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damwork Member of South Carolina College Preus Association Published 011 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, 1908. News articles may be contributed by any member of the student body, but must be in by Friday night before Tuesday'# 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 II. ATKINSON Editor-in-Chief WILSON O. WELDON Managing Editor ASSOCIATES ASHLEY IIALSEY Associate Editor W. FRANK TAYLOR Associate Editor JAMES A. CATIICART Associate Editor FOY STEVENSON Associate Editor MITCHELL MORSE Assistant Managing Editor LeROY WANT Assistant Managing Editor EDITORIAL STAFF N. W. BROOKER News Editor JULIAN KRAWCIIEK Sports Editor MELV1N KARESII Alumni Editor W. O. JEFFORDS Fraternity Editor W. I. LATHAM . . . . . . . Y. M. C. A. Editor JOHN WHITE Exchange Editor ROY PRINCE Joke Edltoi CO-ED DOROTHY PENLAND Editor DARICE JACKSON News Editor LOIS FISCHER Society Editor FRANCES BLACK Feature Editor ASSISTANTS Peggy Black, Lewis H. Wallace, George Griffith, Frost Walker, Dixon Page, Bill Geddings, Annie Mae Pickens, Vera Jones, Jack Foster, Edgar Johnston, and J. W. Pitts BUSINESS C. L. SCOTT Business Manager J. J. MACK Assistant Manager W. C. HERBERT Assistant Manager CIRCULATION CAUL F. BROWN Circulation Manager R. H. BISHOP Assistant Manager J. R. PRINCE Assistant Manager TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1929 CROWING FOR? Football Stadium?30,000 Capacity. Press Bureau?Absolutely Needed. Student Activity Building. Paved Sidewalks. I w SO ? The Palmetto Players Realizing that the South, and particularly South Carolina, is starving for the drama, William Dean, of the department of English of the University of South Carolina, has organized a group here at the University to be known as the Palmetto Players. The purpose of this organization is to produce plays here at the University and at the same time to interest the various high schools scattered throughout the state in the drama. Considering the fact that the Palmetto Players were only recently organized, we can easily sec that this task is a large one but Mr. Dean has already received many letters of congratulations and offers of help thus assuring him that his efforts will not be in vain. The Gamecock believes that there is a great future for the Palmetto Players. For years the South has seen only third and fourth class road shows presenting drama at first class prices and naturally the people of the South are starved for lack of the real thing. It will therefore be the object of this organization to present to the populace, drama in its truest form and the great principles underlying it. There is an organization at the University of North Carolina known as the Carolina Playmakers which is very similar to the Palmetto Players. This movement and organization has been very successful in its work in North Carolina so we sec no reason why our organization should not be successful. Mr. Dean is a capable and able man to undertake this work. Last year he was connected with the Town Theatre and his record there and elsewhere speaks for itself. The Gamecock is heartily in favor of the movement and it has our sincerest endorsement for wc believe that this movement is one way in which our literary darkness may be made light. We therefore bid you godspeed in your efforts Palmetto Players for we feel that you have long been needed and that there are vast opportunities open to you. U.H.O. Carolina's Needs For sometime this paper has been running at the head of the editorial column a caption entitled "Crowing For " under which appear the chief needs of the University. It is realized that these are only a few of the crying needs of Carolina but in our opinion these are the ones to be remedied as soon as possible. The football stadium is already in sight. Plans were announced in The State recently for a stadium with a seating capacity of 30,000. Such a stadium means that the University will now be able to play games with large institutions instead of with small colleges as is the case at present time. It is felt that this stadium will fill our most urgent need and it is with great pleasure that we hear of these plans. Now as to the press bureau. The caption at the head of the column states that it is "absolutely needed" and we insist that such is the condition. Formerly the University had an extension bureau which fulfilled part of the work of a press bureau but with the coming of an economic administration of the government even the extension bureau was done away with as an expense and as being useless. The University is the literary center of the state and it's work should be known throughout the entire state but this is impossible when there is no money to furnish means for the distribution of important news. This condition should not be allowed to exist because the University should always be in touch with the citizens of the state in order *hat it may bring to them ways by which they might improve themselves. Therefore it is insisted that some means be found by which a press bureau can be established here for it is sorely needed. Long ago it was realized that a student activity building was needed here but to date no effort of any serious consequence has been made to provide the students with such a building. We suggest that the present Extension Building be torn down and that a large three story building be erected in it's stead. On the first floor would be a chapel large enough to accommodate the entire student body at one time and also with a proper stage for the presenting of plays, musicals, and etc. The second floor would contain offices for the administrative officers of the University, while the third floor would be occupied by the offices of the various student activities. In the basement would be found a complete printing outfit which alone would be a great saving to the University because all printed work here is let out to job printers that are high priced and arc naturally expensive. Paved sidewalks have already furnished inspiration for an editorial but again we insist that paved walks be placed through the campus in place of the gullies we now call walks for lack of a better name. After each rain a group of men have to repair these walks which is naturally expensive and which would be done away with if the walks were paved. During rainy weather these present walks arc so muddy that they arc well nigh impassable even on foot. Paving is the only solution to the question of campus walks. There are also other needs here but these mentioned above are the greatest and ought to be attended to at once for they are sorely needed. The Gamecock believes that these needs of Carolina can be remedied if the right amount of pressure is brought to bear. Let us then be up and doing in an attempt to cure this condition. U.8.O. Be Prepared He prepared is the motto of our Boy Scout Movement but it nevertheless can be applied to almost any walk of life. Are college students really preparing themselves for the duties of life which will confront them on the morrow when they lay aside their caps and gowns? This question is unanswered but is left up to each individual. Last week two of the great men of the world passed on to the great beyond leaving their places in life to be filled by the oncoming generations. Are the rising leaders prepared to take these places? In the dark days of the World War one man here in the United States towered head and shoulders above everyone else because lie was prepared and in the darkest days of the great struggle we see the noble countenance and figure of the late Woodrow Wilson, working almost without rest, guiding his country and the world to peace. That man was prepared. All of his life Mr. Wilson had been preparing himself consciously or unconsciously for that time and when it came he was prepared. Men and women this challenge is before you and it is up to you to take or leave it. It is often said that the world is growing worse and worse but we believe this to be a fallacy. People are preparing themselves for an emergency and when it comes they are usually able to overcome it. Therefore let it be insisted upon that we, here at Carolina, make the most of our opportunities and advantages as students for when the crisis comes we will all need to be prepared. IT.H.O. Trust And Obey With the passage of every law. there ensues a period of doubt and suspension during which the law must be tested, interpreted and explained. Such a lapse of chronology has occurred since the faculty ruling on the presence of women in fraternity houses and sorority club rooms was handed down last week. Its functions have now been tried. Taken, not as it first appeared to be, a barrier to all social life, but as a regulation that affects fraternity houses and only the social rooms of the girls', the latest addition to the Carolina code appears most acceptable. The wording of the regulation made it seem to apply as vigorously to all sorority dwellings as to the residences of the fraternity men. The enforcement of the law brings out the fallacy of this thought. As noted, the embargo falls only upon the unchaperoned meeting places of the sororities, and not on sorority houses, which are quite sufficiently chaperoned in the opinion of all mankind. It restraint upon fraternity houses can not fail to be considered a wise and normal one. It may be well here to point out that like regulations arc in force not only in co-educational colleges, but in institutions of all sorts and in every part of the country. At the Presbyterian College of South Carolina, such a rule has been valid for years. More recently this fall, Washington and Lee University and Sweet Briar, Virginia schools for men and women respectively, each formulated regulations of the same nature to restrict visitors from the other school. Colleges in this state and without have seen fit to enact similar laws long before the growth of Greek letter societies at the University of South Carolina brought into existence the present regulation. EAT AT FLOMAC'S 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. 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. We Welcome You At The State Barber Shop Ground Floor State Office Building COLUMBIA, S. C. L. H. BOLAND, Prop. 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 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 NIGHT "LET ED DO IT" George Davis?Rep. Gillie Watson?Rep. Tenement 7?Room 1 SUITS CLEANED One Day Service in Cleaning ED. ROBINSON PHONE 8187-8188 1017 GERVAIS ST. 1248 Main Street 1427 Main Street GAYDEN BROTHERS Cigar Stores CIGARS, CIGARETTES, PIPES AND PERIODICALS I, - !? Established Over 45 Years P. H. Lachicotte & Co. Diamonds, Jewelry, Silverware, Expert Repairs 1424 Main Street Columbia, S. C.