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COURTENAY CARBQN, JR....Editor Haro[d Pln0% Margaz arna, Obarls Le% St. C and Den Polayes., Lola 0 SITAIT WRIRS tots; oit Hndlo, Paul 9 aymad D&vW Dot Poln. weaBa, Ie Wilmeth, Associate Manag L&Dord=lm.a T%on.on, Miott McCanti Don Hen. Grath and George Prince, Dewsh brittarin. , itors; "Duck" Sweatanan, Hays, and Harold Jrve. Ai GEORGE ZUCKERMAN... Man'g Editor Greetings To H. S. Students To all high school students, gathered here for the an nual high school week program, The Gamecock, and through it the students of the University, extends a most cordial greeting. You have been selected from your schools because you are outstanding in some field of endeavor, either scholas tic or athletic. Leaders now, you will be the leaders when you enter into your collegiate careers, and after that, in the life of your community and state. The University of South Carolina, the oldest state supported educational institution in South Carolina, and one of the oldest in the nation, offers to you its hos pitality now, with the hope that it will have the oppor tunity to offer you its services as an educational insti tution later. The University offers you outstanding training in many fields. Engineering, business administration, med icine, law, pharmacy, journalism, education, and social work are some of the specialized fields from which you may choose. If you do not wish to specialize in some definite field, the College of Arts and Sciences offers you unequaled opportunity for a broad, liberal education in many subjects. For the athletes, there are both inter-collegiate and intra-mural sports, in variety enough to satisfy the most versatile. Carolina needs students of the type represented here this week. We hope that you, the students of South Carolina's high schools, will not bid us a permanent "good-bye" when you leave our campus this week, but will come back as collegians in September. Parade Of Opinion (By Associated Collegiate Preps) WAR PROFITS Always active leaders in the promotion of movements that are designed to aid in the preservation of peace in the world, col legians give their whole-hearted approval to the bill whose pas sage would hold down profits during the time of war. Commending the measure, the Providence College Cowl said: "If thc charg-: that all sorts of sinister financial powers are seeking to sweep the U. S. into a war are valid, the bill on war profits would militate against tie cugetivc-ocss of any such pro-war efforts. Persons with a special financial axe to grind would, in time of war, be unable to feast on the sufferings of a nation. It is obviously unjust that in time of war, some men should be forced to leave their homes and risk their lives while other men remain in safety at great personal profit. Conscript the money as well as the men." But, says the Brown University Herald, something should be done right now ab)out the profits made in peace time on war ma terials. "The almost daily European crises have spurred the government to unprecedented heights in military allotments. Yet no measures are being taken to prevent war time profits in peace time. If, as it has often been prophesied, the adminis tration is seeking to establish peace, it should minimize the prof its, both in war time and in peace, wvhich motivate munition makers to lobby for higher armament appropriations." MUSSOLINI Premier Benito Mussolini has used his strong jaw to get himself and Italy into a particularly tough position in the cur rent European scheme of things, the college press maintains. Most of the collegians believe that II Duce has reached a point where he must choose between being the anchor man on the Rome-Berlin axis being on equal footing with other powers in an English-French-Italian coalition. The following quotations summarize the collegians' views on the matter: "Viewed in the light of Victor Emmanuel's speech expressing a conciliatory attitude towards France and declaring that Italy needed peace for development, Mussolini's message seems in its lukewarmness an invitation to France and England to woo Italy away from Germany. Such a step is certainly not incon ceivable, and especially with an opportunist such as Mussolini. He has, after all, a strong Italian tradition behind him, a tradi tion of going with the strongest group, especially when it prom ises the better price." -University of Michigan Daily "The French realize that Signor Mussolini wants all he can get without fighting. Italians today, like the French in the second half of the Napoleonic era, are more interested in bread than in glorious adventures. While their master is ready to dot his career with more glittering enterprise, they prefer peace to glory. And dictators depend on public opinion no matter how much they profess to despise it." -Syracuse University Daily Orange. The question that is in the minds of all concerning the fu ture is aptly stated by the Drake University Times-Delphic: "With such philosophies of power so prevalent in the world today, we wonder if it is possible to have peace before that philosophy is wiped out?" HITLER Collegians last week continued their vigorous denunciation of Hitler and his continued drive against the weaker nations of eastern Europe. Many urge one plan or another for the formation of a stop Hitler movement-a movement that most believe is paramount to the continued life of the democratic nations. The Oberlin College Review stated the current position of the college newspaper editorial writers in this way: "We can not censure too severely the weak-kneed bowing and scraping and the magnanimous sacrifices of other peoples which the French and English governments have made. So long as the desire for peace and our own security is uppermost in our minds, we can hardly hope that more will come out of the rumored four-power conference to stop Hitler than more guarantees." Many collegians predict that the latest moves of Der Fuehrer are steps in the direction of his downfall. The University of Baltimore Baloo states this position in this way: "For the first time since the beginning of the Third Reich Germany has seized' foreigners and not Germans. Germany now has a string, ex ceedingly brave minority within its own borders. Any further advance will bring but more foreigners. The first step toward Germany's downfall has been taken, but watch the future." Of the many plans proposed to stop Hitler, the Duke Univer sity Chronicle proposed one of the most comprehensive. Its main points are: 1. Replace Neville Chamberlain with Anthony Eden as Britain's prime minister; 2. promote British and French cooperation with Russia to give that country military leaders that would make Stalin's army valuable to himself and to a new three-power ring around Hltlerland; 3. immediate abandonment of all "dilatory measures;" and 4. raise tariffa in all countries against import and' export of German goods. But, as most collegians believe, only time will tell the fu ture of Europe-and of democracy throughout the worldl .4 Zada- Vivia hair Mnmkod=16Jr. uvty, Associat* Ed1. kAo and 14g11 G Ing Editors; Ed Mo. Associat. Sports Ed. LolU Ewart, Coroln. ROB= moiste Bustu MIan. Entered as i Increase In Tuition Would Be Ruinous In the appropriation bill m the Senate of the South C Tuesday is a provision to i leges from $60 per year to resident in the state, and fro non-resident in South Carol Perhaps the designers of taxpayers have almost ,a full increase taxes to any great i planning to cut down on a' leges, and make up for the ci What they have evidently students who are now atte only by the barest financial i University of South Caroli at other state-supported inst Once upon a time, educati< wealthy. Then public schoo: ondary education became av brackets of the population. ported by the state were At higher education to more of t] tion. Secondary and college el and not divisible. Both w primary purpose-to raise tl to a higher level, by provid dissemination of knowledge. By increasing tuition fees eral Assembly is raising diffi Carolina young people who lege education, but who will the inere!sed amount. The Gamecock previousl3 same subject a short time a number of students now ei would be forced to drop oul This we repeat. What the General Assemit is uncertain. When The G, bill had not been acted upon. cap the youth of the state i tion is the greatest fallacy o Back' April 23, 1939 Mr. Courtenay Carson, Editor, The Gamecock. Dear Mr. Carson: In answer to Mr. Wilson's letter of last week, I wvould like to make a fewv observations. Four years ago when I was can vassing for the swimming pool fund, I ran into these objectionls. (1) "I don't swim or I haven't time for swimming." We are running into the same situation with the tennis courts. Our answver to this is to think of your school and fellow man. You help others to play tennis and sooner or later they will help you in whatever you want, nothing ever got anywhere without cooperation. We ask students who do not play tennis to look at it in this light. 'The second objection was "They have beeni talking about a swimming pool for fifty years; they'll probably get one by the time my children or grandchildren get here. Why should I contribute,, when I won't be able to use it." Our answer to that was that our grandfathers and fathers helped us by building this Univer sity into what it is today, and even if we cannot profit ourselves by our toil, do we not owe it to those that are coming after tis? Any person that lives for himself alone is mighty sorry in my opinion. The big drawback now is that they are not wanted on Gibbes Green. May I ask this question: Would you object to a newv building going up there ? Do you know definitely that the courts are going to be put on Giibbes Green ? The final dlecision has been left up to the Board of Trustees. I may be bold in saying this, but some of those that are not contributing because they don't Want to dlestroy the natural beauty of the campus are not sincere. Some are using that for a shield. Natural beauty is a wonderful. thing but outdloor exercise is the best thing to make people uphold the oath I learned as a Boy Scout-"Mental ly awake, physically strong, moral ly straight." REFP Hailing the passage of the bi tion, collegians nevert,heless de ganization bill re-written by coni to be really valuable. Most app eral administration more efficien there was hardly one disse1ntir commendatory as the Universit which said: "The bill will go far toward1 the administrative and executive most urgent needs of the fedel years. Every president who he tempted to effect some sort o visions and various miscellanec ably congress steered shy." THE MECO loundd January 80, 1906 ,T ELLIOTT GONZAL, Yik cond class matter at the office at Od November ft , ,hich was brought up before ,arolina' General Assembly icrease tuition at state col $100 per year for students m $150 to $250 for students ina. the bill feel that the state's load now, and are loath to )xtent. Therefore, they are ?propriations for state col it by increasing tuition fees. failed to see is that many nding state colleges do so margin. This is true at the na, and is no doubt true itutions. )n was available only to the Is came into being, and sec ailable to the lower-income After that, institutions sup ablished, to make available lie youth of the state and na :lucation are not separate, ere established for the same Le standards of the majority ing agencies for the wider in state colleges, the Gen -ult barriers to many South wish for and deserve a col be financially unable to pay , stated its views on this go. Then, it stated that a irolled in the University if tuition fees are raised. ily is going to do about it znecock went to press, the We believe that to handi ii the pursuit of an educa i all false ecoionics. Talk Mr. Carson, may I take this o portunity to express our thanks1 you for the help you and The Gain cock have given us in this drive. wouldn't have been possible witho your aid. Also I wish to thank A pha Kappa Gamma for their aid collecting from the non-sorority gir and all other groups that have giv< us their support. Thanks also to tl student body as a whole; they ha' stood by us and helped us in evel enterprise we have undertaken th year. We couldn't have put ov many of our projects without the support. At the time of this writing, tl $500 has not been raised, but may say that we are not going to let until it is raised. Thank you, Jimmy Thomas, President, K. S. ] Editor's Note : Below is anoth, letter in thue correspondence betwe, The Gamecock, Andy Marion, chuau man of thue Honor Council, and Ak W. C. R. Turnbull, an alumnus thue University. Graniteville, S.4 March 30, 19; Andlrew Marion, Chairman, Honor Council, U. S. C., Columbia, S. C. Dear Sir: It gives me great pleasure to lea through you, there is a movement foot for greater powers of stud< government, such as I suggested my article. Approval coming fr< you andl the other members of t Honor Council should have the greg est wveight both with the faculty a student body, since you know, frc experience, the students can lbe c pended upon to do the right thing the responsibility is put on them. far as cheating and such other d honest practices are concerned, agree the University of S. C. stan as near spotless as any college I ha ever heard from. Very respectfully, W. C. R. Turnbull B. S., M. DRM 11 as a move in the right direc plored the fact that the reor rress does not reorganize enough laud the move to make the fed t and more economical--in fact, g voice. Few were so highly y of Wisconsin Daily Cardinal, >ringing about reorganization in branch, thus filling one of the ral government for the past 40 Id office during that period at f redistribution of bureaus, di us agencies, but almost invari SCK. National Adver t Xditor c.eUs P"uM 4AO MAoiSON AvE unsbo, 8. 0., - c.o - botwo. :.Loi Press Rate Collect By George Zuckerman THE REVELS REVEALED: Walking up the steps in the chapel building, en route to The Game cock office, you looked into , the chapel auditorium when you heard familiar voices. Comfortably re laxed in their seats were Maestro Stephan, Jack Brown and a few glamour girls. With your column space still as blank as some of your past exam papers, you headed straight for Stephan and company to see if you could wrestle out enough informa tion to put your column "to bed", your readers to sleep, and yourself back to resume your mid-siesta studies. Stephan affably greeted you with a smile, and said: "Here comes our press agentl" And before you could insert your two cents into the slot machine conversation, the local im pressario suggested daily publicity in the loc'al papers. Perhaps too quickly you reminded him that you were a press agent without portfo lio. And that you were here in the role of a columnist. "What's new?" you asked, as if you expected to learn that Gypsy Rose Lee was going to replace the comely Dallas Wilson, who was removed from the varsity show by ' the combined efforts of Dean Chase and Jan Garber. * * * MY QUERY WAS SIDE TRACKED for the rumbling in terrogations of the two prospective chorines-or maybe there were three. It seemed there was some difficulty about scheduling the re hearsals. Monday night was out fraternity and sorority meetings. Tuesday? Somebody had a date with someone. How about Wed nesday? Well, maybe. So-and-sow, is going out of town. Where's whosis and whatsisr is that so? Well, you tell 'em-and so on until the obvious end and another probable postponement of the "Gamecock Revels." A bright thought slanted through your foggy brain. You suddenly realized that without Stephan and :o his footlight hobby such an occur e- rence as a varsity show would be It as frequent on this campus as a it solar eclipse. His greatest asset I- is his remarkable patience with his n blase cast, few of whom seem to Is have any amount of greasepaint in n their bloodstream. You knew that ie you and many more like you would re have quit long ago and went back -*y to playing Screeno and eating pop is corn between gallops. r* * * ir THIS MAY SOUND HACK ie NEYED but Step han-and Brown S-are resolved that the show must pgo on-even if a little late. When matters become too trying, the ge nial professsr puffs away at his well broken-in pipe, employs his wit (, to forestall his temper. And plans for the show to continue to flow like Old Man River. .nAfter listening to the problems r- confronting the production, you r. pondered which would be more dif yf ficult: To get Little Sir Echo or the cast to rehearsals. ,Enough of this philosophizing be 9. fore supper. "What are you going to have in the show, professor?" "Well, for one thing," he said, "you know about the skit with Lou Carleo as Ferdinand the Bull rn The Cyrano-constructed L o u >n would undoubtably offer the most nt ferocious version of the pixy of the in pastures. Benny Alperstein will at m test to that. he Lt- "And then," continued the pro ad fessor, "we're going to have 'a real m knockout. A skit with Dot Polan eas Charlie McCarthy, and Louis ;Searson as Edgar Bergen. Their ;o script will concern itself with quips is- and innuendos about certain fac I ulty members-and, of course, some, ds5 students." ve * * * YOU DIDN'T NEED ANY HIGH PRESSURE talk to con vince you that, when Polan and D. Searson teamed up, some gala gar rulity would result. You liked the - idea especially when you thought about a "dummy" that would do very well under its own power. "Who wrote the script for the whole show?" you inquired. Both Stephan and Brown imi tatedl sphinxes. "Who wrote the script for the Varsity Show?" you reiterated. This time you were answered with pleasant smiles-which do not make copy. So you asked your self--introspection is a marvelous device in such situations-if the au thor was Shakespeare or Bacon. Or Ham or Eggs. Over light, u please. So, in the fashion of a coroner's k -jr-- - jI VWUg CHARLES ATKINSON, unds- Manage lIed wkly by the UtWy B0"Ues 94 the UrAva. Ck 6" sity of south Omro"n during the OOdle year Se aPduring examnaton.and holiday. James (alloway ...... NuW YOAK, H. V. imeASh - SAN F@AgiS=o PAUL BROCKINGTON, Circulation Mgr. Campus Camera CATCHING t COCHES Off' ( uaAd "PWp WARND ffEemR OF EEM JACK CDFFEY, DuAr.11TA26-26 -RRMAMBASEBAL. G"MT W -TH CCH CAM CALL OSM ONLME MORE 3i 000 1AT HE SMOD_ BIRTH ATES WrIT EASE/ ATATM/AE PW OF1WeIGLE BUMLlIN N CM FRANK ANWNEBERS W U. nUMB- CAGO AND CALMLY R A LNG CAN ONAL HIS HANDS M0/ PIS WA OF JIP M AWS EASILY AS HE CAN ON His DOING A CHEEK SrAND AND SHANG FEET. HE ONCE SO=D (NlS.HEAD ON IWASEIF AT E SAME-TME/ 9 rQuestion-of-Week Do you think that an inter-club coupcil, to coordinate and eliminate friction between campus organizations, and to weed out inactive groups, would work at Carolinat Robert Shaw: An inter-club council is not needed at Carolina. There is little noticeable friction' between the campus organizations and no club should have the power to tell an organization that it will have to ce'ase functioning merely because it is inactive for a while. Bob McCrady: I think a council of this kind would be a veiy good thing, not necessarily to weed out friction as for the purpose of eliminating inactive groups. There are en tirely too many organizuiots on the Campu: lat ervc no purpose at all. I think it would be a good Rtep. Dorothy Koger: A definite need can be seen for a work ing inter-club organization. Such an organization would meet with protest from the inactive groups which it would seek to eliminate. However, such a move would make for greater coordination among the active groups and steps might be made for combining the numerous groups into fewer but more effective organizations. Crawford Clarkson: Absolutely not ! Christopher Green: Yes, I think that if an inter-club council were formed it would be a great improvement pro vided it were free from politics. George Bunch: I think it would be a good thing pro vided it were run right and for the good of the school. Dan D. Ellis: No, I don't think it would be possible for such an organization to operate. Professor Stephan: I'mn all for it. Eleanor Lykes: No, definitely not. Knoa. Livingston: It may be a good thing but I don't see how it could work. SPEAKING O0SAEr WOULD YOU Go ~ ~ . A ~'' N ACtORNK(E? s-e SUN BATH N on. sWoK A( JR I P iDR (~ ~.- 'TRhIN&1TO RePA%R. A CAR. ON THE HBIWA'I 4S 'dUST, A as penned by a person or persons for those expecting to view the niknown, that the varsity show "Gamecock Revels of 1939" that 'ill appear at -a date or dates un- Maurice Stephan is directing mat uown- ters-instead of the Terrible Temn That it s a very ftu..,.te thing, pred. Mr. Bn..