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OGORGE ZUCKRMAN Editor DEPAWRENT BRADS Mt, atbie B1044, tire ReBoyd.$ Pa ZoabaW EMtor. P&Mt STAFF WRITEUSF*= Dswwd! Rda" Jim MKhmm. 9n1 beww6 Ba. nih mnd .D.t Bekn An and Paul Sasbury. . . a COIT HENDLEY... Managing Editor Good Theatre University Players Score A Success Drama denizens in Drayton Hall last night saw good "theater" for about two hours. They saw a play, mildly amusing even when pro duced on Broadway. But the presentation was excellent, considering the tools and technical limitations of the stage and hall. Tonight the audience at Drayton Hall will see again "Captain Applejack". But tonight the play will be performed by an entirely new cast. Amazing as it may seem, Professor Christo pherson is able to stage the play with two dif ferent casts. But this is not amazing in light of the fact that the membership of the Uni versity Players has more than doubled-an other tribute to the genius and initiative of Christophersen. The future of drama at the University ap pears bright. And we venture to predict that the University Players will soon be subsidized by the University and given the same financial backing as The Gamecock, The Garnet and Black, and other worthy campus organiza tions. War And Infuenza Two Little Words That Should Be Naughty Lapsing into the editorial trance this week, we happened to ponder over two insidious words which invariably, in recent conversa tions, are sandwiched between the helloes and goodbyes. These symbols of thought happen to be War and Influenza. Across the ocean-for which Walter Win chell has already thanked God for-a war is raging on too many fronts. It is not a very exciting war as far as the hot stove league is concerned because censorship is tighter than the new model corsets which just arrived from Paris. We are informed, through our usually re liable channels--the boys in the drug store that the great world-wide news services are thinking of brnginng back all their star cor respondents to the United States after Christ mas. Quite to the contrary, the theory that no news is good news does not hold good as far as the fourth estate is concerned. Reverting to terms again, one observer de scribed the conflict as a war of words and communiques. So once again, thinking about words, we cannot but help connecting the words War and Influenza. For there is a war, and, over here, we sneezing ourselves into a flu epidemic. The condition on our campus, at the time of writing, was so serious that the authorities were considering suspending classes and send ing the students home. What we are recalling at this time is that flu came with the First World War and wiped out more prospective applicants for the Old Age Pension than the b)ursting bombs. Last time the flu followed our declaration of war against the Kaiser, and we wonder if this time the flu will come first. All this, no doubt, will serve to bring to the reader the aged enigma about the chicken and the egg and which came first. Personally, we like the retort of the skeptic who said, It's all the way you want it. Well, we got the flu with us. But we don't want the war. Some microscopic result of evolution, mobil ized in figures beyond mathematical computa tion, is fighting for existence, fighting against the human race. In times of national emergencies, national leaders cry out for national unity-union against the enemy. In our fight against the "germ"~, we need the unity of the world, of the human race. Nice talk. We wish we could believe it as we write it. Sometimes we actually believe it. Other times We read the paper, swallow colum'ns of lies and lies but we cannot digest them. And, where philosophy once was, theme is a rash of skepticism-and a feeling that the forces of good are forever vanquished. That the meek have inherited the earth-in plots six feet deep. ASSOOrATzS g League. an COX Ph1iP Wilnet, GA "O. Eliott Mecant., Dan enderso., , Meeks. Dnese As.ocats: DIU Dank Otto Laier. EHeanor Funn. Mackay King Husbands and Lester PUeher. 'OBE ana .. Parade Of Opinion (By Associated Collegiate Press) Dies Committee Congressman Martin Dies, the government's one-man crusade against all things un-Ameri can, has announced that he'll soon turn his prying eyes on United States colleges and uni versities-but lie's going to get a warm recep tion. Past activities on Mr. Dies' well-publicized committee have already discredited his work, the collegians maintain in editorials in the col lege 'press, but they nevertheless fear that his proposed investigation will, without cause, in jure the nation's institutions of higher learn ing and hamper the accomplishment of their programs and the fulfillment of their duties. The Ohio State University Lantern believes that "whatever Mr. Dies' avowed good inten tions were, he has scuttled them with his scur rilous tactics. Mr. Dies smears. names. He browbeats witnesses. He raids private corre spondence. He does everything that is un democratic and unpalatable to advoctes of democracy. Not only would Mr. Dies be wast ing the public's money (in investigating col leges), he would be making himself a public nuisance and menace." The Amherst College Student attacked the coming investigation with these words: "It is one thing when the committee investigates members of the communist party for subversive activities, and another when it turns to educa tion, the single greatest essential of democracy. Any injury to the freedom of education is striking at the life blood of democracy." "Each student, whatever his sympathies, will be affected by any such investigation," says the University of Michigan Daily, "if not directly, then indirectly by witnessing the general suspension of his friends, or (if he be friendless) by the obfuscation and final oblit eration of cultural progress here at the uni verstiy." The McPherson College Spectator brought the possib)le results of the investigation home to its readers in this manner: "If the com mittee should investigate McPherson College, judging by previous methods, they probably would find that the history classes are using subversive propaganda when they study the Russian system of communism, the Italian cor porate state, the German version of National Socialism, and the Japanese system of totali tarianism. And economics classse would be scoredl for discussing the possibility of a com munistic economy, the abolition of the price system, the replacement of the capitalistic idleal with some better methods. The right of discussion and -the right to freedom of speech and assembly are inherent and must be retained in a democracy. Any attempt at denying that right is in itself an un-American activity." In an editorial letter to Mr. Dies, the Uni versity of Pittsburgh News hinted at a possible explanation of the congressman's move: "We realize that you (Mr. Dies) are a wholly dis interested researcher when you come to ex amine our colleges and universities. That of the 60 college journals we read, only one little school has commended you, while about 45 college papers have denounced your actions has, of course, nothing to do with your sudden determination to expose those hotbeds of radi calism, the American Institutions of higher learning. Come on, Mr. Dies, we're waiting." And so, as we said in the beginning, Mr. Dies is due to receive a warm welcome from the natin's cegins I THE., -MECOCK GD1 Founded January 80, 1908 N A LT ET.TOTT GONZALE First Editor Co.ue P*4 420 MADISON 0 necod cla matter at the nlce at Columbia, S. 0.., Co"Co - n November 3k Campus Camera J. 4 me mrOLEGE FRAlENWK WAS ORMANI7.ED ATTEAT COLLEGE Or- WIL.uAM AND MAYoN4 DEC EMBER 5,1776. ODDLY ENOUGK OF THE FNE ORIGINAL FOUNDERN. 1WO WERE 1AMED SMIM AND - E ONE 1ONES ! 14E KEY WAS FORMERLY A SILVER MEDAL , BUT LATER TE STEM WAS ADDED FOR 11E PRACTCAL PURPOSE OF (il NIGHTLY WINDING 1ME SUAOLARS 4-90~WA"TCK. $to*CCAJM *Question-of-Week Do you approve of the restrictions now being placed on the girls whose marks are low? Why? Betty Hughes-"Yes-The restrictions should make them study more." Theresa Jackson-" Yes-We should at least have a 'C' av erage and if we can't do it by ourselves we need all the help we can get-including restrictions." W. B. Norton, Jr.-" The idea is utterly preposterous. I think a careful examination will reveal that there are more girls who date every night and pass than therc are who date every night and flank. The restrictions imposed produce no incentive to study. I think some system of afternoon study halls could be improvised whereby the girls have their choice of s'tudying either during the afternoons or at night. Doubtless they should be made to study at one of the two times. But so long as I can find morning bridge dates the whole situation is irrelevant to me." A. C. Flora, Jr., and Ed. Perry-" We concur in the above opinion." Sarah Morrison-" No !-I think these girls can restrict them selves without being made to do so." Harrell Grahn.m-'"Girls in college should know when to study. That's for them to decide, and if they can't deeide to their advantage they should not be at Carolina.". Marion Wilder-" Yes-If necessary, they should have re strictions for that is the only thing that will make some girls study." Dot Ehrlich-" 'No-College girls are old enough to make and enforce restrictions upon themselves, as individuals, if and when they are deemed necessary by each one of the students." John Evans-"No-They tend towards''Class' hatred."' Willodene Rion-'"No-For the reason that there are too many town students to whom the rules can't apply." George Deiter-"Naw-My girl can't get out." John R. Smith-"This is a very good idea and should be en forced." Reba Hunt-'"'Yes-I think it is a grand idea. After all, if they make niore than two 'E 's' the campus will be deprived of their presence." Clarke McCats-"Hlmmm-(I do not choose to run-my mouth)." Stark Hemingway-"I think the idea is a very good one, but if they are not going to studly such a thing as depriving them of dates will not help much !" Betty Orosby-"Yes-I want my chance (?)" Harold Jervey-"No-In theory it's fine, biut practically it won't work as calculated, I don 't believe, because most of the girls will spend their time in bull sessions rather than studying. Personally it makes no difference to me as I never get close enough to the Women's Building to know whether they are in or out." Mildred Kohn-"Yes-We come to school for an education not a Campus Course." Sally Mc0aw-"Does this include town girls? If so, NO." Bob Qunn-"When did girls start coming to college to study?" IL W. "DUCK" 8WEATKAN .. Member - I Coleiale Press indbutor of ud wakii * as Lftimq 80cwtift at the afty Of South Oaftu"na durmw a "HRe". yftr A We 6eddurint uxamIrAtions and boHidayL. I NAT0.AL Anvs.teuSe WV ertising Service, Inc. - mrhtReed Boyd ............ ....Excanpg Uzjf4 Mr. NKW YORK. N. Y. Los AnfamS $A tAcw ANSEL ELMORE....-Ckuation~ Mikylikub" se..........-..a........... MUSCLIN9 IN Betty Faulconer, who efime down from Washington to make: her debut and to go to school, celebrated her eighteenthi birth.; day FiEriday in a ritzy fashion . Sne of the party was the. mess hail, lunchtime . .Cake and candle courtesy Elizabeth Burris .B Two-thirds of Clover's inhabitants, George, Sonny, and Whry Caroline (Mickey), get their mail addressed: "Th Bowmans" Kirt ftrton's flivver must have felt pretty good Tuesday when Dick Baxter and Catherine Webster climbed i and gang, "In My Merry Oldsmobile" . -. According to would. be postal inspector John Sitton, Sarah Hamilton's package will not go through the mails .. . She forgot to put a stamp on it ..Our vote for the nicest telephone voice of th; week: MWry King .. . 2-3118 . .. Harvey Dubose, Dave Lyles and COwles Simmons have been appointed official bouncers for Preston Col. lege after their performance Sunday afternoon . .. A wandering drunk invaded the third floor and attempted to get tough birth two freshmen . .. Running to the rescue, the bouncing trio es. corted him forcibly dow three flights of stairs and preseinted him to Judge Shepard .. . If we may be allowed to predict we would like to say that this winter the fashionable coed wi find the bustle a stern necessity f Personal note to the Society Editor: Move over. The publicity agent for the University Players caused com plications when lie wrote that pants-splitting Dick Anderson was being swamped with cigarettes . Basketball coach TWed Petoskey didn't like it so much . The story is told on the campus that during a recent German club initiation, when pledges vore signs on which were written "German Club," o WPA worker on the new University library stopped several students . . . This thuing here has got to stop," he emphatically. declared . . . "We can't have any Germans or their clubs on this campus . . . It shouldn't be allowed . . . Hitler and them others arc responsible for such things here . . . You're spread ing propaganda against our government and it ain't demo cratic." . . . All explanations failed . . . Most useful addition to the Gamecock office in many moons is the new Webster's dic tionary wJohn Foard's bow to society takes place Saturday night at a weiner roast'. We wonder if lie will get his picture i the paper i . . To everyone interested: There is absolutely no truth (according to those who know) to the rumor running around the old woman's building... 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