Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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uttjp damwnrk Member of South Carolina College I'rees Association Published on Tuesday of Every Week by the Literary Societies of the University of South Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATE?$1.60 A YEAR. Entered as second class mail matter at the Columbia, South Carolina Postoffice on November 20, 1908. Uewe article* may be contributed by any member of the student body, but must be in by Friday night before Tuesday'# 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 ASIII.EY HALSEY Editor-in-Chief LEROY M. WANT ... .... Managing Editor ASSOCIATES W. (5. JEFFORDS Associate Editor W. FRANK TAYLOR Associate Editor N. W. BROOKER Associate Editor WILSON O. WELDON Associate Editor FOY STEVENSON Associate Editor DOROTHY PENLAND Associate Editor J. MITCHELL MORSE Assistant Managing Editor W. I. LATHAM . ... Assistant Managing Editor EDITORIAL STAFF LEWIS II. WALLACE News Editor MELVIN KARESH Sports Editor JOHN WHITE ... Y. M. O. A. Editor JACK FOSTER . . Fraternity Editor MASON C. BRUNSON Exchange Editor J. ROY PRINCE Joke Editor CO-ED DARICE JACKSON Editor CLELIA K. BLACK News Editor LOIS FISCHER Society Editor FRANCES BLACK Feature Editor ASSISTANTS W. B. King, Lester Hamilton, John A. Giles, Ethel Oalloway. Sarah Agnes Jackson, Vera Jones, Catherine Remley and John McKnight J. C. Dul're, Ray Antley and Julius Oordin BUSINESS C. L. SCOTT Business Manager W. C. HERBERT Assistant Manager CIRCULATION CARL BROWN Circulation Manager R. H. BISHOP Assistant Manager J. ROY PRINCE Assistant Manager TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1930 CROWING FOR? Football Stadium?30,000 Capacity. Press Bureau?Absolutely Needed. Student Activity Building. Paved Sidewalks. U.S. o. Gravel laid down on campus paths since last barefoot day crunched and scratched beneath bare, aching feet. Toes which had not seen daylight for five years got sunburned. Yet the freshman class came through, smiling to the last man on freshman barefoot day. If every freshman class in the future has this spirit, Carolina will become the best University on earth. U.H.O. Is Your Room Clean? "I hope your room isn't as dirty as this every day in the week," said a mother who happened to stray into her son's campus home Sunday. She could not believe that her boy would stay in a place as dusty and grimy as tHe dormitory room. An investigation showed windows through which only the faintest glimmer of sunshine proved that it was day instead of night; they are washed twice a year at most. Cobwebs made the ceilings and corners look like recesses of a witches' den rather than the home of a University student in l'JUO. There was filth and dirt under every bed. This was in the room the mother inspected, but the description fits all but a few rooms. Chances are 100 to 1 that a casual visitor would find all this in your room, and perhaps empty liquor bottles and jars also. Classrooms arc as dusty as dormitories, and the person who sits carelessly in some seats invariably rises branded on skirt or trousers by a dingy area. Classroom windows are so dirty that the blue sky looks gray and rainy on clear days if seen through them. With the spring season of white duck and flannel trousers, linen suits, and light, flufTy dresses approaching, the cleaner's bills will race to a peak of dollars on account of campus grime. Specks unnoticed on winter clothing make the spring dresser look like a striped zebra or a hog just from the mud bath. Some of the blame may be laid at the door of the campus authorities, the "slave driver" and his "slaves." The negroes who clean rooms arc often untaught in tricks of house cleaning. They have to serve as assistant gardeners and handy men as well as house maids, and they are not well supervised. One boy in DeSaussurc dropped a necktie under his bed last September and did not find it until April. He happened to move his bed, and discovered the tie underneath a litter of trash. Surely the janitors might sweep under the beds! If each student cleans up his room as much as possible, does not throw papers and junk around it for the janitors to pick up, and tries to keep his room clean, the situation will improve. If the janitors stick to their jobs all day, are shown methodic ways of room cleaning, and learn that dirt left under beds soon scatters over the floor, rooms will be more fit to live in. If, instead of Freshman Barefoot day, or as part of it, the entire class is organized some sunny Saturday afternoon with soap and water to clean windows, dividing the campus into halves, and the class into teams with an ice cream dinner as the prize, the dormitory windows might get thoroughly clcaned. If?but it's up to you! Vote Sincerely. When the honor system meets its crucial test at the hands of the student body Wednesday, Carolina students have a wonderful opportunity to try their moral fibre. Can you vote sincerely for an honor system? There will be a strong minority, perhaps a small majority, of campus leaders and staunchly honest students who will vote for the honor system unhesitatingly. Their convictions are firm. They believe the honor system the heart and soul of this University. It will be easy to follow this group of earnest people. It will be easy to stand and vote for honor while hundreds stand with you. It will be easy to vote the right way in public. But will you be sincere in your action? To be a success, the honor system must have the whole-hearted support of practically every student enrolled at the University. There can be no bold ingenuous attitudes in the honor meeting, followed by sly cringing and renegation after the crisis is past. If you are not ready to decide on the honor question, make up your mind now. Do what you think best. Vote seriously, for you are personally involved, personally responsible. It would be publicly disgraceful if the 125 year old honor system were abandoned. That disgrace might die with time. But it would be a living shame if the students of the University declared themselves for an honor system and did not abide by it. U.H.O. Cheaper Textbooks. * Once a private and strictly business concern, the Campus Book store is now in the hands of the University. Students continue to operate it, but under supervision of University authorities. Hooks sold second hand to the private firm brought exactly one-third their original cost, but resold for twothirds of it. Abscntminded students who bartered away the wrong book invariably found this out when they tried to buy it back again. Profits must have been tidy, but the store was a private enterprise entitled to fix its own rates. Now under University management, a great "pricecutting war" should be declared. With only a small staff to pay, books ought to retail only a little above wholesale prices. Expenditures for textbooks, once prohibitively high, arc due to take a decided tumble unless the handwriting 011 the bookstore wall reads "Cost plus usury." This is hardly the purpose of the University in assuming charge of the book store. Another practice with which private book dealers could not contend, the accursed custom of stealing books and reselling them, may be halted under University management. It is simpler for a University employee to question dubious offers than for a clerk to do so. Repression of this ancient college vice should be an aim of the new management. A system to insure every student's possessing a book at low prices might be instituted by charging a fixed "book fee" for five or six dollars each term. This would be charged only regular students enrolled for a minimum of five courses, and therefore requiring several books. It would mean the scholastic independence of each student. By collecting the fee as a requirement of registration, every student in every class would get an individual book soon after the term began. Personal expenses would be lessened by mass purchasing, and the means of education made more available. U.H.O. Some Class! Probably the most thick-skinned sophomores in the wide collegiate world are those at North Carolina State College for Women, Tarheel institution comparable to Winthrop for the number and variety of its girl students. They wear leather coats in .v'dition to that oppressive hauteur which caused one C. '*olina professor to refer to members of the class as "dr ned sophomores I" Classes at the University of "'li Carolina need some emblem or other indication of their fellowship. The derby hat and walking stick once sacred to senior dignity at Carolina are obselete. Derbies are now used principally for muting saxaphones instead of covering heads, canes arc superfluous and encumbering when so many students ride in cars, and co-education conclusively makes it impossible for the entire class to wear derbies as headgear. Class belts might be adapted to suit the situation. U.H.O. Since spring is a drowsy visitor, and Prof. E. C. Coker's crop of bamboos is growing tall and limber around the campus, we suggest that the canteen get in a stock of fishing lines and hooks. U.H.O. Is It Right? Spring is here, and the hunt is 011. A Carolina student clad in white ducks trudges all over the campus in quest of a tennis court, but his search is in vain. Why should this be? Outsiders by the dozens flock to the University campus because of the excellent courts, and as a result the University student is disappointed. There is 110 objection to outsiders' playing 011 the, courts when University students arc not using them, but why should children make our campus their playground, why should the general public make it their country club, and why should the Columbia high school tennis team use our choice courts, when University students are deprived the privilege of playing? It seems as though the University is kinder to Columbians than to students enrolled here. Are we running a municipal playground for the city? "We Double the Wear of Every Pair" COLUMBIA SHOE HOSPITAL SHOE RE-BUILDING AND RE-GLAZING SPECIAL RATES TO STUDENTS Phone 8500 1239 Gervais St. | MOTOR COACH SERVICE II BrOsTl Columbia to Greenville * Lv. Columbia: 7:00 a. m., JEWELERS and DIAMOND 9:30 a. m., 11:30 a. m., 2 p. m.f MERCHANTS 4:00 p. m., 6:00 p. m. Lv. Greenville: Same Time "ost complete stock of .terling __ . silver prize cups in the Carolinas. H qvPC HllC I iffePfi Class rings and pins of the better kind- made up to suit y?ur own INCORPORATED ideas. Come in and let's get Special Trips Call 4945 acquainted. 1800 Main 8t. Terminal Phone 878* 1500 Main St. Columbia, S. C. - ' -Jl H -jj SUNSHINE CLEANERS, Inc. Under Management of Former Carolina Student SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Aubrey Gooding, Mgr. 1209 Pendleton Street SARGEANT PHOTO CO. PHOTOGRAPHS THAT SATISFY Phone 0007 1528 Main St. Columbia, S. C. good ?>fau printing When You Want It, As You Want It. PROGRAMS, MENUS, BOOKLETS, NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES, ANNUALS THE STATE CO., Printers Columbia, S. C. WE PRINT THE GAMECOCK ~ ?1| ? -i have you chosen your i life work? 0 _ In the field of health p.ervice the Har- W M vard University Dental School?Uie old- * Br* mrmr est dental school connected with any university in the United States?offers I thorough well-balanced courses in all j ~Vi*" branches of dentistry. All mo<]ern equip- | ^ ment for practical work under super- * VlV^ vision of men high in the profession. ' w ,TOfLTvif Write for detail* and admlielon roqulre- |s5jj ments to Leroy M. S. Miner, Dean HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRAfX DENTAL SCHOOL Dept. 71, Longwood Ave., Boston, Mast. ^ i j i typewriter frank?. um i exchange I 1203 Lady St. Columbia, S. C. Best Hand Laundry B (One Block from Campus) I 821 Main St. Columbia S. C. I typewriters 1905 SILVER ANNIVERSARY 1930 Unusual Opportunities for Men Who Wish to Enter the Life Insurance Field Old Line Life Insurance with Low Cost Guaranteed?Not Estimated SOUTHEASTERN LIFE INS. CO. Organized 1905 C. O. Milford, President Southeastern Bldg., Greenville, S. C. Capital, Surplus and Reserve for protection of Policyholders over THREE MILLION NINE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS. L- .... // MOFFATT B. DuI'RE ALBERT O. FISIIEK MOFFATT B. DuPRE CO. 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