The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, April 29, 1932, Page Page Four, Image 6
The Gamecock
Founded January 30, 1908
ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Editor
Published Friday of every week during tlie college year ' '
by tlie Literary Societies under the supervision of the Board of Publications |
Entered as second class mail matter at the Columbia postolTice November 20, 1908. I
Member of College Press Association and 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- 1
spaced, and must be signed by the writer. Articles in the Open Forum will be published at the .
discretion of the Kditor and in the order submitted with (he name of the author signed. "
Subscription Hate?$2.00 per College year
Circulation?2150
Advertising rates Furnished upon Request j
OtTices in tlie basement of Extension Building ,
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Executive Board
Wiixiam C. Herbert Editor
J. Sam Taylor Business Manager
Allen Rollins Managing Editor
It. II. Bishop .... .... Circulation Manager
Associates
Louise Edwards, John A. Giles, J. M. Morse, Millie Taylor, Associate Editors; It. L. Keaton, Jr., C
Frank Wardlaw, Assistant Managing Editors.
Reportorial
John A. Hicham, News Editor; Alan Scliafcr, Sports Editor; Irwin Kahn, Assistant Sports Editor; i
J. C. Payne, Alumni Kditor; Genevieve Reynolds, Exchange Editor; Boyce Craig, Fraternity Editor; .
Ethel Calloway, Co-Ed Editor; Josephine Gritfin, News Editor; Marian Ftnlay, Society Editor; '
Faith Brewer, Feature Editor; Lemuel Gregory, l.uVerne Hughes, Annie lluitt, Jane SbaiTer, a
Sue Kiblcr, Jean Wichinan, Assistants.
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J. W. Brown, L. C. Grant, Baynard W'haley, Assistant Business Managers; L7 W. lipton, Wilbur
Jones, Leon Pickens, Kenneth Prince, Assistant Circulation Managers.
CROWING FOR:
News Bureau?Even a great University must advertise. a
Student Activity Building?This is the only way by which student activities v
can be properly centered and administered. c
Football Stadium?A needed addition to the University's equipment. t
Paved Sidewalks?Not only a need, but an immediate necessity. s
FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1932
Join The Alumni Association
Only live more weeks and about 200 men will be finishing Caro- t
lina. Some will go out of the state, others stay here, and a few will i
be called into other countries. Wherever these people go, however, 1
there will remain, undoubtedly, cherished memories of their days at (
the University.
These memories, which is only one of several things that distinguished
the human from the ordinary animal, should be preserved
and allowed to grow upon these graduates long after they have
graduated. And there is only one way that this can be done. Enroll
in the alumni association.
It is unfortunate that propaganda has be6n circulated against the
alumni association accusing it of trying to bleed every man who be- a
comes a member. This is false. t
What the association attempts to do is keep alumni in contact with
each other; act as a clearing house of information for the members
on matters pertaining to the University; afford a personal representation
on the campus; direct the policies favored by the association; 1
and plan functions, such as dinners and annual meetings, that are e
customarily staged by the organized graduates.
An example of what the association does: A report is circulated rJ
that students are starving themselves on the campus while trying to i
get an education. It is pointed out that this could be partly avoided
by eliminating the student activities fee or some other expense, t
Enemies of Carolina disseminate this report. The alumnus does not i
know whether or not this is true. Ilere is where the association's
secretary steps in and gives the actual facts, enabling the graduate t
to combat the false report with the truth of the situation. (
Different, is it not, from the belief of some that the association's
sole purpose of existence is to get money for the University or for i
itself?
By registering in the alumni association for the first two years
after graduation for five dollars, the alumnus enjoys constant com- munication
from the association's office telling what is being done
at the University, and often mapping out work to be undertaken by
the group. *
Further, for the five dollars that is ordinarily charged for only
one year's membership, The Gamecock is sent to the alumnus regularly.
Through this publication one is able to keep in touch with t
the prominent members of his class as well as use it as a medium of (
communication between graduates in different parts of the world. I
The subscription for The Gamecock for two years alone is four dollars.
That leaves only a charge of one dollar for membership in the 1
alumni association for two years.
Is it worth the small charge? Ask any enrolled alumnus. {
U. B. O. t
(NSFA)?According to recently published statistics the wrestling 1
team had the highest scholastic average of any athletic group at (
Lafayette College, the football team rating lowest. ?.
> v s o % j
An All-Elections Day
Why cannot. Carolina have all its elections on one day, as is the
case with many larger institutions, as well as smaller? 1
By having all elections on one day, there would be eliminated all \
the fruitless worry and agony so well known to every candidate,
while the amount of politicing on all sides would, perhaps, be magni- i
Tied, but the period of work for candidates would be greatly de- 1
creased. !
As matters now stand, many students do not vote when eligible,
often coming to the polls only when a close friend is in the race or
they have "promised" to vote one way or another. <
If all elections were held on the same day, it would mean that '
these indifferent students would vote, and the successful candidate :
would truly be elected by a majority of the group.
Only a few weeks from now and all the elections will liavfe been ,
completed. There will have come into being a new group of leaders i
in various activities. '
If these new men would get together and forget petty personal or '
political objections to one another, they could easily put across a ,
simple amendment to the student body constitution providing that- <
elections governed by that body of rules would be held on the same l
day. <
Who wants to distinguish himself in office? Who wants to put J
a worthwhile plank in his "platform?" (
Gollegiate
lippings
A professor of psychology at Boston
university has abolished all notetaking
in his courses. His reason for
taking the step was his contention
that in note-taking the hand is substituted
for the brain, and in the end ofers
a poor and incomplete rcproducion
of the lecture.?Highland Echo.
Among the admonitions given the
reshmen at Smith College is the folowing:
"Communism has never been
uccessfully worked out. Wear your
>wn clothes and let others wear theirs.
?Campus Comments.
Charleston is the only city on the
\tlantic coast from which the ocean
an be seen.?Blue Stocking.
University of Kansas has a course
n How to administer a parental rcnike."
It all started when a professor
iskcd a class what they would say to
little girl who had told a lie.
?Semi-Weekly Campus.
A new plan for admission is being
dopted by Syracuse college, by
vhich the applicants for admission arc
hosen a full year in advance in order
hat they may fully prepare themclves
for their course.
?Swarthmore Phoenix.
Why Not An
Figures recently released by the
bird of the student body of 1,78
\nderson Independent, commentii
umbia ever done for the Univer
Columbia.
"Columbia's answer might w
land county pay taxes to supp
titled to its benefits as much s(
if the city and county have an
is an advantage which is not i
Greenwood Index-Journal.
"But another question might be
tlumni of the University of South
oward the endowment of the insti
The Gamecock asks this same c
'ersity has no endowment?
Each year the University is impe
egislature and each year it is foi
trippling its services and standar<
The University of Virginia has
rhe University of North Carolina 1
t, gifts amounting now to several
Our University has not been ma
lie part of alumni, and yet it has
s located in a city of great resoui
In 110 other way could Columbi;
lone so much for Columbia," thai
lowment fund.
In no other way could some of (
nstitution than by helping with ai
Why can't the University have a
Open
Columbia, S. C., April 27, 1932.
^Ir. W. Columbus Herbert
Editor-in-Chief of the Gamecock
'niversity of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina.
)ear Mr. Herbert,
Whereas you the present Editor of
he Gamecock and a member of the
Jariosophic Literary Society has been
legligent, biased, disloyal and unfaithul
in the performance of your duties
is Editor-in-Chief of the Gamecock
n the following particulars:
1. That you have willfully, nialiciujsly
and without due cause, used the
;aid Gamecock to promote your own
political interest in the violation of
he by-laws of the Clariosophic Literiry
Society and Student Board of
Publication.
2. You have twice, conscctively,
tailed to give proper recognition to
the incoming presidents of the Clariosophic
Literary society.
3. You have intentionally and notoriously
deprived the May Queen of
Iter just and proper recognition in the
said paper.
4. You have without sufficient
grounds published or caused to be
published certain statements in the
editorial columns of our paper which
liave tended to arouse a hostil spirit
imotig participants of the Student Activity
Fees.
5. You have published on the front
page of our paper charges that were
unfounded, erroneous and fallacious
ibout the President and Vice-PresiJent
of the Student Body.
Wherefore the Clariosophic Literary
society reprimands you severely for
?o using our paper and places you on
probation subject to discontinuance
:>f such practices in the future or else
ixpulsion from this society and thereby
lost of your position as Editor-inChief
of the Gamecock.
"Political
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Endowment?
registrar show that practically one2
are from Richland county. The
ig 011 this fact, asks what has Cosity
which has done so much for
ell be that Columbia and Ricliort
the University and are en)
as any other county and that
i advantage in location, that it
unfair or illegal," answers the
asked: Why is it that no wealthy
Carolina has ever given anything
tution?"
Iiiestion. Why is it that the Uniriled
by the maneuvers of the state
reed to economize to the point of
Is.
an endowment of several millions,
las had some large donations given
millions.
de the recipient of such favors 011
some alumni of large wealth and
ces.
1 help the University, "which has
I by sponsoring or starting an enCarolina's
wealthy alumni help the
II endowment.
in endowment?
Forum
The 'above was adopted by the
Clariosophic Literary society with an
overwhelming vote and they request
that a copy be sent to you, a copy to
the Gamecock to be published in this
weeks issue and a copy be placcd in
the minutes of the society.
Respectfully yours,
J. WOODROW LEWIS,
Chairman of the Committee.
C. W. COX, JR.,
Secretary.
(Ed. Note: I he Gamecock assumes
no responsibility for grammatical errors.
The document is printed as forwarded
to The Gamecock.)
April 27, 1932.
Dear Editor:
I feel it my duty as retiring editor
of the Garnet and Black to give the
student body of the University an explanation
of the policy of the 1932
Garnet and Black. 1 lie Gamecock has
from time to time run editorials that
demanded an explanation but at the
time I was unable to answer these editorials
because my answer would injure
my plans.
The Garnet and Black receives $5
from each student that is enrolled for
a full year. This amount totals approximately
seven-eighths of the total
cost of the yearbook. The remaining
deficit must be made up from other
sources and this burden must fall on
the organizations, since the members
of these organizations have more
representation in the book. It is unfair
to require a man whose picture
appears in the annual but once to
share the expense of a man whose
picture appears several times. It is
only fair that the man whose picture
occurs more than once should pay
additional fees for his representation.
At the first of the year the staff
asked that all pictures be in by a ccr
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By Leonard Horwin
Can you imagine a body of men
deliberately setting about to build a
city for 3,000 people, with its own
roads, its own water system with 8
miles of mains, its own transportation
system of 75 buses, it's own hospital,
bank, fire and police departments,
motion-picture theatre, G to 800 tworoom
dwellings with every civilized
convenience, it's own dining hall 1200
feet long and administration building
700 feet long?doing the whole
job in three months and taking the
city completely apart at the end of
the fifth month?
Can you?
Of course, you can't, because history
will be utterly barren of precedents
for the medley of architecture
and landscaping set up like a toy city
almost over-night on the Baldwin
Hills overlooking the scene of the 10th
Olympiad at Los Angeles, housing the
hopes of 40 nations and the bodies of
3,000 men?modestly titled Olympic
Village.
"As an international center", says
H. O. Davis, Director of the Olympic
Village, a bit proudly, "Geneva, Switzerland,
will sink into obscurity next
to our little village, at least during
the celebration of the 10th Olympiad,
July 30th to August 14th inclusive.
From Ancient To Modern
Plutarch, Roman Historian, tells in
his "Lives" of Theseus, son of one
Aegeus, who collected all the diverse
peoples of Ancient Greece under his
leadership and founded Athens as
their common residence.
Theseus must have been a glutton
for punishment, but he certainly did
not have the hair-greying responsibility
of the 10th Olympiad Organizing
Committee to minister to the individual
health, appetite?, comfort, peace
of mind, and whims of 3,000 men
tain date. '1 lie student body must be
made to realize that the annual consists
only of 'pictures and the sooner
they arc turned in to the stafT the
sooner the book can be completed. In
class pictures, one man by waiting
until a late date can hold up the entire
section since the pictures must be in
alphabetical order. This year's book
contains several pictures that are not
in alphabetical order becausc the individuals
failed to turn their pictures
in on time.
'I he printer reserves the right to
deliver the book 45 days after the last
copy has been received. One can
readily see how the annual can be delivered
late, even after school has
closed, if the staff permits students to
wait at their leisure for having pictures.
I earnestly urge every student to have
their pictures made early next year
and give your new editor all the cooperation.you
can. When he asks for
a list of mimes, give them to him at
once. If every student did this, your
annual could be delivered on May 1st.
Waldie E. Bushaw,
Editor 1032 Gkrnet and Black.
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drawn all the way from the land of
Kayaks and Kippered Herrings to the
sunny lands of the Rumba and the
Hot Tamale.
International Medley
$500,000 has been set aside for the
construction of the village alone. The
Olympic Village will occupy a plot
of ground approximately 1-2 mile
square. The 7-800 two-room cottages
housing four athletes apiece have been
planned with such complete and varying
detail as to appeal to the artistic
sense of everyone?and that is a tremendous
task when 'everyone' stands
for the average Olympic Athlete, famous
for his tantrums during the intensive
training.
Homer tells us in his Iliad of Polyphemus,
one-eyed giant and cannibalistic
son of Neptune, whom Ulysses
outwitted. Polyphemus thought there
wasn't a hewer of logs or heaver of
weights in all the ancient world who
could equal him as he lifted boulders
off the coast of Sicily and threw them
into the ocean far below in a mad
effort to crush Ulysses and his tiny
fleet.
Unless Homer was much less of an
cxaggerator than we suspect he was,
Polyphemus would lose a load of conceit
could he see Charles Rigoluet, the
professional French weight-lifter in
the modern day?or Rudolph Ismaycr,
the chubby German University lad,
lift their 400 and 218 pound bar bells
respectively.
And would Polyphemus' single eye
pop could he sec the 210-pound Egyptain
heavyweight, Nossier, lift poundages
which are expected to make the
Olympic Auditorium, scene of the
weight-lifting events in 1932, rock!
Polyphemus' Step-Children
In the massive Olympic Auditorium,
built by the Los Angeles Athletic
Club at a cost of $500,000 on a site
only a mile away from the quaint
Mexican plaza where 151 years ago
Felipe dc Neve lifted the flag of imperial
Spain and declared La Ciudad
tie Los Angeles founded, brawny men
from a score of lands will do another
kind of lifting in 1932.
Polyphemus' step-children will perform
in an 18-foot ring lighted by six
1500 candle-power lamps and surrounded
by 10,400 spectators and a
wall of fresh air provided by eight
j large exhaust fans and two intake
| fans. Preparations have been made to
cover the floor of the ring, later to be
used for the boxing and wrestling
events, with a 3-inch extra layer of
hardwood to withstand the pressure
of the weight-lifting events on the
evenings of July 30 and 31 in the Xth
Olympiad.
The Olympic Auditorium is but a
5-minutc car ride from the Olympic
Stadium, hub of the Xth Olympiad,
and but a few blocks from Pershing
Square, in the center of the downtown
district, fronted by the elegant
1500-room Biltmore Hotel, headquarters-to-be
of a host of Olympic
officials and visitors.