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E#9 Masteroct UJNIVBRSJTY OF SOUTH CAROLINA "While I Live I Crow" PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE LITERARY SOCIETIES. TERMS $1.60 A YEAR. Entered at Columbia S. C. pogtoffice November 20, 1908 as second class mail matter. Columbia, S. C., May 27, 1919 R. C. Thompson, Editor-in-Chief J. R. Bryson, Business Manager L. N. Connor, Asst. Business Manager 0, wud sum power th' giftie gie us To see ourselv's as co-eds see us. Faith is the thing that en ables a man to eat hash. If a woman says things to your face she is disagreeable; if she says them behind your back she is deceitful; if she says nothing-but of course she never does. Concerning Salaries. There is contained in the Lit erary Digest for May 10 an article on the payment of teachers in the schools of America, stressing the import ance of increasing salaries and relieving conditions that unfor tunately exist in our country. If all the essential men and wo men of the nation wree to be classed in the order of their importance the class that would probably stand at the head of the list would be the teachers in our schools and col leges, "the foster-fathers and mothers of our children." The pitiable salaries that are being paid to some of them are scarcely enough to sustain them in food and proper clothing. The average salary of the teacher in South Carolina is $293.99, only $93.99 more than a brakeman on a railroad train receives as one month's pay. What are we going to do to re lieve this situation ? The people of this country have seemed to overlook the fact that imme diate action is necessary if we wish to maintain the highest possible standard in our public *schools. We print below a part *of the article already referred to which explains itself: "There is no class of work ers: of :which we demand so much as the school teachers. We commit into their keeping the minds, bodies, and the very souls of our children in the tender and formative years of their lives, and they receiving these children, can indeed be said to hold in the hollow of their hands the future of Amer ica. We expect these devotee men and women to watch over and care for our sons and daughters as though they were their own, to drill them in the arts and sciences, to train them for business and citizenship, to instruct them in manners and morals, to do for them those things which we would do had we the training and leisure. "What then have the teach ers received at our hands in re turn? They have received lit tle of honor and less of pay. Other classes have prospered; other classes thru powerful or ganizations have secured gen erous wages. The teachers have no spokesman, however, to demand even the simple jus tice of a living wage; so to them we give their petty pre war pittance, so meagre, so pitifully inadequate, that it places a burning brand of shame and disgrace upon this nation. "The men and women who are making the Americans of tomorrow are being treated with less consideration than the janitors who sweep out the buildings in which they are employed; they are earning on the average, less than the wages given to the scrub wo men employed in the public buildings of the United States government. Normal school graduates receive less salary than street sweepers; high school principals and superin tendents less than section fore man; country school teachers less for instructing the farmer's children than he pays his hired man to feed his hogs. "We are not pleading," con cludes the writer, "merely for the welfare of some single pro fession; we are not pleading for some special class; we are pleading for America, for her larger, her brighter, her richer future, for the fulfilment of her glorious promise. We are pleading for a coming race of men and women who shall be qualified to complete the work of our forefathers who found ed this nation and dedicated it Ito liberty." A New Reconstruction. The world-wide recornstruc tion that is following in the wake of the war will necessar ily affect the South in a peculiar I way. Nearly 800,000 negroes have been called into the mili tary service of fhe country; many thousands more have been drawn from peaceful pur suits into industries born of the war; and several hundred thousand have shifted from the South to the industrial districts of the North. The demobiliza tion of the army and the transi tion of industry from a war to a peace basis are creating many problems which can be solved only by the efforts of both races. The negro in adapting himself to the new conditions, should have the wise sympathy and generous co-operation of his white neighbors. . It is to the interest of these as well as of the negro himself, that re adjustment should procee( with the least possible difficul ty and delay. We believe that this re-ad justment may be effectively aided by a more general ap preciation of the negro's value as a member of the commu nity. Lack of sympathy and understanding between two groups of people frequently causes one group to regard the shortcomings of -a few indivi duals of the other as character istic of all that group. This is a natural tendency, but it is neither rational nor just, and it has proved, we believe, one of the great obstacles to the de velopment of more satisfactory racial relations in this country. The negroes' contribution to the welfare of the nation has never been more clearly indi cated than by his services dur ing the great war. When the call to arms was sounded his country expected him to do his duty, and he did not fail. Large numbers of black men on the fields of France made the su preme sacrifice for the cause of world democracy. In other war services the negroes did their full share. Many thousands were employed in the building of ships, the manufacture of munitions, the construction of cantonments, and in the pro duction of the coal, iron, cot ton and food stuffs without which victory would have been impossible. The negroes' pur chases of Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps and their contributions to the Red Cross, the United War Work Fund, and other similar agencies are in themselves a splendid record of which the negroes and their white friends may be justly proud. It may also be appropriate in this connection to recall that throughout the period of hos tilities the negro was never sus pected of espionage or of sym pathy with the enemy, and thAt he has been -wholly indifferent to those movements fostered by radical aliens that aim at the destruction of the American form of government. This good record of the whole race de serves such publicity as will off set the common tendency to judge it by the shortcomings of some - f its members. No peo ple is spurred to higher things when habitually referred to in disparaging or contemptuous terms. Ordinary human beings tend to live up to or down to the role assigned them by their neighbors. The publication of the Game cock was delayed in order that a complete schedule of the commencement exercises could be obtained. Daily Gossip. A reporter of the Gamecock accidentally overheard a con versation between two of the co-eds the other day and it ran something like this: "Mr. -c -- gave the co-eds a big trade the other day. What do you think it was?" "I have no idea. Do tell me." "He said that the co-eds were so commonplaced." "I am awfully glad that he doesn't see himself as others see him. He might get tired of the view also." "Please consider the source." "That's the reason I took it as a JOKE-for I remember from whence it originated. However, he didn't tell ME that -I wish he had." Which all goes to show that two girls who had run out of somebody to talk about misin terpreted a statement made by an innocent male student and begin to circulate a "joke" which had no truth in it. But, they had nothing else to do we can hardly blame them. How Are Your Bindings? Aren't many of your choice choice volums in a dilapidated condition? Wouldn't you like to have them hand bound according to your own ideas and individual tastes? We are prepared to execute your orders--satisfactorily. Quotations cheerfully fur nished if desired but our charges will be found reason able. Give us a trial. The Trade Bin dry Columbia, S. C.