Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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0% (Hamwntk 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 mail matter at the Columbia, South Carolina PostofTice on November 20, 1908. JJews 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 ASHLEY HAI-SEY Editor-in-Chief LEROY M. WANT Managing Editor ASSOCIATES J. A. CATHCART Associate Editor W. FRANK TAYLOR Associate Editor WILSON O. WELDON Associato Editor W. O. JEFFORDS Associate Editor N. W. BROOKER Associate Editor FOY STEVENSON Associate Editor DOROTHY PENLAND Associate Editor J. MITCHELL MORSE Assistant Managing Editor W. I. LATHAM . ... Assistant Mannging Editor EDITORIAL STAFF LEWIS H. WALLACE News Editor MELVIN KARESH ....... Sports Editor WILLIAM QEDDINQS Alumni Editor JACK FOSTER Fraternity Editor JOHN WHITE Y. M. C. A. Editor MASON C. BRUNSON Exchange Editor J. ROY PRINCE Joke Editor CO-ED DARICE JACKSON Editor CLEI.IA K. BLACK ........ News Editor LOIS FISCHER ......... Society Editor FRANCES BLACK Feature Editor ASSISTANTS W. B. King, Lester Hamilton, John A. Giles, Ethel Galloway, Sarah Agnes Jackson, Vera Jones, Frost Walker and John McKniglit BUSINESS C. L. SCOTT Business Manager J. J. MACK Assistant Manager W. C. HERBERT Assistant Munager CIRCULATION CARL BROWN Circulation Manager R. II. BISHOP Assistant Manager J. ROY PRINCE Assistant Manager TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1930 CROWING FOR? Football Stadium?30,000 Capacity. Press Bureau?Absolutely Needed. Student Activity Building. Paved Sidewalks. U. 8.0. Are You A Voter? Hundreds of students at the University of South Carolina have passed the age of twenty-one and are legally entitled to vote. They would he called upon to hear arms in time of war. In these times of peace they enjoy many privileges, among them the fact that the State or nation is in many instances contributing toward the expense of their education. Governments are levying taxes to make them better and saner thinkers. Yet they do not use this faculty of thought in an intelligent and patriotic manner by going to the polls. A century ago, when America was a nation in the truest sense of sentiment, the man who did not vote was regarded as having something radically wrong with him. It was a disgrace to lose one's franchise. Today the sentiment is different, and scarcely fifty per cent of America's voters cast their ballots. But this is no exculpation of the University student. He should realize the need of sane voters, and fulfill his first obligation to State and country by voting. Nor is the matter confined to students old enough to vote in State elections. There are those above and under the age of twenty-one who never think of voting to decide a campus question. They sit back and criticise the outcome, as do so many of their non-voting parents, but never once do they realize that it is their privilege and duty to vote. With about 500 other students on this campus, they protest that "my one vote is not enough to change the result of the election!" They have never come to appreciate the simplest operations of addition. In the first ranks of the progressives in Spain, France and other European nations are the students of the universities. They are imbued with an irresistible spirit, not only of nationalism, but of fraternal internationalism, the influence that kills wars. They are distinct assets to the states and countries, a little rash at times, but an unfailing impetus to advancement. Why cannot students at the University of South Carolina manifest this same interest in the welfare of South Carolina and the United States? U.S. o. Hogging The Line "Sorry. All the outside trunks are busy!" Clickl And you are not able to phone that important party out in town however urgent the call may be. You wait two, ten, twenty minutes; tear your hair, tie knots in the phone cord, curse, take the receiver apart, swear, put the receiver back together, and wait ten minutes more. Finally you get your outside connection and find that the important party has gone out for the evening. Don't feel that you are a lonesome martyr, for at least one hundred others suffer the same way daily. The phone fiend is the cause of it all. There are two kinds of phone fiends. One is the jackass who leans against the wall or sits comfortably in a chair and murmurs, "You do? You don't? What makes you think I like her?" This may continue for an indefinite length of time, usually until phone fiend, Class X, is put to bed with sore throat and an amen. Another, Class Z, is the persistent kind of jackass. He never speaks any length of time, but usually manages to get to the phone two steps ahead of you and have someone phone him right back. This involves two more phone calls, and a long distance to his family in Hog Hollow. There are only six outside trunk lines to handle all the conversations which take place daily between University students on and off the campus. The man who hogs the line may cause serious complications, as in the case of a prominent student who was injured. No one could call a doctor or ambulance for fifteen minutes, since the lines were busy. One telephone conversation on record lasted one hour and a half, perhaps while that student lay bleeding in his room. Until more trunk lines are installed, there is only one cure for the telephone disease. First, after five minutes, tap the phone fiend lightly on the shoulder and tell him to hurry up. Then, within two minutes or less, shake him rudely and shout in his unoccupied ear, "Wanna use phone." Then, if he does not respond, step back a convenient distance and kick him on the spot where his trousers begin to differ from a skirt in construction. U.8.C. Progress With the passage of The Carolinian constitution at an unbelievably peaceful meeting of the four literary societies, both the magazine and the newspaper are now lodged safely under guidance of the Student Board of Publications. Due to the labors of Harry DePass, the two publications are governed by constitutions which provide for every emergency, and obviate their misconduct or misuse. Progress in its finest form is represented by the recent action. The world has grown too complicated for haphazard management and chance direction, even in such matters as student publications. Organization is necessary in that field as in every other, and the form of organization lately agreed upon appears to be of the best. College publications are growing apace both in size and in the importance of their part in the life of their institutions. There is only one further step necessary before all literary organs at the University of South Carolina arc placed in coordination and adequately supervised. The Garnet and Black should be given a constitution under which to operate. It is impossible to bring it under the Student Board of Publications immediately, since the Board is composed of representatives of the literary societies, not the student body at large. The Garnet and Black belongs to the entire student body. Meanwhile, in the words of R. H. Atkinson, "The constitution is passed, thank God!" IT. B.C. A Real Alumnus Continuing his crusade for a better University of South Carolina, Fitz-Hugh McMastcr, editor of the Columbia Record, pleads that no policy of educational retrenchment, such as has reduced the ranks of the denominational colleges, be allowed to touch the University. As Mr. McMaster points out, the University fulfills all requirements of the Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, where so many smaller colleges in the State do not; it prepares its graduates for the most exacting large universities; and it offers a greater variety of courses. Mr. McMastcr has even worked out a solution for the co-educational problem. He would have only junior and senior co-eds admitted to the University, while others girls would attend a State-owned junior college for two years. This solution is appealing, as Mr. McMaster's arguments are convincing. If carried out by a benevolent State government, the plan would be of direct benefit to the University, and assist the State almost as directly. U.S. o. Open Forum 'l'o The Kditor The Oamecoc-k: Sometime ago The State newspaper Raw fit to reply to an article written by a nephew of the Governor in which they said "When A Sewer Hreaks And The Nephew Of The Governor Gives A Star Exhibition." I have no quarrel with the nephew of the chief executive of the state of South Carolina but I believe this statement to be very applicable to a man on this campus. I have reference to the ilev. John M. Younginer, the author of an open forum letter in The Gamecock of February 25. Mr. Younginer, a follower of the meek and lowly Jesus, has put aside the doctrine of love and Christian charity that he is supposed to teach his flock and has gone out to reap personal vengeance on certain members of the student body for 110 other reason than that of hate and jealousy. Custom dictates that the wirner either of the Keitt or Gonzales medals be modest enough not to compete for the other. Mr. Younginer displayed almost a dozen medals for oratory on his breast at one time lasi year. i^?t him now be modest. Now to the question of Mr. Younginer's eligibility to compete in the South Carolina Intercollegiate Oratorical Association's contest. Several members of the student body asked the writer, who is the University's representative in the S. C. I. O. A., whether or not the gentleman in question would he allowed to compete in this contest this year, objecting on the grounds that Mr. Younginer is a five year man at the University. There was 110 rule in the constitution of the Association that forbid this man going out for the contest but certain members of the student body insisted that Mr. Younginer should not be allowed to compete for this honor again, due to the fact that he was a five year man and that he had already had one chance to win this contest and had lost. The writer did not feel that he had the right to settle the matter but placed it before the executive meeting of the S. C. I. O. A. on February 15 at the Jefferson Hotel. The matter was duly placed before the Association by the writer and as a result a motion was made by the president of the Association that all persons competing for this contest be four year men. The motion was carried unanimously because the Association felt that this would be a great improvement in the way the contest was held and would benefit the S. C. I. O. A. in general. The writer hail no personal reasons for having this motion passed except that he believed that the motion was for the best. I do not mind anyone competing in a contest with me, if I decide to go out for the contest, therefore Mr. Younginer did not know what he was talking about when he accused the writer of having this motion passed for personal reasons. The facts in the case have been given as they really are and now it seems to me that Mr. Younginer has become the sewer par excellent and the odor of his hate and jealousy will far exceed that of the rotten onions that he spoke of in his article. I/Ct the shepherd turn again unto his flocks and teach them that God Is Love and not make a public examnle of himself by completely reversing the doctrines of the Great Master. Robert II. Atkinson. "HONESTLY, IT'S THE BEST POLICY" WINCHESTER GRAHAM, Gen. Agt. Atlantic Life Insurance Co. 702-703 Palmetto Bldg. L ! STUDENTS' MESSAGE TO YOU "Come on and fall In line with us folks. You'll find It oven better than represented. Wo know that atudents from Bowen-Connatser are given preference. You'll like It. Come on." Slgnod: Student* at BOWEN-CONNATSER BUSINESS UNIVERSITY COLUMBIA, S. C. Our students are boosters because they are satisfied. College Clothes Need Careful and Constant Attention. Let Us Keep You Well Dressed LEAVE THEM AT CANTEEN OR GAMECOCK PRESSING CLUB Carolina Dry Cleaning Co. || CENTRAL DRUG CO. I 1204 Main Street OPEN ALL NIGHT SNOOKER, CAROM AND POCKET TABLES M. & M. Recreation Parlor 1216 MAIN STREET COLUMBIA. S. C. BURNETT'S DRUG STORE CAROLINA SEALS, JEWELRY, STATIONERY DRUGS, DRINKS, CIGARS Pi Kappa Phi, Sigma Nu, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Kappa Alpha, Alpha Tau Omega, Phi Epsilon Pi?$1.00 per box?Envelopes and Paper One Block From Campus Phone 3191 Cor. Main and College One Day Service Billy Bull's Thro The Canteen A Meal A Minute Columbia 1211 Gervais Street Laundry SANDWICHES & WAFFLES SHORT ORDERS 1323 Taylor St. Phone 4954 Ham and Egg Sandwich?15c Established Over 45 Years P. H. Lachicotte & Co. Diamonds, Jewelry, Silverware, Expert Repairs 1424 Main Street Columbia, S. C. "LET ED DO IT" George Davis?Rep. Gillie Watson?Rep. Tenement 7?Room 1 SUITS CLEANED One Day Service in Cleaning ED. ROBINSON PIIONE 8187-8188 1017 GERVAIS ST. 1248 Main Street 1427 Main Street GAYDEN BROTHERS Cigar Stores CIGARS, CIGARETTES, PIPES AND PERIODICALS I