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The Gamecock Founded January 30, 1908 ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZAL., First Editor Published weekly by the Literary Societies of the University of South Caroline 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 1936 Member 1937 Distributors of Colle6ide Di6est Sole and Exclusive National Advertising Representatives NATIONAL ADVERIITSING SERVICE, Inc. 420 Madison Avenue, New York City Chicago-Boston--San Francisco-Los Angeles-Portland-Seattle EXECUTIVE BOARD HUNT GRAHAM---- ---- - - - - - - Editor RAY BARGERON - - - - - - - - Business Manager FRANCIS WILLIAMS - - - - - - - Managing Editor DEPARTMENT HEADS Harold Prince, Sports editor; Marybelle Iiiggins, Society editor; Mae Andrews, Co-ed editor; Sam Cleland, Circulation Manager. ASSOCIATES Shannon Miims, Don Causey, lIal Tribble, Ed Harter and Vivian Tomas, associate editors; St. Clair Muckenfss, Crawford White, and Charles Lee, associate managing editors; Tom Willis and Bill Brockington, associate circulation managers; Felix Green and J. M. Polattie, associate business managers. STAFF WRITERS W. L. IAmb, J. O. Willis, Grace Toney, Jimmie Thomas and R. F. Lindsay. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1936 Unsung Aces With the Gamecock football team rising up in its wrath and compelling the respect of every op ponent so far this season, the student body and players realize more and more that good publicity is our team's greatest need. Even a cursory perusal of any sporting page in a South Carolina daily will reveal that many col lege teams and players of no more merit than our own Gamecocks are having their name thrown be fore the football public so constantly that the av erage football fan has a fair chance to be more in timate with the personnel of teams in distant states than they are with the home town boys. Con sider Duke-every time a Duke player gets a new pair of shoe laces it's hot news the next morning in papers all over the South. If Wallace Wade happens to cock an eye skyward and predict a light dew for the next morning, it warrants a streamer on the sports page of every paper ir South Carolina. It might be asked, with some justification, if all this helps a team to win ball games. Possibly not but it does help the paying customers form ar opinion that this or that team or player cannot be surpassed, and creates within the fan a desire t< see his hero in action, wherefore he travels unbe lievable distances to get a personal squint at th( demon man or team on the playing field. All of which means good hard cash in the box office. TJhis year Carolina is putting oumt a first clasi football teamf, and should be getting first class pub licity. The names of player-s like Gaffney, Clry Dearth and Johnson should be as familiar to th< fan in Frog Hollow as Ace Par-ker or any othel sattelite in Duke's firmament. The great F~oots Dickerson looked like a kindergarten p)rospecl against Ed Clary Saturday; and though many wil consider this blasphemy, Ace Parker was also out kicked by our own Ed. Tile pass fr-om Clary t< Dearth against V. P. I. was as neatly executed al any of the "big time" plays that hlave ever beer pulled in Columbia; Johnson's interception of thl V. P. I. pass was as pretty as anythinlg tile fni here have ever seen or ever will see. And what's done about it? Those twvo plays should have beer the sole topic at breakfast next morning in ever-y home in South Carolina; pictures of these mei should have been in papers in at least three states In all probability there are very few people out. side of Columbia who heard anything about th( game except the final score. Our coach has done a wonderful job in finall3 developing a team that can hold its own with th( best in the south, and lick most of them in a walk What he needs now is for the people of the souti: to realize that Carolina has graduated from the pushover class, that A Number 1 football is being played by the Gamecocks, and that the team hai a number of men who have made some of the south's best ball players look silly. When th< south wakes up to this fact, our stadium will be filled on more occasions than the Clemson gam< and we won't have to worry about the prosperity that stays just around the corner. It'll hit us right between the eyes. The Gamecock does not know what arrangements the Athletic Advisory Board makes to pro vide publicity, nor how much is paid, if any, for this purpose. But from the results now being ob tained, the sum must not be much more than a quarter-and even if it is but a quarter somebody' getting overpaid. We demand a refund-or better still-RE SULTS. We Are Proud The Gamecock staff is proud to present this edi tion, which, we believe, is the largest ever to be offered by a college in the State of South Carolina. The circulation of the issue is 4,000. I Drinking At Football Games This writer has not seen a single University of cha hal South Carolina student drinking or drunk at a football game this entire year! Yet, the Univer- the sity has a reputation all over the State for being yo the wettest place in the country. one Last year, an over-flow crowd of students as- Ch sembled in the chapel and resolved that they would cor she not imbide of intoxicating liquids at football Ha games this year, and furthermore would not en courage the practice. as This goes to show that when Carolina students of make up their minds to do a thing, they do it. - try As a result of this resolution, very few cases of drunkedness have been reported in the entire stands, and at some games as many as 10,000 spectators have crowded into the stadium. It would be impossible to keep every spectator at a football game sober, but a minimum has been set So bid this year. eat The Gamecock hopes and believes that this will be true at the close of the season. th the Line's Busy Ve Several weeks ago every telephone call that was er made through the University switch-board was tabulated and data was turned over to officials at "e the end of the week. d Well over 1,000 calls were not taken care of- to all out-side lines were busy at the time. Goodness knows how many calls from town were turned We down because of busy lines. sp By means of a little mathematics, one finds that Ca one call every five minutes cannot be handled, and the person making the call has to wait a few , minutes before he eani reach the person with whom he wishes to talk. tra Why could not a few more "out-side-lines'' be to installed so that students and faculty members is alike can get satisfactory telephone service? W bt Music Makers e Four nights each weak are taken by the Univer inde: sity band and symphony orchestra for practice in a the University chapel. It is imperative that these organizations practice at least this much to offer good music to the public when concerts are given. Numerous complaints have been received at The Gamecock office about the noise that the two musi- U cal organizations make. Some students declare that it is impossible to study or even talk over theM telephone while rehearsals are in progress. se The field house is not close to any dormitories, a Why could not these organizations do their practic- m ing there and eliminate the disturbance that is fo caused to all the tenements in Rutledge college? _________________th "You Should Have Known Better" Several years ago an elderly gentleman was walk ing across the grass in front of the library when" "Uncle Fruit," gardener for the University hap peCned by. ur "e,you. Get off the grass," yelled "Uncle fa il The elderly gentleman stopped, looked at the t gard(ener-, and snapped: "Do you know who I am?" 91 "No, and I don't carec." 1Wl, I am a professor at this institution." "If you are a professor you should have better ha sense than to w~alk on the grass." et That is "Uncle Fruit" all over. H-e doesn't care who you are, what you do, or what you intend si doing, provided you don't walk on the grass or i' pick at the shrubs. te Since he has been beautifying the grounds for ae the University many changes have been made. s Shrubs have been planted around all the buildings on the University's 46 acres and grass has been planted in places that needed it.m No matter what time of day one may happen by, one can see the old man directing several ne- CC groes in the planting of grass, shrubs or trimming tr-ees. He has done very good work. w And so, students, the next time you start to walk d across the grass, think of Uncle Fruit and the many hours he has spent beautifying the grounds. se Then, take one of the paved walks. It won't take ti you a minute longer and it will make "Uncle Fruit" feel much better. i Preident Explains Petition Results, Editors Note: This statement ras read by President J. Rion IcKissick at chapel' recently. tecently, a petition for certain inges at the Steward's Hall, or mess I for men, was read at chapel. n order that you may understand situation clearly, let me say this to fter the new administration began, of the first things which Dean ase, who is business manager, and I isidered was that arrangement >uld be made about the Steward's 11 and the Woman's Cafeteria. Ne had two courses open to us: 1) We could let them be operated they were last year, without change any sort. 2) We could do what we could to to improve conditions at both ces. Ne decided to do the latter. 3oth of us heard complaints last ir and previously. What did we do last summer? Ne advertised in the three largest uth Carolina. daily newspapers for Is for the operation of either or both :ing places. We received no bid for the operation the Woman's Cafeteria which met _ requirements we had set forth. We, therefore, decided that the Uni rsity itself would again have to op- y ite the Woman's Cafeteria this year A md this is what is being done. B 1'he only bid for the operation of the F :n's mess hall which met our con- H ions was that of Messrs. Evans and F ighes-and the lease was awarded H them.for :one year. A Let us take up the petition read here. The first change requested is that provide a competent dietician re onsible only to the Committee on feterias. We cannot do this because the lease B is signed last summer and we have F power to change it. I Even if we could change the con- A ict, the University could not afford pay a dietician a considerable salary A rely to plan menus. The University 1 operating on insufficient funds and shall have difficulty in making ckle and tongue meet. Moreover, w: believe that under the v Lse we shall be able to exercise such - pervision over menus as will ren- V r employment of a dietician unneces ry. The second change requested is that require the management of the en's mess hall to give us a weekly c port of daily menus. p i We provided for this long before the t aiversity opened. One of the stipulations in the lease the mess hall is that the lessees, essrs. Evans and Hughes, "agree to rye menus subject to the approval of designated faculty committee, said enus to be submitted to the said com ittee Saturday morning of each week r the ensuing week's meals.,," The third change requested is that ere be a regular unannounced in ection of food served at the mien's ess hall.a The members of the Faculty Coin ttee on Cafeterias recently adopted e.following policy: "The committee will recommend and ge that members of the University a culty and the members of their fami s take meals at the cafeterias from I ne to time."a d Messrs. Hughes and Evans have ex essed the wish that we do this. a This policy will be carried out. Some members of the committee f ye already had meals at the mess 11. In rotation, each member of the mmittee will take several meals at c e mess hall every week. c Before the opening of the Univer- , :y, Doctor Heyward arranged for riodical inspections of both cafe rias by the city health department, ~ *d gave a physical examination to ~ cry person cooking, handling and rving food in the mess hall. g The fourth change requested is re- v. oval of regulations requiring fresh- I en living on the campus to take their eals at the mess hall. This administration dislikes this s mpulsory. feature. c When we advertised for bids last a miner, we asked for bids which 3uld not require freshmen to eat at l e mess hall, but-no one would make tl bid of this sort. tl Nothing can be done about It this ' ssion, for it is agreed in the contract at the requirement as to freshmen to be continued this year. All that I can say is that this admin- n ration hops t eliinate t.:. p. Campui mA.C.P. GIRLS WHO ATTEND ED WHEAON COLL- WERE - E6E 100 YEARS MEA5U AG0 WERE RaIUIREb OF 65 'O RERMK IN CHAPEL CHEESI .,ON TNEIR NENDIN6 uuxl AND DARNING! WE KEEP GUESSING By Charles E. David, Jr. ou fly into your ten-e-ment nd swear that you will study, ut there you find some funny gent ifth cousin to your buddy; e says his name is so-and-so rom way out in Virginia; e switches on the radio nd then he will continue: What kind 'o cigarettes you smoke As if it really mattered!) [e takes your pack (and you me broke!) id then the ducks are scattered. ou wish to study history ut there's no way to do it; e tells the latest mystery hat's bunk with more bunk to it; ,t twelve o'clock your room-m; comes nd finds his cousin waitin'; le quietly comes to you and but two bits, and they go datin'; hey leave you broke (but happy), a ou grab that history lesson. Now, teachers, you can understa hat keeps us pupils guessin'!) ision next year and will do its 1 lost to that end. In order to make sure that the agr< lents in the lease are enforced, sevei reeks ago I appointed a new facu' ommittee on cafeterias. You ha roof of the interest of this administi on in the mess hall problem in t ict that this is the first faculty co iittee I have appointed. The members of this committee a' )r. J. A. Stoddard, chairman; De rney R. Childs; Mr. R. G. Bell; I E. Copenhaver; Dr. N. BI. Heywas am an ex-officio nmemb)er. De hase has met with us at the comm :e's request. Let me assure you that the membl f this committee are deeply interest isecuring the best possible conditic the mess hall. The committee has met three tim ts sessions have averaged two hot achI. If you had l)een at these mieetin nd heard the discussion, you wot e completely convinced that the mei ers of this committee mean busin< nid that they are keenly desirous oing all in their power to help you Let me read you some of the polici dopted by this committee. (1) Regular meetings to be held equently as needed. A stated sche Ie to be fixed as soon as practicabli (2) All student requests, petitioi omplaints, and matters referred to ommittee by the respective manag< ,ill receive the promptest and fair, ossible consideration. (3) The committee will require< asional health and sanitary inspecti f the cafeterias. (4) Any person or persons not sat ed with the action of the commiti till have the right to appeal to t 'resident of the University. At the committee's request, Mess ~vans and Hughes have attended t' essions of the committee. We have d ussed fully with then' such complaim s have reached us. I have already announced that I olicy of this administration towa le students of this University in evei ~ung is simply this: a square deal. 'il do my very best to carry out tU ohicy. J. RION McKISSIC Colgate University Faculty held iodel national Republican convention entty. 3 Camera ."~ 1' - I " CO-ED (IEERLEAIERS OF SANTA BARBARA ST COU.E PRESENTED WrM THIS MAMOUM HAMBUIlER MiNG 52. INCHES IN DIAMETER IT CONSISTED POUNDS OF GRUND STEAK 15 POUNDS OF IL GALLON OF MAYONNMS5 3 QUARTS OF 2 POUNDS OF SALT +4 POUNb OF PEPPER. AND 8 HEADS O.EflUCE! QUOTABLE QUOTES "I know of no way in which a semi ready preparedness can be developed with less militarizing effect than when it is mixed with all the forces of a curriculum on a university campus." The Uiversity of Rochester's Chan. cellor C. W. Flint makes his defense of the R. O. T. C. system. "No patriotic teacher should object st to taking the oath of allegiance. It is an honor, not a reflection, upon char. acter. It does not carry with it in terference with the right of educators to determine the courses of study. Courses if study will be safe in the hands of loyal teachers." But the te D. A. R.'s Mrs. Willaia Becker for. gets that those who promote the oath also promote interference with studies, "If education is to realize its true nd goal it cannot confine itself to an ac ademic discussion of life-it must be nd conic a part of life itself. I believe ed ucation is making a great contribution t- to the solution of our difficulties. It is creating interest and stimulating dis cussion. Letting every man have his al say is the constitutional method of solving our problems. Why should ty we make teaching into a suspect pro ye fession by making our teachers take he a special oath?" The Republicans' Alf. M. Landon hands a question to "~ the D. A. R. -e: "Today's undergraduate is alert, sophis. an ticated, in-on-the-know, intelligent, clever, )r. cynical, sure. H1e is not burdened wvith 5 -d. sense of humor, lhe entertains self-pit,. an he thinks the world owes h.im a livin, it- lhe is understandably apprehensive, he is temptedl to drop his piece of meat for ~rs what he sees reflected in the water. He ed is not inclined to properly evaluate the nsnry in which he has played nopi neerm par. Hedoesnot believe in Santa Clause." Fannie Hurst panls the s' umdergradujate. irs "WVhat is your time worth? Includingi gs the cost of your tuition, loss of labor, Id contributions through the college, and ni.. other items, your time in college costs ss about $1.50 an hour. You should haYe of this fact in your minds throughout tN four years." Renssalaer Polytechnic IA' es siuesPresident Hotchkiss informs the freshmen. as "I could stand in the middle of the d- town common and shout 'Roosevelt Is 5 -conqueror' or 'Landon is a fool,' and I is, would scarcely be noticed. Could sucir* he thing happen anywhere in Europe? It rs is blasphemy for this country to spk ~st of its having a dictatorial governmeet You simply don't know what dictatorslil tc- means." Dr. Karl I..oewenstein, visitIef on Professor of Comparative Governmeft and Jurisprudence at Amherst Coll is- pays tribute to American goverinmenlt O4 ee today. he ""AT CLSMONol JUST ACT NATURAL rs. Tere's By Charles E. Dayid, Jr. vTeesa big day to come is- When the band will be played And the Freshmen will join its In a shirt-tail parade; When to some it will seem he Just a down-right disgrace, rd But a smile will be drawn y- On some countryman's face. I With their pants rolled up high at And they're all free to abhout In a countryman'a voIce K. WVhen this: nhirt-tails are out, There'll be some who will blush a 'Neath the capitol's dome -e- But the most of those boys Will be feeling at hm.