Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The Gamecock , , a it Founded January 30, 1908 n1 ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Editor e i Published weekly by the Literary Societies of the University of South Carolina during the college year except during examinations and holidays CI Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Columbia. S. C., i 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 1 issociated Collegiate Press g Distributor of Colle6iate Digest Sole and Exclusive National Advertising Representatives NATIONAL ADVERTISINO SERVICE, Inc. 420 Madison Avenue. New York City Chicago-Boston-San Francisco-Los Angeles-Portland-Seattle I EXECUTIVE BOARD HUNT GRAHAM - - - - - - - - - - -- - Editor d RAY BARGF.RON - - - - - - - - BI3usinCss Manager 1 FRAxcis WILLIAMS - - - - - - - Managing Editor t DEPARTMENT HEADS Ilarold Prince, Sports editor; !arybelie Higgins, Society editor; Mae Antirews, Co-ed editor; Sam Cleland, Circulation Mianager. V AssOCiArES t Shannon Mims. Don Causey, HaIl Tribble, Ed Harter and Vivian Tomas, associate editors; St. Chair Muckenfuss, Crawford White, and Charles Iee, associate managing editors; Tomn Willis and Bill lHrockington, associate circulation managers; Felix (ireen and J. M. Polattie, associate business managers. STAFF VRITEtS W. L. Lamb, J. 0. Willis, Grace Toney, Jimmie Thomas and R. F. Lindsay. FRI)AY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1936 The Man Higher Up t It is interesting to note that with the arrival of t the football season the so-called "Grahal lan' o adopted by the Solltherl Conference seems to have t beel largely forgotten. Certainly, it is obvious t that it is being universally violated. There seems to be scarcely any pretence of an attempt to en force it. In every college in the circuit the paid athletes are blithly signing the purity p)ledge witil perfect assurance from all an(1 sunldry that the t pledge is a mere formality. This being so we should perhal)s deplore the t had faith of the idtlivilual atiliete. IHe has signed his Iame to anll untrue Statem11ent; he has inten tionally violated a code to which he is paying lip t service. But we find some difliculty in placing all the blame Upon the athlete. The primary blame 11 Iust rest upon the man higher up. The athlete sees the athletic authorities, the lea(ling merchants of leading towns anti tile outstallding ulunmtii of t the various institulltions all conniving to perpetrate a lie. He is an impressionable young 1a11n just out of high school and it is not unnatural that he should be influenced by the actions of the leaders t in his state and community. When lie is betrayed by the men to whom le would naturally look for J moral guidance lie should not he censored too strongly for his own slip. It is, on the other hand, difficult to relieve those responsible of any of their guilt. The authorities of the various institutions an(1 thIe alumni who purlchlase tile altletic teamIls are directly respon-I sible and cainnot evadie tile blame. Into tile lhnds of tile former hlas b)een lacedl tile work of edui catmig our youlng mnanhtood and1( young w'omanhloodl and into the hands of tile latter has b)een p)lacedi tile responsibility of settinlg themIl an examllple of eit izenship. How have tihey met thlis re'sp)onsibility? Trhey have attemp)tedI outwardly to accept ai plan ibut retain at tile samlie time secret reservations malIking their accep)tanle aI nulllity. Thley have told the althlete that tihese reserv'ations justify his vio lation of hlis wordi. These lealding citizens who are every daIy stressing tile need for moral character ar'e allowing the continuiation of a systemi destruc tive to such character. Tihey are dloing mnore thlan allow it, they are aiding it. Tile difficuilty is thalt the adloption of the Gra hamlf Plan was never sinicer'e oni tile part of tihe vII riouis institutions. At any rate it hlas resuiitedl in a tissule of l ies and a dlestruictioni of moral principlies. It shiouild either be enforced or abo0 lied. Whiie it remains ill force every merchlant or alu tmnus wiho contribuites to tile atihletic aIssociations of the various inst ituitions, every authority of t hose inIsti tuItions wh'io wvinks at tile openl violations of the. code is doing his b)it to destroy tile mnorai backbone upon whichi 0our civilization rests, Hie is aIiding and( ab1etting inl the training of men to equivocate. and1( evade aInd is sowing tile drlagon's teethl that may sonme (day raise a harvest to his own dlestruel tion. In hlis hands hlas b)een p)laced1 a truIst anti lie ~ has violated that truIst. This1 is allegedily a Chris-. tian country but we would do well to rememb)er that of all men the Pharasees alone receivedl tile ulnqulalified dlenulnciation of .Jesus Christ. Great principles are quuickest put into (disrepute by tile hypocrasy of those professing them. Hypocrasy C andl faisehlood have marked the shlort courseC of I tile Grahamn Plan.- Let that course remain short, or let this falsehood and hypocrasy he wipedl ouIt. d A question of principle is involvedl and the merits t or dlemerits of the plan itself have become less im- \~ portant than the need for a clear and honest as sertion by all involved as to the course that they e intend to follow. Socialistic Carolina? Last year the University of South Carolina wa -cused of being socialistic. This charge was mad tore than once by enemies of the institution wh )uld find nothing better with which to knock th fniversity. Be it understood here and now that The Gaine >ck is not upholding the principles of socialisn uit merely trying to explain the ignorance o arolina students to that form of government. As said before, the University has been cha.rge 'ith being socialistic. In an effort to see exactl ow many students were in favor of this form o overnIent, The Ganecock made a survey of st iors to see how many of them could give an ad unate dlefintitioni of the word. Of the first 25 seniors approached, only TW( OULI) (IVE A DEFINITION OF SOCIAL SM. Only FIVE COULI) GIVE ANYTIIIN( EAR WIIAT TII E WORI)D MEANS. Eightee id not know what socialism was, what the up olders stand for, and furthermore cared not wh hle whole thing was about. Observers may think that professors of the Un ersity are not doing their duty in failing to teac he students the different types of government. W lo not think so. We are sure that each and ever tudent has had an opportunity to grasp the meat ng of the word, but have found that they wet ot interested enough to remebll)er what it was a bout ! Therefore, The Gamecock defies those wit harged that the University as a whole is socialistic ot. only that, but we also defy those who conten hat a large minority of the students are sociali ically inclined. We are of the belief that perhap ne or two of the 1200 students enrolled mty hav 'n(lencies in that direct ion but that their effort J convert other students have been in vain. -U. R. 0. Joining A Fraternity Monday night approximately 125 of you wi -ather in the University chapel and place your fra L'rnity choices on a piece of paper. Some will ge ia the fraternity you choose. while some will hay D take "second choice." Before deciding the fraternity you wish to joir 'ou should take into consideration a number o hings. First among these is finances. Ilave you enoug money to join a fraternity? Actives htve tolc 'ott that. dues are only a few per month. Ask you elf and the members if this takes in everythin hat will have to be expended during the entir -ear. Have youm eniou gh to become in itiatedl? Wi ''o have enough finances to live as the other men e's (10? It is better that you dlecide these ques ions now instead of after you have become ledge. It will save you and the organization yo oin mnuchl embarrassment. In choosing the fraternity you want to joir ake into consideration the local and national rep tations of the group. Study the individual men e's of the orginization and ask yourself thes [utestions: Will I be happy hiving with thee aen ? What can they tetich me? Will they hel nie atlong educacmtional, social and religious lines V~ill I be ashamed to take any one of them int ity home ? D)on't be ini too big a hurtry to become p)ledIge< Puke your' time--you hatve lenbty of it. Try ain ee how the boys act w'hetn they are not puitting tI] v'el I known "prtessurme" on you. Be car'eful. Departmental Examinations Fot' the patst few~ year's it has been the cuistoi f differ'ent depaurtmnents ott the caimp)us to giv'e whli s ft'ierme "depar'tmentah examtinations." Qume ions for these examns tire arranigedl throutghi ti joir nieetmng of all pt'ofessot's antd instructors iti a give le'partmnent. F~or insftance, all thtose who teach Etnglishi wi ssemble imi a room and( w'rite outt appr'oximatel qu~estionis each andl the head of the departmer t'il chtoose wh'ich'l of these quetstions lhe thinl nost fair to students. There arte appt'oximately tetn dIiffem'ent teachlet n the Etnglishi depatmttent. It is only natturtal thi hey teaich diff'et'ently. Each one wvill stress di er'ent p)ointts, wh'lichi, unmdottbtedly he thinks mo! In tIhe case of ploetry, one professor mighit thin lhe rhythm is the tnost ipor'tant, while anotht nay think the theme to lbe p)iaamount. And so o t goes. One professor will say, "Look out ft lhe c'harac'ter's in a giv'en platy." Another will sa' Study the plot," etc. The Gamecock is of the opinion that itueE achi division of a cettin course is taught by ori ntviual, departmental exams are unfair. It is only logical that one p)rofessor wvill teac lifetently fr-otm another, mind it is to be assume limt one pr'ofessor wvill teach more than anothe VThy not, then, do away with this thing calle dhepartmnental examinations" and give each an very student an equal chance at muaking a decer 'ra(le? A Freshman's S Handbook By Betty Comstock 1 Either take no books at all to class or else carry an armful. Either pi procedure proves very effective with f a prof. If you take no books at all he thinks that his lectures are so con plete that books are unnecessary. If you carry an armful he decides he is making the course so stiff that you f have to get every textbook available on the subject. 2 Make a point of sleeping in class every now and then. The prof al ready knows he is teaching a bunch of deadheads but he likes to be re assured. This also gives him occa sion to talk for fifteen minutes on cor rect class attitudes. Since it takes the average professor fifteen minutes t to get started this cuts out a half hour. 3 It is considered good class ethics to turn the question on the professor once in a while. This gives him a e splendid opportunity to tell what HE thinks and after all, what are classes for? 4 It is exceedingly proper to mention 1 casually that the present course is considered the toughest on the campus. Also that you signed it up as a crip but have changed your mind since the first week. Never fails to get re sults. 5 s Speak deferentially to all men not e wearing freshmen caps. You may in clude a janitor or so by this procedure, s but it's worth the embarrassment. 6 Join a literary society and argue every point brought up, regardless. It may make you a bit unpopular in 1 some quarters but think of the pub licity. t7 Wear odd ties, and funnier shirts. e Although this is not the best route to sartorial perfection it is a quick way to become outstanding. -U. e. 0. Library News fI By Camili Cama Prosperity must be rapidly arriv ing both to the authors and the buy e ers of the enormously increased num bers of new books that have been pub lished-and sold-this summer. And the announcements by the publishers for this fall show that there will be it the biggest book crop both in qual tL ity and quantity of new books that the book world has yet seen. Indeed the whole of 19316, especially during the spring and summer, has been a record year for at least two of the three "R's", the readers and e writers. Perhaps the "Rithmitic" may be included also, for it will be used mcounting the profits made by pub P lishers and authors, and the loss to the ?pocket books of the purchasers of o these books. It is not only the li braries, either, that buy by the dozen or hundred copies the best selling nov ' els, for the crowd doesn't wait as the ii list of reserves is so long, but a wvhole e neighborhood or a large family at a time wvill join in to btuy them. This has frequently been the case in At lanta, the home of the greatest best seller, wvhere the great dlepartment store book shops cannot keep tip wvith the (demnand. This is the case all over n the country when it is this latest and tmost trenmendous best seller yet "Gone With The Wind" by Margaret Mitch elI, a Southern wvriter andl an Atlanta tone at that. Even the libraries in this fl city with many copies, including the University Library, and the b)ookstores cannot keep tip with the demand for this novel, which is already exceedling Anthony Adverse though still going istrong among the best sellers in the s New York Herald-Trib)une's boo0k list of last Sundlay. The leading 67 bookc stores in the United States report these Ssales weekly and all 67 reported "Gone SWith The Wind" as the "best seller". - This boo0k is almost as long as "An ;t thony Adverse," and length is strength evidlently with both these new authors. Certainly they bo0th have the power of keeping up the intense interest of 1' their readers thotigh one writes of n many countries and the other only rof Georgia. Souith Carolina is not to l)e outdone, however, for we have had two new novels published this fall already by a South Carolina authors and one, Dui e Bose Hleyward's "Lost Morning," is already among the best sellers list. irar and Rinehart) tels yfadrn Srbesadi h otiup-to-date r'. novel DuBlose Hleyward has yet writ rten, that of an artist who realizes be has sold his "love of the art" and who makes a brave new effort to regain himself and the art. Tfhis will be on the shelves of the Unive.it,y L..b.... _Camnpus LI*M W M A SOPHOMORE AT U..F SOull%ERN CAIFORNIA,1lED QUT FOR A PO5TION AS 1 i CHEERLEADER BUT WAS NOT ELECTED! f ......, Service Club Meets Wednesday At Y The Carolina Christian Service club held its initial meeting of the year Wed iesday night in Flinti lall. Bill Brockington, president of the or Ganization presided. I larper Welborn led the devotional and R. G. Bell, secretary of the Y.M.C.A. ;tressed tlhe program of the organization for the current year. "The organization is anxious to get new members, especially freshmen," Mr. Brockington announced. A prominent local speaker will address the club next Wednesday night and special music will ao. Malaria Causes Most Sickness Malaria is the most common sickness among University students at the present time, according to an announcement made by Mrs. Addie Madden, matron of the University Intirmary. The following students are at present confined, it was announced: Miss I lelen Shuler, Dan Pendarvis, Ernest If. Street, Frank Urban, and Irvin Granoff. --. B. o. very shortly and it has received verv high p)raise fronm the critics, especially by the New York Herald-Tribune weekly "Books" about a month ago. This fine -critical magazine is taken by the Library and can be seen any tinme in the current magazine room on the first floor to the left as one enters. The Sunday New York Times Book Review and the Saturday Reviewv are also there and shtouldl be contsulted wveekly. So also should the 1book re viewvs in UTe Nation, and in 'rThe New Republic and( also in the weekly Time, all to be found in thteir alphabetical place ott the shelves. The magazine "D)rama," and the "Photo-Play," best of their kintd, are there also and thteir criticisms are depend(ab)le. To returnt to our Sotuth Carolina ntov elists, Kathterine Ball Ripley, (dauigh ter of a former D)ean of Journalism of the University, is keeping up with her novelist htusbandl, Clenments Ripley itt novel writittg as shte has just htad publishted, by D)oubleday, Doran and Comnpatny, "Crowded House," whlicht Columbia's Modern Theatre --TOD JOE E. I FR~ANK McHUGH "SIX DAY B] MONDAY FREDRIO MARcH-0] "LES MISI WEDNEsD GUY KIBBEE--AL TOM B) "MARY JA] * THURsDAY CAROLEi LOMBARD "THE G.tAl RUSI 1N6 NOTE! SHIRLEY TEMPLES MRENTS HAVE ALREAIY PLANNED TO SEND HER TO THE UN'VERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IN a.0S ANLES, ii "ACP EDMUND LOWE ONCE ESTABLISNED A RECORD FOM 'HE P LE-RUN, AT SANTA CLARA U.. has already been praised for its truth. ful story of too much family. Both these novels are supposed to uje ('hnrleston for thelr mis en acn e. Mr, Ripley's picture was also in the same ssue of the New York Herald-Tribune, August 23, with a most favorable crit icism. Another book written by a South Carolinian and about an institution all South Carolinians are proud of as they were about the author who added to its glory when president of it, is "The Citadel," a history of it to the time the author, former president, Col. 0. J. Bond, died a year ago. It is a beauti fully written book that portrays the fine true spirit of its cadets as he hin+ self personitied it as a cadet and as the commanding officer. Make The Imperial Your Entertainment Headquarters IMPERIAL MON.-TUES. "Murder With Pictures" With Low AYRES-Gail PATRICK WED. ONLY "It's Love Again" With JESSE MATHEWS ROBERT YOUNG THUR.-FRI.-AT. "Little Miss Nobody" With JANE WITHERS Open at 11 for your convenience AY BROWN -MAXINE DOYLE [KE RIDER" TUESDAY IARLES LAUGHTON |RABLES" AY ONLY [NE MACMAHON ELOWN RE'S PAY" --PRIDAY -CHESTER MORRIS BRIDE"