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"BEsT Coi.t.as NEwsPAPER IN SOUTH CAROLINA" Membeg 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-Ciass Mail Matter at the Columbia, South Carolina Postoffice on November 20, 1908 Nzws ITZMS may be handed in to any member of the staff EDITORIAL STAFF BURTON SHOOK . . . . Editor-in-Chief BRUCE WHrIT . . . . Managing Editor SYDNEY HEYMAN . . . Associate Editor RALPH Liwis . . . Associate Bdetor WHITNEY THARIN . Associate Editor ED BALLENGER . . . . Sports Editor MAYRC WALL . . . . Co-fid fditot ASSISTANTS WILLIAm A. BRUNSON . . . . ClubA SURA WOLF8 . . . . . Co-id Eve1VF CARMICHAEL . . Y.M.C.A. Dixie DAVIS . . Sports ERSKINz LEGETTE . - . . . Faculty JosEPu KARESH . . . . . Forensic REPORTERS James Pitts, Elizabeth Hardy, Harold Funderburk, Jack Hamiiton, Barron Bridges, William B. Moore BUSINESS STAFF JAsPER DEaRmcK . . . Business Manager JosEPa HioTT . . . . Assistant HENRY WALKER . . . . . Assistant JAcx BATS . . . Circulation Manager WU.;.A PARRISH . . . . Assistant SHZRWOOD SMITH . . . . Assistant FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1927 Gamecock Spurs By H. S.H. If it is necessary to woo the muses in writing "Spurs," I'll always be a bachelor. * * * * * A headline in The Columbia Record says: "Miss Elder improves, hops from Madrid to Paris." She seems to have a slight edge on the iamous Mexican jumping beans and if she gets any better, she will have to look for new continents to conquer. * * * * * As winter apUroaches, we beg the co-eds in Captain Lawrence's dying words, "Don't give up the slip." * * * * * Many students complain that these Spurs are not so "hot." What do you want for a nickle, the Chicago ire? * * * * * A Carolina student had his picture taken by a local concerni and when he recei*ed the proofs, he wanted to sue them for libel. What the gentleman needed was not a photographer but a magician. The trouble was that he was taken at his face value. *a* * * * Some one has just retired and said that he must go to the arms of Morpheus. We wondered all the time who his jane was. * * * * * The best way to get one's name on the front page: Praise Lindbergh, Swin the English Channel, Beat Yale, Praise Lindbergh, Do the century in nine seconds, Commit murder, Praise Lindbergh. * * * * * Mess-hall steak gets tougher and tougher and there's .no bull about that. SA newvs item in~ South Carolina paper said that the body of a minister camne to th~e surface of a lake many days after he had drowned--Is the same old story: you can't keep a good man down. "Cars and Radios grow in Kansas grain fields,' says a headline iii the Christian Science Monitor. Sounds like sonmc more of Burbank's work. * * * * * The lower the origin; the higher the hat. Open Politics Before the recent freshman elections one enterarising candidate had printed posters put up at strategic points announcing his candidacy and asking the electorate for thAir support. To this man The Gamecock takes off its moral hat and makes profound obeisance. His action is an indication of the healthiest tendency that has been exhibited at Carolina since the Editor's arrival. He has recognized the fact that polifics is an established institution at Carolina, a fact every man and woman at Carolina knows and admits, (at least to himself or herself). The plan followed heretofore by a candidate for office has been to direct his campaign through his friends and profess total ignorance when questioned concerning his candidacy. This plan has resulted in mud-slinging and misunderstandings. Oiken politics woulid be a blessing to the University; the responsibility of a man's candidacy would be placed at the door of the man himself. The adoption of open politics would place Carolina among other great Institutions which have recognized the fact that campus honors are distributed on a political basis 'and who have decided that open politics is the best way to effect this distribution. Once again The Gamecock wishes to congratulate the~ gentleman who announced his candidacy. More stength tohi bowa. Think This Over The' letter in last week's Open Forum anent the activi ties of the Block "C" club brings tip the very pertinent V.uestions: Why does the Block "C" club have the gym and what do they intend to do with the money to be made from putting on the Saturday night dances? The Gamecock has not found out the answer to the first question. It has been informed by a member of the Block "C" club that the money made from the dances is to be expended on a club room which will be located in the field house; which seems to furnish an answer to the second question. Club houses regarded in the abstract are perfectly de lightful things and are welcomed everywhere; but the University cannot afford a luxury when it is doing without so many of the necessities. Our Extension department is running without an appropriation. This means that the only department throuh which the University can directly touch the state is being handicapped for lack of funds. - Undel the management of the Social Cabinet last year the money from the dances was returned to the student body in the form of free dances. Under the present plan a private organization is to he the only beneficiary. 'he matter is at least worthy of thought-and action I __Usc The Open Forum To the Editor of the Gamecock: Whoever '28 be-I would like to know-I concur with the just lambast and deserving rebukes he directed against the blundering tactics of the Block "C" ciub at the gym dances. His logic is irrefragible-and I do not believe that the spokesmen of the embattled warriors and followers of the type of financial wizardry made famous by the cele brated Pomazi, will endeavor to raise their voices in protest in an attempt to refute what '28 has so aptiy said. If they do, their hue and cry can of necessity, be but a feeble outburst. At their .conclave, no doubt, their 'palavering was hushed and subdued. Easily understood. Difficult, indeed, is it to destroy a stone wall when there are no effective tools to be had. TMhe prediction for the unsurpassed splendour of Home coming Day received a severe jolt as weli as a jarring deflation. Quite a striking contrast is it between a curt rebuke or a menacing threat of a decidingly uncomfortable impact upon the seats of the venerable alumni's trousers, and the greeting with open arms or amiable backslapping. Harsh words replaced hosannas, insults were substituted for wel comes, threats crowded out jubilant words of cheer, ieachery iritead of ardour and hospitality.. Other institutions of learning possess students who receive their alumni with great gusto, pomp, and pageantry. Our University boasts of a Gargantuan ticketseller and his equally Gargan.tuan assistants who, as'28 has said, classified them with truck-drivers, boilermakers, thugs and the endless riff-raff. '28 has explained ciearly the reason for the Block "C" Club's demand of an extra dollar from those not students. To keep undesirables away, of course. And the alumni were charged that extra dollar-which means? Four long years at an institution-for what? A supporter of this mercenary practice covertly declared, by way of defense, that it was the right and the preroga tive of the Block "C" Ciub to exact what price they willed from the alumni. Prerogative or not-rights be hanged what about the ethical side of the whole affair? And what about its being proper? No consideration of that what soever. All that is overlooked-and the poor alumni con tinue to be squeezed. '28's remarks seem to have borne fruit. By some mira cle from heaven and by a gracious act of Providence, the Block "C" Club has surrendered its monopoly on the gym to the junior class for one Saturday night, at least. The writer is of the opinion that the junior class will not follow the example laid down by the mercenary athletic cynosures of the University of South Carolina. The writer does not believe that it, too, will be guilty of such a colossal blunder. Yours respectfully, -S. C. To the Editor of the Gatnecock: The writer has been informed that there is a certain theatre in Columbia that though largely supported by Carolina studenats, refused to give complimentary tickets to the football men. But worse than that when the "150 freshmen" were staging a shirt-tail parade orj the night of the North~ Carolina game, they started in this theatre, but were forcibly ejected fronm the entrance, and several were thrown across the sidewalk. This is a gross insult to the students of the University and the students should remember it when taking in shows. Another thing worthy of comment is the splendid and gentlemanly conduct of the Clemson cadets. 'lPhe writer does not remember one instance in which they were not good sports. After their shirt-tail parade uptown, they came into our campus singing, "We'll ride old Furman on the rail." They gave fifteen rahs for Carolina and dis persed. While this was going on a few Carolina men, and their friends came out to start a scrap. The trouble was avoided, and we hope the cadets will not mIsjudge us by this group. -'24 ---Usc W ho Cares A bout T hat IT SEEMS THAT Mr. Editor IS TRYING TO shut ME OUT THIS week. 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