Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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.The Gamecock Foupdod January 0, 1906 *BRT ELLUOTT GONZALES, First Editor 1 Rd as see-olass matter at the postofics at Columbia, 1941 Menber 1949 t A~ssocialed Colle6dce Press Distributor of ColWe6iate Di6est . .WW...CNT8D FOR NATIONAL AlVE?T51N4 OT National Advertising Service, Inc. . C*es PabMsbers Repesentose 42O MADISON AVC. NEw YonK. N. Y. caAeo * sosTON * Los ANssLS - SaN PsaNCIscO Issued weekly by the student body of the University of South Carolina during the college year. DEWARD B. BRITTAIN ------..-Editor C. C. ARIAIL, JR. - - - - Business Manager EDITORIAL STAFF Frank K. Sloan ....................................Managing Editor Gordon Hill. Jr. .....................................sports Editor t Mary Frances Polk ........................ .....Co-ed Editor Nancy Padgett- ... .................................Society Editor k STAFF WRITERS Pitkin Bell Doris Nash Morris Mazursky Jimmy Hill Leonard Turnbull Bob Quinn Albert Eggerton John Nash Donald Law Don Merrick Sarah Flinn Christine Cannon Sloan Hungerpiller Howard Lindsay Kate Smoot Corinne Levy Margaret Jones Helen Cantey David Brockington ............................Oirculation Manager Ray Parrott ........................................Exchange Editor BUSINESS STAFF Henry Heriot Margaret Rose Starnell Beryl Kerna Something To Hold To Next week the annual fall Religious Em phasis Week will be giveri the right of way over all other student activities. The YM and YWCA and other organizations responsible for the Religious Emphasis Week are to be commended for setting aside a period in which students may rededicate themselves to the Christian way of life. The theme of the program is "Faith." Cer tainly a no more appropriate title could have been chosen. Russia's forest of dead men who died in the Finland campaign last winter and the blood of misguided Germans that moistens the soil of all Europe bear grim testimony to the world's need of faith-faith in the Christian God and the Democratic government. .While there is still time The Gamecock be lieves the people of America, the people of the University, should grasp something to hold to . . . something that is stronger than govern- t ments, more powerful than armies, and more e enduring than time. Christianity. I By faith alone can people see through Chis tian eyes. t The Gamecock urges students to thoughtfully attend all Religious Emphasis Week programs f possible. A Technical Veil In more than one instance The Gamecock has been verbally reprimanded for imposing on faculty and admninistration comumiittees whose sessions were supposed to be "executive." The Gamecock realizes that certain groupsr -are forced to keep the insides of thleir meetinlgs secret, because publicity mighlt undermine their work. The Gamecock sympathmizes with these organizations.t HIowever, groups like tile student activities committee and the activities fee reallocation committee should not seek to hlide their act ions behind the technical veil of "executive ses sions." When the student activities committee of tile faculty ruled that only students would be ad mitted to social cabinet dances, a member of the committee questioned The Gamecock's right to fully report the group 's hlearinig, althlough the same mnemlber tacitly verified The Gamecock story. Last week the chlairman of thle reallocation committee refused to verify The Gamecock 's account of the committee's plans. Yet Tile Gamecock's report wvas correct. In both cases the excuse was "The sessions of the committee are executive, and I cannot speak for tile whole committee." Wily hlave executive sessions? Even mem .bers of tile United States Supreme Court are permitted to publish dissenting opinions. *Why ~ can't committee members at the University say i so if they disapprove of the majority com mittee action? The constitution guarantees the press- the right to go behind tile face of legislation and report tile opinions and dispositions of mem- a bers of Congress. Yet Tile Gamecock is ex- e pected to publish tile decision of a committee d without recounting how the committee reached the decision. The Gamecock has no desire to expose any- ' . one or any group on the campus. Indeed, The Gamecock knows nothing to expose, whlich is ( still another reason why executive committee .2 sessions are, quite frankly, needless and serve no purpose.( Why can't we play ball in front of students e instead of just Bending them the score at the I end of tile game.( Behind The Glory Behind the glory that is rained on the foot >all team, its mentors, and its stars, are two non who work faithfully and silently for notli ng more than enough to pay the grocer and andlord. They are Frank Wardlaw and Ar hur Hawkins, director and assistant respec ively of the University News Service. When 20,000 people drop cash in the coffer o see a University football game, Wardlaw and Hawkins are usually responsible. And vhen sportsmen in far off places begin talking of All-American so-and-so at South Carolina, Wardlaw and Hawkins again are usually re ponsible. By consistently beating the drum of the Uni rersity and its athletic department these .two nen of the News Service not only add money ,o the football team's purse but do yeoman er.vice in building a greater Carolina. All of this praise is not for nought. The Gamecock cannot figure out why Univer. ity alumni, BAM club members, tind students hould overlook so valuable a part of the ath. etic program when they passed around the )rchids at homecoming. Certainly The Gamecock contributed to Joach Enright's car, and assistant Coaches ?etoskey, Twomey, Johnson, and Treadaway ill deserved their watches. But The Gamecock ielieves that if the head of the BAM club and he chief ticket seller got watches, the stal varts of the University News Service should Lave received an equal amount of material >raise. Maybe Mr. Gressette and Mr. Rawl deserved vatchies as much as the coaches. But certainly heir contribution to South Carolina athletics s no more notable than that of Wardlaw and lawkins. Someone overlooked the real men behind the lory of South Carolina football. Another Step Forward The Gamecock has 'just received a letter from )ean Ellison Smith of the school of education aying that a committee has been appointed to nvestigate alleged "excessive prices" of cer ain syllabi and books at the University. This ommittee is expected to filfill a long needed djustment of book prices at Carolina. - The committee waq created by the board of rustees with the following resolution: "Tihe Board of Trustees, having been in ormed of complaints made by students of the leged excessive prices charged for the pur hase of some syllabi, some exercise books, ome laboratory experiment books, some ref rence books and some instructional materials, Lereby requests the president of the University o appoint a special committee of the faculty o investigate such allegations olnd to report ts findings witih recommendations to the next neeting of the University Activities comn nittee." * This resolution was not necessarily aimed at he University Book Store, but at professors vho prepare laboratory and exercise books for heir owvn courses. At present The Gamecock knows of no un isual profits being made by either the faculty ~r Charlie David at the bookstore. Still, a rood investigation might bring about a stand Lrdization of prices, particularly in some de artments. Dean Smith is chairman of the investigating ommittee. Other members are Dr. S. M. Der ick and Dr. L. L. Smith. Verily, Dirty Breeches In the "Letters to the Editor" column this r'eek will be found the letter from the Game ock Pressing Club requested in the last is. ue of The Gamecock. Mr. W. E. Buford, assistant manager of the ampus cleaning establshment, says in his letter hat students are served for fifty-five cents (for man 's suit) whereas the price in the city is ixty cents. Both of these prices include do ivery. Howvever, Mr. Buford has tried to dodge thme ssue with the argument thrown out last weelk 5s illegitimate. In previous years the Game ock Pressing Club has delivered suits to stu tents for the prevailing cash-and-earry price n the city. Why, then, should the campus or ~anization suddenly begin comparing its prices vith the delivery prices in the city? Why not se the city cash-and-carry price as the student lelivery price as has been done for a number of ears previous to the current semester?i The Gamecock still maintains that the Game ock Pressing Club is charging more for dry 'leaning in proportion to city prices than ever efore. The Gamecock still says WHY? The limecock still says the breeches are dlirty. - Ba Canapus Camera ENGLISH LITERATURE AND RHEMDRIC UsED 10 ANNOY EARLY DAY 8ROWN UNNERSITY STUDES CONMQUERTLY EADA YEAR iW HELD A "JUNIOR SURAL AX WHIC' A. '.XT0OOKS'ON TVESE SU&13 WERE IN1RRED W11H SUITABLE RITES! CH A 6 jok dan wril "br JAPAN "I'D DIE FOR D)ak OLD P06EW SENT rTs SpRT FRANK K.(RW) GRAW, NOW DKtMNOs SPOKa WMNTO THESE IMM0kA. WORDS AS IE WAS BEING IMAN CARIED OFF 'e. FIELD WT A BRKEN LEG A FOREGN DUING TtE 'RNN- GAME IN 1892 - 101AE- NC STATE Op "o.W1 NORMAL Ga .SCPL ,. - in.dq AT SALEM, MASS. Z5 get IN 1866 /mai IN +Question-of-Week What do you think of the change in the neutrality act? Bill Reedy: It should have been changed a long time ago. Mildred Salmon: Probably lead us to war quicker. Tom Abbot: Most damnable act of Congress since declara tion of World War I. Clark McCants: It was necessary for national defense . . . QU Dick Jefferies: Definitely was in fav9r, but I still don't want ' to fight . . . wai to Charles Gibson: The change is a mere link in a chain of or events being brought about daily by our Congress; in conjun'e- shC tion with the majority of public opinion, and which events, as dis expected, will lead us into total war against totalitarianism as early as 1943 unless internal revolution comes in Germany . . . Billy Ott: Was opposed because it will lead us to a shooting W. war ... Dan Hollis: The repeal was necessary, provided that it is essential for the U. S. to go to war . . . Alex Sawyer: I'll he 21 on the 17th of Deeemhr. so why worry? Letters To The Editor The Editor evidence is found to warrant such TicGmcc ulcto.The Gamecock Pesn Dear Sir: Cu soeae tpeetadwl In regards to an editorial in thecotneoopreinhefuefr November 14, 1941 issue of Thethstdnsadbtesuetso G;ameicock, the personnel of the Game- teUiest fSuhCrlta cock Pressing Club welcomes an op- Yorveytu, portunity to (disclose to its patrons GMCC RSIGCU why it has recently been necessary WlimE uod to raise prices of clothes cleaned. AssatMngr For the information of those wvho do not know, the actual cleaning of the Eio fTeGmcc clothes is done by one of the local ThBorofruteofheUi (dry cleaners. At the beginning ofvritattsesonfOcbr28 this year the cost of this cleaning was19,adpethfolwnrso increased 33 1/3 per cent and pricestin of supplics increased in proportion. "h or fTute,hvn The pr2e of a suit cleaned was raisedbenifrdofcmlntmaey to $0.50, thinking that this wouldstdnso th aledexsiv compensate for the increased expens- pie hre o h ucaeo es. Hlowever, we found that we were sm ylb,sm xriebos not breaking even, and prices were snclbrtr xeietbos raised to the present price of $0.55 sm eeec ok n oi te for suits and $0.30 for pants. Thisintuioa mteal,hrb r averages to a 28.7 per cent increase (tet h rsdn fteUiest in returns as compared to a 33 1/3toapitasealcmteefth per cent increase in expenses. falttoivsgteucalgton The writer of the editorial com-antorptisfndgsihrei pares the cash and carry price ofmedtosothnxtetigfte $0.48 for suits cleaned at the dryUnvriyAtiieComte. hI cleaning establishments up town with Incfomtwihhsreluon c our delivered p)rice of $0.55. Ilis fig-thPridnofheUvrsyha uires are correct hut lhe is evidently apitdteproswoesga mlisguidled in his reasoning. As only trsaehrwt tahdt oi about 20 per cent of the Pressingstteaspclcomtetonv Club's business is cash and carry, ittitehsmaerAtameinofo is operated mainly on a (delivered ba-thcomte,Nvbr12itws f sis. i one investigates the price of Cildtathcomte oudeni a cleaned suit delivered by the clean- ga oha n uhcmlit e ing establishmnents up town, it isspcigteaoemtrunri found to he $0.60 as compared to the vsiainwihaysueto Pressing Club's price of $0.55. Thisgruofsdetmawihomk. is still five cents under the prevail- Aysuet,teeoe h iht ing price,.eitracmliti eadt h It is absurd to suppose that the mte ne netgto r e Pressing Club could operate with any qetdt os no eoe1 lower prices when the small volumenon fDembr5 Suhc of business (lone by it is compared to pansmy emd rlyt n the voltume of business done by each nebro h omte rmyb of the various establishments in the md nwitnfr n umte city of Columbia.totecaraofheomie. Since Thme Gamecock is published Temmeso h omte for the benefit of the University and wudapeit ti o ilpb h its various organizations, the Press-lihtsnocentenxtsueffr ing Club, being one of these organiza-7/eGecc,i tions, wotuld appreciate it if no further Rsetul umte,i unfavorable publicity is directed its ElsnM mt,Cara,S way; at least, not until a comprehen- S .Drik e siv sud i mae f hesittonan L.det and S yith. stdetso b Quinn OBJECTION OVERRULED Frank Sloan Editor's Note: Because of the death of Bob Quinn's mother this -week, John Nash and Jimmie. Hill, Gamecock staff writers, are substituting for Quinn and Sloan. APIN BORAPIN' s usual, Tiger columnist, Judson Chapin, has been scraping up stale :s and filling in USC names. Personally we'd like to see a fraternity cc with some of those chairs and couches "made just for loving" he tes of. And as for that ice box, that was a Clemson cow-det with his iss" all shiny. * * * * * * XERE WAS THE MADAME? "In morals and right thinking the students of the University of South Carolina are second to none" . . . BUT! What about the alumni??? When our grads now in the 31st Division blitz our homecoming and make away with our queen, Mary King, frankly, dear students, we were shocked. Tch, Tch, Tch. Just kidding, of course, you alumni with endowments in hand, but then what soldier can make an endowment on 21 bucks a month? (brass hats excepted.) * * * * * * USE TO HAVE GONE TO MIAMI [sn't it wonderful that grades didn't get home for Thanksgiving?" 11 If we've heard that once, we've heard it several times, but turk !gestion was more pleasant without them. Why didn't the grades there? Is Flynn Gilland a Republican? Next Thursday's batch of I from home will answer these and many other questions. * * * * * * PLATION Scene: Sims Hall. Time: Any evening. Charlie Holmes shambles up to buzzer: buzzes: ducks cig and enters lobby: enter maid: Holmes mumbles and maid retires: time marches on . .. enter Lucille Overstreet: Lucille-Well, stand up Charlie, can't you see a lady has en tered the room? Charlie (gazing downward)-I'm not sitting down, those are just the bags in my trouser knees. Lucille (horrified)-How disrespectfull!ll! Charlie (pleading)-But Lucille, my piggy bank is bursting now, and I'm still two bits short of enough to have them pressed at the Gamecock Pressing Club. NOTE: Cheer up, Charlie, steam must be on the priority list. * * * * * * ESTION OF THE WEEK Vhy, we're asking did Daniel (Duck) Gibbes desert the party of De -d Brittain, C. C. Ariail, and Henry Heriot who made the excursion St. Louis for the Press Convention? Was the train uncomfortable, does he like sleep? Speaking for the entire campus, we feel sure, we uld like to thank the pullman porter who waked the trio in time to -mbark at Columbia on their return. * * * * * * READ IT AND CHEER or kIT 'TIL NEXT YEAR. YOU AIN'T BEEN NOTHING YET Football days almost have went To foreign fields, our team was sent We wind up tomorrow with far-off Penn When we beat them, nir team in TN We started off with U. N. C. We shot Shot Cox, and saw Stanley; Journeyed down to Talmadge land We knocked for a loop by Sinkwich and band. Then came the Deacons, Oh woeful day! The official didn't look at our very beat play. Oh, Beautiful, Bowl-bound, Bengal, Bums, Your noses held high with outstretched thumbs, Roared into town, but purred out, by golly The Gamecocks churned Churning Cholly. Next was the mighty Citadel fracas Ho-Hum, we just played them for practice. -* -_ Kansas State and an educated toe Turned that excursion into one of woe. Dizzy McLeod, nor his Furman team Could pop our State Championship dream. Miami's balm breezes and the Hurricane's blow Stopped us down there, though we did rule the show. -* -_ So it's Penn State tomorrow, for the team we shall yell Sage council we give you, Gamecocks, GIVE 'EM HELL!! MUSCLIN' IN 'oIly jibes of junky journalism . . . Blatt reports that he's like the Itning bug on the fire starting proposition but he wvould like to see re of a little girl who has been mentioned in this box previously, aning Carolyn Gayden . . . And Greelyville's hunk of charm Lucille erstreet has tradled a part interest in cardiac palpitations for a frat which formerly shared places with the gravy on Charlie Holmes' t. . . . Iow for a plug for the Social Cabinet: It's high time for the students wake up to the fact that this is your organization worthy, and needy, your support . . . So come on over for some shin kicking Saturday * A few reportorial dots and dashes on the romantic situations... Carolina students from Anderson are considering a marriage club now that two from their ranks have taken the nuptial vows... First pulled under by Dr. Cupid was Brunson Moorehead who walked the plank In favor of Ruth Henderson, then came the sur prising Thompson-Ingram bitch to shock poor mortals of both sexes hereabouts . . . To add more Dan "Kappa Sig Terror" Henderson is finding another method of deviating from the legal eagle trail, namely and to wit, blue eyes staring into brown and It looks like one of these somersault affairs, (you know, "head over heels") . . . And then too there's always Vernon Sumwalt who says that he'd rather have Humbert than Riordan any way .. . timely warning to the shes: D)on't go out after dark without an armed iperon for reports have it that the notorious lady-killer Jimmie Lever, mer Klimnpsun B.M.O.C., is in town to stay . . . "Skwarhaid" Wilburn answer to the interrogation of what the definition of the stockmarket says "Ain't them the things on the way to the fair grounds" unded funny the first time we heard it . . . Speaking of romances w urn to one which had its genesis this summer whereby "Ace" Parker :arryinr the old fa mmo for..e Eatmo .... .Btscel