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F. F. WILLIAMS, JR. - - Editor George Zw ASSOCIATES Society Ed CTarlea Lee. Catherine Narey. Hal Tribble, As- Albert Rot sociate Editors; S. C. Muckenfuss, Jr.. Courtenay Carson, Associate Managing Editors; Charlie At. kinson, Foster Smith, Associate Business Mana gers; Johnnie Steppe, Margaret Rollins, Asso ciate Society Editors. ('olt Iienid ginia Brov Jane ('rout HAROLD PRINCE, Managing Editor jamin I'oia Syphilis Must Be Stamped Out! 1n(ler the blazing chandeliers of the Wa dorf-Astoria ball-room the doctor stani and talks to more than two hundred of ti nation's political and social "greats." TI doctor has eyes like ice-pick points and I emphasizes his remarks with jerks of h. hand. lie is telling the two hundred b fore him how each year finds uncount< thousands of Americans dying from the e fects of sypllilis. 're microphones in froi of him carry his words to millions of rad listeners. lie tells of the hundreds who d from diagnosed syphilis and of the thol san(s whose (lentils are prlldishly callk henrt-disease. kidney trouble and often son unnamle(d Ialadv. Surgeon-(eneral Thomas Parran has be< waging war on syphilis for three years. TI results of his efforts can already be counte Ten years ago no man would have dare mention syphilis over the radio. Mar newspapers had the word on their "mus not-use" list. I)ecent people. in the wor< of Dr. Parran, did not have the disease, di not talk about. it, an(d believed that tho: with the disease did not deserve aid. Thus I)r. Parran's first great probleln wi to bring syphilis out from under its socii taboo. A nation-wide campaign has (lone i In ten years Denmark has reduced i syphilis cases by ninety-two per cent. I that country today there are more than eigl million people, less than a thousand ne cases each year. Yet in New York Cits thea are fifty thousand new cases of syphilis r corded annually. Each case in the Unite States is responsible for one new infectic a year. One out of every ten Americans infected. has been infected, or will be infec ed by syphilis before the end of 1937. And all this in spite of the fact that hb the WasseIlann blood test syphilis can I easily deterted and by arsenous compoun injections can be definitely cured in all bi its later stages. There is not much hope for progress whil none of the 48 states save three require Was sermann tests from all applicants for ma riage license. South Carolina is not one c the three. Syphilis is a deadly disease. It is spren by personal contact, not necessarily by set ual intercourse. It can be cured. Dr. Pai ran is enthusiastic about the fight agaim it. In his words: "In our generation w can stamp syphilis out." One out of everv ten aidults have caughi this disease, government statistics p)oint ou Overn 80 of these cases can be cured if ir terceptedi the- first year. The University of South Carolina now ha a medical setup that is an enviable oni They have complete medical checkups a least twice a Year and such diseases are dc tected at the first. But only the doctors an, nurses know about these things. The stti dent body should be enlightened so as t make them leaders in their generation i stamping out this evil. Their generatio can stop it. But how can they if they knoa nothing about it? It is not time for connii ing and looking above these facts. Fac them and do something about them! Chapel Hour Grows Unpopular D)espite student disapproval, the chapi hour is still b)eing held weekly at 12 o'clocl moving the regular noon classes up to 1 p. n Chapel, now held voluntarily, has mad a forward step by eliminating the "must clause. The result: students go in as larg nulmber as ever. However, the chapel p< riod is scheduled at a time which is incor venient to everyone. Those students wh finish regularly by one o'clock have to sta at school until two and either get late inea or miss them entirely. One professor on the faculty is institu ing the plan whereby the regular noon cla will be held, voluntarily, allowing excuse cuts for the students who go to chapel an those who do not wish to go, to attend clat and get out in time for lunch. Doesn't the faculty and administratio realize that this noon hour will soon tes down what voluntary chapel has built uni DEPARTMENT HEADS :kerman, Sporta Editor; Leola Garety, litor; Betty Cometock, Coed Editor; islio. Poet. STAFF WRITERS ley, Ed McGrath. Paul League, Vir- FOUnd n, Dan Henderson. Barney Beidleman. ROBERT ELLI Eleanor Cannon. Paul Barrett, Ben. yes. Entered as second class r University Players Don't Ride Again 'here is a group on the campus knov Is as the University Players, the only organiz e tiol devoted to dramatics and acting. TI e group has received little aid from the Ur is versity. It is, seemingly. too small to be n ticedl. dl But recently this group put on a produ tion. "A Bill of Divorcement" which cr It o ated favorable comment. What happenec ie Other schools invited this group to the - schools. and the Players are travelling, u d building a phase of the University's li 1e so long neglected. Back home, the Players lost money on ti ) play, despite three stellar performanct IC What a note! On their trip to oth d schools, they dig in the stars' pockets, g v the board money and buy railroad fa t- to other schools to pllt on the presentatic is This organization was once a powerf d se group at Carolina. Interest was lost wi the graduation of key members but throut Is the efforts of Professors R. M. Stephan al tl W. S. Woods. the Players have come bac t. Their extermination or establishment d s pends on the support given them this yea n 'What's the answer? Glee Club S Sans Glee Carolina has aiways been thought of d the home of noted glee clubs, organizatio n which have toured the country, making ti is name of our University recognized. TIoday, that organization stands, prec riously. on the brink of oblivion. There Y no student aid outside of the small grot of singers who turn out and practice-f< d what? There is no faculty or Universii t aid. The school pats the organization < the back, whispers tales of appreciation bi e what do they do about the group? NOTI ING! The University band, once a strong ou fit of (O men, resplenden,t in new garn and black uniforms, is going to seed. N because of its director, not because of ti personnel of the band but because of lack < suIppor't. t Somnethiing must be (lone about these mi e sical organizations. This action must not 1 dlelayed1 and dirapedl in redl tape. Actic t mulst be immediate! - Central Dance Committee S Th~e p)olicy of The Gamecock toward soci t activities at Carolina and a possible pal - ouIt of the wildlernless now surrounding ti mass of p)etty social whirls has been for ti - staging of major social activities by and f< the entire stuldent body. The inter-fraternity council has been ti major (lance group) at Carolina but with i recent abolition a void has become evides in the gay circles. We do not condemn tI e action of the faculty in their actions but th revision has left the student body without genleral (lance comnmittee save the social cal inet which cannot 1h01( enough dances pi season for tihe needs. The one fault foum 1 is now that this group is otut of tihe pictur it leaves the German club standing his above tihe heads of tihe other social grou] e andl gives to them new powers indirectly. -, The faculty may intend to make way f< ea democratic social organization. If that the case, our commendations. We need ori LeIt's get together and put in a central dan ocommittee which will hold the dances, g the b)ands and care for tihe details. In col snection with the abolition of the Inte fraternity Council, the French students ha' abolished their national charters. Gradually the sun dawns over the horizo ~'Telephones As Thick As Hair On Cue Balls Despite protests, editorials, petitions, il n v'estigations, extending over a period of r years, tihe telephone situation at the Unive sity is still, to put it milly, "rotten THE t9 ECOCK ed January 30, 1908 N )TT GONZALES, First .ditor 49 matter at the postoffice at Columbia, 8. C., c< ovember 20, 1908 Lo BACK n TALK (NOTE: All contributions to this column must be signed by the author and designated O- as to whether or not it is to be published. These letters must not exceed 150 words. The contents of these letters are not necessarily the sentiments of this publication.) C e- "IF THIS BE TREASON, MAKE THE MOST OF IT" * I can't write. I'm not a great ath ir lete and I'm not president of anything, nor am I a bigwig on the campus. - I'm just an ordinary University stu (ent and like most U. S. C. students fe possess only half the school spirit I should have. However possessing only this mini 1e mum amount of spirit, even I was raised to a high degree of indignation s. las Friday upon reading in The Game cock that Tribble's Italics would no er longer be printed. Sensing some foul play somewhere et I made an investigation, and found that there are several professors that do not appreciate a man who has n. proved himself a clever columnist. He not only has a good sense of humor ul but he is also able to state himself in words that offend no one in partic ular and everyone in general. Person ally I believe there are other students on the campus that read, and enjoy td Mr. Tribble's column, and I cannot understand why the professors object K. to his writings. After all I understand e- that The Gamecock is a paper published for the students of the University and r- they should be the ones to be satisfied, not the professors alone. What Babe Ruth was to baseball, what Jack Dempsey was to boxing, what Bobby Jones was to golf, that is , what Hal Tribble is to The Gamecock. T. O. Mims. as s CAMERATURE By Walter A. Connolly El is The purpose of the following ar ip ticles dealing with photography is to )r acquaint the layman and amateur with V the capabilities of photography, and , to try to pique widespread interest in l making better pictures by photo it graphic methods. Most persons who buy a camera in tend to take haphazard "snapshots" of their friends and acquaintances, and possibly occasional pictures of objects t and things which interest them. The )t making of good pictures as an end in le itself is comparatively rare; the vast )f preponderance of camera owners con tent themselves with indiscriminate "snapping" without care or fore I- thought. ePhotography can and should ap n peal to nearly everyone. Good pie ture-taking can be as simple and fool proof as looking through a pair of b)inoculars. There is a camera to suit the slenderest budget, and one elabo rate enough to satisfy the most af fluent connoisseur. al The sport lover, the scientist, the li naturalist, the artist, the traveler, the estay-at-home,--all will find their par ticular world more interesting be eC cauise of what photography can add r to their perception of it. Photography can have a strong aes ethetic appeal to most of us. Every person is potentially an artist in per ception, though few are craftsmen. it We desire to express ourselves, but eo lack a medium of expression. Pho iS tography provides an outlet in artis atic expression for those of us who lack skill in drawing, painting or modeling. 3Photography is widely regarded as d mechanical procedure, and it is a com m,non assumption that photography must therefore fail as a medium of ex pression of art. But a camera and a )S roll of film are neither mnore nor less artistic in themselves than are the >r pigments, brushes and canvas of the is painter. Originality and individual ity in the finished work is a power e' just as much of the photographer asi CO of the painter. Bt Photography extends the perception of the scientist into the remotest vistas1 of the cosmos, into the most intimate minutiae of the microcosm. By means re of intra-red light we can photograph objects invisible to the unaided eye, n. we can ob)serve the strange universe ofr long-wave vibration. But if photography fails to appeal asthetically or scientifically, it can at any rate, swell the bank account. 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HE ENROLLED AT AMHERST W4ERE HE DECAME THE MOSf RJPULAR MAN 04 THE CAMPUS ...in a somn lower case by tribble we quit. for the last too many year Fighter to the last coughdrop, but her strain a vocal cord if the b-squad lick ;nowstorm, nor would we utter a o ten touchdowns in two minutes. naycallit, but you can sell our seat to * * understand at the outset that this i ye make no claim to representing the inizzlefritz. nobody but us alone is md every other better-than-sixth-rat< iobody b)ut us is griped b)ecause don nore than a second-best aggregation mnd, as such, promptly lie down. * * not that we're in a position to toss s r died for our almamater, altho we n the stands without an overcoat whil4 md almost got pneurnonia, us, that i * * so that we can't qualify as a pigs1, >it something somewhere is slightly tame wve talked to a triple-threat mnan ye ever saw a triple-threat live tip to is his word that if we didn't go to vould push a peanut uip pike's peak. vhere near the suburbs. * * , maybe that was an accident. accii >ressive win from citadel and the flea-c mow-we were napping in the stand. ure that the phenomena of coinciden, Lnd we have a hunch that the finishe< meroes is not so streamlined as the r hey STINK. * * admittedly, we may b)e expecting t< de-emphasis complex and not cani ut-of-two from college squads of cot ontent to sip pop and yell our heads niake our side look like little lord fa 'erhaps we shouldn't have the bad te fwe never win a game. b)ut we do. * * I If we dictated athletic policies, we'd rith a price-tag anywhere near our lev eipts for touchdown-bonuses and we'd Iag two successive losses to clemson ta ootball as the big-business enterprise alaried performers to pull the stop-si earby swilUshops. * * I b)ecautse, you see, we're slightly dtis e quit, no more will the anthem ring re-we-for throathrobs. never again gamnst a kaydet's gray cap, nor will v, rom wonderland, we have lost the f; reshman team we got? that at gryg on't quote me, see, but mark my wi ifferentl ALBERT DOUGLAS Acting Business Manager Com Willie - - - - - -Circulation Manage ames H. Joyner.-.- - - - Exchange Editor Valter Connolly - - - - - - Feature Editor saued Weekly by the Literary Societies at the Jnivereity of South Carolina during the college ear except during examinations and holidaya, CAMERA VINE Saw XER UNT LDERS LL Ri HIS GH )LE "E ON PLAY. DQ. HENYW. N FORD( YEARS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS DR HARPER HAS ALWAYS WORN A RED BOW TIE, THE SAME TYPE OF SHKES AND CARRIED AN UMBRELLA ! ewhat U m 1 s we've been a rah-rah-rah, fight-team iceforth we're thru. we wouldn't evet ed catholic ninety to zero in a blinding syllable if lou carleo galloped barefoot we're a disloyal skunk and a whatcha some other sucker-we abdicate. " r * purely a first-person-singular opinion. student-body, alumni, or grandpa jake tired of losing to clemson and furman eleven within hog-calling distance. mc cailister, inc., has failed to deliver we stand as a one-man minority S * * tones. gridironically, we've never done came close two years ago by sitting the tiger tripped goalwar-d seven times i-not the tiger. :in parader--we only lose the shirts screwy. shortly before the clemson in a mi-shop, wvhich is the only place his reputation, and he practically gave town against the tigers he personally we didn't, if memory serves, get any Lental too, perhaps, the flukey, unim-' ircusy furman exhibition. we wouldn't at the time. but we're pretty darned ce is not so consistently fantastic... I Product as reflected in our saturday iaterial would warrant, more lucidly, * * >O much, perhaps we should develop paign for a team that can take one nparative size. perhaps we should be off while the backs of interstate tech untleroy at an east-side drink-session iste to be frank about the thing even * * recruit every high-school ball-carier ei. we'd set aside part of the gate re I have a coaching-contract clause ma1k ntamount to dismissal. we'd recognise it is, and we might even require oW? gnal with the second glass of beet at * * usted. Reiteratively and repetitiously, with our one-two-three-four- whoinheIl will we stake our six and tuppenCe ,e boast to homefolk of a dream- teant iith. we--but say, have you seen this :o's somepin', ain't he? yes, sir. and :>rds. brother-next year things 'Il be