Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Member of South Carolina College Press Association Published Weekly by the Various Literary Societies Terms-$1.50 a Year Entered at the Columbia, South Carolina Postoflice on November 20, 1908, as Second-Class Mail Matter. NEWS STAFF S. WOUtE EiciE. .................Editor-in-Chief ISADORE Po.ER ............ ......AHanaging Editor W. LEE CRocKER .............News and Club Editor FRED MINSHALT. ....................Sport Edito JIhf,NY BALDWIN ....................Peature Editot Miss ELLEN HOUGH .................CotEd Editor C. B. WU.LIAS . ......................Editorials REPORTERS W. 0. VARN, A. W. HOLLER, HAROLD HENTZ, W. J. THOMAS, JAMES HEARON, ROBERT BASS, D. H. EARGLE CHARLES CUTTINO, VIRGINIA DOAR, MAUDE ELLIS, CATHERINE PHILLIPS NEws ITEMS may be handed members of the Staff, left at Box 444 Canteen, or phoned to the Editorial Offices at 907 South Main Street, Phone Number 4109, 'etween the hours of 3 to 6 p.m. on Wednesdays, and 10 to 11 a.m. or 2:30 to 8 p.m. on Thursdays. BUSINESS STAFF FURMAN R. GRESSETTE ....................Alanaer ERNEST B. CASTLES ......................Assistant SAMo. L. READY ..........................A . ssistant JOHN R. PATE .........................Circulatio:i Advertising Rates Will Be Furnished on Request. Apply to Business Manager. FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1925 Gamprark 0purs Just a little over three more weeks now. Dig to it for exams will soon be here-and vacation I * * * * We congratulate the Highway Commission on selecting such a man as Rear Admiral Samuel McGowan to be its chief, and prophecy a brilliant regime. * * * * If the present motion of the student body goes through we are to have some government. To hear some of the speakers the University student body has beeti almost bolshevik. * * * * When will Carolina own its own ball field Ask the Sally League. U.S.c. - A Real Need Should the student body of the University of South Carolina have a constitution? This ques tion seems to be the crux of the discussion heard in recent meeting of the student body. Was there ever any great organization, with wide-spread influence that tried to operate with out a set method of procedure, Picture in your mindl the ef'fect of the government of the United States without a constitution. Suppose Dr. Mel ton had no basis upon whbich to rest his administra tion of the University. Repeatedly T1 H I GA MECOCK has remarked upon the lack of governing power for student body officers. '[his is a need that must be filled at Carolina. Things cannot be forever dlecided by pre cedlence. The effect of this was shown in the recent controversy as to the power of the student b)ody~ to elect assistant managers for the athletic teams. if there is an existing copy of a constitution for the student body, we are only too willing that it should be brou:ght forward, It can easily be amended to fit the present day needs. Up to date no such constitution has been unearthed. THE GAMECOCK wishes to place itself in the ranks of those organizations that demand a constitution for our student body. The dilly dally meithods of government were perhaps good enough in the (lays of only a few hundred stu dents. where everyone knew everyone else and they all knew the customs of the past. But when any group or organization has nmem bers reaching above the thousand mark, then the laws must bae undwn~ in black, and wte so that strict observance may be enforced. Much credit is due H. M. DeL-orme, president of the student body this year, for his faithful work and conscientious efforts to do the best for the Uni versity but he was handicapped by the lack of tle written law in his decisions. The committee elected yesterday morning should see to it that a constitution be suggested as soon as possible in order that the matter not be left over for next year. The student body has iade a wise decision in providing against the re currence of the condition of past years. Now it is the duty of the committee to see that IS ADOPTED THIS YEAR. - U.S.C. We Register a Kick Should Carolina students be forced to pay to see their own team play ball on their own dia mond? Such seems to be the notion entertained by the officials of the Columbia South Atlantic League Team. Last week Carolina played V. P. I. in baseball in a double header with the league team. The un derstanding before the game was that Carolina students would be admitted to the grandstand on their athletic tickets, and then, if they so wished, to see the league game from the bleachers. When the student.body arrived they were re fused admission to the grandstand and were forc ed to sit on the bleachers, facing a boiling sun to see the college game until Mr. Driver arranged to pay an admission price for them to sit in the grandstand the remainder of the double-header. The Columbia club gained nothing but enmity for this arrangement. The University is renting the field to them at a minimum price and very few college men attend the games. Nothing was to be gained by forcing the students to sit in the bleachers for their own game, but they would have cheerfully (lone so for the league encounter. Carolina's 1925 baseball season is over but THE GAMECOCK urges that some understand ing be reached for next year so that the students may seo 'is own game in comfort and not be dis possessed of his own possession. - U.S.c. - Fall In! Have you ever tried to get someone over a telephone between the hours of six and eight in the eveinng? Half the time the operator will tell you that the "line is busy," and indeed it is a line. Some love-sick Romeo decides about six o'clock that he must talk to his one and only. He gets her number and for forty or fifty minutes love darts fly thick and fast over the wire. Thus 'tis this way. Several boys boys wanting to call girls at the same place, say, Columbia College, Chicora or the Co-ed "coop" would have to wait and wait on the long-winded devil to finish his hot line of bull. And my goodness, just imagine the tongue-trusting words that are bestowed upon him. "Tle state of Ohio seems to have solved this situation to some extent. From 7 to 8 o'clock in tile evening is "Swveetheart's Hour" on the tele l)honles. 'Thley have speCcial rules allowing a sin gle telephlone conversation, in any of the girls colleges, to last not more than three minutes. It is (luring this hour that appointments for the thea tre, dances and other places of amusements are mladle. -- u.s.c. -- O pportunity Knocks The inauguration of spring elections at Caro lina should present no difficulty now that we have dlecidedl to adopt a written constitution for the student body. 'rhe dlesigners of that document have it in power to p)rovide that elections of class officers be held in the spring and thus obviate the necessity of such action later. 'This is a splendid opportunity to incorporate in the student body rules several of the changes that are so evi denltly favored by everyone. 'THE G;AMECOCK urges the adloption of spring elections for it believes that they will facili tate studlent body action. At present some time each fall is lost before the classes can function andl before the social cab)inet and other bodies can take any action. The two months that pass before this is (lone now are usually a total loss as far as any move as a unit is concerned. We see no objections to suchl a plan. Practi cally every college and university in the country has adopted it. The faculty favors it here. We recommlend it to the constitutiona .o.mmite A Sweet, Long Line Have you tarted work on an active county club yet? Why not? Here is your chance to 'render your greatest service to Alma Mater with the least effort. Are you not interested in seeing Carolina continue to grow? I . Each summer the alumni secretary and men from the office of the Director of student acti vities visit the students in the various cities in the state in an effort to interest them in the great est University in the South. Are you helping them any? We do not claim to the originators of the ac tive county club idea. That honor goes to Bur nett Stoney, director of freshman activities. But wS do advocate that this is the best policy that we could uphold. Mr. Stoney advocates clubs that will keep in touch with the man and woman home that will make the ideal college student of tomorrow. This can best be done by personal touch. What little effQrt it requires to write a friendly and interest ing letter, filled with the doings of the University, to an old friend back home. If you are interested drop in and see Mr. Sto ney. He will tell you how to go about the organi zation of such a club and- how to function. You have the chance, will you fail Alma Mater and the State in your duty, or will you pick up the broken threads to weave a mantle for the building of the Greater Carolina? Down the Home Stretch We are at last nearing the "home stretch" Examinations are just about two weeks off. Thir teen days to be exact. Some of the students are perhaps planning to put their very all in this last attempt to make the grade and come out a winner, just as a distance runner would do on the cinder trail. Carolina has no student who will drop out before the race is over. Each man and; woman here will be fighting till the curtain falls on June 6, at high noon. Now is the time to take a few Inights off and brush up a little bit for that His tory or English exam. Only two more weeks till the race is on-confound it! but only three more weeks and all will be over win or lose-HURRAH.! THE WEEKLY ORACLE Better to Have Fought and Lost Than Never to Have Married at All By I. M. P. I CHANCED HE never changed TO wander into HIS RECORDS. J'H[4 COURT room 10 which HE REPLIED NOT SO MANY weeks * * * THAX' she could GONE by. A MARRIED couple st THAT lived** ** * * A BLOCK from me FO BRAH W'ERE ASKING for WHNtesard A divorce decree. "SOTN thi ** * * TlHEY HAD both LN"i ASSURED reputations'IH COR OF BEING the Ihdt LOUDEST and LAEFRfa L~ONGE~ST talkers OFluhn THAT HAD ever O''LU PERFORMED outside FRI hr * * **** A SID)ESHOW tent. WSee WHEN SHE presented API nsac HER side of O UTC TrHE MATTER ''-I n SHE said GTI n HE WAS worse GTI pet THAN a victrola WHNtemard * * ** * . BECUSE'EAH OTHLER. Charlie & Monroe Cofege Students Hair Cutting a Specialty Polite and Ifficient Service to all University Men Opposite Jerome Hotel Next to Woman's Exchange 1128 Lady St. Phone 6061 The Savoy Cafe "Open All Night" Food of the Best Quality Polite Attention 1327 Main St. Columbia, S. C. Students Are Welcome Capital Cafe "Nearest Restaurant to University" Your Patronage Will Be Greatly Appreciated Food of Best Quality Excellent Service 1210 MAIN STREET ENTERPRISE Hardware Co. 1324 Main St. Phone 4026 We Welcome You to Our City Foot Ball and Basket Ball Uniforms and Supplies "Special Prices to Students" I Health is necessary if you expect to make the Varsity-your health is assured if you eat at d W BILLY BULL'S al "A Meal a Minute" 1211 Gervais St. Phone 13502il Pure Milk 10c per pint All Kinds of Sandwiches We Serve a Vegetable Dinner el SNAPPY PIPES FOR COLLEGE MEN Meerchaum Pipes" Bakelite Socket Pipes * French and ,Italian la Briar Pipes 0 Cherry Wood Pipes ft Crego_Pipes SALE AGENCY rc Dunhill (London) Pipes re You will add to the enjoy- Ir mnent of your pipe if you ia smoke Pinkussohn's Pot- 'a pouri Tobacco. J. S. Pinkussohn or Cigar Company 1309 Main Mt. he SYLVAN BROS. op Jewelers and Diamond olf Merchants v CLASS RINGS AND PINS OF '1 THE BETTER KIND . C 1500 Main Street ' a Corner Main and Hampton Streets iu COLUMBIA, S.. C. 1