The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, February 22, 1935, Page Page Four, Image 4
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1935
Bakers Letter
In another part of today's Gamecock is printed
a news story concerning the letter recently sent by
President L. T. Baker to the six fraternities on the
campus generally known as the "Big Six.'' In this
letter President Baker referred to the allegations
made in recent months concerning the practices
carried on by these fraternities in the management
of the German club and requested them to take
some action (o remedy the situation, if they were
true.
That some sort of action on the part of tlie authorities
of the University was absolutely necessary
is of course apparent. The charges made
were of such a nature that the authorities of the
University could not ignore them without appearing
fo many outsiders to be dodging the issue. We
are. however, gratified that President Baker took
the action that he did. lie has stated that in writing
the letter he was acting in a purely advisory
capacity and that he was not trying at this time to
coerce the German club. The matter is left up to :
the fraternities concerned.
That some reform is needed in the German club 1
is obvious to all those who know the true conditions
in the club. The unfair practices carried
on by tlie controlling clique in the club have caused
unlimited bitterness on the campus and this bitterness
is now coining to a head. If it were allowed
to continue it might have serious effects on the '
University as a whole. However, it is better that. '
il reform is to come, that it come from the students '
themselves. Such action would be in line with the J
general policy of the faculty to allow tlie students j
t<> govern themselves as much as possible. I
e are taking as a matter of course that the six '
1 paternities will accept Dr. Baker s recommenda- '
tion in tlie spirit in which it was sent. There is a '
desire on his part to settle the question in ,
a way that will increase the general good-will 1
on the campus and be fair to all parties con- I
cerned. The ''Big Six" cannot very well ignore <
such a request. If they institute reform of their 1
own accord they will settle the matter in such a (
way that no evil effects to the German club will result.
If they ignore the request they will face the
possible danger of definite and official action on the
part of the authorities of the University which
might endanger the present high standing of the <
German club on the campus. <
We would like to point out at this time that the
reform most needed in the German club pertains
. 1 i
to the election of new members. Could the conJ
trolling group remedy this evil they would have |
taken a long step which we predict would com- I
pletely end the present ill feeling. We do not (
at this time think it necessary to go over the objections
to the present system of electing members ,
to the club since that phase of the problem was <
thoroughly discussed in these columns last semes- 1
ter. However, we do say that if the present ill (
feeling over the situation in the German club is
to be destroyed the first step to be taken is to ,
provide some system whereby men, not members i
i>f certain fraternities do not appear to bo admi
ted to the German club merely on sufferance.
If the controlling group in the German club se
the handwriting on the wall it will act. to remei
the situation and will take such action in got
faith and for the benefit of the University ai
not merely for their own selfish interests.
U. 8. O.
"Don't Park In Horse-Shoe"
It is fitting that after a decade of speed,
reaction toward safety should set in. The eve
increasing toll of deaths directly attributable
[uitomobiles is so terrifying that automobiles 1111
well be considered to be inherently dangero
mechanisms, as well as being necessities to dai
life.
The only way to stem this tide, of speed is
make the public safety-minded; the Gamcco<
highly commends the State and Record for the
programs toward this end, and requests that tl
students of the University cooperate in these pr
grams. The point most emphasized is obedience
regulations, both state and local. The Gameco<
wishes to include the University in the latter cat
gory.
lo be more specific?there is a regulation again
parking in the horse-shoe at the end of the Bi
Street entrance. There are several markers wi
"No Parking" painted clearly on them. Studen
have been disregarding these warnings, and ha
been causing much inconvenience to other drivei
not to mention the danger of scraped fenders ai
running-boards. Let's begin our own safety dri
by observing all regulations as to parking on t
University campus.
*7. a. o.
Emily Post, And The Faculty
A timid reporter enters the office of a professt
''Any news for the news bureau?" he inquire
quaveringly.
The professor languidly removes his feet fro
the desk and answers in a bored voice, "No, i
news."
The reporter retreats.
Such a scene is perhaps typical of more than 01
professor s reaction to the annoyance of being i
terviewed weekly by reporters for both the Gam
cock and the news bureau. They regard these i
vasions as unnecessary and irritating. In son
cases a journalism students attempt to get the nei
has been met with downright rudeness.
When will professors, we wonder, realize th
the reporters are not coming to see them throuj
any love they bear their dear teachers? When w:
they see that both the news bureau and the Gam
rock serve a real need by advertising the Facul
:ts well as the University? When will they beg
to treat these reporters with some of the courte:
about which they are always raving in classes?
February 22
'I lie Gamecock could not let February 22 pa
without ;i comment on George Washington, victi
>1 Parson Weems cherry tree story, but whom hi
torians have more than redeemed this fiction 1
titling him, "father of his country." Whether tl
historians did Washington a better turn in besto\
ing upon him this title is debatable. Critics tal
lie former illusion as a starting point to dethroi
lim as tar as the latter distinction goes. Whatev<
>11 luck the Weems* story brought to Washington
name. South Carolina made tip to him in her mat
receptions and socials tendered him while in tl
State on his memorable visit. We have it fro
Washington himself saying that he had one of tl
est times he ever had while here. Kven Sout
Carolina women broke a convention calling upc
lim one day to pay him their respects, lie r<
onled his delight and appreciation at this.
South Carolina joins with the nation in con
memorating his birthday.
TJ. ft. O.
No Issue Next Week
The Gamecock will not be issued next week. A
[ ording to the schedule of issues this year the sti
lent body will receive twelve or more edition
which is three more than it has been receiving i
the past second semesters of the school year. Tl
'Samecock** greatest desire is to give the studen
in issue every week. However, with the preset
financial conditions as they are, it will be necessai
to omit editions during some weeks of the yea
Dne of these weeks is next week.
U. I. O.
Hooey said the Euphradian Literary Socict;
ecently to the proposed candidacy of the senat<
>f Louisiana as an honorary member to that augu
>ody, and the Kingfish went down for it Lon
iount.
Now that the Ilauptman trial is over, we wondt
A'hat will be the next crime of the year?1*111
ng Mae West from behind the screen?
Carolina
;s To-day
>d :
. It's the Reel Thing
I jQL We see that th<
jfijtt. Beaux Arts Ball wil
be featured by a Virginia
reel. At last a
/i I \\\\ college dance is tc
H II I 1 VJ characterized b>
J * somc rea'' ai,t'icnt'c
1" reeling.
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Good Old Unk
A certain sociology professor
l,s observed the other day that everyly
one is working for Uncle Sam
now. All of which bears out an
experience of Doctor Babcock.
to When the portico on Extension
rj/c was being built, the Doctor was
considerably annoyed by the
II hammering outside his classroom
lie windows. So he went out and
asked the workmen to stop.
But they answered, very emphatically,
"Brother, our boss is the
'A- F. E. R. A!"
And Did He Go Boom!
The Carolina students in the audiist
ence at the stage-show at the Imperial
U theatre last week were delighted tc
sec Tiny Rivers clamber up on the
til stage when the master of ceremonies
asked "some small hoy" to step u[
and be slung around by an cxhibitior
^ skater.
rs. But you should have seen the re
1(j lieved expression on the skater's fac<
when Rivers fell down into the pil
just as he climcd up on the stage.
lie
New Recruit
English 108 was the other day
considerably enlivened by a guest,
a large Police dog who followed
one of the members of said class
to school, entered the classroom
2S, and lay down, and grodned dismally
as one member read allowed
a very passionate story.
ill
no Modesty is Not Dead!
A freshman
in tene- ^/j
lie jamas and |T]fl
n_ carrying a ^jls
at embarrassed
when two girls came unexpectedly
jjj upon him that lie dropped the glass
and ran.
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Straw Man
III We have often heard that
people stuck straws in their hair,
but Windy Robinson, seen in front
of an uptown drugstore the other
day had one pensively stuck between
his teeth.
ss
ill Publicity
s- ^ member
)y v, ? suggests that this
u> Flw I)Icturc should be
v 'a^C"Cc' "^orlra't
{c :i^cr reading her
ie
^ seems to us that
they burst into the columns of The
>.v State even more often.
ie
ill Fair Distribution
ie "Call up the hotels all over town
jj and .distribute this silver," ordered
the police recorder recently when
a thief was arraigned before him
L>" for having stolen "silver" from
fraternity houses.
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DIVERSITY LIBRARY~
iams (Camilla C.)
rHE GIST FAMILY OF SOUTH
CAROLINA and its MARYLAND I
ANTECEDENTS. By Wilson Gee.
Privately printed for the author by
Jarman's Incorporated. Charlottesville,
Virginia, 1934, 101 pages.
Lucky is the library of the University
to have had presented to the South Carolina
Room recently two new biographies
>f South Carolina heroes of the Confederate
War. Besides that of Colonel
Alexander Cheves Haskell reviewed
:?bove, there is the touching account of
:he life and death of the eager young
jcncral State Rights Gist in Wilson Gee's
)ook on the Gist Family and its Maryland
Antecedents. He was one of the
"bravest of the brave" in that distinguished
Gist family, or for that matter,
in the Confederate Army, for lie had led
liis brigade through the bloody campaigns
around Charleston, in Virginia, in North
Georgia and Tennessee, and was killed
:luring the bloodiest battle at Franklin,
Tennessee, leading his men on foot having
had his horse shot under him. Wilson
Gee, the well known South Carolina
writer and professor at Chapel Hill, and,
through his mother, a dcscendent of the
Gists, has gone into the Gist genealogy
thoroughly, but it is, besides, full of delightful
sketches of the most famous
members of this long line of prominent
men and women in Maryland and South
Carolina. They were pioneers and explorers,
generals in the Revolutionary and
Confederate wars, colonels and majors
too, as well as judges, congressmen, professors
(both men and women of this
[lay and generation) and government officials,
and their varied lives told in short,
vivid prose make a thrilling reading, and
most valuable historical material. Professor
Gee gives praise and credit to Miss
Margaret Adams Gist of York, S. C.
for her assistance and aid in furnishing
much valuable material. She is an aunt
3f Mrs. Bedford Moore of Columbia,
who looks strikingly like the picture of
General States Rights Gist, her great
jncle.
Found throwing money to a crowd
in Reading, England, a Scotsman was'
arrested recently on a charge of being
drunk.
Italy is losing many of its winter
foreign guests because of economic
and exchange conditions.
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WHAT'S WHAT IN U1
By Mrs. Stanhope ?
ALEXANDER CHEVES HASKELL: '
THE PORTRAIT OF A MAN. Uy
? Louise Haskoll Daly. Privately printed
I at The Plimpton Press, Norwood, Massachusetts,
1934, 225 pages.
L This is the long needed and long looked
, for biography of Colonel Alexander
, Clieves Haskell, the man who fought I
; more bravely, if possible, after the Con- 1
federate War than he did during it, as <
the leader to free his State which was <
being rapidly throttled by the Recoil- structionists.
This time he was on the i
winning side, for he led the campaign <
to put General Wade Hampton in the (
Governor's chair after as desperate a po- 1
litical light in the fiery Red Shirt Cam- 1
paign as had ever been fought in battle-?
scarred South Carolina. His daughter, i
Mrs. Daly, who has written this tender i
and beautiful biography of her father, 1
rightly called the secondary title, "The J
Portrait of a Man," for that was what 1
Colonel 1 laskell was, an all 'round man, <
not merely soldier and leader. Like General
Robert E. Lee, he knew how to keep i
on living and doing for others until his '
lighting days were over, which only end- 1
ed with his long and honored life. This <
biography is printed for private circula- (
' tion and was presented by the author to '
* the University Library. There it can I
- be found in the South Carolina Room i
' where the State's treasures arc kept, i
' It is a great pity that it was not printed i
1 for public sale, for it is a finely written ^
study of the man, with many character
istics and valuable extracts form his di!
ary and letters, making it one of the '
t most delightful of biographies that all
readers would like. He was born in Ab- <
beville County in 1839 but lived and died (
in Columbia except for the whole period
of the Confederate War where he covered
very nearly the whole South, fighting, as 1
well as being desperately wounded not
once but several times. He was a law- '
ver, and Associate Justice of our Supreme
Court for years, also a most progressive
railroad president, and a bank president
later, winding up this well rounded active '
life in 1910 at Columbia after a much
enjoyed pleasure trip to Europe, the 1
first holiday of his life. i
Champion Blush
Neils Christenscn, in an English '
class recently blushed furiously when :
he was accused of being the author
of an anonymous story read by the
professor. The funny part of it was
that the opus was the brain-child of i
Jim Gibson, after all.
Do You Whistle?
Would be whistlers take heedT*
Assistant Coach Frank p. Pauly
absolutely prohibits whistling in
his presence on the field or in the
dressing room.
He is firmly convinced that it
is bad luck of the first order
U. R. C.
Excavations in Petra have revealed
the oldest sanctuaries yet found in
the rosercd rock city of Transjordania,
jars containing offerings of food being
still in position after 2,000 years.
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