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$s GA4coc( "BEST Cou.ms NEwsPAPR IN SOUTU CAROINA" ietnber of the South Carolina College Press Associalion d 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 ITEMS may be handed in to any member of the staff EDITORIAL STAFF BURTON SHOOK . . . . E ditor-in-Chiuf BRUCE WHITE ... . . Managing tditor SYDNEY HEYMAN . . . Associate Editor RALPH LEwis . . . . Assocwt Sditor ED BALLENCER . . . Spor't Editor MAYRE WALL , . . . Co-d fdito, ASSISTANTS WILLIAm A. BRUNSON . . .. ClujN SURA WOLFE , , . . . Co-d BARRON BRIDGEs . . . . . Y.M.C.A. JOsEPH KARESH . . . . . Foresic REPORTERS Jatmes Pitts, Elizabeth Hardy, Dixie Davis, Erskine LeGette Eugene Carmichael, William B. Moore BUSINESS STAFF JAsPr.R DERRIcK . . . Business Manager JosEpu Hiot . . . . . Assistant H%NRY WALKER - . . . . Assistant JACK BATES . . . Circulation Manager W.LIAM PARRISH . . . . Assistant SHERWOOD SMITH - - . Assistant FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16,1927 Gamecock Spurs By H. S.H. Our debate for this evening wi1 be on the subject of Prohibition, which will be discussed Pro and Corn. * * * * * Love is the sweetest vord in the language and it is also the most expensive. * * * * * Wouldn't the barber get a thrill if Lady Godiva came in for a hair-cut I * ** * * We are afraid to say anything about the Junior Leg Revue for fear a limb of the law might intervene. * * * * * After viewing Ford's latest product we think that Henry owes the public another apology. * * ** * Some of the campus night owls would probably like an Eskimo date where an all night session would last six months. * * * * * Lindbergh and his famous "Spirit of St. Louis" seems to be flying high in the iimelight at the present moment but he might sometimes take a turn for the worst and then "WE' would be among the "de-parted" Spirits. One Swallow does not make a Spring but it sure goes .a long way towards a pleasant evening. -UsC Mirry Christmas and-. The Gamerock wishes overy student a most enjoyable holiday season and hopes that the spectre of examinations will not be allowed to spoil the glad moments and dampen the festive spirit. You Who shave' been -dragging weary bones to eight o'clock -classes Imay now take your ease until 'mid-day, mother, or hunger drives you .out. >You who have ben listening to 'the, alluring strains of Bacchus- nlay content yourselves with the parlor orthophonic. You who have ac customed yourselves to steam-heated rooms must now take your turn at building the fires. When you rise heavily, after performing heroic gastronomic feats at mother's meals remin~d yourselves that "it won't le long now" until the mid-year -Horrors. By sundry .like remindef s you Mtil greatly add to the pleasure of the holidays. Anyway, eat, drink and be nyerry. for tomorrow you iay diet. (H yot,'ve heard this, stop me': lMerry Christmas knd- a Happy New Year. Ye Humble Editor.) Someone Page .Frigi4igqre Several complaints have been heard about the lack of fieating facilities, in the field house and these complaints .prompt the question, Why isn't there a heating system in Caroiina's..latest athletic plant?. 'Ilhe frigid atmosphere now prevailing ins the field house must be extremely uncomfortable to the' players. 'All th'e men out for basketball cannot play at once and thus keep warm. One squad must remain on the sidelines while another is at practice. One can well imagine the danger ancountered when a mazn plays hard for a few minutes and becomes hot, and then suddenly stops and has to wait in a cold room for his next turn. This is an unreasonable hardship to itadict on already hard-wor'king althletes. That is, it is unreasonable if there is any rentedy within'reach. The players are not the only ones *Ro niust suffer for Iaek of heat. The spectators will be in the same predica nqint when the regular season opens. The click of the tiirsdsVles' Ia the mot mfaalt s.und ever ha by ah.' letic authorities, but the volume of this very pleasant sognd must be expected to diminish if the field-house 'Is not heated. No one enjoys sitting down in a cold room and freezing slowly while watkhing an athletic contest. People least of all can't be expected to pay out good hard-earned money for the privilege of catching a cold. The contention has been raiied that the body heat of a crowd will serve to keep the building from becoming ton uncomfortable, but it is doubtful if a large enough crowd wil be out except at one or two games. Of course, a large number of flappers would help. ( -USC-_ Our Version of Christmas Over nineteen hundred years ago there was born a man whose birth has influenced history more than, any other. His divinity and religious beliefs have been bitterly as sailed, but the light of centuries still reveals him as one of the most bejteficent and kindly figures that ever trod this earth. He introdu:-ed the idea of mercy at a time when the word was unknown, and practiced what He preached. Observance and celebration of His birth is even now beginning and, will reach its climax on or before December 25. The astounding things about the whole procedure are the forms which the celebration will take. Stores will take down their fire sale signs and hang out a beautifully tinscied and red-painted streamers; harried gift-givers will reluctantly wrap up small packages and mail them because they are afraid that so-and-so will send a present, and it would never do to receive a present and iot give one, the other fello%v might not get his money's worth. People will wonder, "Is this nice 'enough' or should I pay more." Everyone wiil breath an immense sigh of relief when the whole hurried, irritating thing is over. And all this much-to-do is to celebrate the birth of an humble Carpenter who probably never had an extensive wardrobe, who gave for the sake of giving and not for the sake of returns, and whose significance has not been totaly obscured, even by the Buy-and-Sell orgy which is named for Him. ---USC Knighthood Gone to Seed Several co-eds have had water thrown upon them as they were going around the corner of tenement 20 on their way to the 'Y' or to town, and have rightly resented it. Needless to say, a getnleman would not purposely do such a thing. The frequency of the offense has led the vict;ms to believe that it is done purposely, but they have no redress other than an appeal to the courteousness of the perpetrators of these acts. The denizens who inhabit this tenement should draw a line between jokes and acts of boorishness and should re member that a man is a gentieman only so long as he comports himself as such and that his actions toward a lady are a sure barometer of his breeding. _USC The Collegev Aristocrats A recent editorial in the Charleston News and Courier states such a good case for fraternities that it is well worth printing, at least in part.. "A square-shouldered, muscular young fellow, weighing 175 pounds, enters a college in South Carolina and is at once ciaimed for -he football squad. He comes from an obscure corner of the state; o -country boy or a cotton:nill boy, and he brings with him a sturdy resolve that he will gain an education and that he wilt count in college affairs. His manners are' a little crude. It may be that he doubles his negatives in conversation or leaves his spoon in his coffee cup at table. Crudities do not mar his foQtball value .and he makes the freshman eleven.. "In college are other aristocrats, their titles 'having other origins. Solne of them are mere students, scholars, master ful fellows whose grades are studded with twinkling stars. Others are writers who condtict college publicatigs sci -til;antly, more or less. And some are .orators carrying the debating colors of the school 'on triumphant fo nm .They are baseball players, tennis pl&yers, 6a'sketball exg'erts, ac tors and fencers, Who they .were no one daim.a inquire. 'Ihe nollege: needs them, and their reujard is 'admission to the college aristocracy. 'T1here are stili 'others, and fewer, *aristocrats, some df them just all around good fellows and, therefore, singled out to be beloved uversally. Another class are born to their position from families of wealth and station and may be admitted to the Iiner circles of college life if they are not insufferable snobs. Seldom does monley or birth save the born cad from falaing into the place where l-e belongs in college. The college fraternity is an American institution. It is the short, quick road for all.. sorts .and 'conditions of boyt into the aristocracy of worth :thai nowhere: is thet.world, Sefiet Russia not exceptedr can-i.lie-auppressed' The Open Forum -'IWo the Editor of the Gangssck.:' .How many students are .there-iln this University who have had a telegram or some knportant message cotne to the campus after the registrar or marshall had closed their offices, and: due to lack of information as to the room address this message could never be delivered ? Tflhere has always been a lack here and if the institution is advancing in other methods of its operation, there is no' reason why some improvemenit could not be made here. Death messages are often sent, or our:parents indy be'in town, and the night-watchmen complain :that they cannot direct these messages to the students because they have no addresses. They have stated that they would be glad to "lend-their assistance to the students if a list of nas apid addresses of each student was given to .them. It is suggested that this list be made out and posted in the marshall's offlie each genrester,. then our. telegrams. and important alls cdMl be forwarded to ... wit.. mpra cak'bni Univre i BUTRNEjTT'S DRUG ST1 DRUO, DRINKS, CIGARS, dNRW Whitman's Candy and EastManes Kodak Supplies One Block lrom-Can.pus-Phone 3191-Cor. Main an Colege CAROLINA STUDENTS' BARBER SHOP ONE 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 YXL.ow COACH CHAIR CARS-The smoothest running, casiest riding busses in operation-A ride will convince you! Rates on Request for Special Trips CAMEL CITY COACH COMPANY Office: 2118 Main St. Columbia, S. C. Phone: 6703 YOU - GET - A - REAL - CHOICE - IN SELECTING - YOUR Fountain Pens -at The State Book Store. 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