Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Member of South Carolina College Press Association Published on Tuesday of Every Week by the Literary Societies of the University of South Carolina. Subscription Rate-$1.50 a Year. Entered as second class mail matter at the Columbia South Carolina Postoffice on November 20, 1903. News articles may be contributed by any member of the student body, but must be in by Friday night before Tuesday's publication. Hand in copy typewritten and double-spaced. Names must be signed to copy. Articles will be published in the Open Forum as sub mitted, with the name of the author signed. STAFF John Madison Younginer . Editor-in-Chief Harry DePass Managing Editor Bill Douglas . Associate Editor Calhoun Cleient ..... Associate Editor Harold Funderburke . . Associate Editor Evgcne Carmichael . . . . Associate Editor Mayre Wall . . . . . Associate Editor EDITORIAL STAFF O. D. Black . . . . . . Sports Editor LeRoy Want . . News Editor Robert Atkinson . Alumni Editor Wilson O. Weldon ..... Social Editor Dave Rembert Fraternity Editor John White . .... . . . Joke Editor CO-ED STAFF Dorothy Penland . .... -. Editor Virginia Muller News Editor Foy Stevenson . . . . . . Society Editor Catherine Cantwell . . . . . Feature Editor BUSINESS STAFF Joseph C. Hiott . . . . . Business Manager Lawson Scott . . Assistant Bert Karick . . . . . . Assistant William Parrish . - . . Circulation Maager Carl Brown . . . . - Assistant Evans Brown . . . . . . . Assistant TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12 Somebody's Sleeping By this time last year the University had already en gaged in several intercollegiate debates. Not one has been scheduled and published so far this year. The reason for this is better known to the debating council than it is to any of us, but we wonder why this is the case. Last year the University had by *this time participated in se. cer al meets, and had a fairly broad program for the year. This is a field of activity that is rapidly losing its place. Emphasis is no longer on at$letics of the mind. The South is also gradually losing its fame as the home of true oratory. It has degenerated to the grade of com mon "ordinary bull". And it is time for the University to take notice of this. We hope the Debating Council will get busy and give us a schedule befitting our position among American colleges and universities. - -u.s.c. Smoking Sisters Many of the co-edls and ladies attending athletic events in the University field house complain of smnoke that fills the house (luring the event. Authorities askc that students refrain from smoking during boxing matches and basketball gamnes. The smoke not only be comes stifling but has a burning effect on the eyes. And while we are talking about smoking it would not be amiss to call attention to some of our "smoking sis ters." During these (lays it is not uncommon for a girl to offer a fellowv a cigarettt from her own pack, and from which she at the same time draws a cigarette for herself. In our opinion she is acting masculine, and she mustn't comp)lain if we treat her masculine. But since everybody can't grow a mustache, there should be no smoking in the field house. Stop Signal It appears that a great number of people wvill have to be killed at railroad crossings before proper pre.-au-.on ary measures will be taken for their prevention. And so it is with diseases. A nmultitude of people will have to die from a certain kind of disease before men will devote time and study the situation to remedy. Now, here is the point that we are driving at-let us not wait until a st,wdent is killed before we take measures to stop speeding automibiles on Sumter street near Mel ton Hall. The other day an apparently serious accident was merely evaded by a student who was crossing the street at the junction. Co-eds have to cross the street here going to Melton Hall. This is going on during the entire (lay. Boys are crossing the street here on the'r way to the mess hall, The Gamecock suggests that stop signs or red-light signals be placed in this vicinity. It appears that ars have a hobby of speeding at this pliace because it is a stretch without any other street intersections. But this is too great a peril to the students <1 the University, and TCh,. G-.mccocde urge students n( vK, to "Stop, Look &td Listen" Lefore crssng at this d."',rrous place on Su-nt."r street. OPEN FORUM A STAMPING HORSE To the Editor of The Gamecock: Voting for a defeated aspirant necessitates my opimon's >eing taken with a grain of salt But salting down an opinion won't destroy what facts are to be found therein. I will pass briefly over the personal disappointment felt by a certain student vhen a position for which he had worked patiently and capably for three and a half years, was handed over to another. Probably the better man was chosen under the circumstances that seened to have arisen. However, his encouragement to would-be editors to wrk up to the position rnder his leadership sounds like a paradox, unless the system that put him in is entirely changed. Let's assume the present editor neither in tended to go back on his political party when they put hint in office, nor that he has gone back on them since then, and furthert that lie will not listen to their dictates now. And let's assume further that he truly intends to "let politics be thrown aside and finally be consumed by the rust of old age" aft,er they have served him so faith fully and so well. Yet "no man can be greater than his maker," whether a physical man or a political man. And furthermore, like tends to produce like whether a plant or a politically created editor. Regardless of all this, however, it is quite evident that the present editor is working conscientiously and well upon a program of minor reforms, and, with support due him from his fel low students, lie will no doubt succeed in this accomplish ment. However, no one man working under the present sys tem can effect the material and lasting change that is really needed to assure men that work and ability will be properly rewarded. There can be no such assurance until a proper competitive system is devised whereby men, working, tip from the ranks of assistants entitle themselves to recognition of their work by being elected to positions higher up. 1 am not in favor of limiting the number from which an editor is to be elected, but merely of prescribing that each man should fit himself for the position by first serving in humbler capacities. In fact, I see no reaon why each and every member of the student body not have an equal chance to compete for the position by first serving on the staff as an as sistant . Furthermore, unless The Gamecock is to be a literary society circular, there is no reason why literary societies shor"Jd monopolize what purports to be a Student Body Publication. There have been instances when an editorship has not been tilled by the best man available because custom dictated that the editor be chosen front one select literary society or other. It is true that interest in literary society meetings is increased because of their control over student body p}tblications. To those who would claim that. literary .-sOeety members know better hcw to select mci for positions sucll as these, I reply that even if they did, their withholding from the student body the privilege of selecting men for positions or student body publications would be uijustifiable..Whatever evils would be attendant upon elections by the student body are also present in literary society elections, and more easily made effective in these smaller groups. Some might con tend that such an open system will lead to the election of football heroes to editorships, but it is not impossible for an athlete to beconte an editor any mtore thtan an orator. Eithter should b)e eligible. Either shotuld wvork up to the position. Possibly the retiring editor, or the staff fronm which number thte mtan should be electedl in order that only proven antd competenlt men should be eligible for the position. But at any rate every student should htave an equtal chatnce to wvork up to thte position of editor-in-chief, and the sttudent body should pass final judlgemtent upon his capacity to serve them as editor of thteir owvn student-body publication. Claude Duitbar. AN APPRECIATION Chapel Hill, N. C. To the Editor of The Gamtecock: I have inst receivedl an issue of THE GAMECOCK printed Feb). 5 and it wvas with keen interest that I read your editorial and wish to congratulate you on the stand thtat y'ou have taken in regards to THEi GAMECOCK andl the OLD REGIME. I trust that the time wvill never come when THE GAMECOCK wvill again be a political organ, for no publication can grow with that handicap. Since I have been doing some newspaper work and working in a prmntshop I could not htelp l)ut notice many of .the outstanding errors in your paper. I realize that it is implossib)le to get out a paper free from errors but thtere is no nteed for the most of the ones in your paper. I They are due mostly to the proof-reading and the make up man. However, thte public dloes not think of this the blame. In one article I counted fifteen errors in glancing over it. The most of the errors are in spelling and Itmetuation. I would like to suggest, if I mayv; that you either get a new and more efficient proof-reader or require the onie that does it now to be more careful in reading them in the future thain lie has in the past. Dtue to the fact that I was once a studenit at that good old University I coumld not help but offer a few words of congratulations and crticism. Youtrs for a better printed GAMECOCK, R. M. (Pitt) iman SYLVAN BROS. MERCHANTS JEWELERS AND DIAMOND Most complete stock of sterling silver prize cups in the Carolinas. Class rings and pins of the better kind, made up to suit your own ideas.. Come in and let's get acquainted 1500 Main St. Columbia, S. C. R. C. 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