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"BEST CoLL%Gz NawspApER 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-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 . . . . Editor-in-Chief BiUce WirTi . . . . Managing Editor SYDNEY HEYMAN . . . Associate Editor RALPH L%wIS . . . . Associate Edisor En BALLXNGR . . . . Sports Editor MAYRZ WAIL . . . Co-Ed Editot ASSISTANTS WILLIAM A. BRUNSON . . . . Cluba SuRA WoLI . . . . . Cd-Ed BARRON BRIDGXS . . . . . Y.M.C.A. JOSEPH KAWEsH . . . . . Forensic REPORTERS James Pitts, Elizabeth Hardy, Dixie Davis, Erskine LeGette Eugene Carmichael, William B. Moore BUSINESS STAFF JAsPxR DomxRRc . . . Business Manager JOsPH HioTT . . . . . Assistant HXNRY WALXER . . . . . Assistant JACK BATES . . Circulation Manager WII.IAM PAMaISH . . . . Assistant SHXRWOOD SMrrH . . Assistant FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1928 Gamecock Spurs By H. S.H. We would be much oblhged if the University would furnish an anti freeze mixture with their radiators.. * * * * * Mussolini says that he is the supreme dictator of Italy. His wife must be an invalid. * * * * * A good a ;rtisenient for a telephone company: Use our telephones, they make talks with the Dean a positive pleasure. * . * * . The straight and narrow path is a perfect fit for certain ypes of minds. * * * * * We wonder why church attendance usually picks up around exam. times. * * * * * It is better to burn the mid-night oil than the candle at both ends. * * * * * Our bedtime story this evening will be about the pro !essor who flunked his brother because he thought it would f6 him good. * * * ** The querest merger we ever heard of happened not long ago when a tobacco and a hosiery company went in together. We understand that they will use as their slogan: "Roll your own." * * * * * The easiest part of writing Sputrs is reading 'em. * * * * * Again it is leap year for pedestrians., . * * * * * An eminent surgeon suggests singing as a cure for stammering. A fter the famuous medico cured stammering how would h,e eradicate the other evil? -Usc One-Man Censorship The circuiation manager of The Gamecock, being vig orously opposed to an editorial which appeared in the last issue, took it upon himself to destroy every copy of The Gantecoc'k which was not delivered to the campus, excepting the copies which were sent to advertisers. This means that all other schools and universities which excange copies with The' Gamecock did( not receive their copies as has been the case in the past; this means that alumni who have sub scibeId to The Gamecock dlid not receive theirs. This constitutes one-mant censorshilp. 'flhe gentleman gave as his reason, that the school wvould he hurt if the issue were sent out. The rightness or wrong ness of his concluisionis are in no way relevant tto the dis cession. Elven if lie were right, one man is not competent to judge whether or not an issue of The Gamecock is harm fial If there is to be one-man censorship of campus pub lications, the (lean of the school of journalism would be a better man; or better still, a committee composed of the presidents of the three upperclasses, certainly not one man. A Little Would Help Thc waya and meanis committee of the South Carolina legislature have failed to make any provision for the Uni versity. stmmer school or extension department in the sup ply bill just completed, which is regrettable. The importance of t.he extension department cannot be overestimated. It is the one way in which the University can make direct contact with the p.eople of the state and sliow them that the University is finictioning. It is the bond whidlr snakes the University a part of the state and not just a pIsce where many. boys and git go. The amount asked for the extension department was very little. - The Ganecock hopes that some way can be fouid by which a few thousands of dollars can be given for this great work. The extension department is certainly in a position to use every doliar to the greatest advantage and spend it where it will do the most go9d. It has had a great oppor tunity to learn any lessons in economy which were not al ready known to it, because this year's operations have been conducted without any appropriation whatever. And yet, in spite of the lack of funds, Dr. Babcock reports -that demands on the department have been heavier than ever before, and to the credit of the department it must be said that the service rendered this year has been but very little abated, if any. Maybe a few dollars will yet be flung to the extension department and the work of this most important department continued. -USC How About Some Melody In a recent talk nade before one of the campus organi zations, Coach Laval asked that the band make its appear lance it the basketball games if possible. There are undoubtedly difficulties in the way of getting the band out for games, especially whe nthere are severai games a week. And yet if it could function at basketball gaines the pe) and spirit generated% would certainly prove worthwhile. George Keels led a group of noise-makers, armed with various pseudo-musical instruments, at a recent basketball game and the effect was startling. A little noise goes a long way inside a building and makes things hum. The University band is a well nanaged organization and is capalble of helping out a lot if it only will. -_USC Comment A letter appearing in this week's Forum, is to say the least, a vigorous answer to an editorial of last week. The editor has only one comment to make, and that is to dis claim having ever taken a drink of anything at the same spring as William Jennings Bryan. |The Open Forum Dear Iditor: Will Rogers says, "That Senator Lafollette and William J. Bryan once drank from the same spring, and that the water turned Bryan against liquor and Lafoilette against everything." From the editorials in The Gamecock you, Mr. Editor must have gotten some of the same water that Senator Lafollette got. You have seen fit to criticize the Social Cabinet, the Block "C" club, the Honor Committee, the Student Body jury and a coach. May I ask what do you think is run right around this school besides The Gamecock? (I mean the college paper not the pressing club.) Every one knows who the members of the Block "C" club, Honor Committee, Student Body judy and Social Cabinet are, but we do not know who the coach is that you take your "dirty little crack" at in an editorial headed "Wel come, William," Jan. 13, 1928. All but the poor coach are given a chance to defend themselves. Do you not think, as a fair-minded man and a gen tleman, that it was a bit cowardly and underhanded to cast reflections upon a whole coaching staff, past and present? Each student probably thinks that you are talking about a different coach, as none in the last three years have been noticeably partial. If you thing strongly enough to write that a coach is partial, why not give his name and your reasons for thinking so? Have you ever gone out for football at Carolina? Have you watched a dozen practices since you have been in school? If so, do you think that you are capable of judg ing whether a coach is partial or impartial? I presume, Mr. Editor, that you have spent most of your time looking upl six syllable words in a dictionary (but dloubt seriously, if you know what they mean) and have sp)ent little time studying who should or should not play on the different teams. For the last three years I have knowvn all of the Caro lina coaches and they are a,l high type christian gentlemen, meni who are too big anid fine to show partiality or to make a remark about some oine behind his back that they would niot make to his face. Carolina is exceedingly lucky to have such a fine man and coach as Billy Laval, anid lie will make good if the student body will supp)ort both him and his fine staff. It is runiorde animng the students that the "Iflock "C" club nearly broke your heart by not answering the editorial abotihem. The writer has the highest regard for a brave editor wvho has the courage to write his owvn conv'ictionis; but no respect for the man who realizes that lie has takeni adlvan tage of a publlic positioni to give vent to his personal spite. Yours for constructive criticism A Carolina Studenit. ** * . * Tlo the E'ditor of Thme Gamecock: In response to your editorial, "Knighthood Goes To Seed ;" which appeared ini the issue of Dec. 16, 1927, I wish to make a correction. From all appearanices the co-eds seem to have, in sonic way, confused the tenemenit numbers. The writer hiappenied to be sitting in a winidow at the time the incident occurred and saw the water when it came from a windlow of a nearby tenement. I feel that the occupants of tenement 20 have been thme recipients of undue criticism, and that they have had some very uncomplimentary remarks cast at them through the medium of your columns. My suggestion would be that the co-cd make a more thorough examination of the tenement numbers before mak ing any such accusations. .Yours very truly, An Occupant of 'Ilnement Twent. 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