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WILSON LEAGUE CAUSES COMMENT Public Press Gives Favorable and Unfavorable Reports CONTROVERSY IS INTERESTING Charlotte Observer Makes Unfav orable Comment.-The State Reflects an Entirely Dif. ferent View. The Woodrow Wilson League of College Men has attracted much at tention, mostly favorable, but some unfavorable. Several papers have laughed at the idea of college men, or "college boys," as some would yet call them, taking any active interest in political affairs. One South Car olina publication speaks of the or ganization of the college men of the State for Woodrow Wilson as "dis gusting." One asserts that it would do Woodrow Wilson as much good if the women's colleges of the State should form clubs for him. Another reminds us that what Wilson wants is not the votes of the colleges, but of the electoral. college. The opposition to these clubs that has attracted the widest attention has been that of the editor of the Charlotte Observer, mainly because of the reputation of Major Hemp hill. On December 12, 1911, the following appeared on the editorial page of the Charlotte Observer: "It is said by the Charleston News and Courier that the Citadel, the College of Charleston and the Med ical College of South Carolina are going to organize Woodrow Wilson Clubs, which are to affiliate with the Woodrow Wilson League of Col lege Men. But why should the stu dents of the Citadel Academy, which is in some measure dependent upon the people of the State,' go into a political organization in the interest of any candidate for President? It may be that everybody~ in South Carolina is not in favor of Dr. -Wil son. It has been suggested that the Governor of the State is not favor ably inc.ined to his candidacy, and we doubt the wisdom of the student body attending institutions which are under tihe supervision of the State forming political organiza tions in the interest of any candi date." The Woodrowv Wilson League, through one of its officers, sent a letter to The Observer, of which the followving is part: 'We doubt the wisdom of the student body attending institutions which are under the supervision of the State forming political organiza tions in the interest of. any candi date.' The students of the Univer sity of South Carolina, which is an institution under the supervision of the State, feel that they have the proper privilege of organizing such clubs and feel also that there can be no tenable objection to their doing so on the ground that all the people in the State may not be of the same political views as the members of such club. As college men we feel that it is not only our privilege but our duty to take an active interest in political affairs and we consider such as matters of individual opin ion for the college student as well as for the business man. The Statc, in offering aid to students in gaining an education, surely does not wish to impose upon those students the politica! views of any person of that State, be he Governor or private citizen. If so we would infer that the editor advocates students of such institutions changing their political views with each administration." Major Hemphill published the following editorial along with the letter: "The writer infers too much as to what the editor of The Observer would do when he says that this person 'advocates students in such institutions changing their political views with each administration.' On the contrary, we would not have the students in State institutions to make ahy entaigling alliances with any administration or with any as pirant for political honors. The college is not a political training school or gymnasium in which the students are expected to engage in ground and lofty tumbling for the benefit of any candidate whatso ever." Below we publish a part of the editorial in The State on the subject published a few days after The Ob server editorial and reflecting an en tirely different view of the matter: "What ails The Observer is that Woodrow Wilson is the favorite in nearly all the Southern institutions and it has schooled itself to detest anything of a Woodrow Wilson flavor. The organization of the Taft men, the Harmon or Underwood men, in the colleges would be unob jectionable to it. College political associations have never heretofore been the object of its displeasure. "This Wilson unanimity, by the wvay, has significance because it is the expression of young men who have no axes to grind, who are not office-holders and naturally can not expect to be for a number of years, and because they are fresh from the homes of the South, most of them from country homes. The united voice of 6oo South Carolina boys for Woodlrowv Wilson is a better in dlex to the feeling of fathers and mothers in the State perhaps than would be the deliverance of a polit ical convention, howvever the latter would be more effective."' SANITATION SCHEME AT CAROLINA NOTED U.S. Bureau of Education Promises Co-operation.-Course Open to All Students or an Elective. Washington, January 2.-Special to The State: Education in personal and public hygiene for college stu dents, as given by the University of South Carolina, has been brought to the attention of the United States bureau of education. The South Carolina University's course consists of a series of lectures, dealing with municipal and rural sanitation and the work of transmission and pre vention of all communicable diseases as well as with the personal health problems of the individual. The course is in charge of special ists from the University's depart ment of biology, with the co-opera tion of the secretary of the State Board of Health, the director of rural sanitation, the State agent of the United States farmers' co-opera tive demonstration work, and other officials of the United States depart ment of agriculture. ,The course is open as an elective to all students, and is designed to be of especial value to those prepar ing to study medicine, or to engage in social or religious work. M. L. KINARD THE CLOTHIER The Home of Hart, Schaff ner & Marx Fine Clothes, Manhattan Shirts, Stetson Hats, Keiser Neckwear, and everything that's good to wear. I Per Cent. 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