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v- - Editor Aa "t keliY. 810r01s WI Margaret Rollins. Society Mdtor; -Leola Garety, Co-Wd Rditer. bury, Philip WilImeth, AwKn STI WRI1* tore Charlo4s Bureb, Ri 'jA - VC IlBoq~ )rtyRoe.Lu Newman, Associate Sode" 2k LdhorVirdt BLow% Vorofth Roger. Loulse ry AT-a ar !,004ThlpWc rancee Thomas. Orath. Paul League, Assoc Lanry. aZ7 may oreen, Emot Oants. Gree, S Mc&te.Forrest Crouch. Rosa Lee E AlAin Coleman. AssociateI 8. C. MUCKENFUSS - Managing Editor Will We Fight? War is in the air. We can see it in the daily newspapers and hear it on the radio. Fast communication has brought the whole world closer together, and even across three thousand miles of water we feel the tension that pervades the countries directly involved. America will stay out, we say, forgetting that in 1914 feel ing in the United States was strongly against our entering the struggle. But we have been educated since then and now the college youth of America has taken definite steps to prevent a repeti tion of the last war. Peace demonstrations have been held and anti-war propa ganda has been flooding the college ress for the last ten years. So we feel that we ar safe. What we think vould be true if declaration of ar could be made only by those who have to (10 the fighting. But as in thg last war, the enemy bullets ill be stopped by those who had no voice in declaring the war. Is "death instead of diplomas for this generation" more than an empty phrase? Or will the next few years bring on a repetition of the World War with all the suffering and dev astation that improved fighting machines can bring? Sixty-nine percent of the American people favor unqualified neutrality as the best course for the United States to follow, according to statistics issued by the Institute of Public Opin ion. Seventy percent believe that it was a mistake for us to enter the last war. Yet even these manifestations of a desire for peace may prove futile if the powers that be decide to send us to war ao bring back prosperity for a few years, protect investments, or make the world safe for democracy. ahat the heads of our government will profit by our mis take in 1917 and keep peace, we can only hope; that propa ganda will drag us in seems possible. And the ones who are declaring loudly that they ill not fight on foreign soil will be the first ones to enlist when the bands begin to play, Welcome Alumni During the next two days, the University will play host to hundreds of old grads who will gather in Columbia from every corner of the state to participate in the annual homecoming festivities. These alumni and almnae will find themselves almost strangers to the campus since the improvements made this summer have changed it almost beyond recognition. But one thing they should expect to find the same as it has always been is the Carolina spirit of friendliness and hospitality The shouldt partcipt to the trateduas straomng inmt stranger whiche aspsnce tonheypromnt mae anhis suhe shoudve accreditam beyconsdrcgtion. ol One one the thg thtl kepc man findre saets fro visitn always alamaeeorfen is the Caoiacprtolredlinaess tad gree themho whncheyg waso the camu. Thehaen ou gueet soeo them, spea toheyaifh were stiin s ilur stuet. So him around if he needs any help. Five years from now, you may be coming to Carolina as a visitor yourself. A Permanent Loss (Reprinted from Tuesday's edition of the Columbia Record) Last year a number of graduates of the University of South Carolina were graduate students at other institutions of higher learning. One man went directly from the state iiniversity to Prince ton, and attained the highest record in the Princeton graduate school. He now has a fellowship there. Another 1937 graduate entered the Harvard school of busi ness administration, a,nd made a better record than any other student enroled in the school. A young woman went from the University of South Caro lina to Vassar to do post-graduate work. The dean of the Vas sar graduate school wrote officials at the University here that she was the best graduate student enroled there in many years. A 1936 graduate of the university entered the University of Virginia to do graduate work in electrical engineering. Last summer the Rockefeller Institute recognized the value of experiments lie was undertaking to the extent of backing their further development' with cash. This list is by no means complete. Many other graduates of the university and other South Carolina institutions of 7' higher learning went outside the state and attained distinction ina graduate work elsewhere. Three of these four students already had done graduate work at the university, but found it desirable to leave the state toe pursue their specialties further. T~he point is that, once having left the state and having at t alned distinction elsewhere, these young men and women are *xot likely to return. South Carolina can ill-afford to lose their exeeptiobal minds, not to mention the educational in esntment the s(te already has made in them. Ifthere wets-k the state a great university, adequately fi ~~anoed by the stte* with adegnate research facilities for grad eo work, these and hundreds of other South Carolinians ,~', t. leave the state to study eieswhere. They would ~I~*bbility remain to pticipate 'in the intelligent de af thae atata uad its tesonweas .which is so sorely 'AlMEC~ clate Manageng I. ak anarr, Matha 0 .ditors; Ed We - lae Sports Ediibrs; rown, Andrew Jones., 1B R' E4I1OTT 00: =AL u*"ness Manage. aterd as second cla" matte at the "potofoo at November W0 =80 Voluntary Chapel? One of the things that the average student at Carolina likes most is to be told that he has to do something that he < not want to. Several years ago the board of trustees of the 1 versity realized that nothing was being accomplished by compulsory chapel program then in existence and substiti in its place a new voluntary system. Students who have been at Carolina for less than three y cannot realize what an improvement this was. Three years freshmen were required to attend chapel three times a week, upperclassmen twice a week. The programs they had to ten to often consisted of nothing more than routine annou ments which they could have read just as well from a bull board. Yet they had to attend. Consider what a different program is being put on now. special committee appointed by President McKissick acts i governing body to supervise the planning of suitable*progr which will interest and entertain the students. Promii speakers have replaced the routine announcements, and ap priate musical interludes are given to break the monoton the average. program. Yet with these improvements, voluntary chapel is threat( to be abolished if more interest is not shown by the students. the work of the chapel committee is done uselessly unless tendance at the programs increases. No one wants to bring back the old system with its dull grais listened to by uninterested students. But if the students won't come to good programs, ther little use to burden members with the job of planning them We Take Over Keeping pace with the many changes made on the Univet campuis during the summer months, The Gamecock has char its personnel and moved its office from the basement of the o dent union to the top floor of Rutledge college The Gamecoci self has undergone a few alterations and is now a seven cob paper instead of six. The columns have been reduced to standard newspaper width. Yet mone of these changes will cause us to forget our po of trying to publish the best possible paper, to promote the vancement. of the University, and to give to the students a pf which they will not hesitate to call their own. For The Go cock, though put out by a relatively small number of stude is the publication of the University of South Carolina an< such will seek to reflect the ideas and attitudes of the w] student body. 1With our small and inexperienced staff, overcrowded of and three battered typewriters, it would be presumptuous us to call ourselves to be a newspaper; yet during this seme we will do our best to give to the news of the campus in the journalistic form. Since we cannot include in our editions the news items on the campus, we will use our own judgn in selecting the most important for publication. We will not endeavor to give outsiders the impression that University is a Utopia where everyone obeys the golden: and gives his last shirt to his room mate. On the o1 hand, wve will not print anything which will unne sarilv reflect discredit on the University and cause then think that the University is not a safe or desirable place to e one's son or daughter. 'We will print only what we believ< be the truth. If we see any way that we can aid in the upbuilding of reputation of Carolina, in spreading the news that Univer stud(ents are not morally deficient as some imagine them to we will do it. In our edlitorials, we will try to be fair to everyone, bu you think us unduly critical, let us know by using the e forum column. 'We realiae that no matter how hard we try, we cannot p1< the whole student body, but during this smester, we will our best to live up to the standards set by those wh)o have cedled us and to give to you "all the news we have room to pri Hello Frosh To this yer' freshman class, one of the largest in hist The Gamecock bids a hearty welcome and congratulates yot choosing Carolina as your alma mater. You have now been on the campus for two weeks, and probably feel that you have already become acquainted witi the manners, customs, and traditions of the University. Du: the past few days you have been quizzed, lectured at, and g advice by both faculty and students, and one could not bI you for feeling a little lost in the maze of events. Before starting the year off with your head in a whirl, well to pause and consider a few things which may be gai during your freshman year. First, don't forget that you came to college to study. into the habit at the opening of school, and it will be easie prepare for quizzes and examinations. However, don't him your development in other fields by becoming a bookworm There are a number of organizations on the campus bid< for new members. Join only those in which you can tak< active part and which will benefit you in the' course you taking. Speak to everyone on the campus; it's one of Carolina's traditions. Make friends with your professors; they can help you a g deal outside of the class room if you will give them:a cha Remember-that the success of your college life will dej not~ on your professors or your room mate, but on yoursel D6 Coume POtJ 420 MADISON A% Colu bia, 1. .. cacaGso 1olo - di Press Rate loes Colleet Jni- By George Zuckerman the ited Note: The title of this column is derived from the caption placed on ears news telegrams sent by correspon dents to the newspaper. In fact they ago are marked-night press rate co and lect, or day press rate collect. The an .time element is omitted because this 1-is- column is not telegraphed by night nce- or day. I just throw it on Editor Prince's desk, and he after censor etin ship, relays it to the printer and so on, until the reader wonders where in Thesaurus I picked up the title. A is a CINCINNATI NOTES: There ams were some interesting things which happened in Cincy which did not ient reach print, mostly because they did not come under the heading of pro- sports-news... For instance, the bus, of waiting in front of the Netherland Plaza hotel to transport the Caro lina football team to Xavier's stadi ned um, left without Big Durham, who could not be found in the big city. All So the occupants rode a half hour at- on the bus wondering what had hap pened to the husky guard from Greenville. As the vehicle was just ro- about to enter the stadium a tre mendous roar of laughter pervaded the crowded bus, for there was the . chunky Durham, with a cab driver e is very very close, looking through the wire fence...The cabby stayed un til Bill Harth paid... Then Big, who admitted Cincy was bigger than Greenville, said that he fell asleep in his hotel room. Two hours later some Xavier halfbacks wished Dur sity ham had carried out his imitation of d Rip Van Winkle... The Thursday before the X game Joe Aston, sports 3tu- editor of the Cincinnati Post, re morning he combined three photos imn of the Carolina gridders and coaches the with a background shot of a foot ball game to make a layout, eight columns wide, for the first sports page. Minutes before the deadline iy one of the men in the proof room ad- rushed out to his desk, placed down . the proof of the Carolina layout, per acquired an excited countenance, me- and pointly sharply to the ball car nts rier on the background picture-It was Bernie Jefferson, ebony colored I as halfback from Northwestern. The 1ole proof reader, a Southerner, pointed out to Aston that the Gamecocks never used colored players. And after someone found a paint brush ice, the faux pas was smeared-and the for sports editor's face remained white ster instead of red. 3est eanE the T L mule Dear Mr. Editor: her In answer to the editorial writ ces- ten by my friend Mr. Charles Lee to 'in the last issue of The Gamecock dlast year, I wish to thank Mr. dLee for the publicity which it gave 3 to me. However, I would suggest that he wash his own linen before the he jumps on me. When Mr. Lee retired as editor of The Gamecock and prepared to choose someone to he, be his successor, he chose a man who was then president of the Uni fversity Y. M. C. A. These two positions require as pen much work as any political offices on the campus, and it takes an ex ceptional student to hold them 3ase down. However, I do not disagree dwith Mr. Lee's choice, but I just do want to show him that while he pre-. was writing the editorial denounc ,ing me for holding more than one -office, he was himself helping an other to be elected to two impor tant positions. Another fallacy in the editorial was his criticism of Mr. Ted Nine nry, stein. I challenge him or anyone nelse to show me one student on the oncampus who has attended to his duties more conscientiously or done his work more consistent you ly. In my four years at Carolina Sall I have never seen anyone who has * been a better vice-president of the ring student body or president of yven K. S. K. Yet he held both of these eoffices at the same time, and did ethem both well, If I can do just one-third as well as Ninestein, I .shall consider myself a success. t s The thought behind Mr. Lee's ned editorial was good; one student should not hold, so many offices that he cannot do them well. But Get the editor of a paper like The Gamecock should have all the facts r to before he starts to write. In writ ider !".g the editorial as he did, he crit icized a good man who had already -fulfilled his duties, said, nothing [ing abou,t another -man wiho Is now holding three major offices, and at an the same time nominated a man are for a major office when he already held one. In closing, I hope that no one best will take this as personal anta o nism, because M. Lee voted or me for my last office when he reat knew I held the others and could have .caused me more trouble than nee- he did. Mr. Lee was hitting at the end practice I represented and not me personally (I hope). Tom. * Jimme Thmas a.~~~~7 -=7,Yst, ,Y JHARLE 11 Issued Wk' y -41 t Ne.* a4AW11 elty of South Oarolins durftg thb CoUtio year. atp during exanInationg and holiday. MA 44 P* Pa. Now VA*K.N"" y. L@e amess,s saa tmaps PAUL BROCKINGTON, Circulatioi Kgr. Canpus Canera DR. EDWIN L. EX-MRE.0F SW WUSAN "Ns RM>M'M S 0e51 OM F N:E G&n, A QROUPO 125 HISIRIC TREES/ AC n WTREE HASANAME AND A" ANN LDUESOF25 Aoa%RS.PLAN ESE ACORS PMMUcM E UNIO. LEAQUE MICH PROADES 4aNGS STATE IWHAYS. HAND ? MT HOBAR' CMLEE ' %E "N IN -ME 'CSPICUP IS AWARDED TO L A 1 E UHE FRATERNIW HAVING M E IM MW BBM SHE HAD A i 0 EST 4 HOLASE RING 10 BID, HER ONEN1 HAD OD SEVEN * * * NlE CMP3 M . s.- NT OW TrM *Quesiton-of-Week Since The Gamecock is always on the lookout for improve ments on the University campus it was quick to note the change this year at Steward's Hall. Wondering how the student body would feel about this change, four boys were picked to answer this question. All liked the change but some thought the service poor. Here. is how, they answered the question; "What is your opinion as to the change at Steward's Hall, this year?" Jimmie Thomas-Junior Law: "At the beginning of last year when I walked into the Mess Hall and saw the improvements andl then ate the food, I thought a miracle had happened. From a slop joint the old chow hall was changed into a gentlemen's cafeteria. Every one was overjoyed. "This year we came back to find more improvements. The food is better and better prepared. If the service were speeded up no one would have any room to complain. "I want to congratulate the administration on the wonder fuil improvements they have made in Steward's Hall in the past two years. E. H. Myers-Junior: "I think Steward's Hall has been greatly improved over last year. There is more of a variety and better cooked food. I" don't think a better meal could be found in Columbia for ' the price. The only objection is the sl1ow service." E. K. Turnbull-Sophomore: "In my opinion the system of paying for meals at Stew- ' ard's Hall this year is better than it was last year. The one complaint that I have to make is the fact that the doors are not opened and after you do get inside you have to stand in line sometimes as long as a half-hour before you are served. The meals are good enough; the system of paying, fine; but the speed of the service, very poor." SPMAKNGOp SAFETY ' ITOOESN'T TAK~E LONG 1FOR SCANDAL TO FORC.E A Mive STAR. OUT OF TH E GR EECE -- EGNPT A PRgze * IGTE wHo WAttS CAuse OgSREGARDS TRAIN- WHOLE NATIONS To IN6 RULES SOON PASSES PASS OuiT OF Tfl OUT OF THE. PICTORe, PICTUR. --AND DAMP4oot DRIVING CAUSes MGTbR-MoRoNS-To - PASS 0 $T of - 'T9 Pit U R