The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, December 09, 1909, Page 2, Image 2
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BOARD OF EDITORS.
Editor-in-Chief
C. T. GRAYDON, 10, Greenwood.
Associate Editor
T. M. Ross, '11, Euphradian.
Athletics Editors
P. L. WnoHT, '11, Euphradian.
C. G. WYCIIE, '11, Clariosophic.
Local Editors
W. S. BoLT, '12, Euphradian.
J. H. FELLERS, '10, Clariosophie.
Y. M. C. A. Editor
. H. C. RIrrER, JR.
Law Association Editor
C. A. AsiiLEY, '10.
COLUMBIA, S. 0., DECEMBER 9, 1909.
Now for baseball.
Have you been caught?
The Annual is coming--write for it.
Two weeks' work-then Christmas.
Next year's football team, here's to
you.
The bird will appear once more in
1909.
How about county clubs for the An
nual?
Several new block "C's" floating
around.
Come together and help make the
last issue a stunner.
One hundred men out for class foot
ball; that looks like newr material.
THE SCRUBS.
The action of the Advisory Board
on last Saturday afternoon in giving
to the scrubs a U. of S. C. monogram,
is indeed a step in the right direction.
It will be remembered by our readers
that not so long ago we published an
editorial in regard to reward for labor
upon01 the scrub steams, andl it seems
that already this . article has borne
fruit. TPher-e was also a suggestion by
TO THOSE WHO HAVE
NOT PAID THEIR $1.00
We must have this money at once or
we will not be able to run much longer.
Our printers demand a monthly settle
ment, and the only way we can meet
these bills is to have all the money which
the subscribers have contracted to pay.
The contracts were dated for the first
payment to be made November 1st, and
we have only collected a few of these.
You signed up the contract and we want
you to live up to It. Please take this to
heart and pay the Business Manager at
once. H rooms In No. 5 E . Leae
some that we cease to give -the name
scrubs to the second strong men and
call them *the second team, but this we
do not favor. There is a certain
charm in that name ; there is a certain
inspiring sound to that name, and
there is a glory in that seeming offen
sive title. Scrubs today, scrubs to
morrow, scrubs forever; may their
praises ever be sung, may their re
wards ever increase!
CLASS FOOTBALL.
Class football is now in its glory,
and the interest of all is centered upon
the teams representing the four differ
ent classes. The men have been out
now for about two weeks, and ere this
appears, the preliminary bouts between
the Freshmen and Sophomores and
Juniors vs. Seniors will be played.
Intercollegiate football fills a place
in the American college that could be
taken by no other gamc. Indeed, it is
the field wherein out athletic talent
and ability is best shown. But, taking
our college as an instance, it can be
safely said that varsity football is not
much more far-reaching in its effects
than that played by the different
classes. ''his may seem an extrava
gant statement, biut let us consider a
moment. In the first place, our var
sity men are usually those who have
been developed in previous years, and
are out to show their athletic ability.
They are the favored few, who are
naturally big enough or quick enough
to gain a place on the team. Again,
the varsity and scrub together usually
number about thirty-five men. Coin
pare this with the ninety men who play
class ball. True, the class men are
out only for about two or three weeks,
but still, that is sufficient to aid them
some physically, and certainly enough
to encourage them to develop them
selves farther, and possibly to try for
varsity the next year.
The Advisory Board, realizing the
real purpose of these games, namely,
to bring out new men, has debarred
varsity men, and so everyone, be he
little or big, has a good chance to con
tend for his class in the championship
games. We wish to encourage this
step and to ask everY man to come out
in a uniform.
THE AWAKENING INTEREST
OF THE ALUMNI.
\XV%hile arranging this issue of the
paper, the editor was very forcibly
struck with several signs of interest
by the aluni. The first of these is
the coming address of Mr. Lewis W.
Parker, of Greenville, S. C. The sec
ond( of these, wvhich we find mention
of, is the medal given annually by
lion. W. J. Roddley, of Rock Hill, S.
C., and the last is the speech of IHon.
J. J. McSwvain, of Greenville, also.
I-t may seem to some that this is just a
NOTICE:"
report the irregularity to t]
but few complaints so far
get the paper regularly, anc
to correct any fault hat lie
peculiar coincidence, but to those who
have watched the growth of our insti
tution, it seems to mark a new era in
our progress. A university, with an
energetic president (we know we have
this), an honorable student bqdy (we
think we have this), and lastly, and,
in all probability, the most important
of all, a loyal alumni (we feel sure
that now 1e have this), will surely
progress, Ao "watch Carolina grow."
LIGHTS.
\Vhy is it that regularly, once a
week, the lights in Rutledge go out, to
remain so till the next day some time?
This has occurred now some four or
five times, and still nothing has been
done to remedy the cause. After it
had happened several times during lec
tures, some slanderous persons made
the accusation that it was done by the
students themselves. This we know
to be untrue, and we call for some im
mediate action. The regularity of the
thing is becoming painful. It is very
disagreeable indeed to have yourself
su<dlenly surrounded with complete
darkness just as you are getting into
the mysteries of some trying problem.
There are, however, only two things to
do: You must either go to the library
and stay till the early hour of ten or
betake yourselfgto some other fellow's
room that is lighted, and there try to
concentrate your mind amid the noise
of a half dozen other occupants. Most
professors hesitate to excuse a man on
the hard luck story that the lights
went out ; so we call for something, be
it kerosene, gas, or what not, by which
we may impriit on our brains that
which is written in our books.
Address of Mr. J. J. McSwain.
Today we publish the third section
of the address by J. J. McSwain, Esq.,
of Greenville, S. C., on the work of
the literary societies:
Today the needs of the country cry
aloud for citizens of alert powers who
will enlist in the warfare against pub
lic vice for public righteousness. Graft
runs riot throughout public and coin
inercial life. All ideals are prostituted
for money.; honor and integrity are
rated upon the market like stocks and
bonds: virtue and chastity ring upon
the changes of commerce; public ofice
is 11o longer a public trust, but a public
opportunity for private gain. The
greatest trust companies in the his
tory of the world, the American life
insurance companies, have toyed with
the billions which the hard-workitig,
honest, average American citizen has
p)aid inl premiulms to save a suplport
for the wvidow andl orphan. These
fabulous accumulations have been
man ipulatedl to make millionaires
while the policyhiolder still struggles
andl saves. These amassedl trust funds
of the people have been ulsed to con
management would deem it
avor if anyone who does not
sive the paper regularly would
1em. Altho there have been
,we want every subscriber to
I we will consider it a pleasure
a in our powne
trol the markets of the country, to re
duce -the price for what the people
raise, to lower the wages of the work
ingman, and worst of all, to buy places
of political power for men who use
them still further to deprive the peo
ple of their weapons of self-defense.
The printed charge is scattered
through the world that the legislature
of the grand old State of Massachu
setts, the home of the Pilgrim fathers.
has been bought and sold like sausages
upon the market ; and no man has risen
up to brand the accuser for libel. The
Empire State of the nation, the home
of the Knickerbocker patriots, now
asks for the resignation from the Uni
ted States Senate of one who, until re
cently, was popularly supposed to be
an example for the ambitious youth
of America. Frauds in the postal ser
vice, rebates and cheats in public
buildings, graft in contracts for army
andl navy supplies, bribes, hold-ups and
rebates by political bosses, who in
fluence government appointments, all
these cry to heaven for a reformation
in a civic life. They demand, not alone
certain punishment for offenders
against existing law, not alone for
more specific and comprehensive enact
ments, but also a corrected and puri
fied ideal of personal and public
honesty, a higher conception of pri
vate and public virtue. The stream
must be purified at its fountains. Our
American young manhood must awake
to the fact .that a nation holds its life
on condition: that the example of Ro
man (ecadence must be read at our
peril. We must remember that the
outward forms of freedom and law
were observed in Rome 500 years after
their spirit was (lead ; that her people
all this time were enslaved to her im
perial p)olicy of war and conquest, and
this even though her tyrants ad
dressed the people as freemen. Shall
we be numbered with those, who, hav
ing eyes, see not; having ears, hear
not, the steady onward, tramp, tramp,
tramp, of the hordes of mammon that
would undermine the bulwarks of pub
lic law, and destroy the castles of pri
vate freedom?
Some one has said that the only
place left on American soil where a
dollar is at a discount is within our
colleges. That place in the colleges
where the dollar is at the greatest dis
count is in the literary society. This
is true especially with reference to dis
tinctions among students as to indi
vidual wealth or poverty ; in my ob
servation indigett students were ad
mitted without charge, and quite often
have poor boys won official and pub
lic honors. The effect of common inl
terest imp)osedl by membership in a
voluntary and self-governed institu
tion of studlents is denmocratizinig. For
poor and rich to collaborate on the
same sidte, andh to clash on opposing
sidles of (debate, arouses the mutual
recognition of the essential and dhefin
ing facts of manhood, that "true wor.th
is in being, not seeming," that intel
lectual and moral virility alone make
for true p)ower, that "a man's a man,
for a' that."
But in a more far reaching sense
(hoes the influence of the literary sociey
rebel against the dynasty of dollars.
With a vastly greater power imay their
wvork assist in re-establishing "the
State's collected will," the intelligent
dlesire of an npnrchnsnh1e people. Ase