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The Gamecock Founded January 30, 1906 ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Editor Published Friday of erery week during the college year by the Literary Societies of the University of South Carolina Entered aa second clasa matter at the postoffice at Columbia, 8. O., November 20, 1908 Member of South Carolina College Press Association and National College Press Association Subscription Rate?12.00 per College year. Circulation?2160 Advertising rates furnished upon Request Offices in the basement of Extension Building Phone 8123?Extension 11 Executive Board Allen Rollins Editor J. Wiley Bbown ... - Business Manager Lemuel Gregory - Managing Editor L. W. Epton Circulation Manager Assdfciates Louise Edwards, Helen Middleton, W. B. King, Jade Payne, Boyce Craig, Josephine Griffin, Associate Editors; Frank II. Haskell, Jr., Leon Keaton and Frank Durham, Associate Managing Editors. Reportorial Philip Sabbagba, News Editor; Irwin Kahn, Sports Editor; James Chaffin, Ed Banov, Douglas Sturirie, Assistant Sports Editors; Pinckney Walker, Alumni Editor; Joe McCallum, Fraternity Editor; LaVernc Hughes, Y. M. O. A. and Y. W. C. A. Editor. Genevieve Reynolds, Co-ed Editor; Faith Brewer, Co-ed News Editor; Evelyn Lipscomb, Sorority Editor; Mary Ford, Feature Editor. Lewis Brabham, J. W. Cox, Charlton Ilorger, Andrew Hill, Frances Lybrand, E. R. Robinson, Paul Wateroff, Jean Wichman, Fred Hambright, Mark Dowtin, Miles Elliott, Assistants. I Business George Davis, I* O. Grant, Baynard Whaley, Assistant Business Man- < agers; 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 I equipment. FRIADAY, MARCH 17, 1933 Justifiable Riding Three students at Louisiana State University brought three horses to school, formed a riding . club and are making their fees from this club pay their way through school. There's no comeback to that sort of riding. D> S. O. Wonder what became of the freshman at Creigliton University who defined the word Co-ed as "a contraction of the word co-educational applied to young ladies aspiring to compete for an education with the higher type of human." u. s. o. Booth Tarkington recently said, at Princeton University that " Modern college students work 20 times as hard as their predecessors of half a century ago." We know a lot of students who are living in the past. u. s. o. The depression may increase the enrollment at Temple University. Because jobs are hard to find, 268 graduating seniors have been offered free tuition if they wish to continue their studies. ??W. 8. O. We don't take any stock in it but a recent survey of co-eds at Syracuse University showed that 66 per cent of them talk over their love affairs with their mothers. Thirty-one per cent said they had had no love affairs. That makes them 100 per cent liars. u. a. o. History will record it of us that we were a people who gave up work and took to politics, who laid down our tools and sat on committees. ?Sir Ernest J. P. Benn. XT. I. O. Students at the University of Texas are requested to throw paper on the ground to provide employment for the athletes. 17. fl. O. A professor at a certain large University assigned a story to be written in the first person. One of the papers he received was the story of Adam. n. a. o. Cut System A sympathetic outlook both by the students and by the faculty is the key to the system of cuts at the University. The members of the University Council are attempting to give the system a sympathetic view. If the students sympathize with any method which the council selects the situation will be made much more agreeable to all concerned. i There is no perfect system of cuts and none can be formulated. As the faculty is taking the broadest and fairest review of possibilities that it can, no murmur of protest should arise from the students. Cuts are not to be considered as holidays. They are a system by which a student is allowed necessary absences?the first three of which, according to the present plan, do not put the registrar to the infinite trouble of excusing them. The only absolutely accurate method would be to have a corps of deans to investigate each case. But since this is not possible the students are allowed a greater latitude than they would be otherwise. Dean Bradley has talked to all the students who have come in questioning range about the present method and a possibly better one. He has used the answers to form a report to the Council so that the students' side of the matter can be taken fully t into consideration. { Consider the purpose of a cut system and do ] not condemn too hastily. Wise Economy Prom this period of social and economic readjustment, when the country is faced with the necessity of the strictest economy, higher education will either emerge a proven and stronger institution or will take a definite step backward. Which course the University will follow remains to be seen but certainly the prospect is not bright for its avoiding the latter. According to a statement issued by President L. T. Baker recently, if the present program of appropriation is put into effect the University will inevitably face dismemberment and the loss of faculty members who are felt to be irreplaceable; also the most serious impairment of its influence and usefulness as the fountain head of the educational system of the State. The reasoning of Dr. Baker is quite clear. To run the University on $156,000 would necessitate reducing the salary of a head professor to $1,200 per year. This figure pales before the salary rate of 1930 which was $3,000. In this one item, professors salaries, lies danger of serious injury to the University of the future. Supporting his statement that the University has suffered a larger proportionate reduction of revenue than any other State supported service, President Baker said: In 1926 the direct State appropriation was $528,903, averaging $375 per student for an enrollment of 1419. Successive annual cuts reduced the state appropriation to $312,000 for 1932, averaging $192 per student for an enrollment of 1782, making a reduction of 40 per cent between 1926 and 1932. The present appropriation bill before the General Assembly would, therefore, amount to a 70 per cent reduction in revenue for the University, an examination of the record discloses. "The trustees and the faculty of the University are in sympathetic accord with the General Assembly in the program of retrenchment made necessary by financial conditions. The administration realizes that curtailment of costs and services is imperative, and we have cooperated with this program by materially reducing our operating expenses and readjusting all salaries," he continued. There is no denying that economy is necessary. It is as indispensable as education. But it is possible to be as short-sighted in administering economy as in allowing extravagance. Schools have been crippled everywhere by the reduction of their personnel. Thousands of teachers have joined with millions of others who are out of work. The salvation of the educational system of the state lies in wise and intelligent economy. Anything but that will prove disastrous. Intramurais Helpful This period in the school year is generally re- J ferred to as the "off season" in sports. Spring football practice is drawing to a close, the basketball season has ended, boxers have tucked away their gloves and baseball and track seasons will not begin for some time yet. In spite of the let-up in sports activity, this particular period of the year is wrongly named. It is really the "on" season. More students are reached through the intramural sports program conducted annually at this time by Physical Director Jack Crawford than during any other part of the school year. First there was intramural football in which some three hundred students participated and now intramural basketball is providing exercise for almost as great a number. Much interest has been exhibited in the basketball tournament now under way. Some of the games are fairly close and interesting. Others are terrible. But the exercise derived is beneficial to hundreds of students and for that reason the success of intramural tournaments is always assured. Basketball At The University The University of South Carolina this year had one of the greatest basketball teams ever developed in its history. It was composed almost entirely of sophomores. With two more seasons of good basketball assured, there is no reason why the team shouldn't be used as a common asset to the University , to the players and to the patronizing public. In two contests with teams of high rating approximately $1,000 was taken in at the gate. This figure compares favorably with the gate receipts of an entire season in years past. What the University should do now is schedule ten or twelve games for 1934 with schools which have outstanding basketball teams. Announcement of such a schedule would be received with nigh favor by the team members, who as all individuals great in one particular field, enjoy wortiy foes; by the public who is ever eagor to pay for something worthwhile; and by the university which would benefit not only by not losing money on basketball as has been the case in past years, by substantial increases in gate receipts. Present-day theatre advertising is the most stupendous, colossal, smashing, electrifying, greatest, sensational, wonderful, astonishing, overawing bit :>f exaggerated ballyhoo that lias ever gagged the least discriminating of theatre-goers. ?Columbus Citizen. I Carolina To-day INNOVATION? One of the University's eminent English professors has conceived the idea that what is sauce for the student I is sauce for the educator. He advocates the idea that all junior pro-1 fessors, that is, those under thirty, I join the freshmen on barefoot day and expose their tootsies to the common eye. If they can stand it, the stu-1 dents probably can. BE-WHISKERED? A dramatically minded professor recently appeared in a play, in which he had the role of a be-whiskered old J gentlemen. The production was car- I ried out of town and much to his consternation he discovered just before the rise of the curtain that the glue for sticking on his hirsute appendage had been left at home. Necessity being the mother of invention, he found a corn plaster in his pocket, attached the whiskers with it and played the role as usual. COINCIDENCE? It is interesting to note that just in front of the residence of a formerly prominent politician there is embedded in the sidewalk a little bronze plaque on which are emblazoned the four letters, "B-U-L-L." UNFORTUNATE? Radio is a modern marvel, an instrument of enlightenment, and our state solons have recently gone on the air. One difficulty of the radio, however, is that it reproduces entirely unedited whatever is spoken into the microphone. There are no grammarians acting as middle men between the broadcaster and his victim. Heard in a recent broadcast from the state capitol: "I'm just asking questions, Mr. Speaker, I 'aint gonna make no speech." ( IN OUR MIDST? The University of South Carolina I has produced many and various men who have gone into numerous and widely differing fields of endeavor. However, at present one student, a freshman at that, and his musical composition are heard daily from coast to coast. Malcolm McCutcheon, son I of a University professor, wrote the song entitled "Wait For Me At The Close Of A Long, Long Day" which Johnny Marvin croons every noon on a nation-wide chain. Young McCutcheon wrote the words and music while a student of Columbia High School and the song was published by Gershwin. Marvin, the singer, now uses it as the theme song of his daily broadcast. The University has yet to produce a crooner. PUZZLED PROF? One professor on the campus is I exceedingly puzzled. The other day while strolling across the campus, he was accosted by one of the University's most famed politicians. This gentleman (the politician) grasped him by the hand, and declared that the professor was the most valuable asset the University had. Having delivered himself of this, he went gaily about his way. The professor is still wondering what the politician wants. QUIBBLING^ Edgar Allan Poe has made a name for himself in literary history as one of the most bibulous of our scribblers. Whether such a reputation is founded on fact or not, is not our place to decide. However, in the recent production of Poe's life by the campus Thespians, the author is shown im-1 bibing. That was to be expected. But the amazing thing is his capacity. Poe, the inveterate old bibber, (in the play) takes one sip of brandy and immediately has one of the grandest drunks ever presented in any "world premiere". How he could have thrived in the present depression 1 DOPED OUT? Three Tri-Delta's, at least, feel fully qualified to become housewives or soda jerks. Recently Kat Otis invited Helen Bell and Eliza McNulty to go with her to a drug store at five points. After ordering and consuming what they wanted, there was a pause. Misses Bell and McNulty looked at Miss Otis. Miss Otis looked in her pocketbook. Miss Otis registered bewilderment. There was nothing in her purse. Misses Bell and McNulty found a dearth of funds also. The clerk demanded a payment or else. "Else" consisted in washing glasses, shakers, etc. The ladies "elsed". The clerk declared himself satisfied. w. a. o. You will have to admit that it takes extra effort these days to locate that extra dollar. Faculty Coun< Permit Ed Students who do not wish to follow th# entire program of the School of Education but who wish to prepare themselves to teach some one subject would be allowed to take a minor in education in conjunction with any I major from the School of Arts and Science, under the provisions of a resolution passed by the Faculty council Wednesday. The resolution will be brought up at a meeting of th,e faculty March 29 at which time it will either be passed or rejected. Action of the faculty council was merely in the nature of recommending the change to the faculty. Commenting on the proposed change, Dean Francis W. Bradley said: "The School of Education degree has been pursued heretofore in this way: students took the regular A. B. courses in the freshman and sophomore years. Then in the junior and senior years, students selected two specialties, one major and one minor, in which studies the students pursued the Do Not Cu Note: The following letter to the editor of The State newspaper, which sets forth the professor's case in the matter of state appropriation, is reprinted from Thursday's issue: To the Editor of The State: According to report the house has sent to the senate an appropriation bill, in which the sum of $249,000, in round numbers, is allowed the University of South Carolina for 18 months. This is, for 12 months, one-half of the appropriation of last year. As the professors have received two cuts, not counting the unpaid balance of last year, the proposed 50 per cent, reduction in this year's appropriation will make a total decrease it- their salaries during a period of two years of about 66 2-3 per cent. It may be the intention of the house that the salary shall be increased by tuition fees. Ii so, the amount is very uncertain, for there is no determining how many students will attend the university next year?freshman and sophomore years are not to be open to women. If the faculty had received large salaries and had been paid a proper increase when the large increase in priccs began in 1919, instead of 20 per cent, against a general increase of 106 per cent, there might be justice in the slashing of the salary. Prices of many commodities have gone down, it is true; but the fixed Communications The Gamecock dost not necessarily agree with any opinion or vouch for any facta stated herewith. While tha writer's nama will ba withheld If requested, It muit be known to tha editor. Article* will be published at the discretion of the editor and In the or. der submitted. Only once before has the University passed through such a trying period in which it now finds itself. This was during the years of the Confederate War and the years of reconstruction. Then, some members of the Faculty were able to serve their country on the battle field. Often fighting at the side of their erstwhile students. Those who were forced to remain in Columbia stayed at their posts and rendered invaluable service. The College was rented to the Confederacy for use as a hospital and the money so derived was to be used to pay the Faculty. ? THE STATE ] good pri Schools, Colle< We can [please Binding, Encjravincj, and Office Supplie the State Printers,Sfafionei Cbuuu We Print The Gamecock : sil Would lucation Minor courses necessary to fulfil the major and minor requirements respectively "In the School of Education the students then took such studies as were assigned by the dean. In the School of Arts and Science, according to the former plan, a student was not allowed to take a ihinor in education because education was considered more of a discipline in methods than discipline in content courses. "There are a few students who do not wish to follow the entire program of the School of Education but who wish to prepare themselves to teach ' some one subject. The present plan allows those students to take a minor in education in conjunction with any major from the School of Arts ai.rf Science. They will thus receive sufficient credits in education to permit of their being certified as teachers. Ihese students, of course, will be prepared to teach only the major subject." t The Bone charges have not decreased in proportion, if at all; gas, electricity, coal, ice, milk,' " telephone, insurance, taxes?some of the professors are trying to own homes? and the charities and church are begging as hard as ever, indeed, harder. And what are the merchants and producers expecting? Higher prices. One ot the larger merchants of Columbia told the writer this morning that he could not get a price on future delivery for at least 15 staples, because a general rise in prices was expected. With salaries cut half way through the bone, how can the professors stand higher prices? Salaries have not shown a tendency to rise with anything like the speed with which they fall. The professor has to keep up a certain standard of living and try to save a little for old age. He has no pension to look forward to, except what he can make by saving. In business there is reward given for service during periods of greater or less length; but nothing of the kind exists at our university. If a professor dies, his salary dies with him to the hour. The budget committee set the amount to be given the university at $249,000 for the period from January 1, 1933, to January 1, 1934. Had they not carefully canvassed the situation? P. The depleted value of the Confederate dollar made this payment impossible and the professors were forced to go without their pay. These noble men had no means of subsistence, yet they willingly abstained from entering into any more renumerative occupations and stayed with the School they loved. They kept the well nigh extinguished spark smouldering until better times should return and this valuable institution should again come into its own. Now, as then, our Faculty is being paid scarcely enough on which to live. However, they are sticking to their posts helping our School through another critical period. If it were not for their undaunted labors we could not go on. Thank them I All the thanks we can possibly give them is small return for what they are giving us. ?Student. BOOK STORE j N riNG for j ges, Business V you in Printing, j i Books, Stationery s. COMPANY s.Officc Rirnifitre uas.c. Expert Fountain Pen Repairing .