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Any organizafion desiring to place news of its activities in the Carolindar, THE GAMECOCK'S calendar of events, is urged to contact THE GAMECOCK through Box 80, campus mail, a week inCOan.back will be opnMd fer UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA from1:1 t1:2,. CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA Volume XLI, No. 24 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, FEBRUARY 15, 1947 Founded 1908 New Awar To USC2 Study Abroad For University The college of arts and scier following fellowships and aw terest to some of the students ANDOVER NEWTON THl fellowships of $500 a year. E pacity and superior academic interest in the Christian religi temporary life, qualities of < of effective leadership. HENRY FELLOWSHIPS-For study in England, five fellowships of 1,600 pounds. Terms of award: Preference given to recent college graduates of distinction or to stu dents who receive the B.. A. degree with distinction before July 1, 1947. Applicants must be unmar ried, and prepared to devote their whole time to the object of the fellowship. AMERICAN & BRITISH COM MONWEALTH ASSOCIATION PRIZE ESSAY-Open to under graduates of a selected list of col leges and universities, of which this is one. Subject will be one which will require some study of the tra ditions and common aspirations, both past and present, of the peo ples of the United States and of the British Commonwealth of Na tions. Subject and terms of the competition will be announced within a few weeks. PRIZE HISTORICAL ESSAY CONTEST SPONSORED BY THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS -Prize $250. Contest open to all citizens of the United States who have in their possession, or have access to, original family docu ments or records, not hitherto t published, that relate to a phase of the American Colonial period be tween the founding of Jamestown and the Battle of Lexington. ACTUARIAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA & AMERICAN INSTI TUTE OF ACTUARIES-One $200 prize, eight $100 prizes awarded to nine undergraduates ranking highest on actuarial exam ination to be given by the Society of Undergraduate Students of Mathematics who are interested in going into the actuarial profes sion. The University of Oxford and the University of Birmingham are offering courses for American students in special schools to be held this summer. The summier school of the University of Bir mingham will be held at Strat ford-on-Avon July 6th to August 18th. The subject of the School will .be English Literature 1500 1640. The School is intended for men and women who have made a special study of English Litera ture and have the B. A. degree or Its equivalent. The summer * school at Oxford will be held July 2 to August 13. The subject will be European History in the Twen tieth Century. The school is in tended for men and women who have made a special study of cul tural subjects and already have the B. A. degree or equivalent. Any student who is interested in securing application forms or further information may apply tc the arts and science office Maxey 121. Bain-Humanitists Club Formed By Faculty Members The Bain-Humanitists Club held its regular monthly meeting last week in the faculty room of Mc Kissi,ck Library. The club, which meets every first Thursday of the month froni 8 to 10 p. in., is composed of In structors and graduate students Interested in humanistic studies All faculty members who arl in terested are eligible to join the organization which already has ar Impressive list of members froir the English, foreign language philosophy and history depart ments. The newly elected officers are president, Professor Milledge B Seigler; vice-president, Professoi Wilbur Zeigler; secretary, Profes mar William P. Kellum. is Opened pp1icants Now Possible y Graduates ces has received notices of the irds which is of probable in OLOGICAL SCHOOL-Three asis of award: Intellectual ca standing in college, personal on and its contribution to con haracter which give promise "Review" Sets Deadline For Spring Issue By JOY CONARD February 25 has been set as the deadline for material to be published in the spring edition of The Carolina Review, according to Mart Smith, editor. Students interested in submitting short sto ries, poetry, articles, or sketches should turn them in to The Review office in McKissick library, or ad dress them to Box 300, campus mail. The newly elected board con sists of Mart Smith, editor; Joe Bishop, business manager; Red mond Tyler, managing editor; Jane Church, Charlotte Baker, associate editors; Joe Sapp, book editor; and James Prince, poetry editor. The next issue, to be distributed around the middle of March, will be the first published by the new staff. The Carolina Review is the first successful attempt at a magazine on the campus since the Caro linian failed in 1937. The maga zine was begun a little over a year ago when members of the Clario sophic Literary Society decided tc publish bi-weekly reports of their meetings in an effort to revive student interest in debating and public speaking. The Hypatian Society became interested in this plan, and a merger of effort resulted in a plar to publish a joint literary maga zine. It was finally decided tE make the magazine a campus pub. lication which developed into The Review. Now the magazine re ceives an allocation from the stu dent activities fund and is inde pendent of any other organization, Placement Bureau Continues To Hold Student Interviews T. A. Jordan, consulting en. gineer for the American Bridge Company, will conduct Interview, March 5 with engineering seniori -interested in careers as structural designers and bridge engineers, ac cording to an announcement made this week by Flinn Gilland, place ment director at the university. The American Bridge Company has indicated interest in employ. Ing university engineering seniori graduating this June in civil, me chanical and architectural and in. dustrial engineering, Mr. Gilland said. Placement registration records on file in the office of the bu. reau, together with academic re ords, will be turned over to Mr Jordan to review prior to the In, terviews. The placement directoi has suggested that all seniors in, terested In consulting the repreo sentative submit their placemeni registration records to the bureat as early as possible if they havE not already done so. Last Monday a consultant fron the Vick Chemical Company In terviewed 26 university men giv Ing application blanks to eight o them-more than to any of th4 other 60 schools visited In thi Southern swing of the representa tive's tour. . 4Y. Pictured above are the officers of Rogers, president. Standing (from sergeant-at-arms, and Jim M4cCallu were Vernon Sloan, treasurer, and ANNOUNCEMENT Miss Sallie Bell Cash, nurse at the university infirmary, has requested that all blood donors who have already had their blood typed, notify the infirm ary so that their types may be listed. Student blood donors are urg ently needed at this time and Miss Cash would like to register the types so that students may be called upon for their particu lar types in the event of emerg encies. Anyone who has already do nated blood or who wishes to do so should call Dr. Waddell or Miss Cash. Invitations Given To Byrnes, Baruch For Campus Talks The International Relations Club reported yesterday that it had not yet heard from the invi tations extended to James F. Byrnes and Bernard Baruch to speak here. Senator Claude E. Pepper of Florida, who was also contacted, replied that he could not accept at present, but that he would be willing to come if the club would invite him some other time this year. The theme of study for the club program this year is Latin Amer ica. At a meeting held last night, Ralph Hancock, the distinguished authority on Inter-American af fairs, spoke on the topic "Our Fu ture Depends on Latin America." Argentina will be the subject of the next program which will be held in Flinn Hall on February 10, at q:30 p. m. I. R. C. is planning a special Pan American Day program for the latter part of April. IBM Equipment Wili Facilitate Cataloging Of Registrar Records Conversion from present cata loguing methods to the Interna tional Business Machinery sys tem will take place In the regis trar's office after the first of March, according to Flinn Gil land, director of the IBM arrange ment. The transition, to begin after necessary punch cards are de livered, will not be completed un til the end of this semester, and probably will extend into the sum mer months, Mr. Gilland said. The entire office force will be used in converting present record forms to IBM before grades and other work can be recorded on IBM equipment. Gilland explained that with the new IBM equipment, reports can be Issued to a student body of 4,000 In 24 hours as compared to the 821 hours it now requires. Posting permanent r e c o r d a (grades for each semester) takes .282 hours under the present sys tem, and by IBM it will take only 17 hours. Miss Francinia Constance John ston ('42, AB.) and Mrs. kary Grant Wade will operate the ma chines. Kappa Sigma Kappa frater left to right) are Frank m, corresponding secretary. Joe O'Hara, recording secret WUSC Activated Campus Rad Operations ] By MI With an eye to resum Carolina's campus radio announcers last Monday WKIX. Candidates were teste< and their ability to read scripts. In addition to will be required to opera After surmounting almost known type of obstacle in t dio field, among them the im tion of hard-to-find equip and t1ie securing of cles rights from the FCC, the ca station is expected to go o air "very soon," according t Bennett, president of the lina Broadcasting Company. Bennett reports that almo of the necessary equipmeni been obtained and installed that "just a few teachnical culties remain to be ironed The largest of these confr< Chief Engineer Frank Thr the wiring of campus buildir effect the necessary receptio is reported that Preston and Kissick-Wauchope House wi the first two dormitories wired because of their prox to the radio station which cated in the red brick buildir hind McKissick House. The wiring of Sims, Hampton and the Infirmar; of which are separated frox main part of the campus, the biggest problem of all. it is stated, will be solved< through the use of power or through the more exp4 method of constructing p lines. Students will be able to i WUSC through their radios, the station has its own freq1 Tentative plans provide fo airing of evening programs, afternoon programs plannel the more distant future. Station Beginnings The campus station hadi ception last spring under ti' pervision of Sid Wise, no' alumnus. Its auspicious was held on June 4, when a hour program, broadcast Drayton Hall, was carried th the facilities of local s WKIX. However, a delayi arrival of equipment and the ping up of unforseen tec difficulties proved WUSC's once to be short-lived. In addition to Bennett Thrift, officers for this tern Lacy Butler, vice-president progran\l director; Richter 11 business manager, and Spears, treasurer. The secre position, formerly occupie Betty Locke, is now vacant, Professor Carlisle of the litical Science department requested that all students have books used in Poll Sciences 21, 109 and 110, te them to the University ] sity for this semester. Seated Is Bill ;ulbertson, vice-president; Mack Lewis, Not present when the photo was made ary. (USC Staff Photo by Stan Lewis). Lio Unit Begins [n Near Future KE KARVELAS ing operations in the near future, station, WUSC, held auditions for evening in the studios of station I as to the quality of their voices newscasts, commercials and regular announcing, WUSC commentators te the station's control board. every - ra- George Dieter, Jr. talla ment New Headmaster s Of Delta Sigma Pi a the At a meeting of the Delta Sig > Bill ma Pi, honorary commerce fra. Caro- ternity, held Wednesday, Febru. ary 12, George H. Dieter, Jr.,,was it all elect( I headmaster. Enoch C. Al. has len was named senior warden, and and Thomas M. Henry, junior warden, diffi- Other officers for the semester out." include: Treasurer, William E nting Collins; scribe, Raymond G. Hal ft is ford; historian, Talley Kelly; se gs to nior guide, Thomas H. Simrill; A. It junior guide, James Cox; chapter i Mc- adviser, Professor Frank T, 11 be Meeks; chancellor, Fred H. Strick. ;o be land. imity Master of ceremonies will be is lo- Henry J. Lindsey, Jr., and master g be- of festivities, Herbert W. Tray lor. Samuel A. Benson iQ to be Wade the Deltasig correspondent. r, all poss --m --n!: H -- --t! This, Week To Beg naive ivate In an effort to curtail the dents will .ioin next week wi no in Columbia to sponsor "Clean E since of the city. ence. Unlike last semester's "He; with strictly a campus affair, th< I for city-wide proportions. The pr schools is under the auspices lumbia, Dreher and Universi La in eu-USC Forensic Team v an debut To Enter Debate With fr,o*m University Of Wichita rough The university debating teana ation will enter into a contest with the n the University of Wichita by radio al crop- an early date, according to Prof mnical M. G. Christophersen, director. exist- Professor Chistophersen has stated that arrangements are be and ing made at present for the debat4 are: over the air. The university teatr and has accepted the question and boore, taken the affirmative side. The Gone issue will be: "Resolved that th4 tary's names of the two national parties I by should be changed from Republi can and Democratic to Conserva *, The debate will be made pos who sible through recordings. Wichiti tical debaters will make records; Caro sell lna will hear them, and In turi look make records which Wichita wil Dr. Sherw Will Spea Noted World' Wife Will Coi By BOB Dr. Sherwood Eddy, noted a at student convocations Tuesd; noon in the university chapel ances at the First Presbyterial Council at Flinn Hall, Monday; Forum, university chapel, Tu Sophomore Y.M.C.A. Council, Cannon Heard Over WCOS Monday Night Associate Professor Furman Cannon of the School of Business Administration was featured as guest speaker on the University Hour program heard last Monday evening at 9:30 over radio station WCOS. Mr. Cannon, instructor in ac counting and the Federal Income Tax course, explained some of the intricacies involved in preparing and filing of income tax forms. With an eye to easing the dread ed ordeal which the impending Ides of March will inevitably bring to every income taxpayer, Mr. Cannon explained such commonly heard, yet rarely understood, terms as "pay-as-you-go", "gross in come," "joint returns" and "ex emptions." An expert in his field, Mr. Can non also interpreted the various methods of preparing numerous forms in simple and easily under stood terms. The departmental interview shared the half-hour spotlight with musical offerings from mem bers of the university's Depart ment of Music. Among the selec tions heard were "Summertime" from "Porgy and Bess" and "The Flower Song" from "Faust", both rendered vocally by soprano Bur ton Wildes. Robert Van Doren, in structor of organ, offered as his organ contribution for the evening Handel's "Cuckoo and the Night ingale". Richard Goode, WCOS broad caster, appcrcd as master of ceremonies. Clean Speech n On Monday use of profanity, Carolina stu th the various high schools of ~peech Week" on the campuses i-How-You? Week" which was clean speech campaign is of gram in Columbia's secondary of the Hi-Y Clubs of the Co by high schools. In an address Thursday night on the campaign, the first one to be held in the city since 1943, Mayor Frank C. Owens heartily endorsed the program. Carolina's participation in the drive to minimize the use of cer tain words, best not mentioned here, will be supervised by the newly reorganized Ground Hog Club. Bob Sumwalt and Joe Lump. kin, ground hogs in good standing, will publicize the week-long cam paign, which begins on Monday, with the posting of several appro priate signs and slogans through out the key points of the campus. On the university campus, sev eral organizations have already pledged to support the program and individuals will be uged to do their part by curtailing swearing. The Ground Hog Club reports -that in all probability, the cam pus will be subjected to a barrage of four letter words by those in dividuals who will take advantage I of the remaining two days beforE "Clean Sneh" goe. it effct ood Eddy k Tuesday Traveler And iduct Forums HORTON uthor and lecturer, will speak iy, February 18, at 12 o'clock He will also make appear 1 Church, Freshman Y.M.C.A. 1 p. m.; at the Public Affairs esday, 8 p. m.; and at the Wednesday, 1 p. m. Dr. Eddy served as National Y.M.C.A. Secretary in India, working among the students for fifteen years. He also served as secretary of Y.M.C.A. for Asia working among students of Japan, Korea, China, India, the Near East, and Russia, as an honorary worker without remuneration. He participated in war work with the British as Y.M.C.A. secretary from 1915 to 1917, and with the American army from then until the end of the First World War. A Century With Youth is the lat est of his many books. Accompanying Dr. Eddy will be his wife, Louise Gates Eddy, ex pert in international relationships and an authority on marriage re lations, who will address the La dies' Auxiliary at the First Pres byterian Church on Sunday, Feb ruary 16, and will lead a group discussion on Marital Adjustment with the married veterans Tues day night at 7:30 at the Carovet Home. Mrs. Eddy is a former executive secretary of the Y.W.C.A. at To ledo, Ohio, and was executive head of the Y.W.C.A. at Rio de Janiero, Brazil. She served also as general secretary of the Mon treal, Canada, Y.W.C.A., and was for some time executive seretary of the Natiinal Council of Y.W.C.A. of Canada. She is to be featured as one of the main speakers at North Carolina University's Re ligious Emphasis Week to be held next week. The Secretary of the Raleigh Y.W.C.A. said of Mrs. Eddy: "She is a charming person and a dyna mic speaker. Because of her years of experience as a profes sional worker in Y.W.C.A. and her extensive travel, she is well quali fied to discuss current problems especially from the standpoint of woman's activities and responsi bilities." Law Federation Holds Semi-Annual Meeting To Elect New Officers The Law Federation of the uni versity's Law School held its semi annual meeting early this month. The Federation is an organiza tion for all students of all classes in Law School. The following were elected to serve as officers: Preston Colli son, president; Fritz Hollings, vice-president; Gus Graydon, sec retary-treasurer, and Holmes Dre her, sergeant-at-arms. Carolindar All County Club publicity agents desiring to publicize their respective clubs in the fu ture editions of THE GAME COCK are reminded to turn in their material to "Jingo" Davis, Box 982. SATURDAY, FEB. 15 Student Center, 7:30-10:45 p. in., Washington Street Meth odist Church. SUNDAY, FEB. 16 Wesley Foundation, 10 a. mn., Washington Street Methodist Church. Vespers, 7 p. in., University Chapel. MONDAY, FEB. 17 1I-eshmnan Council, 1 p. in., Flinn Hall. TUESDAY, laB. 18 Student AssembLly, 12 noon,