Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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COIT HENDLEY .. Editor " DXPARUIRT EAD9 '~ JmmyM~hmy4p7be ioo;=, nn Withers, Co. nd Xd EIocTJn=b3 oceyEdti STAFF WrERS PeM Hendrckson, Betty Mercer, Betty Locke, Jean R11 TimOUOINNUt7 Boykta, Frank Sloan. Paul Posej, Bob ball. Mjld.h 09*% Dot Sawyer. Xmily Wolfe, Bob PAUL LEAGUE ............... Managing Editor We Find That KSK Has Just Oreated An Amusing Paradox In commenting on the attractive "stay off the grass" signs which have been placed as hazzards on all impromptu campus paths, D. A. Westmoreland, Kappa Sigma Kappa mem ber, modestly said, "KSK is not looking for any publicity or undue praise." The signs read-'" Please use the walk erected by KSK.'' The largest letters on the signs are "KSK." This, we imagine through some quirk of the sign painter, undesirable publicity is being ob tained. We suggest that KSK dig them up and look for some other plan. People always ignore notices. A practical solution would be to erect a single strand of wire as has been done suc cessfully on other parts of the campus. We advocate this only if the good name of the University will suffer by students walking on the grass. Anyway, in the spring the signs will have to be changed to read--"Please lie on the walks erected by KSK." Introducing Gregory I New Exchange Editor And Nameless Wonder We have just discovered that freshman Roberit Gregory of Kershaw had no name un til he was six years old. The same is true of his brother, an ex-Carolina student and ex circulation manager of the Gamecock. We thought you might like to know ! The explanation is simple. According to Gregory, his mother and father could not de cide on a name for his older brother. So they did not name him. When Gregory arrived sev eral years later, a situation developed-which was temporarily solved by calling the two brothers "Big Baby" and "Little Baby." The next crisis came when "Big Baby" had to go to grammar school. "Let's leave it to the teacher, Paw," it is believed Maw said. The teacher decided to call him Roger. "That'll do, Maw," Paw said. And that was that! Then came the day Gregory was to go to school. "I believe we should make a decision, Paw," Mawv announced. "Well, let's call him Gregory for purposes of identification, Maw." Gregory is now the new Exchange editor of the Gamecock. He swears that is what hap. pened. And, why should we doubt him? 'The readers of this paper were named solely for purposes of identification. Deny that !! Just Think What Specialization Would Have Done For Him We always like to be the first to .iogratu late anyone on an outstanding b Svement. One would think we went around criticising all the time if we didn't, wouldn't one? It seems that a certain Carolina student, one "Hluck" Babcock, son of Dr. Havilah Bab cock, has filed his claim for the South Caro lina Intercollegiate Kissing Championship. Babcock bases his claim on one night's work at a Five Point's joint. At the time, he kissed 10 different girls with their permission. At the conclusion of the feat, which took approximately 30 minutes, including time out for breath, he was not at all exhausted, al though a little red in tile face. "It was tough, but I made it," he said. He revealed that his egg eating ability and not so much his personality made the whole thing possible. "I remarked that I ate raw eggs, shell and all," he continued. "Nobody believed me." "After a long argument, every girl in the joint promised to kiss me if I ate a raw egg, shell and all." Babcock did. And the girls did. We will not point opt the moral of the tale. It is absolutely clear. Anyway, high school graduates surely will flock to a school where one raw egg, shell and all, is worth 10 kisses from 10 different girls. Personal Note And, to Miss Rannah Heyward-" N 'yah, N 'yah "-pronounced like what the little Red Fox said to the big, bad dog and accompanied bIy a sticking out motion of the tongue. ASSOoIATB rd Frick, Phillip Wmth, Berie Ba, G A Patterson, Deward Brittan Joe Kirby. t MaCants, Dan Ifeaderen, Xaonrd TUm. Business Assoolate: BIU Bauknieht, r Pilcher. . M The Editorial Policy Is Explained In Not Too Clear A Manner The Gamecock can not print anonymous let ters but one that arrived Thursday contained a thought good enough to have come from the philosophy of that great Oriental Sage, Con fucious, who is not to be confused with the stag party humorist of the same name. The discipline committee, our writer con tends, rebukes those who laugh at the laws of the University. They should take a whack at those who make them so comical. That may cover the editorial policy of the Gamecock for the coming semester as far as is practical and sensible. We would like to hear from tha fellow again -with his name signed to the letter. Nothing would be more interesting than som,e good, hot comments from the students. Recently the editor's correspondence has dwindled to mime ographed publicity releases and such stuff as apathetic pleas for more school spirit, more student morality, more this and that and other ethereal subjects which are interesting to no body. A letter which does not read like a page from a Rover Boy book would do for our mind what a corset does for a woman's hips. But, getting back to the editorial policy, nothing much ever happens around the Uninversity which rates more than a snicker. We intend to snicker. This will be done with reservations. We will be fair. We will be discreet. We will be im partial. We will double-cross old friends. We will give in before too much faculty pressure. But, we intend to snicker and suggest. For instance, Mayor Owens might find it legal to install parking meters at the airport and thereby gain a steady income from Caro lina students. Espccially if night rates are high. Seriously, the new staff is going to try to publish an interesting paper. The Editor's Mail Is Briefly Discussed The mail that comes to The Gamecock of fice every day is astounding. On the editor's desk right now are releases from six of the damndest organinzations, the result of one trip to the post-office. They are: Facts in Review, issued by the German Library of Information; the United ,Stuent P~eace Commnittee; the Committee on M11ilitrina, in Education; the American'CIon m.ittee for Demo cracy and Intellectual Free do7n; the American Student Union; and a free agent, James Emery Brooks, of New Jersey, whose hobby seems to be writing letters to editors. Undoubtedly these organizations believe they have a message which should be passed on to college students. But the information sent is as abstruse as their names. The pamphlet sent weekly by the German Library of Information is the most interest ing. It contains the only stories we have seen which give Germany's side in the present fra cas. And quite a tale they have! The paper is published in New York and is well circulated among college editors. The rest of the stuff is what may be called, if you will pardon the colloquial expression, a lot of crap. We Request Readers To Look On Page 6 Readers of this paper will notice, as if they could miss it, that page six contains some thing which might be called "The Return of George Sherman Grant Zuckerman.'' Yes, lady he's the one, but you shouldn't use those four letter words like that I George was editor of The Gamecock last semester. iIe has consented to try to be en tertaining for the coming semester. Hie probably will be. What The Legislature Thinks About A Chapel (Reprinted Froean Page 1) The budget commission of the legislature has recommended that only $321,817.14 be appro priated for operation of the University of South Carolina for the fiscal year, July 1, 1940 to June 30, 1941. This is less than half of*the amount asked by President J. Rion McKis sick. The recommendation includes $457,116. for ordinary expenses and $288,750 for per manent improvements. The request for a chapel was refused. THE LMECOCK FouIded January 80, 1906 Naton Ad T ELIOTT GONZALE, First EAtor Cone, fa 420 MA1OoN secod dam Mattait the e at odumbis. S. 0.. CcA. -. Campus Camera R)MMCEiON U. HAS ANARDED BUT 'REE 'SLWMA CM LAOES' IN PHYS1CS, w OF IMA10 CNEFAMY J -liE ONPIMNS. DR.KAR. 05MPION is W PRe.OFWa. JUR INS-OF13HNLOGy WHULE BPOVER ARMU L ISAPFAUOa0 o AND A NDBEL PRIZE IMIER! CARLETON OU.EGE Wo 64 CDNSEWiiVE BAiBl GAMES AT HOME/ CH OF R.I. STATE COLLEGE SWiSHED 477 PINTS THRoUGH 1WE NES LAST SEASONlO SET A NEWCi-GATE RERD / HE BETERED HANK WISETI'S MAK BY IWELVE POINTS. *Question-of-Week QUESTION OF THE WEEK-What Do You Think of Socia Activities at Carolina? DORIS NASH: .They are too "clannish". Social activitie of the University are eentered too much around Columbia So ciety. STARK HEINGWAY: Until thp limitation oT forma was imposed upon fraternities, everything was all right. Nov social life is suffering from a gradual decline. BETTY WT-TER:' Too much emphasis is placed on socia affairs of fraternities and sororities and too little on Socia Cabinet and Coed-Association dances. CHARLES GIBBS: The only thing I want to say is every body should come to the Junior-Senior. LENORA WEBB: What social activities? I didn't knov Carolina had any society. BETTY GLOVER: The abstaining from alcoholic beverage: at social affairs should be enforced more rigidly. This has beer the cause of much bad criticism for Carolina. LIB DOWLING: I think Carolina's social activities are tops I can't see any room for improvements. HORACE TRAYLOR: I think they are swell, they offel distraction from studies. TONY SMOAK: They are attractive enough for me. JACQUELINE McCUTCHEN: I think they are fine ani should be allowed to continue as they are. .IRENE LABORDE: The splitting of the Damas into tw< groups has affected greatly, for the worse, one phase of Caro lina 's social life. JOHN EVANS: Next to the CAA I like them best. JULIET RIDLEY: We need more of them. ED. ATKINSONI: Social activities should not interfere wit] the purpose of the University-primarily education- however social activities in their- place are just the thing. SARAH POWELL: It promotes a general goodwill among students and encourages each to take an active part in schoo affairs. ALIGE GLOMINSKI: Too many--they interfere with ma work-but what fun. Letters To The Editor Editor's note--Tom McCutchen,, placed at any point that would ini president of KSK, consented to convenience the students, but at place aniswer the objection raised to the where available walks were not be "stay off the g'rass" signis which we ing used. have expressed in our editorial. To TeUiest ldyudro be quite fair, we would like to sayteeetono h insi opr tha.t McCutchaen had not seen our to ihorcmite -oee editorial before hie wrote the letter.thogmitk"ecedbKK We merely Sold him that an objec- wspae ntesgs not tion was being raised. ntl S i o aeaoh Fe. 7, 1940. meigatrteeeto ft Dear Mr. Editor:sisunilatwe.Athtee I hate to bother you with such ainthoraztonunmusyr trivial matter as a few signs placed mvd about the campus (I am referring to Weaesryticroocre the "Keep ofT the grass" signs), but adasr o hti ilh o it seems they have been the object rce sso spsil.Oro of some criticism. gnzto ee ek ulct;o Several months ago Kappa Sigma ol eiewst i ntepee Kappa decided to aid the campus vto n euiiaino u a beautinication committee. We sug-pu.W aolgzaaifrth gested th)at signs be erected at various msersnaint h tdns places about the campus in order to Sneey preserve our struggling blades of TmMCthn gras.Thse igs erenowtas pPrdnt e siens. Unfort L W. "DUCK" SWEATMAN. J Mtrnber Rusn* M1a~w d Cole6ile Press Xsributor of im"d WSe bys he stary Sooled"s at the Unke, -ily of south Carouna durifg the odkge Year during am'nations and holiday. . NAIONAL ADV46MTeNING SV verfisWg Seri, Im Robert reory .................... Exchange A VK. Now Yox. N. Y. Los A.i.u . SAN FRA.C.M ANSEL ELMORE.....Circulation Manage MUSCLIN' IN Chivalry story of the week concerns Sam Reynolds who came to Sally Soarborough's rsscue in a Five Point episode . . .o vice versa . . . Weight-adding but still cute plus Mary (Little, Bit) Burgess has interspersed antiquated joke telling with buy. ing phone records of the classes . . . In case you wondered why Dave Baker tripped off the stage during Senator Pepper's speech' it was simply for a glass of refreshing H20 for the sena tor and himself ... And queenly Adelyn Lipseomb occupied a reserve seat on the cold, cold floor with D. A. Westmoreland at the same affair . . . To the occupants of Sim's 303: We agree with you that you are cute and even though you're doing o'k as it is, we believe that a little decrease in conceit would help a heck of a lots toward winning you friends anndn influencing people . . . There's a beated path to Elmwood Ave. now that Dallas Wilson is back in town after a year's yodeling tour with Jan Garber... Rottest stuff around Preston now is the new combine radio and turntable in the lobby, which to date has played "Your Feet's Too Big" almost as many times as a local radio station ... Eight packs of cigarettes was the price paid for one no. break at Saturday nite's dance . . . And then the female didn't show up . . . Another example of something gone with the wind .. The whole staff's gone socialite after Friday nite's party dished up by former ed. Zuokerman . . Martha Dukes thought the price of admission to the pix show was a hearty handshake, or at least it appeared so when the usher reached for the tick ets . .*. Blondy "Pud" Fry is back in school with enough am. munition left to lay the stronger sex in nthe aisles . . . Just hope she'll lower her head enough to see them fall through . . . Our vote for the nicest telephone voice of the week goes to Mrs. Dugan at the telephone exchange who never gets too tired to add a cheerful remark to her interrogative "Number Please" . . . Accordinng to rumors, more people busted out of school than passed, thus proving that it is a tough ole scholastic wofld ... Which reminds us to remind you to study hard for it won't be so awfully long til more exams . . . Reporter (State) Mar jorie Cooper has a crushy crush on a guy initialed P. Posey and would like to take this column as a means of exclaiming it . . . Latest addition to A. D. Pi is pert Marion Ballenger who came a down from Brenau with absolutely no information as to the romantic status of Box 22 over there ... Ashepooan Audrey Marler was the only injured person after I the Kappa Delt coon hunt (a knee scratch) . . . And we still I wonder if there is anything like a coon left in the state . . . Equestriennic M.. G. adds another dope to the line with the ad vent of McArtliur's last visit . . . "Snuggle Bunny" Marchant has turned petticoat conscious after rushing date Max Forbes away from the crowds for a last minute adjustment . . . Sign im book store reads: "Never explain, your friends don't need it anid your enemies won't believe it anyway'' . . . Pat Har relson evidently thinks enough of some guy with the initials E. H. to stick the selfsame initials all over an envelope . .According to Prefessor Calcott, the success of most of the secret organizatlions is due to the desire of the American people to shake hands with one finger crooked . . . The royal flush bridge game in the Sigma Nu house turned out to be a fake . . .It took the dealer twenty minutes to stack them though . . . We would be willing to bet that a vast majority of studes wvill see the p)icture playingn at a local house this andl next week... Pat Jeter, who gets our nomination for the nicest thing seen - in shorts this decode, was the only fern gem at the Georgia Tech dances this week-end not wvearing a fraternity pin . . .. Margaret Westmoreland can boast of having 52 roses in her room... Compliments to one guy, whom we hesitate to label a certain 1 type of fish . . . So far this week we've seen only ten girls who ,were fingernail polishees . . . The sporty looking maroon Ford -parked by the canteen, with the Green Bay Packers sign be longed to the Craig boys as you prob)ably suspected . . . Econo I mic prof Smith was labelled a foreigner from South Carolina in New Yor'k this summer by a german jew who couldn't speak r over 100 words of English . .. One young lady, whose name we won't mention for obvious reasons, is having a pretty hard time keeping her boyfriend, who hails from Marion, from going .. Chi 0 . .. Bonny Bowman, in the Columbia hospital for an opera tion on his leg, has so many flowers in his room that, according to Sister Mickey, it's pretty hard to distinguish him from a "blooming idiot" . .- The flowers, by the wvay, came mostly from "Aunt Coraline's" house . . . The D.D.s. still feel bad be s cause of a sorority meeting which compelled them to reject an - ofler from one kind gentleman to supply nine of them with daites with first Lieuts . . . Sarah Davies' big sister is one of the better lookers . . . One drawback to her though, she isn't in - school and we don 't even know her first name . .. Ten guys practically fainted when Peg Newton walked into - the field house at a recent basketball tilt without a male es cort . . . "Buddy " DuBose 's Bloise Oliver hasn't had a chance e for a private long distance chat with her mother in many a moon . . . Just about time the operator connects the two parties a crowd( wvanders into the A.D. P1 room to listen in . .. Jeanette "Polio" Propst 's explanation for her new coat, "I outstunk the skunk" . . . It could be true of some girls but not you, "Polio" . ... According to Mrs. Ohilds, the eligibility rules for members - of the cast in the next play should be the same as eligibility r rules for athletes .. . We can't agree for we certainly do want . to se the play . .. Poor Louie Searson has to resort to begging s publicity these days since lie doesn't write a column anymore ...We certainly would like to know from whom the letters in Box 1306 in male handwriting come . .. L7on't say they're from tihe family P. W., for the stationery's too nice for iter-familY commnicatio