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Rooster Pecking By RUTH NEWELL Exchange Editor Furman The Woman's College Chal Choir of 35 voices made a tour South Carolina April 17-20. Th sang in the Columbia Music Fes val Association program in t Township auditorium and also Summerville, Charleston, Sumt and Lancaster. The band has ju returned from a tour of Sou Carolina. It's .all right to compliment girl on her ankles but don't cor pliment her too highly. Limestone h'lhe annual junior-senior ba quet and dance was given in hon of the seniors on April 3. Faculty and students are pr senting a program over radio st tion WFGN each Sunday afternoi this semester from 4:30 to 5:0( Florence Yellow Jacket A June Bug married an ang worl, An accident cut her in two; They charged the bug with bigati Now, what could the poor thii do? Warriar's 'Prumpeter I sit alone in the twilight Forsaken by mice and by ma And I murmur over and ove I'll never eat onions again. Opportunity knocks but on but temptation bangs on the di for years. Winthrop The Winthrop band played the Azalea Festival parade Charleston April 13. Izetta Agnew, Lenore Orr, Be Sue Blair, Johnnie Ulmer, Lou Dickson, Cerribel Stever, Margu ite Smith, and Elizabeth Be played the piano in a recent cital. Roxana Baker, Hannah K dall, and Elizabeth Bolt sang. The Florida Alligator A pessimist is one who thii all women are immoral. An ol mist is one who merely hopes s She: "Darling, did you ever selling vacuum cleaners ?" Ex-GI: "No, of course not." She: "Well, you'd better at; now, for that's my husband co ing up the walk." Ed: 'Can I take you home?' Co-ed: "Sure, where do live?" Definition of a newv student: ( who thinks the Press building the tailor shop. Chapel Hill A burning eross, cat tails, p1 ards and fraternity pledges che inig for UMT greeted members the "Committee Against Consci tion" at a recent "Stop T1he Dra rally. The meeting hall echoed w "Stop Rassia Now" and "D [Dead WVallace" cheers, showing decided l'oan toward conutinu the dIraft. ONE-DAM DRY CLEANINC ALL WORK GUARANTEED ARROW CLEANERS 1209 Gervais Phone 6471 153 el of By he er. st th a ly Ig n; Members of the universityt r., side steps of LeConte college, s( .e-Lutherant )or From Ter inl The, annu11al area conference inl the Lutheran Student associat will be held this weekend at Ca tty Barstow, 18 miles southeast ise Columbia onl the Swansea hi er- way. Representatives . from amn Southern colleges and univei re- ties are expected to attend the an- treat. Ernest Williams, chai-iraul the committee onl planning the c ference, reports that the retr i ks will convene this afternoon v >ti- registration hours between 4j 0- 6i p. ml. Instructions and probl sessions- will be held through tryV weekend until the adjournment Sunday noon. Bill Sanders, registrar for thet conference, 11rt pects the largest attendance e m.- had for such retreats held in 1 area inl lecent years. Speakers and leaders fcr ou weekend conference include SRev. George NMeetze, pasuir of wilringel thWivekndC e- O fy A crsetivitesso e-tie ar exectue Etortn h ar-eSprinliames, lat, but, . the cstets oak plantec fe~ni, wel's hat taledret its ilronene i feno op.Heinnnguons and pnteobe s ey, the wil e broughthoughd mg Tweknd Meetilgo the Aijornmen retrar o thpe ternvi withpt thoe largest interndational i-and forhuc reetet fhe inea asex in theeli Sigma Chdrb deaerd ganthedernis f10 weekentonerenc inclsuden Springst folwnd he nt toightwen S4igma wilrhhl hei calSme alst ude oft btuets.r though. The gle toafo thwes date eears ft"5*' h eailg Paradenti Profhw eeor ofephe beirg noed byothesompnd tfhameir aMAtIN hoe o i nentoa Chemistry Students -hapter of Sigma Al pha Zeta, national -ience building. (Pho to by Manning Harr Students Ct t Colleges F of Lutheran Church of the Incarna ion tion, Columbia, the Rev. Carl ml) Caughman, Mission secretary for of the South Carolina Lutheran synod gh- and Miss Ingrid Nilsson, exchange ten student at Carolina from Sweden. rsi- Members on the planning com re- mittee beside Chairman Williams are Ernest Lineberger of the of Southern Theological Seminary and Miss Doris Rawl. on- Representatives from the follow eat ing schools will attend the three day conference: Clemson, se id Clemcon, em Citadel, Winthrop, Georgia Tech, e University of Georgia, Agnes t Scott, Columbia College, Lutheran the Seminary, Newberry, and Caro lina. ex ver New President his Olive Long was recently elected president of the Columbia chapter the of the association according to the Miss Mildred Schaulkhouser, stu the dent worker. She will succeed Bring Renewal Of Carolinians ini thle classroom belowv him, ani nouncing to his French class, the "That's just Doctor Fitzgerald ave hammering Spanish into his stu at dents again." smnd Three small boys eyeing the er- polls5 last Tluesday and then de ciding to vote. Unable to pay their ual 1)011 tax or to interpret the consti Ly's tution, they walked away in dis tu- gust, not really caring who was hat elected Garnet and Black editor. ws Girls on the first floor of Sims ex- being awakened from their beautyJ sleep in the wee hours last wveek tes by smoke and flames. No tasualty,I ker though--just some burning coals in had been tossed into a bucket of1 tu- gasoline. >by Campaigning students blushing on being toldl that the characters life whose "aims they had twisted" KG (including Professors Wardlaw and ri- !Hollis) wvere merely youthful pro fessors. itie Summier school p)lanls disrupted his for several students as they sweat nts ed through the recent heat wave. ave Campaigning Virginia Woodruff overwhelming a passing young man at the polls only to discover an- that he didn't speak a word of ing English. for Shoes that look like new visit ROBERTS SHOE REPAIRING SERVICE 0 0 0. NEXT TO CITY FIRE DEPT. -hemistry society pose on the in is.) >me Here >r MeetinA Richard Hollinger as head of t local Lutheran student organh tion. Other officers chosen by t Lutherans included Grdy Free, vice-president, Faye Dent, sec1 tary, Helen Creager, (reasur, Fred Epting, publications, A Roof, house planning and Doug] Fritz. socials. These new officers will take fice on May 12 at the annual ba quet of the LSA. University Worshi Program Directed By Thomas, McCai Isabel Thomas and Spruce N Cain directed the university V4 pers program Sunday night. T program was based on the val of prayer. Ed Teague gave a sh< talk. Next week the program will in charge of Beth Fillingim a Blair Turner. Co-chairmen oft YM.-YWCA Vespers committee a Heleni Harbin and Charlie Gasqi Programs are p)resented on Su day at 7 p. m., in the Universi Chapel. - LA "I? WXLAINI , 00GBUJRI The Business M Choice Quality , Origir Try One of Oui And You'll E 1317| Next Dono- n Reservations To Be Placed For Class Ball Sales of tickets for the Senior Ball will begin May 1, with* mem bers of the class being contpeted this week and next for advanced tickets and reservations. The ball 1gill be held in the Field House from 9 to 1 p. m., June 1, with Woody Woodward, who was se lected by class vote, furnishing fhe music. A buffet-banquet will be served the seniors at intermission by members of the university's Coed Association. Tickets for the dance will be $1.50 with ,date and $1 stag. Plans are now being made for the dance headed by John Nates, dance chairman of the senior class, in conjunction with a junior-senior committee .making arrangements for .the activities of graduation. Plans now include the ball, a luncheon June 1 for class members given by the Alumni Association, a baccalaureate sermon (revived this year for the first time since the war), and the formal graduation exercises. Al Bahret is president of the University Mus Shown In McA By AUDREY CHAPMAN A collection of the university museum pieces are now on display in room 200 of McKissck Library, acgording to Miss Elizabeth Eng. lish, assistant librarian. he The exhibits include an unusual a- coin collection, a primitive stone axe from Tahiti, the wooden shoes he of a Japanese Lord, a Japanese war bond from a leper culuay, a book containng the addresses ol nn Abraham Lincoln and said to be as the smallest book produced in the United States, tablets from Ur ol the Chaldees made about 3,00( B. C. The tablets were bought by Dr. E. L. Grcen, former univer sity instructor in ancient language P department, from Dr. Edgar J Banks, an excavator. Also included in the collection is a pen staff made from an old yew c- tree under which Thomas Gray sat as he wrote "Elergy in a Coun he try Church Yard." The pen was ,rt presented to the library by Dr. G. A. Wauchope, former faculty mem. be her. nd he Japanese Shoes The display features the wooden ushoes of a Japanese lord, as is ty evident by their trim of rabbit fur. They were discovered in Ao CVARSITY Negeasne UOUT WCOMgN. 'S G R ILL en and College Boys it All Times aind Variety late Here r Delicious Lunches e Back for More. Sumter St. the Fire Station Announcer Mackie Quave, instructor in Eng lish and chief annguncer for local station WIS, will be the announcer for the nationwide broadcast of the Southern Symphony Orchestra from the Township Auditorium at 3 p. m., tomorrow. Quave is a na tive of Asheville, N. C., and teaches courses in radio at the university. class and Barbara Dukes is vice president. Secretary-treasurer is Bettie Moore and Betty Ruth Ste phens is historian. eum Pieces issick Library mori, Japan in 1945 when the USS Kershaw, along with other ships, landed the first occupation troops in that area. The shoes, as well as a Japanese war bond from a leper colony in Okinawa, and several pieces of Japanese money were donated to the museum by Billy Walker, Carolina student on board the Kershaw at that time. The curios include a primitive stone axe from Tahiti, Society Islands. It was contributed by Consul Julius D. Dreher, Port An tonio, Jamaca. I A cartoon on the secession days showing a Richmond, Va. paper's conception of Lincoln's position (1861) may also be seen in the collection. The eartoon shows : cat (Lincoln) playing with run ning rats labeled Alabama, Flori. da, Georgia, Virginia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina. One lies dead with an American flag stuck lpright in his stomach. The museum pieces include two love letters written by Joseph A. Black, young Columbia lawyer, to his fiancee, Martha Keziah P'eary of F'airfield County, S. C., ini ( et., 1830. Anr example. of foredge p)ainlt ing, in which the outside edges of the book form a l)icture, are. found in "The Pupils of St. John" by C. NJ. Yonige. This particular t ype of art is nowv almost extinct. Tlwo primitive nooks fioma trPopi cal islands may be seen in the ex hibhition. The hooks are wvooden strips similar to a Japanese fan. Also inchidle< in the collection is a photostat' of a diploma issuedl by the Academy of Liberty Hall, Mecklenberg County, N. C., 1778. It was prsented to the university by u .Hxe Davidson of Char lotte, N.C. An interesting munseumi piece is a tiy hook containing the ad (dresses oif A biahami Lincoln. Its piublishers claim it to he the small est book produced ini the United States. GRAY CAROLINA ME~N... We inivite you to come inl become atcuainlted with oui Our store is air conditioned, Rpot while dlown towni. We carr'1y the latest style GRAY l)istinctive 1:14 NIA., Mackie Quave WillAnnounce NBC Program Mackie Quave, instructor in Eng lish and chief announcer for local station WIS, will announce the broadcast of the Southern Sym phony Orchestra under the direc iol ol' Carl hamberger tomorrow at 3 p. im., over the National Broadcasting Company's nation wide network. The program, annual broadcast of NBC's "Orchestras of the Na tion" series, is part of the Co lunmbia Music Festival and will originate from the stage of the Township Auditorium through WIS and WIS-FM. The orchestra has been heard on "Orchestras of the Nation" since the program inception five years ago, and over NBC annually for three years before $at. The program will be carried over 124 stations with Quave, a native of Asheville, N. C., as mas ter of ceremonies. On the program are "Short Overture" by Don Gillis; the four movements of Brahm's Symphony Number 3 in F; VPolonaise Sym phonique" by Karol Rathaus; and appropriately, "Roses from the South" by Johann Strauss. Columbia is the smallest city in the nation entering an orchestra in the series. Summer Graduate Training Offered With TVA Project Summer training toward gradu at(. degrees is being offered by the Conference of Deans of South ern Graduate Schools, becording to an announcement received by the University 'graduate school this week. The offer is for fellow nhips for students and faculty memlIers interested in work in the TVA area for the coming sum liler. The circular states that although it was originally intended that foundation funds be obtained, such ha-v not become available there fore students must pay their own expenses. These are described as nommal and consisting of "main ly living expenses". h'le information was forwarded to heads of the Biology, Commerce, Chemistry and- Economics depart ments by Dean W. H. Callcott of the graduate school. Interested persons may obtain further in formation by addressing Dr. Johni E. ivey, .1 r., Executive Secretary, Committee on' Southern Regional . Studies and Education, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. Applications for training must le submitted by May 1, to receive consideration. AUTOMOBILES FOR RENT $5 per 24-hr. day Special Rates for Trips Renting hour-8 a. mn., 'til 7 p. m. DIAMOND DRIVE-IT-YOURSELF Phone 2-6836-1000 MaIn One Block from Campus SON'S es Mlen,'s Store and see our new store and friendly and helpful staff. so make it your cooling off Sin men's wear. SON'S MIen's Wear