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The Gamecock Founded January 30, 1908 t ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Editor t Published weekly by the Literary Societies of the University of South t Carolina during the college year except during examinations and holidays t Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Columbia, s. C., t 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 ' t 1935 Member 1936 Rssociated Colleeiale Press Distributor of Colle6iate Diaest Sole and Exclusive National Advettising Representatives NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, Inc. 420 Madison Avenue, New York City Chicago-Boston-San Francisco-I.va Angeles-Portland-Seattle EXECUTIVE BOARD 1 MILES ELLIorr - - - - - - - - - - - Editor f ATIHERTON WIIALEY - - - - Business Manager HUNT GRAHAM - - - - - - - - Managing Editor U s DEl'ART'1ilNT HEAI)S Francis Williams, Sports editor; Katherine Taylor, Society editor; Helen Cooper, Co-Ed editor; rre<i Ellis, Circulation Manager. 11 ASSOCLATES Jack Killea, Shannon Mims. Eleanor Wiedeman, James Lynch, T. T. t Moore, May Andrews, and i,on Causey, associate editors; Ed Harter and Francis Williams, associate managing editors; Ray Bargeron, Albert I Douglas, Felix Green, and J. At. l'olattie, assistant business managers; Sam Uleland, Tom Willis, and Bill llrockington, associate circulation [ managers. STAFF WRITI1RS Polly Pendleton, Crawford white, Vivian Lomas, Marybelle Higgins, St. t Clair Muckenfuss, W. L. Lamb, Charles Lee, James O. Willis, and Grace Toney; Harold Prince, Jimmie Thomas, S. B. Bass, and R. F. Lindsay, y sports writers. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1936 s More About Honor Mr. Beverly Herbert, whose letter to The Game cock is printed in full on this page, has placed his I finger on the very crux of the trouble with our honor system. Il "If your students will get together and decide C1 that they want a University, of honor and high 0 ideals," Mr. Herbert writes, "they can have it." t The trouble with tha statement is that it begins with if. Certainly we can have the system, if we will enforce it. Dr. IIeyward Gibbes, one of the most proninient Carolina alunni in Columbia, points out another fundamental fault. "When I was going to Carolina," he said re- s cently, "any lan who wrote anything against the ti honor system would have been tarred and feath- a ered. I have only two things to remember Caro- f lina by-the fact that Major Sloan was president, it and the honor system. I earnestly believe that at r that time any Carolina man would have defended b it with his life." ti Tar and feathers--enoughl to make anybody shudder. The Gemecock stall' is indeed fortunate that this sentiment no longer exists, but what i | eryinig shlamle that a few years can make such a el diff'erence inl tile attitudle, the character, anid tile n, ideals of a student body. C "If tihe honior sys5tem1 is to w'ork," Dr. Gjibbes declared, "the stuldenlts will hlave to follow the uni versal lawv of the anlimlals--if oneC of their number sI prove weak or treachlerous, lie is outlawed. Any o1 Carolina student today who turns up somebody tI for cheating wouldl pr1obably be looked down on a1 by the rest of the student body. When I was there, ~ it was tile othler wvay. Cheating was tihe one thling s tihat simpllly waus not toleralted. Ev'ery year saw ti some1 studenit shipped, anId 1no one cared who re- a ported him-it was the tiling to do, and it was i donle." b 5 A Jittle reflection on1 this will showv thlat we have vmlfk conlsiderably below tile level of rock bottomn. It is inlconlceivable that Carolina students will some 0 (lay lbe wIatchedl like a bunch of kids in a canldy I shop, bult that is what we are bringing 0on us. h ti As Mr'. Herbert suIggests, let tile stuldents get I together', and ill the namefl of common decency Ii prevent thlis inevitable taking away of a privi lege that, to our alumni at least, is tihe most C 1 It will take more than a few flowery speeches by campus politicians to accomplish anything. The students will have to decide that they want an. honor system that is an honor system, and put an end to this tottering derelict that, if left uinde stroyed, will eventually wreck tile University's very foundation. S We are proud to say thlat the authlor of The Gamecocke's new column, Ticker Tape, is H-arolcd a Tribble. Tribble recently sold a short story to The American Magazine. The story will appear sometimes in the near future.a Slow Down With A. K. G. making so bold as to actually get 11 the co-ed presidents together and start some hing, we wonder if it would not be a good idea for ie inens' leadership fraternities, service fraterni ies, scholarship fraternities, department fraterni ies, and fraternities in general to come out of heir hibernation and see what is going on in the 'orld around them. Of course all these outfits stay pretty busy, and re probably pressed for time, but they might work 11 a couple of minutes during a lull in the rush. 'very year Blue Key gets out the student directory nd the amount of labor and worry required of ach member apparently wears them down for the est of the year. If the work is too much for Blue Eey it should ask some other group to help out a Lttle, so that the brunt of the burden would not all too heavily on its members, who are after all mly human and are liable to crack under the train. Just how 0. D. K. members find time to eat nd sleep is something of a puzzle. No one on the utside knows what those boys are doing, but it 3 obviously something of a secret nature. Cer ainly the organization has never made public ts actions, if any, but it is reasonable to presume blat some day it will offer something to the Uni ersity, something that required years of constant ibor to conceive and perfect. Meanwhile, we bould appreciate the silent part they are playing, nd keep a deep reverence for their spirit of self 1crifice. And K. S. K., after collecting the swimming ool money, should be entitled to at least ten years f relaxation from the continual strife and tur loil its members have undergone. With the re eint pool drive following practically on the heels f the sidewalk mo' iment (1931), it would seem at this- particular group should be granted a rief respite. Energy is an admirable trait, but, like dynamite, should be handled with care. -U. U. 0. Well Done The student council's recent investigation and ibsequent action in the exam stealing mix-up was ie best-handled and most intelligently conducted Ifair of that kind in Carolina's history. The iculty paid the student body a fine tribute when turned the entire problem over to the council, lying-solely on the judgment of the council memii ers to find the guilty persons and see that jus co was done. Especially commendable is the pains-taking anner in which the council went about its task. very man who had any connection with the henme was questioned at length. With everybody amoing for immediate action, the council made > hasty dlecisions, juLmped at no conclusions. The ~idence against every man was considered as irefumlly as if he had been arrested on a charge first dlegree murder. From thme v'ery first it was decided to hold re >onsible only those who actually stole the examps offered them for sale. Many students believe mat those who bought the papers .were equally fault, an opinion that would probably be upheld a court of lawv. However, the council centered s search on finding and pulnishing those respon ble for the exams being offered for sale, holding at if they had not been stolen they certainly 'ould not have been bought. Furtherm.ore, it very dloubtful if any student who had to appear afore the council will ever again take part in ich an escapade, even if he (lid get by with it nice. Not only was the investigation condlucted with me dlignity and untiring zeal of a military court martial, but with such discreetness that even the est friends of council members were ignorant of me real (decisions that were made. T1he wagging migues of the campus gossips were given very t tle to wag about. The Camnecock congratulates the council for its xcellent work, wvith the sincere hope that such atters in the future will be as capably and sat ifactorily settled. -U. ..0. FIVE MAXIMS OF A KING On the walls of the late King George's sm(dy Buckingham Palace, London, hang five maxims, hey are: Teach me to be obedient to the rules of the game. Teach me to distinguish between sentiment and mtimentality, adlmiring the one andl despising te other. Tfeach me neither to proffer nor to receive cheap rmd undeserved praise. If I am called upon to suffer, let me be like a ell-bred beast that goes away to suffer in silence. Teach me to win if I may; if I may not win, then novn all tnnah me to be a good loe.-. Ticker Tape By TRIBBLE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) deigned to watch the game and quiet was restored . . . for a moment. "Oh!" she oh-ed, but loudly, "who's the cute little black-headed boy play ing for Carolina? . . . I could go for him." Spectators tittered. The "cute little boy," Bob Johnspn, tried for an other goal . . . and missed. Professional Portrait No. 1: This one is the peripatetic type . . . with gestures. Punctuality-plus, his record for voluntary "cuts" reads like a blank page. His Eto nian accent might be fascinating if his lectures were not so formally monotonous. Acutely clothes-con scious, he is one good reason why the novelty-shirt manufacturers continue to exist. His neckties are extremely, if you'll pardon the understatement, decorative. But he's a good fellow . . . with a re markable sense of humor. (He gave this department a passing grade last semester!) Know him? We thought this worth stealing, so we did, so what? Mrs. X-I had the most terrible scare last night. I heard a noise in the middle of the night and turned on the light. There, sticking out from beneath the bed was a pair of man's legs. Mrs. Ray-Was it a burglar? Mrs. X-Oh, no. It was my hus band. He heard the noise first! Storyette He was a white-haired little runt, fresh from the sticks .. . not the sort of guy you'd expect to go anywhere . . . except the wrong places, maybe. But there was something about hino . . . there must have been. After a few years at Carolina he had campus poli tics in his pocket and politicians eating out of his hand. The yokel had become an institution. Re member? After a while, things stopped running so smoothly. The insti tution went bankrupt. The guy with the gift of gab was broke . . . flatter than a pancake crushed by a steam roller, or something. So he went to one of his stooges. "Look," he says, "I'm your friend .. . there's nothing I wouldn't do to help you . . . you know that. But I need your help. I've got to have a hundred bucks. . . can you get it?" The student ap proached, could with difficulty, get it. And did. . . In the name of friendship. That was three years ago. The other day, the white-haired little runt, who is now a "G-Man," was in town. The guy who had once loaned him the dough waited for him to call. In the name of friend ship. But he must have forgotten. But there was something about him . . . there must have been. He did return the money! IOpen Forum 'February 1, 1936 Thec Gameccock University of South Carolina. To the Editor : Dear Sir: I thank you for sending me The Game cock and I find several of your articles very interesting. In one editorial you ask: "What does the University of South Carolina need to place it on the top rung of the collegiate ladder," and you ask members of the stu dent body what they think. It has been over thirty years since I was a member of the student body and so I am really not eligible for the group you call on. Also my ideas may not be worth the writing, but as they are quite definite I give them to you for what they are wvorth. You quote a Co-ed who p.rovides as her remedy that the honor system should be enforced and dishonesty should be frowvned upon. You quote others who have dlifferent idleas and you close by quoting a senior who says that the great god Manm mon can place the University "like a shin ing jewvel among thme Colleges and Uni versities of America." I think the Co-ed is muc~h nearer right than the senior. The answer to the question is some what dependent upon what you would have for your University. If you wish a place of fine buildings and numbers of studlents and winning teams, then I grant you Manmmon would probably help you. But if you wish an institution to best fit your young people for life, for the good life, for citizenship and to give them a proper sense of values, then money is |Campus OF N.W. MISSOURI a \. ' STATE TEN HERS > COLLEGE 11AiQ111 IS NO NATIVE (BORN c.. GEORGIAN ' SMITH BAOS. 1tJ IING AT \ N A N ROL! OGLETHORPE \\ \ UINNERSY y (ATLANTA,GAI WHAT'S WHAT IN U By Can Newest Books-Miscellaneous So many new books have been recently bought by the University Library that are of such great interest to all readers that it is hard to choose which shall be mentioned first, and no matter how great is the book, only brief mention at that as they are so many. The first, is the latest edition of : "The Seven Pil lars of Wisdom" by T. E. Lawrence, published by Doubleday Doran. Com plete and fully illustrated and "una bridged and definite." It is. so much more autobiographic and written with such intensity that there is no compari son with the devitalized "Revolt in the Desert" which was only like a "concise dictionary" of his "Seven Pillars of Wisdom." Most especially to be praised is the poetic beauty of his style, which will forever live and breathe. "Prophets and Poets" by Andre Mau rois, translated by Ilamish Miles, pub Ished le bi935 by lat pr and Brothers, is another volume of his charming series of essays on writers of the time. Though a Frenchman he un derstands his English authors of the day and in a charming, though scholarly style writes the best and not short, biographic and rritienl esnyc that have yet been plh lished. Ile 'says, for instance, of H. G. Weclls, "To the c'-aotic, helter skelter world of post wvar years, WVells has been a psychiastrist as well as a novelist." His autobiography "makes Rousseau's tamely frank, cautious and maidenly in compari son." Othier equally delightful criticisms are on Kipling, Bernard Shawv, G. K. Chesterton, Joseph Conrad, Lytton Strachey, D. HT. Lawvrence, Aldous Hlux Iey, etc. Maurois considers at the open ing of the 20th century "Wells and seems to think. In fact, it may even be a (let riment. At the risk of having you think me as much out of date as the small bottom trousers to wvhich you refer in another article, I venture to say that the chief need of the University, and of many other of our educational institutions, is a quickened sense of honor and a truer ap preciation of character. During the time I was at the University (then College) there were only about one seventh the number of students there now and the en tire appropriation wvas only about what is nowv given for wvorkmen, janitors and laborors, but unless I am greatly mis taken the emphasis placed on honor was much greater then than now. So ad ditional money has not improved the honor and character of the institution. The best information I can get on the subject leads me to think that sufficient emphasis is not placed on the honor sys tem. A year or twvo ago I came on this jewel in The Gamecock. "Together we pass, divided we flunk The honor system is merely bunk." Did I not knowv it was merely a joke? Is the University then a place they joke about honor? It has been my experience that men wvho joke about honor and wvomen who joke about virtue have not had much of either one. I will tell you of another one of our inst itut ions, to one of whose alumni I said that I had been impressed by the fact that the alumni of his institution were nearly always manly and courageous men who had a real sense of honor and knew when to stand up and fight. Tie answered that in his day they were because they had a real honor system there then, but since that time, on a notable occasion, the students hadeled at, one of teir Camera RIDES HIS B1r 40 MILES A DAY . HER?S CHAR.E'S SCHEDULE 4 AM. -& A M. FARM CHORES b A.M. RIDE OKYCLE 'O SO100L 20 MiLES OVER GRAVEL ROAlS 8 A.M.-5P.M. A11END CAS S . 3 P.M. RIDE DMK HOME. 5 P.M. -7 PM. FARM CHORES 7 P.M.-9 P.M. STuDY. 9 P.M. AND WW TO BED (91A -C P. BRTHER- PREStDENTS DR GEORG0E M. SMMf4 IS PREXY AT SUSQUEHANA UNIVERSITY WHILE HIS BRTHER, CHARLES J SMITH IS PRESIDENT OF ROAhlOKE COLLEGE NIVERSITY LIBRARY dlla Same Shaw as modern, Kipling is the everlast ing, Chesterton the anti-modern. This is a useful function." The Rise of Modern Europe series of different periods from 1852-1871 edited by Professor William Langer of Har vard University are written by the high est American historical authorities on that intensely interesting period of Euro pean developneni ;a different forms of modern government. Four of these vol umes have been issued already and are receiving high praise by critics. Dr. Weinfeld of the Department ofZ-Iistory at the University of South Carolina says there have been no finer historical se ries issued in a long time or more in teresting. The first volume, which was the fourth to be published, in January 1936, is called "The Dawn of a New Era" and is written by a dean of the historical profession in America and a scholar well known by his previous writ ings, Professor Edward P. Cheyney of the University of Pennsylvania. This covers the field in a summary of the original causes of transition before the period covering the historical series. The second volume, published this year too, is really volume XIV and is on "Reac tion and Revolution," by Frederick B. Artz, Professor of Oberlin College, which of course is mainly about the causes of the French Revolution, the next volume published also in 1936 was volume XVI, 1852-1871, "Realism and Nationalism" by Rohert C. Binkley, Professor of Western Reserve University. The earliest of this series, published in 1934, was volume XII andl called "A Decade of -Revolution," (French) and is by Pro fessor Crane B3rinton of Hlarvard University. number for a breach of the honor sys temn, but that said student had political connections and the powvers that be had reinstated him, whereupon the students had abolished the honor systenm and since then there had beetn none. Oh, the pity of it!I \Ve have little chance of getting the money your senior referred to, even if it would make the University shine as a jewel, but we can make of your Uni versity and mine a place wvhere honor and( chtaracter have their proper places, and if we do it wvill shitne as a jewel. in fact, we are told by some of thte wisest of men that these things flourish best ini lowly poverty and modest surround intgs and that they dwell not in thte halls of Mammonts. At any rate, I feel sure the University ntay have all that is best in college life withtout more money than site has. There is nothing very difficult about having an honor system. If your stu dentts wvill get together and decide that they want a University of honor and hgigh ideals and character, they can have it. We who htave been out in the world very long know that no success that is worth a whtoop comes without honor and character, and we also know that most of what is learnedl in college is sootn forgotten and if the studlents don't get the fundlamenttals of htonor and character, thtey have lost the best in their college career. The students at the University of South Carolina in thtis year of 1936 have a rare opportunlity to serve their Col lege and State--Will they take advantage of it? Yours very truly, R. BEVERLY HRBERT.