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The Gamecock Founded January 30, 1906 ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Editor %**ered as second-cla matter at the postoffoe at Columbia, 0. 0. Nov. 20, 1908 Member Associated Colle6ite Press 1940 Distributor of 1941 Cb1e6iae Des1 MPUCOX"TRO FOR NATIONAL ADVIINTISINS MY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Pulisbers Represes**&Wv 420 MADISON Avg. NEW YORK. N. Y. Cuicao . Boston L .os ANesLas - 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 ..........................................00.ed Editor Jane 0ox ..............................................Society Editor ASSOCIATR EDITORS Dick Frick Jim McKinney Ed Patterson Bernie Bass Deward Brittain Leonard Turnbull STAFF WRITERS Frank Sloan Albert Eggerton Doris Nash Bob Quinn Donald Law Paul Posey Bud Getainger Pitkin Bell John Nash David Brockington ......................i.......oirculation Manager George Gregory .....................................Exchange Editor BUSINESS STAFF Dave Alteman Beryl Kerns Marie Ulmer Lil Hair Walter Taylor CLASS CUTTING IS NO FAULT OF THE STUDENTS Next week the University faculty council will meet to discuss the problem of class cutting (by students) and the procedure to follow to ward improving the situation. When a professor walks into a Saturday classroom and there is nothing there but his echo to quizz, it is a bit disconcerting one has to admit. But, professors-you who are doing the loudest kicking-did you ever stop to think that maybe you're to blame for this grave sit uation? A dull performance never drew a full house. Saturday or Monday, there are Carolina pro fessors who will always "put on a good per formance" and there are others who couldn't put a picture from Esquire magazine on the board and make it interesting. How can the latter, then, attempt by coercion or other method, to make a man attend his classes when he's not giving him his money's worth in instruction? "Er's, Ah's," and the old airplane drone can combine to make the most miserable of hours. There are a few pedagogues on this campus who subscribe to the above, and needless to say their classes are jammed no matter what day of the week it happens to be. They usually have a system also to take care of cutting when a student finds it necessary. One prof we know of (one of tihe popular ones) gives a lot of daily quizzes, but he allows his students to discard several of their lowest grades when the final reckoning is made. The council next week will discuss double cuts for Saturday, and other ways to solve tile problem. We would like to point out to the council that those things are not necessary. If a student can cut hlis class and still come up withl a passing grade, that is to hlis credit and a slam on the professor, it seems to this newspaper. The entire problem this paper believes should be taken up not from a student point of viewv but by letting the faculty in on a few secrets. In a survey conducted recently by Joe Bel den, Inc., concerning collegians cutting classes, it was revealed that Southerners and New Englanders were at the two extremes. In the northeast corner of thle nation cuts arc at a minimum, onily 25 per cent of tile students missing there. In the south, tile percentage is over half or 57 per cent, which proves that it is the soothing southlern temperatures at wvork, maybe. DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE, ETC. This week the Question-of-the-Week asks about a very pertinent subject. To try to pre pare for a midsemester examination in one room while a chorus is singing the latest col lege ditty 'in the adjoining one is not very easy nor conducive to higher marks. There is too much unnecessary noise in dor mnitorieb especially late at night. It's almost impossible to .go to sleep before midnight no matter where you room. Those smart ones who love to romp up and down the hall, or come into your room and shoot the bull, will see to that. Probably this editorial won't accomplish much, but we certainly hope that the guy who lives next door to us and owns the saxaphone, readsit. YOU PAY AND PAY BUT WHAT DO YOU GET? Look at the student activities fund alloca tion and see what you find. You'll find yourself paying ten cents to the Seldon Law Society. That is a small group of students banded together in a school separate frorf the academic school of the University. 1700 students then, support an organization which draws its membership from approxi mately a hundred. (You can't say now that you don't know what the Seldon Society is). You'll find yourself paying 75 cents each to The Garnet and Black and The Gamecock. You get fifteen issues of The Gamecock free; you pay $2 for The Garnet and Black. Two members of the yearbook staff receive a total of $600 in salary per year, while five members of your newspaper staff divide $500. One edi tor receives $300 for his energies; the other chief gets $75. You'll learn that 40 cents from your pocket goes to four literary societies. Those literary societies in turn give away $10, $20, and $25 at their own discretion to organizations vary ing from the Chinese relief fund to the Roose velt-Third-Term Club. They charge dues to run their societies, but it's your money they give away. You'll find that there are such organizations as The Carolinian, campus magazine, and Uni versity Players left out of the pie altogether. Of course they are not as important as the Co ed Association or the Debating Council, but the difference is: some are out, the others in. You pay 50 cents for the support of the Stu dent Union building. For your information there isn't any such thing anymore. There's a student union basement containing three pool tables and two ping-pong tables. Draw your own conclusion. Students are you going to have some sayso as to how your own money is being spent or are you going to continue to not give a damnI THE GAMECOCK IS OT A S. C. PRESS MEMBER Before the daily newspapers of the State come out with the usual headline about "The Such and Such Wins First Place Among S. C. College Newspapers At State Press Meet," we would like to point out that The Gamecock is not a member of the S. C. Collegiate Press Association. That group is meeting at Furman University in Greenville this week-end and annually they select the best college newspapers and maga zines exhibited at that meeting. Unfortunately the daily news stories always fail to mention that The Gamecock is not represented at that meet. About five years ago, after the Carolina weekly had been taking the honor for approxi mnately ten years straight, The Gamecock with drew from the organization and has not been connected with it since. Whose fault it was is beside the point; the point is that we wish to dodge some unfavorable publicity. CLASS GOING MAY BECOME CLOCK WORK The Gamecock learned from a reliable source this week that the administration is seeking to install an automatic clock or bell-ringing sys tem in order that those professors on the slightly deaf side may no longer have any doubts as to wvhether it's time to quit. The present bell--resting in the chapel tower at the middle of the old campus is no longer adequate. It cannot be heard down at Sims, in the canteen, or in the upper reaches of LeConte College for several examples. The new system would provide for a nnmber of b)ells, regulated by clock, placed in front of most of the more important buildings, and whose tone would travel 300 yards. It's a very good idea, but the best thing about it is that it won't do away with the traditional chapel bell. We vote to push the idea,.which it is under stood is in very embryonic stage, because after all a professor's and students' time are not always synchronized. TIMMERMAN, HANNA BECOME USC TRUSTEES The Gamecock has put off a very pleasant task until now. At this time we take pleasure in welcoming Hugh 0. Hanna, Varnville, and George Bell Timmerman, Lexington, who have recently be come University of South Carolina trustees. Both are very capable men and will do their utmost to strive for a bigger and better Caro lina. They take the place of Randolph Murdaugh, Sr., deceased, and A. L. Hearman resigned. Campus Cammera FEMININE FbaTALLER JuANA MeCwY OF PARIS (ftEAS) JUNOR OOLME ACTiALLY PLAYS WrM '4E COLEGE FOOBALL -EAM. JHEf SPECIALUES tIPmCN AND IS USED FCR 0DNVRA9NG EXWA PCINMS, FOR FIELD GOAL KICKING, AND AT 'nNE7 HANLES'lW KOFF ASS0GNMENT fTS GETiN' .-- A GUT. LLYDG0 AROUN>'THE oAGN EDGES/ ' -2 IMMMIeO.) SrATE 'IEA0 CHESaL.EGE ISMGD -00LI IRV GYMM AND -SD*OS1NOTU)USUAL / HERMA GLl Cct5 .O# -XT( HAS BEM UNIV. OF FVR 31 MEAS AMD HAS WSSED ONLY ONE RMTBALL GAME TIME / +Question-of -Week Do you find it hard to study in your room? Lib Bird (Sims): If I really need to study I can concentrate anywhere and nothing disturbs me. Connie Davis (Sims): I think it's hard 'cause people are always piling into your room and you can't very well tell them to get out. Sam Roach (Preston): There's too much noise in the hall and the lights stay on all night. Kat Rector (Wade Hampton): It's nice and quiet here and much better than the library. There I want to look at every body that comes in. Thomas McMillan (Sigma Nu House): I find it extremely difficult because I am by nature inattentive to my studies. Nancy Roberts (Wade Hampton): I can't study anywhere except in my bed! Alva Coggeshall (Tenement 14): It's hard. There's too much noise and too many people dropping by to see my room mate. Kate Park Johnson (Sims): The girls make so much noise that I cant' study good at all! Paul Hopkins (Frat House): No, I don't think it's hard. The conditions are just about average I'd say. Connie Long (Wade Hampton): I find it hard because there are always so many girls I want to talk with. Eddie Williams (Tenement 27): Pretty hard. Why?i 'Cause it's hard for me to study anywhere. I don't know if it's harder there than any place else. Marty Harley (Sims): It's not any harder to study here than it is any place else. I just can't study anywhere. Tom McCutchen (Kappa Big House): It depends on which dormitory you 're in. In Preston with people running up and down in thme halls, it's hard; but if you stay in one of the tene ments, it isn't so bad. Then too, the year of the student counts. With the Freshman, it's hard but upperclassmen are more re fined. Hazel Dingle (Sigma Nu House): What with boys . . . er, shall we say under-the-weater-(strange weather!!) coming in at all hours, there is no studying. Harold Prince (Tenement 12): I find it very difficult be cause people are always dropping in and it's so easy to shoot bull. Letters To The Editor Mr. Paul S. League ovrhl*fPetnscemclr( Editor The Gameccockfrtishdebyapcedwl Dear "Scoop":wicdosmctodratfmth While tihe W.P.A. and the powersbetyothbulig that be are in a destructive state of I a adwe rso a is mind regardls to walls and historicbilththewlwatormn campuses we would like to suggest teefrsnietlraos u that a couple of sledge hammersnoweaxstinalndayt' should be put to use over in front of adrysaet erdw u l Preston College.crmlwalfcnSutrtet I think that all our students agreejutssoepsigmortcul that next to the Women's Building it setebto tpo u e i is the most beautiful dormitory on our bay u htspors eges campus. Even~ though its imposing adwiepors sporsig structure represents the best in the w ihi ol aeta ieu architectural line, fandscape work,Prsowallngiti. thereabouts in the words of some -Sneeyyus great smebody,"tustsanstisowot"n Grdson wasl frst The Fourth And The Fif th Colu n MCKINNEY -BY- BRITTAIN FACTS AND FIGURES The average co-ed at Carolina weighs 121 pounds with her cloth ing on. (We naturally couldn't weigh them any other way.) And, if it means anything to you, she has six pairs of slippers and prefers socks to stockings; Blonds as a general rule weigh less than brunettes, probably because they have lighter complexions. Very few girls mindfully re duce-explains one obese blond-because girls who reduce generally go out of their weigh to please some man. One philosopher threw the following re ducing routine to American women-and Ed Patterson: "The best way to reduce is to move your head slowly from right to left when offered a second helping." All of which proves that if a girl doesn't watch her figure, the koys won't either! OF JOKES AND JACKASSES Former Student Body President George Coleman plans to quit school at the end of the current semester, according to the Mess Hall grapevine. It is understood that Coleman has adopted the attitude of Abdicated King Edward VIII who said, at long last, "I cannot work without the woman I love." Usually reliable sources brand Joy Gaddy, law fresh man, as Coleman's Wally. Miss Gaddy plans to return to academic school next semester, and Coleman-it is rumored-has vowed that lie won't face The Dean with out her at his side. FLASH! A press time bulletin gave hint of a triangle in the Coleman Gaddy affair as Joel Kelly, erstwhile companion of the campus Wally, indicated his intentions of instituting alienation of affections proceedings in Judge George Yeldell's court of domestic relations. Follow this column for further details. Some professors hereabouts have distorted senses of humor and warped ideas of justice. As evidenced, to wit: The day after the Clemson game a political science prof. (who smokes a pipe but who's name we dare not divulge) interrupted a class to discuss Carolina's moral victory over the Tiger. Loud were his praises of the 1940 chapter of the Enright Cavalcade. All of which pleased everyone. But Armistice day came along Monday and the professor in question refused to stop for one minute (the class meets at 11 a. m.) to pay tribute to those gallant Americans who "died for democracy." Con sidering that this may have been the last Armistice some of us will ever celebrate, we think Prof. Sherrill-burp, strike that name out, McKin ney-probably miscalculated a little. Matthew Poliakoff has already started practice for draft evasion. (He's in the preferred draftee list.) This week Polly haunted the in firmary until Doctor L4a fauly tuok iaui1 into custody to administer proper mercy and treatment. The "patient" declared he felt bad all over, but Doc's three-day examination revealed nothing wrong. The starting pay is 21 bucks, Polly, and reveille is 6 a. m. Dave Aiken and Patty Breeden finally found the west entrance to Sims the other midnight, but they had trouble deciding who was to go in and who was due at the, KA house. * * * * * , COURTING A CAUSE "But words are things, and a small drop of ink falling upon an idea produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.." Last week two University sororities deserted blue-nose feminine tradition and played a football game to pitch in their share of "aid to Britain." Pictures and stories of the swivel-hip feature were syndicated throughout America b)y the Associated Press. And early this week came the repercussions. One fan letter was from a World War veteran, ad w adesdt Kat Edgerton, halfback on the Delta Delta Deltaa wasuaddrsedt "Dear Miss Edgerton: News-Pst)heand tho't you nmay value having samne..tra' atmr "I am a disabled war veteran and a huti.I a'OerTe fourteen months, in 1917-18. But I am well provided for byoer genere' ous form of government.."yorgnr Part of the letter was deleted for obvosran.Nertls,th whole tone was in genuine sympathy with thecasnglis caNeverths, the democratic cause! g icue-wt h South Carolina has done and will do her part fo th-rsraino the democratic lifeline. p o h rsraino * * * e OUR THANKSGIVING PRAYER We pause in the shadow of a sense . less, self-beguiled god of war to ask for Divine blessing on the things that are ours and to offer thanks for our America. We are thankful for the freedom that has been bequeathed to us and for the Fruits of The Good Life. 4 We are undyingly grateful for our ability to see the Right, to see the Truth, to see the Good. And we pray for strength to defend our heritage and to even If such strength is spent nthe ratfwradled. Our thanks for the power to realize that "in thismteofle ad art it Is not Why that matters so much to ou tr pnss a Our thanks for Trhaangv..