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"BEST Co.L%Gc NewSPAPtR IN SoUTH CAROLINA" Member of the South Carolina College Press Association Published Weekly by the Various Literary Societies of the University of South Carolina. Terms--$1.50 a Year Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter at the Columbia, South Carolina Postoffice on November 20, 1908 Nzws ITums may be handed in to any member of the staff EDITORIAL STAFF BURToN SHooK . . . Editor-in-Chief BRUc WHrTS . . . . Managing Editor RAI.PH LEwis . . . . Assoctate fdotor WHITNEY THARIN , . Asso'ciate Editor ED L)ALLENCER . . . . Sports Editor MAYRI WALL . . . . Co-fd fditot ASSISTANTS WILLAm A. BRUNSON . . . . Cluba SURA WoLV8 . . . . . Co-Ed EUGENE CARMICHAEL . . . . Y.M.C.A. SYDNEY HAYMAN . . . . . Features WrLLIAM Moos . . . . . Humor Dixis DAVIS . . .. Sports ERSKINn LuGorr . . . . L Faculty ERSKINx LxGETTE . . . . . Faculty JosSPH KARXSH . . . . . Forensic REPORTERS Jack Hamilton, James Pitts, Thomas Wofford, Elizabeth Lindsay, Gladys Lawton, Ray Godshall, Kenneth Grimsley, M. C. Williams BUSINESS STAFF JASPER DERRICK . . . Business Managtr JoSEPH HIOTr . . . . . Assistant HENRY WALKER . . . . Assistant JAcK BATER . . . Circulation Manager WIr.IAM PARRISH . . . Assistant SHERWOOD SMrTH . . . . Assistant FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1927 Gamecock Spurs One grofessor has said that he does not like to hear anyone use profanity in any form, it is a good thing for him that he is a bit deaf when the class is unprepared. The Apple That Won't Be Split Upon complaint of the manager of the Gamecock press ing club a certain young man on this campus has been asked to ,,top soliciting work for Free Brothers cleaning com pany. He has been informed that the "rights" to solicit work have been given to the Gamecock pressing club. The young man in question entered the University in the fall of 1926 and by hard work, and sheer persistence built up a small business which sufficed to keep him in school. Entering again this year he is told that all rights to campus cleaning business have been given to the Gamecock pressing club. Dean Baker states that so far as he knows the pressing club is being run under the same arrangement as it was last year, which provided that the pressing club should be a subsidiary of the canteen and give a certain percentage of its roceipts to the canteen. Note: last year the activi ties of this young man were in no way interfered with and no so-called "rights" were given to his competitors. Note further: Dean George Olson, a member of the canteen committee says that to his knowledge no part of the pro ceeds of the Gamecock pressing club have ever been turned over to the canteen. From the above facts one must inevitably deduce that: the pressing club is a purely individual enterprise and that any "rights" which have been given to the pressing club by those jn authority have been given without a thorough understanding of the situation, one would hate to think otherwise. We feel sure that the comDlaint from the manager of the Gamecock pressing club was also made through a niistake, certainly he is sport enough to take his chances on getting the campus cleaning business in competition with the young man in question. -USC The Gamecock Growls? Looking back over the years we vividly recall our first trip to a county fair where, after a glowing account of the wonders performed by a biological relationship, we paid ten cents to see an animal that was half cow and half horse. Later in life, when we had reached that age of sophistification, we journeyed to a larger and more elaborate State fair. There we took in all of the won ders to be presented in a side show. The cow with five legs; the two-headed pig; the man with the rubber skin, and we even went so far as to pay twenty-five cents to see a hen that the "barker" claimed could crow. Al though it did not crow while we were there, we took him at his Word and he took our money. Mr. Barnum (or was it Mr. Bailey) succeeded in bring ing to the United States a white elephant. Ringling Brothers, these princes of showdom, have in captivity probably the largest number of freaks ever gathered to gether under one tent. Every possible mishapen and 'misplaced freak that one can imagine has been brought together under the canvases of the show world and yet a close survey of these wonderful "critters" show that there it not a,Gamecock among them that can growl. In fact we even go so far 'as to protest against the even' childish prank of maling a Ganpecqck growt "just for fun." It is not even funny. It is sad. The last growling we heard around here was that of a defeated Terrier. We thing it best that the Terrier continue to growl and someone teach the Gamecock how to crow both loud and lustily. 'What Price Pressing A young man came here as a freshman last year, on the heels of his family's suffering serious financial losses, making it necessary for him to work his way through, and he secured a job soliciting for Free Brothers' Dry Cleaning Co., which enabled him to make ends meet. Returning this fall, he again took up the same work. The Gamecock pressing club began, only th;s fall, to send its cleaning to Free Bros., and immediate.y filed a com plaint to our 'italt that the young ian was interferring by continuing with the work he has held for a %ar. If the campus establishment finds it necessary to resort to such perverted business ethics as to request the authorities to force .its competitors out of the field, it would seem to indicate that competition, which is the life of legiti mate trade, would mean its death. That is plainly an 1rgument against the Gamecock club, which will injure it. It would have acted wisely had it maintained silence. If soliciting is allowed on the campus, why should the .campus establishments be enthusiastically encouraged to do it, and Mr. Bryant, the young man in question, forbidden? The dean has notified him that exclusive rights have been granted the canteen and the Gamecock pressing club. "Ed" is about to be forced to leave school for lack of money why should nne man be assisted to work his way through and another prevented? It is a particularly flagrant injus tice since Mr. Bryant has not complained that the others are taking his business. As a matter of fact, they are doing precisely the same thing, but one of them was there first, and accordingly should be shown first consideration. The writer holds nothing against the Gamecock press ing club; hardly knows its owner or owners, save by what he or they have done recently, and would dislike to judge them by that act. W. B. Moore. THE WEEKLY ORACLE Exeunt Omnes BY B.W.W. YEAR after AND "OLE" *5** *5** YEAR as one JOE-I wonder *5** *5** RETURNS to WHAT HE is *5** *5** THE campus DOING this year?" * * * 5*5 HE hears, THEY have * * * * * * INVARIABLY, in PASSED on * * * *5** THE early INTO the * * * REALMS of PART of every * * * * * * RESPONSIBILITY. NEW year * * * * * * WHEN we LAMENTATIONS * * * * * * STOP to think CONCERNING the * * * * * * -WHY such CHANGED atmosphere * * * * * * PLEASANT relations THAT exists, * * * * * * THAT are formed "THE old school * * * * * * IN COLLEGE DOESN'T seem * * * * * * DAYS must AS itdid * * * * * * BE broken. LAST year," * s* * * * WE SEE that .IS heard * * * * * * SUCH is in OVER and over * * * * * * AOCORDANCE with the AGAIN. * * * * * * UNSTABLE SO many of the * * * * * * PHENOMENA of OLD bunch * * * * * * NATURE that HAVE gone * * * * * * HAVE engaged the NEVER to * * * * * * ATTENTION of sages RETURN except * 5- + *** THROUGHOUT the ages. BY chance. * * * *** WE all THEN there are * S *MUST exist.* MATERIAL changes SOONER or * * * * * * THAT make the LATER WE *5** *5** CAMPUS seem MUST follow * * * DIFFERENT. THE directions "WHERE is John, OF "EXEbNr* DAN, Edward, ,nMNEn**" Welcone University Students to .BURNETT'S ..DRUG STORE' DRUGS, DR#INKS, CIGARS, STATIONERY Whitman's Candy and Eastman's Kodak Supplies. One Block from Campus-Phone 3191-Cor. 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