Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Al0Oamerort ml6emierP of South Carolina College Press Assopiatdin Published Weekly by the Various Literary Societics Terms-$1.50 a Year Entered at the Columbia, South Carolina Postoffice on November 20, 1908, as'Second-Class Mail Matter. NEWS STAFF S. WOLFE EICHEL .................. Editor-in-Chief ISADORE POL.ER ................Managing Editor W. LEE CROCKER ...........News and Club fidilgr FRED MINSHALL ........................Sport B'ditor JIMMY BALDWIN ....................Feature Editor MIss ELLEN HOUcH .................Co-Ed Editor C. B. WZLLIAMS .........................Editorials REPORTERS W. 0. VARN, A. W. HOLLER, HAROLD HENTZ, F. A. WOOD, JAMES HEARON, RoBXRT BASS, D..H. EARGLZ, CHARLES CUTTINo, VIRGINIA DOAR, MAUDE Eu.Is, CATHERINE PHILLIPS NEWS ITEMs may be handed members of the Staff, left at Box 444 Canteen, or phoned to the Editorial Offices at 907 South Main Street, Phone Number 4109, -between the hours of 3 to 6 p.m. on Wednesdays, and 10 to 11 a.m. or 2:30 to 8 p.m. on Thursdays. BUSINESS STAFF FURMAN R. GREssETTE .................... Manager ERNEST B. CASTLES .......................Assistant SAM. L. READY ...........................Assistant JOHN R. PATE .........................Circilatiou Afivertising Rates Will Be Furnished on Request. Apply to Business Manager. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1925 This is George Washington, father of our country, whose birthday is celebrated Sunday. He never saw an aeroplane, rode in an automobile.. tuned in on the radio or got drunk off of moonshine. What's more, he missed the present-day college man's4.1 styles. But all g'lory to him, he knew a good country when he saw it-but how it has changed since the "good old days." - U.S.C. (amwrark Opurs The Gamecock five made a creditable showing on their recent northern invasion. * * * Three out of six is not a bad record for a team play ing every day for a week. * * * Have you bought your annual yet? Only three more weeks left in which to give your order. * * * How about some action cin the post office sub-station. Think of the advantages it will give. -* * * A real treat is in store for us in the Traletalqua,. to be held here next week. * * * The student body seems to be headed toward the 1250 mark for this year. We are growing. * * * Thanks for it all go to Dr. Melton. If he is given his wishes, we will soon be in the 2000 dlass. * * * We wonder if the Legislature will give us the new class room building and paved streets he asks. * * *4 The Gamecock this year is for a Greater Carolina. Are you with us in everything that goes with it? * * * Candidates are wanted for all athletic teams. Arc you doing your bit by going out ? Classes continue as usual Monday. Why did Wash ington's Birthday have to come on Sunday ? * * *. We seemed to have survived the first Friday, the 13th this month--but there are four more to come this year. --U.s.c. The Editor and the Mail The editor of TuE GA MECOCK seems to have made some two or three personal enemies by the editorial, "Our Postal Service," which appeared in the last issue. No matter what insulting epithets are hurled at hi-s head, or at anyone else connected with the paper, editorials denouncing the present system will continue to be published as (long as we feel it for the good of the University of South Carolina, and we think that the student body of the University as a whole is be hind us. THE GAMECOCK has not Criticized the work and edorts of thosd now in power, they are doing their very best under the present system and we laud them for it, but what we want Is a Government Postoffice Sub-station. Questionaires have been mailed o'ut to neighboring Colleges and Universities that have a sub-station and a report from these institutions is expected before the next issue. The editor stands squarely behind any statement nmade last week and is able to prove them. If anyone takes issue with this series of editorial., a letter from him will gladly be publishted. Teg GA MEcocK this year is for a Greater Carolina and everything that tends to make it so.' The con sensus of opinion of the student body dictates our policy. Are we tq be dictated'to by a favored few or is the student body to assert itself and take steps toward securing for the best studerft body of the best college in the best state that which it deserves? Give the matter your serious thought, talk it ovei with others and take some action, to kill or secure this motion. We leave It with you. - U.s.c. A Notable Change Isn't the change great ? Just previous to the Christmas holidays the new- lighting system for the library was installed. The chandeliers have been tastefully selected and add much to the attractiveness of the interior of the building. Reading no longer threatens the eyes as an unpleasant task. As if in response to the improvement the number of persons who use the library in the evening his increased. Reference to books in the alcoves is much easier and the basement has undergone a transformation. From the inside and outside, the library presents a much improved appearance at night. New book shelves have been added along the walls to make all the vol umes accessible. With the new radiators on the job, we need have no fear of winter chills. Hats'off to Dr. Melton and the librariant --U.s.C. Why Not Carolina ? The Editor picks up paper after paper from other colleges to glean therefrom exchange items of interest and continually staring him in the face is some such head as this: "Rehearsal called for College Musical Comedy," or "Mask and Wig begins rehearsals." , At the University of South Carolina, we have a Department of Dramatics and a Department of Music. Why isn't it possible for some student of the first to write a musical comedy and the music score to be composed by some member of the latter-the whole to be produced by Carolina students. The subject to be on Carolina life, and to be supervised by the Carolina Departments of Music and Dramatics. There is musical talent in the glee club, we have a ready-made orchestra, there is certain to be a plen tiful amount of dramatic ability on the campus. This idea of a college musical comedy is not confined to the big northern and eastern colleges and universities, '3t the universities of our sister states have such organi zations. There is a Masque and' Wigue at North Carolina and at Georgia. Many schools with student bodies of no more than 1200 have presented such comedies for many seasons. Think it over I -U.s.c. Playing With Fire Last March, a fire alarm was turned in from the .University and the Columbia Fire Department rushed down to fight the flames that were devouring Davis College and we were glad they were here. Last Friday night a fire alarm was turned in from the University and the Columbia Fire Department rushed down, to find and fight what fire? None. The Columbia fire fighters are our friends, it costs the city time and money to send out the apparatus and by the false alarms we lose the good will of the mem bers of the department. A false alarm has been turned in only a very few times in the past four years, but once is too many. We at Carolina are grown men-let us act as such and leave boyish pranks, which really come under the class of criminal misdemeanor, for high school Soys. Remember the fable of the boy who cried :"wolf" Carolina men, don't cry "fire" too often, for we may not receive assistance if a fire really comes I T rot On, Bo-nPeeps .If the University can, in four years, knock from its students their inherited and cultivated exultation in the commonplace, it will have completely justified its existence. If it can produce, with its diplomas, minds capable of occasional origin~al decisions, it can smash to bits the objections of a squawking and anti-univer sity public, and smother the wailings of dissatisfied and cynical Menchens. .The human mind delights in a. rut as man delights in the path that leads to his home. He feels safe in the path becatfse he has gone that way many times before. The student comi-ng from class remarks, "That was a fine lecture;" another coming from a banquet is thrilled by the address of the principal speaker. What made the lecture fine? Why was the address so wonderful? They were great because they were commonplace, because they contained nothing new, because they were filled with ideas and phrases long dear to the hearts of the hearers. If either had presented a new idea, theory, or argument, the student would have come away yawning, disgusted and re sentful, Nine-tenths of our college graduates will vote for Davis because their fathers voted for Cleveland, or for Coolidge because grandpa awoke one morning to find himself elected county commissioner on the Re publican ticket, back in a forgotten county in Wiscon sin or Illinois. The student loves ruts in' social life and the more serious business of education. He finds it fashionable to be a bo-peep, meekly stumbling along where some one leads, though he knows not where nor why, Can the University knock from its students this inherent and dultivated exaltation of the common place?--Colorado Silver nd Gold By Jjrn '! Barnum''s( ight Once upon a time, there lived a man who earned his living by exhibiting all kinds of freaks and animals to the public. This gentleman was a very shrewd business man and he charged the gullible public a small but helpful fee for the privilege of witnessing his show. In the course of his dealings with these open-pursed folks, he formed a low, yet accurate opinion of their common sense, and is said to have composed as his business watchword the phrase: "There's one born every minute, and two to take him." That man was Barnum, the world-famed showman and he had coined.a very snappy little maxim. With the coming of the college student, however, this gentleman was forced to slightly modify his original saying to its present day form: "There's ten born every minute, and plenty to take them all." Take a glance at the college world today, and light a joss stick in this wise man's honor. A clothes dealer finds he has a surplus *of corduroy on hand, and low, wide, flopping, corduroy trousers meet the eye in every college hall. Some tobacco dealer out in Podunkville decides that college boys are missing the' treat of their young lives in not smoking his Special Thin Stemmed Italian Briar Pipes, and im mediately rings of light, blue smoke curl tieavenward from every lounging room and dormitory. We daily await the arrival of the celhiloid skull cap and the Highland Kilties. But in all good time. The boys must and will be different. - U.S.c. A Maiden's Companion Did you ever stop to think. what is really the dcarest thing on earth to our modern girl of today? After carefully considerating, I think that you too will agree that the compact is her dearest possession. For a compact, small and helpless looking as it is, has a huge part in the existence of woman. It is the expression of her vanity, the insurince of her attrac tiveness, the companion iA need, chief charm manu facturer, and magic beauty restorer, all combined. Beauty it certainly has, with its golden surface decorated elegantly after the fashion of men's old fashioned watch cases and its bright mirrow resting above the cake of delicately perfumed powder. And useful? Why the compact rivals the camel in being a beast of burden for its owner. No sdlf-respecting compact would think of starting out on its journey without having comfortably encased between its lids car fare, stamps, keys, a dollar bill, several newspaper clippings, from one to ten telephone numbers, a shop ping list, a pencil stub and a few hairpins. Truly, the compact is the dearest thing on eart'h to the modern girl. Principal companion on radiant lays, chief solace on rainy ones, it is at once the charming delight and the bane of existence of every woman's life. For its name implies its limitations. When packed to the limit with its useftol burdens, a compact has a most unfortunate habit of flying open at most crucial moments. Coins and keys are scattered to the four, winds, while milady is disconcerted, nay, even discom posed until the contents are safely restored to their resting place. Furthermore, the compact is a very slippery object. Just when Miss Modern Girl is a5out to be introduced to Mr. Modern Boy, the ungrateful compact, wicked little instrument of torture, slips out of her hands and clatters away on the pavement, shattering the mirror into smithereens and dusting the sidewalk with broken bits of powder cake. So much for the contrariness of the compact. Dearest possession? Why certainly. Awvful care? Maybe, but oh, you compact, chiefest pride, most weighty care, combinations of sweet burdens and powdery grief, what would woman be without you? --U.s.C. THE WEEKLY ORACLE HE'S dumb. WHY BABIES put * * * * * * FACT, he thinks EVERYTHING in . * * * * * * A CORKSCRE W is THEIR MOUTH? THE KEY to a * * * THE DUMBELL said REVOLVING door. * * * * * * "BECAUSE they have I TRIED to *~ * * * * * NO POCKETSr' SUGGEST .the purchase * * * * * *AND NOW OF AN encyclopedia* . * * * BUT E tod meEVERYONE thinks * * * * * * THE DARN thing HE'S WISE. * * * * * * HURT hi-s feet. AND HE admits it * * * * * * I GAVE him SO HE founded * * * * *, * UP AS hopeless A SCHOOL * * * * *, * TILL LAST week OF NO thought. *4* * * * * THE PSYCH prof HE'S President. *4* * * * * ASKED him CAN vrU bea it? Charlie & Monroe Har Cuttlng aspeialty Polite and fAifcienW Service to .11 UNsveruity Men Opposite Jerome Hotel Next to Woman's Exchange 1128 Lady St. Phone 6061 The Savoy Cafe "Open All Night" Food of the Best Quaety Polite Attention 1327 Main St. Columbia, S. C. Students Are Welcome Capital Cafe "Nearest Restaurant to University" Your Patronage Will Be Greatly Appreciated Food of Best Quality Excellent Service . 1210 MAIN STREET ENTERPRISE Hardware Co. 1324 Main St. Phone 4026 We Welcome You to Our City Foot Ball and Basket Ban Uniforms and Supplies "Special Prices to Students" Health is necessary if you expect to make the Varsity-youi health is assured if you eat at BILLY BULLVS "A Meal a Minute" 1211 Gervais St. Phone 8502 Pure Milk 10c per pint All Kinds of Sandwiches L We Serve a Vegetable Dinner SNAPPY PIPES FOR COLLEGE MEN .Meerchaum Pipes Bakelite Socket Pipes' French and ItaMna bri., Pipes Cherry Wood Pipes Crego Pipes SALE AGENCY. Dunhill (London) Pipes You will add tbte enJoy ment of your pip If you smoke Pinkuasso's Pot pouri Tobacco, J. S. Pinkussohn Cigar Company 1300 Main St. SYLVAN BROS. Jewelers and Diamnond Merchants CLASS RINGS AND PINS OF THE! BETTER KIND 1500 Main Street Corner Main and I ampton Streets COLUMBIA, S. C,