The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, May 29, 1925, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4
Freshmen Fac
SOME TREMBLE, OTHERS
With V
(By I.
"No midnight oil for me," expressed
the concern, or unconcern, of one fresh
man at Carolina toward the final examil
nations which began today. "I mean to
see a moving picture every night cf the
week except Sunday and then I'm going
to sleep all I want to."
Br;t not all the first-year men at the
University are so much at ease. Forth
coming events cast their shadows and
more than one "rat' is scurrying around
for "light."
"One exam was enough to cenvince
me," said one of the "greenies" who was
losing the verdant hue. "The first term
I waited until the.last day or two, so I
had to cram for all my exams, and , be
lieve me, it was some experience. I
swore off. Never again."
Some say that the grasshopper is an
improvident insect who starves in winter
because he fail to store up a sufficient
supply of food in better days. The re
porter tried out the parable of the ant
and the grasshopper on a freshman who
announced his avowed intention of en
joying himself to the last minute.
BRADLEY MAKES TALK
FOR POPPY DAY HERE
Speaks in University Chapel
Thursday Morning.
PAYS TRIBUTE TO HEROES
Tells of Sons of Carolina Who
Went West Over There.
Prof. F. W. Bradley spoke at the
chapel exercises Thursday morning in
commemoration of Poppy Day. which
comes Saturday, May 30. Prof. Bradley
explained the plan cf the German drives
and the movements of the American
troops in France during the war, illus
trating his talk with the aid of a German
map, which he took from a hotel in Spa,
where Jhe kaiser had his headquarters.
Prof. Bradley also paid a tribute to the
fifty thousand American soldiers left on
the battlefields of France, including the
university students who lost their lives
in the war. Trees have been planted on
the campus in memory of these boys and
a broze tablet has been placed in the li
brary commemorating the st->rene sac
rifice of the following students, John P.
Anderson, Benjamin Sloan Beverley, S.
Jones Colcock, Daniel Mcl,aughlil
Crawford. William Bratton Del,oach
James McCants Douglas, Charles Wil
liam Forbes, Cannon Durniond Fenel,
Eugene B. Gary, Jr., Robert Elliott Gon
zales, Thomas Carlisle Herbert, Harry~
Clyde Horton, Harvey James Kizer, De
Vault L4eague. IlavidE Wotith Loring,
John McKenzie McIntosh, Henry Gan
son Mobley, Allison Paw, R. 0. Purdy,
Jr. John Schreiner Reynolds, Edward
Rollins Roberts, Farrell B Sanders,
Curtis Milton Simmons, L4ewis Wardlaw
Smith, L. G. Sullivan, Samuel D. Twittle
taub, Edmund V. Walsh.
News of Sti
PRESBYTERIAN
E. C. Ligon, Whitner Milner, J. D.
McInnis and W. L. Hpubbardl have been
selected at the dleclaimers who will com
pete in the annual commencement coni
test.
D. 0. Rhame, a rismng senior, will lead
P. C.'s track team next year.
Many men have been initiated into Pi
Kappa Delta, Chi Beta Phi and Lamba
Phi Gamma at P. C. this past week.
CLEMSON COLLE4FGE
Hundreds of visitors have been at.
Clemson for the June Week and b,rilliant
commencement features.
Clemson has been inspected and found
O.K. in every respect by the board of
visitors of the college which made an in
spection tour last week, visiting. every
department of work.
Carter Newman and Wallace Roy,
Clemson's speed demons, will enter the
6 Exams
INDIFFERENT- REPORTER
zried Attitudes
W:P.)
"Yes." he replied, "I know that those
who don't provide, pay. But take the
case of the grasshopper. It seems to me
that every summer I see more and more
of them. And if you'll notice they enjoy
life while they're living."
Qcaint angles and views are revealed
by men who have thought out the problem
and by those who haven't given it a
thought.
"You can take it as part of the game,"
is the way one put his opinion. "The
game is one when you pass your term's
work. If you are contented with a tech
nical decision then you try to do enough
in one d.ay to make up for a season's
training. Besides you may consider the
waiting as an added element of risk that
peps up the play.
"But do you play the game so as to
prepare yourself for a bigger goal then
,exams are just an opportunity to put
.down what yon have learned by reading
and listening.
"To telt the truth, I'm hoping tc
knock the prof for a couple of eggs af
ter a street car pole'."
P. A. WILSON IS NOW
SINGLES CHAMPION
Defeats Ham Beattie In Hard
Fought Game.
FAIR-COLEMAN DOUBLES
Many Entered in Annual Campus
Tournament, Large Galleries.
P. A. Wilson of Columbia, a member
of the Junior Academic Class won the
tennis singles championship of Carolina
when he defeated "Ham" Beattie in the
finals 6-3, 6-3, 13-11, in one of the hard
est fought matches seen on the Univer
sity courts this year. Wilson was com
plete master in the first two sets, play
ing a brilliant, slashing game which Beat
tic could not withstand. In the third
set Beattie rallied and led, at several
times, only to have Wilson come back
after fourteen extra games had been
pjayed. Other matches in the semi-fiiali
preceding the championship encounter in
cluded: Beattie eliminated Cain. 6-2, 6-2,
only to be eliminated a few mi1iutes later
by Wilsoit 6-3, 6-3.
The doubles finals were played Tues
day afternoon, when the Heinie Fair
1illy Coleman team defeated D. Gaston
and Summers. 6-4, 7-5, 10-8. The affair
was closely fought all the way through
but Gaston-Snmners lacked the neces
sary- punch to put over a winning mark
er. Fair's playing wvas sensational, and
his stroking an1d lofting was brilliant.
Both teams p)lay-ed well. In the semi
finals R. Gaston and Wilson lost to D.
Gaston and Summers, after the latter
made a remarkable comeback against a
lead of one set. Coleman and Fair deC
leated. Bo' Jones and "Ham" Beattie in
the other bracket of the dloubles. All
hail to the new crowned kings!I
ete's Colleges
national intercollegiate track contest at
Stagg Field, Chicago in June.
FURMAN UNIVERaSITY
The senior class of the Uniiversity de
feated the faculty 13-12 in a hot contest
of baseball as one of the features of com
mencement week.
M. C. Collins of Lake City has been
elected president of the Purple and White
Glee Club for 1926.
THE CITADEL
The annual Citadel picnic and dance at
Folly Beach is reported as being the
The juniors have returned from a
week's furlough granited third year men
every year and it is astonishing how
many rings were "lost."
The "Foot-Warmers" of Atlanta will
furnish music for the Junae Ball to be
held Jueen 9th
UNCLE SAM PERFORMS
ALL VARIED SFRVICES
Some of the Funiy Thinki Tht
I-apimen ifi the MVails. '
IMANY. DEAD LEttERS
Some Good Advice Given to Those
Who are ForgetfuL
(Special to The Gamecock)
Washington, D. C., May 28-While it
is generally accepted that this is not the
age of miracles, nevertheless, there are
thousands f patrons of the United Stat
es mails who take it for granted that
Uncle Sam has many wonder-workers on
his pay roll.
.The very fact that there are wizards
in the employ of the Post Office Depart
ment-men and women who are uncanny,
to say the least, in deciphering illegible
handwriting-has caused no end of trou
ble and expense to the government as
well as to the tax-payer, along with in
convenience in the receipt and delivery
of mail matter.
Yet, with all this expert handling and
careful study of hand-writing oil the
part of the postal clerks the annual rev
enue from dead mail matter received by
the government amounts to approximate
ly $300,000.
Last year, the Dead Letter Office re
ceived $120,000 from the sale of orphan
ed packages which could neither be for
warded to the addressee, nor returned
to the senders because of inadequate ad
dresses. The same office turned into the
United States Treasury $55,523.96 in cash
removed from misdirected letters er
found loose in thl mails.
Postage stamps were taken from let
ters or forid loose in the mails having
a value of $12,165.67, almost double the
entire revenue of the postal service in
1789.
Three-cent fees collected for the re
turn to senders of letters which could not
be deliveeed totaled $92,007.54.
But this is not half the story. Checks,
drafts and money orders, whose owners
could not be located, and amounting to
$3,546,542.54 finally fowit a resting place
.in the Dead Letter Office.
For want of correct or complete ad
dresses 21,000,000 letters were deposited
in the Dead Letter Office, not to speak of
800.000 parcels which had been improp
erly addressed or wrapped.
Strange to say, this depositing of let
ters and packages in the mails with in
complete, inadequate or i-ncorrect address
!es and wrapping comes, in a large major
ity of cases, from those patrons who are
the most liberal contributors to this
branch of the Uhited States government.
It has been estimated by postal offi
cials that 200,000,000 pieces of mail are
given "directory service" every year.
which means that employees must take
time from regular handling and dispat
ching of mail in the endeavor to provide
correct addresses for this hoge volume
of misdirected matter. In New York
ICity, alone, the cost of this service ap
proximates $500 every clay in the year
and the total amount through the corn-.
try is stupendous.
While the revenue from the Dead Let
ter Office is sufficient to keep that branch
of the postal service functioning it is not
Inearly enough to pay the annual toll for
support of the "NIXIE."
A "NIXIE'' is a letter or parcel so
imp)roperly addressed that it can neither
be delivered to the addressee nor return
ed to the sendler without special treat
ment. This special treatment costs the
Post Office Department or the taxpayer
,in the fintal analysis, approximately $1,
.740,000 every year.
In order to life this tremendous burden
from the shonlders of the Post Office
Department and on the pocketboow of
the Americani people, the first week in
June has been set aside by Postmaster -
General New as "Better Mailing Week."
An active, nation-wide campaign will be
condrected during that period for the
purpose of impressing on the mailer the
necessity from every viewpoint of using
more care in the addressing of his mail.
not only letters but parcels as well.
- U.S.C. -
FLIPPY FL.APPER
Silly little flapper, with your pow
dered nose
Yeu'd be quite the berries if you didn't
roll your hose,
If you didn't try to vamp us as we
stroll across the campus
Tf you didn't smoke o.. c... o.. even. pet. 2
"4t Copelmad Gbs,, So Goes the Pasho"
LEARN THE WAY
CIfQTHING Stylish Cl6ihes tor College men who
$2S.00 to $55.00 wint quality as well s style.
. HATS Tht New Shapes and Colors ms6st de.
$3.50 to $10.00 sired always in stock.'
FURNISHINGS Manhattan Shirts, Van Heusen Collars
Everything That's New Cheney Neekwear, Munsing Underwisr.
Piu Dress Sus eland Ss Mae to
Per Rent Mure
Company
1t3 Maili Street Columbia, S. C.
GET SMAR1T STYLE
-But Get
H44RT SCHAFFNER & MARX QUALITY
BACK OF IT
M. L. Kinard, Inc.
1523 Main Streetr Columbia, S. C.
CLASS RINGS CLASS PINS
- WATCH REPAIRING -
Our Watch Repairing Department is well-known
all over this section of the country for its efficient
and accurate work. We give you the best work
at very reasonable prices
P. H. Lachicotte & Company
- Jewelers -
1424 Main St. Columbia, S. C.
COLLEGE MEDALS TROPHY CUPS
When Hot and Thirsty, Come To
BURNETT'S DRUG STORE
W1ERE YOU WILL FIND A COOL AND REFRESHING DRINK
-- We Also Handle -
ALL STUDENT SUPPLIES, CAROLINA SEAL STATIONERY
Cigarette Cases a Specially
McMASTER, Inc.
--ATHLETIC GOODS -
Corner Sumter and Hampton Sts. Columbia, S. C.
R. C. WILLIAMS & SONS
Incorporated
FURNITURE, RUGS, LINOLEUM, SHADES, PILLOWS
1638 Main Street Columbia, S. C. Phone 5815
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