward vinning of the war, but that Con ress Is not up to the people. He encouraged politics on the ampus as a means of training uture legislators and urged every ans to exercise his right to vote for a sa doing he Is not onl. helpng is Mc Girls Donate Hairpin Add Razor Blades An AKG And KSK Push Drivc Dean Chose States Car< The University of South Carolina w drive next week in cooperation with th progress. Students, administrators, facu The intensive campaign will be in efl day of next week. Every building on t1 from attic to cellar. USC Gals And Guys Wait Patiently On d a KSK Campus Dates s! Plans Are Being Made S For Skating And Free Weekend Campus Dances C ei While guys and gals waited patient ly, and gas and tires ran lower this ) week plans went forward to provide y night recreation facilities for students to fill in tMe existing gaps until new r student union space could be found. War means that more students , than ever in need of inexpensive p recreation, particularly for dating at , night, that is within easy walkinr dis- i tance of dormitories. Committees f from Kappa Sigma Kappa, service t group that has tackled the problem, aamuunced emoryo plans ior student' recreation at the meeting last night. n One committee reported that there is no University ruling against the use of the campus for dating at night until eleven o'clock, but that a feasi ble plan must be presented for the use of campus areas before it can be allowed. KSK committees stressed the importance of a plan whereby stu- a a dents would cooperate to use the campus area in a dignified and proper manner, since the first violation of It good taste would cause all students to lose the privilege. Cold weather's approach brought into the limelight plans to provide a free informal dance every Friday and Saturday night in the gym, a juke box a furnishing the music. Plans were also made by a separate committee to buy skates to be rented or lent to students to use on a roped off area on both sides of the gym at night. Permission from the city for the use of the streets there would have to be obtained. Plan For Finance Drives Discussed a c A community chest on the campus r1 for all financial drives was discussed c at a meeting of the stulent-faculty a relations committee Saturaay. Ex cepted from the groups to come under b the movement were the YMCA, t YWCA, and the Alpha Kappa Gain- a ma scholarship fund. Dr. T. W. Herbert, chairman of the I centralization committee, is in charge c of this plan. The high school committee, underg the leadership of Miss Elizabeth t Odell, has made plans to coordinate b all high school deputations and pro grams so that duplications will not h occur. Bill Jones, head of the stu dent activities group, reported on re vision of the constitution. uest Speaker At y Open Meeting himself, but his country as well. Calling attention to the shortage a of radio technicians and mechanics, a Senator Berry advised students to ( provide themselves with some tech- I nical or scientific training before be ing called to the armed forces. 3 With a view to the future, he ex- t pects registration of labor and low- I ering of the draft age as soon as / the November elections are over. In closing Senator Berry empha- f sized the -fact that it Is up to the I young men of America to fight the I war and run the country after the r war is over. At a meeting last week Lloyd j Haselden was elected tresrer to succeed Leonard T1urnbulL. BlU I Ward was elected to succeed Lester , Plncher as criti of the Clans. )nday s While Males d Shaving Tubes b; Janitors, Profs Help; lino's Spirit For Task ill launch an extensive scrap metal e national campaign that is now in Ity and all employees will take part. ect Monday, Tuesday and Wednes ie campus will be carefully searched The faculty-student committee in harge of Carolina's salvage drive is :mposed of John A. Chase, Jr., ean of administration, who will serve s chairman; Ottis F. Kelly, acting tarshal; W. Frank Taylor, Jr., as istant business manager; Frank loan, Kappa Sigma Kappa president; larriet Williamson, Alpha Kappa ;amma president; and Bob Quinn, ditor of The Gamecock. All salvage will be taken to the farshal's office, where the scrap pile rill be located. Alpha Kappa Gamma will make a iom to room canvass of Sims and Vade Hampton dormitories. Broken anity cases, tooth paste tubes, bobby ins and any other useless articles tith some metal value will be col filtdt minis Un caci oor will be in charge of the collec ons. KanCa Sizma Kappa will carry nn similar procedure in all men's dor iitories. Probably no bobby pins till be found here but razor blades, ld razors and shaving tubes will sup anlentL. One man will be in charge f each tenement and several will over each of the large dormitories. A KSK committee will also make canvass of the homes of professors rho live on the campus. Janitors and ground crews will go ito every attic and basement of all uildings on the campus in search of crap metal. They will cover the Tniversity grounds, fron Maxcy ;regg park to the War Memorial, rom the field house to the ROTC rmory. Faculty members will inventory (CONTINUED ON PAGE 6) (M - YW Finance )rive Stops Today [f Goal Is Reached The joint campaign of the YM and 'WCA to increase its membership nd raise funds for this year's work ,ill close officially today at one 'clock when workers in the drive ieet in Flinn Hall to check-up and ciebrate with a victory luncheon the ttaining of the total goal of $1,850. If this sum is not reached through oth pledges and contributions by this me, the drive will continue until the mount is reached, according to ooper McEachern and Leone Strick md, who are co-chairmen of the impaign. At the first check-up luncheon held n Wednesday, $475.00 out of its oal of $1,250.00 had been attained by le Y MCA and $197.00 out of $600.00 the YW. The workers having turned in the Lrgest pledge at this time were: Paul lims and Turner Watson who are perating in Tenanment 21, with a re rt of $39.50. Buddy Black, head of ie workers on the second floor of reston was second with $37.00. Of the boys working among the ty students, Burt Orr had turned in ec largest pledge of $13.00. The sixty-four men who were sked to help with the campaign are s follows: Bill Nicholson, Dewey entry, Gene Wagnon, Donald Law, avid Brockington, Buck Young, LIva Coggeshall, Jimmie Hill, Frank loan, Francis Marion, John Hol m,d, John McGowan, Thurman >uncan, Julian Inabinett, and Steve Litman. Also, Roger Kirk, Manor Hardeb, till Hunley, Owen Killingsworth, rampton ,Toole, Ed Betslll, Paul ridges, Waring Howe, J. C. LAW-. ence, Frank Askins, David Beck eorge, Gordan McLaurin, Jack S latch, Paul Mims, Mack Rudisill, tussell Green, Don Merdeck, Joka ' looper, Bob Recee and NordsV $-' urky (CONTEU 00.$