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The Gamecock Founded January SO, 1908 ROBERT ELLIOTT OONZALES, First Editor Published Friday of every freek 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 Subscription Bate?$2.00 per College year. Circulation?2160 Advertising rates furnished upon Request Offices in the basement of Extension Building Phone 8123?Extension 11 executive board William B. King ----- _ Editor Baynard VVhaley - - - - Pusincss Manager Frank Haskell, Jr. - Managing Editor Leon Pickens - Circulation Manager associates John C. Payne, Boyce Craig, Josephine Griffin, Lemuel Gregory, associate editors; Philip Sabbagha, Mark Dowtin and Pinckney Walker, associate managing editors. \ REPORTORIAL Mary Ford, news editor; Edward Chaff in, sports editor; Fred Hambright, feature editors; Miles Elliott, fraternity editor; Mark Doweditor; Elinore Martin, Jerry Glenn, Howard Cooper, and Abel Banor, assistant sports editors; Faith Brewer, coed editor; Evelyn Lipscomb, co-ed news editors; Miriam Lander, sorority editor; Atherton Whaley, Ellen Freeman, Werber Bryan, Catherine Turner, Dot Dunavant, Amelia DesChamps. businkss Thomas T. Moore, Douglas Fickling, assistant business managers; J. C. Gregory, It. M. Brown, C. W. Russ, Fred Ellis, 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 administered ? WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1933 In Our Footsteps Every little bit helps. Therefore, The Gamecock takes this means of expressing its gratitude for the way in which the Columbia Record has helped further The Gamecock traffic campaign. The Gamecock, last week, began a drive 011 traffic violations. And it was indeed gratifying to note that the Record in the Monday edition threw itself into the fray. The Gamecock shall not forget the Record. Every little bit helps. D. S. O.?? Thanksgiving Tomorrow we may put aside our pessimistic, pollyanna garments?garments donned during the years of the depression. Tomorrow's sunlight falls upon a clear road. We, citizens, students, may easily read the signs. America has the right of way. America of the boisterous voice and the swaggering shoulders assumes again the role of a hardy adventurer. The voice of the leader comes clearly to us. The pollyanna manner of the last three chaotic years are behind, the floundering and the whining have receded into a dim murmur. "Over the Alps lie Italy." For three years, 011 days of Thanksgiving, we have looked upon an America shaking with the palsy, have seen Hercules become a stricken derelict, blubbering like a child lost in the darkness. We saw the strength of agriculture and industry waning, saw millions of idle workers bandied about like human chaff. We saw our ideal of an iron clad democratic government crumbling into the dust. We were doomed by the law of nature. "Nothing remains static." There must be either progress or retrogression. Tomorrow we may give thanks for the removalof that static condition. The strong surging blood again pulses. Today, long silent industry is alive with the whir of machinery and the farmer lifts up his head to the vision of a new deal. Our tottering social structure has been ribbed with steel. Tomorrow we may give thanks for the voice of the leader, for the open road in the sunlight. We may put our pollyanna rags in the closet. v. a. o. The Rights Of Man Last week in a local theatre in Columbia the news reel featured the capture of two confessed kidnapers in California with all the horrors of the crime re-enacted in the way that the police had succeeded in getting the story from the two men. This morbid exhibition was followed by a statement of a sour-faced district attorney who promised that the two men would be hanged on the evidence which the state had obtained against them. Even the most thoughtful could not witness this display of prejudice without a strong feeling against the two men, who were lodged in jail charged with kidnaping and murder. This week newspaper readers in Columbia, as well as all over the country, were shocked with the news of the lynching of the two prisoners in the heart of the busy city of San Jose. More shocked were thoughtful people by the statement of California's Governor Rolph, that he would assure the safety of anyone arrested and charged with participation in the mob violence. "They made a good job of it," the governor said. They did make a good job of it! A good job of depriving men of their rights to life until it is taken away from them by due process of law! A good job of encouraging similar mob violence on any future occasion, when a yapping and cowardly mob decides to execute a man without trial! "This is the best lesson<i;hat California has ever given the country," the governor said. This was a good lesson! A lesson that our civilization has not yet reached the point where public opinion will prevent such a traversity on judicial action! A lesson that though our constitutions, state and national, may be based on idealistic protections of the rights of man, that too often our officials are as vicious and as unfair in their mental processes as the mad and raging mobs that perpetrate such horrors. "What, call out the troops to protect those two guys?" the governor said. Call out the troops, indeed? Why should a man be given a fair trial with a jury of his peers, if a frenzied mob believes that he is guilty and deserves the death penalty ? Why should a group of men be denied the right to commit murder if they think it is justified? Why should a governor of a state, though he is sworn to support, the constitution of his state, interfere with a mob which is tearing at the very vitals of that constitution? South Carolina has been more blameless than many in such displays of barbarism which have ended in the death of the mob's victim. But almost as prominent as the disguised figures which killed their victims in the darkness of night in secluded and abandoned places, has been our governors who have courageously worked to bring an end to such activities and to bring those participating in them to the justice that they deserve. Even at the peril of his own life one of our governors, I). C. Ileyward, went into a troubled section to try to quiet the wrought-up people who had gathered to wreak their vengeance on a fugitive negro. Never have our governors been afraid to call out the militia when this body was needed to maintain security and peace. The rights of man have been upheld by our officials if not always by the illiterate and misled ones of our citizenry. "If anyone is arrested for the'good job, I'll pardon them all," the governor said. U. 8. O. The Monocle James Black and Joe Miot Did you know that: In Lancaster, S. C. there is a sign that reads, "A Sapp, Attorney at Law?" (At least he's frank about it.) There is in Bat s Cave, N. C. an okra pod, nineteen inches long. (Ain't that hell ?) There is a pink magnolia tree at 1020 Gregg Street that bloomed in March, June, and September, 1933. (In spite of the N. R. A., too.) The twelve units in electricity are each named after some famous physicist or engineer. (This was a shock to us.) We know a dog that subsists entirely on peanuts and ice cream, and sleeps on his back. (Well, what of it?) FOR OUR HALL OF FAME Elaine Harley and Bobby Moore, the gym dance team. Nelse Levings, the Chi Psi Guy, who many of you may remember, is back in town for a short time and he deserves a bid to anybody's Hall of Fame. ORIENTAL THOUGHTS I'm tired of the Occident, This ultra modern life, I seek romance and mystery, And oriental strife. I long to lie in opium dens, In sensuous delight, And placing games of Chinese make, I'd pass away the night. Or else in flower clad Japan, A geishi by my side, Paddling o'er a placid lake, On a river's tide. But my wife hates orientals, So I guess I'll have to be Contented with Chop Suey, And the Chinese Laudarie. Oxford John Stigall, one of our better barristers, is proving himself a capable actor. Did you see Fanny Dorini? At any rate as long as we have Jawn with us, we know that culture is not dead on the campus. OUR SONG HITS The Adventurer's Song?I Found A Million Dollar Baby. The Repeal S^ng?Ain'chaGlad! The Prosperity Song?Around the Corner. The Freshman Co-ed Song?Be Careful. John Gilbert's Little Boy: Merry Xmas! peggy Hopkins Joyce's Little Girl: Merry Xpas! >. < ' Carolina To-day Frank Durham Suggestion What we are about to say we mean in no spirit of criticism of the present style Carolinian; we are not attempting to cast any reflections either on the editor of any members of the staff of that excellent publication, but we do mean to condemn the lack of certain qualities in campus literary efforts. The University should be a testing ground for all kinds of talent, whether they be in the field of letters or not. The potential humorist, the scientists, the teacher, all should have' an opportunity to try their wings; even those who hope some day to take up the work of serious writing should not be slighted. The University should be universal in its activities as well as in its name. When the sole literary activity or rather creative publication on the campus consists of jokes, jingles, and pithy paragraphs and these alone, we feel that the intellectual standard of the student body has reached a- low ebb. There is a place in college for. such a magazine as The Carolinian and our present magazine fills that place admirably. But there is also a crying need for some means of expression for those who cannot turn^a neat phrase, pen a jingle, or closcly approach libel. The author of this column admittedly enjoys writing for The Carolinian as it is today; he takes as much delight in sensationalism as anybody, but there are those, shall we say, "mute inglorius Miltons" who perforce must stay mute as far as the reading public of the University of South Carolina is concerned. There are many who endeavor to produce something that has real literary merit, but the opportunities of publication and criticism aro denied them. # The Carolinian is openly and avowedly a humor magazine; we repeat, wc find no fault with it as such, but there should -be some way for the more serious minded scribblers to receive recognition and expression. Due to the fact that money is required for everything, and money is something we all lack together, the solution of this problem is beyond our feeble brain. But something should be done before the study body becomes too firmly fixated in its Whiz-Bang complex to enjoy a literary diet having some of the less lurid dishes on its menu. We Nominate for Posterity: The Thanksgiving turkey, whose varied appearances on the family dinner table usually do not extend over the two weeks' period following that holiday. Jack ^[cCaw and Billy Mullins, because they were successful in making "Kelly slide."' Another Boost Being in an editorial mood, we wish to commend Frank Gibbes, editor of The Garnet and lilaek, for his untiring work on the year-book. Mr. Gibbes haunts the office of that publication day and night, and from the strange and ghostly sounds emanating from his sanctum sanctorum there can be no doubt that he is in league with the creative muse. Mr. Gibbes states that The Garnet and Iilack this year will be in tunc with the times, the fashionable idea of The Nero Deal. The page make-up will | be an unusual departure from the conventional cut arrangement and there will be many new feature sections.. Well, Mr. Gibbes, here's wishing you luck in your efforts and success in your attempts to keep the annual from resembling a family album. Apology We bow our head in shame. Last issue there appeared in this column a touching little bit about a gentleman bearing the nickname of "Cowboy." In an attempt to avoid monotonous repetition of this title, we struck upon a more > erudite form of the same phrase. Sonorously we rolled it on our tongue and exclaimed, "That's literature. That'll wow 'em." It evidently did tickle the risibilities of our fellow columnist, but in entirely the wrong manner. In trying to be learned we had more or less gotten our live-stock garbled. For "Cowboy" we ehiployed the touching phrase "equine juvenile" instead of the more mellifluous and infinitely more accurate "bovine juvenild." Of course all of you know that bovine means cow and equine horse, so we won't even bother to tell you. But, anyway, our slip-up caught the evil eye of Messrs. Black and Miot and they danced around us in fiendish glee. We bow to their victim, for both are tested experts on matters of horse-flesh. 0. D. K. Election Is Kept Secret i (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) dent Body. Craig is a first string end on the football team and an all 'round track star. Wetmore is also a star track man. Ellison is president of the German club and the Sigtna Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Last spring lie ran second in a field of five in the race for the presidency of the Student Body. The newly elected alumni members arc all prominent figures in state political circles. Gibson is speaker of the House of Representatives and Harvey is state" senator from Beaufort county. Manning is a candidate for governor in the election next summer. ( The public tapping service will tak^ place in the chapel some time before Christmas. Initiation will follow shortly afterwards. The exact dates of tapping and initiation will be released at a nearly date. i Officers of the local circle o{ O. D. . K. are James Brailsford, president; Buddy Moorehead, vice-president; Heyward Clarkson, secretary; Ford Walker, < treasurer. Univ. Band May Be In Birmingham Parade (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) a definite statement as to whether 'or not the invitation will be accepted. He stated that as yet there is strong likelihood that the band will not accompany the team to Birmingham. He ascribed lack of finances as the chief difficulty. He said further, that should the band go, it is doubtful if it will arrive in Birmingham in time to take part in the parade. Faculty Will Attend Meeting At Duke Univ. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) dean of the University ahd professor of German. Professor Keith is a member of the executive council of the association. Dr. Bradley will present a paper before the meeting 011 "The Aims of Modern Language Speaking." The association met in Atlanta last year and in 1932 the University of South Carolina was the host for the meeting. u. 8. o. Winthrop Paper Receives Award (CONTINUED FROM PAOE ONE) Mrs. Emma K. Temple, head of the department of Journalism at Hunter College, New York, for the magazine and The Atlanta Journal and the Ashevillc Citizen, for the newspapers. p. s. o. Cast Already Selected , For "Saltwater" Play (CONTINUED FROM PAOE ONE) vious casts, namely Prof. E. T. Bonn and Philip Sabbagha. The play is a comedy that has been acclaimed by all critics as one that will make an audience laugh throughout each minute of the time taken to put it 011. Walter Winchell praised the play and especially gave notice to its keen, and laughter-making lines, recommending it that will make one forget oneself entirely. The play was highly praised by other noteworthy critics and in all John Golden is to be commended 011 this contribution to the theatrical world and to American comedy. u. n. o. Seven New Members Are Initiated In A.E.D. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) tcrnity and these papers are supplemented by open forum discussions of the topics. The fraternity was recently very fortunate in having addresses by Dr. J. E. Copenhaver and Dr. J. T. Penny upon subjects of great interest to pre-inedical students. A banquet in honor of the newly initiated members is being planned for the first week in December. THE STATE 3 WE FEAT! PARKER VAGI FOUNTAIN PEN I WE CARRY I Waterman, Parker, Sh< EXPERT FOTJNTAIl THE STATE 1224 Main Street * We Print The Gamecock Vesper Group Hears1 ( Rev. Rufus Morgan (CONTINUED FRO* PAOB ONB) be brought about on earth. In the past we have emphasized too much the idea of individual salvation in a heaven to come to the detriment of the social teachings of Jesus abqut changing conditions of the organized society in which we live now."In order for a Christian group to live, it must be a group that looks both backward and forward. Creative love in action is a matter of evolution. As life progresses, we see more clearly that organized selfishness cannot last. We need to look at the facts more closely to see whether the system to which we are rommitted is following creative love as its basis or hate and selfishness. "Many people now are saying that our system of economic canibalism must come to an end and that we must come to the idea of social profits instead of individual profits. Whether that be true or not it is evident that those who Want to live the Christian life must join together with other Christians to make creative love the motive of ov^r actions in group activities as well as in individual activity. If we are to devote ourselves to Jesus's thoughts we must at the same time devote ourselves to His way of life or it means nothing." Mr. Morgan has been acting as the secretary for the Community Chest of Columbia. Special music was rendered by the Y quartet, composed of Lodema Gaines, Sue Copenhaver, L. L. Green, and Ed Distlehurst. Lodema Gaines presided over the meeting. G-lee Club Is Heard Over Radio Station (CONTINUED FROM PXOE ONE) TJxc Miami Daily Ncivs?Fla.: "Interesting program, well interpreted, sponsored by the Miami Music Club." The Nczv York Times?N. Y.: "The southern voices of fine natural quality were heard to advantage?good training was shown in the classics from Bach to Palestrina." The Florida Times Union?Fla.: "The University of South Carolina Glee Club sang to a large and delighted audience?from the opening number through to the finish the singing of the ! young men not only came up to but exceeded expectations." The New York Sun?N. Y.: "The singing of the choir had attrac- j* live features?the diction and spirit were admirable." Brunsivick Pilot?Ga.: "A program of diversity rendered in \ excellent taste." The Chicago Music Leader?III.: "A program of exceptional musical merit." Savannah Morning Nezcs?Co.: "Naturally good voices admirably trained in choral effects indicate the reason for their good reception wherever they have sung." % ' Washington Star?Washington: "A full house yesterday at the Friday Morning Club for the return engagement of the University of South Carolina Glee Club?sang beautifully a group of Christ- y mas songs?responded immediately to Mr. Matteson's shading from loud to pianissamo." The Courier Journal Times?Louisville, Kentucky: "Gave a fine performance." The tycivs , id Courier?Charleston, S. C.: "A large a- .ence gave the University of South C ?1-,ia Glee Club an enthusiastic recept.^.i in the Musical Art Club Hall last night." The Palm Peach Post?Fla.: "The Palm Beach Woman's Club showed their appreciation of the excellent singing of the University of South Carolina Glee Club by continuous applause?displaying excellent musical merit." Evanston, Illinois: An enthusiastic audience, being well received." Student officers of the club are as follows : Ed Sallenger, president; Julian Bolick, manager; Ed Bowen, librarian. BOOK STORE LJRE THE JMATIO PEN IEADQUARTERS > BIG LINES eaffer, Wahl, Conklin I V PEN REPAIRING ' * COMPANY Columbia, S. 0.