Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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5I r (amnawrk 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-41.60 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 YOUNOINER . . . . . . . . . Editor-in-Chief WIISON O. WELDON . . . . . . . (Acting) Managing Editor ASSOCIATES ROBERT H. ATKINSON . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Editor ASHLEY HALSEY. JR. . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Editor EUGENE CARMICHAEL . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Editor MAYRE WALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Editor LEROY WANT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. News Editor 0. D Bi.ACK - . . . . . . . . . . . . ... Sports Editor J. R. ANDERSON . . . . . . . . . . . Y. H. C. A. Editor JOHN WHITE . Joke Editor CO-ED EDITORS DOROTHY PENLANI).. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Editor VIRGINIA MULLER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . News Editor FOY STEVENSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Society Editor ASSISTANTS W. 0. Jeffords; Harold W. Funderburke; C. L. Jones; J. I. Krawchek; Mitchell Morse; W. J. Latham: N. W. Brooker; J. C. Foster and John Leipersock. BUSINESS DEPARTMENT JOSEPH C. HIOTT ... ..........Business Manager LAWSON SCOTT. BERT KARICK . . . . . Assistants WILLIAM PAItRISH .... . . . . . . . Circulation Manager CARL BROWN, EVANS BROWN . . . . . . . . . . Assistants TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1929 More Speed Third place in the State track meet held last week at Clinton is not bad according to past records of such contests in which University teams have taken part, and the recent showing probably more than fulfills the expectations of many. Yet the State University was surpassed and passed by both Clemson and Presbyterian College. Local cinder stars scored only one-half the number of points rung up by the Tiger tracksters. Carolina's track team should be second to none, a constant threat to all opponents. Its present need is not so much for quality, which it has, but for quantity, for raw and semi-trained material from which to fill in weaknesses and form future championship squads. Intra-mural football has handed our wonderful coaching staff several valuable men, and the spring free for-all of the leather pushers affords a direct source of strength for the boxing team. An intra-mural track meet would require absolutely no expense, except that of purchasing tokens for the winners, and calls for no such elaborate equipment and preparation as does tenement football. There are many men at Carolina who do not know their own potentialities in the way of track speed. An intra mural meet should bring them to the starting line, and create interest in the swift sport. -U.s.c. Wrestling, Universal Sport As a prelude to the vacation season comes our an nual wrestling tournament, sole remaining evidence of a grand old combative exercise which once involved the strength of kings and engrossed the interest of queens. Wrestling holds sway from the kraals of the southern Africans to the igloos of the Eskimo, and gathers especial interest in the large universities of North America. Thousands of grapplers tussle and shove in intercollegiate contests from coast to coast, applauded by regular cheering sections. Trips cover ing hundreds of miles are taken by the teams of in numerab)le colleges, many of themi smaller than Caro lina. Boxing at this University has in one great leap be come a major sport, recognized as such not only by local athletic authorities b)ut by every university met in the squtared rinig, including Florida. The question inevitably and invariably arises, why not accord wrestling the same opportunity for advance nment now successfully held by boxing? The ancient activity of the Greeks and Romans is ever vigorous, and there is no reason why Carolina should not have a wrestling team as strong as that of any one of its neighbors. --U.s.o. Constitution For Annual Recently the Euphradian and Clariosophi. Literary Societies saw fit to create and pass a constitution for THE GAMECOCK. Under this new constitution it will be possible to ob)tain the best men for positions on THE GAMECOCK staff and thus insure the literary societies and the students of the University a better paper than ever before. Now since THE GAMECOCK has a constitution by which to function, what are we going to do about the other publications of the campus especially the GAR NET AND BLACK? Are we, as intelligent men and women, going to stand by and see the growth of the annual handicapped by lack of a guiding hand or be cause some unscrupulous business manager or editor confiscates the money provided for the publication of the annual? THE GAMECOCK feels sure that the students would rise up in holy horror if they knew suchl was possible but often they do not know existing con ditions and thus let matters go by in their ignorance. A proposed constitution of the GARNET AND BLACK would eliminate the possibilities of rascality being practised by providing competent checks on each member of the staff. Certain members of the staff would be paid a regular salary, as is the case with THE GAMECOCK, thereby creating a desire for these positions by the best students who would work for them and not by election as they are at present. The retiring editor and members of his staff would be al lowed to pick his or her successor, thus creating a competent antd trained staff. All funds left over after each publication would be placed in a GARNET AND BLACK fund and allowed to accumulate each year until such time as it might be needed. If a bad financial year occurred then there would probably be enough money in the treasury to take care of financial difficul ties. The annual would then be allowed credit by any printing or engraving company in the United States, if the above conditions existed. The GARNET AND BLACK elections have been held and now is the time for a constitution, it we are to have one. THE GAMECOCK is sure that the constitution is needed; for on looking over -a list of those elected, we find that many of the incoming an nual staff are entirely new at the game and will there fore need a constitution by which to be governed. Fellow students of the University the annual is yours. Do what you please with it but play fair to the annual staff and to yourself. Too long have we allowed cus tom and general practise to be our guide and dearly have we paid for it. To remedy this condition and to help th' University's growth let us draw up and pass a constitution for the GARNET AND BLACK. Wind in the Tree Tops The past year has been a season battered by phe nomenally high winds. The opening of the scholastic term in September was marked by the most serious storm in many years, and the lash of the cyclone has rasped the South frequently since that autumnal scourg Aside from the harm to life and prpperty these periodical harryings of the wind have affected one cen ter of material and ornamental worth to an extreme degree. The trees have been the great sufferers from the storm winds. Usually preceded by deluges of rain, the damaging gusts have struck our forests and arboreal avenues while their roots retain only a weak grasp in the soil laying them low on all sides. The Carolina campus, with its long rows of beauti ful shade trees, is a prominent example of a garden spot thus ravaged by the breath of Boreas. Instead of a horticultural staff the local gardeners are now tree doctors and telephone linemen of necessity. More time is devoted to cutting limbs and stringing wire stays to brace the wavering trees than to the raising of decorative flower plots. This is an act of far-sighted ness worthy of commendation. Flowers bloom every spring and long into the summer, but the trees with their tousled heads of lacy green leaves are the growth of decades of prudent attention. Let the campus be entangled with yards and miles of supporting wire if necessary. Though such wires are unsightly to every eye and inconvenient to the tall people, Carolina's arboreal glory must be preserved. --U.a.. Forensic Field Fading There is entirely too little interest shown in forensic activities at Carolina. We support and advertise our athletic teams, but when it comes to a forensic team there is little or no interest shown. We have had several intercollegiate debates this year. Many of the preliminaries were forfeited because there was no competition for places on the team. When we analyze the whole situation, we find that the forensic field is of more service and importance than the athletic field. Of course, our interests are not over-balanced; even in athletics, there is not a great deal of interest shown on the part of aspirants on the team. The Gamecock b)elieves that the University should show more interest in oratory, debate, and similar lines of literary endeavor. As a matter of fact, the students and authorities of the University should show more in terest in all student activities. The best college educa tion cannot h)e gotten entirely from books alone. Faculty and students should take notice and therefore more interest. ---.s.c. Women Politicians Since the adoption of the Seventeenth Amendment b)y Congress women have enjoyed freedom never dreamed of before. To show us this freedom they have adopt'ed new modes of dress and conduct. THE GAMECOCK agrees with woman-kind that this con dition is just and right but when a woman uses her power and charms as a woman to obtain votes for her male friends at the polls (as in the case of a cer tain woman at the GARNET AND BLACK elections) THE GAMECOCK must disagree and not sanction such conduct. This young lady arrived at the polls as soon as they opened and began her work. As a group of boys ap proached she would use all of her feminine charms to find favor in their eyes and when she had them comn pletely in her power would proceed to vote their ticket in the interest of her male friends who were running for office. This continued until almost time for the polls to close until the lady in question was led away.. THE GAMECOCK is heartily in favor of open politics, but insists that they be open and above board. Such methods of politicing, as mentioned above, can not bring about a fair and square election. Therefore THE GAMECOCK urges that women do their politic ingr away from the polls and let the men vot in pe. ROSE-MARY OVER WINOFIELDS The Rose-Mary Invite We are prepared to taki and Parties, I ATTRACTIVE M< What We Sa: Russow Je School and Collej FRATERNITY PINE AND MOr -ATHLETIC AND PRIZE 1522 MAIN STREET FOUNTAIN PEN IN] Sheaffer's Skrii Sheaffers Skrip-Pern Carters, Watermans Higgins Etei Higgins Drawing Inks THE STATE ] 1224 MAID Bar Candy and Chewing Gum 3 for 10c Cigaretts-15c per pkg., $1.19 per Cartoon (Old Gold, Chester field, Lucky Strikes) (S. C. 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