The Gamecock
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Founded January 30, 1900
ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Editor '
Published on Friday of every week during the college year
by the Literary Societies under the supervision of the Board of Publications of the
University of {South 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 ?y 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 RAfE?$2.00 PER COLLEGE YEAR ?
Circulation?2150
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Offices in the basement of the Extension Building
Gamecock office phone?8123, No. 11
Executive Board
William O. 11krbert Editor
J. Sam Taylor Business Manager
Allen Rollins Managing Editor
Associates ,
Louise Edwards ... .... . \ Associate Editor
J. 11. Galloway ? - - - ... Associate Editor
i John Giles - - - ... Associate Editor
William I. Latham '- - - ... - Associate Editor
J. Mitchell Morse ....... Associate Editor
Millie Taylor ........ Associate Editor
Frank Durham ... . . Assistant Managing Editor
R. L. Keaton, Jr. Assistant Managing I'Mitor
Frank Wardlaw ...... Assistant Managing Editor
JReportorial
John A. Big ham - - - ... . News Editor
Alan Shaker /.. . . Sports Editor
O. II. Skewes -\ - - - Assistant Sports Editor
John C. Payne Alumni Editor
Genevieve Reynolds - - - - - Exchange Editor
Boyce Craig .... 7 ... . Fraternity Editor
Belvin IIorres Y. M. C. A. Editor
I Catherine C^tiicabt - Joke Editor
Co-Ed
Ethel Galloway Co-ed Editor
Josephine Griffin - - - - ... . News Editor
Marian Finley - Society Editor
Faith Brewer Feature Editor
Assistants
Bonnie Kate Barnes, Lemuel Gregory, LaVerne Hughes, Anne IIuitt, Buck
Kramer, Donald McIntosii, Jane Sciiaffer, Sue Ivirler, and Jean Wichman
Business
J. W. Brown Assistant Business Manager
L. C. Grant - - - - - - - Assistant Business Manager
Baynard Whaley - - w - - Assistant Business Manager
Circulation
11. II. Bishop - - - - .... Circulation Manager
L. W. Epton Assistant Manager
Wilbur Jones .... . ... Assistant Manager
Leon Pickens ... . . 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.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1932
Will The University Exist?
The state appropriation bill as passed by the House of Representatives
gives the University the lowest appropriation it has received
in many moons. Unless the Senate increases or decreases it, the
University will receive $301,301 to carry on its work with the next
year. The cut proposed in the 1932 bill will amount to 32 per cent
of the 1929 appropriation.
The only fair basis of comparison is the appropriation per student.
On this basis the highest was made in 1924 with $363; the lowest in
1931 with $207, a far lower per capita than that of any college in
South Carolina. This decrease amounted to 43 per cent. The proposed
cut in 1932 amounts to 53 per cent of the 1924 appropriation.
Since 1926, the University has been operating on a steadily decreasing
budget. At the same time its enrollment has been steadily
growing. There is a state deficit, and that deficit must be cared for.
But since the University was decreasing its expenditures while that
deficit was being accumulated, it is unfair to ask the institution to
bear a disproportionate share of the burden now contemplated by
the bill of the House.
The cut in professors' salaries as made in the House bill represents
a reduction of forty per cent?a much larger percentage than that
proposed for officers of any other state institution or state department.
If the appropriation bill, as passed by the House, goes into effect,
it will have had a tremendously adverse bearing on the future of
the University.
It will result in the loss within two years of a large proportion of
the best members of the faculty. They will have to be replaced with
inferior teachers.
It will result in the lowering of the efficiency of those remaining
under the strain of financial hardship and other discouragement.
It will result in inadequate equipment of libraries and laboratories
for work of respectable standard. For four years the University has
made little or no replacements or additions to these.
The most disastrous effect is that the University would be dropped
from the list of all accredited agencies such as State Boards of Education
and Associations of Colleger and Universities. Already lowest
among state universities in provision for staff and equipment, the
University would be forced to fall so far below all the standards by
which colleges are accredited that its certificates and diplomas would
be without value outside of South Carolina. ,
XJ. R. C.
And may^ we ask what has become of the proposed Garnet and
Black constitution?
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Mrs. Babe Ruth, from all current reports, appears to be trying to
get her weight down to the level of her husband's new contract.
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* Who would like to purchaso his physiological duplicate? Yet,
what "good brick" would not purchase a brick or two for campus
sidewalks? *
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Policy Of The New Staff
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The policy of the new staff of The Gamecock will be one that will
consider first the good of the student body in general, inasmuch as
it receives its right to existence there. Pair-minded and non-partisan,
the staff will do all in itsipower to brinp about tl greater Carolina.
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There will be no "Political Pot" in the publication during .the
present administration. Sentiment of older heads has objected, and
with due reason, to the employment of that means of furthering a
particular faction.
Just so long as the demagogues of the campus walk with skirts
unbesmirched they shall have nothing to fear from the columns of
The Gamecock. Until one group steps to disgraceful depths to elect
a candidate and unquestionable evidence is forthcoming to substantiate
such degrading act, the University weekly shall consider
it its duty to refrain from any criticism.
Campus politicians may be assured that the minute it is learned
they have stuffed ballot boxes (as in the case of the student body
race last year) or that false reports are being circulated against a
condidate The Gamccock will do its best,to counteract such dastardly
actions. Further, the staff will push all possible investigation and
expose the culprits in black and white, causing the honor committee
to exert its constitutional duty.
Comment and criticism of everything involving University students
and their interests are invited for publication in the Open Forum
with the approval of the editor. Unfair attacks on person, group, or
practice will be considered unfit for publication. At the same time,
endorsement of a person, group, or practice will be limited, consideration
being given equally'to exponents of opposing views.
AVliile refusing to employ inuendo, vacillating statements, and
evasions, The Gamecock shall consider it proper to sponsor nothing
unless it is for the ultimate benefit of the student body.
Organizations expecting to receive publicity must remember that
unless co-operation is pledged the staff by appointing one of their
number official scribe, it may be hard to keep students informed of
their doings. The number of people directly involved and the value
the particular group affords the whole will determine the inchage. it
gets in publicity, aside from the prime consideration of news value.
"Crowing For A Greater Carolina," The Gamecock will endeavor
for the next four months to be the all-student newspaper, guided by
impartiality and the good of the University, its students and graduates.
May the hum of this Press add to the glory and history of the
State's most noble institution!
U. B. O.
Cheering?Not Jeering
There is no reason why the Carolina students should continue to
jeer at the basketball referees who officiate in the 'Field House.
In a recent game with Furman Blackie Carter officiated. It was
the best officiated game seen in the Field House this season. Carolina
officials agree that Carter was correct in calling a foul on the
Carolina team when violent vocal objections were raised at one of
his decisions.
It is quite natural for students to cheer at the games and to become
very enthusiastic in their support. The students are to be commended
on their cheering of the teams, but not on their jeering ai
officials.
Students sometimes lose sight of the fact that our players can make
a mistake and foul opponents, and that 011 a big court as large as the
one in thejpicld House, one official cannot see every infraction of the
rules.
To a visitor at the Carolina games, the impression is given that
the backers of the team are unsportsman like and that they, sitting
yards from the ball and actual play, know more about it than the
official who is standing right at the scene of action. It is also a
handicap to the team when the students keep jeering the referee, as
was demonstrated at the Furman game.
Hissing, cat-calling, and derisive contempt for opponents and officials
lower the standing of the school. The students who indulge in
such contemptuous conduct are not loyal Carolinians. They do not
represent the ideals of Carolina and should not be allowed to besmirch
the high standard. Public opinion should censor such outrageous
behavior and ostracize these individuals so lacking in intelligence.
The spirit of the school is not to be derided. Nourished
through the tender years of infancy, guided through adolescence, and
finally having attained the ripe old age of Carolina tradition, it
merits reverence and veneration.
Let's have more cheering and display of that Carolina spirit and
tradition, and less jeering and display of ignorance, in the future.
U. 8. O.
The New "Press Bureau"
What closely- resembles a press bureau, in spite of the fact that
Col. J. Rion McKissick, Journalism School dean, does not call it that,
has come into being with the new semester.
Selected seniors and juniors in the School of Journalism have
been invited to take a course which has as its purpose the dissemination
of University news to the State daily and weeklies and, in some
cases, publications in bordering states.
Failing to get the appropriation which it has requested for several
years to finance a news bureau, the University has agreed to allow
the School of Journalism to consider this as a regular course vwith
credits given for actual work done.
The work of the bureau wijl extendi from sending news of the
election of John Biff to the secretaryship of his group to his home
papers to the handling of news which will be of interest to the State
newspapers in general.
To the new disseminator of news on the campus, The Gamecock
extends warmest welcome. While this publication has attempted to
do much in allaying a spirit of ill-will which has arisen in certain
sectors of tlje State toward the University, much still remains to be
done before South Carolinians as a whole will look upon their State
University as an institution which lies in the palm of their haifd, to
be encouraged or cramped as they see fit.
To the enterprising dean of the Journalism School, recognition
is given as the guiding spirit behind the "Press Bureau." Such exhibition
of lov? for Alma Mater and fellow-countrymen is seldom
found. .
But where is there another J. Rion McKissick?
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t The Power Of $2,000,000,000 1
The effect of the two-billion-dollar credit .corporation upon the !
nation's business has been estimated by many to be the one thing
that is to spell the doom of the economic depression over the country.
Others have spoken in a pessimistic tone, declaring that relief would
be only temporary, possibly two years at the most.
Just how far the millions who have deposited their savings in Jhe
back yard will resort to the shovel in bringing back relief as an outcome
of the confidence inspired by the new money corporation is
problematical. Perhaps this will not be seen until those people have
noticed a definite rise in their neighbors' business and the business
spirit generally.
Some will hold back from unearthing their treasure until they. ^
have been convinced by the re-opening of banks that business conditions
are being chalked upward on economic graphs.
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"Will this new corporation's capital," asks the Southerner, "cause
our cotton to com* up in price? If it does not, what is there to make,.*':
you think our business will improve when our economic basis remains
low?" * "
Mr. Southerner, it stands to reason that as the nation's industries
prosper, so prospers His Highness, King Cotton.
Perhaps the federal* credit loan act will only serve to stimulate
business. Given a stimulation, what business man of today will not
take a chance and act upon a hunch that "Happy Days Are Here
Again?" With desperation written over his face as a result of the
struggles he has gone through during the past three years, he will
act positively in the belief that "times" can be 110 harder and any- .
thing is better than nothing.
Hats off to the new-born two-billion Babe of Business. The Frankenstein
of modern financial interests, may it frighten America's
Scotchmen and Pessimists into the Court of Common Sense as plaintiffs
versus Old Man Depression, defendant.
G-amecock Bdgins 25th Year J
"Now The Gamecock will be a small affair at first, moreover it
will not be anything pretentious, but it is and will continue to be j
the official organ of the student body
"The editor-in-chief will deal with college conditions fairly and
squarely as he sees thqin; this paper was not established to further
the interests of any college organization, but the interests oi the
University," said Robert E. Gonzales, in his first editorial in The 'i
Gamecock twenty-four years ago. ' v >
Through its twenty-four years of service to the University and to
the students The Gamecock has at all times been the official organ of
the student body. It was founded to serve the students by giving
them the news of the campus and to foster a spirit fruly representative
of Carolina.
The Gamecock from the first was an example of that fighting Carolina
spirit, because when it was established there was no University in
the United States with an enrollment of 300 which published and
maintained a weekly newspaper. .
There is nothing so conducive to the fostering of friendliness as
common ownership of common property, and in that respect, at least,
The Gamecock has been and always will continue to be useful to the
University of South Carolina and the student body.
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Exams are over. But answer this one and you'll be good: How does ^
the printer of The Tiger "get by'' with such lousy printing? Maybe
it's a racket!!
U. 8. O. ' .vj
Lucky Seniors! J
Economic indications are that this year's college graduates are i
fortunate in one respect at least: they 're graduating at a time when t,
jobs will be opening up to many of the'unemployed.
With the federal two-billion-dollar credit corporation causing at
least temporary depression relief, seniors will find everything in
their favor upon their knock at the door of the business world in June.
There is another angle to the present business predicament which
is in the favor of the graduate. The psychological effect of beginning
a career at a time when things are at their worst and the worst is
expected will cause the new business man to have no false sense of
K'alues and estimation of his abilities. Instead, the man of '32 has
I been warned that his road at the very start is to be along a most
rugged and tortuous route.
When business depression does let up, there will not be the handicap
upon the grad of having been dragged through the worst part
of the cycle as is ihe case of the man who has been in business for
the last several years. Ilis spirit will be one of newness, of defiance;
one that will be willing to ride the crest to the limit.
The Emory Wheel tells us that the Emory Dramatic Players
recently presented "Tons of Money." We would prefer a more
literal and realistic presentation.
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