Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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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., Feb. 26, 1920 Ilerbert I. Smith, Editor-in-Chief. Jos. R. Ilryson, Business Manager. L. N. Connor, Asst. Business Manager. B. E. Littlefield, Circulation Manager. W. C. McColl, Asst. Cir. Manager. Assistant Editor. J. C. Webb, Morris Marcus, C. E. IIaze!don, I. M. Lightsey, W. L. lefo, O. S. Ulner, I-I. Eubanks, D. J. .Itnkins, J. I. Sullivan, Isabelle Le g: re Stevenson. LOYALTY. Samuel Thurber, in the Edu cational Review (May, 1898), has the following to say with regard to education at a State university: "To have spent the adolescent years in making acquaintance with the great spiritual concerns of humanity under teacher and in buildings provided by the public, is to have received into the soul the germs of respect for social or der, and to have become inured with habits of grateful and reverential thought toward the government that gives this pre cious opportunity." Our leaders and our legisla tors have long ago found the truth of this and those who failed to see it before have within the past few years come to see it, and as a result, more is advanced by the public for public institutions, where the young men of the nation may get both an education and training in citizenship. South Carolina was among the first to establish a university, and South Carolina has not failed to produce real citizens. The university is a miniature State operated by the people of South Carolina. On a smaller scale we are a State within a State. Our duties here as mem bers of this model State are similar to the duties of our fathers to the State of South Carolina. Our relations to fel low students, our devotion to all functions of the University, our pride in the institution is but a portrayal of our duties to the State as citizens of riper age. It can in some measure sat isfy legitimate intellectual am bitions in young citizens, thru the medium of public institu tions, the State thereby adopts the most effective safeguard against the springing up in the citizens of mature age of ambi tions that are menacing to so cial order. South* Carolina, by develop ing in the youth of the Sta a love for a miniature State, a realization and a devotion to the duties that the youth owes to that model .State-the uni versity-hopes to satisfy these ambitions, and the amount of loyalty we show here to our uni versity will be the measure of loyalty to the State and by that measure the State will deter mine our value as citizens. The man who thinks his duty I to the State fulfilled by the payment of his poll tax and kicking at the result of all elec tions in which he did not even participate, gets little or no recognition as a component in tegral of the State. Our duty as members of the university is not fulfilled when we pay Mr. Huggins our fees twice a year (furnished by our parents) and by making seventy-five on the required number of studies. That is the poll tax we are pay ing for the privilege citizenship of the model democracy. Our test for loyalty to the universi ty and thereby to the State and nation only begins when we have paid this poll tax. If we are to be an integral part of i the population of the universi ty we must exercise our privi leges and perform our duties as students and show our loyalty to the school and to the State. A true loyal son of Carolina is he who takes part, either ac tive or co-operative in all that Carolina offers. It is not enough that we criticise, we must try to improve. Use your vote at every election, get the best man in place and then work with him. Don't wait till some few men have drafted a man into office and then kick. Take part in contests, let the best man represent us, and we will be sure to win. Each man, each model citizen is graded by the State and the grade he makes as a citizen here will be his grade as a citizen of South Carolina and of the Uni ted States. If we are to be 50 per cent. students, 50 per cent. college spirited, 50 per cent. active or co-operative members of the university, we will go down as 50 per cent. citizens of South Carolina of ripe age. If we wish to be one hundred per cent. loyal South Carolinians, Americans, we must first show to the world that WE ARE 100: ~PER CENT. SONS OF "CARO LINA." THE NEED OF PREPARATION. Now that the war is over, there are madle upon us such dlemands for men and women of knowledge andl training as country. The colleges of Eu rope are almost vacated from the horrible 'war. The older studentsi the graduates- and professors fought in the trenches, and many of them lie dead and buried in the soils of France and in other. places where the ruins and wrecks of war are disc rded. Many of the literary. and scientific men whose wdrk is necessary for the enlargement of cultured life are the victims of the great war in which we have just passed. For many years some of these countries will be un able to support colleges as they should be carried on in mod ern times. America must come to the rescue, just as she had to come to the rescue in the war. Parents and guardians should face this fact and proceed at once to prepare their sons and wards for the vast responsibili ties and opportunities that are now ours. No business man should give a position to a youth who can go to college and prepare for the heavy tasks which have fallen upon ourl people, and which can be met by educated men only. There are plenty of others who can do the work of our every-day life without engaging those who ought to be in school. The gains of our country will be less if the youth of our land are uneducated. To sacrifice our young people will be ca-. lamitous to commerce even. This is a time of competition, and the educated are going to be the survivors of any pursuit. Education raises immensely the productive powers of man, and in this new era of ours the educated young men of Amer ica have such comparatively small competition from other lands that their earning capac ity is greatly increased. But if they are uneducated they can not use these opportunities thus offered. Our young men who can en ter college should insist on go ing to school at all cost. No in vestment for the future can possibly pay better dividends than a thorough collegiate training. At present, it is ar gued that salaries are very tempting, but Jet no young man sacrifice a great future for a small salary in the present. We must prepare ourselves to meet the immeasurable op portunities for doing good in the age in which we are now living. D)uty and ' interest should inspire us to prepare ourselves to get ready for com plete living and to do our part in rebuilding a bleeding and broken world. The Easter Queen election will be held at the Marshall's office Friday, March 7th. The polls will be open from 1 until 3. o'clock. Heretofore each vote has been sold for 10 cents, but the social cabinet decided that no charge would be made this year. The name of all candidates should be turned in immediate ly to one of the following men: H. Brockington, K. N. Baker, L. N. Connor, Gus Allen, J. J. Stevenson. The social cabinet has ar ranged a program which is ex pected to make this year's cele bration eclipse all others. Much interest will likely be shown when the Easter Queen elec tion is held. LOAF AT GITTMANS' BOOK SHOP .We furnish the 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 McCORMAC'S Haberdashery Everything New in Men's Wear 1343Main Phone 745 J. S. PINKUSSOHN CIGAR CO. The Oldest Tobacconist in Columbia College Mens Headquarters CIGARS, SODAS, POCKET BILLIARDS g 1307-1309 Main St