Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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g (amprntk Member of South Carolina College Press Association Published on Tuesday of Every Week by the Literary Societies of the University of South Catolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATE-41.50 A YEAR. Entered as second class mail matter at the Columbia, South Carolina Postoffice on November 20, 1908. 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 submitted, with the name of the author signed. STAFF JOHN MADISON YOUNGINER . . . . . . . . . Editor-in-Chief HARRY E. DePASS. JR. . . . . . . . . . . Managing Editor ANIOCIATES ROBERT 11. ATKINSON . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Editor ASHLEY HALSEY, JR. . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Editor EUGENE OARMICHAEL . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Editor CALHOUN CLEMENT . . . . . . . . . Associate Editor MAYRE WALL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -.Associate Editor LEROY WANT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . News Editor O. D BLACK.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sports Editor WILSON O. VELDON . . . . . . . . . . . . . Socipl Editor ROBERT H. ATKINSON . . . . . . . . . . . . Alumni Editor J. R. ANDERSON . . . . . . . . . . . Y. M. O. A. Editor 8. EVANS BROWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Feature Editor - JOHN WHITE .. Joke Editor CO-ED EI)TORS DOROTHY PENLANI).. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Editor VIRGINIA MULLER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . News Editor FOY STEVENSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Society Editor" EMILY SUYDAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Feature Editor ROSALIE TURNER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sports Editor ASSISTANTS W. O. Jeffords; Harold W. Funderburke; C. L. Jones; J. I. Krawchek; ai Mitchell Morse BUSINESS DEPARTMENT JOSEPH C. HIOTT...... . . . . . . . .Business Manager LAWSON SCOTT. BERT KARICK . . . . . . Assistants WILLIAM PARRISH.... . . . . . . . Circulation Manager CARL BROWN. EVANS BROWN . . . . . . . . . . Assistants TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1929 Spurs Since the girls have started wearing socks, there will be an increased demand for razor blades. As a result of shaving-who can imagine a leg being like a cockle bur? If a husband is a wife's meal ticket-what is a Caro lina boy to a co-ed? The ticks have gone to the dogs at Carolina and Polly is left all alone-no more politics. Believe it or not. Short skirts might be called prodigal skirts because they bring out the fatted calf. The only time we object to the prodigal skirt is when the calves are lean. It is not the purpose of this column to spur on legs. There recently appeared in the Citadel Bulldog this statement, "The Gamecock usually crows when it has nothing to crow about," showing that The Bulldog tries to howl when it has nothing to bark about. Freshman barefoot day was a day of fertilization for the campus green. It was a fresh stunt pulled off on a fresh subject. It is said that a drone cannot sting, but undoubtedly many conscientious students (especially freshmen) were stung at the May Queen election last Saturday. The drones were active for once. Suspenders are a popular sport among the boy stu dents now. Girls have also started wearing them. Red is the dominating color. The weather is not the only thing that is getting "hot." The student who has the most "ups and downs" at Carolina is undoubtedly "Bill" Parrish. He goes up and down a flight of stairs three stories high, twenty times a day to ring the college bell. Short Time To Study Several days ago the mid-term grades went to the registrars' office to be relayed home. This is the last estimate of the student's semester standing before the final exams. It is also the last chance to put into opera tion all those splendid new year's resolutions made on January the first. Another -year is almost over--and for the seniors, a period of life, or preparation for It is ended-and now is the last opportunity that we may have to make good all those good intentions we have been harboring during our college life. To the freshmen, let us say that it is never too late to do better. A fight is not lost until one gives up and the freshman year is not a failure until you believe that you have failed. Let us remember that we have only two months of grace before the final trumpet will sound. Camouflaged Clothing South Carolina genitlemen have always been scrupu lous about the cleanIiness of their linen, and Carolina students of the present day are not exceptions to the rule. Spotless shirts are usual on the local men, and dingy collars seldom in evidence. Trherein lay a great deceit which long worked hard ships upon certain persons of Asiatic ancestry who labor in the city soap-sud industry. The neat white shirts of the campus were double-faced hi their decep tion, literally so. Fresh linen was provided weekly by the simple pro cess of turning the shirt inside out on Wednesday morning, until the advent of warm weather killed the joy of this little scheme. But the arrival of spring brings another phase of economy. before amazed eyes. The urge of the hot weather which cause.d men to discard coats and vests has led the lithesome (and not so lithesome) co-eds to save the price of many pairs of silk hosiery. Flesh colored stockings no longer encase the limbs of the ladies. Now the genuine leg is there in person, quite stockingless and artfully undisguised. An inventory of the average co-ed's clothing taken by private detective brought from New York for the purpose shows that garments are usually limited to two or three, exclusive of a pair of shoes. The result of the research completely blinded the detective, as well as driving him temporarily insane. Let his fate be considered a warning to the women of the campus. Unless they desire all men to be blind and mentally capsized they had better cease to imitate the abbreviated costumes of the South Sea Island belles. More and thicker clothing should be the ANTI WATCH WORD! Speaking To Strangers It is a wise policy to speak to every stranger that comes to the Carolina campus. We are proud to say that this gentlemanly manner of conduct is possessed by every Carolina student. The other day a great multi-millionaire came to the campus. He looked it over. Perhaps he was favorably impressed and will some day leave the University a big endowment. There is no telling what a stranger has in mind when he comes to the Carolina campus. The Woodrow Wilson Home The state of South Carolina, at the last session of the legislature -made an appropriation for the purpose of purchasing the boyhood home of America's war time president, Woodrow Wilson. At the present time there is a drive in the city of Columbia and thruout the state to get money to match this appropriation to make his former home a state museum and place of historic interest. Woodrow Wilson was indeed a son that the state of South Carolina and the city of Colum bia can be proud of and, one which deserves all the posthumas honor which can be bestowed on him. It is very fitting that his home be preserved for posterity. The University and its students should be vitally in terested in this movement. The University of Virginia unveiled a tablet in his honor last Saturday and the University of South Caro lina should not be so tardy in honoring a man so close to its heart. IOPEN FORUM To the Editor of The Gamecock: It seems that justice, like love, is deaf and dumb as well as blind. Or maybe it's spring fever. At any rate, the old girl is asleep on the job around this our fair campus. Now that women have gotten equal rights, as the poet says, it's up to us men to get equal priv ileges. Furthermore, besides, and moreover, equal rights should be coupled with equal responsibilities. To come straight to the point and call a spade by its right name in plain American without any vulpine beatings around the bush, the she-Frosh should have been made to go barefooted Saturday. Arise, ye brave freshmen! and other expressions of patriotic enthusiasm. Organize an "Equal Privileges Party." Fear not the Machiavellian periphrases of the upper-classmeu, but defend your rights to the last drop of blood in your valiant veins. For who, as somebody said, I can't remember his name, who shall stand against us when the stars in their courses fight on our side? Or words to that effect--you know what I mean. Yours for equal privileges for men and equal re sponsibilities for women. --"Rat" J. Mitchell Morse. To the Editor of The Gamecock: As you recall, when I accepted the honor of manag ing editor of the Gamecock, it was a temporary ac ceptance; for my past experience had shown me that any real work on a college publication takes a great deal of time. I realized that my law school work would require nearly all of my time; but agreed to use what little time and experience I had in assisting in organizing and managing the new Gamecock staff until it had become a somewhat automatic and smooth working machine. Now that this has been accom plished, due to the invaluable aid of unselfish assistants, I feel that I am no longer needed in a position demand ing the neglecting of my school work. Therefore, in order that my efforts may be spent where most needed I hereby resign as managing editor that I may be enabled to properly continue my studies. It has been a great pleasure to serve on The Game cock staff, and thereby in this small way, ultimately, to serve my new Alma Mater. My best wishes remain with the staff I now leave, that they may enjoy the best of success. Sincerely yours, Harry E. DePas Tr. ROSE-MAR) OVER W1NGFIELDS The Rose-Mary Invit We are prepared to tali and Parties, ATTRACTIVE M What We Sa Russow JF School and Colle FRATERNITY PIN4 AND MO] ATHLETIC AND PRIZI 1522 MAIN STREET FOUNT'AIN PEN IN Sheaffer's Skri Sheaffers Skrip-Peri Carters, Watermanm Higgins Ete Higgins Drawing Inki THE STATE : 1224 MAI] Bar Candy and Chewing Gum 3 for 10c Cigaretts-15c per pkg., $1.19 per Cartoon (Old Gold, Chester field, Lucky Strikes) (S. C. Tax Extra) A Barber Shop one block from til State Baz Ground Floor Sta COLUM] Under Management of Wingfield's 1443 MAIl WILFRED ( Sign of C UNIVERSITY STUDEN 134Main St.--Columbia Billy Bull's A Meal A Minute 1211 Gervais Street SANDWICHES & WAFFLES SHORT ORDERS Ham and Egg Sandwich-15c CENTRAL 1204 Ma OPEN Al "LET El George H. Davis, Ce Tenement I .One Day Serv ED. 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