Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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9 CAMPUS Campus Shiek Beats = Unusual Train Ride Beardless Youth Makes Clean Getaway on Southern Bound Flyer By SYDNEY HEYMAN It is neither strange nor unusual to see a member of the University student body take to the highway and hedges with an empty suit case in his hand and a "Rat" cap on his head, preparatory to hailing the first automobile that happens to come upon the distressed to'urist. But it is equally strange and unusual for a warrior of the University tribe to have that particular element in his make-up called nerve, to beat a free ride with the best known conveyor of travelers in the South, none other than Mr. R. R. Southern. Now Mr. Southern was coming to Columbia last Monday night when a jocose gentleman from Spartanburg climbed aboard one of Mr. Southern's new and shining coaches without first meeting the only requirement that Mr. Southern asks, i. e., that one purchases a ticket before accepting his ride. This aforesaid wondering minsterel, hair sleeked back and fresh from a Con verse conquest with his ball and chain, was in no humor to be trifled with, es peciaily with so small and unimportant a matter of buying a two dollar paste board. However it always seems that some one has to break in to the peace and quiet of things. This time it was none other than ye olden time Conductor. "Tickets please," barked the blue coated keeper of the peace. Our hero, for it was none other than he, came to the conclusion that he had better seek and hie himself away to parts unknown. Time passed as it has a habit of doing, and still our gallant highwayman went unnotice. - Just before the train pulled in to Columbia, the prodigal son returned to pour in to the anxious ears of the other members of the same tribe how he had accomplished his seemingly impossible feat. "Well, I'll tell you," he began, "it sure was a clean getaway. Never thought I could pull it and still get away with it. "Any thing is easy if you know how. All I had to do was to go back to the Pullman and stay with a friend." Suddenly a heavily bewiskered villian (they are always needed in a dimne noVCl) across the aisle stepped over and gently tapped the hero on the arm, near ly knocking him out of the seat. "Listen Son," he said. "the next time you puil anything like this, don't talk so d-! loud. I heard everything you saidl and if I did my dluty I would have youiim turned up and given ninety days." Ou eostirred uneasily, the sweet NO] Tayloring AT T HI FRIDAY - SATU) February 101 Showing the very lat< in Clothes for Youn ceivable idea will be strate< Don't fail Coggins 8 1300 A FEATURE "Lights Out!" Cry Hegrd on Campus Darkness Reigns When Fuses are Blown Out-Judge Merely Sraile. By BARON BRIDGES Without warning, the lights of some of the men's dormitories go out. In stantly a series of howls and yells from the inmates of said dormitories is heard all over the campus. Especially noisy are those yells from the Harper, Eiliott and Pinckney,LeGare quadrangle. "Lights! Lights! We want lights I" is the voci ferous chorus. All the tones of anger are emitted in the yelling of that word "Lights-", from a tenor-speaking call of atnoyance to the vehement shout of rage. "Lights Lightsl" Hear that mo' yell, getting excellent training for the next football season, and proving that cheering has a utilitarian value after ail. "Try and get them" the campus "judge" answers to pleas of study, ex ams, shaving, etc. Usually the loudest yellers are those with whom study is the last alternative. What an excellent alibi if the professor calls on you to morrow. The lights are a long time in com ing back on, as usually those who rush down to put a penny in the fuses first succeed in putting the lights out in other tenements. Fresh cries then arise from those who, but a moment before, had been laughing at their tenement mates. This second outbreak always exceeds the first in volume, acrimony, and profani ty. Various kinds of "music" are heard during the fixing process. Hank's stentorian "Al-le-la-lay-oh." yodels out repeatedly. What a train announcer that boy wonid make! Mouth organ strains mingle with the rhythm of clog ging feet. Horn noises add to the din. Now and then the crashing of chairs is heard. A fter an interminable wait, the lights conic back on as suddenly as they went off, and the bull sessions are resumed. flush of youth left his beardless face and in its place came a sickly pallor as he had a momentary dream of jaiis, penetentaries and chain-gangs. ''lhe villian left, never to return again i ut taking with him all of the glamor ;1l glory (if an unrecorded escapadc equal in the eyes of its perpetrator only to the wildest dreams and imaginings o Jules Verne or Horatio Alger. USC (irls se(l to wear their stockings out : the knees; now they wear their knee out of the stockings. Horrid! It was once thought to be a mark of chivarly for a gentleman to allow a iady to hoard a street car first-now it ap pears to be a mark of suriosity. USC ICE Opening at ? STORE RDAY and MON. h--11th--13th. ~st Styles and Models g Men. Every con shown and demon I. to come ! : Johnson lAIN STORIES | Bumming Lad Gets . Five Dollars-Gold That mioney does not have to be earned by weary labor is proven by the foliowing incidence: A Carolina lad was "bumming" his ,way homc after examinations. Hc luck e#l a ride with an app;irently well-to-do gentleman, driving a nice looking auto mobile. A fter a long pleasant ride they reached the spot that was dear to the buimer's childhood. Upon the youth's telling the traveler that they were in his home town the traveling man said to him: "I am sorry that you are leaving m.i 'lake this five-dollar gold piece as a tok en of rememberance, and don't forget that I slasl have a job waiting for you this summer." USC Freshman Crows Li;e Gamecock at Game BY BARROx BRIDGES Perched on the iron railing in front of the gym floor, Freshman Roger Pinckney of Beaufort, crowed like a rooster at the basketball games before exams as one of the stunts of the cheer ing squad to spur the team on to greater efforts. His effective imitation of the Gamecork call won a salvo of applause from the Carolina rooters. A Marvel From this 2%-acre Sam's battle planes into action--sure c place on their retul thousand miles from This marvel of nati was accomplished-a: -when the airplanec Saratoga, and her sist< Lexington, were electrified. In each, four General tur bine generators GENEB GENE RaAL ULEC.T= R ICs a.r M. & M. RECREATION PARLOR Billiards EIGHTEEN CAROM AND POCKET TABLES 1216 Main Street Columbia, S. C. "As Copeland Goes, So Goes the Fashion- Learn the Way" MANIATTAN SilIRTS--S'lETSON TATS-BRADLEY SWEATERS--MUNSING UNDERWEAR F,verything Seasonable and Stylish for Men Who Care COPELAND COMPANY 1535 Main Street Columbia, S. C. Home of Kuppenheimer Good Clothes Phone 6061 Service Is Our Motto: Give Us a Trial CHARLIE & MONROE McGHEE LINDSAY TONSORIAL KINGS WELCOME CAROLINA STUDENTS Where You Meet Your Friends-Opposite Jerome Hotel 1128 Lady Street Next to Woman's Exchange U.S.S. Saratoga of National Defense deck, Uncle combined, 180,000 horsepower to can now leap the propellers--enough to drive the 'f a landing ship at 33 knots (39 miles an hour) -n, though a -enough to furnish light and power shore. for a city of half a million onal defense people.* aid duplicated The design and construction of the arrier, U.S.S. electric equipment for the U. S. S. er ship, U.S.S. Saratoga and the U.S.S. Lexington, completely to which college-trained men con tributed in great measure, O exemplify the part General Electric Electric plays in promoting deliver, the welfare of the nation. 6-24DH ELECTRIC COMP NY SCH ENERC T ADnY. EW YORK an