Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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CROWING FOR A GRRATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Member of Associated Collejate Press Distributor of Collegiate Dgest Intercollegiate Press Founded January 80, 1908, with Robert Elliott Gonzales as the first editor, "The Gamecock" is published by and for the students of the University of South Carolina weekly, on Fridays, during the college year except holidays and examinations. Editorial and business offices are located in the est basement of Sims dormitory. Advertising rates are 65 cents per column inch. Deadlines are: editorial, 8 p. m., Mondays; society, 8 p. m., Tuesdays; news and sports, 12 a. m., Wednesdays. Advertising deadline: 8 p, m., Mondays. The opinions expressed by columnists and letterwriters are not nec essarily those of "The Gamecock." Publishing does not constitute an endorsement although the right to edit is reserved. EDITORIAL STAFF Editor .................................. Robert Isbell Managing Editor..................Carroll L. Gilliam News Editor ............................Jean Hill Sports Editor...............Kenneth W. Baldwin, Jr. Society Editor .......................Norine Corley Campus Editor .....................James Sheridan Feature Editor .... ............Van Newman Copy Editor ....... ...................Tilli Young Exchange Editor....................... . Jane Dowel BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager...............Harry W. Hiott, Jr. Naught Without Labor During the coming semester we of The Gamecock hope to stimulate our readers in the interest of the things we hold necessary for their welfare, of the university, and of the people of South Carolina. We hope to reawaken interest in the affairs which govern' us now and which have direct bearing on our future. We hope to provoke serious deliberation on our duties as c iti zens, to% vote 1i n y, and t^ t ve%ov-+ d""'-" our government, with the purpose of bettering ourselves and our people. We will encourage increased development of resources and industries which we have access to in our state so that we may stand on the level economically with the rest of the nation. - We wish to influence the tearing down of bad traditions and customs which have long impeded the building of better education and government. Then we intend to put out a better newspaper than has ever been put out before at the university, with the knowl edge that this ambition will be hard to realize. To be consistent with this program, we must make te university proud of The Gamecock, a medium by which many will come to know us. A new staff will be busy during the next semester writing, paning,ucopyieaing, proo haeadisstog ming stat poathat the may stan o thatg lee cnclywith publishit ofpathe The wst ilepct ltte honri own pris beaus traitos wh comhc have gonongor thmpeded heie buile.n ofTheri alwaysion andavenent.ometsm go,soebd whihe all intdsu to rpution-bther knwspolirtican get. everabee ptotefre aths wh unvecritcs, bt thei know egein tare oni atio whol br hro inprationrahe. ta universemeserodf The Gamecock,i agedumith whic wrirapinncop wheaig prouct re ad,mable, but faes, teeses t heanyalitng s that go mpublishingeaspaper. Theist' nopet onyih ligto ofr paieok because indica tive motgnizaions one he rceived. Wittere. 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Most of this probably won't interest you, but remember that, after all, b man cannot live by sex alone. If there be a passing of the war belts, please count this col Vmn out. Peace, it's wonderfull IP All comments will be welcomed g and printed (if desired, with or 1 Nvithout names as requested), just e so long as the paper isn't so t scorched the writing can't be read. So. verily, verily-our best friends are our bravest enenies. And these columns are presented to the readr in the se spirit that Shakespeare's Touchstone t presented his bride-to-be to the Duke. "A poor virgin, sir; and ill-favored thing, sir; but mine own."4 The Idea of a University Ic d There are many approaches to the problem. Let's not bother t with any of them and just wan- s der instead. May the tortures of c organizing material be forever t confined to English 12. "A university is where gentle scholars wend their cloistered ways in search of knowledge, shel tered and unto themselves." Ob viously written sometime way 8 s back B.C. (before canteens). If this were true, graduation would be held on the Library steps and consist only of stretching diplomas over pale, mildewed forms brought v out on stretchers, sans life, sans love, sans eyesight-only for the ( graduates to blink in the light like e new-born field mice, then feebly I creep back among the shadowy , stacks of books. Can these of the e ticker tape minds, these hollow ~ shells that patiently stand four years slowly being filled withr facts and figures be the truee Game Public exasperation is being reached these days on the antics of those men elected to govern us. Citizens far and wide are crying to the heavens about the sad condition of this world. In South Carolina all become lachry mose at the mention of the future of the state and just where we are all going to find ourselves some day. Let's not fool ourselves! It's true that we don't have much, but we have the capacity to have more. And, if the energy spent complaining about our pathetic little world was expended in mak ing It better, soon we would ar rive, not at a Utopia, but at a better way of living. We east ballots and elect men to represent us in carrying out our business of being citizens. These men bungle1 they make us call them fools; we wonder why we put them where they are. But what more do we do? We don't seek to understand their prb lems, which are actually ours. We don't try to find better and more capable men to replace them. We just comnplain and remark aboutj the low price of cotton and pass down the unpaved sidewalk. The complaint is a balm for the conscience, but it is no balm for life. -- As Ma Said Ma Kettle in "The Egg and I" I was a nrtatof the citizenr. HERITAGE -o^ OF TW*#AMO '-BEATEN BAR IN Jordans, BIc WOOD OF THE GOOD SIP WHK THE PILGRIMS T AMERICA "in and Bahrei AL BAHRET - roducts of a university educa- it on? Already one good definition ne own ie drain. mIu wo "This university should capture eal he imagination; it is a plot of bl arth where hopes dwell, am- ly itions spring, where all of life w i cubicled for sampling, chang- j ig the boy into a man, here is is nature set, and ever are they art who tread this hallowed wli Tound, this Carolinal" Sounds aR ike 'we're on an oasis in the des- an rt regions. But ah, this gem, ha his emerald isle, this Carolina! no Lil And a place where ambitions toi pring? Looks like the modern Ar tudent is moved more by gr .nxiety as he hurdles from test "A o test than by ambition. ba Maybe a university is its spirit. tir Note: no "s" on spirit). Now, th ot the "Push 'em Back Rah de wow) Rah" stuff, but the type 'r f * thing like when you're at a P ance and you've just cut in and m ou've already zsLepped on her feet %vice, kicked her, asked her if in he was from Charleston and in bo ther ways hoteA nhinrgs up, and tic hen in the icy stillness she asks pr ,ou where you go to selool and m< ,ou say "U.S.C." and she sighs pa doringly and lets you dance se4 loser. It should happen only to lik rale men ? (Not that this doesn't appen every day to Carolina men, Or trong and true, but it doesn't elp explain why we're here at spi university. Or does it?) c Maybe the motto of the uni ersity should be changed to wi Thou shalt not pass by much" te wrought into Latin of course) to tu xplain things. That would satis- w y the bibliopilers as well as the lei riembers of the Misplaced Beach- ho ombers Society. The one extreme va roup, momentarily expecting to te~ nherit the earth, that worms so by nanfully through dusty mounds un f dry yellowed pages, could carry Is I: and Black 1 - CARROLL GIIAIAM - M4a sat on a rickety porch, with ra ~hickens crawling all over the thi lace, the stench of the manure H ijle in front of the barn in her pi iostriis, while Pa scouted the in ~ountry-side complaining and try- te ng to borrow from others. cI Ma explained that taxes had m lone up, therefore, no money to R my fencing and a manure ipreader. Whined she, "It's them re :rooks in Washington, all the time de xeing bribed and buyin' their- a, selves big. cars with our money. aj think them politicians can take og their crooked laws and stuff 'em." te So she sat, while the house fell be in, the chickens overran the place, at and the barnyard smell swept W across the neighborhood. al Ma could easily have been from a South Carolina. In feet, she would have made an admirable Univer sity of South Carolina student. w She would have .been voted Miss M Average Student in a walkaway. fi F~or her philosophy abound on this d< sampus and Its suburb, the state. ti 'At Carolina, the majority of the d< student body Is long on the com- re plaint and short on the action.. vi [rhere Is small and weak partici. Ia pation in the activities supposed y established for our benefit.. t ['his naturally result. in the aP- tii earance that a fog students are se 'running everything." in One member of our studeint sa ody said the other day that he ai ould name twenty stndent. who ka 10 li tof VC PI I-R tb ix t1 I aloft on their pure white ban . 'Thou shalt not pass by chl" And they don't. They W uld no more pass by a moth- n( en ton,e without picking it up, wing fhe dust off, and learned thuml.ing through it than they W uld think of having a date, or fi niing a club. knd those at the other pole, ose abode is the canteen, living idst heaps of lipsticked straws w I empty bottles, might also ti ve for their motto "Thou shalt at b pass by much!" They don't ce the lilies of the field-they P 1 not, neither do they spin. df ything above passing is a dis ace, a mistake, and a grade of ." is -something stamped on milk t ile tops. They do pass (some- 0 ies) only because -the rules of r( game say they have to in or- 0 r to stay on the merry-go und. Anything else is just ne is ultra, if you' know what I S1 an. h As most everyone is somewhere al between, each one could apply C bh meanings, juggling the frac ntoz meet the case. Event the >fessors could have the whole tto in their hearts, as the first rt, "Thous shalt not pass," ,ms to be engraved there now, e on a tombstone. te Last Try (by McVey): A C1 M university is a place; it is a rit; it is men of learning, a lection of books, laboratories 'r Lere work in science goes for rd; it is the source of the ching of the beauties of libea- t e and the arts; it is the center Lere ambitious youth gathers to. rn; it protects the traditions, nors the new and tests its 'A lue; it believes in truth, pro its against error, and leads men el reason rather than by ferce. A iversity is a place. .. a spirit... oursa?... n the student affairs. He named em off a a moment's notice. is figure is purely arbitrary, rhaps a little small, but to be eluded on his list should be flat ry for one one, but to be In aided would kill many well eaning hearts. ededication? ThIs year we are supposed to dedicate ourselves to freedom, mocracy and the like which, we e told, are our priceless herit re. That's all well and good, but r heritage consisted of some ing more. Here, It also con ined wornout land, a people arved of progress feasting on ar-borne prosperity and quaking the thought of its going, and craving for better conditions, onomically and socially. To. get the' last Is that to which a should be dedicating ourselves. 'e don't wish to be slaves of the iture that Is never to come; we mn't want an axiomatic "strength rough joy" movement; but, we want a prosperity and a prog es for the state and the uni irsity that Is built with our own boy,. Complaint, can be made, but*to em should be added the sugges n of a better way of doing mething and then the actual do g it. This isathe only w.~yto be tisfied with what is happening ound us--to be a part of it and wow that it Is for our good. (In our last episode of those little-known factsbe1$ e history of our nation Paul Revere, the Gene Autry ntaloon days, had become slightly waeky, due, no doubt the fact that the car would soon replace his mode ( ,omotion. He talked to himself at all' times, and strange ill, entirely in Arabic, claiming he refused to let strang g ten to his secrets. In diagnosis, Pasteur noted symptoni:. the dread disease Solitaria, and, claimed no cure. But og e night of his famed ride through Middlesex Village, et, ul caught a severe case of laryngitis, thus couldn't he0 mself talk, and became completely cured. Because of his miraculous recovery Paul decided to te his remaining years to helping those in his forme. ight and thus became the country's first -psychiatrist.,&eI en revolutionized the profession by inventing a sure eu r sufferers of the malady known as Privvyphobia, the kcontrollable desire to write on walls. His cure, a fountai, n which leaked from seven different apertures, made such fferers disappear fron' the American scene entirely unt. e birth of Kilroy.) IV Shortly after, following the industrial revolution, a batthI tween the roundheads and flattops in the nail busine%s rcy Padmore III made a meteoric rise in the financia )rld, and had shortly become Wall Street's greatest mag t. His business, "Padmore Co.," revolutionized women's aar, and his motto, "Make your torso moreso; we fix flats, is instrumental in popularizing the new look.'He was the rst to recognize the importance of making mountains out molehills. Shortl ythereafter, due to hij lines of business, Padmore ent to pieces and was'confinel to a sanitarium. Even of e highest class' socially, he insisted on wearing formal raight jackets in the evening, and occupied himself with. .rfecting a synthetic rubber injection for Los Angeles pe. strians, so that they would bounce when hit. The loss of the nation's greatest financial typhoon threw ie country into turmoil, and depression gripped America, rly on the old Southern plantations was there still any mnant of high living. Here all was calm and serene. The Id South lived on I At "Old Sunnybrook," home of Cunnel Throckmorton ;anislous Culpepper, or "Massa T.S.," as he was known by s faithful slaves, the Cunnel, complete with black coat id goatee, said to his beautiful dotter one morning, "Honq ile, Pappy's gotta go to town and pose for another blended )urbon ad. Ah'll be back soon." "But pappy," exclaimed Honey Chile, "yo forgot yo ousers agin." "So ah did, so ah did. It happens every winter when l its on my lonriem. Can't feel the dadburned things, and d )eps unbuttoning my back flap looking for my handker. iief. Been wondering whar that draft came frum." While the Cunnel wuz dressing, Honey Chile said, "Papp, %ember that hurricane we had last week? One of our chio mns got her tail caught in it, and laid the same egg 16 mes." "Thas nuthin', chile. Last year one of them chickens got ito my case of scotch one day, and laid mothballs for two eeks. Well, I'm off to town. Goodby" As you see, the South had little care, but those poor AT THE THEATRES * NEXT WEEK!.e e secr .d.~t Alo* e e Orlean's . o 07, Ar" *. hy W 0 A sea.** eC aUe j~ -* .e ~: OORA%CP' so Entertainment Is Essential to Good Health and Happiness!