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The Gamecoche Founded January 30, 1908 ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Editor Published weekly by the Literary Societies of the University of Soul Carolina during the college year except during examinations and holidays Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Columbia, S. C November 20, 1908 Subscription Rate-$2.00 per college year. Circulation-1800 Advertising rates furnished upon request Offices in Tenement 16, University campus Phone 8123 1935 Member 1936 (Associated Colle6iate Press Distributor of CoIe6iate Di6est Sole and Exclusive Natiotnal Advertising tepresentatives NATIONAL ADVERTISING sECRVICE. Inc. 420 Madiison AMente. New York City Chicago-Boston-San Francisco-los Angeles-Portland-Seattle EXECUTIVE BOAltD IIOWARD COOPER - - - - - - - Edito ATIERTON WIIALEY - - - - Business Managt T. T. MOORE - - - - - - Managing l'itt FRANCIS WILLIAMS- - - - - - Sports Edito MAY ANDREWS - - - - -- - Society Edito EILEANOR WIEDEMAN - - - - - Co-ed Edito FRt- ELLIs - - - - - CirculatiOn Manage ASSOCIATES lilIes Elliott, Jack Killen, Bob lHemphill, Shannon blims, associa editors; Ed Harter, Hunt Graham. James Lynch, associate managin editors; Ray Bargeron, Zack Sabbagha. Felix Greene, assistants to ti business manager STAFF VItITERS Donald Causey, Helen Cooper, Annette Denson and Bruce Littlejohn STAFF ASSISTANTS Joe Camak. S. B. Bass. assistant sports editors; Sam Cleland, Jam Walsh and Robert l1rown, assistant circulation managers WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1935 We Students Can Compete With Business If There Are No Jobs Now that business is lnl)rovimg. we studenlts Cal face the next few years with somie optilmism. Eve though l)lsillesS-lmlenl still say, "No help needed, they clint keel) us olt. of the running. If the; won't take 11s, well compete with them. Demand is increasing, and there's no reason wl; some of us cual't help supply it. At any rate, in few years bllsiless, in spite of its reluctance, wil have to get some new help. What we want t< know is this; can we depend on business to keel its head above water now, assuring us soletlin; definite once we get a foothold? Its attitude at the present time is like that o a man with a hangover. A fter a dizzy ride intoxi cated by money and luge )roduction, it has ai awful headache and its stomach is weak. It beg, for a restorative, and gets it in the form of mor, intoxicants, administered in scientific doses, nliti the hangover is cured and the patient is read3 for :inother" w;ld rie Buttit he tired of md cations. Instead of whiskey in doses, it wants tlh whole bottle. It is through with cures. It want: to expend its new energy in a hurry, drinking tilt liquior and getting drunk on it until it is riding high, w~ide and handsomec again. It won't tak< too mulch this time. It has had its lesson, ant now it knows how to drink like a gentlemuan. The most terrib)le sp)ect re for tile business miai is tihe reformer's tall black hat. IIe cries for th< dloctor's claw-hiammer coat, but as soon1 as lhe i: wvel lhe b)eginis to notice that tile coat is accom panuied by a loathsome tall hlat. So bIe fir'es th<t (doctor. Business-men all1 over the e'ast have drawi tile line by thlis watch-word ; "We want recovery not reform. If the admllinistrat ion sticks to recov ery, we'll stick with the adminlist ration ; buti it tries to re form us, we'll kick it out !" It is jus~t tiis selfish attitude that maIlkes buisinies ulnstable. Tihis valmpir'ish (desire to suIck tile na tionl of all its blood( ill one great glp~ leads to re0 culrring attacks of acute indigestion, aind make it imipossible for our bulsinless phlilosophly to catel upl with our p)ossibilities. WVe have ever'ythinlg; bult we don't knlow~ what ti (10 withl it. We have n'ot e'xpanlded withl our bus1i ness. We havi e been too buisy speedlinig uIp our! (en gimes to pay any attenltion to whlere they are go m1g. And( when an intelligent government trie to shiow us5 what is wronig, we tell it to stick ti recovery and governinig, anid let reform alone. Three typeCs of people want to dlismiss tihe adi ministration: First, big buisiniess, whlich feels it exclusive right to exploitation is beCing taike: away; second, enmployees of big buisineOss,l wh mia, not want a change, buIt who are forced by thiei employees to senId telegramns to thleir congressmer and are "requiested1" to vote with their masters third, those who have no capacity for independen thought, but who read tile conmments and sp)teebe of others and who are juIst reactionaries anyway. Intelligent, th inkinlg people are in sympath with the government. T.hey see the need for leg islation to guide progress unltil our intelligene has caught upl withl our1 produlction. They mia dlecry governmlental beaulracracy, inefficiency, all squabbling; but they take the long-range view o the administration's attempts, and hope thlat som1 of the reforms will be put into effect while the put ting is good. Another Glory Feast "They were willing to die" boasts an inscription on the new South Carolina. World War Memorial. They knew what they were to face, but they fought for an ideal, and for them death was preferable to h the destruction of those ideals. They knew the horrors of war, and yet were willing to face them, to face death itself, to preserve the ideal of democ racy under which they had lived. And now we college students would like to fling forth from the catpus upon which the memorial rests a question, and to express a hope. We chal lenge the nation with this question: "Did they die in vain?" It seems rather a waste if after that sac rifice of millions of men, among them thousands of college students and young graduates, we again r will have to face the spectre of smoking battlefields ' and poison gas. For ideals as dear to us as their ,1" r ideals were to them, we would die as willingly as rdid they. But to have to wage war on foreign soil r would make us feel that all past wars, the late lamented one in particular, were mockeries. But if our country becomes involved in a foreign war, there is little we can do except fight, leaving behind our families and jobs, comning back, if ve are lucky, to a bloated economic system on the verge of collapse, a civilization that has been re tarded for a decade or more. Are we to graduate from exams to machine guns? That might seem a desirable exchange during exam week, but, they tell us, not during a war. Right now the prob ability is not so remote. If what we fear be true, every past war has beenh a mockery. We consider war barbarous and sense less. Our training enabling us to view it from a theoretical angle, we can see no good to it. We cannot see the profits that may accrue from muni tion sales, the loss in trade seems insignificant coin pared to the loss of life and opportunhity, and mere pat riotisml has lost its former connotation. In the event that other nations resort to the invasion of our homes, we will oppose thei with all we have; ,!t no other manner of "onfict de weg 'rd as >a invasion of any interest of ours. Our fiiguri'es show us that this nation is entirely self-sufficient. The politicians and internationalists insist that our foreign trade is a property right, which it is our dutty to protect. However, we are sure that if there is a demand for our goods today, there will be ten years from now. All we get from trade any way is expended credit, which has very little to do with the production of consumable goods. We have all we need, and much that other people need alld tlmat cannot be. suppliied by thie oilier nations of the world. If one cotintry increases its produc tion of one commodity, it will have to decrease an other which some other will have to supply at the cost. of one of her products, and so on until we come to the United States, which is ready to pro duce and sell anything. Our Congress has recognized these facts by pass ing neutrality resolutions lasting util the next Congress. They are entirely suIfficien t to keep us5 out of the p)resenlt A frican conflict or any result inig European comp)lications, but the qjuestion is whether they will be re-enacted. That depends upon01 puIblic opinion. Public opinion is formulated to a great extent in the home, whence it goes by d1eviouts paths to the press and tihe speaker's ros trtum. In the home the college student is accorded a grudging. tacit resp)ect; and in this state the po litical platforms are guided to a certain extent by thme op)inions which can be wheedled clandestinely fromt stud(ents. Thien what can we do about the imp~ending sit u tationi? There is no hopeful answer. All we can say is that we resent it. 'We will have to fight the war, and our survivors will have to pay for it. We are too much ini tunle to refuse to bear arms, amnd too youthful to influence the councils of the nation. IIowever-, there is 01ne thing we can (do. We caln let peop)le know that we would( condonie a war ontly as an actual defensive measure, not by foolishly refutsing to bear arms, by ill a more sub tie, p)ow~erfttl manner. We can show it to our famn ilies, who are the voters, by making them aware that we have minds andl that we use them ; that we hav'e eyes with which we keep upl with (levelop) ments; andl that we hlave a conscience which is tortur1edl by the thlought of wasting us in a wvar. The Joy Of Being Editor r' Getting out this little paper is no picnic ,If we p)rinlt jokes people say we are silly; ;If we don't they say we are too serious. t If we clip things fromn other paperCs a We are too lazy to write them ourselves; If we dlon't we are too fond of our own stuff. If we dlon't print contributions, - We dlon't applreciate true genius; a If we (do p)rint them the paper is filled with junk. If we muake a change in the other person's write Iup wve are too critical, f If we don't we are asleep. 3 Now like as not someone will say, - We swiped this from some other paper --We Did. Carolina To-day (CONTINUED FROM PAOE ONE) Prize Boner Two students were being interviewed by Shannon Mins as.to the poor ser vice given by a particular laundry. One of the students commented that the shirt he was then wearing had been lost in the laundry twice. Where upon, Shannon asked: "Did you get it back?" Founder In a lecture in English 22 re cently, Professor Bass remarked that his ancestors came over on the Mayflower. Chief Meyers, upon hearing this, said that his people didn't come over in the boat, they went down to meet it. The Big Day Thursday-the "big day" at the Fair: Lines of cars....crowded gates ....thousands swarming the grounds aimlessly .... tents .... rides ... gaudy and aged banners....spielers with husky voices .... imitation -lula (lancers.... the annual array of freaks ....exhibits.... peddlers with balloons, novelties, etc. ... hotdog stands.... cries of "Try your luck!" Ladies and gentlemen, here's the biggest...." The Game But the main feature Caro lina v. Clemson: Quickly filling stands.... colors proudly flying ....cheerleaders trying to pep up their sections.... notables arriving .... sponsors included... . the team trot on the field amid volleys of cheers .... warm-up.... and then the battle-royal. The Tiger may be striped now, but it won't be long before he is scarred... Muchly so. College Psalm Tell me not in mournful numbers. One and two doth equal three For in class I get my slumbers, As it leaves my evenings free. Authority About three people wore white ties with tuxedos to the Intra Fraternity dance Friday night, a week ago. Some were criticized, others insulted. Quoting Miss Polly Peachtree, noted beauty ex pert: "White ties are quite in or der when worn with tuxedos, pro vided the wearer is south of the Mason and Dixon. Surprise Co-eds at the University of Wash ington walked into a classroom and were surprised to find a young man shaving. The professor explained that tile man was actinlg under hlis instruc tion as a lesson to the co-eds to stop fixing their faces in class. Maiden !Answers 1895-"I don't love you." 1905--"You aren't my ideal." 1915-"You haven't any social status." 1925-"You haven't any money." 1935-"How much alimony will you give me in case we get a divorce?" 1945-? Definitions Inl response to the definition of a kiss printed ill this column last week, the following other (definitions have been t urned in: ''A thing of use to no one, but much prized by two." "Nothing, dlividled by two." "Love's artillery that is brought in to act ion imnmediately on thIe call to a rmls." The only really agreeable two-faced action uinder the sunl, or the moon either." "That in wvhich two heads are better than iione." Still better The newspaperman defines a kiss as an article that is always accept ed and (im) printed, but not al ways published. Unfortunate Trhe great, great grandnephew of Paul Tulane, founder of Tulane Un versity, was found working his way through the very university that his great uincle endowed, according to Los Angeles Junior Collegian. Thanks On behalf of the student body of the University, we wish to take this means of expressing our ap preciation to the Orangeburg County Fair association for the courtesy extended our students at the Citadel-Carolina gam. WHAT'S WHAT IN U By Cai "Don't You Weep, Don't You Moan.' By Richard Coleman. Published by the Macmillan Company, New York, 1935. This is a remarkably well writter story of the Negro house servant clas; in Charleston. All the more remark able is its thorough knowledge of the modern Negro of that type rep resented by "Tater," third generation of "Yard and House Boys" for the rich old Charleston white folks, the "Hugares" which made him as cocky as any butler of a stately English family while at the same time "pure Nigger," and his mulatto well-to-dc mistress and her successful rival from the sea islands, a gay young girl "Las ses" even if she was from the country. The dialect is not too Gullah to read easily for most of it is spoken by the upper class Negro of the city, but thc name is taken from the famous spirit ual which even "Tater" city bred, sings on the island plantation to Lasses' con tent as the book ends. Ar. Coleman has lived in Charleston for some years and was born in Wash ington, D. C., 27 years ago where there are so many Negroes of Tater's house type that he understands them per fectly and writes most delightfully about them. This is his first novel and has received very high praise from all critical magazines for his style, pre sentation and interesting story. Cer tainly he makes his characters all Negroes, most lifelike, bringing out the strong contrasting old and new elements in their upbringing and racial characteristics clinging closer than their difTering shades of color through it all. The author says: "lie likes impres sionistic writing when it is not over done" and "That the first duty of a novel is to reflect the times," both well illustrated by his first book. lie is still living in Charleston, which is again fast becoming the winter coon. of literary folk from the North as well as from its native writers. Japan's Pacific Mandate. By Paul H. Clyde. Illustrated with photo graphs. Published by The Mac millan Company, New York, 1935. It is a long way from South Car olina to Japan's Pacific Mandate in the South Pacific ocean, but they will be on the way of the round the-world mail airplane program. Nothing could be more timely than the appearance of this book by Pro fessor Paul Hibbert Clyde of the University of Kentucky who visited at the invitation with other promi nent foreigners last year, nearly all of the inhabited islands under Japanese care in the Mandate awarded them. He gives detailed accounts of his impressions and says he saw no signs of defensiv'e or offensive war prepara tions, that the islands are heint settled by modern Japanese agricul turists wvho are having a hard time getting the lazy South Sea Islander5 interested in using new farming meth odIs or any other modern practices including education. They have to havt separate schools for the native chil dren because they can't or wvon't keej: up with the Japanese children becaust of either mental or physical laziness. Judlging from the photographs they look like most of the South Sea is. landers with the same chiaracteristics as seen by the wvriter of this review The islands from the photographs number only 1,400 but as most 01 them are only coral reefs their actua land area of 836 square miles is al most twvice the size of the City o1 Los Angeles, the Phillippines whic1 STATE HOUS M!AKERS OF SIIE ITot Dogs-..............................5c I lam burger ....................1c Barbecue- ...............................1c Chicken Salad . The Gamecocks are COLUMBIA DAIRIES I Phone 3171 K E Log Log Trig Slide Rul. E1000-3SL wirh K&Q K - mprov~ed niao SIDE E MA@3 UN U. Back of Every Act Modern Engini KEUFFEL & ESSI NEW YORK HO0I CHICAGO ST. LOUIS SANFPRANCIBE Amedeca's Poremost Manufacture of Dra NIVERSITY LIBRARY nilla Sams lie 600 miles west are 137 times as large, and Hawaii seven times as large as Japan's mandate. They lie in the same latitude as Central Ameri ca more than 4,000 miles distant to San Francisco with a temperate cli mate rarely reaching above 90 degrees, with a little variation all the year round. The population is not quite 50,000 natives and 32,000 Japanese set tlers, with a few other foreigners mak ing the grand total of the whole pop ulation of all the 1,400 islands only 82,253 persons there in 1934, about half that of the City of Honolulu. Reading Room There are not many sport magazines in the University library because the space is monopolized by the Athletic and Y. M. C. A. headquarters, but even in the Periodical reading room much can be found in the current newspapers like The New York Times sport sections and the other dailies. Also the weeklies like Time and Collier's and The Literary Digest. The latter even condescends to give in the current issue, October 19, under the regular title "Whats the name, please?" "the pronunciation of names of Football Players." University of South Carolina's football players are not mentioned- yet-in this list, but these are some of the very unpro nouncible and unspellable names that are given in The Literary Digest of this week: WVojcihovski: soft c: woj-ci-hov'ski, Notre Dame University. \Vojciechowicz: simply: wo-jee-ho 'wits. Fordham University. Amrine: "Am'rine, Amfine." And others of the same foreign ori gin! Perhaps South Carolina Univer sity being "more to the manor born" is more "honored in the breech than in the observance." In the same issue of The Literary a sn illustrated article on ioy N. niiiis, who is ciaimed to be "one of the chief factors in the de velopment in recent years of accurate, offensive puntingt"' "Coaching by Anonymous" is the title, on page 32, and may be helpful. THREE ENGLISH WOMEN IN AMERICA By Una Pope-Hennesy Though these three English women, distinguished each in their own way, came to America separately a hundred years ago when this country was in the pioneer stage they are remembered -and still hated-for their bitter and devastating criticisms of everything especially slavery in the United States. They are most vividly brought back to life in this delightful book of bio graphic speeches written by another English woman, Una Pope-Hennesy, who, in spite of her hyphenated name, has more sympathy with the America of this century than did her compa triots of the last. The author fmnds many excuses for them, however, for they had e'.pected too much, and had been quite a bit sp)oiled in England by the social and professional distinction. Mrs. Trollope and Miss Harriet Martineau were most popular as writers for "modern" free (lomn of thought, and Fanny Kemble was the idol of the stage in London and America and a member of the most famous English family of actors. Fanny Kemble married a rich young Ameri can, Pierce Butler of Philadelphia, a dlescendant of the Pierce Butler of South Carolina who took her from the stage down to his plantations on the coast of Georgia where she be came so worked up over the slavery question he carried her back to live in Philadelphia. E P H ARM A CY 4LY SANDWICHES R oast Beef.----....-...............10c Roast Pork.........................10c Baby Club ...........................15c ................... 0c Game because they use RIK AND ICE CREAM 917 Main St. ULES devement of ering E RCO. BOKEN, N. J. :0 MONTREAL. luig ateala