Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Sociology Dept Has Collins As ! Secretary Of S. C. P Says Citizens Want "After the war the people of South Carolina will demand a change in everything that is ugly, inefficient or a failure," stated Maxie C. Collins in an address made April 6 to the sociology department of the University. Air. Collins is Executive Secretary of the South Carolina Preparedness for Peace Commis sion. The Commission was created by the legislature in 1942 to prepare a peace time economy for South Car olina. South Carolina is planning for full employment and industrial expansion during the post-war period, and so the Committee has been studying government and tax structures, in regard to improving them. "No one knows the number of State employees or t'teir payroll," said Mr. Collins. "I ant not criti cising individuals when I make this statement, but the system." Mr. Col lins explained that the state of South Carolina is the biggest bus iness in the state and that its forms of administration should be brought up to date as should any big busi ness. "As long as our constitution stands it must be regarded as our basic law", reminded Mr. Collins. "Changes for a less ponderous doc ument must be made by the people." Mr. Collins affirmed that the tax structure of South Carolina as a whole was not bad. We have about 100 sources of revenue and the load is placed upon those people who are able to pay. "There is nothing in our tax system to discourage in dustry from coming into the state", he declared. "\e are now coming into a period of crisis in the development of South Carolina," said Mr. Collins. "For years we have had too little wealth and too much unemployment; our average income is about half that of the national average. South Carolina has the lowest age group of any state, but this is a fault rather Norwood Discusses English Dialects "The average American thinks of the English language spoken in England in terms of either the Ox ford or cockney dialects," says Dr. J. E. Norwood of the English de partment of the University of South Carolina, "when actually the con ventional English spoken by most Englishmen is not very different from our own." Doctor Norwood spent three years in England, from 1921 to 1924, as a student at Oxford, where he majored in the English language. The Oxford English, lie declared, is only an affection which students p)ick tip at Oxford, while the cock ney dlialect is used mostly around( London and is perhaps comparable to the Bronx dialect used in New York. A stand(ardized English is beiitg taughtt in the public schools antd the English language is becoii ing more conventional all over Eng lantd because cof it. "Thte Oxford English that the students spoke while I was thtere," Doctor Norwood admits, "was dif ficult to understand in some in stances aind 1 iimagine I sounded just as funny to thmemt. But the Ox ford studentts were too reserved and polite to let me know." Doctor Norwood admits that hte could not help picking tip some of the Oxford accent while hte was there, and perhaps event brought sonie back home withI him, but, lie adds it took but a shtort time b)ack in America to make him drop it. Bel South Carolina's 1< irtment speaker eace Commission Changes After War than a worthwhile record. We have exported people and brains to other states; the working class leaves, and the workers in South Carolina have to carry a heavier load of depend ents. For too long we have had this condition." "But after the war this situation will be changed. We have a reservoir of skill from war industries. South Carolina has 200,000 men in the armed forces who will come back bringing their experience and skills if we so desire it. We have sufficient power; from Hydro-electric plants in South Carolina. We have one billion dollars in reserve capital." "Now is the time for us to make our bid for post-war industry. It is hard to have culture and character with abject poverty; but South Car olina could double its income by entering industry. Rayon work, plastics, food processing; many in dustries will head south, and South Carolina should receive them. Our youth has inherited from the ages, and has a better chance to build a better world. This can be done by all the people in South Carolina working together." State Council To Meet Here The state council on teacher edu cation will meet at the University of South Carolina, Friday and Satur (lay, April 13 and 14, to consider the following reports: (1) the minimum standard required for a masters de gree. (2) A report on evaluation of personal and professional qualities of teachers. (3) Adjustment of teacher education to two year cur riculum. (4) Home economics teachers education and certification requirements. (5) A report from special committee on cut require ments for trades and industries. (6) On certification regulations for in dustrial arts. (7) The certification requirements for music teachers. Dr. Ellison M. Smith, head of the school of education of the Univer sity, says that in these two days an attempt will be made to hear and dispose of all these committee re ports. Smith Makes State Survey Of S, C, Graduate Courses Dr. Ellison M. Smith, head of the school of education of the Univer sity of South Carolina, has just re turned from a tour to eight exten sion centers in the state. He found that an increasing number of teach ers want graduate credits by exten sion courses, andl due to the newv education program, many want aca dlemic subjects to be offered by ex tension. D)r. Smith says, "I was particu larly pleased with the progress be ing mnade ini music in the elementary schools, as a result of' extension courses which the University has put on for elementary teachers." PEOPLE EXPECT MORE at B R I D GE' S AND GET IT!! 1630 Main Street Over 10 will wei badge veteran: Do thier you car iraest Dept Store Sorority Si Morse Speaks On Propagarda "Propaganda could be used as a powerful weapon for good as well as evil", declared Dr. Josiah Morse of the psychology and philosophy department recently. The systematic and extensive use of propaganda by the Nazis, Doctor Morse continued, can be used in re verse for constructive purposes. It could be used in the schools to teach right from wrong, justice for in justice, and fair dealing from tyran ny. An education like this, with principles of good instilled in chil dren, instead of principles of evil, could make for a peace instead of a war. The Nazi use of propaganda, un der Goebbels, the supreme master of the art of propaganda, developed propaganda to the highest degree yet known. The extent to which their children were brought under its powers is proof of its success. The United States also uses prop aganda in this war, as it did in the first World War. There is a de partment of propaganda in Wash ington which operates in this coun try and overseas. All the news the public gets goes through the de partment where it is censored for the public reading. In this way, vic tories are stressed, defeats are played down, and facts that would lower our morale are screened from the public. News to the enemy and to our troops overseas, is also censored and treated for propaganda purposes. CUT RATE [ 1530 Mai S A NC KEN'S * SOLD AT TI MANUFAC RICHLANI ,000,000 of our men :ir this insignia .. f honorable service ri honor wherever a -unt .Night Professor Attends Physics Conclave "The reason that many students come to college with an aversion to math and physics, and other such subjects," declared Dr. C. H. Mercer of the physics department, "is that these subjects were not presented to most of them by adequate teachers in public schools." Doctor Mercer has just returned from the annual meeting of the Southeastern section of the Ameri can Physical Society, which was held April 6-7, at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. One of the important phases of the meeting, Doctor Mercer pointed out, was the report given by Dr. W. L. Hertel of the University of Tennessee about the experiment carried on in the nursery school of the University of Tennessee, where it was attempted to satisfy a child's natural curiosity about scientific things. It attempted to establish a simple beginning of a real general science in the child's mind. This is definitely a physical world, Doctor Mercer went on to say, and for many years physicists have re alized the growing need for a physics education as regards the fitness for life, but none has seen any feasible way of doing it. Even in the school, Doctor Niercer declared, many of the questions about this physical world that the student ask are brushed aside by incoipeten teachers. Instead, the student should be assisted in his at tempt to understand. )RUG STORE in Street s Eat ICE CREAM MIE CANTEEN TURED BY ) DAIRIES and Women .America's for her war nd wheneve Reporter Remi Dr. Davis Expou Veteran Faculty Me University In Recer By ETHEL LAZAR On the original quadrangle at the University of South Carolina lives a professor who is as much a part of Carolina as any other landmark on the campus. For 35 years Dr. Harry C. Davis, professor of Eng lish, has been watching and reflect ing upon the ever changing scenes and personalities through his Eng lish classes and from the ring-side seat that he has behind the large front windows of his home which faces the president's house. "As I first remember Carolina, it was a very small school with all the students in one class and very few buildings, but even fewer profes sors," stated Doctor Davis, reminisc ing of his favorite subject. "The professors were extremely individual and distinct in their fields. They were as different as you could bet men to be; whereas, today they are more uniform." "As for the students," smiled the professor, remembering that he was at one time included in that group, "they were full or pranks and not quite so dignified as the modern col lege boys. IIow well I remember the times they loved to do such things as putting a calf in the chapel, or a cart on the steps of DeSaussure College. Once they removed the clapper from the chapel bell the night before April Fool's day. One group of boys took great delight in digging up the marshal's hitching post. Major Morrison, the marshal at that time, challenged them by saying that he was going to bury it so deep that they wouldn't be able to dig it up. The Major took great pains in burying it four feet deep with a cross bar of iron at the bottom and with cobblestones and dirt packed around it. However, his attempts were in vain for one morning the 'Major missed his hitch ing post. After a brief search, he found the post in the office of the English professor." The only buildings on the campus in Doctor Davis' younger days were those which form the quadrangle, the old president's house where the new library now tands, and the gym nasium which was at that time used as a science building. It was in the gymnasium that Joseph LeConte, Doctor Davis' grandfather and one of the greatest scientists ever to teach at Carolina, conducted his classes. In those days the buildings were very poorly equipped. Students had to furnish their own lamps and buy CAROUNA ENGRAVING O(Q Columbia Office Supply Co. PRINTING Commercial Stationery - Of fice Equipment 1112 LADY STREET PHONE 5163 PALM ETTO "Tonight and Every Night" - with - RITA HAYWORTH - JOHN REESE and SARAH BULL CAROLI NA "Winged Victory" - with - LON McALISTER "THE SHERIFF OF CIMARON" "LONE RIDER FRONTIER FURY" FIVE POINTS "Together Again" - .,ith - IRENE DUNN DR IVE - IN "Cobra Woman" - with - SCA RLET SErARON nisces With Pr inds On 35 Year mber Depicts Memo it Interview With Gc wood and coal if they were lucky enough to get a room with a grate. The boys ate in a small white washed building where Steward's Hall now stands. Dover Davis, a colored man, operated this eating place until a larger building on the corner of Green and Main streets was taken over for * a mess hall. Chuckling Doctor Davis related: "Once when a student was dis gusted with a piece of tough meat at the mess hall, he filled it with salt and pepper and returned it to the kitchen. The joke boomeranged though, because the next day he re ceived the tough highly-seasoned meat for his dinner again." "The literary societies were the center of campus activities in my day", stated the English professor. "Why, I remember when we used to meet on Saturday nights for de bates that didn't adjourn until mid night. Many of the best known men in South Carolina today received their first speech training in the Clariosophic and Euphradian so cieties. That was in the days when students came to school and stayed all semester without running home on week-ends. Outside diversions, such as athletics and other campus organizations have now almost un dermined the old society spirit." Mattie Jean Johnson, the first co ed to be graduated from the Univer sity was in the class of '98 with Doctor Davis. He recalls the time in 1906 when the faculty put through a motion to abolish co-education. However, this motion was rejected by the board of trustees and the general assembly. "One change in the University which I'm sure the students like," said Doctor Davis, "is the change from long examinations to much shorter ones. The examination used to cover everything, not just a small part of the course as they do today. We used to start writing early in the morning and not finish until twilight. A typical question was 'Cive the name of your text-5%; discuss it-95%'." As an illustration of the old type of examination, Harry Davis tells of the time Ellison Smith, now acting dean of the school of education, was taking an examination under the late Yates Snowden, professor of his tory. Ellison entered the exam room where Professor Snowden had filled all the boards with ques tions. lie looked at the floor, the ceiling, and the walls. When Pro fessor Snowden inquired what he was doing, Ellison replied, "I.ooking for some m ore 9iues tions." "\Vell," stated Snowden, "you'll be doing good if you can asnwer the ones on the board." WVhen Ellison finished the exami nation, he had 105 closely written pages. HeI couldln't fold themi all to gether, so lie dlividedl the pages into two parts and labeled the first "Smith's HIistory of the United States, Volume O)ne"', and the other "Smith's History of the United States, Volume T wo". A few days CENTRAL DRUG Co. * 51 97-PH ON ES-51 98 1204 Main Street LORICK OFFICE EQU * Office * Office Architects and E Phone 6176 : COLUMAA Dfessor; s At USC roble YesteryearsOf imecock Reporter later Ellison met Doctor Snowden '' and inquired: "Professor Snowden have you read 'Smith's History of the United States'?" "Yes", replied Snowden slowly, "I have read well into Volume One and so far lie's a pretty damn good liar." "However," chuckled Doctor Davis, "Ellison made 'A' on the course." "Football games at Carolina used to be more of a 'blood in your eye', ready-to-fight game than it is to day", explained Doctor Davis, con tinuing his retrospection. "I re member the Carolina-Clemson game in 1902 when the students put a large crowing rooster on top of a sickly looking tiger with a knot in his tail. The Clemson cadets were so infuriated that they came to search for the Carolina team with guns. However, Christie Bennett, the Carolina coach, was able to stop them before any blood was shed. Athletics at the University some time back became unrestrained, and were abolished; but in a few years, they were brought back under very strict rules. Today athletics are not as partisan as they once were. The football games are more like games than fights." According to Professor Davis, Carolina spirit has never changed. Students and faculty have always been friendly and congenial, al though there has been a great in crease in both in the last 35 years. Love of Carolina is even expressed by the Navy boys who are from all sections of the country. Doctor Davis feels that the Carolina spirit would be even greater if the student body had a place in which they could all meet more often. In closing the beloved professor declared, "The University had hard sledding at first, but it has grown in influence and service to the pub lie. What it is and what it can be depends upon the students, for the 'yT buildings are only boxes apd the students are what fill them." Clariosophic Society Short Story Rules 1. Any undergraduate student may submit as many entries as he wishes. 2. Each entry must be orig inal, and may not exceed 4,000 words in length. 3. All entries must be typed in double-line spacing on one side of the page only. 4. Entries must be submitted to an nff r of the Clarinanphic Literary Society or mailed to Box 534 before May 15. 5. Awards will be first prize, second prize, and honorable mention. g. The judges will be Dr. Babcock's short story class, and their decision will be final. 7. All awards will be pre sented at a joint banquet of the Clariosophic and H-ypatian Lit erary Societies in late May.. Always Open TODDLE HOUSE 1419 Gervais -COUCH IPMENT CO. Equipment Supplies ngineers Supplies 924 Gervios St. lA- S C.