Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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..THE GAMECOCK CROWING FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY-OF SOUTH CAROLINA Meaber of Associated Collegiate Press Distributor of Collegiate Digest Feuded Janary 80 160, witb Robert Elliott Gonzales as the first editor. TNE 4AME00K is published by and for the etudents at the University of South parolina id Columbia semi eaIy.s T exay aid Saturday, duries the college year except Editorial and business offices are located In the east basement of time dormitery. Advertising rates are 65 cents an lush. Deadlines for Saturday edition: editerial and society. p. mh. Wednesday: news and sports, S p. m. Thursday. Deadlinos for Tuesday edition: editorial and society. S p. m. Friday; dews and sports. S p. m. Sunday. Opinions exresed by coliuiots and letter-writers are net aooossarlly tbos of THE GAMECOCK. Pubiishina does not constitute an endorsement although the right to edit Is reserved. STAFF Editor-u-Chief ................... .Mary Shoun Managing Editor ................. Mike Karvelas EDITORIAL STAFF News Editor ...................................... Bob Isbell Sports Editor .................................... Don Barton Society Editor .............................. Libby McDaniel Feature Editor .............................. Carroll 0lllam Exchange Editor ........................ ..... Peggy Trexler Columnsts-Thomas K. Evans, Dick Breeland, Dottle Perkins, Redmond Tyler, Belinda Collum, Ben McGuinn. Cartoonist ............................... Samuel L. Boylston News Staff-Margaret Sloan, Libby Cole, Irene Sanders. Bob Gunter. George Stanley. Jane Dowe, Cyrus Shealy, Joy Conard. Ruth Newell. Phil Clark. Jean Davis. Jo Anne BllBger. Norin Corley, Bob Carpenter. Mary Saye Gaston, Holly Bock, Bili McClain, Halen Childelrs, Lynn Couch, Joe Molony, Sidney Brandenburg, Rita Lovene, Doris Morehead. BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager ................ Candy Taylor Advertising Manager ............................. Harry Hiott Co-Circulation Managers ......Lynn Hook and Darien Robertson Business Staff ........................ Ann Mood, Betty Mood Dual Office Holding The third recommendation which Gov ernor J. Strom Thurmond made in his inau gural address on January 21 concerned dual office holding. Article 2, Section 2, of the Constitution of South Carolina reads that "no person shall hold two offices of honor or profit at the same time: Provided, That any person holding another office may at the same time be an officer in the Militia or a Notary Public." In Article 3, Section 24, of the Constitution, it is provided that "No person shall be eligible to a seat in the General Assembly while he holds any of fice or position of profit or trust under this State, the United States of America, or any of them, or under any other power, except officers in the militia and Notaries Public; and if any member shall accept or exercise any of the said disqualifying offices or po sitions he shall vacate his seat." Governor Thurmond's Recommendation Governor Thurmond stated that "while the Supreme Court has indicated that these provisions are self-executing and that one who takes a second office abandons the first and thereby creates a vacancy, I believe that it would be appropriate for the General As sembly to pass an act expressly to provide for the enforcement of these constitutional provisions, and to provide specifically for the forfeiture of pay in the event of a vio lation thereof, and I so recommend." On the same day, Lieutenant Governor George Bell Timmerman, Jr., protested against dual office holding. Since then, three men, who were in the dual office cate gory, have resigned. Two of those, Federal Judge George Bell Timmerman and State Tax Commissioner James H. Sullivan, were members of the university's Board of Trus tees. Peabody Survey Report In the survey report made by the Division of Surveys and Field Services of Peabody College on public higher education in South Carolina and submitted to the General As sembly on January 15, 1946, it was reported that the following numbers were members of the General Assembly at the time of their election to the respective Boards of Trus tees: Citadel, 2; Clemson, 4; Medical Col lege, 1; University, 4; Winthrop, 2, and State Agricultural and Mechanical College, 0. That report also stated that "while the structure of the separate college boards does not have direct bearing on the statewide co ordination, it is intimately related to the Veteran's Viewpoint We would like to search and in a war-plant, or comment on the subject of where Army, Navy, Ma: we are going and why. We are Guard. definitely sure that all of us are reached our goal. enroute to some destination, even many, the answer though that elusive goal is not want to go home. mapped or identified in our cur- was temporary, rent thinking, after we got home A few years before 1941 we ed to go somewh ,knew whpre we were going, we was wonderful bui knew that inevitably we were other destination *.going to war. Fronm the begin- with restlessness ning of that conflict, to its end, to walk in varied we could not conceive of defeat, watched our fee and we knew that we were march- reaching in front . ing and driving to victory. One not sure of the hi importance of our actions was that intent to reach it. we liad a clearly defined goal. Are we restless Our energies were directed in the because we think major direction of -defeating our now have a definia enemies. If anyone asked us what toward? Probably we were doing, we usually gave we have a cause him, a war-bred answer: working grily consume evei quality of institutional administration and to keeping the several institutions of higher education free from political entanglements. "It is almost axiomatic in the administra Lion of higher education in this country that boards of trustees should not have ex-officie members-that is, state officials given mem bership by virtue of other office. This is a vestige of an earlier conception of state in stitutional administration that is rapidly be ing abandoned. At best, the ex-officio mem ber has other interests in public affairs which naturally have a prior claim on his time and his thinking, and the duties oo board membership if not onerous, are at least secondary. At worst, he uses the mem bership on the college board to further po litical ends to the prejudice of his duties as a board member and to the detriment of the institution itself. "The survey staff therefore recommends that the General Assembly take appropri ate action to remove the ex-officio members from the Boards of Trustees of The Citadel, the Medical College of the State of South Carolina, the University of South Carolina, Winthrop College, and the State Agricul tural and Mechanical College. "The criticism was heard in South Caro lina that the General Assembly has the habit f electing its own members to the boards f trustees of the institutions of higher learning. If carried to excess this is a prac tice deserving of adverse criticism . . . It would be singular indeed if it were true that in all the State of South Carolina the Gen eral Assembly were to find continually that the citizens best qualified to serve .on the college boards were its own members." The House of Representatives education committee recently passed unanimously a bill which included a provision that the prac tice of members of the General Assembly serving on the boards of the state-operated institutions of higher education would be wiped out. The success of the committee in securing the passing of that bill remains to be seen. Time On Your Hands? Our pet editorial peeve this week is the relatively small number of students who participate in extra-curricular activities on the campus. True, the purpose of attending college is not to dash madly from oue meet ing to another or to devote one's entire time to an organization's project. There are or zanizations, however, that merit and need more student participation. At registration, each under-graduate stu lent pays an activities fee which helps to linance the various campus organizations. Each student, therefore, is entitled to and automatically has membership in certain of these groups. We would point to the YMCA YWCA, the Co-ed Association, the literary societies, the county clubs, the Booster Club, the publications, and many others. It would be unwise to try to keep "a finger in every pie," so concentrate your efforts on one or two organizations, but lend your support to all. You can help them and they, in turn, will help you. If you have time on your hands, go to work, brother. There's a job for you. Letter To The Editor Dear Editor: What becomes of used text books that can't be resold to the Book Store ? I'm sure that everyone on the campus miust have one or more books which they are not using. Why waste literature? It is really a crime to do such and I'm sure there must be some group of peoples or some institutions thai can use all our "turned-down" books. WE should try and collect these books and put them to use. The Booster Club will be only too happy tc cooperate in collecting if the students wil] cooperate in giving. Yours in hopes, Bill Keith. By THOMAS K. EVANS serving in the tion of our energies? YES!!! Witi eines, or Coast victory we inherited the gruelinj and frustrating task of standinj won. We had neck-deep in the vomit-provoklnj What next? To slime of intolerance and prejudice was simple: I and ladling it away from the earti But that answer with our pitifully small spoon o: and we found, reason. We stand now to lose o1 ,that we want- gain that bare thread that ties ui ere else. Home favorably to the future. Let oui ;there was an- immediate ancestors read of us that filled us The people of the world seemed and caused us at last, to grasp the idea that they directions. We must do more than win a wai t mechanically against the militant enemy; they of each other, learned, as their fathers had falle< iting-place, but to comprehend, that the antagon ists of liberty are long adept a and uncertain playing dead. That heroic genera that we do not tion of victors made their victors te goal to labor count. By earnest citizen partici so. But don't pation, they crushed every flickel that could hun- of life that twItched In the Fascisl y wispo nearup- threat. 1. MATERIALS 41 0 8. 1EAu$..T That Garnet and Black Spirit Frances Guignard ( One Of Carolina's I Wins Acclaim For " By CARROLL GILLIAM of Frances Guignard Gibbes has lo proved that the two great aims of si a Carolina co-ed can be attained: T To find a life-long companion, a o husband; and, to be successful in ti her chosen field or career. g( By an act of the South Carolina u: Legislature in 1893, women were t< admitted to the University; and h( in 1895, Frances Gibbes of Co- es lumbia enrolled with thirteen other pE young women as the first co-edu- al cational students in the state. In December, 1911, the young ai graduate became the wife of Prof. a Oscar L. Keith, a noted South i4 Carolina educator. .r ENTERS THE WORLD OF d< DRAMA th Miss Gibbes is well-known in w Columbia for her civic and public ai welfare interest with which much g, of her time has been spent. During th the first World War, she was prominently affiliated with vari- A ous relief organizations in the city th and was instrumental in securing p homes for some nine hundred bi French children who had been ir orphaned by the terrors of battle. s, One of her principal interests has ti been the Columbia Stage Society, a to which she has frequently loaned , her highly regarded theatrical t< knowledge. ti In the field of drama, her pen , has won her a worldwide acclaim , as one of the foremost of Amer- ti ica's playwrights. Ia 1923 her a "Hilda" was received with much favorable criticism from noted ti students of the theater. "The h Face," published in 1924, has been a called one of the finest of modern a plays using poetic form. And she g is equally at home in capturing c the comical in dramatic form, asg "An Antic of The Seat" so well proves. DAWN IN CAROLINA Now comes "Dawn In Carolina," a three act play, by Miss Gibbes, published in the latter part of C 1946 by The State Publishing ~ Company. This drama combines all the best of the theater that is conflict, beauty and the struggle ti of ideals. The time is a little-known era in our history and the scene is thet shore of Port Royal Sound in what is now Beaufort County. A few z small settlements were made in c that section by religious and po litical exiles from France in the e late years of the seventeenth con tury and it is at this time and 1o- A cality that the action of the play occurs. Written In delicate lines of poetry, the play deals principally I with the struggle of the young g man, Gilbert, who had been born in Carolina, with his mother, Mar- Ei guerite, and a recent arrival In the little village, Julie, fresh withS the frolic and folly of gay Paris. Gilbert, who has never seen the land of his mother and the 19 ad W ti 2. 'PROCEDURE al DR. U. R. GONE Tl aE wHO THNIKS E KNOWS AND KNOW1 MOT - SN"Madv "XPCR/IIWNT. P1 t l Wi ribbes, irst Coeds, )awn In Carolina" 1 der citizens, is captivated by his si ve of the beauty of what he con ders his motherland, Carolina. tt a him the Spanish moss, the live- al Lks, the sunsets and the songs of e mocking bird are the para- of )ns of beauty on this earth, nat- ti -al or otherwise. He is accus med to spending long, lonely Sc mrs in the tranquility of the for- Sc t and it is there that he finds the -ace of soul which is the goal of of I men. di However, these solitary visits ed 'ouse the suspicions of Achille, S1 former chimney sweep, who be wves Gilbert is hiding a great easure from his friends in the pths of the forest. It is implied at Achille carries tales of untold ealth to the Spanish spies who -e always lurking in the back round of the action throughout e play. Then, the beautiful Julie enters. bout her is- not only the air of e beautiful land from which the .ople in the settlement had come, it also hints of the gay night life Paris among the wild younger t. The beauty of the girl enrap ires Gilbert and soon the two are arried. Then, immediately the ife and mother begin to conspire E ' persuade the young man to re irn with them to France from d: here a pardon has just come fj hich would allow the little family fa return to the position of honor g id wealth they had once held. ir But Gilbert sees his wealth in is ie earth of Carolina, on which 0: a hopes to erect a great city, pat mred not after the metropolises u, western Europe, but after the a randeur of the cities of ancient y reece and Rome. Thus the strug- L le continues to the climactic end- ", g of the play in which the S1 rongest force triumphs. h - T R5 THE MESSAGE OF DRAMA In the young man Gilbert, Miss c ibbes has placed all that makes >r good citizens of our State, yes ~rday and today. There is a de- U] stion there to the natural beau es of the country and the oppor-r mitles to be obtained for those ~ ho will work to inherit them. C4 lao, there is a sincere feeling for S he welfare of the fellow citizen ni whom your progress as well as is lies. With such an ideal citi- C4 en, no state, nation, or world auld fail to develop into the P topia of which men have dream- ii I through the ages. From Miss Gibbes: "The sun shines here t .nd yonder is the sea. Look up, tl the stars re overhead and through the leaves the moon rising; from that tree descend ing falls he music of the mockingbird, flowers? verywhere: pools of floating lilies, parkleberry bells and jessamine, jessamine winging all around. What land could be ore beautiful than Carolina ?" a dash of bitters By DOTIME PERKINS raternal Politicking The routine of Caroline has again been interrupted by the [vent of men's rush season. With smiles affixed, hands all-clasped, and discretion brought back from the winds, e sons of Greek letterdom once more embark upon their *gram of selectivity. But when the smokescreen of cab eta, blanket parties, and dances has cleared away ... it's l in good spirit, and what's a oheery "Hey-how-you" be reen friends? And after a few more such tomorrows, we can retire into ir rut of normalcy ... and let the chips fall where they ay I he Practical Viewpoint We found a copy of a notice the other day that had been sted on the bulletin board in the Engineering Building at Le University of Texas: "For sale: One beautiful diamond igagement ring, 46-point, with six side diamonds." With a knowledge, doubtless born of experience, some un rstanding student had added this postscript: "My sym Lthies, Chum." risis An article in a recent issue of the New York Times em iasized the dangers faced by our educational system, what ith teachers' strikes, overcrowded classrooms, and "teacher orale at its lowest in this country." The New York Times ade an extensive six month survey of the post-war problem ,cing American education and unearthed some of the fol wing statistics: 1. 350,000 teachers have left American public schools nee 1940. 2. Fewer students are entering the teaching profession an in the past. Twenty-two per cent of all college students tended teachers' colleges in 1920; today 7% attend. 3. Veterans do not want to prepare to teach. Only 20,000 'the 1,000,000 veterans in American colleges and universi es are in teachers' colleges. 4. The U. S. spends 1.5 per cent of its national income for hools. Great Britain spends an estimated 3 per cent; the >viet Union spends 7.5 per cent. These statistics simply go to prove that unless teachers today are assured higher wages and better working con tions, 5 million children this year will receive an inferior lucation due to the inadequate teacher supply. tein Song At the risk of sounding facetious, we are offering a not-so ever parody of a parody on ... we quote ... philosophy: They asked me quick, "Oh, what is Life?" And I replied, "It's these: It's Freud and dreams and glory rife, The Id and Ego, birds and bees. They scowled and frowned: "Oh, tell me why Not light and sun and man who sees ?" And I replied: "He knows who cries Of dark and void and legal re-s." They slumped and moaned: "We do not see - That Dark is Life and Life is these 1" I answered quick: "There is no light, But Mind and Soul, and noone sees i" xit Dragon Lady We read a rather lengthy dissertation recently on the ab cation of Milton Caniff as the artist of the internationally imous comic strip, "Terry and the Pirates." Terry and his 'iends have been relegated by Caniff to the "land where od comics go," or the mercies of a new staff artist. And the "never-never realm" of the cartoon' world, this news as world-shaking as the whims of J. L. Lewis or' the plans UNO. Caniff does not plan to deprive the collegiate, and other ntellectual," breakfast tables of his art, however, as "a new ar is born" in the personagp~ of his character, "Steve Can ~n, a lean and squinty older version of Terry." The Dragon ady will be replaced by an equally dangerous opponent, 3opper Calhoun, a wolverine of Wall Street." As Caniff ;ated recently in Time: "Steve Canyon . .. is a guy who'd ave a girl in every port, and could do all the things a young ;er like Terry couldn't do." of fee Spoons Note in passing: the same groups are still "measuring out ieir lives with coffee spoons" in the local Gamma Delta om and down at Joe's on weekday nights, exploring the ysteries of Nietschze and philosophical trends w1hile their >ffee gets cold. peaking of Imitations We chuckled over Dr. Sherrill's take-off on the Carolina -ed inhaling on her cigarette, while trying desperately to urt out a reasonable facsimile of the correct answer in olitical Science class. With Tongue in Cheek," et cetera In looking over other people's thoughts preserved for pos rity the other day, we ran across the following which we uink.is self-explanatory and apropos of something-or-other: Threat4 Another night without you may t.urn into another? night without you.