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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA "While I Live I Crow" PUBLISHBD WEEKLY BY THE LITERA! SOCIETIES. TERMS $1.50 A YEAR. Entered at Columbia S. C. postoffi November 20, 1908 as second cla mail matter. EDITORIAL STAFF J. J. STEVENSON ....... Editor-in-Chi G. A. BUCHANAN, .... Managing Edit BUSINESS MANAGEMENT H. J. BLACKMON ... . Business Manag G. E. SHAND, JR..Asst. Bus. Manag H. D. STEADMAN..Circulation Manap Columbia, S. C., May 28, 1918 JAMES BRANDENBURG Death has again invad4 our ranks, claiming as i victim one of our most es maole aiumni. The univE sity has sustained a loss ai the campus has been sa dened by his untimely deat Last year he was a fellc ctudent. Todasy he slee beneath the sod. James D. Brandenburg gone, but he still hovers our memory. This is a trek ure that can not be tak, from us. We remember I thirst for knowledge, a thii that became breater as I learning increased. We i call his success as a debat< the direct result o fhis gre store of information, his lo ical mind, and his pleasii personality. Above all i remember his friendshi and the pleasant hours spe with him. We deplore our loss. true desciple of knowled has been taken from us, ai as a university we have l< a sincere friend, and sturdy companion. JUST HERE Defeat means victory-vi tory over our faults. SuccE cannot live long without s3 tem, neither can system st vive without cooperation. I better example of a "too lat, awakening can be found thv our 1918 debating seasc Blame it on the war if you wis but the fact can't be deni, that there was another eleme behind our disaster. The la< of enthusiasm and colle; "pep" has been prevalent thr out the entire year. Not on from the athletic field has tt enthusiasm been absent, b also from all literary work. the two triangular debates t held this year, only one-fifth as many men tried out as there i should. Besides this, the pre- I liminary in each case was held only one week before the final I debate. However intelligent a < man may be, he cannot expect i to contend successfully with men who have had seven times - the amount of time to prepare z as he has. It is time for Caro- 1 _ lina to wake up e'er she find ce herself trodden in the dust of ss disastrous defeat. HELP! We are beginning to look ef upon this war with a more or serious eye than heretofore. The departure each day of our er schoolmates, our friends, our er professors and the boys from er home calls for deliberation and deep thinking on our part. Each man has his particular duty to perform-each does his share toward turning the d wheel of civilization. Who is ts to bear the burdens of those ti- who are continually going to r- the front? It has befallen us, id the boys at home, to continue d- the abandoned work, and to do h. MORE than our SHARE to w help the fellows at the front. ps We admire the man who takes advantage of the opportunity is of fighting for his country, but in we do not scorn him who is of -I necessity compelled to remain n at home and help feed the Lis fighter. Every student who is st not in the service is expected Lis to devote his vacation in e- "working for his brother and r, country." No man can live at without food, and food will not g- grow without being cultivated. g Raise food this summer! ve | p, CORPORAL WALTER MULLINS nt The following editorial on "Corporal Walter Mullins" A from The State of May 3 will ge be of interest to alumni and Id students of the university, >st where Corporal Mullins was a a student at the outbreak of the war: Corporal Walter G. Mullins, c- Jr., of Company B, 117th Engi ss neers, is not the first soldier ,-,of South Carolina to distin r- I guish himself on the battlefield 'o in France in this war, but he 3" is the first of Columbia. He is mn a mere lad, some of us can n. think of him only as a bare hfoot boy or in knickerbockers 3d playing marbles and spinning nt tops with his fellows just a few !k years ago, but he "volunteered re for a raid and left the depar u- ture trench with great zeal and ly led his squad into the German is trenches, scorning danger, ut just as though he had been a [n veteran solrlie." That is what he dispatches say and he vrites home to his "Dad" about t with the modesty that alwv narks the gallant man. He is 'doubting as to whether or not le deserves it" and to have the ross of war makes him "feel unny"; he is sure that there re ' number of men in the ,ompany who "deserve it as nuch as he does, if not more," )ut his friends here in Colum >ia are not in the least doubt ul and they are very proud of im. His father and mother are to be congratulated, but Co lumbia shares in pride in his leed. He has put our town on :he honor roll in the battle for human liberty. FUMBLES By Gab Our idea of a cinch of a job -grocery delivery boy in Ber lin. * ** Licking war savings stamps is good preliminary training for licking the kaiser. Lowness is fashionable only in evening gowns and $5,000 automobiles. Snruce up Bill H-Iohenzollern. It is reputed that there is one lost cause that Yates Snow den is not in favor of, but we have failed to discover it. Slim Martin has announced that he will be forced to dis continue his regular Sunday poker until some wise guy in vents a deck without any clubs in it. Proper Ganda. Wilhelm Schmidt-he's dead He should have been wiser Some one heard him when he said Gott safe de kaiser. The Return of Spring. Warmer days and fair bring New foilage for our trees But 'tis not of this I sing But of the return of B. V. D.'s An Ode to Peace. Ist Stanza The Pope 2nd Stanza Peace Hope 3rd -Stanza Wrong Dope. Help! Our Army Poet "Mermaid coast guards"-how the papers rave' And I can not see Unless they save Mee WASH AT CAPITAL CITY The Big Laundry on Main Street H. E. WESSINGER, Campus Agt. MENS' SHOES TO FIT We carry sizes and widths, and our salesmen know how tofit them Nethlar's, Hurleys and Educators THE BOOTERIE 1225 Green St. Phone 2162 "We 'Press for Men of 'Dress" J. W. BRUNSON Merchant Tailor Rates $1.00 Per Month J. S. PINKUSSOHN CIGAR CO. The Oldest Tobacconist in Columbia College Mens Headquarters CIGARS, SODAS, POCKET BILLIARDS 1307-1309 Main St. SHOEWALTERS' E "Best Styles for Young Men" 1420 Main Street Columbia, S. C. The New 0. Broadway Open 11 a. m. to 11 p. M. THE UNIVERSITY BARBER SHOP Tenement 4, Room 3 (Opposite Law Building) Open Daily from 2:30 to 6:30 P. M. All Up-to-date Work Give Us A Chance "If we please you, tell your friends. if we don't tell us. P. D. WB'ILLI, GEN. MOR. IFor Coal and Wood Call Reamer Fuel Co. 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