Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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i'j. t amrscor t PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE LITERARY SocIETIES. TEIMs $1.50 A YEAR. Entered at Columbia S. C. postolice November 20, 1908 as second class mail matter. Columbia, S. C., Oct. 16, 1919 Editorial R. C. Thompson, Editor Business Staff J. R. Bryson, Manager L. N. Connor, Assistant Circulation B. E. Littlefield, Manager W. C. McCall, Assistant Assistant Editors A. J. Beck H. Brockinton H. B. Refo (. A. Buchanan C. T. Hunter H M Lightsey Miss Huggins S D. Rogers A. Kohn, Jr. J. J. Stevenson E. G. Quattlebaum Davidson has lost two games in succession. Let's make this one the "charm." We know of some girls who had rather be called an amanu ensis than a stenographer. From what we can learn thirty-seven minutes is the longest time ever taken for one quarter of a football game. Headline: "Students read themselves to death." We really believed it until Prof. Snowden told us it was impossible. Freshmen-. It is the custom on our cam pus to speak to every one you meet. If you cannot be gen tleman enuf to do this you are not wanted here. Several in stances of freshmen passing professors and upper classmen without speaking have been re ported and if suich things hap pen again steps will be taken to establish a course in manners and respect for elders. This has been the exception rather than the rule but even the exception must nver occur again. Every body can at least act the part of a gentleman. "Failings of Young Men." One of the South Carolina dailies recently contained an editorial about the "failings of young men." Mr. Editor, hav ing run out of something to talk about made a visit down street and asked some business man, "what is the matter with the average young man of to clay?" This "disgusted em ployer" replied that "he doesn't want to work." Anrd thus he secured a statement from which he could preach or rave or take up space in his editorial page. We cannot agree with him in the way in which he takes "a typical young man" and sizes him up. Perhaps it is true that a godd many young men are not reaching the stand ard set for them by their eld ers, some of whom seem to for get that we have had a war and that things are very dif ferent from what they once were but we object to having the majority, who are ambi tious classed under this head. We might list a few character istics of the "typical young man" of this editor's article: "He utterly lacks such a thing as an objective or life purpose." "He has no thought of what he will be doing ten or twenty years hence." "He is not concerned about really promoting the interest of his employer." "His idea is to do as little work as possible and expect an increase in pay the second week after he begins work." This is rather a bright out look for the future of our coun try if the youth of today are as he has pictured them. We dare say that -much of this is exaggerated and was written by one who has not attained much success in life. It is very unfortunate that some people who have long since passed the youthful age should tell the young men in such bold lan guage that their presence is more harmful than helpful. Wouldn't it be the better part of discretion to do this on the side? And this is the way it ends: "This young fellow is not a fool-(we had begun to think he was). He has brains but he does not use them. He needs a swift kick that will kick the nonsense out of him and head him in the right direction." The editor then suggests the forma tion of "a philanthropic or ganization for the express pur pose of giving such amiable, purposeless young men the 'swift kicks' they require." We would suggest that the editor write next time on "how experienced business men drove back the Huns at Cha teau Thierry," or "some point ers for the young man who wvants to be a success." Or per haps he might tell us how he increased, his employer's trade a hundred fold. We do not like to criticize the wvay in which things are car ried on by the authorities at the University but there is one thing that must be brought up sooner or later. That is the question of a place to handle the mail of students. This is a matter for those "higher up" to attend to and we trust that some provision will be made at an early date. It is necessary to have some one spend part of his time in the post office. As conditions are now a student is exceedingly fortunate if he re ceives one of every three let ters mailed to hin. A system like that of two/years ago is what we need. "Less than 1 per cent of American men are college graduates. Yet this 1 per cent of college graduates has fur nished: "55 per cent of our Presi dents. "36 per cent of the Members of Congress. 47 per cent of the Speakers of the House. "54 per cent of the Vice Presidents. "62 per cent of the Secretar ies of State. "50 per cent of the Secretar ies of Treasury. "67 per cent of the Attorney Generals. "69 per cent of the Justices of Supreme Court. "At the present time the President, Vice President, Speaker of the House, all but two of the Cabinet, 69 out of 96 Senators, 305 out of 435 Repre sentatives and all the Justices of the Supreme Court are col lege trained men." Resolved: That the name of Brandwine, N. Y. be changed to Coldwater. That all mention of the Bourbon kings be expunged from the school books. That no part of a steamer be referred to as the saloon. That all bars be removed from harbor entrances. That the word port be om mitted on all navigation charts. That the word "still" be ex punged from dictionaries and the word "quiet" be substi tuted.-Cordage. Some things we intend to have at the University: A glee club. An orchestra. A chapter of the American Legion. A postoffice. The mess hall committee has dleclared Shorty Sifford ineligi ble for the Burney Medal which is given each year to the stu dent "laying away" the most mess hail grub. The reason for this ruling is that said party has been awarded the medal two years in succession. Euphradian Society Meets The Euphradian Society hel its regular weekly meetin last Saturday night at whic time the best program of th session was carried out. large number of the member were present. In the absenc of the president the chair wa filled by R. C" Thompson, vice president. J. C. Buchanan, first de claimer, gave a part of Presi dent Wilson's speech on th Peace Treaty. 0. C. Lem mon second declaimer, 'spok on the "League of Nations a a business proposition." The extemporaneous speaker o the evening was F. A. Thomp son. His subject was: "Shoul Carolina have a point system o honors?" This is a very liv question and was handled well by the speaker. C. T. Hunter and H. Eubanks, (aff.) debat ed against W. 0. Galletly and E. P. Gaines (neg.) Both the house and the judges decide for the negative. LOAF AT GITTMANS' BOOK SHOP Nothing but Books We furnish the 4 Football Teams Watch the Equipment It will lead them to many a victory. S. B. McMaster,Inc. Globe Dry Goods Co. College Boys' Trade Solicited J. S. PINKUSSOHN CIGAR CO.I The Oldest Tobacconist in Columbia College Mens Headquarters CIGARS, SODAS, POCKET BILLIARDS 1307.1309 Main St.