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F. F. WILLIAMS, JR. - - Editor DE George Zuckern1 ASSOCIATES Society Editor; Charles Lee, Catherine Narey, Hal Tribble, As- Albert Rouslin, sociate Editors; S. C. Muckenfuss, Jr., Courtenay Carson, Associate Managing Editors; Charlie At. kinson, Foster Smith, Associate Business Mana gers; Johmnie Steppe, Margaret Rollins, Asso ciate Society Editors. ('oit ilendley, ginia Brown, Di Jaune ('rout. Ele HAROLD PRINCE, Managing Editor jaumin rolayes. Syphilis Must Be Stamped Out! Under the blazing chandeliers of the Wal dorf-Astoria ball-room the doctor stands and talks to more than two hundred of the nation's political and social "greats." The (octor has eyes like ice-pick points and he emphasizes his remarks with jerks of his hand. lie is telling the two hundred be fore him how each year finds uncounted thousands of Americans dying from the ef fects of syphilis. The microphones in front of him carry his words to millions of radio listeners. He tells of the hundreds who die from diagnosed syphilis and of the thou sands whose (lentils are prudishly called heart-disease, kidney trouble and often some unnalne(d malady. Surgeon-Gene'al Thomas Parran has been waging war on syphilis for three years. The results of his efforts can already be counted. Ten years ago no man would have dared mention syphilis over the radio. Many newspa)ers had the word on their "must not-use" list. I)ecent people, in the words of Dr. Parran, did not have the disease, did not talk about it, and believed that those with the disease (lid not deserve aid. Thus )r. Parran's first great problem was to bring syphilis out from under its social taboo. A nation-wide campaign has (lone it. In ten years Denmark has reduced its syphilis cases by ninety-two per cent. In that country today there are more than eight million people, less than a thousand new cases each year. Yet in New York City there are fifty thousand new cases of syphilis re corded annually. Each case in the United States is responsible for one new infection a year. One out of every ten Americans is infected, has been infected, or will be infect ed by syphilis before the end of 1937. And all this in spite of the fact that by the Wassermann blood test syphilis can be easily detected and by arsenous compound injections can be definitely cured in all but its later stages. There is not much hope for progress while none of the 48 states save three require Was sermann tests from all applicants for mar riage license. South Carolina is not one of the three. Syphilis is a deadly disease. It is spread by personal contact, not necessarily by sex ual intercourse. It can be cured. Dr. Par ran is enthusiastic about the fight against it. In his words: "In our generation we can stamp syphilis out." One out of every ten adlults have caught this (disease, government statistics p)oint out. Over 80% of these cases can be cured if in tercep)ted thle- firist year. The University of South Carolina now has a medical setup) that is an enviable one. They have complete medical checkups at least twice a year and such dliseases are de tectedl at the first. But only the doctors and nurses know about these things. The stu dent body should be enlightened so as to make them leaders in their generation in stamp)ing out this evil. Their generation can stop it. But how can they if they know nothing about it? it is not time for conniv ing and looking above these facts. Face them and do something about them! Chapel Hour Grows Unpopular D)espite stud(enlt disapproval, the chapel hour is still being held wveekly at 12 o'clock, moving tihe regular noon classes up to 1 p. m. Chapel, now held voluntarily, has made a forward step by eliminating the "must" clause. Tihe result: students go in as large number as ever. However, the chapel pe riod is scheduled at a time which is incon venient to everyone. Those students who finish regularly by one o'clock have to stay at school until two and either get late meals or miss them entirely. One professor on the faculty is institut ing the plan whereby the regular noon class will be held, voluntarily, allowing excused cuts for the students who go to chapel and those who do not wish to go, to attend class and get out in time for lunch. Doesn't the faculty and administration realize that this noon hour will soon tear down what voluntary chapel has built up? PARTMENT hEADS D] an, Sports Editor; Leola arety, Betty Cometock, Co-ed Editor; Poet, F .1 L .i ' ITAFF WRITERS Ed McGrath, Paul League, Vir- Founded mn Henderson, Barney Beidleman, ROBERT ELLIOT anor Cannon, Paul Barrett, Ben Entered as second class mat1 Nover University Players Don't Ride Again There is a group oi the campus known as the University Players, the only organiza tion devoted to dramatics and acting. This group has received little aid from the Uni versity. It is, seemingly, too small to be no tice(l. But recently this group put on a. produc tion, "A Bill of Divorcement" which cre ated favorable comment. What happened? Other schools invited this group to their schools, and the Players are travelling, up building a phase of the University's life so long neglected. Back home, the Players lost money on the play, despite three stellar performances. What a note! On their trip to other schools, they dig in the stars' pockets, get the board money and buy railroad fare to other schools to put on the presentation. This organization was once a powerful group at Carolina. Interest was lost with the graduation of key members but through the efforts of Professors R. M. Stephan and W. S. Woods, the Players have come back. Their extermination or establishment de pends on the support given them this year. What's the answer? Glee Club Sans Glee Carolina has always been thought of as the home of noted glee clubs, organizations which have toured the country, making the name of our University recognized. Today, that organization stands, preca riously, on the brink of oblivion.. There is no student aid outside of the small group of singers who turn out and practice-for what? There is no faculty or University aid. The school pats the organization on the back, whispers tales of appreciation but what do they do about the group? NOTH ING! The University band, once a strong out fit of (0 men, resplenlent in new garnet and black uniforms, is going to seed. Not because of its director, not because of the p)ersonnlel of the band but because of lack of support. Something must be done about these mu sical organizations. This action must not be delayed andl draped ill redl tape. Action must be immediate! Central Dance Committee The policy of T'he Gamecock towvard social activities at Carolina and a possible path out of the wildlerness now surrounding the mnass of p)etty social whirls hlas been for the staging of major social activities by and for the entire student body. The inter-fraternity council has been the major (lance group at Carolina but wvith its recent abolition a void hlas become evident inl tihe gay circles. We do not condemn tihe action of the faculty in their actions but this revision has left tihe student body withlout a genleral (lance committee save tile social cab inet which cannlot 1hold enough (lances per season for the need1s. The one fault found is now thlat thlis group is out of tile picture, it leaves tile German club stanlding high above tihe heads of tile other social groups andl gives to them neCw powvers indirectly. Tihe faculty may intend to make wvay for a democratic social organization. If that is tile case, our commendations. We need one. Let's get together and1 put in a central dance committee whichl will hold the dances, get theo bands and care for the details. In con nection with tile abolition of the Inter fraternity Council, the French students have abolished their national charters. Gradually the sun dawns over the horizon. Telephones As Thick As Hair On Cue Balls Despite protests, editorials, petitions, in vestigations, extending over a period of 5 years, the telephone situation at the Univer sity is still, to put it mildly, "rotten HE ECOCK January 30, 1908 1' GONZALES, First Editor ter at the postoffice at Columbia, 8. C., nber 20, 1908 BACK TALK (NOTE: All contributions to this columi must be signed by the author and designate as to whether or not it is to be published These letters must not exceed 150 words. Th contents of these letters are not necessarili the sentiments of this publication.) "IF THIS BE TREASON, MAE THE MOST OF IT" I can't write. I'm not a great at lete and I'm not president of anythin nor am I a bigwig on the campt I'm just an ordinary University st dent and like most U. S. C. studen possess only half the school spirit should have. However possessing only this mit mum amount of spirit, even I w raised to a high degree of indignatit las Friday upon reading in The Gani cock that Tribble's Italics would r longer be printed. Sensing some foul play somewhe I made an investigation, and fou that there are several professors th do not appreciate a man who h proved himself a clever columnist. F not only has a good sense of hum but he is also able to state himse in words that offend no one in parti ular and everyone in general. Perso ally I believe there are other studen on the campus that read, and enj< Mr. Tribble's column, and I cann understand why the professors obje to his writings. After all I understat that The Gamecock is a paper publish< for the students of the University ai they should be the ones to be satisfie not the professors alone. What Babe Ruth was to baseha what Jack Dempsey was to boxin what Bobby Jones was to golf, that what Hal Tribble is to The Gamecoc T. O. Mims. CAMERATURI By Walter A. Connolly The purpose of the following a tices dealing with photography is acquaint the layman and amateur wi the capabilities of photography, an to try to pique widespread interest making better pictures by phot graphic methods. Most persons who buy a camera ii tend to take haphazard "snapshots" their friends and acquaintances, an possibly occasional pictures of objec and things which interest them. TI making of good pictures as an end itself is comparatively rare; the va preponderance of camer- owners co tent themselves with indiscrimina "snapping" without care or for thought. Photography can and should a~ peal to nearly everyone. Good pi ture-taking can be as simple and fo proof as looking through a pair binoculars. There is a camera to su the slenderest budget, and one elab4 rate enough to satisfy the most a fluent connoisseur. The sport lover, the scientist, tI naturalist, the artist, the traveler, ti stay-at-home,-all will find their pa ticular world more interesting b< cause of what photography can ad to their perception of it. Photography can have a strong ae: thetic appeal to most of us. Ever person is potentially an artist in pe ception, though few are craftsme We desire to express ourselves, bi lack a medium of expression. Ph tography provides an outlet in arti tic expression for those of us wl lack skill in drawing, painting< modeling. Photography is widely regardedl mechanical procedure, and it is a con mon assumption that photograph must therefore fail as a medium of e: pression of art. But a camera and roll of film are neither more nor le: artistic in themselves than are I pigments, brushes and canvas of tI painter. Originality and individua ity in the finished work is a pow< just as much of the photographer of the painter. Photography extends the perceptic of the scientist into the remotest vist; of the cosmos, into the most intimal minutiae of the microcosm. By mnear of intra-red light we can photograp objects invisible to the unaided ey we can observe the strange universe< long-wave vibration. Butt if photography fails to appe; asthetically or scientifically, it can any ra.te, swell the bank account. F( small initial expense, your camera ca be an instrument of considlerable carr img power every day. The camera is a tool of the scier tist, the artist, tihe journalist, the tras eher. Whoever you may he, learn t 1937 Member 1938 Associated CoUe6kie Press Dstributor of Colle6iate Digest REPRESENTED POR NAIuAL AUVEMtISINO BY National Advertising Service, Inc. Collete Pbllihevrs Represeutaftle 420 MAOIsON AVE. NEW YORK. N.Y. CHICAGO BOsTON - SAN FRANCISCO {.os ANGELES " PORTLAND " SEATTLE CAMPUI E Ii OF OREGO1 s- 1 E OREE a- - RoP BAC t s HE ROISTE - 1ATE ON HI JUST A is 1OE, ENP )Ii -- PAL-1 8O KICK! A io k'TERE IS ., AGAINSfI re . -'E ONLYI d SE REORD C at lrcurrd Gdlrya Pn is [C J1IPREME COUR le rJUSTICE I- HARLAN F. / ts WS XPELLED ' FROM MA.SS. Sf t COLLEGE FOR t ALLEGEDLY HITING d A PROFESSOR' HE d ENROLLED AT AMHERST d, WHERE HE BECME THE MOf tOPULAR MAN ON 'THE CAMPWS II, is ... in so] a lower cas+ by trib h Ld in we quit. for the last too man' fighter to the last coughdrop, bi - strain a vocal cord if the b-squa< snowstorm, nor would we utte to ten touchdowns in two minul e maycallit, but you can sell our si n + St understand at the outset that 1-' we make no claim to representin e snizzlefritz. nobody b)ut us alor and every other better-than-sixi nob)ody butt us is griped because more than a secondl-best aggrej >1 and, as such, promptly lie down. it not that we're in a position to or died for our almamater, alth in the stands without an overcoat eand almost got pneumonia. us, -so that we can't qualify as a -but something somewhere is sI d game we talked to a triple-threal -we ever saw a triple-threat livei us his word that if wve didn't g -would push a peanut up pike's y 1. where near the suburbs. it * >- maybe that was an accident. pressive win from citadel and the o know--we were napping in the sure that the phenomena of coir s and we have a hunch that the fi heroes is not so streamlined as y they STINK. a admittedly, we may be expect s a de-emphasis complex andl not e out-of-two from college squads e content to sip pop andI yell our -make our sidIe look like little ki r perhaps wve shouldn't have the s if wve iiever win a game, but we * flIf we dictated athletic policies, 's with a price-tag anywhere near o e ceipts for touchdownbonuses am s ing two successive losses to clem: football as the big-business entei ~'salaried performers to pull the * 'nearby swillsbops. tl >ecause, you see, we're slightlI rwe quit, no miore will the anthenr n are-we-for throathrobs. never a ..against a kaydet's gray cap, nor from wonderland, we have lost freshman team we got? that al > don't quote me, see, but mark etdifferent! ALBERT DOUGLAS Acting Business Manager Tom Willis . . . . . . Circulation Maa James H. Joyner . . . . . . Exchange Editor Walter Connolly . . . . . - Feature Editor Issued Weekly by the Literary Societies at the University of South Carolina during the collep year except during examinations and holiday. B CAMERA 'DE DEVINE 4 STATE SAW iN KICKER K TO PUNT D A TEAM- - S SHOULDERS (HE 6ALL KICKERS &UNG HIS' LOCK THE LTHOUGH NO RULE T, THIS 15' NSfANCE ON E'114E PLAY. DR. HENRY W. WN FORIY YEARS AT THE UNIVERSIY OF 1EXAS DR HARPER HAS ALWAYS WORN A RED BW1 TlE THE SAME TYPE OF SN-OES AND CARRIED AN UMBRELLA ! rnewnad ble r years we've been a rah-rah-rah, fight-team It henceforth we're thru. we wouldn't evei i licked catholic ninety to zero in a blinding r a syllable if lou carleo galloped barefoot :es. we're a disloyal skunk and a whatcha at to some other sucker-we abdicate. * * * * this is purely a first-person-singular opinion. g the student-body, alumni, or grandpa jake ie is tired of losing to clemson and furman :h-rate eleven withuin hog-calling dlistance. don mc cailister, inc., has failed to deliver ration. we stand as a one-man minority * * * * toss stones. gridironically, we've never done o we came close two years ago by sitting while the tiger tripped goalward seven times that is-not the tiger. * * * * pigskin parader--we only lose the shirts ightly screwy. shortly before the clemson man in a mi-shop, whIch is the only place ip to his reputation, and he practically gave o to town against the tigers he personally ceak. we didn't, if memory serves, get any * * * * accidental too, perhaps, the flukey, unini fiea-circusy furman exhibition. we wouldnl't tands at the time, but we're pretty darned cidence is not so consistently fantastic... nished product as reflected in our saturday the material would warrant, more lucidly, * * * * ing too much, perhaps we should develOP campaign for a team that can take one-~ f comparative size. perhaps we should be heads off wvhile the backs of intersitate tedh irdl fauntleroy at an east-side drinksssion. >adl taste to b)e frank about the thing even do. * * * * we'd recruit every high-school ball-carrier ur level, we'd set aside part of the gate re I we'd have a coaching-contract clause sna ion tantamount to dismissal, we'd recognise - 'Prise it is, and we might even require O9 top-signal with the second glass of beer at * * * * (ldisgusted. Reiteratively and repetitiouly, ring with our one-two-threefourwhoihel gain will we stake our six and tuppence will we boast to homefolk of a dream-tearn the faith, we--but say, have you seen this grygo's somepin', ain't he? yes, sir,an. fly words, brother-net yar things'I b