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r. . ' f", ' crowing for a greater Carolina ;| f Boxers, Trounee </Y/ f!* *l8ll __r I T~ \BlueStocKings! sSSt UNIVERSITY OF Jg' SOUTH CAROLINA ' ? Volume XXIV, No. 12 COLUMBIA. S. C-FRIDAY. January a io?i JUNIO LEROY WANT EDITS PAPER ^ \ GAMECOCK STAFF NAMED W. I. Latham Elected to the Managing Editorship; Board Names Four Associate Editors For the first time in many years a junior has been selected to edit The Gamecock, weekly newspaper. LeRoy M Want of Darlington was chosen by the Board of Publications just before the holidays to succeed Wilson O. Weldor as Editor-in-Chief, for the second semester, upon whose nomination he was elected. Want is one of the most prominent members of the Junior Class. He is president of Sigma Delta Chi, journalistic fraternity, secretary of the Euphradiati Literary Society, Vice-chairman of the Debating Council, member of Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity, member of International Relations Club, besides holding membership in Omicron Delta Kappa, national honorary leadership fraternity. His career on The Gamecock stafi began with his freshman year, during the second semester of which he was news editor. Showing rare ability and a sincere will for hard work, he gradually advanced to higher positions on the staff, He served as managing editor last semester of last year, and is an associate editor during this semester. William I. Latham of Greenville was chosen managing editor to succeed J Mitchell Morse, who was made an associate editor. Latham is an assistant managing editor this semester. He is enrolled in the School of Journalism, is treasurer of the Clariosophic Literary Society, a member of Board of Directors of tin Y. M. C. A., and is prominent in other student activities. The associate editors are Lewis H Wallace of Kingstr6c, Darice Jackson oj Campobello, Dorothy Penland of Columbia, and J. Mitchell Morse of Columbia Miss Jackson is an associate during th< present term, as is Miss Penland. BotI arc prominent members of Alpha Kappz Gamma, girls' leadership sorority, ant Miss Jackson is president of the girls K. S. K. Wallace is the winner of th< State contest for the writer of the besl news article and is one of the most experienced men on the staff. Morse is just completing a successful term as managing editor. 1 lie new assistant managing editor; will be John A. Giles of Greenville anc John A. Moroso of Columbia. 1 he remainder of the staff is as follows: News editor, W. B. King; sports editor, Ray Antley; fraternity editor Sanders Guignard; Y. M. C. A. editor J- H. Galloway; joke editor, Catherine Reniley; exchange editor, E. C. Gilmore; alumni editor, Leon Keaton. ! ranees Black as co-ed editor will heael the co-ed staff. Lois Fischer will be coed news editor, Ethel Galloway, feature editor, and Millie Taylor, society editor, Heelers who were promoted to assistant ships are Marian Finlay, J. A. Bigham, Frank Durham, Allan Shaefer, Jean Wichman, Louise Edwards, Vernon Spears, W. D. Coan, Faith Brewer, Carolyn Burnet, and Mary Begg Ligon. * New Legislatu) Next We ''It won't be long nowl" I his is the happy cry of the negro Porters as they joyfully prepare for the coming of the members of the legislature who will arrive en masse in Columbia next week to begin the 1931 session next Tuesday. Carpenters are being employeel to make repairs, and the noise maele by their hammers and saws echoes throughout the stately building. Negroes are seen scrubbing the floors ?f the salon, the senate, and representative chambers, and polishing the esks in the two chambers, making Everything spic and span for the i.* i RS CH' R ISBBBBSBI LeRoy M. Want, of Darlington, first ^ Junior chosen to edit "The Game- ^ cock" in many years. He succeeds W. O. Weldon, and will officially take charge with the first issue in the second semester. s _ a : DEAN ATTENDS t BOSTON MEET ? I " b A PROFITABLE MEETING !< r it : Colonel McKissick Reports Dis- d i cussion Taking Place at Coni vention of American Journalism Teachers p Creation of a co-operative commit- ^ tee of teachers of journalism and practicing newspapermen with the aim n . of placing journalism on a more digni- 11 fied, professional basis was the most n . important section of the recent con- * . vention of the American Association [ of Teachers of Journalism at Boston, ~ . according to J. Rion McKissick, dean ( t of the school of Journalism, who rep; resented the University. The organizations which will be rep- j resented on the committee are: American Society of Newspaper Editors; [ National Editorial Association; Ameri. can Association of Teachers of Journalism; American Association of a ? Schools and Departments of Journal- ? , ism. . t i Recent criticisms of schools of jour1 nalism by Dr. Abraham Flexner, some n ' newspapermen, and others were em- ^ ; phatically answered by leading teach- ^ t ers attending the convention. Journal. ism courses, cultural as well as tcchnit cal in content, take up not more than r a third or fourth of the journalistic a student's time, and aim to give greater ^ . significance to liberal arts studies, beI cause they show student3 how to ap- |l ply these studies to the events and " . problems of today, it was pointed out. ; Southern University schools of ( journalism represented at the conven- s , tion in addition to Carolina's were: ; Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana State, ; Washington and Lee and Baylor. One of the pleasant events of the | convention for Dean McKissick was ^ . his reunion with Prof. Leon R. k ! Whipple of the School of Journalism , of New York University. They were . once colleagues on the editorial staff y ( of tHe Richmond (Va.), "Times-Disi patch" and had not met for 17 years, t Mrs. McKissick accompanied the dean. They spent New Year's in New York City. , =: tl re Meets J ek in Columbia' s< senators and representatives. ' Many old familiar faces will be miss- g ing when the rolls arc called, and these will be succeeded by unfamiliar persons, some of whom will be making s| their first appearance in the legislature. ^ Among the new members of -the g house will be four University of South Carolina law students. J. C. Williams, senior, and Allan Lambright, junior, *!, will be members of the Spartanburg ' delegation; Robert H. Atkinson, freshman law student, has been elected of c' the Sumter county representatives. ? . (Continued on page eight) ci . r- A v OS EN Debating Tea Picked By lou'.icil Hopes to Enable Varsity J Teams to Work Together More Efficiently Varsity debating teams of the Uni- ^ ersity will in future be chosen from squad of eight men to be chosen U om all those trying out. By this plan le "Debating Council hopes to enable le varsity teams to work together rith more efficiency and teamwork lan has previously been the case. er Under the new rules of tue council bt le following method of selection is te rovided for: M First: Each year eight men are to st e chosen who will constitute the de- bi ating squad of the University, four si len on the affirmative and four on the to egative. Second: The squad will be picked (j, t regular try-outs which will be open yu 0 the entire student body, a separate pj ry-out being held for the affirmative V( nd negative sides of a query selected st y the council. They are to be held at :ast ten days apart so that the losers T 1 the first try-out might, if they so esire, compete in the second.' Third: From the debating squad so . hosen the varsity debaters will be ^ icked by further try-outs among liemselves for each trip and home ebate. y( ac The only main difference betwen the ew and old system is that under the ew only the eight men who are amed as the debating squad, and who re presumably the eight best in ^ (Continued on page three) :lub records i TWO NUMBERS Joys' Glee Club Makes Phono- ? graph Record in Chicago The University Boys' Glee Club had n experience Monday afternoon that no thcr Glee Club in the history of the Jniversity has ever enjoyed. While sit- M ng calmly in their respective places the tli icmbers of the organization heard them- h< elves sing two numbers. They were g; stening to the phonograph record which ui icy had made in Chicago, during their cc ecent visit to the Windy City. di The singers recorded the Alma Mater C( nd a song entitled, "Morning." Maurice le latteson, director of the club, received le test record late in the holidays and oi as ordered some of the discs to be sold d< i Columbia. Anyone interested in ob- D lining one should get in touch with him. sf When the records arrive, one of them w rill be played in chapel to enable the C tudents of the University to hecotnc ac- R uaintcd with what the club is doing as a >cal appearance has not been made this imester. u. s. c. SOCIETY HOLDS t WEEKLY MEETING E ,ewis Wallace Elected to Student Council; Debate Features Literary Program is Lewis H. Wallace, a junior in the yl chool of Journalism, was elected to ft ic student council from the Euphrad- V in Literary Society last Tuesday th ight. This is probably the first time lat a student other than a senior has fc ecn elected to this office from this ar :>ciety. Mr. Wallace is a pledge of .lpha Beta, associate editor of The amecock, and a member of the Kappa ? igma Kappa. The declaimcr was John Azar who poke on disarmament. W. L. Keaton, ic extemporaneous speaker, chose as be is subject, ''Game Preservation in the ni, ta te." ft, The debate was on the query: "That le United States Should Grant Full reedom to the Philippines." The afrmative was upheld by W. R. Faulk- sh iberry and F. F. Griffith. The nega- Pi ve speakers were R. S. Rogers and E^ r. L. Sanders. The committee de- be ded in favor of the affirmative. th CAMP msTo Be ' New Rules SUTLER PASSES AWAY MONDAY VAS LOYAL CAROLINIAN niversity Loses Member o Board of Trustees in Death of Lieutenant Govenor Thomas B. Butler, lieutenant-gov nor of South Carolina and a mem :r of the University Board of Trus cs, passed away in a Union hospita .onday. Mr. Butler suffered a suddei roke of paralysis at the home of hi: other in Carlisle, and death cam* lortly after he had been remove* Union. Mr. Butler's death came just tei lys before his term of office a iutenant-governor would have ex red. His passing took from the Uni jrsity one of its best friends ant rongest supporters. Attending the University School o aw from 1883 to 1885, Mr. Butlr jver forgot his loyalty to his Aim; [ater. Through his years of servici both houses of the state legislature i was always a ready fighter in be ilf of its interests. For the last fev :ars he had been one of the mos :tive members of the Board of Trus es. Dr. D. M. Douglas expressed th< eling of all connected with the Uni :rsity when lie said: "The Universit: (Continued on page seven) jOCAL student GOES TO DETROn am Taylor Represents Univer sity at National "Y" Conference in Detroit Sam Taylor, vice-president of the \ [. C. A., represented the University a le National Student-Faculty Conferenc -Id in Detroit, December 27-31. Dele ites from all of the larger colleges an Diversities of the country attended th inference, the purpose of which was t iscuss the various problems which ar >nfronted on the campuses of every col ge in the United States. The delegates were offered their choic f five different topics of discussion. Oil legates chose the topic, "Morals and th 'ay of Relativity." Chief among th >eakers whom they heard on this topi ere Professor George Albert Coe, o olumbia University, and Professo einhold Niebuhr, of Union Theologica eminary. Mr. Taylor gave a very interesting re )rt of the conference to the senior \ [. C. A. Council ^t its regular mcetin] st Monday night. u. s. c. >R. W. B. BURNEY NOW CONVALESCINC Dr. W. B. Burney, professor of chem try at the University for thirty-on :ars, is convalescing in Mrs. Edith M astway's recuperative infirmary a alley Park, where he has been ill fo e past three weeks. His work at LeConte has been assume* ?r the time being by Dr. Guy Lipscomfa id Prof. J. E. Mills. u. s. c.? 1G JUNIOR DANCE ON SATURDAY NIGH7 The last junior dance this semester wil : given in the gymnasium this Saturda; ght. Music for the occasion will b irnished by the celebrated Gamecock irolinian Orchestra, under the directioi Piute Wimberly. The dance will begin in the gyn ortly after the boxing match with th resbyterian leather pushers is concluded very one is urged to attend, as this wil the last dance under the auspices o e juniors before the examination period US ED ft Bl m j is;?;'r-'T >.'_ ' ~" " . " - - < .,., S ; William I. Latham, recently chosen j to edit "The Carolinian" for the second semester. He is the first junior to hold the editorship in a long time, and is I also Managing Editor-elect of "The Gamecock." He hails from Greenville. i SOCIETIES PLAN SPRING EVENT t V APRIL 17 SET AS DATE 1 e Literary Organizations will Celebrate One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Anniversary v t Plans for the celebration of the One _ Hundred and Twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Eupliradian and Clariosophic Literary Societies are in formulation as a result of action taken by the societies in a joint session ^ recently. This will perhaps be the biggest thing ever undertaken by the = Societies, and will come as a highlight of the University's spring cal_ endar. L April 17 has been set as the tentative date for this celebration, at which time many prominent alumni of both societies will return to the University to take part in the mammoth event which will mean much to these societies. Present plans provide for a full-day program, with addresses, a ret ception, band concert, etc. e The plans are in charge of a committee appointed by the presidents of d both societies. Carlisle Roberts of the c Euphradian is general chairman, and 0 with him are associated other meme bers who have charge of sub-commit_ tees. These are: J. W. Brown, Clariosophic, program; J. W. Lewis, Clarioc sophic, publicity; Troy Stokes, Clariosophic, Invitation; James McDuffie, Euphradian, entertainment. Other members of the above committees are: Program, R. M. Newton, f Clariosophic, and Lyles McNary, Euphradian; publicity, Wilson O. Weldon, , Euphradian, and John A. Giles, Clariosophic; invitation, Riley Gettys, Clariosophic, and L. A. Williamson, " Euphradian; entertainment, Roger ; Pinckney, Clariosophic, and J. J. Brown, Euphradian. Prof. Harry Davis will work with the Euphradian committee and Professor J A. Stoddard with the Clarioj sophic. A booklet will be printed which will contain details of the celebration and c (Continued on page Seven) ' Famous Aui ' Class of j John Bennett, the well-known author, was the speaker at the Saturday after^ noon English class of Professor Robert Bass. Mr. Bennett was asked to discuss his career as a writer, and he gave an interesting account of his early struggles. Mr. Bennett said that it was never his c intention to become an author; he desired to enter the field of cartooning. He II first became interested in drawing in 1870 and took the famous cartoons of Rawlin1 son as his model. His desire to study e cartooning was thwarted by business reI. verses of his father at this time. 1 He had to withdraw from school after f only a year and two months of his high . J school course had been completed. From iV.-V/A .-'.it...-.A rounded iifUti [TORS LATHAM EDITOR OF CAROLINIAN NEW ASSOCIATES NAMED Finlay and Herbert Appointed Associate Editors for Second Semester by Board William I. Latham, of Greenville, a junior in the School of Journalism, has been elected Editor-in-Chief of the Carolinian for the second semester, according to a statement given out last night by M. H. Shepherd, Sr., secretary of the Board of Publications. Mr. Latham succeeds Robert Wauchope of Columbia in this position. The new Editor-in-Chief has been associated with the Carolinian staff as associate editor from the Clariosophic Literary Society for the past two semesters. He is treasurer of the Clariosophic Society, a member of the Board of Directors of the Y. M. C. A. and was recently elected managing editor of The' Gamecock for the second semester. He has been a steady contributor to the Carolinian for the past two years. At the. same time, Eddie Finlay, of Columbia, and William C. Herbert, of Pelzer, were appointed by the present editor to fill out the rest of the semester as associate editors from both men's literary societies. Mr. Finlay is a senior in the School of Journalism, a member of the Euphradian Society, a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and is noted for his short stories, which have appeared in several issues of the Carolinian. William Herbert is also a student in the School of Journalism, secretary of Kappa Sigma Kappa, member of the Clariosophic Literary Society, and business manager of The Gamecock. He ? has contributed several short and spicy stories in past issues of the magazine. The associate editors for the next semester will be named by the new Editor-in-Chief in the near future. The members of the Board of Publications at present are: Dean J. Rion McKissick, of the School of Journalism; Dr. G. A. Wauchope, head of the department of English; Elizabeth Withers, Euphrosynean Literary Society; Annie Laurie Mitchell, Hypatian Literary Society; J. Riley Gettys and J. J. Mack, Clariosophic Literary Society and M. H. Shepherd, Jr., and R. H. Atkinson, Euphradian Literary Society. Mr. Mack served as president of the board for the past semester and M. H. Shepherd as secretary. The next issue of the Carolinian is expected to be out in the next ten days, according to Robert Wauchope, present editor. The first edition of the magazine under the newly elected editor will be published after the beginning of the second semester. ihor Tells Hard Career this time reading was his only means of study. The public libraries were one of his most frequent haunts and for this reason he is a staunch advocate of those institutions. He secured a three-dollar a week job on a small town newspaper and gradually rose to the position of book reviewer and correspondent. He wrote for such papers as the Columbus, Ohio, Dispatch, the New York World, Cincinnati papers and others. In the course of his book reviewing he referred to William Mortis, thea an author of thirty years' Standing, as "a ! (Contiued on pagt Seven) ^y