Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?l}p damwork Member o( 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 Postortice on November 20. 1908. JJews 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 ASHLEY HALSEY Editor-in-Chief LEROY M. WANT Managing Editor ASSOCIATES J. A. CATIICART ........ Associate Editor W. FRANK TAYLOR ....... Associate Editor WILSON O. WELDON ....... Associate Editor W. O. JEFFORDS . Associate Editor N. W BROOKER ........ Associate Editor FOY STEVENSON ........ Associate Editor DOROTHY PENLAND ....... Associate Editor J. MITCHELL MORSE Assistant Managing Editor W. 1. LATHAM Assistant Managing Editor EDITORIAL STAFF LEWIS H. WALLACE News Editor JULIAN KRAWCHEK Sports Editor WILLIAM OEDDINQS Alumni Editor JACK FOSTER Fraternity Editor JOHN WHITE Y. M. C. A. Editor MELVIN KARESII Exchange Editor J. ROY PRINCE Joke Editor CO-ED DARICE JACKSON Editor CLELIA K. BLACK ........ News Editor LOIS FISCHER Society Editor FRANCES BLACK Feature Editor ASSISTANTS W. B. King, Lester Hamilton, John A. Giles, Ethel Galloway, Sarah Agnes Jackson, Vera Jones, Frost Walker, and R. 0. McCutchen, Jr. BUSINESS C. L. SCOTT Business Manager J. J. MACK Assistant Manager W. C. HERBERT Assistant Manager CIRCULATION CARL F. BROWN Circulation Manager ALBERT WILLIAMS Assistant Manager TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1930 CROWING FOR? Football Stadium?30,000 Capacity. Press Bureau?Absolutely Needed. Student Activity Building. Paved Sidewalks. U.8.O. The Opening Gun With this issue, The Gamecock goes through a moulting process and comes out with feathers fresh but slightly ruffled. A new editor fills the capacious seat so capably occupied by R. H. Atkinson, to whom the student body owes thanks for his unceasing labors to give them a better paper. At the outset, the editor can say nothing better than that he will continue this policy of improvement. In a time when every State and out-of-state college paper shines with the fine points of journalism, the task of keeping the University paper up in front is a difficult one. This the past editor has done, and the present will endeavor. No change in the size of The Gamecock or in number of issues a week is possible at present because of financial conditions. None may be within monetary reach during the remainder of the semester, but the editor fondly expects to build up staff and paper so that such changes may be made easily, once possible. Four things the new administration would say. The Gamecock shall be c. r conscious that its first duty is to the student body t the University of South Carolina, for whom it exist? its purpose is to inform and entertain them. The Gamecock shall be exact and truthful as is possible with any newspaper. Its object in being exact is to do justice to all. Truthfulness is both armor and a sharp sword to a newspaper. The Gamecock shall be at the service of all parties-. No prejudice or favoritism will be manifest in its columns, nor docs it intend to aid the unjust cause of anyone against anyone else, however high or low either party may be. The Gamecock stands for the progress of the University. Any person working for that end is its friend; anyone opposing it, The Gamecock must oppose. Another cycle of life has begun. The Gamecock crows for another dawn. Both newspaper and editor have passed but recently their twenty-first birthday, so youthful exuberance may be expected. U.*.0. Now that the State University and the Citadel have had ten per cent clipped from their budgets, will the legislature reduce by an equal proportion the $1,300,000 spent annually in transporting a minimum of South Carolina's children to primary schools? U.8.O. A Barking Dog Saturday night Carolina boxed Florida. Seven good men on each team mauled, punched and walloped their way back and.forth over the canvas for the entertainment of fight fans. They were the centers of interest, but it was no party to them. They were giving their best for their respective Alma Maters, and the process was painful. Spectators seated comfortably around the ring cheerfully violated the intercollegiate boxing rule against applauding or railing during the rounds, but shouted shame upon any boxer who appeared to be infringing a rule of the ring by his tactics. When one Carolina fighter made his debut, the comment became particularly offensive. The boxer was greeted with a storm of sarcasm and sorry wit instead of a cheer. This increased as he lost a game fight to a more experienced opponent. It take? a great deal of nerve to enter the ring and face a man heralded far and wide as superior. It takes nothing but a lack of manners and common decency to deride such a willing battler. The best cure for such conduct can be administered only with a boxing glove or the hand inside, and this treatment is fast becoming necessary. U.B.O. Since every other newspaper had a definition a day on the subject, The Gamecock will say right now that a kibitzer is a person who cheats on Bible exam. U.H.C. Is There Honor? "'What is truth?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." "What is the honor system?" asked students and professors during examinations just past. None of them stayed for an answer. Probably the students were hurrying in search of information to eke out their exam papers, and the professors hastening to mount sentry over their classes. It was just as well that they did not stay, for the Univcrsity seems to have no answer to this question of honor. Certain members of the faculty informed their classes that they were operating under the honor code, and promptly walked out after posting their examinations. Others said nothing on the subject, but kept their eyes open for cheating. "What is your conception of the honor system?" a *professor not inclined to cither extreme asked one of his students just before giving an examination. "It's something mentioned in the catalogue, but I've forgotten just how it goes," came the indifferent reply. And so it is. Unless indifference is replaced by a live regard for the honor system, it is advisable to file a copy of the catalogue in a lock box, so that future generations of students may exhume it and satisfy their curiosity as to that quaint old custom of individual honor and mutual respect. There is an honor tradition, but 110 honor committee. If asked "What is the honor system?" what would your answer be? Skirting The Ground Skirts are falling again, like the perennial autumn leaves. Cloth manufacturers are jubilant, makers of silk stockings up in arms. Sympathy is due the stocking makers, but that is not the worst of this tragedy which is fast becoming commonplace. Skirts arc falling, but they do not droop groundward symmetrically. They loop-the-loop sartorially, suffer slashes into the higher altitudes of the wearer, spill far down on one side, leap way up on the other. What advantage is to be gained from the new style is L not evident, certainly not to the masculine eye. The skirt a la mode looks like a tramp's trouser leg just after he has pulled away from an iron-jawed bull dog. It is inanely modest on the sides, but decidedly decollete elsewhere. It alternately covers and reveals. It sweeps the sidewalk according to the best Victorian tradition, but does not protect the limb from chill breezes. It is here, there, thither and yon, but with it goes the ladies, and God bless the ladies, regardless of the styles they prefer. Hope may be gleaned from a New York report that long skirts are but a passing fad. U.8.C. The Annual Appetizer ^ In keeping with the yearly habit of drawing up, tearing up, and voting down a constitution, it is highly in order for The Carolinian constitution to risk its virgin clauses in the halls of the four literary societies. The constitution has been compiled from past documents and precedent by a committee deemed capable by the literary societies, an opinion with which The Gamccock coincides. Since the second term is already eating its way through the calendar, dates for publication of the University's literary magazine hurry nigh. There is no editor, and only the perplexed remnants of a staff awaiting the call of opportunity. Representatives of all four societies are acquainted with the provisions of the constitution, and are in position to discuss its merits or defects according to their attitude. The columns of The Gamccock are open for its publication upon any date. Action is being awaited. On November 12, the faculty committee on publications submitted a report after much deliberation. A prominent item in this report requested the adoption of a constitution within 60 days which would meet the approval of all four societies. No less than 91 days have elapsed since that recommendation was made. Action is being awaited. With every clause pure in its constitutional phraseology and clean upon the typewritten sheet, the constitution is ready. Every male and female maniac over the knowledge and exercise of parliamentary law is ready, tongue on tip. All four societies have expressed preparedness for the ordeal. Action is being awaited. u.s.o. "A laugh is the greatest defense in the world", maxim. For proof, watch our smiling politicians in a hot campaign. And it might be well to add, horse-laughs have nothing to do with horse-sense. I ?? "HONESTLY, IT'S THE BEST POLICY" WINCHESTER GRAHAM, Gen. Agt. Atlantic Life Insurance Co. 702-703 Palmetto Bldg. 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. : I] 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. 6? M. Recreation Parlor 1216 MAIN STREET COLUMBIA. S. C. 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