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Political Raly-5 p. m. All-American Pep Rally-6030 p. m. ACP Today!l9744 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA Volume XLIV, No. 22 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, MARCH 24, 1950 Founded 1908 Camp] Political R On Horses By KEN I Campus politics reaches its I The annual campus political 5:00 p. m., on the horseshoe weather be bad, the rally will i As in past years, the affair i Clariosophic Literary Society. will introduce the speakers at Candidates for the office of president of all the classes, candi dates for president of the Student Body, and candidates for vice president of the Student Body will make their campaign speeches at the rally. In addition to the speeches, candidates for cheer leaders will try out. About thirty persons have been nominated for cheerleaders; therefore, plenty of noise is expected at the rally. Joe Ingram, who is in charge of the rally, said that a platform would be set up on the horseshoe for the use of the speakers. He said that there would be no limit on the length of timo that the can didates may speak. Judges Choose Three Finalists In Beauty Race Marilyn McCormac, Kappa Delta; Rowena DuBose, Alpha Delta Pi; and Anita Thee, Chi Omega, all of Columbia, were se lected as the three finalists in Kappa Sigma Kappa's annual Beauty Pageant Tuesday night in Drayton hall. They will compete for the honor of being elected May Queen. Contestants and their sororities were Betty Jean McLean, Anne McLean, and Rowena DuBose, Alpha Delta Pi; Mury Ellen O'Neil and Wimpy Webb, Delta Zeta; Frances LaBorde, Betty Cameron, and Barbara McSwain, Pi Beta Phi; Ish Thomas, Jean Thompson, and Anita Thee, Chi Omega; Mary Long, Jeanne Turner, gnd Betty Pope, Zeta Tau Alpha; Lib Cald well, Walton Jeffords, and Frances Mobley, Delta Delta Delta; Anne Rawl, Sally Stevens, and Marilyn McCormac for Kappa Delta. After the first elimination, eight girls remained in the race. They were Rowena DuBose, Frances La Borde, Anne McLean, Marilyn Mc Cormac, Betty Jean McLean, Frances Mobley, Ann RawI, and Anita Thee. The final three were chosen after another elimination which nar rowed the runn~ers down to six girls. Proceeds from the Beauty Pageant will go to the May Day fund. The student body will vote on the three contestants Monday in the ODK circle on the campus. Justices To Talk At Coming Law School Program Formal dedication exercises for the newly constructed university law building will be held April 15, at 10:30 a. in., on the campus ad joining the building, It was recent ly disclosed by Samuel L. Prince. dean of the law school. Senior Associate Justice E. L. Fishburne of the South Carolina Supreme Court and Chief Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt of the New Jersey Supreme Court will be prin cipal speakers at the dedication ceremony. Donald Russell, chairman of the university building committee, will preside. Members of the legal profession and the public are invited to at tend the dedication exercises. If the weather proves to be unfavor able, the ceremonies will be trans ferred to Dragtn Hall in the 1200 block of College street. p as El ally To Be koe Today "OWELL . >eak today. rally will take place today at weather permitting. If the nove into the Chapel. 3 under the sponsorship of the Gene Rogers of that society d cheerleader candidates. Rally Tonight Will Launch New Pep Club BY JOE MOLONY Baptism of the Gamecock Pep Club; speeches by head football coach and athletic director, Rex Enright; and by university presi dent, Norman M. Smith; cheers, songs and an introduction of the football squad will highlight an elaborate pep rally tonight at 6:30 in the field house before the intra squad game. Enright's address will officially launch the Gamecock Pep Club on its journey to bigger and better school spirit at Carolina. In addi tion, En ight will give a quick look into the future for Carolina's 1950 football team and a synopsis of the overall condition of his squad after spring training. President Smith will alsoddress the group. Dumas Turner, assistant athletic director, will sing a fight song written in 1938 by H. C. Salley, which was recently recorded by the U. S. Air Force band. Before sing ing, Turner will introduce Salley, an alumnus of the university. If students are favorably impressed by the song, then the tune will serve as the club's official pep song. In addition, cheerleaders will lead cheers; student body presi dent, George Wright, will inro duce the footballers and hand them jerseys; new Pep Club mem bers will be announced and recog nized by their felfbw students, and Don Johnston, president of the club, will close the ceremonies. After the rally, students will march over to Melton Field in a body to witness the annual intra squad game, proceeds of which go to the Block "C" Club to promote campus activities. Full-Sized Diesel Will Be Exhibited Today, Tomorrow A full-sized cut-away diesel loco motive "B" unit, built by the Elec tromotive Division of General Motors Corporation for display at the Chicago Railroad fair, has been brought to Columbia today by the Southern railway system for ex hibit from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. to en gineering students and faculty members. The exhibit is placed on the track between East B3landing and Laurel Streets. The public will be ad mitted tomorrow from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. S. C. High School Art Exhibited In Maxcy Lobby By UJniversity Second annual High School Art Exhibit began this week at the uni versity. The exhibit is being held in Maxcy College. The affair is being sponsored jointly by university Department of Fine Arts and the Extension Division. Its purpose is to show the works of the state's younger artistic talent as well as bring about a general development of talent. Kappa P1, universIty art fra ternity, will entertain with a re epntion on March 29. ection Air Newly elected staff officers of i Sloan, group intelligence officer; C Capt. James W. Thompson, Jr., g Cadet Lt. Colonel Rush M. Floyd, ficer; Cadet Capt. James H. Wani mery, group executive officer; an Not shown in the picture is Cad I Dr. Howard R. Lo Dean Of School 0 By BARBARA A. DERRICK Feature Editor Dr. Howard Itusk Long of Rochester, Ind., has been appointed dean of the university journalism -ehool to succeed Dean Samuel C. DePass whose retirement was re cently announced by President Smith. Dr. Long will assume his duties at the end of this currein academic year. Dr. Long will begin his work as the new dean of journalism in Sep temb)er, the beginning of the fall semester. A native of Columbia, Mo., Dr. Long received his Bachelor of jour nalism degree, A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. from the University of Missouri. For the past eight years he has been a member of the fac ulty at the University of Missouri. He received his newspaper ex perience on the Dixon, Ill., Evening Telegraph while he was a high school student. Dr. Long was also Chemical Engineer Group Chartered Calvin Shuford, the president of the Chemical Engineering Society, has announced that the organiza tion has been granted a charter in the student chapter of the Ameri can Institute of Chemical En gineers. The petition wvas filed last November and will probably arrive e,vithin two weeks, at which time formal installation will ta~ke place at a banquet. The society was organized in March of 1949, with Miller Dreher as its first president. The present officers are: Russel Wolfe, presi dent; Bill Baxley, vice-president; Bill Burrell, treasurer; and Jim Cagle, secretary. Under the constitution, members of all college classes are eligible. The society meets twice a month on S Wil Force ROTC Offic4 he Carolina Air Force ROTC are, le adet Maj. Gary D. Brown, commandi roup adjutant; Cadet Capt. Samuel group commander; Cadet Capt. Jam tamaker, group plans and training o I Cadet Maj. Joseph 1. Stringer, coi et Maj. John A. Barksdale, command ng Named New f Journalism associated with the Woodyard chain in West Virginia; with The South west American of Fort Smith, Ark. He served as correspondent for the Associated Press and later as the publisher of a weekly publication in Crane, Mo. In 1940, he returned to the Uni versity of Missouri in the capacity of assistant manager of the Mis souri Press Association. The suc ceeding year he became the man ager, a position he held until 1949. During this period he did graduate study and became profossor of journalism and director of exten sion work at the Missouri univer sity. Dr. Long advanced a new method of advertising for Missouri papers while he was manager qf the Missouri Press association. At the university he advanced the de velopnlent of a linotype school; workshops, extension programs, and publication of a magazine, The Missouri Press Association News; and research on Missouri publish ing problems. In 1945 Dr. Long went to Eng land and was associated with the British Ministry of Information. S. C. DePass, retiring dean, is from Camden and was graduated from the University of South Caro lina with an LL.B. degree. Dean DePass' graduate work was (lone at the University of Wisconsin. In 1937 he was made dean of journalism at the university. A fter his graduation from Carolina, he was engaged in the legal profes sionl in Union for several years and later did newspaper work in Salt Lake City. Utah, Missiapolis and Saint ParI, Miss., Chicago, and Philadelphia. For ten years he was director of advertising for the Paramount Canadian Motion Pie ture corporation. Debaters Take 1st in .4thens Contest Both the mnen's and women's de bating teams of the university re turned with first place cups from the Pi Kappa Delta Provincial tournament held in Athens, Ga., this week. The university's teams competed with 32 groups representing 15 colleges and universities through. out the South. Carolina's coed team was com posed of Nancy Fulmer, Jo Ann, Dellinger, Carolyn Dahbs, Mar garet Everton, and Barbara Cloyd. The men's team included Melton Kligman, LaVerne Funderburke, Harvey Golden, a n d Sanford Zahler., Both debating teams are under the direction of Prof. Merrill G. Chaitanhersen. SBeg] r s d( c1 li p b ft to right, Cadet Capt. Arthur B. ti ng officer of Squadron "A"; Cadet S. Sorota, group supply officer; a' ns 11. Horton, group personnel of- ti fficer; Cadet Maj. Hubert M. Dim nmanding officer of Squadron "B". m ing officer of Squadron "C". -(Photo by Ton Teal) Constitution w Is Passed N f] A joint session of the Clario- e sophie Literary Society and the y, Euphradian Society, incorporate, il unanimously ratified a new consti- p tution for The Gamecock Tuesday night. The new document will be- cl come effective as soon as it has been submitted to a grammarian and once again read before the a societies. ti The new constitution replaces t< one that has been in force since sl 1937 and incorporates the follow ing main changes: 1. A newly - elected business manager shall not be a member of G the same social fraternity as his b< predecessor. S 2. The business manager will a receive no commission on national advertising. Ii 3. The business manager will re ceive a salary of $100. Ii The new constitution, in its t< finished form, will be issued next f week. h S University Guide Service Helps Visiting Coeds Visiting members of the Beta Club, South Carolina high school ti club, which will hold a convention in Columbia today and tomorrow, are- invited to make a tour of the campus under the direction of the U iverisit y Guidle-Service.1 This Guide Service is sponsored1 by the honor ser.vice fraternities on the campus withi a committee1 from Kappa Sigma Kappa. Mem-r hers of the KSK committee ar-e: Rayfor-d D). Gambr-ell, chair-man; D)on Saunders, Jot- Str-inger- an dIv Sam Sorota. 01 The servitce has already con ducted a number of tour-s of high school groups --usually groups I visiting the state legislature. Stu-.b dents working as pages in the s legislature notify Miss Jane Brooks Marshall at the university infor. R~ mat ion desk w'hen there is a group visiting the state house. Mis. Marshall then contacts the guidesjp with a faculty membe- to giv-e the group a welcoime address. If Membe-s of the guide service take the group around the campus showing thenm the different sites.r The latest issue of The Gamecock' is distributed among the group. NOTICE d The city Demecr-atic comn- ei mittee has ruled that students 'tl residing temporarily in Colnum- j, bia for the purpose of securing an education shall not be qual- j fled to enroll or vote in the rr municipal primaries. This in- ti formation wa, released this week for the Information of fi university stndents. in M )tudents 7 r eaders, A Nominations have been com mnt body and of classes, sti ieerleaders and May Queen. the Omicron Delta Kappa c I m., and from 2 p. m., until a held Wednesday. Candidates for president of rTminal Poses is Sigma Chi 4ember Here By RUDY RIVERS Fditor-in-Chief By amateur sleuthing and rough keen curiosity, an imposter id wanted man was arrested on ie campus Saturday, posing as a ember of Sigma Chi fraternity. Eugene Getz, reportedly wanted three states and having a long -iminal record, told police that he as from New Jersey. He had een posing as a member of various -aternities throughout the east )ast for a period covering two ears. He was charged with steal ig from fraternity members and assing bogus checks. A spokesman for Gamma Nu hiapter said that Getz was familiar ,ith fraternity ritual, dressed well, n was a smooth talker. But he ilked too much. His story failed > corroborate itself in several in :ances. Suspicion was aroused among tembers of the fraternity when etz said that he was formerly a xer. When invited to attend the IBT, he professed no interest. He Iso reported that he taught school New York and was on two weeks' ave. Fratern ty members later de berately posed questions designed > trip Getz. He incorrectly identi ed a Sigma Chi chapter in which e had said he was a member. earching further several of the iembers turned up a circular from ational headquarters identifying etz. That was the trump card. In the middle of Saturday's wee Durs Columbia police were called > take the man into custody. Getz as indignant but later admitted ast he was an imposter. He has een charged with stealing and ith passing a bad $20 check in olumbia. lary L Gaillard gamned Invitational ['ourniey Queen Miss Mary Louise Gaillard, uni arsity junior, was selected Queen the Southern Invitational Box ig tournament held here last eek. Miss Gaillard was selected om four other contestants by the xers from eight Southeastern hools entered in the tournament. The other sponsors were: Ann awl, Beth Fillingim, Delores [eyer and Mary Blanche Corry. iss Gaillard and the others were resented to the public shortly be re the final bouts Saturday ight. . Kruemeke Named 'o Represent ASME bt Meeting In April Paul Kruemeke, of Columbia, has een selected to represent the stu ent chapter of the American So ety of mechanical engineers at ie university in the regional meet ig at Clemson, April 7 and 8. He won the appointment over ohn Sallman, of Islandton. Both ten presented technical papers at te recent meeting of ASME. The engineering society took a ield trip March 15, to the Babcock nd Wilcox Refractory plant ira ngnsta. Ga. onday o Choose [ay Queen pleted for officers of the stu ident council representatives, Elections will be held Monday !ircle from 9:30 a. rn., until 1 4 p. m. Run-off elections will the student body are: Charles Eaddy, Al Fisher, Lamare Collie, and Bill Dominey; vice-president, Rodger Kelvin and Barney Dusen bury; secretary, Martha Helen Sawyer, Hilda Adams, and Betsy Knowlton; and treasurer, Mary Ellen O'Neil, Mary Bloodworth, Ann Ready, and Roger Ready. Cheerleaders to be voted on in clude Jimmy Henderson, Phil Saw yer, "Posson" Clemens, Joe Bull, Nancy Mitchell, Susanne Lewis. Bard Allison, Don Johnston, JoAnn Patrick, Jackie Cline, Jerry Riley, Mary Jo Clark, Dot Duncan, and Jeanne Turner. Also, Lou Oswald, Patsy Epps, Frances LaBorde, Jackie Phillips, Cassandra Manda, and Greg Hitopoulos. Candidates for senior class of ficers include the following: presi dent, Bob Thoren and Monrow (Red) Messer; vice-president, Al fred (Buddy) Hendrick. Cornelia Burnette, and Claude Scarborough; secretary-treasurer, Jean Thomson and Bert Jessup; and historian, John Savoy. Nominees for the rising junior class are: president, Bill Gibbs and Dick Polen; vice-president, Bobby Smith, Jeanette Beisley, Ira Edens, and Bill Yetman; secretary, Suzanne Lewis and Betty Sanford; and historian, Wibby Noles and Charles Merritt. Joe Pearce and Phriness Cox were nominated as president of the rising sophomore class. For vice president, Libby Lewis, Gertrude Jenkins, Glenn Gainey, and Mary Bloodworth; treasurer, Jack Jones, Bard Allison, and Elizabeth Tay lor; secretary, David Creel and June Kirk; and historian, will be Buddy Derrick or Madelyn Camp bell. Running for student council from the education school are Walyer Fries, Jane Bailey, Beattie H. Hipps, and Mary (Trig) Gillespie. From the pharmacy school are Paul Stoddard, Constantine Siokos, and Neal Hamrick. Business school representative nominees are Levi Alford, James Horton, and Elmer Davis. Wimpy Webb, Don Jackson, Joe Ingram, and Nancy Stewart are the candidates from the school of arts and sciences. From the school of engineering, nominees are Charles W. Cox, James F. Sims, William Baxley, and Bill Griner. Nominees for the Journalism School are Tom Price, L. C. Tank ersiey and Barbara McSwain. 'Y' To Install New Heads at Vespers During the Vespers service Sun day the new 'Y' officers wrill be installed. The new cabinet will also be installed. Plans are now in the making for the annual Easter service on April 6. The Carolina Religious Council i. in charge with Fred Reese as chairman of the committee, NOTICE Attention to page six, Revlon's Miss F asah ion Plate of 1930 contest. Male and female citizen. et the Carolina community are re quested to nominat, coeds to compete In the contest. The nominations will be reselved to the top ten receiving nemina tie.. and then these ten wBil he voted upon, the winner to ontor national competition. 'The nomination ballet pro vided will also serve as a voe.a Student cooperation will be