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HAROLD PRINCE - -- - Editor ASSOOIA' DEPARTMENT HZADS 0 C Po Colt Hendley, Sports Editor; Margaret Ronins, SocieY Associate Editors; George & Editor; Leola Garety. Co-ed Editor. bury Philip Wilmet, Ao STAFF WRITERS tore; Charlotte Burch, Rt Irene LaBorde, Virginia Brown, Dorothy Roger. Louise Newman, Associate Societ Fry, Arnold Muir, Thelma Thompson, Frances Thomas. Larry Gall, Mtty Green, Elliott Mcoants, Norman Grath, Paul League, Assoo Schofield, Leonard Berry, Dan Henderson, Raymond Davis. "uk wamn di Owens, Lois Ewart, Bnrol S. C. MUCKENFUSS, JR, MaAg dtor Busine Manager Faculty Needs NHigher Salaries Included in the appropriation request recently pre sented to the Southw Carolina Budget Commission by Dean John A. Chase, Jr. is a request for an increase of $105,080 for maintenance and operation for next year. In spite of the financial condition of our state, this in crease is fully justified because it would be used to re store the salaries of University officials to a pre-depres sion level, a restoration that should have been made long ago. It would be difficult to find any group in South Caro lina who deserve an increase in salaries now more than the University faculty. Through the lean years of the depression, they have re mained faithfully at their posts despite repeated salary reductions which brought their income down more than 11%. Many of them have received offers at other institutions with higher salaries, but they have refused to accept them and have remained to serve their own state. A survey gecently made by the American Association for the Advancement of Science among 35 state colleges and universities showed that salaries at the University were far below the average. Thirteen of these schools were in the South, a section of the country which is supposed to be particularly hard hit by the depression. Yet at the University, a dean receives approximately $2,000 less than the average dean, and salaries of pro fessors, assistant professors, and instructors are cor respondingly lower. President Roosevelt has repeatedly stated that the way out of the recession is to cut prices, not wages. - ' "If industries reduce wages, they will be fostering a downward spiral and they will mnake it necessary for their government to consider other means of creating purchasing power. "To cast the burden of a temporary business recession upon workers is not only moral bankruptcy, but the bank ruptcy of sound business judgment," the President contended. Must The Fraternity Go? Of interest to college students is a quotation taken from an interview published by a prominent university president recently: "Fraternities and sororities . . . started out originally as stud(y groups of studelnts having siumilar interests. Of course, they have an important social function to fuil fill, but if they allow their social function to overshadow all else, they too, will fall by their own weight like all other costly, obsolete, an(d ineffective institutions. "But I don't believe in taking action against them . time is the best test tuibe, youl knowv . . . if they (10 their job-as I hope they nmry-they will continue to exist; if they fail to (10 so, they will (lie a natural (heath aund none will mourn their passing." During the past few years, social fraternities have been subjected to bitter criticism by those who magnify their weak p)oints and predict their dlownfall. The pressure of this criticism has p)enetrated to al imost every (college campus in the nation, andl its effect cani he seen ill tihe rigidl control exercisedl on their ac tivities. Many have advocated their abolishment and have pointedI to the uIndemocratic feeling engendered on col lege canmpuuses with fraternities and other c'xclusive so cial groups. Most of these criticisms have b)een based on preju (lice and dislikes rather than on facts. Though somel organizations foster activities harm fuil to the best dlevelop)ment of students, this fault is in the group rather than the systeml. Alt houugh primarily social groupjs, fraternities must be more than this if they are to continue to exist. Tihey should encourage scholarship amuong their members and1 should p)lay an active part in extra curricular activities. If they moderate their excessive social life and keep active in other affairs, they will build a soulnd founda tion for a longer life; if they do not, they will provide the means of their own extinction. All Work And No Play Seeing anyone overloaded with work is not at all pleasant, andl the prospect of one man holding down a job which would tax the wisdom of Solomon and the pa tience of Job is not only revolting but also detrimental to the best interests of University students. Student activities hamve been slightly handicapped in the past by the fact that they have been in the hands of a man who has had the responsibility of managing them as well as directing the athletic policies of Carolina. .That..they~ have continued to function M sfl is .ciga 2 ayee, Vivian THE-. ekerman, Paul San. ith Eanarr. Martha A M ECC r Editors; Ed Founded January 0, 1908 late Sports Editors; Patterson, Tricky ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALE, 1i no Hays, Associate Entered' as second clasm matter at the postofice at C November 0, 190 tribute to the director of student activities, but in all fairness to him and to the students whose activities are concerned, the work now being done by one man should be divided into two jobs, athletic director, and director of student activities. Managing the athletic set-up at the University is a man sized job in itself, without the additional burden of handling the funds of all the organizations on the cam pus and keeping them under control. It would be foolhardy to imply that athletics have suffered during the past few years by overworking the student activities director. On the contrary the Uni versity has made great strides in most sports, and the record of its football team this past year has won the acclaim of hundreds of fans in this section of the United States. And on the other hand, there has not been any great retardation in student activities as yet. But if both of these are to continue to succeed, their success can be facilitated by dividing them into their two logical parts, and not burdening any one person with such a confusing mixture of football schedules, track meets, and Selden society yearbooks. Foundation Attacks Education Higher education was the object of an attack by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of teaching recently. This was based on an intensive ten year study of 45,000 high school and college students. The Foundation charged that college students prepar ing to teach were intellectually inferior to other aca demnic groups, and that the majority of those preparing to teach were doing it because they could not (o aity thing else. Another criticism made -was that college training in jured education in a large number of cases. To substan tiate this claim, test results showing students making higher grades as sophomores than seniors were cited. Still another criticism was that many students who go to college aie the intellectual inferiors of those who (10 not. Yet although these attacks were founded on extensive investigitions, the Foundation (lid not offer any rem edies for the deficiencies. College curricula have been and will contiiuie to be subject to abusive attacks such as these, bit the gradual evolution brought about by those who are working for the dlevelopment of hetter eduI- cational opportunities will (d0 much to dlecrease them in the future. Echoes From The Press Is It Education Or Training? (Reprinted from the Kentucky Kernel) An interesting applroachl to this all-impIortant ques tion of ed1uication was presented in the D)ecember issue of "Shini ng Lines,"' published by the Mergenthaler linotyp)e company. The article str'essed the difference between the meanings of the words "educated" and "trained." It is a conmnon mistake for one to sp)eak of an educated man as tra inedl, andl a trainedl mn as edlucated. Eduica tion is the enlargement and1( enrichment of the mind, while training is the pr0ce~ss of making the mindl a more effective' tool for dhoing a specific work. There are many examples such as this: a trained man, whose faculties are indeed as "sharp as a razor's edlge," holds a p)osition that pays him a large salary. But he is unedlucated ; he has no) interests outsidle his routine du ties. Another man m is educated-that is, lhe can talk and write entertainingly on almost any subject-but he has never been ale to hold any job) patying more than thirty-five (dolars a week. His mindl( is blunt. It is high gradle steel, but it has never- been whetted by training to a cutting edge at any one angle. Neither of these men is as big as lie is cap)able of being. The young man or woman that must sacrifice one or tile other, should strive for "training." An educated mTindl is a luxury; a trained mind, a necessity. The ideal should be: education in the broad sense of the wordl, and1( training to perform a specific wvork of usefulness. "Get an edlucation by all means, if you can, but rec ognize' its triue purpose-to lend vision, power, and guidance to a mind that is trained to do one thing ex ceedingly well." One must assume by this statement that the author refers to the majority of persons who will be absolutely dlependlent upon their own earning power. And the ques tion is also raised as to whether a mind can be called "trained" if it hasn't been somewhat "educated." Bunt there is. a distinction which many of us fail to recog nize,and...-liin all-dt is good advice to colleg,students. o1938 Mem IC K .af("b cack P.98NT.O POR NATIC Nationad Adverdi rat Eitor CoUetUsm, 420 MADISON AvE. lumbia, . 0., Ccaso - SOon Los AS Press Rate Collect By George Zuckrman If you happen to peruse through the University catalog and study the requirements for a degret from the school of journalism, you will discover, as I fortunately did, thgt %purgatorial Mathematics was waiv ered. In no small way does this degree, a very 'modern and sensible one, ease the path to the celestial Fourth Estate. Not so many.yesterdAys ago, be fore genius Louis Searson was able pen indignantly about the staid at-' mosphere which has settled over the campus, there was a certain journalism student whose clicking typewriter was a verbal machine gun. Target of his streamlined sentences was anyone whose name or dame was news-or an open in vitation to a pun or a poem. The accused is none than Hal (Double Trouble) Tribble. Journalist Tribble came from An derson 'to the University carting a I trunkful of adolescent poetry, a q grade A high school transc*ipt, and a soon to disappear rosy complex ian...Too soon (lid Anderson's gif't to literature discover that the Greeks had more than a word for it-for they pinned him with a pin. When the curtain canAe down on his freshman year, Tribble was just another guy named Joe who was going to write the Great American Novel. Through the medium of The Gamecock Tribble's genius, for put ting into print terse verse, puny puns, and words others dared not the to think reached his college public. Because of his column "Ticker I Tape," The Gamecock was more the than just something to be used for full an improvised umbrella or to start fires. But eventually it was Trib- J ble's column which ignited a men- aga tal conflagration. A group of book learned individ- a d tals gained titles, lost their sense C of humor, gathered about a judicial fes table, and decided "to play God." To use the vernacular, they called i three strikes and Tribble was out. hoi In the 1937's autumn Tribble, like th6 proverbial had penny, returned to the University, this time carting wo< a cop)y of the American magazine bia which held one of his stories be twecen its painted covers. At the invitation of the Ben Hechtic Dinky sho Williams, then editor of The/ Gamefl(cock, Tribble once more col umned, and "Italics" was the re suilt. '[hle italicizedl column be came the bright and breezy part ofq The Gamecock, continuing through out the semester and numbering among' its most ardent readers a few of those some%.hat repentant literary umpires. lBut, where Tribble is, trouble also is. When Don McCallister's 19J37 version of the gridiron Game cocks looked ready for the frying pan, columnist Tribble captured the sentimenit of the campus and, in somewhat lower case, bluntly told the gridders "they stink." Several footballers, led by one who was long on brawni and quick on tem per, went out "lookinig" for Trib ble. And they found him in one of the tenements. Luckily there nalists present and Tribble wvas never the recipient of that collec tive sock on the jaw. February was graduation for Tribb)le. But one of Spring issues of the new Carolinian containedl a short story lhe wrote. I columned, before the issue ap)peared, that Tribblle's opus was a stick of dly namite. From a reliable source it was learned that the literary uim pires had frantically called a meet. ing to dletermine whether or not the p)ublication of the Carolinian shouldl be censored. The mnagazine ap)peared. And morality survived-despite Trib) ble's story. With this bombastic literary background, and with his personal the public eye, the proper prognos tication was that Trribble would go -- out into the wide world and make. great contributions to literature and journalism. But only the second guessers were right. For Tribble ips up-state, teaching in a small town high school. Five classes of Math em atics. While literature and journalism may be the temporary losers, the teaching profess:on has certainly gained a colorful cohort. When the problems of X and Y become boring, Tribble throws down his ruler, sits on the radiator, and calmly asks his bewildered students to write theIr "impressionis of life" -at the moment. From Mathentatician Tribble there may, at long last, spring a singular cult whose axIom will be: twa 'and, two does not nua u. . CHARLES ATKINSON, RUWInss Manager le"ii PMU Issued Wekly by the Literary Societies at the UniveT. tar of sity of South Carolina during the college year except during examinations and holidays. MAL ADVzrmesIN@ ey g Se , InC. James oalloway ....... ..............xchange Editor NKW YORK, N. Y. 6uL9 - SAN FNANCIWO PAUL BROCKINGTON, Circulation Mgr. amnpus Caimera OMEUN COM.EE OFFMCALS RECENRlY RECEVED AN ENDMM APPLCAi0N SIGNED' Will A FOOT PRINT. IT WAS TH "SGNATURE. OF WELY COK.3 DYS oL, SON OF BUDD CC MRUN'S FIRSM COACH. If WAS FIU AWAY- FOt REFERENCE ABOUT 1B YEARS RENCE/ BERGERS%ON NNERSITY OF WASHINGTON CDED, RT 8 rALM OWAY VON THE NATNALTEO ITEROLEGIAT PENG OFEREA INDIVIDUAL SMALL BORE RIFLE FOR 78 CONSSCM YEARS! CHAMPIONSHIP WITH A PF SCORE OF 500! @AssocTED 0XLEMAT11 PRMU Question-of-Week [ere are a few of the New Year resolutions made by some of students. I resolve: aul League-Sophomore: To quit griping about the food at mess hall, just go on, grin, and bear it; not to make another ny crack about Marshal Cantey and his pooch. 6. W. Busbee-Sophomore: Never to twist my neck around in suddenly when a handsome dame passes-or %ven when ame passes. ordon Courtney-Freshman: To be extra nice to my pro ors or at least until examinations are over. heresa Tenore-Sophomore: To write at least one letter ie a month without asking for the well known mazuma. ichard Frick-Freshman: I resolve to quit any wild and >lly adventures to the haven of Carolina gentlemen-Columi College. :arl Cone-Sophomore: I resolve to cut down to at least four ws a week-at the Strand. SPEAKI NG OF SAVeTY< DEP&ND .. %IGNWALSVoR. '-RAI NS DEPEN D UPON S.ICNALS - HP IN DISTRESS DPENIO UPON~ a NLS'o BRINO HELP WHNE OIDN'T 'you ~ToIT StG3NAL Nou WERE '""'ADndOSS -SToPPIN?, - ...ws..'T DEPeND \ d, /To PR.EVENT Within the space of .a little more than a year, the lives of four Carolina students hiave been violently snuffed out in auto-. tnobile accidents. During 1939 The Gamecock urges students to heed the warnings expressed in these safety cartoons and DRIVE CAREFULLY.J