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Pool Opening
Fulfis Dream
'When Secretary of Commerce Rarry .L Hopkins
formally opens the Carolina pool Tuesday, he will cli
max the work begun several years ago by niembers of
KSK, and carried on by state WPA administrator
Lawrence M. Pinckney.
As soon as it was learned that application was to be
made to the WPA for a pool, KSK led a student drive
to raise money for part of the Univ6rsity's contribu
tion.
Although hindered at first by a'lack of interest among
the students who felt that it was too remote, the neces
sary amount was raised and deposited with the treas
urer.
It remained in the treasurer's office idle for several
years while applications for the pool were being turned
down so much that almost. everyone had begun to be
lieve that the case was hopeless.
But state administrator Pinckney refused to accept
this verdict and made a special trip to Washington to
intercede for the University.
His efforts were successful, and last year news that
a swimming pool had been granted was flashed to stu
dents in a special extra edition of The Gamecock.
Work was begun on it immediately, and although
slight delays have been unavoidable, the construction
has proceeded at a satisfactory rate until its comple
tion this week.
As Harry Hopkins gives his dedicatory address, he
will bring to students the fulfillment of a dream, of some
years back, a desire for Carolina to have a swimming
pool which should be worthy of the University and
should be the "finest in the state."
Repairs Are
Urgent Needs
It would take several reams of paper to list the "needs
of th University", but among the most urgent would
be money for repairs to the physical plant.
Most of the buildings are in a deplorably delapidated
condition and are in bad need of general renovation and
modernization. For the past several years, buildings
which were known to be dangerously weak have been
used because there was no money to repair them.
Dormitories on the campus have been in use more than
100 years, and during that time there has been no major
overhauling on them. Termites have wrought extensive
damage to the foundations, leaving only shells for sup
ports.
The Extension building was abandoned this year be
cause of its unsafe condition. It had already been con
demned for a number of years before it was vacated.
It was estimated by engineers that a total of $100,004)
was needed to make repairs to the heating plant, and only
a small part of this has been done as yet.
More than 150 feet of steam line adjacent to the Ex
tension building gave way last year and had to be re
placed. The engineer who replaced the line was of
the opinion that the condition of that particular line
was typical of the whole system.
Appropriations from the state legislature in the past
have not been adequate to finance the repair work that
needs to be done, and there is danger that, if neglected
further, South Carolina will have to bear the burden of
constructing entirely new buildings in the next few years.
Signing Off
For Semester
As this issue goes to press, another chapter has been
written in the history of ,The Gamecock and,.another
staff has completed its work.
The next issue which will come out the first week
of the second semester will be under a new regime.
In trying to give to Carolina students a modern pro
gressive newspaper, many mistakes have been made by
the staff writers and the heads of the staff.
No newspaper, however, has ever been perfect and we
ask the indulgence of students for our shortcomings.
For the first time, The Gamecock increased its size
from six to seven columns, and an effort was made to
secure a schedule of typography comparable with pres
ent day tendencies in makeup.
An effort has also been made to present the news of
the campus in an unbiased way without undue recog
nition or space to any one organization.
Personal prejudices have been kept out of the col
.umns of TAe Gamecock, but no. attempt has been made
to suppress news or comment which was honestly crit
ical of any group.
If TAe Gamecok this semester has pleased the stu
dent4 in any way, credit should be given to members of
the staff who work almost entirely without recognition
or reward.
To them belongs any praise of the paper for without
them its publication would ihave been imuposuible.,
drey~t" for TA. -Gwiseockaa,~tiLafter iiams.
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FOR REST AND REL.AXATION /
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*Question-of-Week
"What do you do to prepare for exams."
Currie MacArthur:
"I go to Hkel's with my professors."
M. D. Putnam:.
"I try to spot the professors' questions."
Tom Nix:
"Cram like hell!"
Albert Hill:
"I let nature take its course."
John Stinson:
"I study like hell."
J. C. Kirtland:
"Wait until the last minute."
Bob Mathews:
"I've been studying, but I'm going to try
praying."
Emmet Cox:
"I put in time studying."
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By George 4uokerman
DIS8A AND DATA, Now that
the swimming pool is ready to -be
filled you recall it was just .about
ohe winter ago that the' Qafecock
printed the first and only extra in
the history of the paper, the head
line of which cried, in type re
served for the resurrection-, POOL
GRANTED, and scooped .both lo
cal, dailies on the story...The in
side parallel to the yarn Is that the
Gamecock 4xtra was almost floated
down the Congaree River... At
that hectic hour the football situ
ation was as hot as Dante's per
manent winter resort... Acting on
the campus grapevine rumor that
the gridders were going to kidnap
the edition, Gamecock editor Dinky
Williams called in a flying squad
ron of local police who guarded the
freshman circulation creW...One
week and no news from mathema
tician Tribble... The old dark house
of the campus, the one time ex
tension building, startled the cam
pus recently by coming to life with
lights once more. Cause, as it was
later learned, was not a remnant
Christmas tree or a dormant light
ning rod, but the reoccupancy of
the house by the -fajnilies who re
sided in those wood houses on
Green street, torn down to make
way for the new men's dormitory
... Hamlet's melancholy i - Cannon
will leave her pet Carolinian to
Hennig Cohen and Dan Millsaps
...Out this February goes journal
ist Cannon to bombard city edi
tors for a job... Gamecock readers
were surprised to find last week,
in the space reserved for genius
Louis Searson, a column by a
stranger named Niles Borop...one
campus cynic suggested that if
Niles does another column to ti
tle it: Burped by Borup... Rumor
also had it that Louis Searson was
one of the leading candidates lor
the Supreme Court post recently
given to Felix Frankfurter...But,
.it-was said,.he was turned down be
cause it was feared the law would
go from had to verse...you're
right, that pun is as old as Chinese
checkers... Latest in the ever
changing cycle of campus sports is
bicycling... It might not be a bad
idea to have a faculty six days bike
race around the campus, beginning
January 20th. ..Logical favorite
would be English prof. Wagenier
who pedaled his way around Eu
rope and Germany last summer...
All of which reminds you that some
student, housed in tenement twelve
downstairs,. has his walls decorated
with large swastikas... University
Players, plaything of Stephan and
Woods, are thinking about,
"There's Always Juliet". ..Because
Romeo might feel slighted, the
Players had better make another
choice. . .In fact another play, any
old play, would be better-even if
Romeo didn't care... How about a
new play, like East Lynne?.. .The
Carolinian, which has been the
graveyard for the great works of
the 1037 short story class, went
one step further and published a
work of Professor Thesaurus Bab
cock who conducted that class...
After the exams the Gamecock will
run a "missing persons" column...
They almost had to call ofT one of
the intra-mural football games this
week because there wasn't a quo
rum in the stands.. .Also absent,
and very notably, was the Notre
Dame shift. ..Yes, you know, the
gridders were old enough to shift
for themselves... Society editor
Rollins has so seldom appeared in
the Gamecock office this semester
that she has been dubbed the Bull
Street correspondent... And yes,
you also know, Musclin' In is writ
ten by a local choruspondent...
Pugilistic professor Frank, not
Frankie, DeMars, reprimanding a
local sports scribe for something
written by one of the University'.
sports publicists.. .Tri Itchy flater
nty evicted a pledge last week...
It was discovered that he was son
of an exterminator... The Game
cock will publish an ultimatum on
February 30th giving the literary
societs twenty fou!s hours to re
linquish their clainis of ownership
... If the demands are refused the
Gamecock will sell out to Hearst
... Yes, from bad to Hearst..
Garrulous Ed McGratjt says he will
be rich by. the end of 'February'...
all of which Is a good start for
Edi to becpIe the richest man in
the cemeteryr... .With aviation in
struactii hQw being offered to stu
dents, college educatjon seems to
be getting higher.. Sigested be
ginning t9 all ',e We future
E&d1o pr g ~j~ are, that man's
hege apl ,.,.semestei epitaph:
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Students Move'
To Protect Property
Significant action was taken at a- joint meeting of
KSK and Alpha Kappa Garfima this week when it was
decided to make plans for a campaignito protect Uni
versity property from thoughtless ard careless destruc
tion.
Blue Key, ODK, and the Co-ed Association have also
joined in this move, and a committeb representing all
five organizations is now *orking on the problem.
Few students stop to .think> that one reason for the
scar-city of money at Carolina is the unnecessary waste
sometines entailed by those who 'are not careful about
the way they use University property.
An excessively large number of -window panes has
to be bought each year, because of their being broken out;
grass around the edges of walks has to be replanted
several times, and a clear cut walk has been worn in one
place on the campus.
But the action of these organizations which combine
a large xumber of students is indicative of an under
current of disapproval of abuses to the campus.
This opinion is probably shared by the majority of
students ,who have considered the matter, and it will be
endorsed by those who consider the welfare of the Uni
versity at all.
Student cooperation in this move will do a great deal
to lower expenses of running the University, and will
in turn make more money available for other student
purposes.
Partial Summation
Of Objectives
To sum up all the editorials of the semester would be
impossible and unaccountably boring, but there are sev
eral well-defined objectives for which the University and
Carolina students should work in the future.
(1) A larger appropriation for the University to
build up a school which shall be foremost among edu
cational institutions.
(2) ' A reallocation of the student activity fee to revise 7
the individual allocation and include the Catolinian.
(3) Use of the Carolina stadium for large track
meets, and if possible, for the state track meeb.
(4) An additional man in the physical education
department to adequately handle the 600 students in
the gym classes.
(5) Emancipation of The Gamecock from the liter.-'
ary societies to the Carolina students.
(6) A swimming team and a state meet to make use
of the pool which opens Tuesday. r
Echoes Fromi Tine Press
Liberalism Or
Radicalism
(Reported From Los Angeles Collegian)
Y)uring the past five years there has been a definite
orend toward radicalism in the United States. Number
of radicals, that is, persons who voted as members of
radical political parties, .reached an all-time high in
1936 and is likely to increase by 194Q.
The question', "Who is a radical ?" has long been de
bated. Lincoln, Wesley, Luther, and other reformers
were known as radicals in their time and the wisdom ofj
their actions was not realized 'until after their deaths. >
Communist, Socialist, progressive, pension, and a score
of Utopian parties are generally conceded to be radical
in the accepted sense of the word. Webster defines a
radical as "one who advocates sweeping changes in law *
and methods.of governne~nt with the least possible de- '
lay."
The World war ended with economic radicalism very
much to the fore in Europe. The Bolsheviki had seized
power in Russia, and the Republican party ruled Ger
many. The Labor. party was gaining in Great Britain.
Socialism flared in America but disappeared when the ~
railroads were returned to private ownership in 1920.
Nineteen twenty-one was Communism's biggest year of ~
that .decade but the theory had lost many followers and
dropped far back by 1980. By 1982, at the dawn of the
Roosevelt administration, the radical trend was almost
The'New Deal and its many changes, especially those
proposed in metlhods of government, stirred the embers
of radicalism again and the liberal outlook of the ad
ministration fanned the political flame. After the very
high radical vote of 198, the Democrat aidministrationl
again brought forth new changes with the same ap.
parent result as before. Many new political agailiations .
sprang up, foremost of these being the pension planas and
the newly constructed Progressive par'ty. The 1940 elee's
tion will be the first absolute barometer upon the 1#teU ~
phase of the trend toward radie.Imn