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Organization Lq Next Semester Election season is here and or ganizations on the campus aind those off- the campus composed of Carolina students have chosen new leaders for the coming term. Hypatlan Literary Society The Hypatian literary society elected as president, Lillian Per kins, vice-presid,ent, Anita Stone, treasurer, Edith Goldman, and sec retary, Juanita Starr. Watley Foundation The Wesley Foundation, Metho dist Sunday school for college stu. dents at Carolina and Columbia College chose as its officers- the following: president, Marie Blood worth, junior from Carolina, vice presidents. Martha Allan from Co lumbia College and Beryl Kerns from the University, and treasurer, J. B. Heatherly from the Univer sity. Baptist Student Union Baptist Student Union members have as their new officers Lillian 'Perkins, secretary and treasurer, Bill Tidwell, social vice-president; William Moore, devotional vice president; Blaine Grubb, music chairman; publicity director, Lou ECONOMY DRUG STORE CUT RATE DRUGS SODAS AND LUNCHEONETTE Five Points * Phone 8119 Motorcycle Delivery ,s AVu bot only,does a finer, fi shave, than the average double-edge razor, u-FOR S1.AN 1530 MAlt TI )aders For Announced ise Gaftin, and president Gayden Dukes. Lutheran Student Association New leaders of the Lutheran Student Association are: president, Betty Roof, and secretary-treasurer, Juanita Starr. Euphradian Literary Society At the meeting of the Euphradian Literary Society Tuesday, May it, the following new officers were elected: president, Thurman Dun can; vice-president, Arthur Wilder; secretary, George Faile; treasurer, Ramon Schwartz, Jr., financial sec retary, Samuel Metcalf; custos forum, Arthur Wilder; board of publications, Jim Galloway, David Freeman; reporter, Ernest Cook, and member of student council, Morris Mazursky. ODK New Officers Omicron Delta Kappa, honorary fraternity which recently tapped new members, elected the follow ing leaders: presid.ent. James Guest; vice-president, Charlie Knowlton; and secretary-treasurer, Calvirt Mc Laughlin. Clario Officers Tom Ingram, law student, was elected president of the Clari osophic Literary Society at its meeting Tuesday. Other officers are J. C. Williams, vice-president; James McCallum, secretary; Joe Newell, treasurer; Alfred Gram bling, critic; J. C. Williams and Emanuel Gitlin, debating council; Tom Ingram, student council; James McCallum, reporter; J. B. Clements and Joe Lumpkin, board of publications; Mitch Johnson and Epting Merchant, monitors. Mt TB&at face of yours has last for yousr duration.' etter save, It with the entle,'elean, barber. pert care Personna can ve.'4This hollow-ground ade'(iike your barber's) ister job-it gives me blade. Fits any standard E WORTHJT PBAREI*WIL DNDITIONED STREET Printing Binding Engraving Lithograph ing ~e State Co. Printing Dept. PHONE 2-3393 Burns And Byron Si For Carolina Belov By William Thomas Ward. The days are many and the years are long; much water has passed under the bridge since the Univer sity came into being. History has been made since that day in early August when a young English pro fessor lay in bed at his summer cottage in Saluda, N. C., and pon dered over a tune and words for .the University of South Carolina alma mater song. During the preceding year there had been much discussion about the need of an alma mater song. rhe desire for just such a song had stimulated*the interest to such a point that the professors had held a little contest among themselves to see which one could write the best melody or lyric. The students had been rol.licking songs about the different phases of college life, but no serious song had yet been writ. tep which could be sung by the student body at home-comings,, football games, and various other occasions. August 11, 1911, Dr. George Armstrong Wauchope awakened early in the morning. He lay for a while looking at the range of moun tains which were visible through the windows of his sleeping porch. Wauchope Dreams. Over and over he asked himself, "What is the tune?. What melody would last throughout the years? What lyric could I choose that would be the toast of Carolina throughout all time to come?" He thought of the University and everything which was to be taken into consideration. The University, itself, was a poor institution which was making a desperate effort to get more students; to throw off the inhibitions and difficulties of a small college. The institution was dreaming of becoming a great Uni upon it by various people and or versity in spite of the attacks made The Leadership Seminar, a con vention of college Y leaders, will be in session at Berea College, Ken tucky, this spring from June tenth to the fifteenth according to co chairman of the. conference, Sarah Flinn of the University. The IereA Conference is for the purpose of strengthening key fac ulty and student leaders in their duties on the college campuses in 194. Miss Flinn said and is held partially as a substitute for the THEY THEYlbE TRI THEIR PLEI AMERICA'S 1S0A MEN AND WOMEN OF ore serving humanity whereyer the need may give their best with our i ore doing double dutyc M E ETT ER8 Copyright'1945, L.rom & MYns$ yOSAeeO gO. * RECORD Columbia's Most Comph4 DIXIE RADIC U-NO-WE 9712 Main Stree iggest Tune d Alma Mater usual Y retreat at Blue Ridge, North Carolina which is not being held this season. Speakers at the Conference, which will be inter-racial, will be Mr. Gordon Mahy, Dr. B. E. Mays, Miss Fern Babcock, Mr. E. E. Bar nett and Dr. J. L. Zwingle. Student Chairman in addition to Sarah Flinn will be E. T. Jones of Virginia Union University at Rich mond. ganizations throughout the state. With all these things in mind, Doctor Wauchope was prone to hurry into the task ef choosing a melody or writing a lyric. Thinks of Melody. Finally, as he lay looking at the range of mountains. the melody came to him. His eyes roamed from peak to peak. "How much they look like the hills of Scotland," he mused. Immediately his thoughts turned to Burns, his favorite poet. Then he thought of Burns' old song--"Flow Gentb, Sweet Afton." Upon humming it through several times, Doctor Wauchope discov ered that each stanza contained eight lines. He wanted only four, but upon dropping the last four lines he found that he had exactly the tune he desired. Words Came Next. The words were the next thing to be considered. The key was sug gested to his mind by Lord Byron's poem, "Farewell to Tom Moore." In the song there was a verse which contained the hne-"Here's a health to thee." "That's what it will be," thought Doctor Wauchope. "a drinking song, a toast. a health to Carolina." On the morning of August 11. 1911. Doctor Wauchope introduced his newly composed song to his family. There in a little summer cottage in the mountains the author and his family .Joined in and sang for the first time the song which was later to become the toast, the health, the song which all Carolina men and women sing to their school. First Verse Happy. The first verse expresses the happy memories of college days of the old hoys when they were fresh men and sophomores. It expresses their loyalty to their spiritual and intellectual mother. RE. JE TO I >GE WEDICINE faithfully be. They |R4% 2 roops and ',M , K9 it hom. ite Record Department ) COMPANY NO-RADIO Phone 22103-04 We hail thee, Carolina, and sing thy high praise With loyal devotion, remembering the days When proudly we sought thee, thy children to be: Here's a health, Carolina, forever to theel The second stanza is a continua. tion of the first two years and shows the deepening sense of loyalty. Since pilgrims of learning, we en tered thy walls, And found dearest comrades in thy classic halls, We've honored and loved thee as sons faithfully: Here's a health, Carolina, forever to thee! The third verse embodies the sentiment which the graduates have for their school. Generations of sons have rejoiced to proclaim Thy watchword of service, thy beauty, and fame: For ages to come shall their rally ing cry be: Here's a health, Carolina, forever to thee! The fourth verse is altogether different from the others. It pre dicts the future. It is a prophecy day in the future it will be one of the great universities of the nation. Fair shrine of high honor and truth, thy shall still Blaze forth as a beacon, thy mis sion fulfill And be crowned by all hearts in a new jubilee: Here's a health, Carolina, forever to thee! that Carolina will grow and become a great state university, that some Many other songs have been written. Dr. Frank Bradley wrote one to the tune of "Watch on the Rhine"; Dr. Yates Snowden, late professor of history at the Univer sity, wrote one with words to the beautiful Neopolitan love song, "Santa Lucia"; Dr. Reed Smith wrote the music as well as the words of "Carolina's Dav." Here's health, Carolina, forever to thee! William P. Masters, '37C. of An derson, was recently commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Air Forces at Turner Field, Albany, Ga. STRU We Carry e Complete Stock of SHAEFFER'S - PARKER'S WATERMAN'S 0 FOUNTAIN PENS As * good cheas per for $; Leather brief eases $2.50 to $; Leather note books 65c to 3. The R. L. Bryan Coampan AUII ededed M.. i The eesm.e.. "Thanks For The N From Military And (Continued Ft VASTLY STRENGTHENS THE MORALE Robert Sibley, formerly president of the McGra.w-Hill Co. of Cali fornia, editor of the Journal of Electricity, a delegate to the World Power Conference in London in 1924 and in Berlin in 1930, for the past ten years executive manager of the University of California Alumni Association, now president of the American Alumni Council: "I have been very much interested in reading the issue of The Game. cock for February 19, 1943. It is alive, interesting, inspirational and shows careful editing. I can pic ture the alumni of the University of South Carolina distributed on the many fronts throughout the world receiving this message, depicting happy scenes of long ago, being vastly strengthened in morale. "Congratulations a million on this fine service you are exemplify ing in the alumni field." GAS SHORTAGE ENHANCES VALUE Robert Moore Crooks, '37P, man ager of a drug store at Clinton: "I am getting The Gamecock reg ularly every Saturday and really enjoy it. That is the only way that I can keep posted on what is go. ing on there (at the University), with the gas shortage. etc. to keep me away . . . " IT TAKES HIM BACK TO COLLEGE DAYS S/Sgt. William Lester Webb, Jr., '37A, on duty in Africa: "Just a line to let you know that I am re ceiving The Gamecock regularly and that each issue takes me back to my old college days at USC. "It makes me feel mighty good to pick up the school paper and see where my old friends are, and to know of the splendid work they are doing, as Capt. Ralph Lee Dearth ('39A), Lieut. Jerry Hughes ('39A, '41L), and hundreds of other Carolina men on the fghting fronts. May God bless them all and see them home safely. "Thanks again for the paper, and I'll be seeing you again in The Gamecock." E TOI PLEE Giving you~ The steaily a Chesternields is make good their ; things that eount Smokers kn< on Chesterfield' of the world's be to give them a TASTE. They're ... THEY SAnIsF Thiu COLUMBIA DAI Sold at ti Z-age Miev= 0 lews, Folks" Comes Civilian Alumni am Page Threel A SPLENDID INNOVATION Benet Polikoff, '21L, originally of Langley, who has Ott a counsellor at law at 11 West 42nd St., New York, N. Y., since 19.38: "'On the Alumni Front' is a splendid innova. tion. I look forward avidly to it each week. Just today I got a thrill out of reading that my old classmate. Dave Robinson ('21L), was in England. I am writing him today. It also makes me proud to read how Carolina has come to the front, as usual, in war activities, and my interest in readng about various activities cn the campus has brought to me the realization that, while you may be many years and many miles removed from the cam. pu,, at heart you are always an undergraduate." LIKE A LIFE LINE Mrs. E. M. Schlaefer, Jr. (Mary Verner), '36A, '43G, who, with her husband. Lieutenant Schlaefer, U. S. A., has been transferred this week from West Palm Beach, Fla., to Rome, N. Y.: "Thanks a mil lion for The Gamecock. It is like a life line to my old home and Carolina." A MORALE-BUILDING JOB Midshipman 1. Bratton Davis, '39A, '40L, whose address changed this week to Johnson Hall. Room $27, USNR Midshipmen's School, New York City: "I always enjoy reading the Alumni News, every Carolina man does. Your office is doing a very fine morale-building job." THE UNIVERSITY THE MOST IMPORTANT INSTITUTION Ensign George Cullen Battle, Jr., USNR, '42A, temporarily at 1065 Fifteenth St., San Diego, Calif.: "Thanks. I think the UniversIty probably the most important insti tution in the State, and the Alumni Associatioh very valuable to the University." Joe Wheeler Drennan, Jr., '49s, is addressed at Flight 826, 55th Training Group, Keesler Field, Ens. Hiram Cecil (Dick) Scott, '41C, is an instructor at the Naval aviation school, Corpus Christi, Texas. 'HEIR GE a MILDER rowing poputarity of Sure sign that they ~ledge to give you the most in a cigarette. )w they can depend Right Combination st cigarette tobaccos MILDER, BETTER true to their pledge ~kof IRIES PRODUCTS ie Canteen