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- .. - Editor AssooIJ .W. 1 :% NA" ourtenay 'Carson, Ben P W~# . dto. bur, Philip Wilmth, A m iffTAf WRITERS tore; Marlotte Burch, I TWdt q%Deothy Rager. 14ulas Nwin Ae.SC t",Isa omset tneshms Newman. Amsciat* soi Grom Elliott McCants, Nornan orath, Paul League Asm BDey. Dan Henderson, Raymond ''lc" sweatman, Edw 8. C. MUCKENFUSS, JR., Man'g Editor Buiess Maagr. A Great Trustee By President J. Rion MoKissick The long roll of trustees of the University is starred with names of many illustrious South Carolinians. None of these in the last half century has equalled David R. Coker in enduring service to -the State; none has surpassed him in loyal devotion to the highest wel fare of the University. Elliott, Chambers and Ashbrook in their recent vol ume, "The Government of Higher Education," thus define the qualifications which a college or university trustee should have: "Those who are free from the dominance of any par tisan group; conversant with the history and ideals of the institution; leaders in their own special fields of activity so that the public has confidence in their abil ity; able and willing to devote considerable time to their duties; and capable of regarding higher educa tion as a dynamic force in civilization, and their trus teeship as a high form of civic service." As a trustee of his alma mater, Mr. Coker embodied all these qualifications during his 27 years' service one of the longest tenures on our Board in the 133 years of this institution's life. Throughout his trusteeship he was faithful to his conviction that a trustee should fulfill conscientiously, impartially, and fearlessly the trust committed to him. His ideals of what the University should be were lofty -and from first to last he was tenacious and steadfast in his adherence to them. No selfish consideration ever influenced his course as a trustee. He sought always to do what he conceived to be for the greatest good of the University and of the State. He was frank, sincere, outspoken, high-minded. In expressing his opinions in Board meetings he never hes itated to be in the minority-sometimes a minority of one-yet he was never an extremist nor an obstruction ist. The honor and reputation of his alma mater were especially dear to him and he always strove to defend and maintain them. David R. Coker is greatly placed on the roster of trustees of the University as he should be because he was an outstandingly great trustee, faithful to the best traditions and standards of our historic governing board. For nearly a generation as a trustee he served the University and the State-and he left both better than he found them. His place in the history and in the grateful remembrance of both is high and secure. What's Sauce, For The Goose There are few Carolina students who do not feel proud of the record of the Gamecock football team this year in playing through a tough schedule and coming out *with six victories. And while praise is going to Coach Rex Enright and Athletic Director W. H. Harth, the work of the two stu dents who handled athletic publicity should not go un noticed. For the first time, newspapers all over this section of the country were kept informed of the doings of Caro lina's footballers, and when the team went on trips, some one usually went ahead to give them a build-up in the city papers. Expenditure of money for this purpose cannot be con sideredi wasted, but when other groups are being de nied funds because the athletic department is broke, it .begins to look like unfair discrimination. Although the University band plays for every home game during the year, they had a hard time securing funds for a trip to Washington after their promised trip to New York had fallen through. Band members also pay for their own transportation to and from the stadium for the home games. The cheer leaders were not given transportation to the Furman game in Greenville, and if Whitey Rawl had not given them gasoline, they might not have been able to make the trip to Washington. Members of the 1938 varsity tennis team have not re ceived sweaters or even block letters, and to all their queries and pleadings has come only one answer-no money. The football team will play just as well whether the band and cheer leaders get tripe or the tennis team gets sweaters or not, but if spending can be done at all, why not spend a little more and reward some other groups on the pampust - That won't hiirt anyone either, and if it means going in debt a little, there 'is always the consoling thought to fall back on that after all, the incoming revenue man tak ere of that just as it does all the other ex IT= THE Wlayaks Vivian T4H E tuth Koaar, Martha ae G AMECOC ty Xditors; Ed .o. date Sports Editors; .Founded January 80, 1908 in Patter.on. Tricky ROBEtT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Ed An. Bay., Amociat. Entered as second class matter at th stoffice at oolWumbla, Novembew 2W. A Curious Anomaly One of the curious anomalies that has existed on the University campus for a long time is one that probably has never been considered by the average Carolina stu dent. If someone were to ask him about ownership and con trol of The Gamecock, supposedly the property of the student body, he would answer noncommittally that it was undoubtedly controlled by the students, since it is their official news organ. This seems to be the opinion of a large number of stu dents who have not had the opportunity to learn the facts, and these, together with those who have no inter est in the matter, are unaware that their paper is con trolled by that relatively small portion of students who are members of one of the four literary societies, rep resenting less than one-fifth of the total enrollment at Carolina. Why is this true I Because in 1908, when practically every student at the University was a member of one of the literary so cieties, far-sighted students saw the need of a campus newspaper and established The Gam,--ock, paying for it out of money raised by advertising and subscriptions among all members of the society. Though there was obviously no necessary connection between publishing a newspaper and the activities of a literary society, The Gamecock was financed this way for a long time. At first election of staff members was done by the literary societies themselves, but later a ioarc of Publications W W ki Ik to nd i l.CtIs.: After several years of literary society financing and control, The Gamecock was given an allotment out of the student activities fee, and although the student body had taken over financing The Gamecock, control of it was left with the literary societies and it remains there today. That a small minority should be given control of a publication which is representative of the whole student body does not seem logical or desirable. If the students are paying for the paper, they should have the same voice as those who happen to have ex-officio control as literary society members. Letting them share the burden of its expense while giving them~ no chance to share its control is not unlike the principle of "taxation without representation." It is plain, then, that there is but one democratic thing for the literary societies to do: Have a meeting and by joint action give The Gamecock to the students of the University to whom it rightfully belongs. Just A Little On Ping Pong One of the most popular innovations in the Sutdent Union is the ping-pong table in the basement. It is hard to find a time during the day when there are not two people playing on it and others waiting their turn. But two things need to be done to improve conditions. Students need to have some place to get new balls be sides buying them at the canteen, and at least one more table should be bought and installed. This would necessitate spending a little of the money from the Student Union fund, but it would be hard to find a place where students want it spent more. Echoes From The Press Give Dictators An Inch And They Want (Reprinted from the Los Angeles Collegian) When Mussolini first marched his black shirted le gions into Ethiopia, he perfected an old philosophy of possession: "It's mine because I want it 1" Benito wanted Ethiopia; he got it. Adolph wanted first Austria and now a good part of Czechoslovakia; he got them. What the world now wonders is where will it stop? By these same tokens Hitler could demand parts of the United States for possessions. Rather absurd? Not at all. Milwaukee, which is as much, if not more German than Sudetenland, could well demand a plebis cite for self-determination. Philadelphia, which is even more German than Mil waukee, would Boon follow suit. It would not be long ere the German embassy in Washington would be do livering curt notes from der Fuehrer to the state depart ment. After all, Germany must look after her children in all nations, United States not excepted. As far-fetched as the theory may be, in essence it is the same thing that happened in Czechoslovakia. A sane sensible world must do something to sootch the treory, "I'm.ine because T mnt I t! 1936 Member 1939 CI A~ssockiIed CoIekte Press ~ Distributor of 810 Cole6ic iUes f. .P. .....,.D on. AY N A . A nVR I 91@ 4 my National Advertsing $rvce, In1. Jan Itor Coege Pub1kbers Re6W@&*ue 420 MADIsON AVE. NEwYot K, N. Y. 8. o.. CnCcAGo * SosoN - Los ANORas - sAn rnamcso PA ampus Camera B. .HUTCHINSON g OF CHICAO, INtR CEPfED A PASS %_ IN HIS END ZONE AND PAN 105 YDS FOR A ICUCHDOWN AGAINS NORjj WESERN IN 919. HE REPEATED THE FEAT LATER IN 1-HE GAME FM 105 BERNIE IERMAN MINNESOTAS GRE OCM. ONCE FAILED AS GRID MENTOR Al THE UNIV. OF MONTANA, GAVE UP THE JOB AND SfARED SELING BONDS. oJo "BUCKSOT 1E U.OF PENNSYLVAM WAS 1E FIRSr EDU A11NAL INSTITUTIOl IN AMERICA TO BEA ,.114E NAME UNIVERSr I ,Q- UNIOL 1779 If WAS IN COORO 1REE MOLNAJNS ARE NAMED CAlE OLEGE A HARVARD, PRINCEON AND YALE / - ACADEY - Question-of -IWeek The iinquiring repu-ier is back again with the questior of the week. And this time, it's about chapel programs Here are some of the students' ideas about just wha should be done to improve them. Eugene Haynes, Fre8hman I like the chapel programs as they are now althougl more frequent appearances of the Girls' Glee Club woul be very pleasing, or the addition of any music. Paul Holscher, Fre8hman, I think that the chanel programs could be improve< along the lines of better entertainment. The Glee Clul gave us one of the best programs, since Dr. McKissicl gave us an address early this fall. If the chapel pro grams were filled with entertainment by our stu dent organizations, I am sure the attendance would b greatly improved. Students like to see their fellov students in action. I think it would be a wise policy fo each campus organization to be asked to sponsor on chapel program, and in the end make some sort of awar< to thet organization who sponsors the best program ac cording to the students' choice. Clarence Glover, Sophomore I think our chapel program is pretty good like it ib but it could be improved. All students like music, s why not have a musical program every once in a while Ed Clary, Senior; DeWitt Arro'wsmith, Sophomore Joseph Hlatkovich, Sophomore We think we could have a little music with our chape programs. SPFAKING of SAVety ----..SLEEP / WALKING ASLEEP ON 114E 708.rTHAirt $ AASLEEP IN THG.DEEPD 89fl A3L E P AT Tr4E w,4EetL- Tl.'s SUICIDE ij,ecempw z,. jLV3S ARLES ATKINSON, Business Manage ed Weekly by the literary Societes at the Uive. of South Carolina during the college year ezoept ag eaminations and holidays. e4 00l0o1a .....0ZMAie Nator UL BROCKINGTON, Circulation Mgr. Press Rate Collect, By George Zuckerman In these uneasy days when national boundaries are in dispute, when a couple of guys named Joe are n the ruling harnesses and when enemies bloom on your per sonal horizon with the suddenness of wild weeds after a rainstorm, the question most pertinent is-Who is' your enemy? If, perchance, some stranger stalked the streets of Columbia one night last October, he would have believed that revolt ruled -Main street. He would have seen boys with youthful but tense counte nances attired in grey uniforms ad. vancing and retreating in groups. And the hostile opponents would be boys in civilian clothes. He would see fist-fights, hat-stealings, hear frenzied voices in distorted battle cries-and feel hatred hanging like an invisible fog over the locale. Were he one of the authenic homo sapiens, he would soon dis cover that the riot .was being waged by the students of South Carolina and Clemson colleges. Even in'view of this enlightenment he would, no doubt, have made the commentary that the rivalry bordered on enemity. If the stranger, again perchance, some few weeks later, wandered to j the textile city of Greenville and P, paused long enough to buy a ducat y4 to a college football game being played there on that day, he would find that the elements of surprise know no bounds. As he would sit in the Sirrine Stadium he would recognize the boys in the grey-uni forms, sitting in a solid block in one potion of the stands. Upon ques tioning his neighbor, he would learn that South Carolina was playing Furman and, yes, Those were the cadets from Clemson, now in the L roles of spectators. A smile would advance over the stranger's face if he were to watch the Carolina cheer leaders prompt the Clemson boys, vociferously aid ed by a Carolina aggregation, in giving the college yells of South Carolina. But he would have grown philosophical, and probably laughed out loud, at the affair that took place between the halves. Several Furman students were in possession of a rooster, a pseudo Gamecock, supposedly Carolina's mascot. It is unknown if the Fur mn clique entertained the nefarious idea of segregating the fowl to blue plate portions. Anyhow a few Car olina freshman gridders, intent on making a discernible display of their new acquired college spirit, stalked across the gridiron, laterally, captured the fowl, and again sped -across the gridiron, again laterally, in a sustamned drive which took them to their section of the stands. Although the situation, according to ' Joe Miller's joke book, demanded shot-guns, a regiment of Furman' students, armed only with indig nation, streamed across the gridiron in very hot pursuit. But the Fur man offensive was about as success ful as that made longitudinally by their football team--because South Carolina had unfurled an ally and a very strong one at that. For it was the Clemson uniformed crew who repelled the fighting Furman ites. I sincerely hope the stalking stranger took to the northbound highways which would lead to Gotham town where, on the follow ing Saturday, he would go to the Polo Grounds to again watch the South Carolina footballers- in ac tion. His philosophical equanimity would have been shattered again. While Jupe Pluvius tried his best to set the stage for a reenactment of Noah's Ark, fifteen thousand persons, among them about two~ hundred loyal Carolina rooters, sat. shivering in the stands. Meanwhile, below them the gridders ran be tween the rain's ruled lines. Ford ham, the home team, was the favor ite and jumped into a 13 to 0 lead. But the Carolina boys, far from their sunny land, never raised the Please Turn To Page Five flack Talk Men of the Freshman Class, Care of The Gamecock Dear Freshmen: I am a Senior. K. S. K. may be a good organi zation (personally, I think it 1s swell), but it takes Real Carolin* Spirit to back the University the way you have been doing it this' year. I just want to stick in my two. cents worth of congratulations. Rat caps add a great deal, in my1 own opinion. From the way yOU have been using them I believe yoU.# think so too. I see little reason, now* that the necessary impetus has been afforded, why you the freshmen, should not keep tile thing going.a You can do far more than the up-rd per- classmen can in giving your fel low classmates the proper viewpoint ~ and in encouraging them to we87 Ma'Isggs that you get toA g ether as a class and Chaflenge th 1 K.S. K. Committee on rat caps t let you handle the job. I belIevei; you. You can do a better 3ob than~ Sthey can. You are now organiM4e1 ,as a class. Go to It! -A Senior and Fellow Carolli