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$/u GA4 coc "BEST COLLEGE NEWSPAPER IN SoUTH CARO.INA" 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 Mat er at the Columbia Sotu:l Carolina Postofftce on November 20. 1908 NEws ITEMS may be handed in to any member of the staff EDITORIAl STAFF BRUCE WHITE .Iditor-in-Chief BURTON SHOOK .anaging Editor ED. BALLENGER .Associate Editor SYDNEY HEYMAN Associate Editor JOSEPH KARESH Associate Editor BARRON BRIDGES .Associate Editor ERSKINE LEGETTE Sports Editor CURTIS BROCK Joke Editor MAYRE WALL .Co-Ed Editor ASSISTANTS BAN.NIE STESoART rSports SURA WoLFE . . . . . . Co-Ed JESSE RUTLEDGE . . . . y.M.C., REPORTERS Harold Funderburke, Eugene Carmichael, Foy Stephenson, Gertrude R-;by, !:enneth Grinsley. BUSINESS S'IAF: JASPER DERRICK , , flusi'sss Manager JoSEP HIOTT . . . Assistant HENty WALKER - - - - Assistant WILLIAM PARRSII . . Assis ant JACK BATES . . . . Circula. ion Alanay.:r C. L. ScoT - - . . Assistant FRIDAY, APRIL 13. .19?18 More Open Politics As the excitement of spring elections peeps across tuie horizon of campus politics, and one mat has openly an nounced, a number of students no doubt, are wondering what turn our system of campus politics wiil take this year. \Vill open politics become estabi,ihed at laroliuil or will the old order of clandestil.e poitics Io!d its own \Viil the studen:s of the University of South Carolina adopt the modern and Ilore sat isfact olry way oif ut conducti l, student affairs or will they plodt alol.g in the smile oc: rtit, whlich i. . ebiaracterlstic of oulth Larolimnus? \\"ill the aspirants in the cominig elec:ions conduct their cam paigls in the un certaii chaos of secrecy or will they t;et the t"i ,c"ts hi,i. ten and say, "I want the ofiice"? \\-I the csodidates and their calpaign in lagers coiitiue to have cinsuiltations behind locked d4ors or wil :hey c at liberty to speak to each other on lie caipui, \\ill Ca:rini{a c'nti.ue :o ftolow such and undesiralie practic:": We hope not. I ie ..m hih;, citmu when secret catnptt". tpol iCs :.ha~ull be abanidontedt. \\ ithou )tt stopping :i conside r tihe success andu dlesi raiiIity of i peti po lit i-s at school.s that arc noire advaniced :bai ior iown, the Gamiecock feels iio h esitanicy in stating that oipen tpol itics are very desirtable atid even necessatry at Carol ina. Condiuucting~ camtipis aitaars ini secrecy is unfair, botht the' studitenit vu,t .rs anid to lie caniduates. It is imfiir to ithe caiididates for ioitfices because they are usually att lost :i know hoi w miany3 iopoet s they will have or' julst hiot to dIraw ill thir piat form. No:orgius liolit ies ive the canidail~tes a eb ance to knjow whlo their opploneint s are an-2 ati oppiortuitty iitocrebt, ipetnly. any political slatnder tit teredl against thieti. Secret politics are unf ai-r to the s!ttidents becat se they arc not given t imie to cilnsidler thle caidthat es whn they ate tom iniat ed otnly a few seconds lit fore the totiing takes place. Oh yes, we admti t that a majority oif thle vrtters have beeni "worked oti" by the cadidlates' "ho' rse mien."' lBut asslimitng tIIit to be triue, many vo,te, are Piledgedh for one miani whichi thle voter wo ld nIii. ii., piromiised1 had lie knowii that aniother, atnd be'r, oiia would be in thle race. T1hien if the piromnisor votes accoirding to the dictates of his better judgment lie has broken a pledge. 'lHe Gatmecock earliest ly (lestires that those men, anid women for that matter, who are contemplating eniterinig the various races which will come off in the very near ftuture, atnnotunce t hemiselves opienly and thereby pave the~ way for a better systemi of niolitiC at Ca.r,aii. A Telephone Mrs. Moon recently expressed her willingness to send telegrams for the students and members of the faculty who desire her to do so. This would be a great con venience to the University at large. It would save the students who find it necessary to send telegrams the trouble of having to go to the telegraph office. Then, too it wouid save the freshmen who are not fami-liar with the for malities of sending telegrams some embarassment. Mrs. Moon's service along this line is very desirable and she is to be commended for her offer. Thle rendition of this accomodation is practicall' im possible unless a telephone be installed in the post office. The price of installing and maintaining a phone is so small that the Gamecock sees no reason why Mrs. Moon should not be given one, The post office needs a phone anyway. \Vhy? For the simple reason that the members of the university, especially the faculty and s:udents who have phones in their tenements, and others with whom Mrs. Moon has to deal can be communicated with quicker and with more satisfaction. ............ 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