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The Gamecock Foundejl January 30, 1908 ROBERT ELLIOTT OONZALES, First Editor Published Friday of every week during the college year by the Literary Societies of the University of 8outh Carolina Entered as second class matter at the postoflice at Columbia, S. O., November 20, 1908 Member of South Carolina College Press Association and National College Press Association Subscription ltate?$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 Allen Rollins Editor J. Wiley Bkown .... Business Manager Lemuel Gkegouy Managing Editor L. W. Epton Circulation Manager Associates Louise Edwards, Helen Mlddleton, W. B. King, Jack Payne, Boyce Craig, Josephine (JrifTin, Associate Editors; Frank II. Haskell, Jr., Leon Keaton and Frank Durham, Associate Managing Editors. Reportorial Philip Sabbagha, News Editor; Irwin Kahn, Sports Editor; James Chutlin, Ed Banov, Douglas Sturkie, Assistant Sports Editoro; Pinckney Walker, Alumni Editor; Joe McCallum, Fraternity Editor; LaVerne Hughes, Y. M. C. 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 Horgcr, Andrew Ilill, Frances Lybrand, E. It. Robinson, Paul WatcrofT, Jean Wichman, Fred Hambright, Mark Dowtin, Miles Elliott, Assistants. Business George Davis, L. C. Grant, Daynard Whaley, Assistant Business Managers; Robert lirown, J. It. Gibson, Judson Oregory, 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, MAY 19, 1938 Free Speech The philosophy prof, talking of the boring speech of a modern freethinker, asked a student if he'd ever heard a fellow talk for an hour without saying anything. The student looked at his watch and said, "Sure." U. B. O. Students at Ohio Northwestern, after 01 years of having dancing barred in the college, recently held their first dance since 1871. u. n. o. One student at Utah State College has brought a covered wagon to the campus in which to live so as to eliminate the cost of carfare and save the usual board bills. Two students at Rutgers are living in a houseboat for the same reasons. In the first place we are a senior, in the second we are punctual and in the third it might not be a bad plan: One of the University of Texas professors has a very effective way of punishing habitually tardy people?lie submits them to onehour quizzes. ' At one college in Louisiana, three co-eds have completely shaved their heads to prevent them from having too many dates with boys. u. a. o. In the University of Nebraska yernacular, coeds are squaws, muddy plows, oil cans, and ice wagons. U. 8. O. There is a student at Baylor University who can disjoint both her arms and hips, has double knees, has an eye in which the muscle is paralyzed, is minus a rib, has a cracked skull, has one toe cut off, and yet looks perfectly normal and participates in many sports and activities. Deem not life a thing of consequence. For leok at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.?Marcus Aurelhts. A student at the University of Colorado recently wrote in to the editor of the college paper protesting against the cigarette advertisements appearing in its columns. He objected primarily to the pictures of chorus girls in the ads. U. 8. C. A survey recently conducted at Emporia college revealed that the students are more intelligent than the faculty, that they stay at home more, and that they devote more time to their work than do their educators. Few speeches which have produced an electric effect on an audience can bear the colorless photography of a printed record.?Karl of Itoncberri/. u. a. o. It may reflect the desperate plight of teachers and then again the whole story may be so much hokum. But the exchanges tell us that a senior at Wisconsin, finding himself without the intellectual equipment to pass an exam, pinned a $5.00 bill on his paper and wrote: "Let your conscience be your guide." lie passed the exam. c.?. o. When the students at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, chose as the subject for their inter, varsity debate "Resolved: that we should return to a communism among wives as advocated by Plato," the Rector decided not to make the hall available unless the subject was changed. The debate was held therefore, on the query "Resolved: that any subject is fit for debate." f f ... In Conclusion With this issue, The Gamecock concludes publication for this school year. The Staff regrets deeply that it was forced to reduce the number of issues due to low finances. The depression hit not only The Gamecock but college publications all over the country who suffered a sharp decrease in advertising, both national and local. The business department has worked faithfully and earnestly in the face of these odds. This has probably been the "hardest" year for The Gamecock of any in recent times. With the sacrifice of several issues, also went the foregoing of a trip by the editor and business manager to New Orleans during Mardi Gras as representatives to the National College Press Association. In previous years The Gamecock has sent representatives. U. H. O. Congratulations The success of this year's elections and the eflicient manner in which all student business has been handled w'ill stand as a tribute to the student body president, Leonard A. (Laike) Williamson. rl he Gamecock congratulates his successor, Tooley Gressette, whose brother also waa once president, and trusts he will serve in the same fair and considerate manner in which Mr. Williamson has. U. 8. O. Honor System Again I he ever-debatable honor system is under fire at Tulane University. It has been declared unsatisfactory and is undergoing a thorough investigation by a faculty committee. Blame for the conditions have been placed by the committee on the failure of students to offer sufficient cooperation. Three possible courses have been suggested as being open to the faculty ai\d students: One, to letain the honor system in its present form; two to cultivate a student attitude against cheating, inv olving the substitution of personal honor for formal enforcement; and three, to discard the honor system as ineffective and undesirable and substitute some form of proctorial supervision. 1 he Gamecock neither defeiyls the Honor System at Carolina as a success nor attacks it as a failure. It does look upon the system as a vital part of the University, a departure from which would be almost equivalent to changing the name of the Unhersity. No matter what the change, complete satisfaction cannot be attained. Then why change? "There may be danger in the deed, but there is honor, too." U. 8. C. Deliverance Squad A gioup of students at Ohio State University ha\e started a war against beer drinking by undergraduates and cigarette smoking by co-eds. J he group calls itself the Student Betterment League, but its critics already have dubbed its sponsors the Purity Squad. 1 he Gamecock would like to see such an organization formed at the University of South Carolina but with different objectives. Instead of fighting beer and cigaretts, it should fight political combines. The great majority of students at the University are non-participants in politics, except in having their flexible voting strength wielded by "campaigners." Organized, they could defeat any political group or groups on the campus. With intelligent leadership, they could stamp out political bosses. Such leadership would have to be vested in one who is not interested in self-gain, otherwise only a shifting of political power would' take place. Ilcrc is truly a fertile field for someone who would like to render the University a great service. U. 8. C. Teaching Favored leaching is still the favorite profession of American girls, according to a poll taken recently by the Girl Scouts. Of 10,575 girls between the ages of 11 and 18 interviewed by the organization, 9,0(52 said they expected to support themselves! Sixty-four per cent of them wanted professional careers, and the majority planned to become teachers. Nursing came second in popularity in a list which included writing, dancing, window dressing, interior decorating, newspaper work and acting in' the movies.?llhuj-Turn Phi (;Y.<S'./<\/l.). IT. 8* C. ? One co-ed out of every five has contemplated suicide, according to a recent survey by the Oklahoma college paper. U. 8. C. A survey conducted by the New York Times disclosed that the chief effect of the depression on colleges in this country has been to reduce the number of student automobiles and the amount of campus gayety, and thus to focus the attention of the student bodies on their studies. Carolina To-day FEARLESS YOUTH? I A poll was recently taken at Colum- ' bia university to find out the students' attitude on the subject of going to war. The results were rather surprising in i that they expressed the opinion of the I average person, his true feeling which he usually is ashamed to admit. Four hundred and sixty-four students declared that they would rather go to ( jail than to war, four hundred and ' ninety-eight felt that war was never ' justified and the rest lied. Cells are 1 less dangerous than shells. LITERALLY ALLITERATIVE? Alliteration has its place in poetry, j but Parker Hamlin, news and headline writer, was evidently feeling particularly aesthetic when he concocted the following head in a recent issue of the Duke Chronicle: "SENIORS SLOWLY SUBMIT SO SOLONS STAY SUPREME SEIZING SLOVENLY SCUFFLE; Arbiter Abused, Fans Facetiously Flay Fore?man 1* or I<erocious Fleecing; Wannamaker Wins; Jordan Jargon Jumbled; Rank Rankin Radiates Rage; Rabbi's Rancid Rancor Rankles Rabid Rivals." The heat must be much mor<! sensible at Duke than here, or perhaps the brew is more potent. INGENUITY? Since the weather in these parts has been growing more and more oppressive the number of girl-break or leap year dances has been steadily in-v creasing. First it was (he Kappa Sigma Kappas who struck upon the brilliant idea and now various and sundry sororities are following suit. It seems that the girls have found that continuous dancing at this time of year is not one of the pleasanter sports, so they have turned that little pastime over to the stronger sex. At one of them recently one of the "Beaux of the Ball" was heard to announce that it was the wettest affair he had attended in years. To prove the fact he wrung out his handkerchief. HE COULDN'T TAKE IT It is doubtful of "Psychology" Smith will in the future be so avid in his investigations of the vagaries of the demented. On a recent trip with his class to the State Insane Asylum he was questioning one of the inmates. The gentleman declared that he onced ruled Asia, Europe, and America. In fact, he said that he had once been a great man as those things go. Dr. Smith asked why he had been brought to the asylum. The man did not know. In the hope of getting an in, teresting reaction, Dr. Smith declared to the man, "I still think you are a great man." His hearer smiled archly and coquettishly replied, "If you were a woman, I would fall in love with you." There were no more investigations that day. ANTICIPATING THE SEASON? June is the month of orange blossoms, brides, mosquitoes, etc., and at least three former students of Carolina will walk down the aisle to the strains of the march from "Lohengrin". I hese three who have announced this intent are the Misses Susalee Belser, Jessie Coleman, and Nancy Harrison. The latter two are Tri-Deltas and Miss Beiscr graduates from Sweetbriar this June. She attended Carolina- during her freshman year. This column wishes to take this opportunity to extend to them its best wishes. TIME FLIES? Four Alpha Tan Omegas and a Sigma Nu were seen calmly sitting around in a local cafe the other night. I hey were neither eating nor drinking nor was their any evidence that they intended to order anything. Suddenly from the kitchen emerged a man rolling a large keg of beer. It will be about ten minutes before you can get any," announced the proprietor. The philosophically inclined A. T. O. responded, "What's ten minutes?' I've been waiting fourteen years." GOODBYE, FAREWELL, ADIEU? Since this is the last issue of The (tamccock this year, through logical reasoning we have decided that this is also the last appearance of Carolina Today this season. So with little effort we summon the necessary tears to,our eyes and bid one and all a fond farewell. Also we wish to thank you for reading this far. U.S. C. Library Research! / , The University of South Carolina Library has been designated as one of the two centers for the collection and preservation of social science source material and Dr. R. M. Kennedy, librarian of the University, has been made chairman of the state committee to be selected by i liim to inaugurate and push this work forward. In 1930 the Social Science Research i Council started a movement to designate in each state one or two libraries to undertake the collecting of complete files of government and other documents originating within the state that would be of assistance to the research worker in the social sciences. The idea is to develop an active movement in this vastly important work, (1) by enlisting the assistance of certain libraries, institutions and persons in the preservation of the primary source materials; (2) in locating existing source materials that have been neglected and lost; (3) in setting in motion machinery to collect and preserve this material in centers where it will be readily accessible to scholars; (4) by diffusing information regarding all available material of this kind and where located. Realizing that this was essentially a library function the Social Science Research Council turned the work over to the American Library Association which has assumed full responsibility. At the recent meeting of the South Carolina Library Association in Charleston, Dr. Kennedy brought this matter before the general session and the college section and got very reassuring promises of help from certain librarians. He could not at this meeting get in touch with all the librarians of the state but will try to do so later. The first step in this important work, Dr. Kennedy says, is to find out where this material is in each county and to have organized the county committee, acting with the local librarian, who will make a survey for that section and urge that all this material be preserved and filed, if possible, in some fireproof building. Of course, where local facilities are not sufficient, it is hoped that as much of this matter as possible can be gotten into the designated centers. Briefly, the type of material worthy | Communications The Gamecock doo? not necessarily aflreo with any opinion or vouch for any facts stated herewith. While th* writer's name will ba withheld If requested, It must bo known to the editor. Articles will be published at the discretion of the editor and in the or* der submitted. To The Editor, The Gamecock. Dear Sir: At present we are hearing a great deal about the so-call "forgotten man." This same term may, in a certain sense, be applied to the University Track Team. By this I mean the lack of candidates for the cinder path sport.I#ast year the University team won the State meet. It was hoped and expected that this would arouse enthusiasm among the students and create a new interest in the sport. Enthusiasm and interest were aroused but only from the spectator's point of view. The students turned out for the meets and supported the team but few came out for actual competition. The season just completed has shown clearly that the track team should have more men out for positions. ' Almost all the men on the team had to compete in two, three, and even four events. In many events, especially in the field, our team had THE STATE ] GOOD PRI Schools, Colle # We can please Bindincj, Engraving, and Office Supplie the State Printers,Sfafionei COLUAiE We Print The Gamecock ' Is Named 1 Source Center | of preservation may be listed under the ' following heads: (1) Official published documents of 'ij the State. (2) Semi-governmental or unofficial I voluntary state publications such as those of political party committees; chambers yj of fcommerce; state welfare bodies; state ^ bar and press associations; farm bureaus; religious, fraternal and other organizations. (3^) Local county and city official , publications. (4) Local non-governmental or semigovernmental agencies, civic and social. (5) Newspaper files (this is one of the most important). (6) The records of colleges and universities and of Schools. (7) The records of religious bodies ?city, county, and, state, including letters and diaries of preachers, etc. (8) Records of the industrial, finan-lj cial, and agricultural activities in the community. These include annual reports of corporations, audits of banki, records of old business firms, plantation . . and farm records, and convention proceedings, (industrial and commercial ) (9) Biographical material, especially genealogies,. directories, and family papers?diaries, letters, photographs, and portraits of those personalities that have shaped the history of the community, ' the state or the nation. (10) Local histories, maps, and atlases. It will be readily seen that much of this material is not copyrighted and not on the market and a great deal of it is of an ephcrmeral character. For this reason it is obvious that unless the collecting of this material is gone about systematically and thoroughly and promptly much of it that might yet be 1 ^ saved will be lost as has been such a' v vast amount of irreplaceable value in the past. Dr. Kennedy, as chairman of this com- vmittcc, would Welcome any offers of assistance from those who see the great importance of this movement. Volunteers would be welcomed and all libra- *j||| rians are urged to secure the cooperation of committees in their respective communities to at once set about this work. only one man available. Meets with m m Clemson and Davidson were lost by ^ narrow margins because of too few entrants in the events. Our chances of retaining the State title were badly ,, hurt for the same reason. The team performed brilliantly but were just .M simply too few men entered. I feel sure that there is a wealth v v of workable track material among the students of the University that is going to waste. Many have the idea that' there is no place for them, or that they haven't enough speed or ability to try for the team. Some think that because they did no track work in high school that it is too late to begin. ;i>: Others are disappointed by their fail- . ure to make good in thejr first year and so drop out. For the benefit of &>] those who feel this way I should like for them to look over the roster of -iyj this year's team and see how many sH have developed since entering theViUniversity. Hoping that this may fine some place in your columns, I am Very sincerely yours, BEN WOODRUFF. u. s. c. Ireland has at last abolished the oath to the British king. Oaths at the J British king will undoubtedly continue as usual. BOOK STORE ? -|l NTING for I cjes, Business tesS^ mp you in Printing, , Books, SfriHonerij S. ! Company i s,Office fiirnifure | ua5X. Expert Fountain Pen Repairing