Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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"Bxs Cou.o NxwsPApn ix SoUTZ CAROINA" Member of the South Carolina College Press Association Published Weekly by the Various Literary Societies of the University of South Carolina. Terms--$150 a Year Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter at the Columbia, South Carolina Postoffice on November 20, 1908 NXws Insus may be handed in to any member of the staff EDITORIAL STAFF BURTON SnooK . . . . Editor-In-Chief Bauca WHX . . . . Managing Editor SYDNXY HXYMAN . . . Associate Editor RA.pim L%wis . . Associate Eder WarrNmY TnARwN . . . Associate Editor ]b BALuENoER . . . Sports Editor MAYOx WA.L . . . Co-Ed Editat ASSISTANTS Wn.uAu A. BauNSoN . . . . Cluba SURA WorXs . . . . . Co-Ed BARRoN BR=Gxs . . . . . Y.M.C.A. JoSepH KARaxs . . . . . Forensic REPOR'lERS James Pitts, Elizabeth Hardy, Dixie Davis, Erskine LeGette Eugene Carmichael, William B. Moore BUSINESS STAFF JAama DuRcz . . . Business Manager JosEn Hiomt . . . . . Assistant HJNUY War.Ea . . . . . Assistant JAc= BATas . . Circulation Manager WM.JAK PARRISH . . . . Assistant SZXRwoon SUMr . . . . Assistant SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1927 Gamecock Spurs By Z. S. The head of The Gamecock says that he can write editorials and thing nothing of it. And no one else thinks anything of them either. * 0 * * * A New York delicatessen firm recently signed on the dotted line for 50,000 pounds of cheese. A rather bind ing contract. Age is that time in a man's life when he ceases to laugh and begins to be shocked. As Mark Anthony remarked, "Caesar is not an am bitious man," for Julius was not a campus politician. * * * * * As carbuncke -aid: "We're all boils and girls to-# gether." An attempt at originality is something like busting a course, you don't get any credit for it. When a student recently shot himself, his mother said that he always was a little scatterbrained. A certain college president says that he has a perfect right to objecting to co-eds wearing such thin dresses. That's not hard to see through. A chain of thought is no stronger than it"s weakest think. -Usc Thanks P.C. To L. W. Jackson, president of the South Carolina College Press Association, to his associates, and to the studcnt body of Presbyterian College and Dr. Parkin son, its head, The Gamecock, on behalf of the Univer .sity's delegation to the convention, extends its heartfelt gratiude and thanks for the cordial reception and cour teous treatment accorded them. Not only the members of the reception committee but every member of .the stu dent body did his best to make our stay pleasant and .profitable. This kindness cannot be forgotten and the only hope .of The Gamecock is that it may reciprocate in part when the Association meets in Columbia the coming year. Bravo. Social Cabinet! The Gamecock heartily congratulates the Social Cabi net on its Thanksgiving dance. It was a most enjoyable affair and the large crowd present was in the festive mood necessary to get the most out of It. This Alance is a concrete example of what the Social Cabinet .csn do when the money Is at its disposal and js an additional argument in favor of the Social Cabinet's putting on all gymnasium dances, with certain exceptions, notably; the' junior dances. Control of gym dances by the Social Cabinet is cer tainly more desirable and more profitable to the student body as a whole than their exploitation by a small group, for the avowed purpose of fitting up club rooms which could be enjoyed byr only a miserably small percentage of th'e student body. Tlhe members of' the Soicial Cabinet, Raymond Hilde brand, Hattie Scarborough, and Pratt Gasque, have shown what they can do if given charge of the dances and The Gamecock, thanks them on belialf of the stu dent body. The Press Elsewhere - Some of the highly combustible Lindsey tinder has flared up at the University of California at Los Angeles. A vagrant spark, in the form of the Portland report of a 1"Revolt of Youth" lecture, published in the daily Bruin, caused the conflagration. Regent Edward Dickson has ordered the Bruin hermetically sealed in hope of suffo cating the incipient blaze. As editor of the Los Angeles Express, Mr. Dickson should be qualified to pass judgment on the impropriety of news. And as former editor of the Dhily Californian he should know the just scope of college papers. As is regent of the university he considers Judge Lindsey's ;views on youth unfit for campus consumption. All this is easily explained, but Mr. Dickson's remedy is far more dangerous than the evil which he attempts to stamp out. He tampers with democratic student ad ministration and establishes with one gesture, a despot -ism. He usurps authority from the Bruin eritor and takes advantage of regental privilege to enter by the back door and clamp a censorial muzzle on the Bruin. If successful, this act of the California regent under ,mines the entire under-graduate structure of self-deter ,mination. Without discretionary rights, the student editor be Icomes a marionette dancing to the whimsical tugs of any meddlesome passerby. If supervisional pressure i3 found necessary, it should be brought to bear through the responsible editor, not through official university chan nels. Criticism, advice, suggestions-all these could be freely bestowed with benefit to the student publication from the sagacity of long professional experience. But the satisfaction of a peremptory command is not legiti mately obtained by the overhead route. Any despotic control, no matter how benign, is inimical to the fairest and most truthful news treatment. - Such control robs the paper of all initiative. It is restricted to the house-organ compass. -Oregon Daily Emerald. The Open Forum To The Editor of The Grmecock: Again I ask for a few lines in your column, this time to lambast the Social Cabinet of the past year and to congratulate the Social Cabinet of this year for the re spectful treatment accorded the alumni of this institu tion at the Thanksgiving day dance. Last year, by force of arms and otherwise, the Social Cabinet denied the alumni admittance to the floor. Words, urgings, pleas were to no avail. The alumni were told that they were not welcome-and that was the end of the matter. The alumni were powerless in the face of the tremendous and huge bulk of the potent head of the organization. This omnipresent and ubiquitous individual stood guard-and the graduates treked homeward, their hegira marked by the voicing of vehement imprecations against the Social Cabinet of 1926. This year witnessed an entirely different situation. The alumni returned to their tasks with panegyrics ior the Social Cabinet of 1927 on their lips-and rightly so. This year's Social Cabinet recognizes the fact that the alumni are part and parcel of the University and is see ing to it that they are treated as such. Let an alumnus present his Association card and he is as welcome as the student with his athletic ticket. Loud and long did the appreciative alumni wax in the.ir praises of the personnel of the Social Cabinet of 1927, Raymond Hildebrand, Pratt Gasque, and Miss Scarborough. May I extend to the Social Cabinet. of 1927 my very best wishes for a most successful year; they have begu-n brilliantly and they will continue so. Respectfully, Commentator. To The Editor of The Gamecock: The Carolina schedule for 1928 reveals that the Uni versity of Virginia will be played on their home grounds for the second consecutive year. Virginia Polytechnic Institute was played at Richmond for three consecutive years. I would like to enter a protest against the injus tice that has been done the Carolina student body, voic ing -the sentiments of a great number. If Carolina plays Virginia at Virginia the week follow ing the Chicago game, it means the team must travel l,700 miles in nine days, which will not leave them in very good condition for the Maryland game. In fairness to Coach Lightsey, the Virginia game should be played in Colunibia, and if possible, on Dec. 8th, the last game of the season and it could be made the home-coming game, Lightsey will have practically a sophomore team, and if the harder games are played toward the end of the season, fWe would have more time to develop team work, initerference, and tack'ling. The weather will al so be more favorable toward the end of the season. if the Virginia game is transferred to a later date, some state team could be taken on in its place, or an open date would give the team time to prepare for Maryland. Sincerely yours, Spinach. ----U-c To The Editor of The Gamecock: I have heard some criticism of the band for not play ing at the North Carolina State game, and I would like to explain. The orchestra, containing a very important element of the band, had an engagement in Atlanta, and, of course, were out of town for the day. In addition, several others went out of town. not having had a chance be fore beceuse of games, leaving only six men here, too small an aggregation to play. Leslie W. Edwards, Mgr. Welcome Uftiversity Students to BURNETT'S DRUG STORE DRUGS, DRINKS, CIGARS, STATIONERY Whitman's Candy anA Eastman's Kodak Supplies One Block from Campu---Phone 3191-Cor. Main and College CAROLINA STUDENTS' BARBER SHOP ONS BLOCK Ground Floor State Office Building "SPECIAL SERVICE TO UNIVERSITY STUDENTS" IF YOU ARE PLANNING A TRIP, BE SURE TO USE THE CAMEL CITY COACH LINE YC.rOw COACH CHAIR CARs-The smoothest running, easiest riding busses in operation-A ride will convince you! 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