Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Editor . r..... . News Editor . Sports Editor Society Editor ........... .......... Campus Editor Feature Editor Copy Editor ....................... Exchange Editor Managing Editor . Open Letter To Campus R( Dear Friends: We, the students of Carolina, have jus elected you to represent us in a more or les official capacity for the coming year. Yes most of us voted for Nou through some af filiation with your fraternity 6r because yo were cute, but nevertheless we have electe you in one of the most heavily voted ele< tions in the school's history. Some of us ar expecting much from you. Some of us hav no earthly idea as to what you are suppose to do during your tenure of office, nor d some of us care. But there are many wh earnestly hope that you will represent you constituents in the manner befitting you position. First, you were chosen to represent us. W expect you to do just that. We expect yo to take our side when a conflict arises i which we feel that we should be defended. We ask you to act as not merely in a foi mality, but in practice for a better Carolin and a better student body. We don't expect you to alloW us to t hoodwinked by any student or personni giuup, in which there is in substance a pre: sure. We expect you to handle our affairs at inirably with the faculty and the admini: tration. We do not care merely for a bette relations with the faculty and administrz tion, but for a better understanding. When you are delegated to represent t Mr.A The women's magazines and psychiatris made him a criminal and a problem. Et strangely enough, the veteran seems to 1 just average. In Detroit, the police depar ment was determined to find out if th women's magazines were correct. After 15 months of careful study and tal ulation of arrests, the department came 1 the conclusion that the former servicema In This C Hy CAltlN Now that the political speeches campus there and campaigns are over, the com- litical parties pus has time to stop and survey organizations the damage and the prospects for innovation in next year. As usual, some groups~ This has! on the campus are counting up) Carolina sever the offices they gained at the war, the unis polls, and some victors are adding chines, but thi to their ODK points with nlewly- desired purpo: won campus positions.Thnee But, these are not the impor- litical organ tant people right now. The stu- pus is the dents affected most are those wvho student-in-g have no points at all and belong some isola Proponents to no group which canm claim the dent constil vice-presidlent or secretary-treas- that if it evi tirer. Maybe they (lid participate Ident law, im the voting and (lid help select opened at the victors, but at Carolina this isl activity. riot where the election ends-5 B3ut it is n For, the push will soon be- Politicalharti gin and the pressure groups tioned dluring will turn up the heat either could bettert now or next fall and the point- fall and sprir less man will be forgotten in In the ca: the scramble. And the fault several ci is his; he could become a little strated a cog in the pressure machine of conditior if he wished. Some adve committees Roosevelt had his forgotten man,. in operatio and since that time this unknown| posed imprm individual has been used in the lalready bee vote bait slogans by candidates There was from the presidency dIown to coun- ideas or aim ty clerk. But, nowhere has this life of the cit No two cand forgotten man moved to the front odd in the1 and made himself known- same things, He could do it here. worn cliches ceived reword The Copy Boys ters. He could look north to the Uni- This only sI versity of North Carolina in our Or section of sister state. On the Chapel Hill campus has a Robert Isbell .. ... Jean Hill . Van Newnan ...........Norine Corley UNII James Sheridan M4 Jane bowe rp.. . . Founded Januar le Young editor, 'he Gam, Ruth Newell University of Sou year except holids Carroll Glliam The opinions ex essarily those of endofsement alth< Our Newly-Elected ?presentatives off the campus, we are counting on you to t do us justice, because it is through you, a duly-elected representative of the student body, that our school is judged. We have been ashamed of showings made by some representatives in the past. We expect you to reflect the spirit of good will and gentle manliness which are hallmarks of good citi zenry and scholarship. e In the carrying out of our campus affairs, d we want a better voice in our student gov o ernment. We appreciate the effort put forth o by your predecessors, but their work is not r finished. You must carry on where they left r off. Your task is made easier by the trials and errors of those whom you succeed, so the goal of better representation is much e nearer for you than it was a year ago for U them. Please do not accept the position you have taken over as a matter of honor, as some thing on which you may build your name for a your own selfish use. Be considerate of the wants and needs of those you represent. Be e tolerant of their opinions. If their plight is l such as is deserving of your helping hand, - you are expected to lend it at whatever ex pense it may be to you in '.he ordinary exe cution of your office. ;- We are looking forward to a successful r new year under your leadership and hope t- you the best of luck in your un'dertakings, which in reality are our undertakings. 5 The Students. Average ;s is violent, but no more so than anyone else. t The crimes committed by veterans in De )e troit were in proportion to the number of e veterans in that city. Thinking in terms of the veteran as a special case should be stopped. He is just o an average citizen and wishes to be consider n ed as such.-(Oklahoma Daily). .,orner . .*0. LL L. GILLIAM ar now three po- balanced program for improve functioning as these ment of Carolina. Expediency should--surely no seems to be the law, and the aver collegiate circles, age student probably will assume, >een suggested for correctly- or incorrectly, that al times. Before the everybody was campaigning for ersiy ha itsma-self-glory, and not for the inter eriyhdtsm-eats of the students they were ~y did not serve the seeking to serve. e. ary thing in a p0o- i,ti er vsnta x ization on the cam aim to serve the cpin h aehdbe on mneral and not tetm orn h et nl ed little group.isnw ofd,thiheernew ntsatex tio hae hped CetainlyThee harebeuentsin r bcoms heotn omwhfore aong,l thime,ampnd thedoo wl etho hve toerinthe Ideath forl terplaehfr lvinwansttdy ing.bomeomopl dontelietth >t necessary to wait HooBor;smdnttut i-in-the-future date.StdnCoci;trsfe es could have func- altl lqeI otoln this election and evrtig he student life next g if organized now. Wynobrnthsbhidhe npaign just ended, oe? Wyntdsuste ndidates demon- fel n pnyfralt er ack of knowledge Wyntmk ugsin,rte is on the campus. ta utsyn tsn od cated setting up Ntiga4ti nvriyI 9 which are already pretfripoeet n l 3, and some pro- ofuarnosuhmbcess vements that have tobleeitoes. a made. no coordination of moepltclarisnth s for bettering the cmu ol ev o h zens of the campus. getrbnft falo s dates of the forty- Isuscudbare;teb aces advocated the de ofIrvigColn although the time- colbelfefrmtehu and platitudes re- dno h eircaspei ng n soequr- etaindy here pannin com-nt owedthatnogoup Wehoulall r dfntowrda for indvidalson he ermarina, tif unotvert a bett long-laangeoandviwelandstauey CROWING FOR A GREATER VERSITY OF SOUTH CAROI imber oY Associated Collegiate Pr Distributor of Collegiate Digest y 80, 1908, with Robert Elliott Gon scock" is published by and for th4 th Carolina weekly, on Fridays, d ys and examinations. pressed by columnists and letterwr "The Gamecock." Publishing does ugh the right to edit is reserved. Shall we watch anott Grin an< AL Bj The Spoilers A new history of the university, giving an insight into various causes for its present predicament, climatic as well as otherwise, pre sented with the usual appropriate apologies, this time to Rex Beach. Once there was a new world, pristine and primeval, full of riches and grandeur, untouched, unspoiled. Men came and nestled happily into nature's bosom, con tent to be as pure as this God's country in which they lived. They panned gold on the banks of the Southern Clondike and the Lower Yukon all the day long and were happy in all the natural wealth. In their prosperity they looked to their children, and erect ed a school in keeping with the place, calling it our University on the Southern Clondike. They erect ed buildings and planted trees and in the center even put up a chim ney with U.S.C. in huge letters on it as white as the driven snow. Here the happy children lived in the sunshine, and the air was cool and fresh, breezing off the chaste snowvfields into this bright Eden wvhere it never rained or became humid or disagreeable. Great, majestic ice fields spread around the little community on the river, and each day dawned clear and invigorating. Then one day a couple of brats appeared on the scene, and they came to be known as Gold Gulch Willie and Yukon Lil. Now this new land lived by the creed that a man should be judged by his worth. Not so by Yukon Lily and Gold Gulch Will. They knewv what they were worth. So they had to use other methods to get nhead. Tlhey began wi~easel ing around and hawking their wares. "Help me out, buddy, and Ill do you some favors after I'm there. (and I'm sure to get there, buddy). Don't care about the job. There's nothing there to get fouled up, Let me do it." Men listened in the saloons and over games of pin. ball, and began to wonder what it was worth, and to forget what they were worth. When the time came for the re shuffling and the deciding, as it always did once a year, of whc should lead and who should follow, all the way from the student body president to the lead dog On the sleds, they really came to the fore and showed their colors. Alas, and imitators of them ap peared on all sides. Like bad money driving out good, their distortiom and machinations took the place of quality. Fire had to be fought with fire. All was changed. Pol'. tics had reared its ugly head! Oh, the putresence of it all! The innocents were duped and con. taminated, inveigled into prosti. tuting their talents. They forgol about honesty and worth as their criteria. Now their world, too, was no longer clean. The spoilers had airived. The Ice Queen of the annual carnival no longen. neces...,.m Business Man Assistant Busil Circulation Mat Advertising Sti JNA Business Staff: 855 Saye Gastc sales as the first Bob McLellan, students of the Katz, Hunter uring the college Albert Munn. Marguerite ters are not nec- Ellen Schofield, not constitute an Jack Morgan, , Decell, Lloyd H re to ha lif Ler Delta Come in?? I Bahret HRET needed beauty and charm. But a ta bevy of loud latter-day Lils (but Fl no saints, they) was indispensable at the polls. If a poor girl did bc have beauty the hawkers would w raise such a fuss you'd get con- gr fused and miss it. - U A man no longer needed sense . and character-just a knowledge of how and where to swap votes. A If he didn't have a leg to stand L on for running, all,the more rea son for getting a girl at the polls to show her legs as a distraction. Of "Vote for Gold Gulch, honey, rc and I'll hold your books for you." Oh. pity the man, inhappy, he, who has no Lil to chortle, "Vote J 1 for ie." You could get so far on noth-1 ing! And so many people could get a free ride on your coattails. 8, Make them feel so important! The w sweet young innocent things painted their faces and put on their tight skirts just like Lil and - would descend on the polls caus ing a terrible ruckus for hours on end. A And the place became just teem ing wvith little Willies. There was heated talk of throat slittings and back-stabbings and vehement charges andl frantic denials. After ti all, they had to keep going, some- c howv. And they all got into violent battle sand soon the air was actually hot with controversy. al The ice began to melt! Steamy hi vapors enveloped the hub-hub. The tI rains came. And came. And came, but never did quite cleanse the foul air. When it wvasn't raining, the bloody sun came out and U blistered the land, scorching their il paradise. Everything became over- b heated and unhealthy. The tran quil Clondike had become infested with angry little buzzings and commotions. f A veritable Pandora's box of b~ evils had been loosed. There was even a slow changing of the spe cie, and little by little the Gold gulchia Willicatum and the Yu konica Lilianmus (genus: Poll spoileratus) repaced the Virtuum Honorboardus and the Integrialic Uiprightus as the predominant type. Through the many, many years the change was completed. Even the old names were forgotten. And the later settlers never even real- [] izedl they were mimicing the early spoilers. The parents still panned h gold all the live-long day at the al banks, but flow it was along what they called the Congaree. They even had the U.S.C. on the chim nq,y standing for something else. When Willie and Lil's day had M passed, many hoped they would fi be forgotten *by future genera tions. How wrong they were! These two spawned a breed that s lasted, even though at times it appeared as if they had been beaten down and defeated. But they still kept on being responsible for the passing of the Ice Age, and the present miserable weather, as well as all other sorts of abuses. Now maybe a geologist or a his torian here or there might dis agree. . . ager ..................... Harry W Hiott, Jr. tess Mr.................... George W. Shelor, Jr. ager .................................. Lynn Hook If: Ben Quarles, Buddy Turner Electa Hall, Luki Bennett,'Bettie Moore REPORTORIAL STAFF n, Belinda Collum, Pat Ram, Jay Rodgers, Ruth Patrick, Ruth Newell, Gladys Johnson, Carolyn Busbee, Carolyn Russell, Colleen Morris, Rupert Blocker, Bob Gillespie, Webb, Ida S. Webb, Betty Frazer, Audrey Chapman, Jo-Anne Dellinger, Bob Horton, Joy Conard, Ned Threatt, Fem Newbury, Henry Macklen, Jimmy Crawford, Grady untington, Joe Molony. go - nw ft The Inside Track In the days of our senility, when the sediment of happiness mains in the filter through which the anguishing and il-worn years are passed, you and I will sit among those ;Ppy recollections and comfort in the soothing caresses of e at Carolina. Let us suppose that we are in our Golden. Age-then revert to a trouble-censored campus life, musing in the happy things which has made our existence a richer, fuller one. Through the mist of time, the background Is a silent ghost and our stage is concerned only with the few, re alities of which we dream. We and our surroundings appear impressionistic-not clear, yet quietly happy. First, 'tis fall. A gentle September breeze sweeps the 11 oaks on the Horseshoe, and from the street alongside inn Hall floats the strains of music and the laughter of iys and girls dancing in the semi-darkness . . . Bashful, ide-eyed freshmen with a crisp, new outlook on the andeur of college life make up the bulk of the gathering. pperclassmen, tinted with nostalgic feelings, already real e that life's sweetest munients are the most fleeting . . . mross the campus the "Judge" makes his hourly checks ... vers scurry from their tristing places at the sound of foot lls, and from the grey-walled tenements comes the aroma coffee and the echoes of a tenor voice from the shower on. ... Then October, monarch over all months in the Caro. ia year--October, with its falling leaves, chilled mornings id warm afternoons, and the red letter day of the year 0ate Fair dy, comes 'round . . . Bonfires, shouting thou nds marching through the streets, a burning tiger flaming ith a spirit mellowed with age are a heritage... And on ard through November the cheering resounds . . . We win . we lose ... we are victor by either. ... How cheerful, how possessed with the fullness of life the Christmas season . . approaching holidays . . . en igements, weddings, mistletoe and holly... And the spring . . . Through the thin, blurred curtain of me we remember spring above all. It is then that we leave arolina with her campus draped in a canopy of leaves and een foliage . .. It is fitting that we depart from her when ie has bloomed and matured to the fullness of her potential sauty. When we leave, we carry with us as a grand climax ie indelible picture of all she means to her children. All these scenes and memories will from time to time pass afore you and me and we shall hold them dear and cherish tem as a picturesque and essential part of a building of a atter life. ...Then to revert to the armed chair and the greying uir, you and I sit enchanted, lost in the memories of the atter things we have lived in and loved. ...You and I fail to remember the squanderings and vicissitudes that were also a part of our living. All was well we recall ..,. and we think so only because time has ' smothered the trying times we were a part of.. The issues we fought among ourselves, against our elders, the state and the people. All these buried in the sands of time. Only the best is left, and we know not to where our petty, insignificant campus participations are vanished. . . But they are there . . . they are hidden, not because iey never materialized, but because they, piece by piece ave fitted themselves in the pattern of life taken up and Ivanced by those who followed us. Any of us, therefore, are in error to say that our partici ution in the issues presented to us today are not worthy of ir deliberation and participation . . . For as sure as there ill be memories, as sure as these memories are a part of a iller, richer being, the ideals and standards forwarded by a in our petty squanderings will return a hundred fold, arving and making Carolina a better world. ...Though our efforts and accomplishments be lost in the whirling eddies of times of the future, our pur pose may be fulfilled, and when we In our departing days look back along with others who have given to her betterment, Carolina will blossom In value as an institu tion for the building of man like the memories we en visage of her majestic beauty, her gift to our Intangible happiness, and her Indelible picture of all she means to her children.