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1JVivi.tst rY or SOJTI CAROLINA lVhilc I Lie I Crow'' PUBisHED WEEKLY BY THE LITERARY SocIETIEs. TERMS $1.50 A YEAR. Entered at Columbia S. C. pogtollice November 20, 1908 as second class mail matter. Columbia, S. C., Jan. 13, 191 9 THE. R. 0. T. C. The Iteserve Officers' Training Corps is back at the university In spirit if not in practice. The trustees have de (ided thtt the 1t. O. T. C. is valuable institution so that the bxginning of the second senester will see Caorlina with its tIhird experinent in khaki. Tilie it. O. T. C. is back--but it has not becn welcomed back. The men after olie year of tlie hinguid old It. O. T. C. aild three months of the strenuous S. A. T. C. have just about got. their fill of military life with its restraints and ret rict s--this is no lncommllonl occur rence as any mia who has wji1.esse I lie discharging of any body of enlist ed nen will readily testify. Military lrill and military life is naturally odious and rather irksome to the .,er age Amnerican and to the average yoiung AmtiericanH college studentt re gad(d rather more as a curse than a privilt"ge. So the It. O. T. C. can not b r(gard((d as a popular Course. The tuin 0nce the stimulating infl urnre of the war is rctmoved feel that to devote ( it on'' hour a (ay to inilitary dlrili is to waste that hour. They feel that h., pre war tspirit of independence, once the ulniversity's boast, has been Violatcd iii that they, the men most directly conlccined, were not con stitc-d. '1The"y feel now that peace is practi ealy arranged that compulsory nili t.ry tIraining, even in the sugar coat i(i. diliited formlt re'presented by the I. O. 'T. C. is an absolute non neces sity. They feel but their unrational i' eling can not. decide the problem. This is a quest ion for the government it decide and a question which can not be decided until the av ital tlims of pcace have been decided upon. The adoption of Wilson's league of nations plan might class it among tile non es s(nlials but in the meanwhile the I'iiited States governmi(nt has sein fit to cont inie lie Iteserve Officers' Train iig Corps, despite the terrible drain on the treasury and oir present strained financial condition. Military Iraining in times of peace is not a hack hrained proposal. It has receiv ed thle aipproval anid at tent ion of soime of thle cout try's gr-eatest thIiInkers, tmtn whom recesit events have piroveni lie mtost far sighted meni in the na t ion. TPhe t ruistees have reestabl ished thle IL. 0. 'T. C. and( thet- action enn not10 lightly he set asidle as a mistake. If thle gover'nmnt ~ decidles in favor- of coJlul sory nil Iitarty t rainin g, the 1I. 0. TI. C. will naturttally Play ani imi porttt r-ole it the phlan and the Ui. v(-rsity of SothI Car-olinaa will be readly to) stepl in to take a prominent place in thle nationt's pr1ogramn. If suIcceed hig ev(nits Iuiove that the II. 0. T1. C. is a miutake then the government can cither abolish it or the university give up its unit. The prime fault with the campus critics and opponents of the R. 0. T. C. is that they are criticizing some thing about which they have at the most only hazy ideas. They are fight ing a plan which has not yet been linally formed and therefore never put in practice. The proof of the I. 0. T. C. will be the working of it. ATTENTION, S. I. A. A. Four (lays ago the executive commit iee of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletics of America voted to suspend the six months residence rule required of college athletes. Un dc r the Old rule the student was re cluircd to rcgister in a limited time after the opcning of the college before he could be eligible for any of the in tercollegtate games. The Southern Intercollegiate Athlet ic Association under whose regula tions the larger majority of the un. versit y's at hletic ganes are played. has a similar residence rule. This rule in pre war days, fraied to mini mnize profcssionalism in association ganes, has had a very important and worthy role to play. But today with many of the colleges having to prac tically begin over at the end of the li1 st semester it has the effect of keep ing out of the college games men who are ot herwise in good standing in .h( associat ion. Men are being released from the service every day and large numbers of them are intending to re turn to college. If this time-residence rule is literally enforced these men will not be allowed to compete in in I(-rcollcgiate match games. True they will not have complied with tile u-1(: of the association; but when a ruie which thcy, all amateur athletes, can not possibly comply with is enforced thereby unjustly keeping out mn11n uho have been forced to break the rulle to defnd their country th II i: the time for a temporary modification I) lit the conlitions of the day. It is proposcd that a regular stud( n: in good stanllding in any memblr o. tle associat ion at the time lie entc're(. lie military service of the U1na1(C Stat(s on returning to ile university or college previous to April 1, 1919, be held to be in good standing. It is proposed fur1ther- that registration as a member of the students' army training corps and thereafter without interrul) tion as a regular student 'shall be re gar(led as compliance with the re (titiremlcnts of the, ' associatiloll. This will, of course, be only a war measure, but still a measure of vital importance to the Southern college athlete coming back from tle ser-vice. JOHN REYNOLDS. To the Editor of The Gamecock: The accont o of the deahli of Lieut. John Reynolds from wounds receiveI in one of the closing battles of the war was read by me in Saturday's State Witli lingled feelings of sorrow and pride1. That one of thle choice young no ni of South Ci(arolinia has been tak n el-e hiis piime fr-om a pr-ofessioin in whlic h hile had already mad(e goodl, in fact had gi vcn promiise of (listinct Ion, brings to all wvho knewv him and to thle thlousands who had read his t ri nhanlt warl edlitor-ials, the (loep lat hos of r-egr-et. A broken mar-ble olumn a (lt winiedl withI Ilurel is thle Ill em-Ilbleim of hiis beaut iful, frustr1ated life. lbut to (one of hiis formler' precep)tor-s, wvho has watched withI keenest interiest t he un foldhing of Ihis magniet Ic and yir jilIonersonlifvl thIiromwh olnee ,1. y. and in the larger sphere of a great city newspaper, under the spur of an ennobling and unselfish desire to serve his own people and his worlfd, the passing of John Reynolds on the bloody fields of France was the fitting and glorious apotheosis of his splendid spirit. tNow has he become one of the immortals." Nowhere will Lieutenant Reynolds be more sincerely missed and more proudly remembered than on the can pus of his beloved alma mater, and nowhere will the gold star that sym bolizes his knightly gift to civiliza tion, his supreme sacrifice to truth and liberty and righteousness on earth shine more brightly than in the clas sic halls where he imbibed from the great masters of English thought the undying ideals of justice and peace and human freedom. It was for these immortal ideals that Reynolds crossed the seas to fight and die for France. Like a true and loyal soldier he heard the call of duty and gladly answered 'Alsum! In his character and in his writings, but most of all in his last lee(is, taking a man's part in the con flict of world ideas-his life in action -he has shed imperishable glory up n his honored name, his beloved coh lege and his historic State. "Nothing 4o became him as the leaving of it." The university pays her prou trib tiLe to this noble son, ideal citizen and allant oficer, whose high joy and privilege it. was to write his life's nree(l among his peers before th( watching world in letters of fire an.. )lood. IIe strove-lhe won-and he is gone, I'rue always to his highest light. G. A. Wauchop. University of South Carolina. [-ENNIG MANAGER 1919 GAMECOCKS Pcoular Junior Law Student Football Manager. II. W. Ilen:nig of Darlington, a nem )ir of the jun-ior law class, was elect '! footha l manar'er of the 1919 eleven it the meeting of the athletic advis:ry )oa(rd last Friday. Mggsy is a thorough expert in the .n,igerial affairs, having been assist mt manager on both th - 1918 football md baseball teams. lie got his first aste of this work managing the cham )ion Darlington high school eleven md has kept up his enviable record ince coming to the university Offers have already been receive(l 'rom the University of Virginia, lni ,ersity of Georgia, University of F'lor di and Sewanee. The games with I'lorida and Virginia, if they are con rarteI for, will be played in ('olum >ia, while the (ianecocks will go to thens to meet the ('rackers. Man iger Ilennig annennces that the offer >f Sewanee to play in Columbia will irobably be refused as the Tennes eeans can not offer a return engage nent fer the next season. Muggsy is a keen business man, so here is little fear t hat the Birds wvill 1ot have a successfuh season as far as 'nanagement is eOnecerned(. He made iis mark t his year wvhen lie convinced Isecond( lieutenant accompaing oneC f lie visitinag teamis Ithat thle univer dty iianagement dlidi not have to pay lis, the lieutenant's, expenses. The I udent body did( not give him a vote >f thianks, it is trute, but a p)ronminent olumbihia lawyer renmarkedl when h( rieirdh of thle incidenit that any man vhio could do that would be an asset a anyv)15 huehws norgnainn FUMBLES By Gab Fish Langston is registeri ": ,ourse in "College Algebra a Lions." We surmise thaet he ;r izing in the variations. * ** Would vou call a man a ni 1. 1 Just because he persists in Uis evenings running off wi r men's chickens? *** There are only two kind. - American aces; one of wh make a fight of a game, tht game of a light. s*s Mess Hall Waiter: "Looks :loesn't it?" Student Sufferer: "Yelh, ti It, too." *** A Bigomist. some women marry men and Or so I've heard them tell But I know a cracked braine, Who married a girl Annat Naturally the Bolsheviki should be the bone of cont, .he peace conference. Are oing to the (logs? a** PEACE IS HELL! IPoor young Lieutenant Beat He uster make a hundred , i v \'ow he makes a paltry sevenui. Now what (id they wanter a.. peace fer? s** THEM GIRLS. .ott.ie had a dimpled chin And eyes that oft would twinkle 3ut she would never laugh nor grin For fear she'd get a wrinkle. Harken to the plaint of at poor sol lierman: \riny life was made for rules, And guns were made to rust it up nights a' scheming 'r You're pretty sure to bust. *** Wop McGowan: ''Chcer up Fr, h e; you're an awful spcetacle---but it. night be worse." Socrates: "Yup. I might be a so fior." *** ODE TO INFLUENZA. He had a (late With Jane Magrue This second lue. But what can he due? Jane staid out late And caught the flue. *** All freshmen are requested to ans wer this add in an up town hotel w.n low: "Wanted, a Maid, Man or Wo nan." C'EST LE GUERRE. or SICH WRITING. 3e loved and lost )id poor Mag Allison Ie wrote-"i love you Hion" \.nd 1o the cost rho other won; The thought lie spelled it Hun. ELEVATED. Wary had a lot of cash, To eat she thought she'd go or eat ing is a p)roblem brash We all must face, you know. so Mary set out wvith her cash The bill of fare she connedl 3ut she found that if she'd eat mere hash She'd have to sell a bond.