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11w ta Weret# VOL. VII. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COLUMBIA, S. C., MARCH 14, 1914. No. 21 GAMECOCKS TO PLAY COLUMBIA LEAGUERS Carolina's Baseball Team Is Rounding Into Form. Coach Guerrant Picks About Thirty Men for Season Squad. The baseball team is rapidly rounding into form. The past week has witnessed much im provement in the working of the team. This week of practice eliminated a few of the candi dates from the race, but Coach Guerrant has retained every man on the field who has shown that he has the stuff from which baseball players are made. Every afternoon games have been played between scrubs and varsity. Judging by the score of some of these games, it is a difficnlt matter to say just which is varsity and which is scrub. The Gamecocks will tackle the Columbia Comers next Wednes day, Thursday and Friday. These pre-season games will be played on Davis Field. It has always been the custom for the Columbia league team and Carolina to mix up before the formal opening of the colle giate season. These games will give supporters of both the leag uers and the Gamecocks an op portunity of forming opinions as to the playing of'the two teams. Tho' the strength of the leaguers cannot at all be determined, it will give the fans something to talk about and to form conject ures upon. A pretty good idea of the strength of our team can be gotten. These games will give both teams excellent prac tice. There is a contest raging for that position behind the bat. No less than seven are trying to land this job, There is Dan Hey ward' Frowsy Bill, Thomas, Lay ton, Cooner, Stoney and, last but not least. Malishi Levy, all hoping to be the receiving end of the battery that opens the season with the Keystoners one week from Monday. Many are proving every day that they are going to belong to that varsity bunch, but they are so numerous that it would re quire a better baseball judgment than ours to pick the nine best bets. The games with the Coin ers will show us a few things. Subscribe to The Gamecock. MR. W. WAWNG MAKES INTERESTING ADDRESS Large Audience Hears Lec ture on Socialism. The Socialistic Movement and It's Relation to Everyday Life Discussed. Wednesday afternoon in the semi-circular room of LeConte college, Mr. Willoughby Walling, of Illinois, delivered a very inter esting as well as instructive ad dress on the Socialistic move ment. Mr. Walling opened his address by saying that no definition of Socialism would be able to con vey an adequate meaning of the movement. He remarked that the Socialist movement was the subject of his address rather than Socialism. He continued: "We find socialistic thought in direct proportion to modern de velopment and civilization." He first mentioned what Social ism is not. That it-is not a Uto pian movement; it is not an idea of what ought to be. The Social ist looks at facts as they are and tries to come to some decision as to what should be done. He spoke of Karl Marx who first advanced the idea of Socialism, and of the industrial revolution that was taking place when he lived. People began to work for somebody else; the capitalistic movement had its beginning at this time. Mr. Walling told of the philos ophy of Adam Smith, who be lieved that competition, 'laissez faire" doctrine, would be all that was necessary to cure all com mercial ills. Karl Marx studied the struggle for existence among men, the struggles between sec tions. Looking at this type of civilization, he saw that a man in order to work had to work for somebody else. This state of affairs had never before existed to any great degree. Marx asked himself this question: was this to continue? He evoived the 'theory of social surplus, the amount of service rendered minus the wages received. The only way of reinvesting this social surplus was to increase the manufacturing plant. This would increase competition, resulting in the formation of combinations or alliances. Marx believed the worker should take charge of the business. RESOLUTIONS ON DEATH OF R. Q. MITCHELL Student Representatives at Funeral of College Mate. Five Hundred Students March to the Station Behind the Hearse. At 2:15 oclock on the afternoon of March 6, Roy Quay Mitchell died at the University Infirmary. His death was caused by measles and pneumonia. This was Mitchell's second year at Caro-, lina; he was a member of the Sophomore class, was beloved by, all, and gave large promise of a useful life. His death was a severe shock to everyone. Mitchell's father and brother were at his bedside at the last. He was the son of W. C. and and Sarah Virginia Mitchell, and is survived by them and the fol lowing brothers and sisters: Sa rah Elizabeth, Cary F., A. F., W. K., and E. C. Mitchell. On Friday night, March 6, the student body met and elected W.. W. Wharton as its representative at the funeral. J. McB. Dabbs and A. E. Geer represented the Sophomore class. Both the stu dent body and the Sophomore class sent floral tributes, and both drew up resolutions of sym pathy. Below are the resolutions adopted by the student body: "Bowing beneath the weight of the severe shock which has come to us this day, in the death of our friend and fellow student, Roy Quay Mitchell, and recog nizing the loss to us of a friend and partner in our life; and "Whereas; he was a man shar ing the highest ideals of this campus, never failing to measure up to all the requirements of a' gentleman and companion among us, and "Whereas, in his course he had given large promise of usefull ness to his State and service to his fellow man, keeping before him principles of honor ahd un selfishness: and "Whereas, we, the students of, the University of South Carolina, desire to express our sympathetic, sorrow to his family and com munity in the loss of their son and friend; therefore, be it "Resolved, That the sympathy of the student lody of the Ini versity goes out to all who loved him and all who share with us the andness of his death. MR. E. D. SOMPAYRAC SPEAKS TO Y. M. C. A. Lectures On Practical Side of Achitecture. Says Deciding on a Life Work Should Be Prompt and Final and Done With Care. "The Practical Side of Archi tecture" was the subject chosen by Mr. E. D. Sompayrac, archi tect, for the sixth of the series of Life Work Lectures that the Y. M. C. A is offering. Mr. Sompayrac began his ad dress with some remarks con cerning his college career and the difficulties he encountered in seeking to discover his life work. In this connection he said, "I felt the need of practi cal advice most keenly, and a few weeks ago when asked to make this talk, I accepted the in vitation with a fulness of enthu siasm and an interest inspired the desire to help a fellow work er over the bridge which I had difficulty i: crossing." Following up the discussion of choosing a life work, he explain ed that on account of the debts incurred in college, which may be either debts of gratitude only or debts of both gratitude and financial obligation, the student's decision "should be prompt and final, and above all it should be complete with a firm and keen determination." After these preliminary re marks relating to the choice of life work, the architect skillful ly presented "The Practical Side of Architecture." He stated that although the profession is an old one, yet "it has not lost any of its charms, on the con trary, it'has become diversified, it stands, with its allied arts, first in importance in all our in dustrial development." He then mentioned the two branches of knowledge that constitute the fundamedtal principles of the profession, namely, the technical and the artistic; the former con sisting in constructive ability; the latter in appreciation of things beautiful, proper propor tionment and harmonious blend ing of colors. The first step towards enter ing architecture as a profess ion, according to Mr. Somayrac, is to select some university with a broad course of study which wuil nprare the student for his