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The Gamecock Founded January 30, 1908 WILLIAM ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Editor Issued Weekly by the Literary Societies of the University of South Carolina during th college year except during examinations and holidays. 1937 Member 1938 REPRES[NTSD POR NATIONAL ADVERTISINO aY A ss cilel CbOle i ade P ess Nathonal Advertising Service, Inc. Cellege Publishers Rteprieenestwe Distributor of 4>O MADIsoN Avc. -New YonK. N.Y. CHICANO . "OSTON " SAN FRANCISCO Los ANOSLs " PORTLAND * OsATTLE GoUe6iate Di6est Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Columbia, S. C., November 20, 1908 EXECUTIVE BOARD F. F. W illiams, Jr. ......................--. ... ........................- . ..- . .. Editoi Harold Prince ._................ ...... ..... .... ................ Managing Editor Andrew Jones ........ .......... ..........--......_..-....... Buoiness Managei DEPARTMENT HEADS George Zuckerman, Sports Editor; Leola Gare:, Society Editor; Betty Comstock Co-ed Editor: Tom Willis, Circulation Manager. ASSOCIATES Catherine Narey, Ed Harter, and Charles Lee Associate Editors; St. C. Muckenfuss Jr., and Courtney Carson. Associate Managing Editors; Martin Hodes; Ray Bargeron Associate Business Managers; J. H. Joyner, Associate Circulation Manager; Albert Rouslin, Poet. STAFF WRITERS Max Husbands, Monty Skiles, W. A. Connolly, Jr., Barney Beidleman, Jane Crout, Louis Searson Jr., Colt Hendley, Eleanor Cannon, Margaret Rollins. Frank Brown, and Alice Hu,t. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1937 Give the Grads A Welcome Hand This week hundreds of visitors will be on the University cam us. There will be one of the largest alumni groups ever assem led. Approximately 1,500 high school football players are ex ted as guests of Carolina at the grid game between the Game ocks and the Georgia Bulldogs. Ten musical organizations, be ecked floats, and colorful student body sections will participate a gala parade down Main street after the alumni luncheon. This should be a weekend that will make pages in Carolina's als for years to come. Show your school spirit and pride by nice to the guests, participating in the parade and shouting our head off at the football gaiie. Toyou, every student,zamBiliie Freshman to William Senior, given the assignrnent of making this a weekend of weekends, f making Carolina even more respected by the citizens of this d adjoining states, and of. supporting the football team with verything you've got. Turn out and turn on! "And Sudden Death" The wheel's spinning grew slower, slower until it stopped. rom the upturned automobile, came the faint groans of human ings in pain. When the crowd gathered, the bodies were re oved, and most of the gory sight cleaned up, peace returned to the ector and life continued. But in a small hospital aL Rockingham, three University stu dents were pronounced dead and three others injured. The few Carolinians who happened to pass the scene of disaster stopped and did their little parts. After uncounted and unwanted minutes Rockingham had become a headline .. . a somber one. And on the sands etched by the dark cloaked figure with his sharp scythe were the names of Dexter Wallace, Jerome Pate and Cameron C. Mixon. Hydrick Weinges, Frank Hoskins, and Paul Sansbury escaped the grim reaper and by the latest reports, are out of danger. Some all-powerful being had ruled and they lived. These three youths were called from college to pay America's death toll to the highway. Their ambitions, loves, and dreams la3 shattered on the concrete road. This same purpose-tribute of a certain number of auto deaths each year more often frorn the ranks of youthdom . . . seemingly must be paid and the brightest stu dents must fill the quota. Death takes no holiday on the highways of the United States Death is no respecter of persons, fame or title. Death has adopted auto accidents as a foster son ..,. and a valuable one. This rela iionship must terminate. America's youth must not be snuffed out by the fingers of death, working with the coopei-ation of car ac c:dv.nts. This is not an example of driving while under the effects o: intoxicating drinks. lIt has been definitely proven that the stu. clents were entirely sober and were a typical group of laughing boys going to see their Alma Mater play football. It was indicative of the spirit of Carolina students that Hy drick Weinges, when visited by the football squad after the game forgot his pain and bereavement momentarily, raised himsell laboriously from his bed and said: "Yeah, Carolina." The students have died . . . more victims of the automobilc death rate that is increasing annually. Is their untimely deati to become food for thought or are we to dismiss this with a fey words of sympathy? University Officials Express Sympathies "The heart of the whole University is bowed down over thE loss of these three fine, upstanding young men. ' "This is the greatest tragedy in this institution in many years "When the news reached me a few miles away, half an hour af. terward, I was utterly stunned. At first I could not believe it.] knew Dexter Wallace and Cameron IMixson as rnembers of my fra ternity. Jerome Pate had been a jovial, helpful guest in our hom( a few nights before. Within less than forty-eight hours all threi had chatted with me. Their death gave me the severest shock] have had in almost twenty yers "Mrs. McKissick and I have the deepest sympathy for the families of the three who died. "As it was said centuries ago, 'they were lovely and pleasant in their lives and in their death they were not divided.' "An illustrious South Carolinian once observed that 'it is one of the saddest of human experiences to see the sudden destruction of great gifts, the extinction of fair promises, the uncompleted and fragmentary achievement of useful and honorable lives.' "The University, proud to be their alma mater, proud that to the last moment of their lives they were faithful to the finest ideals of the best young manhood, will forever hold them in affectionate remembrance. "I hope that all of us here may so believe and so live that we can feel the assurance that we are not saying 'arewell to these 'dearest comrades,' but 'until we meet again' in that 'land that is fairer than day'." J. RION McKISSICK. President. There is a universal feeling of sadness prevailing on this campus in the tragic end met by Cameron Clifford Mixon, Jerome Franklin Pate and Dexter Melton Wallace. The student-body is 1 deprived of three sincere friends, the officers and - faculty are bereft of three trustworthy students and our Alma Mater suffers the loss of three loyal and devoted sons. All Carolina is stunned with their untimely death and joins with their legion of friends in conveying deep and abiding sympa thy to their families. JOHN A. CHASE, JR., Dean of Administration. Telephone Situation Needs Immediate Care The past summer, the nation laughed at a government project in which several millions were spent for a postoffice building and at the gala opening, it was found to be witho.ut mail slots. Practically the same situation exists today at the University. A fine government project known as the Student Activities Build ing was constructed. The rent ran from $30 to $50, and only the newest furniture was placed in it. A large basement and three stor ies were incorporated in the structure. A gala opening was held, the students trooped in, and all-was well until a mother tried to call her son on the telephone, couldn't get him and the glaring omis sion came to light. There was only one telephone in the four storied structure, filled with students. Investigation further re vealed that the identical situation existed in the two recently con structed wings to Thornwell college. There was only one tele phone for each three story wing. Probing further into the telephone situation, it was found that tenements 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 had the use of only one telephone. Approximately 75 students with only one telephone and it doors away. Then if the student is lucky enough to get to a telephone, his chances of getting an outside line are slim. With a student body of over 1,500, there are only five lines to the outside world. Math ematically, that would give one line for every 300 students. No wonder the telephone situation has been an annual thorn in the side of the student body. It is true that there are 61 telephones now installed at the Uni versity but that is an inadequate number. Please, University Of ficials, spend the terrific sum of $1.88 per month and install some telephones in the places most needed! Reporters Receive Identification Cards It has been a sore point for some years that students approach professors, get news from them, and the professors never know whether his story will appear in this publication, the journalism laboratory classes, the University News Service, or in the local papers. To surmount this difficulty, the editorial board of The Game cock has equipped each of its reporters with press passes, giving positive indentification, both as to the reporter and for what news organ the story is being gathered. When a Gamecock reporter calls to see you, presents his cre dehtials and asks for a story you have, give it to him. After all, this the official news organ of the University and it should be treated as such. Merchants are warned not to give advertising to solicitors with utter presentation of the press pass, with proper signatures. What, No Dessert? We think a change should be made immediately in an imprac tical feature of the University schedule,--the 12 o'clock Chapel on Friday.. As everyone has found out, classes held at 12 on Mondays and Wednesdays are deferred on Fridays until one, so as to allow for 12 o'clock Chapel. When, be it asked, do we eat? Not a few students, and professors too, live and eat their mid day meal at some distance from the campus. If these unfortunates attend Chapel, how are they going to find time for dinner? Stated in, plain terms, to expect a person to attend 12 o'clock Chapel, go and eat dinner, and return to class by one is a palpable absurdity. ,If a person defers lunch until two, he won't eat anyway, as few boarding houses, and not even Stewards Hall, provide dinner after two. Add to this the inconvenience to students who have labs, or go to work at two, and a situation is confronted which ;cannot continue to exist. We suggest that students who are affected by this schedule either stay away cmnieteor bring dinne pail to Chapel Italics By I " Tribble -CONFESSION Ah Youth! Tho twilight find your little world on skids And Heaven fail you, Ere dawn You'll laugh and wish you had kids To tell the tale to! -DOUBLE OR NOTHING Hayne Workman, K. A. senior, may be surprised to learn that he "cute freshmen" he romanced on that evening last week was iot, as he believed, Vivian Gunter, but her older sister, Carolyn, L university senior. Sis C. did a fill-in act when her look-alike elative found herself with two conflicting engagements on her luite capable hands. Workman never discovered the substitution! - PERSONALIA Freddie Frink, newest addition to the Gamecock coaching staff md former all America-mentioned wingman, reads, so help us, 'Detective Tales" and "Screen Fun" . . . Roslyn Edwards, cute 'harlottean who really DOES look like Martha Raye, trys to too tard (excuse please, darling) . . . It's about time that Currie WIcArthur got wise to the fact that Jane Williamson's frequent rips libraryward are not solely for the purpose of erudition .. . eorge Sherman Grant Zuckerman sleeps with his socks on .. . Yarriet Cockfield, who plays gee-lousy tennis, can nevertheless )lay net on this column's private court without so much as lifting m racquet.. . Genie Mitchell's six-year wait for a circus date went inrewarded Tuesday when little Johnnie Campbell, who's the big Johnnie" in Genie's life, said sorry but no. .. Fran Hart, ac ording to reports, is tearing her hair over a certain pair of rousers that refuse to be im-pressed. * * * --AFTERGLOW Jimmie Joyner's not-so-secret love for that brunettish NYA issistant still smolders despite the fact that her affection for J. J.'s oommate Williams is front-page copy.. The satiric note about he whole thing being: Boy met girl via Jimmie himself who per Formed the original introductions! * * * NONE OF OUR BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Wonder who the young lady was that Rock Smith coca-cola-ed he other near-midnight in a Five Points druggery . .. Esquirejuv pnated in a brand new suit, E. C. Coker draws our vote for most ikely-to-succeed position in the young-man-going-somewhere div sion.. . Havilah Babcock, proud of his anemia, letter-to-the-edi oriting . .. What young lady-friend-of-the-family labels F. W. Bradley 'Deanie-Pie"? ... Mary P. Wheeler, who should know better, has evolved a theory about the inherent resiliency of the illiard ball. * * * ADD ONE Latest flash on that first item reveals that frosh Vivien would be felighted to get the mess untangled so that she might "speak for Lerself" with Workman who she thinks is "too cute". * * * -FOR WHATEVER IT'S WORTH Italics presents with C APIT AL L ET T ERS this week . .. H AR LE E WOOT EN and CH AR LES SIMMONS . .. assuring them that inytime they need a one-man cheering squad, this column is ~heirs. Hard-working, energetic, sincere students, they typify the Carolina spirit. They won't SEE ths. .. -They are blind. BACKAn&aiI STALKEdtrothGaeck Fe the Editor:metothsujcofNAlary May I register a protest, as strong aae tehtdgawy olr" is an anemic professor can make it,Intscaewsudtsorigt igainst an ungentlemanly reference tePronlBra elta er o the Emory and Henry football tedg.N tdn okn o eam carried in last week's Game- PoesrMCl sfre owr rock. In the column SPORTSIDE utltewesalhusnro ou described the Emory and HenrySudyNihwokad uny ~eam as "a bunch of inferiority com- wr r o o alexed minor leaguers."byetapy tth Prsnl The entire paragraph in questionBue'sxpnebtaoare s a flagrant violation of elementarytiey vlna.No mpyr lecency, to say nothing of the can- cudpsil emr osdrt ms of fair play and sportsmanship. o idrta usadw elta I'hat it should appear in the Game--h eevsa aooyfo h yock, the official publication of the eio.Prasi h uuete - .whole University, is unthinkable,.dtra rtrwilke i nw Elave you heard nothing of the doc- ns"oto )ae hr ti rine of noblesse oblige-of gener- nihrwne o edd sity to a fallen and a lesser foe?BA AR JYNR George, you can write well enough** .0 be entertaining without being (oMs abr onr esn ~ontemiptuous.deihflrbf.Hriesony ? ,Havilah Babcock. ntrl elanderyI ieta Ediorp ofthoe amels!TheEd: (Answerinonditortseedse)ntirht