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COIT HENDLEY ...,................. Editor DEPARTMENT HEADS Jim McKinney, Sports Editor; Jeanne Withers, Co Ed Editor; Jane Cox, Society Editor. Rich Ed STAFF WRITERS Peggy Hendrickson, Betty Mercer, Betty Locke, Jean Elli Timmons, Mary Boykin, Frank Sloan, Paul Poocy, ob bull. Quinn, Blanche Gibbs, Dot Sawyer, Emily Wolfe, Ib Lest Greenfield.Let PAUL LEAGUE ................ Managing Editor An Interesting Letter Comes To The Gamecock At Last, At Long Last Thank God for Ralph Lee! Wednesday, we finally received a good let ter. We are not admitting much that's in it. But, there's notiing better than seeing the other side of the argument. The comiplete let ter is reprinted elsewhere on this page. Now, to criticise. In the first paragrapl, Mr. Lee repeats the old truism that The Gamecoek is "the voice of the student body" and that it should ex press their opinions or should try to promote the opinions they should have. With this we agree. But we would feel and look worse than an octopus on a drunk if we tried to express the opinions of every one on the campus. So, we take the thoughts of a sizable group and add our own variations. That's all any Gamecock editor ever ias done. It happens that we are playing o a different team from Mr. Lee. Mr. Lee next asks two questions. "Should The Gamecock be representative of the Uni versity? And, should the policy of The Game cck be such that it would encourage enroll inent at the University and promote Caro lina's best interests? If you answer these questions in the affirmative tiere is no excuse for your recent editorials. If you answer them in the negative, there is no excuse for The Gamecock." - We chose to ignore the whole paragraph as it is just a, rhetorical dilemna, the type all high school debators are taught to use. Our personal note of February 9-"And to Miss Rannah Heyward-N'yah, N'yah, pro nqunced like what tie little Red Fox said to the big bad dog and accompanied by a stick ing out motion of the tongue,"-is objected to next. Asks Mr. Lee, "Is this the feeling of the majority of Carolina students, or does the editor wish to promote suci a feeling on the campus?" We are sure it is not the feeling of the ma jority of the students, but it would be as funny as KSK if all 2,000 of them stuck out their tongues at Miss Heyward. We were decent enough not to discuss pub licly somel of the things studlents (10 0on week ends(1. Mr'. Lee tinks we arc' wrong. Moving on, Mr'. Lee says thalt we huave for gotten 1,400 other stuidents by talking for 600 frater'nity and sorority memblers, and1( disa gr'eeinlg withl tile louisy social regullations. .MaybJe so, but it's time somlebodly plrinted whallt thev think aibouit them. And( we relly r'esenit tile acculsatlin that we ignore thle other 1 ,40(0 studentss. it's a lie ( or shlould we say iuntrue). Fuirthiermiore, ourP friends do not need pub licity but we puit anythling in The OGmecock that makes fairly inlteresting reading. If any one hals a stor'y as good as Babcock's kissing spreeQ(, b)ring it to tile oflice and1( it wvill be4 p)rinlted. We've had( no0 'omlainlts so farl thlat the page is boring. Mr'. Lee waunts to know if thlere is a dlearthI of editorial material. We (cal't say there'4 is. We (don't wanit to be4 editorializing all1 the time, hlowever. So we throw inl somel miscellalneouls illforiuation tiedl together with c'onc(rete phlrases. llTese c'an not be classifiedl as feature stories. Tlhe idea f comes from tihe Newi Tr-e riagal zineC. The)4 way of writinig them is ours, Finally, in caise the readers of The (lame cock have been worried, we are all for the University b)ut think some thlings should be changed. The trouble with Mr. Lee is that he is a highbrow and an idealist. IIe probably can discuss sex and make you think 1he meant it all inl an intellectual wvay. Personal Note We are always amused when certain in dividuals come to the Gamecock office and ask that their names not be usedl in Muselin' -In, It's like the woman in the department store who screamed at 11er nloisy son, "Be quiet, and Mama will buy you a drum." ASSOoIATES ard Frick, PhUlip Wilmeth, Bernie Bass, - Patterson, De*ard Brittain, *Joe Kirby, tt McOants, Dan Henderson, Leonard Turn. Business Associates: Bill Bauknight, r Pilcher. R102R Etared a a Gamecock To Enter Political Field As Reporter Only For the first time in history, The Gamecock is taking an active non-partisan part in pol itics. All candidates who wish to announce their intentions canl do so through The Gamecock. Later we may attempt to explain the dif ferent party lines so our voters may know just what's happening on the day of elections. It's amazing that this field of interesting material has been neglected for so long. Some of our campus politicians are right amusing. We know of one who is so dumb that lie thinks a hangover is a Jewish holiday. We promise not to discuss the various can didates. The Gamecock will be absolutely im partial. The candidates for president of the student body are announced on the front page. Next week we will carry the names of the people who are candidates for other offices. This is a good opportunity to say Confuci ous say-"Politics inake strange bedfellows, but they soon get accustomed to same bunk." Young Lady Objects To Horrible Color Of New Library Sonic peoplq object to anything. Wednesday afternoon, the telephone in The Ganecock office rang cautiously. Said a sweet feminine voice, "Do you ap prove of the color of the new library?" "Why, yes and no," we answered, consider ing that a diplomatic way of avoiding trouble. "I think it an awful color, don't you?" "The matter has not been discussed in The Gamecock office, no fooling." "Why don't you do something about it? I don't think you should let them use that nasty color for our library. A lot of the girls think it is vulgar." After five minutes of hedging, ve finally advised tile mysterious caller to wyrite a letter to the editor expressing her opinion. We really did not care what anybody, even a girl with as suggestive a voice as this one had, thought about the color of the library. We tried to get a (late. UnTisuccessful. Lawyers Are Rising, Hopelessly, We Hope, Against Faculty Rule F'romI the Question-Of-The-W,eek andl camn pus1 rumilors, we find that the law students (10 not agree with the faculty ruling ousting them from tile debating teamn. T1h at's too bad(. They fe'ar thlat it is the first move toward gett inlg themu out of studeint bodly politics. As we said last week, we hope it is. A front page story carries a plan which the debating concil is adlvoc'ating. At the next faculty meeting the council will recollmmendl these thlree things: (I) that a freshman (de halting teun beC organized; (2) that member ship on tile varsity dlebating team be limitedl to three years; (3) that law studlents be eligi ble if they mainltain a schlolastic average (de term11nedl by D)ean .J. Nelson Frierson. These are very sensible suggestions. If the faculty decidles to compromise, they might well ad1opt them. I. D). Karesh. membler of the dlebating coun cii, points out that no studlent organization was consulted1 on the resolution that directly a fl'ectedl miany studlents. lIe has something.. 'We would like to go on recordl as opposing the way the ruling was passed. As for the law students, wve still want to see the rascals (Zuckerman objects to the word scundelru n out of stulent body politics. THE A~ssocialed MECOCK RUPS40V"T POl Founded January 30, 1908 Natioam Adv T ELLIOTT GONZAIE8 First Editor cOu., a 4ao MA0SON A lecond da matter at the tMos at Oolumbla. S. 0., clucao - Soo0 Naome:ber S, Campus Camera 30I 1 3 Oh-eWORWS LARGEST SUN-DIAL IS ON 14E CAMPUS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MANILA (PILIPPINES). IT IS b5 FEST WID& AND 40 F'. HIGH/ ALBERT AN) THOmAS PALMERLEE, IWIN ALGEBRA INSMRUCORS AT -THE NEGRO BunERS OF 'E U.OF UNIV. OF KANSAS. CONFUSE SUDENTS ALABAM FRATERNMES -AVE. WIT1 DUPLICATE FACES AS WELL AS A FRATERNrTY OF THEIR OWN ' ' ' DUPLICATE PROBLEMS - ' ' - THE SGMA KING / *Question-of-Week WHAT IS YOUR OPINION OF THE FACULTY'S DECISION TO BAR LAW STUDENTS FROM THE DEBATING TEAM? Bernard Poliakoff-"In the past our best debating teams have been composed of academic and law students combined, with law students predominating. Is it an advantage to the University to break up that oUAbii,.au, whih Las aLready shown itself able to better represent the University? If the advantages of giving the academic students better participation is of greater concern than the representation of the University, then the action was in my opinion a good one." W. P. Baldwin-"The plans should have been taken in conjunction with the Debating Council, who had, I think, a much better plan. All students who have completed four academic years should not be allowed to debate, for the sake of fairness to undergraduates and other schools. Its immediate effect will be to lower the standard of debating for a short time." Felix Greene-"Such action is unwarranted discrimination against law students and looks like the first step in a movement to put law students out of all campus activities. Lawv students pay their student activities fee; why shouldn't they have the same right to take part in all campus activities as other students?" Robert H. Teskey-"I heartily approve of the action. It should have been taken sooner. TFhe law school is a professional school and should not be any more a p)art of it than medical school, which is one apart from the University only in a physical sense. The arguments advanced in favor of the action, in my opinion, outwveigh the ones against it. It's a salutary change." Bubba Ness-"Somewhat prejudicial, somewhat beneficial. On the whole I believe the faculty had the best interests of the University at heart. I heartily approve of their action, but I do not b)elieve that law students should be ostracized to any greater extent from campus activi tics." Letters To The Editor February 28, 1940. t rmt uhafeigo h D)ear Editor:caps It has been my understandingtoainTeGmckofFb2; since I enteredl the University that"W colderie thrhng The Gamecock was the voice of the Crln tdnsd hnte studlent b)odly, that it expressed their hv ohn let o u,ee opinions or tried to promote theabra-iddpsowulnt op)inions that they should have,.iet e ubi icsino This semester the editorials of Thethm"WudhienorgSuh Gamecock have certainly not been Crln aet osn hi hl representative of the UniversitydrntouUivsty Deshs student body unless it has complete- mk o ie aoia ly changed, which is hardly possible in the course of three weeks. Icdnal,i eadt h Would you, as editor of The fo hc h bv utto a Gamecock, answer two questions?tae an inohrpranngo First, should The Gamecock be rep-thsaemtr,iwolbe ie resentative of the University? Sec-tohekuonhefcsyup ond, should The Gamecock policysetd b)e such that it would encourage enrollment at the University and Stlanhequaio frm n promote Carolina's best interests? eioili h aeok fFb If you answer these questions in 0 ' enwrgltosmd 0 the affirmative there is no excusefrtniyadsoiymebs for your recent editorials. If youdistfe."Waaouthohr answer them in the negative there 10 tdnsa aoia o is no excuse for The Gamecock,. emt aefrgte bu hm Quoting from an editorial in Themaeildoyufrnsnedpb Gamecock of Feb. 9; "And to Missliiyoaryupnc-tigfr Rannah Heyward-'N'yah, N'yah--tefauesoywie? Oeo pronounced like what the little Redthabvmutetr ecsei Fox said to the big, bad dog andthpathreiusteedoil accompanied by a sticking out mo-paehsinldd0dtoasI tion of the tongue." Is this the feeling of the majority of Carqllnaorthnaessw dr,esol students,narstoesnthedoditor wish (COeNotinU ONs PAGdo Bu,)ve E. W. "DUCK" SWEATMAN, Member buide P Manag I Cole6iate Press --. Istributor of Inued Weeky by the Literery Boeat at the Uir e . sity of South Carolina duriag the oolege yftr SOW during examinations and holidays. I NATIONAL ADVSRTI1NG SV e RtiS Wg S e ice I m Robert Gregory .-------.............. fehange Edito Usbers R~eeSSu VK. N1w YORK. N. Y. Los ANGL. - SAN RA.CM" ANSEL ELMORE......Circulation Managa MUSCLIN' IN If you don't believe spring fever can affect you just try walk ing over the campus some sunny day and see what kind of mood it would put you in . . . And romances are blooming almost., as fast tis the flowers . .. To the editors and staff of the John. sonian at Winthrop College-: Thanks lots for sending such charming representatives by the office this week. They were: Betty Richardson, Margaret Wessinger and Katherine Bailey . . . We're always glad. to welcome pretty visitors . . . A new or ganization has been organized to compete with the Beaux Arts club . . Its name, 'The Gator Club" and it's composed mostly of A. D. Pi. lassies and their best boy friends . . . And another new club, but organized by somebody else, is the "Buck-a Month" club, which had to have its name -changed from ")ol. lar-nionth because the initials of the latter name wouldn't sound so hot . . . To Wahlio Hinson: Sorry we couldn't start a scandal about you this week, but, you see, we don't get around so much these days . . . Particularly around spots where scandals could be started . . . Latest feminine doo-dads are the flowers they put in their hair these days at the expense of the campus flower bushes . . . From reports of the bench-sitting would-be pugilists, Dr. Law started doing good turns for Clemson when hestopped the fight in which Aubrey Rion cut his opponent s jaw, giving the decision to the Tiger man. Billy Bryan, most sought after man on the campus (by wo men), sent pert gal Katie Beatie a corsage of red roses when she was initiated into the sorority this week . . . which leads us to wonder if Mary Elise Livingston has any desires to be in iated again . . . You'll pardon us while we wonder if the many couples who come to the music room daily do so solely for the love of music . . . To the circulation staff of "The Tiger": Thanks oodles for sending us a copy of last week's edition of the paper . . . And congratulations to the editorial staff of the snme sheet on the success of the issue ... We, too, had ten pages but only one good scandal column besides the editorials . . . (Reference to the one found on the back page) . . . To Bill O'Hara: Just wish we could imagine-why you don't try to de velop that territory around the young lady who hails from Pay ton, Ohio . . . Apologies to Margie Elliott . . . We knew there must have been at least thwee other boys who were disappointed when you showed up at the boxing matches with Citadel's Alex Oliphant . . .Vote for the nicest job of the week: Helping Mary Hull Kaminer, who right now is interested in Billy Bowen, with getting her lab copy. . . Tri Delt's song -birds, Bess Heyward and Patricia Neomah Jeter, are getting in some early practice for the song fest by walking over the campus doing some harmonizing . . . Bubba Ness' birthday party brought about Wednesday was by court esy of Jean Snyder, Leo Webb and Betty Faulconer . . .And Ann Sheridanlike Gene Baldwin has a new name, "Mo" be cause of her mohawk Indian type profile .. . Graham Patton is causing Chris Green quite a bit of worry these days since the last mentioned bud has east his eyes in the Wheichel direction . . . To Frank Bryant would like to suggest that you fiind a new wooing place other than the steps of the library . . .and Oscar Wiley didnii't do the informing either . .. The above might go to Chevis Powell only with a change in location . . . IRight outsidle the A. D. Pi. roomi is nio fit place for public exhibition of the ancient art of love pitching . . . Our vote for the nicest tele phone voice of the wveek goes to p)etitc Sally McCaw, at presenit mnterestedI in Bob Fant much to the secret chagrin of Pitkenl Bell . . .Most everybody wvill agree that last Saturday nite's social cabinet dance was the best in many a moon . . .To Mrs. Childs: Please don't lock the window in the sorority kitchen; If you do one young lady wvil .have to start getting late keys, but if she does she '11 have to come in at twelve instead of the usual 1 :15 A. M.... The Chi Omegas earnest request that Bob George refrain from breaking their records . . . Willis Beall, now that boxing is over', has turned novelist . . . Judge George S. Yeldell is still getting moon-eyed thinking about Pat Jeter. Don 't we all? . . . Whose the little girl at Columbia hospital that has locks on Duck Sweatman? And lie likes it, too . . . Bimbo Howe claims that lhe's worked more in three weeks in thme school of engineering than lie did durinig three years on the upper campu s .. . Cotton Lindsey, Yoi-k, former Gamecock reporter, visitedl the campus this week . . . What a sight Betty Guthridge made trap)ising down Sumter Street with a can of Schlitz under heri arm . . . Tlhe SAE's are having' a bridge tournecy in their domicile . .. Tenement 18 is continually in dulging in a spank hearts game . . Latest bulletin from thme annual office says that the Garnet and Black will come out July 4 and will be known as "Poor Hubert's Almanac"... And to Peg Hendrickson, "Scoop" League sent the followving telegram: Brush your teeth, comb your hair, hurry to bed, say your prayer-, and( before you know it I will be there" . .*Per sonal note to"'Little Bit": Some day we're going to take a day off and try to figure you out . . . We '1l take Molly Heath as our all-around darling gel for the week . . . And to a near namesake, Ann Heath, goes our niomii nation for the best collegiate cook of the decade . . . We know at least three fellows who 'Il be glad to see Charlie Manning, who really isn't conceited, even if lie does seem so, get his "dip" . . . The reason: So they might have a chance with Maxine... To the reformationi party in Tenement 12: The editor and( I are pleased to learn that you are taking such an interest in journalistic affairs and henceforth will do our best to please