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The Gamecock Founded January 30, 1908 ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Editor Published weekly by the Literary Societies of the University of South Carolina during the college year except during examinations and holidays Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Columbia, 8. 0., 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 Colle6iate Digest Sole and Exclusive National Advertising Representatives NATIONAI, ADVERTIS N SERVICE, Inc. 420 Madison Avenue, New York City Chicago-Boston-San Francisco-Los Angeles-Portland-Seattle EXECUTIVE BOARD MI.Es ELLIOrr - - - - - - - - - - - Editor ATHERTON W11ALEY - - - - Business Manager HUNT GRAHAM - - - - - - - - Managing Editor I)EI'ARTMiENT IIEAI)S Francis Williams, Sports editor; Katherine Taylor, Society editor; Helen Cooper, Co-Ed editor; Fred Ellis, Circulation Manager. ASSOCIATES Jack Killea, Shannon Mims, Eleanor Wiedeman. James Lynch, T. T. Moore. May Andrews, atnl Don Causey, associate editors; Ed narter ani Francis Williams, associate managing editors; Ray Bargeron, Albert Douglas, Felix Oreen. and J. M. l'oiattie, assistant business managers; Sam Cleland, Tom Willis, and Bill lirockington, associate circulation managers. STAFi WRITERS Polly Pendleton, Crawford White. Vivian L.omas, Marybelle Higgins. St. ('lair Muckeufuss, W. I,. Lamb, Charles Ie, .James O. Willis, and Urace Toney; Harold Prince, Jimmie Thonas. . I . Ilass, and R. F. Lindsay, sports writers. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1936 If This Be Treason The time has at last arrived when it is apparent to everyone at the University that the honor sys tem is a complete and colossal flop, a failure of the first water, a total bust. There is no use fooling ourselves any longer-the thing is like the old perpetual motion machines. It sounds good, and looks good on paper-but it won't work. For years our student body has tolerated a situ ation that, if it were not for the seriousness of the offences, would be laughable. It is The Gamecoc/k's opinion that the farce should be ended at once. We know it is sad to confess that the students here will not keep any decent honor system, but the facts speak for themselves. There is no use beating around the bush. If it won't work, let it go. Do away with it. If the professors have to carry guns and pace their rooms during exams to stop cheating, let them start learning to shoot. This will certainly be better than giving an exam to a class that has about three students working enough to pass, while the others manage to cheat their way through by ways and means best known to them. The honor system has had a fair test, more op portunities than it deserved. Many professors have been smugly declaring that no cheating went on in their classes, and as far as they knew, they were right. But naturally, tile guilty persons wouldl not cheat on an exam and then go tell the pro fessor all about it. It is true that some depart mlents have been on tile up and up. But most of tile freshman and sophomnore classes in lan guages, history, mathl, and English have been the breeding grounds for enough cheating to make every student a Phi Beta Kappa. A Bible exam is like a round-table discussion by a Ladies Aid Society. The Gamecock cainnot see that endling such a rotten system would be any disgrace to the insti tution. WVe have all heard sonme mighty fine talk about "Christian Gentlemen," andl "of course, I know all of you are ladies and genitlemen, and will conduict yourselves accordingly," after which the professor makes a graceful exit, and the futn be gins--enter tile notes. Just how to end all this, The Gamecock does not know. We hlave an idea that a professor contin tinually walking around in a room, with hlis eyes on everybody, wold make cheating considlerab)ly more difficult. We admit that this is an awful thing to do, but if it will stop cheating, it is what we want. The main tiling is to do somethling, even if it's wrong. The thing has got to stop, if it takes an army tc 'o it. Maybe tihe governor can spare us his militia for a while. Let's ask him. We understand that Clemson is building a flock of new barracks to corral their herd in. They'll need plenty of quarters if they expect to get enough men to beat us next year. Might be a good idea for them to let a few cows go A vivacious co-ed was recently overheard saying that some unfortunate student would never di he'd just dum1> away. Cheer Up-It Could Be Worse If a student working his way through Carolim will take a little time out to think over his situ ation, he wvill see that things are not nearly a. bad as they could be. After reading "A Student ii Economics," a short story in the College Omnibus we might all offer a prayer of thanks that Caro lina is not run in such a fashion. The story tells of one Charlie Wingate, w<li worked ten hours a night for his meals and fiv dollars a week. After paying his rent he ha( exactly a dollar a week for everything else. Wher lack of sleep forced him to cut classes, his unsyn pathetic dean informed him that the university waf there to educate him, not to give him a course ir cafe technique. Any explanation he tried to mnak was cut short by the very man who was getting paid to attend to such matters. He was compellet to buy text books written by his professors, wh< had a well-established racket in that phase of col lege life. Fraternity men passed him by with a contemptuous nod, or did not notice him at all The story ends with the boy being kicked out o1 school for falling to sleep in class, overcome by slicer exhaustion. This may or may not be a fair insight into the set-up at any university, but if it is, Carolina is a working student's paradise. The N. Y. A. pays thirty cents an hour as a minimum; about thre< hours' work a day in the mess hall will furnish meals. And no Carolina professor forces his books on his class; in fact, a chemistry professor recently devoted his entire vacation to the writing of a lab manual, for the sole purpose of saving time and money for his students. And finally, there is no trace of ill feeling be tween fraternity and non-fraternity men, with thc possible exception of a few born snobs in both groups. The average fraternity man has as many friends out of fraternities as in them, and vice tclsa. The next time you hear someone moaning over his tough breaks, tell him to read "A Student in Economics." Iay'be he'll change his n min. Easy Comnc-Easy Go ]in the February issue of Today there is an ar ticle telling of Dr. Alexis Carrel, the famous sur geon who is trying to graft the limbs of dead peo ple on to living humans. Some day this might be commonplace in the field of surgery. The money for Dr. Carrel's experiments, and count less others of that nature, is being furnished by Rockefeller and other wealthy philanthropists who are striving to make the world a better place to live in. Iow much more noble it would have been for the organizations of veterans that furnished the monmey for our war memorial to have given these funds to some more worthy cause. The Univer sity is constantly handicapped for lack of funds. Every time we start to do anything that might imake Carolina a better school, we hear that eternal alibi. Suppose the money spent on the memorial hadl been used to begin a research department at the University, and in a few years some discovery was made that would end some dreaded disease. or in some way be a real boon to huma.nity. Would not our dead soldiers take more pride in knowing this was done with money set aside to honor them than they would in a lifeless building bearing a few meaningless quotations? Carolina has chemists that are second to none in the South. Dr. Lipscomb has already made great progr-ess in experimenting with artificial rubber, D)r. Whitesell's comments on chemical industries in tihe state have received consider-able attention, These men arc capable of doing almost anything if they hadl the time and money to wvork wvith. If our chemistr-y department were to put artificial rubber on a p)ractical baslis, it would (10 more for the credit of the school than all the memorial build ings ever erected in the country. The next time Aome group or organization wants to give uis some money, let's try to make them let us muse it for something more practical than a memorial building, which will finally crumble in the dust without having been of any more service to Carolina and the world at large than a home for crippled centipedes. The University has never made any lasting con tribution to science, or startled the world with as much as a new kind of mouse trap. And as long as we use money for things that cannot possibly accomplish anything, we will never make a for ward stride. If every dollar that found its way to Carolina's campus could be used to the best advantage, our great Yankee institutions might some day rub their eyes and wonder what the Uni versity of South Carolna wo,u do net !a = V V VA Ticker Tape (Formerly Carolina Today) By TRIBBLE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) portance, wishing to impress the blind (late she had contracted. One thing led to quite a few and...."So you gc to the University?" he asked. "Oh yes," she cooed. "Know anyom there?" "Well--," he hesitated, con. sidering, "there's a fellow by the name of Bill Blank - " "Bill Blank!' there was elation in her tone.... "-how strange! You see, he was my first 'big moment.' Of course, the af fair has ended now, but-. So you know him? A nice fellow, don't you think?" He laughed-she never knew why. The O'Henry-isn being: He, always a careful guy, had given her an assumed name when he made the date. His real name, permanently re corded in the University files, was Bill Blank! He had never seen the gal before! "Spot" Mozingo and Johnny Bowden blew themselves to a couple of Sally Rand's bubblettes after the dancer's recent perfor mance here. Soft soap sometimes works wonders. A former Tri Delt cutie whose sur prise marriage made campus conver sation a year ago is now looking at life through the windshield of a new car-a gift, no less, from the lassie's parents. Papa must have relented, ain't it? Portrait of a Campus Big-Shot: His home, he'll tell you is where his hat is-and he doesn't wear a hat. They don't come that large He knows all the best people-on Lower Main, Gervais, and Assem bly-If you're in need he'll give you the shirt off his back-it be longs to his room-mate anyway The drinks are on him-next time -Fond of visitors; no matter how busy he is, he'll stop and talk with you-about himself-He's a swell fellow-past tense! -and his Co-ed Counterpart: She knows all the answers-and only uses one-Her greatest plea sure in life is dancing-on your feet-Well-behaved child that she is, she never climbs on top of ta bles in restaurants-she's always under them-She draws the line at drinking-then tries to walk it Her virtue is as pure as snow after a two weeks' rain! Headline: NUDISTS REMOVE TO VIRGIN ISLES. Tsch-tschl ARIZONA STUDENTS AID IN DEDICATION Tempe Ariz. (ACP) Students of Arizona State college here played an impL,iacat part recently in the dedica tion of a tomb to 'Philip Tedro, ox Hadji, Ali, Arabian camel-driver whe played a minor role ini the making ol United States history. Military men and desert rats cor rupted Tedro's Arabian name to "H-i Jolly" when he came to Arizona in, pre-Civil War days as drniver of camels imported from Arabia as a transporta tion experiment. The experiment failedl because the camel's feet were not adapted to the hard desert rocks, they were turned loose to roam at will and Hi Jolly was left as the sole remaining evidence of the unique at tempt. Hi Jolly died in 1912, and his body lay in an unmarked grave at Quartz site, Ariz., 75 miles from Tempe, un til state officials erected a tomb ovex it. -U. U. 0. Dr. Tabor Shows Fossils Found On Alaskan Trip Dr. Steven A. Tabor, head of the Department of Geology, has in his possession two mammoth teeth in the animals jaw measuring 7 inches in length and 3 inches in width. Dr, Tabor secured the teeth in Alaska where he studied last summer. "Tusks of this animal have beer found that were thirteen inches long. Trhe Eskimos carve necklaces, brace. lets, and other articles out of this fos sil ivory," says Dr. TIabor. Other specimens in the collection ol Dr. Tabor are the skull and horns of the bison and the sabor tooth: tiger. ~--. U. 0. Wealth is more equitably distributed among married men than among bache lors, says a recent survey. Only once in 30 years has the Princeton co-operative store failed to pay a 10 per cent dividend. Amateur hockey and college basket ball are increasing in popularity at WAlE ? C( P1 AT A IAr~ I'M N LITTE C 2'IUSE IN 1930 GOLLEGE FRATERNTIES A ONED I)OOSES VALUED AT OVER 75,000,000 YEA WHAT'S WHAT IN Uia By Camil "It Can't Happen Here," by Sin- ) clair Lewis, is his latest novel and cer- f tainly the greatest, especially if one g considers that he takes in the whole t of these United States instead of a I "Main Street" in a small village. It < is the tremendously imagined Revolt t and Dictatorship of a newly elected a President of the United States, Ber- i zelius Windrip and the subsequent re volts and dictatorships caused by the t criminal tyranny of the first Dictator a who is an imitation, especially in speech, of Huey Long without his c brain or spine. Sinclair Lewis, how ever is very clear about stating that none of his characters are drawn fromn life, and of the present President, he b speaks of President Roosevelt by name a with a tender reverence and affection whenever he is referred to. The Rev- I olution-for it is that-does not take place until after this year, between 1937 and 1939 and the book was writ ten by the middle of last summer, but, strange to say, there is an English t novel, published in England last fall by one of the best English women nov elists, and most popular, Storm Jame- k son, called "In the Second Year" and which is on the same Dictator lines only placed in England but also in ~ the near future. Neither are enough I alike in plot or characters, and both ' must have been completed before the printers got hold of either of the nov els, so there is no question of one au thor being influenced by the other in choosing so world-timely a subject. t But it will make interesting reading comparing the differences betwveen the a effect of such big radical changes .a from such different original forms of < government as the United States arnd i Great Britain. Also it should help-sus tain pub)licity for both novels. The book is written, seen, and felt, t mainly from the view point of a small ( town New England editor, Dorenmus 3 Jessup, who by inheritance should and a did believe in the Constitutional form t of Government though he saw against t his will that America was ready for a I Dictator. He is all through a very gentle, lovable and loyal character, but he suffers from the cruelties andi barbarities of an American facistic C rule as didl the Jewish Oppermanins of Feutwangera's novel of Germany. Ther Jews are no more perscuted than the< others opposed to Windrip the Dic-1 tator, but Sinclair Lewis dlescrib)es viv-] idly "How It Could Happen"' to any-< one--Christian or Jew or free thinker' --in such a Reign of Terror. Misgellaneous News or Timely Books The following is a brief list of timely or interesting new books that recently, have been put on the shelves and can, be had at the main desk on the mamn floor. "The Cornerstone of Philippine In- t dependence," by Francis Burton Har-i rison, who was Governor General of, Philippine Islands 1913-1921. Illus trated. Published by Century Cam- < pany. Delightfully written from his ( personal friendly point of view which] probably made him more liked than c any of the other Governor Generals. c The Writer was in command in Ma- c nila and saw the whole town turn 5 out to welcome Quezon when he re- t turned from the Uit State of fedruary 14 1936 Camera R 5 YEARs LYN SUM HULL )NDUCTED 1HE SACRAMENTO 1 W IAL TRAN WHN OAILY NGS1UDEN15 TO ST Y'S LLE AT MORAGA,CAL. FIVE :ARS HULL SPENT THE DALY HOURS CM 9A.M.10 3PM. IN EASY RELAX ION. IN 1934 "5LIM' AWAKENED 10 CALDEN OPPOR10NtTY, ASKED PER SSION To ENIMLL AS A SPECIAL )DENT AND STARTED 'O DEVOTE HiS Y-VEK HOURS 10 CLASS WORK AND Y. TODAY HE RANKS ON THE HIGH [ HONOR ROLL WRH A Bt AVERME ID HAS REFUSED SEVERAL PROMOflONS HM "IS ROAD IN ORDER 'O COM PLETE HI5 EDUCATION' OT THE SHAW NUMBER OF JUNIOR (OuLEGES IN ).S HAS INCREASED FROM 25 FITEN 5 AGO,1TO APPROXIMAMLY 600 TODAY! WERSITY LBARY la Sams merica after getting the Jones bill or future independence through Con ress. Now that they are celebrating he largest step to independence they ave yet made and the Vice-President f our country is visiting them, makes his book published some years ago, lmost as' timely and as interesting as new. Still another new book on our coun ry's history and traditions is one with very long title that tells, however ust it is: "State Names, Flags, Seals, ongs, Flowers and Other Symbols," y George Earle Shankle, 'Ph.D. It is lustrated and very well made up, oth as to information and appear nce. / Seeing the motion pictures of the atest Byrd Expedition to the South 3ole makes another new book espec ally interesting. "The Romance of .,xploration.and Emergency First Aid rom Stanley to Byrd," illustrated is he book. "The Geographic Pattern of Man :ind" by John E. Pomfret (of Prince on University) publisheA 1935 is of vithia clever gen,toing the e ill orutre iofenonencethroughmat Con 11ss otrishis, tey are cielebraince herest tepg idependence bten aviopia ade Iany. thelcepsienswe our outry isa efictin them clmae ndinativespoflithei ome Argvs ago inot as timelyand rastinterestights Till aother new Ntr book ou called verygng tie thatdnelles, AhSaeute stiis"Sat JonNamesbo," Flgs Donals, uross -Poetti and Otlihe Symbols, 93 y eogenale Sansl,.. 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