Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Clothing Sale at Edmunds Don't fail to come in and see what we can save you on Clothes. Great reductions in our immense Clothing Stock. Absolutely all wool garments. :-::-: :-: :-: :..: , New Brown, Tans, Brown Mixtures, Blue Serges, in all sizes, we can fit you. The Garments are strictly all hand-tailored and will hold their shape. -: - __ -EDMUNDS HOME OF GOOD CLOTHES SMOOTH ES"1 TOBACCO LUCKY is the Junior who has found ? Velvet! The tender middle leaf--hung up in the warehouse for over two years maturing-getting rid of the harshness of the green leaf-mellowed to a point where the bite has dropped out-and where the flavor is good and smooth. That's Velvet. Numerous red tins of Velvet decorate the 5 foot shelf-it's part of a liberal education-the best in the land-this Velvet. Some friend, or ten cents at any dealer's will give you the pleasure. SPAJLDING & MERRICK CHICAGO 1 ounce bags 5 cents. Convenient for cigarette smokers. Full 2 ounce tins AlOc A PINANCIAL STRONGHOLD Our unor hChecking Department has been arranged solely for the con STUDEENTS OF THIS3 CITY -oket check books furnised fre-yno restrictions as to amountho aily aace carried. Accounts may be opened for any amount. Yofau ned no introductio to te Bank-except aineter from da meber of The stb in ayourncheck book wil be as.omplete itemized journal of your 26e (nation4f Roan 4nb 6xc6ange gaat of Cofum8ia E. W. ROBERTSON, Prest. EDw. EHRLICH, V.-Prest. G. M. BERRY, Cashier T. B. BTACKHOUSE, V.-Prest. -E. C. CATHOART, Aest. Cashier A New Spirit Has Developed at Carolina. During the last ten or fifteen years a new spirit has developed within our college. It is that spirit which takes careful account of the conditions of one's fellow-men, and where these conditions are bad, raises the question, What can be done to afford relief? A certain authority has lately said that more books on social questions have ap peared in the last twenty-five years than in all the preceding centuries since the invention of printing. Now what are the reasons for this rise of interest in our social prob lems? Unquestionably the first is that men have now come to re..lize that anything less than the square deal is a mockery of Christ's teach ings, and a great resolve has been made by many brave spirits of our time to make our civilization Chris tian in fact as well as in name. The second reason is that the sciences of economics and sociology are teaching us that all the people must go tip together or else all will go down together. The welfare of the one is the legitimate, nay, the neces sary, concern of all. One part of the population cannot be ignorant. diseased and vicious, without caus ing much pain and suffering to the other. The nation can no more exist half and half in this respect than it could in the words of Abra ham Lincoln, "half slave and half free." It is chiefly for the reason given above that Southern college students are now taking such keen interest in social questions. Mr. Weather ford's "Negro Life in the South" was a great eye-opetier last year to sonic 4,000 college men in the South, and the interest roused by his book was so keen that money was given voluntarily by various gentlemen to put a secretary in the field who should give his entire time to relating Southern college men to definite social service for the negro and for the other unfortunates of our communities. Mr. Trawick has already this year visited Carolina twice, giving his splendid lecture on "The Opportunities for Social Ser vice in Southern Cities." Mr. Weatherford, during the present college year, has been busy prepar ing another boo0k on the negro question. This volume, to be called "The Progress of the Negro Race," wvill be ready for use at the students' summer conference in June at Black Mountain. It will embody the re suilts in large measure of investiga tions madle by students in different p)arts of the South into various mat ters like health, housing, sanitation and amusements and recreations. A report on the amusements and recreations for the negroes of Co lumbia was made by a committee of the University Y. M. C. A., of which Dr. Chamberhayne was chair man. When one turns from consider ing the negro question and looks at the conditions among the mill peo pie of the South and among the mountaineers of the Blue Ridge, one cannot escape the feeling that the call to social service in one form or another is the loudest call that rings today in the ears of the Southern college man. He and he alone is able to cope with these, the most important questions of our civilization. He must furnish, by virtue of his training and opportu hities, the leadership that is neces sary in the great work of building an efficient democracy in all the South. Finally it should be said that no agency is more alive than the Y. M. C. A. to the imperative call for so cial service. The Association main tains secretaries who look after the immigrants at the landing-port; it establishes headquarters for rail road men, it opens up permanent buildings in cotton mill villages, it provides temporary accommodations in lumber camps and looks out also for the men in the mines, while it endeavors in the cities, through its educational night classes, to give to those who have in some way drop ped out of school another chance to train themselves for greater efii ciency. Last year several hundreds of college men all over North Amer ica were assisting the local Associa tions in these various undertakings. Nor was Carolina behind, as witness the following paragraph from a pamphlet entitled "College Men and industrial Workers," circulated by the industrial department of the Y. Ml. C. A.: "Last year the Uni versity of South Carolina, \Wofford and Furman supplied about forty students for extension work in cot ton mill villages, and college glee clubs have given benefit concerts." This is the right spirit : it only re mains to develop it still further. Send The Gamecock Home i'(otch COLLAR