Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?Ije (Sammrrk 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 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 thf name of the author signed. STAFF ROBKRT H. ATKINSON Editor-ln Chiei WILSON O. WELDON Managing Editoi ASSOCIATES ASHLEY HALSEY . . Associate Editoi W. FRANK TAYLOR Associate Editoi JAMES A. CATIICART Associate Editoi FOY STEVENSON Associate Editoi MITCHELL MORSE Assistant Managing Editoi LeROY WANT Assistant Managing Editoi EDITORIAL STAFF N. W. BROOKER News Editor JULIAN KRAWCHEK Sports Editoi MELVIN KARESII Alumni Editor W. G. JEFFORDS Fraternity Editoi W. I. LATHAM Y. M. C. A. Editoi JOHN WHITE Exchange Editoi ROY PRINCE Joke Editoi CO-ED DOROTHY PEN LAN I) Editoi DAR1CE JACKSON News Editoi LOIS FISCHER Society Editoi FRANCES BLACK Feature Editoi ASSISTANTS Peggy Black, Lewis II. Wallace, George Griffith, Frost Walker, Dixon Page, Bill Gcddings, Annie Mae Pickens, Vera Jones, Jack Foster, Edgar Johnston, and J. W. Pitts BUSINESS C. L. SCOTT Business Manager J. J. MACK Assistant Managei W. C. HERBERT Assistant Managei CIRCULATION CARL F. BROWN Circulation Managei R. H. BISHOP Assistant Managei J. R. PRINCK . Assistant Managei TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1929 CROWING FOR? Football Stadium?30,000 Capacity. Press Bureau?Absolutely Needed. i Student Activity Building. Paved Sidewalks. U. H. C. Observe Thanksgiving Thursday of this week is Thanksgiving Day and as a result the president of the United States has issued a proelamation declaring the day a holiday in order that all citizens can return thanks to God for the blessings He has bestowed upon us. The old idea of a day of thanks has been somewhat shoved into the background in the past few years and now almost everyone looks forward to a day in which he can see his dear old Alma Mater do battle on the gridiron with the boys from Podunk College and not worry about telling the boss some big story in order to be able to attend the game. This idea should be gotten away from because Thanksgiving Day should be observed as the people of old meant it to be observed. It is not asking mucli of the average citizen to set aside one day out of the year for this purpose so let us all observe this day in the true sense of the word aird for what it stands. u.s.c. Praise To The Winners The meeting of the South Carolina College Press Association is now a thing of the past. Once again the college editors are standing back at their posts, facing the proverbial clean sheet in the hope that his or her paper will be choscn the best in the state next year. For the first time in six years The Gamecock has failed to win first place in the state among newspapers, but this year saw affairs shaken up as much as the city of Jericho after Joshua's famous march, and the treble voices of girls sounded the trumpets which undermined the old stronghold of male supremacy. To the new prize winners in the magazine and newspaper contest we offer our heartiest praise and congratulations. May you ever keep up the high standards in this old Palmetto state which you have set for .others to follow. Your task will not be an easy one, and you will fine many things that will hinder your progress, but always keep in mind that all of us must keep struggling on ward and upward if the standard of literature main tained by the world is to be found in South Carolina. u.?. o. The Sponsor Situation The Garnet and Black staff recently announced tha no sponsors will be allowed in the 1030 edition of tin Garnet and Black. Coming as a bolt from a clear sky the announcement naturally caused quite a great dea of discussion for and against the new ruling. The Garnet and Black takes the position that spoil sors are no longer found in the annuals of large univer sities and that they wish to keep up the national stan dard here. It is also contended that sponsors take U| too much space and they are often not representative: of the University. In return the Garnet and Hlack is to carry individua pictures of sophomores, and junior and freshmen lav students. More space is to be given to campus leader than ever before. The opposition states that this ruling is not fair ant that the men who rate sponsors have looked forward t< the pleasure of seeing his sponsor opposite his pictun for four years. They also contend that the classes who will rate individual pictures under the new ruling do not deserve them for the simple reason that they have never rated them before. Perhaps the chief bone of contention of the opposition is that the Garnet and Black staff will be able 10 reap rich rewards financially for themselves. The Gamecock is always in favor of changes for the 1 good and if this new movement is for the best, then we arc heartily in favor of it but if it is merely destroying an aged and traditional custom for a passing whim then i The Gamecock is bitterly opposed to the movement. No matter how the movement terminates it is our purpose to uphold the decision of the winner to the best j of our ability. IJ.S. o. Our Forlorn Lovers Thundering down from Olympus in a storm of cx p'ressive statement, the gods that be have ordered men : banished from sorority houses after 7 p. in., and women prohibited from entering fraternity portals after that hour. We bow in submission, and shed a surreptitious tear over the grave of poor Cupid, killed by the shock. Questions inevitably arise. Setting aside the pregnant interrogations concerning the cause of the new regulation, there are many other mortal mourns to be launched upon the atmosphere of sorrow and floated rapidly back to Olympus. I. Will the large co-ed dormitory, sometimes called [ the damnitory in derision, be included in the forbidden area? If so, there is no possible meeting place for the campus Adams and Eves. If not, the discrimination ' against girls living in annexes and sorority houses is evident. II. What constitutes the "proper chaperon" referred to in the edict? Is such a creature existent and available at short notice? III. Who is going to chaperon the crop of road houses which will certainly sprout up outside Colum- | bia in accord with the popular demand created by the j regulation? Some such places are now existent and well patronized. Others will open up. IV. Docs the faculty realize that the town girl, with her residence un-governed by the rule, will exercise a decided social advantage over the unfortunate in the co-ed dwelling? And the same for men to a lesser degree. V. The passage of the ordinance makes imperative the erection of a central parlor, hall, or suitable place of gathering under proper chaperonage. When will such a place be built? Open Forum i To The Kditor of the Gamecock: There is always some matter afoot that clamors for heated protests and useless ado, and calculates to destroy a haven of solitude diligently sought by the stu, dious and serious-minded student. The latest squabble incited among the would-be peaceful college leaders concerns the erection of a third automobile service station at the intersection of Sumter and Pendleton streets. Several dignataries on the University campus declare that something must be done at once. But what? Ask them another I Already two so-called filling stations have been erected at the said intersection, and yet nothing was done x about the matter until after they had been constructed and their capacities as nuisances recognized. Now, Columbia's municipal council has been petitioned to refuse admittance to a third innocent (?) station into its family circle in that particular part of town. We are heartily against any commercialization of a residential section of a city, notwithstanding the fashion in vogue which calls for a pretty love cottage in the ' suburbs. A tragic event occurring along this line in a certain city was the establishment of a funeral home in one of that city's best residential sections?we do not ' intimate that funeral homes are enemies of solitude, * quite on the contrary. Fortuitously, the home in question is a beautiful one, but nevertheless, we are sure that its neighbors get their fill of observing weeping widows, hearses, caskets,?and what not. A filling station, beautiful or otherwise, is a nuisance. The noise, the clatter, and unmclodious vociferations around such places arc unbearable to those who seek pleasant solitude?they seek, but never find. There is some inconsistency in the wood-pile somewhere: how ridiculous it is to place three such things within calling ' distance of that sanctuary haven of study, the library ' of the University of South Carolina. It is a pity that any filling stations were allowed in the vicinity at all. What a pityl Lamentations arc useless?Columbia is full of pities. What a pity that Winthrop College went to Rock Hill; the Columbia Theological Seminary, after remaining here ninety-nine years, went to Georgia; the Ford Motor Company plant settled in Charlotte, t North Carolina: All pities?pities ad infinitum, j The library is doubtless supplied with a sufficient , quantity of noises without the addition of that created 1 by junk heaps on wheels, musical horns and the other kinds of horns that sound like fog trumpets. What with the sighs of the bored, loud whispering, the regular tramping of feet which attempt to imitate that of German troopers, the noisy moving of chairs, squeaking j shoes, tittering school girls, falling books (poor books), s a student is indeed in a bedlam of no one knows. If the contemplated commercial structure is built, one 1 leaving the library just before the cement machines v begin their wheezing and croaking, may well exclaim: s "Farewell happy fields Where joy forever dwells I Hail horrors; hail 1 Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell, y Receive thy new possession." e ?William B. Lowrancc. I.l.l. ? MM???? ?? ??? i i I. I i\ EAT AT PLOMAC'S We cordially invite professors and students to make Flomac's tl ?iir 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. 1421 Main Street Next to Western Union College Clothes Need Careful and Constant Attention. Let Us Keep You Well Dressed LEAVE THEM AT CANTEEN OR GAMECOCK PRESSING CLUB Carolina Dry Cleaning Co. dojj 'dNVlOa H 'I d s 'viawmoo auipjmg 93IJJO J00ld punojQ doxis aaqjBg ?HX *V >A auioopM SNOOKER, CAROM AND POCKET TABLES M. & M. Recreation Parlor 1216 MAIN STREET COLUMBIA. S. C. BURNETT'S DRUG STORE CAROLINA SEALS, JEWELRY, STATIONERY DRUGS, DRINKS, CIGARS Pi Kappa Phi, Sigma Nu, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Kappa Alpha, Alpha Tau Omega?$1.00 per box Envelopes and Paper One Block From Campus Phone 3191 Cor. Main and College One Day Service Billy Bull's Thro The Canteen A Meal A Minute (jOlUllll)lB. 1211 Gervais Street Laundry I SANDWICHES & WAFFLES SHORT ORDERS 1323 Taylor St. Phone 4954 Ham and Egg Sandwich?15c || CENTRAL DRUG CO. I 1204 Main Street OPEN ALL tNIOHT "LET ED DO IT" George Davis?Rep. Gillie Watson?Rep. Tenement 7?Room 1 SUITS CLEANED One Day Service in Cleaning ED. ROBINSON PIIONE 8187-8188 1017 GERVAIS ST. 1248 Main Street 1427 Main Street GAYDEN BROTHERS 1 Cigar Stores CIGARS, CIGARETTES, PIPES AND PERIODICALS Established Over 45 Years P. H. Lachicotte & Co. Diamonds, Jewelry, Silverware, Expert Repairs 1424 Main Street Columbia, S. C.