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The Gamecock Founded January 30, 1908 ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Editor Published Friday of every week during the college year by the Literary Societies of the University of South Carolina Entered as second class matter at t lie post office at Columbia, S. C., November 20. 11108 Subscription Kate?$2.00 per College year. Circulation?2150 Advertising rates furnished upon request Offices in the basement of Extension lluilding Phone S123?Extension 16 MIMIJEH Associated (goUegiate jjttfl -*1034 (gollftjifllflDiOf?! 1935 *MADISOM WKCOKSIH EXECUTIVE IIOAUI) Piui.il' C. Sahdaoiia Editor-in-Chief Doroi.as Ficklinu liusiness Manager Milks Klliott Managing Editor Jcuson (Ikkcohy Circulation Manager Mihiam Landkk Co-ed Editor Floyd Kodueks, Jk. Sports Editor associates Pitickney Walker, LaVerno Hughes, Howard Cooper, Mary Kurd, Mark Dowtin, Jack Killea, associate editors; T. T. Moore, Ed ilarter, associate managing eilitors; Atherton Wlialey, "Chick" Dominick, assistant business managers. STAFF WINTERS Hunt Graham, (Jeorge Lynch, ami Shannon Minis STAFF ASSISTANTS Joe Camak, Hob Ileniphill, Francis Williams, assistant sports editors; Hartley lloinar, Irvin Segal, (leorge Hnnison, Annette Hensoti, Helen Cooper, Eleanor Wieilerman, Jack Siiolar, Mae Andrews, Emily Dunovant Donald Causey, Hazel Hryd, and Maxine Scarborough. > CIRCl LXTION Fled W. Ellis, Sain Cleland Walsh, Holwrt Hrown, assistant circulation managers. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1935 Precedent The editorial department of the Gamccock for a number of years has varied with the change in the editorship of each semester. An irregularity of editorial policy therefore has characterized this department of the Gamecock excepting the past semester when probably for the first time in many years a concerted editorial policy was pursued with respect to a single phase of the University makeup that of the spoils system. In an effort to abrogate this deficiency of the past years and to continue somewhat with a certain definiteness of policy. The Gamccock announces the establishment of an Editorial Board consisting of four members of the Gamccock stall and the editor. The object of this board is to establish a greater degree of cooperativeness between the students, the faculty and other organizations on the campus through the medium of the editorial department of the paper, in Crowing for a greater Carolina. The chief characteristic of this policy will be a constructive approach of all problems concerning the University, and to endeavor to remain unbiased, non-partisan, and unprejudiced in its attitude toward them in every way possible. The establishment of this board, which the Gamecock hopes will be continued as a definite part of the paper's make-up, will create not an individual attitude toward certain problems but will deal with them in such a way that the editorials will reflect in a greater sense of the word the policy of the paper, suscribed to by a majority opinion of the staff, in a manner such that the editor will be the guiding figure of an attitude somewhat consistent from semester to semester. This board will always keep in mind the ultimate benefit of the University and intends to establish a frank and fearless policy and to carefully weigh the situations in an endeavor to draw a safe and sound conclusion. 1 he Gatnccock is the chief organ of the University as well as being the organ of the students. As a newspaper its news is watched with interest outside the state as well as in, and in that respect is one of the most important representatives of the University. It is an ambassador of good-will to those off the campus. It is an informant of the University to the students and people of tlie state and it is the training ground for future South Carolina journalists. Therefore if the Gamccock is to take a hand in championing, furthering and crowing for a greater Carolina, it must do so without restraint, or fear, in an effort to influence conditions for the betterment of the University, whose interests it holds of the first importance. n. 0. o. War prophets are generally those interested in war profits. A man ahead of the times never has the people behind him. Helping Hand The advent of a new student dramatic organization upon the eainpus is a clear-cut indication that tlie desire for dramatic expression and student participation in the arts of the theatre, has not entirely left the University even though that particular division has been officially eliminated from the curricula. The leaders of this new group are to be commended for jtheir courage to venture forward in this endeavor especially when artistic reception on the campus lacks the degree of warmth necessary to sustain it. The Gamecock will be the first to lend" its aid to this all student affair, by way of encouragement. The need for such an organization is acute. No university fulfils its first important duty unless it provides and sustains the desire for artistic expression. That sustenance consists of the practical provision of physical facilities with which to make the satisfaction of that desire possible. It is no impractical feat to be accomplished. It requires no great financial inaneouvering or dexterity in handling figures 011 the part of the University to provide for and maintain such an organization 011 the campus. The first step in realizing an ideal of this nature is a real artistic desire for such. 1 he students of this new group have gone further than merely desiring dramatics. They have gone a step forward by giving that desire expression which is taking .definite shape. When it is met by the University with a helping hand, the second step toward providing the school with an art needed to help enrich the sum total of education, will become a reality. U. 0. O. A Freshman Speaks freshmen, like the poor, we have always with us. Advice, counsel, and warnings rain on their heads like manna from heaven from the dav they set foot 011 the campus. Inarticulate, silenced by the avalanche, the first year students have little to say for themselves, nor would the sages?the blase collegians to whom all of life is an open booklisten had they anything to offer by .way of reply. lint listen?a Freshman speaks his mind: UI come to your school expecting great things. To me college is new?an adventure tinged with the romance of the unknown. I bring with me the fresh courage of youth. I have ideals and ambitions. I wish to be known and respected by 1113' fellow students, to serve my University with the best that is in me. I believe in clean play, sportsmanship, and reward for merit by elections to responsible positions in the student body." And what of these ambitions and hopes, what of the romance of college life, what of sportsmanship and reward of merit by student elections? After the fanfare of welcome dies and the normal routine of the University is resumed the Freshman finds in student elections the practices of outside politics. A well organized minority can control all officers 011 the campus and merit is unknown in the politician's vocabulary. A hike warm student body cheers vociferously for Carolina's winning teams and damns losers with lack of support. The oldest social organization on the campus is controlled by a smug and complacent group of fraternities. Our literary societies with their long and honorable record of continued existence, are torn by internal strife and have come hardly more than associations for political bickering. In all of campus life reality casts its pall of self ambition that repels the honest, straight forward, idealistic Freshman. What then of our newcomer? For the most part 11 is ideals fall away from him like an outworn cloak. In a little while he, too, is graspingly ambitious. His keen purposes and loyalty to the University have been stifled and his high hopes of unselfish service have withered and died?crushed out of existence by the force of circumstance that hems him in on every side and bears to earth much of what was good, clean, and honest within him. May this University, some day, welcome some farsighted student leaders of men whose goal is a far, clear star of hope, and courage which will lead him and his fellow students to some happier solution of the problems now extant on the campus. May a time come when ideals, ambitions, and unselfish service to the school will take their place in the minds of a majority of our student body. \ Carolina To-day Tsk, Tsk. One of the most woeful spectacles of the week was the picture of the student in the magazine room of the library being cussed out by a library attendant for taking one of the papers out of the holder. His face was red; her expression was something like that of a first grade teacher as she gently admonished him never to do it again. Some time we are going to take a symposium on the average age of Carolina students as figured up by the library workers. It will probably be around two years and a half. Devotion A staff member reports that a yo-yo enthusiast was seen Wednesday night half-way out of a third story window yo-yoing in the rain. That's what we call devotion to an art. Immorality Over the Phone "Naw, I don't want to get drunk, but I would like a bottle of beer," said a young man over the Gamecock telephone Wednesday night. It was not learned whether he got the beer. Note to the Tiger Our old friends the Clemson Tiger burst into print the other day in no less an institution that the Columbia State, when the pictures of the incoming and outgoing editors were printed. We hear from a cadet that the Tiger engoyed very much the fight carcried on with this column last semester. So did we. Beware of the Dog Sallie Bailey says ^ that she never thought she'd have I to worry about a dog w^cn came to rivalry. But her pooch, affectionately V-A lit e r m e d "Quecnie" I l R Hll \\f?l'owcd her to i^^^Jl^lfMJBschcol one day last week and attracted so much attention that the Sigma Nus made a date with her (Queenie) that afternoon. P. S. They gave her (still Queenie) a bath. "Nurtz" An English class recently was considerably enlivened by the professor's quoting with great gusto a section from "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze," that containing the information that he thumbed his nose, sneered, and said "Nurtz." Mystery Who was the girl rushed so frantically last week by the Pi K. A's? 1 One of them had a date with her Friday; another Saturday, still another Sunday afternoon; yet a different onr. Sunday night; and a few more Monday afternoon. Is that power! But whose? Economic Note The magazine stand men should rise up in a body and bless Doctor Babcock. Every year he advises his short story class to go down town and buy up about six pulp magazines for the course, for which no text book is used. And the Argosies. The Love Stories and the Blue Books lend a note of color to the campus for the next semester. Murderers at Large That same class is filled with embryonic criminals, as well. Practically BEAU' I MISS GC TUESDAY NI( MUSIC SPON* WHAT'S WHAT IN UP By Mrs. Stanhope S R. E, LEE a By Douglas Southall Freeman, Vol. 1 III, 555) pp; Vol. IV, 594, New York: Charles Scribncr's Sons $7.50. 3 These two volumes, with the two first | published a year ago, finish what is ad- a milled by the critics, whether from the i North or South, to be the nest biog- t raphy possible of the greatest Amen- ^ can General, North or South, Rob- f ert E. Lee. The brilliant writer and careful historian, Dr. Douglas , Southall Freeman, has given through his | "superb biography a complete portrait, ( solid, vivid, authoritative and compell- , ing" of this ideal soldier and man, % writes one critic. The rest of them, (| that have reviewed it agreeing for once, c are handing Dr. Freeman, in advance, the 1935 Pulitzer prize for the best j biography of 1935. a So unbiased and united arc the critics ? in their judgment and praise of General I Lee himself that that famous old Re- t publican daily, The New York Herald Tribune gives its front page in this c last Sunday "Books" weekly section i to a large picture of Lee and an en- t thusiastic criticism and tremendous 1 praise of the Southern General. And s this is written by Stephen Vincent Bcnet, the poet who wrote "John Brown's \ Body" not so long ago. Old Horace \ Grcely, famous Republican Editor of I the Tribune (as it was then) who i fought the South and everything con- 4 cerning it so bitterly, would turn over in his grave if he knew his own paper t could give such honor and praise to a f Southern General, even if it was Gen- a eral Robert E. Lee, the hero unapproci- t Twenty Questions Merely Routine Twenty questions arc nothing in the life of a telephone operator at the University of South Carolina where < queries like the following arc merely part of the day's routine. This is a typical example: The phone rings. "University?" "Yes, ma'am." "8123?" "Yes, ma'am." "University of South Carolina?" t "Yes ma'am." "I want a man in the boys' dormi- t tory." "What dormitory?" "The boys' dormitory." "If you'll tell me whom you want, ( maybe I can tell you." "If you'll just ring the boys' dormitory, I can get him." * "We have a number of boys' dormitories. If you tell me whom you want, ?. I can look him up." "I want the man who docs the buying." all of the first stories written contain at least one murdered man, and several of them more. And two of the villains are named "Philip." FOUNT Al In Great Variety Pri< STATIONERY F< You're Well THE STATE E 1224 Main Street FY CON 'OR THE ELECTION OF >LUMBIA CC JHT - - 7:15, Admission 10 and 15 Cents READINGS ? SORED BY THE SOPHOMORE C) HVERSITY LIBRARY ams (Camilla C.) ible. For Benet says of the Freeman >iography of Lee: "Here is something to restore one's aith in Biography. Here is the truth ibout a great man as far as it can >e found ... It does not read "like i novel"?it reads like a man's life, ^o fact is distorted to fit a convenient heory and the research goes very Icep. . . But not once is the central ignre lost in the background. . . Not mly do yon see the workings of his nind, his strategic hopes and plans, >nt here, just when you had begun to hink of him only as a mind, is the nan himself, riding Traveller. . He vas, on all sides, a man?and that leeply harmonious character tasted the xtrcmes of life. And with Dr. Freenan's biography he takes his true place n our history, both in his greatness ind in his humanity. . . There is a nonument?and a line one?to Robert I. Lee at Lexington. But this one, 1 hink, will last as long." The New York Times Book Review >f the same date, February 10, begins ts equally enthusiastic review writen by Charles Willis Thompson, of this wonderful biography with (lie ame comparison that Benet ends his. 'After reading Dr. Freeman's final 'olunies you rise from the completed vork with the conviction that here is ^ee's monument. Granite, bronze or liarblc cannot so visibly?the word visibly' is here meant almost literally ?present either the man or the soldier o the man's eye. It is only as this ?reat work nears its end that one fully ppreciates the immensity of the sculpure." "Buying what, please?" "Buying the" eats for the boys." " I hat will be the boy's mess hall. You'll have to dial that." "Won't you ring that, please?" "No, you'll have to ring that youriclf." "My goodness, they just don't try o help you out down there." * * * STOP * * Ring-Buz, "I want to ask you a question." "Yes'uin." "Where do the boys spend most of heir time between classes?" "They go to the library, hang around he canteen, or sit around the cani>us." Well,?will you look out the winlow and sec if you can see John??" "No, I can't." Looks like you could if you wanted o." BANG! ! ! ! ??5{Co-Eds and Young Men!f>FULMER'S BARBER "For The Correct Cut" 2103 Green Street IN PENS jed $1.25 And More )R STUDENTS come At iOOK STORE Columbia, S. C. [TEST )LLEGE AUDITORIUM SOLOS !.ASS ?1