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The Gamecock Published on Friday of every week during the college year :*erary Societies under the supervision of the Board of Publications of the University of South Carolina is second class mail matter at the Columbia, South Carolina, postoffice on November 20, 1908. mber of South Carolina College Press Association. tember of National College Press Association. be contributed by any member of the student body, but must be Yednesday night before Friday's publication. All copy must be spaced, and must be signed by the writer. Articles in the Open ished at the discretion of the Editor and iu the order in which e submitted, with the name of the author signed. RIPTION RATE--$2.00 PER COLLEGE YEAR Circulation?2150 Advertising rates furnished upon request Jfticcs in the basement of the Extension Building Gamecock office phone?8123, No. 11 _ STAFF EXECUTIVE BOARD .. Wallace - - - - - -- -- - Editor 4 Taylor / Business Manager an A. Giles - - - - Managing Editor ASSOCIATES M.;. Frances Black - -- -- -- -- Associate Editor M$JOis Fischer - - Associate Editor !??;!>anders R. Guignard - -- -- -- - Associate Editor ^William C. Herbert - Associate Editor William I. Latham - -- -- -- - Associate Editor J. Mitchell Morse - Associate Editor Leon Keaton - - - - - - - Assistant Managing Editor Allen Rollins \ - - - - Assistant Managing Editor EDITORIAL STAFF & J. A. Bigham - - - ' - - - - - - News Editor M Alan Schafer - -- -- -- - Assistant Sports Editor O* H. Skewes - -- -- -- - Assistant Sports Editor lv Faith Brewer -* - - - - - - -% Exchange Editor ,. Frank Durham - ----- - Fraternity Editor W* ll Galloway - - - - - - - - - Y.* M. C. A. Editor ^Catherine Catiicart Joke Editor ASSISTANTS Jack Payne, Frank Wardlaw, Genevieve Reynolds, Marian Finlay, Josephine Griffin, Jerry Glenn, Robert Conard', Lemuel Gregory, Donald McIntosh, LaVerne Hughes, Anne Huiet, Belvin Horres, Theodore Ninestein, Boyce Craig, and Sue Kibler. & " ' " . CO-ED Millie Taylor - - - - - - Co-ed Editor Ethel Galloway - -- -- -- -- News Editor fy , Jean Wichman Society Editor " v Louise Edwards ------- Feature Editor BUSINESS STAFF tW. Brown ------- Assistant Business Manager . C Grant - -- -- -- - Assistant Business Manager Baynard Whaley ------ -Assistant Business Manager CIRCULATION STAFF R. H. Bishop - -- -- -- - Circulation Manager Alton Brov^n - Assistant Manager Wilbur Jones > - Assistant Manager Marvin Miller ------ Assistant Manager Kenneth Prince Assistant Manager CROWING FOR: News Bureau?Even a great University must advertise. Student Activity Building?This is the only way by which student activities can be properly centered and administered. Voluntary Chapel?A modern tendency and a good one. Football Stadium?A needed addition to the University's equipment. Paved Sidewalks?Not only a need, but an immediate necessity. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1931 The Town Theatre The Town Theatre represents an aspect of social and cultural life which has been sadly neglected in the South ever since the Civil War, and for such it is to be praised. It is a symbol of the artistic renaissance of the South, in which South Carolina is taking a leading part. She has already produced DuBose Hey ward and Julia Peterkin in the field of letters, and John Sitton, q. native of Greenville, is recognized as one of, the up and coming young artists of Europe. The Town Theatre likewise has won national recognition, being a leader in the little theatre movement. The Columbia Stage Society started very humbly as a small club which met once a month to read and discuss plays. The next step was the presentation of plays in the homes of the members, as private programs; the xperiment worked so well that it was decided to give a few plays ''cly. The Columbia high school auditorium, the old Ideal theatre he Ritz), and the old Pastime theatre (now the Imperial), were 1 for this purpose, until after several years of struggling enough s saved to buy an old boarding house on Sumter street. The of the house were knocked out, a stage was thrown up in I, and the remaining space was filled with seats. Such was vvn Theatre. Several fine performances were given in this leatre, a little money was saved, and finally the old barn own and replaced with the handsome brick building which Town Theatre. .n brief, is the life of an institution which has been closely jd with the University ever since its boarding house debut, .nts have taken prominent parts in many of the theatre's produces, and several well-known campus actors owe much of their success to the experience it afforded. Here is an institution which means much not only to Columbia but to the state as a whole. Every student of the University should take an interest in it and support it. Watch Those Fires K Fires will burn at the Carolina gates on the night before, the Clemson game. The purpose of these fires in the past has been to stop noisemakers from disturbing the football team. Such is not the case this year. The team will be sleeping soundly near the pleasant waters of fa small lake. But the never-dying Carolina spirit?an immortal personification?will be sacred that night 1 And fires Will burn! Upperclassmen post freshmen who contribute the fuel for the occasion ! Anything that burns is acceptable to the fire tender. Fires must burn all night longl T6o often the University is criticised for lack of spirit?a false accusation 1 Sophomoric pranks were never included in the makeup of the Carolina student! But fires on the great night carry iit the true meaning of CAROLINA SPIRIT to the campus! Watch iires in the ancient times were kept to watch for wild beasts and enemies! /Carolina fires revive the ashes of the past and burn for a brighter future! Old timers see them and the call of golden youth at Carolina comes back! Youngster^ see them and long for the day when they\will be Carolina men! Students standing by them gaze into their coals; students passing, pause and walk up; and the same thought comes to tlta Carolinian? "Here's a health, Carolina! Beat Clemson! > In the fall of 1926 a Tiger team came from its lair in the rocky hiNs of the Piedmont and met defeat at the-hands of a fighting Gamecock crew. Bravo! The years began to roll by?and for the past four years the Tigers have been seeking revenge at the hands of their foemen I and gaining it. But too long have the Philistines been victorious among the sons of Isreal! Eleven fighting sons of Samson await the charge of the Yellow Peril. But for once, the miglitv threat from the hills- comes as the underdog. A mighty Gamecock aggregation, spurred and ready fof the fray is waiting for blood. The eager spectators are waiting for the opening shot of the annual classic! \ A few short hours and the freshmen will rise in their seats and bellow "Beat Clemson 1" Haughty sophomores will sweep as one great wave 'to their feet and shout in tones like thunder, "Beat Clemson 1" Aroused juniors will rise and even the foothills of the Blue Ridge will echo back their "Beat Clemson!" And the seniors?after long years of undying loyalty to their school and team will join their voices in a great invocation to the fates, "Beat Clemson!" From the bleak wet shores of New England to the sun-kissed sands of the Golden Gate, all nature will join in the cry "Beat Clemson" and the echo will come back to waiting ears?"We Did Beat Clemson!"^ Learn A Little All the glamour of the circus attaches itself to the aifliual state fair 1 Blaring bands, the noisy midway, the barkers at the sideshows, the freaks, the football games, the crowds,?all are a part of the fair! But the fair should not stand for only the midway to the South Carolinian ! Once each year all the handiwork and products of the farflung Palmetto State, renowned in song and story, are gathered in one great fair! Do not make the mistake of skipping the real fare at the fair! Exhibits of cotton, livestock, fruits, vegetables, grains, looms, and all the industries of the state have been prepared to show the South Carolinian the real State in which he lives! Many hands have contributed to this fair?the greatest in the history of the State! Thousands of dollars have been spent in making it the greatest state exposition ever held. Here gather representatives from every hamlet a*id city in the state, to view their products! All that glitters is not gold. Take a few minutes and learn something I about your state, even if the midway does hold the greatest thrill for you! You will never regret it! Basketball For Girls (Co-ed Editorial) "Hail, hail, Gamecocks hail!" is sung to the boys 011 the Carolina teams, but never to the girls. For there are no girls' teams at Carolina to whom to sing. But should this be the case, is it merely an oversight on the part of the 1600 students and the entire faculty or is it the idea crushed when it arises. Every girl at Carolina enjoys seeing a game of girls' basketball because she understands each foul and each score, for she has played that game herself. But how many co-eds understand the meaning of a touchback or even knows when one is made unless some male spectator nearby jumps up and down, gleefully shouting, "Touchback, touchback ?" Even in basketball when played by boys, the girl is at a loss to interpret the meaning of certain fouls and penalties. Carolina is co-educational in name?why not in activities? Is it fair fof the girls at Carolina not to have a single inter-collegiate team of their own while the boys have seven? It isn^t that there is 110 material, for last season a wealth of material I was brought to light by the inter-class games and a makeshift varsity with a week's practice behind it lost after a stiff fight to the Columbia, College varsity with a season's practice and four years varsity basketball behind it. 7 he woman's athletic association is willing and desirous of staking its total resources to back the team. Any girl honored by being on the team would be willing to help pay the expenses of any trip. Meals and lodging cost nothing for a girls' team because of the hospitality of the college which it visits. It would be hard but possible for the association and the girls to bear the total expenses. So the University treasury would be taxed to no degree to support the team. Nothing is lacking but permission from the authorities. I Carolina, we girls, don't ask for much: just permission for one sport to call our very own. Greater Activity Needed That literary societies have existed for a century and a quarter at the University shows that they must have merits other than age; that they are constantly being criticized shows that there are many things about them demanding change and improvement. Literary societies, like all institutions of American life, are going through a period of change and readjustments They are faced with the necessity of satisfying a student body which no longer would be satisfied to sit in a crowded hall for hours listening to some Southerner declare that South Carolina should secede from the Union. These societies are not dead?organizations that control The Gamecock and The Carolinian, as well as all inter-scholastic debating, can hardly be said to exist in theory only. Interest in them is not as great as once was the case, but if they would elect leaders, rather than politicians, to office, these troubles could be disposed of in a natural and quiet manner. ^ That the literary societies are political organizations has been charged repeatedly, but such has always been the case, to a limited extent. The trouble lies not in an excess of political activities but in a lack of constructive activity. The "leaders" of the societies too often have used them for stepping stones, and have forgotten that they are charged with the responsibility of increasing the prestige of their entire organization. .. ^ Political "leadership,'' lack of efforts to readjust the societies to modern American college life, and a lack of forward-booking officials, have brought hard times on these societies. How long are the members I going to put up with such a situation? \ . X 'V , Wanteds. I Hy>i iiii?i?i ;iII 'ill! ^ inif , I| Cft Viin h,im Today's paradox?It's O. K. for a husband to say grace at'the table, but it's the very devil if he says it in bed, A prominent faculty member says that in a few ycprs j^e'll be in Heaven or Charleston. That's the first time we've heard it called Charleston, \ -v. Several campus organizations, indignant about various and 'sundry things, are jumping on Doctor Foster. How about transferring some of them to us, Doc. The girls' K. S. K., for instance. < . Notice: Any freshman desiring to have his name put up for Phi Beta Kappa or Alpha Sigma Sigma should see the dean of his school immediately. There's one thing _commendable about women. They are speechless for a year and a half?the first. Add another up-set pulled by Columbia outfits. WIS joined the National Broadcasting System. Today's puzzle: What happens to the reputation of a woman juror when the judge orders the jury locked up for the night? * ** A student informed The Carolinian last year that he didn't like women who smoked because it made them less kissable. It's pretty hard, but then, the girls have had to put up with it all these years. > ~ IMAGINE YOUR f WHEN YOU TRY ~TC SWEETIE'S Ml I ? * \ _ ACCIDENJTLV C IMAGINE YOUR DELIGHT > newest models of Fountain Peni shape, color and point you desire mammoth assortment of Parker Conklins, Watermans. The stati ^Printers, Sfafionei COLI3MI J' We Print The Gamecock t CAROLINA A FOOTBAL ORANGEBURG, S. < > y $2.00 FR0?f?? S V Good on all trail Return Limit Oct 0 Train service ii . \ s MOST CONVEN quirei \ City Ticket Office: 1208 8 ' i: SOUTHERN SYS1 i 111 1 *i . \ '' . * . >.& i''"AW".vi; / X , if. V'.l .. At. last! An investigator has found *i,; why we put up Mth our campus * politicians. The game laws forbid shooting them. s ' V Freshman Freddie's prayer: Would that I were a mosquito, so I would get a rise out ofvthe professors. i * Betty Coed broke her leg while walking down town. The news is not that she broke her leg, but .that-she was walking. -r? ' And here's .why night clubs are hot popular with Carolina students. Why pay several dollars to get in one when ther^ is absolutely jio cover charge in Burney college? / Some freshman' suggests that Th? Carolinian would do well to jjut out an April Fool 1 edition. He doesn't know that every edition is a ."fool" 0 one?it fools the nuts who expect it to come out on time. . v A former University coed wis suing her father-in-law for $30,000 for alienation of affection. Darn?what expensive affection! We'd certainljHike to have some of it. u. s. o. Tea dances have become very popu- ' lar at the University of Michigan. The male students at the University are separated into two groups?those who tea-dance and those who' don't. Several skirmishes have taken place between the two factions. ^ A prospective, freshman student at the University of Michigan was recently expelled when it was discovered that he had forged his entrance credentials. ? EMBARRASSMENT 3 TRIM "YOUR. "f . JSTACHE. _ ? AMD :ut it off / III when you have hundreds of the j from which to select just the H . We are enthusiastic over our s, Sheaffers, Wahl Eversharps, 3 COMPANY "8, Office 'Furniture IIA,S.C. 1 | t:: ' ' " ?? V 1 ? I ; "I i \ N ' 'I ' I ? >1 /s. CITADEL L GAME (I ''! 3. 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