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7e Gamecock Founded January,80, 1906 ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALE, First Editor ished week by the Literary Societies of the University of So-ath %rolina during the college year except during examinations and holidays ia second class matter at the postoffice at Columbia, S. o., November 20, 1908 3936 Member 1937 Disfributors of Cogi D16 REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING MY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MADISON Avu. NEW YORK. N.Y. CHICAOO - 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 Higgins, Society editor; Mae Andrews. Co-ed editor; Sam Cleland, Circulation Manager. ASSOCIATES Shannon Mims, Don Causey, Hal Tribble, Ed Harter and Vivian Tomas, associate editors; St. Clair Muckenfuss, 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. Lamb, J. O. Willis, Grace Toney, Jimmie Thomas and R. F. Lindsay. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1936 They Will Need It-You Will, Too By President J. Rion McKissick -Every candidate for an engineering degree at the famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology is required to take a thorough course in public speaking, Prof. James L. Tryon, director of ad missions in that institution, told the University chapter of the American Association of Univer sity Professors in his address Tuesday night. Vhny compel engineers to be truined to speak i Because"engineers have to appear before boards of directors, chambers of commerce, city ,councils, legislatures and other bodies to explain engineer ingprojct.s-and they cannot do tI effectively LSA~ vIL . % I L Aa'.~ay unless they know how to think and talk while they are on their feet. The demand for speechmaking is greater than it has ever been before because of the vast num ber of luncheon and service clubs and of organiza tions in general. Nowadays everybody is called on to, speak sooner or later. If a man or woman cannot deliver a public speech effectively, he or she is heavily handicapped. If you wish to make a good impression upon a group, an organization, or 'a community, often the easiest way to do it is by making an attractive specech. Trhe more training you have ' in speaking, the k-i ter you can speak. The ability to speak well has helped to speed :iunerable men and women on the roadl to success, Mloral: develop this ability by joining one of he iiversity literary societies and getting prac we and tiraining that you cannot get later. . u di~lion't, sooner or later you'll be sorr-y that I not avail yourself of such an opportunity. -0. 5. 0. Democracy Reigns ih the medium of The Literary D)igest * ricans were given a little inside (lope on be.t ehi-tions were coming ouIt. The only troul i:th thlis (lope was that it was not exactly .. , as c-an be seen by the returns. The fact that Landon (lid not carry his own .4ate is easily explained. In oirder to b)alance the budget, Landon reduced the wages of state school teachers in Kansas to $30 per month. Mr. Landon was fortunate to get as many votes in his own state as he did. Most prognostientors predlicted a Roosevelt vic tory but they did not expect such a landslide. The Iold Republican states in New England failed to give Landon the usual elephant support. The victory was a personal triumph for Roose velt. His personality and speaking ability vied with the money of the Republicans and he wahs victorious. His new deal withstood the attack of hundreds and thousands of critics. For a democratic form of government to exist there must be criticism, there must be attacks on the administration in power, and there must be lhard fought campaigns. Every person in the thiited State$ cannot be satisfied with the gov Snt. There must be opposition. It is cher .We have it. The majority of the people s.That is democracy. Hazing There is very little hazing on the University campus. In fact, we have only heard of one case during the entire semester, but that case was an extremely bad one. The practice of beating freshnien just because they are freshmen is inhuman, and those who par ticipate in this type of horse play are not wanted on the University campus. It is cave man stuff. The Gamecock frowns upon those who take part in, or allow, such actions. Usually, those upperclassmen who do the haz ing are the ones who were not good freshmen. They are the type who run from upperclassmien rather that do a favor for their seniors. At West Point there is no hazing. Of course, freshmen are required to run errands for upper classmen, and do silly things in rat meetings, but the frosh are not beaten. If a new man refuses to do the things he is requested to do, he is ostra cized from the rest of the cadets. No' one will speak to him, and he is made to feel like a plug dime. When such an action is taken against a cadet, he usually withdraws from the institution in a few weeks. It seems to The Gamecock that there is much more sport in having fun with freshmen than there is in beating them, which makes them dislike those who do the hazing. Freshmen do not mind being made the goat of a joke, but they do dislike being beaten. Wouldn't you? -U. U. 0. Silence Is Golden Perhaps the best example of good sportsman ship that has been shown in South Carolina in recent years was exhibited by Carolina students at the Citadel game in Orangeburg last Friday. A serious riot could have been started very easily had the Garnet and Black supporters seen fit to take offense to the act nulled off by The Citadel's cheer leaders. Just prior to the kick-off a pretty little bull clog and an ugly chicken were brought on the field. One cadet cheer leader held the chicken while the bull dog snapped at it. After a while, the dog was allowed to pull a few of the feathers from the fowl. This completed, a Citadel man wrung the chicken's neck and threw it among the spectators. The stunt was clever until the cadet pulled off the chicken's neck. An act of this type reminds one of a man shooting a caged canary. What would have happened had Carolina students killed the pup which the cadets brought on the field? How many of the State's leading newspapers would have editorialized upon Carolina's bad sportsmanship? But we cannot condemn the entire student body of The Citadel. This was merely the brainstorm of a minority of the stuldents, and is the first time that this writer~ has ever~ seen one of that studlent bodly (10 anything unbIecoming to a gentleman. Th/e Gamecock is confident that the cadet wvho pulled off this act is not so pr'oud( of himself nowv as he was before the deed was committed. We are proud of the attitude taken by our stu (lent body. Coming Out Of The "Red" F'or many years in the past, the athletic associa tion has had difficulty in staying out of the "red." On the first seven games this year, over $18,000 has been cleared. The remaining five gamnes, on a ratio of $2,000 profit on each game, should boost the net earnings of the association to $28,000 for the football season. This earning for the University may be attrib utedl to the splendid work of WV. H. Hlarth, athletic dlirector, the good p)rogram, the printing of pro grams anid prices, the splendid showing of the team, the support of the alumni and the coop eration of the coaching staff with all concerned. The earnings this year will enable the Carolina' team to get a better schedule next year and will help to put South Carolina football in the national limelight. Orville Love and Cecil Haight are physics lab partners at Montana State college. The American Student Union was'termedl part of a "Communist:.controlled movement" by dele gates to the D. A. R. convention. Edwin Markam, famed poet, will be honored by Princeton University on his 84th birthday. Notre Dame will open a special dlepartment for the training of Catholic apologist writers in Sep tember. University of Oklahoma archeologists have dis coveredl skeletons of Indians believed to have been buriedl 800 yars ago Open Forum Editor of The Gamecock: The N. Y. A. is enabling many stu dents to attend the University who otherwise might not be able to attend. Many students who are not on the N. Y. A. do not know how it operates. According to the act, two considera tio.nsi have guided in the selection of students to receive this aid. They must be in need of it to enable them to attend college and they must be high in scholastic ability. It is not that the need is great in some cases and the ability high in other cases; both of these requirements must be met. As in all matters atTecting groups of men and women, the practical ap plication of the principles on which aid is extended to the individual involves much difficulty. -It requires much judgment, common sense and knowl edge of the facts. The committee se cures sworn affidavits and letters as to character, scholarship and finan cial need and it groups the applicants absolutely and relatively on the basis of the fundamental requirements un der the act. The number of applicants greatly exceeded the amount of money avhilable; so that some disappointment has been experienced and criticism too. The committee has been well disposed to reviewing doubtful cases and receiving for consideration perti nent facts to enable them to carry out fairly the express intent of the law. The students receiving the aid may feel that they are allowed to earn their way in part. There is no gift. The student earns his stipend and in gen eral well carries it. At the same time he often advances himself because of personal contacts and direction by the professors in charge of his work. Sometimes it tends better to prepare him to gain a position as assistant, typist, custodian. At Carolina, the ability, industry and high seriousness of purpose of these students are almost beyond question. They have the respect of professors and students a like and they also benefit the institu in by carrying out in a specific way the purpose of the new deal toward youth. Many are holding positions of honor in various organizations on the campus. Probably their exemplification of the wisdom of extending this aid will cause it to survive after the present emer gency has passed, as a fixed policy of both national and state government. The committee appointed by the president for the carrying out of the law in apportioning the funds are R. G. Bell, H. C. Davis, J. E. Copen haver, W. E. Hoy, J. B. Jackson, Ru ben Johnson, F. T. Meeks. As a member of this committee I know that it has spent long hours go ing over the records of each applicant and to the best of its ability has made its appointments without prejudice, bias as favoritism. The same state ment I am sure applies also to the women's committee. H. C. Davis. X-Ray Machine Proves Exciting There probably isn't a student in the University who hasn't seen an X-ray picture and the vacuum tube which takes them. But imagIne the feelings of a cer tain student in 189fl at Amherst Col lege where the second X-ray tube to come to the United States was in stalled. As a matter of fact, you don't have to imagine his feelings because that student, Dr. Kendall Emerson, now Managing Director of the Na tional Tuberculosis Association, has set down his reactions. -"I was having my foot X-rayed and I thought it the most mysterious thing that ever happened," he says. "The professor put my foot on a little rest in front of the light, iIe gave me a box with a fluorescent screen fastened on the front and a sight for my eyes on the oIposite side. Through this I looked and was tempted to leave the spot in a panic. Before my eyes was the outline of my shoe as a shadow on a b)righter background. I could see right through the -leather and see the nails of the shoe which showed b)lack against the screen. "But far worse that that awaited, for as my eyes grew accustomed to the dim and ghostly light the outlines of the bones of my forefoot and toes came sharply into view. Were those bones mine? I wiggled them to find out and sure enough the ghostly bones began to wiggle, too." The X-ray today is no longer a cause for amazement. Students are now fa miliar with this magic invention an,d realize its value as one of the modern methods of health protection. They are also interested in the problems of personal and public health, and know, for example, that tuberculosis is not only Public Halth Ene.my N. 1 b..t Campus HAYES Rj *N C ORG~ANI7.ED ATTHECL ~WLLAM AN4D ONRC R 5,-1776. ODDLY ENOI! THI PNE ORIGINAL lOUN1 WERE N4AMED SMiTH Al ONE JONES KYE WAS FORMERLY A LVER MEDAL. BUT LAT' STEM WAS ADDED F PRACMCAL PURPOSE -Y NDW' ME -A Odds Ai (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) would probably result in a miniature civil war, asserted Boyd Hughes, supervisor of the hall. C. C. The Y.W.C.A. of Columbia college entertained the Carolina student body Wednesday night with a reception at College Place. Janey Farmer is president of the Co lumbia college organization. CHEMIST Dr. J. E. Copenhaver, professor of Chemistry, has been elected into the American Institute of Chemists, an out standing organization in its field. The aims of the Institute are: to build up a Bureau of Appointments, establish a basic training minimum in the chemi cal profession, insure a common ethi cal standard, and to solidify action with respect to the profession's economic stat us. CLUB William S. Woods, Spanish instructor, was recently elected president of Sigma Delia Pi, honorary Spanish fraternity. Other officers chosen are: Miss Mar guerite Abel, vice-president; A. S. Hodge, secretary-treasurer; and R. K. Timmons, faculty advisor. Bids will soon be sent out inviting other students with "B" averages or more to join the fraternity. A student with two years of Spanish may be a pledge and a student with three or more years of Spanish experience may be ini tiated. Plans are being made for the annual fraternity banquet which will be given in the near future. FEATURE What wer~e University students do ing 52 years ago to bring forth re proach from their more serious-minded brethren? Cutting classes? Drinking? Keeping late hours? No, all three guesses are wrong. They were getting engaged and making a wholesale busi ness of it. All of the popular co-eds were engaged to two or three boys. And the boys kept up with the girls until no one knew who was engaged to who. The that it is also "The Foe of Youth." Many schools have formed 'their own health associations and have become a potent force in spreading the gospel that early dliscovery of tuberculosis, plus prompt treatment, equals early recovery. Young people throughout the nation play an important part in the annual sales of Christmas Seals, conducted by the 1981 tuberculosis associations throughout the county to finance their work in controlling tuberculosis. Al though the death rate from tuberculo sis has been steadily declining during the past thirty years, since the first seals were sold, tuberculosis still takes a greater toll than any other disease among young people between 15 and 25. For this reason tubersulosis asso ciations have been putting more and more stress on preventive and case finding work in high schools and col leges, In 1938 Christmas Seals go on sale Thanksgiving Day. They depict a modern Santa Claus, symbol of good health, and carry the double-barred cross, the emblem ot the tuberculosis movement. These penny stickers will raise funds for further health protec tion among students in schools and colleges. AR'S * A.c.. G) id Ends South Carolina Collegian, a student pub lication, commented on 'this in the Oc tober 1884 issue. "Don't become en gaged, now; wait until you are older." "It may seem fun now but the day will come when you will agree that it is a foolish practice." DEBUNKING Debunking translations from French poetry to English was the key-note of a talk given by Professor Maurice Ste phan, of the French department, be fore the American Association of Uni versity Women, Tuesday afternoon at the home of Miss Margaret Abel. The talk was entitled "Translation and Frenc Poetry," and dealt particularly with the French poet, Baudelaire. SCIENCE Th'at the a:'er?ge college.. 3t..dcn. 1... ,s more after completing a course in natural history than Aristotle is the opinion of Dr. W. E. Hoy, Jr., professor of Biology. College students as a whole do not realize the "power" of the fields they are exposed to and about which Aris totle knew nothing. "Little does the college student see that science is not dead but is as much alive as this generation will make it," Dr. Hoy declared. RECORD The largest class to be graduated ftom the School of Pharmacy in the history of the school was 10, while this year's senior class has 12 members and a splen did chance to break the record, according to Dean Emory T. Motley. The total enrollment this year is 62 students. Of this number, 22 are Fresh men, which is considerably more than last year. CHARLESTON President McKCissick went to Charles ton Thursday to attend the Founders' Day exercises of the Medical College of South Carolina, having been invited to do so by Dr. Robert Wilson, dean of the college, an alumnus of the Univer sity. \NEWBERRY Last wek The Gamecock erroneously stated that Newberry is the only county in.the State not represented in the Uni versity stude9t body. The folloging nine students from Newberry coi nty have been announced by John A. thase, Jr., registrar: Ru dolph Barnes,' Robert Moore Crooks, Thomas K. Jo'hnstone, Bernice R. Kib Ier, Reyburn Williams Lominach, LIew ellyn Pinner, . H-. Pope, Jr., James E. Smith, and Ja es D. Wheeler. U IFORMS Navy blue un forms with Sam Brown belts and badges were donned by the two ' night wvatchmen, W. 0. Sheppard and Vol Smyrl, this week. A. S. U. ~ROIdP FOkMED HEE (CONTINUED F'ROM PAGE ONE) want peace, because they, like their forefathers, are devoted to freedom and civil equality, and because they seek edlucational and economic security." The speaker pointed out that, "64, 000,000 people in iAmerica have never 6nished high schbol, 32,000,000 have never completed the eighth grade, and that only 1,200,0003 have finished col lege." The union will mekt again next Mon day night at eight n'k-ock.