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Newsto Editor.. News Editor .......................... Sports Editor......................... Society Editor'.... Campus Editor........................ Feature Editor Copy Editor.......................... Exchange Editor ...................... Managing Editor. ...... Enter Can Exit Soci Carolina fraternities and sororities are forgetting their role in college life. Fraternity block voting in the recent cam pus elections is an example of their error. Candidates were beaten in these elections regardless of their qualification or merit, but because they bumped heads with so ciety politics. The day of society politics is becoming a burden to Carolina. Student body and class offices afford a much better service to the student body than merely adding honors to the fraternities' list in their national pub lications or the school's yearbook. Many students do not know the duties of their student officers, btt many expect something from them when the occasion arises. Yet, we continue, year after year, to elect people to office through the same procedure -fraternity-pressure balloting. Fraternities were not founded for this purpose. They were founded to promote Christianity, brotherhood and scholarship. We flagrantly violate their purposes when we block vote our favorites into office with no rhyme or reason other than fraternity affiliation. We need some purpose, some method in our politics. There is need for political par ticipation, but there is no means to gain such action in our present condition. While other schools continue to gain their ends Whether You L Since some doubt the right of The Game cock to criticize or suggest improvements on conditions which affect us, here are a few reasons that we feel we have to dabble in the affairs of our "elders" or those who govern us. . . . We, the students, are citizens. We represent, on the whole, an industrious, pro gressive and ambitious portion of the state's people. We are somewhat idealistic, but we are in a decent position to voice our opinions practically in such subjects as affect us vitally here. Most of us are voters. We maintain the right to suggest whatever we feel is for the elevation of better education and better government, since we certainly are in a po sition to observe how the state function of each is carried out. We re students. It is our purpose to seel< a better way of life. (Certainly, there is room for improvement.) We study texts ir sociology, p)olitical science, history and eco. niomics and we find much improvement t< be made. Can we be expected to keep our mrouths shut in the face of needed reformsi In This C By CARROI The State, august journal only 20 per c of ( olumbia, this week ex- spent for hig pounded through its editorial the legislal columnis the virtuous gener- (arolina. No' Usity of our successive leg- generosity, islatuires in South Carolina. amount for Trhe writer concluded with has not been words to this effect: Anyone ISaying educi who says that legislatures 0f also an attempi the last two decades have not skirts of a br< been generous with education the field down and other worthwhile works, gains in prima doesn't know what he or she education and is talking about, neglected, set C'ome, come, that's not the educational pla point at all. Generosity may have, And it is p been shown to "education and same colleges other worthwhile works" in this that young citi state, but only by including the the ways in wt other efforts *with education can serve their stal this statement be a truth. When education is taken alo>ne, the ree- Expect. ord is not so good. The attitude The State's e< Millions are spent and have'those who do n beeni spent on the highways and contact with t] other things in this state during No man sittin the writer's chosen two decades.; Charleston, W4 This has been a noble effort, but Columbia coul is it of more lasting benefit than know just wha a niodern and well-equipped edu- schools are. cational system? Wea Up to 1945 the great uni- Clemson and Vrsity of this state received learned from .......... Robert Isbell ............... . jean HillM ............. Van Newnn ............. Norine Corley UNIV James Sheridan .... . Jane Dowe . . Tillie Young Founded January editor, "IUe Ganot ............. Ruth Newell University of Soutl year except holiday .........Carroll Gilliam The opinions exp essarily those of " endorsement althou pus Parties; Aty Politics in a concrete democratic way, we lie like a groundhog, politically dormant, waiting for another election to roll around so we can honor another group of officers to sit up like what-not adornments for the coming year. Every fraternity and sorority on the cam pus serves as a political party some time . during every year, but there is no platform ... nor any dream of one. Their resources are abounding in personable candidates and campaigpi placards-not in material con vertible for the service of the student body. So, we want an answer. Why not end fra ternity and sorority domination in politics in favor of a party system? Why not? z Party politics is not a dream. It is a reality in most American schools. It furnishes re ality to idea and reason forwarded by the students they serve. A two or three-party system would pre sent platforms upon which voters could vote rather than the fraternity pin which ther candidate wears, rather than for the sound fi of his name or the way he combs his mop. v Such a project, begun now, could become 1 a reality before election time comes around f next year. Such a step might well be the fi beginning of the end of one-party rule in ih South Carolina. We voters are given safety f in competition-especially when the com- A petitors are vying for our favor. ike It Or Not.. . Some seem to think that we have little or no right to think for ourselves, that there a are greater minds than ours made to do our h thinking for us. Some maintain that the t status quo was good enough for our fathers e and it is good enough for us. . . But not so r here. We have the right to think for our- 14 aflh7*'kT^ nv.A -r I~4~4 Aelve*andto iitiae chnges No&JSpLrog re of note ever came about without some al- , teration of the conventional. And, our a fathers lived in a different time; so did a their fathers live in a different age. They, e like we, made their changes. So can we. We are the fathers of a new generation. Our sons and daughters must live on the* foundations already prepared. We must see that these foundations do not crumble. Our voice is not a small one. Our minds' are not infantile. We are on the threshold of life in its concrete form, and we want to I make the road passable, the horizon clear. So, to those who have scorned us for ours stand, please consider that we speak in the I interest and concern of our future. And whether you like it or not, we own that right as long as we adhere to the principles of honesty, decency and fairness.. orner. ... 2L L. GILLIAM ent of the money campuses the conditions urn her education by der which we and our facul ture of South ties are carrying on in the v is that exactly educational field. We also vhen the total have talked to students from higher education colleges in other states and boastworthy. know what they have that we tinigeeais do not possess. to hide behind the Theni people like the editorial ad truth. Narrow writer wonder why so many of us and eliminate the don't stay in good old South Caro ry and high school lina. mnyone can see the The answer is quite simple: ni-starved higher whenever anyone complains. that nts of the state. the educational institutions are rincipally in these beinig wronged by wasteful dupli and the university cation or by legislative neglect, zens come to know someone like The State's honored hich they can best writer thunders forth with the e and its people. old "buddy-buddy" back-slapping i ignorance technique and turns reproachful of the writer of eyes toward the individual with a itraishaofprattling "How could you, he has ot come into direct .Just done so and .so for you." e several colleges. A Day Comes g in an office in The principal trouble with ~stminster or even all the attempts at progress in d be expected to this state is an unspoken hush t the needs of the hush alliance between some of the newspapers of South Carolina. and some members of the General iarolina, and at Assembly who have made the The Citadel have State House their second home. living on our Nothng is ever ..a by on which CROWING ,OR A GRBATER ERSITY OP SOUTH CAROL aber of Associated Colli6ate Pro Distributor of Collegiate gest 80 1908, with Robert Elliott Gons Wki" Is published by and for the i Carolina weekly, on Fridays, du a and eaminations. essed by columnlits and letterwri 'he Gamecock." Publis does r gh the right to edit Is served. .1 . I change that to Grin .anc AL BA The Fable Of Th Once upon a time there was a ne young rooster in the barn ird. He was the first one to rout a real honest-to-goodness ?ather, the first to fly up on a mce post (and the first to get is wings clipped), and even thel rst one to have his crow change. real razzler-dazzler. But even 'ith all that Theobold (that was is name) never got to be a hero n the farm. He began to wonder about this, nd one day he ran across (in a ir corner of the barnyard) all ie other hens and roosters gath red around a certain group of Dosters who were stretching their ?gs and flapping their wings and Aisting their necks into all sorts f pretzely positions. And all the illy little hens were standing round in an awed circle cooing nd cackling in admiration at verything these roosters did. It rould just leave them all aflutter, ackling ecstatically and helpless ri the dust. Then Theobold suddenly realized rho these roosters were who were etting all the attention. They rere the ones Mrs. MacUlty had ired to come and entertain the hieken farm--the Blockhead Club era. Theobold didn't say much. Just ided his time. Was going to find ut all about them. And he was oing to have a hen or two flut ering around him, too, before he was finished. So he watched the ilockheaders very closely to see vhat they did so special. Theobold noticed that the au umn was the time when everybody n the barnyard, even dear old iear-sighted Mrs. MacUlty, just vorshipped the Blockhead roost rs. And he discovered it wa's all ecause they played a game call d Pig-tail. Eleven of them would ret out oni a field with a little ball hey had madp by curling up a >ig's tail (sometimes they called t a pigskin, too). And everybody voult troop out to see them play which will contradict the other, in Invisible truce stifles any riticism from either quarter. Without a newspaper to prod the people into prodding their representatives, nothing will change and improvements in the lot of the common man in South Carolina will never be made. People can't do anything If they are kept ig norant of the facts. And statements such as that >road semi-truth in The State this veek do not serve to enlighten Inyone, only to reprimand those i'ho do question. They are better eft unsaid unless the whole ruth is to be told. The editorial writer should stick to the accustomed state ments on waffle-eating, flower gardens and the long~ run in Columbia of "The Egg and I." They are a.ier on te reae. Business MA Assistant Bui Circula*Aon . Advertising 4 INA Business Staf Saye Ga. ales s. the first Bob McLellai students of the Katz, Huntei ring the college Albert Munn. Margueri 111en Schofiel ;Mr are not nec lot constitute an Jack Morgan Decell, Lloyd one spade, Moe?. I Bahret HRET e Funny Rooster against the roosters of another farm. But Theobold played Pig-tail just like most of the other roost ers on the farm. But he wasn't popular like a member of the Blockhead Club. Now there must be some reason why, Theobold thought. So he went out and watched them some more. He had it! They were playing for the chicken farm! They were the basis for the chicken farm spirit. Why, of course. That was why they were so popular! But then Theobold began to ponder. It certainly all didn't seem to add up. These roosters would come around and see how much Mrs. MacUlty was going to pay them. And if it wasn't as much as some other chicken farm why they would just go to that farm and play against Mrs. MaeUlty's team. Just to see Theobold went up to one of the hens and asked her what she was making such a fuss about. "Why, they don't care any thing about the chicken farm," he said. "All they care about is how much Mrs. MacUlty gives awvay to them." The hen looked blank. Theni she gave an odd sort of cackle and then cocked her head sideways and gave him a fishy stare. 'What a funny thing to say! They'd do anything for the chicken farm! Why, of course they would. They are the chicken farm. Pardon me, I just remembered a worm I've been meaning to dig up all morn ing." And off she flurried. Well, Theobold wasn't too con vinced. So he just beaked around some more. And lhe saw Mrs. Mac Ulty taking most of the egg money in order to get these roosters to come to the barnyard when the roosts for the chicken farm hens and roogters were ovbrerowded and sometimes the special mash wasn't too, too special and there wasn't anybody much to pay much attention and really get them ready to go out into the great cockfight. One day Theobold got up his courage and flewv upon Mrs. Mac Ulty's shoulder and told her how he saw things about all that money. "Why, for goodness sake, who ever heard of such a thing! Who would ever hear of the chicken farm if it weren't for our Pig tail roosters? What a ridiculous rooster you are to think such things!" "But Mrs. MacUlty," ventured Theobold, 'Do you have to pay them all the egg money? There are plenty of roosters on the farm who can play Pig-tail." "Crazy little chicken with funny Ideas!" she said exasIp3ratedly. 'The Idea isn't for the chicken farm roosters to play for the chicken farm," They'd never win *a game. And besides, what are you complaining about, anyway? Don't you know it's not what's in a package but how it's wrapped that sells it? When you get out into the great cockfight you'll see -that It's not how sharp your spurs are or how fast you can run or how hard yu ca fly. It, mnager . iness Mgr. [anager ......... ....... taff: Ben Quarles, Buddy Turner f: Electa Hall, Luki Bennett, Bett REPORTORIAL STAFf ton, Belinda Collum, Pat Ram, Ji i, Ruth Newell, Gladys Johnson, r Russell, Colleen Morris, Ruper te Webb, Ida S. Webb, Betty I d, Jo-Anne Dellinger, Bob Horton, Jem Newbury, Henry Macklen, Huntington, Joe Molony. The Inside By JIM SHERI Guest Columi Last week the lusty wind of po !ampus propelling candidates at q the wind died, all the elements throat-cutting had gathered in lit1 >bjectively hither and yon. The harmless gusts'were appar themselves. Foremost of the blow era who huffed and puffeld to blo their own blown down and payed tues of the people they were supl All seemed a little dazed at the mained with a bad taste ii, their n a lack in politics on the campus. doubtedly be filled by the organis litical parties with definite platfoi students. For one reason and al political scene ,vondering just wh Many ask what alu the slIoutin do these people hope to accompli What powers will they have? Wh It's just a little bewildering to som the majority apparently care littl Part of the confusion can be li dents themselves. The political I hearted sort of way and was att( dents composed lrgely of Irateri women who came to hear their et urge impelled numerous listeners to leave immediately after their thing hardly seemed %%orth ill th Candidates for studeit bodyI dent made speeches at the rally. lapping and conflicting at the san tions tend to center more on pel ing than on clear an( concise pla ing what the speakers really stoo do about it. contented thle teeS Ious campaign promiises. Long before amd do-rin th le 1. campaigners were buisi ly ar'ranigi posing groups and ma kinig snide half turned backs. Thlev hung ab< assailing annoyed voters withI t I the market place and id little ol Few were contenit to prlaise th14 wvork actively for his elect ion. Th vate campaigniing, leanedl as mnuic possible. Seasoned poli t icians hi method as almost celr tain politica: shouts did little to answver the qu All cannjot be con(ll'aiIat ho' lIayed in the elect ions. There wc their .jobs earnestly and seriously mind. That intentioni was to sele the. task at hand regardless of frie ties. They are to be comnmended. I;iWronIe must pull togethier toi holding and to accomplish t'nds I dents and the un iv \ersi ty thlrouj government call be made inato( an ganization when the studen'its ovi the present system of jiolit ics an of avoiding meetings designed to hat yo)u con frul a c'hike ki'lf tarmi with prestige. Anld t hose of Pig-taj )i Y p les givte us pr'est ige(. bus Now shoo !"'(th Theobol could t',. la wax't Ih going to get anyvwhiei. Andi all win over th l arm toin Ihey betganl to look Ite at hin as a roosteri with such ebai funny ideas. Why, lie t'een took S. pidek in Ite mashi Mrls. MaeUlIty chic gave hon.i (n a~i chicken farm. bolt Iimlaginlit! s 'And he wouIld stajiti arund flap- .saj Ping his wings and( racing ar'ound w aRid having at wt,nder'iful t ime with theit all t Ihe at her ehjeikc.'s dinag all the ' t'venl thloughi Ri~ In of te henls T'ht wouhii slandl aroundii andt watlch do Sioni hit'ls ha vt. thin gn t a l . a p p 'n(' T h e o bo ld a ...HarrysW Hitt, Jr. George W. Shelor, Jr. .............. Lynn Hook ie-Moore ty Rodgers, Ruth Patrick, Carolyn Busbee, Carolyn t Blocker, Bob Gillespie, rrazer, Audrey Chapman, Joy Conard, Ned Threatt, Jimmy Crawford, Grady Track DAN list litics swirled through the uite a rapid pace. Before of confusion, gossip and tie whirlwinds and struck ently made by candidates hards-were the campaign w Jack's house down, had little attention to the vir >osed to be supporting. results and not a few re ouths. The election showed A lack which would un ,ation of two or more po -ms to present to confused lother many look at the at is happening. g is about anyway. What sh once they are elected? it can we expect of them? e and clear to others while e one w9y or the other. tid at the feet of the stu -ailly was held in a half mded by perhaps 400 stu lity and sorority men and mndidates only. Some inner to be ill mannered enough man's speech. The whole e trouble. wesidenit and class presi )omie latforms were over ie time. In such cases elec *sonalities and mud sling tforms. Listeners, wonder d for and what they could wit I ickering at ridicu 'allotinig in every election ig to swap~ votes with op remarks behind opponents >ut the polls like vultures, Iiir c acap)honous yawp of -ir ca&ndidate's- virtues and e order of the day', in pri h toward mud slinging as ave always avoided this I dleath. Painted signs and est ion of "who is he?" vever, for the part they ~re many who went about with but one intention in t the man best fitted for nd(ships and organizational nake student offices worth # or the betterment of stu hl these offices. Student efficient and forceful or 'rcome their disgust with d help the leaders instead benefit them. lie had turned out to be one the bJest wingflappers in the ness. Without' even a coachv 'y were always too busy with Pig-tail players) they got a gflapping team together for ahickeni farm and took the IIJ)ion ship. ii then all the wise little kens w'ould come up to Theo I and ask him, 'Now, don't you how funny the thinga you are?" Why, no, not at all. They aren't same thing at all." hey would all just wag their Is. ( A few of them~ their tails. re-re always a few who never Ket the word stral'ght.) ''Guess 4 I always be a little off that - -always be a little funny." oor Theoboldf That's how he e to be~ known as the funny