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{ountry More En Sumtvalt Views Lac Serious Post-War F "Of all the war-created shortages, there are probably none more acute or more far-reaching than the de ficiency of trained engineers", Ad miral Norman M. Smith, president of the University of South Caro lina, stated. Admiral Smith Is an engineer and was formerly Chief Civil Engineer * of the Navy and Chief of the Bu reau of Yards and Docks and has had many years experience in the field of engineering. He has built large public works throughout the world. The shortage of engineers has become the chief concern- of Dean R. L. Sumwal. Dean of the School of Engineering who views this problem as "a serious post-war threat to the nation." Out of con-' siderable research on the role of the engineer Un the post-war period, De:f Sumwalt concluded that "from the viewpoint of the young man planning a career, few fields offer such abundant opportunities." "From the point of view of the nation and its needs, the immedI ate training of thousands of engi neers has become a critical prob lem which places in jeopardy the vast program of technological ad vancement which has been pro jected for the post-war period," he said. Other surveys indicate that the training of engineers has become one of the chief tasks of the recon version period. It was pointed out that new production plans and the creation of jobs depend largely on prior work by scientists and engi neers. "In solving this problem, we must look to the returning veter an," the dean said. "He has been rightly called 'our No. 1 resource.'" The Sdhool of Engineering of the University Is now considering the possibility of offering some short cour-ses if there is a sufficient de mand for them. There has been a tendency toward making college, entrance requirements more flex Ible without lowering them. The World continuedt from page 1 xXali to head off a possible hara kii epidemic. Former Japanese premier, Tojo, attempted to kill himself, but American blood injected into his q veins brought his recovery. It is reported that he is disgraced by the failure to die. "SI LI " President Truman called Repuh sican criticism of UT. S. aid to Br'it aan "perfectly silky." The PresIdent also warned that it may become necessary to resume rationing of some foods to fulfill the United State's pledge to do all in its power to keep Europe from going hungry. The U. S. has enough mood now, with the exception of sugar, fails, and oils. MaIcARTHUTR MacArthur, answering crit icism at home, dl"clares thai surrender terms "are not soft, and they will not he applied in kid-glove fash ion." Criticism was aroused when MacArthur' announced that 200.,000 "r egular" men could police Japan. Simultaneously, he announced the complete suppression of the Do. mei News agency. The gigantic automobile industry in Detroit started the week with 80,000 workers out on strike. The Arm.v will restore 13.000 doc tors and 25,000 nurses to civilian life by the end of the y'ear. The Office of Strategic Services has released the story of an un dIer-cov'er army of thousands who diabbed at the Axis behind every battle line. It was virtually an t army of spies. and all were volun teer's. Lt. Sam Epes went on trIal for his life Monday In a case that Is attracting the whole nation's at tention to Columbia. A 29-year old "limited service" soldier r'eceived the Congressional Medal of Hionor for action in the Philippines. COMMERCIAL AND KODAI SARGEANT PHOTOGRAPHi~ 1726% Main Street'* Needs igineers k as a 'roblen Historical Sketch Engineering subjects were taught in the senior year at the Univer sity of South Carolina as early as 1858. The degrees of Civil and Mining Engineering were actually conferred as such In 1862. The, de gree in Electrical Engineering was conferred as early as 1891. In 1908 the Department of Engi neering was set up as a separate and distinct part of the University and was changed to the School of Engineering in 1909. It has remain ed as such up ot the present time, offering now the degrees of B. S. in Civil. Electrical. Mechanical. General and Chemical Engineer ing. In 1941 a permanent Naval R. 0. T. C. Unit was established at the University by the Navy Depart ment. Students in this program take engineering courses. The Uni versity was selected In July 1943 by the Navy to train engineering officers under the V-12 program. General Engineering The course in General Engineer ing contains a comprehensive sur vey of the applications of science to the primary branches of engi neering. It Is designed to give its graduates a basic foundation in engineering. This curricula is designed for na. val trainees and provides for a na Jor in Engineering and Naval Science. Trainees who complete this curricula will receive the do gree of Bachelor of Science In Gen eral Engineering. The course Is similar to the curriculum at the Unitrd States Naval Academy. Na val students also take Chemical. Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering. Chemical Engineering The course in Chemical Engi neering, is so designed as to pre pare capable and competent stu dentq to assume the responsibility of designing, building and operat ing manufacturing processes which are based on chemical engineering principles. The student is given a thorough training in the funda mentals of the ordinary branches of Chemistry; a working knowl edge of electricity and electrons which prepares him for its applica tion to industrial and eleetro chemical processes; basic knowl edge of Civil Engineering to teach him the limitations of practical de sign; and, finally, a thorough train ing in the elements of Chemical .Engineering design calculations covering those topics most often encountered by an engineer in this field, Civil EngIneering Civil Engineering deals chiefly with the design, construction and maintenance of structures. The t erma st ructures includes railways, highways, municipal improvements, bridges, buildings, sewers, river and harbor Improvements, wat er works, canals, irrigation project, dams, flood prevention and many other classes of c~onst ruct ion work. Civil Engineering Is the oldest of the divisions of Engineering and preparation for this branch of the engineering profession lends to broaden the student, with the re sult that many orIginally trained as civil engineers are found in al most every walk of life. Electrical Enugineerinig The curriculum In Elect ricai Engineering provides a thorough training In Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. Upon this scientific foundation is built a sound knowi edge of the general field of Elec Columbia Office Supply Co. PRINTING Commercial Stationery - Office Equipment 1112 LADY STREET PHONE 5163 FINISHING DEPARTMENT S T UDIO S ' AT ITS BEST SPhone 2-1183 These scenes which are ty of South Carolina's engineer Sumwalt and President Smit neering department, confer I on new plans for the depart ducts a class experiment Ir water management lab. P the electrical engineering la boys labor over the switch panels. (Gamecock photos t Students Plan Trip to State Training School Eighteen navy students and seven Iivilians froim the combined psy chology classes of Dr. E. P. llorne and Dr. Josiah Morse are planning a trip to the State Training School in Clinton, September 29. The institution which has been serving South Carolina for a quar ter century will celebrate its anni versary this month. Twenty-five years have brought many changes to the school. They now have twelve brick dormitories. four frame cottages, housing 493 girls and 480 boys, an infirmary, school, and an office building. There are paved roads and lanscaped areas. In general the purpose of the in stitution is to treat and care for children whose potentialities have been thwarted in early life or at birth by an injury to the nervous system, and to care and train indi viduals who cannot maintain eco nomic independence in society. The group has been studying ab normal clinical phychology, so the trip should prove to be both inter esting and educational. trical Engineering. Specializ,at ion into the bianches of power or- -om-' munient ion engineering is made in the junior and senior years. I.ahora tory work is an essential feature of t he charact er- of inst ruct ion arid Is correlated with the class work. Broad training in the engineering profession is given by additional: technical courses in Civil and Me chanical Engineering. Mechanical Engineering The cr-urriculum offers a broad training in the scientific principles underlying mechanical engineering and correlates this with actual practice by applications to the spe cific fieldls of mechanical design. maniufact ure and operations, to get her with the management and economics of industrial conc-erns. These applicatoryv courses follow the foundation subhjects and com prise inst ruct ion dealing wvit h ma chine design, thermo - dynamics. steam and internal combustion en gines, refrIgeration, heating, venti lating and indlustrial power- plants. L.ec-ture and classroom Inst ruct ion Is supplemented hy practical work in the various lahoratories. CENTRAL DRUG CO. * 5197-PHONES-5198 1204 Main Street 9BUSINESS 5 90Main Street COMPLETI INKS - PENCILS - DRAWIN The Gameeook ENGINEERING pical of the University Ing department. Dean h, co-heads of the engi r the president's office ment. Mr. Miller con the civil engineering Ltured Is a scene in b where the double E board and Instrument cy Stan Lewis.) Sociology Dept Now Situated In New Library The Social Work and sociology deafirtments have moved to their new location on the third floor of the McKissick L.ibrary. Miss Wheel er announces. Room 319 will be used as the department office; 316 as Miss Salsberry's office; 317 as Miss Wheeler's office, and 318 as Miss Johison's office. In addition, Room 315 will also be used. During the war the department has had headquarters on the sec ond floor of Wardlaw college, and the move was only made during the last week. Seminars and con ferences will he held at the new localion, &.nd the new offices will house the special library o; recrea tion and leisuie-time books. Miss L.eila Johnson, new acting director of the school of social work and acting head of the sociology department, will arrive here Oclo bet 1 an( he available for confer ence'. She has been serving as Chief of Public As.sistance for the State Department of Welfar'e since November 1. 1942 Schedule of classes for the fall semester has been arranged and they include: Two courses in fresh man sociology, one course of Ap plied Sociology. Criminology. Ru ral Sociology. Organization of So cial Groups. Reginning Case Work. Adv'anced Case Work. Child Wel fare. Medical Information, and F'ield Work. There will not he a class given in marriage. The de partment is trying to get hack to the old sysitem of scheduling cou rses. SAVE YOUR OLD SHOES ROBERTS SHC "WE CAN HELP YOU 1319 SUMTER STREET China Sterling Silver Watches SYLVAN BROS. JEWELERS & DIAMOND MERCHANTS Genuine Merchandise Only. No Plate. No imitations. Cor. Main & Hjampton, Columbia, S. C. PUPPLY CO. Columbia, S. C. LINE OF NOTE BOOKS and G PAPER ENIlENT LOCATIONi DEPARTMENT Navy Announces New Point System S/ Under the new Navy point sy: tern, here are three ways to get the number of p6inis requiied for a dischage. I1 For evvix mllonth of active Service half a point is givenl, k2 IHalf a point is given for each year of age. 13 and for each ionith o%erseas one-fourth of a point is given. For male officers the points re quired are forty-ninp and the wom en officers need thirty-five. The en listed men must have forty-four, while twenty-nine points are re quired by the Waves. It is expected that this point sys tem will eventually affect a good many Navy boys on this campus as well as officers. Don Singletary and Bill Blue. both N.R.O.T.C.. have already left under that provision. Former English Prof. Bass Resigns 'SC Job To Teach at A napolis The resignat ion of Robert Dt. Bass. liextenant commander,, I 'nit ed States Na'y and formier instrxuct or in the t'niver sity English depart ment . has been rece ived by Norman Smith,1 president of the 1'niver sity. Commander Bass had been granted a leave of ahsence from the school for the dxmration. Commander Rass has been in instructing at the Naval Academy at Annapolis for several years. and at tihe request of the staff there will continue to do so in peace time. PHONE 2-5462 E REPAIRING W ALK IN COMFORT" COLUMBIA, S. C. WEBB'S ART STORE PICTURE FRAMES ARTIST MATERIAL * * 1431 Main St. - Phone 2-4940 Always Open TODDLE HOUSE 1419 Gervais KSK Will Start Rat Cap Sale For McKissick Fund F eshmen and upper classmen's calps will soon be put on sale again ).v Kappa Sigma K<arppa, honorary setvice flteinilty. Yi eshmen will be ieitr ed to wear rat caps at all times when (in ihe campus. Profits floi the fulute sale of all caps will be contributed to the McKissick Scholarship Fund. Phil Pfannebecker and Joe Ham mock have been appointed by How ard Halpin. President. to make ban ners for the Boostei's Club which will he displayed during the home foot hall games. Kappa Sigma Kappa has notified all faculty members of the central lost and found department which has been set up in the University post office. and asks that they turn in all articles to this department and reqtest students to do the same. V-12 Trainees con t inued fiom page 1 sequientlv c'ommnissioned as eneigns in the Naval reserve; engineers. aeriology majors and physics majors who complete six or seven terms before Novenmber I will remain in enllege tint il t he.v have completed eip:ht terms. while entginers, physics majors, arology majors, and pre supIply majiors who have completed fis e terms or less by November 1 will he trans fetrred to N ROTC. Pro'.ision also u as madle in t he or der for the disposition of pre medical. pre-dent al. pre-t heological and ot her st udent s nowv ini V-12. Captain Kennedy said that the only i'ive si it y oif Sotth Carolina stu dlents5 affected by the or der are 16 pie-medical stud(ents, who will ter inate V-12 training at the end of he current lt:m undler the terms of! tik dit etive. The right slant on refreshment Page Five Scribe Protests insect Invasion Of U. S. C. Campus Now with V-E Day far beyond the echo stage and V-J Day being entertained within those bounds, Eyes and efforts are turning to an other battle with the same end In mind but, what will be the means? How will "Victory Over The Mos quitoes Day" come about? Will we have to wait 'il "the frost is on the pumkin and the corn IF in the shock" and the season is on our side or, will someone come to our rescue and make use of that new by-produce of Chemical Warfare, known as the flit-gun, and curtail operations of these deadly enemies of those defenseless inhabitants of our protectorate-the tenement ter ritory? The mosquitoes have landed and the situation is well out of hand. Smoking the well fortified enemy from his place of hiding has been tried with adverse results-it's pretty bad to have to leave your haunt due to attempts to chase an unwanted out. But, that is what has happened In several sector along the tenement front. These little (there are definite ex. ceptions to this rule) blood suckers are really far more active than the Red Blood Banks were in the boom. iest of their business. But, for your scribe there is one consolation-if they keep going at their present rate of syphoning, one of these days they will have to be satisfied with plasma a la carte-I'm down to my last quart. Jt isn't so bad to have to tolerate their monotonous droaning-it's the nerve of some mosquitoes that gets you! They go to the screens-well, those unreasonable facsimiles that don the space ieserved for screens --and hold regular gabfests (maybe pipeline picnics. too) with their al lies that have yet to penetrate our weakening defenses and tell them of the riches that lie within. This in turn incieases their determina tion to get in and sample our wares. Hhat can the Tenementarians do? Netting has been used as a means of camouflage but these little-lit. tIle did I say?-well, rascals any. way have caught us in our own net. ting. Larger weapons have been studied and thought of but, the strength of these onslaughts that they have been pounced upon us have taught that these enemies take even the largest weapons and use them to their owners disad vantage. If anyone is willing to ally them selves with the inhabitants of Tene mentarin in an effort to rid the lo cality of these dreaded, menacing enemics. please appear with full forces and arsenals before the elernth hour has dripped into the bottom of the glass. Will we he carried away by the mosquitoes or will we carry the mosquitoes away? Let our battle c*ry be: Spray, spr ay. spray, l'se flit-spray Does in an hour What once took a day. tAil apologies to the raving genuius that coined singing corn mercials say! Come to think of It that guy may know the exact sure cutre. Badger Succeeds continued from page 1 for furtther- training. U'pon c'omple tion of the prescribed course for r-atin gof SM 3c, he was transfer. red to the IUSS Fier ce, on which he served until transferred to the V-12 program. Rader came to Carolina from Emotry and Henry College. and has been act ive in campus affairs throughout his college career. He has served as member of the SALV'O staff, the Gamecock staff, Secretary of Kappa Alpha. member of the YMCA cabinet, and member of ODK. He has also served as an officer the German Club, and was instrumental in the reactiv'ation of the Cotillton Club this semester. BETTER LIGHT BETTER SiGHT * South Carolina Electric & Gas Co.