The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, November 19, 1937, Page Page Four, Image 4
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
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ovember 20, 1908 Lo
BACK
n TALK
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These letters must not exceed 150 words. The
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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.
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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. For
small mnitial expense, your camera can a
1- be an mnstrument of considerable earn- a
5 ing power every day.f
The camera is a tool of the scien
r- tist, the artist, the journalist, the trav
eler, WVhoever you may b)e, learn to d
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...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
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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