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The Gamecock Founded January 30, 1908 ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Editor Published Friday of wry week during the college year " by the Literary Societies of the University of South Carolina ?? .. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Columbia, S. O., * November 20, 1908 Member of South Carolina College Press Association and National College Press Association ubscrlptlon Rate?$2.00 per College year. Circulation?2150 Advertising rates furnished upon Request Offices in the basement of Extension Building Phone 8123?Extension 11 Executive Board Giles - Editor Brown - Business Manager . Wardlaw, Jr. - - Managing Editor iton ----- Circulation Manager Associates wards, Helen Middleton, Allen Rollins, W. B. King, Associate Joyce Craig, Lemuel Gregory, Leon Keaton, Associate Managing Editors. Reportorial . Payne, News Editor; Allen Schafer, Sports Editor; James Chaffin, <b Friedman, Jerry II. Qlenu, Irwin Kahn, Assistant Sports Editors; Jane Schaffer, Alumni Kditor; Frank Haskell, Fraternity Editor; Philip Sabbagha, Y. M. C. A. Editor Josephine Griffin. Co-Ed Editor; Genevieve Reynolds, Co-Ed News Editor; Faith Brewer, Sorority Editor; LaVeme Hughes, Feature Editor. Anne Huiett, Charlotte Coker, Sue Kibler, Jean Wlchman, Elizabeth Duke, Susan King, Frances O. Lybrand, Joe McCallutn, Dorothy Thornley, Paul Wateroff, Pinckney Walker, Rudolph Warner. Sid P. Wllkenfleld, Fred R. Youngblood, Floyd Rogers, Evelyn Lipscomb, Thomas Kirby, Assistants. Business George Davis, L. C. Grant, Baynard Whaley, Assistant Business Managers; Robert Brown, J. R. Gibson, Judson Gregory, Leon Pickens, Assistant Circulation Managers. CROWING FOR: A Better Carolina Spirit?Among Alumni, Faculty and Students. Student Activity Building?This is the only way by which student activities can be properly centered and administrated. Football Stadium?A needed addition to the University's equipment. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1932 Bring Out The Truth Several years ago politicians were picturing the University of South Carolina as something of a playground, in which boys and girls danced by night and slept by daylight, meeting classes if they wished and studying little or not at all. We all know that this line of hokum to get into office is nothing but a lie and would challenge any such person to come to the University and even pass under such conditions. But the opinion handed out by many politicians, was shattered during the recent summer campaigns, by some of the Carolina students and alumni who made races for office. One such example was the case of Nigel A. League, of Greenville County,' who virtually worked his way through this institution. During his campaign for the Legislature he called too much upon his strength, and his frail body snapped. He was suddenly called before his Maker, but not before the story of his sacrifices is going through the University had become known from one end of the county to the other. Others, in making their races, declared in their campaigns that they had worked during their college days, shining shoes, carrying papers, washing dishes and doing anything honorable to obtain an education. And even now, to bring the story closer home, we read of a campaign by Columbia business men and University authorities to give over two hundred boys honest jobs in order that they might obtain an education here. The people and the press of the state should see that this side of the life at the University is given publicity. There are hundreds,?yea, thounds, of struggling boys and girls who have thus the University as a means of fitting themfor a life of usefulness. U. 0. O. ependence Or Neutrality? ee in a recent issue of the L. S. U. Revluring a. recent election on that campus, ')??x was stolen. The Reveille came out '< its criticism of the matter and in a .. anonymous paper, styled the Revealer { .sd on the campus. This sheet violently att (lie Reveille staff on many counts, chief 1 <ng which was the charge that the paper had ] .ot remained neutral. i his charge, The Oamecoch thinks, is a compliment to the L. S. U. paper and its staff. There is ' a big difference between independence and neutral- 1 ity. A campus paper should, most certainly, not be the champion of any party, clique, or elan. However, if it fails to do its best to guide the thoughts of the students along the right lines as it sees things, if it continually rides the fence on important questions, then it has failed in its primary duty. Calvin Coolidge says that President Hoover is a leader. But he fails to mention where he led us. ] There is no short-cut to good times, says The Literary Digest. Yeh, we found that out. tr. m. "Perhaps what this country needs is a great poem," President Hoover is reported to have told Christopher Morley recently. And would the 1 poem mention prosperity? ^ ^ What's the latest in fall fore-closures? Why is ?very University student (except special and graduate students not living on the campus) REQUIRED to pay a student activities fee of $12.50 each semester? Formerly such activities were supported by VOLUNTARY student subscriptions, but in 1918, Dr. \V, S. Currell, then president of the University, said in his report to the trustees: "The difficulty of financing student activities has become SO GREAT that it has been deemed wise by the Advisory Board of Athletics, the Student Body concurring, to advocate the imposition yearly of a campus tax of $10 covering all student organizations This admirable plan will solve most of the difficulties connected with the administration of student finances, as it will INSURE CONTINUITY OF OPERATION." What are the advantages of the present system of REQUIRING ALL students to pay this fee? 1. It is democratic, because ALL students pay the SAME amount. If payment were voluntary, is it not probable that a considerable number of students would NOT pay anything for the support of student activities? If this were the case, is it not \ikely that the cost would be much higher to each student paying the fee? Would not the paying students have to make up from their own pockets the deficiency caused by non-paying students? Should PART of the Student Body pay for benefits and privileges enjoyed by ALL * 2. Under the present plan, the fee is collected from all students in the first FEW days at the beginning of each semester. This makes it possible to know at once exactly how much there is to spend for each activity. With this information available, expenditures for each ore budgeted, and there is no delay in the work of any organization. Under a system of VOLUNTARY payment, how long would it take to collect this money? Would it not require weeks or months? Would not many students postpone payment for a long period? Who would be eager to undertake this task of trying time after time to collect this money from individuals? How could those in charge of activities proceed safely and intelligently if they were in the dark as to how much they would have to spend and when they would get it ? 3. The student gets his money's worth under the present system. His payment of $12.50 a semester goes to the support of 15 student activities: the Y. M. C. A. or the Y. W. C. A., athletics, debating, The Garnet and Blaclc, The Carolinian, The Gamecock, the literary societies, the band, the social cabinet activities, telephone service, and the Palmetto Players. Of course, all students do not take part equally in all these activities, but in the University, as in the world outside, human beings must give and take, must follow the policy of reciprocity, for all of them are bound up together in the bundle of life. Take one example of the low cost of benefits derived from the present system : last year the University student received admission to 45 intercollegiate athletic contests, football, basketball, boxing, track, and baseball, at a cost to him of 22 cents for each event, although outsiders paid from two to fifteen times as much to see some of the contests. Does anybody suppose that the cost to students would be anywhere near so low if student activities were supported by voluntary payment by only PART of the Student Body ? The large number paying the fee Under the present system make it possible for the cost to be as low as it is now. 4. No small part of the fund raised from student activities fees goes back to many students in payment for work done by them in connection with organizations. This helps some of them to meet their University expenses. For instance, at a football game there are from 20 to CO student ushers who are paid $1, from two to ten student ticket sellers who get from $2 to $4, from 20 to 60 student policemen to patrol fences at from $1 to $1.50. Other activities supply compensation to students. Payment of the fee aids the Y. M. C. A. in maintaining its employment bureau through which numerous students find the work without which they would have to leave the University. Could any or all of these student activities continue if they depended upon VOLUNTARY payment of fees? Is it not probable that some, if not all, of them would bo DESTROYED if compulsory support were withdrawn? How many students would be willing t,o pay voluntarily the MUCH LARGER amount for/support of activities which would be necessary if the present system should be discarded? Does any intelligent student believe that the voluntary system would be better than the present method ? Administration of the student activities fee may not be perfect, but is not the present system FAR BETTER than any other that could be substituted for it? Such inequalities and faults as it may develop should be removed, but the policy of REQUIRING payment by ALL students is sound, just, and democratic. The Gamecock is convinced that it is the fairest and best solution of the problem of financing student activities. *\ 1 Sbu.',!'V >' ' v XV'i \ -M iiiff''{ ' ' '( _ ~ ? Carolina To-day (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) serves. This is absolutely the last date to be set as the contracts call for the pictures to be in at this time, says J. Frost Walker, editor-in-chief of the University of South Carolina annual for this ,year Dumb Freshmen 0 The worst boner of the season was pulled by a freshman at the University of North Carolina, who brought a pot de chambre with him when he entered scliool this year. Another was so ignorant of college life that he came with a bathtub, the Daily Tar Heel tells us. Furman Confident Furman , supporters say that they have two reasons for wanting to spot three touchdowns on the Carolina-Furman game, to be played November 12. First, Carolina's slovenness and relative poor showing so far; and second, Furman's pep and spirit and their recent victory over the strong Mercer Bears. Carolina supporters are looking for anyone foolish enough to make such a bet, but it is probably just some more of the talkitiveness of our Greenville friends. Home For The Aged An antiquarian might find much to entertain him in the collection of typewriters now in use in the Gamecock office. There are two portables which are pioneers in their field. Then there is the old Underwood which recorded the vigorous poundings of Columbus Herbert, and is a wreck as a consequence. A recent addition to the collection is a battle scarred veteran of the Spanish wars, contributed by a staff member who represents any reference to its numerous infirmities. They are noble wounds he states. An old Oliver has Recently been donated to the collection by a learned gentleman who hadn't the slightest idea that it might be used but, realizing the opportunities for varied contacts with its associates, made the gift. Costly Cuts An interesting sidelight on all the arguments and discontent about the change in the cut system at the University is the fact that students at the University of Maryland are charged three dollars for each class cut. Misquoted And, incidentally, the statement accredited to Bob Williams, Carolina coach in 1902, and now a Southern Conference official, that Billy Laval's material would equal what Wallace Wade had at Alabama is nothing short of a lie Mr. Williams told us at the State Fair game. Mr. Williams says that Carolina has a wealth of material but that it is nothing more than on a par with some of the other big Southern university teams to the South of us. Co-ed Bull-Shooting A heated discussion as to whether or not all men kiss alike is being carried on among a group of co-eds on the campus. It is rumored that they are on the verge of a scientific investigation. Connected with the same discussion is the question as to whether ' or not a thrill can be obtained from holding hands. There is a 1 wide difference of opinion. ?? i Putrid Prophesy And we find from the copy of the Clemson Tiger printed right after the ! defeat of Clemson by Carolina in 1931: "Crow, little Bantam, crow, for next year you are going to be picked cleaner than if you had been through a vacuum cleaner backwards." To that we should say that Clemson's football and prophesying ability are about on a par. Wouldn't Fit Here Attendance at Student Body meetings has been made compulsory to the co-eds at Louisiana State University, we learn from a recent issue of The Reveille. Such action at Carolina would mean endangering the lives of our lovely co-eds, if all the meetings were like the last one held. New Fad Poison ivy is the latest in decorations for sorority dances, or so thought the Delta Zetas when they gave theit dance a few weeks ago. But the variety of leaf was not discovered until Bart Madden broke out with the deadly poison all over his face, neck and hands. J Communications, ' Th? Gamecock dOM not noooooartly 'S'A? ?5 K S& iTS^S. mtor. ArtlolM will bo publl?hod at tho dloorotlon of th? odltor and In tho ordor oubmlttod. - Dear Mr. Editor: There h<)s been so triuch criticism of existing conditions heard about the campus lately that I believe its about time for some one to c6me to the rescue of the drowning. We all know that the "powers that be" have even the welfare of the Student Body at heart. An excellent example of this is the Furman-Citadel game at Orangeburg this Thursday. Only last year our Student Body migrated there en toto for the Citadel game. Just think of the loss of time 'from our classes, studies and daily tasks that this entailed. Think of the chances of fatal accident to the large number who braved the country highway^. Think of exposing our young and unsophisticated freshmen to the snare and pitfalls to be encountered within the envision of Orangeburg. We should show our appreciation of this thoughtfulne&s in a fitting manner. Let's get behind the leadership fraternities in this matter. I suggest that a marble obelisk of about fifteen feet in height be placcd directly in front of the office of the Director of i Student Activities. Undoubtedly the procrastination in completing our this year's football schedule was an undulying cause but too much praise cannot be bestowed on these our public benefactors. 'Tis rumored that the faculty, being greatly annoyed at the constant stream of students leaving and entering the stands during the course of a game, have hit upon a happy solution. Beginning with a game in the near future all students will be required to show their athletic book before being permitted to leave the stands. Twenty years from now (I hope by then that our students will cheerfully pay the dollar to see the Clemson game without this unseemly criticism of the men who have done so much to endear themselves to us) upon leaving the Erskine game (put in our schedule as a breather between Newberry College und The College of Charleston) I'll probably notice an old grey haired man wistfully watching me as I leave. In his emaciated hands he fumbles a threadbare cap of garnet and black. I stop and in the act of giving him a dime ask him his trouble. "Sir, he replies, as tears course down Anonymous E Mention ( A reference under an assumed name is made to Professor Emmett Kilpatrick, associate professor in the Modern1' Languages department in an anonymous book from the Bobbs Merrill press, titled "Before the Curtain Falls." The reference is made under the name, Everett Kincannon. The author and Professor Kilpatrick were close friends when Professor Kilpatrick was in Russia, which furnishes the background for the reference. The reference is as follows: "Everett Kincannon, of Alabama, with a soft Alabama drawl, a wealth of red hair, generally disordered, and an exhuberant vitality, bubbling always over into laughter . . . "A provision of the Riga Agreement had been the release of all the Americans imprisoned or detained in Russia, and they were on their way out, including Capt. Everett Kincannon. I scarcely recognized him when we met at the Hotel THE STATE 1 WEBSTER'S COLLEGIATE Thin Paper EditionWEBSTER'S NEW IDEAL 4 Dictionary FUNK AND WAGNALS' P] Standard Dictionary WINSTON'S SIMPLIFIED : Encyclopedic Editioi WINSTON'S SIMPLIFIED ] Practical Edition .... If you need a Dictii THE STATI Vrlnfera, Siaiionei COLUME We Print The Gamecock / , LEONARD THEODORE BAKER, A. B., A. M., LL. D., has been presii dent of the University of South Caroi lina since June, 1932. . He was twite made acting president, once in 1986 i after the death of Dr. W. D. Melton, and in 1931 after the death of Dr. D. M. Douglas. Mr. Baker came to the University in 1906 as professor of the History and adminstration of education and was made dean of the University in 1914. Since that time has either acted in that capacity or as president. He was born in Charleston, January 22, 1808. He received A. B. degree from the College of Charleston in 1888, and his A. M. from the same institution in 1893. In 1936 the College of Charleston conferred upon him the honorary degree of LI#. D. His freshman year in college was spent at Vanderbilt University. He has also studied at Columbia University. Dr. Baker is a member of the following fraternities: Phi Beta Kappa; Chi Phi; Omricon Delta Kappa; Kappa Sigma Kappa; and Kappa Phi Kappa. He also belongs to the Columbia Rotary Club. Many honors have come to Dr. Baker in his years as educator. As member of the South Carolina Teachers' Association he served as secretary and as president, and also as president of the department of superintendents. The Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools of the Southern States elected him president in 1894. He is at present a member of the committee on standards and chairman on the committee on teacher training colleges in this organization. Dr. Baker has been secretary of the Association of Cplleges in South Carolina, holding that office in 1914. In 1925, he ,was president of the South Carolina Conference of Social Welfare. Before coming to the University, Dr. Baker taught in Camden. He served as superintendent at Lancaster and later at Winnsboro. his sunken cheeks. "Will you lend me your ticket to get out for a few minutes? I 1-lost mine and for twenty years I've been here in Melton field." At this point he broke down completely. "And my p-poor m-mother don't k-know where I a-am." H. M. Glenn. ft took Has Of Kilpatrick Frankfort-on-the-Main for lunch. The luxuriant shock of red hair was the same, but gone was the old irrepressible ebullience of spirit. Six months of solitary I confinement had done their work; all the I old fire seemed to have been dampened I and the love of life seemed to have dis- j! appeared from him." Daniel Selected New Euphradian President | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) * pieman, Abe Greepberg, Hugh Taylor, Richard Morgan, William Motes, Randolph Murdaugh, James Palmer, Cuthbert Prevost, C. C. Smith, Walter Taylor, F. B. Kaminer, Joe Mc-' Callum, Bryan Walton, and Oliver Hart. Women are what made Oscar Wilde n and Thornton Wilder. 500K STORE f DICTIONARY -Now $3.50 2.00 EIA0TI0AL 6.00 DICTIONARY a - 6.00 DICTIONARY - { 3.60 ^ | onary, we have it. 3 Company % Office TurnUure I1A,S.C. We Repair Fountain Pens .' ' * . X "*