Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?lye (j&antwnrk Member of South Carolina College Press Association Published on Tuesday of Every Week by the Literary Societies of the University of South Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATE?$1.50 A YEAR. Entered as second class nail matter at the Columbia, South Carolina PostofTice on November 20, 1908. SewB articles may be contributed by any member of the student body, but must be in by Friday night before Tuesday's publication. Hand in copy typewritten and double-spaced. Names must be signed to copy. Articles will be published in the Open Forum as submitted, with the name of the author signed. STAFF ROBERT H. ATKINSON Editor-in-Chief WILSON O. WELDON Managing Editor ASSOCIATES ASHLEY IIALSEY Associate Editor W. FRANK TAYLOR Associate Editor JAMES A. CATHCART Associate Editor FOY STEVENSON Associate Editor MITCHELL MORSE Assistant Managing Editor LeROY WANT Assistant Managing Editor EDITORIAL STAFF N. W. BROOKER News Editor JULIAN KRAWCHEK Sports Editor MELV1N KARES11 Alumni Editor W. Q. JEFFORDS Fraternity Editor W. I. LATHAM Y. M. C. A. Editor JOHN WHITE Exchange Editor ROY PRINCE Joke Editot CO-ED DOROTHY PENLAND Editor DARICE JACKSON News Editor LOIS FISCHER Society Editor FRANCES BLACK Feature Editor ASSISTANTS Peggy Black, Lewis 11. Wallace, George Griffith, Frost Walker, Dixon Page, Bill Geddings, Annie Mae Pickens, Vera Jones, Jack Foster, Edgar Johnston, and J. W. Pitts BUSINESS C. L. SCOTT Business Manager J. J. MACK Assistant Manager W. C. HERBERT Assistant Manager CIRCULATION CARL F. BROWN Circulation Manager R. H. BISHOP Assistant Manager J. R. PRINCE Assistant Manager TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1930 CROWING FOR? Football Stadium?30,000 Capacity. Press Bureau?Absolutely Needed. , Student Activity Building. Paved Sidewalks. "Render Unto Caesar" Karlv in February, each student at the University will dig down in his pocket or her pocketbook and produce money enough to register for another term. It is an unpleasant process at best, but could be condoned with if seasoned by the thought that the University derives some benefit from the fees. This consolation is vain, for the fees go directly into the yawning doors of the state treasury. The legislature has upheld the return of such fees from the University of South Carolina to the general treasury, instead of being used to improve their source. Other states, including North Carolina and Georgia, manage to let their universities retain the funds collected from student registration. Their institutes arc correspondingly better than ours in buildings, equipment and general capacity for progressive education. It is a safe surmise that the majority of state universities, and certainly the progressive universities in the greater states, allow all funds gathered from the student body to be used in advancing the welfare of the university. Must South Carolina continue to prove itself backward in this respect? Were the money collected by the state of South Carolina on gasoline and cars licenses diverted to subsiding farmers or building a state-owned railroad system, a howl would reverberate from the Atlantic to the Allcghanics. Not a representative responsible for the conversion of highway funds to foreign projects would sit again in the capitol until the last echo had been Jong dead. Fees are far too low to really pay for a twentieth of the University's upkeep. It would be out of the question for the legislature to influence their raising to such an extent that the University could exist on these proceeds alone, for the student body would be eliminated by personal expenses. Registration fees should either be used for the direct benefit of the University, or should be abolished. Half-way measures, in finances as in everything else, constitute a notorious weakness of the state, and the present situation is a semi-payment for education which does the University no good, helps the state but little and handicaps the student. "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's," and give the 1,000 students of the University their registration fees. Expended on the University, these fees will furnish South Carolina with an institution of which to be proud. u.s.o. A Red Spotlight Newspapers of Columbia, Charleston and other South Carolina towns have done the University an injustice. They have featured in sensational headlines the disappearance of a "co-ed" from this University. The girl, blazoned to the world as a co-ed, severed her connection with the University October 10, official records show. She has not been a "co-ed" since that date. It makes a juicier story to label the girl "co-ed," however. Open Forum January 2nd, 1930. Editor of 'The Gamccock' University of S. C. Dear Sir: In the Dec. 17th issue of 'The Gamecock* appeared an editorial entitled 'Silent Sufferers.' I feel sure that you did not investigate the statements made to you in this matter or you would not have written such an unjust editorial. If your statements were true, both the infirmary and I would have been guilty of professional negligence. This is a serious offence for both of us. These are the facts which I am prepared to prove to you. Sometime in the night of Dec. 12th or 11th I was called on the phone and asked to come at once to sec a student in D"eSaussure college who was seriously ill. (The USUAL calls at this hour of the morning from a dormitory have been for DRUNKS and rather than make them matters of record on the infirmary books and so a matter for consideration by the faculty, I have been accustomed to have the student assistant see the cases first and, if necessary, I see them later), I questioned the informant over the phone and then asked him to call the infirmary and the student assistant would see the sick student and transfer him to the infirmary and I would then see him at once. I and my wife lay awake for some time waiting for the call but it never came. Next morning on my regular visit to the infirmary I found no one very ill or who had been admitted to the infirmary during the night. I did not ask Mrs. Madden about the matter. After leaving the infirmary, I thought about the matter and phoned back and asked that the student assistant be sent to investigate the call. He did so and no one knew anything about the desperately ill student of the night before. I concluded that it was a DRUNK. No call was made at the infirmary over the phone during the night. In other words my caller did not call the infirmary as directed to do by me. And there was a reason as you will see, directly. The next development was your editorial which is untrue and unfair. Investigation at the Baptist Hospital reveals the facts that a Mr. White, of Charlotte, N. C., a visitor on the campus and not a student of the University of S. C. was admitted to the hospital about 2 A. M. of the 12th of Dec. with a temperature of 101 y* (not 10.")) taken with a thermometer and a diagnosis of a 'cold' was made on him. He had been sick for three or four days. His temperature was subnormal next morning, went to a little over 99 during the afternoon and was normal the next day and lie was discharged from the hospital on the 14th and allowed to go to his home in Charlotte. I have tried to bring out the following facts; (1) The infirmary and I were not given an opportunity to look after the sick man, (2) The condition of the man was grossly exaggerated, (3) The sick man was not a student and we were in no way obligated to look after him, and (4) Your editorial is not founded on the facts in the case, is unfair to the infirmary and to me and is insulting to the medical profession as a whole. It seems to me that an apology in the editorial columns of your publication is due the University and the infirmary, as one of the departments of the University, and to the medical profession. A public organ should be certain to have the facts in a case before commenting on the case. Mr. K. W. Robertson recently had to pay $50,000 because his paper did not obtain the true facts. An apology in your columns and the publication of these facts (which can be proven if desired) will close up the matter as far as we arc concerned. This would be preferable to making it a matter for the faculty or the discipline committee or whatever body has supervision over such matters. It can't rest where it stands. Very truly yours, N. B. HEYWARD, M. D. Physician to Wallace Thompson Inf. of University of South Carolina EDITOR'S NOTE: Mr. White is an alumnus of the University. He had motored here from Charlotte, N. C., arriving about 9.30 o'clock the night he was taken ill. His official temperature as recorded at the Baptist hospital is 101.8, but the nurse who first took it told students accompanying the sick man that it was 105 degrees. Officials of the hospital stated Saturday that the man had influenza, but was not under the influence of liquor. The real reason why the students did not telephone the infirmary as instructed by Dr. Hey ward was that they felt Mr. White needed a physician's care at once, not the treatment of a student assistant from the infirmary. The Gamecock publishes Doctor Hey ward's letter as he demands. It apologizes for having considered authoritative the student and nurse who said Mr. White's temperature was 105 degrees. A careful search of its editorial does not reveal any other untruths for which apology is due, and it must point out that when Doctor Hey ward went back to bed the night of December 12, he did not know that Mr. White was not regularly enrolled as a student, nor did he learn this fact for days afterward. Doctor Hey ward's practice in responding to night calls from the campus was not known to The Gamecock at the time of its editorial in the latest issue, as there was no reason for it to be aware of the method used. Had it been informed of the practice, the original editorial would not have been so critical, as The Gamecock docs not wish to do Doctor Ileyward an injustice. 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