Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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rot easeteris P'BLISHF) \VFEKLY BY THE ITERARY SOCIETIES Terms $i.5o a Year lIntered at Coluimbia, S. C. postofice NoCm1ber 20. IQ08 as secoid clasS mail matter. Columbia. S C., Oct 20, 1921. E DITO RI AL STA FF. Edgar T. Thompson ...... Editor Edwin Folk ........Associate BUSINESS. Julian A. Cave ..... .Manager George Wittskowsky ..Assistant CIRCULATION. Fant Kelly ........... ..... ...... Manager .1. .. Dabbs ........... ...Assistant (Go0 get en. ('Walnecocks! The Bird was oily.\ playing possuill. Let's make it two straight front leison. We have a passion for knowl edge, too, but we hate tne process by which it is obtiained. Caimis gossip hasn't yet de vided whlat Waite's tiie was. It vIaries somewhere between five an11d six specolds per hun111dred yards. Now is the time to begin sav ing those nickels and dimes for to get to Greenville. We want a special train and whats more we want every Carolina man onl board. What do you say, fel lows, let's make it a read (aro lina special In the Y. M. C. A. handbook is mentioned the fact that Carolina students are )) supposed to speak to each other. This is a small mat ter, but in little things are re vealed 1many times the chiracter of a man or an institution. It is not difficult to know a ('1aro lIa stldlIt. When-Ver yu SeT one, Speak to him. or her too, for that niltter. WVe are all gathered together for one common pmr pose, all of us should be friends. If you didn't know that speak ig to you r fellow stud(ents is a Carolina custom, learn it, a ndI speaik to the next fellow you Fel lows, they're talk ing abott us all over the state. Tlhey're say ing that we cani't (10 it, that we can't b)eat C1lemison and1( Furmn. against Erskinle and1( New~herry but (Carmol init stock hats riseni si nce the North Ca rolinia game. Our e'steemedI contemnpoiraries, 'The Ti ger andl The Hornet, are both 10oud in their prJed ictions as to the out come of the footbiall season. And strange to say neither think we are to be feared. 'The Tiger growls, the hornets buzz, but the me cock fails to ei-ow. But he will be hienr(l from later. Columbia and the University. In Atlanta there is located a Technical school anld the people of that Southern metropolis -ioa their appreciation of its valule to their CitY IY their un livi<ltd suipport: in Newberry we lind a snialII ) colleg"e eljoYing the tllp)ort of the townl. And tirn out the Nation we see towns and cVities showing their apeito of the iistititions located withinl thI i wia I Is. It is as it should he. An institution of learning is a great asset to any city. It lends it tone of (1cltire to tihe communl1l1t1l itY, leads the path of learning to the door-step of its imost liiible families, and brings mlonley into the town from the surr-lounlding Cotinties aid States. Biut inl spite of these facts the Imperial City of Colimibia sees fit to frown down upon ithe Uni versity of South Carolina, to hold it uip to ridicule. and to withdraw its mnoralI and financial support. The recent refusal of tihe 0ity Concil to pave the streets ar-Ounlid the Campiis i1 Citase inl point. If this were an isolated case we could, perhaps, afford to pass it over. But it is nlot. It is char wteristic of the attitude of Co lumbia towa rd the Ui versity. It is high time Cohnnhia changed its attitude toward this institi tionl. which gives so much to the City and receives so little in re turn. Like the parasitic Iistletoe wiicl floulrishes u1poln the oak, the City of Columbia derives great benefit from the University, and, at the same time, fails to repay its debt. What We bliss. Some mnenl go to college hecause -. others go to get an educa tion, still others to play football. It is not slpposed that a man li take a prominent part in every phase of college activity and at the saime time keep up1) his class work. Many realize this fact arnd either discard all forms of college activities entirely al bone away at their studies all the time, or pilt their studies ill the background and confine then selves wholly to college life out -ide of the class rooi. Neither one of these extremes can give it st1dent what le is entitled to in his college career. The college unmn shiould( realize thl e pri mmarmy object of hiis conming to college anad b)endl his chief efforts over hiis hooks. Ilt there is more colnmig to himi t han mere intel lectal t rain intg. IIle mu lst see that hiis muoralI self is developed andl for that pu rpose the Y. M. ('. A. is here. Every Wled nesday n ight the Y. M. C. A. brinigs at speaiker to tihe UnJiversity chiaplel anad mnen are given an opportuniity to listen to talks tin various subjIects, all of specialI initerest to stiudents. Thlese addresses arme interesting and1( arme well n orthi the timnie takeni in attendlintg them. Thliis is a phase of college life very much neglected by the a verage college man. Tru there are classes to meet the next dlay, b)ut classes, like the poeor are witu alwa. Freshmen would do well to take an active interest in the "Y" at the very beginning of their four years of college life. The address of Dr. J. C. Guilds, president of Coluibia College, oi last W%edlnes(lay night was heard by comI parati vely few men, on1ly 11ine of whom were Fresh mlen). llit thoso few lenl gained something whitch they couildn't, have gotten ) hours of stldy. These Wednes(la, night meetinigs represent a few of the things that s'>me of us miss while we'e in col lege. WN?e havie in the past imagined ourselves very cul tivate(d allong literary % Ini es. lWe have walked thriu the infernal regions with Dante and peeped with the sun rise into the paradise of Milton. We have talked face to face with Browning, Tennyson and a host of others. Poe lits led us thir valleys of mystery and we have marveled at the beauty of Burns. We have heard eminent divines who have held its in rapt atten tion and we have heard the glow ing orator who held us spell bound and turnedi us from laugh ter to tears in a single sentence. Nit we were destined for much Imore. When Coach Metzger ad dresses his braves the world stops' to listen. Napoleon never utteredi stch words to his armies, nor Caesar to his legions. Who isn't fired to fight and fight to a finish for the glory of the Garnet and the Black on the football field and even on the bleachers? "If such there be, go mark him well. For him no minstrel raptures swell." And above all he isn't wantedl at Carolina. Co-eds Challenge Statement. The Co-eds challenge the truth of a statement which appeared in the last week's issue of the Game cock. We beg the author of that charge to cite specific examples of "Co-eds casting their ballot for the best-looking and most hand some man every time instead of using a little reflection." We are sorry to know that some of the men of the student-body have been so blinded by their conceit that they have overlooked the ma jority of the Co-eds who are at heart very conscientious. We tap p)reciate every privilege that has b)eenl given thme Co-eds alnd we (1o not feel that we have so shame ful Ily a bused the voting prI iilege. It must be remfemb)eredl that the men are the nominees of the can d1idaite's; we suggest that in the future imen of ab)ility be put up rather than men of merely good looks andl perhaps the Co-eds can vote more sanely and1 prevent some of that "ad infinitum ad niaulseum ." They met on the bridge at midl night, Their meeting was all in vain, For she was an east-boundl cow And he was a west-bound train. THE FRESHM) By N. M. PAIR' s- Q. What is Columbia ? A. Columbia is where the University of South Carolina is located. It contains some places of business which are well known firms with progressive business men at the head of themi. These firms can be picked out by reading the list of advertisers in the Game cock, Carolinian, and Garnet and Black. Thie other brick buildings where merchandise is displayed may call themselves business firms also. They thrive becaiuse the care less or ignorant students do not read the advertisements in their publications. If a1 man appre ciates yoi and your state Tni-ver sity hle ill advertise witl yol. if lie only wants your casi he will take a chance on your failir, read your advertiser's columns. Some merchants may say that ad vertising with us is only charity; that students (10 not approach his place of business. Such is the sniall town talk. The students of the Univgrpsity have friends and rela tives thruoutt the State who read tleir publications. When these people cole to Colmlbia they hunt those stores which advertise. Again the Carolina-Clemson clas sic on Thursday of Fair week alone brings thou1saln(es of people to Columbia. Columbia is a wonderful place socially. It has the greatest col lection of fair damsels of any city in the state (which includes Col lege place, Shandon, and Wales (11arden an( the (late is some Wed nesday in the niddle of October when the student body of Colum bia and Chicora Colleges are pre sent). If a student can't become a social lion in Columbia then lie hasn't bought his full dress suit vet. It is here tlat the s;ate legisla ture meets. It is the au11gust body to whom we owe our. existence and subsistance. They give hundreds of thousands of dollars annually to Clemson and Winthrop and ap propriations to Carolina. How ever, if we keep on plugging our great grandchildren may be able to enjoy steam heat in Hlarper. TFhe city of Columbia is run on the Commission form of govern menit. (We dlon't know who gets the commission). Three famous newspapers aire pullishied here The Gamecock, The State, and The Columbia Record. The for mner takes no part in politics. Be cause it dloesn't come out for the Democrats, howvever, is no sign that it is Republican, faur fromr it. Columbia boasts of matny wor thy institutions, the Columbia Hospital, the Baptist Hospital1 and the State Hosp)ital, but tihe greatest of these is tihe State Hos pital. Wasn't it Henry VIIT, or was it Senator Penrose, who said. "I am the state?" Evidently he was a patient in tihe State Hlospi tal. All in all, Columbia is Coium LN CATECHISM IUCKABEE III. bia, and we are Carolina but there is a deep fellowship between us which might be deeper if bothO sides would do a little digging. Example: "The only objection I have to Columbia is-it could be nearer Charleston."-A Pro fessor. 9. Q. What is Carolina? A. Carolina is not the build ings between Marion and Divine, or between Maine and Pickens. Neither is it the faculty (the best in the state). Nor the athleti teams which the University send out, nor the alumni (loyal to their, alma mater). No, none of th6se tihings alone, nor together. Caro lina could not survive with only these forces struggling on for her glory and fame. Carolina is all these with something more, Uy the "more" we mean that intangible thing which cannot be seen or tas-1 ted, but can be felt, that glorious feeling which causes a man to stand up in front of the Maxey monument or in his room at mid night and sing, "We hail thee, Carolina." Carolina spirit is the force that moves a team to victory, it is the impelling force which causes tihe scrapping Gamecock to claw out the Tiger's eyes, break up the Pil ple Ilurricane, or tear to shreds the form of the Charleston idol. the Biulldog. Carolina spirit grows up within the Freshman, matures in the Soplhomore, buds in the Junior. and manifests itself on the brow of every Senior, and bursts forth in cheers andl hails to Carolina at ,very moment of the life of a Carolina man, from matriculat to the grave. If we could concerve of a mai without Carolina spirit we would ptit him above "The Man Without a Country" in unpopularity. I1u we cannot. Any man who come. to the U7niversity is imbued with it, it is up to him to cultivate it Every one should feel the thrill of it. the life of it, the immortalit of it, so thait when he is asked <inestion like this, "Who's going t win?" he shall not hesitate. wvhe he is questioned, "They outweigl us twenty p)oumnds to the man whats the outcome?" lie shall no4 falter, his answer' shall come forti as that trumpet of Gabriel~ CAROLINA ! he Art $1D;p HORINE'S, Inc. Picture Framers Artists' Supplies Art Goods 1517 Main Street Coba,. C.e