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"Best College Newspaper in South Carolina" Member of South Carolina College Press Association Publishei 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 PoLIER .....................Editor-in-Chief W. LEE CROCKER ..................Managing Editor W. O. VARN .........................News Editor FRED MINSHALL .....................Sports Editor MIss ELLEN HOUGH ..................Co-Rd Editor JIMMY BALDWIN ...................Peature 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 Hardy 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. ScoTr ..............................Manager J. R. PATE ...............................Assistant R. B. HILDEBRAND ........................Assistant SAM READY ............................Circulation FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1925. Picking the Pikers Elen those gentlemen of the legislature who have made the statement that the University is the paradise of the rich mad's sons and daughters would have been surprised at the munificent sum realized by the sale of tags for the Christmas tree. Even the gentleman from Podunk would have wept tears at the poverty of the student body of the University. Fifteen (15) dollars, American money was contrib uted by some 1300 students to make possible a real Christmas for fifty children of Columbia's poor. But we rise to stawlch the tears of the august representative. We deny hotly that the student body of the University is in any such state of financial calamity. We maintain that the men and women of the University have practiced deception and upon a most regrettable occasion. There may be penny pinchers in this world, but if they squeeze their nickels any harder than the students did Monday and Tuesday, they should be arrested for brutality. Chances are that some were "broke" when they were asked to contribute. They'll have another chance Monday. And those skinflints who refuse to loosenloosen up; well, if they were drowning we'd be tempted to turn a hose of water on them. Here is a real chance to show sympathy for the chi!dren of the unfortunate people who are not able to provide a Christmas tree. Regardless of creed, of no(n-belief in any creed, there should he enough man hood andl womanhood among the students of the Uni.. versi-ty of South Carolina to make Christmas of 1925 a happy occasion for these fifty youngsters. If wie don't respond. we are a mighty rotten bunch of qullitters. - U.s.c. - Give Us Men l,ike a freshening breeze in a Sahara of mental desolation, hav'e been the last twvo speakers at the Sunday night meetings of the Y. M. C. A. After the non-essential noneties that University men and women have listened to in the past three months, andl shall we add for the most part in the last three years, the advent of D)r. Josiah Morse andl Dr. S. C. Mitchell was the more welcome. The names are given in the order in which they spoke. Otherwise they could not be ranked. -They leave the impression upon their hearers of men who are able to think sanely and lucidly in the midst of the hosh-posh of everyday mental apathy. They wasted none of their time or the time of their audliences in ladling out current p)olitical, and soc ial panaceas. Nor did they, praise be, diwell upon the evil times that the present generation has come upon. In speaking on the World Court, Dr. Morse tu. ned up a hitherto un.not iced gem. Laying asidle the already threadbare political arguments pro and con on the subject, Morse treated his subject scien tifically. With the sture-handedness of the man trained in the labratory of years of study, he traced the growth of the idea that man mtust fight. And, with the ame clear reasmning he showed,th next. step of science: the disproving of the fighting theory. When the speaker had finished, the several hundred hearers had gained a new thought. World questions and national problems of peace had a more promising glow. It was not the deceptive tinselling of a masterful spell-binder's art; it was beautiful with the smell of cleanly washed linen. That the world has reason to hope for a court to settle international disputes is glorious; and more glorious because we have reason for our beliefs. In Dr. Mitchell, the University of South Caro lina has cause for pride that lie once headed this institution. If we had to draw a pen picture of the man we would represent him as a star guiding a mariner over uncharted waters. For Mitchell stands apart from those who can think only in terms of dogmas, or within the limits of their own land. The rumble of drums hold for all a mystical and seductive charm; the powers that be, some how appear to be right. But here is a teacher who can remove his mental processes from the sphere of prostituted thinking. and reason in terms of truth. A keen, critical survey of international affairs; a candid statement upon the position of American universities; raking examination of the organized forces of bigotry and hatred, to which he referred by name; and, among other facets of this interest ing man, a human treatment of religious proposit ions of the day. Review these points and it seems unbelievable that a man could have contributed to the student thought upon all of them. Yet, in his unhurried way, Dr. Mitchell exposed them to the view of his audiences. Wholesome stutT, we call it. More might he said of these two men. They have many times given their hearers such worth while talks, and those who missed them, lost by it. With apologies to those who may feel that they are roughly treated we must say that the success of these two close friends is no mystery. They have something to say, a something that repre sents a lifetime of study of their fellow men and an ability to interpret their knowledge. And, not less important they talked to University men and women as though they were future citizens, as though they were able to understand a sensible talk unembellished with oratorical devices and catch-phrases. We believe they got the goods across. - U.s.c. - Much Ado About Nothing The fat's in the fire, ar.d there is plenty of smoke arising from the quesion of whether women college students should be permitted to smoke. That the public is at least mildly interested in the question is shown by the amount of newspaper space devoted to the latest proclamation by the Dean of Women at Oshkosh College. The college newspapers have sensed the news value of the lat est indictment of the modern girl and are filling their columns with the local viewpoint. In the columns of this issue of the Gamecock there is a clipping from the tri-weekly Tar Heel of the University of North Carolina. In the comment of the North Carolinians, there is a pleasing sanity of observation and a reasonably drawn conclusion against smoking for women. Our hearts rejoice when we found another editor who sought to get across his point without referring to the age-old authority of shibboleths concerning the purinty of womanhood. The Tar Heel, however, appears to be the voice in the wilderness of our sister state. From the edi torial page of the Davidsonian, for three years voted the best college weekly in North Carolina. we glean a chioice collection of erudite observat ions that would do credit to the inestimable Dr. Frank Crane. We (quote the editor's concluding re marks: It is quite trite that the status of woman has changed munch ini the past twenty-five years. A new freedom has been grantedl her ; the war and the enfranchisement of wvomen voters have both brought about this change. Nor has it beeni de n:edl men. But when a man seeks to marry a woman, lie does not look around for a flapper sucking a cig arette which is held in one hand, and idio' paint ing her face with the other hand. The old-fash ioned girl may he the butt of many a joke but she is first-hand favorite when the wedding bells sotnd on a p)erfect June day. Without a (dissenting voice wve vote this bit the p)rize bit of hokum for the week. The writer sees in his logic, reason to ban the habit of smoking in women's schools. We see only a reminder of the rewards of youthful indulgence. The girl of today may well be reminded that her inatrimonial stock tvill take a sharp drop if she refuses to abandon the weed. But we fail to see why this is reason to decree smoking verbsoten&. With equal force, the writer might have ad vanced the same argument against smoking by men. If lie (lid, hie would at once he marked out as a blue-nosed reformer and put in his place. The position of wonmen, however has not the sanction whose great delight is in pulling on the old jim my pipe. We are tempted to cry that "there ain't no justice." Here is another gem fromn the Davidsonian: Arthur Brisbane, says, "the girl who does not smoke will make a better mother than the one who uses cigarettes." Perhaps, the actual phy sical damage arising from a use of tobacco is not so bad as is has been painted. Yet, any fel low will say that a girl sinks a little in his esti mation whenever he sees her smoking. Some how, he feels that it is not becoming to a woman and that she oversteps her bounds when she does. Mr. Brisbane's who shows such charming abil ity, or versatility in writing of unpleasant political situations, here makes a notable contribution to the study of physiology. But if our memory does not deceive us, the same information can be found in any physiology book. And, further, the smoking habit is said to be a positive harm to both sexes. With his genius for side-stepping, Mr. Brisbane dodges this fact. Lest we place too much significance on the hulla ballo over nothing, we will point out only the great loss, as shown above, that womer. suffer in the estimation of the stronger sex. The same line of reasoning was employed against cosmetics and short skirts. Ergo, they are here to stay. Women will smoke, rules or no rules. They will cease this "vicious" habit only when they see that they stand to gain nothing and to lose their health by it. The mental powers of the woman of today are sufficiently developed to weigh the soph onmoric edicts of deans and editors. If they be lieve they're on the wrong track they'll change their brand; but if they can see in the 'ruling and protests only a silly and outgrown Puritanism. they'll certainly stick to their guns. If they don't, we admit that we know nothing about women. - U.s.c. - THE WEEKLY ORACLE Trying To Be Funny Is Mighty Serious Business (By I. M. P.) 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