Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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CHARLES E. LEE - Edito: ' Harold Princ DRPARTMENT HEDS Editors; George Paul Barrett, Sports' Editor; Margaret Rollins, and Den Polayr Oo-ed Editor; Emily West, Society Editor; Albert Jane Orout, Job Rouslin, Feature Editor. Associate Socit and Jane Cor, Smith, Charles COURTENAY CARSON, JR. and Rosa Lee I Managing Editor agers. DRIVING TWIVO IORSES This semester Frank Jordan held the of fiees of president of the Euphradian Lit erary Society and of 0. 1). K., and at the sane time at position on the University de bating squad. Ted Ninestein was at the same time vice-president of the student body and president of K. S. K. Next semester JTimyiv Thomas will be president of the Clariosophic Society, and of K. S. K. at the same time. and also a imember of the Ath letic Advisory Board. The Gamerock believes that this holding of imiultiple oflices on the campis by one per son is wrong. We feel it almost impos sible for one person to head two important groups and to do the wvork reqiired. Hold ing two ofiices at the samle time is piggisl ness. It also betrays an attitude of over weening egotism oil the part of the selfish student. Those who possess campus offices fall into the habit of thinking that they are the only ones capable of doing the job. IheV are wrong. Others ire just as able as they are. Jimmy, it looks to us like it's ill) to you. You caln try to carry the Clariosophie Lit erary Society aid Kappa. Sigma Kappa at tile same time. Butt you are going to run you1rself ragged doing a mediocre job of both presidencies when you could lead one of the groups superlatively. IIow about thinking it over this suniner and when you comne back next fall calling a, new election for onie of the groups? If you aire big enough you can set at precedent that will stop m1ultiple ofiice hol(ing for somC tilile. 11VIDE NERVIC.'E FR70,I THE A7'IILE7'1' BUSINESS With thf.migofCrl=' tdn Union-which we persist in hoping, (with out nuch basis for hope) will next year become a reality-must come also a division in the direotorshipo sttu<ient activities. The director of rampiu student activities nmst be also tile director of the Student Unlion Building. Now we are not proposing that W. II. IIarth and Co. be Imloved down to the Stli dent Union Building. What we are pro posing is that the control of campus student activities ie noved 1 from hat is now pri miariily 111 athletic' office to a b)uilding plannted for cam~upus or'gan~iizationls. With this ar1ranigem)en1t we arle surle Mr'. Ilath would( augree. With 'the task of keeping the athletic nmachinie greaised and1( petting along atll the maijor alnd minor teams, lhe has little tinme to pulzzle over the compllicaltedl affairs of over twenty-five campus extra cuirricuilar groups). Service and1 professionail groups 011 the catmputs like the "music'' of laist year's song, make a big fuss about going " 'roulnd and1( around," but uinfortunaitely they conme out no where ait all. With nol cenatral guidl ing force they meet at aill sorts of hours, annllounce big p)rojects or make a lot of noise aibouat little ones. and (10 little. TheW object of belonging hats bec'(omle not the 1)riv ileg~e of service biut thle p)rivilege of hay ing three Greek letters aifter one's mne. A tratined wvorker to correlate these ac tivities in an adIe(inately e<quipped Student Union Building can tratnsform our twenty five orgatnizations fronm "bull" societies to drliving forces for Cairolina. Let's leave the athletic b)usinless where it belongs-under the (directorshil) of a bulsiness man. Let's puht our1 campus orgatnizations where they belong-in charge of a dlirector of tihe Stu (lent Union Building. "N OW 1S THlE TIME FOR? ALL GOOD MEN-" We've got the Blue Book Bhues-examni nation size. At night we can't sleep be cause of 'em. Once we've closed our eyes we hear an ominous screeching of chalk on a blackboard, and out of the darkness comes a voice commanding: "Explain... contrast and cornpare. .." We're scared. You can't compare nothing to nothing. And all we kenow is nothing. We're going to ASSOCUMTE I and leola Carety, Associate zuckerma C. muckenteG o, Associate Manaring Editors; inis Steppe, and Irene lAborde, ty Editors; Eleanor Cannon. Associate Oo-ed Editors; FasterRB 3O TT a Atkinson. "Duck" Sweatman. Irown, Associate Business Man- Entered as sedond class matter a November leave here in June "with the greatest of E's." We've got a term paper to write. We went down to the library yesterday to get started. The bust of Socrates is still there, and he looks just as disgusted as he did at the end of last semester. We drew pictures on the lamp shade, and took down two quo tations from a book we found. We stayed there 'for about an hour, and then it got so crowded that we couldn't study, so we went to the canteen. As we left we stuck our chewing gum on the nose of the statue at the head of the stairs. We've got 2,387 pages of parallel to read. We counted up what we had read yester day, 2,613 exactly. We looked up all the books we have read in the card catalogs so that if any other editions of the same books have more pages we can report the largest amount. We don't want to cheat ourselves. We tried to get out the book that counts for history and English too. But it wasn't in and five other people are on the waiting list for it. We've got to start working soon. We've got to find somebody to copy the lectures we missed. We've got to start read ing. (We bet we can read two hundred pages an hour.) We've got to get hold of that Phi Beta Kappa girl and get her to teach us some French. Gosh, we've got a lot of work to do! We've got so much work to do we aren't going to do any of it. We're going swim iling. ART, IY A GAIE7' Those who visit the art department's an nual exhibit in the Student Union Build ing this week will be impressed by the vn riety and the quality of the craftsman ship displayed by the students' work. Those who go a step farther and visit the art departlmelit's studios in the attic floors of F4linn Hall will be amazed that so much and such excellent work could be executed ill so limited SpaIce. In the exhibit the work of ninety-two students is displayed. In the potraiture department in Flinn Hall there is one mod erately small room and three small cubby holes-adequate spauce for six or eight pu" pils. Blecause of the crowdled conditions it is almost imp11ossible for tIle artists to get proper~ p)erspect ive on thleir painting, hlard to get adequate lighting. The dlesign dlepartment is not much bet ter- off: It's rooms on the second floor must be shlaredl with the music dlepartmnent. Here too, lighting is bad aind locker facilities are It is a story-book tradition that artists struggle andl starve in garrets and pine away in tile most (list ressing circumstances. Car olinat is catrrying onl the tradition. Th le last lbit of copy has gone past the edlitor's dlesk. 'fie last headline has been written. Edhitorials, cuts, columns, adl dlummly-all have gone to tile printer. For tile last timte in the session of 1937-38 the "b)aby has gone to b)ed." For our mistakes we lhope to b)e forgiven. For whlat success T'he Gamecock has en joyedl, our staff, and ouri friends and help ers on the campus and out in town (de serve much of the credit. We have had the job of trying to reflect something of a fas cinating community-the Carolina cam pus1. When we finish typing this, and when we have carved our names on the editor's dlesk, our job will be over. 'Thle office is deserted. Save for tile click ing of one typewriter all is quiet. The staff, like the paper, has gone to bed. Paper covers the floor. In the desk drawer ten (/arecocks wait for this one before they go to the binder. Hlere where the editor has played the shoutin'g dictator, until Sep temnber three silent typewriters and an empty nnate jar hn1l1 paceul dominion. iE ICOCK mary 30, 1908 ONZALt, First Editor t thr ofos at Columbia, 8. .,. Press Rate Collect By George Zuckerman ASIDES: Returning after an in terlude by the garrulous McGrath, this columnist finds the campus redundant with news. But, because of the sad fact that freedom of the press here is only a phrase, PRC will trip the light fantastic-and write as they please. MAY QUEEN: Out on Melton field last Monday was a Big League scout viewing sone of Catfish Smith's diamond luminaries. More appropri ate, on that day, would have been a Hollywood talent scout to cast a professional eye at South Carolina's version of pulchritude-flavored by the sunny climate and local politics-as exemplifned by the May Queen and her Court. Entire performance went off as smoothly as a movie version of college life-except for a few per sonal giggles and sideglances...To ward the finale, Dean Chase, minus a much needed microphone, whispered sweet nothings to May Queen Mary Rhodes, who had just ended a long garboish journey past a gaping throng ... Runner-up for the happiest person at the affair was Altitude Smith, who being above is all, had a clear vision of the manufactured Eden.. .The mad Poliakoff, attired in an Indian Tuxedo or an Amazon nightshirt, trickled in and out to prevent the scene from fatally lapsing into so briety... Dancer Sylvia Ster, minus oriental flutes, performed a lilting Dimn-iseonumber wichfl aLuki of reaching platonic heights because she chewed gum. ..The spectacle was enhanced by the presence of Park Avenue's Fletcher Loomis, who wore horn-rims to get a better view. DEAR EDITORS: Each year Co lumbia University reports the amount of sheckels raked in by the.ir journal isin graduates. In the same manner, though slightly warped, this colum nist reveals sonie interesting-but sick ening-statistics or dope.. .Journalist Barney Beidelman is spending most of his time laying checkers in a Penn sylvania industrial town. Writes Barney: "Since industry migrated to North Carolina, the whole town is laying checkers."... In South Caro lina's Piedmont section is Journalist Hal Tribble waiting by quiet waters for the business recession to end and( the fish don't even bite. .. Both have spent time and money trying to place themselves in some newspaper, advertising agency or radio station. To both have conic an unending par rot-like answer-We're firing--not hiring".. .And both are not lacking in ab)ility; once given a chance they are sure to click.. .To give the report a ciineimatic finish . .neither has lost his sense of humor. VARSITY SHOW: Lest we for get, were it iiot for February fresh man Jerry Miller-boosted and panned in this coluin-there, in all proba bility, would niever have been the Gamecock Revels of 1938, which has had three record-breaking perform ances. While Miller's original script was practically scrapped and his only visib)le contribution was a minor act ing role, it was he who started the snowball rolling. Also deserving of credit is the Stephan-Woods combine, the University Players, who kept the ideas and talent within realistic bounds ..The show was b)etter than I expect ed--in fact it was in the superlative class... Outstanding was the Carleo Colina duo, which made Shakespeare spinl in his grave and give him a spanish accent... The Monteith-Mc Master-Woodwardl number gave the show a momentum which carried uin. til the final curtain... Reminiscent of Harry Richman was Bernard Hester, as Mr. Anyhow...Muscles Davis' imitation of Mrs. Johmston's Olin was excellent, and whoever wrote Sid Duncan's speech knew how. ..Win chellorchids also to Proctor and Campbell (no soap) and Edwards and others... However, most outstanding was gridder Frank Martin's personal ity. TEN WORDS: PRC-Hurler Bax ter being congratulated by a confused spectator for Gunner Tabor's Clemson triumph... Due to financial squabbles, Lyn Edwards' original song will not be played by Paul Whiteman in his Columbia appearance next week,. Carolinian ruining Prof. Hoy's article by letting nature run loose.. .The University may send the 1989 Revel. on a spring holiday tour. ..Dinky Williams, trying to mix tennis with his reportorial job, and getting where Henry Woodward took him down a 1957 /Mmeaber t95* NatlionaAdvrlsingService, ic. Cod e P\adCoedbu Re u esfts 420 MADisON AVa. NEw Yon. N. Y. ciicao - Doeyou - Los AneBLs - SAN FRANCOO *Campus Ca .AO L # Back TaIk Delta Sigma Pi Campus of U. S. C. Columiad, S. C. Dear Sirs: In behalf of the Board of Director of the Student Union Building I ai taking this means of expressing t -Ou "ur ;ppredai or tne fuia which you raised at the 'recent "Fu Night" for the Student Union Build ing. I cannot say at this mometi just how the money will be spe: but I assure you that it will be put in to something permanent and that du credit will be given to Delta Sigma P for the fine work that they did. It is especially gratifying to us tha the movement was entirely voluntar on your part and that you had no othe reason for raising the money excqp your spirit of cooperation and you unselfish efforts for a greater Carolin I am taking the liberty of sending copy of this letter to The Ganecoc in an effort to express in a small wa the great appreciation * that we fee toward Delta Sigma Pi. Most sincerely yours, WV. S. 'Woods, Chairmar To the Editor of Thse Gamecock: Dear Sir: Not long ago an editorial appeare< in Thes Gamecock urging Carolina co eds to form the habit of dIropping-il at the Student Union Building. Why should co-eds drop-in at th Student Union Building? Why shoul< we voluntarily visit a place as bar as a barn, where a few straight-hackei chairs form prim lines around the me notonous white walls? Not onlyi there a complete lack of that certail * Campus Cc A AtKARD PRNcrom4SuoEN AND HEIR'1D PART OF 'he D~UKE.OB3Accoc FRfUNE,.HAS AN ALOWAlNCE OF [ too Jm AcP STAT WrIRS Virginia hrown. Charlotte Dub, Jane llamson, Dorothy L Fry, A Muir. Robert Shaw, 'hompson, Ma Newman, Phillip Wilmeth Francs Paul Sanabury, James 0 loway, Larry Harry Riddle, and Ruth fanarr. Toma Willis - - - - - - . Circulation Mx"" Jamses H. Joyner Exchange F4t, Issued Weekly by the Literary Socletee at tit University of South Carolina during the oU40 year except during examinations and holida. mera LAST HURDLEI FOREST '3PEC' WE@RNATMONAL* WAS MARRIED AT '1-4E FINIS UNE ON THE5 CINER TRACK OF TH4NVER- / SY OF GEOlGIA STADUM! THE nRMAiY AT REED o=EGE, P UAD.ORE. IS NAMED * QUIET INFIRMAY ..... N MEMMRY OF A STU DENT. "homey" air necessary for the real relaxation of persons on the campus, but there is such a distinct frigidness in the atmosphere that even the most s caustic of persons are not long in 1 moving elsewhere. Are there any ni-turan o wkv.!? s Nol Are there any floor-lamps? No! 1 Are there any window draperies? Oh, - yes, in one whole room! Are there t any rugs? Not one. The Student t Union situation has been acute. - We've got a new building, yes. e With nothing in it! A beautiful white elephant. Why? You know as well as I do, that Carolina has an increased state appropriation. Where is it go I ing? Who is getting it? Not the r Student Union Buildingl t The present University adninistra r tion wept and tore its hair for in creased funds. They received in creased funds. What right have they to ignore the building in which Iearly every campus organization meets? Thqy are ignoring it. Why? If the administration of the U niver sity wvants to have the girls visit the Student Union, to establish it as a meeting place for boys anid girls, they must place in the building something I to attract us there. - How about fixing up one of the I downstairs rooms as a game room? Why shouldn't one of the upstairs rooms he made over into a reading i room where we can drop in to read magazines and the latest light novels? I At any rate something should be - done to make the building more attrac Stive. Leola Garety'. imerQ PROF. WAM LYON C *-*KNOWN ED(XAOS CARRIES Ak4 UMBRELLA AL MOST QNSTANTLW! MEBRSOi-M 1 C S NQ re N