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The Gamecock Published on Friday of ever> week during the college year I.! by the Literary Societies under the supervision of the Board of Publications of the University of Sc'.th Carolina Entered as second class mail matter at the Columbia, South Carolina, postoffice on November 20, 1908. .' ? Member of South Carolina College Press Association. Member of National College Press Association. News articles may be contributed by any member of the student body, but must be in by nine o'clock Wednesday night before Friday's publication. All copy must be typewritten, double-spaced, and must be signed by the Writer. Articles in the Open Forum will be published at the discretion of the Editor and in the order in which they are submitted, with the name of the author signed. SUBSCRIPTION RATE?$2.00 PER COLLEGE YEAR Circulation?2150 Advertising rates furnished upon request Offices in the basement of the Extension Building Gamecock office phone?8123, No. 11 STAFF EXECUTIVE BOARD Lewis H. Wallace - Editor J. Sam Taylor - Business Manager John A. Giles -------- - Managing Editor ASSOCIATES Frances Black - Associate Editor Lois Fischer - -- -- -- -- Associate Editor Sanders 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. Bigiiam - -- -- -- -- - News Editor Alan Schafer - - -- -- - - Assistant Sports Editor O. H. Skewes - -- -- -- - Assistant Sports Editor Faith Brewer - -- -- -- -- Exchange Editor Frank Durham - -- -- -- -- Fraternity Editor J. H. Galloway - - - - - - - - - Y. M. C. A. Editor Catherine Cathcart - -- -- -- -- Joke Editor ASSISTANTS Jack Payne, Frank Wardlaw, Genevievei Reynolds, Marian Finlay, Josephine Griffin, Jerry Glenn, Robert Conard, Lemuel Gregory, Donald McIntosh, LaVerne Hughes, Anne IIuiet, Belvin Horres, Theodore Ninestein, Boyce Craig, and Sue Kibler. CO-ED Millie Taylor - -- -- -- -- - Co-ed Editor Hk Ethel Galloway - -- -- -- -- News Editor B Jean Wichman - -- -- -- -- Society Editor I Louise Edwards - -- -- -- -- Feature Editor BUSINESS STAFF tW. Brown - - - - - - - Assistant Business Manager . C. Grant ------- Assistant Business Manager I Baynard Whaley ------ -Assistant Business Manager CIRCULATION STAFF IR. H. Bishop - -- -- -- - Circulation Manager Alton Brown - -- -- -- -- Assistant Manager I Wilbur Jones - -- -- -- -- Assistant Manager I 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. ; I Voluntary Chapel-?A modern tendency and a good one. I Football Stadium?A needed addition to the University's equipment. Paved Sidewalks?Not only a need, but an immediate necessity. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1931 Carolina is not the only college in which school spirit is lacking. The I Furman Hornet tells us that the spirit is to be encouraged. Furman I freshmen say that the upperclassmen haven't enough spirit to make I them attend pep meetings. And to top it all, rumors from the Furman e I campus declare that the faculty has passed a resolution requesting everyI one to attend pep meetings. ^Hj ?. c. Pioneers rfl "The effect of the movement by Omicron Delta Kappa to lay brick IBP sidewalks on the University campus is immeasurable. This will be the second contribution to the school in all of its long history of a century and a quarter from any organization functioning on the campus. The sun dial was the first, and we are now pointing toward the second expression of our desire to do something for our Alma; Mater." Dr. Havilah Babcock, chairman of the O. D. K. committee handling the brick-laying project, ably stated these words l>efore a group of Carolina men recently. The beloved patron of all that points to a bigger and finer University pointed out further that this school had received a total of $30,000 from alumni since its founding. . No attempt shall be made to ferret out the cause of this lack of school spirit among many of the graduates. Some have said it was due to a lack of training and cultivation of this spirit by students and faculty during academic days. The ice has been broken now with Kappa Sigma Kappa backing up the O. D. K. movement with a similar project. Evidence points to further cooperation on the part of other groups. Students on all sides are acclaiming the move as one of the most far-seeing ever begun by patriotic students. Perhaps some native South Carolinians in insolated regions will be impressed when they see a photo showing our students sober enough to lay bricks! To the two service organizations who have begun the movement to boost the University, this publication extends its heartiest comrnenda tion. More power to the Pioneers! A head in the Johnsonian informs us that "Seniors Alone May Use Front Steps." We wonder where the underclasswomen carry their dates. U. 8. o. Why not start a "Hobo Day" at the University ? Three years ago a campus service organization instituted "Freshman ' Barefoot Day" along with the May Queen Election in April. However, only first-year men are privileged to enjoy this by actual participation in the event. "Hobo Day" would consist of a contest open to all male students over a period of ten shaveless days at the end of which the winner would be that student resembling most Santa Claus or Moses. Reprint From The Turkeyville Gobbler "Thousands of Turkeys were decapitated today throughout the United States by our two-legged rivals for supremacy known as Men in their absurd annual celebration of Thanksgiving Day. "According to a five-year BEHEADED Gobbler s reporters yesterold veteran, the number of c^ay w^e employing his families and individuals nose for news as well as wiped out by the human on- corn. slaught has never been < A mother was seen to heard of before since the bow her head proudly beterrible practice began in fore the axe of a man with 1621. murder in his eyes as her "A touching scene was lyood watched from aside, witnessed by one of The IiQft Gobbler portraying the very pathos in their white meat. 'Alas,' one could almost hear them gobbling, tis a tough life we're living. Why should we be held in the captivity of man? "The only united effort made to break up the wholesale killings on all sides was the charge of hundreds of Turkeys who followed a leader just outside of Butcherville early this morning. Seeing him plunge into a large building as if in chase of men, the horde pushed after him. "To their dismay it was learned too late that it was a trap baited with corn. It lias not been learned whether the many resulting deaths were due to 'spiked' corn or sharp knives of humans. "The only glimmer of hope seen by noted philosophers as an outcome of the nation-wide slaughters is immediate relief of the unemployment situation. If this should fail, President Iva Toughskin is expected to call a Barn House Conference on Abolition of Turkey Meat on Thanksgiving Day." Here's one for a Frosh to figure out: Dr. Kennedy talking at the top of his voice in the library while students are cautioned to "keep quiet." We wonder if the librarian could not shut his office door sometimes. U. B. O. The Legislature's Attitude What should be the attitude of a member of the General Assembly ? Should it be that of an up-state man against a low-state institution ? Should it be as a politician opposed to a Columbia institution? Or should it be determined solely by what his particular county wants it to be? In the first instance, the University is hardly more a school for the lower part of this commonwealth than it is for the upper region. Figures show that there arc scarcely more students from one section than another enrolled here. But on the suppdsition that the representation was unequal, there is no reason why it could not be equalized if a greater number of students from the upper part of the State wished to attend. Is Carolina a Columbia institution ? Many men have fought the school 011 that grounds alone. At least that was the reason given for objecting to any increase in appropriation. Hardly over two hundred students are enrolled who are from the city of Columbia. It is only when one takes in the suburbs and a radius of fifteen miles that an accounting is made of the seven hundred students who make up the day students. And now, let us consider the manner in which a legislator should favor or disfavor certain bills. Should it be as nearly representative of the group that elected him or should it be arrived at through an estimation of the value of such to the State as a whole? This question was settled on one bill last year when the legislature agreed to hard-surface State highways with disregard of the fact that the upper part of the State would be forced to pay for the greater bulk of the expense of paving in the lower section. The Palmetto State prides itself on the fact that it once stood up for States Rights. It is doubtful if it would be proud to stand up for the same thing again. Why? Because it would be termed provincial. Is our State so backward, are our "leaders" so small that they must be bound by "county rights?" If so, is it any wonder that we have had a no-cotton-act legislature? This in itself is proof of the need of more efficient educational institutions which will produce leaders with some foresight. U. 8. C. Vocational Versus Timely Talks ''Substitution of subjects of timely interest instead of the vocational guidance talks would be of more value to the students." Thus declared a prominent member of the faculty connected with the arrangement of the vocational talks. The student body and faculty must realize that these talks besides being dry and too matter-of-fact are more or less a hit-or-miss proposition. Perhaps only one per cent of the audience are impressed and only a percentage of that percent enter into vocation under discussion. It appears that the most logical substitute for these foolish elocutionary ventures that waste time of faculty and students alike is talks by able faculty members on different phases of our present environment, national as well as local. Who could enlighten us more on the present historical conditions in Russia than a professor of contemporary history? Could we learn as much from arduously reading newspapers about the present economic problem as from hearing a well-pjrepared fifteen-minute lecture by one of the professors of economics? What do students care about the Sino-Japanese controversy? They do not read newspapers, and if they did, what could interest them about a conflict thousands of miles away? So John Collegian blithely dances on. But let a man come before the students and show them the local meaning as well as national interpretation of this affair, and they will open their eyes and ears in attention. Evidence points to just this much : a less number of letters would be written during chapel period if the students could be convinced that the speakers were really trying to do something for them?that an appeal was being made to them as a group, and not to one or two bookworms in the audience. An Appeal To Loyalty || Within the next few weeks, every Oarolina student will be given an opportunity to show just whether or not he is interested in doing anything for his Alma Mater. Ho will have a chance to exhibit the regard he has for the institution that has and is preparing him for a prosperous business and social life in the future. m Several student organizations intend to put on campaigns to raise the necessary funds- to lay more brick sidewalks to balance up those being laid now. The success of the movement will depend in many cases on whether or not Carolina's student body is willing to stint | itself or borrow money in order to see the walks beautified. Leaders of the movement have not only given much financially but are now devoting day and night toward putting the work across successfully. ; Perhaps some students will wonder why they should aid a State institution, but, after all is this so much a State institution? The State's . attitude in the past two years has been that its schools of higher learning are so many whit? elephants. Although the enrollment in these has been steadily increasing, the annual appropriation has been on the decrease. There remains only one possible means to offset this tendency, as it appears to be, on the part of our legislaturemen to stifle our Almaj' : Mater. , Show them that Carolina students are going to get what they want, even if it means personal sacrifice to raise the money and curtailment on pleasure hours to do the actual labor. How much to contribute to the cause is a question which every student must answer for himself. His decision should be based first on his interest in the movement and then the amount of money available on his part. While some members of the student body havei given/ only a few cents others have donated as much as five dollars. There is not a Carolina man here who would not upon returning to his Alma Mater twenty years from now point with pride to a certain portion of the brick sidewalks with the exclamation "I laid that brick.'' Would it not stir one's heart in after years upon reminiscing to recall the day that he and his companions worked together laying bricks which he had previously paid for? Students of the University, it is up to you. If the movement is to be / successful, it is in your power to n)ake it. The very remarks you make to fellow-students about the project will greatly effect its outcome. '4 Give! Give! Give until it hurts!" D. S. O. The Citadel Bull Dog flatters itself when it intimates that Carolina students enjoy the annual game in Orangeburg solely because they play the Cadets. Next to the city itself and the white-way hawkers, we do enjoy being with the baby doughboys. u. s. o.?:? Why The Rush? "Is it too late for me to have my picture made for the annual?" Thus, The Game cock is barraged with this same old question day after day. , Mr. Editor of the Garnet and Black, why the rush tp get students to have their picture made anyway? We know that the printers do not rush you until the middle of March for "copy." The annual does not have to cater to a small printer. It has shown in its surplus from the preceding year that it can demand service from the publishers through sheer weight of its finances. Is the staff of this year's annual so slow, so inefficient, that it requires four months to make up one hundred and fifty pages? Each year the editor of the annual threatens to exclude individual pictures after a certain date. Yet has anyone in the history of this institution and its annuals seen such a threat carried out? Mr. Editor, be rational, and do not bring out the annual until next May. ? ; ?? ? -*? ???i?????? . Columbia Laundry SPECIAL RATES TO STUDENTS Leave Your Laundry at the Canteen by 12 O 'Clock Each Day See WOODROW LEWIS?Campus Representative BURNETT'S DRUG STORE Carolina S^als, Jewelry, Drugs, Drinks and Cigars Carolina and Fraternity Stationery One Block Prom Campus Phone 3191 Corner Main and College Street \ SHORTHAND 11 I IN if | 30 DAYS I ^ Written with ABC'S and familiar characters? t ^ Simple, rapid, accurate. Serves all purposes better. f. Used and indorsed by many of the highest paid { ^ secretaries in America. 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