Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Mener of South Carolina College Press Association Published Weekly by the Various Literary Societies Terms--$1.50 a Year Entered at the Columbia. South Carolina Postoffice on November 20, 1908. as Second-Class Mail Matter NEWS STAFF ISADORE POtIER ....................Editor-in -Chief W. LEE CRocKr ..................Managing Editor W . 0. VARN ........................... Vews Editor FaED MissHALL.......................Sports Editor Miss EL.tq HOUGH ..................Co-Ed Editor JimmY BA.Dwi. ...................Feature Editor REPORTERS Thomas Wofford. W. J. Thomas, James Hearon, Harold Hentz, A. W. Holler, Robert Ingram, E. R. King, J. L. Murden. W. A. Brunson, Elizabeth Hardv Catherine Phillips, Elizabeth Lindsday, Ora Jackson. News ITEMS may be handed in to members of the staff, or phoned to editorial rooms at 907 South Main Street, Phone number 4109, between the hours of 3 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, and 10 to 11 a.m. or 2:30 to 5 p.m on Thursdays. BUSINESS STAFF C. W . SCOTT .. ...........................Managcr J. R. PATS ...............................A ssistant R. B. Hn-DEBRAND ........................Assistant SAM READY ............................Circulation FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16,1925 Gamecock Spurs And if our shoes continue to wear out at this rate, we'll soon be on "ur feet again. * * * "Any old port in a storm." is the cry of the rum tumd as they handed him some post-war stuff. * * * Nqw that the brunt of the tourist season is over. he Europeans will have to go back to work. * * * The Clemson Tiger says they are going to enjoy a dish of Gamecock at the fair Thursday. Well, well. Personally, we enjoyed the Tiger meet last year. Sorry we don't make a habit of predicting. Bt:t we will enjoy the scrap as much as you. * * * And we are glad to see your student body on hand to cheer you on. You see. we have twelve hundred odd. -urselves. One thing's certain. Columbia in for one Sig pa rade. and it's certain. too. that the winner won't take all the glory. 'Cause in South Carolina' classic there's enough glory to go around. * * * Bobio says. "Early to bed and early to rise pu:s those rings under your eve-. - U.s.c. Kind-Hearted Students Shirt-tail parades are a glorious event. To swing down Main street with surplus cloth waving in the breeze, never fails to thrill. With our mammoth freshman class alone, there should be a line reachinie the length of the big thoroughfare with the traf fic lights. But no. it is not so. .Our kind-hearted freshmen are too concerne.l with the traffic problems of Columbia to do such ~a outrageous deed. Or. 'perhaps. the poor little green ones are afraid that they might grow hoarse and not be able to keep a date with the sweet little thing on Sunday night. Of cot rse no college parade can rival the attractions of our favorite screen star. All of which is not said in jest, unless the joke is on Carolina. When our football team scores a w'b it's up to us to celebrate. 'l'hose students who -live in town are included in that statement. If your sole interest in the University is to see the football games and, incidenutally, pass your subjects, we would probably be just as well off withot:t you. Why ian't we show some pep? Twelve hundred and eighty-two students-nine hundred and thirty men, and a mere hundred in the shirt-tail parade Yes, laugh-- laugh at yourselves. Come on out ! Pep meetings don't require a family tree, and, don't bar you because you have one. Shirt-tail parade 'show whether you have the pep and enthusiasm. If your dignity won't permit, hire a room in the home for the aged. If you're a man-- hang out your flag and let it jam traffic, if it stays jammed a week. And that's that. Where's Our Student Body ? Student body meetings at Carolina have come t a a sorry conditiow They are opened with eloquent flowerings of oratory that thrill open-mouthed .freshman and tickle a supposedly wiser upper classmen. Then the gifted one reliquishes the floor to the common-placeness of business and the show is over. And,. since the show is over, our student body makes a wild rush for the door. We hold it unaccountable-this sudden fear of being late to eleven o'clock classes. During the election of student members of the $Social Cabinet, the members of the student body leaked out of the doors like water through a bad roof. In fact. so few remained that any attempt to hold a representative meeting would have been far cial. The president wisely postponed the election. The question is before you, every man and wom an at Carolina. Are you interested enough in student affairs to attend your duty in choosing officers? Or. are you just another example of baby-pambie who are contented to let the other fellow do your work ? If you are of the latter class, then, we hazard the guess that you are the kind that complains at every -thing done by your officers. One thing is certain you are certainly ppor specimens of a Carolina man or woman. Officers elected by a few students are not likely to be satisfactory to the m-tjocity of the student body. And, forget the idea that this "few" is trying to run the University. It seems that they have to since you haven't enough spunk in you to do your share. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. - U.s.c. - Badge of Honor Now that the freshman caps are here. we hope to see them adorning the heads of every new man. When compared to the "rat" caps at most other uni versities, the Carolina headgears are "a thing of beauty." Freshmen wear them as a badge of honor. It distinguish you as a Gamecock. And the man who hesitates to wear one is sadly lacking in the spirit that will make him a member of the student body. Most college papers head an article on freshman caps with the stern command that they be displayed at once. That is not the idea at the University. You are expected to buy your "skypiece' because you realize the honor of being a Gamecock fledgling. Freshmen, show your sWrit. - U.s.c. - The Forum THE FORUM welcomes alu sgned communications (your name need not appear in THE GAMECOCK) expressing opinion on sttdent affairs. A department establ~shed as a clearing house for ideas. Address your letters to the EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, THE GAMECOCK Justifiable Criticism To the Editor. We are accustomed to judging men by their act ions. People that scem to do kind deeds are usually sized up as ".pretty good fellows;" and the petty and mean actions never fail to leave their impression. To get to the particular incident. When a Caro lina student shows miore respect for the women on the campus than to shower them with a bucket of water as they pass, it is time to say express an opin ion. To put it mildly the unknown person was not a. gentleman, and, certainly not the type oi man that we want at Carolina. The co-eds were going to Chapel ior the Vesper Services, Wednesday evening when someone rooming in Rutledge showed his ill-breeding by wetting them. Not that the water was the worst of the matter, for we are brought to realize that a student in Rutledge shows the absence of the characteristics of a gentle man. Signed, A Co-ed -- 1:.s.c. -- Two-Cent Service The Editor, The Gamecock . Are college students babies ? It seems that such a view is held by those in charge of the post office. We were told at the beginning of the year that the post office would be open on Sundays. It is. But -why leave it open when there is no mail? Last year. we could, at least, get our special de liveries on Sunday by going to the manager's room. Now, under the better (?) system we have to go to the main Columbia office. We want an open post office WIT H mail on Sun day. We are not babies to be satisfied by an apparent imiwovement. We don't want to look to see if our 'EMPTY boxes are still there. Sincerely. A Student -- U.S.C. - Which reminds us that they ban comedies at the Saturday night movies in England. The jolly fel lows latugh ton much i.n chur.. Welcome Tigers Gamecocks, Biddies, and Pullets welcome the Clemson Cadets to Columbia! We are glad to meet you again, glad to hear that you are going to be present in mass. And when ancient rivals meet at the Fair grounds. we'll be there to see the scrap. Between our institutions there should exist the best of spirit. Keen rivalry should make the best of friends. The Carolina-Clemson game has be come the classic of South Carolina football because the state sees two hard-fighting teams go into action, and knows the losers grin and bear it--until the next year. So herd's to a hard-clean-fighting aggregation. Bring on your Tigers to a Gamecock welcome. - u.s.c. - THE WEEKLY ORACLE Laugh and the World Laughs With You-Weep and It Laughs at You (By I. M. P.) ON OUR campus THOUGHT that even IN wrong. THE BEST jokes IN this world GROW stale, and NO ONE seems CHANGED the subject. S S S TO want to IN time, as BE THE GOAT. and 0 MIGHT be expected, STILL we 6 * 0 0THE highly SPEND a life-time SINTELLIGENT LAUGHING at o0er *STUDENT body iorg,-t ,PEOPLE WHEN they * * 0 0 * THAT they were ARE in trouble * 0 SSUPPOSED to grin AND. sometimes we WHEN he passed. EXTEND ourselves a 0e * *NO, we were BIT JTJST to * NOT astonished when PUT the THE boy won OTHER fellow ** 0 A FOOTBALL gameor THERE was *5*-BECAME a leader A BOY who *. * ON the campus, ACTED just a * * I BECAUSE he did LITTLE QUEER 0 * *NONE oi those (JUDGING by eIN J Sfor OURSELVES. of * *0 YEARS he made COURSE.) * ** FRED,pse SO, for years THE wise-crackers S* PULLED their wit AT HIS exnense WHILE the budding ~AIGgo * C * ,EDITORIA L gen:iuses EXHIBITED their S5 .TALENT by coining 5 PARODIES of his 5 * * * N e ol NAME. * c * AN EDITOR wasD EE ~FOND ho ANTHERS joke - u.s.c. - f wntervome w R o stae.handeli TheFrech an' unersANGED te subject. first f themonth of theelast'estuf. CAROLINIANA (By Ye Scriberlus) As the Gamecock is a newspaper and as the University has now an ad mirably organized and highly effici department of Journalism, even a t tative list of South Carolina Collegi for more than a century who have ma journalism their vocation or avocati should be of interest. Whether the brilliant old agnosti Thomas Cooper, who sugbeeded D Maxy as 'president of the college in I ever filled the editorial chair of newspaper is not known to anyone less Professor Dumas Malone. his bi grapher; but that he frequently tribute to the press in his own name over'a pen name, is unquestioned, there is super-abundant evidence all his life, in England,, France, Pe sylvania. or South Carolina. he was voluminous pamphleteer. Possibly the first graduate of the co lege who played an important role the daily press was Henry Lawren Pickney. of the class of 1812; foun of the "Charleston Mercury", the m aggressive and fiery of what are n considered South Carolina's "peculiar political and economic principles. ) Pickney was a "born orator" and wh a member oi congress. an ardent ene of the deadly rum. Twenty-eight years before Jos Daniels was born, Pickney, address the American Cbigresgional Temper ance Society in the capitol at Washi ton. declared that liqor. "has been cause of the vice and crime-the muti and insubordination, the tumults and sertions. the disgraces and punish that have occured in the American A and Navy." The Honorable Thomas McMil successor from the Charleston Dis today, was always temperate on campus and would doubtless belong the "American Congressional Tem ance Society", if she still lived, neither Tom nor Josepho's could "sli English the likes of that.! Among the graduates of 1820M Richard Yeadon. who was to become i nearly 40 years of his useful life edit and main owiner of the Charleston Co ier: which had been founded in I and is today (The News and Courier probably the oldest paper south of Ba o more. Mr. Yeadon and his associ conducted the Courier on a high pa z adherring to the Union party in tics and following the lead of Hugh ( Legare and Henry Clay rather t tI lawyer. and attorney for Dr. R. n Hayne and Calhoun. He was a lead' t lawyer. and attorney for Dr. R. ti libbs in the great test case for the fr p iom of the press against the Colu a] own council. b He was a Christian of urrblemish :haracter and as universally esteer t hrovgh some oi his fads and oh centricities, especially in his publish verse. and his offer oi $10,000 for t' iody or head, or both, of General B. Butler. were themes ior laughter; "e's his failures learned to virtue's side. The brilliant James H. Hammond E he class of 1825. afterwards goverr cu jenator. leading agricultrist and politi. TI controversial ist. "'Thirew himself into tcil Kullification controvesry with 1.lir whole heart, and began his political Cl reer by starting in Columbia a ne-b aper called the 'Southern Times' fiery, caustic sheet which he edited the Syear. During that brief period, he ,th< ceived a challenge from a South Canm lina congressmanj, but the duel was h le pily and honorably avoided. He horse-whip,ped a brother editor in CsN leni. Surely a lively experience forc year in the fourth estate. Frank Gaillard. of the class of 18 bu was the able and aggressive editor to the South Carolinian, in Columbia ch he late 50's. He fell in battle dur' ro: the War for Southern Independan re as did gallant John Reynolds (1907) sig the World WVar-fighting for the act tical principles he so ably defended his pen. The pity of it is that we fo, and know so little of several noble tee -it's of the type of Franklin Gailla- E. fit subjects for post graduate work Mi the department of Jo,.....l:... to