The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, January 13, 1933, Page Page Four, Image 4
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A Better Carolina Spirit?Among Alumni, Faculty and
Students.
Student Activity Building?This is the only way by which
student activities can be properly centered and administrated.
Football Stadium?A needed addition to the University's
equipment.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 19333~
"Under Other Standards"
I For some time now, a heated controversy has
been waged between the student body and the authorities
at Harvard as to whether the names of
Harvard alumni who died fighting for Germany
should be included in the Memorial chapel.
After holding out at length against student
opinion in the matter, the university corporation
has finally given in and set up a plaque bearing
the names of Fritz Daur, Kurt Peters and Max
Schneider under a Latin inscription which, translated,
says, "Harvard University has not forgotten
her sons who, under other standards, gave
their lives for their country."
Even this recognition is not satisfactory to leaders
in the student body, who take the position
that the German war dead should be included on
the main tablet and thus not be set apart from
their brothers who fell fighting for the Allies.
If it is surprising that Harvard should have allowed
itself to become widely noted for so unbecoming
a discussion, it is at the same time heartening
to find the younger generation outdistancing
their elders in seeking to eliminate war hatreds.
But we just can't help wondering what the living
German and American war veterans themselves
think about it.
V. B. O.
The Iodine State
The new South Carolina automobile license
plates have amended the slogan "The Iodine State"
so that it now reads "The Iodine Products State."
This helps some, but wo can't help but think that
it would be much better to refrain from mentioning
iodine at all.
The dear old state has come in for a lot of
ridicule since this particular slogan was adopted.
People from every other state in the Union have
looked upon it with nothing but derision.
Granted that iodine vegetables are good for the
goitre, granted that they have some connection
with other things equally as unmentionable, it still
seems to us that it is poor taste to shout the news
from every license tag.
As the "Palmetto State," South Carolina has enjoyed
a glorious history. That slogan is entwined
around her heart and has long been associated in
the minds of all with the highest and noblest
things. It has dignity, it has a history, it reflects
vastly more credit upon the state than the present
chamber of commerce stunt.
Our astute and refined public officers mightj
with the same degree of good taste and judgment,
inscribe upon our flag a turnip in place of the
silver crescent that now graces it, and a bottle
with the lal>el "Tincture of Iodine, Poison," in
place of the palmetto which lias proudly waved
thereon since long before the Revolution. If there
should bo another war, another battle of Fort
Sumter, and another Sargeant Jasper, the latter
might leap over the rampants amid shot and shell,
rescue the flag, and taunt the enemy with the fact
that there is a smaller percentage of goitre in
South Carolina than anywhere else in the world.
A letter from a drum manufacturer inquiring
as to the satisfaction given by his make of drums
brings forth the following answer from the University
band, 'tis reported: "Dear Sir: We have
been using your drums for ten years and find them
hard to beat."
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The State,?And Illiteracy
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The report of the South Carolina Conference on
Child Health and Protection showing that industrial
child labor in the State has increased 27.8
per cent in the past ten years again brings to mind
the critical condition which our State is in today.
Whether child labor has increased or not, and
The GreenviUe Observer (which is "sold on the
idea that editorial courage is essential to good
journalism") vehemently denies this to be true, the
accusation is still a very grave one and one that
morits the most careful consideration and thought
of every South Carolinian. The whole thing
evolves itself upon the State's almost amazing
rate of illiteracy and the failure of enforcement
of the compulsory school laws.
South Carolina is one of the most illiterate
states in the Union because the public school
system of the State is in part a failure and because
the compulsory school laws of the State are an
utter failure.
South Carolina has probably wasted more
money on education than any ten other states by
building magnificent structures and then neglecting
the education of the child. Some high schools
in the State turn out graduates with state diplomas
(acceptable at all colleges and the University)
who probably do not deserve a grammar
school certificate. It is no wonder that so many
freshmen fail at college.
During the summer the writer had occasion to
drive through one of the less fortunate mill villages
in the upper part of the State. (Not all the
mill villages are like this one, thank God!)
Squalor. That word in all of its intensity describes
such villages. We drove down one of the
streets or roads, where a few humble, wretched
huts were sprinkled like the trail of poor relations
after a hearse. Dirty, filthy, ignorant urchins
played in the street.
There are in the mills and elsowhere in South
Carolina hundreds,?yea, thousands,?of children
who do not want to go to school and whose parents
do not want them to go. It was to take care of
such cases and to lead such poor devils out of
poverty, squalor, and misery that the compulsory
school law was enacted. But the law is not enforced
and ignorance prevails.
There is no excuse why the law should not be
enforced. If the ago limit was changed from 14
to 18 and then enforced for one generation, illiteracy
could then be wiped out. It is indeed a tribute
as the Observer points out, to most of the industrialists
of the State that they are obeying the
child labor law, for enforcement of which there
is no special machinery. Our only wish is that
there were a few industrialists to enforce the
compulsory school laws.
Pennsylvania once had a greater problem than
South Carolina in the education of a great number
of foreign born people. But they crammed
education down the throats of those foreigners
and now Pennsylvania is one of the leading states
in education and one of the most forward states
in the Union. South Carolina could accomplish
as much with the enforcement of the compulsory |
school law.
Education, in the broader sense of the leading
to wiser action, must be the chief reliance for deliverance
of our State from the wilderness. The
legislature would do well to enact enforcement
measures for the attendance school law.
What Will~They~Offer Next?
Butler University, Indianapolis, is offering a
course in the technique of matrimony. No entrance
credits are required and the university does
not promise to place its graduates.
With the corrective instincts of sociologists, the
institution has selected for instructor the Judge of
a divorce court; whicli is like going to a junk
dealer to learn how to take care of a machine. It
is apprehended that the matriculates in this course
are going to learn more about what wrecks marriago
than about what makes it succeed. And, incidentally,
the Butler authorities must be mighty
hard pushed for courses.
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Speakeasies are breaking up the homo and Prohibition
agents are breaking up both.
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A hick town is one where there is no place to
go that you shouldn't.
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The Book-of-the-Month Clubs apparently make
their selections by the "blindfold tests."
Politeness is a cheap commodity but it goes a
long way.
"Brooms Greatly Reduced," reads an advertisement.
What a sweeping statement.
An expert is a man whose guesses are sometimes
right.
p. m. a.What
we would like to know from Professor
Picard (who went so far up in the air) is whether
the clouds, viewed from the other side, showed any
silver linings.
Carolina
To-day
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Hard-Boiled
The Quaker Campus, weekly
newspaper of Whittier college,
Whittier, California, evidentally is
not well up on its zoology, or
ornathology, or whatever it is. An
exchange of the Quaker Campus
to The Gamecock was recently addressed
to the "Game Rock."
Well, we may have a reputation
for being hard-boiled, but we
never thought it was that bad.
Curiosity or Don't be Catty
And then there's the co-ed who
wonders who is the coyly smiling
damsel in the library lobby, who wears
a dish-towel on her flowing locks, and
who has usurped George Washington's
place. Is somebody else bi-centenialling
it?
All's Welle sley
It's every man for himself at
Wellesley, where a new rule has
been instigated to the effect that
not more than one student can ride
on a bicycle at the same time.
Apparently the girls have been
taken unfair advantage of one
another's pedal-power, and getting
free rides up and down the long
steep hills without paying for
them. The Gamecock suggests
that several enter the omnibus business.
Modesty
Those who insist that the modern
collcgians are depraved in their ways
and actions will be pleased to learn
of the work of modesty loving students
at McGill University.
Despite the efforts of the officials
of McGill, twice in two weeks the
figures composing the fountain on the
campus of that institution have been
decorated with "unmentionables"
painted neatly, to shelter them from
the cold winter blasts. First, the
nudes were clothed in blue and then
in red; both creations were reported
to be very fetching.
Ohl Clara!
"One out of every twelve college
students has it?vision 1" is
the statement made recently by an
official of the Union Central Life
Company.
In other words, that percentage
took out life insurance policies last
year. Which proves, according to
the official, that of every twelve
students, one is smart enough to
provide for the future.
Poet
Nelson Fortson, Gamecock, who
should guard against such outbursts,
recently had a poem published in
"Speaking of Sports," Montgomery's
column in The State.
The opus is an epic poem of the
Auburn game, and it gives all the dirt,
or anyway, lots of dirt.
Disease and Remedy
The Dean of the University of
Washington, who declared recently
that many students give the excuse
of "Love" for flunking, also
mentions that one student who
had given that reason for his failure
was asked, when he applied for
re-admission, whether the cause
had been removed. His answer
was "Yes, I married it."
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Journalistic Judas
There were only three copies
of the entire Gamecock staff that
had been elected recently, publication
of which had been reserved
for The Gamecock. One
was the original typewritten
manuscript which safely reposed'
in the editor's pocket. The other
two were galley proofs lying on
the managing editor's desk,
waiting to be read.
Into the Gamecock office came
one of the Capitol City's journalistic
giants. Only last year, this
talented individual with the wondrous
nose and the astonishing
shock of yellow curls sat in the
chair, the occupation of which
denoted the editorship of the
nation's best collegiate weekly.
When this modern Greeley
left, he carried with him a sickly
grin and one of the prized galley
proofs of The Gamecock elections
story which he had pilfered
with the Renins that denoted the
born crook. *
The next day a complete list
of (lamecock staff members appeared
in the paper with which
our dear little playmate is connected.
This journalistic Judas
is to be complimented on his
enterprise. He'll get there, some
flay. Just where, is the question.
We are inclined to believe
that it will be the federal
' pen.
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Office Of Tm
Was Sc
The treasurer's office in DeSaussure
was the scene of the shooting of the
head of the School of Engineering
here at the University, on May 6, 1922.
The murderer was Benjamin Haile,
Superintendent of the Grounds and
Buildings at that time, who shot and
killed himself soon after killing Goode
Homes, the head of the School of
Engineering.
There was no eye-witness to the
murder or suicide, but as soon as the
first shot was heard Dr. L. T. Baker,
then Dean of the University, who was
conducting a class on the second floor
of the building, rushed down the
steps to be met at the door of the
treasurer's office by Haile, who ordered,
"Don't come in here, Mr. Baker."
Mr. Baker put his hand on the door
to the treasurer's cage when Haile
fired, the ball striking the door. Mr.
Baker left the room and a moment
later Dr. W. S. Currell, then President
of the University, started to enter the
office. The murderer held him off too.
After a few minutes another shot was
heard. It was this shot which was
supposed to have killed Haile. Mr.
Homes died from wounds.
Mr. Homes was supposed to have
been looking over some files in the
small office on the first floor of DeSaussure.
Mr. Haile had gone to the
treasurer's office earlier in the day and
had left his pay roll there so that a
check could be made out. He returned
later, was given the check, and
j Introducing
Eaoh WMk The Gamecock will oarry
a wrlteup of a membar of tha University
faculty ?o that tha students may
become mora familiar with tha truly
Interesting man and women who make
up this body.
EDWARD CALEB COKER, A. B.,
professor of mathematics and astronomy
at the University, gained his early
education in Darlington county, where
he was born and raised. He attended
St. David's school in Society Hill and
later St. John's high school in Darlington.
From 1888 until 1890 he was a student
at the University of South Carolina.
The years 1893-1894 and 18961897
he was at the University of Virginia
where he received his bachelor
of arts degree. Since that time he has
attended summer school at the University
of North Carolina, Columbia
University and Cornell.
For 11 years, from 1894 until 1900
(one year having been spent at the
University of Virginia), Professor
Cokcr was engaged in public school
work. He was principle of St. John's
high school for two years, superintendent
of the city schools in Marion for
four years, and superintendent of the
Greenwood city schools for five years.
For the 18 years which followed Mr.
Coker was professor of mathematics,
astronomy and physics at Winthrop
college.
In 1924 he came to the University
of South Carolina as professor of
mathematics and astronomy, and is
still serving the school in that capacity.
For the nine years that he has been
on the Carolina faculty he has been
chairman of the faculty committee on
grounds and buildings. During his
time in this position the campus of the
University has improved greatly and
has become one of the most beautiful
in this part of the country.
Professor Coker holds memberships
in several important associations and
fraternities. Among them are the
American Association for Advancement
of Science, the Mathematical As"?
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told the bookkeeper, Miss Sawyer, that Dr.
Currell wanted her.
When she walked up the corridor to
Dr. Currell's office and asked him if
he sent for her the shots were heard.
It was then that Dr. Baker rushed
down from the second floor.
The verdict reached by the jury was
that Professor Homes came to his
death at the hands of Benjamin Haile
while the latter was temporarily insane;
and also that Mr. Haile came to
his death by a self-inflicted wound.
Both professors were very popular
with the Student Body at the University;
and both knew hundreds of the
alumni. The news of the deaths, quite
naturally, spread with amazing rapidity;
and never before in the history of
the University had those interested in
the institution been so stunned by an
event.
Dr. W. S. Currell, President of the
University, issued a statement in which
he told of the shooting as he knew of
it. In attempting to give a cause for
the tragedy he said the following:
"There had long been bitter feeling
between the two men growing out of
their conflicting duties at the University."
Mr. Hoines's funeral services were /'
held in the University Chapel. Dr.
Leonard T. Baker and R. M. Kennedy,
librarian and professor of library <
methods at the University, accompanied
the body of Haile to Camden.
They acted as official representatives
of the University.
Education Cuts
Receive Censure
"Nowhere will the ultimate ill effects
of a serious economic disturbance
be felt any more than through the curtailment
of education," declares The
Technician, weekly publication of North
Carolina State College.
The Technician goes on to say that
full realization will be delayed until
the generation which is now of college
age reaches maturity and the control
of events.
"It is indeed a near-sighted policy
which, for a few saved dollars, would
seriously impair the future greatness
of America," the paper concludes.
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Patterson Wardlaw
Addresses Students
Dr. Patterson Wardlaw addressed
the first assembly of the School of
Education Thursday at 5:15 o'clock,
at which all the members of education
classes wqre invi'?d. Tea was served *
after the meeting.
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sociation of America, Phi Beta Kappa,
Omricon Delta Kappa, and Chi Psi.
Professor Coker's family has been
closely allied with the growth and development
of the University. His
grandfather, Allen E. Mclver, graduated
from this institution in 1838; his
father, W. C. Coker, graduated in 1859.
Two brothers also attended here, A.
M. Coker finished in 1892 and Dr. R.
A. Coker was enrolled here from 1893
until 1894. The latter is now a professor
at the University of North Carolina.
Four sons of Professor Coker have
also graduated from the University,
W. C. Coker in 1923, E. R. Mclver
Coker in 1925, E. C. Coker, Jr. in 1928,
and Allen M. Coker II in 1930.
U. B. O.
Roanoke College has instituted a Goldfish
Club whose purpose and boast it is
that they can and will make all cocky
freshmen swallow one live goldfish.
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