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OXOROE XUCKERMAN 1ditar DEPARTMENT HEADI ]Udwrdek. Spr*itso; irme .ABorde. 0oe Wto; atbrtm* insowaiety BMWto; Ree" BOAd MachaqM Editor. Psi STAFF WRITERs Deward BrIttain, Jim MeKinney. Bernie Base., Ray mnond Dav, Helen Allen and Paul Sanabury. J. COIT HENDLEY.............Managing Editor Down With Somebody Dese And Dem Guys Ain't Okayed Yet This is not an editorial. This happens to be our personal answer to the question of the week. Our reason for putting it in this column is very obvious when you consider the dearth of controversial subjects. As we began banging out this piece of copy, a staff member stepped up to the desk and suggested we editorialize on the discrimina tion of water coolers or something in the Stu dent Union building. Feeling the matter of chasers is very trivial, we revert .again to the English exam held last Tuesday for the future occupants of the breadline. A lot of criticism has been smoldering around the campus, with disgruntled students com plaining about being subjected to the terrors of grammar and the intricacies of the native tongue. After all, it's high time some of us learned that English is something more than a billiard term. We personally believe that if anyone cannol pass a freshman English examination he oughil not receive his sheepskin. On reading the above many no doubt will exclaim that they could pass the test if they spent four years taking English and Journal ism. We admit we have the advantage. Bui the English department is not requesting plu perfect papers, or prize novels. But we are not forgetting that we have the advantage. We need it to earn our daily bread and dopes. So we have made up our mind not to write an editorial about the matter. Tournament Here Conference Pleased With South Carolina Obviously the visiting Southern Conferenue teams and officials were well pleased with our campus, our city, and our version of hospitality. At Roanoke, Virginia, last week, at the an nual meeting of the Southern Conference, it was voted that the boxing tournament should be again held here. Without a doubt the fistcuff event will be. come a Carolina institution. We have the in. terest, and we have the facilities to successfully promote such a pugilistic project. And the merchants and people of Columbia have given it a more than adequate backing. At Long Last Hendley And League Take Over The Desk Wednesday night the Board of Puublications met and elected Coit Hendley editor, and Paul League managing editor of The Gamecock for the spring semester. This, officially, is our last issue. For, under the rules of the constitution, the incoming staff officers are in charge of the last publication of the semester. As we probably will fill the editorial column in the final issue, we holdover our swan song. What we wish to note at this time is that Hendley and League, very competent journal ists, will indubitably turn out some excellent editions. Greetings Now Is The Time For Resolutions As our next edition comes off the press in January, we take this space filler opportunity to wish each and all-including the literary societies-A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR. We heard rumors that all will be quiet on the Western Front during the holiday week. Thinking about holidays, we wonder what became of Rooseveltf ASSOCIATES 'aul Lague. Jane 0o. Philip Wilmeth, d G A Urson. E&Uiott McCants, Dan Henderson, nce Meeks. Business Associates: Bill Bauk ht, Otto Later, Elleanor Flinn, Mackay King H. Husbands and Lester Pitcher. R3K Entered as Parade Of Opinion (By Associated Collegiate Press) Finland Soviet Russia and her communist supporters in the United States have a new place in the minds of the nation's collegians-a position right beside Adolf Hitler and Benito Musso lini in the gallery of those who can no longer have the sympathies of the thinking college youth. This is the conclusion that must be drawn by a careful study of the shift of student opinion-a shift that was suddenly brought from the "approval" to the "disapproval" end of the opinion-pendulum's swing by the inva sion of small Finland by monster Russia. Here is how the college press reacted to the latest dramatic move in the campaign of the totalitarian states for world domination: Said the Harvard University Crimson: "And now it is Finland. Russia is the arch criminal this time, not Germany, and so far as the United States is concerned she has com mitted an outrage with possibly even less jus tification than those of the Reich. As she (Russia) becomes a great Baltic power again, she appears more like the Imperialistic Russia of old than a new Communist Union, with purely selfish designs intended neither to help nor to hinder Adolf Hitler., For America and the other neutrals, if they were not con vinced by the Russo-German alliance last Au gust or the joint Polish seizure of September, the Finnish invasion will remove any hesita tion they had in placing Russia and Germany in the same category." In the same vein, the Cornell University Daily Sun said: "Those communists through out the world who have been rationalizing the Nazi-Soviet pact, are now faced with a real prob)lem. Their assertions that Russia would never stoop to imperialism wvere proved lies when the first Red bomb fell on Finland. All that Red Russia stood for in the communist circles of the world has been repudiated. Rus sia has at last shown her true face to the world and it is not a pretty one. The prospect of a general war has been renewved. Perhaps it is the darkness before the dawn." In the middle west, the University of Min nesota Daily continued the nation-wide de nunciation of the Russian invasion: "The whole affair was staged with the cold relent lessness of a Chicago gang killing-and with the same effect. When Russia saw that war was the way to win her ends in Finland, she deliberately took the path to war. Nothing short of a complete Finnish surrender could have averted the invasion. Nothing can jus tify it." Despite this latest exhibition of unjustified mass-murder in the world, U. S. collegians are still remaining firm in their demand that their country stay out of any foreign conflict. The Moberly Junior College Mirror stated this view in this fashion: > "Every student in the U. S. is following the course of events as they unfold upon the European horizon. Every U. S. college student has a personal interest in what the European war does to implicate this country. Never before has there been a more determined resolution upon the lips of the students, than there is today for peace. The student doesn't want this generation of American youth to be thrown overboard in vain for an idl." THE LMECOCK Founded January 30, 1908 National Ac &T ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Editor coln, Ps 420 MADI8ON Second elass matter at th eftfice at columbia, S. ., eeA.. C O *0.0TO. Campus Camera IN Th 1840S OBERIN CO.LEGS CD+-E SCRBBED FLOORS,CLEANED ROOMSWASHED AND MENDED T1AE& YOUNG MEN'S CIn-S. IN PAYMENT 11EY RECENE6 -________HOUR / FRANKLIN - 'M ARAID NOU'LL NEVER AMOUNT - 0O41O STATE- U. ro mucm CELEBRA.S AN ANNUAL MISTLOE DA BY HANGING MISTLETOE ON ALL OF -14E CAMPUS BUILDINGS! - PRESIDENT - ROOSEVELT WAS FLUNKED - IN ONE OF 1IS LAW O)URSES ~ AT OLUMBIA - A) Y KARLAN F. STONE, NOW A SUPREME COURT , -jusncE. *Question-of-Week Granting that you can influence nobody, what do you think of the Senior English exam's? Tom Nix-- 'I think that it is a good idea, but it would have been better to start it in 1940-41." Glenn Yarborough-"I think that it is an insult to our Eng lish Department which I hold in the highest regard." Oscar Wylie-'"II think it's silly. What are they going to do i- they don't pass them?" Helen Candy-"If the seniors know what they should to graduate, they certainly can pass it." Ray Heddon-" I think that if the seniors have passed English so far, they should not be required to take an extra exam." Lucy Carland-"I'm glad I'm not a senior-(aren't we all?)" Bill McLeod-" A fine thing ! Every school in the State should follow our example.'' Pete Blackwell-"The idea is fundamentally sound, for the academic graduates from the University and other schools. Candidates for law dcgrees should not be made to take the exam. It is an insult to the previous Alma Mater." Hawley Lynn-'"If a senior hasn't learned his own language, hc should not let his ignorance be a reflection on his university." Marguerite Gamnbrell-" ----. ...... Edward Vandiver Atkinson-" Phttttttttttttttttt." Ed Patterson-'"I think it's a nice idea; and I think that an exam of this type is needed; nevertheless, I don't believe half the seniors can remember enough grammar to pass it." Readers Right And Write Dear Editor:poyemuthvhelhcricas There are certain matters relative pse nb h nvriypy to Steward's Hall that, it seems, aresian not generally realized by individual Sneoeha ot r o a students of the University. May we tral eedn pnptoae in this manner call attention to i sovosta rprintl them?moecnbspnfofodaprs Steward's Hall is operated by theenborras,rpeetbad University only for the convenienceraebemitnd,fthcftra of the students, and since its opera- i prtn ercpct.A rs tion is dependent upon student sup- et h ae nSeadsHl r port, only as long as its facilities areaslwsatnycleeiSoh adequately supported by patronageCaoiandmclwethnn can its service be made available,. ayclee nteSuh ti Only legitimate costs of operation,prbletabodrts'ety such as for food, help, and equip- twr' alfi h or ae ment are charged to Steward's Hallfostdnsaoheplc,ad account, and the charge for boardthsholSewr'Halb at Steward's Hall is made as low fre oices t ae,o es as consistent with these costs. Alloprtnetilybadrtses financial matters connected withwhrwolinea. Steward's Hall are handled through Thscmitebpaktec the University Business Manager'soprtnofhesunsinheu Office and the University Treas- csfloeaino twr' al urer's Office,.n ol prcit n ugs The cafeteria is managed by atintoadmkgthcfera trained dietician, assisted by a bte ev h ed ftesu hostess. They work on a straight dns monthly salary basis. Students are Crilyyus employed for such types of work as FclyCi.o aeei can be done by students, and theyAreR.Cid are paid on the same hourly basis R .Bl as N. Y. A. J .Sodr High standards of cleanliness areE.HLa maintained both in the dining-room Jla .Pty and inthenkitcen,handdallsem Carntma Member E. W. "DUCK". WRATACAN, Jr., Businens Manager d Cble6iae Press )istributor of Issued Wekly by the Liutray societift at the U -iat - ge Sity of South Carolina. during the coMeg* year "q during examinations and holiday*. OR NATIONAL ADVBmIIT6 my vedbing Um*e, mRPeed Boyd. . E Itor Ave. NKw YoRKt. N. Y. LoS Ameu". SAN ftA.c.bc ANSEL ELMORE......Circulation Manag, MUSCLIN' IN Graham Patton can't find his frat pin and asks that whoever has it (meaning the dame) please send it back or send a receipt for the aforementioned jewelry . Eva Gary Copeland is now in a proverbial mess . . . She lost some of Euphrosynean's most important books . .. A suggestion: Use our classified section for results ... Mrs. Child's lecture to her Washington Street Meth odist church Sunday School class ended with her condemnation of the Pawley Island house parties . . . Which means no fun for next summer if our moms and pops hear about it . . . The revival of "Captain Applejack" was pleasant news to the technical staff who had the pleasant job of running up the set for a one night performance . . . And tryouts for the forthconi. ing production "Dark Towers" are already underway. Bill (Glamour boy) Dworkin is now considering changing his name to Bill Gable after his stellar stage performance (all two lines of it) . . . Tim Haskell wants to start a Leonard Kanian admirers club and wonders if she'll be able to carry on the work between her many romantic ventures . . . We do have something to be proud of when it comes to gridiron activity Larry Craig, whose performances at the end of the line last year made football history, is now one of the best players in the pro fessional loop ... Now that discussion group meetings are over the winning group (Preston 3rd) is looking forward to the free turkey supper which comes just after Christmas . . . Some of the best amateur performances of the year came about at the commerce cabaret . . . Dixie Dottie Sawyer is a confirmed cynic for life. The male mush- which she fell for turned out to be just another line . . . Wilbur Ziegler triple threat espanola prof is fully recovered from the leg injury . . . Romantics efforts of John Burns have given him "Oh Johnny, How you can Love" as a theme-song. Melton Observatory is the new place for star gazers to get moon struck . . . All the law students came out second best in their fight to keep from taking the senior english exams We'd be willing to bet that at least a third taking the exam, busted it . . . Paulette West, Camden's well-proportioned bundle of loveliness, wears a sparkler on the left hand fitting for a second look by any jeweler. . . Three people had to assist Foster Smith get a size 14 collar on a size 15 tux shirt Saturday nite... Sure fire curer of anything related to hiccoughs is Billy Bryan whose demonstration in the library brought him many more ad mirers . . . Bill Hendrix's long romance ended Friday when his girl friend of several years tied the knot . . . With somebody else ... Sally McCaw's favorite occupation in the art department is cutting paper dolls . . . Stark Hemmingway's true love (but in a secret fashion) is Florence's Jean Snyder . . . A little com petition in the form of Stokes Davis is all that has to be over come . . . Ruth Ward's visit to her former Alma Mater, New berry College, almost ended in a riot ... One of the real up-and coming organizations on the campus is the new men's Glee Club which since the semester began has made several public ap pearances. Joe Berry, who usually stays home at nite, recently walked all the way to Shandon to fill a date . .. Julian deTreville is ready to fight if callous thieves don't quit trying to steal his best girl's photo . . . Jane Crum's new handle is "Poker Face" . . . We didn't know that the habit of playing cards had polluted Sims College this early . . . One of the meanest tricks we 'ye heard of was the smashing in of a door in the Student Union building Saturday nite . . . Carolina's Scotland Yard, including both Judges announced that a chuc had been brought to light and the culprit seems (loomed . . . Rudy Barnes' Mess Hall stumbling caused some to brand him as an inebriate . . . Which, of course, isn't true . .. By process of elimination . . . Bubba Ness got a date Sunday nite. IPerfect example of small-town boy making good is stewcd Onion's Pete Shirley, motive for heart-throbs in many a home . .. We wonder if it could be the influence of his room-mate... Would-be truelove of Porto Rico's Aviles is gullible Washing tonian Sarah Jons. .. Ultra attractive Marion Glenn's hair has turned from deep black to dark red . . . in the last two weeks ...Mysterious Martyn (Hades) Hodes postcards that' there is lendty of food and board in Chicago . . . Glad to learn he's off the breadline . . . Imitator of scarlet snozzled .W. C. Fields is Frosh Bob Quinn whose lines, "Get away from me boys, you draw flies," sounds amazingly like the famous actor himself .. . Attention Coeds: Clark Gable may make a personal appearance in Columbia in connection with a pre-market showing of "Gone With The Wind." Fluctuation in the size of the staff of The Gamecock may be due in part to the new staff members which include Dot Sawyer, Emily Wolfe, Jean Timmions, Betty Mercer, Irene Chitwood, and Betty Locke . . . Dave Alterman gets our nomination for being the most practical looking pirate in "Captain Applejack"... Our vote for the nicest telephone voice of the week goes to Maxine Forbes, Philadelphian, whose lovely voice is exceeded only by her looks . . . We hope her hat size does not increase at this . .. One of those who wonder if he busted the senior English exam is Homer Roof, who spends some time teaching English at University High . . . Tenement 18 now has a large assortment of varied colored Christmas lights through the courtesy of this municipality . .. There's a sad lack of amateur radio operators on the campus . .. In practically every school of this size one can find a "ham" club with a large membership . . . Incidentally, there is talk of forming a new Aethetic dancing group . .. Price of Christmas cards are going up, and far be it from us to ever ac cumulate enough kale to buy a Christmas present, therefore, we'd like to take this occasion to wish you a "Merry Christmas" and a "Happy New Yar."