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damwnrk 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?$1.60 A YEAR. Entered as second class nail matter at the Columbia, South Carolina I'ostofflce 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 ROBERT H. ATKINSON Editor-in-Chief WILSON O. WELDON Managing Editor ASSOCIATES ASHLEY HALSEY . Associate Editor HILL GAINES Associate Editor W. FRANK TAYLOR Associate Editor JAMES A. CATHCART Associate Editor FOY STEVENSON Associate Editor MITCHELL MORSE Assistant Managing Editor LeROY WANT Assistant Managing Editor EDITORIAL STAFF N. W. HROOKER News Editor JULIAN KRAWCHEK Sporls Editor C. L. JONES Alumni Editor W. (5. JKFFORDS Fraternity Editor W. I. LATHAM Y. M. C. A. Editor JOHN WHITE Exchange Editor ROY PRINCE Joke Editot COED DOROTHY PEXLAND Editor DA RICE JACKSON News Editor LOIS FISCHER Sooietv Editor FRANCIS HLACK Feature Editor ASSISTANTS Peggy Black, Melvin Knresh, Lewis A. Wallace, (Jeorge Griffith, Bill Geddings, Fiost Walker. BUSINESS C. I.. SCOTT Business Manager J. J. MACK Assistant Manager W. C. HERBERT Assistant Manager CIRCULATION CARL F. BROWN Circulation Manager ALBERT WILLIAMS Assistant Manager TUESDAY, OCT. 1, 1929 I Wear Those Caps, Freshmen Due to a misunderstanding by someone, the freshmen caps were delayed in arriving but in a few days the I caps will be here. The Gamecock wants every fresh man to secure one just as soon as they come, for by I so doing, you are showing your school spirit. Freshmen should feel honored and privileged by I being allowed to wear these caps, for they arc made in I the Garnet and Black colors of dear old Carolina. The Gamecock again urges the freshmen to wear I these caps, for if you do not, drastic measures will be I brought to bear and you will be forced to wear one, I so let's get together, freshmen, and wear one. A Man's Worst Enemy Connie Mack, the dean of American League managI ers and pilot of the champion Philadelphia Athletics, I who has seen many ball players come to the big leagues I and then fade out never to be heard of again, once reI marked that old man booze had called out more ball I players than any umpire in the world. Many coaches, managers, and people in other walks I of life will tell you the same thing. No man can drink I whiskey and get away with it. The athlete cannot I stand it because when lie is under the influence of inIhBM toxicating liquors he cannot perform up to standard. 5*^^^ Neither can the business man nor the student perform up to the maximum when he partakes of alcohol. These facts are no idle statements but have been proven and any physician will be glad to furnish you statistics upon the subject. Dr. Henry Louis Smith, president of Washington and Lee University gives the following facts about the effects of alcohol on the college man. "Of all the foes of young manhood on the American college campus, alcohol is probably the most subtle and dangerous. With a truly devilish instinct for maximum destructiveness this demon of the campus seems to pick out for degradation the gayest, the most lovable, the most talented; and reinforces his assault by enlisting and perverting those social and generous instincts which are the charm and crown of youth. Paralyzing every higher faculty, opening always the gates of passion and appetite, awakening every animal instinct, dethroning reason and conscience and selfcontrol, alcohol is the aggressive ally of everything that degrades college life. It is the tireless enemy of purity, industry, ambition and intellectual development, the promoter of tragedies innumerable on every American campus. If this was the effect of alcoholic indulgence in the quiet and law-abiding days of our fathers, who can describe its folly and dangers in this age of autos and airplanes, of jazz music and animal dances, of widespread moral laxity and hysteric revolt against all restraint, when our American boys and girls are walking ever on the perilous edge of the precipice? If injurious to youth before, it is suicidal today." Now The Gamecock feels that a word to the wise is sufficient. We feel sure that any sane and rational being will take notice and will refrain from using anything that will mar or detract from the wonderful bodies that God lias given us in order that we may glorify Him. The Gamecock does not intend to preach these facts or tell yoti how you should live for it is not a religious paper in the sense of a church paper but it intends to think rationally and sanely upon topics of the day and surely alcohol is one of the foremost of these. Editorial On Registration The method of registration at the University for the first semester is indeed inconvenient, unnecessarily troublesome, and deficient in every sense of the word. First of all, the freshmen should he required to register before the upper-classmen, since they are here two days before the other students. And further, it would facilitate their understanding of the method if they could register early, when upperclassmen could help them in arranging their schedules. With the freshmen out of the way, it would be much easier for the upperclassmen; but yet there is room for improvement. Why not have the heads of each school and their assistants in different buildings, or all in the gym and field house? Usually there is not room in the gym to accommodate, but if the field house was also put into use, would be much better. The Gamecock does not know whether these suggested changes would help any, but docs sincerely hope that the Registrar and others who have charge of registration will take note, and see if a better system cannot be worked out. There is one thing that is extremely evident, and that is there is room for improvement over the present system. U.H.C. Will The Axe Fall? Reports from doctors, deans and professors predict on all sides a "material reduction" in the appropriation allotted the literary societies from the student activities fund. A little mathematical tragedy of subtraction will be enacted at the next meeting of the faculty committee on student activities, members of the cast say. The literary societies have been set on edge by the rumor, and rightly so. They arc vitally concerned. Both The Carolinian and the Debating Council depend on the literary society appropriation for support. A "material" decrease in the allotted amount means slow death to both organ and organization, rather than the re-establishment of The Carolinian and the continued functioning of the Debating Council, under contract for inter-state debates with other universities. The faculty committee would do well to acquaint itself with all facts pertaining to The Carolinian and the Debating Council before taking action, for drastic reduction is synonymous with annihilation. Students at large, members of no society, wonder what disposition is made of the fabulously vast fortunes said to be presented annually to the Clariosophic, Euphrosynean, Euphradian, and Hypatian societies. Professors carrj' the thought a step farther, and visualize hundreds of dollars going up in cigar smoke or gobbled away in cake. They have never taken the time to inquire as to the use of money handed 'the society treasurers. If they did, they would learn that large sums arc spent for the renovation and preservation of the society meeting places, oldest of Carolina's "ancient halls." Antique furniture and oil portraits of famous South Carolinians share in the literary societies' "loot." Will they be allowed to gather dust, crack, and decay? If reductions can be made in the appropriation for the societies without doing harm to the societies, let them be made. Slicing off appropriations has become so habitual about the University that the societies may have become impervious to the knife. But do not, in this feat of financial surgery, amputate both arms of the societies, The Carolinian of half a century's standing and the Debating Council. The student activities committee was formed at some unknown date last year by Dr. D. M. Douglas, president of the University. On it with Dr. Douglas are Professor Charles F. Mercer (of the canteen committee.) Dean George E. Olscn (of the canteen committee), Dr. Ralph K. Foster, director of athletics and student activities; R. G. Bell, Y. M. C. A. secretary; and Professor Burnet Stoncy. Will the axe fall on the necks of the literary societies? The Gamecock does not think so. It is unbelievable that such a committee, faced with financial facts, could raze the appropriation beyond reason. Let there be financial surgery, not butchery. Support The Cheerio Section Much has been said of the football team and how we must support it if we are to have a team that will come up to the requirements of an institution of the size of the University of South Carolina. This is true and The Gamecock recognizes it as such. Our backing must be organized, for in organization there is strength. Too long in the past have we, the student body, gone to the games and put up the poorest exhibition of cheering anywhere in the United States. Xow is the time for it to stop. The cheerleader is endeavoring to put a stop to this sad fact and is putting all of his energy, strength and attention to changing this condition but, by himself, he can do little or nothing. Students, the only way to overcome this condition is for every man to give his attention to the matter, go out in person and back the Cheerio Section. Now The Gamecock realizes that the cheerleader will no doubt make many mistakes but if everybody helps him why naturally everything will turn out all right, or at least we will have better cheering than we have had in many years past. If we show the people of Columbia that we mean business down here at Carolina, naturally they will help us by contributing materially to our cause. Already The State Company, one of South Carolina's greatest newspapers and a loyal backer of Carolina, has printed free of charge 1,000 pamphlets containing the Carolina songs and yells to back this new experiment. Students, if an uptown concern can do this for a proposed idea, what can we do? Let's get behind this proposition and put it across. The Gamecock believes it can be done. EAT AT FLOMAC'S III We cordially invite professors and students to make Flomac's their headquarters. Good food and splendid service. No extra charge for private dining rooms. Plenty of space for banquets. New York steaks our specialty. Special rates by month. Hours: Open from Ten A. M. to Eleven P. M. Lunch: 12 M. to 3 P. M. at $0.50 to $0.76. Dinner: 6 P. M. to 8:30 P. M. at $0.75 to $1.00. Mrs. I. M. McCABE, Hostess. I 1421 Main Street Next to Western Union < I 9KM College Clothes || Need Careful and Constant Attention. Let Us Keep jl| You Well Dressed LEAVE THEM AT CANTEEN OR GAMECOCK PRESSING CLUB 11 Carolina Dry Cleaning Co. jl We Welcome You At The State Barber Shop Ground Floor State Office Building f|g COLUMBIA, S. C. I.. H. BO LAND, Prop. ^ ? spS -1 -MS SNOOKER, CAROM AND POCKET TABLES M. & M. 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