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The Gamecock Founded January 30, 1906 ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZXLES, First Editor Entered as eecond-clasw matter at the postoffice at Columbia, S. 0. Nov. 20, 1908. Member Associated Colle6iade Press 1940 Distributor of 1941 Colle6ite Di6esl 4EPASeNTeO Fon NATIONAL ADVERTISING SY National Advertising Service, Inc. CoUlese Publishers RePresetasvs,. 420 MAoisoN Avu. NKW Yontc. N. Y. CMICAso SOSTON - Los ANGasS - San FRancISco Issued weekly by the Literary societies at the University of South Carolina during the college year. PAUL S. LEAGUE . . . . . . . . . Editor E. W. "DUCK" SWEATMAN, Jr., Business Mgr. PHILIP WILMETH ..... Managing Editor EDITORIAL STAFF Joe Kirby .................-.-.-......................Sports Editor Blanche Gibbs ...................-.---................Co-ed Editor Jane Cox ..............................................Society Editor ASSOOIATE EDITORS Dick Frick Jim McKinney Ed Patterson Bernie Bass Deward Brittain Leonard Turnbull STAFF WRITERS Frank Sloan Albert Eggerton Frances Meeks Bob Quinn Donald Law Paul Posey Bud Getsinger Pitkin Bell John Nash David Brockington .........-...............Circulation Manager George Gregory .....----...........................Exchange Editor BUSINESS STAFF Marie Ulmer Beryl Kerns Marion Whaley Lii Hair Walter Taylor TELEPHONE SERVICE IS SADLY NOT IN EVIDENCE' It should take long deliberation to declare nything an acute situation, but The Gamecock elieves that just such a situation exists on his campus. It is practically impossible for University tudents or anyone else for that matter to get call through the University telephone system n any d.ecent length of time between the hours f -sii and eight p. m. Yet the University has apable operators, efficient at their work. But those operators are literally worked to he bone trying to give telephone service to 800 students when they haven't the proper acilities with which to render that service. Because of the fact that calls can't be made nto or out of the two University women's ormitories after eight p. m., the number of alls are doubled, even trebled, in the two hours ust before eight o'clock and accounts partly or the situation. We declare it an acute situation and recom mend the installation of a dual switchboard providing for two operators during those two hours and any other hours that would be deemed necessary. We think that the telephone authorities should jump at the opportunity to better their service and to keep the good will of their pub lie. After all they are a public utility. We know the company can act when pushed, for we counted exactly seven of their service trucks by the student union building Sunday when they were installing the new WPA switch board, evidently a rush job. Maybe we're wrong but we declare the lack of telephone service an acute situation. CAROLINIAN EDITORS NEED A BUSINESS MAN Whlen w'e think of the plight of the Caro linian, campus magazine of the past two year:s, we think of that tile adage concerning those who help themselves. We're not great students of business science ourselves but it seems that tile statement made by the Carolinian's guiding geniuses that ''if the Carolinian does not get money from the University, regardless of subscription and ad vertising money, the magazine will go under'' is a statement made by people who just don't like to work. We might be wrong, and we admit that we haven't any figures to back up our statement. But it seems that with a good business manager and advertising solicitor in a town the size of Columbia any college publication should be able to make a go of it on merely advertising. Only one thing will make the subscription list grow, and if those aforementioned guiding geniuses will permit us we'll make a few sug gestions. Lighten up your magazine; it's too stodgy, matter-of-fact and serious. Read the Navy Log, the M. I. T'. VooDoo, or even the North Carolina Buccaneer, and you'll get some ideas. But for goodness-sakes editors, make it a lively magazine. 'If the Carolinian business staff will quit pro orastinating and consult our own ''Duck" *tiinsetman, perhaps funds from the University W 14not be necessary. We certainly hope tb r I on't cease publication. AT THIS TfME WE SALUTE ENRIGHT Tomorrow afternoon 4ex Enright's Carolina Gamecocks op6n their football season, and the wisenheimers have the Gamecocks slated to lose their opener. To the old grads who'll walk the Carolina campus again tomorrow morning, and who have come home once more, hoping against hope, that .Carolina will finally come up with a winning gridiron team, we have the following to say: Yes, it's true Carolina is slated to lose the game tomorrow, and are slated to come out on the short end of this year's schedule, but old grads, this year we've got a team. Win or lose we've got a team that will fight its heart out until the final whistle. Enright opens his third year as a Gamecock coach tomorrow, and those three years are be ginning to pay dividends. He's molded in that time a team with spirit-a fighting team. True, his team may lose tomorrow, but spectators won't go away from the game regretting that they had ever bought a ticket. They will have seen a good show, and a Carolina team that for once asked no quarter. A slender squad, a giant-killer schedule which was made-up even before Enright came here, by the way, and lack of funds, confronted Enright this season; conditions that would cause ordinary coaches to resign. Against such odds this man-Enright molded a team this year. Enright did it-we know Enright-we promise you a ball club that you will be proud of. CONCERNING A CAROLINA STUDENT UNION LOBBY For two weeks The Gamecock stuck through thick and thin with the administration, praising its policy and purpose, but now we are sick, disgusted to say the least. Just like the feeling that is bound to come after the third chocolate bar, it came upon us. And we quit. We walked into the former student union building one afternoon recently, and there to our great surprise, was not the customary lounge and meeting place with its leather covered chairs and furniture, but the outpost of the fleet of offices that the WPA is arrang ing in the top two floors of the building. We upheld the administration when they is. sued the statement that they had rented the top two floors of the building for we felt it was necessary to national defense, but now we are slightly disgusted. We have been let down as it were. The student union lobby which had grown to be a necessity for such matters as a boy meeting his parents or his girl or his friend there, is no more. In fact one can't walk through the front door of the building. These are undoubtedly futile words. The WPA has already moved in. But we still think that the University let its student body down whlen it rented a way the student union lobby. THE GAMECOCK RECEIVES AN EPISTLE The Gamecock received a letter this week from a fraternity man, a letter which we in tend to publish as soon as the ashamed fellow gets up enough nerve to attach his name to the epistle. And epistle it was. For four pages this Greek gallant hurled anathema at ye editor and our style of writing, and if there was a point to the entire communication we've yet to find it. The poor fellow attacked our journalistic style in ferocious fashion, but we couldn't help noticing that he began his letter with the per sonal pronoun "I.'' The Gamecock intends to be broadminded about the letter and hopes the rest of the cam pus will be when the letter is published, because after all there's no reaison for one letter to in fluence people to believe that all fraternity men are dumb. WANTA FIGHT? Would you rather fight or have some one else do it for you? We thought so. That's what Mrs. J. Rion McKissick thinks also, and that lovely lady is feverishly behind a movement to help the fel lows who are doing our fighting for us right now, the granite-like 'British Tommy. The Gamecock reasons as does Mrs. Mc Kissick. If the "battlin' Briton's'' fall, then undoubtedly, in our opinion, it'll be our turn. Therefore, common sense would dictate - that we extend as much aid as possible to our first line of defense. The Gamecock asks every student to look at the thing in as serious a way as possible and to reason our lead question out-then if you are affected as are the majority of those who have done the same thing you'll put your shoulder behind the wheel to send-Bndnles To Britain Campus Camera 00-ED 0U 'PEND 1176 HOURS OR 49 DAYS BEFORE A MIRRR DURING %)UR 4 0aUJ=GE YEARS/ AND IF U'RE AN AVERPGE CODL LEGE MN YOU NOW/ KNOW THE REASON FOR -WSE "LONG WAITS' +Question-of -Week Who do you think will win the Carolina-Georgia game -predict the score? Preston Westmoreland: Carolina 7; Georgia 0. Vernon Sloan: Carolina 0; Georgia 13. Robert Putnam: Carolina 13; Georgia 27. Milton Freedman: Carolina 7; Georgia 21. Bill Gamble: Carolina 7; Georgia 0. Jimmy Merchant: Carolina 7; Georgia 20. Art Roberts: Carolina 7; Georgia 18. Norman Baum: Carolina 6; Georgia 0. John Hazelton: Carolina 0; Georgia 0. Rita Kaufman: Carolina 6; Georgia 20. Malcolm "Brew" Beers: Carolina 0; Georgia 13. David Alterman: Carolina 7; Georgia 0. Wallace Evans: I'm no prophet, but here's to you Carolina, I hope you win. Kay Du.ffy: Carolina 14; Georgia 0. Celia Zusman: Carolina 6; Georgia 7. Letters To The Editor., Editor's Note: ALL commumications to The Gamecock should be signed by the author and should not exceed 250 words. Mr. Paul League i ona ela te uiess Editor, The GamecockWhcolnttearsbtasf Dear Scony:abesoupaetcolseth I've been around the Universitygaeiwecudt;oelebsl now a little over three years andabesthtwwotfelsife during that time certain questions aebiggpds osek have arisen in my mind, as no doubt Whdos'smenstradiv they have arisen in the minds oftogtbtetiltfciisfrth others. I waited for others to take odtnmnssnetecae oe the initiative, but for the most partmethsflndo? my waiting has been in vain. Now Whis'acetldnecom being a senior perhaps I can inquire tefre iheeysuetpyn with some ease. asalaon fmnyadhv One thing I would like to ask, is trebgnm ad ruh on what proportion of my $9.25 paid for Iwudrte ertrebgnm my so-called athletic card is used for bnsta ot hs acsw athletic purposes. I ask this becausehaesxtm.Tebibndwol I understand that some of the feeadglmutoheansadte is diverted to The Gamecock andsmlenubrodacsndoe the literary societies. For the mostinestdtunswolmaehs part only a small number of students asces are members of these literary socie- Whis'telascoldenr ties and they pay semester dues. Thechsdoouplicaaprntcud Gamecock every one reads withoutrufoofiewtutiginth further payment (you hope). Butstegornntotopak the athletic cards-they are compul- WydentteUiest u sory, non-transferable and non-sale-ladowinMcyGegprad able. The latter statement puts my- bid2 enscut?I vr n self and many other students in a pe- a aoiadsrdt lytni n culiar situation,.eeddo h orshr,Ia By way of explanation, I, alongafadecstenwol'tpya with about fifteen other students workseayarMybeptofhet in the city theatres on Saturday. Bus-lecfecodbeudfrths iness is good and we are needed to NointeasprgahIsic handle the people. At the same timebohfeinteiraddn'qes our football games take place. We to u ugs httepoesr are working and should we desirehaecrgofteexbksndet to get off it would be impossible be- te ou.Te msr o' cause the extras are Carolina stu- hv obyfv ok oaig$ n dents, and common sense would showseltmfo50cn.Iamo that one wouldn't give up a football eooitbtIko hsintgo game to work two hours for perhapsbuiesvninGray half of what he has already paid forThns"Sopfrteplauef the game. This is true of the boysgetnthslaofmycs. whowor inthesho an fod sore coullac te "Bstrs Cean.fr The F"trth And The Fifth Column MCKINNEY -BY- BRITTAIN DEMOCRACY MORE OR LESS When this column made its debut in The Gamecock, it welcomed fresh. men "to the most democratic campus in the world." We realize now the danger of the superlative. A Tiger columuiist stepped out of his league last week to take issue with us concerning campus democracy. Says he, Clemson is the most democratic place on the map. And his reasons: The lack of "bigoted fraternities" and more "hellos" in the Tiger lair. They call us Fifth Columnists, but we love democracy. And so we visited the mountain outpost last weekend to get a few pointers on how to better Carolina's democracy. But instead of democracy we found a concentration camp hidden away in the Blue Ridge. In recesses about the campus we found numerous freshmen cowering in terror of being discovered out of their rooms after curfew. Several others were debat ing the advisibility of going home at the,risk of five demerits. The Tiger journalist is absolutely correct about having more boys at Clemson to say "hello." But we'll still take our masculine greetings diluted with the beaming smiles and friendly "hello theres" of bouyant, beautiful co-eds. Perhaps our friend has lived so long in the Tiger den he's lost his definition of democracy and love of feminine pulchritude. * * * * * FEATHERS OF THE WEEK To give recognition to unsung campus personalities, to pay tribute to the men and women who make our University a greater Caro lina, we hereby inaugurate the honorary Gamecock Feather Club, from which we pluck two feathers weekly to pin on deserving members. You may <not know the persons we decorate, for they are so busy serving you they have no time to get around. The ticking of the clock is no more regular than their services to this, our alma mater. Garnet feather of the week goes to Mrs. Robert Dugan, beautiful, and amiable telephone operator. She takes all the telephonic persecu tion Carolina students can give-and still wears a perennial smile. To Ottis F. Kelly, assistant treasurer and chairman of the Uni versity's NYA committee, we give the Black Feather. His friend liness and genuine interest in students make him one of Carolina's best like administrative officers. * * * * * HEARTBEAT OF THE HORSESHOE Gaunt and garrulous Holmes Dreher was hailed last week before the tenement 10 criminal tribunal-Judge George S. Yeldell presiding-for conduct unbecoming the vice-president of the junior class.. .Overheard: "Is she (Geraldine Sharpiro) opinionated? Why, she's got flat feet from taking stands on questions." Publicity Hound Matthew Poliakoff is all aditter. His gal from the red hills of Georgia will be in the stands tomorrow when the Gamecocks meet the Bulldogs... It's no use for "Muscled Out" Patterson to hang around Freshman Molly Owens. Someone has already hung - out an "Exclusive-copyrighted" sign over her door. Miss Celia Swecker, custodian of the campus Hash House, held a staff meeting this week to try to find out which one of her waiters re leased the immortal "who bent the steak" story carried here last week... Bill Marano currently is confined to his room by decree of the discipline committee. . FOR WOMEN ONLY Extra! Uniforms of students who enter Carolina's naval// ROTC unit will be virtually the same as those worn by midshipmen of the United States Naval Academy. The only difference between USC uniforms and Annapolis dress will be the in signia worn on the sleeve, Capt. R. A. Hall, commanding officer of the unit, said today. A omplete description of ROTC garb, as released by Presiden~t Mlsasick to your correspondents, says the uniforms will consist of bue blouses and trousers, hat with emblem, black tie and shoes, white shirts with turn down collars, and white working suits and DE JEEP COSTS DOUGH Alex "De Jeep" Urban has an exclusive and discriminating twist in his brain.. .We hear-via the feminine mail service-that De Jeep picks his gals by the amount of available cash they have and the amount of food they can stuff into his mammouth mouth. One co-ed-a Delta Zeta-sent the following communique to the elongated Jeep: "I have a picture of you on my dresser, and I like it~ more than anything else I have." CTo this not-so-veiled hint Urban answered, "Do you have an ice box?. Ceez kid, no ice box, no Jeep." A rival sorority sister tried the automobile method, After Urban was comfortably settled in the car, he drawled, "I hoeyuhvpltyo gas, 'cause no gas, no Jeep."', Oeyuhv lnyo tOne Marguerite Tice-still Delta Zeta-seems to have met with. te most success in the conquest of the elusiebtpeiu ep h metuly f e e in hm (sipper), thereby relieving the athletic depart