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Scribe Presents W s Conens Ridiculi Short stop Squau-ks at Put Accuses Fashion Experts By JUNE I)EAUMEII Now let's get this straight, fel lows, I am not standing In a hole and I won't get off my 1- nees--I am not on them. Ak.., I am glad to .'eport. e:'- weal her is fine down here, you great big people you. And as for you over there, the next time you ask me when I am going to grow up, it is just possible that I may become violent. Simply because a couple of genes --or were they chromosomes?--de. cided thnt I was to he five feet tall-all right, all right! five feet short-a lot of stray acquaintances seem to think that's their cue for a funny remark. For one reason or another, people assume that there is something just a bit hum orous about being short. Nothing serious, mind you, just one of those oddities in nature which you greet with a bright cliche and then for get. I haven't decided which is worse, the funny crack or being forgotten. Now you tall girls Way Up There (lHow's that for a quick one?) and you, shall we say, In betweens? . . . just average . . . what have you to complain about? No one mentions your condition ... they're either afraid of hurting your feelings or you're perfectly r normal. But they don't forget you, either. Pick up any magazine--any old magazine--and see how much attention you get. Clothes for my statelv sister and Mir;s Average Ameerican. As a mat - I er of faet, all clot hes seem to be for the lun=g and lanky. Oh. sure, once a year the fashion experts climb off their ladders to scribble off pages of hints for the Little Woman. Their idea of the little woman, incidentally, hovers around five-feet-four, which by me is the Statue of I.ibertv. As fot Iltese fashion hints. Theey'reI 4 the same every yeiar, and I ean rci them off by hea t. Wear small hats, small bags, small prints. Do not wea- two colors at once, bushy furs or belts that out you in the middle---whatever kind of a belt that may be. Dull, Isn't it? But that's not the worst. Having keyed your hopes to fever pitch with these exciting style notes, they proceed to forget you ever existed. For the next eleven months they extol the pictire hat, which makes me look like a mushroom, and the kind of fur coat I wouldn't dare wear during hunting season. Just for an example, take this piece of sage advice. from a certain maga zine for smart young women: "The minute you hit the count ry, pour your long, lean legs into trousers -- they're young, they're smart, t hey're you." Oh they are, are they :' Men are a problem. Can anyone think of a problem she'd rath""r cope with? Now we are getting on r CAROLINA ENGRAVING CCQ e%fIsts&J*%do4wtpv *The right slant on refreshment TENNIS EQUIPMENT '* Serving Columbia S~ SPECIAL DISCOUb * 1231 Hampton Street >rm's Eye View rig of 5-Footer aster's Scorn; ruf Oversigh t the subject. And we really ought to stick around, something might crop up. But the small girl certainly doesn't have anything to complain about on this score, you say. She has an unliniited size range of men nt 'her disposal. Yes, 1 suppose she has. But did you ever try danc ing with a partner who is more than a foot taller than you? You must sometimes-I've met some aw rully interesting uniform and oth erwise chest buttons that way-and hey are hard#on the cheek too. Most of these lengthy heroes, however, have sense enough to size up the situation first. Like that hit >f sweetness and light I met up with recently. "I'd love to ask you 0 dance," he said, "but I'm afraid I'm too tall." As for the short man--now don't ,et me wrong-really I have noth ng against a man just because he's ;hort. Some of my best friends are hort men. And there's no one who nows more short men than I do. . . leaven only knows I ought o, the way my dearest friends sick hem onto me. For year3 I was the 3lind Date Queen in college until awoke to the grini realization hat it wasn't my dazzling charms hat made me a good date. Just hat everyone's frat ernity brother >rt- cousin from Schenectady hap >ened to be five-feet-two with eyes if blue. Now that in anyone's lan uaunge is enough, and when I found UNyself lelping one of these dainty liors'ls in and out of cabs, uil and lown curls, I just called the whole hing off. I suppose when I once start col ecting the debris of my life. I shall liscovet' that I am one mass of mall frust rat ions. Wqrst of these viii be the problem of ltighteous n1ignit aionl or the Cold Stare. >ta '"' ye "v cf up t u my full five for somee St ra t r eason, int olves holding my breath. You -now how long that sort of thing 'an last. As for staring down a foe >' even levelling him with a glance, hat's all right if there happens to >e a handy chair for me to leap apon. The general result is that I "nd up by looking up at the vic im, my hazel eyes overflowing with elpiess appeal. No, I will never >e the domineering type. Althouglh I am slow% ly becoming esigned to the fact that I can miver he b 1aguid, lissome or wil owy, I am still working on another ingle. My life's ambition is to he lble to unwind my long limbs with iger-like grace as I arise from a lenp chair. I tried it in public once. dly handsome escort (he's the soul If ihivalry. really asked if I were uffering from a lie. Which reminds ne, 1 must speak to those furniture nnufacturels ah:mt the way they usild their chai rs so faar from the Eat SHACK'S Made In Columbia1 S* FRESH DAILYj CAROLINA'S MOST PC BIHARI'S RI 1229 Hampton Street CENTRAL DRUG CO. * 51 97-PHONES-51 98 1204 Main Street ECONOMY DRUG STORE CUT RATE DRUGS SODAS AND LUNCHEONETTE Five Points * Phone 81 19 Motorcycle Delivery hadler, Jn c. SWIMMING SHORTS ortsmen for Years T TO SCHOOLS Columbia, S. C. Pie a Boi Bill Ilunthinson, one of the tare Tuesday, receive% the lemon cne Broo ksle Marshall. Others receivi lior on, Brooksle Mars;hall, Ann I) -Jo Allee McMillan and Betty 3cC War Bonds and Stamps were sold ground. Nothing looks so Inept as a couple of old legs hanging in space. It's not so bad. Iough. this be ing short. There are quite a few advant:t;,'" to the whole business, and if you give meI# a minute I'll try' to Ilunl of one. ''al." Ihe helpless angle. for' instant"t". I am willing to wager that there is no one quite so helple,ss as 1 am. It's gotten so that an unexpurgated copy of Gut liver is simply too much to bear, and as ii luggage, well, 1 haven't carried anything heavier than my own purse for years. I din get something of a shock the oWhet day when I met up with a closed door. No one was around and I found, quite to my dismay, that I wa., per fectly able to open it myself. That won't happc n again. Tennis is my favorite sport but do you think anyone believes I am capahie of lighting a racquet? or if he does, he is sure I won't SAVE YOUR OLD SHOES ROBERTS SHC "WE CAN HELP YOU 1319 SUMTER STREET PULAR RESTAURANT ESTAU RANT JEROME BIHARI, Carolina, '32 China Sterling Silver Watches SYLVAN BROS. JEWELERS & DIAMOND MERCHANTS G'enulne Merchandise Onl.v. No Plate. No ImItations. Cor. Main & Hampton, Columbia. S. C. CUT RATE [ 1530 Mai CUT FLOWERS SLIGH'S I PHONE 7761 id Today ets for the pie throwing rally last ilon In the face at the hands of ng a pie a Ia face were Willie P. arby Tison, Roy Bass, .John Reese, reight. More than $4,200 worth of at the rally. last out more than one game. I really astonish them when I wear, the strongest down to a mere drootiy looking indliviunal while I ani sw'king another comer. Let me te11 you one thin:. vitality isn't an item d'diceted to the modern five eight miss. I have n. share at the low average of five feet. But watch me really shine when I put on those pumps with the three inch heels and look like a new person. Wrong again, no one ever sees the differ ence, because when I dress up, they are wearing high heels, too. There ought to he a law against it. All in all, being short is really something I wouldn't forego for the world. When you get right down to it, I wouldn't be the least bit in terested In changing place's with you, even if you are five-feet-five and a perfect size 12. Not much, I wouldn't. PHONE 2.5462 )E REPAIRING W ALK IN COMFORT" COLUMBIA, S. C. BETTER LIGHT BETTER SIGHT * South Carolina Elec tric & Gas Co. RUG STORE n Street CORSAGES KLO WERS 1433 MAIN STREET Wife of Professor I)ies After illness Mrs. Hugh It. Murchison died Mounda, May 7 at her residence at 1800 Green St. She had been ill ber erul months. Mrs. Murchison wus Ihe wife of the Rev. Hugh R. Mur rhisun, 1)1., who is chaplain and professor of Hiile at th I 'n ives tity of South (arolimn and p>astot of th Richlauid Ptiesbyterian church at E'astovr. 'The funetral was held fiom the First Presbyt er Ian church Tuesday afternoon and the body was intet red in the churchyard. Services were conducted by the Rev. .Janes W. .lackson. Act iv pallbearers were R. H D'n.. ningham. jr.. W. Frank 'Taylor. Jr., W. G. Edwards. L. Ma'on Evans. Emmett L. Wingfield. and F. H. Wardlaw. Honorary pallbearers wet e Dr. Hugh Wyman, Dr. J. Iieyward Gibbes, Christie Benet, Henry Fair. Jeff Bates, T. Smythe Flynn, and R. C. McCreight. Also members of the faculty of the University of South Carolina. members of the 'olumhia Ministers' Association. eld ers and deacons of the First Pres byterian church, elders and deacons af Richland Preshyterian church at Eastover, and members of Conga ree Presbytery. Mrs. Murchison was the former Miss Lucia Landrum, daughter of Lewis DeaKib Landrum and Eliz abet h (Bell) Landrum. She was born in E:dgetield county and had lived in C'olurmlia for the past twenty-five years. She was am em her of the 'irst Ptreste i e" an churhit and active in itle work of file church. Mrs. Murchison is sur vived by her husband: three daughters, Miss I.ucia Murchison of Columbia. Mrs. Rives T. Jenkins of ('hat leston. and Mrs. R. I.. Alexander of Miami, Fla.; a son, Major Colin C. Mutei hi son. st:alioned at Fort .lackson: ser\ en grandcbildr en: and a brot he. Dr. 13. F. Landrum of Florence. Profesaor A. C. W ilgur Is Visiting on Campus A. Curtis Wilgur, former profes sor of history at the University is visiting on the campus at present under the auspices of the Extension Division. Professor Wilgur is pro fessor of history at George Wash ington University and is also con nected with the Division of Educa tion for Teacher Training and Aids VICTO They're gi~ back them up A S THE battle lines apprc the heart of the enen~ homeland, the fighting gri fiercer... and more costly in n materiel and money. That's reason why every red - bloo American must back this mig 7th War Loan with every do he can lay hands on. Another1 son is that this is really two dri in one. In the same period BUYNOW! BU Hal Willie P. ti~:t Above is W. P. Horton, retiring week turns over his chair and student hdy prex. who this gavel to George Helow. USC Alunna Studies For Red Cross Positioi Miss Sara Itector. a graduate of the Univirsit,y and daughter of MIr. and Mrs. V. E. Rector of 420S Went worth drive, is now taking a train ing course in Washington. ). C.. prior to an overseas assignment as a staff assistant with the American Red Cross. Sara was on the Dean's honor list. while at the University and won many campus honors. She was pres ident, vice-president, secretary and treasui er. of the YWCA at differ ent 1inies. was secretary of the dra - matic club, manager of the ..Iee club, and a member of Alpha Kap pa Gamna. She was also: a membei of the Sigma 1Lt'a Pi. I.;uphrosy nean litetaiy suciet., d"-ba'ing council, Quintilian club, and the Woman's athletic tssociat ion. of the Office of Inter-American Af fair . 1 : int ii .I. in S.,u+h ('a; Il:na Ptofessor '. : w: : cc. pe: W. with \I;. IlawV:;ms cif th. I f .sin Div%i si in his \w.k on Jn r; Americar Affai:s. Its iternary in c"udes addres-es at BePon. Bat"s. burg and Lancaster, where he will speak on this subject. MARSHA KNOWN FOR QUAI 1535 Main Street (IS E E ring their allh.. with iYOUR dollars! ach year, you were asked to inv est in ty's t wo war loans, as against one this wu time. ien, No need to tell you that War one Bonds are the safest and best in. :led vestment in the world. So pour hty out your might, Americans, in liar the MIGHTY 7th War Loan. Let's en- show our valiant Fighting Men ves that we're backing them to the last limit of our means .., 100%4. YMORE! MORI !tiwan~ 1441 MAIN ST. rage aeven 1Ier rin Is New Blue Key Prexv Noble- Will 11e .lJlih . lt i in, isitg sc-nfior and (lmmer t -e mtujor f:0nm Lockhart, wa- "lected presid."nt of the Uni vet stts chapct r of Blue Ky national leadetship ftatertity at the gioup's last neting \'edncsday night. lie will serI\ e during the summer timne.skel. Other officet s Ib f 'ed were Bnb Noble, vi' ptesident; Bennette Let I, sr('t c"'ar y - treasurer; and George 'Tedow, corresponding sec retary. Retiring officers are Bill Ward, ptresdident ; Jimmy Ratcliffe, vice resident: Johnny Herrin, secretary teastrer; and Walter lamm, cor responding secretary. The fraternity plans to investigate the possibility of starting an endow ment fund during the summer and a committee has already been ap pointed to effect the investigation. Tapped this semester for member ship into Blue Key were Walter liamm (;eorgr Helow, John Herrin, Bennette Lot!, Tut Lown, Ralph Ryher:. Stan Tui nor, and Dr. J. A. Stoddar d of the school of education. The national honorary service fra ternity each year publishes a direc tory of students attending the I'ni versity as a convenience to the stu dent body and faculty. During this past semester, Blue Key has sponsored the Blue Key swim meet. All proceeds went to the McKissick Memorial Scholar. ship Fund. Blue Key will tap adidtional mem. bers outstanding in campus act ivi t ies and se!b b. ir ifo e thc" end of the preseti settsta:, Zbug1 Stiore Corner Main and College ONLY ONE BLOCK FROM THE CAMPUS LL'S, Inc. TY MEN'S WEAR Columbia, S. C. CHEAP THE E MORE!