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-ock' L.oTT GO Es, First Editor Oas4 " -.clas matter at the postofflee at Columbia, Member A4ssociated CoRe6icde Press Distributor of Cle6iae DiOest 6fMUN?O FOR NATIONAL ADMMeIssN ev National Advertsing Service, Inc. Coume P&Ufb"r R0r*1ee.01 aao M^oA.ON Av.. NKw YORK. N. Y. Cascaso - SooaR . Los Asmese - sa Fsaeisce tnued weekly by the Literary societies at the University of South Cafolina d" thwe college year. PAUL S. LEAGUE . . . . . . . . . Editor E. W. "DUCK" SWEATMAN, Jr., Business Mgr. PHILIP WILMETH ..... Managing Editor .Joe Kirby, Sports Editor; Blanche Gibbs, Co-ed Editor-Jean Timmons, Soclety Editor; David Brockington, Circulation Manager; George Grogory, Exchange Editor; Dick Frick, Bernie Bass, Jane Cox, Pat Patterson, Jim McKinney, and Deward Brittain, Associate "dtors. Staff Writers: Leonard Turnbull. Frank Sloan, Bob Quinn, Bud Getainger, Albert Eggerton, Donald Law, Betty Locke, Frances Meeks, Paul Posey and Pitkin Bell. Student Union W.P.A. Maxcy college, the old student union build ing--'"they built it, now they're moving in" -the WPA. All you students who have been mistreated, like the proverbial red-headed step-child, all these years, thought that you had something else big to kick about recently when the WPA took over the student union at, what some thosght, the expense of Carolina students who couldn't secure rooms. These perpetual kickers thought they had something big, but it has developed that there's nothing amiss. The situation has been taken care of, as far as Carolina students having no permanent living quarters is concerned-a statement made by T. E. Lagrone of the Uni versity marshal's office. The best interests of the University and of the student body were served when the Uni versity board of trustees decided to make this move the past summer. At least none of the fellows that got rooms in Preston college for the same price as Maxcy, are kicking. An angle of national defense entered the picture this summer and there was nothing else to do but make the change. The lease of the building is for one year's duration ony and undoubtedly next year Maxcy.college will again be used as a dormitory. Now that those afore-mentioned soap-box kickers have been taken care of as to the dis position of this building, maybe we can get down to serious business with the new renters and talk such things as a new chapel, tennis courts, and what have you. Diplomacy is the watch-word. Policy Everyone has great ideals at this time of the year, and The Gamecock, like everyone else, aspires to do great things and to convert many souls through its editorial columns during the approaching annum. Therefore we present the things that we are "for and agin' '' and other enlightening material as to how we shall see the light this fall. The Gamecock will make it a point to support the administration of the University as much as possible, and would like to add in passing that the present administration has done much toward stamping out the blazing whispering campaign conducted against the school. The campaign is now a dying ember and untold good for the name of our Alma Mater has been accomplished. As for campus matters we are, bluntly, anti fraternity and pro-sorority. Because of that sentence we expect seventeen freshmen to write us letters inquiring if The Gamecock editorial board is not composed entirely of male members. Seriously-it's time the non fraternity men get a break on this campus and we're for them. The. Gamecock will enter the political field for the .length of this sentence at least, and come out frankly, Wrholeheartedly, with no reservations, for a third term for F. D. R. The Associated Willkie Clubs of America tried to sway us over to their standard bearer-whose best speech is, "I agree with Rooevelt's pro am -.-.but they must be fools unless they ' 9I t11st ignok'aunt of the new W,. P. A. con **ee niversity library and dormitories. $ ~ w&'l W.leo'me suggestions this year, * :~* idufd* we d4h't inten to follow it. Welcome, Vrm It's a long established cust6 . so adain thi year The Gamecock says, "Welcome, Frosh' Since you were dumb enough to enter schoo this year we're glad to have you and predic that you will become as learned a group o: gun-fodder as the rest of us. But we can' help mentioning the fact that a course in na tional defense at Fort Jackson would be a mori fitting and probably healthier preparation foi the future than an over-sized dose of the arts and sciences will do for you. They were kind to us in the conscription bill freshmen. A nine-months' reprieve is nothing to laugh about, so to make those nine months as pleasant as possible we will seek to advise you on the following. Did you pledge the correct fraternity, frosh You realize that that's more important than selecting the correct courses. Who knows some day on the battle-field you may chance to run your bayonet through an Europear enemy who hasn't heard of fraternities anc such, and in his dying hour, you might en lighten the poor guy on drop-ins and such Tell him about class distinction, string-pulling and the home of the free and the brave. He'l] probably laugh at those dumb non-fraternity guys (who'll be back home sending orders over for you to follow). Seriously, frosh, if the above sounds like a drunken orgy we're sorry, and in all sincerity "Welcbme". They'll teach you something here and it all won't come from text books You'll enlarge your vocabulary with, astonish ingly enough, such one-syllable words as "hello'", "friend", and the rest of those words customary to the U.S.C. hospitality. Whethei you are a snob or a non-fraternity map, you'l: get that friendly smile and "hello", here. As for help and advice, start with President Mc Kissick and proceed to the lowest salaried in structors, and you'll find them all ready to ait you there. To you, frosh, we've had our say; the rest we wish you would go back to the farm some week-end and tell your parents. We believe in spite of the malicious, state-wide whisper ings, that the University is a fine school, from an educational, cultural, social and moral standpoint. We believe that students grow in every way while they are at Carolina. Tell them that, and in the interim we bid you welcome, and extend to you our sincere wishes for a most pleasant and profitable stay here. We Get Protection Those fellows who paid down their hart earned snmackers to that smno.oth-talking sales man who dropped into their room last yeai and who never saw that suit of clothes the3 ordered won't have to worry about being gypped again this year. The University has seen to that. Before any solicitor, on no matter what kind of business can come into dormitory rooms, he must have i signed permit frorn President McKissick and Dean Chase. Rest assured that these permit! wvill not be granted a dime-a-dozen either, foi both the president and the dean will makt thorough research into any solicitor's busines! before allowing him on the campus. Carolina students are asked to co-operat< with University authorities in this matter, and The Gamecock thinks it a good idea by ask ing the next salesman that drops into thei, rooms to produce their credentials. This is not just another regulation; this may save you money. Landmark Goes To some it means merely the modernizing oj the landscape, but to others, the old-timers, thu removal of the old president's home means thi passing of an age. Worlds of sentiment is attached to the oli building which was built in 1807, two yeari after the opening of the University, and which was occupied by our first president, Dr. Jona than Maxey. The old building saw history made within iti walls. At the time Columbia was burned it was used as a hospital for Confederate soldiers It survived the period of carpet-baggery wher negroes went to Carolina from 1873 to 1877 President Taft once spoke from its steps on th( occasion of his visit to Columbia. Niernsee, architect of the State House, di reoted the building of its famous roof. Cost of removing it to another site or re storing it upon another 'site is too great and now it is destined for the brick-pile. It was am ,institution. We hate to see It go. Campus 'CaneIra DEAN LIR cAQP +Question-of-Week MF-Would you be willing to be drafted or, if not, how do you propose to evade the draft after June 5? WOMEN-Are you prepared to knit socks for the boy friend if he should be drafted? Don Merrick--Yes. Everyone physically able should help de fend his country. John Cook-I'm not over anxious to be drafted but I'll go if it's necessary. Ernest Lent-I'm unhappy about the whole thing. Wallace Denny-No, sir; I'm a conscientious objector from way back. In fact, I ain't mad at nobody. Bill Allen-Oh sure, I want to do or die for my country. Rufus Fellers-No. My eyes will suddenly become very, very weak. Jimmy Hill-No. I'm going, to start a slacker camp. Wallace Evans-I just don't give a damn !! Lewis Callahan-I don't mind being drafted, it's getting shot that worries me. Tom Harper-Sure I'm willing to be drafted. Ruth Brown- -I'm afraid not. You see, I can't knit. Alice Glominski-Of course I'd try but frankly, I can't knit worth a darn. Fred Bremer-No,'I don't want to be drafted. I shall cut off just as many toes as necessary. Frampton Henderson-Not me, I'm going to study for the Ministry. Murrel Smith-I can't do anything except the pearl stitch; and beCsides, I'd have to keep one of his feet over here for a pat tern. Letters . To The Editor ' P a u l e a g u e , S e p t . 1 7 , 1 9 4 0 . w r r m e o p c , a d w t Mr. noaooufr epasan,undth Editor, The Gamecock, Am vnctigotYFeha University of South Carolina. capIstljonhoemtius *Dear "Scoop,"whcrou,"oehnsoldb I've been around this cloistereddoeauthi.An cntsy campus set in the midst of a bus- nuhaotteetr tdn n thing city for a long, long time, offiobulngengtrdovro and on, and there are a few thingsthWP,habenadlites that I wvant to get off my chest. jc,adIdd' hn uho h Here goes. SuetUin enMxyCl First, it seems to me that it is lg,a iigqatr nwy getting harder for a poor boy to AnThGaeokasrly come to this University. I mean mvdaoti hs i er lo in actual money spent on fees. I a lotcmltdtecce When I was a Freshman, in 1934,asi104twshoedntefrt I registered for a semester, includ- foro eeet1.Te ea ing $20.00 room fee (that was thethwadrnsTeniwnto only kind of rooms they had then) teodAmnsrto ulig for $70.00. Now to register for the adfo hr otepoie same work costs $82.50 per semes-lurisqatesnthSudt ter, or $25.00 more a year. Uin en ocdotb h tAlso there is a scarcity of cheaper epnigamnsrto h he rooms on the campus. Nine of thethnraseedotetidflr low cost housing tenements are oc-ofRtegovrhecal.Tn cupied by fraternities. Three more teepnigmscdprmn have just been usurped this year bycasdnexustFinhll the administration to house the ex-agithtirflo,Gmck tension division and student publi-GartAnnothgowgAt cations. Which doesn't leave much dprmn a u h ual for the boys who just have to cut sett eeet1,woehl expenses. lwdpeicsoc osdita Another thing that is unfortunatemuachpingloeuster and regrettable and all that butofabtus rtrnyahle. which is a derned shame, is that Nwpoal h xeso ii there is just not enough room inwlgrwadedalof1 around this place for recreation andanthppewilginrsmis exercise. Five tennis courts forramnsisechoapraet 2,000 students I and two of them re-hoe served for the tennis teams. And Haigmndrd rodad not a thing has beena done about boe h c o orlte e this yet. And now. the gym, so atet ean the rumor goes Is to be given to Sneeyyus th nva rsev. ~ell weta ar BrmeNfor spaSadSit Tlw ko W-th Ala The Fil1 fth Column MCKINNEY .-BY- BRITTA IN PREAMBLE To the Dies committee, discipline committee, Judge Sheppard, a other investigators: The name of this refulgent stretch of type, the arrangement an spelling of words contained herein, and our affiliation with the Hard Press-ed Association are by no means to be construed as tin-America or ism-matic. If you will count from the left of the page, you'll find that this is TH1 FIFTH COLUMN. * * * * * TO FRESHMEN AND FRESH-WOMEN Editor League writes the editorials and Colonel McKissick makV6 the speeches, and both already have cordially welcomed you to the forty acres that will be your home for the next four years (barring conscription and the discipline committee). But as student to student we welcome you to the most democratic campus in the world. You might find a better climate some place, but you'll never find better friends. POCAS PALABRAS To the canteen: If drayman Matthew Polliakoff hasn't returned your, push truck, you can find it in Tenement 10 where he left it after hauling $21 worth of law books across the campus. To'the art department: Since The Gamecock left Flinn Hall, the space above Rev. Bell's domain can not justly be called the "Fine Arts Department." Only part oi the arts remain-and no "fine." To "Red" McClary: You may not be superstitious, but y'ou can't deny that Friday 13 saw your downfall. To the Administration: Did you hear about the guy who's paying only $30 for one of those choice corner nooks in Preston? It may be fine' from his standpoint, but how about the fellow who laid 50 fins on the, line for the same type room? Just another result of the WPA conquest of the renamed Student Union. SIMS SENTENCES The Later Tau Alph.s mIid use a new deck of cards . . . And the Sigh Omegas might touch the treasury (?) for the price of a few new rec-, ords ... Bernice Geenboig, lately of Chol'ston's bott'ry, is conducting a dating bureau for the third floor. A milk bottle from a second story window narrowly missed the heads of your correspondents as we strolled innocently down the front porticoi Sunday p. m.-and we hadn't written a word thenl . . . Howinthehell do you work the radio in the Dry Delta room? At eight p. m'. the swain line in Sims' lobby resembles a depression bread line . . . Der Furhrer Pau Von Franz Holscher is Blisskrieging, around pretty often with one of the inmates. LIMPY LIMERICK Our Gamecock profs can't stand the pace; .. 'Cause too many lost that leap year race. They started fine, But fell behind A bridal train of frills and lace. THE CHANGING SCENE One of the University's oldest landmarks, the old President's House which today partly stands at the head of the campus,' is rapidly being~ erased from the Carolina picture. Tradition and history have been stamped immutably on every wall. of the ancicnt structure. When a Yankee named Sherman was creating the plot for "Gone With The Wind," the building was used for a Con federate hospital. And while the negroes controlled the college in the 1870's, it served as a normal school. Many noble Americans have honored the University with a visit to the President's House, two of: the most notable of which were Daniel Webster and President Taft. ith Ik.' the Student Union, in a few weeks it will be "gone with POLITICAL PALAVER Fresh from his victories in Greenville's political wars, Judge Holland, sagacious son of the soil and Simpsonville, made his pompous entrance to the campus last week in a style that would put to shame the triumphal tours of Caesar. In Anderson county Bill Hamlet and Bob Vandiver pulled a douBle barrel blitzkrieg to head the legislative ticket. Right in the shadow of the campus smokestack Rhea Haskell used his diploma as a passport into the IHouse and Jack Page smashed the Horry county voting record to enter the House on the first ballot. * * * * * SUCCESSES AND RECESSES George Prince, campus postman who moves around like a glacier of molasses, "marched through Michigan" during the summer at the expense of the Kellogg foundation. George turned in a sw;ell job with the sanitation division of Kellogg. Colt Hendley, radical mastermind of last semester's Gamecock, Is now totin' a Washington Star press pass in the nation's capital. George Faulkner "Try and Collect" Zuckerman Is somewhere in Brooklyn beating the Flatbushes for the rye bread line he failed to Prof. Billy Woods is recessIng at the University of North Care la where he is working on another degree or dodging the draft. we don't know which. By-the-by, Uncle Billy'11 weep when he learns his beloved Student Union Is no more. Elliott McCants is in the air corps Somewhere-inOlahoma along with other ex-Gameoks. No doubt The Slugger Is writing his own by-lines in the sky. *** * ORE ROTUNDA "ThereBabocsuch thing as a big word except to a small man" "To win the election In November will beonoftemsdiict politicalbtasks ever accomplished"-Jerry Ford, of thAssociated Will koiealubsuof rAmerca, in a letter to Editor League soliciting his edi.