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The Garmecoc Pounded January 30, 1906 ROBET .T.OTT GONZAITS Wirt Editor Pnbished weekly by the iterary Societies of the Univeraity of Soul oaroina during the college year except during eiasmtattons and holidays ntared au second class matter at the o.fice at Columbia, S. C November 20, 9J6 Mmnber 937 RfiOStd thb @S Di*rMbutos of REPRESUENTSo FOR NATIONAL ADVE71USING ST National Advertising Service, Inc. Collete Publishers Represewtafee 420 MADIsON Avg. Naw YoRK. N.Y. CNICASO . BOSTON " 5AN FRANCISCo Los ANSRLEs " PORTLAND - sEATTLE EXEOUTIVE BOARD VIVIEN LOMAS - - - - - - - - - - - - - Edit< EDWARD HAaR - - - - - - - - - Managing Editl RAY BARGERON - - - - - - - - - Business Manag DEPARTMENT HEADS Courtney Carson, Sports Editor; Betty Comstock, Society Editor; Oat7 erine Narey, Co-ed Editor. ASSOCIATES Francis Williams. Mary Belle Higgins, Associate Editors; Charles Is St. Clair Muckenfuss, Jr., and Harold Prince, Associate Managing Editor Andrew Jones and Jim Polatti. Associate Business Managers; Jam Joyner and Tom Willis, Associate Circulation Managers. STAFF WRITERS Leonard D. Rosen, Albert Rouslin, Monty Skiles, George Shernu Zurcherman, Martin J. Hodes, Max Husbands, Frances Lybrand, T. V Evans. Barney Beidleman, Doris Johnson, Louis A. Searson, Jr., W. , Connolly, and Floyd D. Rodgers, Jr. FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1937 Next Wednesday Next Wednesday will be the first meeting of vo] untary chapel without all classes being excuse for the students to attend. Then will come th true test as to whether student response is stiff cient to justify its continuance next year. At the first two chapel hours under the optiona system, many were turned away due to lack c seating capacity in the auditorium. The speaker were enthusiastically received, and what they tol you was worth hearing. The faculty will vote on the permanency of vo' untary chapel probably after the last experimentl meeting on May 15. That leaves less than a mont to assure a favorable vote. -U. s. C. "Talking Home" Emory University students have found thf their $600 voice recording machine is good ft things other than speech correction, glee club, an theological school work, Associated Press reporl from Atlanta indicate. The situation came to light when an Emory da received a record in a package. He immediatel twirled the crank of the family phonograph an prepared to investigate. "Hello, dad," it began, but soon got downi business. With face-to-face realism, the best al guments a group of supporting law students coul muster followed, giving dad no chlance to answi back or interrup)t. The gist of the speech wi that the student was finding it dlifficuilt to maintai financial equilibrium. When asked if the fifty cents invested in recort had paid any dividends, Professor Malcolm I Dewey, head of the Emory fine arts departmen replied: *"Yes, and now there's a great demand for ui of the machine to send oral letters to the abser girl friend. Some of the students claim curiosit aroused by the record overcomes the most frigi situation." -1. s. C. "Two many students who are able for the fir time to select without sulpervision what they wi eat are likely to react as the five-year-old wi demanded an all chocolate (diet on hsis birthday Bitter words for a sweet diet by Dr. Ruth Oke associate professor of household sciences at ti University of California. "It's tihe men who are the 'softies' of higher edi cation. I bass that on observation of universi and college board meetings over a period of mar years. When some important decision is to 1 made, the men are more often swayed by emotic than women." A "you're an old 'softy'" to ma college presidents and professors- from Dr. Vi ginia C. (Gildersleeve, (lean of Barnard College. "Our higher education certainly fails of its pu pose if it dloes not produce indlividuals who are home in a modern world. That it cannot do th by escape from that world into a realm of abstral tions andl fantasies has been abundantly demoi strated by the history of education itself." D Harry W. Chase, chancellor of New York Unive: sity, shows the futility of modlern-monasticism. Hitch-Hiking ' College students throughout the State wer shocked this week to learn that a bill had beei passed and signed by the Governor prohibitinl hitch-hiking on the highways of South Carolina. h We do not believe that the Legislature intende< working a hardship on collge students who, througl . lack of funds, were forced to bum rides home, ti football games, and the like. The bill was aime< primarily at professional bums who ply the pub lic roads, thus making it easier to pick them ul and perhaps capture a criminal. Representatives Foster and Mozingo are seek ing to have the undersirable section of the ac repealed. It seems that if no change were mad >r college students would be permitted to hitch-hik >r if they could show athletic cards or other inden er tification to inquiring officers. At any rate, we have confidence in our State of ficials to the extent that we do not believe theY will deprive college students of this convenience ; necessity, and right-hitch-hiking. -U. s. C. On Getting Out of Bed . Every now and then we read something whici pleases us immensely. The kind of news iten which vindicates our judgment. We are thinking of the piece in a recent paper quoting a Frencl doctor as saying that persons who jump out of bec as soon as they awake are impairing their health I He added it was necessary to remain in bed 21 e minutes after waking "so the blood circulation which slows up during sleep, can return to normal. There's a doctor after our heart. Because w felt all along that this business of jumping ou of bed immediately one awakes, was all wrong s In fact, we gave up the practice long ago, unles d we had to do it to get to an eight o'clock class. I we ever break down under the strain it will be be - cause of jumping out of bed immediately we awak LI to meet an eight o'clock class. And we don't refe hi only to students either. Judging from dreary eye and gtnnt1, breakf stl1e lonkc the fn.lty Cnffer too. t We all know people, of course, who think i r they don't get their feet on the cold floor forth d with when they open their eyes, something terribi will happen. Just plain egotism. Such peopl are bores and nuisances. They're the sort of pee d ple who tell you: "The first thing I do in th morning is to take a cold bath." Which remind d us of an immortal remark of Punch, an Englis d r B to get back to bed. We advocate a societ frthe suppression of alarm clocks. Whoever in nvented the alarm clock was no friend of humanity He was probably the first Fascist. We ventur Isto say that Hitler and Mussolini have alarm clocks and that both of them jump out of bed and tak ,cold baths. And look at all the trouble they ar raising. Men like that are capable of anything. --U.. C. S"Their minds are soft and dormant. They d ynot know how to work; they do not know hos d to study; they do not know how to reason; the; (10 not know how to discriminate between the en tral core of things and the surrounding trimmings. st Pres. Patrick J. Mahan, S. J., of Creighton Uni il versity gives incoming freshmen a frank look a ,, the scoreboard. e "Football must be taken from the gamblers an, the 'rah-rah boys.' It is of such significance tha it dleserves to be taken back into the colleges an, universities as part and pre fteeuain Ly project." Dr. Ralph C.'Hlutchinson, president c e Washington and Jefferson College, believes a grea ~n footb)all team is a detriment to a college. le______ "There seems to be an increasing awareness tha a person should not only possess information, bu r- that he should be able to use the information fo ~tdiscussion and exchange of ideas. The day c 5the poor speaker is coming to a close. Americ has tolerated more than its share of bad speak r. ing." Northwestern University's Dr. Clarenc r-. Simon, professor of speech re-education, spel] 'finis' for 'ahem-ing andl hawing.s " Literaiy bgres BY THREE PLAGIARISTS Martin J. Hodes Dinky Williams . 1 George Zuckerman (coNTINUED rot PAGE ONE) I the finest dramatic offering staged b local talent. Particularly we liked the way ti a gridiron stars, Jack Dorflinger, Fra Sossaman, and Jim Bethune, tran muted their talent to the footlight . Their strong physiques and resonaz voices insert the realism demanded b t the script. Those eminent journalists, Mar e belle Higgins, Hal Tribble, and Charh g Lee, will take to the grease paint f< this production. Mr. Tribble is a b - disappointed because Professor Sti phan would not allow him to altc the script. As much as we admii - Tribble's talent we think Irwin Sha did all right by himself. The six. "stinkin" so'diers who r fuse to be buried make up a never t be forgotten fiction. Through th voices of the generals, captains, an capitalists is expounded the idiocy < the war. A typical line in the play: "This is hell of war; they didn't tell us this West Point I" .And this bright remar from a general of the staff. -PPP Chapel Goes Democratic One of the finest and most intell I gent moves madc on the campus wa the installation of Voluntary Chape What once was a thrice-a-week born dom is now so popular that many we: turned away last week when Presidet J. Rion McKissick spoke on Univei sity problems, and again when S: Hubert Ames gave a talk on th world's peace problems. We hope that the support of tlh new plan will be continued by the stt dent body. ' -PPP f Hitch-Hiking Goes Criminal . Last Monday the Legislature passe a bill outlawing hitch-hiking in thi 3 state. Immediately protests cane poui r ing in from this university and froz Furman. Yet to be heard from S Clemson College, who has reason 1 R make the Ieudest squawk about tb matter. Though the Legislature enacted ti f legislation in good faith, they forg< _ about the poor college boy and h only method of transportation. A Ii e tie united action on the subject wi e do much toward making the Legish ture correct this faux pas. If this law remains on the statui B books, college' students will have 1 s ride the rails. -PPP Plagiarists Get Byline This week we join the coveted co -ner of signed columnists. Now yc know who we are, but we wish v e hadn't told you; we enjoyed the ni toriety. It was our intention to write thr< y short biographies to introduce on _ selves to our friends and enemies. TI suggested titles were: -"From Freedom to Boredom" 1: e Martin J. Hodes. "The Road From Easley" by F.] 5' Williams. e "I Re-Write As I Please" by Geors e Zuckerman, as told to Sherman Grani Some day, perhaps, the world wi know of the intricate scheme of thing that lead toward the creation of th column. Now it CANNOT be told. V -PPP Sketch Goes Fourth-Estate Spectacle wearing.solemn.... rollicking walk.... Mr. X on the fa " ulty... .new professor... .experience .newspaperman... .prefers green socd ----.gray suits... .buys cigars by hal *t dozens.... smokes Camel cigarettes il cessantly. .. .uses red and blue penci with a flourish... .bachelor... .prefei P on t ia cs. ...likes photography. . knows advertising from A to Z....h big ideas for his school... .short: Sstature... .he likes golf... .tennis ne: d. --.types like Floyd Gibbons....h the most difficult job in the world1 1fill the place of the former dean f his school. He is Samuel C. DePa: ..the C stands for Cathronoplog --Elections (CONTINUED DEOM PAGE ONE) t majority of six votes, Harriet Coc1 t field and' Talcott Stith competed in tI run-off yesterday for the vice-pres r dency. A sixteen vote margin gai f Charles Manning the office of secr a tary-treasurer, while Woodt-ow Cok became historian unopposed. Ben Joe Williams defeatedl Embi e Motes by a vote of 124 to 90 jo w the presidency of the junior class, Lar Hogan won over Sara Ahlgreen 1151 100 for the viceesdency, W:lb. Campus WHEN ISA Jt A AT T " y e k It y s 1 r it r WHATHAY' e IWEAR? W.T. WRI dp If l751OIN? a / PSE II t 60, k [_Open Forum The Gamecock bows its head in deep s regret and makes an humble apology to -. Crawford White for the manner in which his Open Forum letter of last week was e so maliciously and fiendishly mutilated. it The letter was handed to us on Wed nesday of last week, copy read, and put r fi The baska. It was dy;ir d as lake e as 10 :00 that night, when it was un hampered. However,, between that hour e and 1 :30, when the paper was put to bed, - someone slipped the letter fron the bas ket and so changed words and phrases as to make it defeat its own purpose and appear ridiculous. Whether done d maliciously or through fun, it was a das S tardly deed. We were ignorant of any such change n until Mr. White called it to our atten s tion when the paper came out on Fri o day. e To determine whether the changes were typographical errors or intentional, the e original copy was procured from The t State Company and brought back to the s office. It was found that the changes - were intentional.' I The executive board of The Gamecock - instigated a meeting of the board of pub lications Monday in an attempt to appre e hend the off ender. Several members of o the staff and others in the building were questioned, but none knew who he was or had any idea at all as to how his identity could be ascertained, they r- claimed. u However, The Gamecock wishes to ex eC press to the student body as a whole its )- deep regret that anyone affiliated with the publication would be so unscrupulous e in bringing about his desired end. We r- shall ever be on vigil for the prevention e of anay such act being Performed in the future. YWe reprint below Mr. White's letter as it should have appeared last week : Editor, The Gamecock : e So much comment and downright criti t. cism of the fraternity system has been 11 madle in the columns of The Gamecock sthis year, that I think it only fair to s have a word in their defense. A crit ical study of the cost of local clubs and national fraternities at various colleges throughout the country-notably Dart mouth College--disclosed the fact that it costs a student only from thirteen to fifteen dollars a year more to be af -filiated with a national group than with d a local. This nominal extra cost in :cludes a life subscription to its nmag azine, loans to students to help them ithrough college, loans for chapter -s houses, and other like advantages. .To justify the cost of fraternities, showever, is not the purpose of this let trIwant to give one answer to the tquestion, "Why join a fraternity ?" I fear, d though, that anything that I or any other ofraternity man at Carolina might say f old yae little weight in the matter, as we are naturally biased on the sub ject, so I have selected an article to quote 'from which was taken from our maga time, The Delta. It was written by a boy who had been president of 0. D. K. at the University of Pittsburg, and a leader c- Kirkland and Frances Smith competed ~e yesterday for secretary-treasurer, and i- Sara Harrison was made historian, un 'e opposed. Bill Hamlet and James Wilson were r iq the run-off yesterday in the race for president of the rising sophomore y class, and Jim 'Iomlinson and Dexter n Wallace competed for the vice-presi g dency. Lucile Rice was elected secre o tary-treasurer while Rannah Heywardi r and Amelia Arthur etne~d to the Camera . INIOR SENIOR FRESHMAN P VALTER..SENIOR. JR. IS ENRD)LLED AS A FRESHMAN IE UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE ANSWERS 1E QJESpON.' ,b^sIj Agcw+iw rWss-M.J*.. woe. PER" GHT YEAIRS' HAS CARRIED MORE 'THAN ) S UDENTS AS PASSENGERS ON HIS NE FRDMI GRE'M rEXAS To J.C. UR M IL ANT. HIS N T BUS' A BEEN TRIVEN VER. ~O MlESWnTH0tJr AN ACCIDENT / of an anti-fraternity group at that insti tution, before he came to George Wash ington University to study law. He was converted during his first year away from his home town of Pittsburg and pledged Sigma Nu. I quote : "Congratulations were in or der, yes, and congratulations were ex tended, but the big question was, "Why, Johnny? Why d:d you de it?" From some it was a simple query; from others a gloating sarcasm; and from still others a disillusioned idea. Such was my ex perience on returning to the university of my undergraduate days proudly wear ing the pledge button of Sigma Nu in my lapel. "'Why did you do it, Johnny?' A 'barb' for four years of undergraduate life; called upon each year at Freshman camp to warn the incoming frosh to 'be ware of Greeks bearing gifts;' debating at student assemblies against the frater nity idea at the university; and culminat ing all this with leading the first suc cessful campaign to elect non-fraternity men to student council offices-electing twelve representatives and the president of the Student Council. "'Why did you do it, Johnny?' I asked that question of myself then. Many reasons pusied themselves to the fore but one seemed to dominate and be- so all-expressive. It came in but a few words: I found a home away fron home. But those few words express bet ter than any other the reason for my metamorphosiA from a 'barb' to a fra ternity man. I found in the fraternity house a home away from home. Like home it is not the four walls, nor the easy chairs that make' it but rather it is the kind of people who make it. It is not made up of tilings or events but of personalities. To return each evening to a comfortable house is fine, but to re turn to a home full of friends who are glad to see you and who want your com pany is experiencing something that real ly makes for living and not mere exist ing. To know that somebody cares how you spent the day or how you plan to spend the evening; to enjoy the compan ionship, share the joys--and sorrows, too -of another: to be loyal and to feel another's loyalty to 'you. That is the difference between a house and a home. That is what I found in a fraternity." Who could be better qualified to speak in defense of fraternities, than this man who had seen both sides of the question, and even the extreme of one side? He is certainly in a better position to speak than anyone on this campus. We fra ternity men do not consider ourselves "exclusive groups ;" we number among our best friends non-fraternity men, and they are always welcome in our houses. We are just as big boosters of Carolina as anybody else, and the fraternities; of which a large percentage of the mem bership is Columbia boys, always con tribute to drives for funds, the purpose of which may never benefit them. I ask the readers of The Gamecock to think this over and to think twice before they again judge the fraternities. Sincerely, Crawford White, A Fraternity Man. polls in the historian race. Complying with provisions in the student body constitution, all elections were held' within a two-week period this year, and the races were moved up considerably so as not to conflict wIth final examinations. "It is highly possible that there will be even further consolidation of elec tions next year, particularly in the run offs," Sam Cartledge, president of the student body, aid.