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25 SENIOR I Lo CHAM ! Standing-Lomas, Goodwin (Mgr.), ston, Robbins (Captain). C4 Seated-Burgess, Flaum, Carter and *ILKA SABLICH PAILS TO GET ANY PUBLICITY Young Girl Helps- Organize and Leads Miners in Desperate Strike Movement MODERN JOAN OF ARC While in Prison Youthful Strike Leader Writes for the Newspapers (The New Student) It would be mpossible of coursp, to imagine another Lindbergh flying across the Atlantic and failing to land squarely cn the first gage of every daily in the country. And if a nineteen year old girl were to negotiate the passage we would not hear the end of press adula tion for a long time to come. A youth ful hero who flirts with death in an approved fashion Is bound to get prompt and deserved recognition from a dozen or more sources in our publicity-ridden land. It is however, a selective pub licity, and it is possible for a young girl of nineteen to perform heroic and spec tacular exploits that bring her as near death as Lindbergh ever got without much recognitioti coming her way. As yet no movie concern has handed a blank check to Milka Sablich and no vanishing cream courts her praise. No ministers are breaking into early Mon lay editions with sermons on "Milka Sabich, a ciallenge to youth of today." She is not being lauded by the W. C. T. U,, as a garagon of clean young American womadhood. College profes sors do not point her out as a living reproach to sophisticated young college men and women who contemplate sui cide as a variation from the sheer bore don of existence. Milka Sablich is the girl wha helped to organize and lead the coal miners of Colorado and their wives and child ren in the desperate strike that still smoulders. -And she was no modern general directing. the offensive from be hind the lines. Clad in her dress of scarlet she marched at the head of the columns of singing miners as they went from pit to pit calling on their com rades to down tools and fight for high er wages and a real union. She"'nust have known the probable cost to those who march in the vanguard. Although she was on?y six when it happened she may have heard survivors tell of the terrible massacre of workingmen at Lud low in 1914. Once she was trampled b)y the horse of a mounted mine guard and had to be ca'rried off to the hospi tal. As soon as her bruises permitted she was back on the picket line. Shortly after her return they arrested her with the other leaders and jailed her. While in prison, Milka Sablich wrote a short article for the World explain ing her views. It is snappy, defiant and much to the point. "I went into the strike," she explained, "because I was horn its a coal camp and ibave spen: niearly all of the nineteen years of my life in one and know from bitter expe rience its hardships, dangers a::xd priva tions. In common with wives, mothers and daughters of coal miners I share their flrosperity or adversity. Every great movement in Anglo-Saxon his tory whereby the masses have achieved bet:ermer:..-of conditions, political, social or economic, has partaken of the nature1 of so-called strikes. The Magna Charta and the Bial of Rights were wrested IOCKEY TEAM PIONS Pierson, Gayle, Richardson, John Lockman. Illness Among Co-eds This has been a week of ,serious inL. frmaties among the co-eds. Miss Stock ton Clark is in Columbia hospital recov ering from an operation for appendici ties; Miss Lillie Garner has gone to her home at Union suffering from a broken wrist which she sustained while playing hockey; Miss Vera Buie has been dis missed from the infirmary and has re turned to her home in Patrick because of illness. -Usc The reason why this sort of heroism passes almost unnoticed is too obvious for elaboration. We conient ourselves with observing that her present heroism may be partly explained by her Spartan life in a coal camp. Besides, Milka, if we read her article aright, is now get ting- her higher education. This is her Barnard College, shall we say, although mat-jy "must sieep on a cement floor or iron slats without blankets or bedding;" this is her contemporary civilization course. Since the teachers are nothing if not stimulating and the fees are nomi nal why should she worry if her educa tional venture brings her no extended publicity? -usc CLO an~d est ESTABLISHED EN STYLES, TAILORCI CHARTS SOLELY P SERVICE IN THE 4 DV SPECIAL A OUR STWa of Co The character of overcoats tailoredI will e*Arn your mot HOPE - DAVIS Shakespearian Vogue Started by Canines Only Vines and Musical In.tru ment Lwcking to Make Effort a Success The human monopoly of the Romeo Juliet act has been broken. The shade of Shakespeare must be disturbed be cause his balcony scene has gone to the dogs. It's true. Canine romance has been enacted on the Carolina campus. Wolf is a large German police dog. She is the Juliet of our story. She his large, interrogative eyes, pointed, flex ible cars and the most exquisite and feminine way of waging her tail. It is 'an injustice to call her Juliet, because she is really a Cleopatra. All the Don Juans and Beau Brummels of the canm pus dogs cannot resist her lure. But on this particdlar afternoon Wolf elccI1 to play the role of Juliet. Her blilc ny was her master's window on the secotto' floor of qjarper college.. Not ve y com. fortable, but then Wolf isn't very'f.s tidious. Unable to gambol on. tie f;rcen with her gentlemen friends, being a practical as well as romantic lady, she decided to emulate the fair heroine of the great dramatist. Coyly she arranged herself on the window sill. Dreamily- did she cast amorous eyes over the campus. Nor did she have long to wait for her Ro meo. They .never do. He appeared in the form of a small, white mongrel )i doubtful antecedents. Vivacious and active, he made love to his Juliet in .a more ardent manner than the original Romeo. But he had two handicaps. First, he lacker a guitar. Second, he had no vine to climb up to his lady love. And it troubled him. Distractedly. he jumped about in futile efforts to reach the fair Wolf. Doggedly he stuck to his love-making task until driven away by unsympathetic fresh Men. It's a dog's life. But they live it. -USC "Is that your flaming jane in the red dress ?" "Yes, why ?" "Well, she's out on the porch having fire drill with some other guy." --- usc PHES to Order MLISH UNIVERSITY ) OVER YOUTHFUL DR DISTINGUISHED UNITED STATES. PPEIITMENT rE IS THE lumbia the suits and by Charter House it sincere liking. d OMPANY - TWO PANTS SUITS. $40.00 Buy another one before you go home Xmas $30.00 .. $35.00 -. $40.00 Coggins & Johnson 1300 MAIN STREET - BOYD B. JOHNSON, Manager .00. On, Wisconsin! Jack McGrath gives a vivid picture of WI... consin In the January College Humor. All about Its sa:udents, fraternities, problems, its great and near-great. Other special features include Back to Mother by Wallace Irwin, a complete novelette of two young people which shows all the tenderness and dismay of the first year of marriage. Peter B. Kyne's first story for this magazine appears.. Grantland Rice writes on All-A mer ican. qf All Time, and there are many others. [r,000 art contest closes Jan. 15, 1928. Important announee-~ Lment in College Humor following hassu. Send drawing. nowIJ