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The Gamecock Founded January 30, 1908 ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZAL-ES, 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, S. 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 Rssociated Cole6iate Press Distributor of Colle6iate Dieest Sole and Exclusive National Advertising Itepresentatives NATIONAI, ADVEIRTISINel SERVICE, Inc. 420 Madison Avenue, New York City Chicago-Boston-San Francisco-i.os Angeles-Portland-Seattle EXECUTIVE RO.'RD MILES ELLIoTT - - - - - - - - - - - Editor t ATHEBTON WHALr,E BrasIless Mianager HUNT GRAHAM - - - - - - - - Managing Editor )1l''ARTMi-:NT II-:ADS Francis Williams, Sports editor; Katherine Taylor, Society editor; Helen Cooper, Co-Ei editor; Fred Ellis, Circulation Manager. ASSOCIATES t Jack Killea, Shannon Miins, Eleanior Wiedeman, Jantes Lynch, T. T. Moore, May Andrews, and Don Causey, associate editors; Ed Harter an Francis Williams, associate mauiaging editors; Ray Hargeron, Albert Douglas. Felix Green, and J. M. 'olattie, assistant business managers; Sam Cleland, Tom 1 Wilis, anid Hill it ockington, associate circulation j managers. sTA:FF wlltrElIs Polly Pendileton, Crawford White, Vivian Isonas, Marybelle Higgins, St. Clair Muckenfuss, W. L. Lamb, C'harles Lee, James O. Willis, and Grace Toney; Haroldl Prince, Jianmie 'T'homams, S. 11. Bass, and R. F. Lindsay, sports writers. IFRI)AY FEIUARY 28, 1936 The Faculty Takes A Hand Of far greater importance thani the recent sis pension of foilr students by the colllcil is the fact that the facilty, alumni, and student body have arrived at the conclusion that ll is not as it shoul be with our present lonor system. A joint meeting of the faculty and student coun cil has resulted in a faculty committee being up pointed to investigate the weaknesses of the sys tem11 as it is nIow. Just what this committee will report, what evils it will uncover. what informa tion will be placed before the facilty at the next meeting, will determine the position of the pres ent honor system as far as the faculty is concerned. Thus the committee will have the unenviable power of keeping, discarding, or modifying tile present regime. The work will take a vast amount of tact and patience. Nothing will be accoml plished if this group goes about its business with no more acum111en1 anld determination than the lsual committee. If the faculty is to learn what the students already know about cheating at Caro lina, the professors have a job onl their hands, and whoever they delegate to acquire the desired in- t formation will have to combine the powers of Sherlock Hlolmels and1( Bentjain Franklin. The investigation should be of vital interest to every student ill the University. Suppose the fac- f ulty finds that the 11o11or system is in truth a dis credit to the University. Whalit thilen? WVi1l tile professors wanIt to thlrow the whole thling out anid start proctorinlg? Will they give tile studoenlt body another clhnce? WVill tihey find that somec classes are not cheating, and1( malke tile hIonor systeml op tional in those, anld nlot allow it inl othler sectionls ?t Perhaps the committee wvill fail to find anythinig to warrant an~y chlange at all. The Gamecock sinlcerely hlopes thalt tile faculty will soon know how serious mlatters are, andl oiler - to the students someI meanIls of bleginnming a neCw era in honesty and goodi feeling at Carolina. As for t the part tihe stud(ents nmust play, if the faculty is going to all this trouIble to perfect something that only the students use, the stud(enlts will have to do their bit by chlanging thirl attitulte of ind(iffer'ence I to one of kceenl interest. T1he laculty mnighlt find1 out thalt cheating dloe.s exist, but iln the final analy sis it is uip to tile students to stamp1 it out. They are the judges, julries, and1( ab)ove all, tile prose cultors. If they are to keep tis p)rivile'ge, tile stu dents must prove thlemselves wvorthly of dleservinlg it. The present attitude does not warrant any suichi privilege being granted.] If the attitud(e does not chlange, if thle stuldentsi do not show themselves worthy of being treated i like respectable hunmans, then we cannot bilamne tile faculty if it shlold recommend a police system, and fight fire with fire. College Baseball Tile recent annoulncement by Georgia Tech thlat baseball would b)e discontinued there for this sea son at least has started a number of fans to won dering what this means. Has college baseball come to the place where it can no longer be classed C as a major sport? For several years football has been furnishing the money for baseball, not only in the souIth, but in practically all the colleges in America. But there have always been enough interest every year for most schools to put out a team of some de scription. The old timers insist that they were I often thrashed for playing baseball when they should have been working, but this made little dif- : ference. They seldom saw a. real ball-.mo s of heir games were played with home made equ nent that the modern youth would sneeze at. :ommunity would have one bat from a facto )ut this was used only on special occasions. '1 )rdinary game was played with a limb from lickory or willow tree, with the catcher havi he only mit on the team, and in many instan wen he was dependent on his cap. If these n lad been given all the equipment owned by. iverage college team, they never would hi topped playing. The college game might be slow, but the men he team (or at least 99 out of 100) are going -ollege for an education and playing baseball i pleasant recreation. How many football players can say this? --..... Money Situation In an effort to' put professors' salaries witl houting distance of the pre-depression scale, a o obtain funds for repairs and other .urgent im ers, the Senate Finance Committee was V )roachel 'ITuesday by a lelegation asking that I he aplpropriation be raised to approximat< 276,000 for next year. )r. Baker's report to the senate shows how ba< he University needs this money. I-lad it not be or the loyalty of our professors, the faculty wot ave degenerated during the last few years, 1: ortutnately this has not yet happened. It is t mell to expect these men to go on many m< ears at the present standard of pay. While t >rices of everything else have reached or go hove the depression level, theyl have worked steu Iy for nothing like the former salaries, and ex f the moneV asked for is granted the scale w till be ten per cent lower than it was before '29. )r. Baker points out that many of our clas; re too large. that the ratio of students to prof )rs is "considerably above the standard." T mloke stacks in the heating plant are in terril uundition; anlvone who has seen a stack fall kino dhat this will mean if it happens. The senate was shown in the report that it etting a "two million dollar plant" go to wa or the lack of a. few thousand dollars. It tal o economist to see that this is had business. Wh ve begin losing the best of the state's college ii erial because of lack of money to keep up the li ating we have now, it will take years to reco rom the blow. Like Rome, such things as : redited standini and zool reimtation are r iuilt. in a dar. The University can be save(l from this conditi f the senate will come through with the ca: l'he demand is not excessive; the state can w iord to spend the money if it so desires. he request is granted, every Carolina student a acuity iiemb'er will feel that the legislature 1i lie interest of the University at heart, and oing all it can to keep it on the top of the stat< duicational system. Every member of the fr lty may truthfully say "I have fought a go ght; I have kept the faith." The rest is i c the senate. All we can do is wait-and hope. - I. s.c. WanttedA Couple Of Beowulfs A c'o-ed wvith eyes spouting fire crashed in "he (;umeck~/. office last week, wreckinig the on ible in the estalishmnenit in heri haste. "Why~ in the name of so and so andl so," 5 tormed, "do we have to play tennis on courts tli r'e more like Tarzan's jungle than anything els knybody that can't swing from vine to vine li young chimpanzee stands a good chanice of g ig his neck cracked just walking up to the n C'ou might as well try to run through a machi rmun nest. Some of the courts have rocks oni >ig enough to use for anchors on steamships, a he grass on some is high enough to hide a gira ieek and all." After half an hour of soothing, we learned tI vhat the young lady meant is the tennis con ire not on a par with those at Wimbledon. 'I ndhigniant co-ed was told as gently as possible tI is ye CTe amwcock had not been given chai >f earing for the courts, and the staff wa.s more ess at a loss about what to do. A couple of frei neni rehporter's dlropp)ed in, and seeing that tI 'might be expectedh to take a hand, casually dropp mi t. IIere is an uniexp)ectedl danger. Who knows wI ierce tribes of cannibals might be lurking in t.h lense woods in our very midst? What would < egislature think if on somne dark night a w enement was wiped out, with nothing left buli >unch of empty rooms, with every occupi slutched in the grasp of somne hideous monst mdl carried to the fearsome lairs of these ten ourt ghouls? And with no Samson among us oll away the stones that block the openings heir dens, we would be forced to give ump hope: hose innocent victims of the invaders. Let this be a warning to all who live beside th lismal haunts. Walk not in their vicinity af iight has fallen, nor stray too closely in the i ime, lest some monster drag you to his pit. What we are trying to get across is that spri .s here, and all the lads and lassies wish to p: ennis. and the courta need a bit of brushing u. ip Ticker Tape 'he By TRIBBLE a ng es (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) goes vive-la-france-ified and swing along the boulevard with his hat a an a jaunty angle and a cane under hi te arm in the best Maurice Chevalier ish fashion. His mannerisms are s on obviously affected that they probabi to aren't. Students like him immense! or And he agrees with them. His maj or nificent obsession is the-third-persor singular-reflexive-pronoun, but he all there.... take it from him! Storyette Out of the little red book comes the tale of a lass and a lad who ill loved and lost in a college romance nd that might have ended with rice tt- and old shoes, but didn't. He was the sort of guy who ex pects his women to play the game by the. 1894 rule-books. She was as modern as tomorrow's head ache. Somehow they got around 11y to the true-to-you-only stage, enl when the depression temporarily .(1 ended his college career and forced him to return to his home town it while the gal remained in school. O Much glue was licked from re postage stamps as the two kept le tie flame aglow. She promised to remain as true as a split-second stop-watch in a sealed glass case ....so he was satisfied. en1 By 'n by he got a break in the ill form of a better-than-average po sition and bought the band of gold which was to make them one. Thinking to surprise her, he breezed into town unannounced lie one day. But Elaine, alas, wasn't >AV in. Out of town; her sorority sis ws ters said. A friend convinced him that the is only thing to do was to find sur cease from sorrow in a drink and te a date.... maybe more. Fixing 1' him up was a matter of seconds eni as the friend called a gal and asked ti- her to find a hot number for his :-li pal who had Just come to town. The hotter, he said, the better. Your guess is correct. The hot IC- number turned up as the forever ot faithful filly who had iust returned from a visit home and was raring for action. The flame faded like i a two-bit shirt in the weekly wash. She's still trying to catch bouquets ell thrown by other brides. He's the If father of twins! lcl Averse as we are to printing p rpl personal piffle, this one ran smac into us. Is seems that Professor Kil patrick, of the French Departmen c- had a five o'clock date on the corne 'Xd of Main and Hampton. - Came th hour .... and the professor, looking lik a page out of Esquire at a sprin flower show. Passed fifteen, snai: like, sixty-second minutes, and hi ady-love hadl not put in an appearanc< The professor fumed. He was ma toas a misanthrope in a subway. It wa disgusting! Like a mighty warrior, h1 girdled up his loins... .and waited. An everything caime, as everything come, he |Life began at 5:50 with the toot of th atlady's horn and a smile of the lady -u. a. b. ke |Open Forum bjlEditor of The Gannecock: D)ea r Sir: An editorial entitle 1("Slow Dowvn" appeared in the Febrt ary 21, issue of Thme Gammeock. It my opinion that such an article shoul tnot be allowed to Pass unconteste< sIt is not my purpose to enter int a prolonged debate or to issue a scati ing proclamation in reply. I do wai itat briefly as possible, show that the cor ge text of this discussion is unjust an or grossly in error. ,sh- I am motivated in wvriting this be cause I realize the prob)able harm th; may result from this criticism-bot on the campus and ab)roadl. The Gan< cock has taken a few basic facts an iat expoulnded them into an over-genera ized and sarcastically-written evahi atuon of the parts played by honorar organizations on this campus. If DIe believedl that no one would accept tl: a implications made in this editorial, tnlt would not reply. But it seems th: er niany human beings, largely becauw of jealousy, delight in seeing an ei position of the short-comings of othei to and therefore are prone to accept an to even exagg'erate the content of suc for expositions, with too little regard ft the authenticity of the same. e Destructive criticism tends to aul ,ment existing evils instead of alley rate them. If The Gamecock wishes I -point out defects in the organizatior on our campus, it should do so in ngmanner that would incite enthusias1 ngfor reforms. I admit that this woul Lybe quite a reform for The Gamecot itself, but that is in part wats :..a.i Lt sa o - y A PNI GwmAA t>TA PIN, LOST IN WORCESTER. MASS. WAS FOUND 18 'NE-ARS LATR AND REWRNED TO IT'S OWNER, VAN. C. GLENNON,(WIS.'09). WH4O LIVES IN CNICAGO! Or .....\/... WHAT'S WHAT IN 1 By C "Discovery, The story of the secoi Byrd Antarctic Expedition" by Admir Richard Evelyn Byrd, published la in 1935, by Putnams, with an intr, duction by Claude A. Swanson, Se retary of the Navy. This is a great a tobiography for never has Admiral Byi shown himself finer as a leader by e. treme modesty and unselfish praise 4 all his comrades. He took upon himse the hardest task of all and how terrib he suffered is for the first time shov in a photograph after he had been taki hack to Little America. Just recent "Little America" saved Ellsworth tl fine Antarctic Aviator," by its shelter at warmth. Admiral Byrd says in a r cent interview that this winter in til northern States has been as cold as was some days down on the Sou Pole. We would rather read his e periences than experience them ou selves. "Afan the I rnknown" by Dr. Alex Carrel published last Fall, 1835, by Ha per's is another autobiographic book well as a great scientific and psycholog study of all men and in all times. I writes in the first person, but like A, miral Byrd he is too modest to let tl world know that he stands at the t< notch in the whole world of medicine ai is the head of the great Rockefell Foundation in Newv York and was ma< a Nobel Prize Winner more than twven years ago. lie brilliantly discusses t need of a better knowledge of man, t1 science of, his body and Psychologic Activities, the individual, and the r S by "Crowing for a Greater Carolina Th'Ie organization in which I am: S. K. This fraternity should be of i terest to everyone because it w. founded for the direct benefit of ti University as a whole, at a time wh< d school spirit was at its lowest el (1927). s You have given us credit for buill d ing the sidewvalks and raising mon< I. for the swimming pool but impli< o that we have done nothing else. -the members of K. S. K. desired *t boast of our past accomplishments v could point out many constructive a d tivities. K. S. K. has played by far the mo important part in trying to mal *t freshmen want to wear caps whi h other students on the campus gave 1 .too little support. Such traditions; d street parades, Clemson fires, and bar -foot day have been kept alive 1 .K. S. K. in recent years. y When K. S. K. was founded, v I had to organize cheering at footh)s e games and engagedl in numerous a I tivities in a continuous effort to mal Lt the students of the University fe e the need of giving their full suppo -to the progress of our school. Tl 's members of the University admini d tration and civic clubs often call < h us to render some incidental servit ir which we gladly do if possible. For several years K. S. K. has aidi :- conspicuously in creating campus e i- thusiasm for our football teams I o such activities as printing sticker's, a; .s itation for better seats at fooths a games, agitation for free admission n 'the Clemson game, operation of ti d Gridgraph, bearing expenses of broa, k casting football games, and bringir it about better relati... betwee t Camera ,wE'aE aust LIKR.MTtATS ta0MM t rs/ DR. L.J. COOKS% ASSISTANT DIRECl0R OF A11 LETICS AT 1i U. OF MUN4ES0A PAS BEEN PALS W1M HIS RpOMIE 'P ) "OSCAR" FOR 38 YEARS / ~., m*A.C.P. JNIVERSITY LIBRARY imila Sams id making of Man. I-e writes in his pref al ace that his aim is "to describe the te known, and to separate it clearly from the plausible. Also to recognize the ex istence of the unknown and the unknow C- able." Yet all this is written so simply u- and clearly that it has reached the masses -d of readers and already it has become one K- of the "best sellers" in the United States. ) The Herald Tribune of New York says if this in its weekly Books section, which, by y the way, prints weekly a most reliable ,n list compiled. from the sales of about six ty of the best book-stores in the big ly cities of the most popular of the new e books. id William Langer, of Harvard and the e- editor of the above series on Moder'n .e Europe has written a fine history him it self which was published in 1935 in two th volumes by Alfred Knopf thru the Bu rcau of International Research of Har r- vard University and Radcliffe College and called "The Diplomacy of Imperia is lism," 1890-1902. These histories of r- Modern Europe are written in the modern is style and from the people's and for the ic people's point of view. le The latest volume of the best of its I- kind, the XVIII volume of The Ameri ie can Dictionary of Biography which has >p just beeni put on the shelves, has several ad wvell known South Carolinians included er and their life sketches are written by such le authorities as Francis Butler Simpkins ty of Edgefield, who writes on Benjamin ie Ryan Tillman and William Henry Tres e cot. The sketch on Henry Timrod, is al written by Armistead Churchill Gordon, e- Jr., is also very good. ." Universit.v and the Orangeburg County at Fair Association. (- K. S. K. does not claim full credit 'for the construction of the sidewalks s~ because almost all organizations on eC the campus contributed to the cause. n~ But, under the active leadership of b Dr. Havilah Babcock, our members did a large p)art of the manual labor 1- involved. Y Nowy that we have raised $1500.00 for the swimming poo01, we do not expect or want "ten years of relax to ation." Our wvork on the swimming re pool is not yet complete and we are e- already making plans for this year's beauty pageant in an effort to perfect st the system we instigated two (2) te years ago. We have undertaken the le momentous task of devising a scheme as of election of our May Queen that is will please the largest number of stu e- dlents p)ossible. 7y K. S. K. has done many things that I cannot mention here for three def re inite reasonls: (1) We do not prac 11 tice boasting of ourselves because we C- are working for the University as a te whole. We only try to protect our el selves against false opinions and mis rt leading statements; (2) Many of our ae services are necessarily secret; and 5- (3) space does not permit me to ex mn pound any fturther. :e I write this communication so that those who may come under the in d fluence of your carelessly written na- commentary will realize that after all, >y there are some organizations on this ~-campus that still fill a definite need. LII I am not going to take the time to to say anything about other honorary ae organizationsg; I merely try to protect :i- the honor and dignity of Kappa Sigma ig Kappa honorary service fraternity. Ie C'harles TL. Stu.k.y.