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The Gamecock Vounded January 30, 1906 ROBERT EILIOTT GONZALES, FIrst Editor utered asa second-class matter at the pstofie at Columbia, I. 0. Nov. 20, 1906 Member Associated Cole6iate Press 1940 Distributor of 1941 Colle6iade Dieest 01SSNrTSO FOR NATIONAL AOV5RTI9iN* BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publskers Represessative 420 MAoION AvE. NEW YORK. N. Y. CNICaso - BoSTON - Los aNessS - SAN FaaCsco Issued weekly b the Literary societies at the University of South Carolina during te college year. RICHARD W. FRICK PHILIP WILMETH ..................... CO-EDITORS E. W. "DUCK" SWEATMAN, BUSINESS MGR. J. H. McKINNEY, JR. MANAGING EDITOR EDITORIAL STAFF Leonard Turnbull ........ ---...................... Sports Editor Blanche Gibbs ...... . ---........................... Co-ed Editor Nancy Padgett -..--...-..... ...................... Co-Ed Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS Deward Brittain Blanche Gibbs Joe Kirby Don Merrick Sarah Flinn Paul Callahan Gordon Hill Bernie Bass Katherine Martin STAFF WRITERS Frank Sloan Bob Quinn Albert Eggerton John Nash Paul Posey Pitkin Bell Donald Law Helen Fakoury Morris Mazuraky Jaudon Harley Sara Hughes Kathryn Martin David Brockington ....--.................... Circulation Manager George Gregory .....---........................ Exchange Editor BUSINESS STAFF Dave Alterman Beryl Kerns Willis Beall Walter Taylor Here's A Health From Carolina For the third time the University of South Carolina is host to the annual Southern con ference boxing tournament. To the hundreds of visiting newspapermen, participants, of ficials and spectators, the student body of Caro lina considers it an honor and a pleasure to have you on the campus. In past years the school officials have asked Carolina women and men to "put on their best" and act like ladies and gentlemen. This year we have heard no such request. The reason is that the "higher ups'" know that the Univer sity student body has accustomed itself to the affair. There is but one rule for such an occasion and that is sportsmanship. The students here know what that means and in my opinion will live up to the standard. However, students must remember that sportsmanship means discontinuing yelling during rounds. This is a Southern Conference ruling and may have lots to do with the out come of the fight. It may be hard to do, but quit it because the Gamuecocks are the host team and it may hurt them. We want to make this the biggest and best tournament of its kind in the country. Lets do it. With these final words wve want to extend hearty welcome to all. Enjoy yourselves tiis week, we do every week. If It's Anything We Hate It's A Stooge When we thought of this editorial we did not have any one person in mind, but if tile shoe fits let it pinch. With the political campaign cominig on there are certain "wvant to be politicians'' who are beginning to get that back slapping, hello there, wanta dope line, ready. To new stu dents on the campus this is unnoticed but to thle older -set it is disgusting. Everyone knows what, and who, he wants to vote for, so how about cutting out some of this fancy button holing. It might help. As every one knows there are two or three factions on the University campus. Each of these factions have men of this sort, and in every campaign they go to work, ruining what ever chance they had before this practice was exercised. Why not let the speeches of the can didates and the issues of the parties be the foundation for voting. To those students who haven't met these "pests'' yet, here's the way to recognize them. If they have a sheepish grin, or a come here look, you've seen one. Beware Gamecock, As Well As Others, Is Misquoted Monday afternoon the Student Council failed to reopen the case of the eligibility of Willis Beall for a candidate for Student body presi dent. This is how the case stands now and will stand, as far as the Gamecoc.k cares. At the beginning of the semester we said we were for all and against none; that is the way we feel now. In last week's Gamecock the front page carried a story on the Beall case. A staff re porter got the facts and printed them as he saw them, with malice toward none. The Game cock editor was supposed to have said lie would make an apology for the story in this issue of the paper. The editor made no such statement and was misquoted. We have no apologies to make to anyone. However, we do say that there were a few erroneous statements in the story of last week's issue that were later corrected over the Game cock radio program, Tuesday afternoon. One of the statements was that Flinn Gilland, assist ant registrar, was misquoted, which was true. The whole case of Beall's eligibility was based on this statement and as we see it, with the retraction of the statement The Gamecock has no more to say. On another page of this week's paper are printed both a majority and a minority report, with a statement of facts by Sol Blatt, Jr., president of the student body. From now on keep The Gamecock out of politics 'cause we ain't running for no office, or from nobody. Help! For The School Of Journalism None of us, "by taking thought'", expects to "add a cubit to his stature"-nor to add a building to the School of Journalism. But sens ible planning is necessary to every venture. The following sensible planning, which is heard from both faculty and student journal ists, will unquestionably lead to a profitable venture for all of Carolina if it is carried out. Photography equipment in the journalism laboratory is one of the foremost needs of the school now, as the moderen journalist is expect ed to be prepared to handle all the ''angles'' of an assignment. This may seem questionable as an advantage to the whole school but it is only a preliminary step to what wvill follow. Granted that there is little opportunity ini the immediate future for the expenditure of such i sum, following the installation of photpgraphy eqluipment wvill gradually build up a complete printing plant laboratory with perhaps a sepa rate building for the journalism students. Then Carolina will be enabled to increase its prestige both academically and in the eyes of the pmub lic--for a UTniversity of South Carolina Press and a more frequently published campus news paper will be feasible. Addled to thme birds killable with this one stone is the present great needl for training in a branch of newspaper work that few journal ism schools can offer. Technical training in the mechanics of a printing plant, covering every phbase of printing production, would have given many graduates a job they didn't get. And that's what we all expect when we get out isn't it--a job? This Is The Largest Gamecock In History This week 's issue of The Gamecock is the largest issue ever printed in the history of the paper. It is a custom for the student weekly to be an eight page publication with eleven issues each semester. Sometimes the regular routine is broken with an occasional six and ten page paper. However, with the diligent work of the Busi ness Manager and the Alumni Association, with the cooperation of the Reportorial staff, the largest Gamecock on record cnmes io you. Campus Camera. RESEw OF UNION COLL66E 1804- -1866! DURJNG 'THAT i AY\'nM HE ALSO WAS PRESIDENT PRESIDENT W op WM- FOSTER. RENSSEAER PEIRM PoLYfrANIC OF KEYNON INSTITUTE OOLLEGE IS FOR, 'THE ONLY is COLLEGE PPM YEARS! IDENT WHO FLIES HIS UlWN PM.ANE DR. CE W. SMrfH S PREXY & SUEANNA UNIVERSITY , - MMBRoER (MARLES 3. SMIM IS PRS1DENT OF ROAOKE COLLEGE +Question-of-Week What question would you like to see discussed in Question of the Week? Marcus Stark-I would like to see campus politics brought out more often. Such as how they operate, some of the methods used to get votes. Anne Shand Adams-Do you think that the new cut system will have to be revised and why? Gordon Hill-Iwould like to know more about the allocation of the school funds. Where the money goes and why. Margaret Lesesne-How can some central'notification of school events be brought about? Harold Jervey-What do you think of the operation of the book store? Molly Owens-What can be done to bring bigger orchestras to Carolina and the attendance be increased at the Social Cabinet dances? Natalin Lifchez-I think that the question of student self government should be discussed. Bernie Bass-What do you think of the recent ruling of the Student Council on the presidential candidate? Spec Culbertson-How do you think that ihe relations be tween the facu-lty and tihe student body? Julian Detreville-What (10 you think of the preseent social System on the campus and the regulat ions imposed by the faculty on the fraternity dlances? Jim Galloway-What can be done about political machines? Ray Mobley-What is the most p)ressing need at Carolina? Letters To The Editor Dear Editors.insasmsipadthelcrat We wish to protest the low stateinitlgetcoc.Btvhtae of p)olitical morality on this campus. w ee nopltc v re Please uindlerstand that this JeremiahsirtorthespotusmMa act is inspired solely b)y the events of cavla nrge o-oln n the last few (lays. hresapn,a( h lrfcto Trhe student council has shown it-ofyole(ol)-cs.Thstdt self to be crassly opportunistic. They bd scaatrzdb l dia have answered irrefutable logic with to fumrlpatcsa( h superior voting power 'and revealed etuisi cetneo i hls their individual ethics to be coindi--olyo Creie ai' fi e tionedl by political expediency rather suet h 1 o prv fti than by that trivial abstract calledviousytmgetaicl)ra, justice. ee nlrc i n ofr oi ) Tfhe p)olitical bu.hwackinig of .*.eb-thislcrnei. ruary 20, is not a newv phenomenn e sgv o aehsoyt here; rather it is a continiuationi ofiluttetebnflfecsoth the old1 game that this apathetic stu-sytmothinvdulAfe (lent body has endured for years. yeragthecantoteamu Iliow dlid this state of affairs comeailieyugca nedvtith about? sprto?ulcsrie lnigt To what can one attribute the lack- ltretrpltc i itrlyto adlasicalness and moral callousness ofthcatuspliinsahsidls the students, to wvhat the cute tricks Terwl-roe,ubn per and cheap artifices of the campus poi-aicanglbieofBreyas iticians ? Aristotle saidl that man isntdthcalwbyIleaneo a political animal. In our opinion rgr hma od fcetoi the great Greek was all wet. Man-matroftsewokw,nc)i if the student body here can be taken ctIaia n awcs i s as an example-is too selfish, too sdosyeuae im edvl self-centered, too egotistically intra- Oelhsteuosyugvieit verted to deserve the description ofasearinor,kyfbsolr Aristotle. Rather than take an itin- o i onfliels o e telligent interest in politics, the siini- rc a o pltl ctld dents allow themselves to be ledl1hsmxm fpulcsriebcm by the nose.shboehofpbitrcrySuh This sad state of affairs didl not Crln otasaemna( w originate "de novo" on the campus, mnbigls i ol but is the result of the importation Ohvalste "Wohegd of professional practices into the University. The "raison dI'etre" of wuddsryte is aem(. campus politics should be that it Calshro n trin te tae eaer o te intr sttemasi Bldteelctrorat 3cover 5he CAMPUS by DEWARD BR.TTAN OF MICE AND MUSIC Watson and I went the other evening to the Columbia Junior League's "Night of Waltzes." Schwieger and the Southern symphony perused through the classic Viennese music with masterful charm while four army officers played poker and four hundred other people tried to dance. Me and some heavyweight dowager's coat occupied the same dress 4 circle seat, but neither of us could se'e very well because Watson kept leaning forward to keep the gentlemen behind her from pouring sweet spirits of Bacchus down her back. Oh, the gentlemen behind us? He drank through two numbers, cussed his wife for bringing him through three, and slept until a fortissimo bar (of music, McKinney) in the finale recalled his senses hnd bottle. The Junior League must have felt very pleased with the affair. The dancers (I supose they were dancers but a man with a size nine shoe couldn't enter the place) were so enraptured that they (including Prof. W. Ziegler) shuffled blatantly through the second movement of Tschai kowsky's famous Fifth, which was supposedly a concert number. And balcony spectators burst forth with boos when the conducto$ raised his baton for the immortal Liebestraum. Apparently everyone was disgusted except the Leag0e treasurer who said she got her money's worth. Yeah, and lot of other people's tooI * * * * * * VIEWS, REVIEWS, PREVIEWS, INTERVIEWS. Sol Blatt, Jr. will be long remembered for the great job he has done as president of the student body, provided his political obligations in the spring elections do not stain his admirable record. Remember what Mark Anthony said, Sol? It is an old line, but it's truth is stinging: "The evils men do live after them, but the good is oft interred with their bones. . ." During World War I when Pres. J. Rion McKissick was attached as colonel to Governor Manning's staff lie donated his old clothes to relief agencies to be sent abroad. Several years after the war ended a friend recognized one of the Colonel's uniforms in Brussels. It was worn by a doorman of one of the city's most fashionAble hotels. . . The memoirs of Arthur Hawkins, Carolina sports publicity man, would read like a Dick Halliburton novel. Hawk was born in Buffalo . . . lived in Canada . . . was a fraternity brother of Coach Petokey at Michigan . . . was graduated from Erskine . . . worked for the Columbia Record . . . shipped out of New Orleans for two years on a tramp steamer . . . has visited Sheak speare's home and Buckingham palace ... danced Viennese waltzes in Berlin . . . lived in the Creole City's famous French quarter . . . worked on a newspaper on the Mexican border that issued a Spanish edition . . . and now quietly nonchalantly blows the bugle for Gamecock athletes ... Robert Elliott Gonzales, founder of the Gamecock and one of the state's most brilliant newspapermen, died in a soldier's uniforml He was en camped with South Carolina troops on the Mexican border in 1916 when he died. * * * * * * HEARTBEAT OF THE HORSESHOE "Dupe" League, who fills in the back page of this sheet, persists, it seems, in defining a kiss. Will this one do: A kiss is love's artillery that is brought into action immediately on the call to arms . . . To all co-eds who are English majors: Prof. H. Babcock will have a birthday next week . . . I am cooperating with him in suggesting suitable gifts . . . J. Thomas received the traditional soldier's farewell from C. Stroehker when' he left for a hitch in the Marine reserve Sunday... In 1935 the House of Representatives passed a resolution permitting the Beaux Arts club of the University to use the State House for its annual ball. Tfhe Senate never acted on the matter because officers of Beaux Arts reqluestedl that the resolution be killed. Pressure from school authorities forced the action... This week's thought: War prophets are generally those interested in war profits! MJJSCLIN' IN a lovely time was had by all at the ci o altercation last tuesday even ing . . . that ever famous triangle seems to be developing around dewey gentry and james hearvin wvith armnanda la rocah at the ape.r . . . c c arial getting that familiar brush off from miarty harley twice and still going back for more . . . mrs carpenters little boy willie seems to be holding down the number one slot these days on the haskell team . . .coco gee trans fer from missouri certainly got a swell rush at the fracas the other even ing, not bad either . . . cupid seems to have really popped brew beers with romance for he is certainly trailing clemson's may mcginty all over the place . . . the ambition of duke webber has finally heenc achieved, at last he got a (late with lucy beck jowilt in sp)ite of the new permanent that he has . . . pued fry and lbuck perrin seen more often together on the campus . . . johenny porter back on the campus with his arm in a sling... quitmnan jackson leaves the campus miondlay to go) to west poinet . . . aJda newton asking john "glamnour boy" haneiden if lhe knewv I(ouise nonIIce d tommny burch carrying the torch for carolyn twilliams . . . prof mnorton looking embarrassed in the mess when he dropped a plate . . . meyer rosen still wearing his dark glasses, it must be convenient to sleep in class... ?lrefinia copeland and( bert heill! still keeping steady comp)any . . . jOnl 1mc kowan back on the campus after a week at home, mostly ini the dlentist chair . . . ken roskie all smiles that our own golf star jane creum is back from the golf wars . . . anne yregorie p)assing all- the local boys by and imiporting a clemson cadet called steve down for the tri dePt shindig the other friday . . . david mnurray certainly having a big time at the chii o... maybe jimm,y wilsonc will have better luck with the girl friends after march when lie gets in the navy and( gets his uniform . . . also hallis making big p)lanls for the junior senior to be givetn in march . . . the aiken stock fall ing fast with patty lireedlen . . . that new sport modlel buick that some of the kappa sig brothers have purchased, it's a lie, we've seen it run despite rumors, evenm if dado burgess did scrape a little paint off one fender the 'other evening on a tree . . . the chief, jim "rabb/e rouser" inckinney, ptub licity in the greenville news last wednesday . . . famous last words: "I do not choose to run" . . . coolidge said them, roose-delt, and( "bolshepiek" brit