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" II I I"?" "II II" " I "l| I || ,i I Alu I . ' . , ######### * , N / ' Gamecock Begins Its 25th Year Campus Weekly Has Served University Well For TwentyFour Years ( _______ (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Tiic following year L. Wardlaw Smith, of Spartanburg, was elected to the editorship, and in his first issue of October 8, 1908, lie asked for the cooperation of the students "to make The Gamecock the foremost college weekly in the South." This was the only announcement that the paper would henceforth be published weekly instead of three tjmcs a month, as was the original purpose. With the first issue under the new editorship the size was decreased to three columns in width and the number of pages increased from four to eight. On October 16, The Gamecock carried a running story of the College of Charleston Carolina football game, which the Gamecocks won 17 to 0. This was the first running story of a football game the paper ever carried. On October 27 the first spccial Clemson game football issue was published. It carried a history of football at Carolina, and every year since that time a spccial Clemson issue has been published. A large amount of advertising was carried in the spccial edition and students were asked to patronize only those merchants who advertised in campus publications. After the Clemson issue The Gamecock again became a four column paper and the width has not been decreased to this day. It later became a five column paper and in 1930 it was ' increased to its present form of six columns. S. B. Rich, of Blackville, began his term of editorship with a plea to the students to subscribe and asking for the present Carolinian office which had been used as a club room, for the offices of The Gamecock. Bernard Mann was the new business manager. Dr. S. C. Mitchell, who was elected president of the University in 1909, was pictured in the issue of January of that year. A. D. Oliphant, was the next editor, and in his issue of March 4 he proved himself to be the first editor to advocate non-compulsory chapel attendance. C. T. Graydon, of Greenwood, was named editor in 1909, and H. G. Officer, business manager. Mr. Graydon was the first editor of The Gamecock to run a so-called editor's policy edi- 1 torial. The increase in advertising was quite noticeable with this period. 1). E. Finney, Jr., was the next editor, and in his first issue on February 17, 1910, The Gamecock carried its first cigarette advertisement, a type of advertising which was later to bring in much revenue. O i June 0, 1910, the first issue under the editorship of C. G. VVyche of Newberry was published. The new business manager was P. h. Wright, Trenton, but he did uot return to school and the following September R. F. Simpson was elected to the office. On February 11, 1911, H. G. Officer became editor and the issue following announced the election to the Board of Trustees of D. R. Coker. Officer was the first student to be business manager and then editor of The Gamecock. Kroadus Mitchell was the next editor of The (jatnecock and T. S. McMillian its new business manager. Due to financial difficulties the paper had only four pages at this time. J- P. Evans of Clio was elected business manager when McMillian dropped out of school. On October 2', lull, The Gamecock's first yellow sheet appeared. It was called the Yellow Journalism Issue" and was printed on yellow paper and in red ink. It contained a number of scandal stories. Editors from 1912 to 1917 were L. K. jjagood, Sam Latimer, Jr., Wade V. Hoffman, M. A. Wright, Ben M. Sawltr> E. Danncr, E. R. Jeter, M. B. oulcware, W. J. Scott, H. C. Brcarlcy, E. Gecr, L. B. Harrison, R. W. Wade, Robert R. Harley, J. R. Bates, J- M. Wells, and F. H. Barton. Busies'5 "Onagers during this period were { p- Evans, W. A. Schiffley, B. B. Williams, Jr., T. T. Carroll, L. B. re"iplcton, Jr., and J. H. Martin. Tl? *ssuc ?* October 2, 1917, e Carolinian appeared as part of The amccock and continued thus until Ifl'.i;'' > ; v imni Ni Wilton E. Lee, Carolina a : < Wilton Earlc Lee, prominent Anderson business man, died from a stroke of paralysis last Friday night at his home in North Anderson. He was 68 years old and had been suffering from ill-health for the past four years. He was an alumnus of the University. Mr. Lee, a civil engineer, had been associated with his father, the late Thomas B. Lee, for a long period of years. He was later connected with the Piedmont and Northern Railroad and for the few years before his health failed he had engaged in farming. He was prominently connected throughout the upper part of the State. Mr. Lee was twice married, first to Miss. Matilda Watson, daughter of David M. Watson and Martha (Burriss) Watson, and two children were born to this union, W. Harold Lee, who was killed during the World War, and Mrs. Wade Thompson, who resides here. In the year 1911 he was married to Miss Pearl Kay, and she and one son, James Thornwell Lee, survive, in addition to two sisters dtid two brothers, Mrs. T. D. Earle of Landrum; Mrs. Kate Lee Dabiel of Greenville; T. B. Lee of Augusta, Ga., and Prof. Rudolph E. Lee of Clcmson College. Mrs. Thomas B. Lee, his stepmother, of Charlotte, N. C., also survives. Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at the home here and interment followed in Silver Brook cemetery. u.?. o. November 4, 15)17. E. P. Hodges was editor. In the November 7, 1914 number, J. B. Duffie of Sumter was made the first managing editor of The Gamecock. He was to have charge of "the news gathering and the mechanical make-up." L. B. Harrison, H. L. Johnson, M. W. Price, Roy C. McGee, J. C. Kearse, and G. A. Buchanan were in turn managing editors, Mr. Buchanan holding the position for almost two years. Then for a time the position of managing editor was discontinued until Isadore Polier was elected in 1925. Managing editors from that date to the present time: W. Lee Crocker, J. V. Nielson, Jr., Whitney Tharin, Wm. A. Brunson, Bruce White, Sydney Heyman, Harry E. DePass, Wilson O. Weldon, LeRoy Ms Want, Mitchell Morse, William I. Latham, John A. Giles, and Allen Rollins. Business managers from 1917 to the present date: J. C. Kearse, H. J. Blackinon, R. C. Thompson, Joseph R. Bryson, E. P. Gaines, J. C. Cave, J. S. Nunamaker, Frank T. Meeks, F. R. Gressette, C. W. Scott, J. R. Pate, lasper Derrick, Joseph Hiott, C. L. Scott, W. C. Herbert, and J. S. Taylor. Editors from 1917 to 1920 were Cyrus L. Shealey, H. L. Johnson, J. H. Martin, J. J. Stevenson, J. T. Wates, R. C. Thompson, and H. R. Smith, Alumnus Disc* Dye Manufa Guy H. White, Jr., son of Guy H. White, Sr., of Columbia and a Carolina alumnus, has recently discovered a method of dye manufacture by the use of electricity, according to an article published recently in the Pittsburg Post-Gazette. Mr. White received his B. S. degree from the University in 1929 and his M. S. the same year at the end of the Summer school. Since then he has been studying at the University of Pittsburg. He is well known in Columbia and many people on the campus remember him with great regard. The process cnvolves the use of electrolysis rather than the use of costly oxidizing agents such as are used now. It is still in the laboratory stage but is reported to have great commercial possibilities. The article in the Post-Gazette is as follows: Man's faithful servant, electricity, has been put to a new and practical use. It can now be made to take the place of chemicals long thought necessary in the manufacturing of dyes. Brilliant blue and green dyes, as strong in color and as lasting as those created under the old chemical method have been turned out by Guy H. White, graduate assistant in the chemistry department of the University of Pittsburgh, who perfected this electrie process. / 9 1 ? >. v . c. '-.-il - '? >w/. __ iiifi w A J 2WS Prominent Alumnus. Dies * * Scouts Honor Local Alumnus James H. Fowlcs of Columbia was presented with the Boy Scout Silver Beaver award for "distinguished service to boyhood" at the scout regional conference held at the Jefferson hotel Monday and Tuesday. Mr. Fowles, alumnus of the University, class of '04, has been very active in scout affairs in Columbia for a number of years. He was at one time chairman of the local court of honor. The award was made by the National Council upon recommendation of the central South Carolina Council. Presentation was made by Arthur A. Schuck, of New York, director of operations of the Boy Scout organization. This is one of the highest honors that the Scouts can confer upon an adult and has been awarded to such men as Col. Charles A. Lindbcrg and Daniel Carter Beard. u. 8. o. With the issue of September 30, 1920, W. L. Rcfo became editor and the size was increased from four columns to five columns. Editors from that date to the present: A Leslie Wells, E. T. Thompson, E. H. Folk, E. T. Sparkman, Win. T. Beaslcy, McBride Dabbs, Calhoun Thomas, C. B. Williams, S. W. Eichel, Isadore Polier, W. L. T. Crocker, W. J. Thomas, Jr., H. H. Hentz, Burton Shook, Jesse Rutledge, J. M. Youngincr, R. H. Atkinson, Ashley Halsey, W. O. Weldon, LeRoy M. Want, Lewis H. Wallace, and W. C. Herbert. In 1930 the size of The Gamecock was increased to six columns. It was also voted the best college weekly in the United States by the National College Press Association. Robinson Will. Lecture Here Dr. W. E. Robinson, of the Columbia Theological Seminary at Decatur, Ga., will give a series of lectures on "The Truths of Christianity" this 'toeek under the auspices of the University Y. M. C. A. He will speak at the regular chapel exercises Tuesday and Thursday and again in the chapel each evening at seven o'clock. These speeches by Dr. Robinson will be a repetition of a series which he gave last fall to the students of Georgia Tech at the First Presbyterian Church in Atlanta. He has also spoken at the Presbyterian College at Clinton. Dr. Robinson is a brother of Professor D. W. Robinson of the faculty of the University Law School. He is a graduate of Hainpden-Sydney and of the Columbia Theological Seminary. u. s. o. )vers New cture Pro cess White's discovery means a cleaner and easier method of dye making, and although still in the laboratory stage, is thought to have great commercial possibilities. Instead of freeing the oxygen in the dye base by adding an oxygen-containing chemical such as lead peroxide, as has always been done in the past, White uses an electric current for this step in dye making. A colorless organic compound, called a leuco base, is the primary ingredient of the dyes. Under the old method, dye was made by adding to this base a "ompound containing oxygen in the presence of acids. Under White's method, the oxygen is evolved off the surface of an electrode in an electrolytic cell. White, who will receive his Ph. D. degree in February, has been working steadily on his experiment for two years under the direction of Dr. Alexander Lowry of the chemistry department of the University. The idea of substituting electricity for the oxidizing agent in dye making originated wth Doctor Lowry, who himself has worked on the problem from time to time. With the article is a two-column cut showing Mr. White in the laboratory with Doctor Lowry. - 1* ^ ; , V MLJKU OQK Odds And Ends Given To Fund Fountain Pen And O. D. K. Key Dropped In Keg For Brick Fund A fountain pen and an O. D. K. key along with $70.50 in cash were found to have been contributed to the sidewalk fund when the kegs were opened after the "be your age" day held recently. However Dr. Havilah Babcock, who is in charge of the paving, believed that such generosity was too good to be true and, after a little investigation, found that the owners of the pen and key wanted to play "injun giver." They were promptly returned to their owners but it is rumored that Dr. Babcock is still deep in calculations as to the degree of depreciation of second-hand goods and cost per brick at so much a hundred. Evidently the owners of the returned articles had accidently pulled them out of their pockets when they reached for a few coins and had unknowingly dropped them in the keg. The money collected was sufficient to brick 150 feet of sidewalk, but more will be necessary if the venture is to be completed. u. s. o. Student Speaks For Book Club Miss Marian Dudley, Retired Y. W. C. A. Worker In China Is Taking Degree In Sociology Miss Marion Dudley spoke Thursday night before the Fortnightly Book Club, taking for her topic "My life in the Orient." Next Tuesday she will speak to the Business Women's club on the same subject. Miss Dudley, a student at the University, was for five years a Y. M. C. A. worker in China. She returned last year, via Russia, to take her master's degree in sociology here. Besides being one of the most sought-after speakers in the city, Miss Dudley frequently entertains her fellow students with tales of her thrilling experiences. It seems to be the consensus of opinion that Miss Dudley left China none too soon, and that the Orient at the present time is no place for a Converse bred Y. W. worker. u. s. o. Service Club Hears Minter The regular weekly meeting of the Carolina Christian Service club last Wednesday evening in Sloan college was featured by the speech of John P. Minter, travelling secretary of the Student Volunteer Movement in South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee. Mr. Minter spoke on the existing infernational relations as regards religion, economics, and politics. v. n. o. Derrick Speaks At Winnsboro Speaks On "Present Conditions Of State And County Governments'' Dr. S. M. Derrick, of the economics department, will speak to a group of men at the Fairfield Inn in Winnsboro Monday night on the "Present conditions of State and County Governments." The men are under the leadership of Rev. C. C. Fishburnc. Rev. Fishburnc graduated from the University in 1925, and from Alexandria Episcopal Seminary, Alexandria Virginia, last year. I 9 ^ An * L. I Vv v " f,/ 4:'j- ' OV* 4*. . i'; ? j . 1 ; ? ,. ... Admiral McG Be Recall* Admiral Samuel McGowen, of Laurens, an alumnus of the University of the class of '98, may be called back into active service if recent outbreaks in China warrant same rumors to that effect say. CAPITAL CI1 11 1119 Gerv I; Specialists in Dress ONE DA' Welcome S CAROLINA Breakfast "Where Ever 1204 Main St. ^ We carry a full line of Drugs Hollingsworth Candy, Cosmetics! 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