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45TH YEAR OF PUBLICATION GIfQ THE IRON CURTAIN (Se Pagv. 5) UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA -oXOLUVMBIA. SNoTH Ann INA& Maryland Trip Plans Complete Student Council )resident, Izzy I,ouiie, has announced final plans for the trip to Maryland for the Carolina-Maryland game to be played October 31. A faculty committee has ap jrovcd excused cuts from Satur. day (lasses for students going up on the train. Students will leave Columbia on t,he Silver Meteor at 8:,15 P.M. Friday, October 30. The tiain will arrive in Washington at (;:10 A.M. Saturday. The group will leave Washington at 1:50 P.M. Sunday and arrive in Columbia at 10:58 P.M. The price of the trip is $24.40. This includes round-trip train fare, hotel accommodations at the Plaza Hotel, and transportation to and from College Park, Md., eight miles from Washington. Meals are not included in the price. Girls planning to make the trip must have written permission from their parents. These letters must be mailed directly to the house mothers or Dean Childs by the parents. Registrar Henry 0. Strohecker and Mis. Strohecker will chape uone the trip. This is the second consecutive y:f' that Student Council has pmnsored a special train to a foot ball g-ame. Last year more than loo students went to New York in a group to see the Carolina A rimy game. A faculty committee yesterday approved excuse of cuts for those student, making the trip via the special train. Students who travel by car will not be excused since the university cannot accept responsibility for students traveling in a private vonveyance. 'Y' Students Go To Camp Long A bout 25 Carolina students will attend a retreat at Camp Long near Aiken this weekend Rep resentatives of student YM YWCA groups from colleges tHroughout South Carolina are ex ert ed to attend. Dir. R. Wright Spears, president of Columbia College, will be the main speaker. 'Ihe program will consist of zieches, workshops and recrea tion. 'Ilhe Carolina delegation will leave I-'riday at 2 P.M. from Flinn Ilfall. All students are invited t.o make the trip. McBryde Elects Fall Term Officers MTcBryvde Brotherhood elected officeirs for te fall term at its first meeting Monday night. They are: Bob Hamilton, president; Roy I laymnond and Grady McCoy, rles committee; .John Coleman, secretaryv; Billy .James, alumni corresponident; andi Alex Reed, Publicity dlirector. lhns for a dlance at Azon Grot to, to be held on the eve of the ('arolina.Clemson game, were dlis lThe organjiza tion is making a tiger~ to be burned on the steps of the State IIouse before the Clem - Non gamie. Flynni PresidIent of Newmuan Club The Newman Club, Catholic student group, elected its fall of fieers ant a meeting Wednesday night. TomIl Flynn of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. was namedi presidlent; (Cath Itne Fickl ing of Columbia, vice )t,s idet; anid Jack Colcolough of ColuImbia, treasurer. OthIer officers elected were De light Tieimann of Columbia, co(r tesptondling sec reta ry; Catherine McLaiine of Columbia, recorditng secretary;. and Mark Buyck of St. Matt hews, putblicity dlirector. l"at.her Tlheoptliums McNulty of thFlrantciscan~ Order is c'haplain INSTALLATION of fire sprinklers last week. Most new 1Ipe %prinklers the old strmetre, pipes muiit lie run i Mrs. DuBose, I University Pre In the Publish Louise Jones DuBose, diirector of the university press, will be one of six South Carolina authors featured in the sixteenth annual Coker College Literary Festival at IIartsville this weekend. . steady -coTrr ibutor to the literary life of South Carolina, Mrs. iulose will speak tomorrow morning on "How to Make Books, or the Fall and Rise of an Au thor." Begun in 1945, the press is the only publishing concern in South Carolina designed solely to pub lish books. Forty-nine separate titles have been published by the press to date. Of these, 30 have come out since Mrs. DuBose took charge in the summer of 1950. Her talk concerns what happens to an author during the publica tion of his book. She traces the story from the time he presents the publisher with a neatly typed copy of his work, "full of satis faction at his achievements and expectations that he has produced a best seller in its field." to the time when he is presented with a handsome hound and jiacket ed copy of his work. Mrs. DuB3ose plans to use ma terIs to illustrate the various stages of p)roductionl. Reviews, p)ic'tures and( jackets of about 20 of the books published by the Ulnive'rsity Press will be Former Professor To Be H onored In Chapel Today Friends of the late D)r. Josiah Morse. former head of the depart. menit of p)hilosophy and p)sychology at the u niversity, will pre'sent a memlorial prmogrami t oday at. 11 A.M. P'resident D)onald Russell willI acceplt a1 portranit of Dr. Morse in special Iexercises which wvill be held in the chapel. The p)ortrait will be p resentedl by ,1 lhn A. Chase. formier (lean of admniin ist ra - tion lhere. TFr ibuteos to D r. Morse will be nmade by D r. I oonard TF. la k er, pies idlentI '( imeritus of the uinive'rsity and Ilynman Rubin, chOi aia of t ho arraongement s comm~iit.tee' for the programn. AN NOlVNCI: 1l-'T All orgaizaOtiOons which hav~e re' eei vedl allocations blanks are re' qjuest ed to fill themo out and re urn to P rofessor deG.rav'el ines at the st ude'nt activities office in McCutcheon House. An early re turn of' the blanks will facilitate betteor c'onsidlerat ion, Professor de:rnrvel ines has an nouinced. inl the School of Journalism began are built in the ceiling. but lie to war the ceiling. Director of is, Figures ing World i1xhibited at a book tea at 4 'clock this afternoon. Also scheduled to speak is Katherine Drayton Mayrant Sim mns of Charleston, who will lecture on "The Historical Novel is Al ways With Us." rizabetth Uoatwright Coker of Hartsville, -whose third novel, "Inidia Allan," will be published next week, will preside over a poetry panel at the tea. Members of the panel will include Mrs. Du Bose, Mrs. Simons, Frank Dur ham and Dr. Chapman Milling of Columbia, author of "Red Caro Iiinians" and other works. Mr. Durham, now professor of English at The Citadel and formerly director of Columbia's Town Theater, will speak on "The opera That Did Not Get to the Metropolitan" (Porgy and Bess). Louis Booker WNright, a native of Greenwood and director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in W\1aslington, will lecture on "The Enjoyment of Literature." [T'S Al yE . . .A commonoa water Save' ben on exhm~ibit a,t the Noilog. ilackwell. and Dr. Hi. W.hm Feman. phomto) Safety Step Taken By University A $280,000 sprinkler system will be installed in dormitories and campus buildings not already fire proof, according to Dr. W. H. Patterson, dean of administration. Installation began !ast week in the School of Journalism and work is expected to be completed in six or eight months, Dr. Patterson said. Buildings in which sprinklers will be installed are: Barnwell, Sloan, DeSaussure, McBryde, Thornwell, Coker, Maxev, Elliott, Harper, Legare, Pinkney, Rut ledge, Currell, Woodrow, Burney, Snowden, Wade Hampton, the field house, the gym, an( the infirmary. Fire Protection on the buildings will be increased from five million to ten million dollars after the installation is completed, Dr. Patterson added. Another aspect of fire protection is that the fire doors in the cor ridors will either be locked or automatic doors will be installed. Clothes closets and janitor's closets will also be equipped with sprinklers. The General Automatic Sprin ler Com.pany out of Charlotte has been awarded the contract. Frat Rushing Starts Monday; Ends Nov. 12 Fraternity ru-4h week begins Monday and lasts until November 12, inter-fraternity Council Presi dent John Speer announced Wed. nesday. During the period from Monday to October 26 the fraternities will hold smokers. Each group is al lowed four smokers during the two-week period. Each fraternity will be allowed one party during the period from October 2o to November 12. Pledging will be at 2 P.M. Satur day, November 14. Following the last party on November 12 to pledging time on November 14 will be silent period. During the silent period no male freshman can speak to any fra ternity member. snake one f a umberof pisone Dearmet,pus n tswigln a Thspriua snkei nonpso Gen. Wal Under S( To Speak Jameson Addresses Law Body William .J. .Jameson, president :f the American Bar Association, ipoke on the role of the young lawyer and gave a brief outline on the current association pirojects at the university law school Tuesday. Later, at a meeting of the Rich land County Bar Association he stressed the plausibility of the Bar Association's influence on legisla tion and pointed out that the group's tax section was respon sible for the law on capital gains which allows any increase in the price of a house to he deducted if invested in a new home within a year. le )Ointed out that the Bar As sociation presented 2:3 acts at the last session of Congress with the interest of the public at heart. Tribute From Brownell Only recently, he said. A ttorney General Heibert Brownell paid tribute to the anti-trust section of the hatr, and added that haidly a week goes by without a con gressional committee asking the advice or opinion of the associa tion. Presiding over the luncheon was John Orews. president of the Richland County Bar Association. Also present were Associate .Jus tice E. II. Iendeison and Federal District .Judge George Bell Tim mernian, as wll as officials of the university. Mr. .Jameson outlined two major projects of the American Bar Association while speaking to the Law Federat ion, st iIent body organization of the law school. They weie a survey of the legal profession and the establishment of an American Dar Center. Advice-For Students "Prior to the <tidies made in connection with the >Lurvev of the legal profession, there was no legal data to assist Iw st-udent in dettermning where they should (Continied on page 8) ...m. n.e o ..... n.. . ,.. ter Bede] xcretary Here O< General Walter Bedell Smil will address a special convocati day, October 20, President Dor The convocationN will be the year designe1 to stimulate an Waller Bedelil Smidh AEC to Send Exhibit Here, Is Announced A ti aveling atomic energy ex h ilit fioi Oak Ridge, Tenn. will be on the university campuis some time in Februarv or March, Ox-i P. (Crow, dean of faculty has an nxouncedi. ThI- eXhibit is Ulnde- the auspices of intst itutions whieh are members of tlhe National University Exten sion Association and wil i be in Soith ('arolina from Feulitary 1.5 to March 15. I ia t h Ia vt y vet bete set for tlhe exhibit, but a three-day pt'iod wi!l be iet aside for the event. Features of the txhibit are ex pected to be splitting of an at.om and operation f the t;eigI couniter. but ti:I of :he exlibit have n1.' 1-ccn 41 )fi.ia1y alnnwunced. Live Snakes On Exhibit At Biology Dept. tus liv- snake~ts axe rtepresented i an txhuibit which clostes t.his week. endl at thec Iliclogy D)epartmxent tor thle s-'omnd fluor of I eConte Col I ntcluded in the d isphiy, whlxi mh'nit' parIt ot thle privalt- snake Ixau) ( lairec, art- a celirbyke rattlr tot pperheiaiiid motccasin , andi pygmty rttlert -- adl piisonous. N''n-piionouiits retiles inlud ite a redi belly waltr s na ke, comt)lmon water snake, andti common garter Dr1. 11. Wt. IFreemxa n, bio logy prto fe-sor. said t hat the large numn ber of live snakes capt ured at this time of the year is dute to) the fact that snxakt-s are no0w getting ready- to hibernate and ar-e mov ing aiboutt. F-or' this reason it is not especially diff~icutlt to find te.Thxey are usualycatue withl thet aid of' a long forked stick. Aetord ing to Dr1. Fret-man, a numb x e-r of Iivt- snakes wh ich wer-e ton ex\hibit t he ear-ly par-t of last wee "hav~e tntw been atddedl to the permxa nt'nt collec-tion,"' via a bottle of alc-ohol. Alpha Kappa Psi 1101(1s First Meet ta U IPsilIon (Chaptet- of Alpha Kappa Ps i, nattialI business fra tei-nity, held its fit-st smoker of the yeat- Tuesday night in its new quat-ter-s in Tene'ment 5. Prospec- ] tiv-e pledges wet-t given an1 idea ' of the purp-Josest and aims of the a or-ennization.F Fouided 1908 11 Smith, of State, tober 20 h, Under Secretary of State, on at the university on Tues ial( Russell announced today. seconl in a series begun last interest in foreign affairs at the illiver ity amd to promote imteinatji lj un'lerstanlding. At tile irst lconvoation Ren 1evepl. forimer wIomier of -rane, made ill d11' 1 on 1-uropean1 1 problems. I'lior to the collvoation itself (;vlf-lal Smith wil! review the univ s ity A ir I. re Volc cadts alid Naval R(l miROTc nn-n. The C(MvIwation wiPI be 11w,Id a " A. on tihe main camllws. The cerenumties il! in1clude the award of t he honof ary degree (if Doctor of Law to Glenal Smith by Gov ernFr .am F. Hyrnes and the aIdd re- bY Ge(nw ral Smi1t h The pili is cor-diallv invited to at "The iversity is highly hon Or'd to have General Smith with ls. IHis broad background of ex peiience - both military and diplomamic-makes him one of the real experts oin t,he dynamics of present world tensions." President Russell said. "I question that any man in Aime rica ha> a greater understanding of the power con flicts of t oday than General Smith. His service as chief of staff to Gener-l-al Eisenhower, in which position he was reslponsible for the planning and staff direction of the western assault on Ger many gives him ij stratcvic knowI edge of Eiuropeai (itfense, which. coupled with his uinerstanding of RUssia (cuuired during his out staiding service as our ambassa dol to 14%t coUln\ ry. makes hilm an aiilost inldi ien able man Its we -etk to asse peace aid security In thi- world "A compieh'sioln of in1t Lterna tional problesls is of parailmoutsl 'MPortance and i" lould be nu tured not lletely its a few metro pilital area:- b ,1u t1 colege caiml pim- '1 and int hie vat i regions Of America. (nly through a broad "nk e and !ould niliderstanid m1L1 of I l)code t il()io ghtuilt the na ! n , Il A eia !'eaH tile wise e'(IiCIon 'it,matnded bv he inter lati l:n l cx ig'lien (if today. NA, (w Mll faculty an'd stuldenlts. as wA a> *he peoplk- of the state. 5ieneraily. will be aided by General Smithl. t anav-i of wiisi coni( Geea Smith was sworn in as l'ndsr Secretar\ of State on I'ibruar svp. :ei: H e haid formeiiv .servedi i it ambasadorii i o t Sso v'iet Uiont, i; d tr of' (entranl Intell igence, Itnd (Ch1ief' of Sta ff (Continued on page 8) Mmne. Sweeney Will Deliver DAR Speech MatIdams)e Grace C'ameron Sw~eeny wil speak Wednesday. Oct 7 at the Pameila ('unningham Chapter of the l)A R. Hier subject will be "Persna 0tI Impr'essions of the (Corona55t ion."' MIaam Sweensy, professor of foreign hitnguasge~s is back on the calmputs again after a year's leave of absence. Dursing that leave she w'as in Ihurope three times. Among those stuiden ts from Columbia and S. C. accompanlJItlyinlg her were: Sophie McNuolty (Dlana ), "Tina" McTsNulty. G;. Ht. Kennedy, Louise Itoyle (Juomper), Susan Fair (llHoyle), Sidney Robinson, Nelle McC'ants, Mary Alice Rustin. Al emi White, Stephanie Boylston, "Fly Martin, Mickey Foil. Many of the South Carolinians attending the various Southern sichools were also ia her groups. Next summer Madam Sweeny vill include Ireland, Scotland, )enmark, Norway and Sweden as reil as England, Holland, Bel jum, Switzerland, Italy and rance.