Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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fAeGA 4CX>CW Member of South Carolina College Press Association 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 POLIER ...................Managing Editor W. LEE CROCKER..............News and Club Editor FRED MINSHALL ......................Sport Editor JIMMY BALDwIN ....................Feature Editor Miss ELLEN Houcii .................Co-Ed Editor C. B. Wn.LIAN MS. ......................... ..Editorials REPORTERS W. 0. VARN, A. W. HOLLER. HAROLD HENTZ, W. J. THOMAS, JAMES HEARON, ROBERT BAss, D. H. EARGLE CHARLES CUTTINo, VIRGINIA DOAR, MAUE ELLIS, 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 ...................fManager ERNEST B. CASTLES ......................Assistant SAM. L. READY ...........................Assistant JOHN R. PATE .......................Circulatiou Advertising Rates Will Be Furnished on Request. Aptfly to Business ManaLev.. FRIDAY, APRIL, 10, 1925. (amtrerk fturs The Dean has announced. a one lay holiday for Easter. We have so many holidays now that we hardly have time to meet classes between them -MaybeI * * * * * Spring-Easter-New Bonnets-Dances-Holi days-Everybody Happy? * * * * Ouch I Is this the baseball or football season ? The size of the scores fail to tell us. * * * * Annual High School Week comes soon. Make your motto "Be Courteous." * * * * Next Friday will tell us what the Co-eds can do. * * * * Dumbelle wants to know why there are so many gloomy faces around the bulletin boards now. Study lad only eight more weeks. * * * * We wonder will the Legislature tax the drinks we are to get out of the new Senior Fountain. - U.s.c. -- More Postofflice ! Shall the University of South Carolina have a post office Sub-station? This is the burning ques tion of tihe hour. The proper University authori ties have petitioned the Postal Department to se cure this service hut has received no definite yes or no. Over 1300 people receive their mail at the Uni versity for a greater portion of the year. It seems only just that this large group should receive some adequate mail service. The proper attention that such a vital thing as the United! States mail must have, can be secured ONLY through a regular sub-station. We need proper service and we must have it. True the city post office is only a few blocks dis tant but for all the good it does the Carolina stu dent body it may as well be se.veral miles off the campus. Other institutions have sub-stations, why not one of the leading state Universities? Those i_n charge of securing a station for Caro lina are to be heartily congr-atulated upon their splendid fight in the face of odds but they need the cooperation of every Carolina student. DO YOU want a sub.. station? If so try and see someone or talk to somebody in a position to help us secure one. Dr. Melton cannot carry the whole weight upon his shoulders. Cooperation will move worlds and perhaps it can change the minds of the government officials who do not seem inclined to help us. -- U.s.c. -- Too Bad, Clemson The University of South Carolina deeply sym pathises with her sister institution Clemson in the recent loss of a valuable laboratory by fire. A $250,000 loss is not to be taken lightly. We know how difficult it is to get new equipment, and some of the loss was in irreplaceable library and record material. Carolina sincerely hopes that the authorities will very soon be able to replace the loss as nearly Ts possible and that the state Legislature will ap propriate a sum sufficient to rebuild the lost build ing better than before. Last year Davis College at the University was gutted by fire and the whole organization was thrown out of balance for the time being. We hope that Clemson has already made arrangements whereby work may be continued as before. - U.s.c. A College Policy Newspapers are the vehicles of news. They are rather crude attempts to satisfy the human curio sity about events which affect the welfare of peo ple. On a college campus where a number of stu dents are living under similar circumstances and with similar aims and purposes a college news paper is invaluable in keeping the students unified by presenting facts about the campus activities and interpretating these facts for the betterment of the whole. There are two policies upon which a newspaper must be based. These two policies are Truth and Service. The two are inter-woven it is true, but they form the fundamental principles w%ich are the criteria fr. determining the ultimate success of the publication measured by the effects of its work on the college community. The college news weekly more than any other form of newspaper should have for its foundation -Truth. "Truth is stranger than fiction;" so why dress up facts with fancy. The paper should be come a reporter of truth to the columns of life's history. It is very easy to become partisan and narrow of mind and some times profitable too. The "shading" or "coloring" of news resulting is a deplorable state for an editor to fall into. This thing should be guarded against and facts gather ed and passed on not for the glory of the paper or to cater to some faction but because they are facts and truths. The great service which may be rendered, by the paper is to be found in the criticism and in terpretation of existing conditions and events. The thinking student forms opinions about events in his college life, and his opinions may learn a way from the truth simply because he does not know 'or understand the conditions in the case. The newspaper interpretation and criticism, then, could and would point out just where he is mastant factor in college community life. So it is the function of a college news weekly to gather facts, to pass them on unblemished with falsehood, to praise or blame, and even to create dissatisfaction if need be in order to better condi tions for the social health of the campus.-Trinity Chronicle. - U.s.c. - THE OPEN LETE For a Constitution Mr. Editor: The student body at Carolina once had a con.. stitution. Whether or not someone thought it a valuable addition to his memory book and there fore appropriated it cannot be ascertained. Thue students body at present is one great mob. Many of the rulings of its president have to be miade on hearsay. This should not be. Such a practice merely leads to dissension and division which could easily be avoided if there were some written rules to go by. One could think of many things which a student body constitution should contain. It should con taini fixed dates for elections. What elections? Those such as cheer leader, members of the social cabinet, and faculty members of the debating council. The Students' Handbook (Freshman Bible) last year enumerated eleven precedents and headed them "Student Body Rules." They could have been more correctly headed "Student Precedenits." Unless, however, they are rules and incorporated in a constitution they could hardly be enforce. And most certainly most of them should be enforced. At present we observe no rules other than those made by the faculty. It is beyond their jurisdic tion to form rules which should govern the gene ral proceedlings of the student body. This the students should do. Our ideas must grow with our numbers. Things must be conducted on a larger scale and with sonme degree of order. Carolina needs a constitution. BRDAXVTOtN. - INTIMATE GLIMPSES -of - CAROLINA HISTORY EDItOh's No'E.-This is the last of a series on Carolina History by Dr. 1. L. Green, which has been featured in THE GAMECOCK thru out the year. We hope they have been enter taining as well as instructive. Major Benjamin Sloan retired from the presi dency in .1908, receiving an allotment on the Caro lina Foundation. Professor A. C. Moore acted as president during the following session, while Dr. S. C. Mitchell, who had been elected succeed Major Sloan, was filling an engagement in New York. President Mitchell tried' to carry the University to every part of the state. His watchword was service. The state and the University were to be linked up with national and international move ments. Professors were encouraged to take part in the meeting of learned societies. New chains of study were created. On the campus several new buildings were erected, and the slogan was a stu dent body of 400. But disheartened by criticism Dr. Mitchell gave up and resigned in 1913. After a year, Dr. W. S. Currell accepted the in vitation of the trustees to become president. His chief work was the strengthening of the standard of. Scholarship at the University. The building program went steadily forward; the students con tinued to increase 3n number, and also the pro fessors. After eight-years President Currell re tired to become Dean of the graduate schol. His successor was Dr. William D.tMelton. Under President Melton the enrollment of stu dents has passed the 1200 mark. Many improve ments have been made on the campus. Especial attention has been devoted to the religious life of the institution. Just after the opening of the century South Carolina began to waken to the need of educating her boys and girls. Wonderful progress has been made; the University has even been in the van of the march. To one of the trustees great credit is due for untireing effort and masterly skill in divesting the financial affairs of the University-to Mr. An gust Kohn of Columbia. In 1900 legislative ap propriated $28,500 for the University; last year the amount was nearly $500,000. U.S.C. - BY JIMMY Easter and Love Some love-sick and romantic poet once remark ed, as he dusted on over abundance of decidely feminine powder from the lapel of his Prince Al bert coat--"In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." And the youth ful and exhuberant bard wasn't so far off the right track after all. As soon as the trees begin to bud, as soon as the robins and wrens, and jaybirds commence to vie with each other in the tree tops, some young Romeo takes out his uke from its case and begins to fill the air with unmistakable notes of adora tions. This is the first sure, sign that spring has come-that June, with all the brides and new straw hats, is just over the horizon. Even the spirited college guys catch the love fever; and begins to gamble on the green-or if there is no green, they gamble just the same. Books and Profs. are forgotten. Greek and Ger man are abandoned as the love-sickened fanatics skip to and fro, wrapped in the newest thing in spring slip-over sweaters twenty-two inch- trou sers and thoughts of "her."' And those week-end parties, a bright moon (oh the wonders of "moonshine") and a Dunhill pipe, casting its reddened glow over the face of an admiring lover. Those are the materials--and the product, simply an hour or so of uninterrupted and unsurpassed pleasure, as our Hero, holding our Heroine in his vice-like grip whispers pretty nothings into her newly-powdered auditory or gan. And she responds and as he tightens his half-nelson about her lithe and dainty waist, she lifts her f.ace towards his, her lips half-parted in expectancy., and snugs closer in his arms. He leanes over, (removing the pipe of course from his lips) and with a sudden, yet gentle, effort he braces himself for the attack. Her eyes burning with passion opened and closed with the slowness of a rusty gate. He doesn't seem to notice this but draws her nearer and nearer to himself. Suddenly she screams-he jumps away, as if suddenly awakened from a stupor. He adjusts his coat, she adjusts her hair (which has fallen from beneath a Regina hear-net. And tie date is over. Oh bovy! ain't i wm.n..r..ul? Charlie & Monroe Coil.ge Student. Hair Cutting a Specialty Polite and Bfficient Service to al University Men Opposite Jerome Hotel Next to Woman's Exchange 1128 Lady St. Phone 6061 The Savoy Cafe "Open All Night" Food of the Best QuaHty 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 Ball Uniforms and Supples "Special Prices to Students" Health is necessary if you expect to make the Varsity-your health is assured if you eat at n BILLY BULL'S "A Meal a Minute" d 1211 Gervais St. Phone 8502 Pure Milk 10c per pint f All Kinds of Sandwiches We Serve a Vegetable Dinner L f 3 SNAPPY PIPES FOR COLLEGE MEN Meerchaum Pipes Bakelite Socket Pipes French and rItalian Briar Pipes Cherry Wood Pipes F Crego_Pipes SALE AGENCY Dunhill (London) Pipes ii You will add to the enjoy- h; ment of your pipe if you ir smoke Pinkussohn's Pot- a pouri Tobacco. J. S. Pinkussohn a Cigar Company 1309 Main St. Va p SYLVAN BROS. ; Jewelers and Diamond Merchants CLASS RINGS AND PINS OF THE BETTER KIND Mf 1500 Main Street Corner Main and Hampton Streets ei COMBIrA.n. C. / ' t