Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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We GAIV ? ' - ' ? Published on Friday of ever; by the Literary Societies under the super University of Entered as second class mail matt postoffice on N< Member of South Carolin Member of National C News articles may be contributed by any in by Wednesday night before Friday's double-spaced, and must be signed by th be published at the discretion of the E submitted, with the nai SUBSCRIPTION RATE^ CIRCULATIOI Advertising rates ft Offices in the basement < Gamecock office p ST LeRoy M. Want ------Wiu.tam I. Latham - - - - - ASSOCIAT Dorothy Penland -------Darice Jackson -------Lewis H. Wallace ------J. Mitchell Morse ------W. G. Jeffords ------Ali.En Rollins -----John A. Giles - -- -- -- John A. Moroso ------N. W. Brooker ----- EDITOR I. W. B. King Ray Antley Leon K katon E. C. Gil more - -- -- -- Sanders Guignard ------J. H. Galloway - -- -- -- Catherine Rem ley ------Assistants: Marian Finlay, J. A. Louise Edwards, Vernon Spears, W. I Earl Skidorc, Harry Morse, and O. ft Names of heelers do r CO Frances Black -----Millie Taylor -----Ethel Galloway JkanWicii m an -----BUSI W. C. Herbert Sam Taylor - - - - J. W. Brown CIRCUI J. Roy Prince - - - - Lester Hamilton - - * Melton Goodstein CROWD News Bureau?Even a great Universit Student Activity Building?This is th( can be properly centc Voluntary Chapel?A modern tendency Football Stadium?A needed addition Paved Sidewalks?Not only a need, bi FRIDAY, A1 The coeds just won't insist that their dormitory be named. How will "Pullet Roost" do, girls? The more we see of some boys around women, the more we are convinced that they are not ladies' men. Modern girls aren't so bad with their cooking. Everyone of them :an boil water reasonably consistently without burning it. Now that the May Queen elec:ion has been decided as it has, it seems very likely that Dial-ing will become much more popular. A girl friend asked us the other day if we had a compact. We didn't and told her that we had also stopped carrying cigarettes?it's too effeminate. It is rumored that the politicians are in doubt as to what to construct their platforms with. Tiir Gamecock suggests the use of meat-bull, to he exact. The editor was sick during the past three weeks and now he has to take medicine after each meal. This is the one time he's glad there's only three a day. The baseball team has an ambition. It wants to reverse the record set by the basketball team. And it looks very much like it's going to do that very thing. Speaking of elections, it would seem much more appropriate to name a May King than a May Queen. That's really about what it amounts to, anyway. After seeing the Ben Greet Players in their version of Shakespeare's "Hamlet", one sweet young thing was heard to remark, "You know, this fellow Shakespeare is certainly a coming young author." A stranger went out of his way last week to ask us if Carolina had a football team. lie must think that our varsity isn't any good. Why, even our second-stringers have a line like nobody's business. " 1 ^ .These people who insist on playing bridge and don't know anything about it. They are almost as bad as the girls who go to dances because their mothers told them that the only way to learn to dance was to actually do it in public. fe',V + - ' vv >>' , ??: 'v ' vi 'v'c IECOCK y week during the college year vision of the Board of Publications of the South Carolina. er at the Columbia, South Carolina, jvember 20, 1908. a College Press Association. ollege Press Association member of the student body, but must be publication. All copy must be typewritten, e writer. Articles in the Open Forum will ditor and in the order in which they are me of the author signed. ^OOI^ER COLLEGE" YEAR ^?2150 COPIES irnished upon request 3f the Extension Building ?hone?8123, No. 11 AFF Editor-in-Chief ------- - Managing Editor E EDITORS ~ - -- -- -- - Associate Editor ------- - Associate Editor ------- - Associate Editor ------- - Associate Editor - - - Associate Editor ------ Associate Editor - - - - - Assistant Managing Editor - - - - - Assistant Managing Editor - Assistant Managing Editor \L STAFF --------- - News Editor - Sports Editor Alumni Editor --------- Exchange Editor - ------- Fraternity Editor Y. M. C. A. Editor - - -- -- -- -- Joke Editor Bigharft, Frank Durham, Alan Schafer, ). Coan, Faith Brewer, Carolyn Burnet, [. Skcvves. lot appear in mast-head -ED - Co-Ed Editor ------- News Editor ------ Society Editor ------ Feature Editor NESS - Business Manager - Assistant Manager - - - - Assistant Manager vATION - Circulation Manager - - - - Assistant Manager Assistant Manager NIG FOR: :y must advertise. ; only way by which student activities :red and administered. 7 and a good one. to the University's equipment. it an immediate necessity. L'RIL 17, 1931 ANOTHER NEED Many aspirants for this year's track team are seen daily going through the various elements of training on Davis field for the coming meets. And what do they have to practice on and what will the track meets at Carolina he held on ? Nothing, except a quarter mile circle of sandy gravel which runs around the baseball field. A track is supposed to be covered with cinders, but the track candidates are running on supposition at Carolina. A man goes racing around the track endeavoring to perfect his stride. He strikes a rutty spot, many of them in fact, where the rain has played havoc. He is thrown off his stride and gets very little out of the running except the strengthening of his endurance. Why can't Carolina have a decent track? With all the cinders from the furnace which heats the school and with the huge number of laborers employed bv the University, it is entirely possible that one of the best tracks in the State could be procured. \\ hat we have now is not satisfactory. As one jogs around it, solesearing gravel gets in his shoes and nearly ruins his feet. Some might say that if you practice on the kind of track that we now have, you should be able to run better when you run on a good track. We have good track men on our team, but when they hit an excellent cinder track, they can't regulate their stride and are nearly always defeated. In truth our track is a disgrace to the University, when such smaller schools have among the best in the South. u. s. c. One of the campus janitors was prevailed upon to give up the Phi Kpsilon Pi pledge pin he was proudly wearing. The same gentleman is also said to have sported a Kappa Sig pin for a short time. Both fraternities must be becoming strict on their entrance requirements. The roommate suggests that The Carolinian should have a cartoon of a typical coed cranking a Ford and call it, "She Stoops to Crank-ed." Too bad, pal, but typical coeds don't do that. Not only would she not "crank-er", but she would also refuse to "stoop", as long as any one of the eleven hundred males were around to do it for her. STUDENT BODY CANDIDATES?SERVICE x / In order that the candidates may be known by more of the student body they desire to represent, and to inaugurate constructive thought among them, we suggest that there be a time set aside for public speeches. In furtherance of the incessant crowing "The Gamecock" has kept up these many weary months for open politics, this publication heartily indorses the plan. Yates Williams, present president of the student body, is doing something really constructive in calling such a meeting for Wednesday night. The president of the senior class, Wilson O. Weldon, and other class presidents, could do likewise to advantage. ( Several prominent rising seniors will, in a short time, battle it out at the polls for the presidency of the student body; other prominent men will struggle for the numerous minor student body offices, as well as for the various class positions. The winners will be decided, most likely, solely on their affiliations and the number of people they can be of future benefit to. Why should these candidates (everyone knows who they are) not run on specific platforms, platforms that could at least promise efforts to remedy serious evils? The adoption of such a practice would not help all election evils, but it should cause a tendency for the student body and the University to get some practical good from elections. Underground politics cannot be eliminated altogether, but there is certainly no harm in adding a little "above-ground" politics, in which the entire student body could take an active and a constructive interest. Every student cannot possibly know the candidates personally? many of them who vote simply do so to help out a friend who has a friend who has an acquaintance who is in the same fraternity or literary society with one of the candidates. The adoption of platforms would give many a real, personal interest in the outcome of elections. By the adoption of platforms is not meant necessarily the adoption of a lot of high-sounding terms and phrases that mean nothing and about which nothing could be done if they did mean something. The Gamecock refers simply to those things which could be remedied and improved and are within the power of the officers to do. For instance, open politics might be advocated. Some presidential candidate might guarantee to see that all elections are conducted, not only honest in a legal sen.se, but in a moral sense as well. While nothing could very likely be proven, there is some question about several elections held during the past twelve months. A student body officer who would take an aggressive stand against such would be a real blessing. And then there are certain contests about which serious questions and doubts have arisen in the last few months. A student body officer or a society president or some man who would make the prevention of such his business would be performing a real service to his Alma Mater. The list of such possible platforms could go on forever; there are just about that many evils in any institution which cannot afford to bear too strong a searchlight of publicity. The opportunity is present; if the student body candidates would announce something .constructive they hope to accomplish if elected, an example would be set and possibly followed on down the line. And even if the promises were broken as some election promises arc, good would be accomplished, for then it would be clear who were the conscientious politicians and who were the ones who desire the offices without the accompanying duties. u. s. c. STUDENT STRIKES The college students of Spain have been the leaders in a national revolution, and those of Washington and Jefferson College have petitioned the board of trustees to discharge the president, Dr. Simon Strousse Baker, 011 eight counts. They are backing up their protests by refusing to attend classes. The principal charges are that "the present administration gives little evidence of administrative ability, and "has neither the confidence of the student body nor the community." The president replies that he is "at a loss to know what the petition is about," and that he can explain every one of his actions. The faculty has disavowed complicity in the strikes, and recommends "that classes be continued and cuts be reported." The strike has been throughout "a history of indecision and disorganization," but to date there is no evidence of a let-up, according to The Red and Black, student body paper. The front page carries several stories of social and athletic events, which would indicate that the students are not greatly distressed or inconvenienced. Whether or not the strike is justified we do not know. It is hardly the result of boredom, nor is it mere flippancy on the part of the students. It must certainly have some foundation, real or. imaginary, since the student body seems almost unanimously behind the movement; and the president's reply confirms many of the charges. Such a strike would be impossible at the University of South Carolina. at least not under the present administration. The main thing we object to, is the gravel walks. u. s. c. EDUCATION IN SOUTH CAROLINA Kx-Senator Blease once boasted that lynch law existed in South Carolina, but so far 110 one has boasted of the fact that South Carolina is the second most illiterate state in the Union. Which is an encouraging sign. But though South Carolina is producing many leaders in the new Renaissance of the South, the fact remains that she still has a long way to go before she comes within hailing distance of many states in other sections of the country. And she is handicapped by having a large part of her population uneducated. Any person who can write his name is considered literate, and shortly before the census was taken educational officials made a rush to teach every tenant farmer and mill worker to write his name, than which nothing could be more farcical. These men are still in a state of nature, practically speaking, for they know little or nothing of the wonders of modern civilization, and receive few or none of its advantages. The man who said, "This here evolution is a good idea, but hit cain't be enfo'ced," is a typical example. Countries arc remembered not for the amount of business they do, but for what they leave behind them, the beautiful things which belong to 110 period or civilization, but to all time and all peoples. Locomotives, automobiles, and airplanes will go the way of the horse and the ox-cart; steamers will go the way of sailboats; the electric light will go the way of the tallow dip and the oil lamp, but there arc some things that do not die. South Carolina has produced few such things, and indeed not much of anything else. The Renaissance is at hand. Will it be nipped in the bud ? u. s. c. It cost Dumb Dora $2.00 to see Shakespeare's "Ilamlct." "And darn it," says she. "I could have seen Metropolitan Cafe's 'Omelet' for forty cents." Much adverse comment has reached this office concerning the type of politics used in the recent May Queen elections (including both races) by all parties concerned. Not that the accusations of dirty politics are so numerous. The fact of the matter seems to be that many thinking students are waking up to the fact that our election system is outworn and needs changing through the student body constitution. -i WHOM DO WE I SERVE? ; * Whom de we serve ??That is the one important question that every newspaper must answer early in its existence. More than just occasionally the editors of The Gamecock are approached by heads or representatives of various groups and insti* tutions of the campus. The former [ are frequently requested to publish this and suppress that, because it will or will not be a good advertisement for the University or for some part of it. This paper would adopt no policy inimical to the best interests of any worthy and deserving club, group, or school, but at the same time, its I petitioners should remember that beyond that general policy, this paper purposes to give an uncolored and true presentation of the week's news and to give a proper and sensible interpretation of it. The Gamcock intends to publish, always in view of the laws of libel and the canons of good taste, the true, unadulterated facts. Because a particular incident is to the discredit of all participants is no reason why it should not be broadcast, if the incident concerned is one that readers should be aware of and one which might be prevented in future by publicity at the present. The original question?Whom do we serve ??seems to resolve itself do,r;n to one of two groups, the students or the propagandists. I Club reporters, directors of public relations, publicity experts, or call them what you may, are useful officers, but The Gamecock will use their work only when it thinks that they are giving the news uncolored by partisanship, unbiased by personal interests. That is the answer. The Gamecock is more than a mere house organ, more than a mere slave. Its readers may rely on the fact that that which they read in its I news and editorial columns is not controlled by advertisers, subscribers, or by any minority or majority. It is attempting to be a mirror of the present day University of South Carolina?one presenting such an accurate picture of "Today" that it could be used by future historians I with perfect safety. The Political Pot I ( "Always Bubbling Over'' The first major campus election for this spring is now history, having left J some glad and many sad. In the May Queen race, Elizabeth Bclser and Rowena Jones were eliminated on the first ballot, and by Monday practically the whole campus had been cam-1 paigned by the backers of Margaret Dial and Willie 13. Taylor. Judging I from the result, "King Cotton" Culbertson, Frost Walker and their cohorts must have done the most effective work. However, the second race was much closer than some had anticipated, with Margaret winning by a margin of 133 votes. It was particularly noticeable in this election that that the decision of the student council to hold the election within the hedge at the O. D. It. sundial was not a bad one, in that marked irregularities which have been frequent in the past, were eliminated. Yet, there was quite a bit of unwise I "politiciking" by the various "sisters" J and backers of the individual candidates; yes, even to a disgusing degree. In the Clariosophic elections on Tuesday night, Woodrow Lewis, seccretary-trcasurer of the student body, and prominent debater, went sailing into the presidency with no opposition. In the other offices there was some opposition, but on a whole there wasn't very much excitement. Apparently, one party has control?control to such an extent that any opposition there might be has withered in its attempt to rise. 1 he Iuiphradian conies one week I after th6 Clariosophic in holding its election for junior officers. From all evidence at present, LeRoy Want, the first junior to edit Tub Gamecock in many years, may be chosen by the Kuphradians as their junior president. J If this does happen, room-mates will be at the helms of the two literary Societies for the next term, since Lewis and Want room together, and also hail from the same town, namely Darlington. Other than for literary critic and vice-president, for which Carlisle Roberts and Iycwip. Wallace have announced, very little work has been done i;i lining up candidates. The most interest will probably be in I the selection of representatives to the Board of Publications. Anyway, within another week the officers will be chosen and those defeated must rest | H '? ' > % ' v * , * '-. Cock-Tails^, The Easter German has come and ^ gone. Just another night of drowsy waltzes, new evening dresses, chaperons, and stiff shirt fronts. Think of all the formal occasions we have to look forward to, with the spring frat dances to come off. And tux shirts are going up again 1 Does that baseball team look good? Gee whiz! The way they ran up the victories in the last ten days have been something. Prospective conference champs is our guess 1 A woman at the Columbia Theatre last Friday night wanted to see the musical revue playing there. When she found out that Ben Greet and his Greeters were doing the old Shakespeare stuff, she left, with the remark, "I don't want to see that trash 1" ' . It's a darn shame to make the coeds play tennis and use up the tennis courts when they don't want to play and never will play worth a darn anyhow! Page Miss Pope and Miss Alexander! The system of politics at the polls during the last elections, as in most previous cases, was lousy and we don't mean maybe! The way the casual voter was beguiled, threatened, coerced, bought, won over, and swayed was disgusting! Carolina had ten athletic contests during this week. Four baseball games were played on Davis Field, the Carolina tennis team played four matches and the track team had two meets. Things are on the buzz nowadays! In addition to all these encounters, hopeful pugilists mixed it throughout the week over at the Field House. Don't worry, boy, you may be a future Schmeling! A recent article in The State named the various plants, shrubs, and flowers that grace the State House grounds. That wouldn't be such a bad idea for the University Campus! There are many spots of beauty scattered over the campus. I he students wouldn't mind knowing the names of the blossoming flowers, either! Out in back of Pinckney College, there is a tree covered with beautiful wistaria. The aroma fills all the rooms on that part of the campus. It is a truly beautiful sight, to. see the big tree enveloped by the purple blossoms! Maybe it was because we were sleepy but the heralded Ben Greet Players didn't look any better to us than the Palmetto Players! And at least we can understand what the local players say when they talk! Diary of a modern college Pcpys: Up in the morn and over to Mess Hall to dine?The eggs were too greasy. And so to the P. O., check from the Pater and the usual ad vice to study. So to class and got sleepy as per usual. Why can't professors be interesting? After dinner called up C. C. and talked with the femmc. She met me at the drug store and we meandered to a show. She wouldn't let me embrace her in the gallery and I left. So to baseball game and saw Carolina win again. I'rat meeting after supper and we discussed the spring dance?more money for a hop. A bridge game till twelve-thirty and so to bed. What's the use? Wish I was back on the farm. Plans have finally been announced for the Junior-Senior. It looks as if they may really hold one. After we've hoped all year for one, won't it be swell to go to one? Wonder if the chicken will be as tough as it was last year? Just think! Only six and a half weeks until exams! won't that be wonderful? And the spring fever coming on! Heck! content until next year rolls around, bringing with it another opportunity. According to the student body constitution, the election of student body officers comes a little less than six weeks before commencement, the nominations being made on the clay six weeks preceding commencement. As things look just now, there will probably be only three men in the race for the presidency. These are Troy T. Stokes, who served his sophomore class as president, Bryant Adair, outstanding athlete who is a threeletter man, Jinimie Brailsford, prominent boxer, and J. C. (Munch) DuPre, captain of this year's basketball team. There is some talk that DuPre (Continued on page six) ? aS