Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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F. F. WILLIAMS, JR. - - Editor DE George Zuckern ASSOCIATES Society Editor; Charles Lee, Catherine Narey, Hal Tribble, As- Albert Rouslin, sociate Editors; S. C. Muckenfuss, Jr., Courtenay Carson, Associate Managing Editors; Charlie At kinson, Foster Smith, Associate Business Maia gers; ' Joinie Steppe, Margaret Rollins, Asso elate Society Editors. Colt Jiendley, I Baney Bleidlenm HAROLD PRINCE, Managing Editor aul Barrett Union Building Still Vacant Returning students for the 1937-38 school term were proud to see the Student Union building gracing one side of the University calml)us. It had been erected at a great cost through government aid, filling in a vacan cy long felt by the student body, that being a central meeting 1)111ce where friends could be invited, small (lances given, meetings held and various activities of the students. Then came the question : When will the building's offices be allotted and when will the advantages of this modern structure be used? Only a few days was the first answer, then the time was extended and extended and ex tended and now, the committee announces that the lobby will be open within the next few weeks. One month and a half has already past m this semester and still no action. Sev eral organizations like the Y. M. C. A. and the Art department are suffering from this delay. Granting the fact that the allotting of sp)ace must be juliciously given and that much time has been taken in electing and appointing members to the governing boards, we still don't see what is holding up the show. Only one thing The Game cock advocates along this line: ACTION! Step ahead if it is in a mud hole. Start moving into the offices. Put the canteen in its larger quarters, bring over the telephone exchange and book store, move in the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A., equip the offices with promised furniture and above all, ACT ! Back in April, the building was finished but it was lecided that the best plan would be to wait until this year before opening it. No argument. But this year, time has been lost and time is money even in an educa tional institution. A rumor now has it that R. G. Bell, direc tor of the Y. M. C. A. will be given one of fice and one recreation room. Rumors are deceiving and we 1oI't believe this one. With the recreational equipment and the wide range of programs, meetings and social ac tivities carried on by this group, they need more space than this even with a part-time room for meetings. The Art school, long boxed up in the top of the Y. M. C. A. building was promised the entire structure upon the loving of the Y. M. C. A. to the Student Union building. The delay in allocating space has held up the Y. M. C. A. and consequently the Art de partment. Move the "Y" to the Union bluilding, give them proper quarters, and allow the Art department to get settled in their building. Again, only one thing is nleeded: ACTION! There is an old1 adlage which is quite ap p)ropriate here: "DO0 SOMETHING IF YOU HAVE TO TAKE IT BACK"-but ACT!! Honor Sans Any Honor Scene: A clalssroomu. In walks tile pro fessor, puts on tile table a group of p)rintedl Blue Books, diraws from the bottom of a b)rief (case a small folded piece of paper upon whlicih, it is whlisperinlgly revealed, is the qulest ions for the quliz. Now~ class, put all books, notes, and any thing else 011 thle floor. No, not on the next seat. Oni the f1loor away from y'ou. Now, everyone move so that tihere will be sev eral seats between y'ou. Now you know that we are wvorking undler tihe honor systemn and 11011o1 is . . . and onl anld on. Finally, tihe. Bilue Books are hlandled ouit, the pledge con cer'ning cheating andl tile promise to report susi1)cious5 acts is signedl-even before the quliz starts. TIhen tile questions are p)ut On tile board and1 tIle professor sits down fac ing the class andl for' one hlourI-the dura tion of thle qluiz-watches intently tile stu denlts. If thalt is an 1honor1 system, please explain tihe mleaning of tihe proctor system. This year, tile largest numbnler of studlents in hlistory have pledigedl themselves to the carrying ouIt of tIle new 1honor1 system dlrawvn up at Carolina. Everything seems to p)oint towardl a final solution of this problem. Re cently, an edlitorial wvas printed on this page commending tile organization and its work. But if this is tile typ)e of hlonor system thlat is to b)e enfor'cedl, we take it all back. If there is to be an honor system, let there be one. If it is a pr'octor system, then call it so publicly and let's put all the cards on the table. The honor system as drawn up has a good chlance for success. It has1 met with the highest student appmroval in history. Now dlon't let all tile hlard wor'k and long p)lan nmngs go to naught at tihe last moment. Send all tile professors a copy of the consti tultion and put as a post script the meaning of the two words: Honor System. PARTMENT BEADS an, Sports Editor; Leola Garety, Betty Cometock, Co-ed Editor; Poet. ( s ITAFF WRITERS Founded Jai d McGrath, W. A. Connolly, Jr., ROBERT ELLIOTT 0 an, Jane Crout, Eleanor Cannon, lenjamin Polayes. Entered as second class matter a November Auto Deaths Still Grow Each year a tragedy is marked on the University of South Carolina. Our most promising and popular leaders have been snuffed out by automobile accidents. Annually, The Camecovk expresses its re grets through these columns of the death of Carolina students killed in wrecks. Therefore, a policy of safe driving on the highways is adopted by this publication and in the spaces where we have written obit uaries, we hope to print accident-prevention material. The youth of America is the last hope remaining to stop this annual slaughter of our populace. Through their efforts, sane will supplant insane driving and more knowledge will delete the death lists. Don't look to national figures of the num ber of automobile deaths. Don't read the propaganda concerning the danger of driv ing fast and reckless. Merely look about you and remember the once popular stu dents who are no longer with us. Remem ber that you are a potential member of that same list. We have adopted as our policy and urge you to do the same "Drive Safely." Japan Impairs China's Trade An appeal to Ambassador Wang of the Chinese government in Washington, D. C. from President Sun Fo in Nanking carried the following message: "American university graduates in Nan king appeal to all universities and cultural institutions in the United States to use their good oflices through arousing public opin ion the use of moral force and all other pos sible means to bring about the cessation of Japanese aggression against this country which is rendering millions of innocent farmers and industrial workers homeless and without means of livelihood, destroying some of our greatest educational institutions and making it impossible for millions of our chil dren to attend school and causing untold suffering and distress on all sides. The ad vance of civilization and the peace of the world are seriously threatened. We also appeal for the financial support of those institutions which are now so gen erously helping us in the care of wounded civilians and soldiers, vast Iumbers of ref ugees who have been obliged to flee from war areas, andl those who have been widowed an( orphaned by the war. Such assistance, moral and financial, will not only be deeply appreciated by us and the entire country but also serve to cement those traditional bonds of friendship be tween the United States and China which have lbeen created in the past by innumner able demonstrations of generosity and good will. This European situation tends to embroil the United States and its youth into another war. If it is the cause of Japan, we con demun them for the most dastardly of deeds andl pledge our supp)ort to the dlown-trodden nations, fighting to retain their natural rights. Carolina Needa Pep Song In the leading colleges and universities of this nation, there are pep) songs more widely known than the institutions them selves. These tunes are played on the foot ball programs on the air and are incor pOrated in movies of college life. They brimg to their school more publicity than all the words ever written. They put the name of their institutions on the tips of thfe tongues of peop)le in all p)arts of the na tion. The moral: Why doesn't the University of South Carolina adopt such a song for their own ? So there's the idea. Who wvill carry it through ? .Will the school spirit of Caro lina's leading fraternities such as Omicron D)elta Kappa, Alpha Kappa Gamma, the Co-ed Association, Blue Key, andl Kappa Sigma Kappa be strong enough for them to subscribe funds andl start a campaign to get this song? We believe that with the new era at Carolina, there is enough patriotism for this to go over, Get enough money, a sum ranging from $300 to $500, which will be given to some lyric writer' or composer wvho will furnish Carolina. with a pCI) song that is a PCIp song. Some "big-time" song-writers would be in terested in a sum like that and if it could he obtained through the service groups and Carolina supporters, the notice couldl be sent to all the leading music houses. The ul timate result would be a nerve-tingling song that could create an almost lost substance at Carolina--pep. The idlea is there. The service clubs are here. The song-writers are willing. The school needs one. Now let's see how strong your school spirit is. IE ' COCK muary 30, 1908 ONZALES, First Editor. N the petofice at Columbia, 8. 0., CH Shadows In Space EVENING ON A NORTHERN LAKE by Walter A. Connolly Dying rays of sun sparkle and dance on tiny wavelets: Blue dragon flies, now poised mo tionless, now Vanishing, arrow-like, Hover and dart among the rushes. White birches gleam along the dark ling shore Faint zephyrs whisper Through their leaves, white gloomy thickets rustle With nestling birds. Distant jack pines poke Their dark sinister spear heads into a sky Of pellucid gold; their black reflec tion Etched in jagged outline on water, placid, - Like a vast pool of wine. Creamy clouds drift idly by; A far-off wisp of smoke corkscrews upward and vanishes. In the lull of eventide cry the night hawk and the whip-poor-will. BACK TALK (NOTE: All contributions to this column must be signed by the author and designated as to whether or not it Is to be published. These letters must not exceed 10 words. The contents of these letter: are not necessarily the sentiments of this publication.) Editor The Gamcock, Dear Sir: I have just been reading your issue of October 21st, and was struck by two sentences in your Sport side article entitled, "A Comedy of Fumbles." 1. "Carolina gave Davidson a han dicap by playing ten men against their twelve. McCallister permitted Man Mountain Granoff to play in McEver's backfield." 2. "Next week: East Lynne: or what happened to Clemson?" Stirring remarks these. They should have inspired the coaching staff of South Carolina to do some real coach ing. But sad is the tale of this week. The fumblers organization of South Carolina assisted the Clemson team to the greatest extent possible. They might have muffed a few more, but I doubt it. They did not have the ball enough. Therefore I suppose you will say that Carolina gave Clemson that handicap. But in all justice, you will have to give the Clemson Coach credit for lending his entire backfield to Caro hina, not just one man. The Carolina team is a galaxy of stars uncoached in anything like co.. hesion. The first year of the McCal lister regime, the team could not beat Clemson because there was (so they said) too much of Coach Laval's train ing left in the Varsity. The second year, they could not because while they had worlds of talent, they were all Sophs, and would have to wait until they were Juniors. This year, they have good Sophs and good Juni ors, but I suppose they are waiting for that Freshman star Grygo (is that the way to spell it?) to win next year and they will expect him to do it all by himself. There is only one redeeming feature of yesterday is that maybe we will, in future, use South Carolina boys and will .get us a coach. We have beeni needing one for several years. John Williamson. 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THE DECLARATIOt - OF INDEPENDENCE WERE COLLEGE Italics' By Tribble TRANSITION You called my name... and long- frorgotten ghosts Of once-remembered things besieged my brain The clink of glasses raised in after-midnight toasts And unexpected tears that fell with summer rain. A tableau of the days our might-have-been Could masquerade in robes of certainty Paraded for a fleeting moment when' .You bo-wed your head just no'w and spoke to me. (,You called my name... but it h-as been 8o long gThat you, wnknowingly, pronounced it wrong!) TYPEI4WRITER AMBLES Ne o n$ the Ca*oi* itadeliriutm from a chap who stayed h:ome: vent into a trance shortly before the k ickoff an pled a 21-6 -'s lietion from somebod1y's bo>'owedl hat... Scruqgs Ho0pe, who failed o enter the trance state, came close . .. T hat sweet Southern accent :rooming negro spirtuals in the darkened train belonged to G. Shzer ea lanot < ctraofn (South ) Ihrook! in, New .York . .. And gi~hts was Hluimmnel IIarle, of the l'ieuteat.erwr tureyson. horth and caption for the photo showinena ta gopectaors stoppin.. !yons : "Spec-t'ackle". .And K S. K *a~ Nesectatwor didppng ~it of broken-field running t<>war<d the sideltem, whn the affar rnrmised to de>elop in to a fl8tfght, had first cached hs pock-etbook itnd aoif Sid iucn testser.e< Imembering last year's gamn, entis fori Duntanorethrwho a six-foot space near the cheering econ altou tht wrhywh fail,d to appear...And Frank Sos ao n, alth uh Vb enG c h e d b y i uie s, pla y ed a s u stitu te en d - nan R.EPARTEE-T'ION Note to Dic<k Atchison, who labels himself Pat Jeter's ex-squire: | horuih onolsogue was ,a trifle boring principally because of tue oeuotc( afrt-person-sin gular. Even so, we aren't usually h e g o f o l n n c l e I t i c , " i t a s a l t t l l a t e fo r i t o d u e o a lightwy hnx o h lumninating comnment. lVe know the "nut" * * * * * GATIIERED MOSS The Dow -gsisters, pride of B?runson, ar'e just Aunt Bess and~' hant blioder$ nephew freshlman IIarrison of tenement 24%... wnhar, blneabi wi thel 'chen ectedg, bankroll who drives het 'wn ear, inhans hVote suite and 'writes themes on "lVhy I Like ln a diner-iThain Vrnn can have our address simply by enclo oga die-indita.6n an< ret urn postage... Three crates of coca olwas desned fop6 intewsmen at the Clemson-Carolina whatever i-a e/irndwpinhe adot booth-o that the journalepties had tO atoog the sadice ys . . . 'hat guy who sits next to US tfn colgy s oing-going-gone about Margqery Collins who plays tei r>ws-ad Cht opin a looks9 like somnebody-we'dlike-to-lenow... Vilrlaso lets t* tht librarian who publicly lectured little Janie Iian aske< "n th snfulness of reading "inwnral" books whens bout asked for a copy of Vm. Faulkner's "Sartary" which it bus"mmoral as a three-yearod playing hopscotch. (Continu,,d o. Pa... Six